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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes%20of%20toxic%20action
A mode of toxic action is a common set of physiological and behavioral signs that characterize a type of adverse biological response. A mode of action should not be confused with mechanism of action, which refer to the biochemical processes underlying a given mode of action. Modes of toxic action are important, widely ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20virtualization%20platform
A network virtualization platform decouples the hardware plane from the software plane such that the host hardware plane can be administratively programmed to assign its resources to the software plane. This allows for the virtualization of CPU, memory, disk and most importantly network IO. Upon such virtualization of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian%20Project%20%28software%29
The Guardian Project is a global collective of software developers, designers, advocates, activists, and trainers who develop open-source mobile security software and operating system enhancements. They also create customized mobile devices to help individuals communicate more freely and protect themselves from intrusi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck%E2%80%93Fiala%20theorem
In mathematics, the Beck–Fiala theorem is a major theorem in discrepancy theory due to József Beck and Tibor Fiala. Discrepancy is concerned with coloring elements of a ground set such that each set in a certain set system is as balanced as possible, i.e., has approximately the same number of elements of each color. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacemaker%20%28software%29
Pacemaker is an open-source high availability resource manager software used on computer clusters since 2004. Until about 2007, it was part of the Linux-HA project, then was split out to be its own project. It implements several APIs for controlling resources, but its preferred API for this purpose is the Open Cluste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Hangouts
Google Hangouts was a cross-platform instant messaging service developed by Google. It originally was a feature of Google+, becoming a standalone product in 2013, when Google also began integrating features from Google+ Messenger and Google Talk into Hangouts. Google then began integrating features of Google Voice, its...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMPL
SAMPL, which stands for "Stochastic AMPL", is an algebraic modeling language resulting by expanding the well-known language AMPL with extended syntax and keywords. It is designed specifically for representing stochastic programming problems and, through recent extensions, problems with chance constraints, integrated ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Studio
Android Studio is the official integrated development environment (IDE) for Google's Android operating system, built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA software and designed specifically for Android development. It is available for download on Windows, macOS and Linux based operating systems. It is a replacement for the Eclip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%20Blanco%20%28Colorado%29
Rio Blanco is a stream that is tributary of the San Juan River in southern Colorado, United States. The stream originates in the San Juan Mountains and flows for through the San Juan National Forest and private lands to its confluence with the San Juan River in Archuleta County, Colorado. Colorado classifies the Rio B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%20Lighting%20and%20Sound%20Association
The Professional Lighting and Sound Association (PLASA) is a trade association headquartered in Eastbourne, United Kingdom. Its membership is made up of companies involved with the events and entertainments technology sector. History PLASA was originally known as the British Association of Discothèque Equipment Manu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20energy%20principle
The free energy principle is a theoretical framework suggesting that the brain reduces surprise or uncertainty by making predictions based on internal models and updating them using sensory input. It highlights the brain's objective of aligning its internal model with the external world to enhance prediction accuracy. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectuul
Architectuul is an online architecture catalog that uses crowdsourcing to build content. It was founded in 2010 by a team of architects, graphic designers and software engineers. All of the text and many of the images uploaded to the site use a Creative Commons license, making the process similar to Wikipedia. Architec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango%20Live
Tango is a third-party, cross platform messaging application software for smartphones developed by TangoME, Inc. in 2009. The app is free and began as one of the first providers of video calls, texting, photo sharing, and games on a 3G network. As of 2018, Tango has more than 400 million registered users. It was rated...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalai%27s%203%5Ed%20conjecture
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Kalai's 3^d conjecture}} In geometry, Kalai's 3d conjecture is a conjecture on the polyhedral combinatorics of centrally symmetric polytopes, made by Gil Kalai in 1989. It states that every d-dimensional centrally symmetric polytope has at least 3d nonempty faces (including the polytope itself as a face...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20dimension%20ratio
Standard dimension ratio (SDR) is a method of rating a pipe's durability against pressure. The standard dimension ratio describes the correlation between the pipe dimension and the thickness of the pipe wall. Common nominations are SDR11, SDR17 and SDR35. Pipes with a lower SDR can withstand higher pressures. Pipe ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Shield
