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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show%20Boat | Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused%20quartz | Fused quartz, fused silica or quartz glass is a glass consisting of almost pure silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2) in amorphous (non-crystalline) form. This differs from all other commercial glasses in which other ingredients are added which change the glasses' optical and physical properties, such as lowering the melt te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated%20mean | A truncated mean or trimmed mean is a statistical measure of central tendency, much like the mean and median. It involves the calculation of the mean after discarding given parts of a probability distribution or sample at the high and low end, and typically discarding an equal amount of both. This number of points to b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Awakening%20%28Chopin%20novel%29 | The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the tur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro%20Mori%20%28roboticist%29 | is a Japanese roboticist noted for his pioneering work in the fields of robotics and automation, his research achievements in humans' emotional responses to non-human entities, as well as for his views on religion. The ASIMO robot was designed by one of Masahiro's students.
In 1970, Mori published "Bukimi No Tani" (不... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAIR | CAIRz or Cair may refer to:
Acronyms
Carboxyaminoimidazole ribotide, a biochemical intermediate nucleotide
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Indian national defence laboratory
Clean Air Interstate Rule, US environmental regulation
Council on American–Islamic Relations, American Muslim advocacy or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASPM%20%28gene%29 | Abnormal spindle-like microcephaly-associated protein, also known as abnormal spindle protein homolog or Asp homolog, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ASPM gene. ASPM is located on chromosome 1, band q31 (1q31). The ASPM gene contains 28 exons and codes for a 3477 amino‐acid‐long protein. The ASPM protein ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersolid | In condensed matter physics, a supersolid is a spatially ordered material with superfluid properties. In the case of helium-4, it has been conjectured since the 1960s that it might be possible to create a supersolid. Starting from 2017, a definitive proof for the existence of this state was provided by several experime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail%20disease | A nail disease or onychosis is a disease or deformity of the nail. Although the nail is a structure produced by the skin and is a skin appendage, nail diseases have a distinct classification as they have their own signs and symptoms which may relate to other medical conditions. Some nail conditions that show signs of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariant%20derivative | In mathematics, the covariant derivative is a way of specifying a derivative along tangent vectors of a manifold. Alternatively, the covariant derivative is a way of introducing and working with a connection on a manifold by means of a differential operator, to be contrasted with the approach given by a principal conne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Osheroff | Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson. Osheroff is cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-off%20error | In computing, a roundoff error, also called rounding error, is the difference between the result produced by a given algorithm using exact arithmetic and the result produced by the same algorithm using finite-precision, rounded arithmetic. Rounding errors are due to inexactness in the representation of real numbers and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosphere | Ecosphere may refer to:
EcoSphere (aquarium), a sealed blown-glass miniature aquarium
Ecosphere (ecology) or biosphere, the global sum of all ecosystems
Ecosphere (planetary), a planetary closed ecological system
Ecosphere (social enterprise), focusing on sustainable development in Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviance%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics, deviance is a goodness-of-fit statistic for a statistical model; it is often used for statistical hypothesis testing. It is a generalization of the idea of using the sum of squares of residuals (SSR) in ordinary least squares to cases where model-fitting is achieved by maximum likelihood. It plays an imp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20English%20districts%20by%20population | This is a list of the 314 districts of England ordered by population, according to estimated figures for from the Office for National Statistics.
The list consists of 188 non-metropolitan districts, 32 London boroughs, 36 metropolitan boroughs, 66 unitary authorities, and three sui generis authorities (the City of Lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Emperor%27s%20New%20Mind | The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics is a 1989 book by the mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose.
Penrose argues that human consciousness is non-algorithmic, and thus is not capable of being modeled by a conventional Turing machine, which includes a digital computer. Penrose h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann%E2%80%93Whitney%20U%20test | In statistics, the Mann–Whitney U test (also called the Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon (MWW/MWU), Wilcoxon rank-sum test, or Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test) is a nonparametric test of the null hypothesis that, for randomly selected values X and Y from two populations, the probability of X being greater than Y is equal to the probab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powergaming | Powergaming (also known as power gaming, min maxing, or optimization) is a style of interacting with games or game-like systems, particularly video games, boardgames, and role-playing games, with the aim of maximizing progress towards a specific goal. Other players may consider this disruptive when done to the exclusio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20table | Decision tables are a concise visual representation for specifying which actions to perform depending on given conditions. They are algorithms whose output is a set of actions. The information expressed in decision tables could also be represented as decision trees or in a programming language as a series of if-then-el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator | Indicator may refer to:
Biology
Environmental indicator of environmental health (pressures, conditions and responses)
Ecological indicator of ecosystem health (ecological processes)
Health indicator, which is used to describe the health of a population
Honeyguides, also known as "indicator birds", a family of Old... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepheline%20syenite | Nepheline syenite is a holocrystalline plutonic rock that consists largely of nepheline and alkali feldspar. The rocks are mostly pale colored, grey or pink, and in general appearance they are not unlike granites, but dark green varieties are also known. Phonolite is the fine-grained extrusive equivalent.
