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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex%20geometry | In mathematics, convex geometry is the branch of geometry studying convex sets, mainly in Euclidean space. Convex sets occur naturally in many areas: computational geometry, convex analysis, discrete geometry, functional analysis, geometry of numbers, integral geometry, linear programming, probability theory, game theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest%20Atlantic%20Fisheries%20Centre | The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre is a Government of Canada research facility and office complex located in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
It is primarily used by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
External links
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre (NAFC)
The DFO: watchdog of our waters
Buildin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Lamontagne%20Institute | The Maurice Lamontagne Institute is a marine science research institute located in Mont Joli, Quebec and is part of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
History
The Maurice Lamontagne Institute was created in 1987. Its mission was to help the Department of Fisheries and Oceans gather and organize documenta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film%20bulk%20acoustic%20resonator | A thin-film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR or TFBAR) is a device consisting of a piezoelectric material manufactured by thin film methods between two conductive – typically metallic – electrodes and acoustically isolated from the surrounding medium. The operation is based on the piezoelectricity of the piezolayer betwee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%E2%80%93Golabi%E2%80%93Behmel%20syndrome | Simpson–Golabi–Behmel syndrome (SGBS), is a rare inherited congenital disorder that can cause craniofacial, skeletal, vascular, cardiac, and renal abnormalities. There is a high prevalence of cancer associated in those with sgbs which includes wilms tumors, neuroblastoma, tumors of the adrenal gland, liver, lungs and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachimycin | Hitachimycin, also known as stubomycin, is a cyclic polypeptide produced by Streptomyces that acts as an antibiotic. It exhibits cytotoxic activity against mammalian cells, Gram-positive bacteria, yeast, and fungi, as well as hemolytic activity; this is mediated by changes at the cell membrane and subsequent lysis. Owi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20chromatin%20sequence | An active chromatin sequence (ACS) is a region of DNA in a eukaryotic chromosome in which histone modifications such as acetylation lead to exposure of the DNA sequence thus allowing binding of transcription factors and transcription to take place. Active chromatin may also be called euchromatin. ACSs may occur in non-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic%20form%20%28statistics%29 | In multivariate statistics, if is a vector of random variables, and is an -dimensional symmetric matrix, then the scalar quantity is known as a quadratic form in .
Expectation
It can be shown that
where and are the expected value and variance-covariance matrix of , respectively, and tr denotes the trace of a ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20effects%20of%20high-energy%20visible%20light | High-energy visible light (HEV light) is short-wave light in the violet/blue band from 400 to 450 nm in the visible spectrum, which has a number of purported negative biological effects, namely on circadian rhythm and retinal health (blue-light hazard), which can lead to age-related macular degeneration. Increasingly, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperidin | Hesperidin is a flavanone glycoside found in citrus fruits. Its aglycone is hesperetin. Its name is derived from the word "hesperidium", for fruit produced by citrus trees.
Hesperidin was first isolated in 1828 by French chemist M. Lebreton from the white inner layer of citrus peels (mesocarp, albedo).
