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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-body%20CT%20scan | A full-body scan is a scan of the patient's entire body as part of the diagnosis or treatment of illnesses. If computed tomography (CAT) scan technology is used, it is known as a full-body CT scan, though many medical imaging technologies can perform full-body scans.
Indications
Full-body CT scans allow a transparent ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger-BASIC | Tiger-BASIC is a high speed multitasking BASIC dialect (List of BASIC dialects) to program microcontrollers of the BASIC-Tiger family. Tiger-BASIC and the integrated development environment which goes with it, were developed by Wilke-Technology (Aachen, Germany).
External links
Wilke-Technology
BASIC programming lan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact%20embedding | In mathematics, the notion of being compactly embedded expresses the idea that one set or space is "well contained" inside another. There are versions of this concept appropriate to general topology and functional analysis.
Definition (topological spaces)
Let (X, T) be a topological space, and let V and W be subsets ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron%20below | Macron below is a combining diacritical mark that is used in various orthographies.
A non-combining form is . It is not to be confused with , and . The difference between "macron below" and "low line" is that the latter results in an unbroken underline when it is run together: compare a̱ḇc̱ and a̲b̲c̲ (only the latte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinhenge%40Home | Spinhenge@home was a volunteer computing project on the BOINC platform, which performs extensive numerical simulations concerning the physical characteristics of magnetic molecules. It is a project of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in cooperation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20suicide | Evolutionary suicide is an evolutionary phenomenon in which the process of adaptation causes the population to become extinct. It provides an alternative explanation for extinction, which is due to misadaptation rather than failure to adapt.
For example, individuals might be selected to destroy own food (e.g. switch f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Plant%20Breeding%20Research | The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research was founded in Müncheberg, Germany in 1928 as part of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft. The founding director, Erwin Baur, initiated breeding programmes with fruits and berries, and basic research on Antirrhinum majus and the domestication of lupins. After the Second ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notifiable%20disease | A notifiable disease is any disease that is required by law to be reported to government authorities. The collation of information allows the authorities to monitor the disease, and provides early warning of possible outbreaks. In the case of livestock diseases, there may also be the legal requirement to kill the infec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Evolutionary%20Biology | The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology is a German institute for evolutionary biology. It is located in Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
History
The institute was founded by German zoologist Otto Zacharias as Hydrobiologische Station zu Plön. Working in Italy in the 1880s, Zacharias was inspired by the h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSTa | Valencia's Simple Tasker (VSTa) is an operating system with a microkernel architecture, with all device drivers and file systems residing in userspace mode. It mostly complies with the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), except where such compliance interferes with extensibility and modularity. It is conceptua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNewSense | gNewSense was a Linux distribution, active from 2006 to 2016. It was based on Debian, and developed with sponsorship from the Free Software Foundation. Its goal was user-friendliness, but with all proprietary (e.g. binary blobs) and non-free software removed. The Free Software Foundation considered gNewSense to be comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%20dune%20ecology | Sand dune ecology describes the biological and physico-chemical interactions that are a characteristic of sand dunes.
