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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Routh | Edward John Routh (; 20 January 18317 June 1907) was an English mathematician, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos examination of the University of Cambridge in its heyday in the middle of the nineteenth century. He also did much to systematise the mathematical theory of me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerdijk%20Institute | The Westerdijk Institute, or Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The institute was renamed on 10 February 2017, after Johanna Westerdijk, the first female professor in the Netherlands and director of the institute from 1907 to 1958. The former name ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone%20control%20circuit | Tone control is a type of equalization used to make specific pitches or frequencies in an audio signal softer or louder. It allows a listener to adjust the tone of the sound produced by an audio system to their liking, for example to compensate for inadequate bass response of loudspeakers or earphones, tonal qualities ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20hypergeometric%20series | In mathematics, basic hypergeometric series, or q-hypergeometric series, are q-analogue generalizations of generalized hypergeometric series, and are in turn generalized by elliptic hypergeometric series.
A series xn is called hypergeometric if the ratio of successive terms xn+1/xn is a rational function of n. If th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Infoset | Fast Infoset (or FI) is an international standard that specifies a binary encoding format for the XML Information Set (XML Infoset) as an alternative to the XML document format. It aims to provide more efficient serialization than the text-based XML format.
FI is effectively a lossless compression, analogous to gzip, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Rusczyk | Richard Rusczyk (; ; born September 21, 1971) is the founder and chief executive officer of Art of Problem Solving Inc. (as well as the website, which serves as a mathematics forum and place to hold online classes) and a co-author of the Art of Problem Solving textbooks. Rusczyk was a national Mathcounts participant in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Neumann%20cellular%20automaton | Von Neumann cellular automata are the original expression of cellular automata, the development of which was prompted by suggestions made to John von Neumann by his close friend and fellow mathematician Stanislaw Ulam. Their original purpose was to provide insight into the logical requirements for machine self-replica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enercell | Enercell is a battery brand that was sold exclusively by RadioShack at retail stores and online.
In a "battery of the month club" promotion introduced in the 1960s and abandoned in the early 1990s, RadioShack customers were issued a free wallet-sized cardboard card which entitled the bearer to one free battery a month... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovicaprid | In zooarchaeology and paleontology, ovicaprids or caprines are domestic sheep and goats taken together.
Distinguishing sheep and goats from post-cranial skeletal remains has historically been difficult, so in many archaeological reports, the two are often reported in a single ovis/capra category. This is problematic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrospray | The name electrospray is used for an apparatus that employs electricity to disperse a liquid or for the fine aerosol resulting from this process. High voltage is applied to a liquid supplied through an emitter (usually a glass or metallic capillary). Ideally the liquid reaching the emitter tip forms a Taylor cone, whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapterurus%20electricus | Malapterurus electricus is a thickset fish with six mouth barbels and a single fin on its back, just anterior to the rounded tail fin. It is brownish or grayish, irregularly spotted with black, and attains a length and weight of about and M. electricus is capable of generating and controlling the discharge of up to 4... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%20and%20hunter | In physics, The Monkey and the Hunter is a hypothetical scenario often used to illustrate the effect of gravity on projectile motion. It can be presented as exercise problem or as a demonstration. No live monkeys are used in the demonstrations.
The essentials of the problem are stated in many introductory guides to ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapterurus%20minjiriya | Malapterurus minjiriya is a species of electric catfish native to Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and Togo. This species grows to a length of SL. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish%20fry | A fish fry is a meal containing battered or breaded fried fish. It usually also includes french fries, coleslaw, macaroni salad, lemon slices, tartar sauce, hot sauce, malt vinegar and dessert. Some Native American versions are cooked by coating fish with semolina and egg yolk.
