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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imidazolidinyl%20urea | Imidazolidinyl urea is an antimicrobial preservative used in cosmetics . It is chemically related to diazolidinyl urea which is used in the same way. Imidazolidinyl urea acts as a formaldehyde releaser.
Safety
Some people have a contact allergy to imidazolidinyl urea causing dermatitis. Such people are often also al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odnoklassniki | Odnoklassniki (), abbreviated as OK or OK.ru, is a social network service used mainly in Russia and former Soviet Republics. The site was launched on March 4, 2006 by Albert Popkov and is currently owned by VK.
The website currently has more than 200 million registered users and 45 million daily unique visitors. Odnok... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetrant%20%28biochemical%29 | A biochemical penetrant is a chemical that increases the ability of a poison to apply its toxic effect to a living organism.
Typically, the term penetrant when used for a biochemical agent, relates to an agrichemical that is used with a weedkiller or fungicide. The term seems to be used in relation to agrichemicals w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi%E2%80%93Williams%20distribution%20function | Choi–Williams distribution function is one of the members of Cohen's class distribution function. It was first proposed by Hyung-Ill Choi and William J. Williams in 1989. This distribution function adopts exponential kernel to suppress the cross-term. However, the kernel gain does not decrease along the axes in the am... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone-shape%20distribution%20function | The cone-shape distribution function, also known as the Zhao–Atlas–Marks time-frequency distribution, (acronymized as the ZAM distribution or ZAMD), is one of the members of Cohen's class distribution function. It was first proposed by Yunxin Zhao, Les E. Atlas, and Robert J. Marks II in 1990. The distribution's name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrailed%20%28gene%29 | engrailed is a homeodomain transcription factor involved in many aspects of multicellular development. First known for its role in arthropod embryological development, working in consort with the Hox genes, engrailed has been found to be important in other areas of development. It has been identified in many bilater... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telolecithal | Telolecithal (Greek: τέλος (telos) = end, λέκιθος (lekithos) = yolk), refers to the uneven distribution of yolk in the cytoplasm of ova found in birds, reptiles, fish, and monotremes. The yolk is concentrated at one pole of the egg separate from the developing embryo.
This type of egg undergoes discoidal meroblastic c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictyostelium%20discoideum | Dictyostelium discoideum is a species of soil-dwelling amoeba belonging to the phylum Amoebozoa, infraphylum Mycetozoa. Commonly referred to as slime mold, D. discoideum is a eukaryote that transitions from a collection of unicellular amoebae into a multicellular slug and then into a fruiting body within its lifetime. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Verifier | The Verifier refers to a proprietary fuel gauge technology, used for advanced measurement of heating oil in residential and commercial tanks ranging from 1,000 – 20,000 gallons. First developed in 2005, by U.S. Energy Group’s Jerry Pindus, Verifier technology was granted Patent Approval 11/095,914 as “The Verifier Digi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch%20file | A batch file is a script file in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. It consists of a series of commands to be executed by the command-line interpreter, stored in a plain text file. A batch file may contain any command the interpreter accepts interactively and use constructs that enable conditional branching and looping w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSFN%20%28programming%20language%29 | WSFN (Which Stands for Nothing) is an interpreted programming language for controlling robots created by Li-Chen Wang. It was designed to be as small as possible, a "tiny" language, similar to Wang's earlier effort, Palo Alto Tiny BASIC. WSFN was first published in Dr. Dobb's Journal in September 1977.
The language co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermark%20%28data%20synchronization%29 | A Watermark for data synchronization describes an object of a predefined format which provides a point of reference value for two systems/datasets attempting to establish delta/incremental synchronization; any object in the queried data source which was created, modified, or deleted after the watermark's value will be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20After%20People | Life After People is a television series on which scientists, mechanical engineers, and other experts speculate about what might become of planet Earth if humanity suddenly disappeared. The featured experts also talk about the impact of human absence on the environment and the vestiges of civilization thus left behind.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule%20of%20three%20%28computer%20programming%29 | Rule of three ("Three strikes and you refactor") is a code refactoring rule of thumb to decide when similar pieces of code should be refactored to avoid duplication. It states that two instances of similar code do not require refactoring, but when similar code is used three times, it should be extracted into a new proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20sensor | Within quantum technology, a quantum sensor utilizes properties of quantum mechanics, such as quantum entanglement, quantum interference, and quantum state squeezing, which have optimized precision and beat current limits in sensor technology.
