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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehiscence%20%28botany%29 | Dehiscence is the splitting of a mature plant structure along a built-in line of weakness to release its contents. This is common among fruits, anthers and sporangia. Sometimes this involves the complete detachment of a part. Structures that open in this way are said to be dehiscent. Structures that do not open in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine%20storm | A cytokine storm, also called hypercytokinemia, is a physiological reaction in humans and other animals in which the innate immune system causes an uncontrolled and excessive release of pro-inflammatory signaling molecules called cytokines. Normally, cytokines are part of the body's immune response to infection, but th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroid%20%28botany%29 | A hydroid is a type of vascular cell that occurs in certain bryophytes. In some mosses such as members of the Polytrichaceae family, hydroids form the innermost layer of cells in the stem. At maturity they are long, colourless, thin walled cells of small diameter, containing water but no living protoplasm. Collectively... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal%20plane | The coronal plane (also known as the frontal plane) is an anatomical plane that divides the body into dorsal and ventral sections. It is perpendicular to the sagittal and transverse planes.
Details
The coronal plane is an example of a longitudinal plane. For a human, the mid-coronal plane would transect a standing bod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse%20plane | The transverse plane (also known as the horizontal plane, axial plane and transaxial plane) is an anatomical plane that divides the body into superior and inferior sections. It is perpendicular to the coronal and sagittal planes.
List of clinically relevant anatomical planes
Transverse thoracic plane
Xiphosternal pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getaddrinfo | In C programming, the functions getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() convert domain names, hostnames, and IP addresses between human-readable text representations and structured binary formats for the operating system's networking API. Both functions are contained in the POSIX standard application programming interface (A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nines%20%28notation%29 | Nines are an informal, logarithmic notation for proportions very near to one, or equivalently percentages very near 100%. Their common uses include grading the purity of materials.
Put simply, "nines" are the number of consecutive nines in a percentage such as 99% (two nines) or a decimal fraction such as 0.999 (three... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20Reference%20Sequence | The Cambridge Reference Sequence (CRS) for human mitochondrial DNA was first announced in 1981.
A group led by Fred Sanger at the University of Cambridge had sequenced the mitochondrial genome of one woman of European descent during the 1970s, determining it to have a length of 16,569 base pairs (0.0006% of the nuclea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm | Sperm (: sperm or sperms) is the male reproductive cell, or gamete, in anisogamous forms of sexual reproduction (forms in which there is a larger, female reproductive cell and a smaller, male one). Animals produce motile sperm with a tail known as a flagellum, which are known as spermatozoa, while some red algae and fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus%20suis | Streptococcus suis is a peanut-shaped, Gram-positive bacterium, and an important pathogen of pigs. Endemic in nearly all countries with an extensive pig industry, S. suis is also a zoonotic disease, capable of transmission to humans from pigs.
Humans can be infected with S. suis when they handle infected pig carcasses... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathole | A cathole or cat hole or sometimes pighole is a pit for human feces. Catholes are frequently used for the purpose of disposing of bowel movements or waste water (such as the water from cleaning the kitchen dishes) by hikers and others engaging in outdoor recreation.
According to the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan%20theta%20function | In mathematics, particularly -analog theory, the Ramanujan theta function generalizes the form of the Jacobi theta functions, while capturing their general properties. In particular, the Jacobi triple product takes on a particularly elegant form when written in terms of the Ramanujan theta. The function is named afte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyMOL | PyMOL is an open source but proprietary molecular visualization system created by Warren Lyford DeLano. It was commercialized initially by DeLano Scientific LLC, which was a private software company dedicated to creating useful tools that become universally accessible to scientific and educational communities. It is cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Symbolic%20Analysis%20of%20Relay%20and%20Switching%20Circuits | "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits" is the title of a master's thesis written by computer science pioneer Claude E. Shannon while attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1937. In his thesis, Shannon, a dual degree graduate of the University of Michigan, proved that Boolean algebr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddo%E2%80%93Harkins%20rule | The Oddo–Harkins rule holds that an element with an even atomic number is more abundant than the elements with immediately adjacent atomic numbers. For example, carbon, with atomic number 6, is more abundant than boron (5) and nitrogen (7). This pattern was first reported by Giuseppe Oddo in 1914 and William Draper Har... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulnar%20artery | The ulnar artery is the main blood vessel, with oxygenated blood, of the medial aspects of the forearm. It arises from the brachial artery and terminates in the superficial palmar arch, which joins with the superficial branch of the radial artery. It is palpable on the anterior and medial aspect of the wrist.
