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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas-pak | Gas-pak is a method used in the production of an anaerobic environment. It is used to culture bacteria which die or fail to grow in the presence of oxygen (anaerobes).
These are commercially available, disposable sachets containing a dry powder or pellets, which, when mixed with water and kept in an appropriately size... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20granulometry | Optical granulometry is the process of measuring the different grain sizes in a granular material, based on a photograph. Technology has been created to analyze a photograph and create statistics based on what the picture portrays. This information is vital in maintaining machinery in various trades worldwide. Minin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%20of%20anarchy | The Price of Anarchy (PoA) is a concept in economics and game theory that measures how the efficiency of a system degrades due to selfish behavior of its agents. It is a general notion that can be extended to diverse systems and notions of efficiency. For example, consider the system of transportation of a city and ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swap%20regret | Swap regret is a concept from game theory. It is a generalization of regret in a repeated, n-decision game.
Definition
A player's swap-regret is defined to be the following:
Intuitively, it is how much a player could improve by switching each occurrence of decision i to the best decision j possible in hindsight. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additively%20indecomposable%20ordinal | In set theory, a branch of mathematics, an additively indecomposable ordinal α is any ordinal number that is not 0 such that for any , we have Additively indecomposable ordinals are also called gamma numbers or additive principal numbers. The class of additively indecomposable ordinals may be denoted , from the Ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20and%20sour | Hot and sour () is a flavor combination in some Asian cuisines, especially Chinese cuisine. Notable examples include:
Hot and sour noodles
Hot and sour soup
Hot and sour wontons
Chinese cuisine
Flavors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigen | In general usage the word indigen is treated as a variant of the word indigene, meaning a native.
Usage in botany
However, it was used in a strictly botanical sense for the first time in 1918 by Liberty Hyde Bailey ((1858–1954) an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultura... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antagonistic%20pleiotropy%20hypothesis | The antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis was first proposed by George C. Williams in 1957 as an evolutionary explanation for senescence. Pleiotropy is the phenomenon where one gene controls more than one phenotypic trait in an organism. A gene is considered to possess antagonistic pleiotropy if it controls more than one ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20web%20steel%20joist | In structural engineering, the open web steel joist (OWSJ) is a lightweight steel truss consisting, in the standard form, of parallel chords and a triangulated web system, proportioned to span between bearing points.
The main function of an OWSJ is to provide direct support for roof or floor deck and to transfer the l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral%20of%20Theodorus | In geometry, the spiral of Theodorus (also called square root spiral, Spiral of Einstein, Pythagorean spiral, or Pythagoras's snail) is a spiral composed of right triangles, placed edge-to-edge. It was named after Theodorus of Cyrene.
Construction
The spiral is started with an isosceles right triangle, with each leg h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simply%20connected%20at%20infinity | In topology, a branch of mathematics, a topological space X is said to be simply connected at infinity if for any compact subset C of X, there is a compact set D in X containing C so that the induced map
is the zero map. Intuitively, this is the property that loops far away from a small subspace of X can be collap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam%C3%A9%20function | In mathematics, a Lamé function, or ellipsoidal harmonic function, is a solution of Lamé's equation, a second-order ordinary differential equation. It was introduced in the paper . Lamé's equation appears in the method of separation of variables applied to the Laplace equation in elliptic coordinates. In some special ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Taylor%20%28political%20scientist%29 | Michael Taylor (born 1942) is professor-emeritus at the University of Washington.
Taylor completed his PhD at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. He has taught at Essex and at Yale University and has held visiting positions at the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford University, the Netherlands Institut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.hn | Gigabit Home Networking (G.hn) is a specification for wired home networking that supports speeds up to 2 Gbit/s and operates over four types of legacy wires: telephone wiring, coaxial cables, power lines and plastic optical fiber. Some benefits of a multi-wire standard are lower equipment development costs and lower de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limiting%20density%20of%20discrete%20points | In information theory, the limiting density of discrete points is an adjustment to the formula of Claude Shannon for differential entropy.
