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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sediment%20%28wine%29
Sediment is the solid material that settles to the bottom of any wine container, such as a bottle, vat, tank, cask, or barrel. Sediment is a highly heterogeneous mixture which at the start of wine-making consists of primarily dead yeast cells (lees) the insoluble fragments of grape pulp and skin, and the seeds that set...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20smallpox
The history of smallpox extends into pre-history. Genetic evidence suggests that the smallpox virus emerged 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. Prior to that, similar ancestral viruses circulated, but possibly only in other mammals, and possibly with different symptoms. Only a few written reports dating from about 500 AD to 1000...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet%20vintages
Comet vintages are years during which an astronomical event, involving generally a "Great Comet", occurs prior to harvest. Throughout the history of wine, winemakers have attributed successful vintages and ideal weather conditions to the unexplained effects caused by the comets. Some of the most heralded vintages in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statement%20on%20Chemical%20and%20Biological%20Defense%20Policies%20and%20Programs
The "Statement on Chemical and Biological Defense Policies and Programs" was a speech delivered on November 25, 1969, by U.S. President Richard Nixon. In the speech, Nixon announced the end of the U.S. offensive biological weapons program and reaffirmed a no-first-use policy for chemical weapons. The statement excluded...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational%20Brownian%20motion
Rotational Brownian motion is the random change in the orientation of a polar molecule due to collisions with other molecules. It is an important element of theories of dielectric materials. The polarization of a dielectric material is a competition between torques due to the imposed electric field, which tend to alig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indian%20state%20animals
India, officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia. It is made up of 28 states and 8 union territories. All Indian states have their own government and the Union territories come under the jurisdiction of the Central Government. As most of the other countries India too has a national emblem—the Lion Cap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20of%20health
In the domain of Electric Vehicles, State of health (SoH) is a figure of merit of the condition of a battery (or a cell, or a battery pack), compared to its ideal conditions. The unit of SoH is percent (100% = the battery's conditions match the battery's specifications). Typically, a battery's SoH will be 100% at the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantile%20digital%20fibromatosis
Infantile digital fibromatosis (IDF), also termed inclusion body fibromatosis, Reye tumor, or Reye's tumor, usually occurs as a single, small, asymptomatic, nodule in the dermis on a finger or toe of infants and young children. IMF is a rare disorder with approximately 200 cases reported in the medical literature as of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia%20volatilization%20from%20urea
Urea (46-0-0) accounts for more than fifty percent of the world's nitrogenous fertilizers. It is found in granular or prill form, which allows urea to be easily stored, transported and applied in agricultural settings. It is also the cheapest form of granular nitrogen fertilizer. Since urea is not an oxidizer at standa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20Neuroscience%20Society
The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) is an international academic society interested in multi-disciplinary approaches to cognitive brain function. Drawing primarily from the biological and psychological sciences, society members are involved in cognitive neuroscience research that attempts to integrate our understa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex%20cycle%20cover
In mathematics, a vertex cycle cover (commonly called simply cycle cover) of a graph G is a set of cycles which are subgraphs of G and contain all vertices of G. If the cycles of the cover have no vertices in common, the cover is called vertex-disjoint or sometimes simply disjoint cycle cover. This is sometimes known ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosurvey
A biosurvey, or biological survey, is a scientific study of organisms to assess the condition of an ecological resource, such as a water body. Overview Biosurveys are used by government agencies responsible for management of public lands, environmental planning and/or environmental regulation to assess ecological reso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge%20cycle%20cover
In mathematics, an edge cycle cover (sometimes called simply cycle cover) of a graph is a family of cycles which are subgraphs of G and contain all edges of G. If the cycles of the cover have no vertices in common, the cover is called vertex-disjoint or sometimes simply disjoint cycle cover. In this case, the set of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip%20line%20field
