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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teichichnus | Teichichnus is an ichnogenus with a distinctive form produced by the stacking of thin 'tongues' of sediment, atop one another. They are believed to be fodinichnia, with the organism adopting the habit of retracing the same route through varying heights of the sediment, which would allow it to avoid going over the same ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelblau%27s%20function | In mathematical optimization, Himmelblau's function is a multi-modal function, used to test the performance of optimization algorithms. The function is defined by:
It has one local maximum at and where , and four identical local minima:
The locations of all the minima can be found analytically. However... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20production | The term email production is used in advertising and marketing to refer to the process of building HTML email from "creative," mockup images built by web designers.
The production of an email would appear to be a simple task; one starts with a picture of the advertisement to be emailed - usually in JPEG, GIF, or PSD f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centerpoint%20%28geometry%29 | In statistics and computational geometry, the notion of centerpoint is a generalization of the median to data in higher-dimensional Euclidean space. Given a set of points in d-dimensional space, a centerpoint of the set is a point such that any hyperplane that goes through that point divides the set of points in two ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph%20Schild | Rudolph E. Schild (born 10 January 1940) is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who has been active since the mid-1960s. He has authored or contributed to over 250 papers, of which 150 are in refereed journals.
Career
Schild's research in the 1980's and 90's was focused on using gravi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muni%20Sakya | Muni Bahadhur Shakya or Muni Shakya (Nepali: मुनीबहादुर शाक्य) is a Nepalese computer programmer. He is credited with helping bring information technology to Nepal. He's also known for designing computer systems that can be operated in the Nepali language.
Biography
Shakya was born in 1942, in Patan. His father is Bud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/888%20%28number%29 | 888 (eight hundred eighty-eight) is the natural number following 887 and preceding 889.
It is a strobogrammatic number that reads the same upside-down on a seven-segment calculator display, symbolic in various mystical traditions.
In mathematics
888 is a base ten repdigit (a number all of whose digits are equal), and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantificational%20variability%20effect | Quantificational variability effect (QVE) is the intuitive equivalence of certain sentences with quantificational adverbs (Q-adverbs) and sentences without these, but with quantificational determiner phrases (DP) in argument position instead.
1. (a) A cat is usually smart. (Q-adverb)
1. (b) Most cats are smart. (DP)
2.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Solar%20System%20formation%20and%20evolution%20hypotheses | The history of scientific thought about the formation and evolution of the Solar System began with the Copernican Revolution. The first recorded use of the term "Solar System" dates from 1704. Since the seventeenth century, philosophers and scientists have been forming hypotheses concerning the origins of our Solar Sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly%20varying%20function | In real analysis, a branch of mathematics, a slowly varying function is a function of a real variable whose behaviour at infinity is in some sense similar to the behaviour of a function converging at infinity. Similarly, a regularly varying function is a function of a real variable whose behaviour at infinity is simila... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeu%20de%20taquin | In the mathematical field of combinatorics, jeu de taquin is a construction due to which defines an equivalence relation on the set of skew standard Young tableaux. A jeu de taquin slide is a transformation where the numbers in a tableau are moved around in a way similar to how the pieces in the fifteen puzzle move. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringle%20Crouch%20Green%20Mill | Ringle Crouch Green Mill is a smock mill in Sandhurst, Kent, England, that was demolished to base level in 1945, and now has a new smock tower built on it as residential accommodation and an electricity generator.
History
Ringle Crouch Green Mill was built in 1844 by William Warren, the Hawkhurst millwright to replac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestra%20Control%20Engine | Orchestra Control Engine is a suite of software components (based on Linux/RTAI) used for the planning, development and deployment of real-time control applications for industrial machines and robots.
Orchestra Control Engine has been developed by Sintesi SpA in partnership with the Italian National Research Council a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Continuing%20Revolution | The Continuing Revolution: A History of Physics from the Greeks to Einstein is a 1968 book by the philosopher Joseph Agassi. Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, it written as a three-week discussion with Agassi's son Aaron.
