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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Object%20Spectrometer | A multi-object spectrometer is a type of optical spectrometer capable of simultaneously acquiring the spectra of multiple separate objects in its field of view. It is used in astronomical spectroscopy and is related to long-slit spectroscopy. This technique became available in the 1980s.
Description
The term multi-ob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES11 | The AES11 standard published by the Audio Engineering Society provides a systematic approach to the synchronization of digital audio signals. AES11 recommends using an AES3 signal to distribute audio clocks within a facility. In this application, the connection is referred to as a Digital Audio Reference Signal (DARS).... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nvidia%20graphics%20processing%20units | This list contains general information about graphics processing units (GPUs) and video cards from Nvidia, based on official specifications. In addition some Nvidia motherboards come with integrated onboard GPUs. Limited/Special/Collectors' Editions or AIB versions are not included.
Field explanations
The fields in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20constant | A lattice constant or lattice parameter is one of the physical dimensions and angles that determine the geometry of the unit cells in a crystal lattice, and is proportional to the distance between atoms in the crystal. A simple cubic crystal has only one lattice constant, the distance between atoms, but in general latt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20iliac%20artery | The internal iliac artery (formerly known as the hypogastric artery) is the main artery of the pelvis.
Structure
The internal iliac artery supplies the walls and viscera of the pelvis, the buttock, the reproductive organs, and the medial compartment of the thigh. The vesicular branches of the internal iliac arteries s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALTRAN | ALTRAN (ALgebraic TRANslator) is a programming language for the formal manipulation of rational functions of several variables with integer coefficients. It was developed at Bell Labs in 1960s. ALTRAN is a FORTRAN version of ALPAK rational algebra package, and “can be thought of as a variant of FORTRAN with the additio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Mathematical%20Olympiad | The British Mathematical Olympiad (BMO) forms part of the selection process for the UK International Mathematical Olympiad team and for other international maths competitions, including the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad, the Romanian Master of Mathematics and Sciences, and the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20translation | Bacterial translation is the process by which messenger RNA is translated into proteins in bacteria.
Initiation
Initiation of translation in bacteria involves the assembly of the components of the translation system, which are: the two ribosomal subunits (50S and 30S subunits); the mature mRNA to be translated; the tR... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryotic%20translation | Eukaryotic translation is the biological process by which messenger RNA is translated into proteins in eukaryotes. It consists of four phases: initiation, elongation, termination, and recapping.
Initiation
Translation initiation is the process by which the ribosome and its associated factors bind to an mRNA and are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial%20mass%20function | In astronomy, the initial mass function (IMF) is an empirical function that describes the initial distribution of masses for a population of stars during star formation. IMF not only describes the formation and evolution of individual stars, it also serves as an important link that describes the formation and evolution... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV%20input | AV input stands for Audio/Visual input, which is a common label on a connector to receive (AV) audio/visual signals from electronic equipment that generates AV signals (AV output).
These terminals are commonly found on such equipment as a television, DVD recorder or VHS recorder, and typically take input from a DVD pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20recombination | Plasma recombination is a process by which positive ions of a plasma capture a free (energetic) electron and combine with electrons or negative ions to form new neutral atoms (gas). The process of recombination can be described as the reverse of ionization, whereby conditions allow the plasma to evert to a gas. Recombi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional%20symmetry%20%28time%20series%29 | In statistical analysis of time series and in signal processing, directional symmetry is a statistical measure of a model's performance in predicting the direction of change, positive or negative, of a time series from one time period to the next.
Definition
Given a time series with values at times and a model that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission%E2%80%93fusion%20society | In ethology, fission–fusion society is one in which the size and composition of the social group change as time passes and animals move throughout the environment; animals merge into a group (fusion)—e.g. sleeping in one place—or split (fission)—e.g. foraging in small groups during the day. For species that live in fis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise-equivalent%20flux%20density | In optics the noise-equivalent flux density (NEFD) or noise-equivalent irradiance (NEI) of a system is the level of flux density required to be equivalent to the noise present in the system. It is a measure used by astronomers in determining the accuracy of observations.
