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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbard%E2%80%93Satterthwaite%20theorem | In social choice theory, the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem is a result published independently by philosopher Allan Gibbard in 1973 and economist Mark Satterthwaite in 1975. It deals with deterministic ordinal electoral systems that choose a single winner. It states that for every voting rule, one of the following thre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformization%20theorem | In mathematics, the uniformization theorem says that every simply connected Riemann surface is conformally equivalent to one of three Riemann surfaces: the open unit disk, the complex plane, or the Riemann sphere. The theorem is a generalization of the Riemann mapping theorem from simply connected open subsets of the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricci%20flow | In the mathematical fields of differential geometry and geometric analysis, the Ricci flow ( , ), sometimes also referred to as Hamilton's Ricci flow, is a certain partial differential equation for a Riemannian metric. It is often said to be analogous to the diffusion of heat and the heat equation, due to formal simila... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%20envelope%20power | Peak envelope power (PEP) is the average power over a single radio frequency cycle at the crest of the modulation. This is a Federal Communications Commission definition. PEP is normally considered the occasional or continuously repeating crest of the modulation envelope under normal operating conditions. The United St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20and%20the%20Mambas | Marc and the Mambas were a new wave group, formed by Marc Almond in 1982 as an offshoot project from Soft Cell. The band's line-up changed frequently, and included Matt Johnson from and Annie Hogan, with whom Almond worked later in his solo career.
History
Marc and the Mambas marked the start of Marc Almond's career ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFR | CFR may refer to:
Biology
23S rRNA (adenine2503-C2,C8)-dimethyltransferase, an enzyme
23S rRNA (adenine2503-C2)-methyltransferase, an enzyme
Organizations
Canadian Finals Rodeo
Centre for Foreign Relations, Tanzania
CFR Cluj, Romanian football club
CFFR, a Canadian radio station once branded as "66 CFR"
Ches... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risch%20algorithm | In symbolic computation, the Risch algorithm is a method of indefinite integration used in some computer algebra systems to find antiderivatives. It is named after the American mathematician Robert Henry Risch, a specialist in computer algebra who developed it in 1968.
The algorithm transforms the problem of integrati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbidity | Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air. The measurement of turbidity is a key test of both water clarity and water quality.
Fluids can contain suspended solid matter consisting of particle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Emil%20Palade | George Emil Palade (; November 19, 1912 – October 7, 2008) was a Romanian-American cell biologist. Described as "the most influential cell biologist ever", in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine along with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. The prize was granted for his innovations in elec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma%20%282007%20video%20game%29 | Enigma is a puzzle video game based on Oxyd, and is released under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later. Enigma continues to be very popular as an open source multi-platform derivative of Oxyd now that Oxyd is no longer maintained. The open source fangame Enigma has been praised in reviews.
Enigma is a marble game. Landscapes usu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBE | SBE may refer to:
Science, medicine, and technology
Sacred Books of the East
Semiconductor Bloch equations
Social, behavioral, environmental and medical sciences
Society of Broadcast Engineers
Specification by example, in software development
Subacute bacterial endocarditis
Engineering consultants
SBE, Stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Broadcast%20Engineers | The Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) is a professional organization for engineers in broadcast radio and television. The SBE also offers certification in various radio frequency and video and audio technology areas for its members.
Background
The organization was founded in 1964.
The society elected its first fem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma%20globulin | Gamma globulins are a class of globulins, identified by their position after serum protein electrophoresis. The most significant gamma globulins are immunoglobulins (antibodies), although some immunoglobulins are not gamma globulins, and some gamma globulins are not immunoglobulins.
Use as medical treatment
Gamma gl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serum%20protein%20electrophoresis | Serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP or SPE) is a laboratory test that examines specific proteins in the blood called globulins. The most common indications for a serum protein electrophoresis test are to diagnose or monitor multiple myeloma, a monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance (MGUS), or further investiga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-frequency%20effects | The low-frequency effects (LFE) channel is a band-limited audio track that is used for reproducing deep and intense low-frequency sounds in the 3–120 Hz frequency range.
