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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontana%20bridge | A Fontana bridge is a type of bridge circuit that implements a wide frequency band voltage-to-current converter. The converter is characterized by a combination of positive and negative feedback loops, implicit in this bridge configuration. This feature allows compensation for parasitic impedance connected in parallel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellana%20%28company%29 | Cellana, Inc. is an American company which develops of algae-based bioproducts for high-value nutrition, ink, and bioenergy applications, including Omega-3 nutraceutical applications, sustainable ink, aquaculture and animal feeds, human food ingredients, pigments, specialty chemicals, and biofuels. The company, with of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-isotropic%20material | In physics, engineering and materials science, bi-isotropic materials have the special optical property that they can rotate the polarization of light in either refraction or transmission. This does not mean all materials with twist effect fall in the bi-isotropic class. The twist effect of the class of bi-isotropic m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20pump | Calcium pumps are a family of ion transporters found in the cell membrane of all animal cells. They are responsible for the active transport of calcium out of the cell for the maintenance of the steep Ca2+ electrochemical gradient across the cell membrane. Calcium pumps play a crucial role in proper cell signalling by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack%20%28wine%29 | Sack is an antiquated wine term referring to white fortified wine imported from mainland Spain or the Canary Islands. There was sack of different origins such as:
Canary sack from the Canary Islands,
Malaga sack from Málaga,
Palm sack from Palma de Mallorca, and
Sherris sack from Jerez de la Frontera.
The term She... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal%20Genetics%20and%20Biology | Fungal Genetics and Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1977 as Experimental Mycology, obtaining its current title in 1996. It covers experimental investigations of fungi and their traditional allies that relate structure and function to growth, reproduction, morphogenesis, and differentiation.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja-Kid | is the first video game in the Ninja-kun series. It was released for arcades, on the Famicom, and MSX by Jaleco in 1984. The MSX version was the only version released outside of Japan, as it was released in Europe under the name "Ninja".
Gameplay
Ninja-kun's Demon Castle Adventure features three upward scrolling level... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate%20of%20penetration | In the drilling industry, the rate of penetration (ROP), also known as penetration rate or drill rate, is the speed at which a drill bit breaks the rock under it to deepen the borehole. It is normally measured in feet per minute or meters per hour, but sometimes it is expressed in minutes per foot.
Generally, ROP inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Vitaman | King Vitaman was an American brand of breakfast cereal produced by Quaker Oats and sold in the United States. The cereal was introduced in 1968, and changed mascots several times. The cereal was discontinued in 2019.
King Vitaman Cereal boasted high vitamin and iron content, in addition to a more modest amount of sug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIRI%20Human%20Rights%20Data%20Project | From 2004 to 2014, the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project annually rated the level of government respect for a variety of internationally recognized human rights. The final CIRI data set contains quantitative indicators of 15 human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981 to 2011. The CIRI data w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalized%20Music | Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition is a book by Greek composer, architect, and engineer Iannis Xenakis in which he explains his motivation, philosophy, and technique for composing music with stochastic mathematical functions. It was published in Paris in 1963 as Musiques formelles: nouveaux princi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendronized%20polymer | Dendronized polymers (or dendronised polymers) are linear polymers to every repeat unit of which dendrons are attached. Dendrons are regularly branched, tree-like fragments and for larger ones the polymer backbone is wrapped to give sausage-like, cylindrical molecular objects. Figure 1 shows a cartoon representation wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20navigation%20device | A satellite navigation device, satnav device or satellite navigation receiver is a user equipment that uses one or more of several global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) to calculate the device's geographical position and provide navigational advice.
Depending on the software used, the satnav device may display th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Oxoadipic%20acid | 2-Oxoadipic acid, also known as α-ketoadipic acid, is an intermediate in the metabolism of lysine. The conjugate base and carboxylate is 2-oxoadipate or α-ketoadipate, which is the biochemically relevant form.
