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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbush%20Man | Forbush Man (spelled Forbush-Man in his early appearances) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Originally the mascot of Marvel's Not Brand Echh, he is the alter-ego of Irving Forbush, a fictional employee of "Marble Comics" (a parody of Marvel). Forbush was devised in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology%20of%20Banksia | The ecology of Banksia is the relationships and interactions among the plant genus Banksia and its environment. Banksia has a number of adaptations that have so far enabled the genus to survive despite dry, nutrient-poor soil, low rates of seed set, high rates of seed predation and low rates of seedling survival. These... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic%20plant | A parasitic plant is a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirements from another living plant. They make up about 1% of angiosperms and are found in almost every biome. All parasitic plants develop a specialized organ called the haustorium, which penetrates the host plant, connecting them to the host ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-ring%20boss%20seal | An o-ring boss seal is a technique for joining two fluid-carrying pipes, hoses, or tubing. In an o-ring boss (abbreviated ORB) system, a male-threaded part is inserted into a female-threaded part, providing a mechanical seal. This system differs from others in that a nut is tightened over an o-ring in a chamfered are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasitopological%20space | In mathematics, a quasi-topology on a set X is a function that associates to every compact Hausdorff space C a collection of mappings from C to X satisfying certain natural conditions. A set with a quasi-topology is called a quasitopological space.
They were introduced by Spanier, who showed that there is a natural qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatemer | A concatemer is a long continuous DNA molecule that contains multiple copies of the same DNA sequence linked in series. These polymeric molecules are usually copies of an entire genome linked end to end and separated by cos sites (a protein binding nucleotide sequence that occurs once in each copy of the genome). Conca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20physics | Communication physics is one of the applied branches of physics. It deals with various kinds of communication systems. These can range from basic ideas such as mobile phone communication to quantum communication via quantum entanglement. Communication physics is also a journal edition created in 2018 published by Natu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood%20semantics | Neighborhood semantics, also known as Scott–Montague semantics, is a formal semantics for modal logics. It is a generalization, developed independently by Dana Scott and Richard Montague, of the more widely known relational semantics for modal logic. Whereas a relational frame consists of a set W of worlds (or state... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPS/VM | VPS/VM (Virtual Processing System/Virtual Machine) was an operating system that ran on IBM System/370 – IBM 3090 computers at Boston University in general use from 1977 to around 1990, and in limited use until at least 1993. During the 1980s, VPS/VM was the main operating system of Boston University and often ran up t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-game%20advertising | In-game advertising (IGA) is advertising in electronic games. IGA differs from advergames, which refers to games specifically made to advertise a product. The IGA industry is large and growing.
In-game advertising generated $34 million in 2004, $56 million in 2005, $80 million in 2006,
and $295 million in 2007.
In 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20dynamics | Structural dynamics is a type of structural analysis which covers the behavior of a structure subjected to dynamic (actions having high acceleration) loading. Dynamic loads include people, wind, waves, traffic, earthquakes, and blasts. Any structure can be subjected to dynamic loading. Dynamic analysis can be used to f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autacoid | Autacoids or autocoids are biological factors (molecules) which act like local hormones, have a brief duration, and act near their site of biosynthesis. The word autacoid comes from the Greek words "autos" (self) and "acos" (relief; i.e., drug). The effects of autacoids are primarily local, though large quantities can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenylate%20cyclase%20toxin | Adenylate cyclase toxin is a virulence factor produced by some members of the genus Bordetella. Together with the pertussis toxin it is the most important virulence factor of the causative agent of whooping cough, Bordetella pertussis. Bordetella bronchiseptica and Bordetella parapertussis, also able to cause pertussis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalaemin | Physalaemin is a tachykinin peptide obtained from the Physalaemus frog, closely related to substance P. Its structure was first elucidated in 1964.
Like all tachykinins, physalaemin is a sialagogue (increases salivation) and a potent vasodilator with hypotensive effects.