It was formulated by Edwin Thompson Jaynes to address defects in the initial definition of differential entropy.
Definition
Shannon originally wrote down the following formula fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulston%20score | The Sulston score is an equation used in DNA mapping to numerically assess the likelihood that a given "fingerprint" similarity between two DNA clones is merely a result of chance. Used as such, it is a test of statistical significance. That is, low values imply that similarity is significant, suggesting that two DNA c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20chaining | Method chaining is a common syntax for invoking multiple method calls in object-oriented programming languages. Each method returns an object, allowing the calls to be chained together in a single statement without requiring variables to store the intermediate results.
Rationale
Local variable declarations are synta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20convolutions%20of%20probability%20distributions | In probability theory, the probability distribution of the sum of two or more independent random variables is the convolution of their individual distributions. The term is motivated by the fact that the probability mass function or probability density function of a sum of independent random variables is the convolutio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlett%27s%20method | In time series analysis, Bartlett's method (also known as the method of averaged periodograms), is used for estimating power spectra. It provides a way to reduce the variance of the periodogram in exchange for a reduction of resolution, compared to standard periodograms. A final estimate of the spectrum at a given freq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engel%20group | In mathematics, an element x of a Lie group or a Lie algebra is called an n-Engel element, named after Friedrich Engel, if it satisfies the ''n-Engel condition that the repeated commutator [...[[x,y],y], ..., y] with n copies of y is trivial (where [x, y] means xyx−1y−1 or the Lie bracket). It is called an Engel eleme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schematic-driven%20layout | Schematic driven layout is the concept in integrated circuit layout or PCB layout where the EDA software links the schematic and layout databases. It was one of the first big steps forward in layout software from the days when editing tools were simply handling drawn polygons.
Features
Schematic-driven layout allows ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Design%20of%20Experiments | The Design of Experiments is a 1935 book by the English statistician Ronald Fisher about the design of experiments and is considered a foundational work in experimental design. Among other contributions, the book introduced the concept of the null hypothesis in the context of the lady tasting tea experiment. A chapter ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mismatch%20loss | Mismatch loss in transmission line theory is the amount of power expressed in decibels that will not be available on the output due to impedance mismatches and signal reflections. A transmission line that is properly terminated, that is, terminated with the same impedance as that of the characteristic impedance of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clesh | Clesh (clip load edit share) is a cloud-based video editing platform designed for the consumers, prosumers, and online communities to integrate user-generated content. The core technology is based on FORscene which is geared towards professionals working for example in broadcasting, news media, post production.
Video,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20embedding%20property | In universal algebra and model theory, a class of structures K is said to have the joint embedding property if for all structures A and B in K, there is a structure C in K such that both A and B have embeddings into C.
It is one of the three properties used to define the age of a structure.
A first-order theory has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative%20bargaining | Cooperative bargaining is a process in which two people decide how to share a surplus that they can jointly generate. In many cases, the surplus created by the two players can be shared in many ways, forcing the players to negotiate which division of payoffs to choose. Such surplus-sharing problems (also called bargain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isograft | An Isograft is a graft of tissue between two individuals who are genetically identical (i.e. monozygotic twins). Transplant rejection between two such individuals virtually never occurs, making isografts particularly relevant to organ transplanations; patients with organs from their identical twins are incredibly likel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth%20allocation%20protocol | The Bandwidth Allocation Protocol, along with its control protocol, the Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol, is used to add and remove links in a multilink bundle over PPP, and specifying which peer is responsible for making decisions regarding bandwidth management. The protocol was originally conceived by Craig Rich... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20lattice | In the mathematics of matroids and lattices, a geometric lattice is a finite atomistic semimodular lattice, and a matroid lattice is an atomistic semimodular lattice without the assumption of finiteness. Geometric lattices and matroid lattices, respectively, form the lattices of flats of finite, or finite and infinite,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva%20Corporation | Shiva Corporation was a company that specialized in computer networking and associated equipment, in particular remote access products. The company was founded in 1985, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Shiva was co-founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduates Frank Slaughter and by Danie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%2A | D* (pronounced "D star") is any one of the following three related incremental search algorithms:
The original D*, by Anthony Stentz, is an informed incremental search algorithm.
