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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters%20of%20March | "Waters of March" ( ) is a Brazilian song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927–1994) in 1972. Jobim wrote both the Portuguese and English lyrics. The lyrics, originally written in Portuguese, do not tell a story, but rather present a series of images that form a collage; nearly every line starts with "É..." ("[It] is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20O.%20L.%20Atkin | Arthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin (31 July 1925 – 28 December 2008), who published under the name A. O. L. Atkin, was a British mathematician.
As an undergraduate during World War II, Atkin worked at Bletchley Park cracking German codes. He received his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Cambridge, where he was one of Jo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophysical%20Society | The Biophysical Society is an international scientific society whose purpose is to lead the development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics. Founded in 1958, the Society currently consists of over 7,500 members in academia, government, and industry. Although the Society is based in the United States, it is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational%E2%80%93vibrational%20coupling | In physics, rotational–vibrational coupling occurs when the rotation frequency of a system is close to or identical to a natural internal vibration frequency. The animation on the right shows ideal motion, with the force exerted by the spring and the distance from the center of rotation increasing together linearly wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper%28II%29%20arsenate | Copper arsenate (Cu3(AsO4)2·4H2O, or Cu5H2(AsO4)4·2H2O), also called copper orthoarsenate, tricopper arsenate, cupric arsenate, or tricopper orthoarsenate, is a blue or bluish-green powder insoluble in water and alcohol and soluble in aqueous ammonium and dilute acids. Its CAS number is or .
Uses
Copper arsenate is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium%20methyl%20arsonate | Monosodium methyl arsenate (MSMA) is an arsenic-based herbicide. It is an organo-arsenate; less toxic than the inorganic form of arsenates. However, the EPA states that all forms of arsenic are a serious risk to human health and the United States' Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ranked arsenic as numbe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puddle | A puddle is a small accumulation of liquid, usually water, on a surface. It can form either by pooling in a depression on the surface, or by surface tension upon a flat surface. Puddles are often characterized by murky water or mud due to the disturbance and dissolving of surrounding sediment, primarily due to precipit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ase | The suffix -ase is used in biochemistry to form names of enzymes. The most common way to name enzymes is to add this suffix onto the end of the substrate, e.g. an enzyme that breaks down peroxides may be called peroxidase; the enzyme that produces telomeres is called telomerase. Sometimes enzymes are named for the func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric%20crying%20facies | Asymmetric crying facies (ACF), also called partial unilateral facial paresis and hypoplasia of depressor angula oris muscle, is a minor congenital anomaly caused by agenesis or hypoplasia of the depressor anguli oris muscle, one of the muscles that control the movements of the lower lip. This unilateral facial weaknes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20networking | Active networking is a communication pattern that allows packets flowing through a telecommunications network to dynamically modify the operation of the network.
Active network architecture is composed of execution environments (similar to a unix shell that can execute active packets), a node operating system capable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographical%20Number%20Theory | Typographical Number Theory (TNT) is a formal axiomatic system describing the natural numbers that appears in Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach. It is an implementation of Peano arithmetic that Hofstadter uses to help explain Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
Like any system implementing the Peano axioms, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromated%20copper%20arsenate | Chromated copper arsenate (CCA) is a wood preservative containing compounds of chromium, copper, and arsenic, in various proportions. It is used to impregnate timber and other wood products, especially those intended for outdoor use, in order to protect them from attack by microbes and insects. Like other copper-base... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annuities%20in%20the%20European%20Union | Under European Union law, an annuity is a financial contract which provides an income stream in return for an initial payment with specific parameters. It is the opposite of a settlement funding. A Swiss annuity is not considered a European annuity for tax reasons.
Immediate annuity
An immediate annuity is an annuity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20diaper%20syndrome | Blue diaper syndrome is a rare, autosomal recessive or X linked recessive metabolic disorder characterized in infants by bluish urine-stained diapers. It is also known as Drummond's syndrome, and hypercalcemia.
