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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthitis | Posthitis is the inflammation of the foreskin (prepuce) of the penis. It is characterised by swelling and redness on the skin and it may be accompanied by a malodorous discharge.
The term posthitis comes from the Greek "posthe", meaning foreskin, and "-itis", meaning inflammation.
Causes
Posthitis can have infectiou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BID/60 | BID/60, also called Singlet, was a British encryption machine. It was used by the British intelligence services from around 1949 or 1950 onwards. The system is a rotor machine, and would appear to have used 10 rotors. There are some apparent similarities between this machine and the US / NATO KL-7 device.
In 2005, a S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20%28tattoo%29 | Tattoo flash is any tattoo design that is pre-prepared for customers to avoid the need for custom designs, or as a starting point for custom work. Tattoo flash was designed for rapid tattooing and used in "street shops"—tattoo shops that handle a large volume of standardized tattoos for walk-in customers. Pieces of fla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency%20inversion%20principle | In object-oriented design, the dependency inversion principle is a specific methodology for loosely coupled software modules. When following this principle, the conventional dependency relationships established from high-level, policy-setting modules to low-level, dependency modules are reversed, thus rendering high-le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canderel | Canderel is a brand of artificial sweetener made mainly from aspartame. Canderel is marketed by The Merisant Company, a global corporation with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, also Switzerland, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Australia.
Canderel was first marketed in France in 1979. The name "Canderel" is a combination... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infiltrometer | An infiltrometer is a device used to measure the rate of water infiltration into soil or other porous media. Commonly used infiltrometers are single-ring and double-ring infiltrometers, and also disc permeameters.
Single ring
A single-ring infiltrometer involves driving a ring into the soil and supplying water in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCHQ%20Bude | GCHQ Bude, also known as GCHQ Composite Signals Organisation Station Morwenstow, abbreviated to GCHQ CSO Morwenstow, is a UK Government satellite ground station and eavesdropping centre located on the north Cornwall coast at Cleave Camp, between the small villages of Morwenstow and Coombe. It is operated by the Britis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infiltration%20%28hydrology%29 | Infiltration is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil. It is commonly used in both hydrology and soil sciences. The infiltration capacity is defined as the maximum rate of infiltration. It is most often measured in meters per day but can also be measured in other units of distance over time i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numberlink | Numberlink is a type of logic puzzle involving finding paths to connect numbers in a grid.
Rules
The player has to pair up all the matching numbers on the grid with single continuous lines (or paths). The lines cannot branch off or cross over each other, and the numbers have to fall at the end of each line (i.e., not ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20model%20of%20flower%20development | The ABC model of flower development is a scientific model of the process by which flowering plants produce a pattern of gene expression in meristems that leads to the appearance of an organ oriented towards sexual reproduction, a flower. There are three physiological developments that must occur in order for this to ta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20M.%20Solovay | Robert Martin Solovay (born December 15, 1938) is an American mathematician specializing in set theory.
Biography
Solovay earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1964 under the direction of Saunders Mac Lane, with a dissertation on A Functorial Form of the Differentiable Riemann–Roch theorem. Solovay has sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needlestick%20injury | A needlestick injury is the penetration of the skin by a hypodermic needle or other sharp object that has been in contact with blood, tissue or other body fluids before the exposure. Even though the acute physiological effects of a needlestick injury are generally negligible, these injuries can lead to transmission of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ%20printing | Organ printing utilizes techniques similar to conventional 3D printing where a computer model is fed into a printer that lays down successive layers of plastics or wax until a 3D object is produced. In the case of organ printing, the material being used by the printer is a biocompatible plastic. The biocompatible plast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20College%20of%20Surgeons | The Royal College of Surgeons is an ancient college (a form of corporation) established in England to regulate the activity of surgeons. Derivative organisations survive in many present and former members of the Commonwealth. These organisations are now also responsible for training surgeons and setting their examinati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable%20movie%20screen | An inflatable movie screen is an inflatable framework with an attached projection screen. Inflatable screens are used for outdoor movies, film festivals, drive-in theaters, sports, social, fundraising and other events requiring outdoor projection.
