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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layers%20%28digital%20image%20editing%29 | Layers are used in digital image editing to separate different elements of an image. A layer can be compared to a transparency on which imaging effects or images are applied and placed over or under an image. Today they are an integral feature of image editor.
Layers were first commercially available in Fauve Matisse ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serostatus | Serostatus refers to the presence or absence of a serological marker in the blood. The presence of detectable levels of a specific marker within the serum is considered seropositivity, while the absence of such levels is considered seronegativity.
HIV/AIDS
The term serostatus is commonly used in HIV/AIDS prevention ef... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%3A32%20scale | 1:32 scale is a traditional scale for models and miniatures, in which one unit (such as an inch or a centimeter) on the model represents 32 units on the actual object. It is also known as "three-eighths scale", since inch represents a foot. A tall person is modeled as tall in 1:32 scale.
1:32 was once so common a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian%20M.%20Goldfeld | Dorian Morris Goldfeld (born January 21, 1947) is an American mathematician working in analytic number theory and automorphic forms at Columbia University.
Professional career
Goldfeld received his B.S. degree in 1967 from Columbia University. His doctoral dissertation, entitled "Some Methods of Averaging in the Analy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR%20315 | The NCR 315 Data Processing System, released in January 1962 by NCR, is a second-generation computer. All printed circuit boards use resistor–transistor logic (RTL) to create the various logic elements. It uses 12-bit slab memory structure using magnetic-core memory. The instructions can use a memory slab as either two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial%20population%20biology | Microbial population biology is the application of the principles of population biology to microorganisms.
Distinguishing from other biological disciplines
Microbial population biology, in practice, is the application of population ecology and population genetics toward understanding the ecology and evolution of bacte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20equine%20encephalitis%20virus | The Western equine encephalomyelitis virus is the causative agent of relatively uncommon viral disease Western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE). An alphavirus of the family Togaviridae, the WEE virus is an arbovirus (arthropod-borne virus) transmitted by mosquitoes of the genera Culex and Culiseta. WEE is a recombinant v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%20specialist | Mission specialist (MS) was a specific position held by certain NASA astronauts who were tasked with conducting a range of scientific, medical, or engineering experiments during a spaceflight mission. These specialists were usually assigned to a specific field of expertise that was related to the goals of the particula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal%20analysis | Modal analysis is the study of the dynamic properties of systems in the frequency domain. It consists of mechanically exciting a studied component in such a way to target the modeshapes of the structure, and recording the vibration data with a network of sensors. Examples would include measuring the vibration of a car'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20cascading | In computer science, fractional cascading is a technique to speed up a sequence of binary searches for the same value in a sequence of related data structures. The first binary search in the sequence takes a logarithmic amount of time, as is standard for binary searches, but successive searches in the sequence are fast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20PC | An industrial PC is a computer intended for industrial purposes (production of goods and services), with a form factor between a nettop and a server rack. Industrial PCs have higher dependability and precision standards, and are generally more expensive than consumer electronics. They often use complex instruction sets... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askania-Nova | Askania-Nova () is a Ukrainian nature reserve located in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, within the dry Taurida steppe near Oleshky Sands and active member of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme. It is also a research institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The reserve consists of a zoological par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titahi%20Bay%20Transmitter | The Titahi Bay Transmitter, which until 16 February 2016 was New Zealand's second tallest structure, transmitted AM radio signals from a 220 metres tall radio mast insulated against ground at Titahi Bay in New Zealand. The station which previously had three masts, now consists of only one mast with a height of 137 metr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20signal%20intrusion | A broadcast signal intrusion is the hijacking of broadcast signals of radio, television stations, cable television broadcast feeds or satellite signals without permission or licence. Hijacking incidents have involved local TV and radio stations as well as cable and national networks.