The field of quantum sensing deals with the design and engineering of quantu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-FISH | Flow-FISH (fluorescence in-situ hybridization) is a cytogenetic technique to quantify the copy number of RNA or specific repetitive elements in genomic DNA of whole cell populations via the combination of flow cytometry with cytogenetic fluorescent in situ hybridization staining protocols.
Flow-FISH is most commonly u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20flux%20density | In spectroscopy, spectral flux density is the quantity that describes the rate at which energy is transferred by electromagnetic radiation through a real or virtual surface, per unit surface area and per unit wavelength (or, equivalently, per unit frequency). It is a radiometric rather than a photometric measure. In SI... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20data | Public data may refer to:
Open data
any data that inadvertently becomes public affecting information privacy
Open data
Information privacy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20flux%20sensor | A heat flux sensor is a transducer that generates an electrical signal proportional to the total heat rate applied to the surface of the sensor. The measured heat rate is divided by the surface area of the sensor to determine the heat flux.
The heat flux can have different origins; in principle convective, radiative a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoinformatics | Glycoinformatics is a field of bioinformatics that pertains to the study of carbohydrates involved in protein post-translational modification. It broadly includes (but is not restricted to) database, software, and algorithm development for the study of carbohydrate structures, glycoconjugates, enzymatic carbohydrate sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Howard%20Bros.%20Circus | The Howard Bros. Circus is a ¾-inch-to-the-foot scale replica of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus located on the Ringling Estate in Sarasota, Florida. It includes a complete reproduction of the entire circus (circa the 1920s).
History
The name for the circus comes from the name of the creator, Howard C. Tibb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitation%20%28magnetic%29 | In electromagnetism, excitation is the process of generating a magnetic field by means of an electric current.
An electric generator or electric motor consists of a rotor spinning in a magnetic field. The magnetic field may be produced by permanent magnets or by field coils. In the case of a machine with field coil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupil%20magnification | The pupil magnification of an optical system is the ratio of the diameter of the exit pupil to the diameter of the entrance pupil. The pupil magnification is used in calculations of the effective f-number, which affects a number of important elements related to optics, such as exposure, diffraction, and depth of field.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20clock | A nuclear clock or nuclear optical clock is a notional clock that would use the frequency of a nuclear transition as its reference frequency, in the same manner as an atomic clock uses the frequency of an electronic transition in an atom's shell. Such a clock is expected to be more accurate than the best current atomic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Krampen | Martin Krampen (March 9, 1928, in Siegen – June 18, 2015, in Ulm) was a leading German semiotician, semiotics Professor in Göttingen.
Biography
The son of a Protestant pastor, Krampen was born on March 9, 1928, in Siegen and was raised in Wuppertal. He took courses in psychology, philosophy, and theology the Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytosemiotics | Phytosemiotics is a branch of biosemiotics that studies the sign processes in plants, or more broadly, the vegetative semiosis. Vegetative semiosis is a type of sign processes that occurs at cellular and tissue level, including cellular recognition, plant perception, plant signal transduction, intercellular communicati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape%20context | Shape context is a feature descriptor used in object recognition. Serge Belongie and Jitendra Malik proposed the term in their paper "Matching with Shape Contexts" in 2000.
