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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20aerospace%20engineering%20schools | Aerospace (or aeronautical) engineering can be studied at the bachelors, masters and Ph.D. levels in aerospace engineering departments at many universities, and in mechanical engineering departments at others.
Institution names are followed by accreditation where applicable.
Argentina
Universidad Nacional de Cordob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorium | An equatorium (plural, equatoria) is an astronomical calculating instrument. It can be used for finding the positions of the Moon, Sun, and planets without arithmetic operations, using a geometrical model to represent the position of a given celestial body.
History
In his comment on Ptolemy's Handy Tables, 4th centur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20theorem%20for%20Riemann%20surfaces | In mathematics, the identity theorem for Riemann surfaces is a theorem that states that a holomorphic function is completely determined by its values on any subset of its domain that has a limit point.
Statement of the theorem
Let and be Riemann surfaces, let be connected, and let be holomorphic. Suppose that fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sattler%27s%20layer | Sattler's layer, named after Hubert Sattler, an Austrian ophthalmologist, is one of five (or six) layers of medium-diameter blood vessels of the choroid, and a layer of the eye. It is situated between the Bruch's membrane, choriocapillaris below, and the Haller's layer and suprachoroidea above, respectively. The origin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branching%20theorem | In mathematics, the branching theorem is a theorem about Riemann surfaces. Intuitively, it states that every non-constant holomorphic function is locally a polynomial.
Statement of the theorem
Let and be Riemann surfaces, and let be a non-constant holomorphic map. Fix a point and set . Then there exist and chart... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20delivery | Gene delivery is the process of introducing foreign genetic material, such as DNA or RNA, into host cells. Gene delivery must reach the genome of the host cell to induce gene expression. Successful gene delivery requires the foreign gene delivery to remain stable within the host cell and can either integrate into the g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20trigonometry | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to trigonometry:
Trigonometry – branch of mathematics that studies the relationships between the sides and the angles in triangles. Trigonometry defines the trigonometric functions, which describe those relationships and have applicability to cyclic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4x4%20Off-Road%20Racing | 4x4 Off-Road Racing is a video game of the racing genre released in 1988 by Epyx and developed by Ogdan Micro Design Inc. The four maps consist of Mud, Ice, Desert and Mountains.
Reception
Compute! called the game "an enjoyable drive".
The Spanish magazine Microhobby valued the game with the following scores: Origi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20cancer%20treatments | Alternative cancer treatment describes any cancer treatment or practice that is not part of the conventional standard of cancer care. These include special diets and exercises, chemicals, herbs, devices, and manual procedures. Most alternative cancer treatments do not have high-quality evidence supporting their use and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee%20scheduling%20software | Employee scheduling software automates the process of creating and maintaining a schedule. Automating the scheduling of employees increases productivity and allows organizations with hourly workforces to re-allocate resources to non-scheduling activities. Such software will usually track vacation time, sick time, compe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the term fiber (US English) or fibre (British English) can have two meanings, depending on the context:
In naive set theory, the fiber of the element in the set under a map is the inverse image of the singleton under
In algebraic geometry, the notion of a fiber of a morphism of schemes must be d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Muse | Project MUSE, a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic books. Project MUSE contains digital humanities and social science content from over 250 university presses and scholarly societies around the world. It is an aggregator of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite-dimensional%20Lebesgue%20measure | In functional analysis and measure theory, there is a folklore claim that there is no analogue of the Lebesgue measure on an infinite-dimensional Banach space. The claim states that there is no translation invariant measure on a separable Banach spacebecause if any ball has a nonzero non-infinite volume, a slightly sma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20slope | In astrophysics and planetary science, spectral slope, also called spectral gradient, is a measure of dependence of the reflectance on the wavelength.
In digital signal processing, it is a measure of how quickly the spectrum of an audio sound tails off towards the high frequencies, calculated using a linear regression... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palivizumab | Palivizumab, sold under the brand name Synagis, is a monoclonal antibody produced by recombinant DNA technology used to prevent severe disease caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections. It is recommended for infants at high-risk for RSV due to conditions such as prematurity or other medical problems includ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creditcall | Creditcall (now NMI) is a payment service provider and payment gateway with offices in the United States and UK, providing credit card authorisation and settlement services to banks and processors in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada.
