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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating%20multilinear%20map | In mathematics, more specifically in multilinear algebra, an alternating multilinear map is a multilinear map with all arguments belonging to the same vector space (for example, a bilinear form or a multilinear form) that is zero whenever any pair of arguments is equal. More generally, the vector space may be a module... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20Potts%20model | In computational biology, a Cellular Potts model (CPM, also known as the Glazier-Graner-Hogeweg model) is a computational model of cells and tissues. It is used to simulate individual and collective cell behavior, tissue morphogenesis and cancer development. CPM describes cells as deformable objects with a certain volu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscanthus%20%C3%97%20giganteus | {{taxobox
|name = Miscanthus × giganteus
|image = Miscanthus Bestand.JPG
|regnum = Plantae
|unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
|unranked_classis = Monocots
|unranked_ordo = Commelinids
|ordo = Poales
|familia = Poaceae
|subfamilia = Panicoideae
|genus = Miscanthus
|species = M. × giganteus
|binomial = Miscanthus × giganteu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%20equation | The Mason equation is an approximate analytical expression for the growth (due to condensation) or evaporation of a water droplet—it is due to the meteorologist B. J. Mason. The expression is found by recognising that mass diffusion towards the water drop in a supersaturated environment transports energy as latent heat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotlar%E2%80%93Stein%20lemma | In mathematics, in the field of functional analysis, the Cotlar–Stein almost orthogonality lemma is named after mathematicians Mischa Cotlar
and Elias Stein. It may be used to obtain information on the operator norm on an operator, acting from one Hilbert space into another
when the operator can be decomposed into almo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge%20locus | In neuroscience the bridge locus for a particular sensory percept is a hypothetical set of neurons whose activity is the basis of that sensory percept. The term was introduced by D.N. Teller and E.Y. Pugh Jr. in 1983, and has been sparingly used. Activity in the bridge locus neurons is postulated to be necessary and su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-990 | The TI-990 was a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Texas Instruments (TI) in the 1970s and 1980s. The TI-990 was a replacement for TI's earlier minicomputer systems, the TI-960 and the TI-980. It had several unique features, and was easier to program than its predecessors.
Among its core concepts was the ability ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titratable%20acid | In chemistry, titratable acid generally refers to any acid that can lose one or more protons in an acid–base reaction.
The term is used slightly differently in other fields. For example, in renal physiology, titratable acid is a term to describe acids such as phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid which are involved in renal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DX10 | DX10 was a general purpose international, multitasking operating system designed to operate
with the Texas Instruments 990/10, 990/10A and 990/12 minicomputers using the memory mapping feature.
The Disk Executive Operating System (DX10)
DX10 was a versatile disk-based operating system capable of supporting a wide
ran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamkin%20Prize | The Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases was established in 1988 and is sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology. The prize is funded through the philanthropy of the Potamkin Foundation. The prize is awarded for achievements on emerging areas of research in Pick's disease, Alzh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Einstein%20Theory%20of%20Relativity | The Einstein Theory of Relativity (1923) is a silent animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer and released by Fleischer Studios.
History
In August 1922, Scientific American published an article explaining their position that a silent film would be unsuccessful in presenting the theory of relativity to the genera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veriato | Veriato, formerly known as SpectorSoft, is a software company that develops and sells user behavior analytics and employee monitoring software.
It is based in Palm Beach Gardens, located in Palm Beach County, Florida, in the United States.
