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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TekWar%20%28TV%20series%29
TekWar is a television series, based on the TekWar novels ghost-written by Ron Goulart from outlines by William Shatner and developed for television by Stephen Roloff. The series follows Jake Cardigan (played by Greg Evigan), a former police officer turned private investigator working for Cosmos, a private security fir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20discrete%20event%20simulation%20software
This is a list of notable discrete-event simulation software. Commercial Open source Further reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%20Carabao%20Center
The Philippine Carabao Center ( or Sentro ng Pilipinas para sa Kalabaw) an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture, was established at Science City of Muñoz in Nueva Ecija province in 1992 to breed and cross carabao based on high-yield Murrah buffalo (native breed of Haryana state of India) in the Philippines ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic%20record
The geologic record in stratigraphy, paleontology and other natural sciences refers to the entirety of the layers of rock strata. That is, deposits laid down by volcanism or by deposition of sediment derived from weathering detritus (clays, sands etc.). This includes all its fossil content and the information it yields...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20law%20of%20small%20numbers
In mathematics, the "strong law of small numbers" is the humorous law that proclaims, in the words of Richard K. Guy (1988): In other words, any given small number appears in far more contexts than may seem reasonable, leading to many apparently surprising coincidences in mathematics, simply because small numbers appe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitome%20%28data%20processing%29
An epitome, in data processing, is a condensed digital representation of the essential statistical properties of ordered datasets such as matrices that represent images, audio signals, videos or genetic sequences. Although much smaller than the data, the epitome contains many of its smaller overlapping parts with much ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20Science
Transportation Science is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The studies published in the journal apply operations research techniques to problems in the full range of transportation sectors, including air travel, rail tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20finite%20element%20software%20packages
This is a list of notable software packages that implement the finite element method for solving partial differential equations. Feature comparison This table is contributed by a FEA-compare project, which provides an alternative view of this table with the first row and Feature column being fixed for ease of table e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Penning%20Trap%20Mass%20Spectrometer
The Canadian Penning Trap Mass Spectrometer (CPT) is one of the major pieces of experimental equipment that is installed on the ATLAS superconducting heavy-ion linac facility at the Physics Division of the Argonne National Laboratory. It was developed and operated by physicist Guy Savard and a collaboration of other sc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart%20Ljung%20%28engineer%29
Lennart Ljung is a Swedish professor in the Chair of Control Theory at Linköping University since 1976. He is known for his pioneering research in system identification, and is regarded as a leading researcher in control theory. Education Lennart Ljung received the B.A. in Russian Language and Mathematics 1967, the M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery%20Bar%20Code%20Sorter
A Delivery Bar Code Sorter (DBCS) is a mail sorting machine used primarily by the United States Postal Service. Introduced in 1990, these machines sort letters at a rate of approximately 36,000 pieces per hour, with a 99% accuracy rate. A computer scans the addresses of the mail, and sorts it to one of up to 286 pocket...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEniCS%20Project
The FEniCS Project is a collection of free and open-source software components with the common goal to enable automated solution of differential equations. The components provide scientific computing tools for working with computational meshes, finite-element variational formulations of ordinary and partial differentia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snare%20%28software%29
Snare (sometimes also written as SNARE, an acronym for System iNtrusion Analysis and Reporting Environment) is a collection of software tools that collect audit log data from a variety of operating systems and applications to facilitate centralised log analysis. Enterprise Agents are available for Linux, macOS, Windows...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20protocol
The Dragon Protocol is an update based cache coherence protocol used in multi-processor systems. Write propagation is performed by directly updating all the cached values across multiple processors. Update based protocols such as the Dragon protocol perform efficiently when a write to a cache block is followed by sever...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRPu
LRPu or low-resilience polyurethane is a material distinguished by an "ability to slowly return to its original shape". The resulting impact resistance results in LRPu being used in soft laptop sleeves and other lightweight cases for portable electronic equipment, as an alternative to the softer neoprene. See also N...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20biodiversity
Global biodiversity is the measure of biodiversity on planet Earth and is defined as the total variability of life forms. More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 2 million to 1 trillion, but most estimates ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20throughput%20biology
High throughput biology (or high throughput cell biology) is the use of automation equipment with classical cell biology techniques to address biological questions that are otherwise unattainable using conventional methods. It may incorporate techniques from optics, chemistry, biology or image analysis to permit rapid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20Party
