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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla%20trademark%20dispute | In 2006, a branding issue developed when Mike Connor, representing the Mozilla Corporation, requested that the Debian Project comply with Mozilla standards for use of the Thunderbird trademark when redistributing the Thunderbird software. At issue were modifications not approved by the Mozilla Foundation, when the name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory%20Committee%20on%20Human%20Radiation%20Experiments | The Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments was established in 1994 to investigate questions of the record of the United States government with respect to human radiation experiments. The special committee was created by President Bill Clinton in Executive Order 12891, issued January 15, 1994. Ruth Faden of T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWMB | WWMB, virtual channel 21 (UHF digital channel 26), is a Dabl-affiliated television station licensed to Florence, South Carolina, United States, serving the Pee Dee and Grand Strand regions of South Carolina. The station is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings; the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns dual ABC/CW affiliate WP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb%20temperature | The wet-bulb temperature (WBT) is the temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked (water at ambient temperature) cloth (a wet-bulb thermometer) over which air is passed. At 100% relative humidity, the wet-bulb temperature is equal to the air temperature (dry-bulb temperature); at lower humidity the wet-bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball-jointed%20doll | A ball-jointed doll is any doll that is articulated with ball and socket joints. In contemporary usage when referring to modern dolls, and particularly when using the acronyms BJD or ABJD, it usually refers to modern Asian ball-jointed dolls. These are cast in polyurethane synthetic resin, a hard, dense plastic, and th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudal%20regression%20syndrome | Caudal regression syndrome, or sacral agenesis (or hypoplasia of the sacrum), is a rare birth defect. It is a congenital disorder in which the fetal development of the lower spine—the caudal partition of the spine—is abnormal. It occurs at a rate of approximately one per 60,000 live births.
Some babies are born with v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford%20model | The Rutherford model was devised by the New Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford to describe an atom. Rutherford directed the Geiger–Marsden experiment in 1909, which suggested, upon Rutherford's 1911 analysis, that J. J. Thomson's plum pudding model of the atom was incorrect. Rutherford's new model for the atom, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordeaux%20mixture | Bordeaux mixture (also called Bordo Mix) is a mixture of copper(II) sulphate (CuSO4) and quicklime (CaO) used as a fungicide. It is used in vineyards, fruit-farms and gardens to prevent infestations of downy mildew, powdery mildew and other fungi. It is sprayed on plants as a preventive treatment; its mode of action is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper%20curve | The Gosper curve, named after Bill Gosper, also known as the Peano-Gosper Curve and the flowsnake (a spoonerism of snowflake), is a space-filling curve whose limit set is rep-7. It is a fractal curve similar in its construction to the dragon curve and the Hilbert curve.
The Gosper curve can also be used for efficient... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%20fractal | The Newton fractal is a boundary set in the complex plane which is characterized by Newton's method applied to a fixed polynomial or transcendental function. It is the Julia set of the meromorphic function which is given by Newton's method. When there are no attractive cycles (of order greater than 1), it divides the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%20word | In mathematics, in the areas of combinatorics and computer science, a Lyndon word is a nonempty string that is strictly smaller in lexicographic order than all of its rotations. Lyndon words are named after mathematician Roger Lyndon, who investigated them in 1954, calling them standard lexicographic sequences. Anatoly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remineralisation | In biogeochemistry, remineralisation (or remineralization) refers to the breakdown or transformation of organic matter (those molecules derived from a biological source) into its simplest inorganic forms. These transformations form a crucial link within ecosystems as they are responsible for liberating the energy store... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20suppression | Zero suppression is the removal of redundant zeroes from a number. This can be done for storage, page or display space constraints or formatting reasons, such as making a letter more legible.
Examples
00049823 → 49823
7.678600000 → 7.6786
0032.3231000 → 32.3231
2.45000×1010 → 2.45×1010
0.0045×1010 → 4.5×107
One... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch%20limit | The Deutsch limit is an aphorism about the information density of visual programming languages originated by L. Peter Deutsch that states:
The problem with visual programming is that you can’t have more than 50 visual primitives on the screen at the same time.