Sand dune systems are excellent places for biodiversity, partly because they are not very productive for agriculture, and partly because disturbed, stressful, and stable habitats are present in proxim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intute | Intute was a free Web service aimed at students, teachers, and researchers in UK further education and higher education. Intute provided access to online resources, via a large database of resources. Each resource was reviewed by an academic specialist in the subject, who wrote a short review of between 100 and 200 wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20Expansion%20Bus | The Analog Expansion Bus is a hardware bus that was designed by Dialogic for interfacing DTI/124, D/4x, AMX and other voice response component boards which fit in an AT-expansion slot of a personal computer. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-bin%20encoding | Time-bin encoding is a technique used in quantum information science to encode a qubit of information on a photon. Quantum information science makes use of qubits as a basic resource similar to bits in classical computing. Qubits are any two-level quantum mechanical system; there are many different physical implementa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material | Material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object. Materials can be pure or impure, living or non-living matter. Materials can be classified on the basis of their physical and chemical properties, or on their geological origin or biological function. Materials science is the study of materials... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastocarpus%20stellatus | Mastocarpus stellatus, commonly known as carrageenan moss or false Irish moss, is a species in the Rhodophyceae division, a red algae seaweed division, and the Phyllophoracea family. M. stellatus is closely related to Irish Moss (Chondrus crispus). It grows in the intertidal zone. It is most collected in North Atlantic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinor%20spherical%20harmonics | In quantum mechanics, the spinor spherical harmonics (also known as spin spherical harmonics, spinor harmonics and Pauli spinors) are special functions defined over the sphere. The spinor spherical harmonics are the natural spinor analog of the vector spherical harmonics. While the standard spherical harmonics are a ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20of%20Naturalists | The American Society of Naturalists was founded in 1883 and is one of the oldest professional societies dedicated to the biological sciences in North America. The purpose of the Society is "to advance and diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles so as to enhance the conceptual unific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochner%20space | In mathematics, Bochner spaces are a generalization of the concept of spaces to functions whose values lie in a Banach space which is not necessarily the space or of real or complex numbers.
The space consists of (equivalence classes of) all Bochner measurable functions with values in the Banach space whose norm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurofibromin | Neurofibromin can refer to one of two different proteins:
Neurofibromin 1
Neurofibromin 2
See also
Neurofibromatosis type I
Neurofibromatosis type II
Proteins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater%20vision | Underwater vision is the ability to see objects underwater, and this is significantly affected by several factors. Underwater, objects are less visible because of lower levels of natural illumination caused by rapid attenuation of light with distance passed through the water. They are also blurred by scattering of ligh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20dependence%20prediction | Memory dependence prediction is a technique, employed by high-performance out-of-order execution microprocessors that execute memory access operations (loads and stores) out of program order, to predict true dependencies between loads and stores at instruction execution time. With the predicted dependence information, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20mirage | A gravitational mirage or cosmic mirage is an optical phenomenon affecting the appearance of a distant star or galaxy, seen only through a telescope. It can take the form of a ring or rings partially or completely surrounding the object, a duplicate image adjacent to the object, or multiple duplicate images surrounding... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition%20sequence | A recognition sequence is a DNA sequence to which a structural motif of a DNA-binding domain exhibits binding specificity. Recognition sequences are palindromes.
The transcription factor Sp1 for example, binds the sequences 5'-(G/T)GGGCGG(G/A)(G/A)(C/T)-3', where (G/T) indicates that the domain will bind a guanine or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piscivore | A piscivore () is a carnivorous animal that primarily eats fish. The name piscivore is derived . Piscivore is equivalent to the Greek-derived word ichthyophage, both of which mean "fish eater". Fish were the diet of early tetrapod evolution (via water-bound amphibians during the Devonian period); insectivory came next;... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landolt%E2%80%93B%C3%B6rnstein | Landolt–Börnstein is a collection of property data in materials science and the closely related fields of chemistry, physics and engineering published by Springer Nature.
History
On July 28, 1882, Dr. Hans Heinrich Landolt and Dr. Richard Börnstein, both professors at the "Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule" (Agricultural... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie%20collection | The Carnegie Collection was a series of authentic replicas based on dinosaurs and other extinct prehistoric creatures, using fossils featured at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History as references. They were produced by Florida-based company Safari Ltd., known for their hand-painted replicas, from 1988 to 2015, and be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based%20solar%20power | Space-based solar power (SBSP, SSP) is the concept of collecting solar power in outer space with solar power satellites (SPS) and distributing it to Earth. Its advantages include a higher collection of energy due to the lack of reflection and absorption by the atmosphere, the possibility of very little night, and a bet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervarix | Cervarix is a vaccine against certain types of cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV).
