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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20and%20Infinite%20Games | Finite and Infinite Games is a book by religious scholar James P. Carse.
Summary
Finite vs. infinite games
Carse summarizes his argument, "There are at least two kinds of games: finite and infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play. Finite gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayNET | PlayNet (or PlayNET) was an American online service for Commodore 64 personal computers that operated from 1984 to 1987. It was operated by the PlayNet, Inc of Troy, New York.
History
PlayNet was founded in 1983 by two former GE Global Research employees, Dave Panzl and Howard Goldberg, as the first person-to-person, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARIACHI | MARIACHI, the Mixed Apparatus for Radar Investigation of Cosmic-rays of High Ionization, is an apparatus for the detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) via bi-static radar interferometry using VHF transmitters.
MARIACHI is also the name of the research project created and directed by Brookhaven National Lab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20mathematics | Integrated mathematics is the term used in the United States to describe the style of mathematics education which integrates many topics or strands of mathematics throughout each year of secondary school. Each math course in secondary school covers topics in algebra, geometry, trigonometry and functions. Nearly all cou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Metric%20America | A Metric America: A Decision Whose Time Has Come was a 1971 book by the United States National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) printed by the Government Printing Office.
In 1968, in the Metric Study Act (Pub. L. 90-472, August 9, 1968, 82 Stat. 693), Congress authorized a t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin%20recognition%20complex | In molecular biology, origin recognition complex (ORC) is a multi-subunit DNA binding complex (6 subunits) that binds in all eukaryotes and archaea in an ATP-dependent manner to origins of replication. The subunits of this complex are encoded by the ORC1, ORC2, ORC3, ORC4, ORC5 and ORC6 genes. ORC is a central componen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag%20%28puzzle%29 | Bag (also called Corral or Cave) is a binary-determination logic puzzle published by Nikoli.
Rules
Bag is played on a rectangular grid, usually of dashed lines, in which numbers appear in some of the cells.
The object is to draw a single, continuous loop along the lines of the grid that contains all the numbers on t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20format | A content format is an encoded format for converting a specific type of data to displayable information. Content formats are used in recording and transmission to prepare data for observation or interpretation. This includes both analog and digitized content. Content formats may be recorded and read by either natural o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%20code | The Hadamard code is an error-correcting code named after Jacques Hadamard that is used for error detection and correction when transmitting messages over very noisy or unreliable channels. In 1971, the code was used to transmit photos of Mars back to Earth from the NASA space probe Mariner 9. Because of its unique mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise%20spectral%20density | In communications, noise spectral density (NSD), noise power density, noise power spectral density, or simply noise density (N0) is the power spectral density of noise or the noise power per unit of bandwidth. It has dimension of power over frequency, whose SI unit is watt per hertz (equivalent to watt-second or joule)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuehneromyces%20mutabilis | Kuehneromyces mutabilis (synonym: Pholiota mutabilis), commonly known as the sheathed woodtuft, is an edible mushroom that grows in clumps on tree stumps or other dead wood. A few other species have been described in the genus Kuehneromyces, but K. mutabilis is by far the most common and best known.
Description
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20dipole%20approximation | Discrete dipole approximation (DDA), also known as coupled dipole approximation, is a method for computing scattering of radiation by particles of arbitrary shape and by periodic structures. Given a target of arbitrary geometry, one seeks to calculate its scattering and absorption properties by an approximation of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20biophysics | Molecular biophysics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary area of research that combines concepts in physics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and biology. It seeks to understand biomolecular systems and explain biological function in terms of molecular structure, structural organization, and dynamic behaviour at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermeta | Kermeta is a modeling and programming language for metamodel engineering.
History
The Kermeta language was initiated by Franck Fleurey in 2005 within the Triskell team of IRISA (gathering researchers of the INRIA, CNRS, INSA and the University of Rennes 1).
The Kermeta language borrows concepts from languages such as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Dance | James Cyril Aubrey George Dance (5 May 1907 – 16 March 1971) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was educated at Eton College and was in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) during World War II. He was an insurance underwriter for Lloyd's of London.
Dance was elected as Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative%20capacitor%20memory | Regenerative capacitor memory is a type of computer memory that uses the electrical property of capacitance to store the bits of data. Because the stored charge slowly leaks away, these memories must be periodically regenerated (i.e. read and rewritten, also called refreshed) to prevent data loss.
Other types of compu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period%20%28algebraic%20geometry%29 | In algebraic geometry, a period is a number that can be expressed as an integral of an algebraic function over an algebraic domain. Sums and products of periods remain periods, such that the periods form a ring.
