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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 120° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 120th meridian west forms a great circle with the 60th meridian east.
In Canada the border between British Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/130th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 130° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 130th meridian west forms a great circle with the 50th meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/140th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 140° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The line is the divider in the area of warning responsibility between the National Hurricane Center and the Centra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/160th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 160° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 160th meridian west forms a great circle with the 20th meridian east.
It is the western boundary of continuou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/170th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 170° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 170th meridian west forms a great circle with the 10th meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 12° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 12th meridian west forms a great circle with the 168th meridian east.
Part of the border between Western ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 25° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 25th meridian east forms a great circle with the 155th meridian west.
Most of the border between Libya and Egy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%E2%80%93Wallace%20Medal | The Darwin–Wallace Medal is a medal awarded by the Linnean Society of London for "major advances in evolutionary biology". Historically, the medals have been awarded every 50 years, beginning in 1908. That year marked 50 years after the joint presentation by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace of two scientific p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 24° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 24th meridian east forms a great circle with the 156th meridian west.
Part of the border b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd%20meridian%20east | The meridian 22° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 22nd meridian east forms a great circle with the 158th meridian west.
Part of the border b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayford%20ellipsoid | The Hayford ellipsoid is a geodetic reference ellipsoid, named after the US geodesist John Fillmore Hayford (1868–1925), which was introduced in 1910. The Hayford ellipsoid was also referred to as the International ellipsoid 1924 after it had been adopted by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics IUGG in 192... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling%20%28accident%29 | Falling is the action of a person or animal losing stability and ending up in a lower position, often on the ground. It is the second-leading cause of accidental death worldwide and a major cause of personal injury, especially for the elderly. Falls in older adults are a major class of preventable injuries. Constructio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st%20meridian%20east | The meridian 21° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 21st meridian east forms a great circle with the 159th meridian west.
Part of Namibia's bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/141st%20meridian%20west | The meridian 141° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 141st meridian west forms a great circle with the 39th meridian east.
Most of the border between Alaska, Unit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20type | In type theory universal type(s) may refer to:
The top type in a type system with subtyping.
Universal types is a shorthand for universally quantified types in systems that support parametric polymorphism like System F.
Type theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion%20staining | The optical properties of all liquid and solid materials change as a function of the wavelength of light used to measure them. This change as a function of wavelength is called the dispersion of the optical properties. The graph created by plotting the optical property of interest by the wavelength at which it is mea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergradation | In zoology, intergradation is the way in which two distinct subspecies are connected via areas where populations are found that have the characteristics of both. There are two types of intergradation: primary and secondary intergradation.
Primary intergradation
This occurs in cases where two subspecies are connected ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refraction%20microtremor | Refraction microtremor (ReMi) is a surface-performed geophysical survey developed by Dr. John Louie (and others) based on previously existing principles of evaluating surface waves and in particular Rayleigh waves. The refraction microtremor technology was developed at the University of Nevada and is owned by the State... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETen%20Chinese%20System | ETen Chinese System (倚天中文系統) was the most popular DOS-compatible traditional Chinese operating system before Chinese Windows 95.
DOS did not support Chinese characters, which are not in Extended ASCII. Many companies in Taiwan developed their own IBM PC compatible traditional Chinese operating system running on DOS, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchinson%20operator | In mathematics, in the study of fractals, a Hutchinson operator is the collective action of a set of contractions, called an iterated function system. The iteration of the operator converges to a unique attractor, which is the often self-similar fixed set of the operator.
Definition
Let be an iterated function system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit-based%20fair%20queuing | Credit-based fair queuing is a computationally efficient alternative to fair queueing. Credit is accumulated to queues as they wait for service. Credit is spent by queues while they are being serviced. Queues with positive credit are eligible for service. The rate of credit accumulation and release can be adjusted on a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Michael%20Kay%20Show | The Michael Kay Show is a sports radio talk show airing on the New York City radio station WEPN-FM 98.7 ESPN New York. It is hosted by New York Yankees television play-by-play broadcaster Michael Kay, New York Rangers pre and post-game radio host Don La Greca, and WWE Network and Hot 97 radio host Peter Rosenberg. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Greenhill%20%28surgeon%29 | Thomas Greenhill (1669?–1740) was a surgeon who worked in London and was also author of a book Νεκροκηδεία (Greek, literally Dead-funeral) or The Art of Embalming on embalming. He was also surgeon to Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk. He was born after the death of his father, William Greenhill, the last of 39 children... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression%20of%20morbidity | The compression of morbidity in public health is a hypothesis put forth by James Fries, professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. The hypothesis was supported by a 1998 study of 1700 University of Pennsylvania alumni over a period of 20 years.
