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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Poor | Victor "Vic" Poor (July 12, 1933 – August 17, 2012) was an American engineer and computer pioneer. At Computer Terminal Corporation (later renamed Datapoint Corporation), he co-created the architecture that was ultimately implemented in the first successful computer microprocessor, the Intel 8008. Subsequently, Compute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator%20truck | A refrigerator truck or chiller lorry (also called a reefer), is a van or truck designed to carry perishable freight at low temperatures. Most long-distance refrigerated transport by truck is done in articulated trucks pulling refrigerated hardside (box) semi-trailers, although insulated curtainsiders are common in so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20Linking%20and%20Embedding | Object Linking & Embedding (OLE) is a proprietary technology developed by Microsoft that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects. For developers, it brought OLE Control Extension (OCX), a way to develop and use custom user interface elements. On a technical level, an OLE object is any object that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20dollar | The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; ) is the currency of Canada. It is abbreviated with the dollar sign $. There is no standard disambiguating form, but the abbreviations Can$, CA$ and C$ are frequently used for distinction from other dollar-denominated currencies (though C$ remains ambiguous with the Nicaraguan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaving%20distance | In topological data analysis, the interleaving distance is a measure of similarity between persistence modules, a common object of study in topological data analysis and persistent homology. The interleaving distance was first introduced by Frédéric Chazal et al. in 2009. since then, it and its generalizations have bee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezed%20states%20of%20light | In quantum physics, light is in a squeezed state if its electric field strength Ԑ for some phases has a quantum uncertainty smaller than that of a coherent state. The term squeezing thus refers to a reduced quantum uncertainty. To obey Heisenberg's uncertainty relation, a squeezed state must also have phases at which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary%20of%20Contemporary%20Finnish | Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish (, previously known as the New Dictionary of Modern Finnish) is the most recent dictionary of the modern Finnish language. It is edited by the Institute for the Languages of Finland. The current printed edition was first published in 2006 and is based on the 2004 digital version of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%20coupled%20amino%20acid%20transporter | Proton-coupled amino acid transporters belong to the SLC26A5 family; they are protein receptors whose main function is the transmembrane movement of amino acids and their derivatives. This family of receptors is most commonly found within the luminal surface of the small intestine as well as in some lysosomes. The solu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime%20sulfur | In horticulture, lime sulphur (American spelling lime sulfur) is mainly a mixture of calcium polysulfides and thiosulfate (plus other reaction by-products as sulfite and sulfate) formed by reacting calcium hydroxide with elemental sulfur, used in pest control. It can be prepared by boiling in water a suspension of poor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptonemal%20complex | The synaptonemal complex (SC) is a protein structure that forms between homologous chromosomes (two pairs of sister chromatids) during meiosis and is thought to mediate synapsis and recombination during prophase I during meiosis in eukaryotes. It is currently thought that the SC functions primarily as a scaffold to all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORFeome | In, molecular genetics, an ORFeome refers to the complete set of open reading frames (ORFs) in a genome. The term may also be used to describe a set of cloned ORFs. ORFs correspond to the protein coding sequences (CDS) of genes. ORFs can be found in genome sequences by computer programs such as GENSCAN and then amplifi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20approximation%20theorem | In the mathematical theory of artificial neural networks, universal approximation theorems are results that put limits on what neural networks can theoretically learn, i.e. that establish the density of an algorithmically generated class of functions within a given function space of interest. Typically, these results ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Digital%20Broadcast | Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) is a company which provides software, system and services to pay-TV and telecommunication operators, content distributors and property owners around the world. The company specializes also in the development of digital connectivity devices such as set-top boxes and residential gateways.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transducer | A transducer is a device that converts energy from one form to another. Usually a transducer converts a signal in one form of energy to a signal in another.
Transducers are often employed at the boundaries of automation, measurement, and control systems, where electrical signals are converted to and from other physical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABTS | In biochemistry, ABTS (2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid)) is a chemical compound used to observe the reaction kinetics of specific enzymes. A common use for it is in the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to detect the binding of molecules to each other.
