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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proizvolov%27s%20identity | In mathematics, Proizvolov's identity is an identity concerning sums of differences of positive integers. The identity was posed by Vyacheslav Proizvolov as a problem in the 1985 All-Union Soviet Student Olympiads.
To state the identity, take the first 2N positive integers,
1, 2, 3, ..., 2N − 1, 2N,
and partition t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDISwrapper | NDISwrapper is a free software driver wrapper that enables the use of Windows XP network device drivers (for devices such as PCI cards, USB modems, and routers) on Linux operating systems. NDISwrapper works by implementing the Windows kernel and NDIS APIs and dynamically linking Windows network drivers to this implemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunocompetence | In immunology, immunocompetence is the ability of the body to produce a normal immune response following exposure to an antigen. Immunocompetence is the opposite of immunodeficiency (also known as immuno-incompetence or being immuno-compromised). Examples include:
a newborn who does not yet have a fully functioning im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20effector%20domain | The death-effector domain (DED) is a protein interaction domain found only in eukaryotes that regulates a variety of cellular signalling pathways. The DED domain is found in inactive procaspases (cysteine proteases) and proteins that regulate caspase activation in the apoptosis cascade such as FAS-associating death dom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasstron | The Sony Glasstron was a family of portable head-mounted displays, first released in 1996 with the model PLM-50. The products included two LCD screens and two earphones for video and audio respectively. These products are no longer manufactured nor supported by Sony.
The Glasstron was not the first head-mounted displa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinomial | In elementary algebra, a trinomial is a polynomial consisting of three terms or monomials.
Examples of trinomial expressions
with variables
with variables
with variables
, the quadratic polynomial in standard form with variables.
with variables, nonnegative integers and any constants.
where is var... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin%20DNS | Round-robin DNS is a technique of load distribution, load balancing, or fault-tolerance provisioning multiple, redundant Internet Protocol service hosts, e.g., Web server, FTP servers, by managing the Domain Name System's (DNS) responses to address requests from client computers according to an appropriate statistical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic%20network | A metabolic network is the complete set of metabolic and physical processes that determine the physiological and biochemical properties of a cell. As such, these networks comprise the chemical reactions of metabolism, the metabolic pathways, as well as the regulatory interactions that guide these reactions.
With the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbounded%20nondeterminism | In computer science, unbounded nondeterminism or unbounded indeterminacy is a property of concurrency by which the amount of delay in servicing a request can become unbounded as a result of arbitration of contention for shared resources while still guaranteeing that the request will eventually be serviced. Unbounded n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Rights%20Group | The Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues and by fostering a community of grassroots activists. It campaigns on numerous issues including mass surveillance, internet filtering and censorship, and intellectual propert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20maze%20%28neuroscience%29 | A water maze is a device used to test an animal's memory in which the alleys are filled with water, providing a motivation to escape.