See also
Homoisocitrate dehydrogenase |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEORGE%20%28operating%20system%29 | GEORGE was the name given to a series of operating systems released by International Computers and Tabulators (ICT) in the 1960s, for the ICT 1900 series of computers. These included GEORGE 1, GEORGE 2, GEORGE 3, and GEORGE 4.
Initially the 1900 series machines, like the Ferranti-Packard 6000 on which they were based... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArabic%20encoding | MacArabic encoding is an obsolete encoding for Arabic (and English) text that was used in Apple Macintosh computers to texts.
The encoding is identical to MacFarsi encoding, except the numerals. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming%20%28immunology%29 | Priming is the first contact that antigen-specific T helper cell precursors have with an antigen. It is essential to the T helper cells' subsequent interaction with B cells to produce antibodies. Priming of antigen-specific naive lymphocytes occurs when antigen is presented to them in immunogenic form (capable of induc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27ll%20Stop%20the%20Rain%20%28song%29 | "Who'll Stop the Rain" is a song written by John Fogerty and originally recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival for their 1970 album Cosmo's Factory. Backed with "Travelin' Band", it was one of three double-sided singles from that album to reach the top five on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and the first of two to r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20HDMI |
Overview and Operation
Wireless HDMI refers to the wireless transmission of high-definition audio and video signals between devices, using unlicensed radio frequencies like 5 GHz, 60 GHz, or 190 GHz. This technology eliminates the need for an HDMI cable, allowing users to transmit signals wirelessly between the com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accommodation%20index | The accommodation index is a statistic used in the neurosciences for describing spike train data. Many methods of experimental neuroscience, such as voltage clamp recordings, give their output in the form of measured voltages of individual neurons. Generally, the only important element of these voltage traces is the oc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rs6313 | In genetics, rs6313 also called T102C or C102T is a gene variation—a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)—in the human HTR2A gene that codes for the 5-HT2A receptor.
The SNP is a synonymous substitution located in exon 1 of the gene where it is involved in coding the 34th amino acid as serine.
As 5-HT2A is a neurorece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI%20IRIS | The SGI IRIS series of terminals and workstations from Silicon Graphics was produced in the 1980s and 1990s. IRIS is an acronym for Integrated Raster Imaging System.
Overview
68000
The early systems up to IRIS 3000 use the Motorola 68000 series of processors. These systems run the GL2 operating system, a predecessor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Behavioral%20Neuroscience%20Society | The International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS), was founded in 1992. The goal of the IBNS is to "encourage research and education in the field of behavioral neuroscience". Its current president is Mikhail Pletnikov. Brain Research Bulletin, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, and Physiology and Behavior a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simmondsin | Simmondsin is a component of jojoba seeds (pronounced "ho-HO-bah") (Simmondsia chinensis). While it had been considered toxic due to jojoba seed meal causing weight loss in animals, in recent years its appetite suppressant effect has also been researched as a potential treatment for obesity. It is thought to reduce app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20data%20analysis | Geometric data analysis comprises geometric aspects of image analysis, pattern analysis, and shape analysis, and the approach of multivariate statistics, which treat arbitrary data sets as clouds of points in a space that is n-dimensional. This includes topological data analysis, cluster analysis, inductive data analys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosoya%27s%20triangle | Hosoya's triangle or the Hosoya triangle (originally Fibonacci triangle; ) is a triangular arrangement of numbers (like Pascal's triangle) based on the Fibonacci numbers. Each number is the sum of the two numbers above in either the left diagonal or the right diagonal.
Name
The name "Fibonacci triangle" has also been ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofpoint%2C%20Inc. | Proofpoint, Inc. is an American enterprise cybersecurity company based in Sunnyvale, California that provides software as a service and products for email security, identity threat defense, data loss prevention, electronic discovery, and email archiving.
In 2021, Proofpoint was acquired by private equity firm Thoma Br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20negative%20binomial%20distribution | In probability and statistics the extended negative binomial distribution is a discrete probability distribution extending the negative binomial distribution. It is a truncated version of the negative binomial distribution for which estimation methods have been studied.