Along ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers%E2%80%93Ramanujan%20identities | In mathematics, the Rogers–Ramanujan identities are two identities related to basic hypergeometric series and integer partitions. The identities were first discovered and proved by , and were subsequently rediscovered (without a proof) by Srinivasa Ramanujan some time before 1913. Ramanujan had no proof, but rediscove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro | Quadro was Nvidia's brand for graphics cards intended for use in workstations running professional computer-aided design (CAD), computer-generated imagery (CGI), digital content creation (DCC) applications, scientific calculations and machine learning from 2000 to 2020.
Quadro-branded graphics cards differed from the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact%20%28mechanics%29 | In mechanics, an impact is when two bodies collide. During this collision, both bodies decelerate. The deceleration causes a high force or shock, applied over a short time period. A high force, over a short duration, usually causes more damage to both bodies than a lower force applied over a proportionally longer dur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20characteristics | Sexual characteristics are physical traits of an organism (typically of a sexually dimorphic organism) which are indicative of or resultant from biological sexual factors. These include both primary sex characteristics, such as gonads, and secondary sex characteristics.
Humans
In humans, sex organs or primary sexual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silybum%20marianum | Silybum marianum is a species of thistle. It has various common names including milk thistle, blessed milkthistle, Marian thistle, Mary thistle, Saint Mary's thistle, Mediterranean milk thistle, variegated thistle and Scotch thistle (though not to be confused with Onopordum acanthium or Cirsium vulgare). This species ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20network | Quantum networks form an important element of quantum computing and quantum communication systems. Quantum networks facilitate the transmission of information in the form of quantum bits, also called qubits, between physically separated quantum processors. A quantum processor is a small quantum computer being able to p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation%20theory | Bifurcation theory is the mathematical study of changes in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family of curves, such as the integral curves of a family of vector fields, and the solutions of a family of differential equations. Most commonly applied to the mathematical study of dynamical systems, a bifu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Communications%20Engine | The Internet Communications Engine, or Ice, is an open-source RPC framework developed by ZeroC. It provides SDKs for C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Ruby and Swift, and can run on various operating systems, including Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.
Ice implements a proprietary app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle-shock | Bottle-shock or Bottle-sickness is a temporary condition of wine characterized by muted or disjointed fruit flavors. It often occurs immediately after bottling or when wines (usually fragile wines) are given an additional dose of sulfur (in the form of sulfur dioxide or sulfite solution). After a few weeks, the condit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20orbit | Orbits
Astrodynamics
In orbital mechanics, a transfer orbit is an intermediate elliptical orbit that is used to move a spacecraft in an orbital maneuver from one circular, or largely circular, orbit to another.
There are several types of transfer orbits, which vary in their energy efficiency and speed of transfer. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Lorenzen | Paul Lorenzen (March 24, 1915 – October 1, 1994) was a German philosopher and mathematician, founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).
Biography
Lorenzen studied at the University of Göttingen until he earned his PhD there in 1938 under Helmut Hasse with a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicta | The Philco Predicta is a black and white television chassis style, which was made in several cabinet models with 17” or 21” screens by the American company Philco from 1958 to 1960. The Predicta was marketed as the world’s first swivel-screen television. Designed by Catherine Winkler, Severin Jonassen and Richard Whipp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hypergeometric%20identities | Below is a list of hypergeometric identities.