Design
The projection frame is made from PVC-coated fabric layers joi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay%20for%20performance%20%28healthcare%29 | In the healthcare industry, pay for performance (P4P), also known as "value-based purchasing", is a payment model that offers financial incentives to physicians, hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare providers for meeting certain performance measures. Clinical outcomes, such as longer survival, are difficult ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20recurrent%20artery | The radial recurrent artery arises from the radial artery immediately below the elbow.
It ascends between the branches of the radial nerve, lying on the supinator muscle and then between the brachioradialis muscle and the brachialis muscle, supplying these muscles and the elbow-joint, and anastomosing with the termina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20state%20horses | Twelve U.S. states have designated a horse breed as the official "state horse", two have a horse breed as their "state animal", one has an official "state pony", and one has a "honorary state equine". The first state horse was designated in Vermont in 1961. The most recent state horse designations occurred in 2023 when... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson%20Robots | EPSON Robots is the robotics design and manufacturing department of Japanese corporation Seiko Epson, the brand-name watch and computer printer producer.
Epson started the production of robots in 1980. Epson manufactures Cartesian, SCARA and 6-axis industrial robots for factory automation. Cleanroom and ESD compliant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOMED%20CT | SNOMED CT or SNOMED Clinical Terms is a systematically organized computer-processable collection of medical terms providing codes, terms, synonyms and definitions used in clinical documentation and reporting. SNOMED CT is considered to be the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimycin%20A | Antimycin A (more exactly Antimycin A1b) is a secondary metabolite produced by Streptomyces bacteria and a member of a group of related compounds called antimycins. Antimycin A is classified as an extremely hazardous substance in the United States, as defined in Section 302 of the U.S. Emergency Planning and Community... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift%20fence | A drift fence is any long, continuous fence used to control the movement of animals in a particular open range, or to collect animals for research.
Drift fences were used in the Texas Panhandle from 1882 to 1887 to control "cattle drift"—the winter migration of livestock to warmer territory. Long sections of barbed wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop%E2%80%93Cannings%20theorem | The Bishop–Cannings theorem is a theorem in evolutionary game theory. It states that (i) all members of a mixed evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) have the same payoff (Theorem 2), and (ii) that none of these can also be a pure ESS (from their Theorem 3). The usefulness of the results comes from the fact that they ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology%20in%20fiction | The use of nanotechnology in fiction has attracted scholarly attention. The first use of the distinguishing concepts of nanotechnology was "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", a talk given by physicist Richard Feynman in 1959. K. Eric Drexler's 1986 book Engines of Creation introduced the general public to the conce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabicu%20wood | Sabicu wood or sabicu is the wood of at least two species of the genus Lysiloma. Lysiloma sabicu (L.) Benth. occurs sparingly in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. It was named by George Bentham (1800-1884) from a Cuban specimen examined in 1854. Bentham went on to identify a second speci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Evolutionary%20Psychology | Center for Evolutionary Psychology (CEP) is a research center co-founded and co-directed by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides and is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The center is meant to provide research support and comprehensive training in the field of evolutionary psychology. The goals of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20nationale%20sup%C3%A9rieure%20des%20industries%20agricoles%20et%20alimentaires | The École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Agricoles et Alimentaires, or ENSIA, was a French grande école of agriculture, located in Massy, near Paris. It was affiliated to the Ministry of Agriculture.
The school was founded in 1893 and merged into AgroParisTech in 2006.