The term was made up by Fred Lakin, after Deutsch made th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamorphism | Polyamorphism is the ability of a substance to exist in several different amorphous modifications. It is analogous to the polymorphism of crystalline materials. Many amorphous substances can exist with different amorphous characteristics (e.g. polymers). However, polyamorphism requires two distinct amorphous states wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL%20shortening | URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL. For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cc%3AMail | cc:Mail is a discontinued store-and-forward LAN-based email system originally developed on Microsoft's MS-DOS platform by Concentric Systems, Inc. in the 1980s. The company, founded by Robert Plummer, Hubert Lipinski, and Michael Palmer, later changed its name to PCC Systems, Inc., and then to cc:Mail, Inc. At the he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20learning | Transfer learning (TL) is a technique in machine learning (ML) in which knowledge learned from a task is re-used in order to boost performance on a related task. For example, for image classification, knowledge gained while learning to recognize cars could be applied when trying to recognize trucks. This topic is relat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Microsoft%20Flight%20Simulator | Microsoft Flight Simulator began as a set of articles on computer graphics, written by Bruce Artwick throughout 1976, about flight simulation using 3-D graphics. When the editor of the magazine told Artwick that subscribers were interested in purchasing such a program, Artwick founded Sublogic Corporation to commercial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-derivative | In mathematics, in the area of combinatorics and quantum calculus, the q-derivative, or Jackson derivative, is a q-analog of the ordinary derivative, introduced by Frank Hilton Jackson. It is the inverse of Jackson's q-integration. For other forms of q-derivative, see .
Definition
The q-derivative of a function f(x) i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterer%E2%80%93Siwe%20disease | Letterer–Siwe disease, (LSD) or Abt-Letterer-Siwe disease, is one of the four recognized clinical syndromes of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) and is the most severe form, involving multiple organ systems such as the skin, bone marrow, spleen, liver, and lung. Oral cavity and gastrointestinal involvement may also b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical%20set%20theory | Categorical set theory is any one of several versions of set theory developed from or treated in the context of mathematical category theory.
See also
Categorical logic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllody | Phyllody is the abnormal development of floral parts into leafy structures. It is generally caused by phytoplasma or virus infections, though it may also be because of environmental factors that result in an imbalance in plant hormones. Phyllody causes the affected plant to become partially or entirely sterile, as it i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20calibration | Robot calibration is a process used to improve the accuracy of robots, particularly industrial robots which are highly repeatable but not accurate. Robot calibration is the process of identifying certain parameters in the kinematic structure of an industrial robot, such as the relative position of robot links. Dependin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall%20pinhole | In computer networking, a firewall pinhole is a port that is not protected by a firewall to allow a particular application to gain access to a service on a host in the network protected by the firewall.
Leaving ports open in firewall configurations exposes the protected system to potentially malicious abuse. A fully c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium%20aluminide | Titanium aluminide (chemical formula TiAl), commonly gamma titanium, is an intermetallic chemical compound. It is lightweight and resistant to oxidation and heat, but has low ductility. The density of γ-TiAl is about 4.0 g/cm3. It finds use in several applications including aircraft, jet engines, sporting equipment an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20spark | An electric spark is an abrupt electrical discharge that occurs when a sufficiently high electric field creates an ionized, electrically conductive channel through a normally-insulating medium, often air or other gases or gas mixtures. Michael Faraday described this phenomenon as "the beautiful flash of light attending... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopulse%20radar | Monopulse radar is a radar system that uses additional encoding of the radio signal to provide accurate directional information. The name refers to its ability to extract range and direction from a single signal pulse.
Monopulse radar avoids problems seen in conical scanning radar systems, which can be confused by rap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20DNS%20server%20software | This article presents a comparison of the features, platform support, and packaging of many independent implementations of Domain Name System (DNS) name server software.
