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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitinol%20biocompatibility | Nitinol biocompatibility is an important factor in biomedical applications. Nitinol (NiTi), which is formed by alloying nickel and titanium (~ 50% Ni), is a shape-memory alloy with superelastic properties more similar to that of bone, when compared to stainless steel, another commonly used biomaterial. Biomedical appli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20M.%20Tromp | Dr. Rudolf Maria "Ruud" Tromp (born 3 September 1954, Alkmaar) is a Dutch American scientist at IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center and a Physics Professor at Leiden University.
Education
He attended Petrus Canisius College The Lyceum (Alkmaar).
1982 Ph.D. in physics from the University of Utrecht ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%20band | The Q band is a range of frequencies contained in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Common usage places this range between 33 and 50 GHz, but may vary depending on the source using the term. The foregoing range corresponds to the recommended frequency band of operation of WR22 waveguides. These freq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfson%20Brain%20Imaging%20Centre | The Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre (WBIC) is a UK Biomedical Imaging Centre, located at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, England, on the Cambridge Bio-Medical Campus at the southwestern end of Hills Road. It is a division of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the University of Cambridge.
The Centre opened i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Statutory%20Accident%20Insurance | German Statutory Accident Insurance or workers' compensation is among the oldest branches of German social insurance. Occupational accident insurance was established in Germany by statute in 1884. It is now a national, compulsory program that insures workers for injuries or illness incurred through their employment, o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worknet | A worknet is the term coined to describe a group of online participants and applications to collaborate a certain cause or purpose. It is an area that is concerned with the intersection of organizational behavior and computer science. The activity is called worknetting and was described in 2007 as a new trend for 2008... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda%20diode | A lambda diode is an electronic circuit that combines a complementary pair of junction gated field effect transistors into a two-terminal device that exhibits an area of differential negative resistance much like a tunnel diode. The term refers to the shape of the V–I curve of the device, which resembles the Greek lett... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OZI%20rule | The OZI rule is a consequence of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) that explains why certain decay modes appear less frequently than otherwise might be expected. It was independently proposed by Susumu Okubo, George Zweig and Jugoro Iizuka in the 1960s.
It states that any strongly occurring process will be suppressed if, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal%E2%80%93hepatic%E2%80%93pancreatic%20dysplasia | Renal–hepatic–pancreatic dysplasia is an autosomal recessive congenital disorder characterized by pancreatic fibrosis, renal dysplasia and hepatic dysgenesis. It is usually fatal soon after birth.An association with NPHP3 has been described.
It was characterized in 1959. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close%20stool | A close stool was an early type of portable toilet, made in the shape of a cabinet or box at sitting height with an opening in the top. The external structure contained a pewter or earthenware chamberpot to receive the user's excrement and urine when they sat on it; this was normally covered (closed) by a folding lid. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20ratio | The Texas ratio is a measure of a bank's credit troubles. The higher the Texas ratio, the more severe the credit troubles.
Developed by Gerard Cassidy and others at RBC Capital Markets, it is calculated by dividing the value of the lender's non-performing assets (NPL + Real Estate Owned) by the sum of its tangible co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20identity%20theft | Wireless identity theft, also known as contactless identity theft or RFID identity theft, is a form of identity theft described as "the act of compromising an individual’s personal identifying information using wireless (radio frequency) mechanics." Numerous articles have been written about wireless identity theft and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald%20zur%20Hausen | Harald zur Hausen NAS EASA APS (; 11 March 1936 – 29 May 2023) was a German virologist. He carried out research on cervical cancer and discovered the role of papilloma viruses in cervical cancer, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008. He was chairman of the German Cancer Research Cente... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyz | Phyz (Dax Phyz) is a public domain, 2.5D physics engine with built-in editor and DirectX graphics and sound. In contrast to most other real-time physics engines, it is vertex based and stochastic. Its integrator is based on a SIMD-enabled assembly version of the Mersenne Twister random number generator, instead of trad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20factory%20%28Microsoft%20.NET%29 |
Implementations
The Enterprise Framework Factory (the EFx Factory) from Microsoft Services was one of the first pioneering architectural software factories to use a unique combination of model driven development, and integrated runtime environment tools to build Service-Oriented Enterprise Applications and Services.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic%20Calendar | The Geologic Calendar is a scale in which the geological timespan of the Earth is mapped onto a calendrical year; that is to say, the day one of the Earth took place on a geologic January 1 at precisely midnight, and today's date and time is December 31 at midnight. On this calendar, the inferred appearance of the firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys%20Wilkinson%20Building | The Denys Wilkinson Building is a prominent 1960s building in Oxford, England, designed by Philip Dowson at Arup in 1967.
