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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeituni%20Onyango | Zeituni Onyango ( ; May 29, 1952 April 7, 2014) was the half-aunt of United States President Barack Obama; she was born into the Luo tribe in Kenya. Born during the British rule of the Protectorate of Kenya, Onyango was the half-sister of Barack Obama Sr., father to the president. The younger Obama refers to her as "Au... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transiting%20Exoplanet%20Survey%20Satellite | Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS, Explorer 95 or MIDEX-7) is a space telescope for NASA's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission. It was launched on 18 April 2018, atop a Falcon 9 launch vehicle and was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20tutoring | Online tutoring is the process of tutoring in an online, virtual, or networked, environment, in which teachers and learners participate from separate physical locations. Aside from space, participants can also be separated by time.
Online tutoring is practiced using many different approaches for distinct sets of users... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europeana | Europeana is a web portal created by the European Union containing digitised cultural heritage collections of more than 3,000 institutions across Europe. It includes records of over 50 million cultural and scientific artefacts, brought together on a single platform and presented in a variety of ways relevant to modern ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-pi%20topology | In electronics, a split-pi topology is a pattern of component interconnections used in a kind of power converter that can theoretically produce an arbitrary output voltage, either higher or lower than the input voltage. In practice the upper voltage output is limited to the voltage rating of components used. It is esse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto%20de%20F%C3%ADsica%20Corpuscular | The Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC, English: Institute for Corpuscular Physics) is a CSIC and University of Valencia joint center dedicated to experimental and theoretical research in the fields of particle physics, nuclear physics, cosmology, astroparticles and medical physics.
It is located at the scientific ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Vasiliev | Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev or Vasilyev (; born April 10, 1956), is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is best known for his discovery of the Vassiliev invariants in knot theory (also known as finite type invariants), which subsume many previously discovered polynomial knot invariants such as the Jones polynomial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog%20leukocyte%20antigen | The dog leukocyte antigen (DLA) is a part of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in dogs, encoding genes in the MHC. The DLA and MHC system are interchangeable terms in canines. The MHC plays a critical role in the immune response system and consists of three regions: class I, class II and class III. DLA genes b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Story%20of%20Maths | The Story of Maths is a four-part British television series outlining aspects of the history of mathematics. It was a co-production between the Open University and the BBC and aired in October 2008 on BBC Four. The material was written and presented by University of Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy. The consultants we... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto%20Alegre%20Botanical%20Garden | The Porto Alegre Botanical Garden is a Foundation of Rio Grande do Sul located on the street Salvador França, in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
History
The project for a botanical garden in Porto Alegre dates back to the beginning of the 19th century, when Dom Joao VI, after creating the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, sent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forme%20fruste | In medicine, a forme fruste (French, "crude, or unfinished, form"; pl., formes frustes) is an atypical or attenuated manifestation of a disease or syndrome, with the implications of incompleteness, partial presence or aborted state. The context is usually one of a well defined clinical or pathological entity, which the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux%20transfer%20event | A flux transfer event (FTE) occurs when a magnetic portal opens in the Earth's magnetosphere through which high-energy particles flow from the Sun. This connection, while previously thought to be permanent, has been found to be brief and very dynamic. The European Space Agency's four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Morning%20Cafe | One Morning Cafe was a Philippine morning radio and television show that was aired simultaneously on three government-owned-and-controlled television stations NBN (now; PTV), RPN and IBC and in radio via 13 RPN Radyo Ronda and 32 PBS Radyo ng Bayan stations of the Philippine Broadcasting Service.
The show premiered on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-programmed%20reduction | Temperature-programmed reduction is a technique for the characterization of solid materials and is often used in the field of heterogeneous catalysis to find the most efficient reduction conditions, an oxidized catalyst precursor is submitted to a programmed temperature rise while a reducing gas mixture is flowed over ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20B.%20Sabin%20Gold%20Medal | Since 1994, the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal has been awarded annually by the Sabin Vaccine Institute in recognition of work in the field of vaccinology or a complementary field. It is in commemoration of the pioneering work of Albert B. Sabin.