Although television, cable, and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address%20decoder | In digital electronics, an address decoder is a binary decoder that has two or more inputs for address bits and one or more outputs for device selection signals. When the address for a particular device appears on the address inputs, the decoder asserts the selection output for that device. A dedicated, single-output a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR%20Century%20100 | The NCR Century 100 was NCR's first all integrated circuit computer built in 1968. All logic gates were created by wire-wrapping NAND gates together to form flip-flops and other complex circuits. The console of the system had only 18 lights and switches and allowed entry of a boot routine, or changes to loaded progra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20spatial%20automaton | In automata theory (a subfield of computer science), continuous spatial automata, unlike cellular automata, have a continuum of locations, while the state of a location still is any of a finite number of real numbers. Time can also be continuous, and in this case the state evolves according to differential equations. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20anatomy | Plant anatomy or Phytotomy is the general term for the study of the internal structure of plants. Originally it included plant morphology, the description of the physical form and external structure of plants, but since the mid-20th century plant anatomy has been considered a separate field referring only to internal p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20morphology | Phytomorphology is the study of the physical form and external structure of plants. This is usually considered distinct from plant anatomy, which is the study of the internal structure of plants, especially at the microscopic level. Plant morphology is useful in the visual identification of plants. Recent studies in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge%20%28software%29 | Deluge BitTorrent Client is a free and open-source, cross-platform BitTorrent client written in Python. Deluge uses a front and back end architecture where libtorrent, a software library written in C++ which provides the application's networking logic, is connected to one of various front ends including a text conso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%27s%20Delight | Hacker's Delight is a software algorithm book by Henry S. Warren, Jr. first published in 2002. It presents fast bit-level and low-level arithmetic algorithms for common tasks such as counting bits or improving speed of division by using multiplication.
Background
The author, an IBM researcher working on systems rangi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circaseptan | A circaseptan rhythm is a cycle consisting of approximately 7 days in which many biological processes of life, such as cellular immune system activity, resolve.
See also
Circadian rhythm
Chronobiology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20toilet%20etiquette | Islamic toilet etiquette is a set of personal hygiene rules in Islam that concerns going to the toilet. This code of Islamic hygienical jurisprudence is called Qaḍāʾ al-Ḥāǧa ().
Personal hygiene is mentioned in a single verse of the Quran in the context of ritual purification from a minor source of impurity, known as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20Santal%C3%B3 | Luís Antoni Santaló Sors (October 9, 1911 – November 22, 2001) was a Spanish mathematician.
He graduated from the University of Madrid and he studied at the University of Hamburg, where he received his Ph.D. in 1936. His advisor was Wilhelm Blaschke. Because of the Spanish Civil War, he moved to Argentina as a profe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS%204 | AmigaOS 4 (abbreviated as OS4 or AOS4) is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. It is mainly based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code developed by Commodore, and partially on version 3.9 developed by Haage & Partner. "The Final Update" (for OS version 4.0) was released on 24 December 2006 (or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20emergency%20codes | Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean%20sojourn%20time | The mean sojourn time (or sometimes mean waiting time) for an object in a system is the amount of time an object is expected to spend in a system before leaving the system for good.
Calculation
Imagine you are standing in line to buy a ticket at the counter. If you, after one minute, observe the number of customers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinmetz%20solid | In geometry, a Steinmetz solid is the solid body obtained as the intersection of two or three cylinders of equal radius at right angles. Each of the curves of the intersection of two cylinders is an ellipse.
The intersection of two cylinders is called a bicylinder. Topologically, it is equivalent to a square hosohedro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaugino%20condensation | In quantum field theory, gaugino condensation is the nonzero vacuum expectation value in some models of a bilinear expression constructed in theories with supersymmetry from the superpartner of a gauge boson called the gaugino. The gaugino and the bosonic gauge field and the D-term are all components of a supersymmetri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic%20conformal%20field%20theory | In theoretical physics, a logarithmic conformal field theory is a conformal field theory in which the
correlators of the basic fields are allowed to be logarithmic at short distance, instead of being powers of the fields' distance. Equivalently, the dilation operator is not diagonalizable.