Maxim Kontsevich and Don Zagier gave a survey of periods and introduced some conjectures about them. Peri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20activation%20and%20competition%20networks | Interactive activation and competition (IAC) networks are artificial neural networks used to model memory and intuitive generalizations. They are made up of nodes or artificial neurons which are arrayed and activated in ways that emulate the behaviors of human memory.
The IAC model is used by the parallel distributed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse%20labelling | Pulse labelling is a biochemistry technique of identifying the presence of a target molecule by labeling a sample with a radioactive compound. This is mainly done to identify the stage at which the messenger RNA is being produced in a cell. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desem | Desem (pronounced DAY-zum) (Dutch for "leaven") is both a type of sourdough starter made from whole wheat flour, spelt flour or other flours (such as kamut, durum and tritordeum) and water, and the resulting bread.
Desem starter is traditionally used in Belgium to make healthy, nutrient-rich bread. The starter is grow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colicin | A colicin is a type of bacteriocin produced by and toxic to some strains of Escherichia coli. Colicins are released into the environment to reduce competition from other bacterial strains. Colicins bind to outer membrane receptors, using them to translocate to the cytoplasm or cytoplasmic membrane, where they exert the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-gamma%20function | In q-analog theory, the -gamma function, or basic gamma function, is a generalization of the ordinary gamma function closely related to the double gamma function. It was introduced by . It is given by
when , and
if . Here is the infinite q-Pochhammer symbol. The -gamma function satisfies the functional equation
In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian%20Globster | The Tasmanian Globster was a large unidentified carcass that washed ashore north of Interview River in western Tasmania, in August 1960. It measured by and was estimated to weigh between 5 and 10 tons. The mass lacked eyes and in place of a mouth, had "soft, tusk-like protuberances". It had a spine, six soft, fleshy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20Globster | A whale carcass, initially unidentified due to decomposition, was found washed ashore at Muriwai Beach, 42 kilometres from the centre of Auckland in New Zealand, in March 1965. At some point in time it was dubbed a "globster", after the Tasmanian Globster, a whale carcass found in Australia a few years earlier.
Contem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda%20Blob | Bermuda Blob is the name given to two globsters that washed ashore on Bermuda in 1988 and 1997. Originally thought to be the remains of a cryptid, analysis proved the blobs to be the remains of whales.
1988
The first Bermuda Blob was found by Teddy Tucker, a fisherman and treasure hunter, in Mangrove Bay in May 1988. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Thirring | Walter Eduard Thirring (29 April 1927 – 19 August 2014) was an Austrian physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named. He was the son of the physicist Hans Thirring.
Life and career
Walter Thirring was born in Vienna, Austria, where he earned his Doctor of Physics degree in 1949 at the age... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Cate%20Prescott%20Award | The Samuel Cate Prescott Award has been awarded since 1964 by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in Chicago, Illinois. It is awarded to food science or technology researchers who are under 36 years of age or who earned their highest degree within ten years before July 1 of the year the award is presented. This a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact%20convergence | In mathematics compact convergence (or uniform convergence on compact sets) is a type of convergence that generalizes the idea of uniform convergence. It is associated with the compact-open topology.
Definition
Let be a topological space and be a metric space. A sequence of functions
,
is said to converge compac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantucket%20Blob | The Nantucket Blob was a globster that washed ashore on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, in November 1996. Analysis of samples in 2004 suggests that the Nantucket Blob was a large mass of adipose tissue from a whale. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20V.%20Cruess%20Award | The William V. Cruess Award has been awarded every year since 1970. It is awarded for excellence in teaching in food science and technology and is the only award in which student members in the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) can nominate. This award is named after William V. Cruess (1886-1968), a food science pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neuroimaging%20software | Neuroimaging software is used to study the structure and function of the brain. To see an NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research funded clearinghouse of many of these software applications, as well as hardware, etc. go to the NITRC web site.
