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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermodactylus | Dermodactylus (meaning "skin finger", from Greek derma and daktylos, in reference to pterosaur wings being skin membranes supported by the ring fingers) was a genus of pterodactyloid (general term for "short-tailed" pterosaur) pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, United States. It is based on a single partial bone, from the hand.
History and classification
Dermodactylus is based on a single distal right fourth metacarpal found by Samuel Wendell Williston at Como Bluff, Wyoming in 1878; this bone is currently housed in the collections of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, Connecticut (YPM 2020). This bone constituted at the time the oldest pterosaur remains found, recognized, and described from North America. Othniel Charles Marsh first named it as a species of Pterodactylus: P. montanus, the specific name meaning "from the mountains" in Latin, but soon changed his mind and gave it a new generic name. At the same time he assigned another wing bone, teeth, vertebrae, and a scapulacoracoid to it, but this material is probably too large to belong to the type individual.
Its place within the Pterosauria is uncertain, beyond the Pterodactyloidea. The material it is based on is too meager for further classification (although Carpenter et al.. [2003] note that the shape of the bone's articular end means that it did not belong to an ornithocheirid, a type of short-tailed pterosaur that often had a head cre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20of%20Statistics%20%28Romania%29 | The National Institute of Statistics (, INS) is a Romanian government agency which is responsible for collecting national statistics, in fields such as geography, the economy, demographics and society. The institute is also responsible for conducting Romania's census every ten years, with the latest census being organised in 2022.
Leadership
The head of the NIS is currently Tudorel Andrei, while the three vice-presidents are:
Elena Mihaela Iagăr, in charge of economic and social statistics
Marian Chivu, in charge of national accounts and the dissemination of statistical information
Beatrix Gered, in charge of IT activities and statistical infrastructure
History
Romania's first official statistics body was the Central Office for Administrative Statistics (Oficiului Central de Statistică Administrativă), established on July 12, 1859, under the reign of Alexandru Ioan Cuza. The organisation, one of the first national statistics organisations in Europe, conducted its first public census between 1859 and 1860.
The Romanian national statistics organisation was known under various names throughout the country's history, as can be seen in the table below:
See also
Demographic history of Romania
Romanian Statistical Yearbook
External links
National Institute of Statistics - official site
Government of Romania
Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPCGEN | RPCGEN is an interface generator pre-compiler for Sun Microsystems ONC RPC. It uses an interface definition file to create client and server stubs in C.
RPC Language
RPCGEN creates stubs based on information contained within an IDL file. This file is written in a language called RPCL - remote procedure call language. This language closely mimics C in style, and is designed purely for defining specification to be used for ONC RPC.
An RPC specification contains a number of definitions. These definitions are used by RPCGEN to create a header file for use by both the client and server, and client and server stubs.
RPCL Definitions
Constant
Enumeration
Struct
Union (Note that this is not like a C union — it behaves more like a discriminated record)
Typedef
Program
References
rpcgen Programming Guide A programmer's guide to developing applications using RPC
NOTE: There is an error in the first example, to properly compile and link msg_proc.c, the declaration "printmessage_1(msg)" must be = "printmessage_1_svc(msg, req)"
Otherwise the command: example% cc msg_proc.c msg_svc.c -o msg_server fails due to a naming discrepancy with the rpcgen generated code.
NOTE: The same error appears in the second example. The example is also missing "#include <errno.h>" in rls.c and dir_proc.c.
ONC+ Developer's Guide
Remote procedure call |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song%20Quest | Song Quest is a fantasy novel by Katherine Roberts. It is the first book in The Echorium Sequence, followed by Crystal Mask and Dark Quetzal. The novel was first published in 1999 by Chicken House as a hardback copy; later on in 2001, the first paperback was published. Song Quest was the winner of the Branford Boase Award in 2000 and was the first Branford Boase Award given out.
Plot introduction
Song Quest is first set on the Isle of Echoes where the Singers live in The Echorium. The Singers have many special abilities, the most important of which is knowledge of the Songs of Power: Challa for sleep, Kashe for laughter, Shi for sadness, Aushan for fear and Yehn for death. All Singer children, called novices, learn these Songs, but if their voices do not last into adulthood they receive a mild form of Yehn which makes them forget the Songs. The Singers can also farlisten to hear over great distances, an ability enhanced by the bluestone which the Isle is made up of, and hear truth. The Singers help to keep peace on the mainland, and produce treaties to protect Half Creatures - the half-human beings with knowledge of the Songs, which include merlee (fish/human) and quetzal (bird people). Song Quest is about two Final Year novices who travel to the mainland - one with permission, one without - and must try to help the merlee and quetzal who are being mistreated and butchered by the Karchholders in the northern mountains.
Plot summary
Singer Graia leads a class of final ye |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20form | Conservation form or Eulerian form refers to an arrangement of an equation or system of equations, usually representing a hyperbolic system, that emphasizes that a property represented is conserved, i.e. a type of continuity equation. The term is usually used in the context of continuum mechanics.
General form
Equations in conservation form take the form
for any conserved quantity , with a suitable function . An equation of this form can be transformed into an integral equation
using the divergence theorem. The integral equation states that the change rate of the integral of the quantity over an arbitrary control volume is given by the flux through the boundary of the control volume, with being the outer surface normal through the boundary. is neither produced nor consumed inside of and is hence conserved. A typical choice for is , with velocity , meaning that the quantity flows with a given velocity field.
The integral form of such equations is usually the physically more natural formulation, and the differential equation arises from differentiation. Since the integral equation can also have non-differentiable solutions, the equality of both formulations can break down in some cases, leading to weak solutions and severe numerical difficulties in simulations of such equations.
Example
An example of a set of equations written in conservation form are the Euler equations of fluid flow:
Each of these represents the conservation of mass, momentum and energy, respe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication%20theorem | In mathematics, the multiplication theorem is a certain type of identity obeyed by many special functions related to the gamma function. For the explicit case of the gamma function, the identity is a product of values; thus the name. The various relations all stem from the same underlying principle; that is, the relation for one special function can be derived from that for the others, and is simply a manifestation of the same identity in different guises.
Finite characteristic
The multiplication theorem takes two common forms. In the first case, a finite number of terms are added or multiplied to give the relation. In the second case, an infinite number of terms are added or multiplied. The finite form typically occurs only for the gamma and related functions, for which the identity follows from a p-adic relation over a finite field. For example, the multiplication theorem for the gamma function follows from the Chowla–Selberg formula, which follows from the theory of complex multiplication. The infinite sums are much more common, and follow from characteristic zero relations on the hypergeometric series.
The following tabulates the various appearances of the multiplication theorem for finite characteristic; the characteristic zero relations are given further down. In all cases, n and k are non-negative integers. For the special case of n = 2, the theorem is commonly referred to as the duplication formula.
Gamma function–Legendre formula
The duplication formula and the m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelet%20scalar%20quantization | The Wavelet Scalar Quantization algorithm (WSQ) is a compression algorithm used for gray-scale fingerprint images. It is based on wavelet theory and has become a standard for the exchange and storage of fingerprint images. WSQ was developed by the FBI, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
This compression method is preferred over standard compression algorithms like JPEG because at the same compression ratios WSQ doesn't present the "blocking artifacts" and loss of fine-scale features that are not acceptable for identification in financial environments and criminal justice.
Most American law enforcement agencies use WSQ for efficient storage of compressed fingerprint images at 500 pixels per inch (ppi). For fingerprints recorded at 1000 ppi, law enforcement (including the FBI) uses JPEG 2000 instead of WSQ.
See also
IAFIS
References
External links
WSQ Fingerprint Image Compression Encoder/Decoder Certification Guidelines
WSQ Fingerprint Image Compression Encoder/Decoder Certification
Graphics file formats
Lossy compression algorithms
Fingerprints |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Test%20Data%20Format | Standard Test Data Format (STDF) is a proprietary file format for semiconductor test information originally developed by Teradyne, but it is now a de facto standard widely used throughout the semiconductor industry. It is a commonly used format produced by automatic test equipment (ATE) platforms from companies such as Cohu, Roos Instruments, Teradyne, Advantest, and others.
STDF is a binary format, but can be converted either to an ASCII format known as ATDF or to a tab delimited text file. Decoding the STDF variable length binary field data format to extract ASCII text is non-trivial as it involves a detailed comprehension of the STDF specification, the current (2007) version 4 specification being over 100 pages in length. Software tools exist for processing STDF generated files and performing statistical analysis on a population of tested devices.
Computer file formats
Hardware testing file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplacian%20smoothing | Laplacian smoothing is an algorithm to smooth a polygonal mesh. For each vertex in a mesh, a new position is chosen based on local information (such as the position of neighbours) and the vertex is moved there. In the case that a mesh is topologically a rectangular grid (that is, each internal vertex is connected to four neighbours) then this operation produces the Laplacian of the mesh.
More formally, the smoothing operation may be described per-vertex as:
Where is the number of adjacent vertices to node , is the position of the -th adjacent vertex and is the new position for node .
See also
Tutte embedding, an embedding of a planar mesh in which each vertex is already at the average of its neighbours' positions
References
Mesh generation
Geometry processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokesian%20dynamics | Stokesian dynamics
is a solution technique for the Langevin equation, which is the relevant form of Newton's 2nd law for a Brownian particle. The method treats the suspended particles in a discrete sense while the continuum approximation remains valid for the surrounding fluid, i.e., the suspended particles are generally assumed to be significantly larger than the molecules of the solvent. The particles then interact through hydrodynamic forces transmitted via the continuum fluid, and when the particle Reynolds number is small, these forces are determined through the linear Stokes equations (hence the name of the method). In addition, the method can also resolve non-hydrodynamic forces, such as Brownian forces, arising from the fluctuating motion of the fluid, and interparticle or external forces. Stokesian Dynamics can thus be applied to a variety of problems, including sedimentation, diffusion and rheology, and it aims to provide the same level of understanding for multiphase particulate systems as molecular dynamics does for statistical properties of matter. For rigid particles of radius suspended in an incompressible Newtonian fluid of viscosity and density , the motion of the fluid is governed by the Navier–Stokes equations, while the motion of the particles is described by the coupled equation of motion:
In the above equation is the particle translational/rotational velocity
vector of dimension 6N. is the hydrodynamic force, i.e., force exerted by the fluid on th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTP | ZTP may refer to:
ZTP, a ribonucleotide derivative sensed by the Pfl RNA motif
Zero-touch provisioning, a type of provisioning within telecommunications where devices do not require manual intervention on setup
Zero-truncated Poisson distribution
ŽTP, Yugoslav Railways' Belgrade, Novi Sad, Skoplje and Titograd sections, serviced by ŽS series 412 trains
ZTP (Zeebrugge Trading Point) gas hub in Zeebrugge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20valve | A control valve is a valve used to control fluid flow by varying the size of the flow passage as directed by a signal from a controller. This enables the direct control of flow rate and the consequential control of process quantities such as pressure, temperature, and liquid level.
In automatic control terminology, a control valve is termed a "final control element".
Operation
The opening or closing of automatic control valves is usually done by electrical, hydraulic or pneumatic actuators. Normally with a modulating valve, which can be set to any position between fully open and fully closed, valve positioners are used to ensure the valve attains the desired degree of opening.
Air-actuated valves are commonly used because of their simplicity, as they only require a compressed air supply, whereas electrically operated valves require additional cabling and switch gear, and hydraulically actuated valves required high pressure supply and return lines for the hydraulic fluid.
The pneumatic control signals are traditionally based on a pressure range of 3–15 psi (0.2–1.0 bar), or more commonly now, an electrical signal of 4-20mA for industry, or 0–10 V for HVAC systems. Electrical control now often includes a "Smart" communication signal superimposed on the 4–20 mA control current, such that the health and verification of the valve position can be signalled back to the controller. The HART, Fieldbus Foundation, and Profibus are the most common protocols.
An automatic control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGK733%20fraud | CGK733 was a synthetic chemical substance which was reported in 2006 to have remarkable properties in reversing cell senescence (aging). However, the entire work behind the discovery of this compound has since been found to be falsified and the authors of the original reports have retracted all their claims.
CGK733 was claimed to be an inhibitor of ATM/ATR kinases, which are involved in DNA damage repair. CGK was claimed to extend the lifetime of cultured cells by approximately 20 divisions, or roughly 25%, specifically in mammalian cells.