This track is normally sent to a subwoofer—a loudspeaker designed to reproduce very low frequencies. LFE channels originated in Dolby Stereo 70 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOF | EOF or Eof may refer to:
Science and technology
Electro-osmotic flow, the motion of liquid induced by an applied potential
Empirical orthogonal functions, in statistics and signal processing
Ethyl orthoformate, an organic compound
Computing
End-of-file, a condition where no more data can be read from a data sourc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helical%20scan | Helical scan is a method of recording high-frequency signals on magnetic tape. It is used in open-reel video tape recorders, video cassette recorders, digital audio tape recorders, and some computer tape drives.
With this technique, magnetic tape heads are placed on a rotating head drum. This allows the tape heads to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspase | Caspases (cysteine-aspartic proteases, cysteine aspartases or cysteine-dependent aspartate-directed proteases) are a family of protease enzymes playing essential roles in programmed cell death. They are named caspases due to their specific cysteine protease activity – a cysteine in its active site nucleophilically atta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP | CYP may refer to:
CYP, IATA airport code for Calbayog Airport in the Philippines
CYP, national railway code for Crystal Palace railway station in London, UK
CYP, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Cyprus
CYP, ISO 4217 code for the Cypriot pound
Cyclophilin
Cytochrome P450, isoenzyme
Cypripedium, orchid genus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross%20compiler | A cross compiler is a compiler capable of creating executable code for a platform other than the one on which the compiler is running. For example, a compiler that runs on a PC but generates code that runs on an Android smartphone is a cross compiler.
A cross compiler is useful to compile code for multiple platforms ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCC | DCC may refer to:
Biology
Deleted in Colorectal Cancer gene, and the receptor product of the same name
Dosage compensation complex, a protein complex involved in genetic dosage compensation
Business
DC Comics
Day Chocolate Company
Day Count Convention, financial term
DCC Plc, formerly Development Capital Corporation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20wave | A continuous wave or continuous waveform (CW) is an electromagnetic wave of constant amplitude and frequency, typically a sine wave, that for mathematical analysis is considered to be of infinite duration. It may refer to e.g. a laser or particle accelerator having a continuous output, as opposed to a pulsed output.
B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NID | Nid or NID may refer to:
Science
Nidogen-1, an extracellular protein
Neuronal intestinal dysplasia, a condition involving abnormalities with the nerves supplying the bowel
Telecommunications
Namespace Identifier, part of a Uniform Resource Name
Network interface device, in telecommunications, providing demarcatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAC | VAC or Vac may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Variety Artists Club of New Zealand
Velvet Acid Christ, an industrial band
Video Appeals Committee, appeals board against BBFC video classifications in the UK
Visual Arts Centre, now part of La Trobe Institute, Bendigo, Australia
Zambia National Visual Arts Council
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virusoid | Virusoids are circular single-stranded RNA(s) dependent on viruses for replication and encapsidation. The genome of virusoids consist of several hundred (200–400) nucleotides and does not code for any proteins.
Virusoids are essentially viroids that have been encapsulated by a helper virus coat protein. They are thus ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20myeloma | Multiple myeloma (MM), also known as plasma cell myeloma and simply myeloma, is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that normally produces antibodies. Often, no symptoms are noticed initially. As it progresses, bone pain, anemia, kidney dysfunction, and infections may occur. Complications may include h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-selection%20bias | In statistics, self-selection bias arises in any situation in which individuals select themselves into a group, causing a biased sample with nonprobability sampling. It is commonly used to describe situations where the characteristics of the people which cause them to select themselves in the group create abnormal or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTV | RTV may refer to:
Broadcasters around the world
Asia
RTV (Bangladeshi TV channel), a satellite television channel
RTV (Indonesian TV network), an Indonesian television network
Rediffusion Television, a former television station in Hong Kong (later known as Asia Television)
Europe
RTV-7, a Dutch television netw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial | Partial may refer to:
Mathematics
Partial derivative, derivative with respect to one of several variables of a function, with the other variables held constant
∂, a symbol that can denote a partial derivative, sometimes pronounced "partial dee"
Partial differential equation, a differential equation that contains unkn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inharmonicity | In music, inharmonicity is the degree to which the frequencies of overtones (also known as partials or partial tones) depart from whole multiples of the fundamental frequency (harmonic series).