Servers compared
Each of these DNS servers is an independent implementation of the DNS protocols, capable of resolving DNS names for other computer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan%20function | In the theory of computation, the Sudan function is an example of a function that is recursive, but not primitive recursive. This is also true of the better-known Ackermann function. The Sudan function was the first function having this property to be published.
It was discovered (and published ) in 1927 by Gabriel Su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Data | First Data Corporation is a financial services company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The company's STAR Network provides nationwide domestic debit acceptance at more than 2 million retail POS, ATM, and at online outlets for nearly a third of all U.S. debit cards.
First Data has six million merchant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerative%20combinatorics | Enumerative combinatorics is an area of combinatorics that deals with the number of ways that certain patterns can be formed. Two examples of this type of problem are counting combinations and counting permutations. More generally, given an infinite collection of finite sets Si indexed by the natural numbers, enumerat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helikon%20vortex%20separation%20process | The Helikon vortex separation process is an aerodynamic uranium enrichment process designed around a device called a vortex tube. Paul Dirac thought of the idea for isotope separation and tried creating such a device in 1934 in the lab of Peter Kapitza at Cambridge. Other methods of separation were more practical at t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconventional%20computing | Unconventional computing is computing by any of a wide range of new or unusual methods. It is also known as alternative computing.
The term unconventional computation was coined by Cristian S. Calude and John Casti and used at the First International Conference on Unconventional Models of Computation in 1998.
Backgro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timarit.is | Timarit.is (also known as Tímarit.is, Tidarrit.fo and Aviisitoqqat.gl) is an open access digital library run by the National and University Library of Iceland which hosts digital editions of newspapers and magazines published in Iceland, Faroe Islands and Greenland as well as publications in their languages elsewhere, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deme%20%28biology%29 | In biology, a deme, in the strict sense, is a group of individuals that belong to the same taxonomic group. However, when biologists, and especially ecologists, use the term ‘deme’ they usually refer to it as the definition of a gamodeme: a local group of individuals (from the same taxon) that interbreed with each othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab%20allocation | Slab allocation is a memory management mechanism intended for the efficient memory allocation of objects. In comparison with earlier mechanisms, it reduces fragmentation caused by allocations and deallocations.
This technique is used for retaining allocated memory containing a data object of a certain type for reuse u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPXJ | KPXJ (channel 21) is a television station licensed to Minden, Louisiana, United States, serving the Shreveport area as an affiliate of The CW. The station is owned by locally based KTBS, LLC, alongside ABC affiliate KTBS-TV (channel 3). Both stations share studios on East Kings Highway on the eastern side of Shreveport... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSHV-TV | KSHV-TV (channel 45) is a television station in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Texarkana, Texas–licensed NBC affiliate KTAL-TV (channel 6); Nexstar also provides certain services to Fox affiliate KMSS-TV (channel 33) under a shared service... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspectral%20imaging | Hyperspectral imaging collects and processes information from across the electromagnetic spectrum. The goal of hyperspectral imaging is to obtain the spectrum for each pixel in the image of a scene, with the purpose of finding objects, identifying materials, or detecting processes. There are three general types of spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20law%20of%20cosines | In spherical trigonometry, the law of cosines (also called the cosine rule for sides) is a theorem relating the sides and angles of spherical triangles, analogous to the ordinary law of cosines from plane trigonometry.
Given a unit sphere, a "spherical triangle" on the surface of the sphere is defined by the great ci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation%20number | In mathematics, the rotation number is an invariant of homeomorphisms of the circle.
History
It was first defined by Henri Poincaré in 1885, in relation to the precession of the perihelion of a planetary orbit. Poincaré later proved a theorem characterizing the existence of periodic orbits in terms of rationality of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-carrying%20code | Proof-carrying code (PCC) is a software mechanism that allows a host system to verify properties about an application via a formal proof that accompanies the application's executable code. The host system can quickly verify the validity of the proof, and it can compare the conclusions of the proof to its own security ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocybernetics | Biocybernetics is the application of cybernetics to biological science disciplines such as neurology and multicellular systems. Biocybernetics plays a major role in systems biology, seeking to integrate different levels of information to understand how biological systems function. The field of cybernetics itself has or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnoecology | Ethnoecology is the scientific study of how different groups of people living in different locations understand the ecosystems around them, and their relationships with surrounding environments.
