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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Greek%20flags | This is a list of flags used in the modern state of Greece or historically used by Greeks.
National flag
Presidential standard
Royal standards
Military flags
Hellenic Armed Forces
Hellenic Army
Hellenic Navy
Hellenic Air Force
Hellenic Coast Guard
Regional and municipal flags
Historical flags
Other historic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance%20datum | An ordnance datum or OD is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps. A spot height may be expressed as AOD for "above ordnance datum". Usually mean sea level (MSL) at a particular place is used for the datum. In particular:
In Great Britain, OD for the Ordnance Survey... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinplate | Tinplate consists of sheets of steel coated with a thin layer of tin to impede rusting. Before the advent of cheap milled steel, the backing metal was wrought iron. While once more widely used, the primary use of tinplate now is the manufacture of tin cans.
Tinplate is made by rolling the steel (or formerly iron) in a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead%20%28computing%29 | In computer science, overhead is any combination of excess or indirect computation time, memory, bandwidth, or other resources that are required to perform a specific task. It is a special case of engineering overhead. Overhead can be a deciding factor in software design, with regard to structure, error correction, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Gray graph is an undirected bipartite graph with 54 vertices and 81 edges. It is a cubic graph: every vertex touches exactly three edges. It was discovered by Marion C. Gray in 1932 (unpublished), then discovered independently by Bouwer 1968 in reply to a question posed by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal%20gradient | Geothermal gradient is the rate of change in temperature with respect to increasing depth in Earth's interior. As a general rule, the crust temperature rises with depth due to the heat flow from the much hotter mantle; away from tectonic plate boundaries, temperature rises in about 25–30 °C/km (72–87 °F/mi) of depth ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perylene | Perylene or perilene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C20H12, occurring as a brown solid. It or its derivatives may be carcinogenic, and it is considered to be a hazardous pollutant. In cell membrane cytochemistry, perylene is used as a fluorescent lipid probe. It is the parent compound ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prova | Prova is an open source programming language that combines Prolog with Java.
Description
Prova is a rule-based scripting system that is used for middleware. The language combines imperative and declarative programming by using a prolog syntax that allows calls to Java functions. In this way a strong Java code base is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-out | The term TV-out is commonly used to label the connector of equipment providing an analog video signal acceptable for a television AV input. TV-out is different from AV-out in that it only provides video, no audio.
Types of signals and their respective connectors include:
Composite video
S-video
Component video
See AV... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion%20%28comics%29 | Carrion is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an enemy of Spider-Man.
Publication history
The Miles Warren clone version of Carrion first appeared in The Spectacular Spider-Man #25 and was created by Bill Mantlo, Jim ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto%20API%20%28Linux%29 | Crypto API is a cryptography framework in the Linux kernel, for various parts of the kernel that deal with cryptography, such as IPsec and dm-crypt. It was introduced in kernel version 2.5.45 and has since expanded to include essentially all popular block ciphers and hash functions.
Userspace interfaces
Many platform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura%20%28symptom%29 | An aura is a perceptual disturbance experienced by some with epilepsy or migraine. An epileptic aura is a seizure.
Epileptic and migraine auras are due to the involvement of specific areas of the brain, which are those that determine the symptoms of the aura. Therefore, if the visual area is affected, the aura will co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematized%20Nomenclature%20of%20Medicine | The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) is a systematic, computer-processable collection of medical terms, in human and veterinary medicine, to provide codes, terms, synonyms and definitions which cover anatomy, diseases, findings, procedures, microorganisms, substances, etc. It allows a consistent way to in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morquio%20syndrome | Morquio syndrome, also known as mucopolysaccharidosis type IV (MPS IV), is a rare metabolic disorder in which the body cannot process certain types of sugar molecules called glycosaminoglycans (AKA GAGs, or mucopolysaccharides). In Morquio syndrome, the specific GAG which builds up in the body is called keratan sulfate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Bernays | Paul Isaac Bernays (17 October 1888 – 18 September 1977) was a Swiss mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics. He was an assistant and close collaborator of David Hilbert.