In materials science and soil mechanics, a slip line field or slip line field theory is a technique often used to analyze the stresses and forces involved in the major deformation of metals or soils. In essence, in some problems including plane strain and plane stress elastic-plastic problems, elastic part of the mater...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20functions%20of%20nitric%20oxide
Biological functions of nitric oxide are roles that nitric oxide plays within biology. Nitric oxide (nitrogen monoxide) is a molecule and chemical compound with chemical formula of NO. In mammals including humans, nitric oxide is a signaling molecule involved in several physiological and pathological processes. It is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADInstruments
ADInstruments is an international company that produces data acquisition and analysis systems for the life sciences industry. It is headquartered in Dunedin, New Zealand and has more than 170 staff worldwide. Voted a finalist in Kenexa/JRA Top 10 Best Place to work in 2009, 2010., 2011 and 2012, and voted number one pl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstream%20%28networking%29
In computer networking, upstream refers to the direction in which data can be transferred from the client to the server (uploading). This differs greatly from downstream not only in theory and usage, but also in that upstream speeds are usually at a premium. Whereas downstream speed is important to the average home use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-forcing%20precoding
Zero-forcing (or null-steering) precoding is a method of spatial signal processing by which a multiple antenna transmitter can null the multiuser interference in a multi-user MIMO wireless communication system. When the channel state information is perfectly known at the transmitter, the zero-forcing precoder is given ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20%28medicine%29
In medicine, a sequence is a series of ordered consequences due to a single cause. It differs from a syndrome in that seriality is more predictable: if A causes B, and B causes C, and C causes D, then D would not be seen if C is not seen. However, in less formal contexts, the term "syndrome" is sometimes used instead ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational%20Brownian%20motion%20%28astronomy%29
In astronomy, rotational Brownian motion is the random walk in orientation of a binary star's orbital plane, induced by gravitational perturbations from passing stars. Theory Consider a binary that consists of two massive objects (stars, black holes etc.) and that is embedded in a stellar system containing a large nu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation%20%28information%20technology%29
A federation is a group of computing or network providers agreeing upon standards of operation in a collective fashion. The term may be used when describing the inter-operation of two distinct, formally disconnected, telecommunications networks that may have different internal structures. The term "federated cloud" r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20for%20Research%20in%20Mathematics%20Education
The Journal for Research in Mathematics Education is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of mathematics education. The journal is published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in five issues a year. The editor-in-chief is Patricio Herbst (University of Michigan). Abstracting and indexin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Mathematics%20Teacher%20Education
Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education is a peer-reviewed scientific journal within the field of mathematics education. The journal was founded by Thomas J. Cooney, and it first appeared in 1998. Published by Springer, the journal normally appears in 6 annual issues. The journal is paginated by volume. According to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Item%20bank
An item bank Or Question Bank is a term for a repository of test items that belong to a testing program, as well as all information pertaining to those items. In most applications of testing and assessment, the items are of multiple choice format, but any format can be used. Items are pulled from the bank and assigne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidium
An isidium is a vegetative reproductive structure present in some lichens. Isidia are outgrowths of the thallus surface, and are corticated (i.e., containing the outermost layer of the thallus), usually with a columnar structure, and consisting of both fungal hyphae (the mycobiont) and algal cells (the photobiont). The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20viticulture%20terms
This glossary of viticultural terms list some of terms and definitions involved in growing grapes for use in winemaking. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z See also Glossary of wine terms Glossary of winemaking terms Wine tasting descriptors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerLab
PowerLab (before 1998 was referred to as MacLab) is a data acquisition system developed by ADInstruments comprising hardware and software and designed for use in life science research and teaching applications. It is commonly used in physiology, pharmacology, biomedical engineering, sports/exercise studies and psychoph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleversticks
Cleversticks is a plastic construction toy manufactured in the UK. The "Cleversticks Construction System" The original design manufactured in polypropylene used sticks with pairs of jaws on each end and rings, the jaws connect onto the body of the sticks or rings, The jaws also connected the sticks end to end. The r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/123rd%20meridian%20west