Theory
The shape context is intended to be a way of describing shapes that allows for measuring shape similarity and the recovering of point corre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield%20budding | Shield budding, also known as T-budding, is a technique of grafting to change varieties of fruit trees. Typically used in fruit tree propagation, it can also be used for many other kinds of nursery stock. An extremely sharp knife is necessary; specialty budding knives are on the market. A budding knife is a small knife... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20pattern | Security patterns can be applied to achieve goals in the area of security. All of the classical design patterns have different instantiations to fulfill some information security goal: such as confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Additionally, one can create a new design pattern to specifically achieve some se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate%20functor%20logic | In mathematical logic, predicate functor logic (PFL) is one of several ways to express first-order logic (also known as predicate logic) by purely algebraic means, i.e., without quantified variables. PFL employs a small number of algebraic devices called predicate functors (or predicate modifiers) that operate on terms... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunburst | A sunburst is a design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns and possibly pattern books. It consists of rays or "beams" radiating out from a central disk in the manner of sunbeams. Sometimes part of a sunburst, a semicircular or semi-elliptical shape, is used. Traditional sunburst ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Fraknoi | Andrew Fraknoi (born 1948) is a retired professor of astronomy recognized for his lifetime of work using everyday language to make astronomy more accessible and popular for both students and the general public. In 2017 Fraknoi retired from his position as Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Foothill College. In ret... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick%E2%80%93tock%20model | Tick–tock was a production model adopted in 2007 by chip manufacturer Intel. Under this model, every microarchitecture change (tock) was followed by a die shrink of the process technology (tick). It was replaced by the process–architecture–optimization model, which was announced in 2016 and is like a tick–tock cycle fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20alginate | Calcium alginate is a water-insoluble, gelatinous, cream-coloured substance that can be created through the addition of aqueous calcium chloride to aqueous sodium alginate. Calcium alginate is also used for entrapment of enzymes and forming artificial seeds in plant tissue culture.
"Alginate" is usually the salts of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%20Ornithological%20Society | The Cooper Ornithological Society (COS), formerly the Cooper Ornithological Club, was an American ornithological society. It was founded in 1893 in California and operated until 2016. Its name commemorated James Graham Cooper, an early California biologist. It published the ornithological journal The Condor and the mon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loye%20and%20Alden%20Miller%20Research%20Award | The Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, now known as the AOS Miller Award, was established in 1993 by the Cooper Ornithological Society (COS) to recognize lifetime achievement in ornithological research. The namesakes were Loye H. Miller and his son Alden H. Miller, both of whom focused largely on ornithology.
Sinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary%20observing%20ship%20program | Due to the importance of surface weather observations from the surface of the ocean, the voluntary observing ship program, known as VOS, was set up to train crews how to take weather observations while at sea and also to calibrate weather sensors used aboard ships when they arrive in port, such as barometers and thermo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor%20grid | A sensor grid integrates wireless sensor networks with grid computing concepts to enable real-time data collection and the sharing of computational and storage resources for sensor data processing and management. It is an enabling technology for building large-scale infrastructures, integrating heterogeneous sensor, da... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mottle | Mottle is a pattern of irregular marks, spots, streaks, blotches or patches of different shades or colours. It is commonly used to describe the surface of plants or the skin of animals. In plants, mottling usually consists of yellowish spots on plants, and is usually a sign of disease or malnutrition. Many plant viruse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20flexor%20sheath%20of%20hand | The common synovial sheath for the flexor tendons or the ulnar bursa is a synovial sheath in the carpal tunnel of the human hand.
It contains tendons of the flexor digitorum superficialis and the flexor digitorum profundus, but not the flexor pollicis longus.
The sheath which surrounds the flexor digitorum extends d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20Roitman | Judith "Judy" Roitman (born November 12, 1945) is a mathematician, a retired professor at the University of Kansas. She specializes in set theory, topology, Boolean algebras, and mathematics education.
Biography
Roitman was born in 1945 in New York City. She attended Oberlin College, followed by Sarah Lawrence College... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20control%20system | A hierarchical control system (HCS) is a form of control system in which a set of devices and governing software is arranged in a hierarchical tree. When the links in the tree are implemented by a computer network, then that hierarchical control system is also a form of networked control system.