Biography
Bernays was born into a distinguished German-Jewis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellas%20cat | The Kellas cat is a large black cat found in Scotland. It is an interspecific hybrid between the Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris syn. Felis silvestris grampia) and the domestic cat (Felis catus). Once thought to be a mythological wild cat, with its few sightings dismissed as hoaxes, a specimen was killed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%E2%80%93Morrison%20formula | In mathematics, in particular linear algebra, the Sherman–Morrison formula, named after Jack Sherman and Winifred J. Morrison, computes the inverse of the sum of an invertible matrix and the outer product, , of vectors and . The Sherman–Morrison formula is a special case of the Woodbury formula. Though named after S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange%27s%20identity | In algebra, Lagrange's identity, named after Joseph Louis Lagrange, is:
which applies to any two sets {a1, a2, ..., an} and {b1, b2, ..., bn} of real or complex numbers (or more generally, elements of a commutative ring). This identity is a generalisation of the Brahmagupta–Fibonacci identity and a special form of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curved%20space | Curved space often refers to a spatial geometry which is not "flat", where a flat space has zero curvature, as described by Euclidean geometry. Curved spaces can generally be described by Riemannian geometry though some simple cases can be described in other ways. Curved spaces play an essential role in general relativ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-competitive%20inhibition | Non-competitive inhibition is a type of enzyme inhibition where the inhibitor reduces the activity of the enzyme and binds equally well to the enzyme whether or not it has already bound the substrate. This is unlike competitive inhibition, where binding affinity for the substrate in the enzyme is decreased in the prese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baguenaudier | Baguenaudier (; French for "time-waster"), also known as the Chinese rings, Cardan's suspension, Cardano's rings, Devil's needle or five pillars puzzle, is a disentanglement puzzle featuring a loop which must be disentangled from a sequence of rings on interlinked pillars. The loop can be either string or a rigid struc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%20integral%20rule | In calculus, the Leibniz integral rule for differentiation under the integral sign states that for an integral of the form
where and the integrands are functions dependent on the derivative of this integral is expressible as
where the partial derivative indicates that inside the integral, only the variation of wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota%20Transracial%20Adoption%20Study | The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study examined the IQ test scores of 130 black or interracial children adopted by advantaged white families. The aim of the study was to determine the contribution of environmental and genetic factors to the poor performance of black children on IQ tests as compared to white children.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20studies | Animal studies is a recently recognised field in which animals are studied in a variety of cross-disciplinary ways. Scholars who engage in animal studies may be formally trained in a number of diverse fields, including art history, anthropology, biology, film studies, geography, history, psychology, literary studies, m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyletic%20gradualism | Phyletic gradualism is a model of evolution which theorizes that most speciation is slow, uniform and gradual. When evolution occurs in this mode, it is usually by the steady transformation of a whole species into a new one (through a process called anagenesis). In this view no clear line of demarcation exists between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Real-time%20Transport%20Protocol | The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) is a profile for Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) intended to provide encryption, message authentication and integrity, and replay attack protection to the RTP data in both unicast and multicast applications. It was developed by a small team of Internet Protocol and cryp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundz%C3%BCge%20der%20Mengenlehre | (German for "Basics of Set Theory") is a book on set theory written by Felix Hausdorff.
First published in April 1914, was the first comprehensive introduction to set theory. Besides the systematic treatment of known results in set theory, the book also contains chapters on measure theory and topology, which were the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration%20geophysics | Exploration geophysics is an applied branch of geophysics and economic geology, which uses physical methods at the surface of the Earth, such as seismic, gravitational, magnetic, electrical and electromagnetic, to measure the physical properties of the subsurface, along with the anomalies in those properties. It is mos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertec%20Superbrain | The Intertec SuperBrain was an all-in-one commercial microcomputer that was first sold by Intertec Data Systems Corporation of Columbia, South Carolina, USA in 1979. The machine ran the operating system CP/M and was somewhat unusual in that it used dual Z80 CPUs, the second being used as a disk controller. In 1983, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balm%20of%20Gilead | Balm of Gilead was a rare perfume used medicinally, that was mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, and named for the region of Gilead, where it was produced. The expression stems from William Tyndale's language in the King James Bible of 1611, and has come to signify a universal cure in figurative speech. The tree or shrub pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbicularis%20oculi%20muscle | The orbicularis oculi is a muscle in the face that closes the eyelids. It arises from the nasal part of the frontal bone, from the frontal process of the maxilla in front of the lacrimal groove, and from the anterior surface and borders of a short fibrous band, the medial palpebral ligament.