Project Shield is an anti-distributed-denial-of-service (anti-DDoS) service that is offered by Jigsaw, a subsidiary of Google, to websites that have "media, elections, and human rights related content." The main goal of the project is to serve "small, under-resourced news sites that are vulnerable to the web's growing ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20Design
Packet Design is an Austin, Texas-based network performance management software company credited with pioneering route analytics technology. This network monitoring technology analyzes routing protocols and structures in meshed IP networks by participating as a peer in the network to passively “listen” to Layer 3 routi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20control%20prototyping
Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) is a type of simulation methodology that allows for the rapid evaluation of control systems, especially for large machinery. It can test and evaluate algorithms as well as associated components such as sensors, actuators, pumps etc. The system requires some type of mock up, usually a sca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu%20GNOME
Ubuntu GNOME (formerly Ubuntu GNOME Remix) is a discontinued Linux distribution, distributed as free and open-source software. It used a pure GNOME 3 desktop environment with GNOME Shell, rather than the Unity graphical shell. Starting with version 13.04 it became an official "flavour" of the Ubuntu operating system. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed%20intersection
The relaxed intersection of m sets corresponds to the classical intersection between sets except that it is allowed to relax few sets in order to avoid an empty intersection. This notion can be used to solve constraints satisfaction problems that are inconsistent by relaxing a small number of constraints. When a bounde...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%20bridge
Aircraft bridges, including taxiway bridges and runway bridges, bring aircraft traffic over motorways, railways, and waterways. Construction Aircraft bridges must be designed to support the heaviest aircraft that may cross them, or that will cross them in the future. In 1963, a taxiway bridge at Chicago O'Hare Airport...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal%20extracellular%20enzyme%20activity
Extracellular enzymes or exoenzymes are synthesized inside the cell and then secreted outside the cell, where their function is to break down complex macromolecules into smaller units to be taken up by the cell for growth and assimilation. These enzymes degrade complex organic matter such as cellulose and hemicellulose...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Croods%20%28franchise%29
The Croods is an American media franchise by DreamWorks Animation. The franchise began with the 2013 film The Croods, and has since grown to include a sequel, The Croods: A New Age; two television series, Dawn of the Croods and The Croods: Family Tree; and two video games. Set in the fictional prehistoric "Croodaceous"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20homology
Serial homology is a special type of homology, defined by Owen as "representative or repetitive relation in the segments of the same organism." Ernst Haeckel preferred the term "homotypy" for the same phenomenon. Classical examples of serial homologies are the development of forelimbs and hind limbs of tetrapods and t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20language%20bindings%20for%20Qt%205
— Columns detailing the features covered by the binding are missing. — See also List of language bindings for Qt 4 List of language bindings for GTK+ List of language bindings for wxWidgets List of Qt language bindings from the qt-project.org wiki References Qt (software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel%20network
A multi-channel network (MCN) is an organization that works with video platforms to offer assistance to channel owners in areas such as "product, programming, funding, cross-promotion, partner management, digital rights management, monetization and sales, and audience development," in exchange for a percentage of the a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric%20Circulation%20Reconstructions%20over%20the%20Earth
The Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth, ACRE, is an international science project, began in 2008, that recovers historical weather observations to reconstruct past global and local weather patterns and so support meteorological reanalysis. The project aims to collect weather data from the past 250 y...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out%20of%20danger%20species
An out-of-danger species is an animal or plant species formerly categorized as Rare, Vulnerable, or Endangered that has since been removed from these lists because the species' survival has been relatively secured, e.g. Ginkgo biloba. Often known as a delisted species, these animals have been moved out of the Rare, Vul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Asha%20platform
The Nokia Asha platform is a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for low-end borderline smartphones, based on software from Smarterphone which was acquired by Nokia. The platform inherits UI similarities mostly from MeeGo "Harmattan", and replaces Series 40 on Nokia's low-end devices. The user...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical%20Tree
is a vertically scrolling platform game developed by Konami for the MSX home computer, and published in 1984. Konami published a Brazilian Portuguese version, Árvore Mágica, in 1985. Konami included Magical Tree in the 1998 anthology Konami Antiques MSX Collection, Vol. 2 for PlayStation. Gameplay The player characte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean%20Energy%20Finance%20Corporation
