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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior%20of%20nuclear%20fuel%20during%20a%20reactor%20accident | This page describes how uranium dioxide nuclear fuel behaves during both normal nuclear reactor operation and under reactor accident conditions, such as overheating. Work in this area is often very expensive to conduct, and so has often been performed on a collaborative basis between groups of countries, usually under ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichnotaxon | An ichnotaxon (plural ichnotaxa) is "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", i.e. the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa comes from the Greek , ichnos meaning track and , taxis meaning ordering.
Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, mor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark%20conjectures | In number theory, the Stark conjectures, introduced by and later expanded by , give conjectural information about the coefficient of the leading term in the Taylor expansion of an Artin L-function associated with a Galois extension K/k of algebraic number fields. The conjectures generalize the analytic class number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20windup | Integral windup, also known as integrator windup or reset windup, refers to the situation in a PID controller where a large change in setpoint occurs (say a positive change) and the integral term accumulates a significant error during the rise (windup), thus overshooting and continuing to increase as this accumulated e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues%20parrot | The Rodrigues parrot or Leguat's parrot (Necropsittacus rodricanus) is an extinct species of parrot that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues. The species is known from subfossil bones and from mentions in contemporary accounts. It is unclear to which other species it is most closely related, but it is clas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers%20against%20decapentaplegic%20homolog%205 | Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 5 also known as SMAD5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMAD5 gene.
SMAD5, as its name describes, is a homolog of the Drosophila gene: "Mothers against decapentaplegic", based on a tradition of such unusual naming within the gene research community. It belongs to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holevo%27s%20theorem | Holevo's theorem is an important limitative theorem in quantum computing, an interdisciplinary field of physics and computer science. It is sometimes called Holevo's bound, since it establishes an upper bound to the amount of information that can be known about a quantum state (accessible information). It was published... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar%20phosphates | Sugar phosphates (sugars that have added or substituted phosphate groups) are often used in biological systems to store or transfer energy. They also form the backbone for DNA and RNA. Sugar phosphate backbone geometry is altered in the vicinity of the modified nucleotides.
Examples include:
Dihydroxyacetonephosphate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Enrique%20Moyal | José Enrique Moyal (; 1 October 1910 – 22 May 1998) was an Australian mathematician and mathematical physicist who contributed to aeronautical engineering, electrical engineering and statistics, among other fields.
Career
Moyal helped establish the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics in 1949 by bringing toge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers%20against%20decapentaplegic%20homolog%207 | Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 7 or SMAD7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMAD7 gene.
SMAD7 is a protein that, as its name describes, is a homolog of the Drosophila gene: "Mothers against decapentaplegic". It belongs to the SMAD family of proteins, which belong to the TGFβ superfamily of ligand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rami%20Grossberg | Rami Grossberg () is a full professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University and works in model theory.
Work
Grossberg's work in the past few years has revolved around the classification theory of non-elementary classes. In particular, he has provided, in joint work with Monica VanDieren, a proof of an upward "M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Thomas | Kim Susannah Thomas (born 10 October 1967) is a former competitive rower from Great Britain.
Early life
Thomas was born in 1967 in Wandsworth, Great Britain. She is a member of the Leander Club at Henley-on-Thames. She received her education at Surbiton High School in Surbiton, and then studied engineering at Durham U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers%20against%20decapentaplegic%20homolog%209 | Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 9 also known as SMAD9, SMAD8, and MADH6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMAD9 gene.
SMAD9, as its name describes, is a homolog of the Drosophila gene: "Mothers against decapentaplegic". It belongs to the SMAD family of proteins, which belong to the TGFβ superfamil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-SMAD | R-SMADs are receptor-regulated SMADs. SMADs are transcription factors that transduce extracellular TGF-β superfamily ligand signaling from cell membrane bound TGF-β receptors into the nucleus where they activate transcription TGF-β target genes. R-SMADS are directly phosphorylated on their c-terminus by type 1 TGF-β r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committed%20information%20rate | In a Frame Relay network, committed information rate (CIR) is the bandwidth for a virtual circuit guaranteed by an internet service provider to work under normal conditions. Committed data rate (CDR) is the payload portion of the CIR.