From this origin, the fibe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital%20part%20of%20frontal%20bone | The orbital or horizontal part of the frontal bone (pars orbitalis) consists of two thin triangular plates, the orbital plates, which form the vaults of the orbits, and are separated from one another by a median gap, the ethmoidal notch.
Surfaces
The inferior surface of each orbital plate is smooth and concave, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontalis%20muscle | The frontalis muscle () is a muscle which covers parts of the forehead of the skull. Some sources consider the frontalis muscle to be a distinct muscle. However, Terminologia Anatomica currently classifies it as part of the occipitofrontalis muscle along with the occipitalis muscle.
In humans, the frontalis muscle onl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform%20screen%20doors | Platform screen doors (PSDs), also known as platform edge doors (PEDs), are used at some train, rapid transit and people mover stations to separate the platform from train tracks, as well as on some bus rapid transit, tram and light rail systems. Primarily used for passenger safety, they are a relatively new addition t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levator%20labii%20superioris | The levator labii superioris (pl. levatores labii superioris, also called quadratus labii superioris, pl. quadrati labii superioris) is a muscle of the human body used in facial expression. It is a broad sheet, the origin of which extends from the side of the nose to the zygomatic bone.
Structure
Its medial fibers fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levator%20anguli%20oris | The levator anguli oris (caninus) is a facial muscle of the mouth arising from the canine fossa, immediately below the infraorbital foramen. It elevates angle of mouth medially. Its fibers are inserted into the angle of the mouth, intermingling with those of the zygomaticus, triangularis, and orbicularis oris. Specific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressor%20anguli%20oris%20muscle | The depressor anguli oris muscle (triangularis muscle) is a facial muscle. It originates from the mandible and inserts into the angle of the mouth. It is associated with frowning, as it depresses the corner of the mouth.
Structure
The depressor Anguli Oris arises from the lateral surface of the mandible. Its fibers t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risorius | The risorius muscle is a highly variable muscle of facial expression. It has numerous and very variable origins, and inserts into the angle of the mouth. It receives motor innervation from branches of facial nerve (CN VII). It may be absent or asymmetrical in some people. It pulls the angle of the mouth sidewise, such ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipitalis%20muscle | The occipitalis muscle (occipital belly) is a muscle which covers parts of the skull. Some sources consider the occipital muscle to be a distinct muscle. However, Terminologia Anatomica currently classifies it as part of the occipitofrontalis muscle along with the frontalis muscle.
The occipitalis muscle is thin and q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressor%20septi%20nasi%20muscle | The depressor septi nasi muscle (or depressor alae nasi muscle) is a muscle of the face. It connects the incisive fossa of the maxilla and the orbicularis oris muscle to the nasal septum of the nose. It draws the ala of the nose downwards, reducing the size of the nostrils.
Structure
The depressor septi nasi muscle a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Computer%20Science%20Institute | The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is an independent, non-profit research organization located in Berkeley, California, United States. Since its founding in 1988, ICSI has maintained an affiliation agreement with the University of California, Berkeley, where several of its members hold faculty appointm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone%20to%20Yukon%20Conservation%20Initiative | Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative or Y2Y is a transboundary Canada–United States not-for-profit organization that aims to connect and protect the Yellowstone-to-Yukon region. Its mission proposes to maintain and restore habitat integrity and connectivity along the spine of North America's Rocky Mountains st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20Christian%20Pander | Heinz Christian Pander, also Christian Heinrich Pander ( – ), was a Russian Empire ethnic Baltic German biologist and embryologist.