Hesperidin is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot%20refrigerator | A pot-in-pot refrigerator, clay pot cooler or zeer () is an evaporative cooling refrigeration device which does not use electricity. It uses a porous outer clay pot (lined with wet sand) containing an inner pot (which can be glazed to prevent penetration by the liquid) within which the food is placed. The evaporation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-trip%20translation | Round-trip translation (RTT), also known as back-and-forth translation, recursive translation and bi-directional translation, is the process of translating a word, phrase or text into another language (forward translation), then translating the result back into the original language (back translation), using machine tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavorist | A flavorist, also known as flavor chemist, is someone who uses chemistry to engineer artificial and natural flavors. The tools and materials used by flavorists are almost the same as that used by perfumers with the exception that flavorists seek to mimic or modify both the olfactory and gustatory properties of various ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarisch%E2%80%93Herxheimer%20reaction | A Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction is a sudden and typically transient reaction that may occur within 24 hours of being administered antibiotics for an infection by a spirochete, including syphilis, leptospirosis, Lyme disease, and relapsing fever. Signs and symptoms include fever, chills, shivers, feeling sick, headache, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20cortex | The cell cortex, also known as the actin cortex, cortical cytoskeleton or actomyosin cortex, is a specialized layer of cytoplasmic proteins on the inner face of the cell membrane. It functions as a modulator of membrane behavior and cell surface properties. In most eukaryotic cells lacking a cell wall, the cortex is an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid%20structure | Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet. Often these are tall structures, such as towers, where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an object high above the ground. Hyperboloid geometry is often used for decorative effect as well as str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained%20optimization | In mathematical optimization, constrained optimization (in some contexts called constraint optimization) is the process of optimizing an objective function with respect to some variables in the presence of constraints on those variables. The objective function is either a cost function or energy function, which is to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Rellich | Franz Rellich (September 14, 1906 – September 25, 1955) was an Austrian-German mathematician. He made important contributions in mathematical physics, in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for the theory of partial differential equations. The Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is named after him.
Biograph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20transition%20region | The solar transition region is a region of the Sun's atmosphere between the upper chromosphere and corona. It is important because it is the site of several unrelated but important transitions in the physics of the solar atmosphere:
Below, gravity tends to dominate the shape of most features, so that the Sun may often... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20mapping | Brain mapping is a set of neuroscience techniques predicated on the mapping of (biological) quantities or properties onto spatial representations of the (human or non-human) brain resulting in maps.
According to the definition established in 2013 by Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT), brain mapping is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20expansion | In mathematics, an expansion of a product of sums expresses it as a sum of products by using the fact that multiplication distributes over addition. Expansion of a polynomial expression can be obtained by repeatedly replacing subexpressions that multiply two other subexpressions, at least one of which is an addition, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiller%20%28botany%29 | A tiller is a shoot that arises from the base of a grass plant. The term refers to all shoots that grow after the initial parent shoot grows from a seed. Tillers are segmented, each segment possessing its own two-part leaf. They are involved in vegetative propagation and, in some cases, also seed production.
"Tillerin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algaculture | Algaculture is a form of aquaculture involving the farming of species of algae.
The majority of algae that are intentionally cultivated fall into the category of microalgae (also referred to as phytoplankton, microphytes, or planktonic algae). Macroalgae, commonly known as seaweed, also have many commercial and indust... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piczo | Piczo was a social networking and blogging website for teens. It was founded in 2003 by Jim Conning in San Francisco, California. Early investors included Catamount, Sierra Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, and Mangrove Capital Partners.
In March 2009, Piczo was acquired by Stardoll (Stardoll AB with CEO Mattias Miksch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%20diode%20equation | The Shockley diode equation, or the diode law, named after transistor co-inventor William Shockley of Bell Labs, models the exponential current–voltage (I–V) relationship of semiconductor diodes in moderate constant current forward bias or reverse bias:
where
is the diode current,
is the reverse-bias saturation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosat | The GEOSAT (GEOdetic SATellite) was a U.S. Navy Earth observation satellite, launched on March 12, 1985 into an 800 km, 108° inclination orbit, with a nodal period of about 6040 seconds. The satellite carried a radar altimeter capable of measuring the distance from the satellite to sea surface with a relative precision... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog%20behaviourist | A dog behaviourist is a person who works in modifying or changing behaviour in dogs. They can be experienced dog handlers, who have developed their experience over many years of hands-on experience, or have formal training up to degree level. Some have backgrounds in veterinary science, animal science, zoology, sociolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20management%20%28electronics%29 | All electronic devices and circuitry generate excess heat and thus require thermal management to improve reliability and prevent premature failure. The amount of heat output is equal to the power input, if there are no other energy interactions. There are several techniques for cooling including various styles of heat ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMK%20%28operating%20system%29 | The eXtreme Minimal Kernel (XMK) is a real-time operating system (RTOS) that is designed for minimal RAM/ROM use. It achieves this goal, though it is almost entirely written in the C programming language. As a consequence it can be easily ported to any 8-, 16-, or 32-bit microcontroller.