Petrology
N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Ferrel | William Ferrel (January 29, 1817 – September 18, 1891) was an American meteorologist who developed theories that explained the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation cell in detail, and it is after him that the Ferrel cell is named.
Biography
Ferrel was born in Fulton county in southern Pennsylvania. He was the eldest o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urn%20problem | In probability and statistics, an urn problem is an idealized mental exercise in which some objects of real interest (such as atoms, people, cars, etc.) are represented as colored balls in an urn or other container. One pretends to remove one or more balls from the urn; the goal is to determine the probability of drawi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20expectation | In probability theory, the conditional expectation, conditional expected value, or conditional mean of a random variable is its expected value – the value it would take "on average" over an arbitrarily large number of occurrences – given that a certain set of "conditions" is known to occur. If the random variable can t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch%20and%20Swinnerton-Dyer%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (often called the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture) describes the set of rational solutions to equations defining an elliptic curve. It is an open problem in the field of number theory and is widely recognized as one of the most challenging mathematical problems.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20nutrition | Plant nutrition is the study of the chemical elements and compounds necessary for plant growth and reproduction, plant metabolism and their external supply. In its absence the plant is unable to complete a normal life cycle, or that the element is part of some essential plant constituent or metabolite. This is in accor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20cause%20and%20special%20cause%20%28statistics%29 | Common and special causes are the two distinct origins of variation in a process, as defined in the statistical thinking and methods of Walter A. Shewhart and W. Edwards Deming. Briefly, "common causes", also called natural patterns, are the usual, historical, quantifiable variation in a system, while "special causes" ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telophase | Telophase () is the final stage in both meiosis and mitosis in a eukaryotic cell. During telophase, the effects of prophase and prometaphase (the nucleolus and nuclear membrane disintegrating) are reversed. As chromosomes reach the cell poles, a nuclear envelope is re-assembled around each set of chromatids, the nucleo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vysochanskij%E2%80%93Petunin%20inequality | In probability theory, the Vysochanskij–Petunin inequality gives a lower bound for the probability that a random variable with finite variance lies within a certain number of standard deviations of the variable's mean, or equivalently an upper bound for the probability that it lies further away. The sole restrictions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCV | PCV may refer to:
Biology and medicine
Packed cell volume, a clinical test
Palm Creek virus, a virus
Polycythemia vera, a disease
Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, an eye disease
Procarbazine/CCNU/vincristine, a chemotherapy regimen for brain tumors
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
Porcine circovirus, a virus
P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-frequency%20oscillator | A variable frequency oscillator (VFO) in electronics is an oscillator whose frequency can be tuned (i.e., varied) over some range. It is a necessary component in any tunable radio transmitter and in receivers that works by the superheterodyne principle. The oscillator controls the frequency to which the apparatus is tu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectin | Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins that are highly specific for sugar groups that are part of other molecules, so cause agglutination of particular cells or precipitation of glycoconjugates and polysaccharides. Lectins have a role in recognition at the cellular and molecular level and play numerous roles in biol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappus%27s%20theorem | Pappus's theorem may refer to:
Pappus's area theorem
Pappus's centroid theorem
Pappus's hexagon theorem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical-cavity%20surface-emitting%20laser | The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, or VCSEL , is a type of semiconductor laser diode with laser beam emission perpendicular from the top surface, contrary to conventional edge-emitting semiconductor lasers (also in-plane lasers) which emit from surfaces formed by cleaving the individual chip out of a wafer. V... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20value%20problem | In the study of differential equations, a boundary-value problem is a differential equation subjected to constraints called boundary conditions. A solution to a boundary value problem is a solution to the differential equation which also satisfies the boundary conditions.
Boundary value problems arise in several branc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20theorem%20of%20poker | The fundamental theorem of poker is a principle first articulated by David Sklansky that he believes expresses the essential nature of poker as a game of decision-making in the face of incomplete information.