After initial training in food science and e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20singular%20point | In mathematics, in the theory of ordinary differential equations in the complex plane , the points of are classified into ordinary points, at which the equation's coefficients are analytic functions, and singular points, at which some coefficient has a singularity. Then amongst singular points, an important distinctio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%20not%20feed%20the%20animals | The prohibition "do not feed the animals" reflects a policy forbidding the artificial feeding of wild or feral animals. Signs displaying this message are commonly found in zoos, circuses, animal theme parks, aquariums, national parks, parks, public spaces, farms, and other places where people come into contact with wil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity%20distance | Luminosity distance DL is defined in terms of the relationship between the absolute magnitude M and apparent magnitude m of an astronomical object.
which gives:
where DL is measured in parsecs. For nearby objects (say, in the Milky Way) the luminosity distance gives a good approximation to the natural notion of dista... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaas%20Govert%20de%20Bruijn | Nicolaas Govert "Dick" de Bruijn (; 9 July 1918 – 17 February 2012) was a Dutch mathematician, noted for his many contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics and logic.
Biography
De Bruijn was born in The Hague where he attended elementary school between 1924 and 1930 and secondary school un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance%20pupil | In an optical system, the entrance pupil is the optical image of the physical aperture stop, as 'seen' through the front (the object side) of the lens system. The corresponding image of the aperture as seen through the back of the lens system is called the exit pupil. If there is no lens in front of the aperture (as in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Paolo%20Cantelli | Francesco Paolo Cantelli (20 December 187521 July 1966) was an Italian mathematician. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, probability theory, and actuarial science.
Biography
Cantelli was born in Palermo. He received his doctorate in mathematics in 1899 from the University of Palermo with a thesis on celest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%20Mary%20Joseph%20nodule | In medicine, the Sister Mary Joseph nodule (sometimes Sister Mary Joseph node or Sister Mary Joseph sign) refers to a palpable nodule bulging into the umbilicus as a result of metastasis of a malignant cancer in the pelvis or abdomen. Sister Mary Joseph nodules can be painful to palpation.
A periumbilical mass is not ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20Cap | Magic Cap (short for Magic Communicating Applications Platform) is a discontinued object-oriented operating system for PDAs developed by General Magic. Tony Fadell was a contributor to the platform, and Darin Adler was an architect.
Its graphical user interface incorporates a room metaphor, where the user navigates be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20accepted%20mutation | A point accepted mutation — also known as a PAM — is the replacement of a single amino acid in the primary structure of a protein with another single amino acid, which is accepted by the processes of natural selection. This definition does not include all point mutations in the DNA of an organism. In particular, silent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program-specific%20information | Program-specific information (PSI) is metadata about a program (channel) and part of an MPEG transport stream.
The PSI data as defined by ISO/IEC 13818-1 (MPEG-2 Part 1: Systems) includes four tables:
PAT (Program Association Table)
CAT (Conditional Access Table)
PMT (Program Mapping Table)
NIT (Network Informati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoluchowski%20coagulation%20equation | In statistical physics, the Smoluchowski coagulation equation is a population balance equation introduced by Marian Smoluchowski in a seminal 1916 publication, describing the time evolution of the number density of particles as they coagulate (in this context "clumping together") to size x at time t.
Simultaneous coag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%20sowing | Winter sowing is a method of starting seeds outdoors in winter. This is generally done with seeds that require a period of cold stratification. The method takes advantage of natural temperatures, rather than artificially refrigerating seeds.
Winter sowing involves sowing seeds in a miniature greenhouse outside during ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic%20Service%20Provider | In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
CSPs are independe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan%E2%80%93Meier%20estimator | The Kaplan–Meier estimator, also known as the product limit estimator, is a non-parametric statistic used to estimate the survival function from lifetime data. In medical research, it is often used to measure the fraction of patients living for a certain amount of time after treatment. In other fields, Kaplan–Meier es... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Claus%20machine | A Santa Claus machine, named after the folkloric Santa Claus, is a hypothetical machine that is capable of creating any required object or structure out of any given material. It is most often referenced by futurists and science fiction writers when discussing hypothetical projects of enormous scale, such as a Dyson sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumocystosis | Pneumocystosis is a fungal infection that most often presents as Pneumocystis pneumonia in people with HIV/AIDS or poor immunity. It usually causes cough, difficulty breathing and fever, and can lead to respiratory failure. Involvement outside the lungs is rare but, can occur as a disseminated type affecting lymph node... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20angle%20%28astronomy%29 | In observational astronomy, phase angle is the angle between the light incident onto an observed object and the light reflected from the object. In the context of astronomical observations, this is usually the angle Sun-object-observer.
