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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering%20number | In mathematics, a covering number is the number of spherical balls of a given size needed to completely cover a given space, with possible overlaps. Two related concepts are the packing number, the number of disjoint balls that fit in a space, and the metric entropy, the number of points that fit in a space when constr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barshop%20Institute | The Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies is a basic and clinical research institute located on the Texas Research Park Campus of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). It is a leading institute in the United States in geriatrics research. The Barshop Institute ranks #1 in N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptol | Scriptol is an object-oriented programming language that allows users to declare an XML document as a class. The language is universal and allows users to create dynamic web pages, as well as create scripts and binary applications. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20power%20engine | A water power engine includes prime movers driven by water and which may be classified under three categories:
Water pressure motors, having a piston and cylinder with inlet and outlet valves: their action is that analogous of a steam- or gas-engine with water as the working fluid – see water engine
Water wheels
Tur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami%20UDP%20Protocol | The Tsunami UDP Protocol is a UDP-based protocol that was developed for high-speed file transfer over network paths that have a high bandwidth-delay product. Such protocols are needed because standard TCP does not perform well over paths with high bandwidth-delay products. Tsunami was developed at the Advanced Network... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20redistribution | Hydraulic redistribution is a passive mechanism where water is transported from moist to dry soils via subterranean networks. It occurs in vascular plants that commonly have roots in both wet and dry soils, especially plants with both taproots that grow vertically down to the water table, and lateral roots that sit clo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks | ELinks is a free text-based web browser for Unix-like operating systems.
It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name. Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended. On 1 September 2004, Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmonic%20nanolithography | Plasmonic nanolithography (also known as plasmonic lithography or plasmonic photolithography) is a nanolithographic process that utilizes surface plasmon excitations such as surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) to fabricate nanoscale structures. SPPs, which are surface waves that propagate in between planar dielectric-met... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic%20hypergeometric%20series | In mathematics, an elliptic hypergeometric series is a series Σcn such that the ratio
cn/cn−1 is an elliptic function of n, analogous to generalized hypergeometric series where the ratio is a rational function of n, and basic hypergeometric series where the ratio is a periodic function of the complex number n. They w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20Dots | Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology is an American company based in Philadelphia that was founded in 1992 to develop and adapt music technology for the blind. Its founder, Bill McCann, is a blind musician. Among the products it offers are several programs that produce a musical version of Braille by converting print ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Cosmic%20Ray%20Conference | The International Cosmic Ray Conference, or ICRC, is a physics conference organized biennially by the Commission C4 (Astroparticle Physics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) since 1947, where physicists from the whole world present the results of their research in Astroparticle Physics. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20Blaine%20Lawson | Herbert Blaine Lawson, Jr. is a mathematician best known for his work in minimal surfaces, calibrated geometry, and algebraic cycles. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Stony Brook University. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1969 for work carried out under the supervision of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation%20box | In cryptography, a permutation box (or P-box) is a method of bit-shuffling used to permute or transpose bits across S-boxes inputs, retaining diffusion while transposing.
In block ciphers, the S-boxes and P-boxes are used to make the relation between the plaintext and the ciphertext difficult to understand (see Shanno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Azure | Microsoft Azure, often referred to as Azure (/ˈæʒər, ˈeɪʒər/ AZH-ər, AY-zhər, UK also /ˈæzjʊər, ˈeɪzjʊər/ AZ-ure, AY-zure), is a cloud computing platform run by Microsoft. It offers access, management, and the development of applications and services through global data centers. It also provides a range of capabilities... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic%20aorta%20injury | Injury of the thoracic aorta refers to any injury which affects the portion of the aorta which lies within the chest cavity. Injuries of the thoracic aorta are usually the result of physical trauma; however, they can also be the result of a pathological process. The main causes of this injury are deceleration (such as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20SaaS | If a software product is offered as Hybrid SaaS or Hybrid Cloud, it means that it combines elements of both Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premises software deployment models.