History
Creditcall Limited, originally Creditcall Communications Limited,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer%20P2 | Buffer P2 is a lysis buffer solution produced by Qiagen. It contains 1% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) (w/v) to puncture holes in cellular membranes, and 200mM NaOH. It is used in conjunction with other resuspension buffers and lysis buffers to release DNA from cells, often as part of the alkaline lysis method of purifyi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindel%C3%B6f%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Lindelöf's lemma is a simple but useful lemma in topology on the real line, named for the Finnish mathematician Ernst Leonard Lindelöf.
Statement of the lemma
Let the real line have its standard topology. Then every open subset of the real line is a countable union of open intervals.
Generalized Stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%20scheme | In algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics, a Hilbert scheme is a scheme that is the parameter space for the closed subschemes of some projective space (or a more general projective scheme), refining the Chow variety. The Hilbert scheme is a disjoint union of projective subschemes corresponding to Hilbert polynomi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%20series%20and%20Hilbert%20polynomial | In commutative algebra, the Hilbert function, the Hilbert polynomial, and the Hilbert series of a graded commutative algebra finitely generated over a field are three strongly related notions which measure the growth of the dimension of the homogeneous components of the algebra.
These notions have been extended to fil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20time | In computer science and computer programming, system time represents a computer system's notion of the passage of time. In this sense, time also includes the passing of days on the calendar.
System time is measured by a system clock, which is typically implemented as a simple count of the number of ticks that have tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance%20engineering | Performance engineering encompasses the techniques applied during a systems development life cycle to ensure the non-functional requirements for performance (such as throughput, latency, or memory usage) will be met. It may be alternatively referred to as systems performance engineering within systems engineering, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycian%20alphabet | The Lycian alphabet was used to write the Lycian language of the Asia Minor region of Lycia. It was an extension of the Greek alphabet, with half a dozen additional letters for sounds not found in Greek. It was largely similar to the Lydian and the Phrygian alphabets.
The alphabet
The Lycian alphabet contains letters... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydian%20alphabet | Lydian script was used to write the Lydian language. Like other scripts of Anatolia in the Iron Age, the Lydian alphabet is based on the Phoenician alphabet. It is related to the East Greek alphabet, but it has unique features.
The first modern codification of the Lydian alphabet was made by Roberto Gusmani in 1964, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9999%20%28number%29 | 9999 is the natural number following 9998 and preceding 10000.
9999 is an auspicious number in Chinese folklore. Many estimations of the rooms contained in the Forbidden City point to 9999. Chinese tomb contracts often involved being buried with 9999 coins, a practice related to Joss paper, as it was believed the dead... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin%20Dresher | Melvin Dresher (born Dreszer; March 13, 1911 – June 4, 1992) was a Polish-born American mathematician, notable for developing, with Merrill Flood, the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma while at RAND in 1950 (Albert W. Tucker gave the game its prison-sentence interpretati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltric%20set | Peltric set is a term referring to the combination of a Pelton wheel and an electric generator, and is a useful water-powered turbine for mountainous regions where the head available is generally high but the flow is low. This set can be economically connected in an existing break pressure tank of a drinking water supp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20ad%20hoc%20network | A wireless ad hoc network (WANET) or mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a decentralized type of wireless network. The network is ad hoc because it does not rely on a pre-existing infrastructure, such as routers or wireless access points. Instead, each node participates in routing by forwarding data for other nodes. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindenbaum%27s%20lemma | In mathematical logic, Lindenbaum's lemma, named after Adolf Lindenbaum, states that any consistent theory of predicate logic can be extended to a complete consistent theory. The lemma is a special case of the ultrafilter lemma for Boolean algebras, applied to the Lindenbaum algebra of a theory.
