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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vital%20rates | Vital rates refer to how fast vital statistics change in a population (usually measured per 1000 individuals). There are 2 categories within vital rates: crude rates and refined rates.
Crude rates measure vital statistics in a general population (overall change in births and deaths per 1000).
Refined rates measure th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20pasteurization | Flash pasteurization, also called "high-temperature short-time" (HTST) processing, is a method of heat pasteurization of perishable beverages like fruit and vegetable juices, beer, wine, and some dairy products such as milk. Compared with other pasteurization processes, it maintains color and flavor better, but some ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-algebra | In mathematics, specifically in category theory, F-algebras generalize the notion of algebraic structure. Rewriting the algebraic laws in terms of morphisms eliminates all references to quantified elements from the axioms, and these algebraic laws may then be glued together in terms of a single functor F, the signature... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quamrul%20Hassan | Quamrul Hassan (, 1921–1988) was a Bengali artist. Hassan is referred to in Bangladesh as Potua, a word usually associated with folk artists, due to his down to earth style yet very modern in nature as he always added Cubism other than the folk style to his artworks. In addition to his artistic legacy, two of Hassan's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password-based%20cryptography | Password-based cryptography generally refers to two distinct classes of methods:
Single-party methods
Multi-party methods
Single party methods
Some systems attempt to derive a cryptographic key directly from a password. However, such practice is generally ill-advised when there is a threat of brute-force attack. Tech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset%20allocation | Asset allocation is the implementation of an investment strategy that attempts to balance risk versus reward by adjusting the percentage of each asset in an investment portfolio according to the investor's risk tolerance, goals and investment time frame. The focus is on the characteristics of the overall portfolio. Su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homochirality | Homochirality is a uniformity of chirality, or handedness. Objects are chiral when they cannot be superposed on their mirror images. For example, the left and right hands of a human are approximately mirror images of each other but are not their own mirror images, so they are chiral. In biology, 19 of the 20 natural am... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge%20pump | A charge pump is a kind of DC-to-DC converter that uses capacitors for energetic charge storage to raise or lower voltage. Charge-pump circuits are capable of high efficiencies, sometimes as high as 90–95%, while being electrically simple circuits.
Description
Charge pumps use some form of switching device to control ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Plant%20Communities | British Plant Communities is a five-volume work, edited by John S. Rodwell and published by Cambridge University Press, which describes the plant communities which comprise the British National Vegetation Classification.
Its coverage includes all native vegetation communities and some artificial ones of Great Britain,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemniscus%20%28anatomy%29 | A lemniscus (Greek for ribbon or band) is a bundle of secondary sensory fibers in the brainstem. The medial lemniscus and lateral lemniscus terminate in specific relay nuclei of the diencephalon. The trigeminal lemniscus is sometimes considered as the cephalic part of the medial lemniscus. The spinal lemniscus constitu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium%20Club | The Megatherium Club was founded by William Stimpson. It was a group of Washington, D.C.-based scientists who were attracted to that city by the Smithsonian Institution's rapidly growing collection, from 1857 to 1866.
Many of the members had no formal education, but came by their expertise through extensive direct obs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-presentation | Cross-presentation is the ability of certain professional antigen-presenting cells (mostly dendritic cells) to take up, process and present extracellular antigens with MHC class I molecules to CD8 T cells (cytotoxic T cells). Cross-priming, the result of this process, describes the stimulation of naive cytotoxic CD8+ T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evert%20Willem%20Beth | Evert Willem Beth (7 July 1908 – 12 April 1964) was a Dutch philosopher and logician, whose work principally concerned the foundations of mathematics. He was a member of the Significs Group.