In the case of a hybrid model, the software product offers a combination of cloud-based SaaS functionality and on-premises capabilities. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Institute%20for%20Cultural%20Research | The Institute for Cultural Research (ICR) was a London-based, UK-registered educational charity, events organizer and publisher which aimed to stimulate study, debate, education and research into all aspects of human thought, behaviour and culture. It brought together many distinguished speakers, writers and Fellows ov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArrayFire | ArrayFire is an American software company that develops programming tools for parallel computing and graphics on graphics processing unit (GPU) chipsets. Its products are particularly popular in the defense industry.
Products
The company's first major product was Jacket, a library that extends MATLAB with GPGPU capabi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS%20and%20aquatic%20science | Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has become an integral part of aquatic science and limnology. Water by its very nature is dynamic. Features associated with water are thus ever-changing. To be able to keep up with these changes, technological advancements have given scientists methods to enhance all aspects of s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris%20folding | Iris folding is a paper craft technique that involves folding strips of colored paper in such a way to form a design. The center of the design forms an iris—a shape reminiscent of the iris diaphragm of a camera lens.
History
Iris folding originated in 20th-century Holland, where early craft people made their designs u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20system%20power | Total system power is a term often used in audio electronics to rate the power of an audio system. Total system power refers to the total power consumption of the unit, rather than the power handling of the speakers or the power output of the amplifier. This can be viewed as a somewhat deceptive marketing ploy, as the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-out%20score | A cut-out score or cutout score is a musical score in which measures with rests are simply omitted, and no rests of any kind are used. Cut-out scores are mostly used for proportional notation scores, such as Penderecki's Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima. "Proponents of this arrangement argue that it dispenses with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20cartography | Computer cartography (also called digital cartography) is the art, science, and technology of making and using maps with a computer. This technology represents a paradigm shift in how maps are produced, but is still fundamentally a subset of traditional cartography. The primary function of this technology is to produce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta%20Partners | Alta Partners is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco which invests primarily in biotechnology and life science companies.
History
The company was founded in 1996 by Dr. Jean Deleage, Ph.D., who was also a founder of the venture capital firms Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. (BEDCO) and Sofinnova, together with Guy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr%E2%80%93Van%20Leeuwen%20theorem | The Bohr–Van Leeuwen theorem states that when statistical mechanics and classical mechanics are applied consistently, the thermal average of the magnetization is always zero. This makes magnetism in solids solely a quantum mechanical effect and means that classical physics cannot account for paramagnetism, diamagnetism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVO2max | {{DISPLAYTITLE:vVO2max}}
vV̇O2max (velocity at maximal oxygen uptake), also known as maximal aerobic speed (MAS), is an intense running or swimming pace. This is the minimum speed for which the organism's maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) is reached, after a few minutes of constantly maintaining this exercise intensity. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netmums | Netmums is a website for parents in the United Kingdom, established in 2000. It operates as a network of local sites, and offers information to both mothers and fathers about parenting. The Coffee House web forum launched in 2004 for mothers to chat, make friends and exchange advice online. As of 2012 the site include... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestComplete | TestComplete is a functional automated testing platform developed by SmartBear Software. TestComplete gives testers the ability to create automated tests for Microsoft Windows, Web, Android (operating system), and iOS applications. Tests can be recorded, scripted or manually created with keyword driven operations and u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage%20optimisation | Voltage optimisation is a term given to the systematic controlled reduction in the voltages received by an energy consumer to reduce energy use, power demand and reactive power demand. While some voltage 'optimisation' devices have a fixed voltage adjustment, others electronically regulate the voltage automatically.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20statistics%20journals | This is a list of scientific journals published in the field of statistics.