Recipients
See also
List of medicine awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berezin%20integral | In mathematical physics, the Berezin integral, named after Felix Berezin, (also known as Grassmann integral, after Hermann Grassmann), is a way to define integration for functions of Grassmann variables (elements of the exterior algebra). It is not an integral in the Lebesgue sense; the word "integral" is used because ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation | Overpopulation or overabundance is a phenomenon in which a species' population becomes larger than the carrying capacity of its environment. This may be caused by increased birth rates, lowered mortality rates, reduced predation or large scale migration, leading to an overabundant species and other animals in the ecosy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%20square | In mathematics and control theory, H2, or H-square is a Hardy space with square norm. It is a subspace of L2 space, and is thus a Hilbert space. In particular, it is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
On the unit circle
In general, elements of L2 on the unit circle are given by
whereas elements of H2 are given by
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Anastasi | Anne Anastasi (December 19, 1908 – May 4, 2001) was an American psychologist best known for her pioneering development of psychometrics. Her generative work, Psychological Testing, remains a classic text in which she drew attention to the individual being tested and therefore to the responsibilities of the testers. She... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed%20of%20light%20%28cellular%20automaton%29 | In Conway's Game of Life (and related cellular automata), the speed of light is a propagation rate across the grid of exactly one step (either horizontally, vertically or diagonally) per generation. In a single generation, a cell can only influence its nearest neighbours, and so the speed of light (by analogy with the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey%20Methodology | Survey Methodology (or Techniques d'enquête in the French version) is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes papers related to the development and application of survey techniques. It is published by Statistics Canada, the national statistical office of Canada, in English and French.
The journal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatric%20oncology | Geriatric oncology is a branch of medicine that is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the elderly, usually defined as aged 65 and older. This fairly young but increasingly important subspecialty incorporates the special needs of the elderly into the treatment of cancer.
In the last few years, thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage-sensitive%20dye | Voltage-sensitive dyes, also known as potentiometric dyes, are dyes which change their spectral properties in response to voltage changes. They are able to provide linear measurements of firing activity of single neurons, large neuronal populations or activity of myocytes. Many physiological processes are accompanied b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioinosinic%20acid | Thioinosinic acid (or thioinosine monophosphate, TIMP) is an intermediate metabolite of azathioprine, an immunosuppressive drug. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatric%20rheumatology | Geriatric rheumatology is the branch of medicine that studies rheumatologic disorders in elderly (joints, muscles & other structures around the joints). Sometimes it is called Gerontorheumatology.
Origin
The geriatric rheumatology clinic provides evaluation and management services to patients with various musculoskel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20meson%20dominance | In physics, vector meson dominance (VMD) was a model developed by J. J. Sakurai in the 1960s before the introduction of quantum chromodynamics to describe interactions between energetic photons and hadronic matter.
In particular, the hadronic components of the physical photon consist of the lightest vector mesons, , ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy%20data | Noisy data are data that is corrupted, distorted, or has a low signal-to-noise ratio. Improper procedures (or improperly-documented procedures) to subtract out the noise in data can lead to a false sense of accuracy or false conclusions.