XMK comes as two independent p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%20Siegel | Sidney Siegel (4 January 1916 in New York City – 29 November 1961) was an American psychologist who became especially well known for his work in popularizing non-parametric statistics for use in the behavioral sciences. He was a co-developer of the statistical test known as the Siegel–Tukey test.
In 1951 Siegel compl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive%20identity | In mathematics, the additive identity of a set that is equipped with the operation of addition is an element which, when added to any element in the set, yields . One of the most familiar additive identities is the number 0 from elementary mathematics, but additive identities occur in other mathematical structures whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20Term%20Ecological%20Research%20Network | The Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) consists of a group of over 1800 scientists and students studying ecological processes over extended temporal and spatial scales. Twenty-eight LTER sites cover a diverse set of ecosystems. It is part of the International Long Term Ecological Research Network (ILTER). The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazchem | Hazchem (; from hazardous chemicals) is a warning plate system used in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, India and the United Kingdom for vehicles transporting hazardous substances, and on storage facilities. The top-left section of the plate gives the Emergency Action Code (EAC) telling the fire brigade wha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brettanomyces%20bruxellensis | Brettanomyces bruxellensis (the anamorph of Dekkera bruxellensis) is a yeast associated with the Senne valley near Brussels, Belgium. Despite its Latin species name, B. bruxellensis is found all over the globe. In the wild, it is often found on the skins of fruit.
Beer production
B. bruxellensis plays a key role in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt%20%28Unix%29 | In Unix computing, crypt or enigma is a utility program used for encryption. Due to the ease of breaking it, it is considered to be obsolete.
The program is usually used as a filter, and it has traditionally been implemented using a "rotor machine" algorithm based on the Enigma machine. It is considered to be cryptog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Exchange | PC Exchange was a utility program for Apple Macintosh computers. It was a control panel for the classic Mac OS that lets the operating system mount FAT file systems and mapped file extensions to the user-defined type and creator codes.
It was first made available in 1992 as a commercial software product from Apple, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20elephant | Temple elephants are a type of captive elephant. Many major temples own elephants; others hire or are donated elephants during the festive seasons. Temple elephants are usually wild animals, poached from the forests of North East India from wild herds at a young age and then sold into captivity to temples. Their treatm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman%E2%80%93Oppenheimer%E2%80%93Volkoff%20limit | The Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit (or TOV limit) is an upper bound to the mass of cold, non-rotating neutron stars, analogous to the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarf stars. If the mass of a neutron star reaches the limit it will collapse to a denser form, most likely a black hole.
Theoretical work in 1996 place... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%20tree | A Wallace multiplier is a hardware implementation of a binary multiplier, a digital circuit that multiplies two integers. It uses a selection of full and half adders (the Wallace tree or Wallace reduction) to sum partial products in stages until two numbers are left. Wallace multipliers reduce as much as possible on ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadda%20multiplier | The Dadda multiplier is a hardware binary multiplier design invented by computer scientist Luigi Dadda in 1965. It uses a selection of full and half adders to sum the partial products in stages (the Dadda tree or Dadda reduction) until two numbers are left. The design is similar to the Wallace multiplier, but the diffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20familial%20intrahepatic%20cholestasis | Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) is a group of familial cholestatic conditions caused by defects in biliary epithelial transporters. The clinical presentation usually occurs first in childhood with progressive cholestasis. This usually leads to failure to thrive, cirrhosis, and the need for liver t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20hex%20editors | The following is a comparison of notable hex editors.