Overview
The building houses the astrophysics and particle physics sub-departments of the Department of Physics at Oxford University, plus the undergraduate teaching laboratories. It was originally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detect%20and%20avoid | Detect and avoid (DAA) is a set of technologies designed to avoid interference between a given emitter and the wireless environment. Its need was generated by the Ultra-wideband (UWB) standard that uses a fairly large spectrum to emit its pulses.
According to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), UWB can u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%204078 | is an arcade game released by Data East in 1986. The game is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up like Xevious, but as the title indicates, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is incorporated into the gameplay.
Setting and design
The game takes place within a gigantic spaceship which has virtually infinite capacity beca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20diode%20array | A Linear diode array is used for digitizing x-ray images. The LDA system consists of an array of photodiode modules, The diodes are laminated with a scintillation screen to create x-ray sensitive diodes. The scintillation screen converts the photon energy emitted by the x-ray tube into visible light on the diodes. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch%20%28company%29 | Switch, Inc. is an American company based in Las Vegas, Nevada, that develops and operates the SUPERNAP data center facilities and provides colocation, telecommunications, cloud services, and content ecosystems.
History
Switch was founded in 2000 by Rob Roy, CEO and the organization's principal inventor and chief engi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit%20Networks | Tacit Networks, Inc. is an I.T. company based in South Plainfield, New Jersey. It was founded in 2000.
Their product lines are:
iShared which provides Wide area file services and WAN optimization.
Mobiliti (via the acquisition of Mobiliti) which provides backup, synchronization and offline access services to mobile us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbound%20%28DNS%20server%29 | Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver product from NLnet Labs. It is distributed free of charge in open-source form under the BSD license.
Features
Caching resolver with prefetching of popular items before they expire
DNS over TLS forwarding and server, with domain-validation
DNS over HTTPS
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic%20science | Aquatic science is the study of the various bodies of water that make up our planet including oceanic and freshwater environments. Aquatic scientists study the movement of water, the chemistry of water, aquatic organisms, aquatic ecosystems, the movement of materials in and out of aquatic ecosystems, and the use of wat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20dimorphism%20in%20non-human%20primates | Sexual dimorphism describes the morphological, physiological, and behavioral differences between males and females of the same species. Most primates are sexually dimorphic for different biological characteristics, such as body size, canine tooth size, craniofacial structure, skeletal dimensions, pelage color and marki... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity-1%20Space%20Link%20Protocol | Proximity-1 Space Link Protocol is a short haul delivery communications protocol designed to establish a two-way communications link between a lander and an orbiter, negotiate data rate and communications mode, and reliably deliver data during short orbiter-to-surface contacts.
Developed by Consultative Committee for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LANA | The latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA-1) or latent nuclear antigen (LNA, LNA-1) is a Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) latent protein initially found by Moore and colleagues as a speckled nuclear antigen present in primary effusion lymphoma cells that reacts with antibodies from patients with KS. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joback%20method | The Joback method (often named Joback/Reid method) predicts eleven important and commonly used pure component thermodynamic properties from molecular structure only.