Introductory and outreach
The American Statistician
Significance
General theory and methodology
Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Annals of Statistics
AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv
Biometrika
The Canadian... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonomotor | The phonomotor or "vocal engine" was a device invented by Thomas Edison in 1878 to measure the mechanical force of sound. It converted sound energy or sound power into rotary motion which could drive a machine such as a small saw or drill. It derived from his work on the telephone and phonograph.
Operation
Sound wave... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating%20spheres | Isaac Newton's rotating spheres argument attempts to demonstrate that true rotational motion can be defined by observing the tension in the string joining two identical spheres. The basis of the argument is that all observers make two observations: the tension in the string joining the bodies (which is the same for all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grex%20%28horticulture%29 | The term grex (plural greges or grexes; abbreviation gx), derived from the Latin noun , , meaning 'flock', has been expanded in botanical nomenclature to describe hybrids of orchids, based solely on their parentage. Grex names are one of the three categories of plant names governed by the International Code of Nomencla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vargulin | Vargulin, also called Cypridinid luciferin, Cypridina luciferin, or Vargula luciferin, is the luciferin found in the ostracod Cypridina hilgendorfii, also named Vargula hilgendorfii. These bottom dwelling ostracods emit a light stream into water when disturbed presumably to deter predation. Vargulin is also used by the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta%20Metropolitan%20Institute%20of%20Gerontology | The Calcutta Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology (CMIG) is a non-profit, voluntary organisation involved in research, publication, training, and service programs in gerontology. It is located in Kolkata, India. It was established in 1988.
The aims and objectives of CMIG are provide a meaningful life to the elderly a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldic%20knot | A heraldic knot (referred to in heraldry as simply a knot) is a knot, unknot, or design incorporating a knot used in European heraldry. While a given knot can be used on more than one family's achievement of arms, the family on whose coat the knot originated usually gives its name to the said knot (the exception being ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target%20strength | The target strength or acoustic size is a measure of the area of a sonar target. This is usually quantified as a number of decibels. For fish such as salmon, the target size varies with the length of the fish and a 5 cm fish could have a target strength of about -50 dB.
Target strength (TS) is equal to 10 log10(σbs/... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Knockout%20Mouse%20Consortium | The International Knockout Mouse Consortium (IKMC) is a scientific endeavour to produce a collection of mouse embryonic stem cell lines that together lack every gene in the genome, and then to distribute the cells to scientific researchers to create knockout mice to study. Many of the targeted alleles are designed so t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Dyer%20%28engineer%29 | Chris Dyer (born 12 February 1968) is the former head of Vehicle Performance Group at Renault Sport Formula 1 Team and the former race engineer of Michael Schumacher and Kimi Räikkönen at the Ferrari Formula One team.
Early career
Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Dyer worked with the top V8 Supercar outfit, the Tom Walkinsh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic%20cancellation | In numerical analysis, catastrophic cancellation is the phenomenon that subtracting good approximations to two nearby numbers may yield a very bad approximation to the difference of the original numbers.
For example, if there are two studs, one long and the other long, and they are measured with a ruler that is good... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE-400%20series | The GE-400 series were time-sharing Information Systems computers by General Electric introduced in 1964 and shipped until 1968.
System description
The GE-400 series (Compatibles/400) came in models: 415, 425, 435 (1964), 455 and 465.
GE-400 systems had a word length of 24 bits which could contain binary data, four si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20Fighter%20V | Street Fighter V is a 2.5D fighting game developed by Capcom and Dimps and published by Capcom for PlayStation 4 and Windows in 2016. An arcade version exclusive to Japan was released by Taito in 2019.
Similar to the previous games in the Street Fighter series, Street Fighter V features a side-scrolling fighting gamep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise%20and%20Resurrection%20of%20the%20American%20Programmer | Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer is a book written by Edward Yourdon in 1996. It is the sequel to Decline and Fall of the American Programmer. In the original, written at the beginning of the 1990s, Yourdon warned American programmers that their business was not sustainable against foreign competition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Reader%201000 | The Digital Reader 1000 (DR1000) was an e-Book reading device produced by iRex in the Netherlands. Production ceased in 2010, when iRex filed for bankruptcy. The DR1000 was produced with a 10.2-inch (25.9 cm) e-ink display.