For terrestrial observations, "Sun–object–Earth" is often nearly the same thing as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superficial%20fibular%20nerve | The superficial fibular nerve (also known as superficial peroneal nerve) is a mixed (motor and sensory) nerve that provides motor innervation to the fibularis longus and fibularis brevis muscles, and sensory innervation to skin over the antero-lateral aspect of the leg along with the greater part of the dorsum of the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%20formula%20for%20repeated%20integration | The Cauchy formula for repeated integration, named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy, allows one to compress n antiderivatives of a function into a single integral (cf. Cauchy's formula).
Scalar case
Let f be a continuous function on the real line. Then the nth repeated integral of f with base-point a,
is given by single ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrahydrophobicity | In chemistry and materials science, ultrahydrophobic (or superhydrophobic) surfaces are highly hydrophobic, i.e., extremely difficult to wet. The contact angles of a water droplet on an ultrahydrophobic material exceed 150°. This is also referred to as the lotus effect, after the superhydrophobic leaves of the lotus pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertebrate%20zoology | Invertebrate zoology is the subdiscipline of zoology that consists of the study of invertebrates, animals without a backbone (a structure which is found only in fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals).
Invertebrates are a vast and very diverse group of animals that includes sponges, echinoderms, tunicates, nume... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20moment%20point | The zero moment point (also referred to as zero-tilting moment point) is a concept related to the dynamics and control of legged locomotion, e.g., for humanoid or quadrupedal robots. It specifies the point with respect to which reaction forces at the contacts between the feet and the ground do not produce any moment in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28n-p%29%20reaction | The (n-p) reaction, or (n,p) reaction, is an example of a nuclear reaction. It is the reaction which occurs when a neutron enters a nucleus and a proton leaves the nucleus simultaneously.
For example, sulfur-32 (32S) undergoes an (n,p) nuclear reaction when bombarded with neutrons, thus forming phosphorus-32 (32P).
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptostreptococcus | Peptostreptococcus is a genus of anaerobic, Gram-positive, non-spore forming bacteria. The cells are small, spherical, and can occur in short chains, in pairs or individually. They typically move using cilia. Peptostreptococcus are slow-growing bacteria with increasing resistance to antimicrobial drugs. Peptostreptococ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%20stress%20tensor | The Maxwell stress tensor (named after James Clerk Maxwell) is a symmetric second-order tensor used in classical electromagnetism to represent the interaction between electromagnetic forces and mechanical momentum. In simple situations, such as a point charge moving freely in a homogeneous magnetic field, it is easy to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics and physics, the term generator or generating set may refer to any of a number of related concepts. The underlying concept in each case is that of a smaller set of objects, together with a set of operations that can be applied to it, that result in the creation of a larger collection of objects, called ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deoxyribonucleotide | A deoxyribonucleotide is a nucleotide that contains deoxyribose. They are the monomeric units of the informational biopolymer, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Each deoxyribonucleotide comprises three parts: a deoxyribose sugar (monosaccharide), a nitrogenous base, and one phosphoryl group. The nitrogenous bases are either... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20flow%20problem | In combinatorial optimization, network flow problems are a class of computational problems in which the input is a flow network (a graph with numerical capacities on its edges), and the goal is to construct a flow, numerical values on each edge that respect the capacity constraints and that have incoming flow equal to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20symbol | The integral symbol:
is used to denote integrals and antiderivatives in mathematics, especially in calculus.
History
The notation was introduced by the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1675 in his private writings; it first appeared publicly in the article "" (On a hidden geometry and analysis of in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry%20III%3A%20Legacy%20of%20Llylgamyn | Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn (originally known as Wizardry: Legacy of Llylgamyn - The Third Scenario) is the third scenario in the Wizardry series of role-playing video games. It was published in 1983 by Sir-Tech.
