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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal%20Henderson | Callum James Henderson-Begg (born 17 January 1981), known as Cal Henderson, is a British computer programmer and author based in San Francisco.
Education
Henderson attended Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College, and Birmingham City University where he graduated with a degree in software engineering in 2002.
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-theorem | In quantum field theory the C-theorem states that there exists a positive real function, , depending on the coupling constants of the quantum field theory considered, , and on the energy scale, , which has the following properties:
decreases monotonically under the renormalization group (RG) flow.
At fixed points of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Buffalo%2C%20New%20York | The municipal flag of Buffalo is the official banner of the city of Buffalo, New York. The navy blue flag contains a large central emblem consisting of the city seal with 13 "electric flashes" (depicted as lightning bolts) and interspaced 5-pointed white stars emanating from it.
History
Following a request from New... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-factory | In particle physics, a B-factory, or sometimes a beauty factory, is a particle collider experiment designed to produce and detect a large number of B mesons so that their properties and behavior can be measured with small statistical uncertainty. Tau leptons and D mesons are also copiously produced at B-factories.
His... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin-weighted%20spherical%20harmonics | In special functions, a topic in mathematics, spin-weighted spherical harmonics are generalizations of the standard spherical harmonics and—like the usual spherical harmonics—are functions on the sphere. Unlike ordinary spherical harmonics, the spin-weighted harmonics are gauge fields rather than scalar fields: mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site%20Multihoming%20by%20IPv6%20Intermediation | The Site Multihoming by IPv6 Intermediation (SHIM6) protocol is an Internet Layer defined in RFC 5533.
Architecture
The SHIM6 architecture defines failure detection and locator pair exploration functions. The first is used to detect outages through the path defined by the current locator pair for a communication. To ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSQUITO | In cryptography, MOSQUITO was a stream cipher algorithm designed by Joan Daemen and Paris Kitsos. It was submitted to the eSTREAM Project of the eCRYPT network. After the initial design was broken by Joux and Muller, a tweaked version named MOUSTIQUE was proposed which made it to Phase 3 of the eSTREAM evaluation proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFINKS | Sfinks (Polish for "Sphynx") was also the initial name of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award
In cryptography, SFINKS is a stream cypher algorithm developed by An Braeken, Joseph Lano, Nele Mentens, Bart Preneel, and Ingrid Verbauwhede. It includes a message authentication code. It has been submitted to the eSTREAM Project of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics%20address%20remapping%20table | The graphics address remapping table (GART), also known as the graphics aperture remapping table, or graphics translation table (GTT), is an I/O memory management unit (IOMMU) used by Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) and PCI Express (PCIe) graphics cards. The GART allows the graphics card direct memory access (DMA) to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicomplex%20number | In mathematics, the multicomplex number systems are defined inductively as follows: Let C0 be the real number system. For every let in be a square root of −1, that is, an imaginary unit. Then . In the multicomplex number systems one also requires that (commutativity). Then is the complex number system, is the bico... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Rougier | Louis Auguste Paul Rougier (birth name: Paul Auguste Louis Rougier) (; 10 April 1889 – 14 October 1982) was a French philosopher. Rougier made many important contributions to epistemology, philosophy of science, political philosophy and the history of Christianity.
Early life
Rougier was born in Lyon. Debilitated by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Fogg%20Osgood | William Fogg Osgood (March 10, 1864 – July 22, 1943) was an American mathematician.
Education and career
William Fogg Osgood was born in Boston on March 10, 1864. In 1886, he graduated from Harvard, where, after studying at the universities of Göttingen (1887–1889) and Erlangen (Ph.D., 1890), he was instructor (1890–... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydlide | is an action role-playing game developed and published by T&E Soft. It was originally released for the NEC PC-6001 and PC-8801 computers in 1984, in Japan only; ports for the MSX, MSX2, FM-7 and NEC PC-9801 were released the following year.
A Famicom version was released under the name Hydlide Special in Japan in 1986... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20signature | A mobile signature is a digital signature generated either on a mobile phone or on a SIM card on a mobile phone.
