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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Computer%20and%20Telecommunications%20Agency | The Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) was a UK government agency providing computer and telecoms support to government departments.
History
Formation
In 1957, the UK government formed the Technical Support Unit (TSU) within HM Treasury to evaluate and advise on computers, initially based around ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagmaFS | Magma is a distributed file system based on a distributed hash table, written in C, compatible with Linux and BSD kernels using FUSE.
Terminology and basic principles
Magma binds several hosts interconnected by a TCP/IP network to form a common storage space called a lava ring. Each host (or node) is called a vulcan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learnability | Learnability is a quality of products and interfaces that allows users to quickly become familiar with them and able to make good use of all their features and capabilities.
Software testing
In software testing learnability, according to ISO/IEC 9126, is the capability of a software product to enable the user to learn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAPWS | The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) is an international non-profit association of national organizations concerned with the properties of water and steam, particularly thermophysical properties and other aspects of high-temperature steam, water and aqueous mixtures that are rele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ambidextrous%20Universe | The Ambidextrous Universe is a popular science book by Martin Gardner, covering aspects of symmetry and asymmetry in human culture, science and the wider universe. It culminates in a discussion of whether nature's conservation of parity (the symmetry of mirrored quantum systems) is ever violated, which had been proven ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Neutron%20Beam%20Centre | The NRC Canadian Neutron Beam Centre (CNBC) was Canada's national user facility that enabled researchers to use neutron beams as tools for world-class materials research. The CNBC was located at Chalk River Laboratories, where Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) owned and operated the National Research Universal (NR... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20modeling | Metadata modeling is a type of metamodeling used in software engineering and systems engineering for the analysis and construction of models applicable to and useful for some predefined class of problems.
Meta-modeling is the analysis, construction and development of the frames, rules, constraints, models and theories... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAL4/UAS%20system | The GAL4-UAS system is a biochemical method used to study gene expression and function in organisms such as the fruit fly. It is based on the finding by Hitoshi Kakidani and Mark Ptashne, and Nicholas Webster and Pierre Chambon in 1988 that Gal4 binding to UAS sequences activates gene expression. The method was introdu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-positive%20curvature | In mathematics, spaces of non-positive curvature occur in many contexts and form a generalization of hyperbolic geometry. In the category of Riemannian manifolds, one can consider the sectional curvature of the manifold and require that this curvature be everywhere less than or equal to zero. The notion of curvature ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic%20dimension | The intrinsic dimension for a data set can be thought of as the number of variables needed in a minimal representation of the data. Similarly, in signal processing of multidimensional signals, the intrinsic dimension of the signal describes how many variables are needed to generate a good approximation of the signal.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian%20identity%20card | The Estonian identity card () is a mandatory identity document for citizens of Estonia. In addition to regular identification of a person, an ID-card can also be used for establishing one's identity in electronic environment and for giving one's digital signature. Within Europe (except Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Unit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halomicrobium | Halomicrobium is a genus of the Haloarculaceae. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halopiger | Halopiger is a genus of archaeans in the family Natrialbaceae that have high tolerance to salinity.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
Species formerly placed in this taxon
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloplanus | In taxonomy, Haloplanus is a genus of the Halobacteriaceae. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-amino%20acid%20oxidase%20activator | D-amino acid oxidase activator (DAOA, also known as G72) is a protein enriched in various parts of brain, spinal cord, and testis. DAOA is thought to interact with D-amino acid oxidase, a peroxisomal enzyme, and its gene was associated with schizophrenia in a number of studies. In separate studies it has been shown to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halorhabdus | Halorhabdus is a genus of halophilic archaea in the Haloarculaceae. With an extremely high salinity optimum of 27% NaCl, Halorhabdus has one of the highest reported salinity optima of any living organism. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halosarcina | In taxonomy, Halosarcina is a genus of the Halobacteriaceae. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halosimplex | In taxonomy, Halosimplex is a genus of the Halobacteriaceae. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloterrigena | Haloterrigena (common abbreviation Htg.) is a genus of the Natrialbaceae.
Taxonomy
Species formerly placed in this taxon
Haloterrigena daqingensis, now Natronorubrum daqingense
Haloterrigena hispanica, now Natrinema hispanicum
Haloterrigena limicola, now Natrinema limicola
Haloterrigena longa, now Natrinema longu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natrialba | In taxonomy, Natrialba is a genus of the Natrialbaceae. The genus consists of many diverse species that can survive extreme environmental niches, especially they are capable to live in the waters saturated or nearly saturated with salt (halophiles). They have certain adaptations to live within their salty environments.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natrinema | Natrinema (common abbreviation Nnm.) is a genus of the Natrialbaceae.