1968 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Books about the history of physics
English... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Computer%20Network%20System | The , also known as the Famicom Net System and Famicom Modem, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer video game console, and was released in September 1988 only in Japan. Predating the modern Internet, its proprietary dial-up information service accessed live stock trades, video game cheats, jokes, weather fore... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20calculator | A software calculator is a calculator that has been implemented as a computer program, rather than as a physical hardware device.
They are among the simpler interactive software tools, and, as such, they provide operations for the user to select one at a time. They can be used to perform any process that consists of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abronia%20bogerti | Abronia bogerti, known by the common name Bogert's arboreal alligator lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Anguidae. The species is endemic to Mexico.
Etymology
The specific name, bogerti, is in honor of American herpetologist Charles Mitchill Bogert.
Geographic range
A. bogerti is indigenous to eastern Oaxac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component%20Object%20Model | Component Object Model (COM) is a binary-interface standard for software components introduced by Microsoft in 1993. It is used to enable inter-process communication object creation in a large range of programming languages. COM is the basis for several other Microsoft technologies and frameworks, including OLE, OLE Au... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20control | Stochastic control or stochastic optimal control is a sub field of control theory that deals with the existence of uncertainty either in observations or in the noise that drives the evolution of the system. The system designer assumes, in a Bayesian probability-driven fashion, that random noise with known probability d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Society%20Africa%20Prize | The Royal Society Africa Prize (formerly known as the Royal Society Pfizer Prize) has been awarded by the Royal Society since 2006 to African-based researchers at the start of their career who are making innovative contributions to the biological sciences in Africa. £60,000 is awarded as a grant for the recipient to c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto%20de%20Astrof%C3%ADsica%20de%20Andaluc%C3%ADa | The Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (, IAA-CSIC) is a research institute funded by the High Council of Scientific Research of the Spanish government Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), and is located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. IAA activities are related to research in the field of astrophy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuseScore | MuseScore is a music notation program for Windows, macOS, and Linux supporting a wide variety of file formats and input methods. It is released as free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. MuseScore is accompanied by a freemium mobile score viewer and playback app, and an online score-sharing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-translational%20regulation | Post-translational regulation refers to the control of the levels of active protein.
There are several forms.
It is performed either by means of reversible events (posttranslational modifications, such as phosphorylation or sequestration) or by means of irreversible events (proteolysis).
See also
Post-translational... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic%20acid%20methods | Nucleic acid methods are the techniques used to study nucleic acids: DNA and RNA.
Purification
DNA extraction
Phenol–chloroform extraction
Minicolumn purification
RNA extraction
Boom method
Synchronous coefficient of drag alteration (SCODA) DNA purification
Quantification
Abundance in weight: spectroscopic nucleic ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20damage%20theory%20of%20aging | The DNA damage theory of aging proposes that aging is a consequence of unrepaired accumulation of naturally occurring DNA damage. Damage in this context is a DNA alteration that has an abnormal structure. Although both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA damage can contribute to aging, nuclear DNA is the main subject of this... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20beam%20lithography | Ion-beam lithography is the practice of scanning a focused beam of ions in a patterned fashion across a surface in order to create very small structures such as integrated circuits or other nanostructures.
Details
Ion-beam lithography has been found to be useful for transferring high-fidelity patterns on three-dimensi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find%20%28Windows%29 | In computing, find is a command in the command-line interpreters (shells) of a number of operating systems. It is used to search for a specific text string in a file or files. The command sends the specified lines to the standard output device.