Fries' hypothesis is that the burden of lifetime ill... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20aliasing | Type aliasing is a feature in some programming languages that allows the creation to refer to a type using another name. It does not create a new type hence does not increase type safety. It can be used to shorten a long name. Programing languages which allows type aliasing include C++, D, Dart, Elixir, Elm, F#, Go, Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashrom%20%28utility%29 | Flashrom is a software utility published under an open source license that can detect, read, verify, erase, or write EEPROMs using interfaces such as the Low Pin Count (LPC), FWH, parallel, and Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI). It can be used to flash firmware images such as BIOS or coreboot, or to backup existing fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva%20Directory%20Server | Mandriva Directory Server (MDS) is an LDAP server developed by Mandriva. This is similar to 389 Directory Server, Novell eDirectory etc. for managing resources & infrastructure within the network.
See also
Fedora Directory Server
Novell eDirectory
List of LDAP software
External links
Mandriva Directory Server
Di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20productivity | Resource productivity is the quantity of good or service (outcome) that is obtained through the expenditure of unit resource. This can be expressed in monetary terms as the monetary yield per unit resource.
For example, when applied to crop irrigation it is the yield of crop obtained through use of a given volume of i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SetACL | SetACL is a freeware utility for manipulating security descriptors on Microsoft Windows. It used to be available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) as a command-line utility and as an ActiveX component, but changed to a freeware license in version 3.0.0.0.
Features
This list of features is taken from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis | Diagnosis (: diagnoses) is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon. Diagnosis is used in many different disciplines, with variations in the use of logic, analytics, and experience, to determine "cause and effect". In systems engineering and computer science, it is typically used to determine ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Kronrod%20quadrature%20formula | The Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula is an adaptive method for numerical integration. It is a variant of Gaussian quadrature, in which the evaluation points are chosen so that an accurate approximation can be computed by re-using the information produced by the computation of a less accurate approximation. It is an exa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimura%27s%20disease | Kimura's disease is a benign rare chronic inflammatory disorder. Its primary symptoms are subdermal lesions in the head or neck or painless unilateral inflammation of cervical lymph nodes.
Cause
Its cause remains unknown. Reasons such as an allergic reaction, tetanus toxoid vaccination, or an alteration of immune regu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulus%20%28algebraic%20number%20theory%29 | In mathematics, in the field of algebraic number theory, a modulus (plural moduli) (or cycle, or extended ideal) is a formal product of places of a global field (i.e. an algebraic number field or a global function field). It is used to encode ramification data for abelian extensions of a global field.
Definition
Let... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20Turing%20machine | A symmetric Turing machine is a Turing machine which has a configuration graph that is undirected (that is, configuration i yields configuration j if and only if j yields
i).
Definition of symmetric Turing machines
Formally, we define a variant of Turing machines with a set of transitions of the form , where p,q are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Laguerre%20quadrature | In numerical analysis Gauss–Laguerre quadrature (named after Carl Friedrich Gauss and Edmond Laguerre) is an extension of the Gaussian quadrature method for approximating the value of integrals of the following kind:
In this case
where xi is the i-th root of Laguerre polynomial Ln(x) and the weight wi is given by
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winding%20machine | A winding machine or winder is a machine for wrapping string, twine, cord, thread, yarn, rope, wire, ribbon, tape, etc. onto a spool, bobbin, reel, etc.