Fish is often served on Friday nights d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20office%20suites | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of office suites:
General information
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
OS support
The operating systems the office suites were designed to run on without emulation; for the given office suite/OS com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedStep | Enhanced SpeedStep is a series of dynamic frequency scaling technologies (codenamed Geyserville and including SpeedStep, SpeedStep II, and SpeedStep III) built into some Intel microprocessors that allow the clock speed of the processor to be dynamically changed (to different P-states) by software. This allows the proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity-Borel%20set | In set theory, a subset of a Polish space is ∞-Borel if it
can be obtained by starting with the open subsets of , and transfinitely iterating the operations of complementation and wellordered union. This concept is usually considered without the assumption of the axiom of choice, which means that the ∞-Borel sets may ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential%20graph | An existential graph is a type of diagrammatic or visual notation for logical expressions, proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce, who wrote on graphical logic as early as 1882, and continued to develop the method until his death in 1914.
The graphs
Peirce proposed three systems of existential graphs:
alpha, isomorphic t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave%20effect | Octave effect boxes are a type of special effects unit which mix the input signal with a synthesised signal whose musical tone is an octave lower or higher than the original. The synthesised octave signal is derived from the original input signal by halving (octave-down) or doubling (octave-up) the frequency. This is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-channel%20flow | In fluid mechanics and hydraulics, open-channel flow is a type of liquid flow within a conduit with a free surface, known as a channel. The other type of flow within a conduit is pipe flow. These two types of flow are similar in many ways but differ in one important respect: open-channel flow has a free surface, wherea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic%20%28The%20Smiths%20song%29 | "Panic" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, released in 1986 and written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr. The first recording to feature new member Craig Gannon, "Panic" bemoans the state of contemporary pop music, which "says nothing to me about my life", and exhorts listeners to "burn down th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octahedral%20molecular%20geometry | In chemistry, octahedral molecular geometry, also called square bipyramidal, describes the shape of compounds with six atoms or groups of atoms or ligands symmetrically arranged around a central atom, defining the vertices of an octahedron. The octahedron has eight faces, hence the prefix octa. The octahedron is one of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P73 | p73 is a protein related to the p53 tumor protein. Because of its structural resemblance to p53, it has also been considered a tumor suppressor. It is involved in cell cycle regulation, and induction of apoptosis. Like p53, p73 is characterized by the presence of different isoforms of the protein. This is explained by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic%20desensitization | Systematic desensitization, or graduated exposure therapy, is a behavior therapy developed by the psychiatrist Joseph Wolpe. It is used when a phobia or anxiety disorder is maintained by classical conditioning. It shares the same elements of both cognitive-behavioral therapy and applied behavior analysis. When used in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scharnhorst%20effect |
The Scharnhorst effect is a hypothetical phenomenon in which light signals travel slightly faster than c between two closely spaced conducting plates. It was first predicted in a 1990 paper by Klaus Scharnhorst of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He showed using quantum electrodynamics that the effective re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Cobb | Ronald Ray Cobb (September 21, 1937 – September 21, 2020) was an American-Australian artist. In addition to his work as an editorial cartoonist, he contributed concept art to major films including Dark Star (1974), Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Back to the F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20properties%20of%20sets%20of%20reals | This article lists some properties of sets of real numbers. The general study of these concepts forms descriptive set theory, which has a rather different emphasis from general topology.