It is commonly used as a substrate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dereverberation | Dereverberation is the process by which the effects of reverberation are removed from sound, after such reverberant sound has been picked up by microphones. Dereverberation is a subtopic of acoustic digital signal processing and is most commonly applied to speech but also has relevance in some aspects of music processi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernandez%20reaction | The Fernandez reaction is a reaction that occurs to signal a positive result in the lepromin skin test for leprosy. The reaction occurs in the skin at the site of injection if the body possesses antibodies to the Dharmendra antigen, one of the antigens found in Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that causes leprosy. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotone | Two nuclides are isotones if they have the same neutron number N, but different proton number Z. For example, boron-12 and carbon-13 nuclei both contain 7 neutrons, and so are isotones. Similarly, 36S, 37Cl, 38Ar, 39K, and 40Ca nuclei are all isotones of 20 because they all contain 20 neutrons. Despite its similarity t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypide | The polypide in bryozoans encompasses most of the organs and tissues of each individual zooid. This includes the tentacles, tentacle sheath, U-shaped digestive tract, musculature and nerve cells. It is housed in the zooidal exoskeleton, which in cyclostomes is tubular and in cheilostomes is box-shaped.
See also
Bryozo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplo%C3%AB | Diploë ( or ) is the spongy cancellous bone separating the inner and outer layers of the cortical bone of the skull. It is a subclass of trabecular bone.
In the cranial bones, the layers of compact cortical tissue are familiarly known as the tables of the skull; the outer one is thick and tough; the inner is thin, de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20%28biology%29 | Order () is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized by the nomenclature codes. An immediately higher rank, superorder, is somet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20hole | In general relativity, a white hole is a hypothetical region of spacetime and singularity that cannot be entered from the outside, although energy-matter, light and information can escape from it. In this sense, it is the reverse of a black hole, from which energy-matter, light and information cannot escape. White hole... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platelet-derived%20growth%20factor | Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is one among numerous growth factors that regulate cell growth and division. In particular, PDGF plays a significant role in blood vessel formation, the growth of blood vessels from already-existing blood vessel tissue, mitogenesis, i.e. proliferation, of mesenchymal cells such as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%20logic%20of%20actions | Temporal logic of actions (TLA) is a logic developed by Leslie Lamport, which combines temporal logic with a logic of actions.
It is used to describe behaviours of concurrent and distributed systems. It is the logic underlying the specification language TLA+.
Details
Statements in the temporal logic of actions are of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20B.%20Saff | Edward Barry Saff (born 2 January 1944 in New York City) is an American mathematician, specializing in complex analysis, approximation theory, numerical analysis, and potential theory.
Education and career
Saff received in 1964 his bachelor's degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and in 1968 his PhD from the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachicom | is a parlor video game released for multiple platforms that is themed around pachinko. It was released in 1985 exclusively to the Japanese market.
The game of pachinko is hugely popular in Japan, since it involves playing pinball with an element of slot machines mixed in along with gambling. There are four different g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-layer%20framing | Application-layer framing or application-level framing (ALF) is a method of allowing an application to use its semantics for the design of its network protocols.
This procedure was first proposed by D. D. Clark and David L. Tennenhouse. It works as follows:
The application splits the data into useful segments.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20E.%20Shaw | David Elliot Shaw (born March 29, 1951) is an American billionaire scientist and former hedge fund manager. He founded D. E. Shaw & Co., a hedge fund company which was once described by Fortune magazine as "the most intriguing and mysterious force on Wall Street". A former assistant professor in the computer science de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettercap%20%28software%29 | Ettercap is a free and open source network security tool for man-in-the-middle attacks on a LAN. It can be used for computer network protocol analysis and security auditing. It runs on various Unix-like operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, BSD and Solaris, and on Microsoft Windows. It is capable of intercepting... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice%20%28oceanography%29 | In oceanography, the term spice refers to spatial variations in the temperature and salinity of seawater whose effects on density cancel each other. Such density compensated thermohaline variability is ubiquitous in the upper ocean. Warmer, saltier water is more spicy while cooler, less salty water is more minty. For... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsal%20artery%20of%20the%20penis | The dorsal artery of the penis is an artery on the top surface of the penis. It is a branch of the internal pudendal artery. It runs forward on the dorsum of the penis to the glans, where it divides into two branches to the glans penis and the foreskin (prepuce).
The dorsal artery of the penis supplies the integument... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor-based%20sorting | Sensor-based sorting, is an umbrella term for all applications in which particles are detected using a sensor technique and rejected by an amplified mechanical, hydraulic or pneumatic process.