Hypergeometric function lists identities for the Gaussian hypergeometric function
Generalized hypergeometric function lists identities for more general hypergeometric functions
Bailey's list is a list of the hypergeometric function identities in given by .
Wilf–Zeilberge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Anosov%20map | In mathematics, specifically in topology, a pseudo-Anosov map is a type of a diffeomorphism or homeomorphism of a surface. It is a generalization of a linear Anosov diffeomorphism of the torus. Its definition relies on the notion of a measured foliation introduced by William Thurston, who also coined the term "pseudo-A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulliken%20population%20analysis | Mulliken charges arise from the Mulliken population analysis and provide a means of estimating partial atomic charges from calculations carried out by the methods of computational chemistry, particularly those based on the linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method, and are routinely used as variabl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System.map | In Linux, the file is a symbol table used by the kernel.
A symbol table is a look-up between symbol names and their addresses in memory. A symbol name may be the name of a variable or the name of a function. The System.map is required when the address of a symbol name, or the symbol name of an address, is needed. It ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-dependent%20interface | A medium dependent interface (MDI) describes the interface (both physical and electrical/optical) in a computer network from a physical layer implementation to the physical medium used to carry the transmission. Ethernet over twisted pair also defines a medium dependent interface crossover (MDI-X) interface. Auto MDI-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural%20rendering | Architectural rendering, architectural illustration, or architectural visualization (often abbreviated to archviz or ArchViz) is the art of creating three-dimensional images or animations showing the attributes of a proposed architectural design.
Computer generated renderings
Images that are generated by a computer u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodal%20analysis | In electric circuits analysis, nodal analysis, node-voltage analysis, or the branch current method is a method of determining the voltage (potential difference) between "nodes" (points where elements or branches connect) in an electrical circuit in terms of the branch currents.
In analyzing a circuit using Kirchhoff's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evoked%20field | Evoked fields are part of the magnetoencephalogram. They are brain signals evoked by sensory stimulation, but usually buried by the ongoing brain activity. Repeating the stimulus multiple times and averaging the signals reduces the uncorrelated ongoing activity and reveals the evoked field. Evoked fields are the magnet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrigel | Matrigel is the trade name for the solubilized basement membrane matrix secreted by Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm (EHS) mouse sarcoma cells produced by Corning Life Sciences. Matrigel resembles the laminin/collagen IV-rich basement membrane extracellular environment found in many tissues and is used by cell biologists as a sub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasculogenesis | Vasculogenesis is the process of blood vessel formation, occurring by a de novo production of endothelial cells. It is sometimes paired with angiogenesis, as the first stage of the formation of the vascular network, closely followed by angiogenesis.
Process
In the sense distinguished from angiogenesis, vasculogenesis ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthoria%20parietina | Xanthoria parietina is a foliose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. It has wide distribution, and many common names such as common orange lichen, yellow scale, maritime sunburst lichen and shore lichen. It can be found near the shore on rocks or walls (hence the epithet parietina meaning "on walls"), and also on inl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny%20Dies | "Kenny Dies" is the thirteenth episode of the fifth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 78th episode of the series overall. "Kenny Dies" originally aired in the United States on December 5, 2001 on Comedy Central and in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2002 on Sky One. In the episode, Cartman co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galanthophile | A galanthophile is an enthusiastic collector and identifier of snowdrop (Galanthus) species and cultivars.
Term
The term galanthophile was probably coined by a noted British plantsman and garden writer E. A. Bowles (1865–1954), in a letter to his friend Oliver Wyatt, another keen collector of bulbs, whom he addressed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate-buffered%20saline | Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) is a buffer solution (pH ~ 7.4) commonly used in biological research. It is a water-based salt solution containing disodium hydrogen phosphate, sodium chloride and, in some formulations, potassium chloride and potassium dihydrogen phosphate. The buffer helps to maintain a constant pH. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errors%20and%20omissions%20excepted | "Errors and omissions excepted" (E&OE) is a phrase used in an attempt to reduce legal liability for potentially incorrect or incomplete information supplied in a contractually related document such as a quotation or specification.