Focused D* is an informed incremental heuristic search algorithm by Anthony Stentz that combines ideas of A* and the original D*. Focused ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20lamella | The middle lamella is a layer that cements together the primary cell walls of two adjoining plant cells. It is the first formed layer to be deposited at the time of cytokinesis. The cell plate that is formed during cell division itself develops into middle lamella or lamellum. The middle lamella is made up of calcium... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20image%20filter | A composite image filter is an electronic filter consisting of multiple image filter sections of two or more different types.
The image method of filter design determines the properties of filter sections by calculating the properties they would have in an infinite chain of identical sections. In this, the analysis pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal%20algebra | In algebra and logic, a modal algebra is a structure such that
is a Boolean algebra,
is a unary operation on A satisfying and for all x, y in A.
Modal algebras provide models of propositional modal logics in the same way as Boolean algebras are models of classical logic. In particular, the variety of all modal alg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clone%20%28cell%20biology%29 | A clone is a group of identical cells that share a common ancestry, meaning they are derived from the same cell.
Clonality implies the state of a cell or a substance being derived from one source or the other. Thus there are terms like polyclonal—derived from many clones; oligoclonal—derived from a few clones; and mon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasma%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, a chiasma (: chiasmata) is the point of contact, the physical link, between two (non-sister) chromatids belonging to homologous chromosomes. At a given chiasma, an exchange of genetic material can occur between both chromatids, what is called a chromosomal crossover, but this is much more frequent during m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlaceSpotting | PlaceSpotting was an online game, based on Google Maps. Its server is based in Switzerland and has English- and German-language versions. In international Media, PlaceSpotting is recommended as a "challenging amusement" and an "educational way of wasting time on the internet".
Overview
The way PlaceSpotting works is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goody%20%28video%20game%29 | Goody is a platform game developed by Gonzalo Suárez Girard and released in 1987 by the Spanish company Opera Soft. The game was released for Amstrad CPC, MSX, ZX Spectrum, and MS-DOS compatible operating systems.
Goody was the first video game by the Spanish designer Gonzalo Suárez Girard, who went on to make Command... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly%20%28supercomputer%29 | The Firefly computer is a high-performance computer cluster housed at the Holland Computing Center located inside of the Peter Kiewit Institute at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Specifications
The system runs on 1,151 compute nodes, 871 have quad-core AMD Opteron processors and 280 have dual quad-core processors. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive%20altruism | Competitive altruism is a possible mechanism for the persistence of cooperative behaviors, specifically those that are performed unconditionally. The theory of reciprocal altruism can be used to explain behaviors that are performed by a donor who receives some sort of benefit in the future. When no such compensation is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20Access%20Control | Extended Access Control (EAC) is a set of advanced security features for electronic passports that protects and restricts access to sensitive personal data contained in the RFID chip. In contrast to common personal data (like the bearer's photograph, names, date of birth, etc.) which can be protected by basic mechanism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-IV%20%28specification%20language%29 | The Meta-IV (pronounced like "metaphor") was an early version of the specification language of the Vienna Development Method formal method for the development of computer-based systems.
History
One of the first occurrences of Meta-IV in print appears to be
"Programming in the Meta-language: A Tutorial".
Dines Bjørner ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20cortical%20atrophy | Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), also called Benson's syndrome, is a rare form of dementia which is considered a visual variant or an atypical variant of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The disease causes atrophy of the posterior part of the cerebral cortex, resulting in the progressive disruption of complex visual processi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order%20intercept%20point | The Second-order intercept point, also known as the SOI, IP2, or IIP2 (Input intercept point), is a measure of linearity that quantifies the second-order distortion generated by nonlinear systems and devices. Examples of frequently used devices that are concerned with this measure are amplifiers and mixers. It is relat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.15.4a | IEEE 802.15.4a (formally called IEEE 802.15.4a-2007) was an amendment to IEEE 802.15.4-2006 specifying that additional physical layers (PHYs) be added to the original standard.