It is caused by a defect in tryptophan absorption. Bacterial degradation of unabsorbed tryptophan in the int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDeeN | CoDeeN is a proxy server system created at Princeton University in 2003 and deployed for general use on PlanetLab.
It operates as per the following:
Users set their internet caches to a nearby high bandwidth proxy that participates in the system.
Requests to that proxy are then forwarded to an appropriate member of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panniculus%20adiposus | The panniculus adiposus is the fatty layer of the subcutaneous tissues, superficial to a deeper vestigial layer of muscle, the panniculus carnosus.
It includes structures that are considered fascia by some sources but not by others. Some examples include the fascia of Camper and the superficial cervical fascia.
A gro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familial%20male-limited%20precocious%20puberty | Familial male-limited precocious puberty, often abbreviated as FMPP, also known as familial sexual precocity or gonadotropin-independent testotoxicosis, is a form of gonadotropin-independent precocious puberty in which boys experience early onset and progression of puberty. Signs of puberty can develop as early as an a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Society%20of%20Gene%20and%20Cell%20Therapy | European Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ESGCT) formerly European Society of Gene Therapy (ESGT) is a legally registered professional body which emerged from a small working group in 1992 that focused on human gene therapy.
The objectives of the ESGT include the following:
promote basic and clinical research in gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20of%20Gene%20and%20Cell%20Therapy | American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) is a professional non-profit medical and scientific organization based in Milwaukee, dedicated to understanding, development and application of gene, related cell and nucleic acid therapies, as well as promotion of professional and public education on gene therapy. With m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunt%20trauma | Blunt trauma, also known as blunt force trauma or non-penetrating trauma, describes a physical trauma due to a forceful impact without penetration of the body's surface. Blunt trauma stands in contrast with penetrating trauma, which occurs when an object pierces the skin, enters body tissue, and creates an open wound. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisture%20stress | Moisture stress is a form of abiotic stress that occurs when the moisture of plant tissues is reduced to suboptimal levels. Water stress occurs in response to atmospheric and soil water availability when the transpiration rate exceeds the rate of water uptake by the roots and cells lose turgor pressure. Moisture stres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRMAA | Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) is a high-level Open Grid Forum (OGF) API specification for the submission and control of jobs to a distributed resource management (DRM) system, such as a cluster or grid computing infrastructure. The scope of the API covers all the high level functionality requi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Thomas%20%28artist%29 | Harold Joseph Thomas (born 1947), also known as Bundoo, is an Aboriginal Australian artist and former activist, known for designing and copyrighting the Australian Aboriginal Flag. He claims to have designed the flag in 1971 as a symbol of the Aboriginal land rights movement, and in 1995 it was made an official "Flag o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDLM | CDDLM (Configuration Description, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management Specification) is a Global Grid Forum standard for the management, deployment and configuration of Grid Service lifecycles or inter-organization resources.
Structure
The specification is based on component documents;
Document that describes funct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlanetLab | PlanetLab was a group of computers available as a testbed for computer networking and distributed systems research. It was established in 2002 by Prof. Larry L. Peterson and Prof. David Culler, and as of June 2010, it was composed of 1090 nodes at 507 sites worldwide. Each research project had a "slice", or virtual ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden%20subgroup%20problem | The hidden subgroup problem (HSP) is a topic of research in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The framework captures problems such as factoring, discrete logarithm, graph isomorphism, and the shortest vector problem. This makes it especially important in the theory of quantum computing because Shor's algori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20disc%20recording%20technologies | Optical disc authoring requires a number of different optical disc recorder technologies working in tandem, from the optical disc media to the firmware to the control electronics of the optical disc drive.
Types of recordable optical disc
There are numerous formats of recordable optical direct to disk on the market, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a variable (from Latin variabilis, "changeable") is a symbol that represents a mathematical object. A variable may represent a number, a vector, a matrix, a function, the argument of a function, a set, or an element of a set.