Uses
It is used in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20theorem | In mathematics, comparison theorems are theorems whose statement involves comparisons between various mathematical objects of the same type, and often occur in fields such as calculus, differential equations and Riemannian geometry.
Differential equations
In the theory of differential equations, comparison theorems a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20track | __notoc__
An animal track is an imprint left behind in soil, snow, or mud, or on some other ground surface, by an animal walking across it. Animal tracks are used by hunters in tracking their prey and by naturalists to identify animals living in a given area.
Books are commonly used to identify animal tracks, which m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Academy%20of%20Engineering | The Canadian Academy of Engineering () is a national academy of distinguished professional engineers in all fields of engineering, who are elected on the basis of "their distinguished service and contribution to society, to the country and to the profession". Founded in 1987, the academy has over 750 Fellows.
The acad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfersome | Transfersome is a proprietary drug delivery technology, an artificial vesicle designed to exhibit the characteristics of a cell vesicle suitable for controlled and potentially targeted drug delivery. Some evidence has shown efficacy for its use for drug delivery without causing skin irritation, potentially being used t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDOA | Frequency difference of arrival (FDOA) or differential Doppler (DD), is a technique analogous to TDOA for estimating the location of a radio emitter based on observations from other points. (It can also be used for estimating one's own position based on observations of multiple emitters). TDOA and FDOA are sometimes us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard%20protector | A keyboard protector or keyboard cover is a device which is placed on top of a computer keyboard in order to reduce contact with the environment. Keyboards are susceptible to corrosion damage from liquid spills and build up of dust and debris, requiring frequent cleaning and maintenance. The protector serves as a barr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20theory%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics and economics, transportation theory or transport theory is a name given to the study of optimal transportation and allocation of resources. The problem was formalized by the French mathematician Gaspard Monge in 1781.
In the 1920s A.N. Tolstoi was one of the first to study the transportation problem ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary%20kiln | A rotary kiln is a pyroprocessing device used to raise materials to a high temperature (calcination) in a continuous process. Materials produced using rotary kilns include:
Cement
Lime
Refractories
Metakaolin
Titanium dioxide
Alumina
Vermiculite
Iron ore pellets
They are also used for roasting a wide variety... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberSource | Cybersource is a United Kingdom based payment gateway founded in 1994.
In November 2007, Cybersource acquired the U.S. small business payment services provider Authorize.net for $565 million.
On April 22, 2010, Visa Inc. acquired Cybersource for $2 billion.
See also
List of on-line payment service providers
Refere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coker%20unit | A coker or coker unit is an oil refinery processing unit that converts the residual oil from the vacuum distillation column into low molecular weight hydrocarbon gases, naphtha, light and heavy gas oils, and petroleum coke. The process thermally cracks the long chain hydrocarbon molecules in the residual oil feed into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalter | A desalter is a process unit in an oil refinery that removes salt from the crude oil. The salt is dissolved in the water in the crude oil, not in the crude oil itself. The desalting is usually the first process in crude oil refining. The salt content after the desalter is usually measured in PTB – pounds of salt per t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20recursive%20arithmetic | Primitive recursive arithmetic (PRA) is a quantifier-free formalization of the natural numbers. It was first proposed by Norwegian mathematician , as a formalization of his finitistic conception of the foundations of arithmetic, and it is widely agreed that all reasoning of PRA is finitistic. Many also believe that all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island%20growth | Island growth is a physical model of deposited film growth and chemical vapor deposition.
Introduction
When atoms are deposited slowly onto a flat surface, the first one undergoes a random walk on that surface. Eventually a second atom is deposited; in all likelihood it will eventually meet the first atom. Once the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling%20%28piping%29 | In piping and plumbing, a coupling (or coupler) is a very short length of pipe or tube, with a socket at one or both ends that allows two pipes or tubes to be joined, welded (steel), brazed or soldered (copper, brass etc.) together.