Many different mazes exist, such as T- and Y-mazes, Cincinnati water mazes, and radial arm mazes. Water mazes have been used to test discrimination learning and spatial learning abiliti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20Ocean%20Model | The Modular Ocean Model (MOM) is a three-dimensional ocean circulation model designed primarily for studying the ocean climate system. The model is developed and supported primarily by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA/GFDL) in Princeton, N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASK | The DASK was the first computer in Denmark. It was commissioned in 1955, designed and constructed by Regnecentralen, and began operation in September 1957. DASK is an acronym for Dansk Aritmetisk Sekvens Kalkulator or Danish Arithmetic Sequence Calculator. Regnecentralen almost didnot allow the name, as the word dask m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%20the%20lucky%20stiff | Jonathan Gillette, known by the pseudonym why the lucky stiff (often abbreviated as _why), is a writer, cartoonist, artist, and programmer notable for his work with the Ruby programming language. Annie Lowrey described him as "one of the most unusual, and beloved, computer programmers" in the world. Along with Yukihir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea%20test | The LEA Vision Test System is a series of pediatric vision tests designed specifically for children who do not know how to read the letters of the alphabet that are typically used in eye charts. There are numerous variants of the LEA test which can be used to assess the visual capabilities of near vision and distance v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20mockup | Digital mockUp (DMU) is the digital description of a product, usually in 3D, for its entire life cycle. Digital mockup is enriched by all the activities that contribute to describing the product. The product design engineers, the manufacturing engineers, and the support engineers work together to create and manage the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superposition%20calculus | The superposition calculus is a calculus for reasoning in equational logic. It was developed in the early 1990s and combines concepts from first-order resolution with ordering-based equality handling as developed in the context of (unfailing) Knuth–Bendix completion. It can be seen as a generalization of either resolu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent%20bond | In organic chemistry, a bent bond, also known as a banana bond, is a type of covalent chemical bond with a geometry somewhat reminiscent of a banana. The term itself is a general representation of electron density or configuration resembling a similar "bent" structure within small ring molecules, such as cyclopropane (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent%20and%20observable%20variables | In statistics, latent variables (from Latin: present participle of lateo, “lie hidden”) are variables that can only be inferred indirectly through a mathematical model from other observable variables that can be directly observed or measured. Such latent variable models are used in many disciplines, including political... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20Noc-A-Homa | Chief Noc-A-Homa was a mascot for the American professional baseball team Atlanta Braves from 1966 to 1985. He was primarily played by Levi Walker, Jr. After being a mascot for the franchise for two decades, the Atlanta Braves retired Chief Noc-A-Homa before the 1986 season.
History
Origin
The mascot's tradition sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory%20rate | The respiratory rate is the rate at which breathing occurs; it is set and controlled by the respiratory center of the brain. A person's respiratory rate is usually measured in breaths per minute.
Measurement
The respiratory rate in humans is measured by counting the number of breaths for one minute through counting h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway%20Addressable%20Remote%20Transducer%20Protocol | The HART Communication Protocol (Highway Addressable Remote Transducer) is a hybrid analog+digital industrial automation open protocol. Its most notable advantage is that it can communicate over legacy 4–20 mA analog instrumentation current loops, sharing the pair of wires used by the analog-only host systems. HART is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge%20enhancement | Edge enhancement is an image processing filter that enhances the edge contrast of an image or video in an attempt to improve its acutance (apparent sharpness).
The filter works by identifying sharp edge boundaries in the image, such as the edge between a subject and a background of a contrasting color, and increasing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteitis%20pubis | Osteitis pubis is a noninfectious inflammation of the pubis symphysis (also known as the pubic symphysis, symphysis pubis, or symphysis pubica), causing varying degrees of lower abdominal and pelvic pain. Osteitis pubis was first described in patients who had undergone suprapubic surgery, and it remains a well-known co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR%20Butterfly | The AVR Butterfly is a battery-powered single-board microcontroller developed by Atmel. It consists of an Atmel ATmega169PV Microcontroller, a liquid crystal display, joystick, speaker, serial port, real-time clock (RTC), internal flash memory, and sensors for temperature and voltage. The board is the size of a name ta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20recovery%20voltage | A transient recovery voltage (TRV) for high-voltage circuit breakers is the voltage that appears across the terminals after current interruption. It is a critical parameter for fault interruption by a high-voltage circuit breaker, its characteristics (amplitude, rate of rise) can lead either to a successful current int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautonym | A tautonym is a scientific name of a species in which both parts of the name have the same spelling, such as Rattus rattus. The first part of the name is the name of the genus and the second part is referred to as the specific epithet in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants and the speci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaging%20genetics | Imaging genetics refers to the use of anatomical or physiological imaging technologies as phenotypic assays to evaluate genetic variation. Scientists that first used the term imaging genetics were interested in how genes influence psychopathology and used functional neuroimaging to investigate genes that are expressed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible%20component | In algebraic geometry, an irreducible algebraic set or irreducible variety is an algebraic set that cannot be written as the union of two proper algebraic subsets. An irreducible component is an algebraic subset that is irreducible and maximal (for set inclusion) for this property. For example, the set of solutions of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized%20medicine | Personalized medicine, also referred to as precision medicine, is a medical model that separates people into different groups—with medical decisions, practices, interventions and/or products being tailored to the individual patient based on their predicted response or risk of disease. The terms personalized medicine, p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20%28genetics%29 | Transition, in genetics and molecular biology, refers to a point mutation that changes a purine nucleotide to another purine (A ↔ G), or a pyrimidine nucleotide to another pyrimidine (C ↔ T). Approximately two out of three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are transitions.