It has been merged into and is superseded by IEEE 802.15.4-2011.
Overview
IEEE 802.15.4-2006 specified four different PHYs, three of which uti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20IPTV | Mobile IPTV is a technology that enables users to transmit and receive multimedia traffic including video, audio, text and graphic services through IP-based wired and wireless networks, with support for quality of service, quality of experience, security, mobility, and interactive functions. Through Mobile IPTV, users ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated%20prime | In abstract algebra, an associated prime of a module M over a ring R is a type of prime ideal of R that arises as an annihilator of a (prime) submodule of M. The set of associated primes is usually denoted by and sometimes called the assassin or assassinator of (word play between the notation and the fact that an a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Orthophonic%20Victrola | The Victor Orthophonic Victrola, first demonstrated publicly in 1925, was the first consumer phonograph designed specifically to play electrically recorded phonograph records. The combination was recognized instantly as a major step forward in sound reproduction.
Electrical recording was developed by Western Electric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarry%20tub | A tub or quarry tub is a type of railway or tramway wagon used in quarries and other industrial locations for the transport of minerals (such as coal, sand, ore, clay and stone) from a quarry or mine face to processing plants or between various parts of an industrial site. This type of wagon may be small enough for one... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMFI | IMFI is an acronym for "Initial, Medial, Final, Isolated", a writing system in which each character has four different potential shapes:
initial – used for the first character in a word
medial – used in the middle of a word
final – used for the last character in a word
isolated – used for single-letter words
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbourhood%20unit | Generally the concept of the neighborhood unit, crystallised from the prevailing social and intellectual attitudes of the early 1900s by Clarence Perry, is an early diagrammatic planning model for residential development in metropolitan areas. It was designed by Perry to act as a framework for urban planners attempting... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce%20address | A bounce address is an email address to which bounce messages are delivered. There are many variants of the name, none of them used universally, including return path, reverse path, envelope from, envelope sender, MAIL FROM, 5321-FROM, return address, From_, Errors-to, etc. It is not uncommon for a single document to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubGene | PubGene AS is a bioinformatics company located in Oslo, Norway and is the daughter company of PubGene Inc.
In 2001, PubGene founders demonstrated one of the first
applications of text mining to research in biomedicine (i.e., biomedical text mining). They went on to create the PubGene public search engine, exemplifying... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele%20%28supercomputer%29 | Steele is a supercomputer that was installed at Purdue University on May 5, 2008. The high-performance computing cluster is operated by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), the university's central information technology organization. ITaP also operates clusters named Coates built in 2009, Rossmann built in 2010, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20projection%20equations | In control theory, optimal projection equations constitute necessary and sufficient conditions for a locally optimal reduced-order LQG controller.
The linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control problem is one of the most fundamental optimal control problems. It concerns uncertain linear systems disturbed by additive whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristian%27s%20algorithm | Cristian's algorithm (introduced by Flaviu Cristian in 1989) is a method for clock synchronization which can be used in many fields of distributive computer science but is primarily used in low-latency intranets. Cristian observed that this simple algorithm is probabilistic, in that it only achieves synchronization if ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Casey%20%28mathematician%29 | John Casey (12 May 1820, Kilbehenny, County Limerick, Ireland – 3 January 1891, Dublin) was a respected Irish geometer. He is most famous for Casey's theorem on a circle that is tangent to four other circles, an extension of Ptolemy's theorem. However, he contributed several novel proofs and perspectives on Euclidean g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fund.com | Fund.com Inc. is a US-based financial services information publishing company and fund platform that focuses on the fund management industry. Its aims were to provide a destination website for investments, including mutual funds, hedge funds, money market funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), closed-end funds, index fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N2n | n2n is an open source Layer 2 over Layer 3 VPN app utilising peer-to-peer architecture for network membership and routing.