The technique is generally applied in mining, recycling and food processing and used in the particle size range between . Sin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Kac | Mark Kac ( ; Polish: Marek Kac; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome%20project | Genome projects are scientific endeavours that ultimately aim to determine the complete genome sequence of an organism (be it an animal, a plant, a fungus, a bacterium, an archaean, a protist or a virus) and to annotate protein-coding genes and other important genome-encoded features. The genome sequence of an organism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20basis%20function%20network | In the field of mathematical modeling, a radial basis function network is an artificial neural network that uses radial basis functions as activation functions. The output of the network is a linear combination of radial basis functions of the inputs and neuron parameters. Radial basis function networks have many uses,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20black%20hole | In quantum gravity, a virtual black hole is a hypothetical micro black hole that exists temporarily as a result of a quantum fluctuation of spacetime. It is an example of quantum foam and is the gravitational analog of the virtual electron–positron pairs found in quantum electrodynamics. Theoretical arguments suggest ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-mu%20calculus | In mathematical logic and computer science, the lambda-mu calculus is an extension of the lambda calculus introduced by Michel Parigot. It introduces two new operators: the μ operator (which is completely different both from the μ operator found in computability theory and from the μ operator of modal μ-calculus) and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balding%E2%80%93Nichols%20model | In population genetics, the Balding–Nichols model is a statistical description of the allele frequencies in the components of a sub-divided population. With background allele frequency p the allele frequencies, in sub-populations separated by Wright's FST F, are distributed according to independent draws from
where B ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20load | Body load is the specific physical or tactile sensations brought on by psychoactive drugs, especially psychedelics. Generally, body load is an unpleasant physical sensation that is difficult to describe objectively either in terms of other sensations or in its specific location. However, it could be likened to an insti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounding%20board | A sounding board, also known as a tester and abat-voix is a structure placed above and sometimes also behind a pulpit or other speaking platform that helps to project the sound of the speaker. It is usually made of wood. The structure may be specially shaped to assist the projection, for example, being formed as a par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-limited%20genes | Sex-limited genes are genes that are present in both sexes of sexually reproducing species but are expressed in only one sex and have no penetrance, or are simply 'turned off' in the other. In other words, sex-limited genes cause the two sexes to show different traits or phenotypes, despite having the same genotype. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20walk%20closeness%20centrality | Random walk closeness centrality is a measure of centrality in a network, which describes the average speed with which randomly walking processes reach a node from other nodes of the network. It is similar to the closeness centrality except that the farness is measured by the expected length of a random walk rather tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20lock | A love lock or love padlock is a padlock that couples lock to a bridge, fence, gate, monument, or similar public fixture to symbolize their love. Typically the sweethearts' names or initials, and perhaps the date, are inscribed on the padlock, and its key is thrown away (often into a nearby river) to symbolize unbreak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20branch | In computer programming, a wild branch is a GOTO instruction where the target address is indeterminate, random or otherwise unintended. It is usually the result of a software bug causing the accidental corruption of a pointer or array index. It is "wild" in the sense that it cannot be predicted to behave consistently. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLUIDEX | FLUIDEX is an online bibliographic database that covers fluids behavior, applications, and engineering in civil engineering and process engineering. It is published by Elsevier.
Indexing includes more than 900,000 past and current records pertaining to relevant trade magazines and scientific journals from 1966–present... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Digital%20Audio%20Effects | The annual International Conference on Digital Audio Effects or DAFx Conference is a meeting of enthusiasts working in research areas on audio signal processing, acoustics, and music related disciplines, who come together to present and discuss their findings. The conference evolved from an EU-COST-G6 project “Digital ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropropagation | Micropropagation or tissue culture is the practice of rapidly multiplying plant stock material to produce many progeny plants, using modern plant tissue culture methods.
Micropropagation is used to multiply a wide variety of plants, such as those that have been genetically modified or bred through conventional plant b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20robot | Model robots are model figures with origins in the Japanese anime genre of mecha. The majority of model robots are produced by Bandai and are based on the Gundam anime metaseries. This has given rise to the hobby's common name in Japan, Gunpla (or gan-pura, a Japanese portmanteau of "Gundam" and "plastic model"). Thoug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20chess%20video%20games | This is a comparison of chess video games.
General information
Gameplay
See also
List of chess software
Notes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20contour | In US broadcasting, service contour (or protected contour) refers to the area in which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) predicts coverage.
The FCC calculates FM and TV contours based on effective radiated power (ERP) in a given direction, the radial height above average terrain (HAAT) in a given direction, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrery | An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model. It may also represent the relative sizes of these bodies; however, since accurate scaling is often not practical due to the actual la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20convergence | In mathematics normal convergence is a type of convergence for series of functions. Like absolute-convergence, it has the useful property that it is preserved when the order of summation is changed.