Transitions can be caused by oxidative d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTM%20theorem | In computability theory, the theorem, or universal Turing machine theorem, is a basic result about Gödel numberings of the set of computable functions. It affirms the existence of a computable universal function, which is capable of calculating any other computable function. The universal function is an abstract versi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning%20transceiver%20logic | Gunning transceiver logic (GTL) is a type of logic signaling used to drive electronic backplane buses. It has a voltage swing between 0.4 volts and 1.2 volts—much lower than that used in TTL and CMOS logic—and symmetrical parallel resistive termination. The maximum signaling frequency is specified to be 100 MHz, althou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure%20analysis | Failure analysis is the process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the cause of a failure, often with the goal of determining corrective actions or liability.
According to Bloch and Geitner, ”machinery failures reveal a reaction chain of cause and effect… usually a deficiency commonly referred to as the symp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuso | Kuso is a term used in East Asia for the internet culture that generally includes all types of camp and parody. In Japanese, is a word
that is commonly translated to English as curse words such as fuck, shit, damn, and bullshit (both kuso and shit refer to feces), and is often said as an interjection. It is also used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millieme | Millieme is a French word meaning one thousandth of something. In English it may refer to:
Millieme (angle), a French unit of plane angle similar to a milliradian.
One thousandth of an Egyptian pound, Tunisian dinar, or Libyan pound.
Numbers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac%20%28film%29 | Zodiac is a 2007 American neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt, based on the non-fiction books by Robert Graysmith, Zodiac (1986) and Zodiac Unmasked (2002). The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. with Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Eli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang%20TV%20Tower | Pyongyang TV Tower is a free-standing concrete TV tower with an observation deck and a panorama restaurant at a height of in Pyongyang, North Korea. The tower stands in Kaeson Park in Moranbong-guyok, north of Kim Il-sung Stadium. The tower broadcasts signals for Korean Central Television.
History
It was built in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20boundedness | In mathematics, a uniformly bounded family of functions is a family of bounded functions that can all be bounded by the same constant. This constant is larger than or equal to the absolute value of any value of any of the functions in the family.
Definition
Real line and complex plane
Let
be a family of function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beating%20the%20bounds | Beating the bounds or perambulating the bounds is an ancient custom still observed in parts of England, Wales, and the New England region of the United States, which traditionally involved swatting local landmarks with branches to maintain a shared mental map of parish boundaries, usually every seven years.
These cere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopharmaceutical | A biopharmaceutical, also known as a biological medical product, or biologic, is any pharmaceutical drug product manufactured in, extracted from, or semisynthesized from biological sources. Different from totally synthesized pharmaceuticals, they include vaccines, whole blood, blood components, allergenics, somatic cel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern%20blot | The southwestern blot, is a lab technique that involves identifying as well as characterizing DNA-binding proteins by their ability to bind to specific oligonucleotide probes. Determination of molecular weight of proteins binding to DNA is also made possible by the technique. The name originates from a combination of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricalcium%20phosphate | Tricalcium phosphate (sometimes abbreviated TCP), more commonly known as Calcium phosphate, is a calcium salt of phosphoric acid with the chemical formula Ca3(PO4)2. It is also known as tribasic calcium phosphate and bone phosphate of lime (BPL). It is a white solid of low solubility. Most commercial samples of "trica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20histogram | An image histogram is a type of histogram that acts as a graphical representation of the tonal distribution in a digital image. It plots the number of pixels for each tonal value. By looking at the histogram for a specific image a viewer will be able to judge the entire tonal distribution at a glance.