Taxonomy
As of 2022, there are 18 species validly published in the genus Natrinema.
Natrinema is related to the genus Haloterrigena, established in 1999, resulting in confusion about taxon limits and several species apparently being assigned to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natronobacterium | In taxonomy, Natronobacterium is a genus of the Natrialbaceae. A member of the domain Archaea, it is both an extreme halophile and alkaliphile, thriving at an optimum saline concentration of 20% and optimum pH of 10.
Taxonomy
As of 2022, there are 2 species described in this genus.
Proposed species
Natronobacterium ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natronolimnobius | Natronolimnobius (common abbreviation Nln.) is a genus of the Natrialbaceae.
Taxonomy
As of 2022, Natronolimnobius is a monotypic genus.
Species formerly placed in this taxon
Natronolimnobius aegyptiacus, now Natrarchaeobaculum aegyptiacum
Natronolimnobius innermongolicus, now Natronolimnohabitans innermongolicus
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natronorubrum | Natronorubrum is a genus in the family Halobacteriaceae. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folded%20spectrum%20method | In mathematics, the folded spectrum method (FSM) is an iterative method for solving large eigenvalue problems.
Here you always find a vector with an eigenvalue close to a search-value . This means you can get a vector in the middle of the spectrum without solving the matrix.
, with and the Identity matrix.
In con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%20staff | A level staff, also called levelling rod, is a graduated wooden or aluminium rod, used with a levelling instrument to determine the difference in height between points or heights of points above a vertical datum.
When used for stadiametric rangefinding, the level staff is called a stadia rod.
Rod construction and mate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20angle%20%28EELS%29 | The magic angle is a particular value of the collection angle of an electron microscope at which the measured energy-loss spectrum "magically" becomes independent of the tilt angle of the sample with respect to the beam direction. The magic angle is not uniquely defined for isotropic samples, but the definition is uniq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS%20rebinding | DNS rebinding is a method of manipulating resolution of domain names that is commonly used as a form of computer attack. In this attack, a malicious web page causes visitors to run a client-side script that attacks machines elsewhere on the network. In theory, the same-origin policy prevents this from happening: client... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Research%20Building | The New Research Building (or NRB for short) is the largest building ever built by Harvard University, and was dedicated on September 24, 2003 by the then president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers and the dean of the Harvard Medical School, Joseph Martin.
It is an integrated biomedical research facility, lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR%20vaccine%20and%20autism | Claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism have been extensively investigated and found to be false. The link was first suggested in the early 1990s and came to public notice largely as a result of the 1998 Lancet MMR autism fraud, characterised as "perhaps the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20invasion%20analysis | Evolutionary invasion analysis, also known as adaptive dynamics, is a set of mathematical modeling techniques that use differential equations to study the long-term evolution of traits in asexually and sexually reproducing populations. It rests on the following three assumptions about mutation and population dynamics:
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothmund%E2%80%93Thomson%20syndrome | Rothmund–Thomson syndrome (RTS) is a rare autosomal recessive skin condition.
There have been several reported cases associated with osteosarcoma. A hereditary basis, mutations in the DNA helicase RECQL4 gene, causing problems during initiation of DNA replication has been implicated in the syndrome.
Signs and symptom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast%20router%20discovery | Multicast router discovery (MRD) provides a general mechanism for the discovery of multicast routers on an IP network. For IPv4, the mechanism is based on IGMP. For IPv6 the mechanism is based on MLD. Multicast router discovery is defined by RFC 4286.
