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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86%20debug%20register | On the x86 architecture, a debug register is a register used by a processor for program debugging. There are six debug registers, named DR0...DR7, with DR4 and DR5 as obsolete synonyms for DR6 and DR7. The debug registers allow programmers to selectively enable various debug conditions associated with a set of four deb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interosseous%20sacroiliac%20ligament | The interosseous sacroiliac ligament, also known as the axial interosseous ligament, is a ligament of the sacroiliac joint that lies deep to the posterior ligament. It connects the tuberosities of the sacrum and the ilium of the pelvis.
Structure
The interosseous sacroiliac ligament consists of a series of short, str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags%20of%20Africa | These are the various flags of Africa.
Supranational and international flags
An incomplete list of flags representing all African international and supranational organisations, which omits intercontinental organisations such as the United Nations:
Flags of African sovereign states
Disputed or partially recognised st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20tibiofibular%20joint | The inferior tibiofibular joint, also known as the distal tibiofibular joint (tibiofibular syndesmosis), is formed by the rough, convex surface of the medial side of the distal end of the fibula, and a rough concave surface on the lateral side of the tibia.
Below, to the extent of about 4 mm, these surfaces are smooth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20tibiofibular%20joint | The superior tibiofibular articulation (also called proximal tibiofibular joint) is an arthrodial joint between the lateral condyle of tibia and the head of the fibula.
The contiguous surfaces of the bones present flat, oval facets covered with cartilage and connected together by an articular capsule and by anterior a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20ligament%20of%20the%20head%20of%20the%20fibula | The posterior ligament of the head of the fibula is a part of the knee. It is a single thick and broad band, which passes obliquely upward from the back of the head of the fibula to the back of the lateral condyle of the tibia.
It is covered by the tendon of the Popliteus. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20tibiofibular%20ligament | The anterior ligament of the lateral malleolus (anterior tibiofibular ligament or anterior inferior ligament) is a flat, trapezoidal band of fibers, broader below than above, which extends obliquely downward and lateralward between the adjacent margins of the tibia and fibula, on the front aspect of the syndesmosis.
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia%20over%20Coax%20Alliance | The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) is an international standards consortium that publishes specifications for networking over coaxial cable. The technology was originally developed to distribute IP television in homes using existing cabling, but is now used as a general-purpose Ethernet link where it is inconveni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucania%20%28wasp%29 | Araucania is an invalid genus of braconid wasps in the family Braconidae, found in South America. There are at least two described species in Araucania.
The valid genus Araucania Pate 1947, in the family Sapygidae, has nomenclatural precedence over the braconid name, published in 1993, so the latter name must be repla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20transverse%20ligament%20of%20the%20tibiofibular%20syndesmosis | The inferior transverse ligament of the tibiofibular syndesmosis is a connective tissue structure in the lower leg that lies in front of the posterior ligament. It is a strong, thick band, of yellowish fibers which passes transversely across the back of the ankle joint, from the lateral malleolus to the posterior borde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superghost | For the game, see Lexicant, a variant of ghost (game).
In a supersymmetric quantum field theory, a superghost is a fermionic Faddeev–Popov ghost, which is used in the gauge fixing of a fermionic symmetry generator.
Supersymmetric quantum field theory
String theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20tibiofibular%20ligament | The posterior ligament of the lateral malleolus (posterior tibiofibular ligament, posterior inferior ligament) is smaller than the anterior ligament of the lateral malleolus and is disposed in a similar manner on the posterior surface of the syndesmosis. It connects the tibia and fibular on the inferior part of both bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrococcygeal%20symphysis | The sacrococcygeal symphysis (sacrococcygeal articulation, articulation of the sacrum and coccyx) is an amphiarthrodial joint, formed between the oval surface at the apex of the sacrum, and the base of the coccyx.
It is a slightly moveable joint which is frequently, partially or completely, obliterated in old age, hom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condyloid%20joint | A condyloid joint (also called condylar, ellipsoidal, or bicondylar) is an ovoid articular surface, or condyle that is received into an elliptical cavity. This permits movement in two planes, allowing flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, and circumduction.