History
Founded in 1998, the company was an early entrant in internet monitori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-HT3%20receptor | {{DISPLAYTITLE:5-HT3 receptor}}The 5-HT3 receptor belongs to the Cys-loop superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs) and therefore differs structurally and functionally from all other 5-HT receptors (5-hydroxytryptamine, or serotonin receptors) which are G protein-coupled receptors. This ion channel is cation-sel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20response%20modifier | Biological response modifiers (BRMs) are substances that modify immune responses. They can be both endogenous (produced naturally within the body) and exogenous (as pharmaceutical drugs), and they can either enhance an immune response or suppress it. Some of these substances arouse the body's response to an infection, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%283872%29 | The X(3872) is an exotic meson candidate with a mass of 3871.68 MeV/c2 which does not fit into the quark model because of its quantum numbers. It was first discovered in 2003 by the Belle experiment in Japan and later confirmed by several other experimental collaborations. Several theories have been proposed for its n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20Lip%20Reading | Automated Lip Reading (ALR) is a software technology developed by speech recognition expert Frank Hubner. A video image of a person talking can be analysed by the software. The shapes made by the lips can be examined and then turned into sounds. The sounds are compared to a dictionary to create matches to the words bei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesonic%20molecule | A mesonic molecule is a set of two or more mesons bound together by the strong force. Unlike baryonic molecules, which form the nuclei of all elements in nature save hydrogen-1, a mesonic molecule has yet to be definitively observed. The X(3872) discovered in 2003 and the Z(4430) discovered in 2007 by the Belle experim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncword | In computer networks, a syncword, sync character, sync sequence or preamble is used to synchronize a data transmission by indicating the end of header information and the start of data. The syncword is a known sequence of data used to identify the start of a frame, and is also called reference signal or midamble in w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower%20%28mathematics%29 | In the mathematical fields of set theory and extremal combinatorics, a sunflower or -system is a collection of sets in which all possible distinct pairs of sets share the same intersection. This common intersection is called the kernel of the sunflower.
The naming arises from a visual similarity to the botanical sunfl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramification%20%28botany%29 | In botany, ramification is the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, i.e., trunk into branches, branches into increasingly smaller branches, and so on. Gardeners stimulate the process of ramification through pruning, thereby making trees, shrubs, and other plants bushier and denser.
Short int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20M44/44X | The IBM M44/44X was an experimental computer system from the mid-1960s, designed and operated at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New York. It was based on a modified IBM 7044 (the 'M44'), and simulated multiple 7044 virtual machines (the '44X'), using both hardware and software. Key team mem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo%20cameras | The stereo cameras approach is a method of distilling a noisy video signal into a coherent data set that a computer can begin to process into actionable symbolic objects, or abstractions. Stereo cameras is one of many approaches used in the broader fields of computer vision and machine vision.
Calculation
In this appr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20procedure | A medical procedure is a course of action intended to achieve a result in the delivery of healthcare.
A medical procedure with the intention of determining, measuring, or diagnosing a patient condition or parameter is also called a medical test. Other common kinds of procedures are therapeutic (i.e., intended to treat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoboard | A geoboard is a mathematical manipulative used to explore basic concepts in plane geometry such as perimeter, area and the characteristics of triangles and other polygons. It consists of a physical board with a certain number of nails half driven in, around which are wrapped geo bands that are made of rubber. Normal r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilenberg%E2%80%93Ganea%20conjecture | The Eilenberg–Ganea conjecture is a claim in algebraic topology. It was formulated by Samuel Eilenberg and Tudor Ganea in 1957, in a short, but influential paper. It states that if a group G has cohomological dimension 2, then it has a 2-dimensional Eilenberg–MacLane space . For n different from 2, a group G of coho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20excretion%20of%20sodium | The fractional excretion of sodium (FENa) is the percentage of the sodium filtered by the kidney which is excreted in the urine. It is measured in terms of plasma and urine sodium, rather than by the interpretation of urinary sodium concentration alone, as urinary sodium concentrations can vary with water reabsorption... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehead%20conjecture | The Whitehead conjecture (also known as the Whitehead asphericity conjecture) is a claim in algebraic topology. It was formulated by J. H. C. Whitehead in 1941. It states that every connected subcomplex of a two-dimensional aspherical CW complex is aspherical.
A group presentation is called aspherical if the two-dime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successive%20linear%20programming | Successive Linear Programming (SLP), also known as Sequential Linear Programming, is an optimization technique for approximately solving nonlinear optimization problems. It is related to, but distinct from, quasi-Newton methods.