Structure
Physalaemin (PHY) is known to take ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volterra%20series | The Volterra series is a model for non-linear behavior similar to the Taylor series. It differs from the Taylor series in its ability to capture "memory" effects. The Taylor series can be used for approximating the response of a nonlinear system to a given input if the output of the system depends strictly on the inpu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclonic%20rotation | Cyclonic rotation, or cyclonic circulation, is atmospheric motion in the same direction as a planet's rotation, as opposed to anticyclonic rotation. In the case of Earth's rotation, the Coriolis effect causes cyclonic rotation to be in a counterclockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Souther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20capacitance%20tomography | Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is a method for determination of the dielectric permittivity distribution in the interior of an object from external capacitance measurements. It is a close relative of electrical impedance tomography and is proposed as a method for industrial process monitoring.
Although capac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%20mean | In mathematics, the Riesz mean is a certain mean of the terms in a series. They were introduced by Marcel Riesz in 1911 as an improvement over the Cesàro mean. The Riesz mean should not be confused with the Bochner–Riesz mean or the Strong–Riesz mean.
Definition
Given a series , the Riesz mean of the series is defined... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-loop%20pole | In systems theory, closed-loop poles are the positions of the poles (or eigenvalues) of a closed-loop transfer function in the s-plane. The open-loop transfer function is equal to the product of all transfer function blocks in the forward path in the block diagram. The closed-loop transfer function is obtained by div... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricker%20model | The Ricker model, named after Bill Ricker, is a classic discrete population model which gives the expected number N t+1 (or density) of individuals in generation t + 1 as a function of the number of individuals in the previous generation,
Here r is interpreted as an intrinsic growth rate and k as the carrying capac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity%20fruit | Longevity fruit may refer to the fruit of:
Siraitia grosvenorii
Lycium species:
Lycium barbarum
Lycium chinense
Arachis hypogaea
Longevity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabismus%20%28protein%29 | Strabismus was originally identified as a Drosophila protein involved in planar cell polarity. Flies with mutated strabismus genes have altered development of ommatidia in their eyes. Vertebrates have two Strabismus-related proteins, VANGL1 and VANGL2 (an alternate name for the Drosophila "Strabismus" protein is "Van G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Inferno%20applications | This is a list of Inferno programs. Most of these programs are very similar to the Plan 9 applications or UNIX programs with the same name.
System software
General user
dd – convert and copy a file
date – print the date
echo – print arguments
emu – Inferno emulator
mash – programmable shell
ns – display current name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Bernstein | Joseph Bernstein (sometimes spelled I. N. Bernshtein; ; ; born 18 April 1945) is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory.
Biography
Bernstein received his Ph.D. in 1972 under Israel Gelfand at Moscow State University.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazio%E2%80%93Londe%20disease | Fazio–Londe disease (FLD), also called progressive bulbar palsy of childhood, is a very rare inherited motor neuron disease of children and young adults and is characterized by progressive paralysis of muscles innervated by cranial nerves. FLD, along with Brown–Vialetto–Van Laere syndrome (BVVL), are the two forms of i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20of%20curvature | In geometry, the center of curvature of a curve is found at a point that is at a distance from the curve equal to the radius of curvature lying on the normal vector. It is the point at infinity if the curvature is zero. The osculating circle to the curve is centered at the centre of curvature. Cauchy defined the cen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20gemmata | Amanita gemmata, commonly known as the gemmed amanita or the jonquil amanita, is an agaric mushroom of the family Amanitaceae and genus Amanita. The fruit body has a cap that is a dull to golden shade of yellow, and typically in diameter. The cap surface is sticky when moist, and characterized by white warts, which a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafood%20boil | Seafood boil is the generic term for any number of types of social events in which shellfish, whether saltwater or freshwater, is the central element. Regional variations dictate the kinds of seafood, the accompaniments and side dishes, and the preparation techniques (boiling, steaming, baking, or raw). In some cases, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Noble | Denis Noble (born 16 November 1936) is a British physiologist and biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford from 1984 to 2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Physiology. He is one of the pioneers of systems biology and d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic%20function | In mathematics, and more specifically in analysis, a holonomic function is a smooth function of several variables that is a solution of a system of linear homogeneous differential equations with polynomial coefficients and satisfies a suitable dimension condition in terms of D-modules theory. More precisely, a holonom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular%20eccentricity | Angular eccentricity is one of many parameters which arise in the study of the ellipse or ellipsoid. It is denoted here by α (alpha). It may be defined in terms of the eccentricity, e, or the aspect ratio, b/a (the ratio of the semi-minor axis and the semi-major axis):
Angular eccentricity is not currently used in E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab%20boil | A crab boil is a social event where boiled crabs are eaten, a kind of seafood boil.