Origins of the term
mSign
The term first appeared in articles introducing mSign (short for Mobile Electronic Signature Consortium). It was founded in 1999 and comprised 35 member companies. In October 200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20sensor | Soft sensor or virtual sensor is a common name for software where several measurements are processed together. Commonly soft sensors are based on control theory and also receive the name of state observer. There may be dozens or even hundreds of measurements. The interaction of the signals can be used for calculating n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympiade%20Math%C3%A9matique%20Belge | The Olympiade Mathématique Belge (; OMB) is a mathematical competition for students in grades 7 to 12, organised each year since 1976. Only students from the French community participate, Dutch-speaking students can compete in the Vlaamse Wiskunde Olympiade.
The competition is split up in three age categories:
Mini-O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite%20Dan | Dynamite Dan is a platform game written by Rod Bowkett for the ZX Spectrum and published by Mirrorsoft in 1985. It was ported to the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and MSX.
A sequel, Dynamite Dan II, was released the following year.
Gameplay
The game starts where Dan lands his airship on the top of the evil Dr Blitzen's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxation%20%28approximation%29 | In mathematical optimization and related fields, relaxation is a modeling strategy. A relaxation is an approximation of a difficult problem by a nearby problem that is easier to solve. A solution of the relaxed problem provides information about the original problem.
For example, a linear programming relaxation of an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian%20relaxation | In the field of mathematical optimization, Lagrangian relaxation is a relaxation method which approximates a difficult problem of constrained optimization by a simpler problem. A solution to the relaxed problem is an approximate solution to the original problem, and provides useful information.
The method penalizes vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-capacity%20data%20radio | High-capacity data radio (HCDR) is a development of the Near-Term Digital Radio (NTDR) for the UK government as a part of the Bowman communication system. It is a secure wideband 225–450 MHz UHF radio system that provides a self-managing IP-based Internet backbone capability without the need for other infrastructure co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20Opinion%20in%20Cell%20Biology | Current Opinion in Cell Biology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering all aspects of cell biology including genetics, cell communication, and metabolism. It was established in 1998 and is part of the Elsevier Current Opinion series of journals. The editors-in-chief are Tom Mistl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20grid | Wireless grids are wireless computer networks consisting of different types of electronic devices with the ability to share their resources with any other device in the network in an ad hoc manner.
A definition of the wireless grid can be given as: "Ad hoc, distributed resource-sharing networks between heterogeneous wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective%20liquid-crystal%20display | A transflective liquid-crystal display is a liquid-crystal display (LCD) with an optical layer that reflects and transmits light (transflective is a portmanteau of transmissive and reflective). Under bright illumination (e.g. when exposed to daylight) the display acts mainly as a reflective display with the contrast be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certolizumab%20pegol | Certolizumab pegol, sold under the brand name Cimzia, is a biopharmaceutical medication for the treatment of Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. It is a fragment of a monoclonal antibody specific to tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and is manufactured by UCB.
It is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Adamandy%20Kocha%C5%84ski | Adam Adamandy Kochański (5 August 1631 – 17 May 1700) was a Polish mathematician, physicist, clock-maker, pedagogue and librarian. He was the Court Mathematician of John III Sobieski.
Kochański was born in Dobrzyń nad Wisłą. He began his education in Toruń, and in 1652 he entered the Society of Jesus in Vilnius. He s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiator | In electronics, a differentiator is a circuit designed to produce an output approximately proportional to the rate of change (the time derivative) of the input. A true differentiator cannot be physically realized, because it has infinite gain at infinite frequency. A similar effect can be achieved, however, by limiting... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervention%20theory | In social studies and social policy, intervention theory is the analysis of the decision making problems of intervening effectively in a situation in order to secure desired outcomes. Intervention theory addresses the question of when it is desirable not to intervene and when it is appropriate to do so. It also examine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a representation is a very general relationship that expresses similarities (or equivalences) between mathematical objects or structures. Roughly speaking, a collection Y of mathematical objects may be said to represent another collection X of objects, provided that the properties and relationships exis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/353%20%28number%29 | 353 (three hundred fifty-three) is the natural number following 352 and preceding 354. It is a prime number.