Cervarix is designed to prevent infection from HPV types 16 and 18, that cause about 70% of cervical cancer cases. These types also cause most HPV-induced genital and head and neck cancers. Additionally, some cross-reactive pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight%20skeleton | In geometry, a straight skeleton is a method of representing a polygon by a topological skeleton. It is similar in some ways to the medial axis but differs in that the skeleton is composed of straight line segments, while the medial axis of a polygon may involve parabolic curves. However, both are homotopy-equivalent t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixmath | mi×ma+h (or Mixmath) is a Canadian board game developed by Wrebbit and published in 1987. It resembles a variant of Scrabble in that tiles are placed on a crossword-style grid, with special premiums such as squares that double or triple the value of a tile and a 50-point bonus for playing all seven tiles on the player'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Petersburg%20Lyceum%20239 | Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239 (), is a public high school in Saint Petersburg, Russia that specializes in mathematics and physics. The school opened in 1918 and it became a specialized city school in 1961. The school is noted for its strong academic programs. It is the alma mater of numerous winne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST%20Writer | ST Writer is a word processor program for the Atari ST series of personal computers. It was introduced by Atari Corporation in 1985 along with the 520ST. It is a port of Atari's AtariWriter Plus from the earlier 8-bit computer series, matching it closely enough to share files across platforms unchanged. Running on the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioorganic%20chemistry | Bioorganic chemistry is a scientific discipline that combines organic chemistry and biochemistry. It is that branch of life science that deals with the study of biological processes using chemical methods. Protein and enzyme function are examples of these processes.
Sometimes biochemistry is used interchangeably for b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer%208 | Layer 8 is a term used to refer to user or political layer on top of the 7-layer OSI model of computer networking.
The OSI model is a 7-layer abstract model that describes an architecture of data communications for networked computers. The layers build upon each other, allowing for the abstraction of specific function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component%20causes | A component cause of a disease is an event required for the disease to develop.
Given a disease or medical condition, there is a causality chain of events from the first event to the appearance of the clinical disease
A cause of a disease event is an event that preceded the disease event in a disease causal chain. With... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20CTL | Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic (PCTL) is an extension of computation tree logic (CTL) that allows for probabilistic quantification of described properties. It has been defined in the paper by Hansson and Jonsson.
PCTL is a useful logic for stating soft deadline properties, e.g. "after a request for a service, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniloc | Uniloc Corporation is a company founded in Australia in 1992.
History
The Uniloc technology is based on a patent granted to the inventor Ric Richardson who was also the founder of the Uniloc Company. The original patent application was dated late 1992 in Australia and granted in the US in 1996 and covers a technology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20key | In cryptography, a group key is a cryptographic key that is shared between a group of users. Typically, group keys are distributed by sending them to individual users, either physically, or encrypted individually for each user using either that user's pre-distributed private key.
A common use of group keys is to allow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skorokhod%27s%20representation%20theorem | In mathematics and statistics, Skorokhod's representation theorem is a result that shows that a weakly convergent sequence of probability measures whose limit measure is sufficiently well-behaved can be represented as the distribution/law of a pointwise convergent sequence of random variables defined on a common probab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor%20atom | In applied mathematics, Gabor atoms, or Gabor functions, are functions used in the analysis proposed by Dennis Gabor in 1946 in which a family of functions is built from translations and modulations of a generating function.
Overview
In 1946, Dennis Gabor suggested the idea of using a granular system to produce sound.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20floor | The error floor is a phenomenon encountered in modern iterated sparse graph-based error correcting codes like LDPC codes and turbo codes. When the bit error ratio (BER) is plotted for conventional codes like Reed–Solomon codes under algebraic decoding or for convolutional codes under Viterbi decoding, the BER steadily ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undulipodium | An undulipodium or undulopodium (Greek: "swinging foot"; plural undulipodia), or a 9+2 organelle is a motile filamentous extracellular projection of eukaryotic cells. It is basically synonymous to flagella and cilia which are differing terms for similar molecular structures used on different types of cells, and usually... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysjail | sysjail is a defunct user-land virtualiser for systems supporting the systrace library - as of version 1.0 limited to OpenBSD, NetBSD and MirOS. Its original design was inspired by FreeBSD jail, a similar utility (although part of the kernel) for FreeBSD. sysjail was developed and released in 2006 by Kristaps Dzonsons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20algebraic%20data%20type | In functional programming, a generalized algebraic data type (GADT, also first-class phantom type, guarded recursive datatype, or equality-qualified type) is a generalization of parametric algebraic data types.