Image histograms... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20noise | Image noise is random variation of brightness or color information in images, and is usually an aspect of electronic noise. It can be produced by the image sensor and circuitry of a scanner or digital camera. Image noise can also originate in film grain and in the unavoidable shot noise of an ideal photon detector. Ima... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otonality%20and%20utonality | Otonality and utonality are terms introduced by Harry Partch to describe chords whose pitch classes are the harmonics or subharmonics of a given fixed tone (identity), respectively. For example: , , ,... or , , ,....
Definition
An otonality is a collection of pitches which can be expressed in ratios, expressing thei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heusler%20compound | Heusler compounds are magnetic intermetallics with face-centered cubic crystal structure and a composition of XYZ (half-Heuslers) or X2YZ (full-Heuslers), where X and Y are transition metals and Z is in the p-block. The term derives from the name of German mining engineer and chemist Friedrich Heusler, who studied such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20duck | The domestic duck or domestic mallard (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus) is a subspecies of mallard that has been domesticated by humans and raised for meat, eggs, and down feathers. A few are also kept for show, as pets, or for their ornamental value. Almost all varieties of domesticated ducks, apart from the domestic Mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evershed%20effect | The Evershed effect, named after the British astronomer John Evershed, is the radial flow of gas across the photospheric surface of the penumbra of sunspots from the inner border with the umbra towards the outer edge.
The speed varies from around 1 km/s at the border between the umbra and the penumbra to a maximum of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20association | A security association (SA) is the establishment of shared security attributes between two network entities to support secure communication. An SA may include attributes such as: cryptographic algorithm and mode; traffic encryption key; and parameters for the network data to be passed over the connection. The framework... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20story | In software development and product management, a user story is an informal, natural language description of features of a software system. They are written from the perspective of an end user or user of a system, and may be recorded on index cards, Post-it notes, or digitally in project management software. Depending ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After%20Man | After Man: A Zoology of the Future is a 1981 speculative evolution book written by Scottish geologist and palaeontologist Dougal Dixon and illustrated by several illustrators including Diz Wallis, John Butler, Brian McIntyre, Philip Hood, Roy Woodard and Gary Marsh. The book features a foreword by Desmond Morris. After... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin%20acid | Resin acid refers to mixtures of several related carboxylic acids, primarily abietic acid, found in tree resins. Nearly all resin acids have the same basic skeleton: three fused rings having the empirical formula C19H29COOH. Resin acids are tacky, yellowish gums that are water-insoluble. They are used to produce soa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front-end%20processor | A front-end processor (FEP), or a communications processor, is a small-sized computer which interfaces to the host computer a number of networks, such as SNA, or a number of peripheral devices, such as terminals, disk units, printers and tape units. Data is transferred between the host computer and the front-end proces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiperiodic%20function | In mathematics, a quasiperiodic function is a function that has a certain similarity to a periodic function. A function is quasiperiodic with quasiperiod if , where is a "simpler" function than . What it means to be "simpler" is vague.
A simple case (sometimes called arithmetic quasiperiodic) is if the function obe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20set | In dynamical systems theory, a subset Λ of a smooth manifold M is said to have a hyperbolic structure with respect to a smooth map f if its tangent bundle may be split into two invariant subbundles, one of which is contracting and the other is expanding under f, with respect to some Riemannian metric on M. An analogous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creamery | A creamery is a place where milk and cream are processed and where butter and cheese is produced. Cream is separated from whole milk; pasteurization is done to the skimmed milk and cream separately. Whole milk for sale has had some cream returned to the skimmed milk.
