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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Space%20Between%20Our%20Ears | The Space Between Our Ears: How the Brain Represents Visual Space is a 2001 non-fiction book by Michael J. Morgan, which explores the workings of vision.
Reception
The Space Between Our Ears won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize for science writing.
In the Guardian, Steven Rose lauded Morgan's explanations of binoculari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetin | Beetin (BE27 or BE29) is a ribosome-inactivating protein found in the leaves of sugar beets, Beta vulgaris L, specifically attacking plant ribosomes. Sugar beet, beetins, that have been isolated meet all the criteria to be classified as single chain (type 1) ribosome inactivating proteins that are highly toxic to ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraoxonase | Paraoxonases are a family of mammalian enzymes with aryldialkylphosphatase activity. There are three paraoxonase isozymes, which were originally discovered for their involvement in the hydrolysis of organophosphates.
Research has indicated the enzymatic activity of paraoxonases is more diversified than its activity as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20analytic%20function | In the mathematical field of complex analysis, a global analytic function is a generalization of the notion of an analytic function which allows for functions to have multiple branches. Global analytic functions arise naturally in considering the possible analytic continuations of an analytic function, since analytic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam%C3%A9%20function | In mathematics, a Lamé function, or ellipsoidal harmonic function, is a solution of Lamé's equation, a second-order ordinary differential equation. It was introduced in the paper . Lamé's equation appears in the method of separation of variables applied to the Laplace equation in elliptic coordinates. In some special ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryzomyini | Oryzomyini is a tribe of rodents in the subfamily Sigmodontinae of the family Cricetidae. It includes about 120 species in about thirty genera, distributed from the eastern United States to the southernmost parts of South America, including many offshore islands. It is part of the clade Oryzomyalia, which includes most... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.hn | Gigabit Home Networking (G.hn) is a specification for wired home networking that supports speeds up to 2 Gbit/s and operates over four types of legacy wires: telephone wiring, coaxial cables, power lines and plastic optical fiber. Some benefits of a multi-wire standard are lower equipment development costs and lower de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limiting%20density%20of%20discrete%20points | In information theory, the limiting density of discrete points is an adjustment to the formula of Claude Shannon for differential entropy.
It was formulated by Edwin Thompson Jaynes to address defects in the initial definition of differential entropy.
Definition
Shannon originally wrote down the following formula fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display%20rules | Display rules are a social group or culture's informal norms that distinguish how one should express themselves. They can be described as culturally prescribed rules that people learn early on in their lives by interactions and socializations with other people. They learn these cultural standards at a young age which d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulston%20score | The Sulston score is an equation used in DNA mapping to numerically assess the likelihood that a given "fingerprint" similarity between two DNA clones is merely a result of chance. Used as such, it is a test of statistical significance. That is, low values imply that similarity is significant, suggesting that two DNA c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20chaining | Method chaining is a common syntax for invoking multiple method calls in object-oriented programming languages. Each method returns an object, allowing the calls to be chained together in a single statement without requiring variables to store the intermediate results.
Rationale
Local variable declarations are synta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20convolutions%20of%20probability%20distributions | In probability theory, the probability distribution of the sum of two or more independent random variables is the convolution of their individual distributions. The term is motivated by the fact that the probability mass function or probability density function of a sum of independent random variables is the convolutio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlett%27s%20method | In time series analysis, Bartlett's method (also known as the method of averaged periodograms), is used for estimating power spectra. It provides a way to reduce the variance of the periodogram in exchange for a reduction of resolution, compared to standard periodograms. A final estimate of the spectrum at a given freq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic%20prostatitis/chronic%20pelvic%20pain%20syndrome | Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS), previously known as chronic nonbacterial prostatitis, is long-term pelvic pain and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) without evidence of a bacterial infection. It affects about 2–6% of men. Together with IC/BPS, it makes up urologic chronic pelvic pain syndr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology%3A%20From%20Individuals%20to%20Ecosystems | Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems is a 2006 higher education textbook on general ecology written by Michael Begon, Colin R. Townsend and John L. Harper. Published by Blackwell Publishing, it is now in its fourth edition. The first three editions were published by Blackwell Science under the title Ecology: Individ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Fire%20%28novel%29 | Green Fire is a science fiction novel by American writer John Taine (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell). It was first published in 1928 by E. P. Dutton. The novel was adapted and produced as a play.