Examples of logarithmic conf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMRIB%20Software%20Library | The FMRIB Software Library, abbreviated FSL, is a software library containing image analysis and statistical tools for functional, structural and diffusion MRI brain imaging data.
FSL is available as both precompiled binaries and source code for Apple and PC (Linux) computers. It is freely available for non-commercial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20unrefined%20sweeteners | This list of unrefined sweeteners includes all natural, unrefined, or low-processed sweeteners.
Sweeteners are usually made from the fruit or sap of plants, but can also be made from any other part of the plant, or all of it. Some sweeteners are made from starch, with the use of enzymes. Sweeteners made by animals, es... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Discoverers | The Discoverers is a non-fiction historical work by Daniel Boorstin, published in 1983, and is the first in the Knowledge Trilogy, which also includes The Creators and The Seekers. The book, subtitled A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, is a history of human discovery. Discovery in many forms is de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrah | Mizrah ( mīzrāḥ) is the Hebrew word for "east" and the direction that Jews in the Diaspora west of Israel face during prayer. Practically speaking, Jews would face the city of Jerusalem when praying, and those north, east, or south of Jerusalem face south, west, and north respectively.
In European and Mediterranean co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PipeRench | The PipeRench Reconfigurable Computing Project is a project from the Carnegie Mellon University intended to improve reconfigurable computing systems. It aims to allow hardware virtualization through high-speed reconfiguration, in order to minimize resource constraints in FPGAs and similar systems.
The project has alre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20III | Band III is the name of the range of radio frequencies within the very high frequency (VHF) part of the electromagnetic spectrum from 174 to 240 megahertz (MHz). It is primarily used for radio and television broadcasting. It is also called high-band VHF, in contrast to Bands I and II.
Broadcast Television
North Ame... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20II | Band II is the range of radio frequencies within the very high frequency (VHF) part of the electromagnetic spectrum from 87.5 to 108.0 megahertz (MHz).
Radio
Band II is primarily used worldwide for FM radio broadcasting.
Broadcast television
Usage in Russia and in other former members of OIRT
In the former Soviet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval%20scheduling | Interval scheduling is a class of problems in computer science, particularly in the area of algorithm design. The problems consider a set of tasks. Each task is represented by an interval describing the time in which it needs to be processed by some machine (or, equivalently, scheduled on some resource). For instance, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20I | Band I is a range of radio frequencies within the very high frequency (VHF) part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The first time there was defined "for simplicity" in Annex 1 of "Final acts of the European Broadcasting Conference in the VHF and UHF bands - Stockholm, 1961". Band I ranges from 47 to 68 MHz for the Europ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myogenic%20mechanism | The myogenic mechanism is how arteries and arterioles react to an increase or decrease of blood pressure to keep the blood flow constant within the blood vessel. Myogenic response refers to a contraction initiated by the myocyte itself instead of an outside occurrence or stimulus such as nerve innervation. Most often o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort%20constants | The Oort constants (discovered by Jan Oort) and are empirically derived parameters that characterize the local rotational properties of our galaxy, the Milky Way, in the following manner:
where and are the rotational velocity and distance to the Galactic Center, respectively, measured at the position of the Sun, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit%20portrait | In mathematics, an orbit portrait is a combinatorial tool used in complex dynamics for understanding the behavior of one-complex dimensional quadratic maps.