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is an Australian Government-owned green bank that invests alongside private investors, innovators and industry leaders to increase the flow of finance into the clean energy sector, and to help achieve Australia's national goal of net zero emissions by 2050. The CEFC is respo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20engineering
Transition engineering is the professional-engineering discipline that deals with the application of the principles of science to the design, innovation and adaptation of engineered systems that meet the needs of today without compromising the ecological, societal and economic systems on which future generations will d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Sickness%20Bag%20Virtual%20Museum
The Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum is a collection of 3,112 air sickness bags collected by museum curator Steven J. Silberberg. The museum is entirely online, with photographs of the various air sickness bags; however, the actual collection is stored at Silberberg's residence. Silberberg himself has stated that he has...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikt%20L%C3%B6we
Benedikt Löwe (born 1972) is a German mathematician and logician working at the universities of Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Cambridge. He is known for his work on mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics, as well as for initiating the interdisciplinary conference series Foundations of the Formal Sciences (FotF...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed%20area
In mathematics, the signed area or oriented area of a region of an affine plane is its area with orientation specified by the positive or negative sign, that is "plus" or "minus" . More generally, the signed area of an arbitrary surface region is its surface area with specified orientation. When the boundary of the re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic%20Game
Nordic Game is a video game developer conference and trade show held annually in Malmö, Sweden. The Nordic Game conference is held each spring, but since 2020, an autumn event is also created each year - in November 2022 in Helsinki, Finland. The main conference in May offers a three-day program with global and Nordic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%20version%20history
Debian releases do not follow a fixed schedule. Recent releases have been made roughly biennially by the Debian Project. The most recent version of Debian is Debian version 12, codename "Bookworm". The next up and coming release of Debian is Debian 13, codename "Trixie". Debian always has at least three active branche...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recalescence
Recalescence is an increase in temperature that occurs while cooling metal when a change in structure with an increase in entropy occurs. The heat responsible for the change in temperature is due to the change in entropy. When a structure transformation occurs the Gibbs free energy of both structures are more or less t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20scanning%20vibrometry
The scanning laser vibrometer or scanning laser Doppler vibrometer, was first developed by the British loudspeaker company, Celestion, around 1979, further developed in the 1980s, and commercially introduced by Ometron, Ltd around 1986. It is an instrument for rapid non-contact measurement and imaging of vibration. F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LYS-16
LYS-16 was an early microcomputer based on the IMP-16 making it one of the first 16 bit microcomputers. It was designed and made by members of the Lysator academic computer club at Linköping University, Sweden It was introduced in April 1975 and the first computers were delivered in December the same year. Two batches...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han%20Terra
Han Terra is a Korean-born inventor, composer and musician. She was a child prodigy and was performing by age 6 as a Korean kayageum player beginning her training at the age of 4. She has invented a 24 stringed musical instrument called TeRra incorporating artificial intelligence. Han is the first and the youngest in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceTEC%20National%20Resource%20Center%20for%20Aerospace%20Technical%20Education
SpaceTEC® is one of the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Centers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for developing partnerships between academic institutions and industry partners to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco%20Bytesaver
The Bytesaver, introduced by Cromemco in 1976, was the first programmable memory board for the MITS Altair and S-100 bus microcomputer systems. The Bytesaver had sockets for 8 UV-erasable EPROMs providing up to 8 Kbytes of storage. The EPROMs could be programmed by the Bytesaver, or read as computer memory. In the hist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecureDrop
SecureDrop is a free software platform for secure communication between journalists and sources (whistleblowers). It was originally designed and developed by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen under the name DeadDrop. James Dolan also co-created the software. History After Aaron Swartz's death, the first instance of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20effects%20in%20semiconductor%20optics
The interaction of matter with light, i.e., electromagnetic fields, is able to generate a coherent superposition of excited quantum states in the material. Coherent denotes the fact that the material excitations have a well defined phase relation which originates from the phase of the incident electromagnetic wave. Mac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20Networking%20Operating%20System