Basic principles
Group-contribution method
The Joback method is a group-contribution method. These kinds of methods use basic structural information ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Hall%20Building | The Stuart Hall Building is located at 2121 Central Street in the Crossroads Arts District neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. The former commercial building is known as the Freight House Lofts or Stuart Hall Lofts.
History
The seven-story building was constructed in 1910-1911 as a manufacturing facility for the Na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogitBoost | In machine learning and computational learning theory, LogitBoost is a boosting algorithm formulated by Jerome Friedman, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani.
The original paper casts the AdaBoost algorithm into a statistical framework. Specifically, if one considers AdaBoost as a generalized additive model and then ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Grey%20Cup%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television and radio networks and announcers that have broadcast the Grey Cup in English.
Television
2020s
Notes
In May 2020, due to postponement of the regular season and other factors relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced that the 108th Grey Cup festivities in Regina, S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical%20profile%20index | The Analytical profile index or API is a classification of bacteria based on biochemical tests, allowing fast identification. This system is developed for the quick identification of clinically relevant bacteria. Because of this, only known bacteria can be identified.
It was invented in the 1970s in the United States ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemically%20inert | In chemistry, the term chemically inert is used to describe a substance that is not chemically reactive. From a thermodynamic perspective, a substance is inert, or nonlabile, if it is thermodynamically unstable (positive standard Gibbs free energy of formation) yet decomposes at a slow, or negligible rate.
Most of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20quality%20assurance%20analyst | A software quality assurance (QA) analyst, also referred to as a software quality analyst or simply a quality assurance (QA) analyst, is an individual who is responsible for applying the principles and practices of software quality assurance throughout the software development life cycle.
Software testing is one of ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20combinatorics | The mathematical discipline of topological combinatorics is the application of topological and algebro-topological methods to solving problems in combinatorics.
History
The discipline of combinatorial topology used combinatorial concepts in topology and in the early 20th century this turned into the field of algebrai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Tucker's lemma is a combinatorial analog of the Borsuk–Ulam theorem, named after Albert W. Tucker.
Let T be a triangulation of the closed n-dimensional ball . Assume T is antipodally symmetric on the boundary sphere . That means that the subset of simplices of T which are in provides a triangulation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%20reagent | Discovered in 1937 by Robin Hill, Hill reagents allowed the discovery of electron transport chains during photosynthesis.
These are dyes that act as artificial electron acceptors, changing color when they are reduced.
An example of a Hill reagent is 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol (DCPIP). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacio-geological%20databases | Glacio-geological databases compile data on glacially associated sedimentary deposits and erosional activity from former and current ice-sheets, usually from published peer-reviewed sources. Their purposes are generally directed towards two ends: (Mode 1) compiling information about glacial landforms, which often infor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20Morse%20theory | Discrete Morse theory is a combinatorial adaptation of Morse theory developed by Robin Forman. The theory has various practical applications in diverse fields of applied mathematics and computer science, such as configuration spaces, homology computation, denoising, mesh compression, and topological data analysis.
Not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylysine | Polylysine refers to several types of lysine homopolymers, which may differ from each other in terms of stereochemistry (D/L; the L form is natural and usually assumed) and link position (α/ε). Of these types, only ε-poly-L-lysine is produced naturally.
Chemical structure
The precursor amino acid lysine contains two ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu%20Netbook%20Edition | Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE), known as Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) prior to the release of Ubuntu 10.04, is a discontinued version of the Ubuntu operating system (OS) that had been optimized to enable it to work better on netbooks and other devices with small screens or with the Intel Atom CPU.
UNE was available starti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehesa | A dehesa () is a multifunctional, agrosylvopastoral system (a type of agroforestry) and cultural landscape of southern and central Spain and southern Portugal; in Portugal, it is known as a montado. Its name comes from the Latin defensa (fenced), referring to land that was fenced and usually destined for pasture. Dehes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Philip%20Sidney%20game | In biology and game theory, the Sir Philip Sidney game is used as a model for the evolution and maintenance of informative communication between relatives. Developed by John Maynard Smith as a model for chick begging behavior, it has been studied extensively including the development of many modified versions.