The NEFD can be related to a light detector's n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Jackson%20%28mathematician%29 | Steve Jackson (full name: Stephen Craig Jackson) is an American set theorist at the University of North Texas. Much of his most notable work has involved the descriptive set-theoretic consequences of the axiom of determinacy. In particular he is known for having calculated the values of all the projective ordinals (the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2%20port | The PS/2 port is a 6-pin mini-DIN connector used for connecting keyboards and mice to a PC compatible computer system. Its name comes from the IBM Personal System/2 series of personal computers, with which it was introduced in 1987. The PS/2 mouse connector generally replaced the older DE-9 RS-232 "serial mouse" connec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVCS | PVCS Version Manager (originally named Polytron Version Control System) is a software package by Serena Software Inc., for version control of source code files.
PVCS follows the "locking" approach to concurrency control; it has no merge operator built-in (but does, nonetheless, have a separate merge command). However ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20music%20recognition | Optical music recognition (OMR) is a field of research that investigates how to computationally read musical notation in documents. The goal of OMR is to teach the computer to read and interpret sheet music and produce a machine-readable version of the written music score. Once captured digitally, the music can be save... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farber%20disease | Farber disease (also known as Farber's lipogranulomatosis, acid ceramidase deficiency, "Lipogranulomatosis", and ASAH1-related disorders) is an extremely rare, progressive, autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease caused by a deficiency of the acid ceramidase enzyme. Acid ceramidase is responsible for breaking dow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter%20Classification%20Database | The Transporter Classification Database (or TCDB) is an International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB)-approved classification system for membrane transport proteins, including ion channels.
Classification
The upper level of classification and a few examples of proteins with known 3D structure:
1. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border%20town | A border town is a town or city close to the boundary between two countries, states, or regions. Usually the term implies that the nearness to the border is one of the things the place is most famous for. With close proximities to a different country, diverse cultural traditions can have certain influence to the place.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort | Quicksort is an efficient, general-purpose sorting algorithm. Quicksort was developed by British computer scientist Tony Hoare in 1959 and published in 1961. It is still a commonly used algorithm for sorting. Overall, it is slightly faster than merge sort and heapsort for randomized data, particularly on larger distrib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific%20modulus | Specific modulus is a materials property consisting of the elastic modulus per mass density of a material. It is also known as the stiffness to weight ratio or specific stiffness. High specific modulus materials find wide application in aerospace applications where minimum structural weight is required. The dimensional... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Adobe%20software | The following is a list of software products by Adobe Inc.
Active products
Software suites
Experience Cloud
Adobe Experience Cloud (AEC) is a collection of integrated online marketing and Web analytics solutions by Adobe Inc. It includes a set of analytics, social, advertising, media optimization, targeting, Web ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Oxidation%20Event | The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) or Great Oxygenation Event, also called the Oxygen Catastrophe, Oxygen Revolution, Oxygen Crisis or Oxygen Holocaust, was a time interval during the Early Earth's Paleoproterozoic Era when the Earth's atmosphere and the shallow ocean first experienced a rise in the concentration of oxyge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20ecology | Functional ecology is a branch of ecology that focuses on the roles, or functions, that species play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur. In this approach, physiological, anatomical, and life history characteristics of the species are emphasized. The term "function" is used to emphasize certain physiologi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter%27s%20rule%20problem | The carpenter's rule problem is a discrete geometry problem, which can be stated in the following manner: Can a simple planar polygon be moved continuously to a position where all its vertices are in convex position, so that the edge lengths and simplicity are preserved along the way? A closely related problem is to sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20power | Electric power is the rate at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt, one joule per second. Standard prefixes apply to watts as with other SI units: thousands, millions and billions of watts are called kilowatts, megawatts and gigawatts respectively.