General
Features
See also
Comparison of HTML editors
Comparison of integrated development environments
Comparison of text editors
Comparison of word processors
Notes
ao: ANSI is the Windows character set, OEM is the DOS character set. Both are based on ASCII. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation%20integral | In chaos theory, the correlation integral is the mean probability that the states at two different times are close:
where is the number of considered states , is a threshold distance, a norm (e.g. Euclidean norm) and the Heaviside step function. If only a time series is available, the phase space can be reconstruc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corps%20Badge | A Corps Badge is a Distinct badge worn by military personnel to distinguish themselves from other Corps, (Known as Branch insignia in the United States) where a Corps is a grouped by a common function (i.e. Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry, Signals Corps etc.) The use of Corps Badges and how a corps is identified is varied... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet%20computer | A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package. Tablets, being computers, have similar capabilities, but lack some input/output (I/O) abilities that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septum%20transversum | The septum transversum is a thick mass of cranial mesenchyme, formed in the embryo, that gives rise to parts of the thoracic diaphragm and the ventral mesentery of the foregut in the developed human being and other mammals.
Origins
The septum transversum originally arises as the most cranial part of the mesenchyme on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Speed%20Serial%20Interface | The High-Speed Serial Interface (HSSI) is a differential ECL serial interface standard developed by Cisco Systems and T3plus Networking primarily for use in WAN router connections. It is capable of speeds up to 52 Mbit/s with cables up to in length.
While HSSI uses 50-pin connector physically similar to that used b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform%20Invocation%20Services | Platform Invocation Services, commonly referred to as P/Invoke, is a feature of Common Language Infrastructure implementations, like Microsoft's Common Language Runtime, that enables managed code to call native code.
Managed code, such as C# or VB.NET, provides native access to classes, methods, and types defined with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMDIS | SIMDIS is a software toolset developed by Code 5770 at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The software provides 2D and 3D interactive graphical and video displays of live and postprocessed simulation, test, and operational data. SIMDIS is a portmanteau of simulation and display.
Features
SIMDIS runs on Windows, L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-ratio%20%28oceanography%29 | In oceanic biogeochemistry, the f-ratio is the fraction of total primary production fuelled by nitrate (as opposed to that fuelled by other nitrogen compounds such as ammonium). The ratio was originally defined by Richard Eppley and Bruce Peterson in one of the first papers estimating global oceanic production. This fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensation%20law%20of%20mortality | The compensation law of mortality (or late-life mortality convergence) states that the relative differences in death rates between different populations of the same biological species decrease with age, because the higher initial death rates in disadvantaged populations are compensated by lower pace of mortality increa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetaev%20instability%20theorem | The Chetaev instability theorem for dynamical systems states that if there exists, for the system with an equilibrium point at the origin, a continuously differentiable function V(x) such that
the origin is a boundary point of the set ;
there exists a neighborhood of the origin such that for all
then the origin ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoForce | The Nvidia GoForce was a line of chipsets that was used mainly in handheld devices such as PDAs and mobile phones. Nvidia acquired graphics display processor firm MediaQ in 2003, and rebranded the division as GoForce. It has since been replaced by the Nvidia Tegra series of SoCs.
Features
GoForce 2100
Featuring VGA ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-species%20foraging%20flock | A mixed-species feeding flock, also termed a mixed-species foraging flock, mixed hunting party or informally bird wave, is a flock of usually insectivorous birds of different species that join each other and move together while foraging. These are different from feeding aggregations, which are congregations of several ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20selection%20theory | Cultural selection theory is the study of cultural change modelled on theories of evolutionary biology. Cultural selection theory has so far never been a separate discipline. However it has been proposed that
human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and "the structure of a science of cultural ev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrondo%27s%20paradox | Parrondo's paradox, a paradox in game theory, has been described as: A combination of losing strategies becomes a winning strategy. It is named after its creator, Juan Parrondo, who discovered the paradox in 1996. A more explanatory description is:
There exist pairs of games, each with a higher probability of losing t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidance%20response | An avoidance response is a response that prevents an aversive stimulus from occurring. It is a kind of negative reinforcement. An avoidance response is a behavior based on the concept that animals will avoid performing behaviors that result in an aversive outcome. This can involve learning through operant conditioning ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham%20law%20of%20mortality | The Gompertz–Makeham law states that the human death rate is the sum of an age-dependent component (the Gompertz function, named after Benjamin Gompertz), which increases exponentially with age and an age-independent component (the Makeham term, named after William Makeham). In a protected environment where external ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B3rreo | An hórreo is a typical granary from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (Asturias, Galicia, where it might be called a Galician granary, and Northern Portugal), built in wood or stone, raised from the ground (to keep rodents out) by pillars ( in Asturian, pegoyos in Cantabrian, in Galician, in Portuguese, in Basq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readers%E2%80%93writer%20lock | In computer science, a readers–writer (single-writer lock, a multi-reader lock, a push lock, or an MRSW lock) is a synchronization primitive that solves one of the readers–writers problems. An RW lock allows concurrent access for read-only operations, whereas write operations require exclusive access. This means that m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20benzoate | Ethyl benzoate, C9H10O2, is an ester formed by the condensation of benzoic acid and ethanol. It is a colorless liquid that is almost insoluble in water, but miscible with most organic solvents.