It seeks valid, reliable understanding of how we as humans have interacted with the environment and how these intricate rela... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worksheet | A worksheet, in the word's original meaning, is a sheet of paper on which one performs work. They come in many forms, most commonly associated with children's school work assignments, tax forms, and accounting or other business environments. Software is increasingly taking over the paper-based worksheet.
It can be a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C7%20protein | C7 protein is an engineered zinc finger protein based on the murine ZFP, Zif268 and discovered by Wu et al. in 1994 (published in 1995). It shares the same zinc finger 2 and zinc finger 3 of Zif268, but differs in the sequence of finger 1. It also shares the same DNA target, 5'-GCGTGGGCG-3'.
The shared sequences in si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C7.GAT%20protein | The C7.GAT protein is a zinc finger protein based on the C7 protein (itself based on the murine Zif268). It features an alternative zinc finger 3 alpha helix sequence, preventing the target site overlap caused by the aspartic acid residue of the finger 3 of C7. The sequence of this third finger is TSG-N-LVR according t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20RAC | In database computing, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) — an option for the Oracle Database software produced by Oracle Corporation and introduced in 2001 with Oracle9i — provides software for clustering and high availability in Oracle database environments. Oracle Corporation includes RAC with the Enterprise Edi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disodium%20glutamate | Disodium glutamate, abbreviated DSG, (Na2C5H7NO4) is a sodium salt of glutamic acid. It is used as a flavoring agent to impart umami flavor.
Formation
Disodium glutamate can be produced by neutralizing glutamic acid with two molar equivalents of sodium hydroxide (NaOH).
See also
Monosodium glutamate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled%20egg | Pickled eggs are typically hard-boiled eggs that are cured in vinegar or brine. As with many foods, this was originally a way to preserve the food so that it could be eaten months later. Pickled eggs have since become a favorite among many as a snack or hors d'œuvre popular in pubs, bars, and taverns, and around the wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain%20hardening%20exponent | The strain hardening exponent (also called the strain hardening index), usually denoted , a constant often used in calculations relating to stress–strain behavior in work hardening. It occurs in the formula known as Hollomon's equation (after John Herbert Hollomon Jr.) who originally posited it as
where represents t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20morphing | Code morphing is an approach used in obfuscating software to protect software applications from reverse engineering, analysis, modifications, and cracking. This technology protects intermediate level code such as compiled from Java and .NET languages (Oxygene, C#, Visual Basic, etc.) rather than binary object code. Cod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUN/TAP | In computer networking, TUN and TAP are kernel virtual network devices. Being network devices supported entirely in software, they differ from ordinary network devices which are backed by physical network adapters.
The Universal TUN/TAP Driver originated in 2000 as a merger of the corresponding drivers in Solaris, Lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCneisen%20parameter | Grüneisen parameter is a dimensionless thermodynamic parameter named after German physicist Eduard Grüneisen, whose original definition was formulated in terms of the phonon nonlinearities.
Because of the equivalences of many properties and derivatives within thermodynamics (e.g. see Maxwell Relations), there are man... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20physical%20constants | The constants listed here are known values of physical constants expressed in SI units; that is, physical quantities that are generally believed to be universal in nature and thus are independent of the unit system in which they are measured. Many of these are redundant, in the sense that they obey a known relationshi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactritida | The Bactritida are a small order of more or less straight-shelled (orthoconic) cephalopods that first appeared during the Emsian stage of the Devonian period (407 million years ago) with questionable origins in Pragian stage before 409 million years ago, and persisted until Carnian pluvial event in the upper middle Car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute%20domain | In computing, the attribute domain is the set of values allowed in an attribute.