The fundamental theorem is stated in common language, but its formulation is based on mathematical reasoning.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-time%20Fourier%20transform | The short-time Fourier transform (STFT), is a Fourier-related transform used to determine the sinusoidal frequency and phase content of local sections of a signal as it changes over time. In practice, the procedure for computing STFTs is to divide a longer time signal into shorter segments of equal length and then com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HZ | Hz is the International Standard symbol for hertz, a unit of frequency.
Hz. may also stand for:
Hazrat, an honorific Arabic and Turkish title used to honour a person, used especially for prophets, e.g. Hz. Muhammad, Hz. Ibrahim, etc.
HZ may also stand for:
HZ (character encoding)
Habitable zone, the distance from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Barere | Simon Barere (; – 2 April 1951) was a Russian pianist. His surname Барер is transliterated Barer, but as an adult he adopted the spelling Barere in order to reduce the frequency of mispronunciation.
Biography
Barere was born in Odessa (then Russian Empire, now part of Ukraine) as the eleventh of thirteen children in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinchonism | Cinchonism is a pathological condition caused by an overdose of quinine or its natural source, cinchona bark. Quinine and its derivatives are used medically to treat malaria and lupus erythematosus. In much smaller amounts, quinine is an ingredient of tonic drinks, acting as a bittering agent. Cinchonism can occur fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Boys | Crystal Boys (孽子, pinyin: Nièzǐ, "sons of sin") is a novel written by author Pai Hsien-yung and first published in 1983 in Taiwan. In 1988, this novel went into circulation in China; its French and English translations were published in 1985 and 1989, respectively. A translation into German ("Treffpunkt Lotussee") appe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect%20size | In statistics, an effect size is a value measuring the strength of the relationship between two variables in a population, or a sample-based estimate of that quantity. It can refer to the value of a statistic calculated from a sample of data, the value of a parameter for a hypothetical population, or to the equation th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20Central%20Texas%20tornado%20outbreak | A deadly tornado outbreak occurred in Central Texas during the afternoon and evening of May 27, 1997, in conjunction with a southwestward-moving cluster of supercell thunderstorms. These storms produced 20 tornadoes, mainly along the Interstate 35 corridor from northeast of Waco to north of San Antonio. The strongest t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20normal%20distribution | In statistics, the matrix normal distribution or matrix Gaussian distribution is a probability distribution that is a generalization of the multivariate normal distribution to matrix-valued random variables.
Definition
The probability density function for the random matrix X (n × p) that follows the matrix normal di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFL | TFL may refer to:
Tackle for loss, a gridiron football defensive play
Tasmanian Football League, Australian rules football competition
Tensor fasciae latae muscle, thigh/hip muscle
Terry Fox Laboratory, the major research unit of the BC Cancer Agency
Thermally fused laminate, a resin-saturated layer heat-fused to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanconi%20anemia | Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare, AR, genetic disease resulting in impaired response to DNA damage in the FA/BRCA pathway. Although it is a very rare disorder, study of this and other bone marrow failure syndromes has improved scientific understanding of the mechanisms of normal bone marrow function and development of can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic%20option | In finance, an exotic option is an option which has features making it more complex than commonly traded vanilla options. Like the more general exotic derivatives they may have several triggers relating to determination of payoff. An exotic option may also include a non-standard underlying instrument, developed for a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio-Animatronics | Audio-Animatronics (also known as simply Animatronics, and sometimes shortened to AAs) is the registered trademark for a form of robotics animation created by Walt Disney Imagineering for shows and attractions at Disney theme parks, and subsequently expanded on and used by other companies. The robots move and make nois... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animatronics | The term animatronics refers to mechatronic puppets. They are a modern variant of the automaton and are often used for the portrayal of characters in films and in theme park attractions.