Examples
Examples include:
the wrist-joint
metacarpoph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddle%20joint | A saddle joint (sellar joint, articulation by reciprocal reception) is a type of synovial joint in which the opposing surfaces are reciprocally concave and convex. It is found in the thumb, the thorax, the middle ear, and the heel.
Structure
In a saddle joint, one bone surface is concave while another is convex. This... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot%20joint | In animal anatomy, a pivot joint (trochoid joint, rotary joint or lateral ginglymus) is a type of synovial joint whose movement axis is parallel to the long axis of the proximal bone, which typically has a convex articular surface.
According to one classification system, a pivot joint like the other synovial joint —th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20joint | A plane joint (arthrodial joint, gliding joint, plane articulation) is a synovial joint which, under physiological conditions, allows only gliding movement.
Plane joints permit sliding movements in the plane of articular surfaces. The opposed surfaces of the bones are flat or almost flat, with movement limited by the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progenitor%20cell | A progenitor cell is a biological cell that can differentiate into a specific cell type. Stem cells and progenitor cells have this ability in common. However, stem cells are less specified than progenitor cells. Progenitor cells can only differentiate into their "target" cell type. The most important difference between... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder%20network | A method for pruning dense networks to highlight key links
Rationale
Relationships among a set of elements are often represented as a square matrix with entries representing the relations between all pairs of the elements. Relations such as distances, dissimilarities, similarities, relatedness, correlations, co-occur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe%20organ%20tuning | This article describes the process and techniques involved in the tuning of a pipe organ. Electronic organs typically do not require tuning.
A pipe organ produces sound via hundreds or thousands of organ pipes, each of which produces a single pitch and timbre. The goal of tuning a pipe organ is to adjust the pitch o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphology%20Association%20of%20North%20America | The Lymphology Association of North America, formerly known as the American Society of Lymphology, is a non-profit organization based in Kansas City, Missouri. The society provides current information and resources for professionals and patients interested in the healthy function and disorders of the lymphatic system, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lax%20pair | In mathematics, in the theory of integrable systems, a Lax pair is a pair of time-dependent matrices or operators that satisfy a corresponding differential equation, called the Lax equation. Lax pairs were introduced by Peter Lax to discuss solitons in continuous media. The inverse scattering transform makes use of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji%20Urada | Kenji Urada (c. 1944 – July 4, 1981) was a Japanese factory worker who was killed by a robot. Urada is often incorrectly reported to be the first person killed by a robot, but Robert Williams, a worker at the Ford Motor Company's Michigan Casting Center, had been killed by a robot over two years earlier, on January 25,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeek | Zeek is a free and open-source software network analysis framework. Vern Paxson began development work on Zeek in 1995 at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Zeek is a network security monitor (NSM) but can also be used as a network intrusion detection system (NIDS). The Zeek project releases the software under the BSD lic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%E2%80%93energy%E2%80%93momentum%20pseudotensor | In the theory of general relativity, a stress–energy–momentum pseudotensor, such as the Landau–Lifshitz pseudotensor, is an extension of the non-gravitational stress–energy tensor that incorporates the energy–momentum of gravity. It allows the energy–momentum of a system of gravitating matter to be defined. In particul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20allocation | Sex allocation is the allocation of resources to male versus female reproduction in sexual species. Sex allocation theory tries to explain why many species produce equal number of males and females.
In dioecious species, where individuals are either male or female for their entire lifetimes, the allocation decision li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20thermodynamic%20relation | In thermodynamics, the fundamental thermodynamic relation are four fundamental equations which demonstrate how four important thermodynamic quantities depend on variables that can be controlled and measured experimentally. Thus, they are essentially equations of state, and using the fundamental equations, experimental ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least-concern%20species | A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. They do not qualify as threatened, near threatened, or (before 2001) conserva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncofetal%20antigen | Oncofetal antigens are proteins which are typically present only during fetal development but are found in adults with certain kinds of cancer. These proteins are often measurable in the blood of individuals with cancer and may be used to both diagnose and follow treatment of the tumors. One example of an oncofetal ant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechnoSphere%20%28virtual%20environment%29 | TechnoSphere was an online digital environment launched on September 1, 1995 and hosted on a computer at a UK university. Created by Jane Prophet and Dr. Gordon Selley, TechnoSphere was a place where users from around the globe could create creatures and release them into the 3D environment, described by the creators a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20transmittance | Thermal transmittance is the rate of transfer of heat through matter. The thermal transmittance of a material (such as insulation or concrete) or an assembly (such as a wall or window) is expressed as a U-value. The thermal insulance of a structure is the reciprocal of its thermal transmittance.