Campus Party (CP) is a conference and hackathon. Founded in 1997 as a technology festival and LAN party, the event was first held in Málaga, Spain, and has since been run in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Singapore, Spain, the Netherlands, Urug...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative%20number%20theory
Multiplicative number theory is a subfield of analytic number theory that deals with prime numbers and with factorization and divisors. The focus is usually on developing approximate formulas for counting these objects in various contexts. The prime number theorem is a key result in this subject. The Mathematics Subjec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostman%20lemma
In mathematics, and more specifically, in the theory of fractal dimensions, Frostman's lemma provides a convenient tool for estimating the Hausdorff dimension of sets. Lemma: Let A be a Borel subset of Rn, and let s > 0. Then the following are equivalent: Hs(A) > 0, where Hs denotes the s-dimensional Hausdorff measure...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Medal
The William Brewster Memorial Award, usually referred to as the Brewster Medal, is awarded by the American Ornithologists' Union and is named for ornithologist William Brewster. It is given to an author, or coauthors who are not previous recipients, of an exceptional body of work on Western Hemisphere birds. The award ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic%20process
In physics, statistics, econometrics and signal processing, a stochastic process is said to be in an ergodic regime if an observable's ensemble average equals the time average. In this regime, any collection of random samples from a process must represent the average statistical properties of the entire regime. Convers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementarity%20theory
A complementarity problem is a type of mathematical optimization problem. It is the problem of optimizing (minimizing or maximizing) a function of two vector variables subject to certain requirements (constraints) which include: that the inner product of the two vectors must equal zero, i.e. they are orthogonal. In par...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead%20matrix
In the mathematical field of linear algebra, an arrowhead matrix is a square matrix containing zeros in all entries except for the first row, first column, and main diagonal, these entries can be any number. In other words, the matrix has the form Any symmetric permutation of the arrowhead matrix, , where P is a permu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian%20Foundation
The Symbian Foundation was a non-profit organisation that stewarded the Symbian operating system for mobile phones which previously had been owned and licensed by Symbian Ltd. Symbian Foundation never directly developed the platform, but evangelised, co-ordinated and ensured compatibility. It also provided key services...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manca
The manca (plural: mancae) is the post-larval juvenile in some crustaceans. The manca stage is the defining characteristic of a clade called Mancoida which comprises all the member of the Peracarida except the Amphipoda. Mancae closely resemble the adult form, but for the absence of the last pair of pereiopods. In some...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shturmovshchina
Shturmovshchina (, last-minute rush, storming) was a common Soviet work practice of frantic and overtime work at the end of a planning period in order to fulfill the planned production target. The practice usually gave rise to products of poor quality at the end of a planning cycle. The cycle of shturmovshchina, asso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit%20connection
In algal anatomy, a pit connection is a hole in the septum between two algal cells, and is found only in the red algae − specifically, all orders except the Porphyridiales and haploid Bangiales. They are often stoppered with proteinaceous "pit plugs". By contrast, many fungi (only ascomycetes and basidiomycetes, as mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retention%20ratio
Retention ratio indicates the percentage of a company's earnings that are not paid out in dividends but credited to retained earnings. It is the opposite of the dividend payout ratio, so that also called the retention rate. Retention Ratio = 1 − Dividend Payout Ratio = Retained Earnings / Net Income The payout ratio ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen%20cation
The dihydrogen cation or hydrogen molecular ion is a cation (positive ion) with formula . It consists of two hydrogen nuclei (protons) sharing a single electron. It is the simplest molecular ion. The ion can be formed from the ionization of a neutral hydrogen molecule () by electron impact. It is commonly formed in mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath%20routing
Multipath routing is a routing technique simultaneously using multiple alternative paths through a network. This can yield a variety of benefits such as fault tolerance, increased bandwidth, and improved security. Mobile networks To improve performance or fault tolerance, concurrent multipath routing (CMR) is often t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%20spectral%20analysis
Hilbert spectral analysis is a signal analysis method applying the Hilbert transform to compute the instantaneous frequency of signals according to After performing the Hilbert transform on each signal, we can express the data in the following form: This equation gives both the amplitude and the frequency of each com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramer%E2%80%93Douglas%E2%80%93Peucker%20algorithm
The Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm, also known as the Douglas–Peucker algorithm and iterative end-point fit algorithm, is an algorithm that decimates a curve composed of line segments to a similar curve with fewer points. It was one of the earliest successful algorithms developed for cartographic generalization. Idea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Reid%20Medal