At any given time, the available bandwidth should not fall below this committed fig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based%20programming | In computer programming, flow-based programming (FBP) is a programming paradigm that defines applications as networks of black box processes, which exchange data across predefined connections by message passing, where the connections are specified externally to the processes. These black box processes can be reconnecte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineralocorticoid%20receptor | The mineralocorticoid receptor (or MR, MLR, MCR), also known as the aldosterone receptor or nuclear receptor subfamily 3, group C, member 2, (NR3C2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NR3C2 gene that is located on chromosome 4q31.1-31.2.
MR is a receptor with equal affinity for mineralocorticoids and gluco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOACAP | VOACAP (Voice of America Coverage Analysis Program) is a radio propagation model that uses empirical data to predict the point-to-point path loss and coverage of a given transceiver if given as inputs: two antennas (configuration and position), solar weather, and time/date. Written in Fortran, it was originally designe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom%20graph | In graph theory, a graph is said to be a pseudorandom graph if it obeys certain properties that random graphs obey with high probability. There is no concrete definition of graph pseudorandomness, but there are many reasonable characterizations of pseudorandomness one can consider.
Pseudorandom properties were first f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Harrington | Leo Anthony Harrington (born May 17, 1946) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in
recursion theory, model theory, and set theory.
Having retired from being a Mathematician, Professor Leo Harrington is now a Philosopher.
His notable results include proving the Paris–Harrin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Hartshorne |
Robin Cope Hartshorne ( ; born March 15, 1938) is an American mathematician who is known for his work in algebraic geometry.
Career
Hartshorne was a Putnam Fellow in Fall 1958 while he was an undergraduate at Harvard University (under the name Robert C. Hartshorne). He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik%20Lenstra | Hendrik Willem Lenstra Jr. (born 16 April 1949, Zaandam) is a Dutch mathematician.
Biography
Lenstra received his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in 1977 and became a professor there in 1978. In 1987, he was appointed to the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley; starting in 1998, he divided hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-weighted%20average%20price | In finance, time-weighted average price (TWAP) is the average price of a security over a specified time.
TWAP is also sometimes used to describe a TWAP card, that is a strategy that will attempt to execute an order and achieve the TWAP or better. A TWAP strategy underpins more sophisticated ways of buying and selling... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized%20computing | Decentralized computing is the allocation of resources, both hardware and software, to each individual workstation, or office location. In contrast, centralized computing exists when the majority of functions are carried out, or obtained from a remote centralized location. Decentralized computing is a trend in modern-d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecplot | Tecplot is the name of a family of visualization & analysis software tools developed by American company Tecplot, Inc., which is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The firm was formerly operated as Amtec Engineering. In 2016, the firm was acquired by Vela Software, an operating group of Constellation Software, Inc.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMAD%20%28protein%29 | Smads (or SMADs) comprise a family of structurally similar proteins that are the main signal transducers for receptors of the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-B) superfamily, which are critically important for regulating cell development and growth. The abbreviation refers to the homologies to the Caenorhabditis el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubique%20%28company%29 | Ubique was a software company based in Israel.
In 1994 the company launched the first social-networking software, which included instant messaging, voice over IP (Commonly known as VoIP), chat rooms, web-based events, collaborative browsing. It is best known for the Virtual Places software product and the technology u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity%20blind%20wine%20tasting%20match | The Varsity Blind Wine Tasting Match is a series of annual competitions in blind wine tasting between the Oxford University Blind Wine Tasting Society and the Cambridge University Blind Wine Tasting Society; the blind wine tasting teams of the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews; and the blind wine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid%20method%20multiplication | The grid method (also known as the box method) of multiplication is an introductory approach to multi-digit multiplication calculations that involve numbers larger than ten. Because it is often taught in mathematics education at the level of primary school or elementary school, this algorithm is sometimes called the gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal%20Typewriter | Colossal Typewriter by John McCarthy and Roland Silver was one of the earliest computer text editors. The program ran on the PDP-1 at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) by December 1960.