Plot introduction
The novel concerns two corporations competing to develop the power of atomic energy. Independent Laborat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carath%C3%A9odory%20conjecture | In differential geometry, the Carathéodory conjecture is a mathematical conjecture attributed to Constantin Carathéodory by Hans Ludwig Hamburger in a session of the Berlin Mathematical Society in 1924. Carathéodory did publish a paper on a related subject, but never committed the conjecture into writing. In, John Eden... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schematic-driven%20layout | Schematic driven layout is the concept in integrated circuit layout or PCB layout where the EDA software links the schematic and layout databases. It was one of the first big steps forward in layout software from the days when editing tools were simply handling drawn polygons.
Features
Schematic-driven layout allows ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Design%20of%20Experiments | The Design of Experiments is a 1935 book by the English statistician Ronald Fisher about the design of experiments and is considered a foundational work in experimental design. Among other contributions, the book introduced the concept of the null hypothesis in the context of the lady tasting tea experiment. A chapter ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20insulin | Regular insulin, also known as neutral insulin and soluble insulin, is a type of short-acting medical insulin. It is used to treat type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, and complications of diabetes such as diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic states. It is also used along with glucose... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20theory%20of%20composition | The process theory of composition (hereafter referred to as "process") is a field of composition studies that focuses on writing as a process rather than a product. Based on Janet Emig's breakdown of the writing process, the process is centered on the idea that students determine the content of the course by exploring ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clesh | Clesh (clip load edit share) is a cloud-based video editing platform designed for the consumers, prosumers, and online communities to integrate user-generated content. The core technology is based on FORscene which is geared towards professionals working for example in broadcasting, news media, post production.
Video,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20embedding%20property | In universal algebra and model theory, a class of structures K is said to have the joint embedding property if for all structures A and B in K, there is a structure C in K such that both A and B have embeddings into C.
It is one of the three properties used to define the age of a structure.
A first-order theory has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSIF | DSIF (DRB Sensitivity Inducing Factor) is a protein complex that can either negatively or positively affect transcription by RNA polymerase II (Pol II). It can interact with the negative elongation factor (NELF) to promote the stalling of Pol II at some genes. This stalling is relieved by P-TEFb.
In humans, DSIF is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%2C6-Dichloro-1-%CE%B2-D-ribofuranosylbenzimidazole | {{DISPLAYTITLE:5,6-Dichloro-1-β-D-ribofuranosylbenzimidazole}}
5,6-Dichloro-1-β--ribofuranosylbenzimidazole (DRB) is a chemical compound that inhibits transcription elongation by RNA Polymerase II. Sensitivity to DRB is dependent on DRB sensitivity inducing factor (DSIF), negative elongation factor (NELF), and positi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-try%20Metropolis | Multiple-try Metropolis (MTM) is a sampling method that is a modified form of the Metropolis–Hastings method, first presented by Liu, Liang, and Wong in 2000.
It is designed to help the sampling trajectory converge faster,
by increasing both the step size and the acceptance rate.
Background
Problems with Metropolis–H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetrimide%20agar | Cetrimide agar is a type of agar used for the selective isolation of the gram-negative bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. As the name suggests, it contains cetrimide, which is the selective agent against alternate microbial flora. Cetrimide also enhances the production of Pseudomonas pigments such as pyocyanin and pyov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isograft | An Isograft is a graft of tissue between two individuals who are genetically identical (i.e. monozygotic twins). Transplant rejection between two such individuals virtually never occurs, making isografts particularly relevant to organ transplanations; patients with organs from their identical twins are incredibly likel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20horse%20mills | This is a list of horse mills that exist or are known to have existed.