In simple words one can say that it is :
a list of external angles for which rays land on points of that orbit
graph showing above list
Definition
Given a qua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keycap | A keycap is a small cover of plastic, metal, or other material placed over the keyswitch of a computer keyboard. Keycaps are often illustrated to indicate the key function or alphanumeric character they correspond to. Early keyboards were manufactured with the keyswitch and keycap integrated in one unit; keycaps separ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version%20space%20learning | Version space learning is a logical approach to machine learning, specifically binary classification. Version space learning algorithms search a predefined space of hypotheses, viewed as a set of logical sentences. Formally, the hypothesis space is a disjunction
(i.e., either hypothesis 1 is true, or hypothesis 2, or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD | FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993. In 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular open-source BSD operating system, accounting for more than three-quarters of all installed and permissively licen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckman%E2%80%93Quarles%20theorem | In geometry, the Beckman–Quarles theorem states that if a transformation of the Euclidean plane or a higher-dimensional Euclidean space preserves unit distances, then it preserves all Euclidean distances. Equivalently, every homomorphism from the unit distance graph of the plane to itself must be an isometry of the pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernmatrix | Lernmatrix, an associative-memory-like architecture of an artificial neural network, invented around 1960 by Karl Steinbuch.
External links
A new theoretical framework for the Steinbuch's Lernmatrix
Pattern recognition and classification using weightless neural networks (WNN) and Steinbuch Lernmatrix
DARPA project wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortuosity | Tortuosity is widely used as a critical parameter to predict transport properties of porous media, such as rocks and soils. But unlike other standard microstructural properties, the concept of tortuosity is vague with multiple definitions and various evaluation methods introduced in different contexts. Hydraulic, elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal%20strand | Coastal strand is a plant community of flowering plants that form along the shore in loose sand just above the high tide line.
Many plants that grow in this area are endemic to the strand. The community has low species diversity because so few plants can tolerate the harsh conditions of high winds, battering salt spra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupancy%20sensor | An occupancy sensor is an indoor device used to detect the presence of a person. Applications include automatic adjustment of lights or temperature or ventilation systems in response to the quantity of people present. The sensors typically use infrared, ultrasonic, microwave, or other technology. The term encompasses ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valis%20II | is a 1989 action-platform video game originally developed by Laser Soft, published by Telenet Japan and NEC for the PC Engine CD-ROM²/TurboGrafx-CD. A home computer version was released for PC-8801, MSX2, PC-9801 and X68000. A super deformed-style remake was also released in 1992 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20configuration | Absolute configuration refers to the spatial arrangement of atoms within a chiral molecular entity (or group) and its resultant stereochemical description. Absolute configuration is typically relevant in organic molecules where carbon is bonded to four different substituents. This type of construction creates two possi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz%20buzz | Fizz buzz is a group word game for children to teach them about division. Players take turns to count incrementally, replacing any number divisible by three with the word "fizz", and any number divisible by five with the word "buzz", and any number divisible by both 3 and 5 with the word "fizzbuzz".
Play
Players gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20phycology | The history of phycology is the history of the scientific study of algae. Human interest in plants as food goes back into the origins of the species, and knowledge of algae can be traced back more than two thousand years. However, only in the last three hundred years has that knowledge evolved into a rapidly developing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman/Aliens | Batman/Aliens is a crossover between the Batman and Aliens comic book franchises. It was published in 1997. A sequel was released in 2003.
Batman/Aliens
Batman parachutes into the jungle near the Guatemala and Mexico borderline, investigating the disappearance of a Wayne Enterprises geologist. He encounters an Americ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background%20debug%20mode%20interface | Background debug mode (BDM) interface is an electronic interface that allows debugging of embedded systems. Specifically, it provides in-circuit debugging functionality in microcontrollers. It requires a single wire and specialized electronics in the system being debugged. It appears in many Freescale Semiconductor pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion%20point | In topology, a dispersion point or explosion point is a point in a topological space the removal of which leaves the space highly disconnected.
More specifically, if X is a connected topological space containing the point p and at least two other points, p is a dispersion point for X if and only if is totally disconn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox%20360%20HD%20DVD%20Player | The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player is a discontinued accessory for the Xbox 360 console that enables the playback of movies on HD DVD discs. Microsoft offered the drive for sale between November 2006 and February 2008. It was initially sold for $199.
