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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometry | Trigonometry () is a branch of mathematics concerned with relationships between angles and ratios of lengths. The field emerged in the Hellenistic world during the 3rd century BC from applications of geometry to astronomical studies. The Greeks focused on the calculation of chords, while mathematicians in India create... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate%20Northern%20Pacific | The Temperate Northern Pacific is a biogeographic region of the Earth's seas, comprising the temperate waters of the northern Pacific Ocean.
The Temperate Northern Pacific connects, via the Bering Sea, to the Arctic marine realm, which includes the polar waters of the Arctic Sea. To the south, it transitions to the tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation%20reflex | The fixation reflex is that concerned with attracting the eye on a peripheral object. For example, when a light shines in the periphery, the eyes shift gaze on it. It is controlled by the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, corroborated by three main tests:
Removal of cortex causes shutdown of this reflex
Drawin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Black%20Onyx | is a 1984 role-playing video game released in Japan, developed by Bullet-Proof Software, with development led by Henk Rogers. It was originally released for the NEC PC-8801, and ported to several other platforms. The Famicom version featured completely redesigned gameplay, a new map, and was retitled Super Black Onyx (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatitis%20herpetiformis | Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) is a chronic autoimmune blistering skin condition, characterised by intensely itchy blisters filled with a watery fluid. DH is a cutaneous manifestation of coeliac disease, although the exact causal mechanism is not known. DH is neither related to nor caused by herpes virus; the name means... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction%20to%20the%20Theory%20of%20Computation | Introduction to the Theory of Computation () is a textbook in theoretical computer science, written by Michael Sipser and first published by PWS Publishing in 1997.
See also
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, an older textbook in the same field |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocranium | The endocranium in comparative anatomy is a part of the skull base in vertebrates and it represents the basal, inner part of the cranium. The term is also applied to the outer layer of the dura mater in human anatomy.
Structure
Structurally, the endocranium consists of a boxlike shape, open at the top. The posterior m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound%20licking | Wound licking is an instinctive response in humans and many other animals to cover an injury or second degree burn with saliva. Dogs, cats, small rodents, horses, and primates all lick wounds. Saliva contains tissue factor which promotes the blood clotting mechanism. The enzyme lysozyme is found in many tissues and is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room%20square | A Room square, named after Thomas Gerald Room, is an n × n array filled with n + 1 different symbols in such a way that:
Each cell of the array is either empty or contains an unordered pair from the set of symbols
Each symbol occurs exactly once in each row and column of the array
Every unordered pair of symbols occ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietveld%20%28software%29 | Rietveld is a web-based collaborative code review tool for Subversion written by Guido van Rossum to run on Google's cloud service. Van Rossum based Rietveld on the experience he had writing Mondrian. Mondrian was a proprietary application used internally by Google to review their code.