U-value
Although the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens%20Communications | Siemens Communications was the communications and information business arm of German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG, until 2006. It was the largest division of Siemens, and had two business units – Mobile Networks and Fixed Networks; and Enterprise.
Siemens Communications division was founded in 1998 through the a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes%20Saxoniae | The (Latin for "Limit of Saxony"), also known as the Limes Saxonicus or Sachsenwall ("Saxon Dyke"), was an unfortified limes or border between the Saxons and the Slavic Obotrites, established about 810 in present-day Schleswig-Holstein.
After Charlemagne had removed Saxons from some of their lands and given it to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavodoxin | Flavodoxins (Fld) are small, soluble electron-transfer proteins. Flavodoxins contains flavin mononucleotide as prosthetic group. The structure of flavodoxin is characterized by a five-stranded parallel beta sheet, surrounded by five alpha helices. They have been isolated from prokaryotes, cyanobacteria, and some eukary... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20design | Interactive design is a user-oriented field of study that focuses on meaningful communication using media to create products through cyclical and collaborative processes between people and technology. Successful interactive designs have simple, clearly defined goals, a strong purpose and intuitive screen interface.
In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty%20acid%20transport%20proteins | Fatty acid transport proteins (FATPs, SLC27, SLC27A) are a family of trans-membrane transport proteins, which allow and enhance the uptake of long chain fatty acids into cells. This subfamily is part of the solute carrier protein family. Within humans this family contains six very homologous proteins, which are express... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal%20triangle | In hyperbolic geometry an ideal triangle is a hyperbolic triangle whose three vertices all are ideal points. Ideal triangles are also sometimes called triply asymptotic triangles or trebly asymptotic triangles. The vertices are sometimes called ideal vertices. All ideal triangles are congruent.
Properties
Ideal tria... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurophysins | Neurophysins are carrier proteins which transport the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin to the posterior pituitary from the paraventricular and supraoptic nucleus of the hypothalamus, respectively. Inside the neurosecretory granules, the analogous neurophysin I and II form stabilizing complexes via covalent interaction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEGIS%20SecureConnect | AEGIS SecureConnect (or simply AEGIS) is the former name of a network authentication system used in IEEE 802.1X networks. It was developed by Meetinghouse Data Communications, Inc.; the system was renamed "Cisco Secure Services Client" when Meetinghouse was acquired by Cisco Systems. The AEGIS Protocol is an 802.1X sup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional%20stability | Directional stability is stability of a moving body or vehicle about an axis which is perpendicular to its direction of motion. Stability of a vehicle concerns itself with the tendency of a vehicle to return to its original direction in relation to the oncoming medium (water, air, road surface, etc.) when disturbed (r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCAAT-enhancer-binding%20proteins | CCAAT-enhancer-binding proteins (or C/EBPs) is a family of transcription factors composed of six members, named from C/EBPα to C/EBPζ. They promote the expression of certain genes through interaction with their promoters. Once bound to DNA, C/EBPs can recruit so-called co-activators (such as CBP) that in turn can open... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape%20connectivity | In landscape ecology, landscape connectivity is, broadly, "the degree to which the landscape facilitates or impedes movement among resource patches". Alternatively, connectivity may be a continuous property of the landscape and independent of patches and paths. Connectivity includes both structural connectivity (the ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon%20regulatory%20factors | Interferon regulatory factors (IRF) are proteins which regulate transcription of interferons (see regulation of gene expression). Interferon regulatory factors contain a conserved N-terminal region of about 120 amino acids, which folds into a structure that binds specifically to the IRF-element (IRF-E) motifs, which is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-selectin | E-selectin, also known as CD62 antigen-like family member E (CD62E), endothelial-leukocyte adhesion molecule 1 (ELAM-1), or leukocyte-endothelial cell adhesion molecule 2 (LECAM2), is a selectin cell