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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateman-Mukai%20method
In genetics, the Bateman–Mukai method, sometimes referred to as the Bateman–Mukai technique, is a traditional method used for describing the mutation rates for genes through the observation of physical traits (phenotype) of a living organism. The method involves the maintenance of many mutation accumulation lineages of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20%28economics%29
In statistics, economics, and finance, an index is a statistical measure of change in a representative group of individual data points. These data may be derived from any number of sources, including company performance, prices, productivity, and employment. Economic indices track economic health from different perspec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubmatic
PubMatic, Inc. develops and implements online advertising software and strategies for the digital publishing and advertising industry. PubMatic's sell-side, real-time programmatic ad transaction advertising software puts publishers of websites, videos, and mobile apps into contact with ad buyers by using automated syst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordetella%20ansorpii
Bordetella ansorpii is a Gram-negative, oxidase-negative bacterium from the genus Bordetella which has been isolated from the purulent exudate of an epidermal cyst of an immunocompromised patient. A 16S rRNA gene analysis has confirmed B. ansorpii belongs to this genus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochromatography
Electrochromatography is a chemical separation technique in analytical chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology used to resolve and separate mostly large biomolecules such as proteins. It is a combination of size exclusion chromatography (gel filtration chromatography) and gel electrophoresis. These separation mec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun.Smoke
is vertically scrolling run and gun video game and designed by Yoshiki Okamoto and released in arcades in 1985. Gun.Smoke centers on a character named Billy Bob, a bounty hunter going after the criminals of the Wild West. Gameplay Gun Smoke is a run and gun video game in which the screen automatically scrolls upward. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromodeoxyuridine
Bromodeoxyuridine (5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine, BrdU, BUdR, BrdUrd, broxuridine) is a synthetic nucleoside analogue with a chemical structure similar to thymidine. BrdU is commonly used to study cell proliferation in living tissues and has been studied as a radiosensitizer and diagnostic tool in people with cancer. During...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection%20plane
A projection plane, or plane of projection, is a type of view in which graphical projections from an object intersect. Projection planes are used often in descriptive geometry and graphical representation. A picture plane in perspective drawing is a type of projection plane. With perspective drawing, the lines of sigh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20Galaxy
Physics Galaxy is an interactive physics online course and e-learning method for students aspiring for JEE Main, JEE Advanced and NEET. History Physics Galaxy was founded as an online learning portal by Ashish Arora. It was founded as an initiative to coach students for free especially for those in rural areas, who ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle%20packing%20in%20a%20circle
Circle packing in a circle is a two-dimensional packing problem with the objective of packing unit circles into the smallest possible larger circle. Table of solutions, 1 ≤ n ≤ 20 If more than one equivalent solution exists, all are shown. Special cases Only 26 optimal packings are thought to be rigid (with no circle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation%20system
An invitation system is a method of encouraging people to join an organization, such as a club or a website. In regular society, it refers to any system whereby new members are chosen; they cannot simply apply. In relation to websites and other technology-related organisations, the term refers to a more specific situat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexogenous%20zone
Reflexogenous (reflexogenic) zone (or the receptive field of a reflex) is the area of the body stimulation of which causes a definite unconditioned reflex. For example, stimulation of the mucosa of the nasopharynx elicits a sneezing reflex, and stimulation of the tracheae and bronchi elicits a coughing reflex. The rec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentation
In mathematics, pentation (or hyper-5) is the next hyperoperation (infinite sequence of arithmetic operations) after tetration and before hexation. It is defined as iterated (repeated) tetration (assuming right-associativity), just as tetration is iterated right-associative exponentiation. It is a binary operation defi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20of%20Rome
The Club of Rome is a nonprofit, informal organization of intellectuals and business leaders whose goal is a critical discussion of pressing global issues. The Club of Rome was founded in 1968 at Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy. It consists of one hundred full members selected from current and former heads of state...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmain
Bitmain Technologies Ltd., is a privately owned company headquartered in Beijing, China, that designs application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips for bitcoin mining. History It was founded by Micree Zhan and Jihan Wu in 2013. Prior to founding Bitmain, Zhan was running DivaIP, a startup that allowed users to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20trochanter
The greater trochanter of the femur is a large, irregular, quadrilateral eminence and a part of the skeletal system. It is directed lateral and medially and slightly posterior. In the adult it is about 2–4 cm lower than the femoral head. Because the pelvic outlet in the female is larger than in the male, there is a gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Hall%20Building