Biography
Beth was born in Almelo, a small town in the eastern Netherlands. His father had studied mathematics and physics at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%27s%20angina | Ludwig's angina (lat.: Angina ludovici) is a type of severe cellulitis involving the floor of the mouth and is often caused by bacterial sources. Early in the infection, the floor of the mouth raises due to swelling, leading to difficulty swallowing saliva. As a result, patients may present with drooling and difficulty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interspersed%20repeat | Interspersed repetitive DNA is found in all eukaryotic genomes. They differ from tandem repeat DNA in that rather than the repeat sequences coming right after one another, they are dispersed throughout the genome and nonadjacent. The sequence that repeats can vary depending on the type of organism, and many other facto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Ingpen | Robert Roger Ingpen AM, FRSA (born 13 October 1936) is an Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and writer. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986.
Early life
Ingpen was born in Geelong, Victoria, and attended Geelon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponderomotive%20force | In physics, a ponderomotive force is a nonlinear force that a charged particle experiences in an inhomogeneous oscillating electromagnetic field. It causes the particle to move towards the area of the weaker field strength, rather than oscillating around an initial point as happens in a homogeneous field. This occurs b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodikeys | Prodikeys is a music and computer keyboard combination. It is created by Singaporean audio company Creative Technology. So far there have been 3 different versions of Prodikeys: Creative Prodikeys, Creative Prodikeys DM and Creative Prodikeys PC-MIDI. It has 37 mini-sized music keys under detachable palm cover and come... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Masser | David William Masser (born 8 November 1948) is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel. He is known for his work in transcendental number theory, Diophantine approximation, and Diophantine geometry. With Joseph Oesterlé in 1985, Masser formulated the abc conj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaPortal | MediaPortal is an open-source media player and digital video recorder software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby%20transform%20code | In computer science, Luby transform codes (LT codes) are the first class of practical fountain codes that are near-optimal erasure correcting codes. They were invented by Michael Luby in 1998 and published in 2002. Like some other fountain codes, LT codes depend on sparse bipartite graphs to trade reception overhead fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering%20channel | In scattering theory, a scattering channel is a quantum state of the colliding system before or after the collision (). The Hilbert space spanned by the states before collision (in states) is equal to the space spanned by the states after collision (out states) which are both Fock spaces if there is a mass gap. This ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20translation | Nick translation (or head translation), developed in 1977 by Peter Rigby and Paul Berg, is a tagging technique in molecular biology in which DNA Polymerase I is used to replace some of the nucleotides of a DNA sequence with their labeled analogues, creating a tagged DNA sequence which can be used as a probe in fluoresc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinetd | In computer networking, xinetd (Extended Internet Service Daemon) is an open-source super-server daemon which runs on many Unix-like systems, and manages Internet-based connectivity.
It offers a more secure alternative to the older inetd ("the Internet daemon"), which most modern Linux distributions have deprecated.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20subgroup%20confinement%20attack | In cryptography, a subgroup confinement attack, or small subgroup confinement attack, on a cryptographic method that operates in a large finite group is where an attacker attempts to compromise the method by forcing a key to be confined to an unexpectedly small subgroup of the desired group.
Several methods have been ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoided%20crossing | In quantum physics and quantum chemistry, an avoided crossing (sometimes called intended crossing, non-crossing or anticrossing) is the phenomenon where two eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix representing a quantum observable and depending on N continuous real parameters cannot become equal in value ("cross") except on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custom%20hardware%20attack | In cryptography, a custom hardware attack uses specifically designed application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) to decipher encrypted messages.
Mounting a cryptographic brute force attack requires a large number of similar computations: typically trying one key, checking if the resulting decryption gives a meani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%E2%80%93Ho%20encoding | Chen–Ho encoding is a memory-efficient alternate system of binary encoding for decimal digits.
The traditional system of binary encoding for decimal digits, known as binary-coded decimal (BCD), uses four bits to encode each digit, resulting in significant wastage of binary data bandwidth (since four bits can store 16 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced%20product | In model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, and in algebra, the reduced product is a construction that generalizes both direct product and ultraproduct.
Let {Si | i ∈ I} be a nonempty family of structures of the same signature σ indexed by a set I, and let U be a proper filter on I. The domain of the reduced prod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipchains | Linux IP Firewalling Chains, normally called ipchains, is free software to control the packet filter or firewall capabilities in the 2.2 series of Linux kernels. It superseded ipfirewall (managed by ipfwadm command), but was replaced by iptables in the 2.4 series. Unlike iptables, ipchains is stateless.