A common mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20SIP%20software | This list of SIP software documents notable software applications which use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as a voice over IP (VoIP) protocol.
Servers
Free and open-source license
A SIP server, also known as a SIP proxy, manages all SIP calls within a network and takes responsibility for receiving requests from u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idem | idem is a Latin term meaning "the same". It is commonly abbreviated as id.,
which is particularly used in legal citations to denote the previously cited source (compare ibid.). It is also used in academic citations to replace the name of a repeated author.
Id. is employed extensively in Canadian legislation and in l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20modulus | Dynamic modulus (sometimes complex modulus) is the ratio of stress to strain under vibratory conditions (calculated from data obtained from either free or forced vibration tests, in shear, compression, or elongation). It is a property of viscoelastic materials.
Viscoelastic stress–strain phase-lag
Viscoelasticity i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20technology | Speech technology relates to the technologies designed to duplicate and respond to the human voice. They have many uses. These include aid to the voice-disabled, the hearing-disabled, and the blind, along with communication with computers without a keyboard. They enhance game software and aid in marketing goods or serv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioLinux | BioLinux is a term used in a variety of projects involved in making access to bioinformatics software on a Linux platform easier using one or more of the following methods:
Provision of complete systems
Provision of bioinformatics software repositories
Addition of bioinformatics packages to standard distributions
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement%20component%205a | C5a is a protein fragment released from cleavage of complement component C5 by protease C5-convertase into C5a and C5b fragments. C5b is important in late events of the complement cascade, an orderly series of reactions which coordinates several basic defense mechanisms, including formation of the membrane attack compl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity%20diagram | Activity diagrams are graphical representations of workflows of stepwise activities and actions with support for choice, iteration and concurrency. In the Unified Modeling Language, activity diagrams are intended to model both computational and organizational processes (i.e., workflows), as well as the data flows inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access%20network | An open-access network (OAN) refers to a horizontally layered network architecture in telecommunications, and the business model that separates the physical access to the network from the delivery of services. In an OAN, the owner or manager of the network does not supply services for the network; these services must b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%82u%20C%C6%A1 | Âu Cơ (chữ Hán: 甌姬; ) was, according to the creation myth of the Vietnamese people, an immortal mountain snow goddess who married Lạc Long Quân (), and bore an egg sac that hatched a hundred children known collectively as Bách Việt, ancestors to the Vietnamese people. Âu Cơ is often honored as the mother of Vietnamese ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCable%20Application%20Platform | The OpenCable Application Platform, or OCAP, is an operating system layer designed for consumer electronics that connect to a cable television system, the Java-based middleware portion of the platform. Unlike operating systems on a personal computer, the cable company controls what OCAP programs run on the consumer's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Advanced%20Program-to-Program%20Communication | In computing, Advanced Program to Program Communication or APPC is a protocol which computer programs can use to communicate over a network. APPC is at the application layer in the OSI model, it enables communications between programs on different computers, from portables and workstations to midrange and host comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphated%20distarch%20phosphate | Phosphated distarch phosphate, is a type of chemically modified starch. It can be derived from wheat starch, tapioca starch, potato starch or many other botanical sources of starch. It is produced by replacing the hydrogen bonds between starch chains by stronger, covalent phosphate bonds that are more permanent. It is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NHL%20mascots | This is a list of current and former National Hockey League (NHL) mascots, sorted alphabetically by team. As of 2023, the New York Rangers are the only team to not have a mascot.
Current mascots
Al the Octopus
Al the Octopus is the octopus mascot of the Detroit Red Wings. It is also the only mascot that is not costu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscone | Muscone is a macrocyclic ketone, an organic compound that is the primary contributor to the odor of musk.