3D Slicer Extensible, free open source multi-purpose software for visualiza... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20R.%20Fellers%20Award | The Carl R. Fellers Award has been awarded every year since 1984. It is awarded to members of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) who are also members of Phi Tau Sigma, the honorary society of food science and technology, who have brought honor and recognition to food science through achievements in areas other t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venereology | Venereology is a branch of medicine that is concerned with the study and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The name derives from Roman goddess Venus, associated with love, beauty and fertility. A physician specializing in venereology is called a venereologist. In many areas of the world, the specialty ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead%20water | Dead water is the nautical term for a phenomenon which can occur when there is strong vertical density stratification due to salinity or temperature or both. It is common where a layer of fresh or brackish water rests on top of denser salt water, without the two layers mixing. The phenomenon is frequently, but not exc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvert%20L.%20Willey%20Award | The Calvert L. Willey Award has been awarded every year since 1989. It is awarded to a member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) who displayed meritorious and imaginative service to IFT. The award is named for Calvert L. Willey (1920-1994) who served as Executive Secretary and later Executive Director from 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birbeck%20granules | Birbeck granules, also known as Birbeck bodies, are rod shaped or "tennis-racket" cytoplasmic organelles with a central linear density and a striated appearance. First described in 1961 (where they were simply termed "characteristic granules"), they are solely found in Langerhans cells. Although part of normal Langerha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra-pair%20copulation | Extra-pair copulation (EPC) is a mating behaviour in monogamous species. Monogamy is the practice of having only one sexual partner at any one time, forming a long-term bond and combining efforts to raise offspring together; mating outside this pairing is extra-pair copulation. Across the animal kingdom, extra-pair cop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield%20Airborne%20Communications%20Node | The Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) is a United States Air Force (USAF) airborne communications relay and gateway system carried by the unmanned EQ-4B and the manned Bombardier E-11A aircraft. BACN enables real-time information flow across the battlespace between similar and dissimilar tactical data lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrator%20%28mechanical%29 | A vibrator is a mechanical device to generate vibrations. The vibration is often generated by an electric motor with an unbalanced mass on its driveshaft.
There are many different types of vibrator. Typically, they are components of larger products such as smartphones, pagers, or video game controllers with a "rumble"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrator%20%28electronic%29 | A vibrator is an electromechanical device that takes a DC electrical supply and converts it into pulses that can be fed into a transformer. It is similar in purpose (although greatly different in operation) to the solid-state power inverter.
Before the development of switch-mode power supplies and the introduction of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20starch | Modified starch, also called starch derivatives, are prepared by physically, enzymatically, or chemically treating native starch to change its properties. Modified starches are used in practically all starch applications, such as in food products as a thickening agent, stabilizer or emulsifier; in pharmaceuticals as a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoarabinomannan | Lipoarabinomannan, also called LAM, is a glycolipid, and a virulence factor associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis. Its primary function is to inactivate macrophages and scavenge oxidative radicals.
The inactivation of macrophages allows for the dissemination of mycobact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20Mycological%20Society | The New York Mycological Society is a nonprofit organization of people who share an interest in mycology as well as in mycophagy. The present NYMS was reincarnated in 1962 by the composer John Cage and a small group of other mushroom lovers and students, including illustrator Lois Long and noted mycologist Guy Nearing.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20protected%20area | The host protected area (HPA) is an area of a hard drive or solid-state drive that is not normally visible to an operating system. It was first introduced in the ATA-4 standard CXV (T13) in 2001.
How it works
The IDE controller has registers that contain data that can be queried using ATA commands. The data returned ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Pentland | Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland (born 1951) is an American computer scientist, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, and serial entrepreneur.
Education
Pentland received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and obtained his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982.
Care... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Foods%20Limited | National Foods Limited () is a Pakistani multinational food products company founded in 1970, which started out as a spice company, and is based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is a major food products company in Pakistan.
History
The company was incorporated in Pakistan on 19 February 1970 as a private limited company unde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse%20folds%20of%20rectum | The transverse folds of rectum (or Houston's valves or the valves of Houston) are semi-lunar transverse folds of the rectal wall that protrude into the rectum, not the anal canal as that lies below the rectum. Their use seems to be to support the weight of fecal matter, and prevent its urging toward the anus, which wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe%20network%20analysis | In fluid dynamics, pipe network analysis is the analysis of the fluid flow through a hydraulics network, containing several or many interconnected branches. The aim is to determine the flow rates and pressure drops in the individual sections of the network. This is a common problem in hydraulic design.
Description
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour%20state | Colour states is a system used for quickly showing meteorological conditions.
Meteorological colour states are determined by the relevant worst condition from the visibility and significant cloud height. In the US and parts of Europe the lowest significant cloud layer is five or more oktas; in the United Kingdom, Belg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20carbon%20nanotubes |
1950s
1952 – Radushkevich and Lukyanovich publish a paper in the Soviet Journal of Physical Chemistry showing hollow graphitic carbon fibers that are 50 nanometers in diameter.