DNOS or Dell Networking Operating System is a network operating system running on switches from Dell Networking. It is derived from either the PowerConnect OS (DNOS 6.x) or Force10 OS/FTOS (DNOS 9.x) and will be made available for the 10G and faster Dell Networking S-series switches, the Z-series 40G core switches and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle%20circle
In mathematics, a Carlyle circle is a certain circle in a coordinate plane associated with a quadratic equation; it is named after Thomas Carlyle. The circle has the property that the solutions of the quadratic equation are the horizontal coordinates of the intersections of the circle with the horizontal axis. Carlyle ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auger%20architectomics
Auger architectomics is a scientific imaging technique that allows biologists, working in the field of nano-technology, to slice open the cells of living organisms to view and assess their internal workings. Using argon gas etching to open the cells and a scanning electron microscope to create a three-dimensional view,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20MAC-16
The MAC-16 (or LEC-16) was a 16-bit minicomputer introduced in 1969 by Lockheed Electronics. One main selling point of the MAC-16 was a dedicated context switching system that completed operations in two machine cycles. Several improved versions were introduced, including the MAC Jr., Sue, and System III, but the compa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%20scheduling%20problem
The driver scheduling problem (DSP) is type of problem in operations research and theoretical computer science. The DSP consists of selecting a set of duties (assignments) for the drivers or pilots of vehicles (e.g., buses, trains, boats, or planes) involved in the transportation of passengers or goods, within the con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20logic
Vector logic is an algebraic model of elementary logic based on matrix algebra. Vector logic assumes that the truth values map on vectors, and that the monadic and dyadic operations are executed by matrix operators. "Vector logic" has also been used to refer to the representation of classical propositional logic as a v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda%20conditions
In programming jargon, Yoda conditions (also called Yoda notation) is a programming style where the two parts of an expression are reversed from the typical order in a conditional statement. A Yoda condition places the constant portion of the expression on the left side of the conditional statement. Yoda conditions ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maekawa%27s%20theorem
Maekawa's theorem is a theorem in the mathematics of paper folding named after Jun Maekawa. It relates to flat-foldable origami crease patterns and states that at every vertex, the numbers of valley and mountain folds always differ by two in either direction. The same result was also discovered by Jacques Justin and, e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20village%20dog
African village dogs are dogs found in Africa that are directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs. African village dogs became the close companion of people in Africa, beginning in North Africa and spreading south. Dogs entered Africa from the Middle East The oldest dog remains to be found in Africa ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More%20Card
More Card is a rechargeable smart card for paying transportation fares in public transport systems in India. Tipped as a nationwide interoperable transport card, the card aims to be a single point of transaction, applicable in state buses, Metro and even parking. The card was launched in 2012 in Delhi, initially actin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endeavour%20%28supercomputer%29
Endeavour is a shared memory supercomputer at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at NASA Ames Research Center. It was named after the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the last orbiter built during NASA's Space Shuttle Program. Built in February 2013 as a replacement for the Columbia supercomputer, it consists of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scan-Optics
Scan-Optics LLC, founded in 1968, is an enterprise content management services company and optical character recognition (OCR) and image scanner manufacturer headquartered in Manchester, Connecticut. Scan-Optics' records management, information, data remanence, data backup and data recovery services are supplied to go...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lines%20of%20Contravallation%20of%20Gibraltar
The Lines of Contravallation of Gibraltar (Spanish: Línea de Contravalación de Gibraltar or Línea de Gibraltar), known in English as the "Spanish Lines", were a set of fortifications built by the Spanish across the northern part of the isthmus linking Spain with Gibraltar. They later gave their name to the Spanish town...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Media%20Initiative
The Digital Media Initiative (DMI) was a British broadcast engineering project launched by the BBC in 2008. It aimed to modernise the Corporation's production and archiving methods by using connected digital production and media asset management systems. After a protracted development process lasting five years with a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty%20Gear%20Xrd
is a fighting video game sub-series by Arc System Works and part of the Guilty Gear series. Guilty Gear Xrd was developed using Unreal Engine 3, with cel-shaded graphics in place of the series traditional hand drawn sprites. Following the storyline of the last game in the series, Guilty Gear 2: Overture, it introduced ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatics%20Inc.