Biography
In 1817 he received his doctorate from the University of Würzburg, and spent several years (1827–1842), performing scientific research from his estate in Carnikava () on the ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20veil | In mycology, a partial veil (also called an inner veil, to differentiate it from the "outer", or universal veil) is a temporary structure of tissue found on the fruiting bodies of some basidiomycete fungi, typically agarics. Its role is to isolate and protect the developing spore-producing surface, represented by gills... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TelecityGroup | Telecity Group plc (formerly TelecityRedbus and before that Telecity), was a European carrier-neutral datacentre and colocation centre provider. It specialised in the design, build and management of datacentre space. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Equinix in January 2016.
History
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxo | Paxo is a brand of stuffing in the United Kingdom, currently owned by Premier Foods.
Paxo was devised in 1901 by John Crampton, a butcher from Eccles near Manchester, who wanted to have something extra to sell to his customers shopping for their Sunday lunch menus.
In the beginning sales growth of Paxo was slow beca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limen | In physiology, psychology, or psychophysics, a limen or a liminal point is a sensory threshold of a physiological or psychological response. Such points delineate boundaries of perception; that is, a limen defines a sensory threshold beyond which a particular stimulus becomes perceivable, and below which it remains unp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Szekeres | George Szekeres AM FAA (; 29 May 1911 – 28 August 2005) was a Hungarian–Australian mathematician.
Early years
Szekeres was born in Budapest, Hungary, as Szekeres György and received his degree in chemistry at the Technical University of Budapest. He worked six years in Budapest as an analytical chemist. He married Est... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microemulsion | Microemulsions are clear, thermodynamically stable isotropic liquid mixtures of oil, water and surfactant, frequently in combination with a cosurfactant. The aqueous phase may contain salt(s) and/or other ingredients, and the "oil" may actually be a complex mixture of different hydrocarbons. In contrast to ordinary emu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prismane | Prismane or 'Ladenburg benzene' is a polycyclic hydrocarbon with the formula C6H6. It is an isomer of benzene, specifically a valence isomer. Prismane is far less stable than benzene. The carbon (and hydrogen) atoms of the prismane molecule are arranged in the shape of a six-atom triangular prism—this compound is the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange%20bias | Exchange bias or exchange anisotropy occurs in bilayers (or multilayers) of magnetic materials where the hard magnetization behavior of an antiferromagnetic thin film causes a shift in the soft magnetization curve of a ferromagnetic film. The exchange bias phenomenon is of tremendous utility in magnetic recording, whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability%20%28computer%20networking%29 | In computer networking, a reliable protocol is a communication protocol that notifies the sender whether or not the delivery of data to intended recipients was successful. Reliability is a synonym for assurance, which is the term used by the ITU and ATM Forum.
Reliable protocols typically incur more overhead than unr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TO-92 | The TO-92 is a widely used style of semiconductor package mainly used for transistors. The case is often made of epoxy or plastic, and offers compact size at a very low cost.
History and origin
The JEDEC TO-92 descriptor is derived from the original full name for the package: Transistor Outline Package, Case Style 92... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metagenics | The word metagenics uses the prefix meta and the suffix gen. Literally, it means "the creation of something which creates". In the context of biotechnology, metagenics is the practice of engineering organisms to create a specific enzyme, protein, or other biochemicals from simpler starting materials. The genetic engine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kringle%20domain | Kringle domains are autonomous protein domains that fold into large loops stabilized by 3 disulfide linkages. These are important in protein–protein interactions with blood coagulation factors. Their name refers to the Kringle, a Scandinavian pastry which they somewhat resemble.