Alternatively it is a short length of pipe with two female National pipe threads (NPT)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20B-machine | As presented by Hao Wang (1954, 1957), his basic machine B is an extremely simple computational model equivalent to the Turing machine. It is "the first formulation of a Turing-machine theory in terms of computer-like models" (Minsky, 1967: 200). With only 4 sequential instructions it is very similar to, but even simpl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRC%20%28file%20format%29 | MRC is a file format that has become an industry standard in cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) and electron tomography (ET), where the result of the technique is a three-dimensional grid of voxels each with a value corresponding to electron density or electric potential. It was developed by the MRC (Medical Research Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20migration%20tracking | Animal migration tracking is used in wildlife biology, conservation biology, ecology, and wildlife management to study animals' behavior in the wild. One of the first techniques was bird banding, placing passive ID tags on birds legs, to identify the bird in a future catch-and-release. Radio tracking involves attaching... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20assimilation | Genetic assimilation is a process described by Conrad H. Waddington by which a phenotype originally produced in response to an environmental condition, such as exposure to a teratogen, later becomes genetically encoded via artificial selection or natural selection. Despite superficial appearances, this does not require... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard-ball%20computer | A billiard-ball computer, a type of conservative logic circuit, is an idealized model of a reversible mechanical computer based on Newtonian dynamics, proposed in 1982 by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli. Instead of using electronic signals like a conventional computer, it relies on the motion of spherical billiard b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible%20display | A flexible display or rollable display is an electronic visual display which is flexible in nature, as opposed to the traditional flat screen displays used in most electronic devices. In recent years there has been a growing interest from numerous consumer electronics manufacturers to apply this display technology in e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow%20trench%20isolation | Shallow trench isolation (STI), also known as box isolation technique, is an integrated circuit feature which prevents electric current leakage between adjacent semiconductor device components. STI is generally used on CMOS process technology nodes of 250 nanometers and smaller. Older CMOS technologies and non-MOS tech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasinorm | In linear algebra, functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a quasinorm is similar to a norm in that it satisfies the norm axioms, except that the triangle inequality is replaced by
for some
Definition
A on a vector space is a real-valued map on that satisfies the following conditions:
:
: for all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrologica%20X8 | The Electrologica X8 (or EL X8) was a digital computer designed as a successor to the Electrologica X1 and manufactured in the Netherlands by Electrologica NV between 1964 and 1968.
Like its predecessor, the X1, the X8 system included core memory, 27-bit word length, and drum memory as secondary storage (not as primar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche%20%28horse%29 | Comanche was a mixed-breed horse who survived George Armstrong Custer's detachment of the United States 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25, 1876).
Biography
The horse was bought by the U.S. Army in 1868 in St. Louis, Missouri and sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His ancestry and date of birth ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence%20anisotropy | Fluorescence anisotropy or fluorescence polarization is the phenomenon where the light emitted by a fluorophore has unequal intensities along different axes of polarization. Early pioneers in the field include Aleksander Jablonski, Gregorio Weber, and Andreas Albrecht. The principles of fluorescence polarization and so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Pill%20%28software%29 | Blue Pill is the codename for a rootkit based on x86 virtualization. Blue Pill originally required AMD-V (Pacifica) virtualization support, but was later ported to support Intel VT-x (Vanderpool) as well. It was designed by Joanna Rutkowska and originally demonstrated at the Black Hat Briefings on August 3, 2006, with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Control%20of%20Nature | The Control of Nature is a 1989 book by John McPhee that chronicles three attempts (with varying success) to control natural processes. It is divided into three long essays, "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains". The Army Corps of Engineers prevents the Mississippi River from chang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.38 | T.38 is an ITU recommendation for allowing transmission of fax over IP networks (FoIP) in real time.