Louisiana and New Orleans
Boiled seafood in southern Louisiana tends to be spicier than that found in other parts of the country. Homemade crab boil recipes call for abundant amounts of hot sauce, cayenne pepper, salt, bay leaf, lemon,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actibind | Actibind is an actin-binding fungal T(2)-RNase protein that is produced by the black mold Aspergillus niger, a microorganism used in biotechnology and food technology. In plants, actibind binds actin, a major component of the cytoskeleton, interfering with the plants' pollen tubes and halting cell growth. Research publ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMPR2 | Bone morphogenetic protein receptor type II or BMPR2 is a serine/threonine receptor kinase encoded by the BMPR2 gene. It binds bone morphogenetic proteins, members of the TGF beta superfamily of ligands, which are involved in paracrine signaling. BMPs are involved in a host of cellular functions including osteogenesis,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Anthony%20Hall | J. Anthony Hall FREng is a leading British software engineer specializing in the use of formal methods, especially the Z notation.
Anthony Hall was educated at the University of Oxford with a BA in chemistry and a DPhil in theoretical chemistry. His subsequent posts have included:
ICI Research Fellow, Department of T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root%20rot | Root rot is a condition in which anoxic conditions in the soil or potting media around the roots of a plant cause them to rot. This occurs due to excessive standing water around the roots. It is found in both indoor and outdoor plants, although it is more common in indoor plants due to overwatering, heavy potting media... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenoptosis | Phenoptosis (from pheno: showing or demonstrating; ptosis: programmed death, "falling off") is a conception of the self-programmed death of an organism proposed by Vladimir Skulachev in 1999.
In many species, including salmon and marsupial mice, under certain circumstances, especially following reproduction, an organi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitocybe%20odora | Clitocybe odora, commonly known as the blue green anise mushroom, or aniseed toadstool, is a blue-green mushroom that grows near deciduous and coniferous trees. They can be found growing in small groups along the side of tree roots. This mushroom is edible, but a few expert mushroom hunters insist that young specimens ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulay%20stress | The Pulay stress or Pulay forces (named for Peter Pulay) is an error that occurs in the stress tensor (or Jacobian matrix) obtained from self-consistent field calculations (Hartree–Fock or density functional theory) due to the incompleteness of the basis set.
A plane-wave density functional calculation on a crystal wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinotti%20cell | Martinotti cells are small multipolar neurons with short branching dendrites. They are scattered throughout various layers of the cerebral cortex, sending their axons up to the cortical layer I where they form axonal arborization. The arbors transgress multiple columns in layer VI and make contacts with the distal tuf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strobilus | A strobilus (: strobili) is a structure present on many land plant species consisting of sporangia-bearing structures densely aggregated along a stem. Strobili are often called cones, but some botanists restrict the use of the term cone to the woody seed strobili of conifers. Strobili are characterized by a central axi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows%20of%20the%20Mind | Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness is a 1994 book by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose that serves as a followup to his 1989 book The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics.
Penrose hypothesizes that:
Human consciousness is non-algorithmic, and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20helix-loop-helix%20leucine%20zipper%20transcription%20factors | Basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper transcription factors are, as their name indicates, transcription factors containing both Basic helix-loop-helix and leucine zipper motifs.
Examples include Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor and Sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP).