Gerrit is a fork of Rietveld st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation%20swap | A correlation swap is an over-the-counter financial derivative that allows one to speculate on or hedge risks associated with the observed average correlation, of a collection of underlying products, where each product has periodically observable prices, as with a commodity, exchange rate, interest rate, or stock inde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20R.%20Parthasarathy%20%28probabilist%29 | Kalyanapuram Rangachari Parthasarathy (25 June 1936 – 14 June 2023) was an Indian statistician who was professor emeritus at the Indian Statistical Institute and a pioneer of quantum stochastic calculus. Parthasarathy was the recipient the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton-transfer-reaction%20mass%20spectrometry | Proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) is an analytical chemistry technique that uses gas phase hydronium reagent ions which are produced in an ion source. PTR-MS is used for online monitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in ambient air and was developed in 1995 by scientists at the Institut für Io... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20S.%20Raghunathan | Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan FRS is an Indian mathematician. He is currently Head of the National Centre for Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. Formerly Professor of eminence at TIFR in Homi Bhabha Chair. Raghunathan received his PhD in Mathematics from (TIFR), University of Mumbai; his advisor was M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrocks%20bundle | In algebraic geometry, Horrocks bundles are certain indecomposable rank 3 vector bundles (locally free sheaves) on 5-dimensional projective space, found by . |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brun%20sieve | In the field of number theory, the Brun sieve (also called Brun's pure sieve) is a technique for estimating the size of "sifted sets" of positive integers which satisfy a set of conditions which are expressed by congruences. It was developed by Viggo Brun in 1915 and later generalized to the fundamental lemma of sieve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20relaxation | Dynamic relaxation is a numerical method, which, among other things, can be used to do "form-finding" for cable and fabric structures. The aim is to find a geometry where all forces are in equilibrium. In the past this was done by direct modelling, using hanging chains and weights (see Gaudi), or by using soap films, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray%20transform | In mathematics, the X-ray transform (also called ray transform or John transform) is an integral transform introduced by Fritz John in 1938 that is one of the cornerstones of modern integral geometry. It is very closely related to the Radon transform, and coincides with it in two dimensions. In higher dimensions, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraticin | Seraticin is an antibiotic discovered by scientists at Swansea University able to inhibit 12 different strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), as well as E. coli and C. difficile. The research was funded by the charity Action Medical Research, with support from the Rosetrees Trust. Seraticin was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Edward%20Hughes | George Edward Hughes (8 June 1918 – 4 March 1994) was an Irish-born New Zealand philosopher and logician whose principal scholarly works were concerned with modal logic and medieval philosophy.
Biography
Hughes was born on 8 June 1918 in Waterford city, Ireland. His English parents George James Hughes and Gertrude Spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGEL%20Technology | IGEL Technology ( ) is a German multinational software company best known for their "Next generation edge operating system" which is purpose-built for secure access to cloud workspaces such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and/or Desktop as a Service.
In February 2021, it was announced that TA Associates ("TA"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milagros%20D.%20Ibe | Milagros Dimal Ibe (born 1931) is a teacher of mathematics. Dr. Ibe devised teacher-training programs and research studies that led to the development of policies in basic and higher education in the Philippines. According to the Science Education Institute of the Philippines, "she has left a legacy of teaching with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassif%20Ghoussoub | Nassif A. Ghoussoub is a Canadian mathematician working in the fields of non-linear analysis and partial differential equations. He is a Professor of Mathematics and a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia.
Early life and education
Ghoussoub was born to Lebanese parents in Western A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selberg%20sieve | In number theory, the Selberg sieve is a technique for estimating the size of "sifted sets" of positive integers which satisfy a set of conditions which are expressed by congruences. It was developed by Atle Selberg in the 1940s.
Description
In terms of sieve theory the Selberg sieve is of combinatorial type: that is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20mill%20%28carriage%29 | A field mill, also known as a camp mill, was a premodern vehicle which acted as a mobile mill used for grinding grains, which had the very practical use of feeding a moving army.
History
Later Zhao
In the Yezhongji (鄴中記) ('Record of Affairs at the Capital of the Later Zhao Dynasty') by Lu Hui, covering the history of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable%20load | A programmable load is a type of test equipment or instrument which emulates DC or AC resistance loads normally required to perform functional tests of batteries, power supplies or solar cells. By virtue of being programmable, tests like load regulation, battery discharge curve measurement and transient tests can be fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20loop | In the mathematical field of topology, a free loop is a variant of the mathematical notion of a loop. Whereas a loop has a distinguished point on it, called a basepoint, a free loop lacks such a distinguished point. Formally, let be a topological space. Then a free loop in is an equivalence class of continuous fun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marefa | Marefa (in ) is a not-for-profit online encyclopedia project that uses the wiki system to provide a free Arabic encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. It was set up by Nayel Shafei on February 16, 2007. Sister projects include Manuscript documentation, Sources, Collaborative books, forums, Blogsphere, E-mail accounts (with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome%20landing | Chromosomal landing is a genetic technique used to identify and isolate clones in a genetic library. Chromosomal landing reduces the problem of analyzing large, and/or highly repetitive genomes by minimizing the need for chromosome walking. It is based on the principle that the expected average between-marker distances... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo%20Consortium | The Virgo Consortium was founded in 1994 for Cosmological Supercomputer Simulations in response to the UK's High Performance Computing Initiative. Virgo developed rapidly into an international collaboration between a dozen scientists in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, United States and Japan.