Algebraic computations with variables as if they were explicit numbers solve ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20disc%20recording%20modes | In optical disc authoring, there are multiple modes for recording, including Disc-At-Once, Track-At-Once, and Session-At-Once.
CD Disc-At-Once
Disc-At-Once (DAO) for CD-R media is a mode that masters the disc contents in one pass, rather than a track at a time as in Track At Once. DAO mode, unlike TAO mode, allows ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20calculation | In mathematical logic, a formal calculation, or formal operation, is a calculation that is systematic but without a rigorous justification. It involves manipulating symbols in an expression using a generic substitution without proving that the necessary conditions hold. Essentially, it involves the form of an expressio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPnotebook | GPnotebook is a British medical database for general practitioners (GPs). It is an online encyclopaedia of medicine that provides an immediate reference resource for clinicians worldwide. The database consists of over 30,000 index terms and over two million words of information. GPnotebook is provided online by Oxbridg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mdm2 | Mouse double minute 2 homolog (MDM2) also known as E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase Mdm2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MDM2 gene. Mdm2 is an important negative regulator of the p53 tumor suppressor. Mdm2 protein functions both as an E3 ubiquitin ligase that recognizes the N-terminal trans-activation domain ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rientrodolce | Rientrodolce is an Italian association linked to Radicali Italiani, which concerns itself with overpopulation, natural environment and energy.
Its name comes from Marco Pannella's idea of a "mild return" ("rientro dolce" in Italian) to a world with 2 billion human beings. The association considers overpopulation the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault%20coverage | Fault coverage refers to the percentage of some type of fault that can be detected during the test of any engineered system. High fault coverage is particularly valuable during manufacturing test, and techniques such as Design For Test (DFT) and automatic test pattern generation are used to increase it.
In electronic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%20%28number%29 | 501 (five hundred [and] one) is the natural number following 500 and preceding 502.
501 is the sum of the first eighteen primes.
There are 501 degree-8 polynomials with integer coefficients, all of whose roots are in the unit disk.
There are 501 ways of partitioning the digits from 0 to 9 into two sets, each of which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocast | An endocast is the internal cast of a hollow object, often referring to the cranial vault in the study of brain development in humans and other organisms. Endocasts can be artificially made for examining the properties of a hollow, inaccessible space, or they may occur naturally through fossilization.
Cranial endocas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20mirage | In physics, a quantum mirage is a peculiar result in quantum chaos. Every system of quantum dynamical billiards will exhibit an effect called scarring, where the quantum probability density shows traces of the paths a classical billiard ball would take. For an elliptical arena, the scarring is particularly pronounced a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelter%20Island%20Conference | The first Shelter Island Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics was held from June 2–4, 1947 at the Ram's Head Inn in Shelter Island, New York. Shelter Island was the first major opportunity since Pearl Harbor and the Manhattan Project for the leaders of the American physics community to gather after the wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20Wine%20Tasting%20of%201973 | The New York Wine Tasting of 1973 was organized by pioneering wine journalist Robert Lawrence Balzer. He assembled 14 leading wine experts including France's Alexis Lichine, who owned two chateaux in Bordeaux, a manager of the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, and Sam Aaron, a prominent New York wine merchant. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20OpenBSD | Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid is a comprehensive guide to the OpenBSD operating system by Michael W. Lucas, author of Absolute FreeBSD and Cisco Routers for the Desperate. The book assumes basic knowledge of the design, commands, and user permissions of Unix-like operating systems. The book contains... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxamniquine | Oxamniquine, sold under the brand name Vansil among others, is a medication used to treat schistosomiasis due to Schistosoma mansoni. Praziquantel, however, is often the preferred treatment. It is given by mouth and used as a single dose.
Common side effects include sleepiness, headache, nausea, diarrhea, and reddish ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20comprehension | Program comprehension (also program understanding or [source] code comprehension) is a domain of computer science concerned with the ways software engineers maintain existing source code. The cognitive and other processes involved are identified and studied. The results are used to develop tools and training.