External links
Gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankyrin%20repeat | The ankyrin repeat is a 33-residue motif in proteins consisting of two alpha helices separated by loops, first discovered in signaling proteins in yeast Cdc10 and Drosophila Notch. Domains consisting of ankyrin tandem repeats mediate protein–protein interactions and are among the most common structural motifs in known ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas/oil%20ratio | When oil is produced to surface temperature and pressure it is usual for some natural gas to come out of solution. The gas/oil ratio (GOR) is the ratio of the volume of gas ("scf") that comes out of solution to the volume of oil — at standard conditions.
In reservoir simulation gas/oil ratio is usually abbreviated .
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnterpriseDB | EnterpriseDB (EDB), a privately held company based in Massachusetts, provides software and services based on the open-source database PostgreSQL (also known as Postgres), and is one of the largest contributors to Postgres. EDB develops and integrates performance, security, and manageability enhancements into Postgres t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-healing%20material | Self-healing materials are artificial or synthetically created substances that have the built-in ability to automatically repair damages to themselves without any external diagnosis of the problem or human intervention. Generally, materials will degrade over time due to fatigue, environmental conditions, or damage incu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded%20quantifier | In the study of formal theories in mathematical logic, bounded quantifiers (a.k.a. restricted quantifiers) are often included in a formal language in addition to the standard quantifiers "∀" and "∃". Bounded quantifiers differ from "∀" and "∃" in that bounded quantifiers restrict the range of the quantified variable. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Earl%20Baumgartner | James Earl Baumgartner (March 23, 1943 – December 28, 2011) was an American mathematician who worked in set theory, mathematical logic and foundations, and topology.
Baumgartner was born in Wichita, Kansas, began his undergraduate study at the California Institute of Technology in 1960, then transferred to the Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins%20algebra | In abstract algebra, a Robbins algebra is an algebra containing a single binary operation, usually denoted by , and a single unary operation usually denoted by satisfying the following axioms:
For all elements a, b, and c:
Associativity:
Commutativity:
Robbins equation:
For many years, it was conjectured, but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collostructional%20analysis | Collostructional analysis is a family of methods developed by (in alphabetical order) Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Anatol Stefanowitsch (Free University of Berlin). Collostructional analysis aims at measuring the degree of attraction or repulsion that words exhibit to constructions, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatomedin | Somatomedins are a group of proteins produced predominantly by the liver when growth hormones act on target tissue. Somatomedins inhibit the release of growth hormones by acting directly on anterior pituitary and by stimulating the secretion of somatostatin from the hypothalamus.
Somatomedins are a group of proteins t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious%20Software%20Removal%20Tool | Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is a freeware second-opinion malware scanner that Microsoft's Windows Update downloads and runs on Windows computers each month, independent of the install antivirus software. First released on January 13, 2005, MSRT does not offer real-time protection. It scans ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Ostrowski | Alexander Markowich Ostrowski (; ; 25 September 1893, in Kiev, Russian Empire – 20 November 1986, in Montagnola, Lugano, Switzerland) was a mathematician.
His father Mark having been a merchant, Alexander Ostrowski attended the Kiev College of Commerce, not a high school, and thus had an insufficient qualification to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remission%20%28medicine%29 | Remission is either the reduction or disappearance of the signs and symptoms of a disease. The term may also be used to refer to the period during which this reduction occurs. A remission may be considered a partial remission or a complete remission. Each disease, type of disorder, or clinical trial can have its own de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse%20reflectance%20spectroscopy | Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, or diffuse reflection spectroscopy, is a subset of absorption spectroscopy. It is sometimes called remission spectroscopy. Remission is the reflection or back-scattering of light by a material, while transmission is the passage of light through a material. The word remission implies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythropoietin%20receptor | The erythropoietin receptor (EpoR) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EPOR gene. EpoR is a 52kDa peptide with a single carbohydrate chain resulting in an approximately 56-57 kDa protein found on the surface of EPO responding cells. It is a member of the cytokine receptor family. EpoR pre-exists as dimers. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatomedin%20receptor | A somatomedin receptor is a receptor which binds the somatomedins (IGFs). Somatomedin is abbreviated to IGF, in reference to insulin-like growth factor.