Computer networking
Internet Protocol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20of%20disease-causing%20pathogens | The discovery of disease-causing pathogens is an important activity in the field of medical science. Many viruses, bacteria, protozoa, fungi, helminthes and prions are identified as a confirmed or potential pathogen. In the United States, a Centers for Disease Control program, begun in 1995, identified over a hundred p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Stem%20Cell%20Centre | The Australian Stem Cell Centre is an Australian medical research and development centre which focuses on regenerative medicine through the use of stem cells. Founded in 2003, the Centre is the National Biotechnology Centre of Excellence and has received over $100 million in funding in recent years. It is Australia's p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippenbroek | The Lippenbroek is a former polder in the Belgian freshwater part of the Schelde-estuary, currently functioning as a pilot project for the restoration of intertidal habitat in a densely populated estuary. The area of 10 ha, situated on the territory of the Belgian community of Hamme, started functioning as a flood con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip%20%28mathematics%29 | In algebraic geometry, flips and flops are codimension-2 surgery operations arising in the minimal model program, given by blowing up along a relative canonical ring. In dimension 3 flips are used to construct minimal models, and any two birationally equivalent minimal models are connected by a sequence of flops. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20consciousness | Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is the quality or state of self-awareness within an animal, or of being aware of an external object or something within itself. In humans, consciousness has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, qualia, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully%20qualified%20domain%20address | A fully qualified domain address (FQDA) is a string forming an Internet e-mail address. It was defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 3801 for the use in voice profiles for Internet mail, but has been used on the Internet as early as 1988.
A FQDA is composed of a local part, followed by the symbol and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-number | The term c-number (classical number) is an old nomenclature introduced by Paul Dirac which refers to real and complex numbers. It is used to distinguish from operators (q-numbers or quantum numbers) in quantum mechanics.
Although c-numbers are commuting, the term anti-commuting c-number is also used to refer to a typ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a flat or affine subspace is a subset of an affine space that is itself an affine space (of equal or lower dimension). In the case the parent space is Euclidean, a flat is a Euclidean subspace which inherits the notion of distance from its parent space.
The flats in a plane (two-dimensional space) are poi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20guidance | Remote guidance, in the medical context, refers to the supervision or guidance of a medical task, usually a procedure or test, from a remote location. This falls in the realm of real time telemedicine applications. By way of example, a radiologist may guide an ultrasound examination from a remote location. As such, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignisphaera | In taxonomy, Ignisphaera is a genus of the Desulfurococcales. Ignisphaera aggregans is a coccoid- shaped, fourth type strain that is strictly anaerobes with anaerobic respiration. This archaea species are hyperthermophiles that were found in New Zealand's hot springs in Kuirau Park, Rotorua.
See also
List of Archaea ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression%20list | A suppression list is a list of suppressed e-mail addresses used by e-mail senders to comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (United States of America). CAN-SPAM requires that senders of commercial emails provide a functioning opt-out mechanism by which email recipients can unsubscribe their email address from future ema... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halostagnicola | In taxonomy, Halostagnicola is a genus of the Archaea. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre%20Csisz%C3%A1r | Imre Csiszár () is a Hungarian mathematician with contributions to information theory
and probability theory. In 1996 he won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest annual
award given in the field of information theory.
He was born on 7 February 1938 in Miskolc, Hungary. He became interested in mathematics
in middle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunization%20registry | An immunization registry or immunization information system (IIS) is an information system that collects vaccination data about all persons within a geographic area. It consolidates the immunization records from multiple sources for each person living in its jurisdiction.
Introduction
Immunization information systems... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20Technologies | SMART Technologies (also known as "SMART") is a Canadian company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and wholly owned by Foxconn. Founded in 1987, SMART is best known as the developer of interactive whiteboards branded as the "SMART Board" popularly used in education and business.
History
SMART was founded in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20management | Load management, also known as demand-side management (DSM), is the process of balancing the supply of electricity on the network with the electrical load by adjusting or controlling the load rather than the power station output. This can be achieved by direct intervention of the utility in real time, by the use of fre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20CleanSweep | Norton CleanSweep, designed by Quarterdeck, was designed to aid in the removal of installed programs on Microsoft Windows.
CleanSweep was acquired by Symantec, and sold as a standalone product for a period of time. As of 2009, CleanSweep currently is unavailable from Symantec standalone and is incorporated in Norton S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcing%20%28computability%29 | Forcing in computability theory is a modification of Paul Cohen's original set-theoretic technique of forcing to deal with computability concerns.
Conceptually the two techniques are quite similar: in both one attempts to build generic objects (intuitively objects that are somehow 'typical') by meeting dense sets. Bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus%3B%20or%2C%20Science%20and%20the%20Future | Daedalus; or, Science and the Future is a book by the British scientist J. B. S. Haldane, published in England in 1924. It was the text of a lecture read to the Heretics Society (an intellectual club at the University of Cambridge) on 4 February 1923.