For example:
Rooms in hotel (1-300)
Age (1-99)
Married (yes or no)
Nationality (Nepalese, Indian, American, or British)
Colors (Red, Yellow, Green)
For the relational model it is a requirement that each part of a tup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20statistical%20software | Statistical software are specialized computer programs for analysis in statistics and econometrics.
Open-source
ADaMSoft – a generalized statistical software with data mining algorithms and methods for data management
ADMB – a software suite for non-linear statistical modeling based on C++ which uses automatic diff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schreier%20vector | In mathematics, especially the field of computational group theory, a Schreier vector is a tool for reducing the time and space complexity required to calculate orbits of a permutation group.
Overview
Suppose G is a finite group with generating sequence which acts on the finite set . A common task in computational ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help%20key | A Help key, found in the shape of a dedicated key explicitly labeled , or as another key, typically one of the function keys, on a computer keyboard, is a key which, when pressed, produces information on the screen/display to aid the user in their current task, such as using a specific function in an application progra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20%28group%20theory%29 | Let be a finite permutation group acting on a set . A sequence
of k distinct elements of is a base for G if the only element of which fixes every pointwise is the identity element of .
Bases and strong generating sets are concepts of importance in computational group theory. A base and a strong generating s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bind%20rune | A bind rune or bindrune () is a Migration Period Germanic ligature of two or more runes. They are extremely rare in Viking Age inscriptions, but are common in earlier (Proto-Norse) and later (medieval) inscriptions.
On some runestones, bind runes may have been ornamental and used to highlight the name of the carver.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockade%20of%20Peru | The cockade of Peru is a popular unofficial symbol of the Peruvian nation. While an 1825 law decreed its characteristics, there is no official regulation concerning its use, and it is not recognised as a national symbol in the Peruvian Constitution. It has the same colors as the national flag: red-white-red. It is ofte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip%C3%B3t%20Fej%C3%A9r | Lipót Fejér (or Leopold Fejér, ; 9 February 1880 – 15 October 1959) was a Hungarian mathematician of Jewish heritage. Fejér was born Leopold Weisz, and changed to the Hungarian name Fejér around 1900.
Biography
He was born in Pécs, Austria-Hungary, into the Jewish family of Victoria Goldberger and Samuel Weiss. His m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension%20%28predicate%20logic%29 | The extension of a predicatea truth-valued functionis the set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate. Such a set of tuples is a relation.
Examples
For example, the statement "d2 is the weekday following d1" can be seen as a truth function associating to each tuple (d2, d1) the value true or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20cutaneous%20nerve%20of%20thigh | The posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh (also called the posterior femoral cutaneous nerve) is a sensory nerve of the thigh. It is a branch of the sacral plexus. It supplies the skin of the posterior surface of the thigh, leg, buttock, and also the perineum.
Unlike most nerves termed "cutaneous" which are subcutane... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20gluteal%20nerve | The inferior gluteal nerve is the main motor neuron that innervates the gluteus maximus muscle. It is responsible for the movement of the gluteus maximus in activities requiring the hip to extend the thigh, such as climbing stairs. Injury to this nerve is rare but often occurs as a complication of posterior approach to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20gluteal%20nerve | The superior gluteal nerve is a mixed (motor and sensory) nerve of the sacral plexus that originates in the pelvis. It provides motor innervation to the gluteus medius, gluteus minimus, tensor fasciae latae, and piriformis muscles; it also has a cutaneous branch.
Structure
Origin
The superior gluteal nerve originate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic%20writing | Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means "having no specific semantic content", or "without the smallest unit of meaning". With the non-specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning, which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret. All of this is similar t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary%20consolidation | A pulmonary consolidation is a region of normally compressible lung tissue that has filled with liquid instead of air. The condition is marked by induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung. It is considered a radiologic sign. Consolidation occurs through accumulation of inflam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20du%20Sautoy | Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (; born 26 August 1965) is a British mathematician, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Fellow of New College, Oxford and author of popular mathematics and popular science books. He was previously a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articularis%20genus%20muscle | The articularis genus (also known as the subcrureus muscle) is a small skeletal muscle located anteriorly on the thigh just above the knee.