History
The concept of normal convergence was first introduced by René Baire in 1908 in his book Leçons sur les théor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s%20Disease%20Neuroimaging%20Initiative | Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is a multisite study that aims to improve clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). This cooperative study combines expertise and funding from the private and public sector to study subjects with AD, as well as those who may develop ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripps%20Genomic%20Health%20Initiative | The Scripps Genomic Health Initiative (SGHI) is a large scale study aimed at understanding how personal genetic testing influences and improves health.
Led by Dr. Eric Topol, director of the San Diego-based Scripps Translational Science Institute, the 20-year initiative will determine whether patients make an effort t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Motors%20Local%20Area%20Network | General Motors Local Area Network (GMLAN) is an application- and transport-layer protocol using controller area network for lower layer services. It was standardized as SAE J2411 for use in OBD-II vehicle networks.
Transport-layer services
Transport-layer services include the transmission of multi-CAN-frame messages b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody%20testing | Antibody testing may refer to:
Serological testing, tests that detect specific antibodies in the blood
Immunoassay, tests that use antibodies to detect substances
Antibody titer, tests that measure the amount of a specific antibody in a sample
Antibodies
Biological techniques and tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re%20radius | The Molière radius is a characteristic constant of a material giving the scale of the transverse dimension of the fully contained electromagnetic showers initiated by an incident high energy electron or photon. By definition, it is the radius of a cylinder containing on average 90% of the shower's energy deposition. Tw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving%20reflex | The diving reflex, also known as the diving response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the basic homeostatic reflexes, and is found in all air-breathing vertebrates studied to date. It optimizes respiration by preferentially distributing oxygen stores to the he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Poincar%C3%A9%20group | In physics and mathematics, the κ-Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré, is a quantum group, obtained by deformation of the Poincaré group into a Hopf algebra.
It is generated by the elements and with the usual constraint:
where is the Minkowskian metric:
The commutation rules reads:
In the (1 + 1)-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic%20Hodge%20theory | In mathematics, p-adic Hodge theory is a theory that provides a way to classify and study p-adic Galois representations of characteristic 0 local fields with residual characteristic p (such as Qp). The theory has its beginnings in Jean-Pierre Serre and John Tate's study of Tate modules of abelian varieties and the noti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20on%20Apple%20devices | The Linux kernel can run on a variety of devices made by Apple, including devices where the unlocking of the bootloader is not possible with an official procedure, such as iPhones and iPads.
iPad
In June 2022, software developers Konrad Dybcio and Markuss Broks managed to run Linux kernel 5.18 on a iPad Air 2. The pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind-wandering | Mind-wandering is loosely defined as thoughts that are not produced from the current task. Mind-wandering consists of thoughts that are task-unrelated and stimulus-independent. This can be in the form of three different subtypes: positive constructive daydreaming, guilty fear of failure, and poor attentional control.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Hausdorff%20manifold | In geometry and topology, it is a usual axiom of a manifold to be a Hausdorff space. In general topology, this axiom is relaxed, and one studies non-Hausdorff manifolds: spaces locally homeomorphic to Euclidean space, but not necessarily Hausdorff.
Examples
Line with two origins
The most familiar non-Hausdorff manif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20graph%20theory | Geometric graph theory in the broader sense is a large and amorphous subfield of graph theory, concerned with graphs defined by geometric means. In a stricter sense, geometric graph theory studies combinatorial and geometric properties of geometric graphs, meaning graphs drawn in the Euclidean plane with possibly inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Flag%20beach | The Blue Flag is a certification by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) that a beach, marina, or sustainable boating tourism operator meets its standards.
The Blue Flag is a trademark owned by FEE, which is a not-for-profit non-governmental organisation consisting of 65 organisations in 77 member countries... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isostasy | Isostasy (Greek ísos 'equal', stásis 'standstill') or isostatic equilibrium is the state of gravitational equilibrium between Earth's crust (or lithosphere) and mantle such that the crust "floats" at an elevation that depends on its thickness and density. This concept is invoked to explain how different topographic hei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphitization | Graphitization is a process of transforming a carbonaceous material, such as coal, graphite or certain forms of iron alloys, into graphite.