Overview
The find command is a filter to find lines in the input data stre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylogics | Xylogics or Xylogic Systems was started in 1971 by three former NASA employees (Laurence Liebson, Robert Bushkoff and Stephen Rotman). The company was originally named Xynetic Systems, but this name was already in use by a California company, so the group in Needham, MA changed their name in late 1971 to Xylogic System... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20and%20creativity | The majority of studies on sleep creativity have shown that sleep can facilitate insightful behavior and flexible reasoning, and there are several hypotheses about the creative function of dreams. On the other hand, a few recent studies have supported a theory of creative insomnia, in which creativity is significantly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflicking | In video processing, deflicking is a filtering operation applied to brightness flicker in video to improve visual quality. The flicker effect can be seen when camera framerate and lighting frequency are not adjusted or in video digitized old film. The filter aims to improve the appearance of movies.
The main idea is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine%20Grassmannian%20%28manifold%29 | In mathematics, there are two distinct meanings of the term affine Grassmannian. In one it is the manifold of all k-dimensional affine subspaces of Rn (described on this page), while in the other the affine Grassmannian is a quotient of a group-ring based on formal Laurent series.
Formal definition
Given a finite-dime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankish%20and%20Hunnic%20grape%20varieties | A division of grape varieties into Frankish and Hunnic grape varieties was practiced in German-speaking countries in the Middle Ages and separated varieties considered to be better from those considered to be lesser. Frankish (fränkisch) grapes were considered noble grapes, and the designation derived from the Franks, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrence%20%28quantum%20computing%29 | In quantum information science, the concurrence is a state invariant involving qubits.
Definition
The concurrence is an entanglement monotone (a way of measuring entanglement) defined for a mixed state of two qubits as:
in which are the eigenvalues, in decreasing order, of the Hermitian matrix
with
the spin-flippe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20E.%20Bellman%20Control%20Heritage%20Award | The Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award is an annual award (since 1979) given by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) for achievements in control theory, named after the applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman. The award is given for "distinguished career contributions to the theory or applications of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Automatic%20Control%20Council | The American Automatic Control Council (AACC) is an organization founded in 1957 for research in control theory. AACC is a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and is an association of the control systems divisions of nine member societies:
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronaut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-intercept%20sampling | In statistics, more specifically in biostatistics, line-intercept sampling (LIS) is a method of sampling elements in a region whereby an element is sampled if a chosen line segment, called a “transect”, intersects the element.
Line intercept sampling has proven to be a reliable, versatile, and easy to implement method... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triethyl%20citrate | Triethyl citrate is an ester of citric acid. It is a colorless, odorless liquid used as a food additive, emulsifier and solvent (E number E1505) to stabilize foams, especially as whipping aid for egg white. It is also used in pharmaceutical coatings and plastics.
Triethyl citrate is also used as a plasticizer for po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeeter%20syndrome | Skeeter syndrome (papular urticaria) is a localized severe allergic reaction to mosquito bites, consisting of inflammation, peeling skin, blistering, ulceration and sometimes fever. It is caused by allergenic polypeptides in mosquito saliva, and therefore is not contagious. It is one of several forms, being one of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative%20Toxicogenomics%20Database | The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) is a public website and research tool launched in November 2004 that curates scientific data describing relationships between chemicals/drugs, genes/proteins, diseases, taxa, phenotypes, GO annotations, pathways, and interaction modules.
The database is maintained by the De... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Chi%20Ho | Yu-Chi "Larry" Ho (; born March 1, 1934) is a Chinese-American mathematician, control theorist, and a professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
He is the co-author of Applied Optimal Control, and an influential researcher in differential games, pattern recognition, and discrete e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20bioinformatics%20journals | This is a list of notable peer-reviewed scientific journals that focus on bioinformatics and computational biology.
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help%20%28command%29 | In computing, help is a command in various command line shells such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, Bash, qshell, 4DOS/4NT, Windows PowerShell, Singularity shell, Python, MATLAB and GNU Octave. It provides online information about available commands and the shell environment.
Implementations
The command is available in oper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1289%20%28number%29 | The number 1289 (twelve hundred eighty-nine) is the natural number following 1288 and preceding 1290.