It was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%20wave%20function | In mathematics, a Coulomb wave function is a solution of the Coulomb wave equation, named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. They are used to describe the behavior of charged particles in a Coulomb potential and can be written in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions or Whittaker functions of imaginary argument.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Society%20on%20General%20Relativity%20and%20Gravitation | The International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG) is a learned society established in 1971 with the goal to promote research on general relativity (GR) and gravitation. To that end, it encourages communication between relativity researchers, in particular by organizing the triennial international... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alate | Alate (Latin ālātus, from āla (“wing”)) is an adjective and noun used in entomology and botany to refer to something that has wings or winglike structures.
In entomology
In entomology, "alate" usually refers to the winged form of a social insect, especially ants or termites, though can also be applied to aphids and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape%20factor%20%28image%20analysis%20and%20microscopy%29 | Shape factors are dimensionless quantities used in image analysis and microscopy that numerically describe the shape of a particle, independent of its size. Shape factors are calculated from measured dimensions, such as diameter, chord lengths, area, perimeter, centroid, moments, etc. The dimensions of the particles ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20parasites%20of%20humans |
Endoparasites
Protozoan organisms
Helminths (worms)
Helminth organisms (also called helminths or intestinal worms) include:
Tapeworms
Flukes
Roundworms
Other organisms
Ectoparasites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory%20Physics | Factory Physics is a book written by Wallace Hopp and Mark Spearman, which introduces a science of operations for manufacturing management. According to the book's preface, Factory Physics is "a systematic description of the underlying behavior of manufacturing systems. Understanding it enables managers and engineers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier%E2%80%93Bros%E2%80%93Iagolnitzer%20transform | In mathematics, the FBI transform or Fourier–Bros–Iagolnitzer transform is a generalization of the Fourier transform developed by the French mathematical physicists Jacques Bros and Daniel Iagolnitzer in order to characterise the local analyticity of functions (or distributions) on Rn. The transform provides an alterna... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Johnstone%20%28biologist%29 | James Johnstone (born 17 January 1870 in Beith, Ayrshire – died 1932 in Liverpool) was a Scottish biologist and oceanographer. His studies focused on the food chain in marine ecosystems.
Biography
Johnstone began his working life as an apprentice woodcarver in Lochwinnoch, but rose to become professor at the Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasistatic%20loading | In solid mechanics, quasistatic loading refers to loading where inertial effects are negligible. In other words, time and inertial force are irrelevant. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmetum | A palmetum is a collection of palms (Arecaceae) and not a natural population of palms. Most palmeta are botanical gardens specialized in growing, research, conserve and display species of the family Arecaceae.
History
Palmeta as palm collections started within the tropical botanical gardens of colonial times, in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand%20Up%20to%20Cancer | Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) is a charitable program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF). SU2C aims to raise significant funds for translational cancer research through online and televised efforts. Central to the program is a telethon that was first televised by four major broadcast networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ono%20%28P2P%29 | The Ono project is a software service that allows Peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) clients to efficiently identify nearby peers. Using local peers takes pressure off international and other long distance transfers, and is said to simultaneously increase file download speeds.
This is a research project of Fabián E. Bust... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveated%20imaging | Foveated imaging is a digital image processing technique in which the image resolution, or amount of detail, varies across the image according to one or more "fixation points". A fixation point indicates the highest resolution region of the image and corresponds to the center of the eye's retina, the fovea.
The locati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallophilic%20interaction | In chemistry, a metallophilic interaction is defined as a type of non-covalent attraction between heavy metal atoms. The atoms are often within Van der Waals distance of each other and are about as strong as hydrogen bonds. The effect can be intramolecular or intermolecular. Intermolecular metallophilic interactions ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20semigroup | In mathematics, an automatic semigroup is a finitely generated semigroup equipped with several regular languages over an alphabet representing a generating set. One of these languages determines "canonical forms" for the elements of the semigroup, the other languages determine if two canonical forms represent elements ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes%20equation | In mathematical finance, the Black–Scholes equation is a partial differential equation (PDE) governing the price evolution of derivatives under the Black–Scholes model. Broadly speaking, the term may refer to a similar PDE that can be derived for a variety of options, or more generally, derivatives.