Structure
It arises from the anterior surface of the lower part of the body of the femur, deep to the vastus intermedius, close to the knee and from the deep fibers of the vastus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20equilibrium | Genetic equilibrium is the condition of an allele or genotype in a gene pool (such as a population) where the frequency does not change from generation to generation. Genetic equilibrium describes a theoretical state that is the basis for determining whether and in what ways populations may deviate from it. Hardy–Wein... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oogamy | Oogamy is a form of anisogamy where the gametes differ in both size and form.
In oogamy the large female gamete (also known as ovum) is immotile, while the small male gamete (also known as sperm) is mobile. Oogamy is a common form of anisogamy, with almost all animals and land plants being oogamous.
Oogamy is found i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical%20quantum%20gravity | In physics, canonical quantum gravity is an attempt to quantize the canonical formulation of general relativity (or canonical gravity). It is a Hamiltonian formulation of Einstein's general theory of relativity. The basic theory was outlined by Bryce DeWitt in a seminal 1967 paper, and based on earlier work by Peter G.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductor%20digiti%20minimi%20muscle%20of%20foot | The abductor digiti minimi (abductor minimi digiti, abductor digiti quinti) is a muscle which lies along the lateral (outer) border of the foot, and is in relation by its medial margin with the lateral plantar artery, vein and nerves.
Its homolog in the arm is the abductor digiti minimi muscle in the hand.
Origin and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexor%20digiti%20minimi%20brevis%20muscle%20of%20foot | The Flexor digiti minimi brevis (Flexor brevis minimi digiti, Flexor digiti quinti brevis) lies under the metatarsal bone on the little toe, and resembles one of the Interossei.
It arises from the base of the fifth metatarsal bone, and from the sheath of the Fibularis longus; its tendon is inserted into the lateral si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsal%20interossei%20of%20the%20hand | In human anatomy, the dorsal interossei (DI) are four muscles in the back of the hand that act to abduct (spread) the index, middle, and ring fingers away from hand's midline (ray of middle finger) and assist in flexion at the metacarpophalangeal joints and extension at the interphalangeal joints of the index, middle a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper%20%28electronics%29 | In electronics, a clipper is a circuit designed to prevent a signal from exceeding a predetermined reference voltage level. A clipper does not distort the remaining part of the applied waveform. Clipping circuits are used to select, for purposes of transmission, that part of a signal waveform which lies above or below ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glabellar%20reflex | The glabellar reflex, also known as the "glabellar tap sign", is a primitive reflex elicited by repetitive tapping of the the smooth part of the forehead above the nose and between the eyebrows. Subjects respond to the first several taps by blinking; if tapping were to then be made to persist, in cognitively intact in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribotyping | Ribotyping is a molecular technique for bacterial identification and characterization that uses information from rRNA-based phylogenetic analyses. It is a rapid and specific method widely used in clinical diagnostics and analysis of microbial communities in food, water, and beverages.
All bacteria have ribosomal genes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20fat%20percentage | The body fat percentage (BFP) of a human or other living being is the total mass of fat divided by total body mass, multiplied by 100; body fat includes essential body fat and storage body fat. Essential body fat is necessary to maintain life and reproductive functions. The percentage of essential body fat for women is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serine%20octamer%20cluster | The Serine octamer cluster in physical chemistry is an unusually stable cluster consisting of eight serine molecules (Ser) implicated in the origin of homochirality. This cluster was first discovered in mass spectrometry experiments. Electrospray ionization of an aerosol of serine in methanol results in a mass spectrum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine | Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many other animals. Urine flows from the kidneys through the ureters to the urinary bladder. Urination results in urine being excreted from the body through the urethra.