Sof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis%20Lions | Jacques-Louis Lions (; 2 May 1928 – 17 May 2001) was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control, among other areas. He received the SIAM's John von Neumann Lecture prize in 1986 and numerous other distinctions. Lions is listed as an ISI highl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Open%20Directory | Apple Open Directory is the LDAP directory service model implementation from Apple Inc. A directory service is software which stores and organizes information about a computer network's users and network resources and which allows network administrators to manage users' access to the resources.
In the context of macOS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Jones%20%28mathematician%29 | Roger L. Jones is an American mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis and ergodic theory.
Biography
He obtained a B.S. in mathematics in 1971 from University at Albany, SUNY, and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1974 from Rutgers University, with thesis Inequalities for the Ergodic Maximal Function written under the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupillary%20distance | Pupillary distance (PD), more correctly known as interpupillary distance (IPD) is the distance in millimeters between the centers of each pupil.
Interpupillary Distance Classifications
Distance PD is the separation between the visual axes of the eyes in their primary position, as the subject fixates on an infinitely d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution%20%28equation%29 | Dilution is the process of decreasing the concentration of a solute in a solution, usually simply by mixing with more solvent like adding more water to the solution. To dilute a solution means to add more solvent without the addition of more solute. The resulting solution is thoroughly mixed so as to ensure that all p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throat%20singing | Throat singing refers to several vocal practices found in different cultures worldwide. The most distinctive feature of such vocal practices is to be associated to some type of guttural voice that contrasts with the most common types of voices employed in singing, which are usually represented by chest (modal) and head... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karmarkar%27s%20algorithm | Karmarkar's algorithm is an algorithm introduced by Narendra Karmarkar in 1984 for solving linear programming problems. It was the first reasonably efficient algorithm that solves these problems in polynomial time. The ellipsoid method is also polynomial time but proved to be inefficient in practice.
Denoting as the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome%20%28game%20theory%29 | In game theory, the outcome of a game is the ultimate result of a strategic interaction with one or more people, dependant on the choices made by all participants in a certain exchange. It represents the final payoff resulting from a set of actions that individuals can take within the context of the game. Outcomes are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent%20%28economics%29 | In economics, an agent is an actor (more specifically, a decision maker) in a model of some aspect of the economy. Typically, every agent makes decisions by solving a well- or ill-defined optimization or choice problem.
For example, buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) are two common types of agents in partial e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger%20effect | The Schwinger effect is a predicted physical phenomenon whereby matter is created by a strong electric field. It is also referred to as the Sauter–Schwinger effect, Schwinger mechanism, or Schwinger pair production. It is a prediction of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in which electron–positron pairs are spontaneously c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex%20in%20French | The circumflex (ˆ) is one of the five diacritics used in French orthography. It may appear on the vowels a, e, i, o, and u, for example â in pâté.
The circumflex, called accent circonflexe, has three primary functions in French:
It affects the pronunciation of a, e, and o. Although it is used on i and u as well, it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol%20precipitation | Ethanol precipitation is a method used to purify and/or concentrate RNA, DNA, and polysaccharides such as pectin and xyloglucan from aqueous solutions by adding ethanol as an antisolvent.
DNA precipitation
Theory
DNA is polar due to its highly charged phosphate backbone. Its polarity makes it water-soluble (water i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20neural%20network | Quantum neural networks are computational neural network models which are based on the principles of quantum mechanics. The first ideas on quantum neural computation were published independently in 1995 by Subhash Kak and Ron Chrisley, engaging with the theory of quantum mind, which posits that quantum effects play a r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nameplate | A nameplate identifies and displays a person or product's name. Nameplates are usually shaped as rectangles but are also seen in other shapes, sometimes taking on the shape of someone's written name. Nameplates primarily serve an informative function (as in an office environment, where nameplates mounted on doors or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20symbolism | Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meaning to the rose, though these are seldom understood in-depth. Examples of deeper meanings lie within the language of flowers, and how a rose may have a different meaning in arrangements. Examples of common meanings of different coloured roses are: true love (red... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun%20%282007%20video%20game%29 | Shadowrun is a first-person shooter video game, developed by FASA Studio for Xbox 360 and Windows Vista. The game features a buying system which is inspired by the game Counter-Strike. The game is also inspired by the role-playing game of the same name.