There are two types:
Insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-1R)
Insulin-like growth factor 2 receptor (IGF-2R)
External links
Receptors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20gravitationally%20rounded%20objects%20of%20the%20Solar%20System | This is a list of most likely gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System, which are objects that have a rounded, ellipsoidal shape due to their own gravity (but are not necessarily in hydrostatic equilibrium). Apart from the Sun itself, these objects qualify as planets according to common geophysical definitio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galanin | Galanin is a neuropeptide encoded by the GAL gene, that is widely expressed in the brain, spinal cord, and gut of humans as well as other mammals. Galanin signaling occurs through three G protein-coupled receptors.
Much of galanin's functional role is still undiscovered. Galanin is closely involved in the modulation a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner%20point | In mathematics, a Heegner point is a point on a modular curve that is the image of a quadratic imaginary point of the upper half-plane. They were defined by Bryan Birch and named after Kurt Heegner, who used similar ideas to prove Gauss's conjecture on imaginary quadratic fields of class number one.
Gross–Zagier theor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid%20analytic%20space | In mathematics, a rigid analytic space is an analogue of a complex analytic space over a nonarchimedean field. Such spaces were introduced by John Tate in 1962, as an outgrowth of his work on uniformizing p-adic elliptic curves with bad reduction using the multiplicative group. In contrast to the classical theory of p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configurable%20modularity | Configurable modularity is a term coined by Raoul de Campo of IBM Research and later expanded on by Nate Edwards of the same organization, denoting the ability to reuse independent components by changing their interconnections, but not their internals. In Edwards' view this characterizes all successful reuse systems, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperostosis | Hyperostosis is an excessive growth of bone. It may lead to exostosis. It occurs in many musculoskeletal disorders.
See also
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
Hyperostosis frontalis interna
Infantile cortical hyperostosis
Porotic hyperostosis
SAPHO syndrome |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekno%20%28toy%20manufacturer%29 | Tekno is a Danish manufacturing company (as "Dansk Legetojs Industri") of scale model trucks and other vehicles, currently headquartered in De Lier, Netherlands. Originally established and based in Copenhagen, Tekno began manufacturing construction toys in 1928 and model vehicles immediately after World War II, selling... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blewit | Blewit refers to two closely related species of edible agarics in the genus Clitocybe, the wood blewit (Clitocybe nuda) and the field blewit or blue-leg (C.saeva). Both species are treated by some authorities as belonging to the genus Lepista.
Classification
Both species have been treated by many authorities as belong... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Institute%20for%20Genomic%20Medicine | The Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine (TIGM) is a research institute of Texas A&M AgriLife Research. It was founded in 2005 under a $50 million award from the Texas Enterprise Fund to accelerate the pace of medical discoveries and foster the development of the biotechnology industry in Texas.
TIGM helps resear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valis%3A%20The%20Fantasm%20Soldier | is a 1986 action-platform video game originally developed by Wolf Team and published by Telenet Japan for the MSX, PC-8801, X1, FM-7, and PC-9801 home computers. It is the first entry in the Valis series. It stars Yuko Asou, a Japanese teenage schoolgirl chosen as the Valis warrior and wielder of the mystical Valis sw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallidin | Kallidin is a bioactive kinin formed in response to injury from kininogen precursors through the action of kallikreins.
Kallidin is a decapeptide whose sequence is H-Lys-Arg-Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg-OH. It can be converted to bradykinin by the aminopeptidase enzyme.
It can be a substrate for carboxypeptidase M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claranet | Claranet provides network, hosting and managed application services in the UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands (Benelux), Portugal, Spain, Italy and Brazil.
History
Charles Nasser founded the ISP in 1996 and by 1999 had 150,000 subscribers.