In mathematics
353 is a palindromic prime, an irregular prime, a super-prime, a Chen prime, a Proth prime, and an Eisentein prime.
In connection with Euler's sum of powers conjecture, 353 is the smallest numbe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probe%20card | A probe card (commonly referred to as a DUT board) is used in automated integrated circuit testing. It is an interface between an electronic test system and a semiconductor wafer.
Use and manufacture
A probe card or DUT board is a printed circuit board (PCB), and is the interface between the integrated circuit and a t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerontophobia | Gerontophobia is the fear of age-related self-degeneration (similar to Gerascophobia), or a hatred or fear of the elderly due to memento mori. The term comes from the Greek γέρων – gerōn, "old man" and φόβος – phobos, "fear". Gerontophobia has been linked to Thanatophobia as fear of old age can be a precursor to fear ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNU%20%28software%29 | BNU is a high-performance communications device driver designed to provide enhanced support for serial port communications. The BNU serial port driver was specifically targeted for use with early (late 1980s - 1990s) DOS-based BBS software. The reason for BNU and other similar enhanced serial port drivers was to provid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetFoss | NetFoss is a popular Network FOSSIL driver for Windows.
A FOSSIL is a serial communications layer to allow DOS based software to talk to modems without dealing with hardware I/O and interrupts.
A Network FOSSIL redirects such software to a TCP/IP address rather than to a serial modem.
NetFoss is faster than other FOSS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X00 | X00 was a popular DOS-based FOSSIL driver which was commonly used in the mid-1980s to the late 1990s and is even still used today. FOSSIL drivers were mainly used to run BBS software under MS-DOS. X00 can also be run under Windows, or even Linux and DOSEMU environments, to allow FOSSIL-aware MS-DOS based applications ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcmicro | pcmicro was a large Bulletin Board System (BBS) support site from 1981 to 1998. Before the World Wide Web became popular, the pcmicro BBS served as a central file repository for all non-commercial BBS software and related utilities. The BBS was a FidoNet member from 1991 to 1997, and was a support and distribution site... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic%20acid%20metabolism | Nucleic acid metabolism is a collective term that refers to the variety of chemical reactions by which nucleic acids (DNA and/or RNA) are either synthesized or degraded. Nucleic acids are polymers (so-called "biopolymers") made up of a variety of monomers called nucleotides. Nucleotide synthesis is an anabolic mechanis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptoloop | Cryptoloop is a Linux kernel's disk encryption module that relies on the Crypto API, which is a cryptography framework introduced in version 2.5.45 of the Linux kernel mainline. Cryptoloop was first introduced in the 2.5.x kernel series; its functionality was later incorporated into the device mapper, a generic framewo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trager%20approach | The Trager approach is a form of somatic education. Proponents claim the Trager approach helps release deep-seated physical and mental patterns and facilitates deep relaxation, increased physical mobility, and mental clarity.
History
The founder, Milton Trager, called his work Psychophysical Integration. He was an at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclease%20protection%20assay | Nuclease protection assay is a laboratory technique used in biochemistry and genetics to identify individual RNA molecules in a heterogeneous RNA sample extracted from cells. The technique can identify one or more RNA molecules of known sequence even at low total concentration. The extracted RNA is first mixed with ant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse%20log | A nurse log is a fallen tree which, as it decays, provides ecological facilitation to seedlings. Broader definitions include providing shade or support to other plants. Some of the advantages a nurse log offers to a seedling are: water, moss thickness, leaf litter, mycorrhizae, disease protection, nutrients, and sunlig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanceosome | An enhanceosome is a protein complex that assembles at an enhancer region on DNA and helps to regulate the expression of a target gene.