The Donald Reid Medal is awarded triennially by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in recognition of distinguished contributions to epidemiology. Institution The medal was instituted in 1979 in memory of Professor Donald Reid who was Director of the Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidescape
Kaleidescape, Inc. is an American multimedia company based in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2001, it designs multi-room home entertainment server systems that store and play back video and audio content (such as movies, television shows, and music) to movie players that can be connected to televisions or projec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KG-13
The KG-13 was the first transistorized cryptographic machine developed by the NSA in the early 60's. It used the newly developed 2N404 germanium transistor instead of vacuum tubes. It consisted of a KG-3 transmitter and a KG-12 receiver. The transmitter used about 500 transistors and the receiver about 300. The tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20A.%20Choudum
Sheshayya A. Choudum (born 1947) was a professor and a former chair of the department of mathematics at IIT Madras. He has often worked in chromatic numbers, degree sequences, graph enumeration, and bivariegated graphs. Choudum hails from Manvi, Raichur district, Karnataka. He completed a M.Sc., in Mathematics from Ka...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Lawrence%20Kocay
William Lawrence Kocay is a Canadian professor at the department of computer science at St. Paul's College of the University of Manitoba and a graph theorist. He is known for his work in graph algorithms and the reconstruction conjecture and is affectionately referred to as "Wild Bill" by his students. Bill Kocay is a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regius%20Professor%20of%20Anatomy%20%28Aberdeen%29
The Regius Professor of Anatomy is a Regius Professorship at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Seven people have been appointed to this position:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20PAM
Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) is a suite of libraries that allow a Linux system administrator to configure methods to authenticate users. It provides a flexible and centralized way to switch authentication methods for secured applications by using configuration files instead of changing application code....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%27s%20Deadly%20Secret
Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System is a 2007 book by Jim Harding, and demonstrates the negative impacts on Aboriginal rights and environmental health, and the effect of free trade. Harding argues that nuclear energy cannot mitigate global warming and that the "Peaceful Atom" does...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda%27s%20theorem
Toda's theorem is a result in computational complexity theory that was proven by Seinosuke Toda in his paper "PP is as Hard as the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy" and was given the 1998 Gödel Prize. Statement The theorem states that the entire polynomial hierarchy PH is contained in PPP; this implies a closely related stat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral%20retargeting
Behavioral retargeting (also known as behavioral remarketing, or simply, retargeting) is a form of online targeted advertising by which online advertising is targeted to consumers based on their previous internet behaviour. Retargeting tags online users by including a pixel within the target webpage or email, which set...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplified%20Ribosomal%20DNA%20Restriction%20Analysis
Amplified rDNA (Ribosomal DNA) Restriction Analysis is the extension of the technique of RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism) to the gene encoding the small (16s) ribosomal subunit of bacteria. The technique involves an enzymatic amplification using primers directed at the conserved regions at the ends of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Immunotherapy%20of%20Cancer
The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), previously known as the International Society for Biological Therapy of Cancer (iSBTc), is a professional society of scientists, academicians, researchers, clinicians, government representatives, and industry leaders from around the world dedicated to improving outcomes i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic%20deflashing
Cryogenic deflashing is a deflashing process that uses cryogenic temperatures to aid in the removal of flash on cast or molded workpieces. These temperatures cause the flash to become stiff or brittle and to break away cleanly. Cryogenic deflashing is the preferred process when removing excess material from oddly shape...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USDA%20National%20Nutrient%20Database
The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference is a database produced by the United States Department of Agriculture that provides the nutritional content of many generic and proprietary-branded foods. Released in August 2015 and revised in May 2016, the current release, Standard Reference 28 (SR28), contai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facility%20condition%20assessment
Facility condition assessment is an analysis of the condition of a facility in terms of age, design, construction methods, and materials. The individuals who perform the assessment are typically architects and engineers, and skilled-trade technicians. Engineering and architectural professional opinions as to the condit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signomial
A signomial is an algebraic function of one or more independent variables. It is perhaps most easily thought of as an algebraic extension of multivariable polynomials—an extension that permits exponents to be arbitrary real numbers (rather than just non-negative integers) while requiring the independent variables to b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese%20method
The Siamese method, or De la Loubère method, is a simple method to construct any size of n-odd magic squares (i.e. number squares in which the sums of all rows, columns and diagonals are identical). The method was brought to France in 1688 by the French mathematician and diplomat Simon de la Loubère, as he was returnin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20age%20of%20cosmology