Overview
In a GADT, the product constructors (called data constructors in Haskell) can provide an explicit ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SREC%20%28file%20format%29 | Motorola S-record is a file format, created by Motorola in the mid-1970s, that conveys binary information as hex values in ASCII text form. This file format may also be known as SRECORD, SREC, S19, S28, S37. It is commonly used for programming flash memory in microcontrollers, EPROMs, EEPROMs, and other types of prog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter%20frequency | Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language. Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi (–873 AD), who formally developed the method to break ciphers. Letter frequency analysis gained importance in Europe with the development of mova... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Diego%20State%20Aztecs | The San Diego State Aztecs are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent San Diego State University (SDSU). San Diego State sponsors six men's and eleven women's sports at the varsity level.
The Aztecs compete in NCAA Division I (FBS for football). The program's primary conference is the Mountain West Conferen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very%20high-speed%20Backbone%20Network%20Service | The very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS) came on line in April 1995 as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored project to provide high-speed interconnection between NSF-sponsored supercomputing centers and select access points in the United States. The network was engineered and operated by MC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrabeam%20scattering | Intrabeam scattering (IBS) is an effect in accelerator physics where collisions between particles couple the beam emittance in all three dimensions. This generally causes the beam size to grow. In proton accelerators, intrabeam scattering causes the beam to grow slowly over a period of several hours. This limits the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jithan | Jithan is a 2005 Indian Tamil-language supernatural romantic thriller film directed by Vincent Selva. The film stars Jithan Ramesh (in his Tamil debut) along with Pooja, Kalabhavan Mani, Livingston, S. Ve. Shekher, and Nalini. R. Sarathkumar plays an extended cameo appearance in the film. The film was produced by Raad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnGarde%20Secure%20Linux | EnGarde Secure Linux was an open source server-only Linux distribution developed by Guardian Digital. EnGarde incorporates open source tools such as Postfix, BIND, and the LAMP stack.
The platform includes services for web hosting, DNS and email, and others. Since 2005, SELinux has been incorporated into the platform ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy%27s%20modulus%20of%20continuity%20theorem | Lévy's modulus of continuity theorem is a theorem that gives a result about an almost sure behaviour of an estimate of the modulus of continuity for Wiener process, that is used to model what's known as Brownian motion.
Lévy's modulus of continuity theorem is named after the French mathematician Paul Lévy.
Statement ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcotesta | The sarcotesta is a fleshy seedcoat, a type of testa. Examples of seeds with a sarcotesta are pomegranate and some cycad seeds. The sarcotesta of pomegranate seeds consists of epidermal cells derived from the integument, and there are no arils on these seeds. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20margin | In electronic amplifiers, the phase margin (PM) is the difference between the phase lag (< 0) and -180°, for an amplifier's output signal (relative to its input) at zero dB gain - i.e. unity gain, or that the output signal has the same amplitude as the input.
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For example, if the amplifier's open-loop gain crosses ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20circuit | A linear circuit is an electronic circuit which obeys the superposition principle. This means that the output of the circuit F(x) when a linear combination of signals ax1(t) + bx2(t) is applied to it is equal to the linear combination of the outputs due to the signals x1(t) and x2(t) applied separately:
It is called... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRST%20quantization | In theoretical physics, the BRST formalism, or BRST quantization (where the BRST refers to the last names of Carlo Becchi, Alain Rouet, Raymond Stora and Igor Tyutin) denotes a relatively rigorous mathematical approach to quantizing a field theory with a gauge symmetry. Quantization rules in earlier quantum field theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%E2%80%93Parrinello%20molecular%20dynamics | Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics or CPMD refers to either a method used in molecular dynamics (also known as the Car–Parrinello method) or the computational chemistry software package used to implement this method.