Acoustically, a note perceived to have a single distinct pitch in fact contains a variety of additional overtones. Many percu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing%20fundamental | A harmonic sound is said to have a missing fundamental, suppressed fundamental, or phantom fundamental when its overtones suggest a fundamental frequency but the sound lacks a component at the fundamental frequency itself.
The brain perceives the pitch of a tone not only by its fundamental frequency, but also by the pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Tenney | James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microtonal music, and tuning systems including extended just intonation. His theoretic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic | Stochastic (; ) refers to the property of being well-described by a random probability distribution. Although stochasticity and randomness are distinct in that the former refers to a modeling approach and the latter refers to phenomena themselves, these two terms are often used synonymously. Furthermore, in probability... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavone | Flavone is an organic compound with the formula . A white solid, flavone is a derivative of chromone with a phenyl (Ph) substituent adjacent to the ether group. The compound is of little direct practical importance, but susbstituted derivatives, the flavones and flavonoids are a large class of nutritionally important... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavan-3-ol | Flavan-3-ols (sometimes referred to as flavanols) are a subgroup of flavonoids. They are derivatives of flavans that possess a 2-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromen-3-ol skeleton. Flavan-3-ols are structurally diverse and include a range of compounds, such as catechin, epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin, epigallocatechin ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20yard | A classification yard (American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English, as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railway cars onto ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFQ | RFQ is the initialism for a number of things:
Radio-frequency quadrupole, a particular setup of electrodes used as a mass analyzer or an element of a linear accelerator.
Regulatory Focus Questionnaire, a questionnaire designed to measure prevention focus and promotion focus.
Request for quotation, a (general) req... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium%20chloride | Ammonium chloride is an inorganic compound with the formula NH4Cl and a white crystalline salt that is highly soluble in water. Solutions of ammonium chloride are mildly acidic. In its naturally occurring mineralogic form, it is known as sal ammoniac. The mineral is commonly formed on burning coal dumps from condensati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse%20gait | Horses can use various gaits (patterns of leg movement) during locomotion across solid ground, either naturally or as a result of specialized training by humans.
Classification
Gaits are typically categorized into two groups: the "natural" gaits that most horses will use without special training, and the "ambling" ga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-cell | In geometry, the 24-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol {3,4,3}. It is also called C24, or the icositetrachoron, octaplex (short for "octahedral complex"), icosatetrahedroid, octacube, hyper-diamond or polyoctahedron, being constructed of octahedral... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul%20consonant%20and%20vowel%20tables | The following tables of consonants and vowels (jamo) of the Korean alphabet (Hangul) display (in blue) the basic forms in the first row and their derivatives in the following row(s). They are divided into initials (leading consonants), vowels (middle), anㅗ ㅇ곺ㅜㅇㅁㅁㅁㅁㅓ랄ㄹ루ㅜ;ㅓ ㅁ 르 ㄹ 륨.ㅁㅊ싀펴ㅑ
. 리ㅣㅜㅁ.ㅡ ㅇㅁ므ㅡ리구ㅐ라ㅣㅣㅜㅜㅜㅜㅛ규ㅗㅠㅠㅌㅊ추ㅜ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum%20%28endonym%29 | Rūm ( , collective; singulative: Rūmī ; plural: Arwām ; Rum or Rumiyān, singular Rumi; or , singular ), also romanized as Roum, is a derivative of Parthian (frwm) terms, ultimately derived from Greek Ῥωμαῖοι (Rhomaioi, literally 'Romans'). Both terms are endonyms of the pre-Islamic inhabitants of Anatolia, the Mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loperamide | Loperamide, sold under the brand name Imodium, among others, is a medication of the opioid receptor agonist class used to decrease the frequency of diarrhea. It is often used for this purpose in irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease and short bowel syndrome. It is not recommended for those with blood in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druse | Druse can refer to:
Druze or Durzi, a Middle Eastern religious community
Druse (botany), an aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants
Druse (geology), an incrustation of small crystals on the surface of a rock or mineral
Drusen, pathological deposits in the eye
See also