Overview
A human-bui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time%20Control%20System%20Software | The Real-time Control System (RCS) is a software system developed by NIST based on the Real-time Control System Reference Model Architecture, that implements a generic Hierarchical control system. The RCS Software Library is an archive of free C++, Java and Ada code, scripts, tools, makefiles, and documentation develop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schur%E2%80%93Weyl%20duality | Schur–Weyl duality is a mathematical theorem in representation theory that relates irreducible finite-dimensional representations of the general linear and symmetric groups. It is named after two pioneers of representation theory of Lie groups, Issai Schur, who discovered the phenomenon, and Hermann Weyl, who populariz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20difference | In color science, color difference or color distance is the separation between two colors. This metric allows quantified examination of a notion that formerly could only be described with adjectives. Quantification of these properties is of great importance to those whose work is color-critical. Common definitions make... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20GUI%20testing%20tools | GUI testing tools serve the purpose of automating the testing process of software with graphical user interfaces. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermally%20stimulated%20current%20spectroscopy | Thermally stimulated current (TSC) spectroscopy (not to be confused with thermally stimulated depolarization current) is an experimental technique which is used to study energy levels in semiconductors or insulators (organic or inorganic). Energy levels are first filled either by optical or electrical injection usually... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-conductance%20state | The term high-conductance state describes a particular state of neurons in specific states of the brain, such as for example during wakefulness, attentive states, or even during some anesthetized states. In individual neurons, the high-conductance state is formally defined by the fact that the total synaptic conductan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pople%20notation | The Pople notation is named after the Nobel laureate John Pople and is a simple method of presenting second-order spin coupling systems in NMR.
The notation labels each (NMR active) nucleus with a letter of the alphabet. The difference in chemical shift, δ, relative to the J-coupling between nuclei mirrors the separat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPIM | Voice Profile for Internet Mail (VPIMv2) is defined in RFC 3801, an Internet standards track protocol.
VPIM defines a subset of the Internet multimedia messaging protocols (MIME) for use between voice processing server platforms.
This and related protocols define the familiar myEmailAddress@myDomain.com type of e-mai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus%20bernardii | Agaricus bernardii, commonly called the salt-loving agaricus, or salt-loving mushroom, is an agaric fungus in the family Agaricaceae. A short, squat mushroom, the thick stem is usually less than the diameter of the cap, which ranges from . Found in Asia, Europe, North America, New Zealand and Australia it is a salt-to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus%20silvicola | Agaricus silvicola, also known as the wood mushroom or woodland agaricus, is a species of Agaricus mushroom related to the button mushroom. A. silvicola is a member of Agaricus section Arvenses, a group of morphologically similar mushrooms. A. silvicola, like other species in Agaricus section Arvenses, exhibits a posit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seesaw%20molecular%20geometry | Disphenoidal or seesaw (also known as sawhorse) is a type of molecular geometry where there are four bonds to a central atom with overall C2v molecular symmetry. The name "seesaw" comes from the observation that it looks like a playground seesaw. Most commonly, four bonds to a central atom result in tetrahedral or, les... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20molecular%20geometry | The linear molecular geometry describes the geometry around a central atom bonded to two other atoms (or ligands) placed at a bond angle of 180°. Linear organic molecules, such as acetylene (), are often described by invoking sp orbital hybridization for their carbon centers.
According to the VSEPR model (Valence Shel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent%20molecular%20geometry | In chemistry, molecules with a non-collinear arrangement of two adjacent bonds have bent molecular geometry, also known as angular or V-shaped. Certain atoms, such as oxygen, will almost always set their two (or more) covalent bonds in non-collinear directions due to their electron configuration. Water (H2O) is an exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped%20molecular%20geometry | In chemistry, T-shaped molecular geometry describes the structures of some molecules where a central atom has three ligands. Ordinarily, three-coordinated compounds adopt trigonal planar or pyramidal geometries. Examples of T-shaped molecules are the halogen trifluorides, such as ClF3.
According to VSEPR theory, T-sha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20H.%20Wood | Samuel H. Wood is a scientist and fertility specialist. In 2008, he became the first man to clone himself, donating his own DNA via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to produce mature human embryos that were his clones.
Education and early research
Wood completed undergraduate studies in psychology at Loma Linda Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryoria%20fremontii | Bryoria fremontii is a dark brown, horsehair lichen that grows hanging from trees in western North America, and northern Europe and Asia. It grows abundantly in some areas, and is an important traditional food for a few First Nations in North America.