The original report garnered scientific attention, but was retracted in 2008. The retraction states that the screen to identify CGK733 as an anti-senescence agent was not carried out; experiments exploring the cellular effects of CGK733 were misrepresented; the identification of ATM as the target of CGK733 was fabricated; a compound which was essential for ATM target validation had not been synthesized; and the chemical structure of CGK733 was misrepresented.
The principal investigator, Tae Kook Kim, and several associates were consequently suspended from their positions at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology.
References
Fraud
Scientific misconduct incidents |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalded%20milk | Scalded milk is dairy milk that has been heated to . At this temperature, bacteria are killed, enzymes in the milk are destroyed, and many of the proteins are denatured. Since most milk sold today is pasteurized, which accomplishes the first two goals, milk is typically scalded to increase its temperature, or to change the consistency or other cooking interactions due to the denaturing of proteins.
During scalding, a milk watcher (a cooking utensil) may be used to prevent both boiling over and scorching (burning) of the milk.
Uses
Béchamel sauce
Scalded milk is called for in the original recipes for Béchamel sauce, as adding hot liquid, including milk, to a roux was thought less likely to make a lumpy sauce or one tasting of raw flour.
Bread
Scalded and cooled milk is used in bread and other yeast doughs, as pasteurization does not kill all bacteria, and with the wild yeasts that may also be present, these can alter the texture and flavor. Recipes old enough to have been based on hand-milked, slowly cooled, unpasteurized milk specify scalded milk with much more justification, and modern cookbooks tend to maintain the tradition. In addition, scalding milk improves the rise due to inhibition of bread rise by certain undenatured milk proteins.
Yogurt
Scalded milk is used in yogurt to make the proteins unfold, and to make sure that all organisms that could outcompete the yogurt culture's bacteria are killed. In traditional yogurt making, as done in the Eastern Mediterrane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20quaternion | In mathematics, the dual quaternions are an 8-dimensional real algebra isomorphic to the tensor product of the quaternions and the dual numbers. Thus, they may be constructed in the same way as the quaternions, except using dual numbers instead of real numbers as coefficients. A dual quaternion can be represented in the form , where A and B are ordinary quaternions and ε is the dual unit, which satisfies and commutes with every element of the algebra.
Unlike quaternions, the dual quaternions do not form a division algebra.
In mechanics, the dual quaternions are applied as a number system to represent rigid transformations in three dimensions. Since the space of dual quaternions is 8-dimensional and a rigid transformation has six real degrees of freedom, three for translations and three for rotations, dual quaternions obeying two algebraic constraints are used in this application. Since unit quaternions are subject to two algebraic constraints, unit quaternions are standard to represent rigid transformations.
Similar to the way that rotations in 3D space can be represented by quaternions of unit length, rigid motions in 3D space can be represented by dual quaternions of unit length. This fact is used in theoretical kinematics (see McCarthy), and in applications to 3D computer graphics, robotics and computer vision. Polynomials with coefficients given by (non-zero real norm) dual quaternions have also been used in the context of mechanical linkages design.
History
W. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P1%20phage | P1 is a temperate bacteriophage that infects Escherichia coli and some other bacteria. When undergoing a lysogenic cycle the phage genome exists as a plasmid in the bacterium unlike other phages (e.g. the lambda phage) that integrate into the host DNA. P1 has an icosahedral head containing the DNA attached to a contractile tail with six tail fibers.
The P1 phage has gained research interest because it can be used to transfer DNA from one bacterial cell to another in a process known as transduction. As it replicates during its lytic cycle it captures fragments of the host chromosome. If the resulting viral particles are used to infect a different host the captured DNA fragments can be integrated into the new host's genome. This method of in vivo genetic engineering was widely used for many years and is still used today, though to a lesser extent. P1 can also be used to create the P1-derived artificial chromosome cloning vector which can carry relatively large fragments of DNA. P1 encodes a site-specific recombinase, Cre, that is widely used to carry out cell-specific or time-specific DNA recombination by flanking the target DNA with loxP sites (see Cre-Lox recombination).
Morphology
The virion is similar in structure to the T4 phage but simpler. It has an icosahedral head containing the genome attached at one vertex to the tail. The tail has a tube surrounded by a contractile sheath. It ends in a base plate with six tail fibres. The tail fibres are involved in attaching |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonally%20transmissible%20cancer | A transmissible cancer is a cancer cell or cluster of cancer cells that can be transferred between individuals without the involvement of an infectious agent, such as an oncovirus. The evolution of transmissible cancer has occurred naturally in other animal species, but human cancer transmission is rare.
Humans
In humans, a significant fraction of Kaposi's sarcoma occurring after transplantation may be due to tumorous outgrowth of donor cells. Although Kaposi's sarcoma is caused by a virus (Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus), in these cases, it appears likely that transmission of virus-infected tumor cells—rather than the free virus—caused tumors in the transplant recipients.
In 2007, four people (three women and one man) received different organ transplants (liver, both lungs and kidneys) from a 53-year-old woman who had recently died from intracranial bleeding. Before transplantation, the organ donor was deemed to have no signs of cancer upon medical examination. Later, the organ recipients developed metastatic breast cancer from the organs and three of them died from the cancer between 2009–2017.
In 2014, a case of parasite-to-host cancer transmission occurred in a 41-year-old man in Colombia with a compromised immune system due to HIV. The man's tumor cells were shown to have originated from the dwarf tapeworm, Hymenolepis nana. In the 1990s, an undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma was transmitted from a 32-year-old patient to his 53-year-old surgeon when the sur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seer%20stone | Seer stone may refer to:
Seer stone (Latter Day Saints)
Palantír, a fictional crystal ball from Tolkien's legendarium
See also
The Seeing Stone, a 2000 novel by Kevin Crossley-Holland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterman | Letterman may refer to:
Letterman (sports), a classification of high school or college athlete in the United States
People
David Letterman (born 1947), American television talk show host
Late Night with David Letterman, talk show that aired on NBC from 1982 to 1993
Late Show with David Letterman, talk show that aired on CBS from 1993 to 2015
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, talk show carried by Netflix from 2018 to present
Live on Letterman
The Letterman Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming, a private foundation owned by David Letterman
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, an auto racing team
Jonathan Letterman (1824–1872), American surgeon known as the "Father of Battlefield Medicine" and brother of William Henry
William Henry Letterman (1832–1881), co-founder of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and brother of Jonathan
Russell Letterman (1933–1990)
Rob Letterman (1970)
Places
Letterman Digital Arts Center, the home of several Lucasfilm units, located on the site of the former Letterman Army Hospital
Letterman Army Hospital, hospital operating from 1898 to 1995 on the Presidio of San Francisco, named after Jonathan Letterman
Camp Letterman
Art and culture
The Lettermen, musical group
"Letterman", a 2017 song by American rapper Wiz Khalifa
The protagonist superhero from The Adventures of Letterman, an animated segment on the children's show The Electric Company
See also
Mail carrier |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOR%20method | The GOR method (short for Garnier–Osguthorpe–Robson) is an information theory-based method for the prediction of secondary structures in proteins. It was developed in the late 1970s shortly after the simpler Chou–Fasman method. Like Chou–Fasman, the GOR method is based on probability parameters derived from empirical studies of known protein tertiary structures solved by X-ray crystallography. However, unlike Chou–Fasman, the GOR method takes into account not only the propensities of individual amino acids to form particular secondary structures, but also the conditional probability of the amino acid to form a secondary structure given that its immediate neighbors have already formed that structure. The method is therefore essentially Bayesian in its analysis.
Method
The GOR method analyzes sequences to predict alpha helix, beta sheet, turn, or random coil secondary structure at each position based on 17-amino-acid sequence windows. The original description of the method included four scoring matrices of size 17×20, where the columns correspond to the log-odds score, which reflects the probability of finding a given amino acid at each position in the 17-residue sequence. The four matrices reflect the probabilities of the central, ninth amino acid being in a helical, sheet, turn, or coil conformation. In subsequent revisions to the method, the turn matrix was eliminated due to the high variability of sequences in turn regions (particularly over such a large window). The metho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Entropy%20Effect | The Entropy Effect is a science fiction novel by American writer Vonda N. McIntyre, set in the fictional Star Trek Universe. Developed from a screenplay that McIntyre had conceived when she was 18, it was originally published in 1981 and is the first original story in Pocket Books' long-running series of Star Trek novels. The novel includes the first occurrence of given names for the characters Hikaru Sulu and Nyota Uhura, each of which were later made canon.
Plot summary
The Enterprise is making a study of a naked singularity when it is diverted to mining colony Aleph Prime with instructions to ferry a single criminal to a rehabilitation colony in the same solar system. The criminal turns out to be a theoretical physicist, Dr. Georges Mordreaux, convicted of murder and unethical research on self-aware beings. Spock disbelieves that Mordreaux could be capable of the crime. Prosecutor Braithewaite accompanies them on the journey, convinced that Mordreaux is dangerous.
While en route to the penal colony, Mordreaux appears on the bridge, injures Braithwaite, and shoots Kirk and Security Chief Mandala Flynn. Flynn alerts security before she succumbs, but they insist that Mordreaux never left his quarters, which is quickly confirmed. Kirk is rushed to sickbay where Dr. McCoy struggles to save him, but Kirk dies while Spock is mind-melded to him. The disoriented Braithwaite later sees the two terminate the life support that was maintaining Kirk's brain-dead body, causing him to s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescein%20diacetate%20hydrolysis | Fluorescein diacetate (FDA) hydrolysis assays can be used to measure the enzyme activity of microbes in a sample. A bright yellow-green glow is produced and is strongest when enzymatic activity is greatest. This can be quantified using a spectrofluorometer or a spectrophotometer.
Applications
FDA hydrolysis is often used to measure activity in soil and compost samples; however, it may not give an accurate reading if microbes with lower activity phases, such as esterases, cleave the fluorescein first.
It is also used in combination with propidium iodide (PI) to determine viability in eukaryotic cells. Living cells will actively convert the non-fluorescent FDA into the green fluorescent compound fluorescein, a sign of viability; while nucleus of membrane-compromised cells will fluoresce red, a sign of cell death. Currently FDA/PI staining is the standard assessment of human pancreatic islet viability with suitability for transplantation when viability score is above 70%.
Preparation
FDA stock solution is prepared by dissolving 5 mg of fluorescein diacetate in 1 ml acetone, and sucrose may be added for live cell viability testing. FDA stain must be kept in the dark at 4°C or it will spoil.
References
3. "Fluorescein diacetate hydrolysis assay" http://www.eeescience.utoledo.edu/Faculty/Sigler/Von_Sigler/LEPR_Protocols_files/FDA%20assay.pdf
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): Assay for Fluorescein Diacetate Hydrolytic Activity for soil samples
Fluorescein Diacetat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey%20Negmatov | Aleksey Negmatov (; born on 4 January 1986) is a Tajikistani footballer who plays as a defender for FC Vakhsh and the Tajikistan national football team.
Career statistics
International
Statistics accurate as of match played 11 October 2011
International goals
Honours
Vakhsh Qurghonteppa
Tajik League (1): 2009
Regar-TadAZ
Tajik Cup (1): 2012
Tajikistan
AFC Challenge Cup (1): 2006
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
Tajikistani men's footballers
Tajikistan men's international footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
FC Khatlon players
Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
Tajikistani people of Russian descent
Asian Games competitors for Tajikistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim%20Rabimov | Ibrahim Rabimov (born 3 August 1987) is a retired Tajik professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Career statistics
International
Statistics accurate as of match played 11 June 2015
International goals
Honors
Club
Aviator Bobojon Ghafurov/Parvoz Bobojon Ghafurov
Tajik Cup (1): 2004
Regar-TadAZ Tursunzoda
Tajik League (3): 2006, 2007, 2008
Tajik Cup (1): 2006
Istiklol
Tajik League (1): 2011
Tajik Cup (1): 2013
AFC President's Cup (1): 2012
International
Tajikistan
AFC Challenge Cup (1): 2006
Individual
CIS Cup top goalscorer: 2009 (shared)
References
External links
Player profile – doha-2006.com
1987 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Dushanbe
Tajikistani men's footballers
Tajikistan men's international footballers
Tajikistan Higher League players
FC Istiklol players
Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
Men's association football midfielders
Asian Games competitors for Tajikistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Kosevich | Arnold Markovych Kosevich (; July 7, 1928 – October 3, 2006) was a Soviet and Ukrainian physicist, known for contributions to the electron theory of metals and the theory of crystals.