Chromatics Inc. was a color graphics display manufacturer based in Tucker, Georgia. Their systems predated the personal computer era of inexpensive graphics displays, and were typically used as peripheral devices, connected to a mainframe or minicomputer. In some configurations, a Chromatics graphics terminal could be ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20bill%20folding
In the United States, some blind or otherwise visually-impaired people fold dollar bills in specific ways so that they can identify the denominations of the bills by feel. Though some people have their own idiosyncratic systems, there is a method recommended by the American Foundation for the Blind: Leave $1 bills unfo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneTalk
GeneTalk is a web-based platform, tool, and database for filtering, reduction and prioritization of human sequence variants from next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. GeneTalk allows editing annotation about sequence variants and build up a crowd sourced database with clinically relevant information for diagnostics o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectomycorrhiza
An ectomycorrhiza (from Greek ἐκτός , "outside", μύκης , "fungus", and ῥίζα , "root"; pl. ectomycorrhizas or ectomycorrhizae, abbreviated EcM) is a form of symbiotic relationship that occurs between a fungal symbiont, or mycobiont, and the roots of various plant species. The mycobiont is often from the phyla Basidiomyc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation%20%28computer%20graphics%29
In computer graphics, tessellation is the dividing of datasets of polygons (sometimes called vertex sets) presenting objects in a scene into suitable structures for rendering. Especially for real-time rendering, data is tessellated into triangles, for example in OpenGL 4.0 and Direct3D 11. In graphics rendering A key...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized%20criticality%20control
In applied physics, the concept of controlling self-organized criticality refers to the control of processes by which a self-organized system dissipates energy. The objective of the control is to reduce the probability of occurrence of and size of energy dissipation bursts, often called avalanches, of self-organized sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination%20%28pharmacology%29
In pharmacology the elimination or excretion of a drug is understood to be any one of a number of processes by which a drug is eliminated (that is, cleared and excreted) from an organism either in an unaltered form (unbound molecules) or modified as a metabolite. The kidney is the main excretory organ although others e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20metal%20thiolate%20complex
Transition metal thiolate complexes are metal complexes containing thiolate ligands. Thiolates are ligands that can be classified as soft Lewis bases. Therefore, thiolate ligands coordinate most strongly to metals that behave as soft Lewis acids as opposed to those that behave as hard Lewis acids. Most complexes cont...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cryptocurrencies
|- | | | | | | | Since the creation of bitcoin in 2009, the number of new cryptocurrencies has expanded rapidly. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority estimated there were over 20,000 different cryptocurrencies by the start of 2023, although many of these were no longer traded and would never grow to a s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinOTP
LinOTP is Linux-based software to manage authentication devices for two-factor authentication with one time passwords. It is implemented as a web service based on the python framework Pylons. Thus it requires a web server to run in. LinOTP is mainly developed by the German company KeyIdentity GmbH. Its core componen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antergos
Antergos is a discontinued Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. By default, it includes the GNOME desktop environment, but it also offers options for Cinnamon, MATE, KDE Plasma 5, Deepin, and Xfce desktops. Originally released in July 2012 as Cinnarch, it quickly gained popularity and was ranked among the top 40 mos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutte%20embedding
In graph drawing and geometric graph theory, a Tutte embedding or barycentric embedding of a simple, 3-vertex-connected, planar graph is a crossing-free straight-line embedding with the properties that the outer face is a convex polygon and that each interior vertex is at the average (or barycenter) of its neighbors' p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help%20Scout
Help Scout, legally Help Scout PBC, is a global remote company which is a provider of help desk software and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company provides an email-based customer support platform, knowledge base tool, and an embeddable search/contact widget for customer service professionals. Help Sco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionomics
Ionomics is the measurement of the total elemental composition of an organism to address biological problems. Questions within physiology, ecology, evolution, and many other fields can be investigated using ionomics, often coupled with bioinformatics, chemometrics and other genetic tools. Observing an organism's ionome...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample%20entropy
Sample entropy (SampEn) is a modification of approximate entropy (ApEn), used for assessing the complexity of physiological time-series signals, diagnosing diseased states. SampEn has two advantages over ApEn: data length independence and a relatively trouble-free implementation. Also, there is a small computational di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutagenesis%20%28molecular%20biology%20technique%29
In molecular biology, mutagenesis is an important laboratory technique whereby DNA mutations are deliberately engineered to produce libraries of mutant genes, proteins, strains of bacteria, or other genetically modified organisms. The various constituents of a gene, as well as its regulatory elements and its gene produ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20cytometry
Mass cytometry is a mass spectrometry technique based on inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and time of flight mass spectrometry used for the determination of the properties of cells (cytometry). In this approach, antibodies are conjugated with isotopically pure elements, and these antibodies are used to labe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey%20box%20model
In mathematics, statistics, and computational modelling, a grey box model combines a partial theoretical structure with data to complete the model. The theoretical structure may vary from information on the smoothness of results, to models that need only parameter values from data or existing literature. Thus, almost a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiC%E2%80%93SiC%20matrix%20composite
SiC–SiC matrix composite is a particular type of ceramic matrix composite (CMC) which have been accumulating interest mainly as high temperature materials for use in applications such as gas turbines, as an alternative to metallic alloys. CMCs are generally a system of materials that are made up of ceramic fibers or pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable%20RF
The field-programmable RF (FPRF) is a class of radio frequency transceiver microchip that mimics the concept of an FPGA (field programmable gate array) in the radio frequency domain to deliver a multi-standard, multi frequency device. The earliest use of the term comes from Wireless Design Mag and it has subsequently ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Interagency%20Confederation%20for%20Biological%20Research
The National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research (NICBR, pronounced "Nick Burr") is a biotechnology and biodefense partnership and collaborative environment of eight U.S. Federal government agencies at Fort Detrick, Maryland, US. Structure Four federal cabinet level departments are represented in the NI...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-carry%20flag
A half-carry flag (also known as an auxiliary flag) is a condition flag bit in the status register of many CPU families, such as the Intel 8080, Zilog Z80, the x86, and the Atmel AVR series, among others. It indicates when a carry or borrow has been generated out of the least significant four bits of the accumulator re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talari%20Networks
Talari Networks is a San Jose, CA-based manufacturer of networking equipment that allows businesses to combine private wide area networks (WANs) with less expensive broadband connections such as DSL or cable. It was founded in 2007 and launched its initial beta product in early 2008. The company was acquired by Oracle ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolstenholme%20number
A Wolstenholme number is a number that is the numerator of the generalized harmonic number Hn,2. The first such numbers are 1, 5, 49, 205, 5269, 5369, 266681, 1077749, ... . These numbers are named after Joseph Wolstenholme, who proved Wolstenholme's theorem on modular relations of the generalized harmonic numbers. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Library%2C%20Bratislava
University Library in Bratislava (ULB) is the oldest library in Slovakia. It was founded in 1919 in Bratislava. Today, it is the largest and most visited library in Slovakia and it is a universal state research library. History The library was one of the first cultural and educational institutions set up in the newly ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber-Colman%20knotter
A Barber-Colman knotter is a piece of textile machinery used in a weaving shed. When all the warp carried on the weavers beam has been used, a new beam replaces it. Each end has to pass through the eyes on the existing heddles, and through the existing reed. The knotter takes each new thread and knots it the existing e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulator%20%28cryptography%29
