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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allylic%20strain | Allylic strain (also known as A1,3 strain, 1,3-allylic strain, or A-strain) in organic chemistry is a type of strain energy resulting from the interaction between a substituent on one end of an olefin (a synonym for an alkene) with an allylic substituent on the other end. If the substituents (R and R') are large enough... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided%20power%20structure | In mathematics, specifically commutative algebra, a divided power structure is a way of making expressions of the form meaningful even when it is not possible to actually divide by .
Definition
Let A be a commutative ring with an ideal I. A divided power structure (or PD-structure, after the French puissances divis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Cameron%20%28mathematician%29 | Peter Jephson Cameron FRSE (born 23 January 1947) is an Australian mathematician who works in group theory, combinatorics, coding theory, and model theory. He is currently half-time Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, and Emeritus Professor at Queen Mary University of London.
Cameron received a B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Journey%20of%20Man | The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey is a 2002 book by Spencer Wells, an American geneticist and anthropologist, in which he uses techniques and theories of genetics and evolutionary biology to trace the geographical dispersal of early human migrations out of Africa. The book was made into a TV documentary in 2003.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subacromial%20bursitis | Subacromial bursitis is a condition caused by inflammation of the bursa that separates the superior surface of the supraspinatus tendon (one of the four tendons of the rotator cuff) from the overlying coraco-acromial ligament, acromion, and coracoid (the acromial arch) and from the deep surface of the deltoid muscle. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%27s%20law | Davis's law is used in anatomy and physiology to describe how soft tissue models along imposed demands. It is similar to Wolff's law, which applies to osseous tissue. It is a physiological principle stating that soft tissue heal according to the manner in which they are mechanically stressed.
It is also an application... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20phase%20approximation | The random phase approximation (RPA) is an approximation method in condensed matter physics and in nuclear physics. It was first introduced by David Bohm and David Pines as an important result in a series of seminal papers of 1952 and 1953. For decades physicists had been trying to incorporate the effect of microscopic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-contrast%20microscopy |
Phase-contrast microscopy (PCM) is an optical microscopy technique that converts phase shifts in light passing through a transparent specimen to brightness changes in the image. Phase shifts themselves are invisible, but become visible when shown as brightness variations.
When light waves travel through a medium oth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse%20shaping | In electronics and telecommunications, pulse shaping is the process of changing a transmitted pulses' waveform to optimize the signal for its intended purpose or the communication channel. This is often done by limiting the bandwidth of the transmission and filtering the pulses to control intersymbol interference. Puls... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20voyage%20of%20HMS%20Beagle | The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, under captain Robert FitzRoy, who had taken over command of the ship on its first voyage after the previous captain, Pringle Stokes, committed suicide. FitzRoy had thought of the advantages of havin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafel%20equation | The Tafel equation is an equation in electrochemical kinetics relating the rate of an electrochemical reaction to the overpotential. The Tafel equation was first deduced experimentally and was later shown to have a theoretical justification. The equation is named after Swiss chemist Julius Tafel." It describes how the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schafer%20automation%20system | The first Schafer Automation System, installed at KGEE(AM) in Bakersfield, California in 1956, was dubbed the "blue-wire job" because all of the wiring in it was blue, its inventor, Paul Schafer said. "The owner wanted to program his station all night long without a person being there. I used a couple of Seeburg recor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20fascia%20of%20the%20urogenital%20diaphragm | The superior fascia of the urogenital diaphragm is continuous with the obturator fascia and stretches across the pubic arch.
Structure
If the obturator fascia be traced medially after leaving the Obturator internus muscle, it will be found attached by some of its deeper or anterior fibers to the inner margin of the pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal%20analysis%20using%20FEM | The goal of modal analysis in structural mechanics is to determine the natural mode shapes and frequencies of an object or structure during free vibration. It is common to use the finite element method (FEM) to perform this analysis because, like other calculations using the FEM, the object being analyzed can have arbi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci%20numbers%20in%20popular%20culture | The Fibonacci numbers are a sequence of integers, starting with 0, 1 and continuing 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ..., each new number being the sum of the previous two. The Fibonacci numbers, often presented in conjunction with the golden ratio, are a popular theme in culture. They have been mentioned in novels, films, televisio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricholoma%20argyraceum | Tricholoma argyraceum is a grey-capped mushroom of the large genus Tricholoma. It has been often confused with the similar-looking Tricholoma scalpturatum.