1955 – Hofer, Sterling and McCarney observe a growth of tubular carbon filaments, of 10–200 nm in diameter.
1958 – Hillert and Lange ob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential%20applications%20of%20carbon%20nanotubes | Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are cylinders of one or more layers of graphene (lattice). Diameters of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) are typically 0.8 to 2 nm and 5 to 20 nm, respectively, although MWNT diameters can exceed 100 nm. CNT lengths range from less than 100 nm to 0... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn%20leaf%20color | Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, various shades of yellow, orange, red, purple, and brown. The phenomenon is commonly called autumn colours or autumn foliage in British English and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epideme | "Epideme" is the seventh episode of science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf VII and the 43rd in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 28 February 1997. Written by Paul Alexander and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye, the episode involves Lister contracting an intelligent, bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensing%20osteitis | Condensing osteitis is a periapical inflammatory disease that results from a reaction to a dental related infection. This causes more bone production rather than bone destruction in the area (most common site is near the root apices of premolars and molars). The lesion appears as a radiopacity in the periapical area h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20convergence | In mathematics normal convergence is a type of convergence for series of functions. Like absolute-convergence, it has the useful property that it is preserved when the order of summation is changed.
History
The concept of normal convergence was first introduced by René Baire in 1908 in his book Leçons sur les théor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20numbers%20in%20the%20Americas | All countries in the Americas use codes that start with "5", with these exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada, the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with the digit "2", which mostly is used by countries in Africa.
See... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20numbers%20in%20Oceania | Telephone numbers in Oceania use a variety of area codes to denote their location along with their own area code depending on the country's geographic makeup. They also have other prefixes to denote different types of mobile services and international calls. There are exceptions because of regional variations and time ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20numbers%20in%20Europe | Telephone numbers in Europe are managed by the national telecommunications authorities of each country. Most country codes start with 3 and 4, but some countries that by the Copenhagen criteria are considered part of Europe have country codes starting on numbers most common outside of Europe (e.g. Faroe Islands of Denm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20comfort | Thermal comfort is the condition of mind that expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment and is assessed by subjective evaluation (ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55). The human body can be viewed as a heat engine where food is the input energy. The human body will release excess heat into the environment, so the body ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20numbers%20in%20Asia | Telephone numbers in Asia have the most possible prefixes of any continent on Earth: 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9. Below is a list of country calling codes for various states and territories in Asia.
States and territories with country calling codes
States and territories without a separate country calling code
See also
Telepho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20numbers%20in%20Africa | The following are country calling codes in Africa.
States and territories with country calling codes
west Africa
States and territories without a country calling code
See also
Telephone numbering plan
List of country calling codes
List of international call prefixes
:Category:Telephone numbers by country |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20object%20%28algebra%29 | In algebra, the zero object of a given algebraic structure is, in the sense explained below, the simplest object of such structure. As a set it is a singleton, and as a magma has a trivial structure, which is also an abelian group. The aforementioned abelian group structure is usually identified as addition, and the on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakewalk%20%28sequencer%29 | Cakewalk was a sequencer first developed by Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. (the company later known as Cakewalk, Inc.).
Originally for DOS, starting with version Cakewalk 1.0 in 1987, and, beginning in 1991, for Windows 3.0. Cakewalk, until version 4.0 required an MPU-401 MIDI interface card operating in intelligent mode, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20optimization | Logic optimization is a process of finding an equivalent representation of the specified logic circuit under one or more specified constraints. This process is a part of a logic synthesis applied in digital electronics and integrated circuit design.
Generally, the circuit is constrained to a minimum chip area meeting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%3A%20Making%20a%20New%20Science | Chaos: Making a New Science is a debut non-fiction book by James Gleick that initially introduced the principles and early development of the chaos theory to the public. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and was shortlisted for the Science Book Prize in 1989. The book was pub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20finance | Statistical finance, is the application of econophysics to financial markets. Instead of the normative roots of finance, it uses a positivist framework. It includes exemplars from statistical physics with an emphasis on emergent or collective properties of financial markets. Empirically observed stylized facts are the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biasing | In electronics, biasing is the setting of DC (direct current) operating conditions (current and voltage) of an electronic component that processes time-varying signals. Many electronic devices, such as diodes, transistors and vacuum tubes, whose function is processing time-varying (AC) signals, also require a steady (D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Advanced%20Biotechnology%20and%20Medicine | The Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM) is located on Busch Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey. It was established in 1985 to advance knowledge in the life sciences for the improvement of human health. It is administered by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The building was completed in 1990,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspensor | Suspensors are anatomical structures found in certain fungi and plants.