The chemical structure of muscone was first elucidated by Leopold Ružička. It is a 15-membered ring ketone with one methyl substituent in the 3-position. It is an oily liquid that is found naturally as the (−)-ena... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom%20tea | Mushroom tea is an infusion of mushrooms in water, made by using edible/medicinal mushrooms (such as lingzhi mushroom) or psychedelic mushrooms (such as Psilocybe cubensis). The active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms is psilocybin, while the active ingredients in medicinal mushrooms are thought to be beta-glucans.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy%20allergy | Soy allergy is a type of food allergy. It is a hypersensitivity to ingesting compounds in soy (Glycine max), causing an overreaction of the immune system, typically with physical symptoms, such as gastrointestinal discomfort, respiratory distress, or a skin reaction. Soy is among the eight most common foods inducing al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20automaton | A learning automaton is one type of machine learning algorithm studied since 1970s. Learning automata select their current action based on past experiences from the environment. It will fall into the range of reinforcement learning if the environment is stochastic and a Markov decision process (MDP) is used.
History
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte%20Code%20Engineering%20Library | The Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL) is a project sponsored by the Apache Foundation previously under their Jakarta charter to provide a simple API for decomposing, modifying, and recomposing binary Java classes (I.e. bytecode). The project was conceived and developed by Markus Dahm prior to officially being donate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLECS | PLECS (Piecewise Linear Electrical Circuit Simulation) is a software tool for system-level simulations of electrical circuits developed by Plexim. It is especially designed for power electronics but can be used for any electrical network. PLECS includes the possibility to model controls and different physical domains (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20of%20action | In physics, the line of action (also called line of application) of a force () is a geometric representation of how the force is applied. It is the straight line through the point at which the force is applied in the same direction as the vector .
The concept is essential, for instance, for understanding the net effec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%20intelligence | The difficulty of defining or measuring intelligence in non-human animals makes the subject difficult to study scientifically in birds. In general, birds have relatively large brains compared to their head size. The visual and auditory senses are well developed in most species, though the tactile and olfactory senses a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viglen | Viglen Ltd provides IT products and services, including storage systems, servers, workstations and data/voice communications equipment and services.
History
The company was formed in 1975, by Vigen Boyadjian. During the 1980s, the company specialised in direct sales through multi page advertisements in leading comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20photon | In physics, a magnetic photon is a hypothetical particle. It is a mixture of even and odd C-parity states and, unlike the normal photon, does not couple to leptons. It is predicted by certain extensions of electromagnetism to include magnetic monopoles. There is no experimental evidence for the existence of this parti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Gateway%20Device%20Protocol | Internet Gateway Device (IGD) Protocol is a protocol based on Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for mapping ports in network address translation (NAT) setups, supported by some NAT-enabled routers. It is a common communications protocol for automatically configuring port forwarding, and is part of an ISO/IEC Standard rath... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergelyan%27s%20theorem | Mergelyan's theorem is a result from approximation by polynomials in complex analysis proved by the Armenian mathematician Sergei Mergelyan in 1951.
Statement
Let K be a compact subset of the complex plane C such that C∖K is connected. Then, every continuous function f : K C, such that the restriction f to int(K) is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicalcium%20phosphate | Dicalcium phosphate is the calcium phosphate with the formula CaHPO4 and its dihydrate. The "di" prefix in the common name arises because the formation of the HPO42– anion involves the removal of two protons from phosphoric acid, H3PO4. It is also known as dibasic calcium phosphate or calcium monohydrogen phosphate. Di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match%20Day%20II | Match Day II is a football sports game part of the Match Day series released for the Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, ZX Spectrum, MSX and Commodore 64 platforms. It was created in 1987 by Jon Ritman with graphics by Bernie Drummond and music and sound by Guy Stevens (except for the Commodore version, which was a line-by-line... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20coupling | A fluid coupling or hydraulic coupling is a hydrodynamic or 'hydrokinetic' device used to transmit rotating mechanical power. It has been used in automobile transmissions as an alternative to a mechanical clutch. It also has widespread application in marine and industrial machine drives, where variable speed operation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporotrichosis | Sporotrichosis, also known as rose handler's disease, is a fungal infection that may be localised to skin, lungs, bone and joint, or become systemic. It presents with firm painless nodules that later ulcerate. Following initial exposure to Sporothrix schenckii, the disease typically progresses over a period of a week t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetogenesis | Acetogenesis is a process through which acetate is produced either by the reduction of CO2 or by the reduction of organic acids, rather than by the oxidative breakdown of carbohydrates or ethanol, as with acetic acid bacteria.