In mathematics
The number 1289 is an odd prime number, following 1283 and preceding 1291. It is classified as an apocalyptic power, a deficient number, and an evil number:
The number 1289 is called an apocalyptic p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Reroute | Fast Reroute is a MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) and IP resiliency technology to provide fast traffic recovery upon link or router failures for mission critical services.
Upon any single link or node failures, it could be able to recover impacted traffic flows in the level of 50 ms. Industrial implementations ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUN%20workstation | The SUN workstation was a modular computer system designed at Stanford University in the early 1980s. It became the seed technology for many commercial products, including the original workstations from Sun Microsystems.
History
In 1979 Xerox donated some Alto computers, developed at their Palo Alto Research Center, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltase-glucoamylase | Maltase-glucoamylase, intestinal is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the MGAM gene.
Maltase-glucoamylase is an alpha-glucosidase digestive enzyme. It consists of two subunits with differing substrate specificity. Recombinant enzyme studies have shown that its N-terminal catalytic domain has highest activity agai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runas | In computing, runas (a compound word, from “run as”) is a command in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems that allows a user to run specific tools and programs under a different username to the one that was used to logon to a computer interactively. It is similar to the Unix commands sudo and su, but the Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel%20B.%20Nichols | Nathaniel B. Nichols (1914–1997) was an American control engineer who made significant contributions to the field of control theory. He is well known for his book Theory of Servomechanisms, one of the most widely read books in control engineering.
Nichols received a B.S. in chemistry in 1936 from Central Michigan Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%20Lefkowitz | Irving Lefkowitz (July 8, 1921 – June 21, 2015) was an American control engineer and Professor Emeritus at the Case Western Reserve University who made significant contributions to process dynamics, advanced control, and computer-based integrated and hierarchical systems control. Lefkowitz was a Life Fellow of the IEEE... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucociliary%20clearance | Mucociliary clearance (MCC), mucociliary transport, or the mucociliary escalator, describes the self-clearing mechanism of the airways in the respiratory system. It is one of the two protective processes for the lungs in removing inhaled particles including pathogens before they can reach the delicate tissue of the lun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphoroscope | A phosphoroscope is piece of experimental equipment devised in 1857 by physicist A. E. Becquerel to measure how long it takes a phosphorescent material to stop glowing after it has been excited.
It consists of two rotating disks with holes in them. The holes are arranged on each disk at equal angular intervals and a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%20space | In algebraic topology, a Poincaré space is an n-dimensional topological space with a distinguished element µ of its nth homology group such that taking the cap product with an element of the kth cohomology group yields an isomorphism to the (n − k)th homology group. The space is essentially one for which Poincaré dual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Biology | Mathematical Biology is a two-part monograph on mathematical biology first published in 1989 by the applied mathematician James D. Murray. It is considered to be a classic in the field and sweeping in scope.
Part I: An Introduction
Part I of Mathematical Biology covers population dynamics, reaction kinetics, oscillat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server%20change%20number | The Server Change Number (SCN) is a counter variable used in Client/Server Architecture systems to find out whether the server state could be synchronized with the state of the client. In case of a difference, there have been obviously communication problems.
The number is incremented once the server has successfully ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumpati%20S.%20Narendra | Kumpati S. Narendra is an American control theorist, who currently holds the Harold W. Cheel Professorship of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. He received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 2003. He is noted "for pioneering contributions to stability theory, adaptive and learning systems theory"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20E.%20Bryson | Arthur Earl Bryson Jr. (born October 7, 1925) is the Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University and the "father of modern optimal control theory". With Henry J. Kelley, he also pioneered an early version of the backpropagation procedure,
now widely used for machine learning and artificial neu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event%20partitioning | Event partitioning is an easy-to-apply systems analysis technique that helps the analyst organize requirements for large systems into a collection of smaller, simpler, minimally-connected, easier-to-understand "mini systems" / use cases.