Bill Gates announced during his keynote speech at CES 2006 that an external ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material%20selection | Material selection is a step in the process of designing any physical object. In the context of product design, the main goal of material selection is to minimize cost while meeting product performance goals. Systematic selection of the best material for a given application begins with properties and costs of candidate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Robertson%20Maier | Charles Robertson Maier, C StJ, CD, FRSA, FHSC,(born 1945) is the current Priory Historian for St John Ambulance, The Priory of Canada.
Maier was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1945. He received a Bachelor of Arts in 1969 from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Arts in 1970 from King's College London, U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopeptide%20bond | An isopeptide bond is a type of amide bond formed between a carboxyl group of one amino acid and an amino group of another. An isopeptide bond is the linkage between the side chain amino or carboxyl group of one amino acid to the α-carboxyl, α-amino group, or the side chain of another amino acid. In a typical peptide b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction%20to%20entropy | In thermodynamics, entropy is a numerical quantity that shows that many physical processes can go in only one direction in time. For example, cream and coffee can be mixed together, but cannot be "unmixed"; a piece of wood can be burned, but cannot be "unburned". The word 'entropy' has entered popular usage to refer a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20sine%20theorem | In optics, the optical sine theorem states that the products of the index, height, and sine of the slope angle of a ray in object space and its corresponding ray in image space are equal. That is:
External links
http://physics.tamuk.edu/~suson/html/4323/aberatn.html#Optical%20Sine
Sine theorem
Physics theorems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness-indistinguishable%20proof | A witness-indistinguishable proof (WIP) is a variant of a zero-knowledge proof for languages in NP. In a typical zero-knowledge proof of a statement, the prover will use a witness for the statement as input to the protocol, and the verifier will learn nothing other than the truth of the statement. In a WIP, this zero-k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKATO | Russian Classification on Objects of Administrative Division (), or OKATO (), also called All-Russian classification on units of administrative and territorial distribution in English, is one of several Russian national registers. OKATO's purpose is organization of information about structure of the administrative divi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%20Bioinformatics%20Center | Iran Bioinformatics Center (IBC) is the only academic center in Iran working on Bioinformatics. Although there are some independent research groups such as Bioinformatics and Biomathematics Unit in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences working on Bioinformatics but IBC is a part of Institute of Biochemistry and Bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provider%20Backbone%20Bridge%20Traffic%20Engineering | Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) is a computer networking technology specified in IEEE 802.1Qay, an amendment to the IEEE 802.1Q standard. PBB-TE adapts Ethernet to carrier class transport networks. It is based on the layered VLAN tags and MAC-in-MAC encapsulation defined in IEEE 802.1ah (Provider... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20concept-%20and%20mind-mapping%20software | Concept mapping and mind mapping software is used to create diagrams of relationships between concepts, ideas, or other pieces of information. It has been suggested that the mind mapping technique can improve learning and study efficiency up to 15% over conventional note-taking. Many software packages and websites allo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Neuroinformatics%20Coordinating%20Facility | The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) is an international non-profit organization with the mission to develop, evaluate, and endorse standards and best practices that embrace the principles of Open, FAIR, and Citable neuroscience. INCF also provides training on how standards and best practices... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.1ah | IEEE 802.1ah is an amendment to the IEEE 802.1Q networking standard which adds support for Provider Backbone Bridges. It includes an architecture and a set of protocols for routing over a provider's network, allowing interconnection of multiple provider bridge networks without losing each customer's individually define... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-63%20%28encryption%20standard%29 | S-63 is an International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) standard for encrypting, securing and compressing electronic navigational chart (ENC) data.
The Data Protection Scheme was prepared by the IHO Data Protection Scheme Advisory Group, and was based on the protection scheme developed and operated by Primar as part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy%20loading | Lazy loading (also known as asynchronous loading) is a technique commonly used in computer programming and mostly in web design and web development to defer initialization of an object until the point at which it is needed. It can contribute to efficiency in the program's operation if properly and appropriately used. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth%20stack | A Bluetooth stack is software that is an implementation of the Bluetooth protocol stack.