It is often applied as a disclaimer in situations in which the information to which it i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smn%20theorem | In computability theory the theorem, (also called the translation lemma, parameter theorem, and the parameterization theorem) is a basic result about programming languages (and, more generally, Gödel numberings of the computable functions) (Soare 1987, Rogers 1967). It was first proved by Stephen Cole Kleene (1943). ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20memory | Molecular memory is a term for data storage technologies that use molecular species as the data storage element, rather than e.g. circuits, magnetics, inorganic materials or physical shapes. The molecular component can be described as a molecular switch, and may perform this function by any of several mechanisms, inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20radius | Critical radius is the minimum particle size from which an aggregate is thermodynamically stable. In other words, it is the lowest radius formed by atoms or molecules clustering together (in a gas, liquid or solid matrix) before a new phase inclusion (a bubble, a droplet or a solid particle) is viable and begins to gro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard%20boat%20race | A cardboard boat race, sometimes known as a boat regatta, is a popular construction competition for people of all ages, with target audiences for competitions ranging from elementary-school students to college students and adults.
The earliest documented cardboard boat regatta was a class assignment created by Richard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-dependent%20density%20functional%20theory | Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a quantum mechanical theory used in physics and chemistry to investigate the properties and dynamics of many-body systems in the presence of time-dependent potentials, such as electric or magnetic fields. The effect of such fields on molecules and solids can be studie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphokine | Lymphokines are a subset of cytokines that are produced by a type of immune cell known as a lymphocyte. They are protein mediators typically produced by T cells to direct the immune system response by signaling between its cells. Lymphokines have many roles, including the attraction of other immune cells, including ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis%20%28Resident%20Evil%29 | The Nemesis, also called the Nemesis-T Type, or the , is a character in Resident Evil (Biohazard in Japan), a survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. Although smaller than other Tyrant models, the creature dwarfs a typical human, and possesses vastly superior intelligence and physical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-%CE%BA%20dielectric | In the semiconductor industry, the term high-κ dielectric refers to a material with a high dielectric constant (κ, kappa), as compared to silicon dioxide. High-κ dielectrics are used in semiconductor manufacturing processes where they are usually used to replace a silicon dioxide gate dielectric or another dielectric ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20Resource%20Manager | The Storage Resource Management (SRM) technology was initiated by the Scientific Data Management Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and developed in response to the growing needs of managing large datasets on a variety of storage systems.
Dynamic storage management is essential to ensure:
preventio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator%20diagram | An indicator diagram is a chart used to measure the thermal, or cylinder, performance of reciprocating steam and internal combustion engines and compressors. An indicator chart records the pressure in the cylinder versus the volume swept by the piston, throughout the two or four strokes of the piston which constitute ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue%20thrust | Tongue thrust (also called reverse swallow or immature swallow) is a pseudo-pathological name of what is either considered a normal adaptive lip seal mechanism, whereby normal nasal breathing or normal swallowing can occur, or seen as an oral myofunctional disorder - a tongue muscle pattern that is perceived as clinica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru%20cataclysm | The Nibiru cataclysm is a supposed disastrous encounter between Earth and a large planetary object (either a collision or a near-miss) that certain groups believed would take place in the early 21st century. Believers in this doomsday event usually refer to this object as Nibiru or Planet X. The idea was first put for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbleweed | A tumbleweed is a structural part of the above-ground anatomy of a number of species of plants. It is a diaspore that, once mature and dry, detaches from its root or stem and rolls due to the force of the wind. In most such species, the tumbleweed is in effect the entire plant apart from the root system, but in other p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECfp | SPECfp is a computer benchmark designed to test the floating-point performance of a computer. It is managed by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. SPECfp is the floating-point performance testing component of the SPEC CPU testing suit. The first standard SPECfp was released in 1989 as SPECfp89. Later it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particular%20values%20of%20the%20Riemann%20zeta%20function | In mathematics, the Riemann zeta function is a function in complex analysis, which is also important in number theory. It is often denoted and is named after the mathematician Bernhard Riemann. When the argument is a real number greater than one, the zeta function satisfies the equation
It can therefore provide the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique%20Mercator%20projection | The oblique Mercator map projection is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection. The oblique version is sometimes used in national mapping systems. When paired with a suitable geodetic datum, the oblique Mercator delivers high accuracy in zones less than a few degrees in arbitrary directional extent.