Belgium
Channel Islands
Croatia
England
France
Hungary
Poland
Scotland
Serbia
Spain
Wales
United States
See also
The International Molinological Society
Museum of Scottish Country Life |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler%20imaging | Inhomogeneous structures on stellar surfaces, i.e. temperature differences, chemical composition or magnetic fields, create characteristic distortions in the spectral lines due to the Doppler effect. These distortions will move across spectral line profiles due to the stellar rotation. The technique to reconstruct t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth%20allocation%20protocol | The Bandwidth Allocation Protocol, along with its control protocol, the Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol, is used to add and remove links in a multilink bundle over PPP, and specifying which peer is responsible for making decisions regarding bandwidth management. The protocol was originally conceived by Craig Rich... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20lattice | In the mathematics of matroids and lattices, a geometric lattice is a finite atomistic semimodular lattice, and a matroid lattice is an atomistic semimodular lattice without the assumption of finiteness. Geometric lattices and matroid lattices, respectively, form the lattices of flats of finite, or finite and infinite,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva%20Corporation | Shiva Corporation was a company that specialized in computer networking and associated equipment, in particular remote access products. The company was founded in 1985, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Shiva was co-founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduates Frank Slaughter and by Danie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoruminant | Pseudoruminant is a classification of animals based on their digestive tract differing from the ruminants. Hippopotami and camels are ungulate mammals with a three-chambered stomach (ruminants have a four-chambered stomach) while equids (horses, asses, zebras) and rhinoceroses are monogastric herbivores.
Anatomy
Like... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%2A | D* (pronounced "D star") is any one of the following three related incremental search algorithms:
The original D*, by Anthony Stentz, is an informed incremental search algorithm.
Focused D* is an informed incremental heuristic search algorithm by Anthony Stentz that combines ideas of A* and the original D*. Focused ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductopenia | Ductopenia refers to a reduction in the number of ducts in an organ, in particular the absence of bile ducts of the expected size in the portal tract of the liver. It is the histological hallmark of vanishing bile duct syndrome (typically <0.5 bile ducts per portal triad). The most common cause of ductopenia is primary... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Phenylthiosemicarbazide | 4-Phenylthiosemicarbazide (4-PTSC) is a thiosemicarbazide used as an agricultural chemical and pesticide. It also possesses antibacterial properties attributed to electron delocalization in the thiosemicarbazide moiety. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20lamella | The middle lamella is a layer that cements together the primary cell walls of two adjoining plant cells. It is the first formed layer to be deposited at the time of cytokinesis. The cell plate that is formed during cell division itself develops into middle lamella or lamellum. The middle lamella is made up of calcium... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany%20Medical%20Center%20Prize | The Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research is the United States' second highest value prize in medicine and biomedical research, awarded by the Albany Medical Center. Among prizes for medicine worldwide, the Albany Medical Center Prize is the fourth most lucrative (after the $3 million Breakthr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20image%20filter | A composite image filter is an electronic filter consisting of multiple image filter sections of two or more different types.
The image method of filter design determines the properties of filter sections by calculating the properties they would have in an infinite chain of identical sections. In this, the analysis pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20equation | In mathematics, the Ernst equation is an integrable non-linear partial differential equation, named after the American physicist .
The Ernst equation
The equation reads:
For its Lax pair and other features see e.g. and references therein.
Usage
The Ernst equation is employed in order to produce the exact solutions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal%20algebra | In algebra and logic, a modal algebra is a structure such that
is a Boolean algebra,
is a unary operation on A satisfying and for all x, y in A.
Modal algebras provide models of propositional modal logics in the same way as Boolean algebras are models of classical logic. In particular, the variety of all modal alg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-alternative%20forced%20choice | Two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) is a method for measuring the sensitivity of a person or animal to some particular sensory input, stimulus, through that observer's pattern of choices and response times to two versions of the sensory input. For example, to determine a person's sensitivity to dim light, the observer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn%20Svoboda%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Antonín Svoboda (14 October 1907 – 18 May 1980) was a Czech computer scientist, mathematician, electrical engineer, and researcher. He is credited with originating the design of fault-tolerant computer systems, and with the creation of SAPO, the first Czech computer design.