Druce (disambiguation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAL%20%28cipher%29 | In cryptography, SEAL (Software-Optimized Encryption Algorithm) is a stream cipher optimised for machines with a 32-bit word size and plenty of RAM with a reported performance of around 4 cycles per byte. SEAL is actually a pseudorandom function family in that it can easily generate arbitrary portions of the keystrea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%20bracket | In mathematics and classical mechanics, the Poisson bracket is an important binary operation in Hamiltonian mechanics, playing a central role in Hamilton's equations of motion, which govern the time evolution of a Hamiltonian dynamical system. The Poisson bracket also distinguishes a certain class of coordinate transfo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Hawking%20singularity%20theorems | The Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems (after Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking) are a set of results in general relativity that attempt to answer the question of when gravitation produces singularities. The Penrose singularity theorem is a theorem in semi-Riemannian geometry and its general relativistic interpretati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20derivative | In differential geometry, the Lie derivative ( ), named after Sophus Lie by Władysław Ślebodziński, evaluates the change of a tensor field (including scalar functions, vector fields and one-forms), along the flow defined by another vector field. This change is coordinate invariant and therefore the Lie derivative is de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivation | Derivation may refer to:
Language
Morphological derivation, a word-formation process
Parse tree or concrete syntax tree, representing a string's syntax in formal grammars
Law
Derivative work, in copyright law
Derivation proceeding, a proceeding in United States patent law
Music
The creation of a derived row, in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%E2%80%93Weyl%20theorem | In mathematics, the Peter–Weyl theorem is a basic result in the theory of harmonic analysis, applying to topological groups that are compact, but are not necessarily abelian. It was initially proved by Hermann Weyl, with his student Fritz Peter, in the setting of a compact topological group G . The theorem is a collect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction%20market | Prediction markets, also known as betting markets, information markets, decision markets, idea futures or event derivatives, are open markets that enable the prediction of specific outcomes using financial incentives. They are exchange-traded markets established for trading bets in the outcome of various events. The ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPC | LPC may refer to:
Science and technology
Linear predictive coding, a method used in audio signal processing and speech processing
Leaf protein concentrate, a concentrated form of the proteins found in the leaves of plants
Long period comet, a comet classification
Lysophosphatidylcholine, chemical compounds
Late p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSS | BSS may stand for:
Computing and telecommunications
.bss ("Block Started by Symbol"), in compilers and linkers
Base station subsystem, in mobile telephone networks
Basic Service Set, the basic building block of a wireless local area network (WLAN)
Boeing Satellite Systems, see Boeing Satellite Development Center
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Lagrange%20equation | In the calculus of variations and classical mechanics, the Euler–Lagrange equations are a system of second-order ordinary differential equations whose solutions are stationary points of the given action functional. The equations were discovered in the 1750s by Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler and Italian mathematicia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDC | PDC may refer to:
In science and technology
Chemistry, biology and medicine
Phosducin, a human protein and gene in the retina
Pyridinium dichromate (Cornforth reagent), a chromium-based oxidant
Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, an enzyme complex
Plasmacytoid dendritic cell
Computing
Peripheral DMA controller
P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salammoniac | Salammoniac, also sal ammoniac or salmiac, is a rare naturally occurring mineral composed of ammonium chloride, NH4Cl. It forms colorless, white, or yellow-brown crystals in the isometric-hexoctahedral class. It has very poor cleavage and is brittle to conchoidal fracture. It is quite soft, with a Mohs hardness of 1.5 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight%20Consciousnesses | The Eight Consciousnesses (Skt. aṣṭa vijñānakāyāḥ) is a classification developed in the tradition of the Yogācāra school of Mahayana Buddhism. They enumerate the five sense consciousnesses, supplemented by the mental consciousness (manovijñāna), the defiled mental consciousness (kliṣṭamanovijñāna), and finally the fund... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20base | In electronics, a common-base (also known as grounded-base) amplifier is one of three basic single-stage bipolar junction transistor (BJT) amplifier topologies, typically used as a current buffer or voltage amplifier.