In the context of actuarial science, the distri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tussock%20grass | Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennial plants, most species live more than one season. Tussock grasses are of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltian%20body | A Beltian body is a detachable tip found on the pinnules of some species of Acacia and closely related genera. Beltian bodies, named after Thomas Belt, are rich in lipids, sugars and proteins and often red in colour. They are believed to have evolved in a symbiotic relationship with ants. The ants live inside special p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic%20index | A hedonic index is any price index which uses information from hedonic regression, which describes how product price could be explained by the product's characteristics. Hedonic price indexes have proved to be very useful when applied to calculate price indices for information and communication products (e.g. personal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhejiang%20Institute%20of%20Modern%20Physics | Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics (Traditional Chinese: 浙江大學近代物理中心, Simplified Chinese: 浙江近代物理中心) is a research center for theoretical physics. It is part of the Zhejiang University, People's Republic of China.
Introduction
The institute was formally founded in 1991, due to the encouragement of American Nobel Pri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20abnormalities | When a patient has multiple abnormalities (multiple anomaly, multiple deformity), they have a congenital abnormality that can not be primarily identified with a single system of the body or single disease process. Most medical conditions can have systemic sequelae, but multiple abnormalities occur when the effects on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial%20data%20analysis | In statistics, combinatorial data analysis (CDA) is the study of data sets where the order in which objects are arranged is important. CDA can be used either to determine how well a given combinatorial construct reflects the observed data, or to search for a suitable combinatorial construct that does fit the data.
See... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard%20Goyrand | Gaspard Goyrand (3 February 1803 – 23 June 1866) was a French general practitioner, surgeon and politician from Aix-en-Provence. He helped treat cholera from 1835 to 1854, while serving as Deputy Mayor of Aix from 1838 to 1848.
Early life
Jean-Gaspard Goyrand was born in 1803. He was the son of Gabriel-Antoine Goyrand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaGISA | NaGISA (Natural Geography in Shore Areas or Natural Geography of In-Shore Areas) is an international collaborative effort aimed at inventorying, cataloguing, and monitoring biodiversity of the in-shore area. So named for the Japanese word "nagisa" ("where the land meets the sea"), it is an Apronym. NaGISA is the first ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkhausen%20stability%20criterion | In electronics, the Barkhausen stability criterion is a mathematical condition to determine when a linear electronic circuit will oscillate. It was put forth in 1921 by German physicist Heinrich Georg Barkhausen (1881–1956). It is widely used in the design of electronic oscillators, and also in the design of general ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin%20window%20technique | Skin window technique is used in immunology where the top layer of skin is scraped off making it possible to identify the immune response that would occur with a diminished physical barrier in the host, and observe mobilization of leukocytes.
It was developed by John Rebuck in 1955. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Callas | Jon Callas is an American computer security expert, software engineer, user experience designer, and technologist who is the co-founder and former CTO of the global encrypted communications service Silent Circle. He has held major positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, Apple, PGP, and Entrust, and is considered "o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20lensing%20formalism | In general relativity, a point mass deflects a light ray with impact parameter by an angle approximately equal to
where G is the gravitational constant, M the mass of the deflecting object and c the speed of light. A naive application of Newtonian gravity can yield exactly half this value, where the light ray is ass... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasonov%27s%20gland | Nasonov's gland produces a pheromone used in recruitment in worker honeybees. The pheromone can serve the purposes of attracting workers to a settled swarm and draw bees who have lost their way back to the hive. It is used to recruit workers to food that lacks a characteristic scent and lead bees to water sources. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position%20resection%20and%20intersection | Position resection and intersection are methods for determining an unknown geographic position (position finding) by measuring angles with respect to known positions.