Starting at some estimate of the optimal solution, the method is based on solving a seque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern%20spike | In paleontology, a fern spike is the occurrence of unusually high spore abundance of ferns in the fossil record, usually immediately (in a geological sense) after an extinction event. The spikes are believed to represent a large, temporary increase in the number of ferns relative to other terrestrial plants after the e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower%20array | A tower array is an arrangement of multiple radio towers which are mast radiators in a phased array. They were originally developed as ground-based tracking radars. Tower arrays can consist of free-standing or guyed towers or a mix of them. Tower arrays are used to constitute a directional antenna of a mediumwave or lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen-presenter | A pollen-presenter is an area on the tip of the style in flowers of plants of the family Proteaceae on which the anthers release their pollen prior to anthesis. To ensure pollination, the style grows during anthesis, sticking out the pollen-presenter prominently, and so ensuring that the pollen easily contacts the bodi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanh-sinh%20quadrature | Tanh-sinh quadrature is a method for numerical integration introduced by Hidetoshi Takahashi and Masatake Mori in 1974.
It is especially applied where singularities or infinite derivatives exist at one or both endpoints.
The method uses hyperbolic functions in the change of variables
to transform an integral on th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT2 | CT2 is a cordless telephony standard that was used in the early 1990s to provide short-range proto-mobile phone service in some countries in Europe and in Hong Kong. It is considered the precursor to the more successful DECT system. CT2 was also referred to by its marketing name, Telepoint.
Overview
CT2 is a digital ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-adaptive%20sequential%20testing | Computer-adaptive sequential testing (CAST) is another term for multistage testing. A CAST test is a type of computer-adaptive test or computerized classification test that uses pre-defined groups of items called testlets rather than operating at the level of individual items. CAST is a term introduced by psychometri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stentato | Stentato or stentando (the past participle and gerund of the Italian verb stentare "to find it hard to do something, to have difficulty doing something") is a musical expression which means "labored, heavy, in a dragging manner, sluggish", or "strong and forced". It is abbreviated "sten." or "stent." and is, for examp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Hambidge | Jay Hambidge (1867–1924) was an American artist who formulated the theory of "dynamic symmetry", a system defining compositional rules, which was adopted by several notable American and Canadian artists in the early 20th century.
Early life and theory
He was a pupil at the Art Students' League in New York and of Willi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkman%20number | The Brinkman number (Br) is a dimensionless number related to heat conduction from a wall to a flowing viscous fluid, commonly used in polymer processing. It is named after the Dutch mathematician and physicist Henri Brinkman. There are several definitions; one is
where
μ is the dynamic viscosity;
u is the flow vel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20sender%20accreditation | Sender accreditation is a third-party process of verifying email senders and requiring them to adhere to certain accredited usage guidelines in exchange for being listed in a trusted listing that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) reference to allow certain emails to bypass email filters.
Overview
As email usage explod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verticillium%20wilt | Verticillium wilt is a wilt disease affecting over 350 species of eudicot plants. It is caused by six species of Verticillium fungi: V. dahliae, V. albo-atrum, V. longisporum, V. nubilum, V. theobromae and V. tricorpus. Many economically important plants are susceptible including cotton, tomatoes, potatoes, oilseed rap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys%20II%3A%20Ancient%20Ys%20Vanished%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Final%20Chapter | is a 1988 action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom. It is a sequel to Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished and takes place immediately following it. The game first released for the PC-8801 and PC-9801 and has seen several ports and remakes since.
Ys II was later adapted into the anime Ys II: Castle in the Heavens (1992... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADALINE | ADALINE (Adaptive Linear Neuron or later Adaptive Linear Element) is an early single-layer artificial neural network and the name of the physical device that implemented this network. The network uses memistors. It was developed by professor Bernard Widrow and his doctoral student Ted Hoff at Stanford University in 196... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality%20Medical%20Data%20System | The Mortality Medical Data System (MMDS) is used to automate the entry, classification, and retrieval of cause-of-death information reported on death certificates throughout the United States and in many other countries. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) began the system's development in 1967.
The syst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenomai | Xenomai is a real-time development software framework cooperating with the Linux kernel to provide pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time computing support to user space application software seamlessly integrated into the Linux environment.