Biography
Arnold Kosevich was born in Tulchyn, Ukraine. He graduated from Kharkiv University in 1951, and received his PhD in 1954 under the supervision of Ilya Lifshitz. In 1954–1957 he worked at Chernivtsi University, in 1957–1974 at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology. In the years 1974–2003 he headed the department of theoretical physics at the Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering.
In 1990, he was elected corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was twice awarded with the State Prizes of Ukraine (1978, 2001). In 1999 he received the Sinelnikov Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2004. he was awarded the title of Doctor (honoris causa) of Kharkiv National University. He was on the committee of the Stefanos Pnevmatikos International Award until his death.
Work
Arnold Kosevich worked on the theoretical researches of electronic properties of metals, mechanics of real crystals and magnetoordered systems, and nonlinear dynamics of the condensed media. Together with I. M. Lifshitz, he established (1954) the connection between the oscillation of magnetic characteristics of metals (De Haas–van Alphen effect) and the form of an electronic surface of Fermi (now called the Lifshitz–Kosevich formula). In 1953 he d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etemadi%27s%20inequality | In probability theory, Etemadi's inequality is a so-called "maximal inequality", an inequality that gives a bound on the probability that the partial sums of a finite collection of independent random variables exceed some specified bound. The result is due to Nasrollah Etemadi.
Statement of the inequality
Let X1, ..., Xn be independent real-valued random variables defined on some common probability space, and let α ≥ 0. Let Sk denote the partial sum
Then
Remark
Suppose that the random variables Xk have common expected value zero. Apply Chebyshev's inequality to the right-hand side of Etemadi's inequality and replace α by α / 3. The result is Kolmogorov's inequality with an extra factor of 27 on the right-hand side:
References
(Theorem 22.5)
Probabilistic inequalities
Statistical inequalities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan%20Highway%20320 | Highway 320 is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It runs from Highway 2 near Domremy to Highway 20 near Crystal Springs. The highway also passes near the community of Northern Light. It is about long.
See also
Transportation in Saskatchewan
Roads in Saskatchewan
References
320 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAD%20navigation | CAD navigation refers to software tools which are used for the correlation of electronic semiconductor design data with a physical semiconductor device. CAD navigation tools consist of software that is capable of reading and displaying the physical layout and logical schematic for the device. The logical design consists of a netlist and/or a schematic. The physical design consists of a set of polygons which precisely represent the location of all electrical conductors, diffusions and interconnections in the physical semiconductor device. CAD navigation tools are often used to provide a cross-correlation between the logical design and the physical design. CAD navigation tools are used extensively with E-beam probers, focused-ion beam systems and photon probers for the purpose of semiconductor failure analysis.
Notes
References
Semiconductor analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Data%20Mining | Oracle Data Mining (ODM) is an option of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. It contains several data mining and data analysis algorithms for classification, prediction, regression, associations, feature selection, anomaly detection, feature extraction, and specialized analytics. It provides means for the creation, management and operational deployment of data mining models inside the database environment.
Overview
Oracle Corporation has implemented a variety of data mining algorithms inside its Oracle Database relational database product. These implementations integrate directly with the Oracle database kernel and operate natively on data stored in the relational database tables. This eliminates the need for extraction or transfer of data into standalone mining/analytic servers. The relational database platform is leveraged to securely manage models and to efficiently execute SQL queries on large volumes of data. The system is organized around a few generic operations providing a general unified interface for data-mining functions. These operations include functions to create, apply, test, and manipulate data-mining models. Models are created and stored as database objects, and their management is done within the database - similar to tables, views, indexes and other database objects.
In data mining, the process of using a model to derive predictions or descriptions of behavior that is yet to occur is called "scoring". In traditional analytic workbenches, a model built i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitraphylline | Mitraphylline, an oxindole derivative, is an active alkaloid in the leaves of the tree Mitragyna speciosa, commonly known as kratom. As a non-narcotic constituent, it also occurs to a significant amount in the bark of Uncaria tomentosa (Cat's Claw) along with a number of isomeric alkaloids.
Current research is focusing on antiproliferative and cytotoxic effects and its in vivo efficacy to induce apoptosis in human breast cancer, sarcoma as well as lymphoblastic leukaemia cell lines.
References
Indole alkaloids
Spiro compounds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulriken%20Tunnel | The Ulriken Tunnel () is a railway tunnel on the Bergen Line between Bergen Station and Arna Station in Bergen Municipality in Vestland county, Norway.
Original (old) tunnel
The existing long tunnel runs under the northern part of the mountain Ulriken in Bergen. Before the tunnel was opened in 1964, the Bergen Line ran via Nesttun. This stretch is now a heritage railway, the Old Voss Line. The tunnel has single track and is electrified.
New tunnel
The Norwegian National Rail Administration has plans for building a second tunnel through the mountain. Work on boring the tunnel began in January 2016 and it is the first in Norway to use a tunnel boring machine. On August 29, 2017 infrastructure manager Bane Nor and contractors Strabag and Skanska successfully completed the boring of the new tunnel. The next step is to blow 16 crossings from the new to the old tunnel, and to make the tunnel ready for use by railway traffic. Completion of the new double-track tunnel was expected in 2020, and it opened in December of that year.
References
Railway tunnels in Vestland
Tunnels on the Bergen Line
1964 establishments in Norway
Tunnels completed in 1964 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterostructure-emitter%20bipolar%20transistor | The Heterojunction-emitter bipolar transistor (HEBT), is a somewhat unusual arrangement with respect to emitter blocking of minority carriers. This is accomplished by using heterostructure confinement in the emitter, introducing an energy barrier to minority-carrier charge flow from the base. This is important as loss of minority carriers from the base to the emitter degrades analog performance. The main difference of the HEBT from the Heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) is that the emitter–base interface is the same as in a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) with the blocking energy gap being moved back into the emitter bulk region.
Functional Architecture
The main advantage of HEBT architecture, compared to the HBT is a simplified fabrication process for the emitter–base junction. In particular the HEBT does not require as tight parametric control during epitaxial growth, that equivalent abrupt or graded emitter structures might. This is very important as it is evident from scanning ion mass spectrometry data that out-diffusion base dopant into the emitter junction is difficult to control, as the base is, in general, very highly doped in order to enhance performance.
Application
The HEBT is well positioned as a potential candidate for key roles in high-frequency optoelectronic markets, similar to the Heterojunction bipolar transistor. Also of importance for optoelectronic hybrids is that HEBT can be constructed in any semiconductor system that permits the use of band |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser-assisted%20device%20alteration | Laser-assisted device alteration (LADA) is a laser-based timing analysis technique used in the failure analysis of semiconductor devices. The laser is used to temporarily alter the operating characteristics of transistors on the device.
Theory of operation
The LADA technique targets a variable power continuous wave (CW) laser at specific device transistors. The laser is typically of a short wavelength variety on the order of 1064 nm. This allows the laser to generate photo carriers in the silicon without resulting in localized heating of the device. The LADA technique is somewhat similar in execution to the Soft Defect Localization (SDL) technique, except that SDL uses a longer wavelength laser (1340 nm) in order to induce localized heating rather than generate photo carriers. Both techniques require the device to be scanned with a laser while it is under active stimulation by the tester.
The device being tested is electrically stimulated and the device output is monitored. This technique is applied to the back side of the semiconductor device, thereby allowing direct access of the laser to the device active diffusion regions. The effect of the laser on the active transistor region is to generate a localized photocurrent. This photocurrent is a temporary effect and only occurs during the time that the laser is stimulating the target region. The creation of this photocurrent alters the transistor operating parameters, which may be observed as a change in function of the dev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita%20Bj%C3%B6rk | Anita Björk (25 April 1923 – 24 October 2012) was a Swedish actress.
Björk was born in Tällberg, Dalarna and attended the Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1942 to 1945. She was a leading lady of Swedish theatre for many years and worked on the national stage Dramaten from 1945 onwards and played more than 100 roles over the years (which makes her one of the greatest actors of Dramaten).
Anita Björk played leading roles in film in a number of genres, including thrillers and crime mystery dramas such as Det kom en gäst (1947), Moln över Hellesta (1956), Damen i svart (1958), Mannekäng i rött (1958) and Tärningen är kastad (1960). Her most famous role was probably her title role in Alf Sjöberg's film adaption of Strindberg's Miss Julie (1951) that was awarded the grand prize at Cannes Film Festival.
In the book-length interview Hitchcock/Truffaut (Simon and Schuster, 1967), Hitchcock said he had hired Björk as the female lead for I Confess in 1952 after seeing her in Miss Julie. However, when Björk arrived in Hollywood with her lover Stig Dagerman and their baby, Jack L. Warner, the head of Warner Brothers insisted that Hitchcock should find another actress.
She was married to Olof Bergström (1945–1951) and to Stig Dagerman (from 1953). After Dagerman's death in 1954, she had a relationship with author Graham Greene.
In 2009, Björk performed in A. R. Gurney's play Kärleksbrev (Love Letters) at Dramaten opposite Jan-Olof Strandberg (Lilla scenen; March–April, 2009).
Bjö |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus%20ganglion | A vagus ganglion (plural: vagus ganglia) is a small, elongated ganglion located between the esophagus and aorta. They mark the terminus of the recurrent nerve.
See also
nervous system
neuron
ganglion
References
Nervous ganglia of the torso
Vagus nerve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Time%20Frequency | The Time Frequency (TTF) are a Scottish electronic dance music group, founded by Jon Campbell in early 1990.
Members that TTF have included are fellow keyboard players Paul Inglis, Steven Nelson, Kyle Ramsay and later Colin McNeil. Mary Kiani was the lead singer of TTF, followed by Jo Wilson, Debbie Millar and Lorena Dale.
During the 1990s, they had chart success with a number of singles and EPs, amongst which the biggest were The Power Zone EP, Such a Phantasy EP and "Real Love", which, after a remix, reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.
History
Formation and Dominator (1990—1994)
Jon Campbell was the frontman of the synthpop band Thru the Fire from 1987 to 1990. He described Thru the Fire as "trying to be Depeche Mode". He later dissolved the band to form The Time Frequency, while keeping the initials. Their first release was the white label EP, Futurama. In 1992, the band released the single "Real Love" through the record label Jive Records. They released more singles and EPs until 1994, when they released their first album, Dominator, which included many of the singles that had been released prior to 1994, as well as new tracks.
Kiani's departure, Debbie Millar joining and Dominator 2 (1994–2012)
In 1994, session singer Mary Kiani was replaced with Debbie Millar, a singer from Bournemouth. Millar sang "Dreamscape '94", TTF's two singles with Tom Wilson released in 1998 and 1999 respectively, and most songs on the second album Dominator 2. During this period, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A5gelsj%C3%B6 | Fågelsjö is a Swedish village in the Gävleborg County, Dalarna. It is also called Bortom Åa, meaning 'Beyond the river'. Known for its folk museum, Gammelgården, the village was established by second generation immigrants from Finland around 1700. It is one of the UNESCO World Heritage Site farms.
References
External links
Fågelsjö Gammelgård website
Populated places in Ljusdal Municipality
Dalarna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20fluid | Magnetic fluid may refer to:
Magnetorheological fluid, a fluid that changes viscosity when subjected to a magnetic field
Ferrofluid, a strongly paramagnetic fluid
Animal magnetism, a supposed invisible natural force possessed by all living things |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selakano | Selakano () is a forested valley and a hamlet in the municipality of Ierapetra on the island of Crete. Selakano forms one of the most important ecosystems on Crete. The forest core of wild pine is also important on the Mediterranean level. It is located in the northwestern territories of Ierapetra in the southeastern part of the Dikti massif, surrounded by the four highest peaks (Lazaros 2085 m, Spathi 2148 m, Afendis Christos 2141 m, Psari Madara 2090 m). In the east, there is a panoramic view of the Libyan Sea, at a distance of 15 km.
In the forest Pinus brutia is a prevalent drought-tolerant species that can withstand six-month droughts and grow in various rocks and soils. There are also kermes oaks (Quercus coccifera), planes (Platanus orientalis), Cretan maples (Acer sempervirens), cypresses (Cupressus sempervirens) and several other plant species. In the basin, where the settlements of Selakano and Mathokastana are located, there are many walnut and pear trees, vineyards and, patches of fields where vegetables are cultivated.
The forest is the nesting and hunting ground of many predatory birds like the hawk. It is the most productive apiculture spot in Crete, while in the past wood and resin were harvested.
References
Ierapetra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.League%20records%20and%20statistics | This page details J.League records.
J1 League
Ranks
.