adhesion molecule expressed only on endothelial cells activated by cytokines. Like other selectins, it plays an importan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membranous%20labyrinth | The membranous labyrinth is a collection of fluid filled tubes and chambers which contain the receptors for the senses of equilibrium and hearing. It is lodged within the bony labyrinth in the inner ear and has the same general form; it is, however, considerably smaller and is partly separated from the bony walls by a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX8010 | The FX8010, is a DSP architecture, designed for realtime audio effects, designed by E-mu, around their E-mu 10K1 chip. One key feature of the architecture, is not providing any branching instructions, but rather running the whole program in a sample locked constant loop, i.e. a constant number of instructions is execut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching%20pursuit | Matching pursuit (MP) is a sparse approximation algorithm which finds the "best matching" projections of multidimensional data onto the span of an over-complete (i.e., redundant) dictionary . The basic idea is to approximately represent a signal from Hilbert space as a weighted sum of finitely many functions (called... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductus%20reuniens | The ductus reuniens also the canalis reuniens of Hensen is part of the human inner ear. It connects the lower part of the saccule to the cochlear duct near its vestibular extremity.
See also
Victor Hensen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whangee | Whangee ( ) refers to any of over forty Asian grasses of the genus Phyllostachys, a genus of bamboos. They are a hardy evergreen plant from Japan, China, and the Himalayas whose woody stems are sometimes used to make canes and umbrella handles. The word derives from the Chinese (Mandarin) huáng lí. It can also refer t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endolymphatic%20duct | From the posterior wall of the saccule a canal, the endolymphatic duct, is given off; this duct is joined by the ductus utriculosaccularis, and then passes along the aquaeductus vestibuli and ends in a blind pouch (endolymphatic sac) on the posterior surface of the petrous portion of the temporal bone, where it is in c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagena%20%28anatomy%29 | The lagena (from Greek λάγηνος : lágēnos for flask) is a structure found in humans and in animals.
In human anatomy
In the ear, the extremities of the ductus cochlearis are closed; the upper is termed the lagena and is attached to the cupula at the upper part of the helicotrema; the lower is lodged in the recessus co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-time%20adaptive%20processing | Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is a signal processing technique most commonly used in radar systems. It involves adaptive array processing algorithms to aid in target detection. Radar signal processing benefits from STAP in areas where interference is a problem (i.e. ground clutter, jamming, etc.). Through ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s%20principle%20of%20least%20constraint | The principle of least constraint is one variational formulation of classical mechanics enunciated by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1829, equivalent to all other formulations of analytical mechanics. Intuitively, it says that the acceleration of a constrained physical system will be as similar as possible to that of the corr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular%20aqueduct | At the hinder part of the medial wall of the vestibule is the orifice of the vestibular aqueduct, which extends to the posterior surface of the petrous portion of the temporal bone.
It transmits a small vein, and contains a tubular prolongation of the membranous labyrinth, the ductus endolymphaticus, which ends in a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse%20mass | The transverse mass is a useful quantity to define for use in particle physics as it is invariant under Lorentz boost along the z direction. In natural units, it is:
where the z-direction is along the beam pipe and so
and are the momentum perpendicular to the beam pipe and
is the (invariant) mass.
This definition ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrate%20reductase | Nitrate reductases are molybdoenzymes that reduce nitrate (NO) to nitrite (NO). This reaction is critical for the production of protein in most crop plants, as nitrate is the predominant source of nitrogen in fertilized soils.
Types
Eukaryotic
Eukaryotic nitrate reductases are part of the sulfite oxidase family of m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stria%20vascularis%20of%20cochlear%20duct | The stria vascularis of the cochlear duct is a capillary loop in the upper portion of the spiral ligament (the outer wall of the cochlear duct). It produces endolymph for the scala media in the cochlea.