Taxonomy
French mycologist Pierre Bulliard described this species as Agaricus argyraceus in 1779, before his countryman Claude Casimir Gillet gave it its current n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricholoma%20sulphureum | Tricholoma sulphureum, also known as the stinker, sulphur knight or gas agaric, is an inedible or mildly poisonous mushroom found in woodlands in Europe. It has a distinctive bright yellow colour and an unusual smell likened to coal gas. It occurs in deciduous woodlands in Europe from spring to autumn.
Taxonomy
Tricho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerschenkron%20effect | The Gerschenkron effect, developed by Alexander Gerschenkron, claims that changing the base year for an index determines the growth rate of the index. This effect is applicable only to aggregation method using reference price structure (meaning, each country’s quantities are valued by uniform set of prices to obtain v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa%27s%20minimal%20surface | In mathematics, Costa's minimal surface, is an embedded minimal surface discovered in 1982 by the Brazilian mathematician Celso José da Costa. It is also a surface of finite topology, which means that it can be formed by puncturing a compact surface. Topologically, it is a thrice-punctured torus.
Until its discovery, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MODELLER | Modeller, often stylized as MODELLER, is a computer program used for homology modeling to produce models of protein tertiary structures and quaternary structures (rarer). It implements a method inspired by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of proteins (protein NMR), termed satisfaction of spatial restraints, by w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-energy%20adaptive%20clustering%20hierarchy | Low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy ("LEACH") is a TDMA-based MAC protocol which is integrated with clustering and a simple routing protocol in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The goal of LEACH is to lower the energy consumption required to create and maintain clusters in order to improve the life time of a wirel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerochronology | Sclerochronology is the study of periodic physical and chemical features in the hard tissues of animals that grow by accretion, including invertebrates and coralline red algae, and the temporal context in which they formed. It is particularly useful in the study of marine paleoclimatology. The term was coined in 1974 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perso-Arabic%20Script%20Code%20for%20Information%20Interchange | Perso-Arabic Script Code for Information Interchange (PASCII) is one of the Indian government standards for encoding languages using writing systems based on Perso-Arabic alphabet, in particular Kashmiri, Persian, Sindhi and Urdu. The ISCII encoding was originally intended to cover both the Brahmi-derived writing syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixmaster%20universe | The Mixmaster universe (named after Sunbeam Mixmaster, a brand of Sunbeam Products electric kitchen mixer) is a solution to Einstein field equations of general relativity studied by Charles Misner in an effort to better understand the dynamics of the early universe. He hoped to solve the horizon problem in a natural wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindel%C3%B6f%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Lindelöf's theorem is a result in complex analysis named after the Finnish mathematician Ernst Leonard Lindelöf. It states that a holomorphic function on a half-strip in the complex plane that is bounded on the boundary of the strip and does not grow "too fast" in the unbounded direction of the strip mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20mass%20%28sociodynamics%29 | In social dynamics, critical mass is a sufficient number of adopters of a new idea, technology or innovation in a social system so that the rate of adoption becomes self-sustaining and creates further growth. The point at which critical mass is achieved is sometimes referred to as a threshold within the threshold model... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orienting%20system | The brain pathway that orients visual attention to a stimulus is referred to as the orienting system. There are two main types of visual orientations, covert (exogenous) which occurs when a salient environmental change causes a shift in attention and overt (endogenous) which occurs when the individual makes a consciou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadic%20predicate%20calculus | In logic, the monadic predicate calculus (also called monadic first-order logic) is the fragment of first-order logic in which all relation symbols in the signature are monadic (that is, they take only one argument), and there are no function symbols. All atomic formulas are thus of the form , where is a relation symb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Design%20of%20an%20Optimizing%20Compiler | The Design of an Optimizing Compiler (Elsevier Science Ltd, 1980, ), by William Wulf, Richard K. Johnson, Charles B. Weinstock, Steven O. Hobbs, and Charles M. Geschke, was published in 1975 by Elsevier. It describes the BLISS optimizing compiler for the PDP-11, written at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1970s.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20B.%20Thomas | George Brinton Thomas Jr. (January 11, 1914 – October 31, 2006) was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at MIT. Internationally, he is best known for being the author of the widely used calculus textbook Calculus and Analytical Geometry, known today as Thomas' Calculus.