Formation
Enhancers are bound by transcription activator proteins and transcriptional regulation is typically controlled by more than one activator. Enhanceosomes are formed in speci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra%20Network%20Technologies | Ultra Network Technologies (previously called Ultra Corporation) was a networking company. It offered high-speed network products for the scientific computing market as well as some commercial companies. It was founded in 1986 by James N. Perdue (formerly of NASA, Ames Research Center), Drew Berding, and Wes Meador (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold%20%28higher-order%20function%29 | In functional programming, fold (also termed reduce, accumulate, aggregate, compress, or inject) refers to a family of higher-order functions that analyze a recursive data structure and through use of a given combining operation, recombine the results of recursively processing its constituent parts, building up a retur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramers%27%20theorem | In quantum mechanics, the Kramers' degeneracy theorem states that for every energy eigenstate of a time-reversal symmetric system with half-integer total spin, there is another eigenstate with the same energy related by time-reversal. In other words, the degeneracy of every energy level is an even number if it has half... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMS%20%28software%29 | GMS (Groundwater Modeling System) is water modeling application for building and simulating groundwater models from Aquaveo. It features 2D and 3D geostatistics, stratigraphic modeling and a unique conceptual model approach. Currently supported models include MODFLOW, MODPATH, MT3DMS, RT3D, FEMWATER, SEEP2D, and UTEXAS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload%20specialist | A payload specialist (PS) was an individual selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a NASA Space Shuttle mission. People assigned as payload specialists included individuals selected by the research community, a company or consortium flying a commercial payload ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodyne | The autodyne circuit was an improvement to radio signal amplification using the De Forest Audion vacuum tube amplifier. By allowing the tube to oscillate at a frequency slightly different from the desired signal, the sensitivity over other receivers was greatly improved. The autodyne circuit was invented by Edwin Howar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20thinning | Ecological thinning is a silvicultural technique used in forest management that involves cutting trees to improve functions of a forest other than timber production.
Although thinning originated as a man-made forest management tool, aimed at increasing timber yields, the shift from production forests to multifunctiona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawflow | RawFlow was a provider of live p2p streaming technology that enables internet broadcasting of audio and video. The company's technology is similar to Abacast and Octoshape.
Rawflow was incorporated in 2002 by Mikkel Dissing, Daniel Franklin and Stephen Dicks. Its main office was in London, UK. Velocix acquired RawFlo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micral | Micral is a series of microcomputers produced by the French company Réalisation d'Études Électroniques (R2E), beginning with the Micral N in early 1973. The Micral N was the first commercially available microprocessor-based computer.
In 1986, three judges at The Computer Museum, Boston – Apple II designer and Apple In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20programming%20relaxation | In mathematics, the relaxation of a (mixed) integer linear program is the problem that arises by removing the integrality constraint of each variable.
For example, in a 0–1 integer program, all constraints are of the form
.
The relaxation of the original integer program instead uses a collection of linear constraint... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland%20Dobrushin | Roland Lvovich Dobrushin () (July 20, 1929 – November 12, 1995) was a mathematician who made important contributions to probability theory, mathematical physics, and information theory.
Life and work
Dobrushin received his Ph.D. at Moscow State University under the supervision of Andrey Kolmogorov.
In statistical m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MULTOS | MULTOS is a multi-application smart card operating system, that enables a smart card to carry a variety of applications, from chip and pin application for payment to on-card biometric matching for secure ID and ePassport. MULTOS is an open standard whose development is overseen by the MULTOS Consortium – a body compose... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacral%20dimple | A sacral dimple (also termed pilonidal dimple or spinal dimple) is a small depression in the skin, located just above the buttocks. The name comes from the sacrum, the bone at the end of the spine, over which the dimples are found. A sacral dimple is defined as a midline dimple less than 5 mm in diameter and no furthe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator%20grammar | Operator grammar is a mathematical theory of human language that explains how language carries information. This theory is the culmination of the life work of Zellig Harris, with major publications toward the end of the last century. Operator grammar proposes that each human language is a self-organizing system in whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Carrot%20Museum | The World Carrot Museum is a website about the collection, preservation, interpretation and exhibition of objects relating to the carrot. It is a virtual museum which has no brick and mortar existence. The website is maintained by John Stolarczyk of Skipton, England, and is run as a not-for-profit organisation.