It is a rewrit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20space | In topology, a branch of mathematics, the loop space ΩX of a pointed topological space X is the space of (based) loops in X, i.e. continuous pointed maps from the pointed circle S1 to X, equipped with the compact-open topology. Two loops can be multiplied by concatenation. With this operation, the loop space is an A∞-s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus%20effect | The lotus effect refers to self-cleaning properties that are a result of ultrahydrophobicity as exhibited by the leaves of Nelumbo, the lotus flower. Dirt particles are picked up by water droplets due to the micro- and nanoscopic architecture on the surface, which minimizes the droplet's adhesion to that surface. Ultra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester%20matrix | In mathematics, a Sylvester matrix is a matrix associated to two univariate polynomials with coefficients in a field or a commutative ring. The entries of the Sylvester matrix of two polynomials are coefficients of the polynomials. The determinant of the Sylvester matrix of two polynomials is their resultant, which is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashiwokakero | Hashiwokakero (橋をかけろ Hashi o kakero; lit. "build bridges!") is a type of logic puzzle published by Nikoli. It has also been published in English under the name Bridges or Chopsticks (based on a mistranslation: the hashi of the title, 橋, means bridge; hashi written with another character, 箸, means chopsticks). It has a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPPO%20Code | An EPPO code, formerly known as a Bayer code, is an encoded identifier that is used by the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO), in a system designed to uniquely identify organisms – namely plants, pests and pathogens – that are important to agriculture and crop protection. EPPO codes are a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacking%20Faulty%20Reasoning | Attacking Faulty Reasoning is a textbook on logical fallacies by T. Edward Damer that has been used for many years in a number of college courses on logic, critical thinking, argumentation, and philosophy. It explains 60 of the most commonly committed fallacies. Each of the fallacies is concisely defined and illustrate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugium%20%28population%20biology%29 | In biology, a refugium (plural: refugia) is a location which supports an isolated or relict population of a once more widespread species. This isolation (allopatry) can be due to climatic changes, geography, or human activities such as deforestation and overhunting.
Present examples of refugial animal species are the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release%20engineering | Release engineering, frequently abbreviated as RE or as the clipped compound Releng, is a sub-discipline in software engineering concerned with the compilation, assembly, and delivery of source code into finished products or other software components. Associated with the software release life cycle, it was said by Bor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20moments%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics, the method of moments is a method of estimation of population parameters. The same principle is used to derive higher moments like skewness and kurtosis.
It starts by expressing the population moments (i.e., the expected values of powers of the random variable under consideration) as functions of the pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucomannan | Glucomannan is a water-soluble polysaccharide that is considered a dietary fiber. It is a hemicellulose component in the cell walls of some plant species. Glucomannan is a food additive used as an emulsifier and thickener. It is a major source of mannan oligosaccharide (MOS) found in nature, the other being galactoman... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20cities%20with%20diacritics | This is a list of U.S. cities whose official names have diacritics.
Alaska
Utqiaġvik
American Samoa
Āfono
Ālega
'Āmanave
Āmouli
Aūa
Fagasā
Faleāsao
Lumā
Tāfuna
California
La Cañada Flintridge, Los Angeles County
Los Baños, Merced County
Piñon Hills, San Bernardino County
San José, Santa Clara Count... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetiporus%20sulphureus | Laetiporus sulphureus is a species of bracket fungus (fungi that grow on trees) found in Europe and North America. Its common names are crab-of-the-woods, sulphur polypore, sulphur shelf, and chicken-of-the-woods. Its fruit bodies grow as striking golden-yellow shelf-like structures on tree trunks and branches. Old fru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Institute%20of%20Physics | The American Institute of Physics (AIP) promotes science and the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies. Its corporate headquarters are at the American Center for Physics in College Park, Maryl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvatia%20gigantea | Calvatia gigantea, commonly known as the giant puffball, is a puffball mushroom commonly found in meadows, fields, and deciduous forests usually in late summer and autumn. It is found in temperate areas throughout the world.