In resection, the one point with unknown coordinates is occupied and sightings are taken to the known points;
in intersection, the two points with known ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja%20project | Caja (pronounced ) was a Google project for sanitizing third party HTML, CSS and JavaScript. On January 31, 2021, Google archived the project due to known vulnerabilities and lack of maintenance to keep up with the latest web security research, recommending instead the Closure toolkit.
Caja was designed by Google res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian%20equilibrium | A population is in Malthusian equilibrium when all of its production is used only for subsistence. Malthusian equilibrium is a locally stable and a dynamic equilibrium.
See also
Thomas Malthus — See this article for further exposition.
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Malthusian growth model
Malthusian trap
Pop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobileMe | MobileMe (branded iTools between 2000 and 2002; .Mac until 2008) is a discontinued subscription-based collection of online services and software offered by Apple Inc. All services were gradually transitioned to and eventually replaced by the free iCloud, and MobileMe ceased on June 30, 2012, with transfers to iCloud be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith%20L.%20Patterson | Meredith L. Patterson (born April 30, 1977) is an American technologist, science fiction writer, and journalist. She has spoken at numerous industry conferences on a wide range of topics. She is also a blogger and software developer, and a leading figure in the biopunk movement.
Raised in Houston, she pursued an educa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Campbell%20%28biologist%29 | Keith Henry Stockman Campbell (23 May 1954 – 5 October 2012) was a British biologist who was a member of the team at Roslin Institute that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells. He was Professor of Animal Development at the University of Nottingh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIRCAMS | The Scottish Instrumentation and Research Centre for Advanced Mass Spectrometry (SIRCAMS) is a facility for ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry of biomolecules. SIRCAMS is based in the University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry.
Much of the research activity is focused toward the development and application of ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean%20circle | In geometry, an Archimedean circle is any circle constructed from an arbelos that has the same radius as each of Archimedes' twin circles. If the arbelos is normed such that the diameter of its outer (largest) half circle has a length of 1 and r denotes the radiius of any of the inner half circles, then the radius ρ o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20networking | Visual networking refers to an emerging class of user applications that combine digital video and social networking capabilities. It is based upon the premise that visual literacy, "the ability to interpret, negotiate and make meaning from information presented in the form of a moving image", is a powerful force in how... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rs6311 | In genetics, rs6311 is a gene variation—a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)—in the human HTR2A gene that codes for the 5-HT2A receptor. 5-HT2A is a neuroreceptor, and several scientific studies have investigated the effect of the genetic variation on personality, e.g., personality traits measured with the Temperamen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjacent%20channel%20power%20ratio | Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (ACPR) is ratio between the total power of adjacent channel (intermodulation signal) to the main channel's power (useful signal).
Ratio
The ratio between the total power adjacent channel (intermodulation signal) to the main channel's power (useful signal). There are two ways of measuring A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithoptera%20allotei | Ornithoptera allotei is the name given to a birdwing butterfly that is a natural hybrid between Ornithoptera victoriae and Ornithoptera priamus urvillianus. Despite the fact that hybrids do not warrant a binomial name, the name Ornithoptera allotei persists from the original description of the butterfly as a species.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Invasive%20Species%20Information%20Network | The Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) is a web-based network of data providers including government, non-government, non-profit, educational, and other organizations that agree to work together to provide increased access to data and information on invasive species around the world.