About this time, both authors were associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but it is unclear whether the editor ran o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice%20Casorati%20%28mathematician%29 | Felice Casorati (17 December 1835 – 11 September 1890) was an Italian mathematician who studied at the University of Pavia. He was born in Pavia and died in Casteggio.
He is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis. The theorem, named for Casorati and Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass, descri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton%20%28content%20delivery%29 | Triton was a digital delivery and digital rights management service created by Digital Interactive Streams, which abruptly went out of business in early October 2006.
Triton was a new competitor in the rapidly growing market for electronic distribution of video games. Triton was being used to serve budget-oriented gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelity%20of%20quantum%20states | In quantum mechanics, notably in quantum information theory, fidelity is a measure of the "closeness" of two quantum states. It expresses the probability that one state will pass a test to identify as the other. The fidelity is not a metric on the space of density matrices, but it can be used to define the Bures metric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expensive%20Tape%20Recorder | Expensive Tape Recorder is a digital audio program written by David Gross while a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gross developed the idea with Alan Kotok, a fellow member of the Tech Model Railroad Club. The recorder and playback system ran in the late 1950s or early 1960s on MIT's TX-0 computer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunodermatology | Immunodermatology studies skin as an organ of immunity in health and disease. Several areas have special attention, such as photo-immunology (effects of UV light on skin defense), inflammatory diseases such as Hidradenitis suppurativa, allergic contact dermatitis and atopic eczema, presumably autoimmune skin diseases s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival%20Under%20Atomic%20Attack | Survival Under Atomic Attack was the title of an official United States government booklet released by the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Resources Board (document 130), and the Civil Defense Office. Released at the onset of the Cold War era, the pamphlet was in line with rising fears that th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin%20causal%20model | The Rubin causal model (RCM), also known as the Neyman–Rubin causal model, is an approach to the statistical analysis of cause and effect based on the framework of potential outcomes, named after Donald Rubin. The name "Rubin causal model" was first coined by Paul W. Holland. The potential outcomes framework was first ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Altmann | Richard Altmann (12 March 1852 – 8 December 1900) was a German pathologist and histologist from Deutsch Eylau in the Province of Prussia.
Altmann studied medicine in Greifswald, Königsberg, Marburg, and Giessen, obtaining a doctorate at the University of Giessen in 1877. He then worked as a prosector at Leipzig, and i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony%20Compiler | Harmony Compiler was written by Peter Samson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The compiler was designed to encode music for the PDP-1 and built on an earlier program Samson wrote for the TX-0 computer.
Jack Dennis noticed and had mentioned to Samson that the sound on or off state of the TX-0's speak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/318%20%28number%29 | 318 is the natural number following 317 and preceding 319.
In mathematics
318 is:
a sphenic number
a nontotient
the number of posets with 6 unlabeled elements
the sum of 12 consecutive primes, 7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47.
In religion
In Genesis 14, Abraham takes 318 men to rescue his brot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval%20ensign | A naval ensign is an ensign (maritime flag) used by naval ships of various countries to denote their nationality. It can be the same or different from a country's civil ensign or state ensign.
It can also be known as a war ensign. A large version of a naval ensign that is flown on a warship's mast just before going in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCT%20Mathematics%20Competition | The UCT Mathematics Competition is an annual mathematics competition for schools in the Western Cape province of South Africa, held at the University of Cape Town.
Around 7000 participants from Grade 8 to Grade 12 take part, writing a multiple-choice paper. Individual and pair entries are accepted, but all write the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanskin%20%28wine%29 | In Australia and New Zealand, cleanskin wine is a term for wine whose label does not indicate the winery or the winemaker's name. It is typically sold at a low price.
Cleanskin labels usually only show the grape variety and the year of bottling, as well as other information required by Australian law - alcohol content... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDGAP%20series | AIDGAP is an acronym for Aid to Identification in Difficult Groups of Animals and Plants.