The Xenomai project was launched in August 2001. In 2003, it merged wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus%20bovinus | Suillus bovinus, also known as the Jersey cow mushroom or bovine bolete, is a pored mushroom of the genus Suillus in the family Suillaceae. A common fungus native to Europe and Asia, it has been introduced to North America and Australia. It was initially described as Boletus bovinus by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, and giv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic/Dialup%20Users%20List | A Dial-up/Dynamic User List (DUL) is a type of DNSBL which contains the IP addresses an ISP assigns to its customer on a temporary basis, often using DHCP or similar protocols. Dynamically assigned IP addresses are contrasted with static IP addresses which do not change once they have been allocated by the service pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASU%20Institute%20of%20Cryobiology%20and%20Cryomedicine%20Issues | The Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine in Kharkiv is one of the institutes of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, and is the largest institute devoted to cryobiology research in the world.
Background
Established in 1972, the focus of the research is on cryoinjury, cryosurgery, cryopreserva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20safety | Internet safety, also known as online safety, cyber safety and electronic safety (e-safety), is the act of maximizing a user's awareness of personal safety and security risks to private information and property associated with using the Internet, and the self-protection from computer crime.
As the number of internet u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrographis%20paniculata | Andrographis paniculata, commonly known as creat or green chiretta, is an annual herbaceous plant in the family Acanthaceae, native to India and Sri Lanka.
It is widely cultivated in Southern and Southeastern Asia, where it has been believed to be a treatment for bacterial infections and some diseases. Mostly the leav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20antioxidants%20in%20food | This is a list of antioxidants naturally occurring in food. Vitamin C and vitamin E – which are ubiquitous among raw plant foods – are confirmed as dietary antioxidants, whereas vitamin A becomes an antioxidant following metabolism of provitamin A beta-carotene and cryptoxanthin. Most food compounds listed as antioxida... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Amino-1%2C2%2C4-triazole | 3-Amino-1,2,4-triazole (3-AT) is a heterocyclic organic compound that consists of a 1,2,4-triazole substituted with an amino group.
3-AT is a competitive inhibitor of the product of the HIS3 gene, imidazoleglycerol-phosphate dehydratase. Imidazoleglycerol-phosphate dehydratase is an enzyme catalyzing the sixth step of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIS-selective%20medium | HIS-selective medium is a type cell culture medium that lacks the amino acid histidine. It can be used with bacteria reliant on the expression of a gene encoding proteins involved in histidine expression in order to survive. Only bacteria expressing such genes (such as hisB in Escherichia coli and HIS3 in Saccharomyces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport%20Carrier%20Release | Passport Carrier Release (PCR) is a version of the Passport Switch (now Multiservice Switch) software designed to run in telecommunications carrier environments. It was formerly developed by Nortel. After the sale in 2009 of most Nortel's assets, the passport SW is still used in several products of Alcatel-Lucent, Eric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys%20III%3A%20Wanderers%20from%20Ys | is a 1989 action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom. It is the third game in the Ys series.
Ys III was initially released for the PC-8801 and PC-9801 in 1989 under the title Wanderers from Ys, and versions for the MSX2 and X68000 soon followed. In 1991, a number of console ports were produced: versions for th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetrization | In mathematics, symmetrization is a process that converts any function in variables to a symmetric function in variables.
Similarly, antisymmetrization converts any function in variables into an antisymmetric function.
Two variables
Let be a set and be an additive abelian group. A map is called a if
It is cal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reports%20of%20Streptococcus%20mitis%20on%20the%20Moon | As part of the Apollo 12 mission, the camera from the Surveyor 3 probe was brought back from the Moon to Earth. On analyzing the camera it was found that the common bacterium Streptococcus mitis was alive on the camera. This was attributed by NASA to the camera not being sterilized on Earth prior to its launch two and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS-aided%20GEO%20augmented%20navigation | The GPS-aided GEO augmented navigation (GAGAN) is an implementation of a regional satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) by the Government of India. It is a system to improve the accuracy of a GNSS receiver by providing reference signals. The Airports Authority of India (AAI)'s efforts towards implementation of ope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust%20optimization | Robust optimization is a field of mathematical optimization theory that deals with optimization problems in which a certain measure of robustness is sought against uncertainty that can be represented as deterministic variability in the value of the parameters of the problem itself and/or its solution. It is related to,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapath | A data path is a collection of functional units such as arithmetic logic units (ALUs) or multipliers that perform data processing operations, registers, and buses. Along with the control unit it composes the central processing unit (CPU). A larger data path can be made by joining more than one data paths using multipl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomis%E2%80%93Whitney%20inequality | In mathematics, the Loomis–Whitney inequality is a result in geometry, which in its simplest form, allows one to estimate the "size" of a -dimensional set by the sizes of its -dimensional projections. The inequality has applications in incidence geometry, the study of so-called "lattice animals", and other areas.