Computer-based in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Control%20Company | Computer Control Company, Inc. (1953–1966), informally known as 3C, was a pioneering minicomputer company known for its DDP-series (Digital Data Processor) computers, notably:
DDP-24 24-bit (1963)
DDP-224 24-bit (1965)
DDP-116 16-bit (1965)
DDP-124 24-bit (1966) using monolithic ICs
It was founded in 1953 by Dr. Loui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yass%20%28software%29 | YASS (Yet Another Similarity Searcher) is a free software, pairwise sequence alignment software for nucleotide sequences, that is, it can search for similarities between DNA or RNA sequences. YASS accepts nucleotide sequences in either plain text or the FASTA format and the output format includes the BLAST tabular out... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Hour | Green Hour is a core concept of the U.S. National Wildlife Federation's Be Out There campaign. The campaign was created in response to a growing disconnect between nature and children, a condition dubbed nature deficit disorder by Richard Louv in his book Last Child in the Woods. One of the primary symptoms of nature d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL | OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators. OpenCL... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Game%20Xpo | The Digital Game Xpo (DGXPO) was the Southeast U.S.'s largest game industry conference. The event was organized and hosted by Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina. The first event was held in 2005 and it was held annually until 2009. The event comprised an expo, career fair, student showcase, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20Insight | Code Insight is the name several software vendors (such as Borland, Embarcadero and Oracle) use for source code autocompletion, similar to Microsoft's IntelliSense. Code Insight can also refer to source code analysis information such as annotation or revision history provided by tools like Atlassian FishEye. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Aminoisobutyric%20acid | 3-Aminoisobutyric acid (also known as β-aminoisobutyric acid or BAIBA) is a product formed by the catabolism of thymine.
During exercise, the increase of PGC-1α protein triggers the secretion of BAIBA from exercising muscles to blood (concentration 2 to 3 μM in human serum). When BAIBA reaches the white fat tissue, it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyraceum | Hyraceum () is the petrified and rock-like excrement composed of both urine and feces of the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) and closely related species.
The rock hyrax defecates in the same location over generations, which may be sheltered in caves. These locations form middens that are composed of hyraceum and hyrax ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrouracil | Dihydrouracil is an intermediate in the catabolism of uracil. It is the base present in the nucleoside dihydrouridine.
See also
Dihydrouracil dehydrogenase (NAD+)
Dihydrouracil oxidase
Dihydropyrimidinase |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrothymine | Dihydrothymine is an intermediate in the metabolism of thymine.
Ureas
Imides
Pyrimidinediones
Nucleobases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic%20intermediate | Metabolic intermediates are molecules that are the precursors or metabolites of biologically significant molecules.
Although these intermediates are of relatively minor direct importance to cellular function, they can play important roles in the allosteric regulation of enzymes.
Clinical significance
Some can be usef... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horticultural%20flora | A horticultural flora, also known as a garden flora, is a plant identification aid structured in the same way as a native plants flora. It serves the same purpose: to facilitate plant identification; however, it only includes plants that are under cultivation as ornamental plants growing within the prescribed climate z... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, particularly functional analysis, James' theorem, named for Robert C. James, states that a Banach space is reflexive if and only if every continuous linear functional's norm on attains its supremum on the closed unit ball in
A stronger version of the theorem states that a weakly closed subset of a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botan%20%28programming%20library%29 | Botan is a BSD-licensed cryptographic and TLS library written in C++11. It provides a wide variety of cryptographic algorithms, formats, and protocols, e.g. SSL and TLS. It is used in the Monotone distributed revision control program, the OpenDNSSEC system, and ISC's Kea DHCP server among other projects.
The project w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Cambrian%20geochemical%20fluctuations | The start of the Cambrian period is marked by "fluctuations" in a number of geochemical records, including Strontium, Sulfur and Carbon isotopic excursions. While these anomalies are difficult to interpret, a number of possibilities have been put forward. They probably represent changes on a global scale, and as such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draw%20a%20Secret | Draw a Secret (DAS) is a graphical password input scheme developed by Ian Jermyn, Alain Mayer, Fabian Monrose, Michael K. Reiter and Aviel D. Rubin and presented in a paper at the 8th USENIX Security Symposium in Augusts 1999.
The scheme replaces alphanumeric password strings with a picture drawn on a grid. Instead o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBoss%20Tools | JBoss Tools is a set of Eclipse plugins and features designed to help JBoss and JavaEE developers develop applications. It is an umbrella project for the JBoss developed plugins that will make it into JBoss Developer Studio.