The AIDGAP series is a set of books published by the Field Studies Council. They are intended to enable students and interested non-specialists to identify groups of taxa in Britain which are not covered by standard field guides.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20robot | A delta robot is a type of parallel robot that consists of three arms connected to universal joints at the base. The key design feature is the use of parallelograms in the arms, which maintains the orientation of the end effector. In contrast, Stewart platform can change the orientation of its end effector.
Delta robo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster%20dose | A booster dose is an extra administration of a vaccine after an earlier (primer) dose. After initial immunization, a booster provides a re-exposure to the immunizing antigen. It is intended to increase immunity against that antigen back to protective levels after memory against that antigen has declined through time. F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20screening | Virtual screening (VS) is a computational technique used in drug discovery to search libraries of small molecules in order to identify those structures which are most likely to bind to a drug target, typically a protein receptor or enzyme.
Virtual screening has been defined as "automatically evaluating very large libr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBGKY%20hierarchy | In statistical physics, the BBGKY hierarchy (Bogoliubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon hierarchy, sometimes called Bogoliubov hierarchy) is a set of equations describing the dynamics of a system of a large number of interacting particles. The equation for an s-particle distribution function (probability density function) in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-Nspire%20series | The TI-Nspire is a graphing calculator line made by Texas Instruments, with the first version released on 25 September 2007. The calculators feature a non-QWERTY keyboard and a different key-by-key layout than Texas Instruments's previous flagship calculators such as the TI-89 series.
Development
The original TI-Nspi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinucleotide%20repeat%20expansion | A trinucleotide repeat expansion, also known as a triplet repeat expansion, is the DNA mutation responsible for causing any type of disorder categorized as a trinucleotide repeat disorder. These are labelled in dynamical genetics as dynamic mutations. Triplet expansion is caused by slippage during DNA replication, also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyrachyus | Hyrachyus (from Hyrax and "pig") is an extinct genus of perissodactyl mammal that lived in Eocene Europe, North America, and Asia. Its remains have also been found in Jamaica. It is closely related to Lophiodon.
Description
The 1.5-m-long beast was related to palaeotheres, and suspected to be the ancestor of modern t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tale%20topology | In algebraic geometry, the étale topology is a Grothendieck topology on the category of schemes which has properties similar to the Euclidean topology, but unlike the Euclidean topology, it is also defined in positive characteristic. The étale topology was originally introduced by Alexander Grothendieck to define étal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splice%20site%20mutation | A splice site mutation is a genetic mutation that inserts, deletes or changes a number of nucleotides in the specific site at which splicing takes place during the processing of precursor messenger RNA into mature messenger RNA. Splice site consensus sequences that drive exon recognition are located at the very termini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass%20product%20inequality | In mathematics, the Weierstrass product inequality states that for any real numbers 0 ≤ x1, ..., xn ≤ 1 we have
where
The inequality is named after the German mathematician Karl Weierstrass.
Proof
The inequality with the subtractions can be proven easily via mathematical induction. The one with the additions is p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowker%E2%80%93Thistlethwaite%20notation | In the mathematical field of knot theory, the Dowker–Thistlethwaite (DT) notation or code, for a knot is a sequence of even integers. The notation is named after Clifford Hugh Dowker and Morwen Thistlethwaite, who refined a notation originally due to Peter Guthrie Tait.