The we... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivalent%20%28genetics%29 | A bivalent is one pair of chromosomes (homologous chromosomes) in a tetrad. A tetrad is the association of a pair of homologous chromosomes (4 sister chromatids) physically held together by at least one DNA crossover. This physical attachment allows for alignment and segregation of the homologous chromosomes in the fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20N.%20Jackson | Douglas Northrop Jackson II (August 14, 1929 – August 22, 2004) was a Canadian psychology professor best known for his work in human assessment and psychological testing.
Life and career
Born in Merrick, New York, Jackson graduated from Cornell University in 1951 with a BSc in Industrial and Labor Relations and from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinuous%20deformation%20analysis | Discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) is a type of discrete element method (DEM) originally proposed by Shi in 1988. DDA is somewhat similar to the finite element method for solving stress-displacement problems, but accounts for the interaction of independent particles (blocks) along discontinuities in fractured and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/454%20Life%20Sciences | 454 Life Sciences was a biotechnology company based in Branford, Connecticut that specialized in high-throughput DNA sequencing. It was acquired by Roche in 2007 and shut down by Roche in 2013 when its technology became noncompetitive, although production continued until mid-2016.
History
454 Life Sciences was founded... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP%20ETag | The ETag or entity tag is part of HTTP, the protocol for the World Wide Web. It is one of several mechanisms that HTTP provides for Web cache validation, which allows a client to make conditional requests. This mechanism allows caches to be more efficient and saves bandwidth, as a Web server does not need to send a ful... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20disk%20partitioning%20software | This is a list of utilities for performing disk partitioning.
List
Disk partitioning software
Lists of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabolical%20cube | The diabolical cube is a three-dimensional dissection puzzle consisting of six polycubes (shapes formed by gluing cubes together face to face) that can be assembled together to form a single 3 × 3 × 3 cube.
The six pieces are: one dicube, one tricube, one tetracube, one pentacube, one hexacube and one heptacube, that i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%20scalar | In the Newman–Penrose (NP) formalism of general relativity, Weyl scalars refer to a set of five complex scalars which encode the ten independent components of the Weyl tensor of a four-dimensional spacetime.
Definitions
Given a complex null tetrad and with the convention , the Weyl-NP scalars are defined by
Note: ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beevor%27s%20axiom | Beevor's Axiom is the idea that the brain does not know muscles, only movements. In other words, the brain registers the movements that muscles combine to make, not the individual muscles that are making the movements. Hence, this is why one can sign their name (albeit poorly) with their foot. Beevor's Axiom was coined... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral%20reconstruction | Ancestral reconstruction (also known as Character Mapping or Character Optimization) is the extrapolation back in time from measured characteristics of individuals (or populations) to their common ancestors. It is an important application of phylogenetics, the reconstruction and study of the evolutionary relationships ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprapleural%20membrane | The suprapleural membrane, eponymously known as Sibson's fascia, is a structure described in human anatomy.
It is named for Francis Sibson.
Anatomy
It refers to a thickening of connective tissue that covers the apex of each human lung. It is an extension of the endothoracic fascia that exists between the parietal ple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genencor | Genencor is a biotechnology company based in Palo Alto, CA and a subsidiary of IFF. Genencor is a producer of Industrial enzymes and low-priced bulk protein. The name Genencor originates with Genencor, Inc., the original joint venture between Genentech and Corning Incorporated, which was founded in 1982. It is conside... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20convex%20hull | Local convex hull (LoCoH) is a method for estimating size of the home range of an animal or a group of animals (e.g. a pack of wolves, a pride of lions, or herd of buffaloes), and for constructing a utilization distribution. The latter is a probability distribution that represents the probabilities of finding an anima... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap%20%28mathematics%29 | In abstract algebra, a semiheap is an algebraic structure consisting of a non-empty set H with a ternary operation denoted that satisfies a modified associativity property:
A biunitary element h of a semiheap satisfies [h,h,k] = k = [k,h,h] for every k in H.
A heap is a semiheap in which every element is biunitary.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20freedom%20movement | The health freedom movement is a libertarian coalition that opposes regulation of health practices and advocates for increased access to "non-traditional" health care.