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar%20venous%20arch | The four plantar metatarsal veins run backward in the metatarsal spaces, communicate, by means of perforating veins, with the veins on the dorsum of the foot, and unite to form the plantar venous arch (or deep plantar venous arch) which lies alongside the plantar arterial arch.
From the deep plantar venous arch the me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotopia%20%28medicine%29 | In medicine, heterotopia is the presence of a particular tissue type at a non-physiological site, but usually co-existing with original tissue in its correct anatomical location. In other words, it implies ectopic tissue, in addition to retention of the original tissue type.
Examples
In neuropathology, for example, g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural%20reasoning%20system | In artificial intelligence, a procedural reasoning system (PRS) is a framework for constructing real-time reasoning systems that can perform complex tasks in dynamic environments. It is based on the notion of a rational agent or intelligent agent using the belief–desire–intention software model.
A user application is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree-graded%20space | A geodesic metric space is called a tree-graded space with respect to a collection of connected proper subsets called pieces, if any two distinct pieces intersect in at most one point, and every non-trivial simple geodesic triangle of is contained in one of the pieces.
If the pieces have bounded diameter, tree-grade... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk%20screen%20effect | The silk screen effect (SSE) is a visual phenomenon seen in rear-projection televisions. SSE is described by viewers as seeing the texture of the television screen in front of the image. SSE may be found on all rear-projection televisions including DLP and Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS). The effect is most visible wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric%20mucosa | The gastric mucosa is the mucous membrane layer of the stomach, which contains the glands and the gastric pits. In humans, it is about 1 mm thick, and its surface is smooth, soft, and velvety. It consists of simple columnar epithelium, lamina propria, and the muscularis mucosae.
Description
In its fresh state, it is o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scherk%20surface | In mathematics, a Scherk surface (named after Heinrich Scherk) is an example of a minimal surface. Scherk described two complete embedded minimal surfaces in 1834; his first surface is a doubly periodic surface, his second surface is singly periodic. They were the third non-trivial examples of minimal surfaces (the fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccygeal%20glomus | The coccygeal glomus (coccygeal gland or body; Luschka’s gland) is a vestigial structure placed in front of, or immediately below, the tip of the coccyx.
Anatomy
It is about 2.5 mm. in diameter and is irregularly oval in shape; several smaller nodules are found around or near the main mass.
It consists of irregular m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Integrity%20Virtual%20Machines | Integrity Virtual Machines is a hypervisor from Hewlett Packard Enterprise for HPE Integrity Servers running HP-UX. It is part of HP's Virtual Server Environment suite, and is optimized for server use.
History
Christophe de Dinechin initiated a skunkworks project to virtualize Itanium, with the help of Jean-Marc Chev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraganglion | A paraganglion (pl. paraganglia) is a group of non-neuronal cells derived of the neural crest. They are named for being generally in close proximity to sympathetic ganglia. They are essentially of two types: (1) chromaffin or sympathetic paraganglia made of chromaffin cells and (2) nonchromaffin or parasympathetic para... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AboutUs.com | AboutUs.com is a wiki Internet domain directory. It lists websites along with information about their content. As a wiki, AboutUs allows Internet users to add entries or modify information. AboutUs.com has since become a wiki for more than just websites. The site now allows pages to be created for people, places, and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommerfeld%E2%80%93Kossel%20displacement%20law | The Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law states that the first spark (singly ionized) spectrum of an element is similar in all details to the arc (neutral) spectrum of the element preceding it in the periodic table. Likewise, the second (doubly ionized) spark spectrum of an element is similar in all details to the first... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality%20%28data%20modeling%29 | Within data modelling, cardinality is the numerical relationship between rows of one table and rows in another. Common cardinalities include one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many. Cardinality can be used to define data models as well as analyze entities within datasets.