Definition
To generate the Dowker–Thistlethwait... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback%20linearization | Feedback linearization is a common strategy employed in nonlinear control to control nonlinear systems. Feedback linearization techniques may be applied to nonlinear control systems of the form
where is the state, are the inputs. The approach involves transforming a nonlinear control system into an equivalent linear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicho%C5%84%27s%20diagram | In set theory,
Cichoń's diagram or Cichon's diagram is a table of 10 infinite cardinal numbers related to the set theory of the reals displaying the provable relations between these
cardinal characteristics of the continuum. All these cardinals are greater than or equal to , the smallest uncountable cardinal, and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptus | A conceptus (from Latin: concipere, to conceive) is an embryo and its appendages (adnexa), the associated membranes, placenta, and umbilical cord; the products of conception or, more broadly, "the product of conception at any point between fertilization and birth." The conceptus includes all structures that develop fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Kunen | Herbert Kenneth Kunen (August 2, 1943August 14, 2020) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked in set theory and its applications to various areas of mathematics, such as set-theoretic topology and measure theory. He also worked on non-associative algebraic systems, such as loops... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20research%20ships | The research ship had origins in the early voyages of exploration. By the time of James Cook's Endeavour, the essentials of what today we would call a research ship are clearly apparent. In 1766, the Royal Society hired Cook to travel to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the transit of Venus across the Sun. The E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking%20sensor | Parking sensors are proximity sensors for road vehicles designed to alert the driver of obstacles while parking. These systems use either electromagnetic or ultrasonic sensors.
Ultrasonic systems
These systems feature ultrasonic proximity detectors to measure the distances to nearby objects via sensors located in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRANZ%20330 | The TRANZ 330 is a popular point-of-sale device manufactured by VeriFone in 1985. The most common application for these units is bank and credit card processing, however, as a general purpose computer, they can perform other novel functions. Other applications include gift/benefit card processing, prepaid phone cards... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame%20It%20on%20the%20Weatherman | "Blame It on the Weatherman" is a song by Irish girl group B*Witched, written by Ray "Madman" Hedges, Martin Brannigan, Tracy Ackerman, and Andy Caine. It was released as the fourth single from their self-titled debut studio album on 15 March 1999.
Like the other three singles from the album, "Blame It on the Weatherm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography | Pornography (colloquially known as porn or porno) has been defined as sexual subject material "such as a picture, video, or text" that is intended for sexual arousal. Indicated for the consumption by adults, pornography depictions have evolved from cave paintings, some forty millennia ago, to virtual reality presentati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%E2%80%93Kuranishi%20prolongation%20theorem | Given an exterior differential system defined on a manifold M, the Cartan–Kuranishi prolongation theorem says that after a finite number of prolongations the system is either in involution (admits at least one 'large' integral manifold), or is impossible.
History
The theorem is named after Élie Cartan and Masatake Kur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxaloacetate%20decarboxylase | Oxaloacetate decarboxylase is a carboxy-lyase involved in the conversion of oxaloacetate into pyruvate.
It is categorized under .
Oxaloacetate decarboxylase activity in a given organism may be due to activity of malic enzyme, pyruvate kinase, malate dehydrogenase, pyruvate carboxylase and PEP carboxykinase or the act... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructosephosphates | Fructosephosphates are sugar phosphates based upon fructose, and are common in the biochemistry of cells.
Fructosephosphates play integral roles in many metabolic pathways, particularly glycolysis, gluconeogenesis and the pentose phosphate pathway.
The major biologically active fructosephosphates are:
Fructose 1-phos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Phosphoglyceric%20acid | 2-Phosphoglyceric acid (2PG), or 2-phosphoglycerate, is a glyceric acid which serves as the substrate in the ninth step of glycolysis. It is catalyzed by enolase into phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), the penultimate step in the conversion of glucose to pyruvate.
In glycolysis
See also
3-Phosphoglyceric acid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet%20assay | The single cell gel electrophoresis assay (SCGE, also known as comet assay) is an uncomplicated and sensitive technique for the detection of DNA damage at the level of the individual eukaryotic cell. It was first developed by Östling & Johansson in 1984 and later modified by Singh et al. in 1988. It has since increased... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction%20step | An instruction step is a method of executing a computer program one step at a time to determine how it is functioning. This might be to determine if the correct program flow is being followed in the program during the execution or to see if variables are set to their correct values after a single step has completed.