Cellular metabolism generates many by-products that are rich in nitrogen and must be clea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push%E2%80%93pull%20converter | A push–pull converter is a type of DC-to-DC converter, a switching converter that uses a transformer to change the voltage of a DC power supply. The distinguishing feature of a push-pull converter is that the transformer primary is supplied with current from the input line by pairs of transistors in a symmetrical push... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odell%20Down%20Under | Odell Down Under is a 1994 game for Microsoft Windows and Classic Mac OS that takes place in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Released by MECC, it is the sequel to Odell Lake.
History
Odell Down Under was released alongside a re-release of its companion game, Odell Lake. The game was recommended for ages 9 to adul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL%20Chime | MDL Chime was a free plugin used by web browsers to display the three-dimensional structures of molecules. and was based on the RasMol code.
Chime was used by a wide range of biochemistry web sites for the visualization of macromolecules, many of which were linked to the World Index of Molecular Visualization Resour... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexachloroacetone | Hexachloroacetone is an organic compound with the formula (Cl3C)2CO. It is also called hexachloropropanone or perchloroacetone. Numbers indicating the position of the chlorine-atoms are generally omitted as all the possible positions are substituted with chlorine. It is a colorless liquid, slightly soluble in water.
R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD%20Smartie | LCD Smartie is open-source software for Microsoft Windows which allows a character LCD to be used as an auxiliary display device for a PC. Supported devices include displays based on the Hitachi HD44780 LCD controller, the Matrix Orbital Serial/USB LCD, and Palm OS devices (when used in conjunction with PalmOrb). The p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtalar%20joint | In human anatomy, the subtalar joint, also known as the
talocalcaneal joint, is a joint of the foot. It occurs at the meeting point of the talus and the calcaneus.
The joint is classed structurally as a synovial joint, and functionally as a plane joint.
Structure
The talus is oriented slightly obliquely on the anter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20transcription | Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession dealing with the process of transcribing voice-recorded medical reports that are dictated by physicians, nurses and other healthcare practitioners. Medical reports can be voice files, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material. These ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converse%20relation | In mathematics, the converse relation, or transpose, of a binary relation is the relation that occurs when the order of the elements is switched in the relation. For example, the converse of the relation 'child of' is the relation 'parent of'. In formal terms, if and are sets and is a relation from to then is the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay%20differential%20equation | In mathematics, delay differential equations (DDEs) are a type of differential equation in which the derivative of the unknown function at a certain time is given in terms of the values of the function at previous times.
DDEs are also called time-delay systems, systems with aftereffect or dead-time, hereditary systems... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wengo | Wengo was at the beginning of 2004 a subsidiary of French telecom service provider Neuf Cegetel. As of February 2012, Wengo employs 80 people in the Paris headquarters, and is a subsidiary of Vivendi. Wengo is now repositioned as an online personal and consulting services marketplace.
Voice over IP
Wengo was founded ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Burdenko | Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (; – 11 November 1946) was a Russian Empire and Soviet surgeon, the founder of Russian neurosurgery. He was Surgeon-General of the Red Army (1937–1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), an academician and the first director of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20averaging | In mathematics, more specifically in dynamical systems, the method of averaging (also called averaging theory) exploits systems containing time-scales separation: a fast oscillation versus a slow drift. It suggests that we perform an averaging over a given amount of time in order to iron out the fast oscillations and o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20testing | Security testing is a process intended to detect flaws in the security mechanisms of an information system and as such help enable it to protect data and maintain functionality as intended. Due to the logical limitations of security testing, passing the security testing process is not an indication that no flaws exist ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology%20table | A topology table is used by routers that route traffic in a network. It consists of all routing tables inside the Autonomous System where the router is positioned. Each router using the routing protocol EIGRP then maintains a topology table for each configured network protocol — all routes learned, that are leading to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake%20%28software%29 | Rake is a software task management and build automation tool created by Jim Weirich. It allows the user to specify tasks and describe dependencies as well as to group tasks in a namespace. It is similar to SCons and Make. It's written in the Ruby programming language and the Rakefiles (equivalent of Makefiles in Make) ... |
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