Relationships
For example, consider a datab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscious%20breathing | Conscious breathing is an umbrella term for methods that direct awareness to the breath. These methods may have the goal of improving breathing, or the primary goal can be to build mindfulness. Human respiration is controlled consciously or unconsciously.
Training methods
Pranayama is part of the Yoga tradition and m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit%20rot | Fruit rot disease may refer to:
Phomopsis leaf caused in grapes by Phomopsis viticola;
Kole-roga caused in coconut and betel nut by Phytophthora palmivora;
Botrytis bunch rot caused by Botrytis cinerea primarily in grapes;
Black mold caused by Aspergillus niger;
Leaf spot, and others, caused by Alternaria alterna... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20model%20organisms | The history of model organisms began with the idea that certain organisms can be studied and used to gain knowledge of other organisms or as a control (ideal) for other organisms of the same species. Model organisms offer standards that serve as the authorized basis for comparison of other organisms. Model organisms ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug%20compatibility | Computer hardware or software is said to be bug compatible if it exactly replicates even an undesirable feature of a previous version. The phrase is found in the Jargon File.
An aspect of maintaining backward compatibility with an older system is that such systems' client programs often do not only depend on their spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoen%E2%80%93Yau%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Schoen–Yau conjecture is a disproved conjecture in hyperbolic geometry, named after the mathematicians Richard Schoen and Shing-Tung Yau.
It was inspired by a theorem of Erhard Heinz (1952). One method of disproof is the use of Scherk surfaces, as used by Harold Rosenberg and Pascal Collin (2006).
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracenote | Gracenote, Inc. is a company and service that provides music, video and sports metadata and automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies to entertainment services and companies, worldwide. Formerly CDDB ("Compact Disc Data Base"), Gracenote maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing informati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decomposition%20matrix | In mathematics, and in particular modular representation theory, a decomposition matrix is a matrix that results from writing the irreducible ordinary characters in terms of the irreducible modular characters, where the entries of the two sets of characters are taken to be over all conjugacy classes of elements of orde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXCLAIM | The EXtensible Cross-Linguistic Automatic Information Machine (EXCLAIM) was an integrated tool for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), created at the University of California, Santa Cruz in early 2006, with some support for more than a dozen languages. The lead developers were Justin Nuger and Jesse Saba Kirch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilomar%20Conference%20on%20Recombinant%20DNA | The Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA was an influential conference organized by Paul Berg, Maxine Singer, and colleagues to discuss the potential biohazards and regulation of biotechnology, held in February 1975 at a conference center at Asilomar State Beach, California. A group of about 140 professionals (primar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TO-3 | In electronics, TO-3 is a designation for a standardized metal semiconductor package used for power semiconductors, including transistors, silicon controlled rectifiers, and, integrated circuits. TO stands for "Transistor Outline" and relates to a series of technical drawings produced by JEDEC.
The TO-3 case has a fla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%E2%80%93line%20intersection | In Euclidean geometry, the intersection of a line and a line can be the empty set, a point, or another line. Distinguishing these cases and finding the intersection have uses, for example, in computer graphics, motion planning, and collision detection.
In three-dimensional Euclidean geometry, if two lines are not in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucotome | A leucotome or McKenzie leucotome is a surgical instrument used for performing leucotomies (also known as lobotomy) and other forms of psychosurgery.