History
The T.38 fax relay standard was devised in 1998 as a way to permit faxes to be transported across IP networks between existing Group 3 (G3) fax terminals. T.4 and related fax standards were published by the IT... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20H.%20Hubbard | John Hamal Hubbard (born October 6 or 7, 1945) is an American mathematician and professor at Cornell University and the . He is known for the mathematical contributions he made with Adrien Douady in the field of complex dynamics, including a study of the Mandelbrot set. One of their most important results is that the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20diffusion%20test | The disk diffusion test (also known as the agar diffusion test, Kirby–Bauer test, disc-diffusion antibiotic susceptibility test, disc-diffusion antibiotic sensitivity test and KB test) is a culture-based microbiology assay used in diagnostic and drug discovery laboratories. In diagnostic labs, the assay is used to det... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime%20number | In number theory, a sublime number is a positive integer which has a perfect number of positive factors (including itself), and whose positive factors add up to another perfect number.
The number 12, for example, is a sublime number. It has a perfect number of positive factors (6): 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12, and the sum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minentaucher | Minentaucher is the German term for mine clearance divers. The Minentaucherkompanie is a specialist unit within the German Navy responsible for underwater tasks including removing or salvaging underwater munitions such as mines and for servicing underwater drones. It is part of the Sea Battalion and is based in Eckernf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable%20analog%20array | A field-programmable analog array (FPAA) is an integrated circuit device containing computational analog blocks (CAB) and interconnects between these blocks offering field-programmability. Unlike their digital cousin, the FPGA, the devices tend to be more application driven than general purpose as they may be current ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic%20form | In mathematics, a cubic form is a homogeneous polynomial of degree 3, and a cubic hypersurface is the zero set of a cubic form. In the case of a cubic form in three variables, the zero set is a cubic plane curve.
In , Boris Delone and Dmitry Faddeev showed that binary cubic forms with integer coefficients can be used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium%20phosphate | Gallium phosphate (GaPO4 or gallium orthophosphate) is a colorless trigonal crystal with a hardness of 5.5 on the Mohs scale. GaPO4 is isotypic with quartz, possessing very similar properties, but the silicon atoms are alternately substituted with gallium and phosphorus, thereby doubling the piezoelectric effect. GaP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20orders | Gene orders are the permutation of genome arrangement. A fair amount of research has been done trying to determine whether gene orders evolve according to a molecular clock (molecular clock hypothesis) or in jumps (punctuated equilibrium).
Some research on gene orders in animals' mitochondrial genomes reveal that the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy%20molasses | Soy molasses is brown viscous syrup with a typical bittersweet flavor. A by-product of aqueous alcohol soy protein concentrate production, soy molasses is a concentrated, desolventized, aqueous alcohol extract of defatted soybean flakes.
The term "soy molasses" was coined by Daniel Chajuss, the founder of Hayes Ashdod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncacheable%20speculative%20write%20combining | Uncacheable speculative write combining (USWC), is a computer BIOS setting for memory communication between a CPU and graphics card. It allows faster communication than the "uncachable" setting (the alternative to USWC in the BIOS), as long as the graphics card supports write combining (which most modern cards do), all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrifty%20gene%20hypothesis | The thrifty gene hypothesis, or Gianfranco's hypothesis is an attempt by geneticist James V. Neel to explain why certain populations and subpopulations in the modern day are prone to diabetes mellitus type 2. He proposed the hypothesis in 1962 to resolve a fundamental problem: diabetes is clearly a very harmful medical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterivore | A bacterivore is an organism which obtains energy and nutrients primarily or entirely from the consumption of bacteria. The term is most commonly used to describe free-living, heterotrophic, microscopic organisms such as nematodes as well as many species of amoeba and numerous other types of protozoans, but some macros... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating%20connection | A mating connection is any method of assembling of two or more component parts with mutually complementing shapes that, with some imagination, resembles the way two animals, male and female, are physically connected during the act of mating. In such connections one of the two components acts as male and the other as fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact%20operator%20on%20Hilbert%20space | In the mathematical discipline of functional analysis, the concept of a compact operator on Hilbert space is an extension of the concept of a matrix acting on a finite-dimensional vector space; in Hilbert space, compact operators are precisely the closure of finite-rank operators (representable by finite-dimensional ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20underwriting | Medical underwriting is a health insurance term referring to the use of medical or health information in the evaluation of an applicant for coverage, typically for life or health insurance. As part of the underwriting process, an individual's health information may be used in making two decisions: whether to offer or d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostages%20%28video%20game%29 | Hostages is a 1988 tactical shooter video game developed and published by Infogrames for the Acorn Electron, Archimedes, Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, Nintendo Entertainment System, and ZX Spectrum. The game depicts a terrorist attack and hostage crisis at an embassy in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest-scale%20trends%20in%20evolution | The history of life on Earth seems to show a clear trend; for example, it seems intuitive that there is a trend towards increasing complexity in living organisms. More recently evolved organisms, such as mammals, appear to be much more complex than organisms, such as bacteria, which have existed for a much longer perio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fielden%20Professor%20of%20Pure%20Mathematics | The Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics is an endowed professorial position in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England.