As with many volatile esters, ethyl benzoate has a pleasant odor described as sweet, wintergreen, fruity, medicinal, cherry ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermin%E2%80%93Wagner%20theorem | In quantum field theory and statistical mechanics, the Mermin–Wagner theorem (also known as Mermin–Wagner–Hohenberg theorem, Mermin–Wagner–Berezinskii theorem, or Coleman theorem) states that continuous symmetries cannot be spontaneously broken at finite temperature in systems with sufficiently short-range interaction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinoconodon | Sinoconodon is an extinct genus of mammaliamorphs that appears in the fossil record of the Lufeng Formation of China in the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic period, about 193 million years ago. While sharing many plesiomorphic traits with other non-mammaliaform cynodonts, it possessed a special, secondarily evolv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%20%28alcoholic%20beverage%29 | Gravity, in the context of fermenting alcoholic beverages, refers to the specific gravity (abbreviated SG), or relative density compared to water, of the wort or must at various stages in the fermentation. The concept is used in the brewing and wine-making industries. Specific gravity is measured by a hydrometer, refra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higman%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Higman's lemma states that the set of finite sequences over a finite alphabet, as partially ordered by the subsequence relation, is well-quasi-ordered. That is, if is an infinite sequence of words over some fixed finite alphabet, then there exist indices such that can be obtained from by deleting so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozani%C4%87%27s%20triangle | Lozanić's triangle (sometimes called Losanitsch's triangle) is a triangular array of binomial coefficients in a manner very similar to that of Pascal's triangle. It is named after the Serbian chemist Sima Lozanić, who researched it in his investigation into the symmetries exhibited by rows of paraffins (archaic term fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Marine%20Biological%20Station%20Millport | The University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM) was a higher education institution located on the island of Great Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, and run by the university of London (of which it was a central academic body). It closed in 2013 and is now Millport Field Centre, run by the Field Studies... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meckel%27s%20cartilage | In humans, the cartilaginous bar of the mandibular arch is formed by what are known as Meckel's cartilages (right and left) also known as Meckelian cartilages; above this the incus and malleus are developed. Meckel's cartilage arises from the first pharyngeal arch.
The dorsal end of each cartilage is connected with th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocus%20contest%20evolution | Interlocus contest evolution (ICE) is a process of intergenomic conflict by which different loci within a single genome antagonistically coevolve. ICE supposes that the Red Queen process, which is characterized by a never-ending antagonistic evolutionary arms race, does not only apply to species but also to genes withi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20streak | The primitive streak is a structure that forms in the early embryo in amniotes. In amphibians the equivalent structure is the blastopore. During early embryonic development, the embryonic disc becomes oval shaped, and then pear-shaped with the broad end towards the anterior, and the narrower region projected to the pos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/224%20%28number%29 | 224 (two hundred [and] twenty-four) is the natural number following 223 and preceding 225.
In mathematics
224 is a practical number,
and a sum of two positive cubes . It is also , making it one of the smallest numbers to be the sum of distinct positive cubes in more than one way.