Structure
The stria vascularis is part of the lateral wall of the cochlear duct. It is a somewhat stratified epithe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20power%20by%20country | Nuclear power plants operate in 32 countries and generate about a tenth of the world's electricity.
Most are in Europe, North America, East Asia and South Asia.
The United States is the largest producer of nuclear power, while France has the largest share of electricity generated by nuclear power, at about 70%.
China... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osseous%20spiral%20lamina | The osseous spiral lamina is a bony shelf or ledge which projects from the modiolus into the interior of the canal, and, like the canal, takes two-and-three-quarter turns around the modiolus.
It reaches about half-way toward the outer wall of the tube, and partially divides its cavity into two passages or scalae, of w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endolymphatic%20sac | From the posterior wall of the saccule a canal, the endolymphatic duct, is given off; this duct is joined by the utriculosaccular duct, and then passes along the vestibular aqueduct and ends in a blind pouch, the endolymphatic sac, on the posterior surface of the petrous portion of the temporal bone, where it is in con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED%20circuit | In electronics, an LED circuit or LED driver is an electrical circuit used to power a light-emitting diode (LED). The circuit must provide sufficient current to light the LED at the required brightness, but must limit the current to prevent damaging the LED. The voltage drop across an LED is approximately constant over... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20channel%20election | A digital channel election was the process by which television stations in the United States chose which physical radio-frequency TV channel they would permanently use after the analog shutdown in 2009. The process was managed and mandated by the Federal Communications Commission for all full-power TV stations. Low-p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieraella | Vieraella is an extinct genus of frog from the Lower Jurassic (Early Pliensbachian to Toarcian) Roca Blanca Formation of Argentina, and one of the oldest true frogs known. This genus is known by a single excepcionally well preserved specimen, P.V.L. 2188, with at least eight presacrals vertebrae, free ribs, ulna and ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triadobatrachus | Triadobatrachus is an extinct genus of salientian frog-like amphibians, including only one known species, Triadobatrachus massinoti. It is the oldest member of the frog lineage known, and an excellent example of a transitional fossil. It lived during the Early Triassic about 250 million years ago, in what is now Madaga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnolichenology | Ethnolichenology is the study of the relationship between lichens and people. Lichens have and are being used for many different purposes by human cultures across the world. The most common human use of lichens is for dye, but they have also been used for medicine, food and other purposes.
Lichens for dye
Lichens are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav%20Fiedler | Miroslav Fiedler (7 April 1926 – 20 November 2015) was a Czech mathematician known for his contributions to linear algebra, graph theory and algebraic graph theory.
His article, "Algebraic Connectivity of Graphs", published in the Czechoslovak Math Journal in 1973, established the use of the eigenvalues of the Laplaci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel%20hierarchy | In mathematical logic, the Borel hierarchy is a stratification of the Borel algebra generated by the open subsets of a Polish space; elements of this algebra are called Borel sets. Each Borel set is assigned a unique countable ordinal number called the rank of the Borel set. The Borel hierarchy is of particular intere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%E2%80%93sphere%20intersection | In analytic geometry, a line and a sphere can intersect in three ways:
No intersection at all
Intersection in exactly one point
Intersection in two points.
Methods for distinguishing these cases, and determining the coordinates for the points in the latter cases, are useful in a number of circumstances. For exampl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azinphos-methyl | Azinphos-methyl (Guthion) (also spelled azinophos-methyl) is a broad spectrum organophosphate insecticide manufactured by Bayer CropScience, Gowan Co., and Makhteshim Agan. Like other pesticides in this class, it owes its insecticidal properties (and human toxicity) to the fact that it is an acetylcholinesterase inhibi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20globulin | Beta globulins are a group of globular proteins in plasma that are more mobile in alkaline or electrically charged solutions than gamma globulins, but less mobile than alpha globulins.