The different bacterial species that are capable of acetogenesis are collectively termed ace... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grading%20%28tumors%29 | In pathology, grading is a measure of the cell appearance in tumors and other neoplasms. Some pathology grading systems apply only to malignant neoplasms (cancer); others apply also to benign neoplasms. The neoplastic grading is a measure of cell anaplasia (reversion of differentiation) in the sampled tumor and is bas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Bunyakovsky | Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky (, ; , Bar, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire – , St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian mathematician, member and later vice president of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Bunyakovsky was a mathematician, noted for his work in theoretical mechanics and number theory (see: Bun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%E2%80%93plane%20intersection | In analytic geometry, the intersection of a line and a plane in three-dimensional space can be the empty set, a point, or a line. It is the entire line if that line is embedded in the plane, and is the empty set if the line is parallel to the plane but outside it. Otherwise, the line cuts through the plane at a single ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goncalo%20alves | Gonçalo alves is a hardwood (from the Portuguese name, Gonçalo Alves). It is sometimes referred to as tigerwood—a name that underscores the wood's often dramatic, contrasting color scheme, that some compare to rosewood.
While the sapwood is very light in color, the heartwood is a sombre brown, with dark streaks that g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-processor%20interrupt | In computing, an inter-processor interrupt (IPI), also known as a shoulder tap, is a special type of interrupt by which one processor may interrupt another processor in a multiprocessor system if the interrupting processor requires action from the other processor. Actions that might be requested include:
flushes of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio21%20Institute | The Bio21 Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology, abbreviated as the Bio21 Institute, is an Australian scientific research institute that focuses on basic science and applied biotechnology. The Bio21 Institute is based at the University of Melbourne on Flemington Road in , Melbourne, Victoria.
The institute ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20California%20Proposition%2071 | Proposition 71 of 2004 (or the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act) is a law enacted by California voters to support stem cell research in the state. It was proposed by means of the initiative process and approved in the 2004 state elections on November 2. The Act amended both the Constitution of California and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic%20instruments | A thermodynamic instrument is any device which facilitates the quantitative measurement of thermodynamic systems. In order for a thermodynamic parameter to be truly defined, a technique for its measurement must be specified. For example, the ultimate definition of temperature is "what a thermometer reads". The question... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic%20process | Classical thermodynamics considers three main kinds of thermodynamic process: (1) changes in a system, (2) cycles in a system, and (3) flow processes.
(1) A Thermodynamic process is a process in which the thermodynamic state of a system is changed. A change in a system is defined by a passage from an initial to a fin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange%27s%20theorem%20%28number%20theory%29 | In number theory, Lagrange's theorem is a statement named after Joseph-Louis Lagrange about how frequently a polynomial over the integers may evaluate to a multiple of a fixed prime. More precisely, it states that if p is a prime number, , and is a polynomial with integer coefficients, then either:
every coefficient ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Data%20Representation | Network Data Representation (NDR) is an implementation of the presentation layer in the OSI model. It is used for DCE/RPC and Microsoft RPC (MSRPC).