Claranet has grown its business through a number of acquisitions, including... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20Phenomena%20%28book%29 | Transport Phenomena is the first textbook about transport phenomena. It is specifically designed for chemical engineering students. The first edition was published in 1960, two years after having been preliminarily published under the title Notes on Transport Phenomena based on mimeographed notes prepared for a chemic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%20equation | The Abel equation, named after Niels Henrik Abel, is a type of functional equation of the form
or
.
The forms are equivalent when is invertible. or control the iteration of .
Equivalence
The second equation can be written
Taking , the equation can be written
For a known function , a problem is to solve the func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6der%27s%20equation | Schröder's equation, named after Ernst Schröder, is a functional equation with one independent variable: given the function , find the function such that
Schröder's equation is an eigenvalue equation for the composition operator that sends a function to .
If is a fixed point of , meaning , then either (or ) or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area-to-area%20Lee%20model | The Lee model for area-to-area mode is a radio propagation model that operates around 900 MHz. Built as two different modes, this model includes an adjustment factor that can be adjusted to make the model more flexible to different regions of propagation.
Applicable to/under conditions
This model is suitable for usin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Society%20for%20Intelligence%20Research | The International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) is a scientific society for researchers in human intelligence. It was founded by Douglas K. Detterman of Case Western Reserve University in 2000.
The society advocates for ongoing support for scientific research on cognitive ability. A 2018 New Statesman arti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential%20vorticity | In fluid mechanics, potential vorticity (PV) is a quantity which is proportional to the dot product of vorticity and stratification. This quantity, following a parcel of air or water, can only be changed by diabatic or frictional processes. It is a useful concept for understanding the generation of vorticity in cycloge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Revelle | William Roger Revelle (born c. 1944) is a psychology professor at Northwestern University working in personality psychology. Revelle studies the biological basis of personality and motivation, psychometric theory, the structure of daily mood, and models of attention and memory.
Early life and education
Revelle was rai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis%20%28artificial%20intelligence%29 | As a subfield in artificial intelligence, diagnosis is concerned with the development of algorithms and techniques that are able to determine whether the behaviour of a system is correct. If the system is not functioning correctly, the algorithm should be able to determine, as accurately as possible, which part of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine-indicator%20dye | Urine-indicator dye is a mythical substance that is supposed to be able to react with urine to form a colored cloud in a swimming pool or hot tub, thus indicating the location of people who are urinating while they are in the water. A 2015 report from the National Swimming Pool Foundation called this "the most common p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20bomb | On Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of net abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox, overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a sec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorrelation | Decorrelation is a general term for any process that is used to reduce autocorrelation within a signal, or cross-correlation within a set of signals, while preserving other aspects of the signal. A frequently used method of decorrelation is the use of a matched linear filter to reduce the autocorrelation of a signal as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Department%20of%20Veterans%20Affairs%20emblems%20for%20headstones%20and%20markers | The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains many cemeteries specifically devoted to veterans. Most have various rules regarding what must take place in order to be interred there.
Procedure
The VA only permits graphics on government-furnished headstones or markers that are approved emblems of belie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20Blaster | is an interactive movie video game developed by Data East featuring animation by Toei Animation, originally released exclusively in Japan as a laserdisc-based arcade game in 1985. The player assumes the role of a vigilante who must avenge the death of his wife by pursuing the biker gang responsible for her death in a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod%20%28computer%29 | The Nimrod, built in the United Kingdom by Ferranti for the 1951 Festival of Britain, was an early computer custom-built to play Nim, inspired by the earlier Nimatron. The twelve-by-nine-by-five-foot (3.7-by-2.7-by-1.5-meter) computer, designed by John Makepeace Bennett and built by engineer Raymond Stuart-Williams, al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kat%C4%9Btov%E2%80%93Tong%20insertion%20theorem | The Katětov–Tong insertion theorem is a theorem of point-set topology proved independently by Miroslav Katětov and Hing Tong in the 1950s. The theorem states the following:
Let be a normal topological space and let be functions with g upper semicontinuous, h lower semicontinuous and . Then there exists a continuous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential%20coupling | In object-oriented programming, sequential coupling (also known as temporal coupling) is a form of coupling where a class requires its methods to be called in a particular sequence. This may be an anti-pattern, depending on context.