History
In 1870 Samuel Fielden, a wealthy mill owner from Todmorden, donated £150 to Owens College (as the Victoria University of Manchester was then called) for the teaching of ev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolem%20arithmetic | In mathematical logic, Skolem arithmetic is the first-order theory of the natural numbers with multiplication, named in honor of Thoralf Skolem. The signature of Skolem arithmetic contains only the multiplication operation and equality, omitting the addition operation entirely.
Skolem arithmetic is weaker than Peano a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20misnamed%20theorems | This is a list of misnamed theorems in mathematics. It includes theorems (and lemmas, corollaries, conjectures, laws, and perhaps even the odd object) that are well known in mathematics, but which are not named for the originator. That is, these items on this list illustrate Stigler's law of eponymy (which is not, of c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNG%20storage%20tank | A liquefied natural gas storage tank or LNG storage tank is a specialized type of storage tank used for the storage of Liquefied Natural Gas. LNG storage tanks can be found in ground, above ground or in LNG carriers. The common characteristic of LNG Storage tanks is the ability to store LNG at the very low temperature ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20battery%20types | This list is a summary of notable electric battery types composed of one or more electrochemical cells. Three lists are provided in the table. The primary (non-rechargeable) and secondary (rechargeable) cell lists are lists of battery chemistry. The third list is a list of battery applications.
Battery cell types
B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiprotozoal | Antiprotozoal agents (ATC code: ATC P01) is a class of pharmaceuticals used in treatment of protozoan infection.
A paraphyletic group, protozoans have little in common with each other. For example, Entamoeba histolytica, a unikont eukaryotic organism, is more closely related to Homo sapiens (humans), which also belong... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20Module%20Device | Storage Module Drive (SMD) is a family of storage devices (hard disk drives) that were first shipped by Control Data Corporation in December 1973 as the CDC 9760 40 MB (unformatted) storage module disk drive. The CDC 9762 80 MB variant was announced in June 1974 and the CDC 9764 150 MB and the CDC 9766 300 MB variants... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion%20%28acoustics%29 | Diffusion, in architectural acoustics, is the spreading of sound energy evenly in a given environment. A perfectly diffusive sound space is one in which the reverberation time is the same at any listening position.
Most interior spaces are non-diffusive; the reverberation time is considerably different around the room.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop%20gun | A hoop gun is a gun production technique that uses multiple layers of tubes to form a built-up gun. The innermost tube has one or more extra tubes wrapped around the main tube. These outer tubes are preheated before they are slid into position. As the outer tubes cool they naturally contract. This pre-stresses the main... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serodiscordant | A serodiscordant relationship, also known as mixed-status, is one where one partner is infected by HIV and the other is not. This contrasts with seroconcordant relationships, in which both partners are of the same HIV status. Serodiscordancy contributes to the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly in Sub-Saharan nations suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emopamil%20binding%20protein | Emopamil binding protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EBP gene, located on the X chromosome. The protein is shown to have a high-affinity reception for anti-ischemic drugs, such as Emopamil, resulting in its discovery and given name. EBP has a mass of 27.3 kDa and resembles a σ-receptor that resides in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian%20dynamics | In physics, Brownian dynamics is a mathematical approach for describing the dynamics of molecular systems in the diffusive regime. It is a simplified version of Langevin dynamics and corresponds to the limit where no average acceleration takes place. This approximation is also known as overdamped Langevin dynamics or a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20management%20and%20planning%20tools | The seven management and planning tools have their roots in operations research work done after World War II and the Japanese total quality control (TQC) research.