The meridian 123° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 123rd meridian west forms a great circle with the 57th meridian east. From Pole to Pole Starting at the North...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20mapping%20theorem
In probability theory, the continuous mapping theorem states that continuous functions preserve limits even if their arguments are sequences of random variables. A continuous function, in Heine’s definition, is such a function that maps convergent sequences into convergent sequences: if xn → x then g(xn) → g(x). The co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20K%20antagonist
Vitamin K antagonists (VKA) are a group of substances that reduce blood clotting by reducing the action of vitamin K. The term "vitamin K antagonist" is technically a misnomer, as the drugs do not directly antagonize the action of vitamin K in the pharmacological sense, but rather the recycling of vitamin K. Vitamin K ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20%28journal%29
Computing, subtitled Archives for Scientific Computing, is a scientific journal published by Springer, which publishes research in computer science and numerical computation. Its ISSN is 0010-485X for the print version and 1436-5057 for the electronic version. , the editors of the journal are Hermann Brunner, Rainer Bu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomonas%20exotoxin
The Pseudomonas exotoxin (or exotoxin A) is an exotoxin produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Vibrio cholerae produces a similar protein called the Cholix toxin (). It inhibits elongation factor-2. It does so by ADP-ribosylation of EF2 using NAD+. This then causes the elongation of polypeptides to cease. This mechanism ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litmus%20milk
Litmus milk is a milk-based medium used to distinguish between different species of bacteria. The lactose (milk sugar), litmus (pH indicator), and casein (milk protein) contained within the medium can all be metabolized by different types of bacteria. Early in the development of microbiology, milk was used as a conven...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergey%27s%20Manual%20of%20Systematic%20Bacteriology
Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology is the main resource for determining the identity of prokaryotic organisms, emphasizing bacterial species, using every characterizing aspect. The manual was published subsequent to the Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, though the latter is still published as a gu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure%20problem
In graph theory and combinatorial optimization, a closure of a directed graph is a set of vertices C, such that no edges leave C. The closure problem is the task of finding the maximum-weight or minimum-weight closure in a vertex-weighted directed graph. It may be solved in polynomial time using a reduction to the maxi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle%20Cell%20Anemia%2C%20a%20Molecular%20Disease
"Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease" is a 1949 scientific paper by Linus Pauling, Harvey A. Itano, Seymour J. Singer and Ibert C. Wells that established sickle-cell anemia as a genetic disease in which affected individuals have a different form of the metalloprotein hemoglobin in their blood. The paper, published...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indian%20state%20trees
India, officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia. It is made up of 28 states and 8 union territories. All Indian states have their own government and the Union territories come under the jurisdiction of the Central Government. As most of the other countries India too has a national emblem—the Lion Cap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indian%20state%20flowers
India, officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia. It is made up of 29 states and 8 union territories. A list of state flowers of India is given below. See Symbols of Indian states and territories for a complete list of all State characters and seals. States Union territories See also Indian lot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonics%20%28keyboard%29
A mnemonic is an underlined alphanumeric character, typically appearing in a menu title, menu item, or the text of a button or component of the user interface. A mnemonic indicates to the user which key to press (in conjunction with the Alt key) to activate a command or navigate to a component. In Microsoft Windows, m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades%20%28supercomputer%29
Pleiades () is a petascale supercomputer housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center located at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California. It is maintained by NASA and partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Silicon Graphics International) and Intel. As of November...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Requirements%20Engineering%20Board
The International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) e.V. was founded in Fürth in Germany in October 2006. IREB e.V. is as a legal entity based in Germany. The IREB is the holder for the international certification scheme Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE). It is IREB's role to support a si...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberrant%20crypt%20foci