Early life
Born in Boise, Id... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliotoxin | Gliotoxin is a sulfur-containing mycotoxin that belongs to a class of naturally occurring 2,5-diketopiperazines produced by several species of fungi, especially those of marine origin. It is the most prominent member of the epipolythiopiperazines, a large class of natural products featuring a diketopiperazine with di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%20space%20%28topology%29 | In mathematics, more specifically point-set topology, a Moore space is a developable regular Hausdorff space. That is, a topological space X is a Moore space if the following conditions hold:
Any two distinct points can be separated by neighbourhoods, and any closed set and any point in its complement can be separated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry%20element | In chemistry and crystallography, a symmetry element is a point, line, or plane about which symmetry operations can take place. In particular, a symmetry element can be a mirror plane, an axis of rotation (either proper and improper), or a center of inversion. For an object such as a molecule or a crystal, a symmetry ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterosacral%20ligament | The uterosacral ligaments (or rectouterine ligaments) are major ligaments of uterus that extend posterior-ward from the cervix to attach onto the (anterior aspect of the) sacrum.
Anatomy
Microanatomy/histology
The uterosacral ligaments consist of fibrous connective tissue, and smooth muscle tissue.
Relations
The u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-arabinose%20operon | The L-arabinose operon, also called the ara or araBAD operon''', is an operon required for the breakdown of the five-carbon sugar L-arabinose in Escherichia coli. The L-arabinose operon contains three structural genes: araB, araA, araD (collectively known as araBAD), which encode for three metabolic enzymes that are re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20knapsack%20problem | In theoretical computer science, the continuous knapsack problem (also known as the fractional knapsack problem) is an algorithmic problem in combinatorial optimization in which the goal is to fill a container (the "knapsack") with fractional amounts of different materials chosen to maximize the value of the selected m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobutyraldehyde | Isobutyraldehyde is the chemical compound with the formula (CH3)2CHCHO. It is an aldehyde, isomeric with n-butyraldehyde (butanal). Isobutyraldehyde is made, often as a side-product, by the hydroformylation of propene. Its odour is described as that of wet cereal or straw. It undergoes the Cannizaro reaction even thoug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borirane | Borirane is a heterocyclic organic compound with the formula C2H4BH. This colourless, flammable gas is the simplest borirane, a three-membered ring consisting of two carbon and one boron atom. It can be viewed as a structural analog of aziridine, with boron replacing the nitrogen atom of aziridine. Borirane is isomer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extendible%20hashing | Extendible hashing is a type of hash system which treats a hash as a bit string and uses a trie for bucket lookup. Because of the hierarchical nature of the system, re-hashing is an incremental operation (done one bucket at a time, as needed). This means that time-sensitive applications are less affected by table grow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20response | A functional response in ecology is the intake rate of a consumer as a function of food density (the amount of food available in a given ecotope). It is associated with the numerical response, which is the reproduction rate of a consumer as a function of food density. Following C. S. Holling, functional responses are g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pararectal%20lymph%20nodes | The pararectal lymph nodes are lymph nodes that are in contact with the muscular coat of the rectum.
Structure
The pararectal lymph nodes are located on the left and right of the rectum. Their efferent lymph ducts pass to the pre-aortic lymph nodes.
Function
The pararectal lymph nodes drain the descending iliac and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroaortic%20lymph%20nodes | The retroaortic lymph nodes (or postaortic lymph nodes) are placed below the cisterna chyli, on the bodies of the third and fourth lumbar vertebrae.