In this circuit the emitter terminal of the transistor serves as the input, the collector as the outp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instanton | An instanton (or pseudoparticle) is a notion appearing in theoretical and mathematical physics. An instanton is a classical solution to equations of motion with a finite, non-zero action, either in quantum mechanics or in quantum field theory. More precisely, it is a solution to the equations of motion of the classical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomol%27nyi%E2%80%93Prasad%E2%80%93Sommerfield%20bound | The Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound (named after Evgeny Bogomolny, M.K. Prasad, and Charles Sommerfield) is a series of inequalities for solutions of partial differential equations depending on the homotopy class of the solution at infinity. This set of inequalities is very useful for solving soliton equations. O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific%20Area%20Message%20Encoding | Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) is a protocol used for framing and classification of broadcasting emergency warning messages. It was developed by the United States National Weather Service for use on its NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) network, and was later adopted by the Federal Communications Commission for the Emer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Ko%E2%80%93Rado%20theorem | In mathematics, the Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem limits the number of sets in a family of sets for which every two sets have at least one element in common. Paul Erdős, Chao Ko, and Richard Rado proved the theorem in 1938, but did not publish it until 1961. It is part of the field of combinatorics, and one of the central resu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20national%20de%20la%20statistique%20et%20des%20%C3%A9tudes%20%C3%A9conomiques | The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (), abbreviated INSEE or Insee ( , ), is the national statistics bureau of France. It collects and publishes information about the French economy and people and carries out the periodic national census. Headquartered in Montrouge, a commune in the southern Paris... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.992.1 | In telecommunications, ITU-T G.992.1 (better known as G.dmt) is an ITU standard for ADSL using discrete multitone modulation (DMT). G.dmt full-rate ADSL expands the usable bandwidth of existing copper telephone lines, delivering high-speed data communications at rates up to 8 Mbit/s downstream and 1.3 Mbit/s upstream.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lov%20Grover | Lov Kumar Grover (born 1961) is an Indian-American computer scientist. He is the originator of the Grover database search algorithm used in quantum computing. Grover's 1996 algorithm won renown as the second major algorithm proposed for quantum computing (after Shor's 1994 algorithm), and in 2017 was finally implement... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental%20function | In mathematics, a transcendental function is an analytic function that does not satisfy a polynomial equation, in contrast to an algebraic function.
In other words, a transcendental function "transcends" algebra in that it cannot be expressed algebraically using a finite amount of terms.
Examples of transcendental fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor%20radio | A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following the invention of the transistor in 1947—which revolutionized the field of consumer electronics by introducing small but powerful, convenient hand-held devices—the Regency TR-1 was released in 1954 becoming the first co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Sykes%20%28microbiologist%29 | Sir Richard Brook Sykes (born 7 August 1942) is a British microbiologist, the chair of the Royal Institution, the UK Stem Cell Foundation, and the trustees at King Edward VII's Hospital, and chancellor of Brunel University. As of June 2021, he is chair of the UK's Vaccine Taskforce, where he is responsible for oversee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichlorosilane | Trichlorosilane is an inorganic compound with the formula HCl3Si. It is a colourless, volatile liquid. Purified trichlorosilane is the principal precursor to ultrapure silicon in the semiconductor industry. In water, it rapidly decomposes to produce a siloxane polymer while giving off hydrochloric acid. Because of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Rich | Marc Rich (born Marcell David Reich; December 18, 1934 – June 26, 2013) was an international commodities trader, financier, and businessman. He founded the commodities company Glencore, and was later indicted in the United States on federal charges of tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering, and making oil deals with Ira... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20%28American%20band%29 | DNA was an American no wave band formed in 1977 by guitarist Arto Lindsay and keyboardist Robin Crutchfield, and later joined by drummer Ikue Mori and bassist Tim Wright. They were associated with the late 1970s New York no wave scene, and were featured on the 1978 compilation No New York.