It is a multidisciplinary field integrating puppetry, anatomy and mechatronics. Animatronic figures can be implemented with both com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics%20Sweden | Statistics Sweden ( ; SCB, ) is the Swedish government agency operating under the Ministry of Finance and responsible for producing official statistics for decision-making, debate and research. The agency's responsibilities include:
developing, producing and disseminating statistics;
active participation in internati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid%20Mohamed | Khalid Mohamed is an Indian journalist, editor, film critic, screenwriter and film director. He worked for The Times of India for 27 years and then DNA followed by Hindustan Times and was the lead editor for Filmfare magazine. He is the son of Zubeida Begum, on whose life he wrote the screenplay of Shyam Benegal's 2001... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossby%20wave | Rossby waves, also known as planetary waves, are a type of inertial wave naturally occurring in rotating fluids. They were first identified by Sweden-born American meteorologist Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby in the Earth's atmosphere in 1939. They are observed in the atmospheres and oceans of Earth and other planets, owing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalogy | In zoology, mammalogy is the study of mammals – a class of vertebrates with characteristics such as homeothermic metabolism, fur, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems. Mammalogy has also been known as "mastology," "theriology," and "therology." The archive of number of mammals on earth is constantly growi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actin | Actin is a family of globular multi-functional proteins that form microfilaments in the cytoskeleton, and the thin filaments in muscle fibrils. It is found in essentially all eukaryotic cells, where it may be present at a concentration of over 100 μM; its mass is roughly 42 kDa, with a diameter of 4 to 7 nm.
An actin ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation%20of%20time | The equation of time describes the discrepancy between two kinds of solar time. The word equation is used in the medieval sense of "reconciliation of a difference". The two times that differ are the apparent solar time, which directly tracks the diurnal motion of the Sun, and mean solar time, which tracks a theoretical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenwood%2C%20Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador | Glenwood is a town in northeastern Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is in Division No. 6 on Gander Lake.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Glenwood had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of .... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%206%2C%20Subdivision%20D%2C%20Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador | Division No. 6, Subd. D is an unorganized subdivision in northeastern Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is in Division No. 6 on the Bay of Exploits.
According to the 2016 Statistics Canada Census:
Population: 682
% Change (2011-2016): 131.2
Dwellings: 769
Area (km2): 4,228.2
Density (persons per km2)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20equation | In mathematics, a modular equation is an algebraic equation satisfied by moduli, in the sense of moduli problems. That is, given a number of functions on a moduli space, a modular equation is an equation holding between them, or in other words an identity for moduli.
The most frequent use of the term modular equation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20cyclotron%20resonance | Electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) is a phenomenon observed in plasma physics, condensed matter physics, and accelerator physics. It happens when the frequency of incident radiation coincides with the natural frequency of rotation of electrons in magnetic fields. A free electron in a static and uniform magnetic field w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Chase | Martha Cowles Chase (November 30, 1927 – August 8, 2003), also known as Martha C. Epstein, was an American geneticist who in 1952, with Alfred Hershey, experimentally helped to confirm that DNA rather than protein is the genetic material of life.
Early life and college education
Chase was born in 1927 in Cleveland, O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic%20hash%20function | A cryptographic hash function (CHF) is a hash algorithm (a map of an arbitrary binary string to a binary string with a fixed size of bits) that has special properties desirable for a cryptographic application:
the probability of a particular -bit output result (hash value) for a random input string ("message") is (a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD40 | WD40 may refer to:
WD-40, widely available water-displacing spray
WD-40 Company, the company manufacturing the spray
WD40 repeat, a structural amino acid motif in proteins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLE | VLE may refer to:
Science and technology
Vapor–liquid equilibrium, in thermodynamics and chemical engineering
Virtual learning environment, in educational technology
Maximum landing gear extended speed (VLE), a V speed in aviation
Variable-length encoding, an information theory technique for assigning shorter enco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genichi%20Taguchi | was an engineer and statistician. From the 1950s on, Taguchi developed a methodology for applying statistics to improve the quality of manufactured goods. Taguchi methods have been controversial among some conventional Western statisticians, but others have accepted many of the concepts introduced by him as valid exten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petzite | The mineral petzite, Ag3AuTe2, is a soft, steel-gray telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity. It forms isometric crystals, and is usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals, often with silver, mercury, and copper.
The name comes from chemist W. Petz, who first analyzed the mineral ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza%20A%20virus | Influenza A virus (IAV) is a pathogen that causes the flu in birds and some mammals, including humans. It is an RNA virus whose subtypes have been isolated from wild birds. Occasionally, it is transmitted from wild to domestic birds, and this may cause severe disease, outbreaks, or human influenza pandemics.