The Stuart Hall Building is located at 2121 Central Street in the Crossroads Arts District neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. The former commercial building is known as the Freight House Lofts or Stuart Hall Lofts. History The seven-story building was constructed in 1910-1911 as a manufacturing facility for the Na...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20pick
The ice pick is a pointed metal tool used from the 1800s to the 1900s to break, pick or chip at ice. The design consists of a sharp metal spike attached to a wooden handle. The tool's design has been relatively unchanged since its creation. The only notable differences in the design are the material used for the handle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmNovia%20Technologies
omNovia Technologies is a software company, founded by Shahin (Shawn) Shadfar in 2004 that provides web conferencing platform for realtime, rich-media online meetings, webinars, webcasts and eLearning sessions with two to 5,000 interactive participants. The company's headquarters is located in Houston, Texas. According...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Multimedia%20Extensions
Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME), also known as Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), is a Wi-Fi Alliance interoperability certification, based on the IEEE 802.11e standard. It provides basic Quality of service (QoS) features to IEEE 802.11 networks. WMM prioritizes traffic according to four Access Categories (AC): voice (AC_VO)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20file%20distribution%20protocol
Coherent File Distribution Protocol (CFDP) is an IETF-documented experimental protocol intended for high-speed one-to-many file transfers. Class 1 is assured delivery, class 2 is blind unassured delivery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunch%20%28video%20games%29
In the video game industry, crunch (or crunch culture) is compulsory overtime during the development of a game. Crunch is common in the industry and can lead to work weeks of 65–80 hours for extended periods of time, often uncompensated beyond the normal working hours. It is often used as a way to cut the costs of game...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20number%20mapping
Telephone number mapping is a system of unifying the international telephone number system of the public switched telephone network with the Internet addressing and identification name spaces. Internationally, telephone numbers are systematically organized by the E.164 standard, while the Internet uses the Domain Name ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Salinity%20Anomaly
The Great Salinity Anomaly (GSA) originally referred to an event in the late 1960s to early 1970s where a large influx of freshwater from the Arctic Ocean led to a salinity anomaly in the northern North Atlantic Ocean, which affected the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Since then, the term "Great Salinity...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergetics
Bioenergetics is a field in biochemistry and cell biology that concerns energy flow through living systems. This is an active area of biological research that includes the study of the transformation of energy in living organisms and the study of thousands of different cellular processes such as cellular respiration an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commvault
Commvault is an American publicly traded data protection and data management software company headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Commvault enterprise software can be used for data backup and recovery, cloud and infrastructure management, retention and compliance. History Commvault was originally formed in 198...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%E2%80%93sink%20dynamics
Source–sink dynamics is a theoretical model used by ecologists to describe how variation in habitat quality may affect the population growth or decline of organisms. Since quality is likely to vary among patches of habitat, it is important to consider how a low quality patch might affect a population. In this model, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20level
In digital circuits, a logic level is one of a finite number of states that a digital signal can inhabit. Logic levels are usually represented by the voltage difference between the signal and ground, although other standards exist. The range of voltage levels that represent each state depends on the logic family being ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs%20relation
In mathematics, the Fuchs relation is a relation between the starting exponents of formal series solutions of certain linear differential equations, so called Fuchsian equations. It is named after Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs. Definition Fuchsian equation A linear differential equation in which every singular point, includ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain%20out%20of%20proportion
Pain out of proportion or pain out of proportion to physical examination is a medical sign where apparent pain in the individual does not correspond to other signs. It is found in a number of conditions, including: Necrotizing fasciitis Compartment syndrome Mesenteric ischemia Mueller-Weiss disease Also used in referen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boole%27s%20expansion%20theorem
Boole's expansion theorem, often referred to as the Shannon expansion or decomposition, is the identity: , where is any Boolean function, is a variable, is the complement of , and and are with the argument set equal to and to respectively. The terms and are sometimes called the positive and negative Shannon ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephelometer
A nephelometer or aerosol photometer is an instrument for measuring the concentration of suspended particulates in a liquid or gas colloid. A nephelometer measures suspended particulates by employing a light beam (source beam) and a light detector set to one side (often 90°) of the source beam. Particle density is then...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-emitter%20transistor
A multiple-emitter transistor is a specialized bipolar transistor mostly used at the inputs of integrated circuit TTL NAND logic gates. Input signals are applied to the emitters. The voltage presented to the following stage is pulled low if any one or more of the base–emitter junctions is forward biased, allowing logic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational%20application