Definability properties
Borel set
Analytic set
C-measurable set
Projective set
Inductive set
Infinity-Borel set
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late%20fee | A late fee, also known as an overdue fine, late fine, or past due fee, is a charge fined against a client by a company or organization for not paying a bill or returning a rented or borrowed item by its due date. Its use is most commonly associated with businesses like creditors, video rental outlets and libraries. Lat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbard%20Brook%20Experimental%20Forest | Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is an area of land in the towns of Woodstock, Ellsworth and Thornton in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that functions as an outdoor laboratory for ecological studies. It was initially established in 1955 by the United States Forest Service for the study of the relationship betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basidiospore | A basidiospore is a reproductive spore produced by Basidiomycete fungi, a grouping that includes mushrooms, shelf fungi, rusts, and smuts. Basidiospores typically each contain one haploid nucleus that is the product of meiosis, and they are produced by specialized fungal cells called basidia. Typically, four basidiospo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry and physics, cohesion (), also called cohesive attraction or cohesive force, is the action or property of like molecules sticking together, being mutually attractive. It is an intrinsic property of a substance that is caused by the shape and structure of its molecules, which makes the distribution of surro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20stature | Short stature refers to a height of a human which is below typical. Whether a person is considered short depends on the context. Because of the lack of preciseness, there is often disagreement about the degree of shortness that should be called short. Dwarfism is the condition of being very short, often caused by a med... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20scheme | The theory of association schemes arose in statistics, in the theory of experimental design for the analysis of variance. In mathematics, association schemes belong to both algebra and combinatorics. In algebraic combinatorics, association schemes provide a unified approach to many topics, for example combinatorial des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS%20statistical%20regions%20of%20Italy | In the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) codes of Italy (IT), the three levels are:
NUTS codes
The following codes have been discontinued:
ITC45 (Milano) was split into ITC4C and ITC4D.
ITD (Northeast Italy) became ITH.
ITE (Central Italy) became ITI.
ITF41 (Foggia) and ITF42 (Bari) were spl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconfigurability | Reconfigurability denotes the Reconfigurable Computing capability of a system, so that its behavior can be changed by reconfiguration, i. e. by loading different configware code. This static reconfigurability distinguishes between reconfiguration time and run time. Dynamic reconfigurability denotes the capability of a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Tripos | The Mathematical Tripos is the mathematics course that is taught in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. It is the oldest Tripos examined at the university.
Origin
In its classical nineteenth-century form, the tripos was a distinctive written examination of undergraduate students of the Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnites | Goodnites (formerly Pull-Ups Goodnites; known as DryNites in the United Kingdom and most markets outside of North America) are disposable underwear designed for managing bedwetting. Goodnites are produced by Kimberly-Clark. The product has also been seen titled as Huggies Goodnites on official Huggies branded webpages... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20induction%20thyristor | The static induction thyristor (SIT, SITh) is a thyristor with a buried gate structure in which the gate electrodes are placed in n-base region. Since they are normally on-state, gate electrodes must be negatively or anode biased to hold off-state. It has low noise, low distortion, high audio frequency power capability... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS%20composite%20static%20induction%20thyristor | MOS composite static induction thyristor (CSMT or MCS) is a combination of a MOS transistor connected in cascode relation to the SI-thyristor.
The SI thyristor (SITh) unit has a gate to which a source of MOS transistor is connected through a voltage regulation element. The low conduction loss and rugged structure MCS ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection%20screen | A projection screen is an installation consisting of a surface and a support structure used for displaying a projected image for the view of an audience. Projection screens may be permanently installed on a wall, as in a movie theater, mounted to or placed in a ceiling using a rollable projection surface that retracts ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20inelastic%20scattering | In particle physics, deep inelastic scattering is the name given to a process used to probe the insides of hadrons (particularly the baryons, such as protons and neutrons), using electrons, muons and neutrinos. It was first attempted in the 1960s and 1970s and provided the first convincing evidence of the reality of qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel%20%28computing%29 | In Unix operating systems, the term wheel refers to a user account with a wheel bit, a system setting that provides additional special system privileges that empower a user to execute restricted commands that ordinary user accounts cannot access.
Origins
The term wheel was first applied to computer user privilege lev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20equivalent%20of%20heat | In the history of science, the mechanical equivalent of heat states that motion and heat are mutually interchangeable and that in every case, a given amount of work would generate the same amount of heat, provided the work done is totally converted to heat energy. The mechanical equivalent of heat was a concept that h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20BizTalk%20Server | Microsoft BizTalk Server is an inter-organizational middleware system (IOMS) that automates business processes through the use of adapters which are tailored to communicate with different software systems used in an enterprise. Created by Microsoft, it provides enterprise application integration, business process autom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal%20fibronectin | Fetal fibronectin (fFN) is a fibronectin protein produced by fetal cells. It is found at the interface of the chorion and the decidua (between the fetal sac and the uterine lining). Fetal fibronectin is found normally in vaginal fluid in early pregnancy prior to 22 weeks due to normal growth and development of tissues ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilonretrovirus | Epsilonretrovirus is a waterborn genus of the Retroviridae family. It infects fish. The species include Walleye dermal sarcoma virus, and Walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 1 and 2. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpharetrovirus | Alpharetrovirus is a genus of the family Retroviridae. It has type C morphology. Members can cause sarcomas, other tumors, and anaemia of wild and domestic birds and also affect rats.