Fungi
In fungi, suspensors are filamentous structural formations having the function of holding a zygospore between two strains of hyphae.
Plants
In plants, suspensors are found in zygotes in angiosperms, connecting the endosperm to an embryo. Us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted%20fair%20queueing | Weighted fair queueing (WFQ) is a network scheduling algorithm. WFQ is both a packet-based implementation of the generalized processor sharing (GPS) policy, and a natural extension of fair queuing (FQ). Whereas FQ shares the link's capacity in equal subparts, WFQ allows schedulers to specify, for each flow, which frac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20S.%20Chang%20Award%20for%20Lipid%20or%20Flavor%20Science | The Stephen S. Chang Award for Lipid or Flavor Science has been awarded every year since 1993. It is awarded to a member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) who has made significant contributions to lipid or flavor science. This award is named for Stephen S. Chang (1918-1996), a Chinese-born food scientist who... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsporangial%20vesicle | A subsporangial vesicle is a vesicle which is below the sporangium on a fungus.
Is often used in the turgor-building and release to launch the sporangium from the stalk of the fungus using this spore-dispersal method.
An example of this is the subsporangial vesicle in Pilobolus, which fills with fluid creating turgo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten%20Thomassen%20%28mathematician%29 | Carsten Thomassen (born August 22, 1948 in Grindsted) is a Danish mathematician. He has been a Professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Denmark since 1981, and since 1990 a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. His research concerns discrete mathematics and more specifically graph ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFT%20Industrial%20Scientist%20Award | The IFT Industrial Scientist Award was awarded by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) for scientists who made significant technical contributions to advancing the food industry. It was first awarded in 1994, but was not necessarily awarded every year. In 2019, the IFT reorganized its awards program, and no longer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating%20type | Mating types are the microorganism equivalent to sexes in multicellular lifeforms and are thought to be the ancestor to distinct sexes. They also occur in macro-organisms such as fungi.
Definition
Mating types are the microorganism equivalent to sex in higher organisms and occur in isogamous and anisogamous species. D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resting%20spore | A resting spore is a resistant cell, used to survive adverse environmental conditions. Resting spore is a term commonly applied to both diatoms and fungi.
In fungi
A resting spore can be a spore created by fungi which is thickly encysted (has a thick cell wall) in order to survive through stressful times, such as dro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgametogenesis | Microgametogenesis is the process in plant reproduction where a microgametophyte develops in a pollen grain to the three-celled stage of its development. In flowering plants it occurs with a microspore mother cell inside the anther of the plant.
When the microgametophyte is first formed inside the pollen grain four se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megagametogenesis | Megagametogenesis is the process of maturation of the female gametophyte, or megagametophyte, in plants During the process of megagametogenesis, the megaspore, which arises from megasporogenesis, develops into the embryo sac, which is where the female gamete is housed. These megaspores then develop into the haploid fem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum%20type | Arum-type refers to the morphology of fungal hyphae living in, or around plant root cells.
Forms in arbuscular or tree-like fashion, branching off dichotomously at predetermined junctions.
This is a type of mycorrhizal infection whereby the fungus in question invaginates the cell membrane of a plant cell, and branches... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soddy%27s%20hexlet | In geometry, Soddy's hexlet is a chain of six spheres (shown in grey in Figure 1), each of which is tangent to both of its neighbors and also to three mutually tangent given spheres. In Figure 1, the three spheres are the red inner sphere and two spheres (not shown) above and below the plane the centers of the hexlet ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC%20applications | Microprocessors belonging to the PowerPC/Power ISA architecture family have been used in numerous applications.
Personal Computers
Apple Computer was the dominant player in the market of personal computers based on PowerPC processors until 2006 when it switched to Intel-based processors. Apple used PowerPC processors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical%20Advanced%20Study%20Institute | The Theoretical Advanced Study Institute or TASI is a four-week summer school in high-energy physics or astrophysics held yearly at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The school is meant primarily for advanced graduate students and consists of a series of pedagogical lectures on selected topics given by active res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%20type | Paris type is a pattern of mycorrhizal infection which is coil-like in morphology.
These have direct intracellular growth to new cells.
The mycoheterotrophic plants use this to their advantage, as well as in many tree species, such as acer.
See also
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Arum type |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azygospore | Azygospore is an asexually formed zygospore in fungi.
Also known as parthenogenically formed from a gamete without gametic fusion.