Process
The graphitization process involves a restructuring of the molecular structure of the carbon material. In the initial state, these materials can have an amorphous structu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20real-time%20operating%20systems | This is a list of real-time operating systems (RTOSs). This is an operating system in which the time taken to process an input stimulus is less than the time lapsed until the next input stimulus of the same type. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness | In computing, endianness is the order or sequence of bytes of a word of digital data in computer memory or data communication which is identified by describing the impact of the "first" bytes, meaning at the smallest address or sent first. Endianness is primarily expressed as big-endian (BE) or little-endian (LE). A bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20body%20reaction | A foreign body reaction (FBR) is a typical tissue response to a foreign body within biological tissue. It usually includes the formation of a foreign body granuloma. Tissue-encapsulation of an implant is an example, as is inflammation around a splinter. Foreign body granuloma formation consists of protein adsorption, m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20roommates%20problem | In mathematics, economics and computer science, particularly in the fields of combinatorics, game theory and algorithms, the stable-roommate problem (SRP) is the problem of finding a stable matching for an even-sized set. A matching is a separation of the set into disjoint pairs ("roommates"). The matching is stable i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation%20Research%20%28journal%29 | Mutation Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes research papers in the area of mutation research which focus on fundamental mechanisms underlying the phenotypic and genotypic expression of genetic damage. There are currently three sections:
Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Optical%20Society | Chinese Optical Society (; abbreviated COS) is a professional association of individuals with an interest in optics and photonics. It sponsored the Chinese Optics Letters, a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on optics. As of 2019, the society has 21 specialized committees and 7 working committees with m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIO | OpenIO offered object storage for a wide range of high-performance applications. OpenIO was founded in 2015 by Laurent Denel (CEO), Jean-François Smigielski (CTO) and five other co-founders; it leveraged open source software, developed since 2006, based on a grid technology that enabled dynamic behaviour and supported ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20Association%20of%20Clinical%20Geneticists | The Australasian Association of Clinical Geneticists (AACG) is a professional membership organization for medical specialists who are qualified to work in the field of clinical genetics. The Association was founded in 1995. As of 2021, the organization had approximately 180 members. The Association's members include fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20notch | The radial notch of the ulna (lesser sigmoid cavity) is a narrow, oblong, articular depression on the lateral side of the coronoid process; it receives the circumferential articular surface of the head of the radius.
It is concave from before backward, and its prominent extremities serve for the attachment of the annu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace%20materials | Aerospace materials are materials, frequently metal alloys, that have either been developed for, or have come to prominence through their use for aerospace purposes.
These uses often require exceptional performance, strength or heat resistance, even at the cost of considerable expense in their production or machining.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20permeability | In multiphase flow in porous media, the relative permeability of a phase is a dimensionless measure of the effective permeability of that phase. It is the ratio of the effective permeability of that phase to the absolute permeability. It can be viewed as an adaptation of Darcy's law to multiphase flow.
For two-phase ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroshka%20experiments | The Matroshka (or Matroschka or Phantom) experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) use a mannequin that has been used to study cosmic radiation dose types and rates that relate to the health of space travellers on long duration missions.
The two-part experiment is named for the Matryoshka dolls or Russian n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditkin%20set | In mathematics, a Ditkin set, introduced by , is a closed subset of the circle such that a function f vanishing on the set can be approximated by functions φnf with φ vanishing in a neighborhood of the set. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20genetics | Molecular genetics is a branch of biology that addresses how differences in the structures or expression of DNA molecules manifests as variation among organisms. Molecular genetics often applies an "investigative approach" to determine the structure and/or function of genes in an organism's genome using genetic screen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC | WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is a free and open-source project providing web browsers and mobile applications with real-time communication (RTC) via application programming interfaces (APIs). It allows audio and video communication to work inside web pages by allowing direct peer-to-peer communication, eliminat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen | Glycogen is a multibranched polysaccharide of glucose that serves as a form of energy storage in animals, fungi, and bacteria. It is the main storage form of glucose in the human body.
Glycogen functions as one of three regularly used forms of energy reserves, creatine phosphate being for very short-term, glycogen be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepArt | DeepArt or DeepArt.io was a website that allowed users to create artistic images by using an algorithm to redraw one image using the stylistic elements of another image. with "A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style" a Neural Style Transfer algorithm that was developed by several of its creators to separate style elements... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaniazide/thioacetazone | Methaniazide/thioacetazone, sold under the brand name Neothetazone, is an antibiotic combination of methaniazide (neotizide) and thioacetazone that is or was very commonly used in the treatment of tuberculosis. It has been implicated as a cause of gigantomastia in a single 1970 case report, and, along with D-penicillia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetotopy | Phonetotopy is the concept that articulatory features as well as perceptual features of speech sounds are ordered in the brain in a similar way as tone (tonotopy), articulation and its somatosensory feedback (somatotopy), or visual location of an object (retinotopy). It is assumed that a phonetotopic ordering of speech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20calculus%20and%20mathematical%20analysis | A timeline of calculus and mathematical analysis.