Gameplay
Shadowrun'''s multiplayer consists wholly of a first pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%27s%20convergence%20test | The Cauchy convergence test is a method used to test infinite series for convergence. It relies on bounding sums of terms in the series. This convergence criterion is named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy who published it in his textbook Cours d'Analyse 1821.
Statement
A series is convergent if and only if for every the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features%20new%20to%20Windows%20Vista | Compared with previous versions of Microsoft Windows, features new to Windows Vista are very numerous, covering most aspects of the operating system, including additional management features, new aspects of security and safety, new I/O technologies, new networking features, and new technical features. Windows Vista al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%20number | The Stanton number, St, is a dimensionless number that measures the ratio of heat transferred into a fluid to the thermal capacity of fluid. The Stanton number is named after Thomas Stanton (engineer) (1865–1931). It is used to characterize heat transfer in forced convection flows.
Formula
where
h = convection heat t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%27s%20proof | Turing's proof is a proof by Alan Turing, first published in January 1937 with the title "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the ". It was the second proof (after Church's theorem) of the negation of Hilbert's ; that is, the conjecture that some purely mathematical yes–no questions can never be answered by c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20Planet%3A%20Extreme%20Condition | Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom for Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3. The game was released in Japan in December 2006 and worldwide in January 2007. Originally intended to be an Xbox 360 exclusive, it was later ported and released for Mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20operating%20system%20kernels | A kernel is a component of a computer operating system. A comparison of system kernels can provide insight into the design and architectural choices made by the developers of particular operating systems.
Comparison criteria
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of widely used a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waxy%20corn | Waxy corn or glutinous corn is a type of field corn characterized by its sticky texture when cooked as a result of larger amounts of amylopectin. The corn was first described from a specimen from China in 1909. As this plant showed many peculiar traits, the American breeders long used it as a genetic marker to tag the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20kernel%20oops | In computing, an oops is a serious but non-fatal error in the Linux kernel. An oops may precede a kernel panic, but it may also allow continued operation with compromised reliability. The term does not stand for anything, other than that it is a simple mistake.
Functioning
When the kernel detects a problem, it kills a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticor | An anticor, also known as anticoeur or avant-cœur, among farriers, is a dangerous swelling or inflammation in a horse's breast, of the size and shape of an apple, just opposite the heart. The term literally means anti heart or before heart.
The swelling may appear as a hard tumor, slow to develop, or as an inflammatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%20Charles%20Dreyer | Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, (8 January 1878 – 11 December 1956) was an officer of the Royal Navy. A gunnery expert, he developed a fire control system for British warships, and served as flag captain to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe at the Battle of Jutland. He retired with the rank of admiral in 1943, having ser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-ratio%20transmission | A close-ratio transmission describes a motor vehicle transmission with a smaller than average difference between the gear ratios. They are most often used on sports cars in order to keep the engine in the power band. There is no industry standard as to what constitutes a close-ratio transmission, a transmission that on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Wilhelm%20Gottfried%20von%20Waldeyer-Hartz | Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (6 October 1836 – 23 January 1921) was a German anatomist, known for summarizing neuron theory and for naming the chromosome. He is also remembered by anatomical structures of the human body which were named after him: Waldeyer's tonsillar ring (the lymphoid tissue ring of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20unified%20process | The enterprise unified process (EUP) is an extended variant of the unified process and was developed by Scott W. Ambler and Larry Constantine in 2000, eventually reworked in 2005 by Ambler, John Nalbone and Michael Vizdos. EUP was originally introduced to overcome some shortages of RUP, namely the lack of production an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylotheism | Hylotheism (from Gk. hyle, 'matter' and theos, 'God') is the belief that matter and God are the same, so in other words, defining God as matter.