Haldane uses the Greek myth of Daedalus as a symbol for the revolut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP%20card | In cryptography, the OpenPGP card is an ISO/IEC 7816-4, -8 compatible smart card that is integrated with many OpenPGP functions. Using this smart card, various cryptographic tasks (encryption, decryption, digital signing/verification, authentication etc.) can be performed. It allows secure storage of secret key materia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesotrophic%20soil | Mesotrophic soils are soils with a moderate inherent fertility. An indicator of soil fertility is its base status, which is expressed as a ratio relating the major nutrient cations (calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium) found there to the soil's clay percentage. This is commonly expressed in hundredths of a mole of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE5 | The SSE5 (short for Streaming SIMD Extensions version 5) was a SIMD instruction set extension proposed by AMD on August 30, 2007 as a supplement to the 128-bit SSE core instructions in the AMD64 architecture.
AMD chose not to implement SSE5 as originally proposed. In May 2009, AMD replaced SSE5 with three smaller ins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Dully | Howard Dully (born November 30, 1948) is an American memoirist who is one of the youngest survivors of the transorbital lobotomy, a procedure performed on him when he was 12 years old. Dully received international attention in 2005, following the broadcasting of his story on National Public Radio. Subsequently, in 2007... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modeling%20and%20Analysis%20of%20Real%20Time%20and%20Embedded%20systems | Modeling and Analysis of Real Time and Embedded systems also known as MARTE is the OMG standard for modeling real-time and embedded applications with UML2.
Description
The UML modeling language has been extended by the OMG consortium to support model-driven development of real-time and embedded application. This exte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromeritics | Micromeritics is the science and technology of small particles pioneered by Joseph M. DallaValle. It is thus the study of the fundamental and derived properties of individual as well as a collection of particles. The knowledge and control of the size of particles has importance in pharmacy and materials science. The si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20shock | Acoustic shock is the set of symptoms a person may experience after hearing an unexpected, loud sound. The loud sound, called an acoustic incident, can be caused by feedback oscillation, fax tones, or signalling tones. Telemarketers and call centre employees are thought to be most at risk.
Reported symptoms
During the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrode%20%28biology%29 | A tetrode is a type of electrode used in neuroscience for electrophysiological recordings. They are generally used to record the extracellular field potentials from nervous tissue, e.g. the brain. Tetrodes are constructed by bundling together four very small electrodes; each wire is generally less than 30 μm in diamete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrowski%E2%80%93Hadamard%20gap%20theorem | In mathematics, the Ostrowski–Hadamard gap theorem is a result about the analytic continuation of complex power series whose non-zero terms are of orders that have a suitable "gap" between them. Such a power series is "badly behaved" in the sense that it cannot be extended to be an analytic function anywhere on the bou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laimosphere | The laimosphere is the microbiologically enriched zone of soil that surrounds below-ground portions of plant stems; the laimosphere is analogous to the rhizosphere and spermosphere. The combining form laim- from (Greek: λαιμός, "throat") denotes a connecting organ (neck) while -sphere indicates a zone of influence. To... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMulator | ARM Instruction Set Simulator, also known as ARMulator, is one of the software development tools provided by the development systems business unit of ARM Limited to all users of ARM-based chips. It owes its heritage to the early development of the instruction set by Sophie Wilson. Part of this heritage is still visib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck%20Millipore | Merck Millipore was the brand used by Merck Group's (not US-based Merck & Co.) global life science business until 2015 when the company re-branded. It was formed when Merck acquired the Millipore Corporation in 2010. Merck is a supplier to the life science industry. The Millipore Corporation was founded in 1954, and li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C6%B0%C6%A1ng | Tương (, Chữ Hán: 醬) is the name applied to a variety of condiments, a kind of fermented bean paste made from soybean and commonly used in Vietnamese cuisine.
Originally, the term tương refers to a salty paste made from fermented soybeans, which is popular in vegetarian meals, particularly those prepared and eaten by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20network | A flat network is a computer network design approach that aims to reduce cost, maintenance and administration. Flat networks are designed to reduce the number of routers and switches on a computer network by connecting the devices to a single switch instead of separate switches. Unlike a hierarchical network design, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal%20tasks | Ideal tasks arise during task analysis. Ideal tasks are different from real tasks. They are ideals in the Platonic sense of a circle being an ideal whereas a drawn circle is flawed and real. The study of theoretically best or “mathematically ideal” tasks (Green & Swets, 1966), has been the basis of the branch of sti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic%20aortic%20plexus | The thoracic aortic plexus is a sympathetic plexus in the region of the thoracic aorta. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20Propulsion%20Laboratory%20Development%20Ephemeris | Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris (abbreved JPL DE(number), or simply DE(number)) designates one of a series of mathematical models of the Solar System produced at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, for use in spacecraft navigation and astronomy. The models consist of numeric represent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort | A micromort (from micro- and mortality) is a unit of risk defined as a one-in-a-million chance of death. Micromorts can be used to measure the riskiness of various day-to-day activities. A microprobability is a one-in-a million chance of some event; thus, a micromort is the microprobability of death. The micromort conc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20exaggeration | Vertical exaggeration (VE) is a scale that is used in raised-relief maps, plans and technical drawings (cross section perspectives), in order to emphasize vertical features, which might be too small to identify relative to the horizontal scale.