224 is the smallest k with λ(k) = 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20ecosystem | River ecosystems are flowing waters that drain the landscape, and include the biotic (living) interactions amongst plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (nonliving) physical and chemical interactions of its many parts. River ecosystems are part of larger watershed networks or catchments, where smaller... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryness%20%28taste%29 | Dryness is a property of beverages that describes the lack of a sweet taste. This may be due to a lack of sugars, the presence of some other taste that masks sweetness, or an underabundance of simple carbohydrates that can be converted to sugar by enzymes in the mouth (amylase in particular). The term "dry" may be ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%2037xx | IBM 37xx (or 37x5) is a family of IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) programmable communications controllers used mainly in mainframe environments.
All members of the family ran one of three IBM-supplied programs.
Emulation Program (EP) mimicked the operation of the older IBM 270x non-programmable controllers.
Net... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnopsychopharmacology | A growing body of research has begun to highlight differences in the way racial and ethnic groups respond to psychiatric medication.
It has been noted that there are "dramatic cross-ethnic and cross-national variations in the dosing practices and side-effect profiles in response to practically all classes of psychotro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20defense%20against%20herbivory | Plant defense against herbivory or host-plant resistance (HPR) is a range of adaptations evolved by plants which improve their survival and reproduction by reducing the impact of herbivores. Plants can sense being touched, and they can use several strategies to defend against damage caused by herbivores. Many plants pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitation%20of%20size | In the philosophy of mathematics, specifically the philosophical foundations of set theory, limitation of size is a concept developed by Philip Jourdain and/or Georg Cantor to avoid Cantor's paradox. It identifies certain "inconsistent multiplicities", in Cantor's terminology, that cannot be sets because they are "too ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdispersion | In statistics, overdispersion is the presence of greater variability (statistical dispersion) in a data set than would be expected based on a given statistical model.
A common task in applied statistics is choosing a parametric model to fit a given set of empirical observations. This necessitates an assessment of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytogeography | Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, phytón = "plant" and γεωγραφία, geographía = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution of plant species and their influence on the earth's surface. Phytogeography is concerned with all ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl%20dicarbonate | Dimethyl dicarbonate (DMDC) is a colorless liquid and a pungent odor at high concentration at room temperature. It is primarily used as a beverage preservative, processing aid, or sterilant (INS No. 242) being highly active against typical beverage spoiling microorganisms like yeast, bacteria, or mould.
Usage
Dimethy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNP%20agar | PNP Agar is an agar medium used in microbiology to identify Staphylococcus species that have phosphatase activity. The medium changes color when p-nitrophenylphosphate disodium (PNP) is dephosphorylated.
PNP agar is composed of Mueller–Hinton agar buffered to pH 5.6 to 5.8, with the addition of 0.495 mg/mL PNP. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigo | Beijing Huaqi Information Digital Technology Co., Ltd, trading as Aigo (stylized as aigo), is a Chinese consumer electronics company. It is headquartered in the Ideal Plaza () in Haidian District, Beijing.
History
Beijing Huaqi Information Digital Technology Co Ltd (北京华旗资讯科技发展有限公司) is a consumer electronics manufactur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20cutaneous%20nerve%20of%20forearm | The lateral cutaneous nerve of forearm (or lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve) is a sensory nerve representing the continuation of the musculocutaneous nerve beyond the lateral edge of the tendon of the biceps brachii muscle. The lateral cutaneous nerve provides sensory innervation to the skin of the lateral forearm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20cutaneous%20nerve%20of%20forearm | The medial cutaneous nerve of the forearm (also known as the medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve) is a sensory branch of the medial cord of the brachial plexus derived from the ventral rami of spinal nerves C8-T1. It provides sensory innervation to the skin of the medial forearm and skin overlying the olecranon. It des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20cutaneous%20nerve%20of%20arm | The medial brachial cutaneous nerve (lesser internal cutaneous nerve; medial cutaneous nerve of arm) is a sensory branch of the medial cord of the brachial plexus derived from spinal nerves C8-T1. It provides sensory innervation to the medial arm. It descends accompanied by the basilic vein.