Aberrant crypt foci (ACF) are clusters of abnormal tube-like glands in the lining of the colon and rectum. Aberrant crypt foci form before colorectal polyps and are one of the earliest changes seen in the colon that may lead to cancer. ACF are, as opposed to normal epithelial cells, apoptosis resistant. When looking f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping%20node
A bootstrapping node, also known as a rendezvous host, is a node in an overlay network that provides initial configuration information to newly joining nodes so that they may successfully join the overlay network. Bootstrapping nodes are predominantly found in decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) networks because of the d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20Input/Output%20eXchange
SIOX is an asynchronous serial communication bus that uses (default 4800) datarates. Specified by in Sweden, it is widely used in factories, plants, ships and district heating systems. The bus can use point-to-point, bus, tree, star and ring topologies and uses a level, with a short-circuit current of . It is also...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidon%20sequence
In number theory, a Sidon sequence is a sequence of natural numbers in which all pairwise sums (for ) are different. Sidon sequences are also called Sidon sets; they are named after the Hungarian mathematician Simon Sidon, who introduced the concept in his investigations of Fourier series. The main problem in the st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%2C%20Australia%20and%20the%20Bomb
Britain, Australia and the Bomb: the Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath is a 2006 book by Lorna Arnold and Mark Smith. It is the second edition of an official history first published in 1987 by HMSO under another title: A Very Special Relationship: British Atomic Weapons Trials in Australia. The book uses declassified m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponychium
The hyponychium () is the area of epithelium, particularly the thickened portion, underlying the free edge of the nail plate on the nail. Its proximal border is immediately distal to distal limit of nail bed—a.k.a. the onychodermal band (the line along the interface of the nail bed and the nail plate). Its distal bord...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20J.%20Ryser
Herbert John Ryser (July 28, 1923 – July 12, 1985) was a professor of mathematics, widely regarded as one of the major figures in combinatorics in the 20th century. He is the namesake of the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem, Ryser's formula for the computation of the permanent of a matrix, and Ryser's conjecture. Early life...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20rhombus
In geometry, a golden rhombus is a rhombus whose diagonals are in the golden ratio: Equivalently, it is the Varignon parallelogram formed from the edge midpoints of a golden rectangle. Rhombi with this shape form the faces of several notable polyhedra. The golden rhombus should be distinguished from the two rhombi of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20flux
Energy flux is the rate of transfer of energy through a surface. The quantity is defined in two different ways, depending on the context: Total rate of energy transfer (not per unit area); SI units: W = J⋅s−1. Specific rate of energy transfer (total normalized per unit area); SI units: W⋅m−2 = J⋅m−2⋅s−1: This is a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric%20flux
In fluid dynamics, the volumetric flux is the rate of volume flow across a unit area (m3·s−1·m−2), and has dimensions of distance/time (volume/(time*area)) - equivalent to mean velocity. The density of a particular property in a fluid's volume, multiplied with the volumetric flux of the fluid, thus defines the advectiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative%20flux
Radiative flux, also known as radiative flux density or radiation flux (or sometimes power flux density), is the amount of power radiated through a given area, in the form of photons or other elementary particles, typically measured in W/m2. It is used in astronomy to determine the magnitude and spectral class of a sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20abundance%20distribution
In ecology the relative abundance distribution (RAD) or species abundance distribution species abundance distribution (SAD) describes the relationship between the number of species observed in a field study as a function of their observed abundance. The SAD is one of ecology's oldest and most universal laws – every co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flocoumafen
Flocoumafen is a fluorinated, second-generation anticoagulant of the 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist type. It is a second generation (i.e., high potency) chemical in this class, used commercially as a rodenticide. It has a very high toxicity and is restricted to indoor use and sewers (in the UK). This restrictio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difethialone
Difethialone is an anticoagulant used as a rodenticide. It is considered a second generation agent. In May 2008, the EPA added restrictions on the sale of difethialone in consumer-use rodenticide products and also for exterior use by commercial applicators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophacinone
Chlorophacinone is an anticoagulant used as a rodenticide. It is classified as an extremely hazardous substance in the United States as defined in Section 302 of the U.S. Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. 11002) and is subject to strict reporting requirements by facilities which produce, st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTA-102
CTA 102, also known by its B1950 coordinates as 2230+114 (QSR B2230+114) and its J2000 coordinates as J2232+1143 (QSO J2232+1143), is a blazar-type quasar discovered in the early 1960s by a radio survey carried out by the California Institute of Technology. It has been observed by a large range of instruments since its...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20adsorption%20ratio
The sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) is an irrigation water quality parameter used in the management of sodium-affected soils. It is an indicator of the suitability of water for use in agricultural irrigation, as determined from the concentrations of the main alkaline and earth alkaline cations present in the water. It is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20junction%20potential
Liquid junction potential (shortly LJP) occurs when two solutions of same electrolytes of different concentrations are in contact with each other. The more concentrated solution will have a tendency to diffuse into the comparatively less concentrated one. The rate of diffusion of each ion will be roughly proportional t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoroacetamide
Fluoroacetamide is an organic compound based on acetamide with one fluorine atom replacing hydrogen on the methyl group. it is a metabolic poison which disrupts the citric acid cycle and was used as a rodenticide. See also Sodium fluoroacetate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C3-Difluoro-2-propanol
1,3-Difluoro-2-propanol is a metabolic poison which disrupts the citric acid cycle and is used as a rodenticide, similar to sodium fluoroacetate. It is the main ingredient (along with 1-chloro-3-fluoro-2-propanol) in the rodenticide product Gliftor which was widely used in the former USSR and still approved in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT-Political%20Association%20of%20Denmark
The IT-Political Association (Danish: IT-Politisk Forening, commonly known as IT-Pol) is a Danish non-profit NGO, which works to collect information on IT and convey this to politicians and the society to get the best possible grounds for legislation. The association is independent of political parties and communicates...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20MultiPoint%20Server
Windows MultiPoint Server is an operating system based on Microsoft Windows Server using Remote Desktop Services technology to host multiple simultaneous independent computing stations or terminals connected to a single computer (multiseat computing). Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 was the final release as an independe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimidine
Crimidine is a convulsant poison used as a rodenticide. Crimidine was originally known by its product name, Castrix. It was originally produced in the 1940s by the conglomerate, IG Farben. It is classified as an extremely hazardous substance in the United States as defined in Section 302 of the U.S. Emergency Planning ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbormide
Norbormide (Raticate, Shoxin) is a toxic compound used as a rodenticide. It has several mechanisms of action, acting as a vasoconstrictor and calcium channel blocker, but is selectively toxic to rats and has relatively low toxicity to other species, due to a species specific action of opening the permeability transitio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91-Naphthylthiourea
α-Naphthylthiourea (ANTU) is an organosulfur compound with the formula C10H7NHC(S)NH2. This a white, crystalline powder although commercial samples may be off-white. It is used as a rodenticide and as such is fairly toxic. Naphthylthiourea is available as 10% active baits in suitable protein- or carbohydrate-rich mat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrinuron
Pyrinuron (Pyriminil, Vacor) is a chemical compound formerly used as a rodenticide. Commercial distribution was voluntarily suspended in 1979 and it is not approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in the United States. If it is ingested by humans in high doses, it may selectively destroy insulin-produci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosacetim
Phosacetim is a toxic organophosphate compound, which acts as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and is used as a rodenticide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilliroside
Scilliroside is a toxic compound derived from the plant Drimia maritima (syn. Urginea maritima), which is sometimes used as a rodenticide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bensulide
Bensulide is a selective organophosphate herbicide. It is one of a few organophosphate compounds that are used as an herbicide. Most of the others are used as insecticides. It is used on vegetable crops such as carrots, cucumbers, peppers, and melons and in cotton and turfgrass to control annual grasses such as bluegra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20%28Byrne%20book%29