Noisy data are data with a large amount of additional meaningless information in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman%20decomposition | In control theory, a Kalman decomposition provides a mathematical means to convert a representation of any linear time-invariant (LTI) control system to a form in which the system can be decomposed into a standard form which makes clear the observable and controllable components of the system. This decomposition result... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiomontanus%27%20angle%20maximization%20problem | In mathematics, the Regiomontanus's angle maximization problem, is a famous optimization problem posed by the 15th-century German mathematician Johannes Müller (also known as Regiomontanus). The problem is as follows:
A painting hangs from a wall. Given the heights of the top and bottom of the painting above the vie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUPERAntiSpyware | SUPERAntiSpyware is a software application which can detect and remove spyware, adware, trojan horses, rogue security software, computer worms, rootkits, parasites and other potentially harmful software applications. Although it can detect various types of malware, SUPERAntiSpyware is not designed to replace antivirus ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST%20hash%20function%20competition | The NIST hash function competition was an open competition held by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a new hash function called SHA-3 to complement the older SHA-1 and SHA-2. The competition was formally announced in the Federal Register on November 2, 2007. "NIST is initiating an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORT%20%28journal%29 | SORT or Statistics and Operations Research Transactions is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes papers related to statistics. It is published by the Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, the statistical office of Catalonia, in English with a brief summary in Catalan.
The journal was established... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20map | Process map is a global-system process model that is used to outline the processes that make up the business system and how they interact with each other. Process map shows the processes as objects, which means it is a static and non-algorithmic view of the processes. It should be differentiated from a detailed process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosediminibacterales | Thermosediminibacterales is an order of Gram positive bacteria in the class Clostridia. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldicellulosiruptor | Caldicellulosiruptor is a genus of thermophilic, anaerobic, Gram-positive, non-spore forming bacteria. Originally placed within the highly polyphyletic class Clostridia, order Thermoanaerobacterales and family Thermoanaerobacterales Family III according to the NCBI and LPSN, it is now thought to lie outside of the Baci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REVSTAT | REVSTAT is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes papers related to statistics. It is published in English by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística, the national statistical office of Portugal. The journal was established in 2003, when it replaced the journal Revista de Estatística. It publishes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser%20limit | In physics, the radiative efficiency limit (also known as the detailed balance limit, Shockley–Queisser limit, Shockley Queisser Efficiency Limit or SQ Limit) is the maximum theoretical efficiency of a solar cell using a single p-n junction to collect power from the cell where the only loss mechanism is radiative reco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxomer | Anoxomer is a food additive with E number E323. It is a non-digestible polymeric antioxidant. It was designed to allow the introduction of established antioxidants in a non-absorbable manner in order to avoid potential health risk associated with their digestion.
Anoxomer is prepared by condensation polymerization o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tietze%27s%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, Tietze's graph is an undirected cubic graph with 12 vertices and 18 edges.
It is named after Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze, who showed in 1910 that the Möbius strip can be subdivided into six regions that all touch each other – three along the boundary of the strip and three... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS%20and%20Ichthyology | A Geographic Information System is a tool for mapping and analyzing data. The ability to layer many features onto the same map and select or unselect as needed allows for a multitude of views and ease of interpreting data. More important, this allows for in depth scientific analysis and problem solving.
Ichthyology ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20hexagon%20model | In statistical mechanics, the hard hexagon model is a 2-dimensional lattice model of a gas, where particles are allowed to be on the vertices of a triangular lattice but no two particles may be adjacent.
The model was solved by , who found that it was related to the Rogers–Ramanujan identities.
The partition function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine-responsive%20dystonia | Dopamine-responsive dystonia (DRD) also known as Segawa syndrome (SS), is a genetic movement disorder which usually manifests itself during early childhood at around ages 5–8 years (variable start age).
Characteristic symptoms are increased muscle tone (dystonia, such as clubfoot) and Parkinsonian features, typically ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View%20model | A view model or viewpoints framework in systems engineering, software engineering, and enterprise engineering is a framework which defines a coherent set of views to be used in the construction of a system architecture, software architecture, or enterprise architecture. A view is a representation of the whole system f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindRover | MindRover is a video game for PC, developed by CogniToy.
Gameplay
The game, which can be thought of as a successor to the Learning Company's Robot Odyssey, revolves around three activities:
Assemble virtual robots from a library of stock parts.
Programming robots using a special graphical interface (referred to in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsker%27s%20inequality | In information theory, Pinsker's inequality, named after its inventor Mark Semenovich Pinsker, is an inequality that bounds the total variation distance (or statistical distance) in terms of the Kullback–Leibler divergence.