Methods whose name starts with Init, Begin, Start, etc. may indicate the existence o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conical%20function | In mathematics, conical functions or Mehler functions are functions which can be expressed in terms of Legendre functions of the first and second kind,
and
The functions were introduced by Gustav Ferdinand Mehler, in 1868, when expanding in series the distance of a point on the axis of a cone to a point located on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2X%20purinoreceptor | The P2X receptors, also ATP-gated P2X receptor cation channel family, is a protein family that consists of cation-permeable ligand-gated ion channels that open in response to the binding of extracellular adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP). They belong to a larger family of receptors known as the ENaC/P2X superfamily. ENaC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Distributed%20Computing%20Systems | The International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) is the oldest conference in the field of distributed computing systems in the world. It was launched by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) in October 1979, and is sponsored by such committee. It was started... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging%20in%20cats | Aging in cats is the process by which cats change over the course of their natural lifespans. The average lifespan of a domestic cat may range from 10 to 13 years. As cats senesce, they undergo predictable changes in health and behavior. Dental disease and loss of olfaction are common as cats age, affecting eating habi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisection%20bandwidth | In computer networking, if the network is bisected into two equal-sized partitions, the bisection bandwidth of a network topology is the bandwidth available between the two partitions. Bisection should be done in such a way that the bandwidth between two partitions is minimum. Bisection bandwidth gives the true bandwid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotropism | Genotropism is defined as the reciprocal attraction between carriers of the same or related latent recessive genes. Developed by the Hungarian psychiatrist Léopold Szondi in the 1930s, the theory concludes that instinct is biological and genetic in origin. Szondi believed that these genes regulated the "possibilities o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKS%20Toolkit | MKS Toolkit is a software package produced and maintained by PTC that provides a Unix-like environment for scripting, connectivity and porting Unix and Linux software to Microsoft Windows. It was originally created for MS-DOS, and OS/2 versions were released up to version 4.4. Several editions of each version, such as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20triangle | Define as the 2-dimensional metric space of constant curvature . So, for example, is the Euclidean plane, is the surface of the unit sphere, and is the hyperbolic plane.
Let be a metric space. Let be a triangle in , with vertices , and . A comparison triangle in for is a triangle in with vertices , and su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pass%20filter | An all-pass filter is a signal processing filter that passes all frequencies equally in gain, but changes the phase relationship among various frequencies. Most types of filter reduce the amplitude (i.e. the magnitude) of the signal applied to it for some values of frequency, whereas the all-pass filter allows all freq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20Web%20Credibility%20Project | The Stanford Web Credibility Project, which involves assessments of website credibility conducted by the Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab, is an investigative examination of what leads people to believe in the veracity of content found on the Web. The goal of the project is to enhance website design and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20algebraic%20structures | In mathematics, there are many types of algebraic structures which are studied. Abstract algebra is primarily the study of specific algebraic structures and their properties. Algebraic structures may be viewed in different ways, however the common starting point of algebra texts is that an algebraic object incorporates... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%20network-attached%20storage%20series | The Buffalo TeraStation network-attached storage series are network-attached storage devices.
The current lineup includes the LinkStation and TeraStation series. These devices have undergone various improvements since they were first produced, and have expanded to include a Windows Storage Server-based operating syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment%20molecular%20orbital | The fragment molecular orbital method (FMO) is a computational method that can be used to calculate very large molecular systems with thousands of atoms using ab initio quantum-chemical wave functions.
History of FMO and related methods
The fragment molecular orbital method (FMO) was developed by Kazuo Kitaura and c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%20Hobart%20Clark | Austin Hobart Clark (December 17, 1880 – October 28, 1954) was an American zoologist. He was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts and died in Washington, D.C. His research covered a wide range of topics including oceanography, marine biology, ornithology, and entomology.
Biography
The son of Theodore Minot Clark and Jea... |
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