In bold the ones who are actually playing in J1. In italic the ones who are still active in other Japanese league.
Individual
Most career goals : 191 goals
Yoshito Okubo
Most career hat-tricks : 8 times
Ueslei
Most career appearances : 672 appearances
Yasuhito Endo
Most goals in a season : 36 goals
Masashi Nakayama (1998)
Most hat-tricks in a season : 5 times
Masashi Nakayama (1998)
Most goals in a game : 5 goals
Koji Noguchi for Bellmare Hiratsuka vs Kashima Antlers (3 May 1995)
Edílson for Kashiwa Reysol vs Gamba Osaka (4 May 1996)
Masashi Nakayama for Jubilo Iwata vs Cerezo Osaka (15 April 1998)
/ Wagner Lopes for Nagoya Grampus Eight vs Urawa Red Diamonds (29 May 1999)
Youngest player : 15 years 10 months and 6 days
Takayuki Morimoto for Tokyo Verdy 1969 vs Jubilo Iwata (13 March 2004)
Youngest goalscorer : 15 years 11 months and 28 days
Takayuki Morimoto for Tokyo Verdy 1969 vs JEF United Ichihara (5 May 2004)
Oldest player : 54 years 12 days
Kazuyoshi Miura for Yokohama FC vs Urawa Red Diamonds (12 March 2021)
Oldest goalscorer : 41 years 3 months and 12 days
Zico for Kashima Antlers vs Jubilo Iwata (15 June 1994)
Fastest goal : 8 seconds
Hisato Sato for Sanfrecce Hiroshima vs Cerezo Osaka (22 April 2006)
Fastest hat-trick : 3 minutes
Yasuo Manaka for Cerezo Osaka vs Kashiwa Reysol (14 July 2001)
First scorer
Henny Meijer for Verdy Kawasaki vs Yokohama Marinos (15 May 1993)
First hat-trick
Zico for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulantarctica | Insulantarctica is a biogeographic province of the Antarctic Realm according to the classification developed by Miklos Udvardy in 1975. It comprises scattered islands of the Southern Ocean, which show clear affinity to each other. These islands belong to different countries. Some of them constitute UNESCO's protected areas.
New Zealand Subantarctic Islands protected area (New Zealand):
Auckland Islands National Nature Reserve Ia
Campbell Islands National Nature Reserve Ia
Antipodes Islands National Nature Reserve Ia
Snares Islands National Nature Reserve Ia
Bounty Islands National Nature Reserve Ia
Auckland Islands Marine Mammal Sanctuary - Category unassigned
Territorial seas at Campbell, Antipodes, Snares and Bounty Islands - Category unassigned
Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) protected area (Australia)
Macquarie Island (Australia), on World Heritage List since 1997
Kerguelen Islands protected area (France)
Tristan da Cunha Islands (United Kingdom), on World Heritage List since 1995
Prince Edward Islands protected area (South Africa)
Gough Island Wildlife Reserve (UK)
References
Udvardy, M. D. F. (1975). A classification of the biogeographical provinces of the world. IUCN Occasional Paper no. 18. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN.
Udvardy, Miklos D. F. (1975) "World Biogeographical Provinces" (Map). The CoEvolution Quarterly, Sausalito, California.
Clark, M. R. and Dingwall, P. R. (1985). "Conservation of islands in the Southern Ocean. A review of the protected are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian%20Ecosystems%20at%20Risk%20project | The Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) was a government-funded project created to provide technology, methods, and information to decision-makers, resource managers, and the general public to help support effective science-based management of harmful non-native species (invasive species) in Hawaii and the Pacific Rim. Created in 1997, funding ended on 31 December 2012, and its website was last updated on 17 May 2013. One of the HEAR sub-websites, Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER), was maintained on a strictly volunteer basis for a few years, until a final update on 2 June 2018.
Origin and history
HEAR originated at the Haleakala Field Station (Maui, Hawaii) of the Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center (PIERC) of the USGS's Biological Resources Division (formerly the National Biological Service) through the Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit (PSCU) based at the University of Hawaii Department of Botany.
Funding and support
As of late 2012, the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project was funded by the Hauoli Mau Loa Foundation and the U.S. Forest Service with support from the Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit (PCSU) of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Historically, HEAR had also received funding or support from the Pacific Basin Information Node (PBIN) of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) through the Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center of USGS, the Hawaii Conservation Studies Unit (HCSU) of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hale |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suborna%20Mustafa | Suborna Mustafa (born 2 December 1960) is a Bangladeshi television, film and stage actress. She is the current Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Reserved Women's Seat-4 since February 2019. She is a member of Bangladesh Awami League party.
Mustafa is notable for her roles in television drama serials including Kothao Keu Nei (1990), Aaj Robibar (1999) and Ayomoy (1991). She won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress twice for her performance in the films Notun Bou (1983) and Gohin Baluchor (2017). She was awarded Ekushey Padak in culture category by the Government of Bangladesh in 2019.
Early life and education
Mustafa was born on 2 December 1960 in Dopdopiya Union, Nalchity Upazila, Jhalokati District. Her parents were Golam Mustafa, a film and television actor, and Husne Ara Mustafa, a radio producer of All India Radio, Radio Pakistan and Bangladesh Betar. She has a sister, Camelia Mustafa. Mustafa mostly spent at her maternal grandparents' house on Elephant Road in Dhaka and studied in Viqarunnisa Noon School.
Career
Mustafa debuted in acting in the television drama Baraf Gala Nadi, based on a novel by Zahir Raihan. She acted in the drama Rokte Angur Lata with Afzal Hossain. She also acted in first ever package drama serial of Bangladesh Television, Shilpi, directed by Mamunur Rashid.
Her roles include appearing as one of the main characters in Dolls House (2007–2009), a Bengali-language drama-serial which first aired on the television channel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-pass%20algorithm | In computing, a one-pass algorithm or single-pass algorithm is a streaming algorithm which reads its input exactly once. It does so by processing items in order, without unbounded buffering; it reads a block into an input buffer, processes it, and moves the result into an output buffer for each step in the process. A one-pass algorithm generally requires O(n) (see 'big O' notation) time and less than O(n) storage (typically O(1)), where n is the size of the input. An example of a one-pass algorithm is the Sondik partially observable Markov decision process.
Example problems solvable by one-pass algorithms
Given any list as an input:
Count the number of elements.
Given a list of numbers:
Find the k largest or smallest elements, k given in advance.
Find the sum, mean, variance and standard deviation of the elements of the list. See also Algorithms for calculating variance.
Given a list of symbols from an alphabet of k symbols, given in advance.
Count the number of times each symbol appears in the input.
Find the most or least frequent elements.
Sort the list according to some order on the symbols (possible since the number of symbols is limited).
Find the maximum gap between two appearances of a given symbol.
Example problems not solvable by one-pass algorithms
Given any list as an input:
Find the nth element from the end (or report that the list has fewer than n elements).
Find the middle element of the list. However, this is solvable with two passes: Pass 1 coun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanuchka-class%20corvette | The Nanuchka class, Soviet designation Project 1234 Ovod, are series of corvettes (small missile ships in Soviet classification) built for the Soviet Navy and export customers between 1969 and 1991.
Variants
These ships were designed around the P-120 Malakhit ("Siren") anti ship missile. Export versions used the P-15 Termit ("Styx") missile. In 2019 the missiles on Smerch were replaced with sixteen Uran/SS-N-25 'Switchblade'. Unlike smaller missile boats, both carry SA-N-4 ("Gecko") SAMs for self-defence. The original Nanuchka I carried a twin 57mm AK-257 main gun, replaced by a 76mm AK-176 in the Nanuchka III and an updated AK-176MA was added to Smerch during the refit. The Nanuchka III also has a rotary 30mm AK-630 point-defence gun to bolster its protection against missile attack. Currently Project 12341 ships are receiving BAGIRA Fire Control System turning them into multirole vessels.
Operational history
Reportedly the Mirazh, a Nanuchka III corvette, sank a Georgian vessel during an attempted attack on Russian ships off Abkhazia on 10 August 2008.
Operators
Nanuchka I (Project 1234) - 17 boats - retired in the 1990s, except Musson which was sunk in error by an SSM during an exercise in 1987 (39 fatalities).
Nanuchka III (Project 12341) - 16 boats - 6-8 in service with the Russian Navy as of 2022 (4 Baltic, 1-3 Pacific, 1 Northern).
Nanuchka IV (Project 12347) - 1 boat Nakat - retired in 2012. Trial vessel for P-800 Oniks ASHM.
Nanuchka II (Project 1234E) - 3 ship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Hilbe | Joseph Michael Hilbe (December 30, 1944 – March 12, 2017) was an American statistician and philosopher, founding President of the International Astrostatistics Association(IAA) and one of the most prolific authors of books on statistical modeling in the early twenty-first century. Hilbe was an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association as well as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), for which he founded the ISI astrostatistics committee in 2009. Hilbe was also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and Full Member of the American Astronomical Society.
Hilbe made a number of contributions to the fields of count response models and logistic regression. Among his most influential books are two editions of Negative Binomial Regression (Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2011), Modeling Count Data (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Logistic Regression Models (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009). Modeling Count Data won the 2015 PROSE honorable mention award for books in mathematics as the second best mathematics book published in 2014. Hilbe was also editor-in-chief of the Springer Series in Astrostatistics, which began in 2011, was one of two co-editors for the Astrostatistics and AstroInformatics Portal, a co-ordinated website for the major astrostatistical organizations worldwide, hosted by the Pennsylvania State University Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and was coordinating editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overcranked | Overcranked is an Australian punk, rock and metal music festival presented by Rave Magazine. It was first held in 2001. The 2007 edition occurred on 24 March at RNA Showgrounds in Brisbane.
2007 line-up
The 2007 line-up was:
Helmet
The Butterfly Effect
Frenzal Rhomb (Cancelled)
God Forbid
Horsell Common
Sunk Loto
8 Foot Sativa
Psycroptic
Against
The Hard-Ons
Dreamkillers
Terrorust
Dawn of Azazel
The Rivalry
Pathogen
Lord
Mourning Tide
Minus Life
Rollerball
Repeat Offender
50 Lions
Ruins (Au)
Dyscord
Art Vandelay
Western Decay
City in Panic
Beijing Tank
Dead Letter Circus
Shihad
After The Fall
Sakkuth (pulled pout due to sudden line up change)
2008
Overcranked (2008) was planned for October 2008, but was cancelled.
References
External links
Official website
Recurring events established in 2001
Heavy metal festivals in Australia
Rock festivals in Australia
Music festivals in Queensland
Festivals in Brisbane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20H.%20Tomlinson | Richard H. Tomlinson, (c. 1924 – 2018) was a Canadian chemist and philanthropist. He is a founding director of Gennum Corp., a Canadian manufacturer of semiconductors and semiconductor-based products, and he made one of the largest single donations to a Canadian university.
He studied at Bishop's College School, Bishop's University and received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1948 from McGill University. In 1950, he joined the Department of Chemistry at McMaster University. He retired in 1988. In 2000, he made a donation of Can$64 million to McGill University which will be used to create Fellowships.
In 2003, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
He died on Sunday, January 28, 2018, at the age of 94.
References
McGill Reporter: So who is this guy?
McGill Newsroom: McGill benefactor Richard Tomlinson made history
External links
Richard H. Tomlinson Fellowships
See also
List of Bishop's College School alumni
1920s births
2018 deaths
Bishop's University alumni
Bishop's College School alumni
Canadian chemists
McGill University Faculty of Science alumni
McMaster University alumni
Officers of the Order of Canada
20th-century Canadian philanthropists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABPP | ABPP may stand for:
Activity-based protein profiling, a proteomic technology to monitor enzyme activity
Agile business process platform, a main product area of i2 Technologies
American Battlefield Protection Program, a United States federal government program under the purview of the National Park Service
American Board of Professional Psychology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll%20Be%20a%20Sunbeam | "I'll Be a Sunbeam" (also called "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam") is a popular children's Christian hymn composed by Nellie Talbot; it is sung to music composed in 1900 by Edwin O. Excell.
Due to its age, the hymn has entered the public domain in the United States. Published in Chicago by Excell as hymn number 137 in his Praises in 1905, the words and music were anthologized at least three more times in other hymnals before 1923. Virtually nothing is known about lyricist Nellie Talbot; attempts to search census records suggest that she may have been born in Missouri in 1874 and was living in Chicago in 1910, but these identifications are speculative.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a children's primary program which includes Sunbeams (a class for 3-year-olds). The theme song to this class is, "Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam."