Early life
Svoboda was born in Prague in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clone%20%28cell%20biology%29 | A clone is a group of identical cells that share a common ancestry, meaning they are derived from the same cell.
Clonality implies the state of a cell or a substance being derived from one source or the other. Thus there are terms like polyclonal—derived from many clones; oligoclonal—derived from a few clones; and mon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasma%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, a chiasma (: chiasmata) is the point of contact, the physical link, between two (non-sister) chromatids belonging to homologous chromosomes. At a given chiasma, an exchange of genetic material can occur between both chromatids, what is called a chromosomal crossover, but this is much more frequent during m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato%20pomace | Tomato pomace is an inexpensive by-product of tomato manufacturing. Effectively, it is what is left over after processing tomatoes for juice, ketchup, soup, and so forth. It is sometimes used in pet and livestock food manufacturing as a source of dietary fiber, as well as B vitamins, Lycopene and (to a lesser extent) v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlaceSpotting | PlaceSpotting was an online game, based on Google Maps. Its server is based in Switzerland and has English- and German-language versions. In international Media, PlaceSpotting is recommended as a "challenging amusement" and an "educational way of wasting time on the internet".
Overview
The way PlaceSpotting works is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20liquid | Binary liquid is a type of chemical combination, which creates a special reaction or feature as a result of mixing two liquid chemicals, that are normally inert or have no function by themselves. A number of chemical products are produced as a result of mixing two chemicals as a binary liquid, such as plastic foams and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miwin%27s%20dice | Miwin's Dice are a set of nontransitive dice invented in 1975 by the physicist Michael Winkelmann. They consist of three different dice with faces bearing numbers from one to nine; opposite faces sum to nine, ten or eleven. The numbers on each die give the sum of 30 and have an arithmetic mean of five.
Description
Mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goody%20%28video%20game%29 | Goody is a platform game developed by Gonzalo Suárez Girard and released in 1987 by the Spanish company Opera Soft. The game was released for Amstrad CPC, MSX, ZX Spectrum, and MS-DOS compatible operating systems.
Goody was the first video game by the Spanish designer Gonzalo Suárez Girard, who went on to make Command... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly%20%28supercomputer%29 | The Firefly computer is a high-performance computer cluster housed at the Holland Computing Center located inside of the Peter Kiewit Institute at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Specifications
The system runs on 1,151 compute nodes, 871 have quad-core AMD Opteron processors and 280 have dual quad-core processors. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive%20altruism | Competitive altruism is a possible mechanism for the persistence of cooperative behaviors, specifically those that are performed unconditionally. The theory of reciprocal altruism can be used to explain behaviors that are performed by a donor who receives some sort of benefit in the future. When no such compensation is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Island%20of%20the%20Colorblind | The Island of the Colorblind is a 1997 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks about achromatopsia on the Micronesian atoll of Pingelap. It was published in the UK as The Island of the Colour-blind. The second half of the book is devoted to the mystery of Lytico-Bodig disease in Guam.
The subject was also presented in an epi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20Access%20Control | Extended Access Control (EAC) is a set of advanced security features for electronic passports that protects and restricts access to sensitive personal data contained in the RFID chip. In contrast to common personal data (like the bearer's photograph, names, date of birth, etc.) which can be protected by basic mechanism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-IV%20%28specification%20language%29 | The Meta-IV (pronounced like "metaphor") was an early version of the specification language of the Vienna Development Method formal method for the development of computer-based systems.
History
One of the first occurrences of Meta-IV in print appears to be
"Programming in the Meta-language: A Tutorial".