Overview
The event-partitioning approach is explained by Stephen M. McMenamin an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20mesh | Particle Mesh (PM) is a computational method for determining the forces in a system of particles. These particles could be atoms, stars, or fluid components and so the method is applicable to many fields, including molecular dynamics and astrophysics. The basic principle is that a system of particles is converted into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InPage | InPage is a word processor and page layout software by Concept Software Pvt. Ltd., an Indian information technology company. It is used for languages such as Urdu, Arabic, Balti, Balochi, Burushaski, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi and Shina under Windows and Apple Mac. It was first developed in 1994 and is primarily... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift | Xorshift random number generators, also called shift-register generators, are a class of pseudorandom number generators that were invented by George Marsaglia. They are a subset of linear-feedback shift registers (LFSRs) which allow a particularly efficient implementation in software without the excessive use of sparse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuber%20of%20vermis | The tuber of vermis, the most posterior division of the inferior vermis, is of small size, and laterally spreads out into the large inferior semilunar lobules, which comprise at least two-thirds of the inferior surface of the hemisphere.
Additional Images |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biventer%20lobule | The biventer lobule (or biventral lobule) is a region of the cerebellum. It is triangular in shape; its apex points backward, and is joined by the gray band to the pyramid.
The lateral border is separated from the inferior semilunar lobule by the postpyramidal fissure.
The base is directed forward, and is on a line w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folium%20vermis | The folium vermis is a short, narrow, concealed band at the posterior extremity of the vermis, consisting apparently of a single folium, but in reality marked on its upper and under surfaces by secondary fissures.
Laterally, it expands in either hemisphere into a considerable lobule, the superior semilunar lobule (lob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20lobule | The central lobule is a small square lobule, situated in the anterior cerebellar notch. It overlaps the lingula, from which it is separated by the precentral fissure; laterally, it extends along the upper and anterior part of each hemisphere, where it forms a wing-like prolongation (ala), on each side, as the alae of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20sine | In geometry, the polar sine generalizes the sine function of angle to the vertex angle of a polytope. It is denoted by psin.
Definition
n vectors in n-dimensional space
Let v1, ..., vn (n ≥ 1) be non-zero Euclidean vectors in n-dimensional space (Rn) that are directed from a vertex of a parallelotope, forming the e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustatory%20nucleus | The gustatory nucleus is the rostral part of the solitary nucleus located in the medulla. The gustatory nucleus is associated with the sense of taste and has two sections, the rostral and lateral regions. A close association between the gustatory nucleus and visceral information exists for this function in the gustator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyo%20Noguchi%20Africa%20Prize | The honors men and women "with outstanding achievements in the fields of medical research and medical services to combat infectious and other diseases in Africa, thus contributing to the health and welfare of the African people and of all humankind." The prize, officially named "The Prize in Recognition of Outstandin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lightning%20Process | The Lightning Process (LP) is a three-day personal training programme developed and trademarked by British osteopath Phil Parker. It claims to be beneficial for various conditions, including chronic fatigue syndrome, depression and chronic pain.
Developed in the late 1990s, it aims to teach techniques for managing the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl%20fumarate | Dimethyl fumarate (DMF) is the methyl ester of fumaric acid and is named after the earth smoke plant (Fumaria officinalis). Dimethyl fumarate combined with three other fumaric acid esters (FAEs) is solely licensed in Germany as an oral therapy for psoriasis (brand name Fumaderm). Since 2013, it has been approved by the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VADS%20%28organisation%29 | VADS (formerly an initialism for Visual Arts Data Service) is a service of the Library at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in the UK that provides digital images and other visual arts resources free and copyright cleared for use in UK higher education and further education.
It has provided services to the ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohesperocyon | Prohesperocyon ("before Hesperocyon") is an extinct genus of the first canid endemic to North America appearing during the Late Eocene around 36.6 mya (AEO).