They receive lymphatic trunks from the lateral and preaortic glands, while their efferents end in the cisterna chyli. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preaortic%20lymph%20nodes | The preaortic lymph nodes lie in front of the aorta, and may be divided into celiac lymph nodes, superior mesenteric lymph nodes, and inferior mesenteric lymph nodes groups, arranged around the origins of the corresponding arteries.
The celiac lymph nodes are grouped into three sets: the gastric, hepatic and splenic l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Historical%20Climatology%20Network | The Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) is a data set of temperature, precipitation and pressure records managed by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Arizona State University and the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center.
The aggregate data are collected from many continuously reporting fixed sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20mesenteric%20lymph%20nodes | The inferior mesenteric lymph nodes consist of:
(a) small glands on the branches of the left colic and sigmoid arteries
(b) a group in the sigmoid mesocolon, around the superior hemorrhoidal artery
(c) a pararectal group in contact with the muscular coat of the rectum
Structure
The inferior mesenteric lymph nodes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20iliac%20lymph%20nodes | The internal iliac lymph nodes (or hypogastric) surround the internal iliac artery and its branches (the hypogastric vessels), and receive the lymphatics corresponding to the distribution of the branches of it, i. e., they receive lymphatics from all the pelvic viscera, from the deeper parts of the perineum, including ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatophyte%20test%20medium | Dermatophyte test medium (DTM) is a specialized agar used in medical mycology. It is based on Sabouraud's dextrose agar with added cycloheximide to inhibit saprotrophic growth, antibiotic to inhibit bacterial growth, and phenol red a pH indicator. The pH indicator is useful in distinguishing a dermatophyte fungus, whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm%20of%20the%20Rain | "Rhythm of the Rain" is a song performed by The Cascades, released in November 1962. It was written by Cascades band member John Claude Gummoe. On March 9, 1963, it rose to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and spent two weeks at number 1 on Billboards Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked the record as the number 4 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency%20%28UML%29 | In the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a Dependency is a relationship that shows that an element, or set of elements, requires other model elements for their specification or implementation. The element is dependent upon the independent element, called the supplier. Two or more elements in this relationship are called... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Adams%20%28sailor%29 | Captain Alexander Adams (1780–1871) was a Scotsman who served in the British Royal Navy and then came to the Hawaiian islands and served in the navy of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Known to the Hawaiians as Alika Napunako Adams.
Britain
Adams was born December 27, 1780, in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland. He said his father was J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwerty%20effect | The QWERTY effect (or qwerty effect) emphasizes ways that modern keyboard layouts have influenced human language, naming preferences and behavior.
The Wubi effect references the same process of influence driven by autocomplete, Chinese input methods for computers (such as the Wubi method), and real time input suggest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal%20ligament | The cardinal ligament (also transverse cervical ligament, lateral cervical ligament, or Mackenrodt's ligament) is a major ligament of the uterus formed as a thickening of connective tissue of the base of the broad ligament of the uterus. It extends laterally (on either side) from the cervix and vaginal fornix to attach... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiocruz%20Genome%20Comparison%20Project | The Fiocruz Genome Comparison Project is a collaborative effort involving Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Institute and IBM's World Community Grid, designed to produce a database comparing the genes from many genomes with each other using SSEARCH. The program SSEARCH performs a rigorous Smith–Waterman alignment between a protein... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20carrier%20control | Dynamic carrier control (DCC) is a method of reducing power consumption in radio transmitters during periods of low audio activity or silence. It is a type of Modulation-Dependent Carrier Level control, or MDCL. All modern high-power (>50 kW) shortwave radio transmitters incorporate DCC of some kind, as well as some me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptlib | cryptlib is an open-source cross-platform software security toolkit library. It is distributed under the Sleepycat License, a free software license compatible with the GNU General Public License. Alternatively, cryptlib is available under a proprietary license for those preferring to use it under proprietary terms.
Fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic%20evolution%20of%20ligands%20by%20exponential%20enrichment | Systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX), also referred to as in vitro selection or in vitro evolution, is a combinatorial chemistry technique in molecular biology for producing oligonucleotides of either single-stranded DNA or RNA that specifically bind to a target ligand or ligands. These sin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20verna | Amanita verna, commonly known as the fool's mushroom or the spring destroying angel (see destroying angel), is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Occurring in Europe in spring, A. verna associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees. The caps, stipes and gills are all wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional%20Lightweight%20Encapsulation | The Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) is a Data link layer protocol for the transportation of network layer packets over MPEG transport streams.
Because of the very low protocol overhead, it is especially suited for IP over Satellite services (where every bit counts). Such a system is for example DVB-S. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiated%20security | Differentiated security is a form of computer security that deploys a range of different security policies and mechanisms according to the identity and context of a user or transaction.
This makes it much more difficult to scale or replicate attacks, since each cluster/individual has a different security profile and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindstr%C3%B6m%20quantifier | In mathematical logic, a Lindström quantifier is a generalized polyadic quantifier. Lindström quantifiers generalize first-order quantifiers, such as the existential quantifier, the universal quantifier, and the counting quantifiers. They were introduced by Per Lindström in 1966. They were later studied for their appli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroophoron | The paroophoron (of Johnson) consists of a few scattered rudimentary tubules, best seen in a child, situated in the broad ligament between the epoöphoron and the uterus. Named for the Welsh anatomist David Johnson who originally described the structure at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
It is a remnant of the me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saprotrophic%20nutrition | Saprotrophic nutrition or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs, and is most often associated with fungi (for example Mucor) and soil bacteria. Saprotrophic microscopic fungi are so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-on-module | A computer-on-module (COM) is a type of single-board computer (SBC), a subtype of an embedded computer system. An extension of the concept of system on chip (SoC) and system in package (SiP), COM lies between a full-up computer and a microcontroller in nature. It is very similar to a system on module (SOM).
Design
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxase | A relaxase is a single-strand DNA transesterase enzyme produced by some prokaryotes and viruses. Relaxases are responsible for site- and strand-specific nicks in unwound double-stranded DNA . Known relaxases belong to the rolling circle replication (RCR) initiator superfamily of enzymes and fall into two broad classes:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20equation | Language equations are mathematical statements that resemble numerical equations, but the variables assume values of formal languages rather than numbers. Instead of arithmetic operations in numerical equations, the variables are joined by language operations. Among the most common operations on two languages A and B a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astilbe%20Arendsii%20Group | Astilbe Arendsii Group (Astilbe × arendsii) is a cultivar group of complex hybrids with A. astilboides, A. chinensis, A. japonica, A. thunbergii and others. They are all perennial, herbaceous plants with flowers in various shades from white to purplish red.
Numerous cultivars exist, a majority of them produced by bree... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon%20HD%204000%20series | The Radeon R700 is the engineering codename for a graphics processing unit series developed by Advanced Micro Devices under the ATI brand name. The foundation chip, codenamed RV770, was announced and demonstrated on June 16, 2008 as part of the FireStream 9250 and Cinema 2.0 initiative launch media event, with official... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyne | The gyne (, from Greek γυνή, "woman") is the primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees of order Hymenoptera, as well as termites). Gynes are those destined to become queens, whereas female workers are typically barren and cannot become queens. Having a queen is what makes a "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrovertebral%20angle | The sacrum is curved upon itself and placed very obliquely, its base projecting forward and forming the prominent sacrovertebral angle when articulated with the last lumbar vertebra.
It is also known as the "lumbosacral angle".
See also
Sacral promontory
Pelvic inlet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlaams%20Instituut%20voor%20Biotechnologie | VIB is a research institute located in Flanders, Belgium. It was founded by the Flemish government in 1995, and became a full-fledged institute on 1 January 1996. The main objective of VIB is to strengthen the excellence of Flemish life sciences research and to turn the results into new economic growth. VIB spends almo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic%20space | An analytic space is a generalization of an analytic manifold that allows singularities. An analytic space is a space that is locally the same as an analytic variety. They are prominent in the study of several complex variables, but they also appear in other contexts.