Species include the Rous sarcoma virus, avian leukosis virus, and avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV). Not all animals that can infect dev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betaretrovirus | Betaretrovirus is a genus of the Retroviridae family. It has type B or type D morphology. The type B is common for a few exogenous, vertically transmitted and endogenous viruses of mice; some primate and sheep viruses are the type D.
Examples are Mouse mammary tumor virus, enzootic nasal tumor virus (ENTV-1, ENTV-2), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltaretrovirus | Deltaretrovirus is a genus of the Retroviridae family. It consists of exogenous horizontally transmitted viruses found in several groups of mammals. , ICTV lists under this genus the Bovine leukemia virus and three species of primate T-lymphotropic virus.
The genus of viruses is known for its propensity to target immu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spumaretrovirinae | Spumaretrovirinae, commonly called spumaviruses (, Latin for "foam") or foamyviruses, is a subfamily of the Retroviridae family. Spumaviruses are exogenous viruses that have specific morphology with prominent surface spikes. The virions contain significant amounts of double-stranded full-length DNA, and assembly is rat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin%20test | A skin test is a medical test in which a substance is injected into the skin.
Examples
Casoni test
Corneometry
Dick test
Fernandez reaction
Frei test
Hair perforation test
Kveim test
Leishmanin skin test
Lepromin
Patch test
Schick test
Skin allergy test
Sweat diagnostics
Sweat test
Tine test
Transepid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix%20%28ear%29 | The helix is the prominent rim of the auricle. Where the helix turns downwards posteriorly, a small tubercle is sometimes seen, namely the auricular tubercle of Darwin.
Additional images |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric%20federalism | Asymmetric federalism or asymmetrical federalism is found in a federation or other types of union in which different constituent states possess different powers: one or more of the substates has considerably more autonomy than the other substates, although they have the same constitutional status. This is in contrast t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiman%27s%20theorem | In additive combinatorics, Freiman's theorem is a central result which indicates the approximate structure of sets whose sumset is small. It roughly states that if is small, then can be contained in a small generalized arithmetic progression.
Statement
If is a finite subset of with , then is contained in a genera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermionic%20field | In quantum field theory, a fermionic field is a quantum field whose quanta are fermions; that is, they obey Fermi–Dirac statistics. Fermionic fields obey canonical anticommutation relations rather than the canonical commutation relations of bosonic fields.
The most prominent example of a fermionic field is the Dirac f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20arithmetic%20progression | In mathematics, a generalized arithmetic progression (or multiple arithmetic progression) is a generalization of an arithmetic progression equipped with multiple common differences – whereas an arithmetic progression is generated by a single common difference, a generalized arithmetic progression can be generated by mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20antenna | A television antenna (TV aerial) is an antenna specifically designed for use with a television receiver (TV) to receive over-the-air broadcast television signals from a television station. Television reception is dependent upon the antenna as well as the transmitter. Terrestrial television is broadcast on frequencies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte%20Corporation | Exabyte Corporation was a manufacturer of magnetic tape data storage products headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Exabyte Corp. is now defunct, but the company's technology is sold by Tandberg Data under both brand names. Prior to the 2006 demise, Exabyte offered tape storage and automation solutions f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20SSH%20clients | An SSH client is a software program which uses the secure shell protocol to connect to a remote computer. This article compares a selection of notable clients.
