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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20condyle%20of%20femur | The medial condyle is one of the two projections on the lower extremity of femur, the other being the lateral condyle.
The medial condyle is larger than the lateral (outer) condyle due to more weight bearing caused by the centre of mass being medial to the knee. On the posterior surface of the condyle the linea aspera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20condyle%20of%20femur | The lateral condyle is one of the two projections on the lower extremity of the femur. The other one is the medial condyle. The lateral condyle is the more prominent and is broader both in its front-to-back and transverse diameters.
Clinical significance
The most common injury to the lateral femoral condyle is an oste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20plantar%20ligament | The long plantar ligament (long calcaneocuboid ligament; superficial long plantar ligament) is a long ligament on the underside of the foot that connects the calcaneus with the 2nd to 5th metatarsal.
Structure
The long plantar ligament is the longest of all the ligaments of the tarsus. It is attached behind to the pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibular%20retinacula | The fibular retinacula (also known as peroneal retinacula) are fibrous retaining bands that bind down the tendons of the fibularis longus and fibularis brevis muscles as they run across the side of the ankle. (Retinaculum is Latin for "retainer.")
These bands consist of the superior fibular retinaculum and the inferio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric%20oscillator | A parametric oscillator is a driven harmonic oscillator in which the oscillations are driven by varying some parameters of the system at some frequencies, typically different from the natural frequency of the oscillator. A simple example of a parametric oscillator is a child pumping a playground swing by periodically s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibular%20collateral%20ligament | The lateral collateral ligament (LCL, long external lateral ligament or fibular collateral ligament) is an extrinsic ligament of the knee located on the lateral side of the knee. Its superior attachment is at the lateral epicondyle of the femur (superoposterior to the popliteal groove); its inferior attachment is at th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora%20of%20North%20America | The Flora of North America North of Mexico (usually referred to as FNA) is a multivolume work describing the native plants and naturalized plants of North America, including the United States, Canada, St. Pierre and Miquelon, and Greenland. It includes bryophytes and vascular plants. All taxa are described and included... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20supracondylar%20ridge | The lateral supracondylar ridge is a prominent, rough margin on the lower part of the lateral border of the humerus. It presents an anterior lip for the origin of forearm extensors, including the brachioradialis muscle above, and the extensor carpi radialis longus muscle below. It also presents a posterior lip for the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permeation | In physics and engineering, permeation (also called imbuing) is the penetration of a permeate (a fluid such as a liquid, gas, or vapor) through a solid. It is directly related to the concentration gradient of the permeate, a material's intrinsic permeability, and the materials' mass diffusivity. Permeation is modeled b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20triangle%20inequalities | In geometry, triangle inequalities are inequalities involving the parameters of triangles, that hold for every triangle, or for every triangle meeting certain conditions. The inequalities give an ordering of two different values: they are of the form "less than", "less than or equal to", "greater than", or "greater tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%20%28unit%29 | The thomson (symbol: Th) is a unit that has appeared infrequently in scientific literature relating to the field of mass spectrometry as a unit of mass-to-charge ratio. The unit was proposed by Cooks and Rockwood naming it in honour of J. J. Thomson who measured the mass-to-charge ratio of electrons and ions.
Definiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic%20latitude | Geomagnetic latitude, or magnetic latitude (MLAT), is a parameter analogous to geographic latitude, except that, instead of being defined relative to the geographic poles, it is defined by the axis of the geomagnetic dipole, which can be accurately extracted from the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF).
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocast | Geocast refers to the delivery of information to a subset of destinations in a wireless peer-to-peer network identified by their geographical locations. It is used by some mobile ad hoc network routing protocols, but not applicable to Internet routing.
Geographic addressing
A geographic destination address is expres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lametasaurus | Lametasaurus ( - meaning "Lameta lizard") named for the Lameta Formation, Jabalpur, India, is the generic name given to a possibly chimeric dinosaur species.