Name
The species is currently classified as Bryoria fremontii, alth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemagen | Stemagen is a corporation headed by Dr. Samuel Wood, notable for cloning adult skin cells On January, 2008, Dr. Andrew French, Stemagen's chief scientific officer and Wood in California, announced that they successfully created the first 5 mature human embryos using DNA from adult skin cells, aiming to provide a less-c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geary%27s%20C | Geary's C is a measure of spatial autocorrelation that attempts to determine if observations of the same variable are spatially autocorrelated globally (rather than at the neighborhood level). Spatial autocorrelation is more complex than autocorrelation because the correlation is multi-dimensional and bi-directional.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20zoology | This is a chronologically organized listing of notable zoological events and discoveries.
Ancient world
28000 BC. Cave paintings (e.g. Chauvet Cave) in Southern France and northern Spain depict animals in a stylized fashion. These European cave paintings depict Mammoths (the same species is later seen thawed ice in S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20%28physics%29 | A monster, in quantum physics, is an arrangement of matter that has maximum disorder. The high-entropy state of monsters has been theorized as being responsible for the high entropy of black holes; while the likelihood of any given star entering a "monster" state while collapsing is small, quantum mechanics takes into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20the%20Arab%20Revolt | The flag of the Arab Revolt, also known as the flag of Hejaz, was a flag used by Hussein bin Ali and his allies, the Arab nationalists, during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and as the first flag of the Kingdom of Hejaz.
It later became widespread in the Arab world and has been reused i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Yuan%20%28mathematician%29 | Wang Yuan (; 29 April 1930 – 14 May 2021) was a Chinese mathematician and writer known for his contributions to the Goldbach conjecture. He was a president of the Chinese Mathematical Society and head of the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Life
Wang was born in Lanxi, Zhejiang, China. His fathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maerua%20crassifolia | Maerua crassifolia is a species of plant in the Capparaceae family. It is native to Africa, tropical Arabia, and Israel, but is disappearing from Egypt. Foliage from this plant is used as fodder for animals, especially camels, during the dry season in parts of Africa.
The plant grows commonly in Yemen, where it is cal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20television%20frequencies |
VHF
Japan
People's Republic of China
Original P.R.C. channel assignments
Assignments since c.1975
Republic of China (Taiwan)
Indonesia
Kingdom of Thailand, other border of island
Similar to the television frequency in America and Japan; same sound carrier as System M / N that uses 4.5 MHz sound carrier
Nort... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20gardening | Atomic gardening is a form of mutation breeding where plants are exposed to radiation. Some of the mutations produced thereby have turned out to be useful. Typically this is gamma radiation in which case it is a produced by cobalt-60.
The practice of plant irradiation has resulted in the development of more than 2,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral%20ligaments%20of%20metatarsophalangeal%20joints | The collateral ligaments of metatarsophalangeal joints are strong, rounded cords, placed one on either side of each joint, and attached, by one end, to the posterior tubercle on the side of the head of the metatarsal bone, and, by the other, to the contiguous extremity of the phalanx.
The place of dorsal ligaments is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinellus%20floccosus | Turbinellus floccosus, commonly known as the scaly vase, or sometimes the shaggy, scaly, or woolly chanterelle, is a cantharelloid mushroom of the family Gomphaceae native to Asia and North America. It was known as Gomphus floccosus until 2011, when it was found to be only distantly related to the genus's type species,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strained%20quantum-well%20laser | A strained quantum well laser is a type of quantum-well laser, which was invented by Professor Alf Adams at the University of Surrey in 1986. The laser is distinctive for producing a more concentrated beam than other quantum well lasers, making it considerably more efficient. The lasers are notable for usage in CD, DVD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique%20de%20Carvalho%20Santos | Henrique de Carvalho Santos (5 May 1940 – 15 October 2023), also known as Henrique Onambwé, was an Angolan nationalist who served as the Minister of Industry of Angola. He created the flag of Angola after it was decolonized and gained independence.