The inequality is tight up to constant factors.
Formal statement
Pinsker's inequality states th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick-film%20technology | Thick-film technology is used to produce electronic devices/modules such as surface mount devices modules, hybrid integrated circuits, heating elements, integrated passive devices and sensors. Main manufacturing technique is screen printing (stenciling), which in addition to use in manufacturing electronic devices can ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo%20%28C%2B%2B%20library%29 | Armadillo is a linear algebra software library for the C++ programming language. It aims to provide efficient and streamlined base calculations, while at the same time having a straightforward and easy-to-use interface. Its intended target users are scientists and engineers.
It supports integer, floating point (sing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatric%20neurology | Geriatric neurology is the branch of medicine that studies neurologic disorders in elderly.
Origin
In 1991 Advanced Fellowship Program in Geriatric Neurology was started by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Many veterans suffered from neurodegenerative changes such as Alzheimer's disease, Lewy Body dementia, Parkin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatric%20rehabilitation | Geriatric rehabilitation or geriatric physical therapy is the branch of medicine that studies rehabilitation and physical therapy issues in elderly.
Origins
Geriatric rehabilitation covers three areas – normal aging due to disuse and deconditioning, cardiovascular problems like vascular disease and stroke, and skelet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridging%20model | In computer science, a bridging model is an abstract model of a computer which provides a conceptual bridge between the physical implementation of the machine and the abstraction available to a programmer of that machine; in other words, it is intended to provide a common level of understanding between hardware and sof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20energy | In physics, sound energy is a form of energy that can be heard by living things. Only those waves that have a frequency of 16 Hz to 20 kHz are audible to humans. However, this range is an average and will slightly change from individual to individual. Sound waves that have frequencies below 16 Hz are called infrasonic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valour%20%28software%29 | Valour is a copy/backup/restore program for IBM's VM environment.
The product
Valour, also called DiskWorks as well as strategic marketing brands chosen by vendors, grew out of a plan to rewrite the aging Westinghouse Disc Utility (WDU) and target the full range of IBM operating systems.
Valour runs as a highly pri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formulations%20of%20special%20relativity | There have been various formulations of special relativity over the years which differ from Einstein's theory. While some are mathematically equivalent to Einstein's theory, others aim to revise or extend it.
As formulated by Albert Einstein in 1905, the theory of special relativity was based on two main postulates:
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian%20Journal%20of%20Probability%20and%20Statistics | The Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics () is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers related to statistics. It is published four times a year by the Brazilian Statistical Association with the support of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. The journal was established in 1987.
Abstrac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20HPC%20Server%202008 | Windows HPC Server 2008, released by Microsoft on 22 September 2008, is the successor product to Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. Like WCCS, Windows HPC Server 2008 is designed for high-end applications that require high performance computing clusters (HPC stands for High Performance Computing). This version of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EE%20Technologies | Electronic Evolution Technologies, Inc. (also referred to as EE Technologies, Inc or EET) is a multi-national electronic manufacturing services (EMS) company headquartered in Reno, Nevada. EET provides full electronic and mechanical box build assembly services and also specializes in circuit board assembly for a variet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRPM | vRPM, or virtual Revolutions Per Minute, was a term for a synthetic measurement of performance introduced by SanDisk for solid state drive (SSD) storage devices inside client PCs. vRPM was created to give users a metric to compare SSD performance to the hard disk drive (HDD) and to other SSDs. The term is no longer use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorenol | Fluorenol, also known as hydrafinil, is an alcohol derivative of fluorene. In the most significant isomer, fluoren-9-ol or 9-hydroxyfluorene, the hydroxy group is located on the bridging carbon between the two benzene rings. Hydroxyfluorene can be converted to fluorenone by oxidation. It is a white-cream colored solid ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humyo | humyo.com was a cloud storage service. Files stored in humyo could be shared with other users and published on web pages. The company owned a former Bank of England bullion vault in which it housed the servers used to store its users' data.