History of discovery
Between October 1917 and 1919 Charles Alfred Matley excavated fossils near Jabalpur. In 1921 he reported the find in the "Carnosaur Bed" of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted%20grammar | In automata theory, the class of unrestricted grammars (also called semi-Thue, type-0 or phrase structure grammars) is the most general class of grammars in the Chomsky hierarchy. No restrictions are made on the productions of an unrestricted grammar, other than each of their left-hand sides being non-empty. This gramm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression%20%28physiology%29 | In physiology and medicine, depression refers to a lowering, in particular a reduction in a specific biological variable or the functions of an organ. It is the opposite of elevation. For example, it is possible to refer to "depressed thyroid function" or to a depression of blood flow in a particular area.
Further ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20mass%20spectrometry | The history of mass spectrometry has its roots in physical and chemical studies regarding the nature of matter. The study of gas discharges in the mid 19th century led to the discovery of anode and cathode rays, which turned out to be positive ions and electrons. Improved capabilities in the separation of these positiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-encryption | Hyper-encryption is a form of encryption invented by Michael O. Rabin which uses a high-bandwidth source of public random bits, together with a secret key that is shared by only the sender and recipient(s) of the message. It uses the assumptions of Ueli Maurer's bounded-storage model as the basis of its secrecy. Althou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRASP%20%28object-oriented%20design%29 | General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns (or Principles), abbreviated GRASP, is a set of "nine fundamental principles in object design and responsibility assignment" first published by Craig Larman in his 1997 book Applying UML and Patterns.
The different patterns and principles used in GRASP are controller... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glial%20cell%20line-derived%20neurotrophic%20factor | Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the GDNF gene. GDNF is a small protein that potently promotes the survival of many types of neurons. It signals through GFRα receptors, particularly GFRα1.
It is also responsible for the determination of spermatogonia into pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated%20regression%20model | Truncated regression models are a class of models in which the sample has been truncated for certain ranges of the dependent variable. That means observations with values in the dependent variable below or above certain thresholds are systematically excluded from the sample. Therefore, whole observations are missing, s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%27s%20inequality | In linear algebra, Weyl's inequality is a theorem about the changes to eigenvalues of an Hermitian matrix that is perturbed. It can be used to estimate the eigenvalues of a perturbed Hermitian matrix.
Weyl's inequality about perturbation
Let and be n×n Hermitian matrices, with their respective eigenvalues ordered... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Eyes%20of%20Darkness | The Eyes of Darkness is a thriller novel by American writer Dean Koontz, released in 1981. The book focuses on a mother who sets out on a quest to find out if her son indeed died one year ago, or if he's still alive.
Plot
A year after her son Danny dies in an alleged accident on a camping trip, stage producer Tina Eva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelvic%20pain | Pelvic pain is pain in the area of the pelvis. Acute pain is more common than chronic pain. If the pain lasts for more than six months, it is deemed to be chronic pelvic pain. It can affect both the male and female pelvis.
Common causes in include: endometriosis in women, bowel adhesions, irritable bowel syndrome, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabeculae%20carneae | The trabeculae carneae (columnae carneae, or meaty ridges) are rounded or irregular muscular columns which project from the inner surface of the right and left ventricle of the heart. These are different from the pectinate muscles, which are present in the atria of the heart. In development, trabeculae carneae are amo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infundibulum%20%28heart%29 | The infundibulum (also known as conus arteriosus) is a conical pouch formed from the upper and left angle of the right ventricle in the chordate heart, from which the pulmonary trunk arises. It develops from the bulbus cordis. Typically, the infundibulum refers to the corresponding internal structure, whereas the conus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilic%20torus | The umbilic torus or umbilic bracelet is a single-edged 3-dimensional shape. The lone edge goes three times around the ring before returning to the starting point. The shape also has a single external face. A cross section of the surface forms a deltoid.