See also
DCE/RPC
Microsoft RPC
External links
NDR Specification
Internet Standards
Internet protocols
Presentation layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh%20analysis | Mesh analysis (or the mesh current method) is a method that is used to solve planar circuits for the currents (and indirectly the voltages) at any place in the electrical circuit. Planar circuits are circuits that can be drawn on a plane surface with no wires crossing each other. A more general technique, called loop ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust%20control | In control theory, robust control is an approach to controller design that explicitly deals with uncertainty. Robust control methods are designed to function properly provided that uncertain parameters or disturbances are found within some (typically compact) set. Robust methods aim to achieve robust performance and/or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text%20encoding | A binary-to-text encoding is encoding of data in plain text. More precisely, it is an encoding of binary data in a sequence of printable characters. These encodings are necessary for transmission of data when the communication channel does not allow binary data (such as email or NNTP) or is not 8-bit clean. PGP documen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle%20jug | A puzzle jug is a puzzle in the form of a jug, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. Puzzle jugs of varying quality were popular in homes and taverns. An inscription typically challenges the drinker to consume the contents without spilling them, which, because the neck of the jug is perforated, is impossible to do ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuddling%20cup | A fuddling cup is a three-dimensional puzzle in the form of a drinking vessel, made of three or more cups or jugs all linked together by holes and tubes. The challenge of the puzzle is to drink from the vessel in such a way that the beverage does not spill. To do this successfully, one must drink from the cups in a spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERBUS | INTERBUS is a serial bus system which transmits data between control systems (e.g., PCs, PLCs, VMEbus computers, robot controllers etc.) and spatially distributed I/O modules that are connected to sensors and actuators (e.g., temperature sensors, position switches).
The INTERBUS system was developed by Phoenix Contact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course%20%28medicine%29 | In medicine the term course generally takes one of two meanings, both reflecting the sense of "path that something or someone moves along...process or sequence or steps":
A course of medication is a period of continual treatment with drugs, sometimes with variable dosage and in particular combinations. For instance tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golvellius | is an action role-playing video game developed by Compile and originally released for the Japanese MSX home computer system in 1987. Sega licensed the franchise in 1988 and released the game for the Master System (the Mark III in Japan), featuring enhanced graphics and entirely different overworld and dungeon layouts. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclostationary%20process | A cyclostationary process is a signal having statistical properties that vary cyclically with time.
A cyclostationary process can be viewed as multiple interleaved stationary processes. For example, the maximum daily temperature in New York City can be modeled as a cyclostationary process: the maximum temperature on Ju... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP%20Graphical%20User%20Interface | SAP GUI is the graphical user interface client in SAP ERP's 3-tier architecture of database, application server and client. It is software that runs on a Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh or Unix desktop, and allows a user to access SAP functionality in SAP applications such as SAP ERP and SAP Business Information War... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest%20published%20toxic%20dose | In toxicology, the lowest published toxic dose (Toxic Dose Low, TDLo) is the lowest dosage per unit of bodyweight (typically stated in milligrams per kilogram) of a substance known to have produced signs of toxicity in a particular animal species. When quoting a TDLo, the particular species and method of administration... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined%20Cipher%20Machine | The Combined Cipher Machine (CCM) (or Combined Cypher Machine) was a common cipher machine system for securing Allied communications during World War II and, for a few years after, by NATO. The British Typex machine and the US ECM Mark II were both modified so that they were interoperable.
History
The British had sho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium%20edule | Cirsium edule, the edible thistle or Indian thistle, is a species of thistle in the genus Cirsium, native to western North America from southeastern Alaska south through British Columbia to Washington and Oregon, and locally inland to Idaho. It is a larval host to the mylitta crescent and the painted lady.
Cirsium ed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%20element | P elements are transposable elements that were discovered in Drosophila as the causative agents of genetic traits called hybrid dysgenesis. The transposon is responsible for the P trait of the P element and it is found only in wild flies. They are also found in many other eukaryotes.
The name comes from evolutionary b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schick%20test | The Schick test, developed in 1913, is a skin test used to determine whether or not a person is susceptible to diphtheria. It was named after its inventor, Béla Schick (1877–1967), a Hungarian-born American pediatrician.