In computing, a situational application is "good enough" software created for a narrow group of users with a unique set of needs. The application typically (but not always) has a short life span, and is often created within the group where it is used, sometimes by the users themselves. As the requirements of a small te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20field%20theory
Field theory is the branch of mathematics in which fields are studied. This is a glossary of some terms of the subject. (See field theory (physics) for the unrelated field theories in physics.) Definition of a field A field is a commutative ring in which and every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse. In a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milman%27s%20reverse%20Brunn%E2%80%93Minkowski%20inequality
In mathematics, particularly, in asymptotic convex geometry, Milman's reverse Brunn–Minkowski inequality is a result due to Vitali Milman that provides a reverse inequality to the famous Brunn–Minkowski inequality for convex bodies in n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn. Namely, it bounds the volume of the Minkowski sum o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20intolerance
Food intolerance is a detrimental reaction, often delayed, to a food, beverage, food additive, or compound found in foods that produces symptoms in one or more body organs and systems, but generally refers to reactions other than food allergy. Food hypersensitivity is used to refer broadly to both food intolerances and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Astrophysics%20of%20the%20University%20of%20Porto
The Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto - CAUP) is the largest astronomy research institute in Portugal, with more than 60 people. Since 2000 it has been evaluated as Excellent by international panels, organized under the auspices of the national science fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%202nd%20Factor
Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) is an open standard that strengthens and simplifies two-factor authentication (2FA) using specialized Universal Serial Bus (USB) or near-field communication (NFC) devices based on similar security technology found in smart cards. It is succeeded by the FIDO2 Project, which includes the W3C We...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptGenRandom
CryptGenRandom is a deprecated cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator function that is included in Microsoft CryptoAPI. In Win32 programs, Microsoft recommends its use anywhere random number generation is needed. A 2007 paper from Hebrew University suggested security problems in the Windows 2000 implem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace%20architecture
Aerospace architecture is broadly defined to encompass architectural design of non-habitable and habitable structures and living and working environments in aerospace-related facilities, habitats, and vehicles. These environments include, but are not limited to: science platform aircraft and aircraft-deployable systems...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIKE%20algorithm
The SPIKE algorithm is a hybrid parallel solver for banded linear systems developed by Eric Polizzi and Ahmed Sameh Overview The SPIKE algorithm deals with a linear system , where is a banded matrix of bandwidth much less than , and is an matrix containing right-hand sides. It is divided into a preprocessing stag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiB
KaiB is a gene located in the highly-conserved kaiABC gene cluster of various cyanobacterial species. Along with KaiA and KaiC, KaiB plays a central role in operation of the cyanobacterial circadian clock. Discovery of the Kai genes marked the first-ever identification of a circadian oscillator in a prokaryotic species...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory%20automation
Laboratory automation is a multi-disciplinary strategy to research, develop, optimize and capitalize on technologies in the laboratory that enable new and improved processes. Laboratory automation professionals are academic, commercial and government researchers, scientists and engineers who conduct research and devel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Bernstein
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (, sometimes Romanized as ; 5 March 1880 – 26 October 1968) was a Ukrainian and Russian mathematician of Jewish origin known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory. Bernstein was born into a Jewish family livi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Campbell
Patricia F. Campbell is an American mathematician and mathematics educator. She is a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her work has concerned the improvement of mathematics education in minority and lower-income secondary schools, an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratology
Teratology is the study of abnormalities of physiological development in organisms during their life span. It is a sub-discipline in medical genetics which focuses on the classification of congenital abnormalities in dysmorphology caused by teratogens. Teratogens are substances that may cause non-heritable birth defect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulerian%20coherent%20structure
In applied mathematics, objective Eulerian coherent structures (OECSs) are the instantaneously most influential surfaces or curves that exert a major influence on nearby trajectories in a dynamical system over short time-scales, and are the short-time limit of Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs). Such influence can b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Koester
J. Anthony Koester, more commonly known as Tony Koester, is a well-known member of the United States model railroading community. Along with his friend Allen McClelland and his Virginian & Ohio, Koester popularized the idea of proto-freelancing with his HO scale model railroad, the Allegheny Midland. At Purdue Universi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIM-600