Lyrics
Jesus wants me for a sunbeam,
To shine for Him each day;
In every way try to please Him,
At home, at school, at play.
Refrain
A sunbeam, a sunbeam,
Jesus wants me for a sunbeam;
A sunbeam, a sunbeam,
I'll be a sunbeam for Him.
Jesus wants me to be loving,
And kind to all I see;
Showing how pleasant and happy
His little one can be.
Refrain
I will ask Jesus to help me
To keep my heart from sin,
Ever reflecting His goodness,
And always shine for Him.
Refrain
I'll be a sunbeam for Jesus;
I can if I but try;
Serving Him moment by moment,
Then live with Him on high.
Refrain
Parodies
This song was parodied in 1987 as "Jes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitania%20%28album%29 | Lusitania is the second studio album from punk rock band Fairweather.
Track listing
"Derivative Opener"
"Lusitania"
"Letter Of Intent"
"The Treachery of Images"
"I Dread The Time When Your Mouth Begins To Call Me Hunter"
"Silent Jury"
"Mercer Island"
"Slow To Standing"
"1195"
"Concrete Atlas"
"Burn Bridges Keep Warm"
"Alaska"
"The Culling Song"
2003 albums
Fairweather (band) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovannolaia | Giovanolaia is a subgenus of the genus Plasmodium created by Corradetti et al. in 1963. The parasites within this subgenus infect birds.
This subgenus was shown on the basis of DNA analysis to be polyphyletic. This is unsurprising – it has been a wastebasket taxon. A revision of this subgenus on a morphological basis by Landau et al. moved several of the species in this subgenus into a new subgenus Papernaia.
Description
Species in the subgenus Giovanolaia have the following characteristics:
Schizonts contain plentiful cytoplasm, are larger than the host cell nucleus and frequently displace it. They are found only in mature erythrocytes.
Gametocytes are elongated.
Both gametocytes and schizonts are stretched along the red cell nucleus.
Exoerythrocytic schizogony occurs in the mononuclear phagocyte system.
Species in this subgenus
References
Plasmodium subgenera
Parasites of birds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skorokhod%27s%20embedding%20theorem | In mathematics and probability theory, Skorokhod's embedding theorem is either or both of two theorems that allow one to regard any suitable collection of random variables as a Wiener process (Brownian motion) evaluated at a collection of stopping times. Both results are named for the Ukrainian mathematician A. V. Skorokhod.
Skorokhod's first embedding theorem
Let X be a real-valued random variable with expected value 0 and finite variance; let W denote a canonical real-valued Wiener process. Then there is a stopping time (with respect to the natural filtration of W), τ, such that Wτ has the same distribution as X,
and
Skorokhod's second embedding theorem
Let X1, X2, ... be a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables, each with expected value 0 and finite variance, and let
Then there is a sequence of stopping times τ1 ≤ τ2 ≤ ... such that the have the same joint distributions as the partial sums Sn and τ1, τ2 − τ1, τ3 − τ2, ... are independent and identically distributed random variables satisfying
and
References
(Theorems 37.6, 37.7)
Probability theorems
Wiener process
Ukrainian inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain%20engineering | Strain engineering refers to a general strategy employed in semiconductor manufacturing to enhance device performance. Performance benefits are achieved by modulating strain, as one example, in the transistor channel, which enhances electron mobility (or hole mobility) and thereby conductivity through the channel. Another example are semiconductor photocatalysts strain-engineered for more effective use of sunlight.
In CMOS manufacturing
The use of various strain engineering techniques has been reported by many prominent microprocessor manufacturers, including AMD, IBM, and Intel, primarily with regards to sub-130 nm technologies. One key consideration in using strain engineering in CMOS technologies is that PMOS and NMOS respond differently to different types of strain. Specifically, PMOS performance is best served by applying compressive strain to the channel, whereas NMOS receives benefit from tensile strain. Many approaches to strain engineering induce strain locally, allowing both n-channel and p-channel strain to be modulated independently.
One prominent approach involves the use of a strain-inducing capping layer. CVD silicon nitride is a common choice for a strained capping layer, in that the magnitude and type of strain (e.g. tensile vs compressive) may be adjusted by modulating the deposition conditions, especially temperature. Standard lithography patterning techniques can be used to selectively deposit strain-inducing capping layers, to deposit a compressive fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform%20version%20history | The history of releases of the Inform programming language for interactive fiction dates back to 1993. The Inform 6 compiler and Library have always been separately maintained and released.
The "N" series libraries are modified versions of the regular Inform 6 libraries with special support for Inform 7. The first modified version, 6/10N, was actually based on parts of 6/9 as well as 6/10. The goal is to eventually merge the "N" series into the main series, producing one library that can be used with both Inform 6 and Inform 7, compiling to both Z-code and Glulx.
Notes
Interactive fiction
Text adventure game engines
History of computing in the United Kingdom
History of human–computer interaction
Software version histories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laticifer | A laticifer is a type of elongated secretory cell found in the leaves and/or stems of plants that produce latex and rubber as secondary metabolites. Laticifers may be divided into:
Articulated laticifers, i.e., composed of a series of cells joined together, or
Non-articulated laticifers, consisting of one long coenocytic cell.
Non-articulated laticifers begin their growth from the meristematic tissue of the embryo, termed the laticifer initial, and can exhibit continual growth throughout the lifetime of the plant. Laticifer tubes have irregularly edged walls and a larger inner diameter than the surrounding parenchyma cells. In the development of the cell, elongation occurs via karyokinesis and no cell plate develops resulting in coenocytic cells which extend throughout the plant. These cells can reach up to tens of centimeters long and can be branched or unbranched.
They are thought to have a role in wound healing and as defense against herbivory, as well as pathogen defense, and are often used for taxonomy.
Laticifers were first described by Anton de Bary in 1877.
Laticifers are highly specialized cells which can produce a wide variety of proteins. These proteins include enzymes functioning as proteinases and chitinases which help defend the producing plant against insects and other herbivores. In one study it was found that the presence and concentration of some proteins can differ greatly within the genus Croton relative to three species studied.
Cell Turgor
Pressuri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o%20Carlos%20%28football%20manager%29 | João Carlos da Silva Costa, best known as João Carlos (born 15 January 1956), is a Brazilian football manager.
Managerial statistics
Honors
J. League Manager of the Year – 1997
References
External links
Site official
1956 births
Living people
Brazilian football managers
Expatriate football managers in Japan
Expatriate football managers in Saudi Arabia
Expatriate soccer managers in South Africa
J1 League managers
J2 League managers
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A managers
Al Hilal SFC managers
América Futebol Clube (SP) managers
Kashima Antlers managers
Club Athletico Paranaense managers
União São João Esporte Clube managers
Brazil national under-20 football team managers
Nagoya Grampus managers
Cerezo Osaka managers
CR Flamengo managers
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo managers
Tupi Football Club managers
Clube de Regatas Brasil managers
Esporte Clube Tigres do Brasil managers
Orlando Pirates F.C. managers
Al-Tai FC managers
Saudi Pro League managers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy%20classification | Galaxy classification is classification by means of and for the discipline of astronomy.
galaxy morphological classification
galaxy AGN classification (galaxy active galactic nucleus classification) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester%27s%20formula | In matrix theory, Sylvester's formula or Sylvester's matrix theorem (named after J. J. Sylvester) or Lagrange−Sylvester interpolation expresses an analytic function of a matrix as a polynomial in , in terms of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of . It states that
where the are the eigenvalues of , and the matrices
are the corresponding Frobenius covariants of , which are (projection) matrix Lagrange polynomials of .
Conditions
Sylvester's formula applies for any diagonalizable matrix with distinct eigenvalues, 1, …, k, and any function defined on some subset of the complex numbers such that is well defined. The last condition means that every eigenvalue is in the domain of , and that every eigenvalue with multiplicity i > 1 is in the interior of the domain, with being () times differentiable at .
Example
Consider the two-by-two matrix:
This matrix has two eigenvalues, 5 and −2. Its Frobenius covariants are
Sylvester's formula then amounts to
For instance, if is defined by , then Sylvester's formula expresses the matrix inverse as
Generalization
Sylvester's formula is only valid for diagonalizable matrices; an extension due to Arthur Buchheim, based on Hermite interpolating polynomials, covers the general case:
,
where .
A concise form is further given by Hans Schwerdtfeger,
,
where i are the corresponding Frobenius covariants of
Special case
If a matrix is both Hermitian and unitary, then it can only have eigenvalues of , and therefore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20atlas | A wind atlas contains data on the wind speed and wind direction in a region. These data include maps, but also time series or frequency distributions. A climatological wind atlas covers hourly averages at a standard height (10 meters) over even longer periods (30 years) but depending on the application there are variations in averaging time, height and period.
Application
A wind atlas is employed when pre-selecting wind farm sites. The required data includes 10-minute averaged wind at heights between 30 and 100 meters over a 10 to 20-year period.
History
Using wind for energy is an idea first brought about by James Blyth, who is believed to have made the first wind turbine in Scotland in 1887. In the United States Charles Bush developed the first wind turbine in Ohio a year later.
The first well-known wind atlas was the European Wind Atlas, published in 1989. Russia published a wind atlas in 2000, followed by Egypt in 2006. A global wind atlas was then made in order to help as many countries as possible.
Examples
At least one wind atlas covers the globe, and other wind atlases cover the EU12 countries and the European offshore regions. Wind atlases have also been compiled for many countries or regions.
References
External links
Overview of wind atlases and wind surveys
Global Wind Atlas
World-wide wind atlas
North Sea and Baltic
Evaluation of global windpower
Finnish Wind Atlas (Finnish Meteorological Institute)
Dutch part of the North Sea
Netherlands, 100 mete |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labial%20glands | The labial glands are minor salivary glands situated between the mucous membrane and the orbicularis oris around the orifice of the mouth.
They are circular in form, and about the size of small peas; their ducts open by minute orifices upon the mucous membrane.
Like the parotid and buccal glands, the labial glands are innervated by parasympathetic fibres that arise in the inferior salivatory nucleus, travel with the glossopharyngeal nerve and lesser petrosal nerve to the otic ganglion, where they synapse and then continue to the labial glands. Sympathetic innervation is mediated by postganglionary fibres which arise in the superior cervical ganglion and pass through the otic ganglion without synapsing.
References
External links
Glands of mouth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20low%20angle%20shot%20magnetic%20resonance%20imaging | Fast low angle shot magnetic resonance imaging (FLASH MRI) is a particular sequence of magnetic resonance imaging. It is a gradient echo sequence which combines a low-flip angle radio-frequency excitation of the nuclear magnetic resonance signal (recorded as a spatially encoded gradient echo) with a short repetition time. It is the generic form of steady-state free precession imaging.
Different manufacturers of MRI equipment use different names for this experiment. Siemens uses the name FLASH, General Electric used the name SPGR (Spoiled Gradient Echo), and Philips uses the name CE-FFE-T1 (Contrast-Enhanced Fast Field Echo) or T1-FFE.
Depending on the desired contrast, the generic FLASH technique provides spoiled versions that destroy transverse coherences and yield T1 contrast as well as refocused versions (constant phase per repetition) and fully balanced versions (zero phase per repetition) that incorporate transverse coherences into the steady-state signal and offer T1/T2 contrast.
Applications include:
cross-sectional images with acquisition times of a few seconds enable MRI studies of the thorax and abdomen within a single breathhold,
dynamic acquisitions synchronized to the electrocardiogram generate movies of the beating heart,
sequential acquisitions monitor physiological processes such as the differential uptake of contrast media into body tissues,
three-dimensional acquisitions visualize complex anatomic structures (brain, joints) at unprecedented high spatial |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofeu%20Individual%20Bancaixa | The Trofeu Individual Bancaixa () "Bancaixa one-on-one trophy") is the Escala i corda singles league played by Valencian pilota professionals and promoted by the Bancaixa bank.
Statistics
Relevant facts about the Trofeu Individual Bancaixa
Grau has been the only mitger who won a competition almost always played by dauers.
Specific rules
Matches begin with a draw: 10–10 jocs.
Seasons
Trofeu Individual Bancaixa 2007
See also
Valencian pilota
Escala i corda
Circuit Bancaixa
External links
Youtube: 7 videos featuring the 1993 final match, Genovés I vs. Sarasol I
Google Video: Last games of the 1995 final match, Genovés I vs. Álvaro
Google Video: 2004 Final match, Álvaro vs. Genovés II, complete
1986 establishments in Spain
Valencian pilota competitions
Valencian pilota professional leagues |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Medicine%20Equation | The Institute of Medicine Equation was published in September 2002. It is the equation which is behind the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the new food pyramid, MyPyramid.