Procedure
The test is a simple procedure. A small amount (0.1 ml) of diluted (1/50 MLD) diphther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic%20cycle | A thermodynamic cycle consists of linked sequences of thermodynamic processes that involve transfer of heat and work into and out of the system, while varying pressure, temperature, and other state variables within the system, and that eventually returns the system to its initial state. In the process of passing throug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20variable | A state variable is one of the set of variables that are used to describe the mathematical "state" of a dynamical system. Intuitively, the state of a system describes enough about the system to determine its future behaviour in the absence of any external forces affecting the system. Models that consist of coupled fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20DNA | Ancient DNA (aDNA) is DNA isolated from ancient specimens. Due to degradation processes (including cross-linking, deamination and fragmentation) ancient DNA is more degraded in comparison with contemporary genetic material. Even under the best preservation conditions, there is an upper boundary of 0.4–1.5 million years... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamagnetism | Metamagnetism is a sudden (often, dramatic) increase in the magnetization of a material with a small change in an externally applied magnetic field. The metamagnetic behavior may have quite different physical causes for different types of metamagnets. Some examples of physical mechanisms leading to metamagnetic behavio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweak%20programming%20environment | Tweak is a graphical user interface (GUI) layer written by Andreas Raab for the Squeak development environment, which in turn is an integrated development environment based on the Smalltalk-80 computer programming language. Tweak is an alternative to an earlier graphic user interface layer called Morphic. Development b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odor%20detection%20threshold | The odor detection threshold is the lowest concentration of a certain odor compound that is perceivable by the human sense of smell. The threshold of a chemical compound is determined in part by its shape, polarity, partial charges, and molecular mass. The olfactory mechanisms responsible for a compound's different det... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Isakov | Victor Isakov (1947 – May 14, 2021) was a mathematician working in the field of inverse problems for partial differential equations and related topics (potential theory, uniqueness of continuation and Carleman estimates, nonlinear functional analysis and calculus of variation). He was a distinguished professor in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthene | Xanthene (9H-xanthene, 10H-9-oxaanthracene) is the organic compound with the formula CH2[C6H4]2O. It is a yellow solid that is soluble in common organic solvents. Xanthene itself is an obscure compound, but many of its derivatives are useful dyes.
Xanthene dyes
Dyes that contain a xanthene core include fluorescein, e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Colloquium%20on%20Automata%2C%20Languages%20and%20Programming | ICALP, the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming is an academic conference organized annually by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and held in different locations around Europe. Like most theoretical computer science conferences its contributions are strongly peer-revi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Research%20%26%20Development | BBC Research & Development is the technical research department of the BBC.
Function
It has responsibility for researching and developing advanced and emerging media technologies for the benefit of the corporation, and wider UK and European media industries, and is also the technical design authority for a number of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast-enhanced%20ultrasound | Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is the application of ultrasound contrast medium to traditional medical sonography. Ultrasound contrast agents rely on the different ways in which sound waves are reflected from interfaces between substances. This may be the surface of a small air bubble or a more complex structure. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic%20potential | Biotic potential is described by the unrestricted growth of populations resulting in the maximum growth of that population.
Biotic potential is the highest possible vital index of a species; therefore, when the species has its highest birthrate and lowest mortality rate.
Quantitative Expression
The biotic potential... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilium%20%28bone%29 | The ilium () (: ilia) is the uppermost and largest region of the coxal bone, and appears in most vertebrates including mammals and birds, but not bony fish. All reptiles have an ilium except snakes, although some snake species have a tiny bone which is considered to be an ilium.
The ilium of the human is divisible in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial%20Emporium%20of%20Benevolent%20Knowledge | Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge () is a fictitious taxonomy of animals described by the writer Jorge Luis Borges in his 1942 essay "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" ().
Overview
Wilkins, a 17th-century philosopher, had proposed a universal language based on a classification system that would encode ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20Evolution | Future Evolution is a book written by paleontologist Peter Ward and illustrated by Alexis Rockman. He addresses his own opinion of future evolution and compares it with Dougal Dixon's After Man: A Zoology of the Future and H. G. Wells's The Time Machine.
According to Ward, humanity may exist for a long time. Neverthel... |
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