Nodes
The largest ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpartaDOS%20X | SpartaDOS X (or SpartaDOS 4.0) is a disk operating system for the Atari 8-bit family of computers that closely resembles MS-DOS. It was developed and sold by ICD, Inc. in 1987-1993, and many years later picked up by the third-party community SpartaDOS X Upgrade Project, which still maintains the software.
History
Spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis%20on%20fractals | Analysis on fractals or calculus on fractals is a generalization of calculus on smooth manifolds to calculus on fractals.
The theory describes dynamical phenomena which occur on objects modelled by fractals.
It studies questions such as "how does heat diffuse in a fractal?" and "How does a fractal vibrate?"
In the sm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal%20analysis | Fractal analysis is assessing fractal characteristics of data. It consists of several methods to assign a fractal dimension and other fractal characteristics to a dataset which may be a theoretical dataset, or a pattern or signal extracted from phenomena including topography, natural geometric objects, ecology and aqua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20order%20of%20an%20arithmetic%20function | In number theory, a normal order of an arithmetic function is some simpler or better-understood function which "usually" takes the same or closely approximate values.
Let f be a function on the natural numbers. We say that g is a normal order of f if for every ε > 0, the inequalities
hold for almost all n: that is, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tur%C3%A1n%20sieve | In number theory, the Turán sieve is a technique for estimating the size of "sifted sets" of positive integers which satisfy a set of conditions which are expressed by congruences. It was developed by Pál Turán in 1934.
Description
In terms of sieve theory the Turán sieve is of combinatorial type: deriving from a rud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20analytic%20variety | In mathematics, and in particular differential geometry and complex geometry, a complex analytic variety or complex analytic space is a generalization of a complex manifold which allows the presence of singularities. Complex analytic varieties are locally ringed spaces which are locally isomorphic to local model spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20sculpture | A video sculpture is a type of video installation that integrates video into an object, environment, site or performance. The nature of video sculpture is that it utilizes the material of video in an innovative way in space and time, different from the standard traditional narrative screening where the video has a begi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon%20algorithm | The demon algorithm is a Monte Carlo method for efficiently sampling members of a microcanonical ensemble with a given energy. An additional degree of freedom, called 'the demon', is added to the system and is able to store and provide energy. If a drawn microscopic state has lower energy than the original state, the e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s%20theorem%20%28differential%20geometry%29 | In the mathematical field of differential geometry, Euler's theorem is a result on the curvature of curves on a surface. The theorem establishes the existence of principal curvatures and associated principal directions which give the directions in which the surface curves the most and the least. The theorem is named ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schild%27s%20ladder | In the theory of general relativity, and differential geometry more generally, Schild's ladder is a first-order method for approximating parallel transport of a vector along a curve using only affinely parametrized geodesics. The method is named for Alfred Schild, who introduced the method during lectures at Princeton... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20fiction | Medical fiction is fiction whose events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment. It is highly prevalent on television, especially as medical dramas, as well as in novels.
The depiction of medical institutions and their staff has been considered important both for the influence it has on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical%20and%20Applied%20Genetics | Theoretical and Applied Genetics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal publishes articles in the fields of plant genetics, genomics, and biotechnology. It was established in 1929 as Der Züchter, which name was changed to the current one in 1968. Previous editors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Object%20Class%20%28ASN.1%29 | ASN.1 Information Object Class is a concept widely used in ASN.1 specifications to address issues related to protocol specification similar to issues addressed by CORBA/IDL specifications.
Information Object Classes are used for example to specify ROSE (Remote Operations Service Element) protocol in ASN.1.