Versions
Three different versions were planned:
DR1000 (without touchscreen)
DR1000S (with to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Video%20Bitstream%20Acceleration | X-Video Bitstream Acceleration (XvBA), designed by AMD Graphics for its Radeon GPU and APU, is an arbitrary extension of the X video extension (Xv) for the X Window System on Linux operating-systems. XvBA API allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process to the GPU video-hardware. Currently, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthine%20oxidase%20inhibitor | A xanthine oxidase inhibitor is any substance that inhibits the activity of xanthine oxidase, an enzyme involved in purine metabolism. In humans, inhibition of xanthine oxidase reduces the production of uric acid, and several medications that inhibit xanthine oxidase are indicated for treatment of hyperuricemia and re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%28R%29%20gravity | {{DISPLAYTITLE:f(R) gravity}}
() is a type of modified gravity theory which generalizes Einstein's general relativity. () gravity is actually a family of theories, each one defined by a different function, , of the Ricci scalar, . The simplest case is just the function being equal to the scalar; this is general relativ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress%20forest | A Cypress forest is a western United States plant association typically dominated by one or more cypress species. Example species comprising the canopy include Cupressus macrocarpa. In some cases these forests have been severely damaged by goats, cattle and other grazing animals. While cypress species are clearly domin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed%20file | An indexed file is a computer file with an index that allows easy random access to any record given its file key.
The key must be such that it uniquely identifies a record. If more than one index is present the other ones are called alternate indexes. The indexes are created with the file and maintained by the system.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features%20new%20to%20Windows%207 | Some of the new features included in Windows 7 are advancements in touch, speech and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, support for additional file formats, improved performance on multi-core processors, improved boot performance, and kernel improvements.
Shell and user interface
Windows 7 retain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology%20of%20space | The sociology of space is a sub-discipline of sociology that mostly borrows from theories developed within the discipline of geography, including the sub fields of human geography, economic geography, and feminist geography. The "sociology" of space examines the social and material constitution of spaces. It is concern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama%20logo | The Obama logo was the primary symbol of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. The design became one of the most recognized political brand logos during the 2008 U.S. presidential election, and was used again for Obama's reelection campaign and for the Obama Foundation.
Process
The logo was designed by Chicago-b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20W.%20Kuchler | August William Kuchler (born August Wilhelm Küchler; 26 July 1907 – 17 June 1999) was a German-born American geographer and naturalist who is noted for developing a plant association system in widespread use in the United States. Some of this database has become digitized for integration into GIS mapping systems. Kuchl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating%20locomotion%20in%20living%20systems | Several organisms are capable of rolling locomotion. However, true wheels and propellers—despite their utility in human vehicles—do not play a significant role in the movement of living things (with the exception of certain flagella, which work like corkscrews). Biologists have offered several explanations for the appa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinckaert%20knot | The Hinckaert knot, a type of decorative unknot, is a heraldic knot used primarily in Dutch heraldry. It is most notable for its appearance on the Hinckaert family heraldic badge, where a semi-angular form is used as canting arms, a common practice with heraldic badges.
The name "Hinckaert" is delineated as a derivati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua%20Bamboo%20Slips | The Tsinghua Bamboo Strips () are a collection of Chinese texts dating to the Warring States period and written in ink on strips of bamboo, that were acquired in 2008 by Tsinghua University, China. The texts were obtained by illegal excavation, probably of a tomb in the area of Hubei or Hunan province, and were then ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace%20aggression | Workplace aggression is a specific type of aggression which occurs in the workplace. Workplace aggression is any type of hostile behavior that occurs in the workplace. It can range from verbal insults and threats to physical violence, and it can occur between coworkers, supervisors, and subordinates. Common examples of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acarodomatia | Acarodomatia (singular Acarodomatium) (Latin: Acari - mites, domus - dwelling), are tussocks of hairs or nonglandular trichomes located in pits situated in major leaf vein axes of many plant species, occupied and caused by predatory and mycophagous mites.
