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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20F.%20Franklin | Gene F. Franklin (July 25, 1927 – August 9, 2012) was an American electrical engineer and control theorist known for his pioneering work towards the advancement of the control systems engineering – a subfield of electrical engineering. Most of his work on control theory was adapted immediately into NASA's U.S. space pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20J.%20Kushner | Harold Joseph Kushner is an American applied mathematician and a Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. He is known for his work on the theory of stochastic stability (based on the concept of supermartingales as Lyapunov functions), the theory of non-linear filtering (based on the Kushner equati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20V.%20Balakrishnan | Alampallam Venkatachalaiyer Balakrishnan (1922-2015) was an American applied mathematician and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Education and career
Balakrishnan grew up in Chennai, India, and entered the University of Madras in the early 1940s. While there he earned a scholarship from the Ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20Harmon%20Ray | Willis Harmon Ray (born April 4, 1940) is an American chemical engineer, control theorist, applied mathematician, and a Vilas Research emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison notable for being the 2000 winner of the prestigious Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award and the 2019 winner of the Neal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%20G.%20Gilbert | Elmer Grant Gilbert was an American aerospace engineer and a Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Instrumentation Engineering from Michigan in 1957.
He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the 1994 IEEE Control Systems Awa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Athans | Michael Athans (born Michael Athanassiades in Drama, Greece, May 3, 1937 - May 26, 2020) was a Greek-American control theorist and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Fellow of the IEEE (1973) and a Fellow of the AA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20V.%20Breakwell | John Valentine Breakwell (1917 – April 16, 1991) was a noted American control theorist and a Professor of Astronautics at Stanford University. He is remembered for his contributions to the "science and applications of astrodynamics, for discovery of flight-trajectory optimization, and for outstanding academic service."... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Zaborszky | John Zaborszky (May 13, 1914 – February 11, 2008) was a noted Hungarian-born applied mathematician and a professor in the Department of systems science and mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis. He received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 1986. He was elected to the National Academy of Engine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20C.%20Lozier | John C. Lozier is a noted American control engineer. He was responsible for the control of the Telstar ground-tracking antenna installed near Andover, Maine, and the Brittany Peninsula in France. This equipment, involving real-time computer control, enabled the first transatlantic TV operation in 1962.
Lozier served a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20G.%20Truxal | John G. Truxal (February 19, 1924 - February 16, 2007) was an American control theorist and a Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Truxal was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is noted for his numerous contributions to control theory, for which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20R.%20Evans | Walter Richard Evans (January 15, 1920 – July 10, 1999) was a noted American control theorist and the inventor of the root locus method and the Spirule device in 1948. He was the recipient of the 1987 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rufus Oldenburger Medal and the 1988 AACC's Richard E. Bellman Control Heritag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford%20Aris | Rutherford "Gus" Aris (September 15, 1929 – November 2, 2005) was a chemical engineer, control theorist, applied mathematician, and a regents professor emeritus of chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota (1958–2005).
Early life
Aris was born in Bournemouth, England, to Algernon Aris and Janet (Elford). Fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20over%20fiber | Radio over fiber (RoF) or RF over fiber (RFoF) refers to a technology whereby light is modulated by a radio frequency signal and transmitted over an optical fiber link. Main technical advantages of using fiber optical links are lower transmission losses and reduced sensitivity to noise and electromagnetic interference ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose%20B.%20Cruz%20Jr. | Jose Bejar Cruz Jr. (born September 17, 1932) is a noted control theorist and a Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University.
Cruz was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1980 for contributions to the control of large-scal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphenotypic%20acute%20leukaemia | Biphenotypic acute leukaemia (BAL) is an uncommon type of leukemia which arises in multipotent progenitor cells which have the ability to differentiate into both myeloid and lymphoid lineages. It is a subtype of "leukemia of ambiguous lineage".
The direct reasons leading to BAL are still not clear. BAL can be de novo ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretation%20%28model%20theory%29 | In model theory, interpretation of a structure M in another structure N (typically of a different signature) is a technical notion that approximates the idea of representing M inside N. For example, every reduct or definitional expansion of a structure N has an interpretation in N.
Many model-theoretic properties are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula%20calculator | A formula calculator is a software calculator that can perform a calculation in two steps:
Enter the calculation by typing it in from the keyboard.
Press a single button or key to see the final result.