The Secret is a 2006 self-help book by Rhonda Byrne, based on the earlier film of the same name. It is based on the belief of the pseudoscientific law of attraction, which claims that thoughts can change a person's life directly. The book alleges energy as assurance of its effectiveness. The book has sold 30 million co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20cryptographic%20hash%20functions
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of cryptographic hash functions. See the individual functions' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. An overview of hash function security/cryptanalysis can be found at hash function secu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druse%20%28botany%29
A druse is a group of crystals of calcium oxalate, silicates, or carbonates present in plants, and are thought to be a defense against herbivory due to their toxicity. Calcium oxalate (Ca(COO)2, CaOx) crystals are found in algae, angiosperms and gymnosperms in a total of more than 215 families. These plants accumulate ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge%20gravitation%20theory
In quantum field theory, gauge gravitation theory is the effort to extend Yang–Mills theory, which provides a universal description of the fundamental interactions, to describe gravity. Gauge gravitation theory should not be confused with the similarly-named gauge theory gravity, which is a formulation of (classical) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sovereign%20states%20by%20number%20of%20Internet%20hosts
This is the list of countries by number of Internet hosts, based on 2012 figures from the CIA World Factbook. Several dependent territories, not fully recognized states, and non-state territories are also listed. The European Union host (.eu) is mostly composed of French, Polish and German hosts. List (*) The U.S. fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20analysis
Algebraic analysis is an area of mathematics that deals with systems of linear partial differential equations by using sheaf theory and complex analysis to study properties and generalizations of functions such as hyperfunctions and microfunctions. Semantically, it is the application of algebraic operations on analytic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%20functor
In mathematics, the Stone functor is a functor S: Topop → Bool, where Top is the category of topological spaces and Bool is the category of Boolean algebras and Boolean homomorphisms. It assigns to each topological space X the Boolean algebra S(X) of its clopen subsets, and to each morphism fop: X → Y in Topop (i.e., a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureU
futureU is an educational video game developed and published by Aspyr Media on November 5, 2008 for Windows, Mac OS X, and the Nintendo DS, and created in association with test preparation company Kaplan, Inc. Gameplay Like the SATs, futureU has three sections: Reading, Writing, and Math, each with two subdivisions. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Darwinism
Universal Darwinism, also known as generalized Darwinism, universal selection theory, or Darwinian metaphysics, is a variety of approaches that extend the theory of Darwinism beyond its original domain of biological evolution on Earth. Universal Darwinism aims to formulate a generalized version of the mechanisms of var...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnestic%20functor
In the mathematical field of category theory, an amnestic functor F : A → B is a functor for which an A-isomorphism ƒ is an identity whenever Fƒ is an identity. An example of a functor which is not amnestic is the forgetful functor Metc→Top from the category of metric spaces with continuous functions for morphisms to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adularescence
Adularescence ( ) is an optical phenomenon that is produced in gemstones like moonstone. The optical effect is similar to labradorescence and aventurescence. Description The effect of adularescence, also commonly referred to as schiller or shiller, is best described as a milky, bluish luster or glow originating from b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino%20acid%20neurotransmitter
An amino acid neurotransmitter is an amino acid which is able to transmit a nerve message across a synapse. Neurotransmitters (chemicals) are packaged into vesicles that cluster beneath the axon terminal membrane on the presynaptic side of a synapse in a process called endocytosis. Amino acid neurotransmitter releas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiS%206326
The SiS 6326 was a graphics processing unit (GPU) manufactured by Silicon Integrated Systems. It was introduced in June 1997 and became available to the consumer market in the end of that year. Although its performance was low compared to the GPUs of its age, eventually it became very successful, specially integrated i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salpinx%20in%20anatomy
In anatomical contexts, salpinx is used to refer to a type of tube. Per Terminologia Anatomica, the Latin term "tuba" is usually used to describe most tubes (after the Roman tuba, not the modern tuba), but the term "salpinges" and its adjectival derivatives are still sometimes used to describe the following two "tubes"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Nagy%20theorem