Acarodomatia have also been described from lizards where they a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container%20%28type%20theory%29 | In type theory, containers are abstractions which permit various "collection types", such as lists and trees, to be represented in a uniform way. A (unary) container is defined by a type of shapes S and a type family of positions P, indexed by S. The extension of a container is a family of dependent pairs consisting of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard%20modeling | Cardboard modeling or cardboard engineering is a form of modelling with paper, card stock, paperboard, and corrugated fiberboard. The term cardboard engineering is sometimes used to differentiate from the craft of making decorative cards. It is often referred to as paper modelling although in practice card is generally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Saving%20Trust%20Recommended | The Energy Saving Trust Recommended logo was a UK-based labelling and certification scheme for energy efficient products. A product that displays the logo shows that it met strict criteria on energy saving. The scheme was run by the Energy Saving Trust and was launched in 2000. The logo is registered with the UK Paten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular%20Reactive%20Routing%20protocol | Vehicular Reactive Routing protocol (VRR) is a reactive routing protocol with geographical features which is specifically designed for Wireless Access for the Vehicular Environment (WAVE) standard in Vehicular ad hoc Networks (VANETs). The protocol takes advantages of the multichannel scheme defined in WAVE and uses th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapleSim | MapleSim is a Modelica-based, multi-domain modeling and simulation tool developed by Maplesoft. MapleSim generates model equations, runs simulations, and performs analyses using the symbolic and numeric mathematical engine of Maple. Models are created by dragging-and-dropping components from a library into a central wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-parameters | X-parameters are a generalization of S-parameters and are used for characterizing the amplitudes and relative phase of harmonics generated by nonlinear components under large input power levels. X-parameters are also referred to as the parameters of the Poly-Harmonic Distortion (PHD) nonlinear behavioral model.
Descr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shore%20lead | A shore lead (or coastal lead) is an oceanographic term for a waterway opening between pack ice and shore. While the gap of water may be as narrow as a tide crack if closed by wind or currents, it can be as wide as . Its formation can be influenced by tidal action, or subsurface conditions, such as current and ocean fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaw%20lead | Flaw lead is an oceanographic term for a waterway opening between pack ice and fast ice. Flaw lead occurs annually at the time when central pack ice drifts from coastal ice, thereby creating the flaw. The process begins in autumn. Flaw leads can have interconnected polynyas. The Canadian government's Circumpolar Flaw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodetection | In his historic paper entitled "The Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence," Roy J. Glauber set a solid foundation for the quantum electronics/quantum optics enterprise. The experimental development of the optical maser and later laser at that time had made the classical concept of optical coherence inadequate. Glauber st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake%20knot | The Wake knot or Ormond knot is an English heraldic knot used historically as an heraldic badge by the Wake family, lords of the manor of Bourne in Lincolnshire and also by the Butler family, Earls of Ormond.