Examples of beta globulins include:
beta-2 microglobulin
plasminogen
angiostatins
properdin
sex hormone-binding globulin
transf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%204K%20Game%20Programming%20Contest | The Java 4K Game Programming Contest, also known as Java 4K and J4K, is an informal contest that was started by the Java Game Programming community to challenge their software development abilities.
Concept
The goal of the contest is to develop the best game possible within four kibibytes (4096 bytes) of data. While... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotari | The yotari mouse is an autosomal recessive mutant. It has a mutated disabled homolog 1 (Dab1) gene. This mutant mouse is recognized by unstable gait ("Yota-ru" in Japanese means "unstable gait") and tremor and by early deaths around the time of weaning. The cytoarchitectures of cerebellar and cerebral cortices and hipp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Bird%20Count | The Australian Bird Count (ABC) was a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU). Following the first and successful Atlas of Australian Birds project, which led to the publication of a book on the distribution of Australian birds in 1984, it was suggested by Ken Rogers that the RAOU should next loo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave%20transmission | Microwave transmission is the transmission of information by electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the microwave frequency range of 300 MHz to 300 GHz (1 m - 1 mm wavelength) of the electromagnetic spectrum. Microwave signals are normally limited to the line of sight, so long-distance transmission using these signa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gated%20reverb | Gated reverb or gated ambience is an audio processing technique that combines strong reverb and a noise gate that cuts the tail of the reverb. The effect is typically applied to recordings of drums (or live sound reinforcement of drums in a PA system) to make the hits sound powerful and "punchy" while keeping the overa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragrance%20extraction | Fragrance extraction refers to the separation process of aromatic compounds from raw materials, using methods such as distillation, solvent extraction, expression, sieving, or enfleurage. The results of the extracts are either essential oils, absolutes, concretes, or butters, depending on the amount of waxes in the ext... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POTS%20codec | A POTS codec is a type of audio coder-decoder (codec) that uses digital signal processing to transmit audio digitally over standard telephone lines (plain old telephone service, POTS) at a higher level of audio quality than the telephone line would normally provide in its analog mode. The POTS codec is one of a family ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bil%20Herd | Bil Herd is a computer engineer who created several designs for 8-bit home computers while working for Commodore Business Machines in the early to mid-1980s.
Biography
He attended the Indiana school system. Herd did not have a college degree, and did not graduate high school, though he was working as an engineer by t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race%20to%20Space | Race to Space is a 2001 fictional American family drama film. The film was shot on location at Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach and Edwards AFB in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
Plot
During the 1960s space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, Dr. Wilhelm von Huber, a top NASA scientist, re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral%20mutation | Neutral mutations are changes in DNA sequence that are neither beneficial nor detrimental to the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce. In population genetics, mutations in which natural selection does not affect the spread of the mutation in a species are termed neutral mutations. Neutral mutations that are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragone%20plot | A Ragone plot ( ) is a plot used for comparing the energy density of various energy-storing devices. On such a chart the values of specific energy (in W·h/kg) are plotted versus specific power (in W/kg). Both axes are logarithmic, which allows comparing performance of very different devices. Ragone plots can reveal inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripedalism | Tripedalism (from the Latin tri = three + ped = foot) is locomotion by the use of three limbs. It has been said that parrots (Psittaciformes) display tripedalism during climbing gaits, which was tested and proven in a 2022 paper on the subject, making parrots the only creatures to truly use tripedal forms of locomotion... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambucus%20canadensis | Sambucus canadensis, the American black elderberry, Canada elderberry, or common elderberry, is a species of elderberry native to a large area of North America east of the Rocky Mountains, south to Bolivia. It grows in a variety of conditions including both wet and dry soils, primarily in sunny locations.
Description
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-threatened%20species | A near-threatened species is a species which has been categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as that may be vulnerable to endangerment in the near future, but it does not currently qualify for the threatened status.
The IUCN notes the importance of re-evaluat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending%20cholangitis | Ascending cholangitis, also known as acute cholangitis or simply cholangitis, is inflammation of the bile duct, usually caused by bacteria ascending from its junction with the duodenum (first part of the small intestine). It tends to occur if the bile duct is already partially obstructed by gallstones.