General
Platform
The operating systems or virtual machines the SSH clients are designed to run on without emulation include several possibilities:
Partia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20wavelet-related%20transforms | A list of wavelet related transforms:
Continuous wavelet transform (CWT)
Discrete wavelet transform (DWT)
Multiresolution analysis (MRA)
Lifting scheme
Binomial QMF (BQMF)
Fast wavelet transform (FWT)
Complex wavelet transform
Non or undecimated wavelet transform, the downsampling is omitted
Newland transform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylene%20glycol | Diethylene glycol (DEG) is an organic compound with the formula (HOCH2CH2)2O. It is a colorless, practically odorless, and hygroscopic liquid with a sweetish taste. It is a four carbon dimer of ethylene glycol. It is miscible in water, alcohol, ether, acetone, and ethylene glycol. DEG is a widely used solvent. It can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-generation%20wavelet%20transform | In signal processing, the second-generation wavelet transform (SGWT) is a wavelet transform where the filters (or even the represented wavelets) are not designed explicitly, but the transform consists of the application of the Lifting scheme.
Actually, the sequence of lifting steps could be converted to a regular discr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags%20and%20Emblems%20%28Display%29%20Act%20%28Northern%20Ireland%29%201954 | The Flags and Emblems (Display) Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (1954 c. 10) was an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, passed in 1954. It was repealed under the direct rule of the British government, by the Public Order (Northern Ireland) Order 1987.
It was bitterly resented by nationalists who saw the Act as bein... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20ferulate | Sodium ferulate, the sodium salt of ferulic acid, is a compound used in traditional Chinese medicine thought to be useful for treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and to prevent thrombosis, although there is no high-quality clinical evidence for such effects. It is found in the root of Angelica sine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verjuice | Verjuice ( ; from Middle French vertjus 'green juice') is a highly acidic juice made by pressing unripe grapes, crab-apples or other sour fruit. Sometimes lemon or sorrel juice, herbs or spices are added to change the flavour. From the Middle Ages through the Renaissance
, it was widely used all over Western Europe as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagecast%20Creator | Stagecast Creator is a visual programming language intended for use in teaching programming to children. It is based on the programming by demonstration
concept, where rules are created by giving examples of what actions should take place in a given situation. It can be used to construct simulations, animations and ga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resinous%20glaze | Resinous glaze is an alcohol-based solution of various types of food-grade shellac. The shellac is derived from the raw material sticklac, which is a resin scraped from the branches of trees left from when the small insect, Kerria lacca (also known as Laccifer lacca), creates a hard, waterproof cocoon. When used in fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20retinal%20display | A virtual retinal display (VRD), also known as a retinal scan display (RSD) or retinal projector (RP), is a display technology that draws a raster display (like a television) directly onto the retina of the eye.
History
In the past similar systems have been made by projecting a defocused image directly in front of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20programming%20model | In computing, a parallel programming model is an abstraction of parallel computer architecture, with which it is convenient to express algorithms and their composition in programs. The value of a programming model can be judged on its generality: how well a range of different problems can be expressed for a variety of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam%20crossing | A beam crossing in a particle collider occurs when two packets of particles, going in opposite directions, reach the same point in space. Most of the particles in each packet cross each other, but a few may collide, producing other particles that may be observed in a particle detector. In a linear collider there is o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden%20Gardens | Forbidden Gardens ( ) was an outdoor museum of Chinese culture and history located on Texas Highway 99 and Franz Road in northern Katy, Greater Houston, Texas, United States. The museum was funded and opened by businessman Ira Poon in 1996. Forbidden Gardens closed its doors in 2011.
Features and naming
Forbidden Gard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%E2%80%B2%E2%80%B2 | P′′ (P double prime) is a primitive computer programming language created by Corrado Böhm in 1964 to describe a family of Turing machines.
Definition
(hereinafter written P′′) is formally defined as a set of words on the four-instruction alphabet , as follows:
Syntax
and are words in P′′.