This is unlike button-operated calculators, such as the Windows calculator or the Mac OS X calculator, which requi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langford%20pairing | In combinatorial mathematics, a Langford pairing, also called a Langford sequence, is a permutation of the sequence of 2n numbers 1, 1, 2, 2, ..., n, n in which the two 1s are one unit apart, the two 2s are two units apart, and more generally the two copies of each number k are k units apart. Langford pairings are name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive%20centrifugal%20force | In classical mechanics, a reactive centrifugal force forms part of an action–reaction pair with a centripetal force.
In accordance with Newton's first law of motion, an object moves in a straight line in the absence of a net force acting on the object. A curved path may however ensue when such a force acts on it; this... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROFLCon | ROFLCon was a biennial convention of internet memes that took place in 2008, 2010 and 2012, featuring various internet celebrities. All three events were at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ROFLCon was first organized by a group of students from Harvard University led by Tim Hwang. According to Hwang, the ins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract%20class | In software engineering, the Extract Class refactoring is applied when a class becomes overweight with too many methods and its purpose becomes unclear. Extract Class refactoring involves creating a new class and moving methods and/or data to the new class.
Further reading
http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/extractC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%20invariant | In differential equations, the Laplace invariant of any of certain differential operators is a certain function of the coefficients and their derivatives. Consider a bivariate hyperbolic differential operator of the second order
whose coefficients
are smooth functions of two variables. Its Laplace invariants have ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumirubin | Lumirubin is a structural isomer of bilirubin, which is formed during phototherapy used to treat neonatal jaundice. This polar isomer resulting from the blue-green lights of phototherapy has an active site to albumin, and its effects are considered less toxic than those of bilirubin. Lumirubin is excreted into bile or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant%20factorization%20of%20LPDOs | The factorization of a linear partial differential operator (LPDO) is an important issue in the theory of integrability, due to the Laplace-Darboux transformations, which allow construction of integrable LPDEs. Laplace solved the factorization problem for a bivariate hyperbolic operator of the second order (see Hyperb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTZ%20black%20hole | The BTZ black hole, named after Máximo Bañados, Claudio Teitelboim, and Jorge Zanelli, is a black hole solution for (2+1)-dimensional topological gravity with a negative cosmological constant.
History
In 1992 Bañados, Teitelboim and Zanelli discovered the BTZ black hole solution . This came as a surprise, because whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%20Ho%C3%BCel | Guillaume-Jules Hoüel (7 April 1823 – 14 June 1886) was a French mathematician. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1843 and received his doctoral degree in 1855 from the Sorbonne. He was sought by Urbain Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory, but chose instead to return to Thaon to study there. In 1859 he began t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern-oriented%20modeling | Pattern-oriented modeling (POM) is an approach to bottom-up complex systems analysis that was developed to model complex ecological and agent-based systems. A goal of POM is to make ecological modeling more rigorous and comprehensive.
A traditional ecosystem model attempts to approximate the real system as closely as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sy%20Friedman | Sy-David Friedman (born May 23, 1953, in Chicago) is an American and Austrian mathematician and a (retired) professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna and the former director of the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic. His main research interest lies in mathematical logic, in particular in set t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20drift | Free drift mode refers to the state of motion of an object in orbit whereby constant attitude is not maintained. When attitude is lost, the object is said to be in free drift, thereby relying on its own inertia to avoid attitude drift.
This mode is often engaged purposefully as it can be useful when modifying, upgrad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom%20feeder | A bottom feeder is an aquatic animal that feeds on or near the bottom of a body of water. Biologists often use the terms benthos—particularly for invertebrates such as shellfish, crabs, crayfish, sea anemones, starfish, snails, bristleworms and sea cucumbers—and benthivore or benthivorous, for fish and invertebrates th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turned%20A | Turned A (capital: Ɐ, lowercase: ɐ, math symbol ∀) is a letter and symbol based upon the letter A.
Modern usage
Lowercase ɐ (in Roman or two story form) is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to identify the near-open central vowel. This is not to be confused with the turned alpha or turned script a, ɒ, whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll%27s%20critique | Roll's critique is a famous analysis of the validity of empirical tests of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) by Richard Roll. It concerns methods to formally test the statement of the CAPM, the equation
This equation relates an asset's expected return to the asset's sensitivity to the market portfolio return .... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic%20pendulum | In physics and mathematics, in the area of dynamical systems, an elastic pendulum (also called spring pendulum or swinging spring) is a physical system where a piece of mass is connected to a spring so that the resulting motion contains elements of both a simple pendulum and a one-dimensional spring-mass system. The s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Kingdom%20Rocketry%20Association | The United Kingdom Rocketry Association (UKRA) is an enabling body set up to promote and represent high power, medium power and model rocketry in the United Kingdom for educational, recreational and amateur research purposes. UKRA is also the specialist body to the BMFA (British Model Flying Association) with responsib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionally%20graded%20element | In materials science and mathematics, functionally graded elements are elements used in finite element analysis. They can be used to describe a functionally graded material.