Company history
humyo.com was founded in 2007 by Dan Conlon (MD), Mark Beyer (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20vector%20field | The boundary vector field (BVF) is an external force for parametric active contours (i.e. Snakes). In the fields of computer vision and image processing, parametric active contours are widely used for segmentation and object extraction. The active contours move progressively towards its target based on the external for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triose%20phosphate%20translocator | The triose phosphate translocator is an integral membrane protein found in the inner membrane of chloroplasts. It exports triose phosphate (Dihydroxyacetone phosphate) in exchange for inorganic phosphate and is therefore classified as an antiporter. The imported phosphate is then used for ATP regeneration via the light... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderation%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics and regression analysis, moderation (also known as effect modification) occurs when the relationship between two variables depends on a third variable. The third variable is referred to as the moderator variable (or effect modifier) or simply the moderator (or modifier). The effect of a moderating variab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Monsoon%20Current | The Indian Monsoon Current refers to the seasonally varying ocean current regime found in the tropical regions of the northern Indian Ocean. During winter, the flow of the upper ocean is directed westward from near the Indonesian Archipelago to the Arabian Sea. During the summer, the direction reverses, with eastward... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoreflection | In mathematics, a pseudoreflection is an invertible linear transformation of a finite-dimensional vector space such that it is not the identity transformation, has a finite (multiplicative) order, and fixes a hyperplane. The concept of pseudoreflection generalizes the concepts of reflection and complex reflection and i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Proteolysis%20Map | The Proteolysis MAP (PMAP) was an integrated web resource focused on proteases. Its domain now links to a scam/spam browser extender.
Rationale
PMAP was designed to aid the protease researchers in reasoning about proteolytic networks and metabolic pathways.
History and funding
PMAP was originally created at the Burnh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strengthen%20the%20Arm%20of%20Liberty | Strengthen the Arm of Liberty is the theme of the Boy Scouts of America's fortieth anniversary celebration in 1950. The campaign was inaugurated in February with a dramatic ceremony held at the base of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). Approximately 200 BSA Statue of Liberty replicas were installe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bures%20metric | In mathematics, in the area of quantum information geometry, the Bures metric (named after Donald Bures) or Helstrom metric (named after Carl W. Helstrom) defines an infinitesimal distance between density matrix operators defining quantum states. It is a quantum generalization of the Fisher information metric, and is i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathic%20concern | Empathic concern refers to other-oriented emotions elicited by, and congruent with the perceived welfare of, someone in need. These other-oriented emotions include feelings of tenderness, sympathy, compassion and soft-heartedness.
Empathic concern is often confused with empathy. To empathize is to respond to another'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatric%20intensive-care%20unit | Geriatric intensive care unit is a special intensive care unit dedicated to management of critically ill elderly.
Origin
Geriatric intensive care units began because the world population is aging. Geriatric medicine is distinct from adult or pediatric medicine, especially if they are critically ill. Geriatric medicin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battenberg%20course%20indicator | The Battenberg course indicator is a mechanical calculating device invented by Prince Louis of Battenberg in 1892 for taking station on other vessels whose range, bearing, course and speed are known. By extension, it has a range of other functions related to relative velocity calculations.
A number of versions of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20Applications%20in%20Genetics%20and%20Molecular%20Biology | Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the application of statistics to problems in computational biology. It was established in 2002 and is published by de Gruyter. The editor-in-chief is Guido Sanguinetti. According to the Journal Citation R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser-heated%20pedestal%20growth | Laser-heated pedestal growth (LHPG) or laser floating zone (LFZ) is a crystal growth technique. A narrow region of a crystal is melted with a powerful CO2 or YAG laser. The laser and hence the floating zone, is moved along the crystal. The molten region melts impure solid at its forward edge and leaves a wake of purer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20flour%20beetle | The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) is a species of beetle in the family Tenebrionidae, the darkling beetles. It is a worldwide pest of stored products, particularly food grains, and a model organism for ethological and food safety research.