The umbilic torus occurs in the mathematical subject of singular... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudline | The baudline time-frequency browser is a signal analysis tool designed for scientific visualization. It runs on several Unix-like operating systems under the X Window System. Baudline is useful for real-time spectral monitoring, collected signals analysis, generating test signals, making distortion measurements, and pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20median%20fissure%20of%20spinal%20cord | The anterior median fissure of the spinal cord is a deep midline groove of the anterior/ventral spinal cord. It divides the white matter of the anterior spinal cord nearly in two. The spinal pia mater extends into the fissure to line the surfaces of the spinal cord.
Anatomy
It has an average depth of about 3 mm, but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20funiculus | In the spinal cord, the most lateral of the bundles of the ventral nerve roots is generally taken as a dividing line that separates the antero-lateral region into two parts: an anterior funiculus (or anterior column), between the anterior median fissure and the most lateral of the ventral nerve roots; and a lateral fun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20funiculus | The most lateral of the bundles of the anterior nerve roots is generally taken as a dividing line that separates the anterolateral system into two parts. These are the anterior funiculus, between the anterior median fissure and the most lateral of the anterior nerve roots, and the lateral funiculus (or lateral column) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis%20Khan%20%28video%20game%29 | Genghis Khan, original full title , is a 1987 turn-based strategy game developed by Koei, originally released for the NEC PC-9801, MSX and Sharp X68000 in 1988, the DOS and NES in 1990, and the Amiga in 1990. It is actually the second game in the series, after a 1985 Aoki Ōkami to Shiroki Mejika, also for PC-88, PC-98,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postictal%20state | The postictal state is the altered state of consciousness after an epileptic seizure. It usually lasts between 5 and 30 minutes, but sometimes longer in the case of larger or more severe seizures, and is characterized by drowsiness, confusion, nausea, hypertension, headache or migraine, and other disorienting symptoms.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20median%20sulcus%20of%20spinal%20cord | The posterior median sulcus is the posterior end of the posterior median septum of neuroglia of the spinal cord. The septum varies in depth from 4 to 6 mm, but diminishes considerably in the lower part of the spinal cord. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selcall | Selcall (selective calling) is a type of squelch protocol used in radio communications systems, in which transmissions include a brief burst of sequential audio tones. Receivers that are set to respond to the transmitted tone sequence will open their squelch, while others will remain muted.
Selcall is a radio signalli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%20%28symbol%29 | An arrow is a graphical symbol, such as ← or →, or a pictogram, used to point or indicate direction. In its simplest form, an arrow is a triangle, chevron, or concave kite, usually
affixed to a line segment or rectangle, and in more complex forms a representation of an actual arrow (e.g. ➵ U+27B5). The direction indica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20national%20de%20l%27audiovisuel | The (abbrev. INA), () is a repository of all French radio and television audiovisual archives. Additionally it provides free access to archives of countries such as Afghanistan and Cambodia. It has its headquarters in Bry-sur-Marne.
Since 2006, it has allowed free online consultation on a website called ina.fr with a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Live%20Mesh | Windows Live Mesh (formerly known as Windows Live FolderShare, Live Mesh, and Windows Live Sync) is a discontinued free-to-use Internet-based file synchronization application by Microsoft designed to allow files and folders between two or more computers to be in sync with each other on Windows (Vista and later) and Mac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium%20mining | Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. Over 50 thousand tons of uranium were produced in 2019. Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia were the top three uranium producers, respectively, and together account for 68% of world production. Other countries producing more than 1,000 tons per y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur%20assimilation | Sulfur assimilation is the process by which living organisms incorporate sulfur into their biological molecules. In plants, sulfate is absorbed by the roots and then be transported to the chloroplasts by the transipration stream where the sulfur are reduced to sulfide with the help of a series of enzymatic reactions. F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDRO%20Group | The Industrial Development & Renovation Organization of Iran (IDRO) known as IDRO Group was established in 1967 in Iran. IDRO Group is one of the largest companies in Iran. It is also one of the largest conglomerates in Asia. IDRO's objective is to develop Iran's industry sector and to accelerate the industrialization ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20permutation%20statistics | The statistics of random permutations, such as the cycle structure of a random permutation are of fundamental importance in the analysis of algorithms, especially of sorting algorithms, which operate on random permutations. Suppose, for example, that we are using quickselect (a cousin of quicksort) to select a random e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midy%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Midy's theorem, named after French mathematician E. Midy, is a statement about the decimal expansion of fractions a/p where p is a prime and a/p has a repeating decimal expansion with an even period . If the period of the decimal representation of a/p is 2n, so that
then the digits in the second half o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20machine | A database machines or back end processor is a computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is tightly coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel, whereas a database server is a general-purpose computer that holds ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzino | Pizzino (; plural as pizzini) is an Italian language word derived from the Sicilian language equivalent pizzinu meaning "small piece of paper". The word has been widely used to refer to small slips of paper that the Sicilian Mafia uses for high-level communications.
Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is among tho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20scattering%20transform | In mathematics, the inverse scattering transform is a method for solving some non-linear partial differential equations. The method is a non-linear analogue, and in some sense generalization, of the Fourier transform, which itself is applied to solve many linear partial differential equations. The name "inverse scatter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCKM | Cisco Centralized Key Management (CCKM) is a form of Fast Roaming and a subset of the Cisco Compatible EXtensions (CCX) specification.
When a wireless LAN is configured for fast reconnection, a Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) enabled client device can roam from one wireless access point to anoth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithy%20code | The Smithy code is a series of letters embedded, as a private amusement, within the April 2006 approved judgement of Mr Justice Peter Smith on The Da Vinci Code copyright case. It was first broken, in the same month, by Dan Tench, a lawyer who writes on media issues for The Guardian, after he received a series of email... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial%20regression | In statistics, binomial regression is a regression analysis technique in which the response (often referred to as Y) has a binomial distribution: it is the number of successes in a series of independent Bernoulli trials, where each trial has probability of success . In binomial regression, the probability of a success... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubic%20tubercle | The pubic tubercle is a prominent tubercle on the superior ramus of the pubis bone of the pelvis.
Structure
The pubic tubercle is a prominent forward-projecting tubercle on the upper border of the medial portion of the superior ramus of the pubis bone. The inguinal ligament attaches to it. Part of the abdominal exter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-occurrence%20matrix | A co-occurrence matrix or co-occurrence distribution (also referred to as : gray-level co-occurrence matrices GLCMs) is a matrix that is defined over an image to be the distribution of co-occurring pixel values (grayscale values, or colors) at a given offset. It is used as an approach to texture analysis with various a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhamel%27s%20integral | In theory of vibrations, Duhamel's integral is a way of calculating the response of linear systems and structures to arbitrary time-varying external perturbation.
Introduction
Background
The response of a linear, viscously damped single-degree of freedom (SDOF) system to a time-varying mechanical excitation p(t) is g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20groove | The neural groove is a shallow median groove of the neural plate between the neural folds of an embryo. The neural plate is a thick sheet of ectoderm surrounded on either side by the neural folds, two longitudinal ridges in front of the primitive streak of the developing embryo.
The groove gradually deepens as the neu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body%20simulation | In physics and astronomy, an N-body simulation is a simulation of a dynamical system of particles, usually under the influence of physical forces, such as gravity (see n-body problem for other applications). N-body simulations are widely used tools in astrophysics, from investigating the dynamics of few-body systems li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright%20%28ADL%29 | In software architecture, Wright is an architecture description language developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Wright formalizes a software architecture in terms of concepts such as components, connectors, roles, and ports. The dynamic behavior of different ports of an individual component is described using the Com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic%20stalk | The optic vesicles project toward the sides of the head, and the peripheral part of each expands to form a hollow bulb, while the proximal part remains narrow and constitutes the optic stalk.