In cryptography, an accumulator is a one way membership hash function. It allows users to certify that potential candidates are a member of a certain set without revealing the individual members of the set. This concept was formally introduced by Josh Benaloh and Michael de Mare in 1993. Formal definitions There are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVPsim
OVPsim is a multiprocessor platform emulator (often called a full-system simulator) used to run unchanged production binaries of the target hardware. It has public APIs allowing users to create their own processor, peripheral and platform models. Various models are available as open source. OVPsim is a key component of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical%20Predestination
Biochemical Predestination is a 1969 book by Dean H. Kenyon and Gary Steinman which argued in support of biochemical evolution. In the book, Kenyon and Steinman conclude that "Life might have been biochemically predestined by the properties of attraction that exist between its chemical parts, especially between amino ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBJSON
Universal Binary JSON (UBJSON) is a computer data interchange format. It is a binary form directly imitating JSON, but requiring fewer bytes of data. It aims to achieve the generality of JSON, combined with being much easier to process than JSON. Rationale and Objectives UBJSON is a proposed successor to BSON, BJSON a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20death
Ecological death is the inability of an organism to function in an ecological context, leading to death. This term can be used in many fields of biology to describe any species. In the context of aquatic toxicology, a toxic chemical, or toxicant, directly affects an aquatic organism but does not immediately kill it; in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmabunt%C3%BCs
Emmabuntüs is a Linux distribution derived from Debian (previously Ubuntu) and designed to facilitate the restoration of computers donated to humanitarian organizations like the Emmaüs Communities. The name Emmabuntüs is a portmanteau of Emmaüs and Ubuntu. Features This Linux distribution can be installed, in its en...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20green%20infrastructure
The European green infrastructure is an important part of the new (post-2010) EU strategy for biodiversity and biodiversity policy. It is one of the main tools to tackle threats on biodiversity resulting from habitat fragmentation, land use change and loss of habitats. Green Infrastructure will play a decisive role in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Sagan
Bruce E. Sagan (born 1954) is an American Professor of Mathematics at Michigan State University. He specializes in enumerative, algebraic, and topological combinatorics. He is also known as a musician, playing music from Scandinavia and the Balkans. Early life Bruce Eli Sagan is the son of Eugene Benjamin Sagan and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Krivelevich
Michael Krivelevich (born January 30, 1966) is a professor with the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel Aviv University, Israel. Krivelevich received his PhD from Tel Aviv University in 1997 under the supervision of Noga Alon. He has published extensively in combinatorics and adjacent fields and specializes in extr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s%20B%C3%B3na
Miklós Bóna (born October 6, 1967, in Székesfehérvár) is an American mathematician of Hungarian origin. Bóna completed his undergraduate studies in Budapest and Paris, then obtained his Ph.D. at MIT in 1997 as a student of Richard P. Stanley. Since 1999, he has taught at the University of Florida, where in 2010 he was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Arratia
Richard Alejandro Arratia is a mathematician noted for his work in combinatorics and probability theory. Contributions Arratia developed the ideas of interlace polynomials with Béla Bollobás and Gregory Sorkin, found an equivalent formulation of the Stanley–Wilf conjecture as the convergence of a limit, and was the fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery%20as%20a%20service
Recovery as a service (RaaS), sometimes referred to as disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), is a category of cloud computing used for protecting an application or data from a natural or human disaster or service disruption at one location by enabling a full recovery in the cloud. RaaS differs from cloud-based backu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Blaster
Alpha Blaster is a fixed shooter video game developed by Dave Aron at Sumlock for the VIC-20 and published by LiveWire Software in 1983. Aackosoft published an MSX adaptation of the game in the following year. Gameplay In Alpha Blaster, a derivative of Galaxian (1979), the player defends against an alien invasion flee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided%20visual%20field%20paradigm
The Divided Visual Field Paradigm is an experimental technique that involves measuring task performance when visual stimuli are presented on the left or right visual hemifields. If a visual stimulus appears in the left visual field (LVF), the visual information is initially projected to the right cerebral hemisphere (...