Form
It takes the form of a Carrick bend knot connecting two ropes but the Wake knot shows the knot joining ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford%20knot | The Hungerford or Hastings knot is a heraldic knot used as an heraldic badge in English heraldry by the Hungerford and Hastings families. The binding together of a Hungerford sickle and a Peverell garb (wheatsheaf) with the Hungerford knot commemorates the marriage between the Hungerfords and the Peverells in the early... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangible%20symbol%20systems | Tangible symbols are a type of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) that uses objects or pictures that share a perceptual relationship with the items they represent as symbols. A tangible symbol's relation to the item it represents is perceptually obvious and concrete – the visual or tactile properties of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacre%20knot | The Dacre knot, a type of decorative unknot, is a heraldic knot used primarily in English heraldry. It is most notable for its appearance on the Dacre family heraldic badge, where its two lower dexter loops entwine a scallop, and its two lower sinister loops entwine a log. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppNexus | Xandr, formerly known as AppNexus, is an American multinational technology company operating a cloud-based software platform that enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising. Headquartered in the Flatiron District of New York City, the company has 23 offices in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish%20list | A wish list, wishlist or want list is an itemization of goods or services that a person or organization desires. The author may distribute copies of their list to family, friends, and other stakeholders who are likely to purchase gifts for the would-be recipient or to offer some of the listed items for sale. The goal o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeranol | Zeranol (, , ) (brand names Frideron, Ralabol, Ralgro, Ralone, Zerano; developmental code names MK-188, P-1496), or zearanol, also known as α-zearalanol or simply zearalanol, is a synthetic nonsteroidal estrogen of the resorcylic acid lactone group related to mycoestrogens found in fungi in the Fusarium genus and is us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franssen%20effect | The Franssen effect is an auditory illusion where the listener incorrectly localizes a sound. It was found in 1960 by Nico Valentinus Franssen (1926–1979), a Dutch physicist and inventor. There are two classical experiments, which are related to the Franssen effect, called Franssen effect F1 and Franssen effect F2.
Fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clorobiocin | Clorobiocin is an aminocoumarin antibacterial that inhibits the enzyme DNA gyrase. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coumermycin%20A1 | Coumermycin A1 is an aminocoumarin. Its main target is the ATPase site of the DNA Gyrase GyrB subunit.
See also
Chemically induced dimerization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20%26%20Computational%20Geometry | Discrete & Computational Geometry is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published quarterly by Springer. Founded in 1986 by Jacob E. Goodman and Richard M. Pollack, the journal publishes articles on discrete geometry and computational geometry.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed in:
Mathematical Revie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad%20%28nonstandard%20analysis%29 | In nonstandard analysis, a monad or also a halo is the set of points infinitesimally close to a given point.
Given a hyperreal number x in R∗, the monad of x is the set
If x is finite (limited), the unique real number in the monad of x is called the standard part of x. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnixWare%20NonStop%20Clusters | NonStop Clusters (NSC) was an add-on package for SCO UnixWare that allowed creation of fault-tolerant single-system image clusters of machines running UnixWare. NSC was one of the first commercially available highly available clustering solutions for commodity hardware.
Description
NSC provided a full single-system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20infrastructure | Dynamic Infrastructure is an information technology concept related to the design of data centers, whereby the underlying hardware and software can respond dynamically and more efficiently to changing levels of demand. In other words, data center assets such as storage and processing power can be provisioned (made avai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medullary%20ray%20%28botany%29 | Medullary rays, also known as vascular rays or pith rays, are cellular structures found in some species of wood. They appear as radial planar structures, perpendicular to the growth rings, which are visible to the naked eye. In a transverse section they appear as radiating lines from the centre of the log. In an axial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medullary%20ray%20%28anatomy%29 | In anatomy, a medullary ray (Ferrein's pyramid) is the middle part of a cortical lobule (or renal lobule). Each consists of a group of nephrons in the renal cortex. Their name is potentially misleading, as "medullary" refers to their destination, not their location. They travel perpendicular to the capsule, and extend... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortive%20flower | Abortion in flowers and developing fruits is a common occurrence in plants.
An abortive flower is a flower that has a stamen but an under developed, or no pistil. It falls without producing fruit or seeds, due to its inability to fructify. Flowers require both male and female organs to reproduce, and the pistils and o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20game%20theory | In game theory, the common ways to describe a game are the normal form and the extensive form. The graphical form is an alternate compact representation of a game using the interaction among participants.