Dines Bjørner ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20cortical%20atrophy | Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), also called Benson's syndrome, is a rare form of dementia which is considered a visual variant or an atypical variant of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The disease causes atrophy of the posterior part of the cerebral cortex, resulting in the progressive disruption of complex visual processi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthoxanthin | Anthoxanthins (flavones and flavonols) are a type of flavonoid pigments in plants. Anthoxanthins are water-soluble pigments which range in color from white or colorless to a creamy to yellow, often on petals of flowers. These pigments are generally whiter in an acid medium and yellowed in an alkaline medium. They are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order%20intercept%20point | The Second-order intercept point, also known as the SOI, IP2, or IIP2 (Input intercept point), is a measure of linearity that quantifies the second-order distortion generated by nonlinear systems and devices. Examples of frequently used devices that are concerned with this measure are amplifiers and mixers. It is relat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenodonsaurus | Solenodonsaurus ("single-tooth lizard") is an extinct genus of reptiliomorphs that lived in what is now Czech Republic, during the Westphalian stage.
Description
Solenondosaurus had snout-vent length with a skull length .
Solenodonsaurus shows a curious mix of characters making it difficult to place phylogeneticall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.15.4a | IEEE 802.15.4a (formally called IEEE 802.15.4a-2007) was an amendment to IEEE 802.15.4-2006 specifying that additional physical layers (PHYs) be added to the original standard.
It has been merged into and is superseded by IEEE 802.15.4-2011.
Overview
IEEE 802.15.4-2006 specified four different PHYs, three of which uti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkewall | The Folkewall is a construction with the dual functions of growing plants and purifying greywater. It was designed by Folke Günther in Sweden.
Inspired by the "Sanitas wall" at Dr Gösta Nilsson's Sanitas farm project in Botswana, this technique makes an efficient use of space by fulfilling two essential functions: ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20IPTV | Mobile IPTV is a technology that enables users to transmit and receive multimedia traffic including video, audio, text and graphic services through IP-based wired and wireless networks, with support for quality of service, quality of experience, security, mobility, and interactive functions. Through Mobile IPTV, users ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Handedness%20Inventory | The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory is a measurement scale used to assess the dominance of a person's right or left hand in everyday activities, sometimes referred to as laterality. The inventory can be used by an observer assessing the person, or by a person self-reporting hand use. The latter method tends to be less r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew-symmetric%20graph | In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, a skew-symmetric graph is a directed graph that is isomorphic to its own transpose graph, the graph formed by reversing all of its edges, under an isomorphism that is an involution without any fixed points. Skew-symmetric graphs are identical to the double covering graphs of b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated%20prime | In abstract algebra, an associated prime of a module M over a ring R is a type of prime ideal of R that arises as an annihilator of a (prime) submodule of M. The set of associated primes is usually denoted by and sometimes called the assassin or assassinator of (word play between the notation and the fact that an a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Volunteers%20Overseas | Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO) is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit concerned with health care in resource-scarce countries. through the training, mentorship, and education of local health professionals. Since 1986, HVO has relied on establishing equitable partnerships with hospitals, universities, medical institutes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIEN2k | The WIEN2k package is a computer program written in Fortran which performs quantum mechanical calculations on periodic solids. It uses the full-potential (linearized) augmented plane-wave and local-orbitals [FP-(L)APW+lo] basis set to solve the Kohn–Sham equations of density functional theory.
WIEN2k was originally de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron-star%20oscillation | Asteroseismology studies the internal structure of the Sun and other stars using oscillations. These can be studied by interpreting the temporal frequency spectrum acquired through observations. In the same way, the more extreme neutron stars might be studied and hopefully give us a better understanding of neutron-star... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Journal%20of%20Physiology | The Journal of Physiology is a semi-monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1878 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of The Physiological Society. It covers research on all aspects of physiology, with an emphasis on human and mammalian physiology, including work at the molecular level... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambucus%20racemosa | Sambucus racemosa is a species of elderberry known by the common names red elderberry and red-berried elder.
Distribution and habitat
It is native to Europe, northern temperate Asia, and North America across Canada and the United States. It grows in riparian environments, woodlands, and other habitats, generally in mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Orthophonic%20Victrola | The Victor Orthophonic Victrola, first demonstrated publicly in 1925, was the first consumer phonograph designed specifically to play electrically recorded phonograph records. The combination was recognized instantly as a major step forward in sound reproduction.