In textiles
Winders are used heavily in textile manufacturing, especially in preparation to weaving where the yarn is wound onto a bobbin and then used in a shuttle.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srizbi%20botnet | Srizbi BotNet is considered one of the world's largest botnets, and responsible for sending out more than half of all the spam being sent by all the major botnets combined. The botnets consist of computers infected by the Srizbi trojan, which sent spam on command. Srizbi suffered a massive setback in November 2008 when... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median%20cut | Median cut is an algorithm to sort data of an arbitrary number of dimensions into series of sets by recursively cutting each set of data at the median point along the longest dimension. Median cut is typically used for color quantization. For example, to reduce a 64k-colour image to 256 colours, median cut is used to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roblox | Roblox () is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program games and play games created by other users. Created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in 2006, the platform hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in the programmin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st%20meridian%20east | The meridian 41° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
Part of the border between Kenya and Somalia runs about 1 km west of the meridian, parallel to it.
The 41st ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/48th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 48° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Madagascar, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 48th meridian east forms a great circle with the 132nd meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Star... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 56° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The westernmost part of the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is defined by the meridian.
The 56th meridian e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20heterodyne%20detection | Optical heterodyne detection is a method of extracting information encoded as modulation of the phase, frequency or both of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength band of visible or infrared light. The light signal is compared with standard or reference light from a "local oscillator" (LO) that would have a fixed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%27s%20oscillator | Tesla's electro-mechanical oscillator is a steam-powered electric generator patented by Nikola Tesla in 1893. Later in life Tesla claimed one version of the oscillator caused an earthquake in New York City in 1898, gaining it the popular culture title "Tesla's earthquake machine".
Description
Tesla's oscillator is a r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/129th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 129° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, Australia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 129th meridian east forms a great circle with the 51st meridian west.
In Australia, the meridian nominally d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauricella%27s%20theorem | In the theory of orthogonal functions, Lauricella's theorem provides a condition for checking the closure of a set of orthogonal functions, namely:
Theorem. A necessary and sufficient condition that a normal orthogonal set be closed is that the formal series for each function of a known closed normal orthogonal set ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian%20Bates | Gillian Patricia Bates (born 19 May 1956) FMedSci FRS is a British biologist. She is distinguished for her research into the molecular basis of Huntington's disease and in 1998 was awarded the GlaxoSmithKline Prize as a co-discoverer of the cause of this disease. As of 2016, she is Professor of Neurogenetics at UCL Ins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Beggs | Jean Duthie Beggs CBE FRS FRSE DSc (née Lancaster, born 16 April 1950) is a Scottish geneticist. She is the Royal Society Darwin Trust Professor in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh.
Biography
Beggs was born Jean Duthie Lancaster on 16 April 1950 to Jean Crawford (née Duthie) a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promethean%20World | Promethean World Ltd is a global education technologies company that makes digital whiteboards and other products. Founded in 1997, it was acquired in 2015 by NetDragon Websoft, a Chinese video game company. The company has headquarters in Seattle and offices in Atlanta and Blackburn, England.
History
Tony Cann founde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20analysis%20%28psychology%29 | Functional analysis in behavioral psychology is the application of the laws of operant and respondent conditioning to establish the relationships between stimuli and responses. To establish the function of operant behavior, one typically examines the "four-term contingency": first by identifying the motivating operatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Elastic%20Interface | Elastic interface buses, abbreviated as EI bus connections, can be generalized as bus connections which are high speed interfaces that send clock signals with data.
Description
The data bits that are sent through EI bus connections are aligned to the clock so that they latch to the data at the high speeds. EI bus conn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeopascichnus | Palaeopascichnus is an Ediacaran fossil comprising a series of lobes, first originating before the Gaskiers glaciation; it is plausibly a protozoan, but probably unrelated to the classical 'Ediacaran biota'. Once thought to represent a trace fossil, it is now recognized as a body fossil and corresponds to the skeleton... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20the%20Philippines%20Los%20Ba%C3%B1os%20Institute%20of%20Plant%20Breeding | The Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB) is a research institute of the University of the Philippines Los Baños. It is the national biotechnology research center and repository for all crops other than rice, which is handled by the Philippine Rice Research Institute.
It traces its roots to the Plant Breeding Division of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livoniana | Livoniana is a genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish which lived during the Devonian period (Givetian - Frasnian stages, about 374 - 391 million years ago).