Consider a game with players with strategies each. We will represent the players as nodes in a graph in which ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy%20Browkin | Jerzy Browkin (5 November 1934 – 23 November 2015) was a Polish mathematician, studying mainly algebraic number theory. He was a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1994, together with Juliusz Brzeziński, he formulated the n-conjecture—a version of the abc conjecture involvin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20female%20sexuality | Human female sexuality encompasses a broad range of behaviors and processes, including female sexual identity and sexual behavior, the physiological, psychological, social, cultural, political, and spiritual or religious aspects of sexual activity. Various aspects and dimensions of female sexuality, as a part of human ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-border%20flag%20for%20Ireland | There is no cross-border flag universally accepted as representing both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland. This can be a problem in contexts where a body organised on an all-island basis needs to be represented by a flag in an international context.
The island is politically divided into the Republic of Ireland (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Dubislav | Walter Dubislav (20 September 1895 – 17 September 1937) was a German logician and philosopher of science (Wissenschaftstheoretiker).
Biography
After studying mathematics and philosophy, Dubislav attained a doctorate in 1922 with "Contributions to the theories of definition and proof within mathematical logic" (Beiträg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoinducer-2 | Autoinducer-2 (AI-2), a furanosyl borate diester or tetrahydroxy furan (species dependent), is a member of a family of signaling molecules used in quorum sensing. AI-2 is one of only a few known biomolecules incorporating boron. First identified in the marine bacterium Vibrio harveyi, AI-2 is produced and recognized by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat%20Operating%20System%20Solutions | Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS GNU/Linux) is an Indian Linux distribution based on Debian, with Its latest stable version is 9.0 ("Urja") which was released in February 2021.
Editions
BOSS Linux was released in four editions for different purposes:
BOSS Desktop: Designed for personal, home, and office use.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehn%20function | In the mathematical subject of geometric group theory, a Dehn function, named after Max Dehn, is an optimal function associated to a finite group presentation which bounds the area of a relation in that group (that is a freely reduced word in the generators representing the identity element of the group) in terms of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper%20usnate | Copper usnate is the copper salt of usnic acid. It has been used as an antimicrobial. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooming%20dance | A grooming dance, grooming invitation dance or shaking dance is a dance performed by honeybees to initiate allogrooming. It was first reported in 1945 by biologist Mykola H. Hadak. An increase in the frequency of the grooming dance has been observed among the bees of mite-infested colonies, and among bees who have b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder%20%28cellular%20automaton%29 | In cellular automata such as Conway's Game of Life, a breeder is a pattern that exhibits quadratic growth, by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.
Classification
Breeders can be classed by the relative motion of the patterns. The classe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Mazur%20compactum | In the mathematical study of functional analysis, the Banach–Mazur distance is a way to define a distance on the set of -dimensional normed spaces. With this distance, the set of isometry classes of -dimensional normed spaces becomes a compact metric space, called the Banach–Mazur compactum.
Definitions
If and are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Sims%20%28mathematician%29 | Charles Coffin Sims (April 14, 1937 – October 23, 2017) was an American mathematician best known for his work in group theory. Together with Donald G. Higman he discovered the Higman–Sims group, one of the sporadic groups. The permutation group software developed by Sims also led to the proof of existence of the Lyons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiong | Jiong () is a once obscure Chinese character meaning a "patterned window". Since 2008, it has become an internet phenomenon and widely used to express embarrassment and gloom, because of the character's resemblance to a sad facial expression.
Original meanings
Window, according to Xu Shen's 2nd-century dictionary Shu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic%20window | The metabolic window (also called the anabolic window or protein window) is a term used in strength training to describe the 2 hour (give or take, dependent on the individual) period after exercise during which nutrition can shift the body from a catabolic state to an anabolic one. Specifically, it is during this perio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat%20line | Chat line is a services allowing for people to communicate with one another by telephone call. However, more recent chat lines are similar to CB radio in which a number of people both listen and speak together.
See also
Instant messaging
Online chat
Chat room
Beep line
Party line (telephony)
Synchronous confere... |
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