Modules
JBoss Tools includes the following modules:
Visual Page Editor (VPE). The visual edi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20type%20system |
In the branches of mathematical logic known as proof theory and type theory, a pure type system (PTS), previously known as a generalized type system (GTS), is a form of typed lambda calculus that allows an arbitrary number of sorts and dependencies between any of these. The framework can be seen as a generalisation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst%20lobe | A burst lobe is an intracranial hemorrhage affecting a brain lobe (part of the cerebral hemispheres) and characterized by an intracerebral hemorrhage in continuity with a subdural hemorrhage and contusion.
On a CT scan, it is shown as an irregular area of increased density which corresponds to a blood clot. This is su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic%20Ramsey%20theory | Ergodic Ramsey theory is a branch of mathematics where problems motivated by additive combinatorics are proven using ergodic theory.
History
Ergodic Ramsey theory arose shortly after Endre Szemerédi's proof that a set of positive upper density contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions, when Hillel Furstenberg ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice%20%28oceanography%29 | In oceanography, the term spice refers to spatial variations in the temperature and salinity of seawater whose effects on density cancel each other. Such density compensated thermohaline variability is ubiquitous in the upper ocean. Warmer, saltier water is more spicy while cooler, less salty water is more minty. For... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontederia%20cordata | Pontederia cordata, common name pickerelweed (USA) or pickerel weed (UK), is a monocotyledonous aquatic plant native to the American continents. It grows in a variety of wetlands, including pond and lake margins across an extremely large range from eastern Canada south to Argentina. A few examples include northern rive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehlers%20group | In mathematical physics, the Ehlers group, named after Jürgen Ehlers, is a finite-dimensional transformation group of stationary vacuum spacetimes which maps solutions of Einstein's field equations to other solutions. It has since found a number of applications, from use as a tool in the discovery of previously unknown... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorChat | TorChat was a peer-to-peer anonymous instant messenger that used Tor onion services as its underlying network. It provided cryptographically secure text messaging and file transfers. The characteristics of Tor's onion services ensure that all traffic between the clients is encrypted and that it is very difficult to tel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictor%E2%80%93corrector%20method | In numerical analysis, predictor–corrector methods belong to a class of algorithms designed to integrate ordinary differential equationsto find an unknown function that satisfies a given differential equation. All such algorithms proceed in two steps:
The initial, "prediction" step, starts from a function fitted to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCAT | xCAT (Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit) is open-source distributed computing management software developed by IBM, used for the deployment and administration of Linux or AIX based clusters.
In September 2023 the primary developers of xCAT said that they moved onto other roles and could no longer work on it, asking... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%20information%20source | In mathematics, a Markov information source, or simply, a Markov source, is an information source whose underlying dynamics are given by a stationary finite Markov chain.
Formal definition
An information source is a sequence of random variables ranging over a finite alphabet , having a stationary distribution.
A Mark... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20pathology | Digital pathology is a sub-field of pathology that focuses on data management based on information generated from digitized specimen slides. Through the use of computer-based technology, digital pathology utilizes virtual microscopy. Glass slides are converted into digital slides that can be viewed, managed, shared and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse%20code%20for%20non-Latin%20alphabets | This is a summary of the use of Morse code to represent alphabets other than Latin.
Greek
The Greek Morse code alphabet is very similar to the Latin alphabet. It uses one extra letter for Greek letter and no longer uses the codes for Latin letters "J", "U" and "V".
The tonos is not transmitted in Morse code; the rec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Bergmann | Peter Gabriel Bergmann (24 March 1915 – 19 October 2002) was a German-American physicist best known for his work with Albert Einstein on a unified field theory encompassing all physical interactions. He also introduced primary and secondary constraints into mechanics.