Sometimes, gametangia fail to fuse. Gametangia become surrounded by a thick wall resulting in the formation of azygospore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobutylgermane | Isobutylgermane (IBGe, Chemical formula: (CH3)2CHCH2GeH3, is an organogermanium compound. It is a colourless, volatile liquid that is used in MOVPE (Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy) as an alternative to germane. IBGe is used in the deposition of Ge films and Ge-containing thin semiconductor films such as SiGe in stra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary%20cell | The auxiliary cell is a spore-like structure that form within the fungal family Gigasporaceae (order Gigasporales). Auxiliary cells have thin cell walls, (spiny), papillate, knobby or sometimes smooth surfaces, and are formed from hyphae after spore germination before the formation of mycorrhizae, and then on the extr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20amateur%20radio%20modes | The following is a list of the modes of radio communication used in the amateur radio hobby.
Modes of communication
Amateurs use a variety of voice, text, image, and data communications modes over radio. Generally new modes can be tested in the amateur radio service, although national regulations may require disclosur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorem%20of%20corresponding%20states | According to van der Waals, the theorem of corresponding states (or principle/law of corresponding states) indicates that all fluids, when compared at the same reduced temperature and reduced pressure, have approximately the same compressibility factor and all deviate from ideal gas behavior to about the same degree.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20and%20breathing | When we sleep, our breathing changes due to normal biological processes that affect both our respiratory and muscular systems.
Physiology
Sleep Onset
Breathing changes as we transition from wakefulness to sleep. These changes arise due to biological changes in the processes that regulate our breathing. When we fall a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ%20tube | A germ tube is an outgrowth produced by spores of spore-releasing fungi during germination.
The germ tube differentiates, grows, and develops by mitosis to create somatic hyphae.
A germ tube test is a diagnostic test in which a sample of fungal spores are suspended in animal serum and examined by microscopy for the d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafloor%20massive%20sulfide%20deposits | Seafloor massive sulfide deposits or SMS deposits, are modern equivalents of ancient volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposits or VMS deposits. The term has been coined by mineral explorers to differentiate the modern deposit from the ancient.
SMS deposits were first recognized during the exploration of the deep ocean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer%20Rain%20%28Belinda%20Carlisle%20song%29 | "Summer Rain" is a song written by Robbie Seidman and Maria Vidal, produced by Rick Nowels for Belinda Carlisle's third album Runaway Horses (1989). The power ballad is about a man who goes away to war and leaves his wife, saying that nothing will change—they will be together forever and always. Although the conflict i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation%20mark | Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel%20Loncin%20Research%20Prize | The Marcel Loncin Research Prize was established in 1994. It is awarded by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in even-numbered years to fund basic chemistry, physics, and/or engineering research applied to food processing and improving food quality. It is named for Marcel Loncin (1920-1995), a Belgian-born, Fren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFT%20Research%20%26%20Development%20Award | The IFT Research & Development Award has been awarded since 1997. It has been awarded by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) to scientists who have made recent and significant research and development contributions to the understanding of food science, food technology, or nutrition.
Award winners receive a USD 3... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Fleming%20Stier%20Award | The Elizabeth Fleming Stier Award has been issued every year since 1997. It is awarded to a member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) who has pursued humanitarian ideals and unselfish dedication to the well-being of the food industry, academia, students, or the general public. The award is named for Elizabeth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty%20method | Penalty methods are a certain class of algorithms for solving constrained optimization problems.
A penalty method replaces a constrained optimization problem by a series of unconstrained problems whose solutions ideally converge to the solution of the original constrained problem. The unconstrained problems are form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron%20Solberg%20Award | The Myron Solberg Award has been awarded every year since 2004 by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT). It is awarded for leadership in establishing, successfully developing, and continuing a cooperative organization involving academia, government, and industry. The award is named for Myron Solberg (1930-2001), a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperaccumulators%20table%20%E2%80%93%203 | This list covers hyperaccumulators, plant species which accumulate, or are tolerant of radionuclides (Cd, Cs-137, Co, Pu-238, Ra, Sr, U-234, 235, 238), hydrocarbons and organic solvents (Benzene, BTEX, DDT, Dieldrin, Endosulfan, Fluoranthene, MTBE, PCB, PCNB, TCE and by-products), and inorganic solvents (Potassium ferr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgiy%20Shilov | Georgi Evgen'evich Shilov (; 3 February 1917 – 17 January 1975) was a Soviet mathematician and expert in the field of functional analysis, who contributed to the theory of normed rings and generalized functions.
He was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. After graduating from Moscow State University in 1938, he served in the... |
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