Abbreviati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20attachment%20theory | Attachment theory, originating in the work of John Bowlby, is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory that provides a descriptive and explanatory framework for understanding interpersonal relationships between human beings.
In order to formulate a comprehensive theory of the nature of early attachments, B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Invertebrates | African Invertebrates is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that covers the taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, ecology, conservation, and palaeontology of Afrotropical invertebrates, whether terrestrial, freshwater, or marine. It is published by Pensoft Publishers on behalf of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python%20Robotics | Python Robotics (Pyro) is a project designed to create an easy-to-use interface for accessing and controlling a wide variety of real and simulated robots.
History
Pyrobot was funded from 2003 to 2005 by the National Science Foundation as NSF DUE CCLI-EMD Award number 0231363, "Beyond LEGOs: Hardware, Software, and Cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest%20path%20problem | In graph theory and theoretical computer science, the longest path problem is the problem of finding a simple path of maximum length in a given graph. A path is called simple if it does not have any repeated vertices; the length of a path may either be measured by its number of edges, or (in weighted graphs) by the sum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharam%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Maharam's theorem is a deep result about the decomposability of measure spaces, which plays an important role in the theory of Banach spaces. In brief, it states that every complete measure space is decomposable into "non-atomic parts" (copies of products of the unit interval [0,1] on the reals), and "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20visual%20display | An electronic visual display, informally a screen, is a display device for presentation of images, text, or video transmitted electronically, without producing a permanent record. Electronic visual displays include television sets, computer monitors, and digital signage. By the above definition, an overhead projector ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average%20order%20of%20an%20arithmetic%20function | In number theory, an average order of an arithmetic function is some simpler or better-understood function which takes the same values "on average".
Let be an arithmetic function. We say that an average order of is if
as tends to infinity.
It is conventional to choose an approximating function that is continuou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkenntnis | Erkenntnis is a journal of philosophy that publishes papers in analytic philosophy. Its name is derived from the German word "Erkenntnis", meaning "knowledge, recognition". The journal was also linked to organisation of conferences, such as the Second Conference on the Epistemology of the Exact Sciences, of which it pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary%20firmware | Proprietary firmware is any firmware that has had its use, private modification, copying, or republishing restricted by the producer. Proprietors may enforce restrictions by technical means, such as by restricting source code access, firmware replacement restrictions (by denying complete tooling that may be necessary i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20nutrition | Animal nutrition focuses on the dietary nutrients needs of animals, primarily those in agriculture and food production, but also in zoos, aquariums, and wildlife management.
Constituents of diet
Macronutrients (excluding fiber and water) provide structural material (amino acids from which proteins are built, and lipid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArchiMate | ArchiMate ( ) is an open and independent enterprise architecture modeling language to support the description, analysis and visualization of architecture within and across business domains in an unambiguous way.
ArchiMate is a technical standard from The Open Group and is based on concepts from the now superseded IEEE... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool%20chlorine%20hypothesis | The pool chlorine hypothesis is the hypothesis that long-term attendance at indoor chlorinated swimming pools by children up to the age of about 6–7 years is a major factor in the rise of asthma in rich countries since the late twentieth century. A narrower version of the hypothesis, i.e. that asthma may be induced by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare%20breed | In modern agriculture, a rare breed is a breed of poultry or livestock that has a very small breeding population, usually from a few hundred to a few thousand. Because of their small numbers, rare breeds may have a threatened conservation status, and they may be protected under regional laws. Many countries have organi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20D.%20McDonnell | Mark Damian McDonnell (born 28 February 1975) is an electronic engineer and mathematician, notable for his work on stochastic resonance and more specifically suprathreshold stochastic resonance.
Education
McDonnell graduated from the Salesian College, Adelaide. He received a BSc in Mathematical & Computer Sciences (19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred%20Broy | Manfred Broy (born 10 August 1949, Landsberg am Lech) is a German computer scientist, and an emeritus professor in the Department of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany.