Closure of the choroidal fissure in the optic stalk occurs during the seventh week of development. The former optic stalk is th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic%20vesicle | The eyes begin to develop as a pair of diverticula (pouches) from the lateral aspects of the forebrain. These diverticula make their appearance before the closure of the anterior end of the neural tube; after the closure of the tube around the 4th week of development, they are known as the optic vesicles. Previous stud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth-bearer | A truth-bearer is an entity that is said to be either true or false and nothing else. The thesis that some things are true while others are false has led to different theories about the nature of these entities. Since there is divergence of opinion on the matter, the term truth-bearer is used to be neutral among the v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patlak%20plot | A Patlak plot (sometimes called Gjedde–Patlak plot, Patlak–Rutland plot, or Patlak analysis) is a graphical analysis technique based on the compartment model that uses linear regression to identify and analyze pharmacokinetics of tracers involving irreversible uptake, such as in the case of deoxyglucose. It is used for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Guttag | John Vogel Guttag (born March 6, 1949) is an American computer scientist, professor, and former head of the department of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.
Education and career
John Guttag was raised in Larchmont, New York, the son of Irwin Guttag (1916–2005) and Marjorie Vogel Guttag.
John Vogel G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-free%20language | A regular language is said to be star-free if it can be described by a regular expression constructed from the letters of the alphabet, the empty set symbol, all boolean operators – including complementation – and concatenation but no Kleene star. The condition is equivalent to having generalized star height zero.
For... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raider%20Red | Raider Red is one of the mascots of Texas Tech University. The university's primary mascot is The Masked Rider who rides a live horse. Raider Red is used at events where The Masked Rider is not allowed or would not be appropriate.
Around the 1971 football season, the Southwest Conference created a rule forbidding the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obturator%20membrane | The obturator membrane is a thin fibrous sheet, which almost completely closes the obturator foramen.
Its fibers are arranged in interlacing bundles mainly transverse in direction; the uppermost bundle is attached to the obturator tubercles and completes the obturator canal for the passage of the obturator vessels and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20channel | A plasma channel is a conductive channel of plasma. A plasma channel can be formed in the following ways.
With a high-powered laser that operates at a certain frequency that will provide enough energy for an atmospheric gas to break into its ions, or form a plasma, such as in a Laser-Induced Plasma Channel, for exampl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischial%20spine | The ischial spine is part of the posterior border of the body of the ischium bone of the pelvis. It is a thin and pointed triangular eminence, more or less elongated in different subjects.
Structure
The pudendal nerve travels close to the ischial spine.
Clinical significance
The ischial spine can serve as a landmark... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squared%20triangular%20number | In number theory, the sum of the first cubes is the square of the th triangular number. That is,
The same equation may be written more compactly using the mathematical notation for summation:
This identity is sometimes called Nicomachus's theorem, after Nicomachus of Gerasa (c. 60 – c. 120 CE).
History
Nicomachus, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20factor | In condensed matter physics and crystallography, the static structure factor (or structure factor for short) is a mathematical description of how a material scatters incident radiation. The structure factor is a critical tool in the interpretation of scattering patterns (interference patterns) obtained in X-ray, electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendinous%20arch%20of%20pelvic%20fascia | At the level of a line extending from the lower part of the pubic symphysis to the spine of the ischium is a thickened whitish band in this upper layer of the diaphragmatic part of the pelvic fascia. It is termed the tendinous arch or white line of the pelvic fascia, and marks the line of attachment of the special fasc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex%20model | A vertex model is a type of statistical mechanics model in which the Boltzmann weights are associated with a vertex in the model (representing an atom or particle). This contrasts with a nearest-neighbour model, such as the Ising model, in which the energy, and thus the Boltzmann weight of a statistical microstate is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20humeral%20circumflex%20artery | The anterior humeral circumflex artery (anterior circumflex artery, anterior circumflex humeral artery) is an artery in the arm. It is one of two circumflexing arteries that branch from the axillary artery, the other being the posterior humeral circumflex artery. The anterior humeral circumflex artery is considerably s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20humeral%20circumflex%20artery | The posterior humeral circumflex artery (posterior circumflex artery, or posterior circumflex humeral artery) arises from the third part of the axillary artery at the distal border of the subscapularis.