The CPMD method is one of the major methods for calculating ab-initio molecular dynamics (ab-initio MD ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schabak%20Modell | Schabak is a die-cast toy producer based in Nuremberg, Germany. The company is well known for its line of German cars and commercial airline models. The company's on and off relation with German Schuco Modell is particularly notable.
German origins
Schabak was formed in 1966 by Max Haselmann, Gerhard Hertlein, Horst W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TORCH%20report | The TORCH report (The Other Report on Chernobyl) was a health impacts report requested by the European Greens in 2006, for the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in reply to the 2006 report of the Chernobyl Forum which was criticized by some advocacy organizations opposed to nuclear energy such as Greenpe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess%20of%20Kent%27s%20Annuity%20Act%201838 | The Duchess of Kent's Annuity Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 8) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on 26 January 1838. It empowered Queen Victoria to grant an annuity of £30,000 to her mother, the Duchess of Kent, on the condition that all previously existing annuities to the duchess were to ceas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20scattering%20mode | George Heilmeier proposed the dynamic scattering effect which causes a strong scattering of light when the electric field applied to a special liquid crystal mixture exceeds a threshold value.
A DSM cell requires the following ingredients:
a liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy (aligns the LC long axis ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual%20%28numerical%20analysis%29 | Loosely speaking, a residual is the error in a result. To be precise, suppose we want to find x such that
Given an approximation x0 of x, the residual is
that is, "what is left of the right hand side" after subtracting f(x0)" (thus, the name "residual": what is left, the rest). On the other hand, the error is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformational%20theory | Transformational theory is a branch of music theory developed by David Lewin in the 1980s, and formally introduced in his 1987 work, Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations. The theory—which models musical transformations as elements of a mathematical group—can be used to analyze both tonal and atonal music.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceful%20exit | A graceful exit (or graceful handling) is a simple programming idiom wherein a program detects a serious error condition and "exits gracefully" in a controlled manner as a result. Often the program prints a descriptive error message to a terminal or log as part of the graceful exit.
Usually, code for a graceful exit e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20idiom | In computer programming, a programming idiom or code idiom is a group of code fragments sharing an equivalent semantic role, which recurs frequently across software projects often expressing a special feature of a recurring construct in one or more programming languages or libraries. This definition is rooted in the de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20TTL%20security%20mechanism | The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM) is a proposed Internet data transfer security method relying on a packet's Time to Live (IPv4) or Hop limit (IPv6) thus to protect a protocol stack from spoofing and denial of service attacks.
Introduction
The desired purpose of this proposal is to verify whether the packe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasti | Rasti (from the German verb rasten, 'to secure, to place firmly, to lock into its place') is a construction toy made from plastic—similar to Lego, Tente and Mis Ladrillos—that was produced by the Knittax company in Argentina during the 1960s and 1970s. In 2007, manufacturing began again.
Construction
The construction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional%20modeling | Dimensional modeling (DM) is part of the Business Dimensional Lifecycle methodology developed by Ralph Kimball which includes a set of methods, techniques and concepts for use in data warehouse design. The approach focuses on identifying the key business processes within a business and modelling and implementing these... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com | Flooz.com was a dot-com venture, now defunct, based in New York City that went online in February 1999. It was promoted by comic actress Whoopi Goldberg in a series of television advertisements. Started by iVillage co-founder Robert Levitan, the company attempted to establish a currency unique to Internet merchants, so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%20%28video%20game%29 | Wolf is a 1994 life simulation and role-playing video game. The player takes the role of a wolf. It was followed by Lion in 1995.
It is unrelated to the 1994 film of the same name.