Plot
The City of Llylgamyn is threatened by the violent forces of nature. Earthquakes and volcanic r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge-based%20processor | Knowledge-based processors (KBPs) are used for processing packets in computer networks. Knowledge-based processors are designed with the goal of increased performance of the IPv6 network. By contributing to the buildout of the IPv6 network, KBPs provide the means to an improved and secure networking system.
Standard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Castaway | Johnny Castaway is a screensaver released in 1992 by Sierra On-Line/Dynamix, and marketed under the Screen Antics brand as "the world's first story-telling screen saver".
The screensaver depicts a man, Johnny Castaway, stranded on a very small island with a single palm tree. It follows a story which is slowly revealed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal%20fragile%20site | A chromosomal fragile site is a specific heritable point on a chromosome that tends to form a gap or constriction and may tend to break when the cell is exposed to partial replication stress. Based on their frequency, fragile sites are classified as "common" or "rare". To date, more than 120 fragile sites have been id... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectable%20marker | A selectable marker is a gene introduced into a cell, especially a bacterium or to cells in culture, that confers a trait suitable for artificial selection. They are a type of reporter gene used in laboratory microbiology, molecular biology, and genetic engineering to indicate the success of a transfection or other pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplexed%20Analogue%20Components | Multiplexed Analogue Components (MAC) was an analog television standard where luminance and chrominance components were transmitted separately. This was an evolution from older color TV systems (such as PAL or SECAM) where there was interference between chrominance and luminance.
MAC was originally proposed in the 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20group | In group theory, more precisely in geometric group theory, a hyperbolic group, also known as a word hyperbolic group or Gromov hyperbolic group, is a finitely generated group equipped with a word metric satisfying certain properties abstracted from classical hyperbolic geometry. The notion of a hyperbolic group was int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonochemistry | In chemistry, the study of sonochemistry is concerned with understanding the effect of ultrasound in forming acoustic cavitation in liquids, resulting in the initiation or enhancement of the chemical activity in the solution. Therefore, the chemical effects of ultrasound do not come from a direct interaction of the ult... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlortoluron | Chlortoluron or chlorotoluron are the common names for an organic compound of the phenylurea class of herbicides used to control broadleaf and annual grass weeds in cereal crops.
History
In 1952, chemists at E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company patented a series of aryl urea derivatives as herbicides. Several compound... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average%20propensity%20to%20consume | Average propensity to consume (APC) (as well as the marginal propensity to consume) is a concept developed by John Maynard Keynes to analyze the consumption function, which is a formula where total consumption expenditures (C) of a household consist of autonomous consumption (Ca) and income (Y) (or disposable income (Y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUBST | In computing, SUBST is a command on the DOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows and ReactOS operating systems used for substituting paths on physical and logical drives as virtual drives.
Overview
In MS-DOS, the SUBST command was added with the release of MS-DOS 3.1. The command is similar to floating drives, a more general ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tairus | Tairus (, a portmanteau of Тайско (Thai) and Русский (Russian)) is a synthetic gemstone manufacturer. It was formed in 1989 as part of Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika initiative to establish a joint venture between the Russian Academy of Sciences and Tairus Created Gems Co Ltd. of Bangkok, Thailand. Today Tairus is a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukes%27%20disease | Dukes' disease, named after Clement Dukes, also known as fourth disease or Filatov-Dukes' disease (after Nil Filatov), is an exanthem. It is distinguished from measles or forms of rubella, though it was considered as a form of viral rash. Although Dukes identified it as a separate entity, it is thought not to be differ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LANtastic | LANtastic is a peer-to-peer local area network (LAN) operating system for DOS and Microsoft Windows (and formerly OS/2). The New York Times described the network, which permits machines to function both as servers and as workstations, as allowing computers, "to share printers and other devices."
InformationWeek poin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Paulson | Lawrence Charles Paulson (born 1955) is an American computer scientist. He is a Professor of Computational Logic at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.