The Institute of Medicine equation uses a different approach to most others. The equation doesn't measure basal metabolic rate, but uses experiments based on doubly labelled water. The scientists at the Institute of Medicine said in their report that the factorial method tended to underestimate calorie expenditure.
Equations
The Estimated Energy Requirement, , is the estimated number of daily kilocalories, or Calories, an individual requires in order to maintain his or her current weight. For a person with a body mass of (kg), height of (m), age of (years) and Physical Activity , this is given by
Adult Men:
Adult Women:
Boys Age 3-18:
Girls Age 3-18:
Toddlers aged 2:
These equations are for healthy weight children and adults. Correction formulae are used for overweight and obese individuals. These corrections for children and adolescents have been debated by S. J. Woodruff, R. M. Hanning, and S. I. Barr in a paper in Obesity Reviews published January 1, 2009. The issue is whether or not the different formulae are actually necessary or possibly even harmful if overestimate occurs and thus contributes to an even higher and unhealthier body weight in these individuals. However, they are as follows:
Obese Girls Age 3-18:
Obese Boys Age 3-18:
is the Physical Activity coefficient. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/97.3%20FM | The following radio stations broadcast on FM frequency 97.3 MHz:
Argentina
Arenales in Lanteri, Santa Fe
Boing in Rosario, Santa Fe
Ciudad in Corral de Bustos, Córdoba
radió express 87.7/,Córdoba capital
Estación in Marcos Juárez, Córdoba
La 97 in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires
La Caterva in Buenos Aires
La Punta in La Punta, San Luis
La sol in Santa Isabel, La Pampa
Light in San Juan
LRH 370 Horizonte in Montecarlo, Misiones
Manantial in Coronel Dorrego, Buenos Aires
Radio María in Tres Lomas, Buenos Aires
Radio María in Villa Cura Brochero, Córdoba
Spacial in Catamarca
LRI358 UTN in Rafaela, Santa Fe
ZONYDO in Buenos Aires
Australia
97.3 ABC Illawarra in Illawarra, New South Wales
ABC Classic FM in Griffith, New South Wales
4BFM in Brisbane, Queensland
3HCR in Omeo, Victoria
Latvia
Radio Marija Latvija
Canada (Channel 247)
CBAZ-FM in Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia
CBON-FM-19 in Nipigon, Ontario
CFJO-FM in Thetford-Mines, Quebec
CHBM-FM in Toronto, Ontario
CHGA-FM in Maniwaki, Quebec
CHWV-FM in Saint John, New Brunswick
CIPR-FM in Pigeon River, Ontario
CIRK-FM in Edmonton, Alberta
CJAQ-FM-2 in Invermere, British Columbia
CJCI-FM in Prince George, British Columbia
CJIV-FM in Dryden, Ontario
CJRG-FM-2 in Fontenelle, Quebec
CJRM-FM in Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador
CKLR-FM in Courtenay, British Columbia
CKUA-FM-3 in Medicine Hat, Alberta
CKUJ-FM in Kuujjuaq, Quebec
VF2136 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
VF2332 in Beardys First |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspall%20team%20championship | The Campionat per Equips de Raspall (Valencian for Team Raspall Championship) is the Valencian pilota Raspall modality league played by professional pilotaris.
Statistics
References
See also
Valencian pilota
Raspall
1984 establishments in Spain
Valencian pilota competitions
Valencian pilota professional leagues |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspall%20singles%20championship | The Campionat Individual de Raspall (Valencian for Raspall Singles Championship) is the Valencian pilota Raspall modality singles league played by professional pilotaris.
Statistics
Campionat Individual de Raspall relevant facts
2003: The competition was not played.
2006: Coeter II is the first mitger who wins a competition that looked to be only for dauers (despite the runners-up Agustí, and Moro the year 2000).
See also
Valencian pilota
Raspall
Raspall team championship
External links
XXI Campionat Individual de Raspall
1986 establishments in Spain
Valencian pilota competitions
Valencian pilota professional leagues |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarahbeth%20Purcell | Sarahbeth Purcell (born 1976 or 1977) is an American author of fiction. Her first book, Love Is The Drug, was published in 2003 in hardback and in trade paperback in 2004. Her second book, This is Not a Love Song was published in trade paperback in 2005. Purcell is also a visual artist of both photography and paintings.
References
1977 births
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
Writers from Nashville, Tennessee
Novelists from Tennessee
21st-century American women writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20%28statistics%29 | The term kernel is used in statistical analysis to refer to a window function. The term "kernel" has several distinct meanings in different branches of statistics.
Bayesian statistics
In statistics, especially in Bayesian statistics, the kernel of a probability density function (pdf) or probability mass function (pmf) is the form of the pdf or pmf in which any factors that are not functions of any of the variables in the domain are omitted. Note that such factors may well be functions of the parameters of the pdf or pmf. These factors form part of the normalization factor of the probability distribution, and are unnecessary in many situations. For example, in pseudo-random number sampling, most sampling algorithms ignore the normalization factor. In addition, in Bayesian analysis of conjugate prior distributions, the normalization factors are generally ignored during the calculations, and only the kernel considered. At the end, the form of the kernel is examined, and if it matches a known distribution, the normalization factor can be reinstated. Otherwise, it may be unnecessary (for example, if the distribution only needs to be sampled from).
For many distributions, the kernel can be written in closed form, but not the normalization constant.
An example is the normal distribution. Its probability density function is
and the associated kernel is
Note that the factor in front of the exponential has been omitted, even though it contains the parameter , because it is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20correlation | In probability theory and statistics, partial correlation measures the degree of association between two random variables, with the effect of a set of controlling random variables removed. When determining the numerical relationship between two variables of interest, using their correlation coefficient will give misleading results if there is another confounding variable that is numerically related to both variables of interest. This misleading information can be avoided by controlling for the confounding variable, which is done by computing the partial correlation coefficient. This is precisely the motivation for including other right-side variables in a multiple regression; but while multiple regression gives unbiased results for the effect size, it does not give a numerical value of a measure of the strength of the relationship between the two variables of interest.
For example, given economic data on the consumption, income, and wealth of various individuals, consider the relationship between consumption and income. Failing to control for wealth when computing a correlation coefficient between consumption and income would give a misleading result, since income might be numerically related to wealth which in turn might be numerically related to consumption; a measured correlation between consumption and income might actually be contaminated by these other correlations. The use of a partial correlation avoids this problem.
Like the correlation coefficient, the partial cor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20regression | In statistics, kernel regression is a non-parametric technique to estimate the conditional expectation of a random variable. The objective is to find a non-linear relation between a pair of random variables X and Y.
In any nonparametric regression, the conditional expectation of a variable relative to a variable may be written:
where is an unknown function.
Nadaraya–Watson kernel regression
Nadaraya and Watson, both in 1964, proposed to estimate as a locally weighted average, using a kernel as a weighting function. The Nadaraya–Watson estimator is:
where is a kernel with a bandwidth such that is of order at least 1, that is .
Derivation
Using the kernel density estimation for the joint distribution f(x,y) and f(x) with a kernel K,
we get
which is the Nadaraya–Watson estimator.
Priestley–Chao kernel estimator
where is the bandwidth (or smoothing parameter).
Gasser–Müller kernel estimator
where
Example
This example is based upon Canadian cross-section wage data consisting of a random sample taken from the 1971 Canadian Census Public Use Tapes for male individuals having common education (grade 13). There are 205 observations in total.
The figure to the right shows the estimated regression function using a second order Gaussian kernel along with asymptotic variability bounds.
Script for example
The following commands of the R programming language use the npreg() function to deliver optimal smoothing and to create the figure give |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosersberg%20Palace | Rosersberg Palace () is one of the Royal Palaces of Sweden. Situated on the shores of Lake Mälaren, on the outskirts of Stockholm, it was built in the 1630s by the Oxenstierna family and became a royal palace in 1762, when the state gave it to Duke Karl (later Karl XIII), the younger brother of Gustav III of Sweden.
History
Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna named the palace after his mother, who came from the prestigious Tre Rosor ("Three Roses") family. Construction of the building in the typical Renaissance style of the time started in 1634 and was completed in 1638.
In the late 17th century, the Renaissance style was out of fashion and Oxenstierna's son, Bengt Oxenstierna, had it radically modernised in the then current Rococo style under the architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. The gables of the main building were demolished and the building was given a new roof. New wings and colonnaded gallery were added.
In 1747, Rosersberg was acquired by Baron Erland Carlsson Broman, and was again modernized with the assistance of the architect Jean Eric Rehn. Broman died in 1757, and the palace was acquired by the State, and given to Karl.
Karl took up residence in the palace and continued with Rehn's plans for modernizing it. It was renovated in the late Gustavian style but was lacking many of the more capricious aspects of the style, replacing them with a more serious and romantic tone which is referred to as the Karl XIII Empire style. As part of the modernisation a series o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grove%20cell | The Grove cell was an early electric primary cell named after its inventor, Welsh physical scientist William Robert Grove, and consisted of a zinc anode in dilute sulfuric acid and a platinum cathode in concentrated nitric acid, the two separated by a porous ceramic pot.
Cell details
The Grove cell voltage is about 1.9 volts and arises from the following reaction:
Zn + H2SO4 + 2 HNO3 ZnSO4 + 2 H2O + 2 NO2↑
Use
The Grove cell was the favored power source of the early American telegraph system in the period 1840 – 1860 because it offered a high current output and higher voltage than the earlier Daniell cell (at 1.9 volts and 1.1 volts, respectively).
Disadvantages
By the time of the American Civil War, as telegraph traffic increased, the Grove cell's tendency to discharge poisonous nitrogen dioxide (NO2) fumes proved increasingly hazardous to health, and as telegraphs became more complex, the need for constant voltage became critical. The Grove cell was limited in this respect, because as the cell discharged, voltage reduced. Eventually, Grove cells were replaced in use by Daniell cells.
See also
List of battery types
History of the battery
Bunsen cell, Using cheaper carbon instead of platinum.
Notes
Disposable batteries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor%20fault%20diagnostics | Semiconductor fault diagnostics are predictive software algorithms which are used to refine and localize the circuitry responsible for the failure of scan-based devices.
Fault Diagnostic Applications
Software-based fault diagnostics are used by semiconductor designers to provide information that can be used to improve or repair a semiconductor circuit. Fault diagnostics are used for the purpose of semiconductor yield improvement or for failure analysis.
Performing Fault Diagnosis
The input to a fault diagnostic is a tester datalog showing the failure characteristics of the device. The diagnostic algorithm uses an internal simulation of a fault model of the electrical circuit in order to compare the failure characteristics of the actual device with a set of simulated failure characteristics. Various fault types may be applied to the diagnostic model. Commonly used fault types are:
stuck-at faults, which simulates a node stuck high or low
stuck-open fault, which simulates a disconnected node
bridging faults, which simulate an unwanted connected between two nodes
transition-delay faults, which simulate slow signal switching on a node
The output produced by fault diagnostics consists of a list of potential failing nodes in the device. Software fault diagnostics only produce a list of ‘’potentially’’ failing nodes. In order to locate the specific failing node, software fault diagnosis may be followed up with some form of physical failure analysis in order to locate the specif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLST | SLST may refer to:
Sri Lanka Standard Time, the time zone for Sri Lanka
Sierra Leone Selection Trust, a mining finance house formed in 1934
Single-locus sequence typing, a kind of DNA sequence-based method used in Diagnostic microbiology
School of Life Sciences and Technology at Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
School of Life Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981%E2%80%9382%20Serie%20A | The 1981–82 Serie A season was won by Juventus.
Teams
Milan, Cesena and Genoa had been promoted from Serie B.
Final classification
Results
Top goalscorers
References and sources
External links
:it:Classifica calcio Serie A italiana 1982 - Italian version with pictures and info.
- All results on RSSSF Website.