Anatomy
Course and relations
It passes posteriorward with the axillary nerve through the quadrangular space. It wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infraspinous%20fossa | The infraspinous fossa (infraspinatus fossa or infraspinatous fossa) of the scapula is much larger than the supraspinatous fossa; toward its vertebral margin a shallow concavity is seen at its upper part; its center presents a prominent convexity, while near the axillary border is a deep groove which runs from the uppe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supraspinous%20fossa | The supraspinous fossa (supraspinatus fossa, supraspinatous fossa) of the posterior aspect of the scapula (the shoulder blade) is smaller than the infraspinous fossa, concave, smooth, and broader at its vertebral than at its humeral end. Its medial two-thirds give origin to the Supraspinatus.
Structure
The fossa can ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenoid%20fossa | The glenoid fossa of the scapula or the glenoid cavity is a bone part of the shoulder. The word glenoid is pronounced or (both are common) and is from , "socket", reflecting the shoulder joint's ball-and-socket form. It is a shallow, pyriform articular surface, which is located on the lateral angle of the scapula. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCO-IM | Fully Communication Oriented Information Modeling (FCO-IM) is a method for building conceptual information models. Such models can then be automatically transformed into entity-relationship models (ERM), Unified Modeling Language (UML), relational or dimensional models with the FCO-IM Bridge toolset, and it is possible... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20management%20review | A Software management review is a management study into a project's status and allocation of resources. It is different from both a software engineering peer review, which evaluates the technical quality of software products, and a software audit, which is an externally conducted audit into a project's compliance to sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20peer%20review | In software development, peer review is a type of software review in which a work product (document, code, or other) is examined by author's colleagues, in order to evaluate the work product's technical content and quality.
Purpose
The purpose of a peer review is to provide "a disciplined engineering practice for det... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20move | In game theory, a null move or pass is a decision by a player to not make a move when it is that player's turn to move. Even though null moves are against the rules of many games, they are often useful to consider when analyzing these games. Examples of this include the analysis of zugzwang (a situation in chess or oth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony%20%28video%20game%29 | Colony is an action-adventure game written by Ste Cork and released in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, MSX, and ZX Spectrum by Mastertronic on their Bulldog label.
Plot
Overpopulation has caused humanity to grow food in colonies on other planets. Unfortunately, the mushroom-growing planet ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesonephric%20tubules | Mesonephric tubules are genital ridges that are next to the mesonephros.
In males, some of the mesonephric kidney tubules, instead of being used to filter blood like the rest, "grow" over to the developing testes, penetrate them, and become connected to the seminiferous tubules of the testes. They also form the epidid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perron%27s%20formula | In mathematics, and more particularly in analytic number theory, Perron's formula is a formula due to Oskar Perron to calculate the sum of an arithmetic function, by means of an inverse Mellin transform.
Statement
Let be an arithmetic function, and let
be the corresponding Dirichlet series. Presume the Dirichlet s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys%20Identified%20Mail | DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email authentication method designed to detect forged sender addresses in email (email spoofing), a technique often used in phishing and email spam.
DKIM allows the receiver to check that an email that claimed to have come from a specific domain was indeed authorized by the owne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marley%20%26%20Me | Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog is an autobiographical book by journalist John Grogan, published in 2005, about the 13 years he and his family spent with their yellow Labrador Retriever, Marley. The dog is poorly behaved and destructive, and the book covers the issues this causes in the family as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20ventricle | The primitive ventricle or embryonic ventricle of the developing heart, together with the bulbus cordis that lies in front of it, gives rise to the left and right ventricles. The primitive ventricle provides the trabeculated parts of the walls, and the bulbus cordis the smooth parts.
The primitive ventricle becomes d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20atrium | The primitive atrium is a stage in the embryonic development of the human heart. It grows rapidly and partially encircles the bulbus cordis; the groove against which the bulbus cordis lies is the first indication of a division into right and left atria.