Santos was born in Porto Amboim, in the province of Cuanza Sul on 5 Ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moran%27s%20I | In statistics, Moran's I is a measure of spatial autocorrelation developed by Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran. Spatial autocorrelation is characterized by a correlation in a signal among nearby locations in space. Spatial autocorrelation is more complex than one-dimensional autocorrelation because spatial correlation is mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20RNA%20structure%20prediction%20software | This list of RNA structure prediction software is a compilation of software tools and web portals used for RNA structure prediction.
Single sequence secondary structure prediction.
Single sequence tertiary structure prediction
Comparative methods
The single sequence methods mentioned above have a difficult job detec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ob/ob%20mouse | The ob/ob or obese mouse is a mutant mouse that eats excessively due to mutations in the gene responsible for the production of leptin and becomes profoundly obese. It is an animal model of type II diabetes. Identification of the gene mutated in ob led to the discovery of the hormone leptin, which is important in the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potting%20%28electronics%29 | In electronics, potting is a process of filling a complete electronic assembly with a solid or gelatinous compound for high voltage assemblies by excluding gaseous phenomena such as corona discharge, for resistance to shock and vibration, and for the exclusion of water, moisture, or corrosive agents. When such material... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi-theory | Psi-theory, developed by Dietrich Dörner at the University of Bamberg, is a systemic psychological theory covering human action regulation, intention selection and emotion. It models the human mind as an information processing agent, controlled by a set of basic physiological, social and cognitive drives. Perceptual an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessible%20category | The theory of accessible categories is a part of mathematics, specifically of category theory. It attempts to describe categories in terms of the "size" (a cardinal number) of the operations needed to generate their objects.
The theory originates in the work of Grothendieck completed by 1969, and Gabriel and Ulmer (19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20and%20rational%20function%20modeling | In statistical modeling (especially process modeling), polynomial functions and rational functions are sometimes used as an empirical technique for curve fitting.
Polynomial function models
A polynomial function is one that has the form
where n is a non-negative integer that defines the degree of the polynomial. A p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20ceremony | In cryptography, a key ceremony is a ceremony held to generate or use a cryptographic key.
A public example is the signing of the DNS root zone for DNSSEC.
Root Key Signing Ceremony
In public-key cryptography and computer security, a root key ceremony is a procedure for generating a unique pair of public and private ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20presidents%20of%20the%20Institute%20of%20Mathematical%20Statistics | The president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics is the highest officer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and, together with the president-elect and past president, sets the directions for IMS during his or her term of office.
Duties
According to the IMS Handbook for Officers, Editors, Counci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmert%20transformation | The Helmert transformation (named after Friedrich Robert Helmert, 1843–1917) is a geometric transformation method within a three-dimensional space.
It is frequently used in geodesy to produce datum transformations between datums.
The Helmert transformation is also called a seven-parameter transformation and is a simi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20tagging | Mobile tagging is the process of providing data read from tags for display on mobile devices, commonly encoded in a two-dimensional barcode, using the camera of a camera phone as the reader device. The contents of the tag code is usually a URL for information addressed and accessible through Internet.
History
Mobile t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sri%20Lankan%20flags | This is a list of flags used in Sri Lanka.
National flag
Presidential flag (1972–2022)
This flag was personal to every President of Sri Lanka, and as such the design changed when a new president assumed office.
On 15 July 2022, the acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe abolished the presidential flag.
Civil ensigns... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephelauxetic%20effect | The nephelauxetic effect is a term used in the inorganic chemistry of transition metals. It refers to a decrease in the Racah interelectronic repulsion parameter, given the symbol B, that occurs when a transition-metal free ion forms a complex with ligands. The name "nephelauxetic" comes from the Greek for cloud-expand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexin | Nexin is a proteinous inter-doublet linkage that prevents microtubules in the outer layer of axonemes from moving with respect to one another; otherwise, vesicular transport proteins such as dynein would dissolve the whole structure.