See also
Graded (mathematics)
Finite element method
Materials science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20particle%20physics | Computational particle physics refers to the methods and computing tools developed in and used by particle physics research. Like computational chemistry or computational biology, it is, for particle physics both a specific branch and an interdisciplinary field relying on computer science, theoretical and experimental... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocrystallization | Biocrystallization is the formation of crystals from organic macromolecules by living organisms. This may be a stress response, a normal part of metabolism such as processes that dispose of waste compounds, or a pathology. Template mediated crystallization is qualitatively different from in vitro crystallization. Inhib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20calculation%20of%20particle%20interaction%20or%20decay | The automatic calculation of particle interaction or decay is part of the computational particle physics branch. It refers to computing tools that help calculating the complex particle interactions as studied in high-energy physics, astroparticle physics and cosmology. The goal of the automation is to handle the full ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid%20as%20food | Squid is eaten in many cuisines; in English, the culinary name calamari is often used for squid dishes. There are many ways to prepare and cook squid. Fried squid is common in the Mediterranean. In New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Canada, and South Africa, it is sold in fish and chip shops, and steakhouses. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep | Sheep (: sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock. Although the term sheep can apply to other species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to domesticated sheep. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the eve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bane%20%28plant%29 | The term bane (from , meaning "thing causing death, poison"), in botany, is an archaic element in the common names of plants known to be toxic or poisonous.
In the Middle Ages, several poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum were thought to have prophylactic qualities, repelling and protecting against that which they w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlap%E2%80%93save%20method | In signal processing, overlap–save is the traditional name for an efficient way to evaluate the discrete convolution between a very long signal and a finite impulse response (FIR) filter :
where for m outside the region .
This article uses common abstract notations, such as or in which it is understood that the fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard%20mask | A wildcard mask is a mask of bits that indicates which parts of an IP address are available for examination. In the Cisco IOS, they are used in several places, for example:
To indicate the size of a network or subnet for some routing protocols, such as OSPF.
To indicate what IP addresses should be permitted or denied... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20speech%20recognition%20software | Speech recognition software is available for many computing platforms, operating systems, use models, and software licenses. Here is a listing of such, grouped in various useful ways.
Acoustic models and speech corpus (compilation)
The following list presents notable speech recognition software engines with a brief sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20Harvest%20Commando | The Dark Harvest Commando of the Scottish Citizen Army was a militant group which in 1981 demanded that the British government decontaminate Gruinard Island, a site which had been used for anthrax weapon testing during World War II, by distributing potentially anthrax-laden soil on the mainland.
The group identified i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCRL2 | mCRL2 is a specification language for describing concurrent discrete event systems. It is accompanied with a toolset, that facilitates tools, techniques and methods for simulation, analysis and visualization of behaviour. The behavioural part of the language is based on process algebra (Algebra of Communicating Process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20malaria | The history of malaria extends from its prehistoric origin as a zoonotic disease in the primates of Africa through to the 21st century. A widespread and potentially lethal human infectious disease, at its peak malaria infested every continent except Antarctica. Its prevention and treatment have been targeted in science... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness%20Land%20Trust | The Wilderness Land Trust is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Helena, MT, whose mission is to acquire private lands (inholdings) in current and proposed wilderness areas and transfer them to the federal government so that they will be kept forever wild as wilderness. Since the Trust was founded in 1992 it h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDPCP | 5'-guanosyl-methylene-triphosphate (GDPCP) and 5'-adenosyl-methylene-triphosphate (ADPCP) are analogues of guanosine 5'-triphosphate (GTP) and adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), which store chemical energy from metabolism in the cell. Hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates (NTPs) such as ATP and GTP yields energy, inorga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeset | In version control software, a changeset (also known as commit and revision) is a set of alterations packaged together, along with meta-information about the alterations. A changeset describes the exact differences between two successive versions in the version control system's repository of changes. Changesets are t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imponderable%20fluid | Imponderable fluids are features of several superseded scientific theories, such as archaic atomic and electromotive theories.