Early life and education
Bergmann was born into a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuwen%20Zhang | Yuwen Zhang is an American professor of mechanical engineering who is well known for his contributions to phase change heat transfer. He is presently a Curators' Distinguished Professor and Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreaea%20frigida | Andreaea frigida, commonly known as icy rockmoss, is a moss endemic to Europe which is found in mountainous regions in Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Romania, Poland, and Spain. In the UK its occurrence is widespread in the Cairngorms National Park, where it is typically found on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20data%20room | A virtual data room (sometimes called a VDR or Deal Room) is an online repository of information that is used for the storing and distribution of documents. In many cases, a virtual data room is used to facilitate the due diligence process during an M&A transaction, loan syndication, or private equity and venture capi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupelo%20%28song%29 | "Tupelo" is the second single by Australian post-punk band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and the only single from the band's second album The Firstborn Is Dead.
Background and production
The song was written in 1984 by Cave along with Barry Adamson (who plays drums on the track) and Mick Harvey (who plays bass). Using b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20iris | The term "Japanese iris" encompasses three species of Irises cultivated in gardens or growing wild in Japan: hanashōbu (Iris ensata), kakitsubata (Iris laevigata) and ayame (Iris sanguinea). Of these three species, I. ensata is the one most commonly referred to as "Japanese iris" outside Japan.
The bluish purple colo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce%20200%20series | The GeForce 200 series is a series of Tesla-based GeForce graphics processing units developed by Nvidia.
Architecture
The GeForce 200 Series introduced Nvidia's second generation of Tesla (microarchitecture), Nvidia's unified shader architecture; the first major update to it since introduced with the GeForce 8 Series... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivated%20plant%20taxonomy | Cultivated plant taxonomy is the study of the theory and practice of the science that identifies, describes, classifies, and names cultigens—those plants whose origin or selection is primarily due to intentional human activity. Cultivated plant taxonomists do, however, work with all kinds of plants in cultivation.
Cul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore%20Creature%20Creator | The Spore Creature Creator is a software that allows players to create their own creatures with a standalone version of the Creature Editor from Spore; the software was one of the first aspects of the game to receive focused development, and underwent ten rewrites since the start of development. It was rated E by the E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laccocephalum%20mylittae | Laccocephalum mylittae, commonly known as native bread or blackfellow's bread, is an edible Australian fungus. The hypogeous fruit body was a popular food item with Aboriginal people.
It was originally described as Polyporus mylittae by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke and George Edward Massee in 1893, before being placed in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million%20Tree%20Initiative | The Million Tree Initiative refers to the ongoing environmental projects that multiple cities have individually committed to, aimed at expanding urban forestry through the planting of one million trees. Cities that are known to be currently involved in this initiative are: Los Angeles, Denver, New York City, Shanghai, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20XGP | AMD XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) is brand for an external graphics solution for laptops and notebooks by AMD. The technology was announced on June 4, 2008 on Computex 08 trade show, following the announcement of the codenamed Puma notebook platform.
Development
Originally reported by Hexus.net as a side project to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootare%E2%80%93Prenzlow%20equation | The Rootare-Prenzlow Equation is named for Estonian-American scientist Hillar Rootare and American scientist Carl , first published in their 1967 paper, "Surface Areas from Mercury Porosimetry Measurements," Rootare, H.M., and Prenzlow, C.F., 71 J. Phys. Chem. p. 2733 (1967). The equation first formulated a means to ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic%20database | A crystallographic database is a database specifically designed to store information about the structure of molecules and crystals. Crystals are solids having, in all three dimensions of space, a regularly repeating arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules. They are characterized by symmetry, morphology, and directiona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline%20forwarding | Pipeline forwarding (PF) applies to packet forwarding in computer networks the basic concept of pipelining, which has been widely and successfully used in computing — specifically, in the architecture of all major central processing units (CPUs) — and manufacturing — specifically in assembly lines of various industrie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20security%20software | Computer security software or cybersecurity software is any computer program designed to influence information security. This is often taken in the context of defending computer systems or data, yet can incorporate programs designed specifically for subverting computer systems due to their significant overlap, and the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20engineering | Wireless Engineering is the branch of engineering which addresses the design, application, and research of wireless communication systems and technologies.
Overview
Wireless engineering is an engineering subject dealing with engineering problems using wireless technology such as radio communications and radar, but it ... |
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