If and are words in P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelet%20packet%20decomposition | Originally known as optimal subband tree structuring (SB-TS), also called wavelet packet decomposition (WPD)
(sometimes known as just wavelet packets or subband tree), is a wavelet transform where the discrete-time (sampled) signal is passed through more filters than the discrete wavelet transform (DWT).
Introduction ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20Hall%20effect | In solid-state physics, the thermal Hall effect, also known as the Righi–Leduc effect, named after independent co-discoverers Augusto Righi and Sylvestre Anatole Leduc, is the thermal analog of the Hall effect. Given a thermal gradient across a solid, this effect describes the appearance of an orthogonal temperature gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltitol | Maltitol is a sugar alcohol (a polyol) used as a sugar substitute and laxative. It has 75–90% of the sweetness of sucrose (table sugar) and nearly identical properties, except for browning. It is used to replace table sugar because it is half as energetic, does not promote tooth decay, and has a somewhat lesser effect ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20generator | A sound generator is a vibrating object which produces a sound. There are two main kinds of sound generators (thus, two main kinds of musical instruments).
A full cycle of a sound wave will be described in each example which consists of initial normal conditions (no fluctuations in atmospheric pressure), an increas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium%20oxide | Titanium oxide may refer to:
Titanium dioxide (titanium(IV) oxide), TiO2
Titanium(II) oxide (titanium monoxide), TiO, a non-stoichiometric oxide
Titanium(III) oxide (dititanium trioxide), Ti2O3
Ti3O
Ti2O
δ-TiOx (x= 0.68–0.75)
TinO2n−1 where n ranges from 3–9 inclusive, e.g. Ti3O5, Ti4O7, etc.
Reduced titanium ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat-bite%20fever | Rat-bite fever (RBF) is an acute, febrile human illness caused by bacteria transmitted by rodents, in most cases, which is passed from rodent to human by the rodent's urine or mucous secretions. Alternative names for rat-bite fever include streptobacillary fever, streptobacillosis, spirillary fever, bogger, and epidemi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated%20encryption | Authenticated Encryption (AE) is an encryption scheme which simultaneously assures the data confidentiality (also known as privacy: the encrypted message is impossible to understand without the knowledge of a secret key) and authenticity (in other words, it is unforgeable: the encrypted message includes an authenticati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton-second | The newton-second (also newton second; symbol: N⋅s or N s) is the unit of impulse in the International System of Units (SI). It is dimensionally equivalent to the momentum unit kilogram-metre per second (kg⋅m/s). One newton-second corresponds to a one-newton force applied for one second.
It can be used to identify ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent%20Anatomical%20Manikin | The Transparent Anatomical Manikin (TAM) is a three-dimensional, transparent anatomical model of a human being, created for medical instructional purposes. TAM was created by designer – Richard Rush, in 1968. It consisted of a see-through reproduction of a female human body, with various organs being wired so specific ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20variety | A composite variety is a plant population in which at least 70% of its progeny result from the crossing of the parent lines without testing for GCA
.
A composite variety is a variety developed by mixing the seeds of various phenotypically outstanding lines possessing similarities for various characteristics like hei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyosis%20acquisita | Ichthyosis acquisita is a skin condition clinically and histologically similar to ichthyosis vulgaris.
Presentation
Associated conditions
The development of ichthyosis in adulthood can be a manifestation of systemic disease, and it has been described in association with malignancies, drugs, endocrine and metabolic di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine%20arithmetic | Affine arithmetic (AA) is a model for self-validated numerical analysis. In AA, the quantities of interest are represented as affine combinations (affine forms) of certain primitive variables, which stand for sources of uncertainty in the data or approximations made during the computation.
Affine arithmetic is meant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20robot | Model robots are model figures with origins in the Japanese anime genre of mecha. The majority of model robots are produced by Bandai and are based on the Gundam anime metaseries. This has given rise to the hobby's common name in Japan, Gunpla (or gan-pura, a Japanese portmanteau of "Gundam" and "plastic model"). Thoug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QDGC | QDGC - Quarter Degree Grid Cells (or QDS - Quarter degree Squares) are a way of dividing the longitude latitude degree square cells into smaller squares, forming in effect a system of geocodes. Historically QDGC has been used in a lot of African atlases. Several African biodiversity projects uses QDGC, among which The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodemography | Geodemography is the study of people based on where they live; it links the sciences of demography, the study of human population dynamics, and geography, the study of the locational and spatial variation of both physical and human phenomena on Earth, along with sociology.