Description
The term has been used in natural philosophy and physics to explain certain phenomena as the result of invisible and practically weightless (Latin: imponderabilis) fluids. Historic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankar%20Sastry | S. Shankar Sastry is the Founding Chancellor of the Plaksha University, Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.
From 1996-1999, he was the director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley. From 1999-early 2001, he was on leave from Berkeley as director of the Informat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Nethernet | The Nethernet (previously known as PMOG, the Passively Multiplayer Online Game) was an online game in which players "passively" participated in while browsing web pages. Players earn data points by taking missions, which they can spend on various game items that could be attached to web pages to trigger events when an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%40Home | ABC@Home was an educational and non-profit network computing project finding abc-triples related to the abc conjecture in number theory using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) volunteer computing platform.
In March 2011, there were more than 7,300 active participants from 114 countries wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20deduplication | In computing, data deduplication is a technique for eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data. Successful implementation of the technique can improve storage utilization, which may in turn lower capital expenditure by reducing the overall amount of storage media required to meet storage capacity needs. It can also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20change | Identity change describes the intentional changes to an identity document or digital identity. The topic is of particular interest in "faceless" financial transactions and computer security. There are several different parties who may initiate the change:
A first party. the original bearer of an identity may initiat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EJBCA | EJBCA (formerly: Enterprise JavaBeans Certificate Authority) is a free software public key infrastructure (PKI) certificate authority software package maintained and sponsored by the Swedish for-profit company PrimeKey Solutions AB, which holds the copyright to most of the codebase, being a subsidiary for Keyfactor Inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homologous%20desensitization | Homologous desensitization occurs when a receptor decreases its response to an agonist at high concentration. It is a process through which, after prolonged agonist exposure, the receptor is uncoupled from its signaling cascade and thus the cellular effect of receptor activation is attenuated.
Homologous desensitizati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoanalysis | Photoanalysis (or photo analysis) refers to the study of pictures to compile various types of data, for example, to measure the size distribution of virtually anything that can be captured by photo. Photoanalysis technology has changed the way mines and mills quantify fragmented material.
Images are a good way to doc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creaming%20%28chemistry%29 | Creaming, in the laboratory sense, is the migration of the dispersed phase of an emulsion under the influence of buoyancy. The particles float upwards or sink depending on how large they are and density compared to the continuous phase as well as how viscous or how thixotropic the continuous phase might be. For as long... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltrami%20identity | The Beltrami identity, named after Eugenio Beltrami, is a special case of the Euler–Lagrange equation in the calculus of variations.
The Euler–Lagrange equation serves to extremize action functionals of the form
where and are constants and .
If , then the Euler–Lagrange equation reduces to the Beltrami identity,
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20fluidic%20circuit | Integrated fluidic circuit (IFC) is a type of integrated circuit based on fluidics.
See also
Microfluidics
Biotechnology
Fluid mechanics
Integrated circuits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything | Everything, every-thing, or every thing, is all that exists; it’s the opposite of nothing, or its complement. It is the totality of things relevant to some subject matter. Without expressed or implied limits, it may refer to anything. The universe is everything that exists theoretically, though a multiverse may exist a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter%E2%80%93Saxton%20equation | In mathematical physics, the Hunter–Saxton equation
is an integrable PDE that arises in the theoretical study of nematic liquid crystals. If the molecules in the liquid crystal are initially all aligned, and some of them are then wiggled slightly, this disturbance in orientation will propagate through the crystal, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Online%20Forensic%20Evidence%20Extractor | Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) is a tool kit, developed by Microsoft, to help computer forensic investigators extract evidence from a Windows computer. Installed on a USB flash drive or other external disk drive, it acts as an automated forensic tool during a live analysis. Microsoft provides COFEE... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermite%E2%80%93Hadamard%20inequality | In mathematics, the Hermite–Hadamard inequality, named after Charles Hermite and Jacques Hadamard and sometimes also called Hadamard's inequality, states that if a function ƒ : [a, b] → R is convex, then the following chain of inequalities hold:
The inequality has been generalized to higher dimensions: if is a bou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Net | ONE-NET is an open-source standard for wireless networking.
ONE-NET was designed for low-cost, low-power (battery-operated) control networks for applications such as home automation, security & monitoring, device control, and sensor networks. ONE-NET is not tied to any proprietary hardware or software, and can be impl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marden%27s%20theorem | [[File:Marden theorem.svg|thumb|A triangle and its Steiner inellipse. The zeroes of are the black dots, and the zeroes of {{math|p(z)}} are the red dots). The center green dot is the zero of . Marden's theorem states that the red dots are the foci of the ellipse.]]