Biography
Broy gained his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1980 at the chair of Friedrich L. Bauer on the subject of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20for%20the%20Cognitive%20Science%20of%20Religion | The International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion (IACESR), founded in 2006, is a scholarly association dedicated to the promotion of the Cognitive Science of Religion. The IACESR is an interdisciplinary association, including scholars from a wide variety of disciplines in the human,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation%20Catalyst%20Systems | Navigation Catalyst Systems, previously known as Vendare, First Look, and qsrch.net, was a pay-per-click advertising company that specialized in monetizing parked domain names and registrars' wildcard DNS records. Navigation Catalyst Systems was a subsidiary of New.net and an affiliate of the ICANN-accredited registra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallophyte | A metallophyte is a plant that can tolerate high levels of heavy metals such as lead. Such plants range between "obligate metallophytes" (which can only survive in the presence of these metals), and "facultative metallophytes" which can tolerate such conditions but are not confined to them.
European examples include a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%E2%80%93Diguet%E2%80%93Puiseux%20theorem | In the mathematical study of the differential geometry of surfaces, the Bertrand–Diguet–Puiseux theorem expresses the Gaussian curvature of a surface in terms of the circumference of a geodesic circle, or the area of a geodesic disc. The theorem is named for Joseph Bertrand, Victor Puiseux, and Charles François Diguet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INCA%20Internet | INCA Internet Corporation (), also known as nProtect, is a corporation which sells computer software. INCA Internet was founded by Young Heum Joo, the current CEO and President of INCA Internet, in 2000. It offers anti-virus, anti-spyware, game security, and unified corporate security. Headquartered in Seoul, Republic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape%20theory%20%28mathematics%29 | Shape theory is a branch of topology that provides a more global view of the topological spaces than homotopy theory. The two coincide on compacta dominated homotopically by finite polyhedra. Shape theory associates with the Čech homology theory while homotopy theory associates with the singular homology theory.
Backg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte%20display | A matte display is an electronic display with a matte surface. Matte displays feature a light-scattering antireflection layer, which reduces reflectivity at the cost of decreased contrast and color intensity under dimly lit conditions. If the steep nanostructures are used – etched in the surface – a matte display can a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrolethalus%20syndrome | Hydrolethalus syndrome (HLS) is a rare genetic disorder that causes improper fetal development, resulting in birth defects and, most commonly, stillbirth.
HLS is associated with HYLS1 mutations. The gene encoding HYLS1 is responsible for proper cilial development within the human body. Cilia are microscopic projection... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIQUAC | In statistical thermodynamics, UNIQUAC (a portmanteau of universal quasichemical) is an activity coefficient model used in description of phase equilibria.
The model is a so-called lattice model and has been derived from a first order approximation of interacting molecule surfaces. The model is, however, not fully th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi-Civita%20parallelogramoid | In the mathematical field of differential geometry, the Levi-Civita parallelogramoid is a quadrilateral in a curved space whose construction generalizes that of a parallelogram in the Euclidean plane. It is named for its discoverer, Tullio Levi-Civita. Like a parallelogram, two opposite sides AA′ and BB′ of a parallel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouennaise%20sauce | Rouennaise sauce (fr. Sauce Rouennaise) is a Bordelaise sauce with the addition of puréed duck liver. This sauce is served with Canetons à la Rouennaise, which was one of the dishes served at the famous "Dinner of the Three Emperors".
See also
List of duck dishes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam%20lead%20technology | Beam lead technology is a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. Its initial application was for high-frequency silicon switching transistors and high-speed integrated circuits. This technology eliminated the labor-intensive wire-bonding process that was commonly used for integrated circuits at the time. It also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pockmark%20%28geology%29 | Pockmarks are concave, crater-like depressions on seabeds that are caused by fluids (liquids and gasses) escaping and erupting through the seafloor. They can vary in size and have been found worldwide.
Pockmarks were discovered off the coasts of Nova Scotia, Canada in the late 1960s by Lew King and Brian McLean of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20game%20adapter | A Wireless game adapter is a device that, once connected to a video game console or handheld, enables internet and\or multiplayer access.