Unlike many other VPN programs, n2n can also connect computers which reside behind NAT routers. These connections are set up with help from a third computer that both computers can reach. This co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal%20deletion | In immunology, clonal deletion is the removal through apoptosis of B cells and T cells that have expressed receptors for self before developing into fully immunocompetent lymphocytes. This prevents recognition and destruction of self host cells, making it a type of negative selection or central tolerance. Central toler... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense%20heterarchy | A dense heterarchy is a hierarchical organization in social insect colonies in which the higher levels affect the lower levels and lower levels eventually influence the higher levels. Individual ants within the colony network are likely to have many connections with one another – making the network denser and non-hier... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructolysis | Fructolysis refers to the metabolism of fructose from dietary sources. Though the metabolism of glucose through glycolysis uses many of the same enzymes and intermediate structures as those in fructolysis, the two sugars have very different metabolic fates in human metabolism. Unlike glucose, which is directly metaboli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns%20of%20self-organization%20in%20ants | Ants are simple animals and their behavioural repertory is limited to somewhere between ten and forty elementary behaviours. This is an attempt to explain the different patterns of self-organization in ants.
Ants as complex systems
Ant colonies are self-organized systems: complex collective behaviors arise as the prod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20network | An ecological network is a representation of the biotic interactions in an ecosystem, in which species (nodes) are connected by pairwise interactions (links). These interactions can be trophic or symbiotic. Ecological networks are used to describe and compare the structures of real ecosystems, while network models ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualRank | VisualRank is a system for finding and ranking images by analysing and comparing their content, rather than searching image names, Web links or other text. Google scientists made their VisualRank work public in a paper describing applying PageRank to Google image search at the International World Wide Web Conference i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megamaths | Megamaths is a BBC educational television series for primary schools that was originally aired on BBC Two from 16 September 1996 to 4 February 2002. For its first three series, it was set in a castle on top of Table Mountain, populated by the four card suits (Kings, Queens and Jacks/Jackies, and a Joker who looked afte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleplay%20Modem | The Teleplay Modem is an unreleased modem prototype for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) created by Keith Rupp and Nolan Bushnell, designed to eventually provide online play between NES, Sega Genesis, and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
The first prototype, called the Ayota Modem, has a maximum speed of on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeechWeb | A SpeechWeb is a collection of hyperlinked speech applications, accessed remotely by speech browsers running on end-user devices. Links are activated through spoken commands.
The idea of surfing the web by voice dates back to at least the work of Hemphill and Thrift in 1995 who developed a system in which, HTML page... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Theory%20of%20Island%20Biogeography | The Theory of Island Biogeography is a 1967 book by the ecologist Robert MacArthur and the biologist Edward O. Wilson. It is widely regarded as a seminal work in island biogeography and ecology. The Princeton University Press reprinted the book in 2001 as a part of the "Princeton Landmarks in Biology" series. The book ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20Bellow | Alexandra Bellow (née Bagdasar; previously Ionescu Tulcea; born 30 August 1935) is a Romanian-American mathematician, who has made contributions to the fields of ergodic theory, probability and analysis.
Biography
Bellow was born in Bucharest, Romania, on August 30, 1935, as Alexandra Bagdasar. Her parents were both ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-trophic%20networks | Any action or influence that species have on each other is considered a biological interaction. These interactions between species can be considered in several ways. One such way is to depict interactions in the form of a network, which identifies the members and the patterns that connect them. Species interactions ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20column-based%20nucleic%20acid%20purification | Spin column-based nucleic acid purification is a solid phase extraction method to quickly purify nucleic acids. This method relies on the fact that nucleic acid will bind to the solid phase of silica under certain conditions.
Procedure
The stages of the method are lyse, bind, wash, and elute. More specifically, this ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shredder%201.0 | Shredder 1.0 is a work of Net Art created by Mark Napier. The Shredder 1.0 interface takes preexisting websites and deconstructs their code to create original abstract compositions.