The Erdős–Nagy theorem is a result in discrete geometry stating that a non-convex simple polygon can be made into a convex polygon by a finite sequence of flips. The flips are defined by taking a convex hull of a polygon and reflecting a pocket with respect to the boundary edge. The theorem is named after mathematici...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20action%20process%20approach
The health action process approach (HAPA) is a psychological theory of health behavior change, developed by Ralf Schwarzer, Professor of Psychology at the Freie University Berlin of Berlin, Germany and SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw, Poland, first published in 1992. Health behavior change r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20needs%20dentistry
Special needs dentistry, also known as special care dentistry, is a dental specialty that deals with the oral health problems of geriatric patients, patients with intellectual disabilities, and patients with other medical, physical, or psychiatric issues. Special needs dentists typically have additional postgraduate t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallo-beta-lactamase%20protein%20fold
The metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) superfamily constitutes a group of proteins found in all domains of life that share a characteristic αββα fold with the ability to bind transition metal ions. Such metal binding sites may have divalent transition metal ions like Zn(II), Fe(II)/Fe(III) and Mn(II), and are located at the bot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20repeat
Direct repeats are a type of genetic sequence that consists of two or more repeats of a specific sequence. In other words, the direct repeats are nucleotide sequences present in multiple copies in the genome. Generally, a direct repeat occurs when a sequence is repeated with the same pattern downstream. There is and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurometer
The tellurometer was the first successful microwave electronic distance measurement equipment. The name derives from the Latin tellus, meaning Earth. History The original tellurometer, known as the Micro-Distancer MRA 1, was introduced in 1957. It was invented by Trevor Wadley of the Telecommunications Research Labora...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Society%20for%20Computational%20Biology
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is a scholarly society for researchers in computational biology and bioinformatics. The society was founded in 1997 to provide a stable financial home for the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference and has grown to become a larger society w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age%20determination%20in%20dinosaurs
Age determination in dinosaurs is mainly used to determine the approximate age of a dinosaur when the animal died. History Early attempts to estimate the longevity of dinosaurs used allometric scaling principles. Ages were determined by dividing individual mass estimates by rates of growth for similar, extant taxa. Fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracutaneous%20mastocytoma
Extracutaneous mastocytoma presents with benign appearing mast cells occurring in sites other than the skin or bone marrow. See also Mastocytosis Skin lesion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20Signal%20Processor
The Audio Signal Processor (ASP) is a large-scale digital signal processor developed by James A. Moorer at Lucasfilm's The Droid Works. Moorer programmed a number of digital signal processing algorithms that were used in major motion picture features. Sounds processed by the ASP were used in the THX logo's Deep Note, R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%27s%20conjectures
In mathematics, the Arthur conjectures are some conjectures about automorphic representations of reductive groups over the adeles and unitary representations of reductive groups over local fields made by , motivated by the Arthur–Selberg trace formula. Arthur's conjectures imply the generalized Ramanujan conjectures f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20uncountable%20ordinal
In mathematics, the first uncountable ordinal, traditionally denoted by or sometimes by , is the smallest ordinal number that, considered as a set, is uncountable. It is the supremum (least upper bound) of all countable ordinals. When considered as a set, the elements of are the countable ordinals (including finite o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquarian%20science%20books
Antiquarian science books are original historical works (e.g., books or technical papers) concerning science, mathematics and sometimes engineering. These books are important primary references for the study of the history of science and technology, they can provide valuable insights into the historical development of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundDroid
The SoundDroid is an early digital audio workstation designed by a team of engineers led by James A. Moorer at Lucasfilm between 1980 and 1987. It was a hard-disk–based, nonlinear audio editor developed on the Audio Signal Processor (ASP), a large-scale digital signal processor for real-time, multichannel equalization ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20strain%20compression%20test
The plane strain compression test is a specialized test used on some materials ranging from metals to soils. Metals One variation of the test is also known as the Watts-Ford test. It is an engineering test, and is a particularly specialized way of determining some of the material characteristics of the metal being te...