The creamery is the source of butter from a dairy. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Stockum%20dust | In general relativity, the van Stockum dust is an exact solution of the Einstein field equations in which the gravitational field is generated by dust rotating about an axis of cylindrical symmetry. Since the density of the dust is increasing with distance from this axis, the solution is rather artificial, but as one ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakutani%20fixed-point%20theorem | In mathematical analysis, the Kakutani fixed-point theorem is a fixed-point theorem for set-valued functions. It provides sufficient conditions for a set-valued function defined on a convex, compact subset of a Euclidean space to have a fixed point, i.e. a point which is mapped to a set containing it. The Kakutani fixe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20Personal%20Firewall | Norton Personal Firewall, developed by Symantec, is a discontinued personal firewall with ad blocking, program control and privacy protection capabilities.
Norton Personal Firewall program control module is able to allow or deny individual applications access to the Internet. Programs are automatically allowed or deni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Shiryaev | Albert Nikolayevich Shiryaev (; born October 12, 1934) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is known for his work in probability theory, statistics and financial mathematics.
Career
He graduated from Moscow State University in 1957. From that time until now he has been working in Steklov Mathematical Institute.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20MOSFET | A power MOSFET is a specific type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) designed to handle significant power levels. Compared to the other power semiconductor devices, such as an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) or a thyristor, its main advantages are high switching speed and good effici... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortlex%20order | In mathematics, and particularly in the theory of formal languages, shortlex is a total ordering for finite sequences of objects that can themselves be totally ordered. In the shortlex ordering, sequences are primarily sorted by cardinality (length) with the shortest sequences first, and sequences of the same length ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUPV | WUPV (channel 65) is a television station licensed to Ashland, Virginia, United States, serving the Richmond area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Richmond-licensed NBC affiliate WWBT (channel 12) and WRID-LD (channel 48). The stations share studios on Midlothian Turnpike (US 60) in R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20thoracic%20artery | In human anatomy, the lateral thoracic artery (or external mammary artery) is a blood vessel that supplies oxygenated blood to the lateral structures of the thorax and breast.
It originates from the axillary artery and follows the lower border of the Pectoralis minor muscle to the side of the chest, supplies the Serra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine%20and%20cosine%20transforms | In mathematics, the Fourier sine and cosine transforms are forms of the Fourier transform that do not use complex numbers or require negative frequency. They are the forms originally used by Joseph Fourier and are still preferred in some applications, such as signal processing or statistics.
Definition
The Fourier sin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromule | A stromule is a microscopic structure found in plant cells. Stromules (stroma-filled tubules) are highly dynamic structures extending from the surface of all plastid types, including proplastids, chloroplasts, etioplasts, leucoplasts, amyloplasts, and chromoplasts. Protrusions from and interconnections between plastid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20of%20discontinuities | Continuous functions are of utmost importance in mathematics, functions and applications. However, not all functions are continuous. If a function is not continuous at a point in its domain, one says that it has a discontinuity there. The set of all points of discontinuity of a function may be a discrete set, a dense s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Structure%20of%20Nucleic%20Acids%3A%20A%20Structure%20for%20Deoxyribose%20Nucleic%20Acid | "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" was the first article published to describe the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, using X-ray diffraction and the mathematics of a helix transform. It was published by Francis Crick and James D. Watson in the scientific journ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune | Auto-Tune (or autotune) is an audio processor introduced in 1997 by the American company Antares Audio Technologies. It uses a proprietary device to measure and alter pitch in vocal and instrumental music recording and performances.
Auto-Tune was originally intended to disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies, allowin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccan | Buccan or Boucan is the native South American and Caribbean name for a wooden framework or hurdle on which meat was slow-roasted or smoked over a fire. Spaniards called the same process "barbacoa", later "barbecue".