Standard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen%20forest | An evergreen forest is a forest made up of evergreen trees. They occur across a wide range of climatic zones, and include trees such as conifers and holly in cold climates, eucalyptus, Live oak, acacias, magnolia, and banksia in more temperate zones, and rainforest trees in tropical zones.in the Prithvi Raj prithvi Raj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%20Is%20Life%3F | What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell is a 1944 science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. The book was based on a course of public lectures delivered by Schrödinger in February 1943, under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where he was Director of T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace%20of%20Aces%20%28video%20game%29 | Ace of Aces is a combat flight simulation video game developed by Artech Digital Entertainment and published in 1986 by Accolade in North America and U.S. Gold in Europe.
It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit family, Atari 7800, Commodore 64, MSX, MS-DOS, Master System, and ZX Spectrum. Set in World War II, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto%20Nacional%20de%20Matem%C3%A1tica%20Pura%20e%20Aplicada | The Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) is widely considered to be the foremost research and educational institution of Brazil in the area of mathematics. It is located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and was formerly known simply as Instituto de Matemát... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congruent%20number | In number theory, a congruent number is a positive integer that is the area of a right triangle with three rational number sides. A more general definition includes all positive rational numbers with this property.
The sequence of (integer) congruent numbers starts with
5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly%20optimized%20tolerance | In applied mathematics, highly optimized tolerance (HOT) is a method of generating power law behavior in systems by including a global optimization principle. It was developed by Jean M. Carlson and John Doyle in the early 2000s. For some systems that display a characteristic scale, a global optimization term could po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20twenty-third%20problem | Hilbert's twenty-third problem is the last of Hilbert problems set out in a celebrated list compiled in 1900 by David Hilbert. In contrast with Hilbert's other 22 problems, his 23rd is not so much a specific "problem" as an encouragement towards further development of the calculus of variations. His statement of the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame%20fields%20in%20general%20relativity | A frame field in general relativity (also called a tetrad or vierbein) is a set of four pointwise-orthonormal vector fields, one timelike and three spacelike, defined on a Lorentzian manifold that is physically interpreted as a model of spacetime. The timelike unit vector field is often denoted by and the three spacel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20twenty-second%20problem | Hilbert's twenty-second problem is the penultimate entry in the celebrated list of 23 Hilbert problems compiled in 1900 by David Hilbert. It entails the uniformization of analytic relations by means of automorphic functions.
Problem statement
The entirety of the original problem statement is as follows:
As Poincaré... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20thirteenth%20problem | Hilbert's thirteenth problem is one of the 23 Hilbert problems set out in a celebrated list compiled in 1900 by David Hilbert. It entails proving whether a solution exists for all 7th-degree equations using algebraic (variant: continuous) functions of two arguments. It was first presented in the context of nomography... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20fifteenth%20problem | Hilbert's fifteenth problem is one of the 23 Hilbert problems set out in a celebrated list compiled in 1900 by David Hilbert. The problem is to put Schubert's enumerative calculus on a rigorous foundation.
Introduction
Schubert calculus is the intersection theory of the 19th century, together with applications to enu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20seventeenth%20problem | Hilbert's seventeenth problem is one of the 23 Hilbert problems set out in a celebrated list compiled in 1900 by David Hilbert. It concerns the expression of positive definite rational functions as sums of quotients of squares. The original question may be reformulated as:
Given a multivariate polynomial that takes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20eighteenth%20problem | Hilbert's eighteenth problem is one of the 23 Hilbert problems set out in a celebrated list compiled in 1900 by mathematician David Hilbert. It asks three separate questions about lattices and sphere packing in Euclidean space.