Description
Most giant puffballs grow to be , sometimes to be in diameter; although occasiona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval%20arithmetic | [[File:Set of curves Outer approximation.png|345px|thumb|right|Tolerance function (turquoise) and interval-valued approximation (red)]]
Interval arithmetic (also known as interval mathematics; interval analysis or interval computation) is a mathematical technique used to mitigate rounding and measurement errors in math... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20World%20%281967%20TV%20program%29 | Our World was the first live multinational multi-satellite television production. National broadcasters from fourteen countries around the world, coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), participated in the program. The two-hour event, which was broadcast on Sunday 25 June 1967 in twenty-four countries, ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dander | Dander is material shed from the body of humans and other animals that have fur, hair, or feathers. The term is similar to dandruff, when an excess of flakes becomes visible. Skin flakes that come off the main body of an animal are dander, while the flakes of skin called dandruff come from the scalp and are composed of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tagging | b-tagging is a method of jet flavor tagging used in modern particle physics experiments. It is the identification (or "tagging") of jets originating from bottom quarks (or b quarks, hence the name).
Importance
b-tagging is important because:
The physics of bottom quarks is quite interesting; in particular, it sheds ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch%20Tuesday | Patch Tuesday (also known as Update Tuesday) is an unofficial term used to refer to when Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle and others regularly release software patches for their software products. It is widely referred to in this way by the industry. Microsoft formalized Patch Tuesday in October 2003. Patch Tuesday is known wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20processor%20sharing | Generalized processor sharing (GPS) is an ideal scheduling algorithm for process schedulers and network schedulers. It is related to the fair-queuing principle which groups packets into classes and shares the service capacity between them. GPS shares this capacity according to some fixed weights.
In process scheduling... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated%20hedgehog | The most common species of domesticated hedgehog is the four-toed hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris). The Algerian hedgehog (Atelerix algirus) is a separate species of hedgehog.
The domesticated hedgehog kept as a pet is typically the African pygmy hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris). Other species kept as pets include the l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20g%20Factor%3A%20The%20Science%20of%20Mental%20Ability | The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability is a 1998 book by psychologist Arthur Jensen about the general factor of human mental ability, or g.
Summary
The book traces the origins of the idea of individual differences in general mental ability to 19th century researchers Herbert Spencer and Francis Galton. Charles Sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s%20Knight | is a scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Square for the Nintendo Entertainment System and MSX. The game was released in Japan on September 18, 1986 and in North America in 1989. It was later re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan on November 27, 2007 and in North America on March 24, 200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folliculogenesis | Although the process is similar in many animals, this article will deal exclusively with human folliculogenesis.
In biology, folliculogenesis is the maturation of the ovarian follicle, a densely packed shell of somatic cells that contains an immature oocyte. Folliculogenesis describes the progression of a number of sm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20%28particle%20physics%29 | A jet is a narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon in a particle physics or heavy ion experiment. Particles carrying a color charge, such as quarks, cannot exist in free form because of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) confinement which only allows for colorless states. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced%20gamma%20emission | In physics, induced gamma emission (IGE) refers to the process of fluorescent emission of gamma rays from excited nuclei, usually involving a specific nuclear isomer. It is analogous to conventional fluorescence, which is defined as the emission of a photon (unit of light) by an excited electron in an atom or molecule.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw%20chamber | A straw chamber is a type of Gaseous ionization detector. It is a long tube with a wire down the center and a gas which becomes ionized when a particle passes through. A potential difference is maintained between the wire and the walls of the tube, so that once the gas is ionized electrons move in one direction and i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20identification | Particle identification is the process of using information left by a particle passing through a particle detector to identify the type of particle. Particle identification reduces backgrounds and improves measurement resolutions, and is essential to many analyses at particle detectors.