Anatomy
Origin
It is the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Centre%20for%20Theoretical%20Physics | The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is an international research institute for physical and mathematical sciences that operates under a tripartite agreement between the Italian Government, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and International Atomic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth%20wallpaper | For computer network security, stealth wallpaper is a material designed to prevent an indoor Wi-Fi network from extending or "leaking" to the outside of a building, where malicious persons may attempt to eavesdrop or attack a network. While it is simple to prevent all electronic signals from passing through a building... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%20John | Fritz John (14 June 1910 – 10 February 1994) was a German-born mathematician specialising in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation. He was a 1984 MacArthur Fellow.
Life and career
John was born in Berlin, Imperial Germ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microspore | Microspores are land plant spores that develop into male gametophytes, whereas megaspores develop into female gametophytes. The male gametophyte gives rise to sperm cells, which are used for fertilization of an egg cell to form a zygote. Megaspores are structures that are part of the alternation of generations in many ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventriculitis | Ventriculitis is the inflammation of the ventricles in the brain. The ventricles are responsible for containing and circulating cerebrospinal fluid throughout the brain. Ventriculitis is caused by infection of the ventricles, leading to swelling and inflammation. This is especially prevalent in patients with external v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alor%20Setar%20Tower | Alor Setar Tower (), also known as Kedah Tower is a 4-story, 165.5-meter-tall telecommunication tower in Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia, It is Malaysia's third tallest tower, the tallest structure in the state and the tallest structure in the city.
Apart from serving the role of a telecommunication tower, it also caters ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc%20converter | The arc converter, sometimes called the arc transmitter, or Poulsen arc after Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen who invented it in 1903, was a variety of spark transmitter used in early wireless telegraphy. The arc converter used an electric arc to convert direct current electricity into radio frequency alternating curr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation%20index | The fixation index (FST) is a measure of population differentiation due to genetic structure. It is frequently estimated from genetic polymorphism data, such as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) or microsatellites. Developed as a special case of Wright's F-statistics, it is one of the most commonly used statistics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform%20cartilages | In the human larynx, the cuneiform cartilages (from Latin: cuneus 'wedge' + forma 'form'; also known as cartilages of Wrisberg) are two small, elongated pieces of yellow elastic cartilage, placed one on either side, in the aryepiglottic fold.
The cuneiforms are paired cartilages that sit on top of and move with the ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual%20scavenging | Manual scavenging is a term used mainly in India for "manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or sewer or in a septic tank or a pit". Manual scavengers usually use hand tools such as buckets, brooms and shovels. The workers have to mov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingual%20artery | The lingual artery arises from the external carotid artery between the superior thyroid artery and facial artery. It can be located easily in the tongue.
Structure
The lingual artery first branches off from the external carotid artery. It runs obliquely upward and medially to the greater horns of the hyoid bone.
It t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%28II%29%20gluconate | Iron(II) gluconate, or ferrous gluconate, is a black compound often used as an iron supplement. It is the iron(II) salt of gluconic acid. It is marketed under brand names such as Fergon, Ferralet and Simron.
Uses
Medical
Ferrous gluconate is effectively used in the treatment of hypochromic anemia. The use of this co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20heat%20flux | In the study of heat transfer, critical heat flux (CHF) is the heat flux at which boiling ceases to be an effective form of transferring heat from a solid surface to a liquid.
Description
Boiling systems are those in which liquid coolant absorbs energy from a heated solid surface and undergoes a change in phase. In f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomopathogenic%20nematode | Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) are a group of nematodes (thread worms), that cause death to insects. The term entomopathogenic has a Greek origin, with entomon, meaning insect, and pathogenic, which means causing disease. They are animals that occupy a bio control middle ground between microbial pathogens and predato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20captive-bred%20meat%20animals | The following is a list of animals that are or may have been raised in captivity for consumption by people. For other animals commonly eaten by people, see Game (food).
See also
Game (food)
List of meat dishes
Marine mammals as food |
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