The American Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod defines hylotheism is "Theory equating matter with God or merging one into the other" which it states as "Synonym for pantheism* a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20tongue | In mathematics, particularly in dynamical systems, Arnold tongues (named after Vladimir Arnold) are a pictorial phenomenon that occur when visualizing how the rotation number of a dynamical system, or other related invariant property thereof, changes according to two or more of its parameters. The regions of constant r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20%28model%20theory%29 | In model theory and related areas of mathematics, a type is an object that describes how a (real or possible) element or finite collection of elements in a mathematical structure might behave. More precisely, it is a set of first-order formulas in a language L with free variables x1, x2,…, xn that are true of a set of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI%20connector | A SCSI connector ( ) is used to connect computer parts that use a system called SCSI to communicate with each other. Generally, two connectors, designated male and female, plug together to form a connection which allows two components, such as a computer and a disk drive, to communicate with each other. SCSI connectors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%E2%80%93space%20compression | Time–space compression (also known as space–time compression and time–space distanciation) is an idea referring to the altering of the qualities of space–time and the relationship between space and time that is a consequence of the expansion of capital. It is rooted in Karl Marx's theory of the "annihilation of space b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20map | A heat map (or heatmap) is a 2-dimensional data visualization technique that represents the magnitude of individual values within a dataset as a color. The variation in color may be by hue or intensity.
"Heat map" is a relatively new term, but the practice of shading matrices has existed for over a century.
History
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaksija%20BASIC | Galaksija BASIC was the BASIC interpreter of the Galaksija build-it-yourself home computer from Yugoslavia. While being partially based on code taken from TRS-80 Level 1 BASIC, which the creator believed to have been a Microsoft BASIC, the extensive modifications of Galaksija BASIC—such as to include rudimentary array ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysan | Dysan Corporation was an American storage media manufacturing corporation, formed in 1973 in San Jose, California, by CEO and former president C. Norman Dion. It was instrumental in the development of the 5.25" floppy disk, which appeared in 1976.
History
In 1983, Jerry Pournelle reported in BYTE that a software-publ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril%20Hilsum | Cyril Hilsum (born 17 May 1925) is a British physicist and academic.
Hilsum was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1983 for the inventiveness and leadership in introducing III-V semiconductors into electronic technology.
Life
Hilsum entered Raine's Foundation School in 1936 as the middle of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohmic%20contact | An ohmic contact is a non-rectifying electrical junction: a junction between two conductors that has a linear current–voltage (I–V) curve as with Ohm's law. Low-resistance ohmic contacts are used to allow charge to flow easily in both directions between the two conductors, without blocking due to rectification or exces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunrock | Gunrock is the official mascot of the UC Davis Aggies, the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Davis, and was based on Gunrock (1914–1932), an American Thoroughbred stallion, and the son of English Triple Crown winner Rock Sand. He was related to the American Thoroughbred racehorse Man O' War (1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopycnal | Isopycnals are layers within the ocean that are stratified based on their densities and can be shown as a line connecting points of a specific density or potential density on a graph. Isopycnals are often displayed graphically to help visualize "layers" of the water in the ocean or gases in the atmosphere in a similar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20methylene%20blue | is an organic compound of the thiazine class of heterocycles. It is used as a stain and as an antimicrobial agent. It is classified as an azine dye, and the chromophore is a cation, the anion is often unspecified.
Applications
NMB is a staining agent used in diagnostic cytopathology and histopathology, typically for s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuously%20compounded%20nominal%20and%20real%20returns | Return rate is a corporate finance and accounting tool which calculates the gain and loss of investment over a certain period of time.
Nominal return
Let Pt be the price of a security at time t, including any cash dividends or interest, and let Pt − 1 be its price at t − 1. Let RSt be the simple rate of return on the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLI1 | Zinc finger protein GLI1 also known as glioma-associated oncogene is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GLI1 gene. It was originally isolated from human glioblastoma cells.