Serie A seasons
Italy
1981–82 in Italian football leagues |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoproteomics | Glycoproteomics is a branch of proteomics that identifies, catalogs, and characterizes proteins containing carbohydrates as a result of post-translational modifications. Glycosylation is the most common post-translational modification of proteins, but continues to be the least studied on the proteome level. Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique used to improve the study of these proteins on the proteome level. Glycosylation contributes to several concerted biological mechanisms essential to maintaining physiological function. The study of the glycosylation of proteins is important to understanding certain diseases, like cancer, because a connection between a change in glycosylation and these diseases has been discovered. To study this post-translational modification of proteins, advanced mass spectrometry techniques based on glycoproteomics have been developed to help in terms of therapeutic applications and the discovery of biomarkers.
Mass spectrometry
Mass spectrometry is commonly used to identify the sugar moieties attached, but since there are many different glycan structures attached and different locations of glycosylation, this leads to challenges when attempting to sequence glycoproteins. Using mass spectrometry, there are two methods for glycoprotein analysis. The first strategy is called "top-down" which uses intact glycoproteins for the mass spectrometry analysis without digesting and does not require an extensive sample preparation. The second and m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isamu%20Akasaki | was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness GaN blue LED as well.
For this and other achievements, Akasaki was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in 2009, and the IEEE Edison Medal in 2011. He was also awarded the 2014 Nobel prize in Physics, together with Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura, "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources". In 2021, Akasaki, along with Shuji Nakamura, Nick Holonyak, M. George Craford and Russell D. Dupuis were awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering "for the creation and development of LED lighting, which forms the basis of all solid state lighting technology".
Early life and education
He was born in Chiran, Kagoshima Prefecture and raised in Kagoshima City. His elder brother is who was an electronic engineering researcher and a Professor Emeritus at Kyushu University. (Their surname "" is also pronounced Akazaki.)
Isamu graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Daini-Kagoshima Middle School (now Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School) in 1946, from Seventh Higher School Zoshikan (now Kagoshima University) in 1949 and from Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University in 1952. During his university years, he visited shrines and temples |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera%20nidiformis | Drosera nidiformis is tropical African sundew. This plant is indigenous to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Its classification is ambiguous; some sources refer to it as a synonym of Drosera dielsiana whereas others treat it as a separate species. This plant was previously known as Drosera "maglisburg".
Description
Leaves on mature specimens are obovate and range from 1 to 2 cm in length. Petioles can grow 1.5 to a maximum of approximately 5 cm. D. nidiformis exhibits a reddish tint if grown in the correct light conditions. Upon capture of prey, the leaf curls around it to bring it into contact with as many digestive glands as possible. This is an example of thigmotropism, or acting in response to a touch stimulus.
Growth habit
Because it is from a subtropical climate, D. nidiformis does not tolerate cold temperatures and will not enter dormancy. It is a perennial plant. D. nidiformis, like most carnivorous plants, grows in nutrient-poor, acidic soil. If all growing conditions are not ideal, flowering has an exhausting effect on the plant.
References
nidiformis
Carnivorous plants of Africa
Flora of KwaZulu-Natal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaphragm%20compressor | A diaphragm compressor is a variant of the classic reciprocating compressor with backup and piston rings and rod seal. The compression of gas occurs by means of a flexible membrane, instead of an intake element. The back and forth moving membrane is driven by a rod and a crankshaft mechanism. Only the membrane and the compressor box come in touch with pumped gas. For this reason this construction is the best suited for pumping toxic and explosive gases. The membrane has to be reliable enough to take the strain of pumped gas. It must also have adequate chemical properties and sufficient temperature resistance.
A diaphragm compressor is the same as a membrane compressor.
Invention of the diaphragm compressor
In the late 19th century William Burton started a workshop building pumps and air compressors at Nogent-sur-Oise, 60km north of Paris, France. Henri Corblin, generally recognised as the inventor of the metallic diaphragm compressor, was based nearby in Paris itself and in 1923 he received a US patent for his invention and design work.
Compression of hydrogen gas
The photograph included in this section depicts a three-stage diaphragm compressor used to compress hydrogen gas to 6,000 psi (41 MPa) for use in a prototype hydrogen and compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station built in downtown Phoenix, Arizona by the Arizona Public Service company (an electric utilities company). Reciprocating compressors were used to compress the natural gas. The prototype alternative f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic%20hyperpolarizability | Intrinsic hyperpolarizability in physics, mathematics and statistics, is a scale invariant quantity that can be used to compare molecules of different sizes. The intrinsic hyperpolarizability is defined as the hyperpolarizability divided by the Kuzyk Limit. This quantity is scale invariant and thus is independent of the energy scale and number of electrons in a molecule that is being evaluated for its nonlinear optical response. Therefore, it can be used to compare molecules of different shapes and sizes.
The Intrinsic Hyperpolarizability can be used as a figure of merit for comparing molecules for their usefulness in electro-optics applications.
See also
Molecular mechanics
Molecular modelling
Quantum chemistry
References
Nonlinear optics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derepression | In genetics and cell biology, repression is a mechanism often used to decrease or inhibit the expression of a gene. Removal of repression is called derepression. This mechanism may occur at different stages in the expression of a gene, with the result of increasing the overall RNA or protein products. Dysregulation of derepression mechanisms can result in altered gene expression patterns, which may lead to negative phenotypic consequences such as disease.
Derepression of transcription
Transcription can be repressed in a variety of ways, and therefore can be derepressed in different ways as well. A common mechanism is allosteric regulation. This is when a substrate binds a repressor protein and causes it to undergo a conformational change. If the repressor is bound upstream of a gene, such as in an operator sequence, then it would be repressing the gene's expression. This conformational change would take away the repressor’s ability to bind DNA, thus removing its repressive effect on transcription.
Another form of transcriptional derepression uses chromatin remodeling complexes. For transcription to occur, RNA polymerase needs to have access to the promoter sequence of the gene or it cannot bind the DNA. Sometimes these sequences are wrapped around nucleosomes or are in condensed heterochromatin regions, and are therefore inaccessible. Through different chromatin remodeling mechanisms these promoter sequences can become accessible to the RNA polymerase, and transcription be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20Quetzal | Dark Quetzal is a fantasy novel by British writer Katherine Roberts, first published in 2003 by The Chicken House. It is the final book in The Echorium Sequence and is the sequel to Crystal Mask, set 11 years after the events of that book. The main characters are Kyarra, Frazhin and Yashra's daughter who was raised as a singer, and Night Plume, a quetzal (half-man, half-bird) who has grown up under Frazhin's control.
Plot introduction
Dark Quetzal is set in the world of the Isle of Echoes where the Singers live in The Echorium. The Singers have many special abilities, the most important of which is knowledge of the Songs of Power: Challa for sleep, Kashe for laughter, Shi for sadness, Aushan for fear and Yehn for death. All Singer children, called novices, learn these Songs, but if their voices do not last into adulthood they receive a mild form of Yehn which makes them forget the Songs. The Singers can also farlisten to hear over great distances, an ability enhanced by the bluestone which the Isle is made up of, and hear truth. The Singers help to keep peace on the mainland, and produce treaties to protect Half Creatures - the half-human beings with knowledge of the Songs, which include merlee (fish people), naga (water snake people), quetzal (bird people) and centaurs (horse people).
During the novel Song Quest, set thirty one years before Dark Quetzal, the Singers encountered a powerful enemy in Khizpriest Frazhin, who harnessed the powers of a strange black crystal call |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amniotic%20fluid%20embolism | An amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a very uncommon childbirth (obstetric) emergency in which amniotic fluid enters the blood stream of the mother, triggering a serious reaction which results in cardiorespiratory (heart and lung) collapse and massive bleeding (coagulopathy). The rate at which it occurs is 1 instance per 20,000 births and it comprises 10% of all maternal deaths. This condition is unpredictable and no risk factors have been verified.
Signs and symptoms
Amniotic fluid embolism is suspected when a woman giving birth experiences very sudden insufficient oxygen to body tissues, low blood pressure, and profuse bleeding due to defects in blood coagulation. Though symptoms and signs can be profound, they also can be entirely absent. There is much variation in how each instance progresses.
Causes
AFE is very rare and complex. The disorder occurs during the last stages of labor when amniotic fluid enters the circulatory system of the mother via tears in the placental membrane or uterine vein rupture. Upon later analysis, fetal cells are found in the maternal circulation. When the fetal cells and amniotic fluid enter the bloodstream, reactions occur that cause severe changes in the mechanisms that affect blood clotting. Disseminated intravascular coagulation occurs and results in serious bleeding. The condition can also develop after elective abortion, amniocentesis, cesarean delivery, or trauma. Small lacerations in the lower reproductive tract are associated with AF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack%20%27n%20Roll | Rack 'n Roll was the game for the 2007 FIRST Robotics Competition season, announced on January 6, 2007. In it, two alliances of three teams each competed to arrange ring-shaped game pieces on a central arena element known as 'The Rack'.
Robots
Classes
Robots fall under three different classes restricting their maximum weight and height. These classes are:
Other restrictions
Robots also must have a maximum starting footprint of 28" x 38" regardless of class. Robots may expand once the match has begun. The game manual includes other rules restricting various aspects of the construction of the robot that have been put in place for the purpose of safety and fairness.
Field
The Rack 'n Roll field is dominated by 'The Rack', a large metal contraption with three levels of hanging metal bars, with each level having 8 arms evenly spaced in an octagonal manner. Each arm (known as a 'spider leg') has space for two game pieces. Any more pieces placed on a spider leg beyond the first two are ignored for scoring purposes. At the beginning of the match, the rack is arbitrarily translated or rotated within three feet of the center of the field in order to give some randomness and to encourage autonomous modes that do not depend on dead-reckoning. At the top of the Rack are four green-colored lights above the 1, 3, 5, and 7 legs to aid in autonomous-mode tracking.
Game pieces
The game pieces in Rack 'n Roll are inflatable toroidal pool toys. There are 3 styles: Keepers, Ringers, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure%20regulator | A pressure regulator is a valve that controls the pressure of a fluid to a desired value, using negative feedback from the controlled pressure. Regulators are used for gases and liquids, and can be an integral device with a pressure setting, a restrictor and a sensor all in the one body, or consist of a separate pressure sensor, controller and flow valve.
Two types are found: The pressure reduction regulator and the back-pressure regulator.
A pressure reducing regulator is a control valve that reduces the input pressure of a fluid to a desired value at its output. It is a normally-open valve and is installed upstream of pressure sensitive equipment.
A back-pressure regulator, back-pressure valve, pressure sustaining valve or pressure sustaining regulator is a control valve that maintains the set pressure at its inlet side by opening to allow flow when the inlet pressure exceeds the set value. It differs from an over-pressure relief valve in that the over-pressure valve is only intended to open when the contained pressure is excessive, and it is not required to keep upstream pressure constant. They differ from pressure reducing regulators in that the pressure reducing regulator controls downstream pressure and is insensitive to upstream pressure. It is a normally-closed valve which may be installed in parallel with sensitive equipment or after the sensitive equipment to provide an obstruction to flow and thereby maintain upstream pressure.
Both types of regulator use feed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Peoples-Stokes | Crystal Davis Peoples-Stokes (born December 22, 1951) is an American politician representing Assembly District 141, which includes the city of Buffalo within Erie County, New York. She is currently the Majority Leader of the New York State Assembly.
Education
Peoples-Stokes attended Buffalo State College, where she earned her B.S. degree in elementary education and master's degree in student personnel administration.
Career
She worked as a member of the Erie County Legislature representing the 7th District from 1993 to 2002.
In 2000, Peoples-Stokes, a member of Grassroots and the majority leader of the Erie County Legislature, ran against incumbent Assemblyman Arthur O. Eve. The race was described by The New York Times as the toughest election contest of Eve's political career. Peoples-Stokes's Democratic primary election challenge was almost successful, and it was credited with energizing minority voters to elect Byron Brown as a New York State Senator.
Peoples-Stokes was elected to the State Assembly in November 2002, after Eve's retirement. She ran uncontested in the November 2008 and November 2010 general elections.
On December 17, 2018, Peoples-Stokes was appointed Majority Leader of the New York State Assembly, becoming the first woman and first African American to serve in the role.
In the 2020 Presidential Election, People-Stokes served as an alternate elector, replacing Lovely A. Warren.
Personal life
Peoples-Stokes lives in Buffalo, New York, with her daug |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuronium | Neuronium is a Spanish electronic music group created by Michel Huygen in 1976. The group has released over 40 albums since then on the Neuronium/Michel Huygen label.