The right-wing John Birch Society has been a prominent advocate for health freedom since at least the 1970s, and the specific term "health freedom move... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symsagittifera%20roscoffensis | Symsagittifera roscoffensis, also called the Roscoff worm, the mint-sauce worm, or the shilly-shally worm, is a marine worm belonging to the phylum Xenacoelomorpha. The origin and nature of the green color of this worm stimulated the curiosity of zoologists early on. It is due to the partnership between the animal and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-broadcasting%20theorem | In physics, the no-broadcasting theorem is a result of quantum information theory. In the case of pure quantum states, it is a corollary of the no-cloning theorem. The no-cloning theorem for pure states says that it is impossible to create two copies of an unknown state given a single copy of the state. Since quantum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunotoxicology | Immunotoxicology (sometimes abbreviated as ITOX) is the study of the toxicity of foreign substances called xenobiotics and their effects on the immune system. Some toxic agents that are known to alter the immune system include: industrial chemicals, heavy metals, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, drugs, ultraviolet radia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lubinski | David J. Lubinski is an American psychology professor known for his work in applied research, psychometrics, and individual differences. His work (with Camilla Benbow) has focussed on exceptionally able children: the nature of exceptional ability, the development of people with exceptional ability (in particular meetin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivalued%20dependency | In database theory, a multivalued dependency is a full constraint between two sets of attributes in a relation.
In contrast to the functional dependency, the multivalued dependency requires that certain tuples be present in a relation. Therefore, a multivalued dependency is a special case of tuple-generating dependenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval%20electric%20ray | The oval electric ray (Typhlonarke aysoni) is a little-known species of sleeper ray in the family Narkidae. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it is generally found on the sea floor at a depth of . Seldom exceeding in length, this species has a thick, oval pectoral fin disc and a short, stout tail with a single dorsa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20on%20demand | Music-on-demand (MOD) is a music recording industry certified multi-billion dollar music distribution & subscriber-based industry model conceived with the growth of two-way computing and telecommunications in the early 1990s originally architected by Dale Schalow. Primarily, high-quality music is made available to purc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20vaccine | A synthetic vaccine is a vaccine consisting mainly of synthetic peptides, carbohydrates, or antigens. They are usually considered to be safer than vaccines from bacterial cultures. Creating vaccines synthetically has the ability to increase the speed of production. This is especially important in the event of a pandemi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Pagano | Luca Pagano (born July 28, 1978 in Treviso) is an Italian-born poker player who finished third place in the Barcelona Open, a European Poker Tour (EPT) event, in 2004. Since then he has reached six more EPT final tables, finishing in the money 20 times, placing him top of the EPT All-Time Leaderboard. He has also place... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Drift | is a kart racing game released in arcades by Sega in 1988. More technologically advanced than Sega's earlier 2.5D racing games, like Hang-On (1985) and Out Run (1986), in Power Drift the entire world and track consist of sprites. The upgraded hardware of the Sega Y Board allows individual sprites and the background to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20intrusion%20prevention%20system | In computing, a wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) is a network device that monitors the radio spectrum for the presence of unauthorized access points (intrusion detection), and can automatically take countermeasures (intrusion prevention).
Purpose
The primary purpose of a WIPS is to prevent unauthorized net... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20aesthetics | Quantum Aesthetics is a movement that was inaugurated by Gregorio Morales at the end of the 1990s with his work “El cadaver de Balzac” or Balzac's Corpse (1998). Here he defined the objectives of the movement in the phrase “mystery and difference”.
Later the Quantum Aesthetics Group arose, formed by novelists, poets, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deceleration%20parameter | The deceleration parameter in cosmology is a dimensionless measure of the cosmic acceleration of the expansion of space in a Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker universe. It is defined by:
where is the scale factor of the universe and the dots indicate derivatives by proper time. The expansion of the universe is sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracold%20atom | In condensed matter physics, an ultracold atom is an atom with a temperature near absolute zero. At such temperatures, an atom's quantum-mechanical properties become important.