Scaling Factor
The vertical exaggeration is given by:
where VS is the v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20module | A cognitive module in cognitive psychology is a specialized tool or sub-unit that can be used by other parts to resolve cognitive tasks. It is used in theories of the modularity of mind and the closely related society of mind theory and was developed by Jerry Fodor. It became better known throughout cognitive psycholog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloride%20shift | Chloride shift (also known as the Hamburger phenomenon or lineas phenomenon, named after Hartog Jakob Hamburger) is a process which occurs in a cardiovascular system and refers to the exchange of bicarbonate (HCO3−) and chloride (Cl−) across the membrane of red blood cells (RBCs).
Mechanism
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaTek | MediaTek Inc. () is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that provides chips for wireless communications, high-definition television, handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers, navigation systems, consumer multimedia products and digital subscriber line services as well as optical disc drives.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Rolly | Rolly is an egg-shaped digital robotic music player made by Sony, combining music functions with robotic dancing. It has two wheels that allow it to rotate and spin, as well as two bands of colored LED light running around its edge and cup-like "wings" (or "arms" according to the Sony sonystyle USA website) which can o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20truck | A satellite truck is a mobile communications satellite ground station mounted on a truck chassis as a platform. Employed in remote television broadcasts, satellite trucks transmit video signals back to studios or production facilities for editing and broadcasting. Satellite trucks usually travel with a production truck... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Kittel | Charles Kittel (July 18, 1916 – May 15, 2019) was an American physicist. He was a professor at University of California, Berkeley from 1951 and was professor emeritus from 1978 until his death.
Life and work
Charles Kittel was born in New York City in 1916. He studied at the University of Cambridge, England, where he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pezosiren | Pezosiren portelli, also known as the "walking manatee", is a basal sirenian from the early Eocene of Jamaica, 50 million years ago. The type specimen is represented by a Jamaican fossil skeleton, described in 2001 by Daryl Domning, a marine mammal paleontologist at Howard University in Washington, DC. It is believed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20Dietz%20method | The modified Dietz method is a measure of the ex post (i.e. historical) performance of an investment portfolio in the presence of external flows. (External flows are movements of value such as transfers of cash, securities or other instruments in or out of the portfolio, with no equal simultaneous movement of value in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering-matrix%20method | In computational electromagnetics, the scattering-matrix method (SMM) is a numerical method used to solve Maxwell's equations, related to the transfer-matrix method.
Principles
SMM can, for example, use cylinders to model dielectric/metal objects in the domain.
The total-field/scattered-field (TF/SF) formalism where ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20congruency | Phase congruency is a measure of feature significance in computer images, a method of edge detection that is particularly robust against changes in illumination and contrast.
Foundations
Phase congruency reflects the behaviour of the image in the frequency domain. It has been noted that edgelike features have many of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalyldiaminopropionic%20acid | Oxalyldiaminopropionic acid (ODAP) is a structural analogue of the neurotransmitter glutamate found in the grass pea Lathyrus sativus. It is the neurotoxin responsible for the motor neuron degeneration syndrome lathyrism.
Sources
ODAP is found in the seeds of the legume L. sativus, a grass pea plant, in the range of .... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predeclared | In computer languages, the built-in information, encodings or tools that are available to a programmer are pre-declared, often in the form of entities, variables, objects, functions or instructions. It is mostly not possible to overwrite or otherwise manipulate them.
Pre-declared entity
A pre-declared entity is a bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitoxin | Vomitoxin, also known as deoxynivalenol (DON), is a type B trichothecene, an epoxy-sesquiterpenoid. This mycotoxin occurs predominantly in grains such as wheat, barley, oats, rye, and corn, and less often in rice, sorghum, and triticale. The occurrence of deoxynivalenol is associated primarily with Fusarium graminearum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunate%20number | A Fortunate number, named after Reo Fortune, is the smallest integer m > 1 such that, for a given positive integer n, pn# + m is a prime number, where the primorial pn# is the product of the first n prime numbers.