Charged particles
Charged part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitope%20mapping | In immunology, epitope mapping is the process of experimentally identifying the binding site, or epitope, of an antibody on its target antigen (usually, on a protein). Identification and characterization of antibody binding sites aid in the discovery and development of new therapeutics, vaccines, and diagnostics. Epito... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20dust | Cosmic dustalso called extraterrestrial dust, space dust, or star dustis dust that occurs in outer space or has fallen onto Earth. Most cosmic dust particles measure between a few molecules and , such as micrometeoroids. Larger particles are called meteoroids. Cosmic dust can be further distinguished by its astronomica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrito | Cabrito () is the name in both Spanish and Portuguese for roast goat kid in various Iberian and Latin American cuisines.
Argentina
Cabrito is also a regional specialty of Córdoba Province in Argentina, especially the town of Quilino, which has a festival in its honour. "Chivito" differs from "cabrito" in that chivito ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koopmans%27%20theorem | Koopmans' theorem states that in closed-shell Hartree–Fock theory (HF), the first ionization energy of a molecular system is equal to the negative of the orbital energy of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO). This theorem is named after Tjalling Koopmans, who published this result in 1934.
Koopmans' theorem ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conical%20intersection | In quantum chemistry, a conical intersection of two or more potential energy surfaces is the set of molecular geometry points where the potential energy surfaces are degenerate (intersect) and the non-adiabatic couplings between these states are non-vanishing. In the vicinity of conical intersections, the Born–Oppenhei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Statistical%20Software | The Journal of Statistical Software is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal that publishes papers related to statistical software. The Journal of Statistical Software was founded in 1996 by Jan de Leeuw of the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Its current editors-in-chief ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersecondary%20structure | A supersecondary structure is a compact three-dimensional protein structure of several adjacent elements of a secondary structure that is smaller than a protein domain or a subunit. Supersecondary structures can act as nucleations in the process of protein folding.
Examples
Helix supersecondary structures
Helix hair... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport%20problem | In mathematics and especially game theory, the airport problem is a type of fair division problem in which it is decided how to distribute the cost of an airport runway among different players who need runways of different lengths. The problem was introduced by S. C. Littlechild and G. Owen in 1973. Their proposed sol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction%20theory | In mathematics, obstruction theory is a name given to two different mathematical theories, both of which yield cohomological invariants.
In the original work of Stiefel and Whitney, characteristic classes were defined as obstructions to the existence of certain fields of linear independent vectors. Obstruction theory ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20impact%20fusion | Cluster Impact Fusion is a suggested method of producing practical fusion power using small clusters of heavy water molecules directly accelerated into a titanium-deuteride target. Calculations suggested that such a system enhanced the cross section by many orders of magnitude. It is a particular implementation of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otic%20ganglion | The otic ganglion is a small parasympathetic ganglion located immediately below the foramen ovale in the infratemporal fossa and on the medial surface of the mandibular nerve. It is functionally associated with the glossopharyngeal nerve and innervates the parotid gland for salivation.
It is one of four parasympathet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterygopalatine%20ganglion | The pterygopalatine ganglion (aka Meckel's ganglion, nasal ganglion, or sphenopalatine ganglion) is a parasympathetic ganglion in the pterygopalatine fossa. It is one of four parasympathetic ganglia of the head and neck, (the others being the submandibular, otic, and ciliary ganglion).
It is largely innervated by the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Wide%20Port%20Name | In computing, a World Wide Port Name, WWPN, or WWpN, is a World Wide Name assigned to a port in a Fibre Channel fabric. Used on storage area networks, it performs a function equivalent to the MAC address in Ethernet protocol, as it is supposed to be a unique identifier in the network.
A WWPN is a World Wide Port Name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaining | Chaining is a type of intervention that aims to create associations between behaviors in a behavior chain. A behavior chain is a sequence of behaviors that happen in a particular order where the outcome of the previous step in the chain serves as a signal to begin the next step in the chain. In terms of behavior analys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubbermaid | Rubbermaid is an American manufacturer and distributor of household items. A subsidiary of Newell Brands, it is best known for producing food storage containers and trash cans. It also produces sheds, step stools, closets and shelving, laundry baskets, bins, air fresheners and other household items.