The golden age of cosmology is a term often used to describe the period from 1992 to the present in which important advances in observational cosmology have been made. The golden age of cosmology is a term used to describe a period of time that spans from 1992 to the present day. This period marks an era of tremendous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter%20Value%20Language
In computer programming, Parameter Value Language (PVL) is a markup language similar to XML. It is commonly employed for entries in the Planetary Database System used by NASA to store mission data, among other uses. There are at least two "dialects" – USGS Isis Cube Label and NASA PDS 3 Label.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadwork%20Engineer
cadwork engineer is a transportation corridor building information modeling software developed beginning in 2004 by Cadwork informatik AG in Switzerland. Engineer is notable in that when combined with cadwork Lexocad, it is one of the few 'BIM' infrastructure softwares. Technical characteristics An early adopter is M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dockerin
Dockerin is a protein domain found in the cellulosome cellular structure of anaerobic bacteria. It is found on many endoglucanase enzymes. The dockerin's binding partner is the cohesin domain, located on the scaffoldin protein. This interaction between the dockerin domains of the enzyme constituents of the cellulosome ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LcrV
In molecular biology, LcrV is a protein found in Yersinia pestis and several other bacterial species. It forms part of the Yersinia pestis virulence protein factors that also includes all Yops, or Yersinia outer protein, but the name has been kept out of convention. LcrV's main function is not actually known, but it is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan%20Malkhasyants
Stepanos Sargsi Malkhasiants (; – July 21, 1947) was an Armenian academician, philologist, linguist, and lexicographer. An expert in classical Armenian literature, Malkhasiants wrote the critical editions and translated the works of many classical Armenian historians into modern Armenian and contributed seventy years ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease%20registry
Disease or patient registries are collections of secondary data related to patients with a specific diagnosis, condition, or procedure, and they play an important role in post marketing surveillance of pharmaceuticals. Registries are different from indexes in that they contain more extensive data. In its simplest form...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Plastic%20Modellers%27%20Society
The International Plastic Modellers' Society (often shortened to IPMS) is an international organisation of hobbyists interested in building plastic model kits. The Society is made up of national branches, and within these, local clubs who usually represent a town, city or locality. The first branch was established in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20Smart%27s%20Bruce%20and%20Lloyd%3A%20Out%20of%20Control
Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control is a direct-to-video film released in 2008. It is a side spin-off of the 2008 film Get Smart and was released in North America on July 1, 2008, 11 days after the parent film began its theatrical run. Directed by Gil Junger, the film is written by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicaxanthin
Indicaxanthin is a type of betaxanthin, a plant pigment present in beets, in Mirabilis jalapa flowers, in cacti such as prickly pears (Opuntia sp.) or the red dragonfruit (Hylocereus costaricensis). It is a powerful antioxidant. Medical uses It has been shown in a spectrophotometric study for patients with thalassemi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogenetics
Neurogenetics studies the role of genetics in the development and function of the nervous system. It considers neural characteristics as phenotypes (i.e. manifestations, measurable or not, of the genetic make-up of an individual), and is mainly based on the observation that the nervous systems of individuals, even of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori%20sensorial%20materials
Montessori sensorial materials are materials used in the Montessori classroom to help a child develop and refine their five senses. Use of these materials constitutes the next level of difficulty after those of practical life. Like many other materials in the Montessori classroom, sensorial materials have what is call...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichnerowicz%20formula
The Lichnerowicz formula (also known as the Lichnerowicz–Weitzenböck formula) is a fundamental equation in the analysis of spinors on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. In dimension 4, it forms a piece of Seiberg–Witten theory and other aspects of gauge theory. It is named after noted mathematicians André Lichnerowicz who p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai%20%28video%20game%29
Shanghai is a computerized version of mahjong solitaire published by Activision in 1986 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh, Apple IIGS and Master System. Shanghai was originally programmed by Brodie Lockard. It was released as an arcade game by Sunsoft in 1988. Gameplay The game...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate%20genomics
Chordate genomics is the study of the evolution of the chordate clade based on a comparison of the genomes of several species within the clade. The field depends on whole genome data (the entire DNA sequence) of organisms. It uses comparisons of synteny blocks, chromosome translocation, and other genomic rearrangements...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depolarizer%20%28optics%29
A or is an optical device used to scramble the polarization of light. An ideal depolarizer would output randomly polarized light whatever its input, but all practical depolarizers produce pseudo-random output polarization. Optical systems are often sensitive to the polarization of light reaching them (for example gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20thinking