Consider a stock p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StatPlus | StatPlus is a software product developed by AnalystSoft for basic univariate and multivariate statistical analysis (MANOVA, GLM, Latin squares), as well as time series analysis, nonparametric statistics, survival analysis and statistical charts including control charts.
It was originally developed for use in biomedical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beefy%20meaty%20peptide | Beefy meaty peptide, also known as delicious peptide and abbreviated as BMP, is an 8-amino acid long peptide that has been identified as giving a beefy flavour to foods in which it is present. It was isolated from beef soup by Yamasaki and Maekawa in 1978. Ongoing research since its discovery by Yamasaki and Maekawa ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RINEX | In the field of geodesy, Receiver Independent Exchange Format (RINEX) is a data interchange format for raw satellite navigation system data. This allows the user to post-process the received data to produce a more accurate result — usually with other data unknown to the original receiver, such as better models of the a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReverbNation | ReverbNation.com is a website, launched in 2006, that focuses on the independent music industry. It aims to provide a central site for musicians, producers, and venues to collaborate and communicate. ReverbNation was bought for an undisclosed sum by music creation platform, BandLab, in November 2021.
Innovations
Reve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo%20%28software%29 | Turbo (formerly Spoon and Xenocode) is a set of software products and services developed by the Code Systems Corporation for application virtualization, portable application creation, and digital distribution. Code Systems Corporation is an American corporation headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and is best known fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware%20ThinApp | VMware ThinApp (formerly Thinstall) is an application virtualization and portable application creator suite by VMware that can package conventional Windows applications so that they become portable applications by running on another operating system. According to VMware, the product has a success rate of about 90–95% i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilicaria%20esculenta | Umbilicaria esculenta, the rock tripe, is a lichen of the genus Umbilicaria that grows on rocks.
Morphology
Two different types of polysaccharides are known to be the structural components, both a heteroglycan from the fungus and a glucan from the alga. U. esculenta lichens have a thallus attached to the substrate wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelet%20noise | Wavelet noise is an alternative to Perlin noise which reduces the problems of aliasing and detail loss that are encountered when Perlin noise is summed into a fractal.
External links
Wavelet Noise Paper at pixar.com.
Computer graphics
Noise (graphics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20flags%20of%20North%20Macedonia | This is a list of flags which have been, or are still today, used on the territory of North Macedonia or by ethnic Macedonians.
North Macedonia
Presidential standard
Historical flags
Local flags
Municipal flags
Note: This list is incomplete.