See also
Sorting nexin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%20Ornithological%20Society | The Wilson Ornithological Society (WOS) is an ornithological organization that was formally established in 1886 as the Wilson Ornithological Chapter of the Agassiz Association. It is based at the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States. It was named after Alexander Wilson, a prominent earl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuckerkandl%27s%20tubercle%20%28thyroid%20gland%29 | Zuckerkandl's tubercle is a pyramidal extension of the thyroid gland, present at the most posterior side of each lobe. Emil Zuckerkandl described it in 1902 as the processus posterior glandulae thyreoideae. Although the structure is named after Zuckerkandl, it was discovered first by Otto Madelung in 1867 as the poster... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchev%20dough | Khrushchev dough () was a type of dough in the Soviet Union. It was the result of introducing flour rationing after a crop failure, which led to the food irregularities in 1963, under Nikita Khrushchev. Products made from Khrushchev dough were called Khrushchev loaves or Khrushchev pies. "Khrushchev pie" was made by ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20Structure%20Initiative | The Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) was a USA based project that aimed at accelerating discovery in structural genomics and contribute to understanding biological function. Funded by the U.S. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) between 2000 and 2015, its aim was to reduce the cost and time require... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Troelsen | Andrew W. Troelsen is currently a technology manager at Thomson Reuters in the Enterprise Content Platform (ECP - Big Data) division. He is an author of several books in the Microsoft technology space including books on Microsoft (D)COM, ATL, .NET, C#, VB (4.0 - modern) and COM & .NET Interoperability. His latest edit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junctional%20diversity | Junctional diversity describes the DNA sequence variations introduced by the improper joining of gene segments during the process of V(D)J recombination. This process of V(D)J recombination has vital roles for the vertebrate immune system, as it is able to generate a huge repertoire of different T-cell receptor (TCR) a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20West%20Shelf%20Operational%20Oceanographic%20System | The North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System (NOOS) monitors physical, sedimentological and ecological variables for the North Sea area. NOOS is operated by partners from the nine countries bordering the extended North Sea and European North West Shelf; Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-minimal%20theory | In model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, a C-minimal theory is a theory that is "minimal" with respect to a ternary relation C with certain properties. Algebraically closed fields with a (Krull) valuation are perhaps the most important example.
This notion was defined in analogy to the o-minimal theories, whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle%20%28birds%29 | A kettle is a group of birds wheeling and circling in the air. The kettle may be composed of several different species at the same time. Nature photographer M. Timothy O'Keefe theorizes that the word derives from the appearance of birds circling tightly in a thermal updraft "like something boiling in a cauldron." Orni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbook | A cloudbook is a small-storage laptop which depends on networked storage services (the cloud), which come packaged with the device. Examples include Google ChromeOS cloudbooks ("Chromebooks") installed with Google Drive and Windows OS cloudbooks bundled with Microsoft's OneDrive. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrapatellar%20branch%20of%20saphenous%20nerve | The infrapatellar branch of saphenous nerve is a nerve of the lower limb.
The saphenous nerve, located about the middle of the thigh, gives off a branch which joins the subsartorial plexus.
It pierces the sartorius and fascia lata, and is distributed to the skin in front of the patella.
This nerve communicates above... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britains%20Deetail | Britains' Deetail toy soldiers were a popular product in the 1970s and 1980s. Manufactured in England by W. Britain, the 1/32 (54mm) scale plastic figures were finished with hand painted details and came with sturdy Zamak metal bases. In the early 1990s production moved to China before eventually being phased out.
Dev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sural%20communicating%20branch%20of%20common%20peroneal%20nerve | The sural communicating nerve (SCN) (peroneal communicating branch of the common fibular nerve) is a separate and independent nerve from both the medial and lateral sural cutaneous nerves, often arising from a common trunk of the common fibular nerve The primary purpose of the sural communicating branch is to provide t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20game | In mathematics, a topological game is an infinite game of perfect information played between two players on a topological space. Players choose objects with topological properties such as points, open sets, closed sets and open coverings. Time is generally discrete, but the plays may have transfinite lengths, and exten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superficial%20branch%20of%20lateral%20plantar%20nerve | The superficial branch of the lateral plantar nerve splits into a proper and a common plantar digital nerve:
the lateral proper plantar digital nerve supplies the lateral side of the 5th digit and a branch for innervation of the Flexor digiti quinti brevis
the 4th common plantar digital nerve communicates with the t... |
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