Parallel thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono. Parallel thinking is described as a constructive alternative to: "adversarial thinking"; debate; and the approaches exemplified by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle (whom de Bono refers to as the "Greek gang of three" (GG3) ). In general parallel thinking is a further...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipse%20dixit
Ipse dixit (Latin for "he said it himself") is an assertion without proof, or a dogmatic expression of opinion. The fallacy of defending a proposition by baldly asserting that it is "just how it is" distorts the argument by opting out of it entirely: the claimant declares an issue to be intrinsic, and not changeable. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20analytics
Visual analytics is an outgrowth of the fields of information visualization and scientific visualization that focuses on analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. Overview Visual analytics is "the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces." It can attack cer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin%20bridge
A skin bridge is a penile skin adhesion. It most commonly occurs as a consequence of an improperly healed circumcision, being formed when the inner lining of the remaining foreskin attaches to another part of the penis (normally the glans) as the cut heals. While less common, skin bridges can also occur in uncircumcis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20C.%20Read
Ronald Cedric Read (19 December 1924 – 7 January 2019) was a British mathematician, latterly a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He published many books and papers, primarily on enumeration of graphs, graph isomorphism, chromatic polynomials, and particularly, the use of computers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repulsive%20guidance%20molecule
Repulsive guidance molecules (RGMs) are members of a three gene family (in vertebrates) composed of RGMa, RGMb, and RGMc (also called hemojuvelin). RGMa has been implicated to play an important role in the developing brain and in the scar tissue that forms after a brain injury. For example, RGMa helps guide retinal gan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformational%20epitope
In immunology, a conformational epitope is a sequence of sub-units (usually amino acids) composing an antigen that come in direct contact with a receptor of the immune system. An antigen is any substance that the immune system can recognize as foreign. Antigens are usually proteins that are too large to bind as a whol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EX%C3%8DN%20Castles
EXÍN Castillos (or EXIN Castles) is a construction toy. First introduced by the Exin Lines Brothers in 1968 in Barcelona, Spain, this plastic block toy was designed for the construction of castle-like-buildings. The company has most recently produced Castle lines toys for the Shrek movie franchise and others. The EXIN...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIKE%2011
MIKE 11 is a computer program that simulates flow and water level, water quality and sediment transport in rivers, flood plains, irrigation canals, reservoirs and other inland water bodies. MIKE 11 is a 1-dimensional river model. It was developed by DHI. MIKE 11 has long been known as a software tool with advanced int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower%20critical%20solution%20temperature
The lower critical solution temperature (LCST) or lower consolute temperature is the critical temperature below which the components of a mixture are miscible in all proportions. The word lower indicates that the LCST is a lower bound to a temperature interval of partial miscibility, or miscibility for certain composit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNdata
UNdata is an Internet search engine, retrieving data series from statistical databases provided by the UN System. UNdata was launched in February 2008. It is a product of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) developed in partnership with Statistics Sweden and the Swedish International Development Cooperation A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20chlorophyll%20maximum
The deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM), also called the subsurface chlorophyll maximum, is the region below the surface of water with the maximum concentration of chlorophyll. The DCM generally exists at the same depth as the nutricline, the region of the ocean where the greatest change in the nutrient concentration occurs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2Wire
2Wire, Inc., was (between 1998 and 2010) a home networking Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) manufacturer that provided telecommunications companies with hardware, software, service platforms, and remote CPE management systems. The company was headquartered in San Jose, California, in the Silicon Valley. The company ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20coupling%20analysis
Statistical coupling analysis or SCA is a technique used in bioinformatics to measure covariation between pairs of amino acids in a protein multiple sequence alignment (MSA). More specifically, it quantifies how much the amino acid distribution at some position i changes upon a perturbation of the amino acid distribut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20telephone-related%20articles
These are some of the links to articles that are telephone related. 0-9 116 telephone number 800 number A-F Alexander Graham Bell Answering machine Antonio Meucci Area code Bell labs Bell System Call Login Systems Carterfone Cell site Cellular network Charles Bourseul Cordless telephone Martin Cooper ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20floppy%20disk
A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and written using a floppy disk drive (FDD). Floppy disks were an almost universal data format from the 1970s into the 1990s, used for primary data storage as well ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeLite
CodeLite is a free and open-source IDE for the C, C++, PHP, and JavaScript (Node.js) programming languages. History In August 2006, Eran Ifrah started an autocomplete project named CodeLite. The idea was to create a code completion library based on ctags, SQLite (hence, CodeLite), and a Yacc based parser that could ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum%20rule%20in%20quantum%20mechanics