Fossil distribution
Prohesperocyon wilsoni was unearthed at the Airstrip (TMM 40504) site, Presidio County, Texas dating between 36.6 and 36.5 million years ago.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-derived%20filter | m-derived filters or m-type filters are a type of electronic filter designed using the image method. They were invented by Otto Zobel in the early 1920s. This filter type was originally intended for use with telephone multiplexing and was an improvement on the existing constant k type filter. The main problem being add... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20criminology | Computational criminology is an interdisciplinary field which uses computing science methods to formally define criminology concepts, improve our understanding of complex phenomena, and generate solutions for related problems.
Methods
Computing science methods being used include:
Algorithms
Data Mining
Data Structu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridders%27%20method | In numerical analysis, Ridders' method is a root-finding algorithm based on the false position method and the use of an exponential function to successively approximate a root of a continuous function . The method is due to C. Ridders.
Ridders' method is simpler than Muller's method or Brent's method but with similar ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry%20nonrenormalization%20theorems | In theoretical physics a nonrenormalization theorem is a limitation on how a certain quantity in the classical description of a quantum field theory may be modified by renormalization in the full quantum theory. Renormalization theorems are common in theories with a sufficient amount of supersymmetry, usually at least... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion%20and%20tectonics | The interaction between erosion and tectonics has been a topic of debate since the early 1990s. While the tectonic effects on surface processes such as erosion have long been recognized (for example, river formation as a result of tectonic uplift), the opposite (erosional effects on tectonic activity) has only recently... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive%20smoothing | In statistics, additive smoothing, also called Laplace smoothing or Lidstone smoothing, is a technique used to smooth categorical data. Given a set of observation counts from a -dimensional multinomial distribution with trials, a "smoothed" version of the counts gives the estimator:
where the smoothed count and the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20viewing | Social viewing (also known as Watch Party or GroupWatch) describes a recently developed practice revolving around the ability for multiple users to aggregate from multiple sources and view online videos together in a synchronized viewing experience.
Typically the experience also involves some form of instant messaging... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20Day | National DNA Day is a United States holiday celebrated on April 25. It commemorates the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues published papers in the journal Nature on the structure of DNA. Furthermore, in early April 2003 it was declared that the Human Genome P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20application | A virtual application is an application that has been optimized to run on virtual infrastructure. The application software along with just enough operating system (JeOS or "juice") is combined inside a virtual machine container in a manner that maximizes the performance of the application. By minimizing the system soft... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique%20cover | In graph theory, a clique cover or partition into cliques of a given undirected graph is a partition of the vertices into cliques, subsets of vertices within which every two vertices are adjacent. A minimum clique cover is a clique cover that uses as few cliques as possible. The minimum for which a clique cover exists... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranker | Ranker.com is a website that features polls on entertainment, brands, sports, food, and culture. Ranker claims to be one of the largest databases of opinions, with more than 1 billion votes gathered on over millions of subjective voters. Ranker has hundreds of thousands of lists of opinions.
These lists have been refe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem%20Magidor | Menachem Magidor (Hebrew: מנחם מגידור; born January 24, 1946) is an Israeli mathematician who specializes in mathematical logic, in particular set theory. He served as president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was president of the Association for Symbolic Logic from 1996 to 1998 and as president of the
Divisio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20Festival | The Geometry Festival is an annual mathematics conference held in the United States.
The festival has been held since 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland, the University of North Carolina, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Duke University and New York University's Courant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spunk%20Library | The Spunk Library (also known as Spunk Press) was an anarchist Internet archive. The name "spunk" was chosen for the term's meaning in Swedish ("anything we want it to mean"), English ("courage or spirit"), and Australian ("an attractive person"), summarized by the website as "nondescript, energetic, courageous and att... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20probability%20matrix | The network probability matrix describes the probability structure of a network based on the historical presence or absence of edges in a network. For example, individuals in a social network are not connected to other individuals with uniform random probability. The probability structure is much more complex. Intui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix%20Test%20Suite | Phoronix Test Suite (PTS) is a free and open-source benchmark software for Linux and other operating systems which are developed by Michael Larabel and Matthew Tippett.