The term "buccaneer" for pirates or privateers, is said to be derived from buccan. In the Caribbean, se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly%20%28pentop%20computer%29 | The Fly Pentop Computer and FLY Fusion Pentop Computer are personal electronics products manufactured by LeapFrog Enterprises Inc. They are called a "pentop" computer by its manufacturer, because they consist of a pen with a computer inside.
In 2009, LeapFrog discontinued both the manufacture and support of the device... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20T3E | The Cray T3E was Cray Research's second-generation massively parallel supercomputer architecture, launched in late November 1995. The first T3E was installed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in 1996. Like the previous Cray T3D, it was a fully distributed memory machine using a 3D torus topology interconnection n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20announcement%20%28radio%20data%20systems%29 | Traffic announcement (TA) refers to the broadcasting of a specific type of traffic report on the Radio Data System. It is generally used by motorists, to assist with route planning, and for the avoidance of traffic congestion.
The RDS-enabled receiver can be set to pay special attention to this TA flag and e.g. stop ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20hour%20%28photography%29 | In photography, the golden hour is the period of daytime shortly after sunrise or before sunset, during which daylight is redder and softer than when the sun is higher in the sky.
The golden hour is also sometimes called the "magic hour," especially by cinematographers and photographers. During these times, the bright... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opalescence | Opalescence or play of color is the optical phenomenon displayed by the mineraloid gemstone opal, a hydrated silicon dioxide. However, each of the three notable types of opalprecious, common, and firedisplay different optical effects; therefore, the intended meaning varies depending on context.
The general definition ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaguar | Chaguar is the common name of several related species of South American plants of the family Bromeliaceae, among them Bromelia serra, Bromelia hieronymi, Deinacanthon urbanianum and Pseudananas sagenarius, which are non-woody forest plants with sword-shaped evergreen leaves, resembling yucca. The different varieties gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netopia | Farallon, later renamed Netopia, was a computer networking company headquartered in Berkeley, and subsequently Emeryville, California, that produced a wide variety of products including bridges, repeaters and switches, and in their later Netopia incarnation, modems, routers, gateways, and Wi-Fi devices. The company al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20of%20percussion | The center of percussion is the point on an extended massive object attached to a pivot where a perpendicular impact will produce no reactive shock at the pivot. Translational and rotational motions cancel at the pivot when an impulsive blow is struck at the center of percussion. The center of percussion is often d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerkin%20method | In mathematics, in the area of numerical analysis, Galerkin methods are named after the Soviet mathematician Boris Galerkin. They convert a continuous operator problem, such as a differential equation, commonly in a weak formulation, to a discrete problem by applying linear constraints determined by finite sets of basi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20triadan%20system | The modified triadan system is a scheme of dental nomenclature that can be used widely across different animal species. It is used worldwide among veterinary surgeons.
Each tooth is given a three digit number.
The first number relates to the quadrant of the mouth in which the tooth lies:
upper right
upper left
low... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotype | A chemotype (sometimes chemovar) is a chemically distinct entity in a plant or microorganism, with differences in the composition of the secondary metabolites. Minor genetic and epigenetic changes with little or no effect on morphology or anatomy may produce large changes in the chemical phenotype. Chemotypes are often... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysctl | sysctl is a software utility of some Unix-like operating systems that reads and modifies the attributes of the system kernel such as its version number, maximum limits, and security settings. It is available both as a system call for compiled programs, and an administrator command for interactive use and scripting. Lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare%20species | A rare species is a group of organisms that are very uncommon, scarce, or infrequently encountered. This designation may be applied to either a plant or animal taxon, and is distinct from the term endangered or threatened. Designation of a rare species may be made by an official body, such as a national government, sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid%20peptide | Opioid peptides or opiate peptides are peptides that bind to opioid receptors in the brain; opiates and opioids mimic the effect of these peptides. Such peptides may be produced by the body itself, for example endorphins. The effects of these peptides vary, but they all resemble those of opiates. Brain opioid peptide s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser%20omentum | The lesser omentum (small omentum or gastrohepatic omentum) is the double layer of peritoneum that extends from the liver to the lesser curvature of the stomach, and to the first part of the duodenum. The lesser omentum is usually divided into these two connecting parts: the hepatogastric ligament, and the hepatoduoden... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro%20blue%20tetrazolium%20chloride | Nitro blue tetrazolium is a chemical compound composed of two tetrazole moieties. It is used in immunology for sensitive detection of alkaline phosphatase (with BCIP). NBT serves as the oxidant and BCIP is the AP-substrate (and gives also dark blue dye).