Symmetry groups in dimensions
The first part of the problem asks whether there are only f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20nineteenth%20problem | Hilbert's nineteenth problem is one of the 23 Hilbert problems, set out in a list compiled in 1900 by David Hilbert. It asks whether the solutions of regular problems in the calculus of variations are always analytic. Informally, and perhaps less directly, since Hilbert's concept of a "regular variational problem" iden... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20twentieth%20problem | Hilbert's twentieth problem is one of the 23 Hilbert problems set out in a celebrated list compiled in 1900 by David Hilbert. It asks whether all boundary value problems can be solved (that is, do variational problems with certain boundary conditions have solutions).
Introduction
Hilbert noted that there existed meth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta%20Stone%20%28software%29 | Rosetta Stone Language Learning is proprietary, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) software published by Rosetta Stone Inc, part of the IXL Learning family of products. The software uses images, text, and sound to teach words and grammar by spaced repetition, without translation. Rosetta Stone calls its approac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua%20Luogeng | Hua Luogeng or Hua Loo-Keng (; 12 November 1910 – 12 June 1985) was a Chinese mathematician and politician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China. He was largely responsible for identifying and nurtur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Medical%20Products%20Administration | The National Medical Products Administration (NMPA; , formerly the China Food and Drug Administration, or CFDA) was founded on the basis of the former State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA). In March 2013, the former regulatory body was rebranded and restructured as the China Food and Drug Administration, elevating ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanczos%20resampling | Lanczos filtering and Lanczos resampling are two applications of a mathematical formula. It can be used as a low-pass filter or used to smoothly interpolate the value of a digital signal between its samples. In the latter case, it maps each sample of the given signal to a translated and scaled copy of the Lanczos kern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRSP-TV | WRSP-TV (channel 55) is a television station licensed to Springfield, Illinois, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by GOCOM Media, LLC, alongside Decatur-licensed CW affiliate WBUI (channel 23). GOCOM maintains joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with the Sinclair Broadcast Gro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic%20deviation | In general relativity, if two objects are set in motion along two initially parallel trajectories, the presence of a tidal gravitational force will cause the trajectories to bend towards or away from each other, producing a relative acceleration between the objects.
Mathematically, the tidal force in general relativit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transversus%20thoracis%20muscle | The transversus thoracis muscle (), also known as triangularis sterni, lies internal to the thoracic cage, anteriorly. It is usually a thin plane of muscular and tendinous fibers, however on athletic individuals it can be a thick 'slab of meat', situated upon the inner surface of the front wall of the chest. It is in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopole%20%28wine%29 | A () is an area controlled by a single winery (wine company) and can be as small as a named vineyard () or as large as an entire (AOC). Frequently this is mentioned on the label as it is rare for only one winery to produce all the wine from an area entitled to a certain name. Each wine is sold by only one company.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcon | Alcon is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and has a major presence in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people.
Alcon was a subsidiary of Novartis until April 2019, when it was spun out... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrin | Abrin is an extremely toxic toxalbumin found in the seeds of the rosary pea (or jequirity pea), Abrus precatorius. It has a median lethal dose of 0.7 micrograms per kilogram of body mass when given to mice intravenously (approximately 31.4 times more toxic than ricin, being 22 micrograms per kilogram). The median toxic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence%20of%20common%20descent | Evidence of common descent of living organisms has been discovered by scientists researching in a variety of disciplines over many decades, demonstrating that all life on Earth comes from a single ancestor. This forms an important part of the evidence on which evolutionary theory rests, demonstrates that evolution does... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20construct | In computer programming, a language construct is "a syntactically allowable part of a program that may be formed from one or more lexical tokens in accordance with the rules of the programming language", as defined by in the ISO/IEC 2382 standard (ISO/IEC JTC 1).