To reach such low temperatures, a combination of several techniques typically has to be used. First, atoms are trapped and pre-cooled via lase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20atom%20model | In computational chemistry and computational physics, the embedded atom model, embedded-atom method or EAM, is an approximation describing the energy between atoms
and is a type of interatomic potential. The energy is a function of a sum of functions of the separation between an atom and its neighbors. In the original ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental%20age | Mental age is a concept related to intelligence. It looks at how a specific individual, at a specific age, performs intellectually, compared to average intellectual performance for that individual's actual chronological age (i.e. time elapsed since birth). The intellectual performance is based on performance in tests a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ-free%20animal | Germ-free organisms are multi-cellular organisms that have no microorganisms living in or on them. Such organisms are raised using various methods to control their exposure to viral, bacterial or parasitic agents. When known microbiota are introduced to a germ-free organism, it usually is referred to as a gnotobiotic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intabulation | Intabulation, from the Italian word intavolatura, refers to an arrangement of a vocal or ensemble piece for keyboard, lute, or other plucked string instrument, written in tablature.
History
Intabulation was a common practice in 14th–16th century keyboard and lute music. A direct effect of intabulation was one of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller%20assist%20unit | Teller Assist Units (TAU), also known as Automatic Teller Safes (ATS) or Teller Cash Dispensers (TCD), are devices used in retail banking for the disbursement of money at a bank teller wicket or a centralized area. Other areas of application of TAU include the automation of starting and reconciling teller or cashier d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeyd | Honeyd is an open source computer program created by Niels Provos that allows a user to set up and run multiple virtual hosts on a computer network. These virtual hosts can be configured to mimic several different types of servers, allowing the user to simulate an infinite number of computer network configurations. Hon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba%20algorithm | The Karatsuba algorithm is a fast multiplication algorithm. It was discovered by Anatoly Karatsuba in 1960 and published in 1962. It is a divide-and-conquer algorithm that reduces the multiplication of two n-digit numbers to three multiplications of n/2-digit numbers and, by repeating this reduction, to at most singl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf%20planet | A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit of the Sun, smaller than any of the eight classical planets. The prototypical dwarf planet is Pluto. The interest of dwarf planets to planetary geologists is that they may be geologically active bodies, an expectation that was borne out in 2015 by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%20regional%20atmospheric%20modeling%20system | The Mars Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (MRAMS) is a computer program that simulates the circulations of the Martian atmosphere at regional and local scales. MRAMS, developed by Scot Rafkin and Timothy Michaels, is derived from the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) developed by William R. Cotton and Rog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheil%20equation | In metallurgy, the Scheil-Gulliver equation (or Scheil equation) describes solute redistribution during solidification of an alloy.
Assumptions
Four key assumptions in Scheil analysis enable determination of phases present in a cast part. These assumptions are:
No diffusion occurs in solid phases once they are for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysbiosis | Dysbiosis (also called dysbacteriosis) is characterized by a disruption to the microbiome resulting in an imbalance in the microbiota, changes in their functional composition and metabolic activities, or a shift in their local distribution. For example, a part of the human microbiota such as the skin flora, gut flora, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synbiotics | Synbiotics refer to food ingredients or dietary supplements combining probiotics and prebiotics in a form of synergism, hence synbiotics. The synbiotic concept was first introduced as "mixtures of probiotics and prebiotics that beneficially affect the host by improving the survival and implantation of live microbial di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1p36%20deletion%20syndrome | 1p36 deletion syndrome is a congenital genetic disorder characterized by moderate to severe intellectual disability, delayed growth, hypotonia, seizures, limited speech ability, malformations, hearing and vision impairment, and distinct facial features. The symptoms may vary, depending on the exact location of the chr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky%20bit | In computing, a bucky bit is a bit in a binary representation of a character that is set by pressing on a keyboard modifier key other than the shift key.
Overview
Setting a bucky bit changes the output character. A bucky bit allows the user to type a wider variety of characters and commands while maintaining a reasona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefoil%20knot%20fold | The trefoil knot fold is a protein fold in which the protein backbone is twisted into a trefoil knot shape. "Shallow" knots in which the tail of the polypeptide chain only passes through a loop by a few residues are uncommon, but "deep" knots in which many residues are passed through the loop are extremely rare. Deep t... |
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