History
Rubbermai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabric%20OS | In storage area networking, Fabric OS is the firmware for Brocade Communications Systems's Fibre Channel switches and Fibre Channel directors. It is also known as FOS.
First generation
The first generation of Fabric OS was developed on top of a VxWorks kernel and was mainly used in the Brocade Silkworm 2000 and first ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oechsle%20scale | The Oechsle scale is a hydrometer scale measuring the density of grape must, which is an indication of grape ripeness and sugar content used in wine-making. It is named for Ferdinand Oechsle (1774–1852) and it is widely used in the German, Swiss and Luxembourgish wine-making industries. On the Oechsle scale, one degree... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20national%20animals | This is a list of countries that have officially designated one or more animals as their national animals.
National animal
See also
State animal
List of national birds
Animals as heraldic charges
Floral emblem
National personification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut%20%28graph%20theory%29 | In graph theory, a cut is a partition of the vertices of a graph into two disjoint subsets. Any cut determines a cut-set, the set of edges that have one endpoint in each subset of the partition. These edges are said to cross the cut. In a connected graph, each cut-set determines a unique cut, and in some cases cuts are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Fibre%20Channel%20standards |
Fibre Channel
2005
FC-SATA (under development)
FC-PI-2 INCITS 404
2004
FC-SP ANSI INCITS 1570-D
FC-GS-4 (Fibre Channel Generic Services)ANSI INCITS 387. Includes the following standards:
FC-GS-2 ANSI INCITS 288 (1999)
FC-GS-3 ANSI INCITS 348 (2001)
FC-SW-3 INCITS 384. Includes the following standards:
FC-SW INCI... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricothyroid%20ligament | The cricothyroid ligament (also known as the cricothyroid membrane or cricovocal membrane) is a ligament in the neck. It connects the cricoid cartilage to the thyroid cartilage. It prevents these cartilages from moving too far apart. It is cut during an emergency cricothyrotomy to treat upper airway obstruction.
Struc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaldson%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, and especially differential topology and gauge theory, Donaldson's theorem states that a definite intersection form of a compact, oriented, smooth manifold of dimension 4 is diagonalisable. If the intersection form is positive (negative) definite, it can be diagonalized to the identity matrix (negative ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit%20field%20theory | A qubit field theory is a quantum field theory in which the canonical commutation relations involved in the quantisation of pairs of observables are relaxed. Specifically, it is a quantum field theory in which, unlike most other quantum field theories, the pair of observables is not required to always commute.
Theory
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20Control%20Protocol | In computer networking, the Link Control Protocol (LCP) forms part of the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), within the family of Internet protocols. In setting up PPP communications, both the sending and receiving devices send out LCP packets to determine the standards of the ensuing data transmission.
The protocol:
ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski%27s%20axioms | Tarski's axioms, due to Alfred Tarski, are an axiom set for the substantial fragment of Euclidean geometry that is formulable in first-order logic with identity, and requiring no set theory (i.e., that part of Euclidean geometry that is formulable as an elementary theory). Other modern axiomizations of Euclidean geome... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray%20microtomography | In radiography, X-ray microtomography uses X-rays to create cross-sections of a physical object that can be used to recreate a virtual model (3D model) without destroying the original object. It is similar to tomography and X-ray computed tomography. The prefix micro- (symbol: µ) is used to indicate that the pixel size... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam%20%28music%29 | In musical notation, a beam is a horizontal or diagonal line used to connect multiple consecutive notes (and occasionally rests) to indicate rhythmic grouping. Only eighth notes (quavers) or shorter can be beamed. The number of beams is equal to the number of flags that would be present on an unbeamed note. Beaming ref... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Bowen | Jonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA (born 1956) is a British computer scientist and an Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, where he headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods. Prof. Bowen is also the Chairman of Museophile Limited and has been a Professor of Computer Science at Birmingham City University, Vis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan%20Forensic%20Anthropology%20Foundation | The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation ( or FAFG) is an autonomous, non-profit, technical and scientific non-governmental organisation.