Background
Mark Napier's Shredder 1.0 interface was first revealed in 1998. The Shredder 1.0 web interface was created to be both an inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20McIntosh | Stephen Ian McIntosh (born July 3, 1960) is an American author, lawyer, and entrepreneur. He was the founder and former CEO of Now & Zen, Inc., a boutique alarm clock company. He writes on the subject of integral thought.
Education
McIntosh graduated from University High School in West Los Angeles in 1978. In 1984, h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse%20case | Misuse case is a business process modeling tool used in the software development industry. The term Misuse Case or mis-use case is derived from and is the inverse of use case. The term was first used in the 1990s by Guttorm Sindre of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Andreas L. Opdahl of the Unive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndallization | Tyndallization is a process from the nineteenth century for sterilizing substances, usually food, named after its inventor John Tyndall, that can be used to kill heat-resistant endospores. Although now considered dated, it is still occasionally used.
A simple and effective sterilizing method commonly used today is aut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task%20allocation%20and%20partitioning%20in%20social%20insects | Task allocation and partitioning is the way that tasks are chosen, assigned, subdivided, and coordinated within a colony of social insects. Task allocation and partitioning gives rise to the division of labor often observed in social insect colonies, whereby individuals specialize on different tasks within the colony (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.C.%20Mits | T.C. Mits (acronym for "the celebrated man in the street"), is a term coined by Lillian Rosanoff Lieber to refer to an everyman. In Lieber's works, T.C. Mits was a character who made scientific topics more approachable to the public audience.
The phrase has enjoyed sparse use by authors in fields such as molecular bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-eastern%20blot | The far-eastern blot, or far-eastern blotting, is a technique for the analysis of lipids separated by high-performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC). When executing the technique, lipids are transferred from HPTLC plates to a PVDF membrane for further analysis, for example by enzymatic or ligand binding assays and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAP%20%28instrument%29 | The Sun Watcher using Active Pixel System Detector and Image Processing (SWAP) telescope is a compact extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) imager on board the PROBA-2 mission. SWAP provides images of the solar corona at a temperature of roughly 1 million degrees. the instrument was built upon the heritage of the Extreme ultraviol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20web%20analytics | Mobile web analytics studies the behaviour of mobile website users in a similar way to traditional web analytics. In a commercial context, mobile web analytics refers to the data collected from the users who access a website from a mobile phone. It helps to determine which aspects of the website work best for mobile tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurytherm | A eurytherm is an organism, often an endotherm, that can function at a wide range of ambient temperatures. To be considered a eurytherm, all stages of an organism's life cycle must be considered, including juvenile and larval stages. These wide ranges of tolerable temperatures are directly derived from the tolerance o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20wildlife%20artists | This list of wildlife artists is a list for any notable wildlife artist, wildlife painter, wildlife photographer, other wildlife artist, society of wildlife artists, museum, or exhibition of wildlife art, worldwide.
A
Jackson Miles Abbott
John Abbot
Joy Adamson
Jacques-Laurent Agasse
Richard Ansdell
John James Audubon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLITS | Graham's Line Identification Tone System (GLITS) is a test signal for stereo systems devised by BBC TV Sound Supervisor and Fellow of the IPS Graham Haines in the mid 1980s. It comprises a 1 kHz tone at 0 dBu (- 18 dBFS) on both channels, with interruptions which identify the channels.
The left channel is interrupted... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officinalis | Officinalis, or officinale, is a Medieval Latin epithet denoting organisms—mainly plants—with uses in medicine, herbalism and cookery. It commonly occurs as a specific epithet, the second term of a two-part botanical name. Officinalis is used to modify masculine and feminine nouns, while officinale is used for neuter n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy%20Noether%20bibliography | Emmy Noether was a German mathematician. This article lists the publications upon which her reputation is built (in part).