Kringle domains have been found in pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsically%20photosensitive%20retinal%20ganglion%20cell | Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), also called photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (pRGC), or melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells (mRGCs), are a type of neuron in the retina of the mammalian eye. The presence of (something like) ipRGCs was first suspected in 1927 when rodless, cone... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirimanoff%27s%20congruence | In number theory, a branch of mathematics, a Mirimanoff's congruence is one of a collection of expressions in modular arithmetic which, if they hold, entail the truth of Fermat's Last Theorem. Since the theorem has now been proven, these are now of mainly historical significance, though the Mirimanoff polynomials are i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxtail%20%28diaspore%29 | A foxtail is a spikelet or cluster of a grass, that serves to disperse its seeds as a unit. Thus, the foxtail is a type of diaspore or plant dispersal unit. Some grasses that produce a foxtail are themselves called "foxtail", also "spear grass". They can become a health hazard for dogs, cats, and other domestic anim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedling | A seedling is a young sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed. Seedling development starts with germination of the seed. A typical young seedling consists of three main parts: the radicle (embryonic root), the hypocotyl (embryonic shoot), and the cotyledons (seed leaves). The two classes of flowering pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylan | Mylan N.V. was a global generic and specialty pharmaceuticals company. In November 2020, Mylan merged with Upjohn, Pfizer's off-patent medicine division, to form Viatris. Previously, the company was domiciled in the Netherlands, with principal executive offices in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK and a "Global Center" in Ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise-induced%20nausea | Exercise-induced nausea is a feeling of sickness or vomiting which can occur shortly after exercise has stopped as well as during exercise itself. It may be a symptom of either over-exertion during exercise, or from too abruptly ending an exercise session. People engaged in high-intensity exercise such as aerobics an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobes%20of%20the%20brain | The lobes of the brain are the major identifiable zones of the human cerebral cortex, and they comprise the surface of each hemisphere of the cerebrum. The two hemispheres are roughly symmetrical in structure, and are connected by the corpus callosum. They traditionally have been divided into four lobes, but are today ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location%20information%20server | The location information server, or LIS is a network node originally defined in the National Emergency Number Association i2 network architecture that addresses the intermediate solution for providing e911 service for users of VoIP telephony. The LIS is the node that determines the location of the VoIP terminal.
Beyo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20High%20Pressure%20Physics%20of%20the%20Polish%20Academy%20of%20Sciences | Institute of High Pressure Physics, also known as Unipress (Polish: Instytut Wysokich Ciśnień Polskiej Akademii Nauk) is a scientific institute founded in 1972 by the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).
Main fields of activity
Biological materials
Food preservation
High-pressure instrumentation
Nanocrystalline mater... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothfriendly%20International | Toothfriendly International is a non-profit association which was established in 1989 in Basel, Switzerland. The purpose of the association is to advance oral health, particularly through preventive measures which include regular oral hygiene (toothbrushing with a fluoridated toothpaste), appropriate dietary habits (av... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20Tooth | The Happy Tooth is a registered trademark of Toothfriendly International. It stands for guaranteed toothfriendly quality.
The Happy Tooth mark distinguishes products that are not harmful for teeth. In order for products to carry the logo they have to be scientifically tested and proven not to be cariogenic or erosive.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucranium | Bucranium (plural bucrania; Latin, from Greek βουκράνιον, referring to the skull of an ox) was a form of carved decoration commonly used in Classical architecture. The name is generally considered to originate with the practice of displaying garlanded, sacrificial oxen, whose heads were displayed on the walls of temple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-working%20function | The inter-working function (IWF) is a method for interfacing a wireless telecommunication network with the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The IWF converts the data transmitted over the air interface into a format suitable for the PSTN.
IWF contains both the hardware and software elements that provide the ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal%20Using%20Relays%20around%20NAT | Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) is a protocol that assists in traversal of network address translators (NAT) or firewalls for multimedia applications. It may be used with the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). It is most useful for clients on networks masqueraded by symmetric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20engineering | Neural engineering (also known as neuroengineering) is a discipline within biomedical engineering that uses engineering techniques to understand, repair, replace, or enhance neural systems. Neural engineers are uniquely qualified to solve design problems at the interface of living neural tissue and non-living construct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20specification | In computer science, formal specifications are mathematically based techniques whose purpose are to help with the implementation of systems and software. They are used to describe a system, to analyze its behavior, and to aid in its design by verifying key properties of interest through rigorous and effective reasoning... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow%20class%20group | In algebraic number theory, the narrow class group of a number field K is a refinement of the class group of K that takes into account some information about embeddings of K into the field of real numbers.