The Phoronix Test Suite has been endorsed by sites such as Linux.com, LinuxPlanet, and Softpedia.
Features
Phoronix Test Suite supports over 220 tes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium%20indium%20arsenide%20antimonide%20phosphide | Gallium indium arsenide antimonide phosphide ( or GaInPAsSb) is a semiconductor material.
Research has shown that GaInAsSbP can be used in the manufacture of mid-infrared light-emitting diodes and thermophotovoltaic cells.
GaInAsSbP layers can be grown by heteroepitaxy on indium arsenide, gallium antimonide and other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion%20of%20the%20inverse | Confusion of the inverse, also called the conditional probability fallacy or the inverse fallacy, is a logical fallacy whereupon a conditional probability is equated with its inverse; that is, given two events A and B, the probability of A happening given that B has happened is assumed to be about the same as the proba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Milsum | John H. Milsum (August 15, 1925 – November 9, 2008) was a Canadian control engineer who was Professor and first Director at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the McGill University in Montreal, and a professor at the University of British Columbia. Milsum is known for his book "Biological Control Systems Analysi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacoinformatics | Drug discovery and development requires the integration of multiple scientific and technological disciplines. These include chemistry, biology, pharmacology, pharmaceutical technology and extensive use of information technology. The latter is increasingly recognised as Pharmacoinformatics. Pharmacoinformatics relates t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PacketTrap | PacketTrap Networks, Inc., later known as just PacketTrap, was a provider of network management and traffic analysis software for midsize companies.
History
PacketTrap was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It received $5 million in Series A venture capital from August Capital in 2007.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataram | Dataram (formerly Dataram Corporation) is a manufacturer of computer memory and software products headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Dataram Memory was founded in 1967. It provided core memory for many early Digital Equipment computer systems. Dataram products include memory and storage, and related technical prod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennox%20Lewis%20vs.%20Mike%20Tyson | Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson, billed as Lewis–Tyson: Is On, was a heavyweight professional boxing match that took place on June 8, 2002, at the Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee. The defending unified WBC, IBF, IBO, and The Ring champion Lennox Lewis defeated former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson by knocko... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetiocetus | Aetiocetus is a genus of extinct basal mysticete, or baleen whale that lived , in the Oligocene in the North Pacific ocean, around Japan, Mexico, and Oregon, U.S. It was first described by Douglas Emlong in 1966 and currently contains known four species, A. cotylalveus, A. polydentatus, A. tomitai, and A. weltoni. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold%20control%20and%20prevention%20%28library%20and%20archive%29 | Mold control and prevention is a conservation activity that is performed in libraries and archives to protect books, documents and other materials from deterioration caused by mold growth. Mold prevention consists of different methods, such as chemical treatments, careful environmental control, and manual
cleaning. Pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemerin | Chemerin, also known as retinoic acid receptor responder protein 2 (RARRES2), tazarotene-induced gene 2 protein (TIG2), or RAR-responsive protein TIG2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RARRES2 gene.
Function
Retinoids exert biologic effects such as potent growth inhibitory and cell differentiation activi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAST-ADL | EAST-ADL is an Architecture Description Language (ADL) for automotive embedded systems, developed in several European research projects. It is designed to complement AUTOSAR with descriptions at higher level of abstractions. Aspects covered by EAST-ADL include vehicle features, functions, requirements, variability, sof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microactuator | A microactuator is a microscopic servomechanism that supplies and transmits a measured amount of energy for the operation of another mechanism or system. As a general actuator, following standards have to be met:
Large travel
High precision
Fast switching
Low power consumption
Power free force sustainability
For m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamer%20Ba%C5%9Far | Mustafa Tamer Başar (born January 19, 1946) is a control and game theorist who is the Swanlund Endowed Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is also the Director of the Center for Advanced Study (since 2014).
Ed... |
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