Description
Adult beetles are small, around 3–4 mm long (1/8 inches),... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected%20Streaming | Protected Streaming is a DRM technology by Adobe. The aim of the technology is to protect digital content (video or audio) from unauthorized use.
Protected Streaming consists of many different techniques; basically there are two main components: encryption and SWF verification.
This technique is used by the Hulu desk... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal%20modeling | A goal model is an element of requirements engineering that may also be used more widely in business analysis. Related elements include stakeholder analysis, context analysis, and scenarios, among other business and technical areas.
Principles
Goals are objectives which a system should achieve through cooperation of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-vertex%20model | In statistical mechanics, the eight-vertex model is a generalisation of the ice-type (six-vertex) models; it was discussed by Sutherland, and Fan & Wu, and solved by Baxter in the zero-field case.
Description
As with the ice-type models, the eight-vertex model is a square lattice model, where each state is a configur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-type%20model | In statistical mechanics, the ice-type models or six-vertex models are a family of vertex models for crystal lattices with hydrogen bonds. The first such model was introduced by Linus Pauling in 1935 to account for the residual entropy of water ice. Variants have been proposed as models of certain ferroelectric and ant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20string | In computer programming, a magic string is an input that a programmer believes will never come externally and which activates otherwise hidden functionality. A user of this program would likely provide input that gives an expected response in most situations. However, if the user does in fact innocently provide the pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strengthen%20the%20Arm%20of%20Liberty%20Monument%20%28Pine%20Bluff%2C%20Arkansas%29 | The Strengthen the Arm of Liberty Monument is a replica of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) in Pine Bluff Memorial Gardens, on the south side of 10th Avenue between Georgia and State Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It was placed by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) as part of its 1950s era campaign... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strengthen%20the%20Arm%20of%20Liberty%20Monument%20%28Fayetteville%2C%20Arkansas%29 | The Strengthen the Arm of Liberty Monument in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is a replica of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). It was placed by the Boy Scouts of America as part of its 1950s-era campaign, "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty".
It is located in front of Washington Regional Medical Center on No... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20thermal%20maximum | Critical thermal maximum, in zoology, is the temperature for a given species above which most individuals respond with unorganized locomotion, subjecting the animal to likely death. This concept is particularly relevant in periods of aestivation or quiescence, in which circumstances an organism experiences limited mobi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessility%20%28botany%29 | In botany, sessility (meaning "sitting", used in the sense of "resting on the surface") is a characteristic of plant parts (such as flowers and leaves) that have no stalk. Plant parts can also be described as subsessile, that is, not completely sessile.
A sessile flower is one that lacks a pedicel (flower stalk). A fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessility%20%28motility%29 | Sessility is the biological property of an organism describing its lack of a means of self-locomotion. Sessile organisms for which natural motility is absent are normally immobile. This is distinct from the botanical concept of sessility, which refers to an organism or biological structure attached directly by its base... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED%20art | LED art is a form of light art constructed from light-emitting diodes. LEDs (light emitting diodes) are very inexpensive to purchase and have become a new way to make street art. Many artists who use LEDs are guerrilla artists, incorporating LEDs to produce temporary pieces in public places. LEDs may be used in install... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20OS | The Online Operating System was a fully multi-lingual and free to use web desktop written in JavaScript using Ajax. It was a Windows-based desktop environment with open-source applications and system utilities developed upon the reBOX web application framework by iCUBE Network Solutions, an Austrian company located in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Statistical%20Computation%20and%20Simulation | The Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers computational statistics. It is published by Taylor & Francis and was established in 1972. The editors-in-chief are Richard Krutchkoff (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg) and Andrei Volo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Fusion%20Applications | Oracle Fusion Applications (OFA) are a suite of applications built on Oracle Cloud that include cloud-based applications for enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise performance management (EPM), supply chain management and manufacturing (SCM), human capital management (HCM), and customer experience (CX).