Clinical significance
In immunohistochemistry the alkaline phosp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felid%20hybrids | A felid hybrid is any of a number of hybrids between various species of the cat family, Felidae. This article deals with hybrids between the species of the subfamily Felinae (feline hybrids).
For hybrids between two species of the genus Panthera (lions, tigers, jaguars, and leopards), see Panthera hybrid. There are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSOFT | The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering provides a forum for computing professionals from industry, government and academia to examine principles, practices, and new research results in software engineering.
SIGSOFT focuses on issues related to all aspects of software... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Engineering%20Notes | The ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (SEN) is published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for the Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT). It was established in 1976, and the first issue appeared in May 1976. It provides a forum for informal articles and other information on softwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%20point | In Euclidean geometry, the Fermat point of a triangle, also called the Torricelli point or Fermat–Torricelli point, is a point such that the sum of the three distances from each of the three vertices of the triangle to the point is the smallest possible or, equivalently, the geometric median of the three vertices. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson%E2%80%93Lucy%20deconvolution | The Richardson–Lucy algorithm, also known as Lucy–Richardson deconvolution, is an iterative procedure for recovering an underlying image that has been blurred by a known point spread function. It was named after William Richardson and Leon B. Lucy, who described it independently.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRBW | WRBW (channel 65), branded on-air as Fox 35 Plus, is a television station in Orlando, Florida, United States, serving as the local outlet for the MyNetworkTV programming service. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet WOFL (channel 35). Both stations share studios on Skyline Drive in L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary%20fringe | The capillary fringe is the subsurface layer in which groundwater seeps up from a water table by capillary action to fill pores. Pores at the base of the capillary fringe are filled with water due to tension saturation. This saturated portion of the capillary fringe is less than the total capillary rise because of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations%20of%20the%20ichthys%20symbol | The ichthys symbol (or "Jesus fish") is a sign typically used to proclaim an affiliation with or affinity for Christianity. The fish was originally adopted by early Christians as a secret symbol, but the many variations known today first appeared in the 1980s. Some of these are made by Christians in order to promote a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%20%28video%20game%29 | Hacker is a 1985 video game by Activision. It was designed by Steve Cartwright and released for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Macintosh, DOS, MSX2, and ZX Spectrum.
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Activision executive Jim Levy introduced Hacker to reporters by pretending that something had gone wr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit%20field | A bit field is a data structure that consists of one or more adjacent bits which have been allocated for specific purposes, so that any single bit or group of bits within the structure can be set or inspected. A bit field is most commonly used to represent integral types of known, fixed bit-width, such as single-bit Bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal%20cross | In genetics, a reciprocal cross is a breeding experiment designed to test the role of parental sex on a given inheritance pattern. All parent organisms must be true breeding to properly carry out such an experiment. In one cross, a male expressing the trait of interest will be crossed with a female not expressing the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MailSlot | A Mailslot is a one-way interprocess communication mechanism, available on the Microsoft Windows operating system, that allows communication between processes both locally and over a network. The use of Mailslots is generally simpler than named pipes or sockets when a relatively small number of relatively short message... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy%20over%20Cantor%27s%20theory | In mathematical logic, the theory of infinite sets was first developed by Georg Cantor. Although this work has become a thoroughly standard fixture of classical set theory, it has been criticized in several areas by mathematicians and philosophers.
Cantor's theorem implies that there are sets having cardinality greate... |
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