This species is a transitional form between fish and the earliest tetrapods, like Tiktaalik, Ichthyostega and Acanthostega. Before Livoniana there was Elginerpeto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaciogenic%20Reservoir%20Analogue%20Studies%20Project | The Glaciogenic Reservoir Analogue Studies Project (GRASP) is a research group studying the subglacial to proglacial record of Pleistocene glacial events. It is based in the Delft University of Technology.
Introduction to glaciogenic reservoirs
Glaciogenic reservoirs are sedimentary rocks deposited under an ice sheet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment-based%20lead%20discovery | Fragment-based lead discovery (FBLD) also known as fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) is a method used for finding lead compounds as part of the drug discovery process. Fragments are small organic molecules which are small in size and low in molecular weight. It is based on identifying small chemical fragments, which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly%20effect%20in%20popular%20culture | The butterfly effect describes a phenomenon in chaos theory whereby a minor change in circumstances can cause a large change in outcome. The scientific concept is attributed to Edward Lorenz, a mathematician and meteorologist who used the metaphor to describe his research findings related to chaos theory and weather pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldy%E2%80%93Wouthuysen%20transformation | The Foldy–Wouthuysen transformation was historically significant and was formulated by Leslie Lawrance Foldy and Siegfried Adolf Wouthuysen in 1949 to understand the nonrelativistic limit of the Dirac equation, the equation for spin-½ particles. A detailed general discussion of the Foldy–Wouthuysen-type transformations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternant%20code | In coding theory, alternant codes form a class of parameterised error-correcting codes which generalise the BCH codes.
Definition
An alternant code over GF(q) of length n is defined by a parity check matrix H of alternant form Hi,j = αjiyi, where the αj are distinct elements of the extension GF(qm), the yi are further... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Nelsonian | The Nelsonian is a 32-piece One-Man Band contraption, that Albert Nelson (1884-1964) designed, built and played. Nelson began building the device in 1915, because the Cello player in his band would often fail to show up. This led him to invent a device, that would allow him to play the Violin and Cello at the same time... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Stone%20Dogs | The Stone Dogs is a science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer S. M. Stirling, the third book in the alternate history series, The Domination. It was first published in paperback by Baen Books in August 1990. It was a preliminary nominee for the 1996 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.
The novel details the life of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20F.%20Shlesinger | Michael F. Shlesinger (born August 8, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York) is a physicist notable for his work in the area of nonlinear dynamics. He is the co-founder of the journal Fractals. His pioneering work in statistical predictions and descriptions of random and deterministic processes has influenced the physics of amorp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eospinus | Eospinus daniltshenkoi is an extinct tetraodontid bony fish from the Eocene. Its fossils are from the Danata Formation lagerstatten of Ypresian Turkmenistan.
E. daniltshenkoi had four dorsal spines, three of which were on the anterior end of its dorsal side, and the first spine being placed between and below the eyes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Hermite%20quadrature | In numerical analysis, Gauss–Hermite quadrature is a form of Gaussian quadrature for approximating the value of integrals of the following kind:
In this case
where n is the number of sample points used. The xi are the roots of the physicists' version of the Hermite polynomial Hn(x) (i = 1,2,...,n), and the associate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstructor | Reconstructor is a commercial point cloud processing software. Developed and marketed by the Italian software house Gexcel, Reconstructor was first released in September 2007 and continuously updated since then. It's a complete point cloud processing software package that includes many post processing tools for 3D reco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickling%20salt | Pickling salt is a salt that is used mainly for canning and manufacturing pickles. It is sodium chloride, as is table salt, but unlike most brands of table salt, it does not contain iodine or any anti caking products added. A widely circulated legend suggested that iodisation caused the brine of pickles to change color... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological%20skeleton | In digital image processing, morphological skeleton is a skeleton (or medial axis) representation of a shape or binary image, computed by means of morphological operators.