Gameplay
The gameplay is divided into two parts. The first is a sandbox mode, where the player has no predetermined goal. The second is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20conflict | Sexual conflict or sexual antagonism occurs when the two sexes have conflicting optimal fitness strategies concerning reproduction, particularly over the mode and frequency of mating, potentially leading to an evolutionary arms race between males and females. In one example, males may benefit from multiple matings, whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion%20%28video%20game%29 | Lion is an animal simulation video game for MS-DOS where the player takes the role of a lion. It was published by Sanctuary Woods in 1995 as a follow-up to Wolf.
Gameplay
The gameplay is divided into two parts. The first is a sandbox simulation mode, where the player has no predetermined goal. The second is a scenario... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20tomography | Discrete tomography focuses on the problem of reconstruction of binary images (or finite subsets of the integer lattice) from a small number of their projections.
In general, tomography deals with the problem of determining shape and dimensional information of an object from a set of projections. From the mathematical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexapod%20%28robotics%29 | A six-legged walking robot should not be confused with a Stewart platform, a kind of parallel manipulator used in robotics applications.
A hexapod robot is a mechanical vehicle that walks on six legs. Since a robot can be statically stable on three or more legs, a hexapod robot has a great deal of flexibility in how ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%20potential | In mathematics, the Riesz potential is a potential named after its discoverer, the Hungarian mathematician Marcel Riesz. In a sense, the Riesz potential defines an inverse for a power of the Laplace operator on Euclidean space. They generalize to several variables the Riemann–Liouville integrals of one variable.
Def... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TREC%20Genomics | The TREC Genomics track was a workshop held under the auspices of NIST for the purpose of evaluating systems for information retrieval and related technologies in the genomics domain. The TREC Genomics track took place annually from 2003 to 2007, with some modifications to the task set every year; tasks included infor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%E2%80%93Bouwkamp%20constant | In plane geometry, the Kepler–Bouwkamp constant (or polygon inscribing constant) is obtained as a limit of the following sequence. Take a circle of radius 1. Inscribe a regular triangle in this circle. Inscribe a circle in this triangle. Inscribe a square in it. Inscribe a circle, regular pentagon, circle, regular hexa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20water%20culture | Deep water culture (DWC) is a hydroponic method of plant production by means of suspending the plant roots in a solution of nutrient-rich, oxygenated water. Also known as deep flow technique (DFT), floating raft technology (FRT), or raceway, this method uses a rectangular tank less than one foot deep filled with a nutr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharsalia%20Technologies | Pharsalia Technologies, Inc. was founded in December 1999, located in Roswell, Georgia, as an emerging company developing network infrastructure products for the Internet market. Led by a team of over 28 software engineers, Pharsalia focused on developing software products for the rapidly escalating content delivery ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20search%20engine | Computer networks are connected together to form larger networks such as campus networks, corporate networks, or the Internet. Routers are network devices that may be used to connect these networks (e.g., a home network connected to the network of an Internet service provider). When a router interconnects many networks... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelonin | Gelonin is a type 1 ribosome-inactivating protein and toxin of approximately 30 kDa found in the seeds of the Himalayan plant Gelonium multiflorum. In cell-free systems gelonin exerts powerful N-glycosidase activity on the 28S rRNA unit of eukaryotic ribosomes by cleaving out adenine at the 4324 site. Gelonin lacks car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody%20flag | Often called bloody flags or the bloody red (among other names, see ), pattern-free red flags were the traditional nautical symbol in European waters prior to the invention of flag signal codes to signify an intention to give battle and that ‘no quarter would be given’, indicating that surrender would not be accepted a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diurnal%20enuresis | Diurnal enuresis is daytime wetting (functional daytime urinary incontinence). Nocturnal enuresis is nighttime wetting. Enuresis is defined as the involuntary voiding of urine beyond the age of anticipated control. Both of these conditions can occur at the same time, although many children with nighttime wetting will n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cline%20%28biology%29 | In biology, a cline (from the Greek κλίνειν klinein, meaning "to lean") is a measurable gradient in a single characteristic (or biological trait) of a species across its geographical range. First coined by Julian Huxley in 1938, the cline usually has a genetic (e.g. allele frequency, blood type), or phenotypic (e.g. bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA%20C | MISRA C is a set of software development guidelines for the C programming language developed by The MISRA Consortium. Its aims are to facilitate code safety, security, portability and reliability in the context of embedded systems, specifically those systems programmed in ISO C / C90 / C99.