Electrical recording was developed by Western Electric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional%20associative%20memory | Bidirectional associative memory (BAM) is a type of recurrent neural network. BAM was introduced by Bart Kosko in 1988. There are two types of associative memory, auto-associative and hetero-associative. BAM is hetero-associative, meaning given a pattern it can return another pattern which is potentially of a different... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Samelson | Hans Samelson (3 March 1916 – 22 September 2005) was a German-American mathematician who worked in differential geometry, topology and the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras—important in describing the symmetry of analytical structures.
Career and personal life
The eldest of three sons, Samelson was born on 3 March... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMFI | IMFI is an acronym for "Initial, Medial, Final, Isolated", a writing system in which each character has four different potential shapes:
initial – used for the first character in a word
medial – used in the middle of a word
final – used for the last character in a word
isolated – used for single-letter words
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbourhood%20unit | Generally the concept of the neighborhood unit, crystallised from the prevailing social and intellectual attitudes of the early 1900s by Clarence Perry, is an early diagrammatic planning model for residential development in metropolitan areas. It was designed by Perry to act as a framework for urban planners attempting... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce%20address | A bounce address is an email address to which bounce messages are delivered. There are many variants of the name, none of them used universally, including return path, reverse path, envelope from, envelope sender, MAIL FROM, 5321-FROM, return address, From_, Errors-to, etc. It is not uncommon for a single document to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubGene | PubGene AS is a bioinformatics company located in Oslo, Norway and is the daughter company of PubGene Inc.
In 2001, PubGene founders demonstrated one of the first
applications of text mining to research in biomedicine (i.e., biomedical text mining). They went on to create the PubGene public search engine, exemplifying... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu%20Research%20Base%20of%20Giant%20Panda%20Breeding | The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding (or simply Chengdu Panda Base) is a public non-profit breeding and research institute for giant pandas, red pandas, and other rare animals in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Chengdu Panda Base was founded in 1987 by the Chengdu Municipal People's Government. It started with 6... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele%20%28supercomputer%29 | Steele is a supercomputer that was installed at Purdue University on May 5, 2008. The high-performance computing cluster is operated by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), the university's central information technology organization. ITaP also operates clusters named Coates built in 2009, Rossmann built in 2010, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20projection%20equations | In control theory, optimal projection equations constitute necessary and sufficient conditions for a locally optimal reduced-order LQG controller.
The linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control problem is one of the most fundamental optimal control problems. It concerns uncertain linear systems disturbed by additive whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20algorithm | The Berkeley algorithm is a method of clock synchronisation in distributed computing which assumes no machine has an accurate time source. It was developed by Gusella and Zatti at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. Like Cristian's algorithm, it is intended for use within intranets.
The algorithm
Unlike C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristian%27s%20algorithm | Cristian's algorithm (introduced by Flaviu Cristian in 1989) is a method for clock synchronization which can be used in many fields of distributive computer science but is primarily used in low-latency intranets. Cristian observed that this simple algorithm is probabilistic, in that it only achieves synchronization if ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Casey%20%28mathematician%29 | John Casey (12 May 1820, Kilbehenny, County Limerick, Ireland – 3 January 1891, Dublin) was a respected Irish geometer. He is most famous for Casey's theorem on a circle that is tangent to four other circles, an extension of Ptolemy's theorem. However, he contributed several novel proofs and perspectives on Euclidean g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fund.com | Fund.com Inc. is a US-based financial services information publishing company and fund platform that focuses on the fund management industry. Its aims were to provide a destination website for investments, including mutual funds, hedge funds, money market funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), closed-end funds, index fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juncus%20textilis | Juncus textilis is a species of rush known by the common name basket rush. It is endemic to California, where it grows along the coast and in the coastal mountain ranges of the southern half of the state.