500BC to 1600
5th century BC - The Zeno's paradoxes,
5th century BC - Antiphon attempts to square the circle,
5th century BC - Democritus finds the volume of cone is 1/3 of volume of cylinder,
4th century BC - Eudoxus of Cnidus develops the method of exhaustion,
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedougou%20virus | Kedougou virus (KEDV) is an arbovirus of the Flaviviridae family, genus Flavivirus, belongs to the IV group of a ((+) ssRNA) viruses. The virus was first isolated from Aedes minutus mosquitoes in Senegal in 1971.
KEDV belongs to the Kedougou virus group. It is endemically present in the Kédougou Region, from which it t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphotype%20%28machine%29 | Graphotype was a brand name used by the Addressograph-Multigraph Company for its range of metal plate embossing machines.
The machines were originally used to create address plates for the Addressograph system and mark military style identity tags and other industrial nameplates.
The machines came in a number of vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wtfast | wtfast is a Canadian company that provides an optimized gaming network, also known as the Gamers Private Network (GPN), for MMO, FPS, and MOBA gamers. It is a platform that online gamers use to access gaming servers with an uninterrupted connection. The company is operated by AAA Internet Publishing, Inc. with headquar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZCCHC6 | Terminal uridylyltransferase 7 (TUT7), also known as "zinc finger, CCHC domain containing 6", is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ZCCHC6 gene located on chromosome 9. The ZCCHC6 protein mediates the terminal uridylation of RNA transcripts with short poly-A tails and is involved in mRNA and microRNA degradatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20channel | A communication channel refers either to a physical transmission medium such as a wire, or to a logical connection over a multiplexed medium such as a radio channel in telecommunications and computer networking. A channel is used for information transfer of, for example, a digital bit stream, from one or several sender... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20platform%20virtualization%20software | Platform virtualization software, specifically emulators and hypervisors, are software packages that emulate the whole physical computer machine, often providing multiple virtual machines on one physical platform. The table below compares basic information about platform virtualization hypervisors.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collider | A collider is a type of particle accelerator that brings two opposing particle beams together such that the particles collide. Colliders may either be ring accelerators or linear accelerators.
Colliders are used as a research tool in particle physics by accelerating particles to very high kinetic energy and letting th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared%20secret | In cryptography, a shared secret is a piece of data, known only to the parties involved, in a secure communication. This usually refers to the key of a symmetric cryptosystem. The shared secret can be a password, a passphrase, a big number, or an array of randomly chosen bytes.
The shared secret is either shared befo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Wald | Abraham Wald (; , ; – ) was a Jewish Hungarian mathematician who contributed to decision theory, geometry and econometrics, and founded the field of sequential analysis. One of his well-known statistical works was written during World War II on how to minimize the damage to bomber aircraft and took into account the su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20embrittlement | Neutron embrittlement, sometimes more broadly radiation embrittlement, is the embrittlement of various materials due to the action of neutrons. This is primarily seen in nuclear reactors, where the release of high-energy neutrons causes the long-term degradation of the reactor materials. The embrittlement is caused by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus%20on%20finite%20weighted%20graphs | In mathematics, calculus on finite weighted graphs is a discrete calculus for functions whose domain is the vertex set of a graph with a finite number of vertices and weights associated to the edges. This involves formulating discrete operators on graphs which are analogous to differential operators in calculus, such a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Matters%20Alliance | Power Matters Alliance (PMA) was a global, not-for-profit, industry organization whose mission was to advance a suite of standards and protocols for wireless power transfer for mobile electronic devices (specifically a type of inductive charging that competes with the Qi standard). The organization was merged with Alli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cram%C3%A9r%27s%20decomposition%20theorem | Cramér’s decomposition theorem for a normal distribution is a result of probability theory. It is well known that, given independent normally distributed random variables ξ1, ξ2, their sum is normally distributed as well. It turns out that the converse is also true. The latter result, initially announced by Paul Lévy,... |
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