H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsal%20metacarpal%20arteries | Most of the dorsal metacarpal arteries arise from the dorsal carpal arch and run downward on the second, third, and fourth dorsal interossei of the hand and bifurcate into the dorsal digital arteries. Near their origin, they anastomose with the deep palmar arch by perforating arteries. They also anastomose with commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20silicon%20producers | This is a list of silicon producers. The industry involves several very different stages of production. Production starts at silicon metal, which is the material used to gain high purity silicon. High purity silicon in different grades of purity is used for growing silicon ingots, which are sliced to wafers in a proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6LoWPAN | 6LoWPAN (acronym of "IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks") was a working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
It was created with the intention of applying the Internet Protocol (IP) even to the smallest devices, enabling low-power devices with limited processing capabilities to partici... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20type%20%28non-human%29 | Animal erythrocytes have cell surface antigens that undergo polymorphism and give rise to blood types. Antigens from the human ABO blood group system are also found in apes and Old World monkeys, and the types trace back to the origin of humanoids. Other animal blood sometimes agglutinates (to varying levels of intensi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze%20runner | In electronic design automation, maze runner is a connection routing method that represents the entire routing space as a grid. Parts of this grid are blocked by components, specialised areas, or already present wiring. The grid size corresponds to the wiring pitch of the area. The goal is to find a chain of grid cells... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steane%20code | The Steane code is a tool in quantum error correction introduced by Andrew Steane in 1996. It is a CSS code (Calderbank-Shor-Steane), using the classical binary [7,4,3] Hamming code to correct for qubit flip errors (X errors) and the dual of the Hamming code, the [7,3,4] code, to correct for phase flip errors (Z error... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Congress%20of%20Human%20Genetics | The International Congress of Human Genetics is the foremost meeting of the international human genetics community. The first Congress was held in 1956 in Copenhagen, and has met every five years since then with the exception of the 2021 meeting which was postponed for two years because of the global COVID-19 pandemic.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20appearance%20model | An active appearance model (AAM) is a computer vision algorithm for matching a statistical model of object shape and appearance to a new image. They are built during a training phase. A set of images, together with coordinates of landmarks that appear in all of the images, is provided to the training supervisor.
The m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleanane | Oleanane is a natural triterpenoid. It is commonly found in woody angiosperms and as a result is often used as an indicator of these plants in the fossil record. It is a member of the oleanoid series, which consists of pentacyclic triterpenoids (such as beta-amyrin and taraxerol) where all rings are six-membered.
Stru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic%20Dictionary%20of%20Lithuanian | The Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian ( or ) is a comprehensive thesaurus of the Lithuanian language and one of the most extensive lexicographical works in the world. The 20 volumes encompassing 22,000 pages were published between 1941 and 2002 by the Institute of the Lithuanian Language. An online and a CD version was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9union%20swamphen | The Réunion swamphen (Porphyrio caerulescens), also known as the Réunion gallinule or (French for "blue bird"), is a hypothetical extinct species of rail that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Réunion. While only known from 17th- and 18th-century accounts by visitors to the island, it was scientifically named in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORiNOCO | ORiNOCO was the brand name for a family of wireless networking technology by Proxim Wireless (previously Lucent). These integrated circuits (codenamed Hermes) provide wireless connectivity for 802.11-compliant Wireless LANs.
Variants
Lucent offered several variants of the PC Card, referred to by different color-base... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveLAN | WaveLAN was a brand name for a family of wireless networking technology sold by NCR, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and Agere Systems as well as being sold by other companies under OEM agreements. The WaveLAN name debuted on the market in 1990 and was in use until 2000, when Agere Systems renamed their products to ORiNOCO.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paley%20graph | In mathematics, Paley graphs are dense undirected graphs constructed from the members of a suitable finite field by connecting pairs of elements that differ by a quadratic residue. The Paley graphs form an infinite family of conference graphs, which yield an infinite family of symmetric conference matrices. Paley graph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian%20dictionaries | Dictionaries of Lithuanian language have been printed since the first half of the 17th century.
History
The first Lithuanian language dictionary was compiled by Konstantinas Sirvydas and printed in 1629 as a trilingual (Polish–Latin–Lithuanian) dictionary. Five editions of it were printed until 1713, but it was used a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood%20Green%20ricin%20plot | The Wood Green ricin plot was an alleged bioterrorism plot to attack the London Underground with ricin poison. The Metropolitan Police Service arrested six suspects on 5 January 2003, with one more arrested two days later.