In mathematics, Marden's theorem''', named after Morr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%27s%20disease%20in%20popular%20culture | Huntington's disease has been shown in numerous formats, more so as awareness of the condition has increased. Here is a list of references to it in popular culture;
Books
Ann Brashares's 2011 novel Sisterhood Everlasting (later found one of the four "sisters", Tibby Rollins, had HD)
James S. A. Corey's 2015 novella... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc%20shedding | Disc shedding is the process by which photoreceptor cells in the retina are renewed. The disc formations in the outer segment of photoreceptors, which contain the photosensitive opsins, are completely renewed every ten days.
Photoreceptors
The retina contains two types of photoreceptor – rod cells and cone cells. Ther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle%20medicine | Lifestyle medicine (LM) is a branch of medicine focused on preventive healthcare and self-care dealing with prevention, research, education, and treatment of disorders caused by lifestyle factors and preventable causes of death such as nutrition, physical inactivity, chronic stress, and self-destructive behaviors inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picoeukaryote | Picoeukaryotes are picoplanktonic eukaryotic organisms 3.0 µm or less in size. They are distributed throughout the world's marine and freshwater ecosystems and constitute a significant contribution to autotrophic communities. Though the SI prefix pico- might imply an organism smaller than atomic size, the term was lik... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine%20landslide | Submarine landslides are marine landslides that transport sediment across the continental shelf and into the deep ocean. A submarine landslide is initiated when the downwards driving stress (gravity and other factors) exceeds the resisting stress of the seafloor slope material, causing movements along one or more conca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-oriented%20programming | In computing, subject-oriented programming is an object-oriented software paradigm in which the state (fields) and behavior (methods) of objects are not seen as intrinsic to the objects themselves, but are provided by various subjective perceptions ("subjects") of the objects. The term and concepts were first published... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetation%20and%20slope%20stability | Vegetation and slope stability are interrelated by the ability of the plant life growing on slopes to both promote and hinder the stability of the slope. The relationship is a complex combination of the type of soil, the rainfall regime, the plant species present, the slope aspect, and the steepness of the slope. Kno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy%20text | Noisy text is text with differences between the surface form of a coded representation of the text and the intended, correct, or original text. The noise may be due to typographic errors or colloquialisms always present in natural language and usually lowers the data quality in a way that makes the text less accessible... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathmotropic | Bathmotropic often refers to modifying the degree of excitability specifically of the heart; in general, it refers to modification of the degree of excitability (threshold of excitation) of musculature in general, including the heart. It especially is used to describe the effects of the cardiac nerves on cardiac excita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Neil%20McLean | Alexander Neil McLean (November 12, 1885 – March 12, 1967) was a Canadian businessman and an appointee to the Senate of Canada.
Born in Hartland, New Brunswick, he was known as Neil. Along with his brother, Allan, in 1923 he and a group of investors took control of Connors Brothers Limited, a large fish processing bus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer%20group%20%28computer%20networking%29 | In computer networking, a peer group is a group of functional units in the same layer (see e.g. OSI model) of a network, by analogy with peer group. See also peer-to-peer (P2P) networking which is a specific type of networking relying on basically equal end hosts rather than on a hierarchy of devices.
Computer network... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20flow%20%28computer%20networking%29 | In packet switching networks, traffic flow, packet flow or network flow is a sequence of packets from a source computer to a destination, which may be another host, a multicast group, or a broadcast domain. RFC 2722 defines traffic flow as "an artificial logical equivalent to a call or connection." RFC 3697 defines tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20prosthesis | A visual prosthesis, often referred to as a bionic eye, is an experimental visual device intended to restore functional vision in those with partial or total blindness. Many devices have been developed, usually modeled on the cochlear implant or bionic ear devices, a type of neural prosthesis in use since the mid-1980s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitran | Multitran is an editable Russian multilingual online dictionary launched on 1 April 2001. The English–Russian–English dictionary contains over four million entries, while the total database has about eight million entries. The dictionary has a function for reporting translation errors for registered users.
Features
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20air%20oven | Hot air ovens are electrical devices which use dry heat to sterilize. They were originally developed by Louis Pasteur. Generally, they use a thermostat to control the temperature. Their double walled insulation keeps the heat in and conserves energy, the inner layer being a poor conductor and outer layer being metalli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location%20estimation%20in%20sensor%20networks | Location estimation in wireless sensor networks is the problem of estimating the location of an object from a set of noisy measurements. These measurements are acquired in a distributed
manner by a set of sensors.