Morphological skeletons are of two kinds:
Those defined by means of morphological openings, from which the original shape can be reconstructed,
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropia | Micropia is the name of a family of LTR retrotransposons widespread in the genomes of fruitflies of the genus Drosophila. Micropia retrotransposons in some species of Drosophila express a male germline-specific and meiotic-specific antisense transcript complementary to the reverse transcriptase (RT) and ribonuclease A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20nonlinearity | Integral nonlinearity (acronym INL) is a commonly used measure of performance in digital-to-analog (DAC) and analog-to-digital (ADC) converters. In DACs, it is a measure of the deviation between the ideal output value and the actual measured output value for a certain input code. In ADCs, it is the deviation between th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20geophysics | Computational geophysics is the field of study that uses any type of numerical computations to generate and analyze models of complex geophysical systems. It can be considered an extension, or sub-field, of both computational physics and geophysics. In recent years, computational power, data availability, and modelling... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield%20Software%20Engineering%20Observatory | The Sheffield Software Engineering Observatory (Observatory) was founded in 2005 by an EPSRC grant at the University of Sheffield. The Observatory is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield.
Overview
Its aim is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village%20Telco | Village Telco is an initiative to build low-cost community telephone network hardware and software. It is based on a suite of open-source applications that enable entrepreneurs to set up and operate a telephone service in a specific area or supporting the needs of a specific community.
The first Village Telco network ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicore%20Association | The Multicore Association was founded in 2005. Multicore Association is a member-funded, non-profit, industry consortium focused on the creation of open standard APIs, specifications, and guidelines that allow system developers and programmers to more readily adopt multicore technology into their applications.
The con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Code%20Jam | Google Code Jam was an international programming competition hosted and administered by Google. The competition began in 2003. The competition consists of a set of algorithmic problems which must be solved in a fixed amount of time. Competitors may use any programming language and development environment to obtain thei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermite%20number | In mathematics, Hermite numbers are values of Hermite polynomials at zero argument. Typically they are defined for physicists' Hermite polynomials.
Formal definition
The numbers Hn = Hn(0), where Hn(x) is a Hermite polynomial of order n, may be called Hermite numbers.
The first Hermite numbers are:
Recursion relati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cln3 | G1/S-specific cyclin Cln3 is a protein that is encoded by the CLN3 gene. The Cln3 protein is a budding yeast G1 cyclin that controls the timing of Start, the point of commitment to a mitotic cell cycle. It is an upstream regulator of the other G1 cyclins, and it is thought to be the key regulator linking cell growth t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20approximation%20theorem | In the mathematical theory of artificial neural networks, universal approximation theorems are results that put limits on what neural networks can theoretically learn, i.e. that establish the density of an algorithmically generated class of functions within a given function space of interest. Typically, these results ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 74° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
It is the most populous meridian in the Americas and the seco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Fuchs%20theorem | In mathematics, in the area of additive number theory, the Erdős–Fuchs theorem is a statement about the number of ways that numbers can be represented as a sum of elements of a given additive basis, stating that the average order of this number cannot be too close to being a linear function.
The theorem is named after... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electropositive%20shark%20repellent | Electropositive metals (EPMs) are a new class of shark repellent materials that produce a measurable voltage when immersed in an electrolyte such as seawater. The voltages produced are as high as 1.75 VDC in seawater. It is hypothesized that this voltage overwhelms the ampullary organ in sharks, producing a repellent a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub | GitHub, Inc. () is a platform and cloud-based service for software development and version control using Git, allowing developers to store and manage their code. It provides the distributed version control of Git plus access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20Committee%20on%20Problems%20of%20the%20Environment | The Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) was established by the 10th meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU) in 1969. SCOPE's members include 38 national science academies and research councils, and 22 international scientific unions. The current preside... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathPath | MathPath is a mathematics enrichment summer program for students ages 11–14 (middle-school age in the US). It is four weeks long, and moves to a different location each year. MathPath is visited by mathematicians such as John H. Conway and Francis Su.