Oracle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetization%20reversal%20by%20circularly%20polarized%20light | Discovered only as recently as 2006 by C.D. Stanciu and F. Hansteen and published in Physical Review Letters, this effect is generally called all-optical magnetization reversal. This magnetization reversal technique refers to a method of reversing magnetization in a magnet simply by circularly polarized light and where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%20distribution | In probability and statistics, the Gompertz distribution is a continuous probability distribution, named after Benjamin Gompertz. The Gompertz distribution is often applied to describe the distribution of adult lifespans by demographers and actuaries. Related fields of science such as biology and gerontology also consi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-stretch%20analog-to-digital%20converter | The time-stretch analog-to-digital converter (TS-ADC), also known as the time-stretch enhanced recorder (TiSER), is an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) system that has the capability of digitizing very high bandwidth signals that cannot be captured by conventional electronic ADCs. Alternatively, it is also known as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortina%20Systems | Cortina Systems, Inc. is a supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for broadband communications founded in 2001. It is based in California.
Cortina System was bought by Inphi Corporation in 2014.
History
Cortina Systems was founded by Amir Nayyerhabibi (who served as president and CEO) in 2001 in the Menlo Park, Calif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-structured%20programming | Non-structured programming is the historically earliest programming paradigm capable of creating Turing-complete algorithms. It is often contrasted with the structured programming paradigm, in particular with the use of unstructured control flow using goto statements or equivalent. The distinction was particularly stre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphylococcus%20aureus%20beta%20toxin | Staphylococcus aureus beta toxin is a toxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus. It is a form of sphingomyelinase called sphingomyelinase C. This enzyme is toxic to a variety of cells, including erythrocytes, fibroblasts, leukocytes, and macrophages. Susceptible cells are subject to lysis of exposed sphingomyelin on thei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing%20delay | In a network based on packet switching, processing delay is the time it takes routers to process the packet header. Processing delay is a key component in network delay.
During processing of a packet, routers may check for bit-level errors in the packet that occurred during transmission as well as determining where th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinovac%20Biotech | Sinovac Biotech Ltd. () is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company based in Haidian District, Beijing that focuses on the research, development, manufacture, and commercialization of vaccines that protect against human infectious diseases. The company was listed on the Nasdaq but the exchange halted Sinovac's trading in Fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoparasitology | Archaeoparasitology, a multi-disciplinary field within paleopathology, is the study of parasites in archaeological contexts. It includes studies of the protozoan and metazoan parasites of humans in the past, as well as parasites which may have affected past human societies, such as those infesting domesticated animal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoparasitology | Paleoparasitology (or "palaeoparasitology") is the study of parasites from the past, and their interactions with hosts and vectors; it is a subfield of paleontology, the study of living organisms from the past. Some authors define this term more narrowly, as "Paleoparasitology is the study of parasites in archaeologica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrasomy | A tetrasomy is a form of aneuploidy with the presence of four copies, instead of the normal two, of a particular chromosome.
Causes
Full
Full tetrasomy of an individual occurs due to non-disjunction when the cells are dividing (meiosis I or II) to form egg and sperm cells (gametogenesis). This can result in extra ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurolidine | Taurolidine is an antimicrobial that is used to prevent infections in catheters. Side effects and the induction of bacterial resistance is uncommon. It is also being studied as a treatment for cancer.
It is derived from the endogenous amino acid derivative taurine. The putative method of action involves the metabolism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20gallate | Ethyl gallate is a food additive with E number E313. It is the ethyl ester of gallic acid. Ethyl gallate is added to food as an antioxidant.
Though found naturally in a variety of plant sources including walnuts Terminalia myriocarpa or chebulic myrobolan (Terminalia chebula), ethyl gallate is produced from gallic ac... |
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