Consoles
Xbox 360
The Wireless Network Adapter for the Xbox 360 is a device that is plugged into the system's rear USB port, allowing for access to the internet via a wireless ro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD%20classification | There are various classifications of the electro-optical modes of liquid crystal displays (LCDs).
LCD operation in a nutshell
The operation of TN, VA and IPS-LCDs can be summarized as follows:
a well aligned LC configuration is deformed by an applied electric field,
this deformation changes the orientation of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius%20subdulcis | Lactarius subdulcis, commonly known as the mild milkcap or beech milk cap, is an edible mushroom in the genus Lactarius. It is brown in colour, with a large number of gills and a particularly thin layer of flesh in the cap. Mycorrhizal, the mushroom is found from late summer to late autumn at the base of beech trees in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Society%20of%20Black%20Physicists | The National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), established in the United States in 1977, is a non-profit professional organization with the goal to promote the professional well-being of African Diaspora physicists and physics students within the international scientific community and the world community at large.
H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20plague%20of%201518 | The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518. Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for weeks. There are many theories behind the phenomenon, the most... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloragogen%20cell | Chloragogen cells, also called y cells, are star-shaped cells in annelids involved with excretory functions and intermediary metabolism. These cells function similarly to the liver found in vertebrates. Chloragogen tissue is most extensively studied in earthworms.
Structure and location
These cells are derived from th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected%20transmission%20count | The ETX metric, or expected transmission count, is a measure of the quality of a path between two nodes in a wireless packet data network. It is widely utilized in mesh networking algorithms.
History
Douglas S.J. De Couto was the first to describe ETX in his 2004 doctoral dissertation at MIT. Subsequently, it has been... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK-42%20reference%20system | The SK-42 reference system also known as the Krasovsky 1940 ellipsoid, is a coordinate system established in the Soviet Union in 1942 as Systema koordinat (), and provides parameters which are linked to the geocentric Cartesian coordinate system PZ-90. It was used in geodetic calculations, notably in military mapping a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carangoides%20ciliarius | Carangoides ciliarius is a dubious species of marine fish in the jack and horse mackerel family, Carangidae. The validity of the species has been questioned by a number of authors, with many concluding it is a synonym of the similar Carangoides armatus, commonly known as the longfin trevally. However, this synonymy has... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell%20%28microarchitecture%29 | Haswell is the codename for a processor microarchitecture developed by Intel as the "fourth-generation core" successor to the Ivy Bridge (which is a die shrink/tick of the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture). Intel officially announced CPUs based on this microarchitecture on June 4, 2013, at Computex Taipei 2013, while a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20video%20connector | The Amiga video connector is a 23-pin male D-subminiature connector fitted to all personal computers in the Amiga range produced by Commodore International from 1985 to 1994, and by Escom from 1995 to 1996. The connector carries signals for analogue and digital RGB, RGB intensity, and genlocking as well as power.
Def... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotChalk | HotChalk was an education technology company founded in September 2004. HotChalk ran an online community application designed for grade school teachers, students, and parents. In August 2007, McGraw-Hill partnered with HotChalk to make McGraw-Hill training and certification tools available to HotChalk users. NBC partne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping-pong%20lemma | In mathematics, the ping-pong lemma, or table-tennis lemma, is any of several mathematical statements that ensure that several elements in a group acting on a set freely generates a free subgroup of that group.
History
The ping-pong argument goes back to the late 19th century and is commonly attributed to Felix Klein... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20appearance | The visual appearance of objects is given by the way in which they reflect and transmit light. The color of objects is determined by the parts of the spectrum of (incident white) light that are reflected or transmitted without being absorbed. Additional appearance attributes are based on the directional distribution of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen%20Cavanaugh | Colleen Marie Cavanaugh is an American academic microbiologist best known for her studies of hydrothermal vent ecosystems. As of 2002, she is the Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and is affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20source%20and%20channel%20coding | In information theory, joint source–channel coding is the encoding of a redundant information source for transmission over a noisy channel, and the corresponding decoding, using a single code instead of the more conventional steps of source coding followed by channel coding.