Invented by Canadian neurosurgeon Dr. Kenneth G. McKenzie in the 1940s, the leucotome has a narrow shaft which is inserted into the brain through a hole in the skull, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested%20development | The term "arrested development" has had multiple meanings for over 200 years. In the field of medicine, the term "arrested development" was first used, circa 1835–1836, to mean a stoppage of physical development; the term continues to be used in the same way. In literature, Ernest Hemingway used the term in The Sun Als... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%20Gigabit%20Ethernet | 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) are groups of computer networking technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at rates of 40 and 100 gigabits per second (Gbit/s), respectively. These technologies offer significantly higher speeds than 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The technology was first defined... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20system | A service system (or customer service system, CSS) is a configuration of technology and organizational networks designed to deliver services that satisfy the needs, wants, or aspirations of customers. "Service system" is a term used in the service management, service operations, services marketing, service engineering,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjan%27s%20strongly%20connected%20components%20algorithm | Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm is an algorithm in graph theory for finding the strongly connected components (SCCs) of a directed graph. It runs in linear time, matching the time bound for alternative methods including Kosaraju's algorithm and the path-based strong component algorithm. The algorithm i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20Network%20%281975%20TV%20program%29 | The NHL Network was an American television syndication package that broadcast National Hockey League games from the through seasons. The NHL Network was distributed by the Hughes Television Network.
Conception
After being dropped by NBC after the season, the NHL had no national television contract in the United Sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20on%20SportsChannel%20America | The NHL on SportsChannel America was the presentation of National Hockey League broadcasts on the now defunct SportsChannel America cable television network.
Terms of the deal
Taking over for ESPN, SportsChannel's contract paid US$51 million ($17 million per year) over three years, more than double what ESPN had paid ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-particle%20spectroscopy | Alpha spectrometry (also known as alpha(-particle) spectroscopy) is the quantitative study of the energy of alpha particles emitted by a radioactive nuclide that is an alpha emitter.
As emitted alpha particles are mono-energetic (i.e. not emitted with a spectrum of energies, such as beta decay) with energies often di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theaflavin | Theaflavin (TF) and its derivatives, known collectively as theaflavins, are antioxidant polyphenols that are formed from the condensation of flavan-3-ols in tea leaves during the enzymatic oxidation (sometimes erroneously referred to as fermentation) of black tea. Theaflavin-3-gallate, theaflavin-3'-gallate, and theafl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund%20Data%20Bank | The Dortmund Data Bank (short DDB) is a factual data bank for thermodynamic and thermophysical data. Its main usage is the data supply for process simulation where experimental data are the basis for the design, analysis, synthesis, and optimization of chemical processes. The DDB is used for fitting parameters for ther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cham-Cham | "The Cham-Cham" is the 25th episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films (APF). The penultimate episode of Thunderbirds Series One, it was written and directed by Alan Pattillo and first broadcast on 24 March 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric%20array | A parametric array, in the field of acoustics, is a nonlinear transduction mechanism that generates narrow, nearly side lobe-free beams of low frequency sound, through the mixing and interaction of high frequency sound waves, effectively overcoming the diffraction limit (a kind of spatial 'uncertainty principle') assoc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuhachi%20musical%20notation | Shakuhachi musical notation is a traditional tablature-style method of transcribing shakuhachi music.
A number of systems exist for notating shakuhachi music, most of which are based on the rotsure (ロツレ) and the fuho-u (フホウ) systems.
Traditional solo shakuhachi music (honkyoku) is transmitted as a semi-oral tradition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basophil%20cell | An anterior pituitary basophil is a type of cell in the anterior pituitary which manufactures hormones.
It is called a basophil because it is basophilic (readily takes up bases), and typically stains a relatively deep blue or purple.
These basophils are further classified by the hormones they produce. (It is usually ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%204000-series%20integrated%20circuits | The following is a list of CMOS 4000-series digital logic integrated circuits. In 1968, the original 4000-series was introduced by RCA. Although more recent parts are considerably faster, the 4000 devices operate over a wide power supply range (3V to 18V recommended range for "B" series) and are well suited to unregu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioblast | A glioblast is a type of cell derived from neuroectoderm and with the ability to differentiate into several different types of neuroglia.
It comes from a precursor (spongioblast). However, the latter may also differentiate into an ependymoblast.
Glioblasts differentiate into astrocytes and oligodendrocytes. Its tumor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herring%20bodies | Herring bodies or neurosecretory bodies are structures found in the posterior pituitary. They represent the terminal end of the axons from the hypothalamus, and hormones are temporarily stored in these locations. They are neurosecretory terminals.
Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) and oxytocin are both stored in Herring bodi... |
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