TIM-600 was an important PC computer system in the TIM series of microcomputers from Mihajlo Pupin Institute-Belgrade, developed from 1987 to 1988 (see ref.Lit. #1, #2 and #6). It was based on the Intel microprocessor types 80386 and 80387. It has word-length of 32 bits, basic cycle time of 20 MHz and operating system...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurii%20Egorov
Yurii (or Yuri) Vladimirovich Egorov (Юрий Владимирович Егоров, born 14 July 1938 in Moscow, died October 2018 in Toulouse) was a Russian-Soviet mathematician who specialized in differential equations. Biography In 1960 he completed his undergraduate studies at the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State Un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoactivated%20adenylyl%20cyclase
Photoactivated adenylyl cyclase (PAC) is a protein consisting of an adenylyl cyclase enzyme domain directly linked to a BLUF (blue light receptor using FAD) type light sensor domain. When illuminated with blue light, the enzyme domain becomes active and converts ATP to cAMP, an important second messenger in many cells....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorplan%20%28microelectronics%29
In electronic design automation, a floorplan of an integrated circuit is a schematic representation of tentative placement of its major functional blocks. In modern electronic design process floorplans are created during the floorplanning design stage, an early stage in the hierarchical approach to integrated circuit ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmar%20metacarpal%20veins
The palmar metacarpal veins (or volar metacarpal veins) drain the metacarpal region of the palm, eventually draining into the deep veins of the arm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSniff
dSniff is a set of password sniffing and network traffic analysis tools written by security researcher and startup founder Dug Song to parse different application protocols and extract relevant information. dsniff, filesnarf, mailsnarf, msgsnarf, urlsnarf, and webspy passively monitor a network for interesting data (pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%20conditioning
Pavlovian fear conditioning is a behavioral paradigm in which organisms learn to predict aversive events. It is a form of learning in which an aversive stimulus (e.g. an electrical shock) is associated with a particular neutral context (e.g., a room) or neutral stimulus (e.g., a tone), resulting in the expression of fe...
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/Photoelastic%20modulator
A photoelastic modulator (PEM) is an optical device used to modulate the polarization of a light source. The photoelastic effect is used to change the birefringence of the optical element in the photoelastic modulator. PEM was first invented by J. Badoz in the 1960s and originally called a "birefringence modulator." ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Council%20of%20Teachers%20of%20Mathematics
Founded in 1920, The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) is a professional organization for schoolteachers of mathematics in the United States. One of its goals is to improve the standards of mathematics in education. NCTM holds annual national and regional conferences for teachers and publishes five jou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computing%20mascots
This is a list of computing mascots. A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity. In case of computing mascots, they either represent software, hardware, or any project or collective entity behind them. See also List of video gam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney
Sawney (sometimes Sandie/y, or Sanders, or Sannock) was an English nickname for a Scotsman, now obsolete, and playing much the same linguistic role that "Jock" does now. The name is a Lowland Scots diminutive of the favourite Scottish first name Alexander (also Alasdair in Scottish Gaelic form, anglicised into Alistai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20Ensemble%20of%20Temperament
Functional Ensemble of Temperament (FET) is a neurochemical model suggesting specific functional roles of main neurotransmitter systems in the regulation of behaviour. Earlier theories Medications can adjust the release of brain neurotransmitters in cases of depression, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia and other mental...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%E2%80%93maximization%20algorithm
In statistics, an expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm is an iterative method to find (local) maximum likelihood or maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimates of parameters in statistical models, where the model depends on unobserved latent variables. The EM iteration alternates between performing an expectation (E) step,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue%20engineering
Tissue engineering is a biomedical engineering discipline that uses a combination of cells, engineering, materials methods, and suitable biochemical and physicochemical factors to restore, maintain, improve, or replace different types of biological tissues. Tissue engineering often involves the use of cells placed on t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAWL
YAWL (Yet Another Workflow Language) is a workflow language based on workflow patterns. It is supported by a software system that includes an execution engine, a graphical editor and a worklist handler. It is available as open-source software under the LGPL license. Production-level implementations of YAWL include dep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20nitrate
Sodium nitrate is the chemical compound with the formula . This alkali metal nitrate salt is also known as Chile saltpeter (large deposits of which were historically mined in Chile) to distinguish it from ordinary saltpeter, potassium nitrate. The mineral form is also known as nitratine, nitratite or soda niter. Sodiu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility%20%28mechanics%29
In continuum mechanics, a compatible deformation (or strain) tensor field in a body is that unique tensor field that is obtained when the body is subjected to a continuous, single-valued, displacement field. Compatibility is the study of the conditions under which such a displacement field can be guaranteed. Compatib...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20placebo