History
DNA originally consi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svinhufvud%20%28family%29 | The Svinhufvud family (; literally translated as "Swine head") is an ancient Swedish nobility originating from Dalarna. The family is incorporated both at the Swedish House of Nobility and the Finnish House of Nobility.
A prominent member is P. E. Svinhufvud, President of Finland from 1931 to 1937. Prince Daniel, Duke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian%20tree | In probability theory, the Brownian tree, or Aldous tree, or Continuum Random Tree (CRT) is a random real tree that can be defined from a Brownian excursion. The Brownian tree was defined and studied by David Aldous in three articles published in 1991 and 1993. This tree has since then been generalized.
This random tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Moravec | Hans Peter Moravec (born November 30, 1948, Kautzen, Austria) is an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futurist with many of his pub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular%20action%20potential | In electrocardiography, the ventricular cardiomyocyte membrane potential is about −90 mV at rest, which is close to the potassium reversal potential. When an action potential is generated, the membrane potential rises above this level in five distinct phases.
Phase 4: Resting membrane potential remains stable at ≈−90... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphocyte | A lymphocyte is a type of white blood cell (leukocyte) in the immune system of most vertebrates. Lymphocytes include T cells (for cell-mediated, cytotoxic adaptive immunity), B cells (for humoral, antibody-driven adaptive immunity), and Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) ("innate T cell-like" cells involved in mucosal immuni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation | In physics, chemistry, and materials science, percolation () refers to the movement and filtering of fluids through porous materials. It is described by Darcy's law. Broader applications have since been developed that cover connectivity of many systems modeled as lattices or graphs, analogous to connectivity of lattice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current | Currents, Current or The Current may refer to:
Science and technology
Current (fluid), the flow of a liquid or a gas
Air current, a flow of air
Ocean current, a current in the ocean
Rip current, a kind of water current
Current (stream), currents in rivers and streams
Convection current, flow caused by unstable d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%20Jump%20Cannon | Annie Jump Cannon (; December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20White | James Warren White (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player who has won four seniors World titles. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his fluid, swift and attacking style of play, White is the 1980 World Amateur Champion, 2009 Six-red World champion, a record four-time World Seniors Champion (2010... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20tweezers | Optical tweezers (originally called single-beam gradient force trap) are scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to hold and move microscopic and sub-microscopic objects like atoms, nanoparticles and droplets, in a manner similar to tweezers. If the object is held in air or vacuum without additional... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreversible | Irreversible may refer to:
Irreversible process, in thermodynamics, a process that is not reversible
Irréversible, a 2002 film
Irréversible (soundtrack), soundtrack to the film Irréversible
An album recorded by hip-hop artist Grieves
A song by progressive metalcore band Erra from their 2016 album Drift |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese%20zodiac | The Vietnamese zodiac (Vietnamese: Mười hai con giáp) is the traditional Vietnamese classification scheme based on the lunar calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating 12-year cycle. The Viet lunar calendar is divided into 60-year cycles known as hồi. Each of these consists o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSA | JSA may refer to:
Jaisalmer Airport (IATA Code)
Japan Shogi Association
Japan Sumo Association
The Japanese School of Amsterdam
Japanese Standards Association
JavaScript for Automaton, a scripting language for macOS
Jetstar Asia Airways (ICAO Code)
Job Safety Analysis
Job Services Australia
Jobseeker's Allowance in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20receiver/decoder | An integrated receiver/decoder (IRD) is an electronic device used to pick up a radio-frequency signal and convert digital information transmitted in it.