Education
Paulson graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1977, and obtained his PhD in Compute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abnormal%20basal%20metabolic%20rate | Abnormal basal metabolic rate refers to a high or low basal metabolic rate (BMR). It has numerous causes, both physiological (part of the body's normal function) and pathological (associated with disease).
Causes
Physiological
An abnormal basal metabolic rate is not necessarily indicative of disease; a number of phys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20BMG%20copy%20protection%20rootkit%20scandal | The Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal concerns the copy protection measures included by Sony BMG on compact discs in 2005. When inserted into a computer, the CDs installed one of two pieces of software that provided a form of digital rights management (DRM) by modifying the operating system to interfere with CD copyi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20integrated%20circuit | A linear integrated circuit or analog chip is a set of miniature electronic analog circuits formed on a single piece of semiconductor material.
Description
The voltage and current at specified points in the circuits of analog chips vary continuously over time. In contrast, digital chips only assign meaning to voltages... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20Handling%20System | Message Handling System (MHS) is an important early email protocol developed by Action Technologies, Inc. (ATI) in 1986. Novell licensed it in 1988 then later bought it.
Email clients
A wide variety of email clients used MHS, including:
Para-Mail - Paradox Development introduced version 2.0 along with Novell at Comde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalist%20and%20specialist%20species | A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources (for example, a heterotroph with a varied diet). A specialist species can thrive only in a narrow range of environmental conditions or has a limited diet. Most organisms do not all f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorene | Phosphorene is a two-dimensional material consisting of phosphorus. It consists of a single layer of black phosphorus, the most stable allotrope of phosphorus. Phosphorene is analogous to graphene (single layer graphite). Among two-dimensional materials, phosphorene is a competitor to graphene because it has a nonzero ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingbox | The Slingbox was a TV streaming media device made by Sling Media that encoded local video for transmission over the Internet to a remote device (sometimes called placeshifting). It allowed users to remotely view and control their cable, satellite, or digital video recorder (DVR) system at home from a remote Internet-co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domination%20analysis | Domination analysis of an approximation algorithm is a way to estimate its performance, introduced by Glover and Punnen in 1997. Unlike the classical approximation ratio analysis, which compares the numerical quality of a calculated solution with that of an optimal solution, domination analysis involves examining the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed%20milestone | A delayed milestone, which is also known as a developmental delay, refers to a situation where a child does not reach a particular developmental milestone at the expected age. Developmental milestones refer to a collection of indicators that a child is anticipated to reach as they grow older.
Each age group has its di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20Advertising%20Protocol | The Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) is included in the Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) protocol. SAP makes the process of adding and removing services on an IPX internetwork dynamic. SAP was maintained by Novell.
As servers are booted up, they may advertise their services using SAP; when they are brought down, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20LU6.2 | Logical Unit 6.2 is an IBM-originated communications protocol specification dating from 1974, and is part of IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA).
A device-independent SNA protocol, it is used for peer-to-peer communications between two systems, for example, between a computer and a device (e.g. terminal or printe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bredt%27s%20rule | In organic chemistry, Bredt's rule is an empirical observation that states that a double bond cannot be placed at the bridgehead of a bridged ring system, unless the rings are large enough. The rule is named after Julius Bredt, who first discussed it in 1902 and codified it in 1924. It primarily relates to bridgehead... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaper%20Genie | Diaper Genie is a baby diaper disposal system. It consists of a large plastic container with a plastic lid. The system seals diapers individually in a scented film to protect against germs and odors. By opening the lid on the top of the canister, a soiled diaper may be inserted into the "mouth" of the container. After ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate%20variables%20%28thermodynamics%29 | In thermodynamics, the internal energy of a system is expressed in terms of pairs of conjugate variables such as temperature and entropy, pressure and volume, or chemical potential and particle number. In fact, all thermodynamic potentials are expressed in terms of conjugate pairs. The product of two quantities that ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6b/8b%20encoding | In telecommunications, 6b/8b is a line code that expands 6-bit codes to 8-bit symbols for the purposes of maintaining DC-balance in a communications system.