An active placebo is a placebo that produces noticeable side effects that may convince the person being treated that they are receiving a legitimate treatment, rather than an ineffective placebo. Nomenclature According to a 1965 paper, the term "concealed placebo" (German: Kaschiertes Placebo) was suggested in a 1959...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20VII%20secretion%20system
Type VII secretion systems are bacterial secretion systems first observed in the phyla Actinomycetota and Bacillota. Bacteria use such systems to transport, or secrete, proteins into the environment. The bacterial genus Mycobacterium uses type VII secretion systems (T7SS) to secrete proteins across their cell envelope....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Storer%E2%80%93Szymanski
Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski (LZSS) is a lossless data compression algorithm, a derivative of LZ77, that was created in 1982 by James A. Storer and Thomas Szymanski. LZSS was described in article "Data compression via textual substitution" published in Journal of the ACM (1982, pp. 928–951). LZSS is a dictionary coding...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received%20noise%20power
In telecommunications, received noise power is a measure of noise in a receiver. For example, the received noise power might be: The calculated or measured noise power, within the bandwidth being used, at the receive end of a circuit, channel, link, or system. The absolute power of the noise measured or calculated at a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20morphology
Synthetic morphology is a sub-discipline of the broader field of synthetic biology. In standard synthetic biology, artificial gene networks are introduced into cells, inputs (e.g. chemicals, light) are applied to those networks, and the networks perform logical operations on them and output the result of the operation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20%CE%B2-globin%20locus
The human β-globin locus is composed of five genes located on a short region of chromosome 11, responsible for the creation of the beta parts (roughly half) of the oxygen transport protein Haemoglobin. This locus contains not only the beta globin gene but also delta, gamma-A, gamma-G, and epsilon globin. Expression of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POTEB
POTE ankyrin domain family, member B is a protein in humans that is encoded by the POTEB gene.(Prostate, Ovary, Testes Expressed ankyrin domain family member B).It is most likely involved in mediating protein-protein interaction via its 5 ankyrin domains. POTEB is most probably aids in intracellular signaling, but is n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoSMS
GeoSMS is a specification for geotagging SMS messages. It works by embedding locations in the message text, where the locations are formatted as 'geo' URIs as defined in RFC 5870. It was developed in 2010 by Matthew Kwan, a PhD Candidate at the RMIT School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences and should not be conf...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height%20function
A height function is a function that quantifies the complexity of mathematical objects. In Diophantine geometry, height functions quantify the size of solutions to Diophantine equations and are typically functions from a set of points on algebraic varieties (or a set of algebraic varieties) to the real numbers. For in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Ocean%20Ship-based%20Hydrographic%20Investigations%20Program
GO-SHIP (The Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program) is a multidisciplinary project to monitor ocean/climate changes. So far, this program has involved twelve countries and completed/planned 116 cruises. Participation countries are United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Germany, Spain, Austr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychomotor%20retardation
Psychomotor retardation involves a slowing down of thought and a reduction of physical movements in an individual. It can cause a visible slowing of physical and emotional reactions, including speech and affect. Psychomotor retardation is most commonly seen in people with major depression and in the depressed phase o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin
Vermin (colloquially varmint(s) or varmit(s)) are pests or nuisance animals that spread diseases or destroy crops, livestock, and property. Since the term is defined in relation to human activities, which species are included vary by region and enterprise. The term derives from the Latin vermis (worm), and was origina...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20natural%20numbers
In mathematics, the extended natural numbers is a set which contains the values and (infinity). That is, it is the result of adding a maximum element to the natural numbers. Addition and multiplication work as normal for finite values, and are extended by the rules (), and for . With addition and multiplication,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic%20energy%20penetrator
A kinetic energy penetrator (KEP), also known as long-rod penetrator (LRP), is a type of ammunition designed to penetrate vehicle armour using a flechette-like, high-sectional density projectile. Like a bullet or kinetic energy weapon, this type of ammunition does not contain explosive payloads and uses purely kinetic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole%20%28animal%29
Moles are small mammals adapted to a subterranean lifestyle. They have cylindrical bodies, velvety fur, very small, inconspicuous eyes and ears, reduced hindlimbs, and short, powerful forelimbs with large paws adapted for digging. The word "mole" refers to any species in the family Talpidae, from the Latin word for mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikulov%20Castle
Mikulov Castle (German: Nikolsburg) is a castle in the town of Mikulov in South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. The castle stands on a place of historic Slavonic settlement, where since the end of the 13th century the original stone castle was erected. Henry I, lord of Liechtenstein and Petronell (d. 1265) was g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address%20munging