Bluetooth stacks can be roughly divided into two distinct categories:
General-purpose implementations that are written with emphasis on feature-richness and flexibility, usually for desktop computers. Support for additional Bluet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-machine%20model | There are many variants of the counter machine, among them those of Hermes, Ershov, Péter, Minsky, Lambek, Shepherdson and Sturgis, and Schönhage. These are explained below.
The models in more detail
1954: Hermes' model
Shepherdson and Sturgis observe that "the proof of this universality [of digital computers to Tur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%E2%80%93because%20analysis | Why–because analysis (WBA) is a method for accident analysis. It is independent of application domain and has been used to analyse, among others, aviation-, railway-, marine-, and computer-related accidents and incidents. It is mainly used as an after-the-fact (or a posteriori) analysis method. WBA strives to ensure o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devices%20Profile%20for%20Web%20Services | The Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS) defines a minimal set of implementation constraints to enable secure web service messaging, discovery, description, and eventing on resource-constrained devices.
Its objectives are similar to those of Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) but, in addition, DPWS is fully aligned wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnera%20tinctoria | Gunnera tinctoria, known as giant rhubarb, Chilean rhubarb, or nalca, is a flowering plant species native to southern Chile and neighboring zones in Argentina. It is unrelated to rhubarb, as the two plants belong to different orders, but looks similar from a distance and has similar culinary uses. It is a large-leaved ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%20resonance | A Fermi resonance is the shifting of the energies and intensities of absorption bands in an infrared or Raman spectrum. It is a consequence of quantum-mechanical wavefunction mixing. The phenomenon was explained by the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.
Selection rules and occurrence
Two conditions must be satisfied for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fray%20in%20Magical%20Adventure | Fray in Magical Adventure, also known as just Fray (フレイ) and Fray-Xak Epilogue (Gai-den), is a 1990 spin-off "gaiden" (sidestory) game in a role-playing video game series Xak developed and published by the Japanese software developer Micro Cabin. Even though it is directly connected to the more serious Xak storyline, F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20M.%20Campbell | Allan McCulloch Campbell (April 27, 1929 – April 19, 2018) was an American microbiologist and geneticist and the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology at Stanford University.
His pioneering work on Lambda phage helped to advance molecular biology in the late 20th century.
An import... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale%20number | In mechanical engineering, the Beale number is a parameter that characterizes the performance of Stirling engines. It is often used to estimate the power output of a Stirling engine design. For engines operating with a high temperature differential, typical values for the Beale number are in the range 0.11−0.15; wher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle%20convection | Mantle convection is the very slow creeping motion of Earth's solid silicate mantle as convection currents carry heat from the interior to the planet's surface.
The Earth's surface lithosphere rides atop the asthenosphere and the two form the components of the upper mantle. The lithosphere is divided into a number of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efimov%20state | The Efimov effect is an effect in the quantum mechanics of few-body systems predicted by the Russian theoretical physicist V. N. Efimov in 1970. Efimov’s effect is where three identical bosons interact, with the prediction of an infinite series of excited three-body energy levels when a two-body state is exactly at the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontogeny%20and%20Phylogeny | Ontogeny and Phylogeny is a 1977 book on evolution by Stephen Jay Gould, in which the author explores the relationship between embryonic development (ontogeny) and biological evolution (phylogeny). Unlike his many popular books of essays, it was a technical book, and over the following decades it was influential in sti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens%3A%20The%20Computer%20Game%20%28UK%20Version%29 | Aliens: The Computer Game is a 1986 video game developed by Software Studios and published by Electric Dreams Software initially for Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. It is based on the film of the same title. Ports for the Commodore 16 and MSX were developed by Mr. Micro and published in 1987.