Description
Juncus textilis is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing to a maximum height between . The stems are cy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N2n | n2n is an open source Layer 2 over Layer 3 VPN app utilising peer-to-peer architecture for network membership and routing.
Unlike many other VPN programs, n2n can also connect computers which reside behind NAT routers. These connections are set up with help from a third computer that both computers can reach. This co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal%20deletion | In immunology, clonal deletion is the removal through apoptosis of B cells and T cells that have expressed receptors for self before developing into fully immunocompetent lymphocytes. This prevents recognition and destruction of self host cells, making it a type of negative selection or central tolerance. Central toler... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense%20heterarchy | A dense heterarchy is a hierarchical organization in social insect colonies in which the higher levels affect the lower levels and lower levels eventually influence the higher levels. Individual ants within the colony network are likely to have many connections with one another – making the network denser and non-hier... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructolysis | Fructolysis refers to the metabolism of fructose from dietary sources. Though the metabolism of glucose through glycolysis uses many of the same enzymes and intermediate structures as those in fructolysis, the two sugars have very different metabolic fates in human metabolism. Unlike glucose, which is directly metaboli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucormycosis | Mucormycosis, also known as black fungus, is a serious fungal infection that comes under fulminant fungal sinusitis, usually in people who are immunocompromised. It is curable only when diagnosed early. Symptoms depend on where in the body the infection occurs. It most commonly infects the nose, sinuses, eyes and brain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns%20of%20self-organization%20in%20ants | Ants are simple animals and their behavioural repertory is limited to somewhere between ten and forty elementary behaviours. This is an attempt to explain the different patterns of self-organization in ants.
Ants as complex systems
Ant colonies are self-organized systems: complex collective behaviors arise as the prod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20network | An ecological network is a representation of the biotic interactions in an ecosystem, in which species (nodes) are connected by pairwise interactions (links). These interactions can be trophic or symbiotic. Ecological networks are used to describe and compare the structures of real ecosystems, while network models ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualRank | VisualRank is a system for finding and ranking images by analysing and comparing their content, rather than searching image names, Web links or other text. Google scientists made their VisualRank work public in a paper describing applying PageRank to Google image search at the International World Wide Web Conference i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeruginascin | Aeruginascin or N,N,N-trimethyl-4-phosphoryloxytryptamine is an indoleamine derivative which occurs naturally within the mushrooms Inocybe aeruginascens and Pholiotina cyanopus, and Psilocybe cubensis. Aeruginascin is the N-trimethyl analogue of psilocybin. It is closely related to the frog skin toxin bufotenidine (5-H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem%20running | Tandem running is a pair movement coordination observed in ants and termites.
In ants, tandem running is used for social learning, by which one ant leads another native ant from the nest to the food source it has found. Tandem running is also used to find and choose better, new nest sites to which the colony can emig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm%20format | Stockholm format is a multiple sequence alignment format used by Pfam, Rfam and Dfam, to disseminate protein, RNA and DNA sequence alignments. The alignment editors Ralee, Belvu and Jalview support Stockholm format as do the probabilistic database search tools, Infernal and HMMER, and the phylogenetic analysis tool Xra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inborn%20errors%20of%20purine%E2%80%93pyrimidine%20metabolism | Inborn errors of purine–pyrimidine metabolism are a class of inborn error of metabolism disorders specifically affecting purine metabolism and pyrimidine metabolism. An example is Lesch–Nyhan syndrome.
Urine tests may be of use in identifying some of these disorders. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo%20%28computing%29 | In telecommunications, echo is the local display of data, either initially as it is locally sourced and sent, or finally as a copy of it is received back from a remote destination. Local echo is where the local sending equipment displays the outgoing sent data. Remote echo is where the display is a return copy of data ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%20and%20Roberts%20algorithm | The
Chang and Roberts algorithm is a ring-based coordinator election algorithm, employed in distributed computing.
The algorithm
The algorithm assumes that each process has a Unique Identification (UID) and that the processes can arrange themselves in a unidirectional ring with a communication channel going from e... |
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