The New seven tools
Affinity Diagram [KJ method]
Affinity diagrams are a special kind of brainstorming tool that organize large amount of disorganized d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Mania | is a cavalier perspective maze game that was developed and released by Namco for arcades in 1987. In the game, the player controls Pac-Man as he must eat all of the dots while avoiding the colored ghosts that chase him in the maze. Eating large flashing "Power Pellets" will allow Pac-Man to eat the ghosts for bonus poi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallography%20and%20NMR%20system | CNS or Crystallography and NMR system, is a software library for computational structural biology. It is an offshoot of X-PLOR and uses much of the same syntax. It is used in the fields of X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy of biological macromolecules.
References
External links
The program's webpage and refe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss%20reserving | Loss reserving is the calculation of the required reserves for a tranche of insurance business, including outstanding claims reserves.
Typically, the claims reserves represent the money which should be held by the insurer so as to be able to meet all future claims arising from policies currently in force and policies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Australian%20mammal%20emblems | This is a list of Australian mammal emblems.
See also
List of Australian bird emblems
List of Australian floral emblems
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Compaq%20tc1100 | The HP Compaq TC1100 is a tablet PC sold by Hewlett-Packard that was the follow-up to the Compaq TC1000. The TC1100 had either an Intel Celeron or an Intel Pentium M chip set and could be upgraded up to 2 gigabytes of memory. The switch from Transmeta Crusoe processors to the Pentium M and the ability to add memory was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20probe | A logic probe is a low-cost hand-held test probe used for analyzing and troubleshooting the logical states (boolean 0 or 1) of a digital circuit. When many signals need to be observed or recorded simultaneously, a logic analyzer is used instead.
Overview
While most logic probes are powered by the circuit under test, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubling%20time | The doubling time is the time it takes for a population to double in size/value. It is applied to population growth, inflation, resource extraction, consumption of goods, compound interest, the volume of malignant tumours, and many other things that tend to grow over time. When the relative growth rate (not the absolu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minus%20Cube | The Minus Cube (aka BLOXBOX by Piet Hein; aka Varikon Box) is a 3D mechanical variant of the n-puzzle, which was manufactured in the Soviet Union. It consists of a bonded transparent plastic box containing seven small cubes, each glued together from two U-shape parts: one white and one coloured. The length of one side... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic%20glaze | Ceramic glaze, or simply glaze, is a glassy coating on ceramics. It is used for decoration, to ensure the item is impermeable to liquids and to minimise the adherence of pollutants.
Glazing renders earthenware impermeable to water, sealing the inherent porosity of biscuit earthenware. It also gives a tougher surface. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20relocation | A structure relocation is the process of moving a structure from one location to another. There are two main ways for a structure to be moved: disassembling and then reassembling it at the required destination, or transporting it whole. For the latter, the building is first raised and then may be pushed on temporary ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borisova%20Gradina%20TV%20Tower | The Borisova Gradina TV Tower, or the Old TV Tower, is a TV tower (including the aerial) in the garden Borisova gradina in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It is known as the tower used for the first Bulgarian National Television broadcasts in 1959.
History
The tower was designed by architect Lyuben Podponev, engine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity%20action%20plan | A biodiversity action plan (BAP) is an internationally recognized program addressing threatened species and habitats and is designed to protect and restore biological systems. The original impetus for these plans derives from the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). As of 2009, 191 countries have ratified the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la%20Sz%C5%91kefalvi-Nagy | Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy (29 July 1913, Kolozsvár – 21 December 1998, Szeged) was a Hungarian mathematician. His father, Gyula Szőkefalvi-Nagy was also a famed mathematician. Szőkefalvi-Nagy collaborated with Alfréd Haar and Frigyes Riesz, founders of the Szegedian school of mathematics. He contributed to the theory of Fo... |
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