There is also a set of gui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Pease | Robert Allen Pease (August 22, 1940 – June 18, 2011) was an electronics engineer known for analog integrated circuit (IC) design, and as the author of technical books and articles about electronic design. He designed several very successful "best-seller" ICs, many of them in continuous production for multiple decades.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury%20research | Jury or juror research is an umbrella term for the use of research methods in an attempt to gain some understanding of the juror experience in the courtroom and how jurors individually and collectively come to a determination about the guilt or otherwise of the accused.
Brief history
Historically, juries have played a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernt%20%C3%98ksendal | Bernt Karsten Øksendal (born 10 April 1945 in Fredrikstad) is a Norwegian mathematician. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oslo, working under Otte Hustad. He obtained his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles in 1971; his thesis was titled Peak Sets and Interpolation Sets for Some Al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro%E2%80%93Winkler%20distance | In computer science and statistics, the Jaro–Winkler similarity is a string metric measuring an edit distance between two sequences. It is a variant of the Jaro distance metric metric (1989, Matthew A. Jaro) proposed in 1990 by William E. Winkler.
The Jaro–Winkler distance uses a prefix scale which gives more favoura... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramogen | The term ramogen refers to a biological factor, typically a growth factor or other protein, that causes a developing biological cell or tissue to branch in a tree-like manner. Ramogenic molecules are branch promoting molecules found throughout the human body,.
Brief History
The term was first coined (from the Latin ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20particle | In the context of particle displacement and velocity, a sound particle is an imaginary infinitesimal volume of a medium that shares the movement of the medium in response to the presence of sound at a specified point or in a specified region. Sound particles are not molecules in the physical or chemical sense; they do... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop%20%28software%29 | Snoop software is a command line packet analyzer included in the Solaris Operating System created by Sun Microsystems. Its source code was available via the OpenSolaris project.
See also
Comparison of packet analyzers
Network tap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkur%20%28toy%29 | Merkur refers to a metal construction set built in Czechoslovakia (later the Czech Republic). It was also referred to as Constructo or Build-O in English-speaking countries and Tecc in the Netherlands.
Unlike Erector/Meccano, which was based on Imperial/customary measurements, Merkur used metric. There is 1x1 cm rast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20trigonometry | Early study of triangles can be traced to the 2nd millennium BC, in Egyptian mathematics (Rhind Mathematical Papyrus) and Babylonian mathematics. Trigonometry was also prevalent in Kushite mathematics.
Systematic study of trigonometric functions began in Hellenistic mathematics, reaching India as part of Hellenistic as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton%20%28hypothetical%20planet%29 | Phaeton (alternatively Phaethon or Phaëton ; from , ) was the hypothetical planet hypothesized by the Titius–Bode law to have existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the destruction of which supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt (including the dwarf planet Ceres). The hypothetical planet was na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearing%20capacity | In geotechnical engineering, bearing capacity is the capacity of soil to support the loads applied to the ground. The bearing capacity of soil is the maximum average contact pressure between the foundation and the soil which should not produce shear failure in the soil. Ultimate bearing capacity is the theoretical maxi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindromic%20rheumatism | Palindromic rheumatism (PR) is a syndrome characterised by recurrent, self-resolving inflammatory attacks in and around the joints, and consists of arthritis or periarticular soft tissue inflammation. The course is often acute onset, with sudden and rapidly developing attacks or flares. There is pain, redness, swelling... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab%20initio%20multiple%20spawning | The ab initio multiple spawning, or AIMS, method is a time-dependent formulation of quantum chemistry.
In AIMS, nuclear dynamics and electronic structure problems are solved simultaneously. Quantum mechanical effects in the nuclear dynamics are included, especially the nonadiabatic effects which are crucial in modelin... |
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