Each viru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution | Neuroevolution, or neuro-evolution, is a form of artificial intelligence that uses evolutionary algorithms to generate artificial neural networks (ANN), parameters, and rules. It is most commonly applied in artificial life, general game playing and evolutionary robotics. The main benefit is that neuroevolution can be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20temperament | A regular temperament is any tempered system of musical tuning such that each frequency ratio is obtainable as a product of powers of a finite number of generators, or generating frequency ratios. For instance, in 12-TET, the system of music most commonly used in the Western world, the generator is a tempered fifth (70... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20%26%20Knuckles | is a 1994 platform game developed and published by Sega. Players control Sonic the Hedgehog and Knuckles the Echidna in their quests to save Angel Island; Sonic tries to stop Doctor Robotnik from re-launching his orbital weapon, the Death Egg, while Knuckles scuffles with Robotnik's minion, EggRobo. Like previous Sonic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckles%27%20Chaotix | Knuckles' Chaotix is a 1995 platform game developed by Sega for the 32X. A spin-off from the Sonic the Hedgehog series, it features Knuckles the Echidna and four other characters known as the Chaotix, who must prevent Doctor Robotnik and Metal Sonic from obtaining six magic rings and conquering a mysterious island. Gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G77 | G77 or G-77 may refer to:
The old g77 FORTRAN compiler of GCC which has been replaced by GNU Fortran since release 4.0.
Group of 77, a loose coalition of developing nations designed to promote its members' collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20synapse | An electrical synapse is a mechanical and electrically conductive link between two neighboring neurons that is formed at a narrow gap between the pre- and postsynaptic neurons known as a gap junction. At gap junctions, such cells approach within about 3.8 nm of each other, a much shorter distance than the 20- to 40-na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transducin | Transducin (Gt) is a protein naturally expressed in vertebrate retina rods and cones and it is very important in vertebrate phototransduction. It is a type of heterotrimeric G-protein with different α subunits in rod and cone photoreceptors.
Light leads to conformational changes in rhodopsin, which in turn leads to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-neutral%20measure | In mathematical finance, a risk-neutral measure (also called an equilibrium measure, or equivalent martingale measure) is a probability measure such that each share price is exactly equal to the discounted expectation of the share price under this measure.
This is heavily used in the pricing of financial derivatives du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss%20function | In mathematical optimization and decision theory, a loss function or cost function (sometimes also called an error function) is a function that maps an event or values of one or more variables onto a real number intuitively representing some "cost" associated with the event. An optimization problem seeks to minimize a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20prime%20numbers | This is a list of articles about prime numbers. A prime number (or prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. By Euclid's theorem, there are an infinite number of prime numbers. Subsets of the prime numbers may be generated with various formulas for primes. The firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda%20asteroid | The Hilda asteroids (adj. Hildian) are a dynamical group of more than 5,000 asteroids located beyond the asteroid belt but within Jupiter's orbit, in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Jupiter. The namesake is the asteroid 153 Hilda.
Hildas move in their elliptical orbits in such a fashion that they arrive closest to Jupite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20census%20divisions%20of%20Ontario | The Province of Ontario has 51 first-level administrative divisions, which collectively cover the whole province. With two exceptions, their areas match the 49 census divisions Statistics Canada has for Ontario.
The Province has four types of first-level division: single-tier municipalities, regional municipalities, c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoptera | Neoptera (Ancient Greek néos ("new") + pterón ("wing")) is a classification group that includes most orders of the winged insects, specifically those that can flex their wings over their abdomens. This is in contrast with the more basal orders of winged insects (the "Palaeoptera" assemblage), which are unable to flex t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20theorem%20of%20asset%20pricing | The fundamental theorems of asset pricing (also: of arbitrage, of finance), in both financial economics and mathematical finance, provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a market to be arbitrage-free, and for a market to be complete. An arbitrage opportunity is a way of making money with no initial investment w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics, an interaction may arise when considering the relationship among three or more variables, and describes a situation in which the effect of one causal variable on an outcome depends on the state of a second causal variable (that is, when effects of the two causes are not additive). Although commonly thoug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrosome%20reaction | During fertilization, a sperm must first fuse with the plasma membrane and then penetrate the female egg cell to fertilize it. Fusing to the egg cell usually causes little problem, whereas penetrating through the egg's hard shell or extracellular matrix can be more difficult. Therefore, sperm cells go through a process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariant%20transformation | In physics, a covariant transformation is a rule that specifies how certain entities, such as vectors or tensors, change under a change of basis. The transformation that describes the new basis vectors as a linear combination of the old basis vectors is defined as a covariant transformation. Conventionally, indices ide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20motif | In a chain-like biological molecule, such as a protein or nucleic acid, a structural motif is a common three-dimensional structure that appears in a variety of different, evolutionarily unrelated molecules. A structural motif does not have to be associated with a sequence motif; it can be represented by different and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determination%20of%20the%20day%20of%20the%20week | The determination of the day of the week for any date may be performed with a variety of algorithms. In addition, perpetual calendars require no calculation by the user, and are essentially lookup tables.