Joint source–channel coding has been propos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundscape%20SSHDR1 | The Soundscape SSHDR1 (1993 - 1996) was one of the first Windows based digital audio workstations available and was manufactured by Soundscape Digital Technology Ltd..
The system consisted of an external 2U rack unit which housed the audio processing hardware, based on Motorola 56000 family DSPs, 2 inputs and 4 output... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Seven%20Pillars%20of%20Life | The Seven Pillars of Life are the essential principles of life described by Daniel E. Koshland in 2002 in order to create a universal definition of life. One stated goal of this universal definition is to aid in understanding and identifying artificial and extraterrestrial life. The seven pillars are Program, Improvisa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyOcean | MyOcean is a series of projects granted by the European Commission within the GMES Program (Seventh Framework Program), whose objective is to define and to set up a concerted and integrated pan-European capacity for ocean monitoring and forecasting. The activities benefit several specified areas of use: Maritime securi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20number | A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a landline telephone subscriber station connected to a telephone line or to a wireless electronic telephony device, such as a radio telephone or a mobile telephone, or to other devices for data transmission via the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or other ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20arrowroot | Florida arrowroot was the commercial name of an edible starch extracted from Zamia integrifolia (coontie), a small cycad native to North America.
Use
Like other cycads, Zamia integrifolia is poisonous, producing a toxin that affects the gastrointestinal tract and nervous system. The toxin can however be removed by ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasideterminant | In mathematics, the quasideterminant is a replacement for the determinant for matrices with noncommutative entries. Example 2 × 2 quasideterminants are as follows:
In general, there are n2 quasideterminants defined for an n × n matrix (one for each position in the matrix), but the presence of the inverted terms abo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20G.%20Stocks | Nigel Geoffrey Stocks (born 6 September 1964) is an engineer and physicist, notable for discovering suprathreshold stochastic resonance (SSR) and its application to cochlear implant technology.
Education
He attended Bingley Grammar School before received a BSc in Applied Physics and Electronics (1987) and a PhD in (19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20A.%20Hedlund | Gustav Arnold Hedlund (May 7, 1904 – March 15, 1993), an American mathematician, was one of the founders of symbolic and topological dynamics.
Biography
Hedlund was born May 7, 1904, in Somerville, Massachusetts. He did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, earned a master's degree from Columbia University,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Services%20Modeling%20Language | WSML or Web Service Modeling Language is a formal language that provides a syntax and semantics for the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO).
In other words, the WSML provides means to formally describe the WSMO elements as Ontologies, Semantic Web services, Goals, and Mediators.
The WSML is based on the logical for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary%20method | The unitary method is a technique for solving a problem by first finding the value of a single unit, and then finding the necessary value by multiplying the single unit value.
Examples
For example, to solve the problem: "A man walks 7 miles in 2 hours. How far does he walk in 7 hours?", one would first calculate how ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALLPlayer | ALLPlayer is a cross-platform media player and streaming media server written by ALLPlayer Group Ltd. ALLPlayer is available for desktop Windows and mobile platforms, such as Android, iPad and iPhone iOS . Program is available on App store, Google Play Store and Microsoft Windows Store.
ALLPlayer supports many file f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregate%20Spend | Aggregate Spend is the process used in the United States to aggregate and monitor the total amount spent by healthcare manufacturers on individual healthcare professionals and organizations (HCP/O) through payments, gifts, honoraria, travel and other means. Also often referred to as the Physician Payments Sunshine Act,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental%20Mathematics%20%28journal%29 | Experimental Mathematics is a quarterly scientific journal of mathematics published by A K Peters, Ltd. until 2010, now by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes papers in experimental mathematics, broadly construed. The journal's mission statement describes its scope as follows: "Experimental Mathematics publishes or... |
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