Use
Many civilian and military applications require monitoring that can identify objects in a specific a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20fissure%20of%20cerebellum | The monticulus of the cerebellum is divided by the primary fissure (or preclival fissure) into an anterior, raised part, the culmen or summit, and a posterior sloped part, the clivus; the quadrangular lobule is similarly divided.
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Anatomy of the cerebellum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culmen%20%28cerebellum%29 | The culmen is the portion of the anterior vermis adjacent to the primary fissure of cerebellum.
The culmen and the anterior parts of the quadrangular lobules form the lobus culminis.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingula%20of%20cerebellum | The lingula is a small tongue-shaped process, consisting of four or five folia; it lies in front of the lobulus centralis, and is concealed by it.
Anteriorly, it rests on the dorsal surface of the anterior medullary velum, and its white substance is continuous with that of the velum.
Additional images |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvula%20of%20cerebellum | The uvula (uvular lobe) forms a considerable portion of the inferior vermis; it is separated on either side from the tonsil by the sulcus vallecula, at the bottom of which it is connected to the tonsil by a ridge of gray matter, indented on its surface by shallow furrows, and hence called the furrowed band.
Additional... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acta%20Biochimica%20et%20Biophysica%20Sinica | Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica (ABBS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes original research articles, short communications, and reviews in the fields of biochemistry and biophysics. Established in 1958, the journal is sponsored by the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, an institute of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas-pak | Gas-pak is a method used in the production of an anaerobic environment. It is used to culture bacteria which die or fail to grow in the presence of oxygen (anaerobes).
These are commercially available, disposable sachets containing a dry powder or pellets, which, when mixed with water and kept in an appropriately size... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20granulometry | Optical granulometry is the process of measuring the different grain sizes in a granular material, based on a photograph. Technology has been created to analyze a photograph and create statistics based on what the picture portrays. This information is vital in maintaining machinery in various trades worldwide. Minin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swap%20regret | Swap regret is a concept from game theory. It is a generalization of regret in a repeated, n-decision game.
Definition
A player's swap-regret is defined to be the following:
Intuitively, it is how much a player could improve by switching each occurrence of decision i to the best decision j possible in hindsight. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additively%20indecomposable%20ordinal | In set theory, a branch of mathematics, an additively indecomposable ordinal α is any ordinal number that is not 0 such that for any , we have Additively indecomposable ordinals are also called gamma numbers or additive principal numbers. The class of additively indecomposable ordinals may be denoted , from the Ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable%20real%20function | In mathematical logic, specifically computability theory, a function is sequentially computable if, for every computable sequence of real numbers, the sequence is also computable.
A function is effectively uniformly continuous if there exists a recursive function such that, if
then
A real function is compu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20and%20sour | Hot and sour () is a flavor combination in some Asian cuisines, especially Chinese cuisine. Notable examples include:
Hot and sour noodles
Hot and sour soup
Hot and sour wontons
Chinese cuisine
Flavors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigen | In general usage the word indigen is treated as a variant of the word indigene, meaning a native.
Usage in botany
However, it was used in a strictly botanical sense for the first time in 1918 by Liberty Hyde Bailey ((1858–1954) an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultura... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antagonistic%20pleiotropy%20hypothesis | The antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis was first proposed by George C. Williams in 1957 as an evolutionary explanation for senescence. Pleiotropy is the phenomenon where one gene controls more than one phenotypic trait in an organism. A gene is considered to possess antagonistic pleiotropy if it controls more than one ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parahaplogroup | A parahaplogroup is a term used in genetics to identify a paraphyletic haplogroup.
They are normally described with the name of their parent haplogroup plus an asterisk (for instance: F*, U2*), meaning that it includes all derivates from the parent haplogroup (F or U2 in the examples) except those mentioned elsewhere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral%20of%20Theodorus | In geometry, the spiral of Theodorus (also called square root spiral, Spiral of Einstein, Pythagorean spiral, or Pythagoras's snail) is a spiral composed of right triangles, placed edge-to-edge. It was named after Theodorus of Cyrene.
Construction
The spiral is started with an isosceles right triangle, with each leg h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayenne%20%28mascot%29 | Cayenne was a "spirit leader" of the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns. He was an anthropomorphic Cayenne pepper (a staple spice of the Acadiana region in which the school is located).
Louisiana does not have an official mascot. In recent years the university has had several mascots including live bulldogs (when the athletic te... |
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