Formal definition
Suppose that K is a finite extension of Q. Recall that the ordinary class group of K is defin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture%20%28botany%29 | Apertures are areas on the walls of a pollen grain, where the wall is thinner and/or softer. For germination it is necessary that the pollen tube can reach out from the inside of the pollen grain and transport the sperm to the egg deep down in the pistil. The apertures are the places where the pollen tube is able to br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20trypanosomiasis | Animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana and nagana pest, or sleeping sickness, is a disease of vertebrates. The disease is caused by trypanosomes of several species in the genus Trypanosoma such as T. brucei. T. vivax causes nagana mainly in West Africa, although it has spread to South America. The trypanosomes in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymatroid | In mathematics, a polymatroid is a polytope associated with a submodular function. The notion was introduced by Jack Edmonds in 1970. It is also described as the multiset analogue of the matroid.
Definition
Let be a finite set and a non-decreasing submodular function, that is, for each we have , and for each we ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geon%20%28physics%29 | In theoretical general relativity, a geon is a nonsingular electromagnetic or gravitational wave which is held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy. They were first investigated theoretically in 1955 by J. A. Wheeler, who coined the term as a contraction of "gravitation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycloconverter | A cycloconverter (CCV) or a cycloinverter converts a constant amplitude, constant frequency AC waveform to another AC waveform of a lower frequency by synthesizing the output waveform from segments of the AC supply without an intermediate DC link ( and ). There are two main types of CCVs, circulating current type or bl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adherens%20junction | Adherens junctions (or zonula adherens, intermediate junction, or "belt desmosome") are protein complexes that occur at cell–cell junctions and cell–matrix junctions in epithelial and endothelial tissues, usually more basal than tight junctions. An adherens junction is defined as a cell junction whose cytoplasmic face ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Australian%20flags | This is a list of flags of different designs that have been used in Australia.
National flags
Other flags recognised under the Flags Act 1953
Sources:
Personal flags
Sovereign
Governor-General
State governors
Prime Minister
Coronation Standards
Civil ensigns
Australian Defence Force
Royal Australian Navy
R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhaus%E2%80%93Johnson%E2%80%93Trotter%20algorithm | The Steinhaus–Johnson–Trotter algorithm or Johnson–Trotter algorithm, also called plain changes, is an algorithm named after Hugo Steinhaus, Selmer M. Johnson and Hale F. Trotter that generates all of the permutations of elements. Each permutation in the sequence that it generates differs from the previous permutation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdparm | hdparm is a command line program for Linux to set and view ATA hard disk drive hardware parameters and test performance. It can set parameters such as drive caches, sleep mode, power management, acoustic management, and DMA settings. GParted and Parted Magic both include hdparm.
Changing hardware parameters from subo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump%20search | In computer science, a jump search or block search refers to a search algorithm for ordered lists. It works by first checking all items Lkm, where and m is the block size, until an item is found that is larger than the search key. To find the exact position of the search key in the list a linear search is performed on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Jones%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Clifford "Cliff" B. Jones (born 1 June 1944) is a British computer scientist, specializing in research into formal methods. He undertook a late DPhil at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science) under Tony Hoare, awarded in 1981. Jones' thesis proposed an ext... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opaque%20pointer | In computer programming, an opaque pointer is a special case of an opaque data type, a data type declared to be a pointer to a record or data structure of some unspecified type.
Opaque pointers are present in several programming languages including Ada, C, C++, D and Modula-2.