The cavity of the primitive atrium becomes subdivided into right ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic%20primitive | Cryptographic primitives are well-established, low-level cryptographic algorithms that are frequently used to build cryptographic protocols for computer security systems. These routines include, but are not limited to, one-way hash functions and encryption functions.
Rationale
When creating cryptographic systems, de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus%20%28video%20game%29 | is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Enix. It was first released in 1987 on the PC-8801, FM-77AV, X1, and the MSX2 and was later ported to the Famicom in 1989 as (Jesus: Terror of Bio Monster). A sequel, Jesus II, was released on the PC-8801, PC-9801, and X68000 in 1991.
The game's name refers to a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallest%20grammar%20problem | In data compression and the theory of formal languages, the smallest grammar problem is the problem of finding the smallest context-free grammar that generates a given string of characters (but no other string). The size of a grammar is defined by some authors as the number of symbols on the right side of the productio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purification%20theorem | In game theory, the purification theorem was contributed by Nobel laureate John Harsanyi in 1973. The theorem aims to justify a puzzling aspect of mixed strategy Nash equilibria: that each player is wholly indifferent amongst each of the actions he puts non-zero weight on, yet he mixes them so as to make every other pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20spoke | The radial spoke is a multi-unit protein structure found in the axonemes of eukaryotic cilia and flagella. Although experiments have determined the importance of the radial spoke in the proper function of these organelles, its structure and mode of action remain poorly understood.
Cellular location and structure
Rad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary%20state | A stationary state is a quantum state with all observables independent of time. It is an eigenvector of the energy operator (instead of a quantum superposition of different energies). It is also called energy eigenvector, energy eigenstate, energy eigenfunction, or energy eigenket. It is very similar to the concept of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathophysiology%20of%20multiple%20sclerosis | Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the CNS in which activated immune cells invade the central nervous system and cause inflammation, neurodegeneration, and tissue damage. The underlying cause is currently unknown. Current research in neuropathology, neuroimmunology, neurobiology, and neuroim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granuloma%20annulare | Granuloma annulare (GA) is a common, sometimes chronic skin condition which presents as reddish bumps on the skin arranged in a circle or ring. It can initially occur at any age, though two-thirds of patients are under 30 years old, and it is seen most often in children and young adults. Females are two times as likely... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20web%20service | A semantic web service, like conventional web services, is the server end of a client–server system for machine-to-machine interaction via the World Wide Web. Semantic services are a component of the semantic web because they use markup which makes data machine-readable in a detailed and sophisticated way (as compared ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail%2C%20Wholesale%20and%20Department%20Store%20Union | Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is a labor union in the United States. Founded in 1937, the RWDSU represents about 60,000 workers in a wide range of industries, including but not limited to retail, grocery stores, poultry processing, dairy processing, cereal processing, soda bottlers, bakeries, hea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20review | A software review is "a process or meeting during which a software product is examined by a project personnel, managers, users, customers, user representatives, or other interested parties for comment or approval".
In this context, the term "software product" means "any technical document or partial document, produced... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagneRide | MagneRide is an automotive adaptive suspension with magnetorheological damper system developed by the Delphi Automotive corporation, during a period when the company was a subsidiary of General Motors (GM), that uses magnetically controlled dampers, or shock absorbers, for a highly adaptive ride. As opposed to traditio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Year%20of%20Older%20Persons | In its Proclamation on Aging, the United Nations General Assembly decided to declare 1999 as the International Year of Older Persons (IYOP). The proclamation was launched on 1 October 1998, the International Day of Older Persons, by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Worldwide, within the next generations, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20fractionation | Blood fractionation is the process of fractionating whole blood, or separating it into its component parts. This is typically done by centrifuging the blood.
The resulting components are:
a clear solution of blood plasma in the upper phase (which can be separated into its own fractions, see Blood plasma fractionati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo%20digital%20video%20recorders | TiVo digital video recorders encompass a number of digital video recorder (DVR) models that TiVo Corporation designed. Features may vary, but a common feature is that all of the units listed here require TiVo service and use its operating system.
TiVo units have been manufactured by various OEMs, including Philips, S... |
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