It includes the application of geodemographic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCKSS | The LOCKSS ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") project, under the auspices of Stanford University, is a peer-to-peer network that develops and supports an open source system allowing libraries to collect, preserve and provide their readers with access to material published on the Web. Its main goal is digital preservati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20research | Medical research (or biomedical research), also known as experimental medicine, encompasses a wide array of research, extending from "basic research" (also called bench science or bench research), – involving fundamental scientific principles that may apply to a preclinical understanding – to clinical research, which i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%20Castle%20%28Kinsale%29 | Desmond Castle () is a tower house located in the town of Kinsale in County Cork, Ireland.
History
The castle was built as the Customs House for Kinsale about the year 1500 by Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Desmond, following the grant of the customs of the port of Kinsale to the Earls of Desmond by King Henry VII ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-disc%20display | The flip-disc display (or flip-dot display) is an electromechanical dot matrix display technology used for large outdoor signs, normally those that will be exposed to direct sunlight. Flip-disc technology has been used for destination signs in buses across North America, Europe and Australia, as well as for variable-me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze-dried%20ice%20cream | Freeze-dried ice cream, also called astronaut ice cream or space ice cream, is ice cream that has had most of the water removed from it by a freeze-drying process. Compared to regular ice cream, it can be kept at room temperature without melting, is dry and more brittle and rigid, but still soft when bitten into. It wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rkhunter | rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. It does this by comparing SHA-1 hashes of important files with known good ones in online databases, searching for default directories (of rootkits), wrong permissions, hidden files, suspicious strings in kern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification%20and%20Description%20Language | Specification and Description Language (SDL) is a specification language targeted at the unambiguous specification and description of the behaviour of reactive and distributed systems.
Overview
The ITU-T has defined SDL in Recommendations Z.100 to Z.106. SDL originally focused on telecommunication systems; its curre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrostology | Agrostology (from Greek , agrōstis, "type of grass"; and , -logia), sometimes graminology, is the scientific study of the grasses (the family Poaceae, or Gramineae). The grasslike species of the sedge family (Cyperaceae), the rush family (Juncaceae), and the bulrush or cattail family (Typhaceae) are often included with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%2010303%20Application%20Modules | The STEP ISO 10303 Application modules define common building blocks to create modular Application Protocols (AP) within ISO 10303. Higher-level modules are built up from lower-level modules.
The modules on the lowest level are wrappers of concepts, defined in the Integrated Resources (IR) or Application Integrated C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20theater%20in%20a%20box | A home theater in a box (HTIB) is an integrated home theater package which "bundles" together a combination DVD or Blu-ray player, a multi-channel amplifier (which includes a surround sound decoder, a radio tuner, and other features), speaker wires, connection cables, a remote control, a set of five or more surround s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range%20state | Range state is a term generally used in zoogeography and conservation biology to refer to any nation that exercises jurisdiction over any part of a range which a particular species, taxon or biotope inhabits, or crosses or overflies at any time on its normal migration route. The term is often expanded to also include,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether%20theories | In physics, aether theories (also known as ether theories) propose the existence of a medium, a space-filling substance or field as a transmission medium for the propagation of electromagnetic or gravitational forces. "Since the development of special relativity, theories using a substantial aether fell out of use in m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20propionate | Sodium propanoate or sodium propionate is the sodium salt of propionic acid which has the chemical formula Na(C2H5COO). This white crystalline solid is deliquescent in moist air.
Reactions
It is produced by the reaction of propionic acid and sodium carbonate or sodium hydroxide.
Uses
It is used as a food preservative... |
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