Former flags of municipalities
Government flags
Universities
Militar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LigandScout | LigandScout is computer software that allows creating three-dimensional (3D) pharmacophore models from structural data of macromolecule–ligand complexes, or from training and test sets of organic molecules. It incorporates a complete definition of 3D chemical features (such as hydrogen bond donors, acceptors, lipophili... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20equilibrium | In nuclear physics, transient equilibrium is a situation in which equilibrium is reached by a parent-daughter radioactive isotope pair where the half-life of the daughter is shorter than the half-life of the parent. Contrary to secular equilibrium, the half-life of the daughter is not negligible compared to parent's ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olimp%C3%ADada%20Brasileira%20de%20Matem%C3%A1tica | The Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad (, also known as OBM) is a mathematics competition held every year for students of Brazil. The participants are awarded gold, silver and bronze medals in accordance with their performance. The main purpose of this competition is to help in selecting students to represent Brazil at th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20line%20%28thermodynamics%29 | In thermodynamics, a critical line is the higher-dimensional equivalent of a critical point. It is the
locus of contiguous critical points in a phase diagram. These lines cannot occur for
a single substance due to the phase rule, but they can be observed in systems with more variables, such as mixtures. Two critical l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-heuristic | A hyper-heuristic is a heuristic search method that seeks to automate, often by the incorporation of machine learning techniques, the process of selecting, combining, generating or adapting several simpler heuristics (or components of such heuristics) to efficiently solve computational search problems. One of the motiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20phase%20mode%20LCD | A blue phase mode LCD is a liquid crystal display (LCD) technology that uses highly twisted cholesteric phases in a blue phase. It was first proposed in 2007 to obtain a better display of moving images with, for example, frame rates of 100–120 Hz to improve the temporal response of LCDs. This operational mode for LCDs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20lamp | A solar lamp, also known as a solar light or solar lantern, is a lighting system composed of an LED lamp, solar panels, battery, charge controller and there may also be an inverter. The lamp operates on electricity from batteries, charged through the use of solar panel (solar photovoltaic panel)
Solar-powered househol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology%20of%20the%20Internet | The sociology of the Internet (or the social psychology of the internet) involves the application of sociological or social psychological theory and method to the Internet as a source of information and communication. The overlapping field of digital sociology focuses on understanding the use of digital media as part o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon%20antibunching | Photon antibunching generally refers to a light field with photons more equally spaced than a coherent laser field, a signature being signals at appropriate detectors which are anticorrelated. More specifically, it can refer to sub-Poissonian photon statistics, that is a photon number distribution for which the varianc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20displacement | Time displacement in sociology refers to the idea that new forms of activities may replace older ones. New activities that cause time displacement are usually technology-based, most common are the information and communication technologies such as Internet and television. Those technologies are seen as responsible for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI%20RDMA%20Protocol | In computing the SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP) is a protocol that allows one computer to access SCSI devices attached to another computer via remote direct memory access (RDMA). The SRP protocol is also known as the SCSI Remote Protocol. The use of RDMA makes higher throughput and lower latency possible than what is general... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20weapons%20of%20mass%20destruction%20treaties | A variety of treaties and agreements have been enacted to regulate the use, development and possession of various types of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Treaties may regulate weapons use under the customs of war (Hague Conventions, Geneva Protocol), ban specific types of weapons (Chemical Weapons Convention, Biolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odour%20activity%20value | Odour activity value (OAV) is a measure of importance of a specific compound to the odour of a sample (e.g. food). It is calculated as the ratio between the concentration of individual substance in a sample and the threshold concentration of this substance (odour threshold value, the minimal concentration that can be d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20MacKaye | James Medbury MacKaye (April 8, 1872 – January 22, 1935) was an American engineer and philosopher.
Biography
MacKaye was born in New York City, the son of actor Steele MacKaye and Mary (Medbery) MacKaye, and brother of poet Percy MacKaye, theater professional and suffragist Hazel MacKaye and conservationist Benton Ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20symbols%20of%20states%20and%20territories%20of%20Australia | This is a list of the symbols of the states and territories of Australia. Each state and territory has a unique set of official symbols, as well as the national symbols of Australia.
States
Territories
See also
Australian state colours
National colours of Australia
National symbols of Australia
List of Austra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrological%20model | A hydrologic model is a simplification of a real-world system (e.g., surface water, soil water, wetland, groundwater, estuary) that aids in understanding, predicting, and managing water resources. Both the flow and quality of water are commonly studied using hydrologic models.
Analog models
Prior to the advent of co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunneling%20nanotube | A tunneling nanotube (TNT) or membrane nanotube is a term that has been applied to protrusions that extend from the plasma membrane which enable different animal cells to touch over long distances, sometimes over 100 μm between T cells. Two types of structures have been called nanotubes. The first type are less than 0.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychotomous%20key | Polychotomous key refers to the number of alternatives which a decision point may have in a non-temporal hierarchy of independent variables. The number of alternatives are equivalent to the root or nth root of a mathematical or logical variable. Decision points or independent variables with two states have a binary roo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVCMOS | Low voltage complementary metal oxide semiconductor (LVCMOS) is a low voltage class of CMOS technology digital integrated circuits.