Consumer IRDs
Consumer IRDs, commonly called set-top boxes, are used by end users and are much cheaper compared to professional IRDs. To curb content piracy, they al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil%20Amelio | Gilbert Frank Amelio (born March 1, 1943) is an American technology executive. Amelio worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International, and was also the CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple Computer.
Early life and career
Amelio grew up in Miami, Florida, of Ita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel-frequency%20cepstrum | In sound processing, the mel-frequency cepstrum (MFC) is a representation of the short-term power spectrum of a sound, based on a linear cosine transform of a log power spectrum on a nonlinear mel scale of frequency.
Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) are coefficients that collectively make up an MFC. They a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20play | In baseball and softball, a double play (denoted as DP in baseball statistics) is the act of making two outs during the same continuous play. Double plays can occur any time there is at least one baserunner and fewer than two outs.
In Major League Baseball (MLB), the double play is defined in the Official Rules in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20play | In baseball, a triple play (denoted as TP in baseball statistics) is the act of making three outs during the same play. There have only been 735 triple plays in Major League Baseball (MLB) since 1876, an average of just over five per season.
They depend on a combination of two factors, which are themselves uncommon:
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20%28baseball%29 | In baseball and softball statistics, an error is an act, in the judgment of the official scorer, of a fielder misplaying a ball in a manner that allows a batter or baserunner to advance one or more bases or allows a plate appearance to continue after the batter should have been put out. The term error is sometimes use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Purcell | Joe Edward Purcell (July 29, 1923 – March 5, 1987) was an American politician and attorney who served as Acting Governor of Arkansas for six days in 1979. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 45th Attorney General of Arkansas from 1967 to 1971 and the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas from 1975 to 1981... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20replacement | Fluid replacement or fluid resuscitation is the medical practice of replenishing bodily fluid lost through sweating, bleeding, fluid shifts or other pathologic processes. Fluids can be replaced with oral rehydration therapy (drinking), intravenous therapy, rectally such as with a Murphy drip, or by hypodermoclysis, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural | Binaural literally means "having or relating to two ears." Binaural hearing, along with frequency cues, lets humans and other animals determine the direction and origin of sounds, similar to diotic which is used in psychophysics to describe an auditory stimulus presented to both ears.
Binaural may also refer to:
Bina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20War | Liquid War is an free software multi-player action game based on particle flow mechanic. Thomas Colcombet developed the core concept and the original shortest path algorithm, the software was programmed by . Liquid War 6 is a GNU package distributed as free software and part of the GNU project.
Gameplay
Gameplay take... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial | An interstitial space or interstice is a space between structures or objects.
In particular, interstitial may refer to:
Biology
Interstitial cell, any cell that lies between other cells
Interstitial cell tumor
Interstitial collagenase, enzyme that breaks the peptide bonds in collagen
Interstitial cystitis
Inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20derivative | In the calculus of variations, a field of mathematical analysis, the functional derivative (or variational derivative) relates a change in a functional (a functional in this sense is a function that acts on functions) to a change in a function on which the functional depends.
In the calculus of variations, functionals... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus%20effect | The Magnus effect is an observable phenomenon commonly associated with a spinning object moving through a fluid. A lift force acts on the spinning object. The path of the object may be deflected in a manner not present when the object is not spinning. The deflection can be explained by the difference in pressure of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20W.%20Floyd | Robert W Floyd (June 8, 1936 – September 25, 2001) was a computer scientist. His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm (independently of Stephen Warshall), which efficiently finds all shortest paths in a graph and his work on parsing; Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm for detecting cycles in a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cocke%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John Cocke (May 30, 1925 – July 16, 2002) was an American computer scientist recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture."
Biography
He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, US. He attended Duke Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxsackievirus | Coxsackieviruses are a few related enteroviruses that belong to the Picornaviridae family of nonenveloped, linear, positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses, as well as its genus Enterovirus, which also includes poliovirus and echovirus. Enteroviruses are among the most common and important human pathogens, and ordina... |
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