Gameplay
Alien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal%20distillate | Herbal distillates, also known as floral waters, hydrosols, hydrolates, herbal waters, and essential waters, are aqueous products of hydrodistillation. They are colloidal suspensions of essential oils as well as water-soluble components obtained by steam distillation or hydrodistillation (a variant of steam distillatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malate%E2%80%93aspartate%20shuttle | The malate–aspartate shuttle (sometimes simply the malate shuttle) is a biochemical system for translocating electrons produced during glycolysis across the semipermeable inner membrane of the mitochondrion for oxidative phosphorylation in eukaryotes. These electrons enter the electron transport chain of the mitochondr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20of%20Quantitative%20Finance | A master's degree in quantitative finance concerns the application of mathematical methods to the solution of problems in financial economics. There are several like-titled degrees which may further focus on financial engineering, computational finance, mathematical finance, and/or financial risk management.
In genera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens%3A%20The%20Computer%20Game%20%28US%20Version%29 | Aliens: The Computer Game is a 1986 video game developed and published by Activision for the Commodore 64, Apple II based on the film of the same title. As Activision's UK subsidiary Electric Dreams Software had independently released their own version of the game with the same title, the game was renamed for European... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%20algebra | In mathematics, the Hall algebra is an associative algebra with a basis corresponding to isomorphism classes of finite abelian p-groups. It was first discussed by but forgotten until it was rediscovered by , both of whom published no more than brief summaries of their work. The Hall polynomials are the structure const... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5deep | md5deep is a software package used in the computer security, system administration and computer forensics communities to run large numbers of files through any of several different cryptographic digests. It was originally authored by Jesse Kornblum, at the time a special agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20APU | AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), formerly known as Fusion, is a series of 64-bit microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), combining a general-purpose AMD64 central processing unit (CPU) and 3D integrated graphics processing unit (IGPU) on a single die.
AMD announced the first generation APUs, Llano for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDEP | The SDEP (Street events Data Exchange Protocol) comprises an XML data schema and web service WSDL for exchanging information about streetworks, roadworks, and street events between systems.
Elgin was funded by the UK NeSDS Government e-Standards Programme to conduct a consultation and convene meetings to define the re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decussation | Decussation is used in biological contexts to describe a crossing (due to the shape of the Roman numeral for ten, an uppercase 'X' (), ). In Latin anatomical terms, the form is used, e.g. .
Similarly, the anatomical term chiasma is named after the Greek uppercase 'Χ' (chi). Whereas a decussation refers to a crossing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faron%20Moller | Faron George Moller (born February 25, 1962 in Trail, British Columbia) is a Canadian-born British computer scientist and expert on theoretical computer science, particularly infinite-state automata theory and temporal logic. His work has focussed on structural decomposition techniques for analysing abstract models of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomancy | Onomancy (or nomancy) is divination based on a subject's name. Onomancy gained popularity in Europe during the Late Middle Ages, but is said to have originated with the Pythagoreans in antiquity. Several methods of analyzing a name are possible, some of which are based on arithmancy or gematria.
An early example of on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation%20response | Starvation response in animals (including humans) is a set of adaptive biochemical and physiological changes, triggered by lack of food or extreme weight loss, in which the body seeks to conserve energy by reducing the amount of food energy it consumes.
Equivalent or closely related terms include famine response, star... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primon%20gas | In mathematical physics, the primon gas or Riemann gas discovered by Bernard Julia is a model illustrating correspondences between number theory and methods in quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and dynamical systems such as the Lee-Yang theorem. It is a quantum field theory of a set of non-interacting partic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tower%20of%20Cabin | The Tower of Cabin is an unusual spinoff of the fantasy role-playing video game series called Xak by the Japanese developer MicroCabin. The Tower of Cabin was released just before MicroCabin decided to discontinue the development of Xak III for MSX. The Tower of Cabin was also ported to the NEC PC9801. In this game, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy%20protein | Soy protein is a protein that is isolated from soybean. It is made from soybean meal that has been dehulled and defatted. Dehulled and defatted soybeans are processed into three kinds of high protein commercial products: soy flour, concentrates, and isolates. Soy protein isolate has been used since 1959 in foods for it... |
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