Address munging is the practice of disguising an e-mail address to prevent it from being automatically collected by unsolicited bulk e-mail providers. Address munging is intended to disguise an e-mail address in a way that prevents computer software from seeing the real address, or even any address at all, but still ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20customer%20view
A single customer view is an aggregated, consistent and holistic representation of the data held by an organisation about its customers that can be viewed in one place, such as a single page. The advantage to an organisation of attaining this unified view comes from the ability it gives to analyse past behaviour in ord...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20polygamma%20function
In mathematics, the generalized polygamma function or balanced negapolygamma function is a function introduced by Olivier Espinosa Aldunate and Victor Hugo Moll. It generalizes the polygamma function to negative and fractional order, but remains equal to it for integer positive orders. Definition The generalized pol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20architecture
In computer engineering, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts. It can sometimes be a high-level description that ignores details of the implementation. At a more detailed level, the description may include the instruction set architecture design, microar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoallergenic%20dog%20breed
A hypoallergenic dog breed is a dog breed (or crossbreed) that is purportedly more compatible with allergic people than are other breeds. However, prominent allergen researchers have determined that there is no basis to the claims that certain breeds are hypoallergenic and, while allergen levels vary among individual d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock%20%28testing%20framework%29
Spock is a Java testing framework capable of handling the complete life cycle of a computer program. It was initially created in 2008 by Peter Niederwieser, a software engineer with GradleWare. A second Spock committer is Luke Daley (also with Gradleware), the creator of the popular Geb functional testing framework. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injective%20tensor%20product
In mathematics, the injective tensor product of two topological vector spaces (TVSs) was introduced by Alexander Grothendieck and was used by him to define nuclear spaces. An injective tensor product is in general not necessarily complete, so its completion is called the . Injective tensor products have applications o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20language%20bindings%20for%20Qt%205
— Columns detailing the features covered by the binding are missing. — See also List of language bindings for Qt 4 List of language bindings for GTK+ List of language bindings for wxWidgets List of Qt language bindings from the qt-project.org wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Biofilm%20Engineering
The Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) is an interdisciplinary research, education, and technology transfer institution located on the central campus of Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. The center was founded in April 1990 as the Center for Interfacial Microbial Process Engineering with a grant from the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%3A%20The%20Game%20of%20Intelligent%20Life
Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life is a life simulation and real-time strategy computer game that allows players to experience, guide, and control evolution from an isometric view on either historical earth or on randomly generated worlds while racing against computer opponents to reach the top of the evolution ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couepia%20polyandra
Couepia polyandra, also known as olosapo, zapote amarillo, baboon cap, and monkey cap, is a flowering tree in the family Chrysobalanaceae. Distribution Couepia polyandra is native to southern Mexico south to Panama and has been introduced to Florida. It grows wild in damp thickets, riverine forests, and low woodland u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA%20PadLock
VIA PadLock is a central processing unit (CPU) instruction set extension to the x86 microprocessor instruction set architecture (ISA) found on processors produced by VIA Technologies and Zhaoxin. Introduced in 2003 with the VIA Centaur CPUs, the additional instructions provide hardware-accelerated random number generat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20spectrum
A harmonic spectrum is a spectrum containing only frequency components whose frequencies are whole number multiples of the fundamental frequency; such frequencies are known as harmonics. "The individual partials are not heard separately but are blended together by the ear into a single tone." In other words, if is th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optiquest
Optiquest is a line of budget LCD (and formerly CRT) displays by ViewSonic. They differ from the main ViewSonic product line in several ways, such as availability of parts to warranty length.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20distributions%20transform
The normal distributions transform (NDT) is a point cloud registration algorithm introduced by Peter Biber and Wolfgang Straßer in 2003, while working at University of Tübingen. The algorithm registers two point clouds by first associating a piecewise normal distribution to the first point cloud, that gives the probab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinalophototroph
A retinalophototroph is one of two different types of phototrophs, and are named for retinal-binding proteins (microbial rhodopsins) they utilize for cell signaling and converting light into energy. Like all photoautotrophs, retinalophototrophs absorb photons to initiate their cellular processes. However, unlike all ph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic%20proof
In mathematics, an analytic proof is a proof of a theorem in analysis that only makes use of methods from analysis, and which does not predominantly make use of algebraic or geometrical methods. The term was first used by Bernard Bolzano, who first provided a non-analytic proof of his intermediate value theorem and th...