Cholangitis can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress%20router | An ingress router is a label switch router that is a starting point (source) for a given label-switched path (LSP). An ingress router may be an egress router or an intermediate router for any other LSP(s). Hence the role of ingress and egress routers is LSP specific. Usually, the MPLS label is attached with an IP packe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentine%20flask | A florentine flask, also known as florentine receiver, florentine separator or essencier (from the French), other shapes called florentine vase or florentine vessel, is an oil–water separator fed with condensed vapors of a steam distillation in a fragrance extraction process.
Description
When the raw material is heat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSSIM | OSSIM (Open Source Security Information Management) is an open source security information and event management system, integrating a selection of tools designed to aid network administrators in computer security, intrusion detection and prevention.
The project began in 2003 as a collaboration between Dominique Karg, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinase | Recombinases are genetic recombination enzymes.
Site specific recombinases
DNA recombinases are widely used in multicellular organisms to manipulate the structure of genomes, and to control gene expression. These enzymes, derived from bacteria (bacteriophages) and fungi, catalyze directionally sensitive DNA exchange ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASMO%20449 | ASMO 449 is a, now technologically obsolete, 7-bit coded character set to encode the Arabic language.
History
This character set was devised by the now extinct Arab Standardization and Metrology Organization in 1982 to be the 7-bit standard to be used in Arabic-speaking countries. The design of this character set is d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Topography | The Christian Topography (, ) is a 6th-century work, one of the earliest essays in scientific geography written by a Christian author. It originally consisted of five books written by Cosmas Indicopleustes and expanded to ten and eventually to twelve books at around 550 AD.
Cosmology
Cosmas Indicopleustes, the author... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prony%27s%20method | Prony analysis (Prony's method) was developed by Gaspard Riche de Prony in 1795. However, practical use of the method awaited the digital computer. Similar to the Fourier transform, Prony's method extracts valuable information from a uniformly sampled signal and builds a series of damped complex exponentials or damped ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured%20Book%20protocols | The Coloured Book protocols were a set of communication protocols for computer networks developed in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. These protocols were designed to enable communication and data exchange between different computer systems and networks. The name originated with each protocol being identified by the co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum%20deposition | Vacuum deposition is a group of processes used to deposit layers of material atom-by-atom or molecule-by-molecule on a solid surface. These processes operate at pressures well below atmospheric pressure (i.e., vacuum). The deposited layers can range from a thickness of one atom up to millimeters, forming freestanding s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%20of%20action | In pharmacology and biochemistry, mode of action (MoA) describes a functional or anatomical change, resulting from the exposure of a living organism to a substance. In comparison, a mechanism of action (MOA) describes such changes at the molecular level.
A mode of action is important in classifying chemicals, as it re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding%20best%20practices | Coding best practices or programming best practices are a set of informal rules (best practices) that many software developers in computer programming follow to improve software quality.
Many computer programs remain in use for long periods of time, so any rules need to facilitate both initial development and subsequen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure%20of%20merit | A figure of merit (FOM) is a performance metric that characterizes the performance of a device, system, or method, relative to its alternatives.
Examples
Accuracy of a rifle
Audio amplifier figures of merit such as gain or efficiency
Battery life of a laptop computer
Calories per serving
Clock rate of a CPU is often g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlicensed%20Personal%20Communications%20Services | Unlicensed Personal Communications Services or UPCS band is the 1920–1930 MHz frequency band allocated by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for short range Personal Communications Services (PCS) applications in the United States, such as the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20J.%20Finlay%20Prize%20for%20Microbiology | The Carlos J. Finlay Prize is a biennial scientific prize sponsored by the Government of Cuba and awarded since 1980 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to people or organizations for their outstanding contributions to microbiology (including immunology, molecular biology, g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel%20aspect%20ratio | A Pixel aspect ratio (often abbreviated PAR) is a mathematical ratio that describes how the width of a pixel in a digital image compared to the height of that pixel.
Most digital imaging systems display an image as a grid of tiny, square pixels. However, some imaging systems, especially those that must be compatible w... |
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