Function
The Gli proteins are the effectors of Hedgehog (Hh) signaling and have been shown to be involved in cell fate determination, pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Native%20API | The Native API is a lightweight application programming interface (API) used by Windows NT and user mode applications. This API is used in the early stages of Windows NT startup process, when other components and APIs are still unavailable. Therefore, a few Windows components, such as the Client/Server Runtime Subsyst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intruder%20detection | In information security, intruder detection is the process of detecting intruders behind attacks as unique persons. This technique tries to identify the person behind an attack by analyzing their computational behaviour. This concept is sometimes confused with Intrusion Detection (also known as IDS) techniques which ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental%20software%20engineering | Experimental software engineering involves running experiments on the processes and procedures involved in the creation of software systems, with the intent that the data be used as the basis of theories about the processes involved in software engineering (theory backed by data is a fundamental tenet of the scientific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance%20facility | In telecommunications, Entrance facility refers to the entrance to a building for both public and private network service cables (including antenna transmission lines, where applicable), including the entrance point at the building wall or floor, and continuing to the entrance room or entrance space.
Entrance faciliti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torricelli%27s%20law | Torricelli's law, also known as Torricelli's theorem, is a theorem in fluid dynamics relating the speed of fluid flowing from an orifice to the height of fluid above the opening. The law states that the speed of efflux of a fluid through a sharp-edged hole at the bottom of the tank filled to a depth is the same as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20rose%20symbolism | Black roses do not naturally exist but are symbols with different meanings or for various things.
Flowers
The flowers commonly called black roses do not really exist in said color, instead they actually have a dark shade, such as the "Black Magic", "Barkarole", "Black Beauty" and "Baccara" varieties. They can be artif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysorbate%2020 | Polysorbate 20 (common commercial brand names include Kolliphor PS 20, Scattics, Alkest TW 20, Tween 20, and Kotilen-20) is a polysorbate-type nonionic surfactant formed by the ethoxylation of sorbitan monolaurate. Its stability and relative nontoxicity allows it to be used as a detergent and emulsifier in a number of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neusis%20construction | In geometry, the neusis (; ; plural: ) is a geometric construction method that was used in antiquity by Greek mathematicians.
Geometric construction
The neusis construction consists of fitting a line element of given length () in between two given lines ( and ), in such a way that the line element, or its extension, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLX%20%28software%29 | MLX is a series of machine language entry utilities published by the magazines COMPUTE! and COMPUTE!'s Gazette, as well as books from COMPUTE! Publications. These programs were designed to allow relatively easy entry of the type-in machine language listings that were often included in these publications. Versions wer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective%20availability%20anti-spoofing%20module | A Selective Availability Anti-spoofing Module (SAASM) is used by military Global Positioning System receivers to allow decryption of precision GPS observations, while the accuracy of civilian GPS receivers may be reduced by the United States military through Selective Availability (SA) and anti-spoofing (AS). However, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A15%20phases | The A15 phases (also known as β-W or Cr3Si structure types) are series of intermetallic compounds with the chemical formula A3B (where A is a transition metal and B can be any element) and a specific structure. The A15 phase is also one of the members in the Frank–Kasper phases family. Many of these compounds have supe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife%20Reserve%20in%20Al%20Wusta | The Wildlife Reserve in Al Wusta, formerly the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, is a nature reserve in the Omani Central Desert and Coastal Hills. It was included in the UNESCO World Heritage list, but became the first site to be removed from the World Heritage list in 2007.
Species inhabiting the reserve include the mountain ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerostin | Sclerostin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SOST gene. It is a secreted glycoprotein with a C-terminal cysteine knot-like (CTCK) domain and sequence similarity to the DAN (differential screening-selected gene aberrative in neuroblastoma) family of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) antagonists. Sclerostin is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%20behavior | Work behavior is the behavior one uses in employment and is normally more formal than other types of human behavior. This varies from profession to profession, as some are far more casual than others. For example, a computer programmer would usually have far more leeway in their work behavior than a lawyer.
People are... |
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