Definition
Fix a field k with a valuation. Ass... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroID | MicroID is a decentralized identity protocol. It was originally developed in 2005 by Jeremie Miller . A MicroID is a simple identifier comprising a hashed communication/identity URI (e.g. email, OpenID, and/or Yadis) and claimed URL. Together, the two elements create a hash that can be claimed by third-party service... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplidyne | An amplidyne is an obsolete electromechanical amplifier invented prior to World War II by Ernst Alexanderson. It consists of an electric motor driving a DC generator. The signal to be amplified is applied to the generator's field winding, and its output voltage is an amplified copy of the field current. The amplidyne w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Gosling | Simon "Goose" Gosling (born 9 April 1969) is a British designer and builder of special effects models and props. He is best known for his work on the Millennium Falcon cockpit for Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2014. Also his work on commercials featuring stop-frame animation for Brisk, Apple Jacks and Chips Ahoy in A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-metal | A half-metal is any substance that acts as a conductor to electrons of one spin orientation, but as an insulator or semiconductor to those of the opposite orientation. Although all half-metals are ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic), most ferromagnets are not half-metals. Many of the known examples of half-metals are oxid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even%E2%80%93odd%20rule | The even–odd rule is an algorithm implemented in vector-based graphic software, like the PostScript language and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), which determines how a graphical shape with more than one closed outline will be filled. Unlike the nonzero-rule algorithm, this algorithm will alternatively color and leave u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC%20%28markup%20language%29 | In computing, Pic is a domain-specific programming language by Brian Kernighan for specifying line diagrams.
The language contains predefined basic linear objects: line, move, arrow, and spline, the planar
objects box, circle, ellipse, arc, and definable composite elements.
Objects are placed with respect to other obje... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem%20model | An ecosystem model is an abstract, usually mathematical, representation of an ecological system (ranging in scale from an individual population, to an ecological community, or even an entire biome), which is studied to better understand the real system.
Using data gathered from the field, ecological relationships—such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protofection | Protofection is a protein-mediated transfection of foreign mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) into the mitochondria of cells in a tissue to supplement or replace the native mitochondrial DNA already present. The complete mtDNA genome or just fragments of mtDNA generated by polymerase chain reaction can be transferred into the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%20%28graphics%20chip%29 | Hollywood is the name of the graphics processing unit (GPU) used in Nintendo's Wii video game console. It was designed by ATI (now AMD), and is manufactured using the same 90 nm or 65 nm (depending on the hardware revision) CMOS process as Broadway, the Wii's central processing unit. Very few official details about Hol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework-specific%20modeling%20language | A framework-specific modeling language (FSML) is a kind of domain-specific modeling language which is designed for an object-oriented application framework.
FSMLs define framework-provided abstractions as FSML concepts and decompose the abstractions into features. The features represent implementation steps or choic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20cytogenetics | Molecular cytogenetics combines two disciplines, molecular biology and cytogenetics, and involves the analysis of chromosome structure to help distinguish normal and cancer-causing cells. Human cytogenetics began in 1956 when it was discovered that normal human cells contain 46 chromosomes. However, the first microscop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AY-3-8500 | The AY-3-8500 "Ball & Paddle" integrated circuit was the first in a series of ICs from General Instrument designed for the consumer video game market. These chips were designed to output video to an RF modulator, which would then display the game on a domestic television set. The AY-3-8500 contained six selectable game... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation%20breeding | Preservation breeding is an attempt by many plant and animal breeders to preserve bloodlines of species, either of a rare breed, or of rare pedigrees within a breed.