Within two days, the Biological Weapon Identification Group at the Defence Science and Technolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20application%20design | Joint application design (JAD) is a process used in the life cycle area of the dynamic systems development method (DSDM) to collect business requirements while developing new information systems for a company. "The JAD process also includes approaches for enhancing user participation, expediting development, and improv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Wireless | Sierra Wireless (a subsidiary of Semtech Corporation) is a Canadian multinational wireless communications equipment designer, manufacturer and services provider headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. It also maintains offices and operations in the United States, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India, France, Austra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Machine%20Learning%20Research | The Journal of Machine Learning Research is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering machine learning. It was established in 2000 and the first editor-in-chief was Leslie Kaelbling. The current editors-in-chief are Francis Bach (Inria) and David Blei (Columbia University).
History
The journal was estab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20Learning%20%28journal%29 | Machine Learning is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published since 1986.
In 2001, forty editors and members of the editorial board of Machine Learning resigned in order to support the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), saying that in the era of the internet, it was detrimental for researchers to contin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas%20Appert%20Award | The Nicolas Appert Award is awarded by the Chicago Section of the Institute of Food Technologists for preeminence in and contributions to the field of food technology. The award has been given annually since 1942 and is named after Nicolas Appert, the French inventor of airtight food preservation. Award winners receive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godunov%27s%20scheme | In numerical analysis and computational fluid dynamics, Godunov's scheme is a conservative numerical scheme, suggested by Sergei Godunov in 1959, for solving partial differential equations. One can think of this method as a conservative finite volume method which solves exact, or approximate Riemann problems at each in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dok-7 | Dok-7 is a non-catalytic cytoplasmic adaptor protein that is expressed specifically in muscle and is essential for the formation of neuromuscular synapses. Further, Dok-7 contains pleckstrin homology (PH) and phosphotyrosine-binding (PTB) domains that are critical for Dok-7 function. Finally, mutations in Dok-7 are com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20temperature%20controlled%20crystal%20oscillator | In physics, an Analog Temperature Controlled Crystal Oscillator or Analogue Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator (ATCXO) uses analog sampling techniques to correct the temperature deficiencies of a crystal oscillator circuit, its package and its environment.
Typically the correction techniques involve the physic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POW-R | POW-R (Psychoacoustically Optimized Wordlength Reduction) is a set of commercial dithering and noise shaping algorithms used in digital audio bit-depth reduction.
Developed by a consortium of four companies – The POW-R Consortium – the algorithms were first made available in 1999 in digital audio hardware products.
POW... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos%20%28computer%20science%29 | Paxos is a family of protocols for solving consensus in a network of unreliable or fallible processors.
Consensus is the process of agreeing on one result among a group of participants. This problem becomes difficult when the participants or their communications may experience failures.
Consensus protocols are the ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20workplace | A virtual workplace is a work environment where employees can perform their duties remotely, using technology such as laptops, smartphones, and video conferencing tools. A virtual workplace is not located in any one physical space. It is usually a network of several workplaces technologically connected (via a private n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Island%20of%20Dr.%20Quandary | The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary is an educational computer puzzle game developed by MECC, which pits the player against a variety of mathematical and logical puzzles. It was released in 1992 for MS-DOS and Macintosh.
Story
The player starts as a human playing in a shooting gallery in Dr. Quandary's carnival, and is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatise%20on%20Natural%20Philosophy | Treatise on Natural Philosophy was an 1867 text book by William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and Peter Guthrie Tait, published by Oxford University Press.
The Treatise was often referred to as and , as explained by Alexander Macfarlane:
Maxwell had facetiously referred to Thomson as and Tait as . Hence the Treatise o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-employment%20theorem | In computer science and mathematics, a full employment theorem is a term used, often humorously, to refer to a theorem which states that no algorithm can optimally perform a particular task done by some class of professionals. The name arises because such a theorem ensures that there is endless scope to keep discoverin... |
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