A term is defined as a "linguistic construct in a concep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGALEN | OpenGALEN is a not-for-profit organisation that provides an open source medical terminology. This terminology is written in a formal language called GRAIL (GALEN Representation And Integration Language) and also distributed in OWL.
Background
The GALEN technologies were developed with research funding provided by t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic%20Goods%20Administration | The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is the medicine and therapeutic regulatory agency of the Australian Government. As part of the Department of Health and Aged Care, the TGA regulates the quality, supply and advertising of medicines, pathology devices, medical devices, blood products and most other therapeutics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20HIV/AIDS | AIDS is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates
in Central and West Africa. While various sub-groups of the virus acquired human infectivity at different times, the present pandemic had its origins in the emergence of one specific strain – HIV-1 subgroup M – in Léopoldvill... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge%20%28version%20control%29 | In version control, merging (also called integration) is a fundamental operation that reconciles multiple changes made to a version-controlled collection of files. Most often, it is necessary when a file is modified on two independent branches and subsequently merged. The result is a single collection of files that con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer%20ape%20theory | The killer ape theory or killer ape hypothesis is the theory that war and interpersonal aggression was the driving force behind human evolution. It was originated by Raymond Dart in the 1950s; it was developed further in African Genesis by Robert Ardrey in 1961.
According to the theory, the ancestors of humans were di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting%20hypothesis | In paleoanthropology, the hunting hypothesis is the hypothesis that human evolution was primarily influenced by the activity of hunting for relatively large and fast animals, and that the activity of hunting distinguished human ancestors from other hominins.
While it is undisputed that early humans were hunters, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Commission%20on%20Zoological%20Nomenclature | The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is an organization dedicated to "achieving stability and sense in the scientific naming of animals". Founded in 1895, it currently comprises 26 commissioners from 20 countries.
Organization
The ICZN is governed by the "Constitution of the ICZN", which is u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw%20bar | A raw bar is a small restaurant or a bar within a restaurant where live shellfish are shucked and served. Raw bars typically offer a variety of raw and cooked seafood and shellfish that is served cold. Seafood-based dishes may also be offered, and additional, non-seafood foods may also be part of the fare. Raw bars may... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetical%20set | In mathematical logic, an arithmetical set (or arithmetic set) is a set of natural numbers that can be defined by a formula of first-order Peano arithmetic. The arithmetical sets are classified by the arithmetical hierarchy.
The definition can be extended to an arbitrary countable set A (e.g. the set of n-tuples of i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-copy | "Zero-copy" describes computer operations in which the CPU does not perform the task of copying data from one memory area to another or in which unnecessary data copies are avoided. This is frequently used to save CPU cycles and memory bandwidth in many time consuming tasks, such as when transmitting a file at high sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Genetics%20Commission | The Human Genetics Commission (HGC) was an advisory non-departmental public body that advised the UK government on the ethical and social aspects of genetics. This included genetic testing, cloning and other aspects of molecular medicine. The Commission was created after a review of the UK government biotechnology advi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20storage | Optical storage refers to a class of data storage systems that use light to read or write data to an underlying optical media. Although a number of optical formats have been used over time, the most common examples are optical disks like the compact disc (CD) and DVD. Reading and writing methods have also varied over t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytosmunda | Claytosmunda is a genus of fern. It has only one extant species, Claytosmunda claytoniana (synonym Osmunda claytoniana), the interrupted fern, native to Eastern Asia, Eastern United States, and Eastern Canada.
The specific epithet is named after the English-born Virginian botanist John Clayton. "Interrupted" describes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20encryption | A deterministic encryption scheme (as opposed to a probabilistic encryption scheme) is a cryptosystem which always produces the same ciphertext for a given plaintext and key, even over separate executions of the encryption algorithm. Examples of deterministic encryption algorithms include RSA cryptosystem (without enc... |
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