It was probably the original, and is still one of the few, internati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20Operational%20Research%20Service | In the United Kingdom, the Government Operational Research Service (GORS) supports and champions Operational Research across government. GORS currently supports policy-making, strategy and operations in many different departments and agencies across the United Kingdom and employs over 1000 analysts, ranging from sandwi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Shestakov | Victor Ivanovich Shestakov (Russian: ) (1907–1987) was a Russian/Soviet logician and theoretician of electrical engineering. In 1935 he discovered the possible interpretation of Boolean algebra of logic in electro-mechanical relay circuits. He graduated from Moscow State University (1934) and worked there in the Genera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral%20vasculitis | Cerebral vasculitis (sometimes the word angiitis is used instead of "vasculitis") is vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessel wall) involving the brain and occasionally the spinal cord. It affects all of the vessels: very small blood vessels (capillaries), medium-size blood vessels (arterioles and venules), or larg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme%20Snooks | Graeme Donald Snooks (born 1944 in Perth, Western Australia) is a systems theorist and stratologist who has developed a general dynamic theory to explain complex living systems. His resulting "dynamic-strategy theory" has been employed to analyse the fluctuating fortunes of life over the past 4,000 million years (myrs)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20Bioinformatics | Evolutionary Bioinformatics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal focusing on computational biology in the study of evolution. The journal was established in 2005 by Allen Rodrigo and is currently edited by Dennis Wall (Stanford University). It was originally published by Libertas Academica, but SAGE Public... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics%20and%20Biology%20Insights | Bioinformatics and Biology Insights is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal focusing on the application of bioinformatics to biological research. The journal was originally published by Libertas Academica, but SAGE Publications became the publisher in September 2016. The journal is edited by Erich Bornberg-B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/122nd%20meridian%20west | The meridian 122° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
122°W is the Seventh Meridian of the Dominion Land Survey in Canada.
The 122nd meridian west forms a great circle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synnema | A synnema (plural synnemata, also coremia; derivation: "Threads together") is a large, erect reproductive structure borne by some fungi, bearing compact conidiophores, which fuse together to form a strand resembling a stalk of wheat, with conidia at the end or on the edges.
Fungal genera which bear synnemata include Do... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowel%20management | Bowel management is the process which a person with a bowel disability uses to manage fecal incontinence or constipation. People who have a medical condition which impairs control of their defecation use bowel management techniques to choose a predictable time and place to evacuate. A simple bowel management technique ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder%20Blade | is a third-person shoot 'em up video game released by Sega for arcades in 1987. Players control a helicopter to destroy enemy vehicles. The game was released as a standard stand-up arcade cabinet with force feedback, as the joystick vibrates. A helicopter shaped sit-down model was released, replacing the force feedback... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srivastava%20code | In coding theory, Srivastava codes, formulated by Professor J. N. Srivastava, form a class of parameterised error-correcting codes which are a special case of alternant codes.
Definition
The original Srivastava code over GF(q) of length n is defined by a parity check matrix H of alternant form
where the αi and zi a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNPedia | SNPedia (pronounced "snipedia") is a wiki-based bioinformatics web site that serves as a database of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Each article on a SNP provides a short description, links to scientific articles and personal genomics web sites, as well as microarray information about that SNP. Thus SNPedia ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justesen%20code | In coding theory, Justesen codes form a class of error-correcting codes that have a constant rate, constant relative distance, and a constant alphabet size.
Before the Justesen error correction code was discovered, no error correction code was known that had all of these three parameters as a constant.
Subsequently, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose%20slide | A nitrocellulose slide (or nitrocellulose film slide) is a glass microscope slide that is coated with nitrocellulose that is used to bind biological material, often protein, for colorimetric and fluorescence detection assays. For this purpose, a nitrocellulose slide is generally considered to be superior to glass, bec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20of%20the%20Vikings | Blood of the Vikings was a five-part 2001 BBC Television documentary series that traced the legacy of the Vikings in the British Isles through a genetics survey.
Production
The series was presented by Julian Richards who has a long-held fascination with the Vikings.
Geneticist Professor David Goldstein, from Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula%20brevipes | Russula brevipes is a species of mushroom commonly known as the short-stemmed russula or the stubby brittlegill. It is widespread in North America, and was reported from Pakistan in 2006. The fungus grows in a mycorrhizal association with trees from several genera, including fir, spruce, Douglas-fir, and hemlock. Fruit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula%20risigallina | Russula risigallina is a species of mushroom. It was previously known as R. chamaeleontina. It is a small yellow russula that is edible and good-tasting, although identifying the species correctly can be difficult.
This mushroom can be found in various countries throughout Europe.
See also
List of Russula species |
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