History
Neuronium was founded in 1976 as a psychedelic rock quintet, with a percussionist, bassist, guitarist and two synthetists. Later, synthesist/guitarists Michel Huygen and Carlos Guirao, and guitarist Albert Giménez changed style to so-called "cosmic music", recording the album Quasar 2C361, released in Spain in 1977 by the label EMI-Harvest. Neuronium's second album Vuelo Químico was inspired by the lyrics of Edgar Allan Poe. Singer Nico recorded vocal parts of the title track. The album was released in 1978. Albert Giménez subsequently left the band.
In 1980, Neuronium released the album Digital Dream, with the participance of guitarist Santi Picó on their own label Neuronium Records. Musician and producer Klaus Schulze made a remix of the album free of charge, but Neuronium chose to release their own mix of the album because of the legal restraints.
Neuronium collaborated with Vangelis in 1981. An edited recording of their performance on the Spanish television programme Musical Express was released under the titles In London in 1992, Separate Affair in 1996, and In London (Platinum Edition) in 2002.
The Visitor (1981) and Chromium Echoes (1982) were the last albums recorded with Carlos Guirao. At the same time as those two albums were released, Michel Huygen and Carlos Guirao released the solo album |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20flow | In fluid mechanics, external flow is a flow that boundary layers develop freely, without constraints imposed by adjacent surfaces. It can be defined as the flow of a fluid around a body that is completely submerged in it. Examples include fluid motion over a flat plate (inclined or parallel to the free stream velocity) and flow over curved surfaces such as a sphere, cylinder, airfoil, or turbine blade, water flowing around submarines, and air flowing around a truck; a 2000 paper analyzing the latter used computational fluid dynamics to model the three-dimensional flow structure and pressure distribution on the external surface of the truck. In a 2008 paper, external flow was said to be "arguably is the most common and best studied case in soft matter systems.
The term can also be used simply to describe flow in any body of fluid external to the system under consideration.
In external co-flow, fluid in the external region occurs in the same direction as flow within the system of interest; this contrasts with external counterflow.
References
Aerodynamics
Flow regimes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20flow | In fluid mechanics, internal flow is a flow wherein the fluid is completely confined by inner surfaces of an item (e.g. a tube). Hence the boundary layer is unable to develop without eventually being constrained. The internal flow configuration represents a convenient geometry for heating and cooling fluids used in chemical processing, environmental control, and energy conversion technologies.
An example includes flow in a pipe.
References
Fluid mechanics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsushima%20dialect | Tsushima dialect (対馬方言) is a dialect of Japanese spoken on Tsushima Island of Nagasaki Prefecture.
Classification
Despite being a mountainous island, Tsushima has a relatively homogeneous dialect. The sole exception is Tsutsu at the southern tip of the island. Okumura (1990) assumed wave-like dispersal of new lexical features from Izuhara, Tsushima's politico-cultural center. They appear to have little influence on the geographically isolated community of Tsutsu.
Tsushima's general resemblance to mainland Kyūshū dialects is obvious, but exactly how it has evolved remains an open question. Tsushima is often classified as a Hichiku (northwestern Kyūkyū) dialect, but some Hōnichi (eastern Kyūshū)-like elements are sometimes observed. The accent system of Tsushima in general can be seen as a variant of the Chikuzen subgroup of the Hichiku dialect. However, Okumura (1990) argued that the Tsutsu accent system of Tsushima could hardly have a Chikuzen-like ancestor and was more close to the Buzen subgroup of the Hōnichi dialect. He questioned the mainstream view of Chikuzen membership because Tsutsu appeared to be more conservative than the rest of Tsushima.
Vocabulary
Although Tsushima attracts folklorists for its preservation of archaic practices, linguists often find the Tsushima dialect uninteresting because Tsushima's vocabulary can usually be found elsewhere in Japan. Words that appear to be specific to Tsushima include wam (round shaped valley) and sae (narrow valley).
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IML%2B%2B | IML++, or the Iterative Methods Library, is a C++ library for solving linear systems of equations. It is said to be "templated" in the sense that the same source code works for dense, sparse, and distributed matrices.
Some of the supported solutions methods are:
Richardson Iteration
Chebyshev Iteration
Conjugate Gradient (CG)
Conjugate Gradient Squared (CGS)
BiConjugate Gradient (BiCG)
BiConjugate Gradient Stabilized (BiCGSTAB)
Generalized Minimum Residual (GMRES)
Quasi-Minimal Residual Without Lookahead (QMR)
Status
IML++ was developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and is in the public domain. However, it is no longer being actively developed. It has been largely superseded by the Template Numerical Toolkit.
See also
Iterative Template Library
External links
The IML++ home page
C++ numerical libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3DB | 3DB may refer to:
3 dB point, the cutoff frequency of an electronic amplifier stage at which the output power has dropped to half of its mid-band level
3DB (Melbourne) an Australian radio station now broadcasting as KIIS 101.1. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maelzel%27s%20Chess%20Player | "Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe exposing a fraudulent automaton chess player called The Turk, which had become famous in Europe and the United States and toured widely. The fake automaton was invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1769 and was brought to the U.S. in 1825 by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel after von Kempelen's death.
Background
In his essay, Poe asserts that a mechanical chess player would play perfectly, but Maelzel's "machine" occasionally errs, and is therefore suspect. Although it is the most famous essay on the Turk, many of Poe's hypotheses were incorrect. He also may or may not have been aware of earlier articles written in the Baltimore Gazette where two youths were reported to have seen chess player William Schlumberger climbing out of the machine. He did, however, borrow heavily from David Brewster's Letters on Natural Magic. Other essays and articles had been written and published prior to Poe's in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston—cities in which Poe had lived or visited before writing his essay.
Poe's essay was originally published in the April 1836 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger.
Poe's essay asserts that Maelzel's troupe of automata had made at least one previous visit to Richmond, Virginia, "some years ago", at which time they were exhibited "in the house now occupied by M. Bossieux as a dancing academy". Yet, very oddly, Poe gives no precise date or location for his own more recent encounter with Maelzel's Che |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onocleaceae | Onocleaceae is a small family of terrestrial ferns in the order Polypodiales. It is placed in the suborder Aspleniineae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Alternatively, the family, along with Blechnaceae, may be placed in a very broadly defined family Aspleniaceae as the subfamily Blechnoideae. The family may contain from one to four genera, consisting of five species largely in north temperate climes. The four genera, Matteuccia, Onoclea, Onocleopsis and Pentarhizidium, may be included under the single genus Onoclea.
Description
Members of the family have the following characteristics, being distinguished by having strongly dimorphic fronds, with the fertile fronds different from the sterile fronds. The rhizomes are long- to short-creeping to ascending, and sometimes stoloniferous (Matteuccia and Onocleopsis). The leaves are strongly dimorphic and the petioles have two vascular bundles uniting distally into a gutter-shape. The blades are pinnatifid or pinnate-pinnatifid. The veins are free or anastomosing, lacking included veinlets. The spores are reniform, brownish to green. The sori are enclosed (sometimes tightly) by reflexed laminar margins, also with membranous, often fugacious true indusia.
Taxonomy
Formerly, the two species in the genus Pentarhizidium were considered to be members of Matteuccia, but genetic analysis has determined that they compose a basal sister clade to the rest of the family. This family has been determined by g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary%20sequences | For complementary sequences in biology, see complementarity (molecular biology). For integer sequences with complementary sets of members see Lambek–Moser theorem.
In applied mathematics, complementary sequences (CS) are pairs of sequences with the useful property that their out-of-phase aperiodic autocorrelation coefficients sum to zero. Binary complementary sequences were first introduced by Marcel J. E. Golay in 1949. In 1961–1962 Golay gave several methods for constructing sequences of length 2N and gave examples of complementary sequences of lengths 10 and 26. In 1974 R. J. Turyn gave a method for constructing sequences of length mn from sequences of lengths m and n which allows the construction of sequences of any length of the form 2N10K26M.
Later the theory of complementary sequences was generalized by other authors to polyphase complementary sequences, multilevel complementary sequences, and arbitrary complex complementary sequences. Complementary sets have also been considered; these can contain more than two sequences.
Definition
Let (a0, a1, ..., aN − 1) and (b0, b1, ..., bN − 1) be a pair of bipolar sequences, meaning that a(k) and b(k) have values +1 or −1. Let the aperiodic autocorrelation function of the sequence x be defined by
Then the pair of sequences a and b is complementary if:
for k = 0, and
for k = 1, ..., N − 1.
Or using Kronecker delta we can write:
So we can say that the sum of autocorrelation functions of complementary sequences is a del |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus%20Verilog | Icarus Verilog is an implementation of the Verilog hardware description language compiler that generates netlists in the desired format (EDIF). It supports the 1995, 2001 and 2005 versions of the standard, portions of SystemVerilog, and some extensions.
Icarus Verilog is available for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, AIX, Microsoft Windows, and . Released under the GNU General Public License, Icarus Verilog is free software.
As of release 0.9, Icarus is composed of a Verilog compiler (including a Verilog preprocessor) with support for plug-in backends, and a virtual machine that simulates the design. Release v10.0, besides general improvements and bug fixes, added preliminary support for VHDL, but the VHDL support has been abandoned as of 2018.
History
Not even the author quite remembers when the project was first started, but CVS records go back to 1998. There have been releases 0.2 through the current stable release 10.0.
Icarus Verilog development is done largely by the sole regular author, Stephen Williams. Some non-trivial portions have been contributed as accepted patches.
See also
Comparison of EDA software
External links
Icarus Verilog documentation web site
GitHub page
Icarus Verilog installer for Microsoft Windows
Online interface to Icarus Verilog
Open Source in Electronic Design Automation
Icarus Verilog: Open-Source Verilog More than a Year Later
EDA Playground - run Icarus Verilog simulations from the web browser
Historical CSV repository
VHDL sup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden%20Buck%20equation | The Arden Buck equations are a group of empirical correlations that relate the saturation vapor pressure to temperature for moist air. The curve fits have been optimized for more accuracy than the Goff–Gratch equation in the range .
A set of several equations were developed, each of which is applicable in a different situation.
Formula
The equations suggested by (which are modifications of the equations in ) are:
, over liquid water, > 0 °C
, over ice, < 0 °C
where:
is the saturation vapor pressure in hPa
is the exponential function
is the air temperature in degrees Celsius
Buck (1981) also lists enhancement factors for a temperature range of −80 to 50 °C (−112 to 122 °F) at pressures of 1,000 mb, 500 mb, and 250 mb. These coefficients are listed in the table below.
See also
Vapour pressure of water
Antoine equation
Tetens equation
Lee–Kesler method
Goff–Gratch equation
Notes
References
External links
Web Page listing various vapor pressure equations (for below 0 °C)
Atmospheric thermodynamics
Psychrometrics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption%20cross%20section | In physics, absorption cross section is a measure for the probability of an absorption process. More generally, the term cross section is used in physics to quantify the probability of a certain particle-particle interaction, e.g., scattering, electromagnetic absorption, etc. (Note that light in this context is described as consisting of particles, i.e., photons.) Typical absorption cross section has units of cm2⋅molecule−1. In honor of the fundamental contribution of Maria Goeppert Mayer to this area, the unit for the two-photon absorption cross section is named the "GM". One GM is 10−50 cm4⋅s⋅photon−1.
In the context of ozone shielding of ultraviolet light, absorption cross section is the ability of a molecule to absorb a photon of a particular wavelength and polarization. Analogously, in the context of nuclear engineering it refers to the probability of a particle (usually a neutron) being absorbed by a nucleus. Although the units are given as an area, it does not refer to an actual size area, at least partially because the density or state of the target molecule will affect the probability of absorption. Quantitatively, the number of photons absorbed, between the points and along the path of a beam is the product of the number of photons penetrating to depth times the number of absorbing molecules per unit volume times the absorption cross section :
.
The absorption cross-section is closely related to molar absorptivity and mass absorption coefficient.
For a g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalities%20of%20Peru | Municipalities, in Peru, are the government organizations that govern the provinces and districts of that country.
Classification
According to the Base law of Municipalities, these entities are classified in to Provincial Municipalities and District Municipalities. The provincial municipalities also have functions pertaining to the provincial seat which is the capital district. Rural municipalities (those whose seat has an urban population less than 50% the total) receive different classification.
Structure
They are composed of two entities, the council and the mayor. The council, made up of the mayor and elected officials, is normative and. The mayor's office however, is the executive power.
Election of authorities
The election of the mayor and council is held by universal suffrage for a period of three years. The number of council members is defined by the National Jury of Elections according to Laws of Municipal Elections.
References
Government of Peru
Subdivisions of Peru
es:Municipalidades del Perú |
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