Purpose
Preservation breeding can have several purposes:
Protection of genetic diversity within a species or a breed;
Preservation of valuable genet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20number | The West number is an empirical parameter used to characterize the performance of Stirling engines and other Stirling systems. It is very similar to the Beale number where a larger number indicates higher performance; however, the West number includes temperature compensation. The West number is often used to approxima... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediated%20VPN | A mediated VPN is a virtual private network topology where two or more participants connect to a central switchboard server managed typically by a third party in order to create a virtual private network between them, as distinct from a typical VPN arrangement whereby clients of an organisation connect to a VPN concent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3DO%20Blaster | The 3DO Blaster is an add-on produced by Creative Labs and designed to allow compatible Windows-based PCs to play games for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. It is a full-sized ISA compatibility card, and unlike other such add-ons, it does not emulate a 3DO system, but rather the whole system's logic board is included, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uteroglobin | Uteroglobin, or blastokinin, also known as secretoglobin family 1A member 1 (SCGB1A1), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SCGB1A1 gene.
SCGB1A1 is the founding member of the secretoglobin family of small, secreted, disulfide-bridged dimeric proteins found only in mammals. This antiparallel disulfide linked ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilinear%20program | In mathematics, a bilinear program is a nonlinear optimization problem whose objective or constraint functions are bilinear. An example is the pooling problem. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesterol%207%20alpha-hydroxylase | Cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase also known as cholesterol 7-alpha-monooxygenase or cytochrome P450 7A1 (CYP7A1) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the gene which has an important role in cholesterol metabolism. It is a cytochrome P450 enzyme, which belongs to the oxidoreductase class, and converts cholesterol t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20call | A house call is medical consultation performed by a doctor or other healthcare professionals visiting the home of a patient or client, instead of the patient visiting the doctor's clinic or hospital. In some locations, families used to pay dues to a particular practice to underwrite house calls.
History
In the early... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC%20filtering | In computer networking, MAC address filtering is a security access control method whereby the MAC address assigned to each network interface controller is used to determine access to the network.
MAC addresses are uniquely assigned to each card, so using MAC filtering on a network permits and denies network access to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretoglobin | Secretoglobins (SCGBs) are a family of small, alpha-helical, disulfide linked, dimeric proteins found only in mammals. This family was formerly known as the Uteroglobin/Clara cell 10-kDa family, after the two aliases of its founding member Uteroglobin.
Structure and function
The proteins are mostly alpha-helical, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulatory%20blood%20pressure | Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) measures blood pressure at regular intervals. It is believed to be able to reduce the white coat hypertension effect in which a patient's blood pressure is elevated during the examination process due to nervousness and anxiety caused by being in a clinical setting. ABPM can a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20of%20pictures | In video coding, a group of pictures, or GOP structure, specifies the order in which intra- and inter-frames are arranged. The GOP is a collection of successive pictures within a coded video stream. Each coded video stream consists of successive GOPs, from which the visible frames are generated. Encountering a new GOP ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuts%20%26%20Milk | is a puzzle-platform game developed and published by Japanese software developer Hudson Soft in 1983. The game was released for the FM-7, MSX, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6001, and later to the Famicom in Japan. Along with Lode Runner, it was the first third-party video game to be released on a Nintendo console.
Gameplay
Bot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming%20graph | Hamming graphs are a special class of graphs named after Richard Hamming and used in several branches of mathematics (graph theory) and computer science. Let be a set of elements and a positive integer. The Hamming graph has vertex set , the set of ordered -tuples of elements of , or sequences of length from . ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosynthesis | Thermosynthesis is a theoretical mechanism proposed by Anthonie Muller for biological use of the free energy in a temperature gradient to drive energetically uphill anabolic reactions. It makes use of this thermal gradient, or the dissipative structure of convection in this gradient, to drive a microscopic heat engine ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemerocallis%20middendorffii | Hemerocallis middendorffii, known as Amur daylily, is a plant species in the subfamily Hemerocallidoideae of the family Asphodelaceae of the order Asparagales. It is native to the Russian Far East, northwest China, Korea, and Japan. It grows in meadows, mountain slopes, open woods, and scrub. It is cultivated in Asia f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20in%20Papua%20New%20Guinea | Papua New Guinea together with the West Papua region of Indonesia (New Guinea) make up a major tropical wilderness area that still contains 5% of the original and untouched tropical high-biodiversity terrestrial ecosystems. PNG in itself contains over 5% of the world's biodiversity in less than 1% of the world's total ... |
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