The 6b/8b encoding is a balanced code --
each 8-bit output symbol contains 4 zero bits and 4 one bits. So the code can, like a parity bit, detect all single-bit e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartar%20Guided%20Missile%20Fire%20Control%20System | The Tartar Guided Missile Fire Control System is an air defense system developed by the United States Navy to defend warships from air attack. Since its introduction the system has been improved and sold to several United States allies.
Description
The Tartar Guided Missile Fire Control System is a component of the ov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering | Tethering or phone-as-modem (PAM) is the sharing of a mobile device's Internet connection with other connected computers. Connection of a mobile device with other devices can be done over wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), over Bluetooth or by physical connection using a cable, for example through USB.
If tethering is done over WL... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopeptidoglycan | Pseudopeptidoglycan (also known as pseudomurein; PPG hereafter) is a major cell wall component of some Archaea that differs from bacterial peptidoglycan in chemical structure, but resembles bacterial peptidoglycan in function and physical structure. Pseudopeptidoglycan, in general, is only present in a few methanogenic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal-made%20art | Animal-made art consists of works by non-human animals, that have been considered by humans to be artistic, including visual works, music, photography and videography. Some of these are created naturally by animals, often as courtship displays, while others are created with human involvement.
There have been debates a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffy%20the%20Clown | Cliffy Sobier (June 25, 1891 - September, 1984), known professionally as Cliffy the Clown was an American clown beginning in 1949. The clown debuted on an ABC-TV show called Super Circus. The family oriented show aired on Sunday afternoons for an hour. Cliffy's sidekicks on the show were Scampy and Nicky, both clown... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEF1X | Integration DEFinition for information modeling (IDEF1X) is a data modeling language for the development of semantic data models. IDEF1X is used to produce a graphical information model which represents the structure and semantics of information within an environment or system.
IDEF1X permits the construction of sem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxime%20B%C3%B4cher | Maxime Bôcher (August 28, 1867 – September 12, 1918) was an American mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netvibes | Netvibes is a French company that offers web services.
History
The company was founded by Tariq Krim and Florent Frémont in 2005.
In August 2006, Netvibes closed a funding round of €12 million led by Accel Partners in London along with Index Ventures.
Since May 2008, Freddy Mini is the Chief Executive Officer of Netvi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrin | Chondrin is a bluish-white gelatin-like substance, being a protein-carbohydrate complex and can be obtained by boiling cartilage in water.
The cartilage is a connective tissue that contains cells embedded in a matrix of chondrin. Chondrin is made up of two proteins chondroalbunoid and chondromucoid.
See also
Chondroi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szil%C3%A1rd%20petition | The Szilárd petition, drafted and circulated in July 1945 by scientist Leo Szilard, was signed by 70 scientists working on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois. It asked President Harry S. Truman to inform Japan of the terms of surrender demanded by the a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic%20tongue | Geographic tongue, also known by several other terms, is a condition of the mucous membrane of the tongue, usually on the dorsal surface. It is a common condition, affecting approximately 2–3% of the general population. It is characterized by areas of smooth, red depapillation (loss of lingual papillae) which migrate o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichostatin%20A | Trichostatin A (TSA) is an organic compound that serves as an antifungal antibiotic and selectively inhibits the class I and II mammalian histone deacetylase (HDAC) families of enzymes, but not class III HDACs (i.e., sirtuins). However, there are recent reports of the interactions of this molecule with Sirt 6 protein. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola%20%28computing%29 | Lola is designed to be a simple hardware description language for describing synchronous, digital circuits. Niklaus Wirth developed the language to teach digital design on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to computer science students while a professor at ETH Zurich.
The purpose of Lola is to statically describe ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20actuarial%20science | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to actuarial science:
Actuarial science – discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in the insurance and finance industries.
What type of thing is actuarial science?
Actuarial science can be described as all of th... |
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