A typical application is to calculate the day of the week on which someone was born or a specific event occurred.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel%E2%80%93Kolmogorov%20paradox | In probability theory, the Borel–Kolmogorov paradox (sometimes known as Borel's paradox) is a paradox relating to conditional probability with respect to an event of probability zero (also known as a null set). It is named after Émile Borel and Andrey Kolmogorov.
A great circle puzzle
Suppose that a random variable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest%20rate%20option | An Interest rate option is a specific financial derivative contract whose value is based on interest rates. Its value is tied to an underlying interest rate, such as the yield on 10 year treasury notes.
Similar to equity options, there are two types of contracts: calls and puts. A call gives the bearer the right, but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUGi | Sugi, stylized SUGi, is an American conservation organization and app that supports afforestation. Found in 2019, the platform seeks to increase biodiversity through native plant rewilding projects. Employing the Miyawaki method, SUGi has funded 124 projects and forests in 15 countries, including in Cambridge, Massachu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle%20Carbine | The Rifle No. 5 Mk I, nicknamed the "Jungle Carbine" for its use in jungle warfare, was a bolt action carbine derivative of the British Lee–Enfield No. 4 Mk I. It was developed per jungle fighting experiences in the Pacific War that led the British to decide "a rifle shorter and lighter" than the regular Lee–Enfield wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterobacteria%20phage%20T2 | Enterobacteria phage T2 is a virus that infects and kills E. coli. It is in the genus Tequatrovirus, and the family Myoviridae. Its genome consists of linear double-stranded DNA, with repeats at either end. The phage is covered by a protective protein coat.
The T2 phage can quickly turn an E. coli cell into a T2-produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piecewise%20linear%20function | In mathematics and statistics, a piecewise linear, PL or segmented function is a real-valued function of a real variable, whose graph is composed of straight-line segments.
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A piecewise linear function is a function defined on a (possibly unbounded) interval of real numbers, such that there is a collection o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastocyst | The blastocyst is a structure formed in the early embryonic development of mammals. It possesses an inner cell mass (ICM) also known as the embryoblast which subsequently forms the embryo, and an outer layer of trophoblast cells called the trophectoderm. This layer surrounds the inner cell mass and a fluid-filled cavit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal%20membrane%20oxygenation | Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), also known as extracorporeal life support (ECLS), is an extracorporeal technique of providing prolonged cardiac and respiratory support to persons whose heart and lungs are unable to provide an adequate amount of gas exchange or perfusion to sustain life. The technology for E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro%20Electron | Pro Electron or EECA is the European type designation and registration system for active components (such as semiconductors, liquid crystal displays, sensor devices, electronic tubes and cathode ray tubes).
Pro Electron was set up in 1966 in Brussels, Belgium. In 1983 it was merged with the European Electronic Compone... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%20377%20Stratocruiser | The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a large long-range airliner developed from the C-97 Stratofreighter military transport, itself a derivative of the B-29 Superfortress. The Stratocruiser's first flight was on July 8, 1947. Its design was advanced for its day; its relatively innovative features (though neither completely... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection%20high-energy%20electron%20diffraction | Reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) is a technique used to characterize the surface of crystalline materials. RHEED systems gather information only from the surface layer of the sample, which distinguishes RHEED from other materials characterization methods that also rely on diffraction of high-energy e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20theory | Decision theory (or the theory of choice; not to be confused with choice theory) is a branch of applied probability theory and analytic philosophy concerned with the theory of making decisions based on assigning probabilities to various factors and assigning numerical consequences to the outcome.
There are three branc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermionic%20condensate | A fermionic condensate (or Fermi–Dirac condensate) is a superfluid phase formed by fermionic particles at low temperatures. It is closely related to the Bose–Einstein condensate, a superfluid phase formed by bosonic atoms under similar conditions. The earliest recognized fermionic condensate described the state of elec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20coding | Adaptive coding refers to variants of entropy encoding methods of lossless data compression. They are particularly suited to streaming data, as they adapt to localized changes in the characteristics of the data, and don't require a first pass over the data to calculate a probability model. The cost paid for these advan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s%20robot | Leonardo's robot, or Leonardo's mechanical knight (Italian: Automa cavaliere, lit. "Automaton knight"), was a humanoid automaton designed and possibly constructed by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1495.
The design notes for the robot appear in sketchbooks that were rediscovered in the 1950s. Leonardo is said to ha... |
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