If the language is strongly typed, progr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan%20Rain | Titan Rain was a series of coordinated attacks on computer systems in the United States since 2003; they were known to have been ongoing for at least three years. The attacks originated in Guangdong, China. The activity is believed to be associated with a state-sponsored advanced persistent threat. It was given the des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Data%20Element%20Framework | The Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) was a controlled vocabulary developed by The Open Group. It provided a framework for categorizing, naming, and indexing data. It assigned to every item of data a structured alphanumeric tag plus a controlled vocabulary name that describes the meaning of the data. This allowe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dines%20Bj%C3%B8rner |
Professor Dines Bjørner (born 4 October 1937, in Odense) is a Danish computer scientist.
He specializes in research into domain engineering, requirements engineering and formal methods. He worked with Cliff Jones and others on the Vienna Development Method (VDM) at IBM Laboratory Vienna (and elsewhere). Later he was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F5%2C%20Inc. | F5, Inc. is a publicly-held American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking (ADN), application availability & performance, network security, and access & authorization.
F5 is headquartered in Seattle, Washington in F5 To... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacode | Pharmacode, also known as Pharmaceutical Binary Code, is a barcode standard, used in the pharmaceutical industry as a packing control system. It is designed to be readable despite printing errors. It can be printed in multiple colors as a check to ensure that the remainder of the packaging (which the pharmaceutical co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92-Hydroxy%20%CE%B2-methylbutyric%20acid | β-Hydroxy β-methylbutyric acid (HMB), otherwise known as its conjugate base, , is a naturally produced substance in humans that is used as a dietary supplement and as an ingredient in certain medical foods that are intended to promote wound healing and provide nutritional support for people with muscle wasting due to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20security | Application security (short AppSec) includes all tasks that introduce a secure software development life cycle to development teams. Its final goal is to improve security practices and, through that, to find, fix and preferably prevent security issues within applications. It encompasses the whole application life cycle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20genomics | Computational genomics refers to the use of computational and statistical analysis to decipher biology from genome sequences and related data, including both DNA and RNA sequence as well as other "post-genomic" data (i.e., experimental data obtained with technologies that require the genome sequence, such as genomic DN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-variant | In Unicode, two glyphs are said to be Z-variants (often spelled zVariants) if they share the same etymology but have slightly different appearances and different Unicode code points. For example, the Unicode characters U+8AAA 說 and U+8AAC 説 are Z-variants. The notion of Z-variance is only applicable to the "CJKV script... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Stoy | Joseph E. Stoy is a British computer scientist. He initially studied physics at Oxford University. Early in his career, in the 1970s, he worked on denotational semantics with Christopher Strachey in the Programming Research Group at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard%20horn | A Picard horn, also called the Picard topology or Picard model, is one of the oldest known hyperbolic 3-manifolds, first described by Émile Picard in 1884. The manifold is the quotient of the upper half-plane model of hyperbolic 3-space by the projective special linear group, . It was proposed as a model for the
shape... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s%20staff | The term Jacob's staff is used to refer to several things, also known as cross-staff, a ballastella, a fore-staff, a ballestilla, or a balestilha. In its most basic form, a Jacob's staff is a stick or pole with length markings; most staffs are much more complicated than that, and usually contain a number of measureme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSMO-TV | KSMO-TV (channel 62) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate KCTV (channel 5). Both stations share studios on Shawnee Mission Parkway in Fairway, Kansas, while KSMO-TV's transmitter is located in Independence, M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMCI-TV | KMCI-TV (channel 38) is an independent television station licensed to Lawrence, Kansas, United States, serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside NBC affiliate KSHB-TV (channel 41). Both stations share studios on Oak Street in Kansas City, Missouri, while KMCI-TV's tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Standards%20Project | The Web Standards Project (WaSP) was a group of professional web developers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the web standards recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium, along with other groups and standards bodies.
Founded in 1998, The Web Standards Project campaigned for standards that reduce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundstream | Soundstream Inc. was the first United States audiophile digital audio recording company, providing commercial services for recording and computer-based editing.
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Soundstream was founded in 1975 in Salt Lake City, Utah by Dr. Thomas G. Stockham, Jr. The company provided worldwide on-location recording services ... |
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