In quantum mechanics, a sum rule is a formula for transitions between energy levels, in which the sum of the transition strengths is expressed in a simple form. Sum rules are used to describe the properties of many physical systems, including solids, atoms, atomic nuclei, and nuclear constituents such as protons and ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal%20seismology
Coronal seismology is a technique of studying the plasma of the Sun's corona with the use of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and oscillations. Magnetohydrodynamics studies the dynamics of electrically conducting fluids - in this case the fluid is the coronal plasma. Observed properties of the waves (e.g. period, wavele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20electric%20power%20transmission
Electric power transmission, the tools and means of moving electricity far from where it is generated, date back to the late 19th century. They include the movement of electricity in bulk (formally called "transmission") and the delivery of electricity to individual customers ("distribution"). In the beginning, the two...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siderophilic%20bacteria
Siderophilic bacteria are bacteria that require or are facilitated by free iron. They may include Vibrio vulnificus, Listeria monocytogenes, Yersinia enterocolica, Salmonella enterica (serotype Typhimurium), Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli. One possible symptom of haemochromatosis is susceptibility to infect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescoping%20generations
Telescoping generations can occur in parthenogenetic species, such as aphids or other life forms that have the ability to reproduce without ovum fertilization. This occurrence is characterized by a viviparous female having a daughter growing inside her that is also parthenogenetically pregnant with a daughter cell. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20mn-type%20image%20filter
{{DISPLAYTITLE:General mn-type image filter}} These filters are electrical wave filters designed using the image method. They are an invention of Otto Zobel at AT&T Corp. They are a generalisation of the m-type filter in that a transform is applied that modifies the transfer function while keeping the image impedanc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplocraterion
Diplocraterion is an ichnogenus describing vertical U-shaped burrows having a spreite (weblike construction) between the two limbs of the U. The spreite of an individual Diplocraterion trace can be either protrusive (between the paired tubes) or retrusive (below the paired tubes). Some ichnospecies have both types (e....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slush%20hydrogen
Slush hydrogen is a combination of liquid hydrogen and solid hydrogen at the triple point with a lower temperature and a higher density than liquid hydrogen. It is commonly formed by repeating a freeze-thaw process. This is most easily done by bringing liquid hydrogen near its boiling point and then reducing pressure u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20Kumar%20%28roboticist%29
Vijay Kumar (born 12 April 1962) is an Indian roboticist and UPS foundation professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science with secondary appointments in computer and information science and electrical and systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and became the new Dean of Penn Engineering on 1 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Jadbabaie
Ali Jadbabaie is an Iranian-American systems scientist and decision theorist and the JR East Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining MIT, he was the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Network Science in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza%20Olfati-Saber
Reza Olfati-Saber is an Iranian roboticist and Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Olfati-Saber is an internationally renowned expert in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations. He has also worked in mobile sensor networks, and innovative education...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity%20insurance
Longevity insurance, describes the process of mitigating against Longevity risk. Such risk mitigation is often achieved using a longevity annuity or Tontine, qualifying longevity annuity contract (QLAC), deferred income annuity, is an annuity contract designed to provide to the policyholder payments for life starting a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodissociation%20region
In astrophysics, photodissociation regions (or photon-dominated regions, PDRs) are predominantly neutral regions of the interstellar medium in which far ultraviolet photons strongly influence the gas chemistry and act as the most important source of heat. They occur in any region of interstellar gas that is dense and c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Poincar%C3%A9%20algebra
In physics and mathematics, the κ-Poincaré algebra, named after Henri Poincaré, is a deformation of the Poincaré algebra into a Hopf algebra. In the bicrossproduct basis, introduced by Majid-Ruegg its commutation rules reads: Where are the translation generators, the rotations and the boosts. The coproducts ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Isaacson
Jacob Isaacson (May 5, 1911 – September 8, 1980) was an American composer and musician. Isaacson was most noted for his own Colortone musical notation and his early works within this system. His association with the Fluxus movement was played down by Isaacson, who held European classical tradition in high regard, altho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samotherium
Samotherium ("beast of Samos") is an extinct genus of Giraffidae from the Miocene and Pliocene of Eurasia and Africa. Samotherium had two ossicones on its head, and long legs. The ossicones usually pointed upward, and were curved backwards, with males having larger, more curved ossicones, though in the Chinese species,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%CE%B1-Mannobiose
2α-Mannobiose is a disaccharide. It is formed by a condensation reaction, when two mannose molecules react together, in the formation of a glycosidic bond.