First epoch (1908–1919)
Second epoch (1920–1926)
In the second epoch, Noether turned her attention to the theory of rings. With her paper Moduln in nichtkommutativen Bereichen, insbesondere aus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveMaker | WaveMaker is an enterprise-grade Java low-code development platform for building software applications and platforms. WaveMaker Inc. is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For enterprises, WaveMaker is a low-code platform that aims to accelerate their app development and IT modernization efforts. For ISVs, it i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot%20cell | Faggot cells are cells normally found in the hypergranular form of acute promyelocytic leukemia (FAB - M3). These promyelocytes (not blast cells) have numerous Auer rods in the cytoplasm which gives the appearance of a bundle of sticks, from which the cells are given their name.
See also
Buttock cell
References
Hum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive%20interpretation | According to Rudolf Carnap, in logic, an interpretation is a descriptive interpretation (also called a factual interpretation) if at least one of the undefined symbols of its formal system becomes, in the interpretation, a descriptive sign (i.e., the name of single objects, or observable properties). In his Introductio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20immunoprecipitation%20chip | RIP-chip (RNA immunoprecipitation chip) is a molecular biology technique which combines RNA immunoprecipitation with a microarray. The purpose of this technique is to identify which RNA sequences interact with a particular RNA binding protein of interest in vivo. It can also be used to determine relative levels of gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artnet | Artnet.com is an art market website. It is operated by Artnet Worldwide Corporation, which has headquarters in New York City, New York, in the United States. It is owned by Artnet AG, a German publicly traded company based in Berlin that is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The company increased revenues by 25.3%... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scianna%20antigen%20system | The Scianna blood antigen system consists of seven antigens. These include two high frequency antigens Sc1 and Sc3, and two low frequency antigens Sc2 and Sc4.
The very rare null phenotype is characterised by the absence of Sc1, Sc2 and Sc3.
The antigens are caused by changes in the erythroid membrane associated prot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20image-sharing%20websites | This article presents a non-exhaustive list of notable image-sharing websites.
Active image-sharing websites
Defunct photo-sharing websites
These also include sites that may still operate, but do not accept new users. Listed in chronological order of shutdown.
Comparison of photo-sharing websites
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotangent%20complex | In mathematics, the cotangent complex is a common generalisation of the cotangent sheaf, normal bundle and virtual tangent bundle of a map of geometric spaces such as manifolds or schemes. If is a morphism of geometric or algebraic objects, the corresponding cotangent complex can be thought of as a universal "lineari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C2%B9%20homotopy%20theory | In algebraic geometry and algebraic topology, branches of mathematics, homotopy theory or motivic homotopy theory is a way to apply the techniques of algebraic topology, specifically homotopy, to algebraic varieties and, more generally, to schemes. The theory is due to Fabien Morel and Vladimir Voevodsky. The underl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Mexican%20American%20Engineers%20and%20Scientists | MAES: Latinos in Science and Engineering, Inc. (MAES), originally the Mexican American Engineering Society, was founded in 1974. It organizes an annual symposium and career fair.
History
MAES was founded in Los Angeles in 1974 to increase the number of Mexican Americans and other Hispanics in the technical and scien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%20%26%20Zen | Now & Zen, Inc. is an American company, founded by Steve McIntosh in January 1995, that is based in Boulder, Colorado. The Zen Alarm Clock was introduced in early 1996. McIntosh stepped down as CEO in 2012.
Patents
Now & Zen holds two patents covering both the design and utility aspects of its chiming alarm clocks: U.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination%20diet | An elimination diet, also known as exclusion diet, is a diagnostic procedure used to identify foods that an individual cannot consume without adverse effects. Adverse effects may be due to food allergy, food intolerance, other physiological mechanisms (such as metabolic or toxins), or a combination of these. Eliminatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement%20render | Cement render or cement plaster is the application of a mortar mix of sand and cement, (optionally lime) and water to brick, concrete, stone, or mud brick. It is often textured, colored, or painted after application. It is generally used on exterior walls but can be used to feature an interior wall. Depending on the 'l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness%20compensation | Loudness compensation, or simply loudness, is a setting found on some hi-fi equipment that increases the level of the high and low frequencies. This is intended to be used while listening at low-volume levels, to compensate for the fact that as the loudness of audio decreases, the ear's lower sensitivity to extreme hig... |
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