For example, to find the seventh Fortunate number, one would first calculate the product of the first sev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuma%20Kiryu | is a fictional character and the protagonist of Sega's action-adventure beat 'em up Japanese role-playing game series Yakuza / Like a Dragon. He is popularly known as due to the tattoo of a dragon on his back and him originally being a fearsome member of the yakuza group known as the Dojima Family, a subsidiary of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocatastrophism | Neocatastrophism is the hypothesis that life-exterminating events such as gamma-ray bursts have acted as a galactic regulation mechanism in the Milky Way upon the emergence of complex life in its habitable zone. It is one of several proposed solutions to the Fermi paradox since it provides a mechanism which would have ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS%20statistical%20regions%20of%20Austria | The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of Austria for statistical purposes. The standard is developed and regulated by the European Union. The NUTS standard is instrumental in delivering the European Union's Structural Funds. The NUTS code for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Doctrine%20of%20Philosophical%20Necessity%20Illustrated | The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity (1777) is one of the major metaphysical works of 18th-century British polymath Joseph Priestley.
Introduction
Between 1774 and 1778, while serving as an assistant to Lord Shelburne, Priestley wrote a series of five major metaphysical works, arguing for a materialist philosophy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20Einstein%20%28book%29 | Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe is a book by Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist from the City College of New York, and Jennifer Trainer Thompson. It focuses on the development of superstring theory, which might become the unified field theory of the strong force, the weak force, elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantieghems%20theorem | In number theory, Vantieghems theorem is a primality criterion. It states that a natural number n≥3 is prime if and only if
Similarly, n is prime, if and only if the following congruence for polynomials in X holds:
or:
Example
Let n=7 forming the product 1*3*7*15*31*63 = 615195. 615195 = 7 mod 127 and so 7 is prim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexachlorocyclohexane | Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), , is any of several polyhalogenated organic compounds consisting of a six-carbon ring with one chlorine and one hydrogen attached to each carbon. This structure has nine stereoisomers (eight diastereomers, one of which has two enantiomers), which differ by the stereochemistry of the individ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platyclade | Platyclades are flattened, photosynthetic shoots, branches or stems that resemble or perform the function of leaves, as in Homalocladium platycladum and some cactus genera like Opuntia and Schlumbergera.
Etymology
Neo-Latin platycladium; from Greek platy, flat + klados, branch.
Plant morphology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acephate | Acephate is an organophosphate foliar and soil insecticide of moderate persistence with residual systemic activity of about 10–15 days at the recommended use rate. It is used primarily for control of aphids, including resistant species, in vegetables (e.g. potatoes, carrots, greenhouse tomatoes, and lettuce) and in hor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Church%E2%80%93Turing%20thesis | The history of the Church–Turing thesis ("thesis") involves the history of the development of the study of the nature of functions whose values are effectively calculable; or, in more modern terms, functions whose values are algorithmically computable. It is an important topic in modern mathematical theory and computer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic%20network%20process | The analytic network process (ANP) is a more general form of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) used in multi-criteria decision analysis.
AHP structures a decision problem into a hierarchy with a goal, decision criteria, and alternatives, while the ANP structures it as a network. Both then use a system of pairwise c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILIAS | ILIAS ( [German for "Integrated Learning, Information and Work Cooperation System"]) is an open-source web-based learning management system (LMS). It supports learning content management (including SCORM 2004 compliance) and tools for collaboration, communication, evaluation and assessment. The software is published un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orexin%20receptor | The orexin receptor (also referred to as the hypocretin receptor) is a G-protein-coupled receptor that binds the neuropeptide orexin. There are two variants, OX1 and OX2, each encoded by a different gene (, ).
Both orexin receptors exhibit a similar pharmacology – the 2 orexin peptides, orexin-A and orexin-B, bind to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number%20Theory%20Foundation | The Number Theory Foundation (NTF) is a non-profit organization based in the United States which supports research and conferences in the field of number theory, with a particular focus on computational aspects and explicit methods.
The NTF funds the Selfridge prize awarded at each Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20printing | Nature printing is a printing process, developed in the 18th century, that uses the plants, animals, rocks and other natural subjects to produce an image. The subject undergoes several stages to give a direct impression onto materials such as lead, gum, and photographic plates, which are then used in the printing proc... |
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