Its aim is to strengthen the administration of justice and respect for human rights by investigating, documenting, and raising awareness about past instances of human rights ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorda%20tympani | Chorda tympani is a branch of the facial nerve that carries gustatory (taste) sensory innervation from the front of the tongue and parasympathetic (secretomotor) innervation to the submandibular and sublingual salivary glands.
Chorda tympani has a complex course from the brainstem, through the temporal bone and middle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier-transform%20ion%20cyclotron%20resonance | Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry is a type of mass analyzer (or mass spectrometer) for determining the mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) of ions based on the cyclotron frequency of the ions in a fixed magnetic field. The ions are trapped in a Penning trap (a magnetic field with electric trapping pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid%20W.%20Barton | Reid William Barton (born May 6, 1983) is a mathematician and also one of the most successful performers in the International Science Olympiads.
Biography
Barton is the son of two environmental engineers. Barton took part-time classes at Tufts University in chemistry (5th grade), physics (6th grade), and subsequentl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startle%20response | In animals, including humans, the startle response is a largely unconscious defensive response to sudden or threatening stimuli, such as sudden noise or sharp movement, and is associated with negative affect. Usually the onset of the startle response is a startle reflex reaction. The startle reflex is a brainstem refle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminide | An aluminide is a compound that has aluminium with other elements. Since aluminium is near the nonmetals on the periodic table, it can bond with metals differently from other metals. The properties of an aluminide are between those of a metal alloy and those of an ionic compound.
Examples
Magnesium aluminide, MgAl
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceland%20%28novel%29 | Spaceland is a science fiction novel by American mathematician and computer scientist Rudy Rucker, and published in 2002 by Tor Books.
In a tribute to Edwin Abbott's Flatland, a classic mathematical fantasy about a 2-dimensional being (A. Square) who receives a surprise visit from a higher-dimensional sphere, Rudy Ru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC%20RADIX%2050 | RADIX 50 or RAD50 (also referred to as RADIX50, RADIX-50 or RAD-50), is an uppercase-only character encoding created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for use on their DECsystem, PDP, and VAX computers.
RADIX 50's 40-character repertoire (050 in octal) can encode six characters plus four additional bits into one ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20mode | Sleep mode (or suspend to RAM) is a low power mode for electronic devices such as computers, televisions, and remote controlled devices. These modes save significantly on electrical consumption compared to leaving a device fully on and, upon resume, allow the user to avoid having to reissue instructions or to wait for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push%20Access%20Protocol | Push Access Protocol (or PAP) is a protocol defined in WAP-164 of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) suite from the Open Mobile Alliance. PAP is used for communicating with the Push Proxy Gateway, which is usually part of a WAP Gateway.
PAP is intended for use in delivering content from Push Initiators to Push Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20access | Conditional access (CA) is a term commonly used in relation to software and to digital television systems. Conditional access is that ‘just-in-time’ evaluation to ensure the person who is seeking access to content is authorized to access the content. Said another way, conditional access is a type of access management. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Fisher | Joseph A "Josh" Fisher is an American and Spanish computer scientist noted for his work on VLIW architectures, compiling, and instruction-level parallelism, and for the founding of Multiflow Computer. He is a Hewlett-Packard Senior Fellow (Emeritus).
Biography
Fisher holds a BA (1968) in mathematics (with honors) fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling-point%20elevation | Boiling-point elevation describes the phenomenon that the boiling point of a liquid (a solvent) will be higher when another compound is added, meaning that a solution has a higher boiling point than a pure solvent. This happens whenever a non-volatile solute, such as a salt, is added to a pure solvent, such as water. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20Management%20Initiative%20%E2%80%93%20Specification | The Storage Management Initiative Specification, commonly called SMI-S, is a computer data storage management standard developed and maintained by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). It has also been ratified as an ISO standard. SMI-S is based upon the Common Information Model and the Web-Based Enterpri... |
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