Overview
To obtain better performance and lower costs, semiconductor manufacturers reduce the device geometries of integrated circuits. With each reduction the associated operating volta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20flash | A power flash is a flash of light caused by arcing electrical discharges from damaged electrical equipment, most often severed or arcing power lines. They are often caused by strong winds, especially those from tropical cyclones and tornadoes, and occasionally by intense downbursts and derechoes. Storm spotters and met... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teragon | A teragon is a polygon with an infinite number of sides, the most famous example being the Koch snowflake ("triadic Koch teragon"). The term was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot from the words Classical Greek (teras, monster) + (gōnía, corner). Typically, a teragon will be bounded by one or more self-similar fractal curv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C2%B7p%20perturbation%20theory | In solid-state physics, the k·p perturbation theory is an approximated semi-empirical approach for calculating the band structure (particularly effective mass) and optical properties of crystalline solids. It is pronounced "k dot p", and is also called the "k·p method". This theory has been applied specifically in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20of%20the%20brain | There is much to be discovered about the evolution of the brain and the principles that govern it. While much has been discovered, not everything currently known is well understood. The evolution of the brain has appeared to exhibit diverging adaptations within taxonomic classes such as Mammalia and more vastly diverse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgrid | Xgrid is a proprietary grid computing program and protocol developed by the Advanced Computation Group subdivision of Apple Inc.
It provides network administrators a method of creating a computing cluster, which allows them to exploit previously unused computational power for calculations that can be divided easily in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlicz%20space | In mathematical analysis, and especially in real, harmonic analysis and functional analysis, an Orlicz space is a type of function space which generalizes the Lp spaces. Like the Lp spaces, they are Banach spaces. The spaces are named for Władysław Orlicz, who was the first to define them in 1932.
Besides the Lp spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform-based%20design | Platform-based design is defined in Taxonomies for the Development and Verification of Digital Systems as "an integration oriented design approach emphasizing systematic reuse, for developing complex products based upon platforms and compatible hardware and software virtual component, intended to reduce development ris... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Earth%20Fighter%20Rayieza | is a role-playing video game developed and published by Enix. It was originally published in 1985 for the PC-8801, FM-7, X1, and MSX personal computer systems. The game was ported to the Famicom on December 15, 1987 by Nintendo under the title . The programming was done by Pax Softnica.
The game takes place in a sci-f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone%20marrow-derived%20macrophage | Bone-marrow-derived macrophage (BMDM) refers to macrophage cells that are generated in a research laboratory from mammalian bone marrow cells. BMDMs can differentiate into mature macrophages in the presence of growth factors and other signaling molecules. Undifferentiated bone marrow cells are cultured in the presence ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROPT | The PROPT MATLAB Optimal Control Software is a new generation platform for solving applied optimal control (with ODE or DAE formulation) and parameters estimation problems.
The platform was developed by MATLAB Programming Contest Winner, Per Rutquist in 2008. The most recent version has support for binary and integer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothicmed | Gothicmed is a European Union project carried out within the Culture 2000 programme and headed by the Ministry of Culture of the regional government of Valencia (Valencian Community), Spain. The aim of the project is to gain further insight into Gothic architecture in the Mediterranean, to connect researchers working s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20filter%20end%20terminations | Filters designed using the image impedance methodology suffer from a peculiar flaw in the theory. The predicted characteristics of the filter are calculated assuming that the filter is terminated with its own image impedances at each end. This will not usually be the case; the filter will be terminated with fixed res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising%20sun%20lemma | In mathematical analysis, the rising sun lemma is a lemma due to Frigyes Riesz, used in the proof of the Hardy–Littlewood maximal theorem. The lemma was a precursor in one dimension of the Calderón–Zygmund lemma.
The lemma is stated as follows:
Suppose g is a real-valued continuous function on the interval [a,b] and... |
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