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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearline%20storage | Nearline storage (a portmanteau of "near" and "online storage") is a term used in computer science to describe an intermediate type of data storage that represents a compromise between online storage (supporting frequent, very rapid access to data) and offline storage/archiving (used for backups or long-term storage, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20Song%20Contest%202021 | The AI Song Contest 2021 was the second edition of the AI Song Contest, an international music competition for songs that have been composed using artificial intelligence (AI). The contest was co-organised by the technology hubs Wallifornia MusicTech, DeepMusic.ai, and Amsterdam Music Lab. The results of the competitio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeout%20Detection%20and%20Recovery | Timeout Detection and Recovery or TDR is a feature of the Windows operating system (OS) introduced in Windows Vista. It detects response problems from a graphics card (GPU), and if a timeout occurs, the OS will attempt a card reset to recover a functional and responsive desktop environment. However, if the attempt was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUADPACK | QUADPACK is a FORTRAN 77 library for numerical integration of one-dimensional functions. It was included in the SLATEC Common Mathematical Library and is therefore in the public domain. The individual subprograms are also available on netlib.
The GNU Scientific Library reimplemented the QUADPACK routines in C. SciPy p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%3A50%20scale | 1:50 scale is a popular size for diecast models from European manufacturers such as Conrad, Tekno, NZG, WSI and LionToys. Typically they produce scale models of construction vehicles, tower cranes, trucks and buses. These are often the official models distributed by the manufacturers of the real vehicles as a promoti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20Q.%20Longyear | Judith Querida Longyear (20 September 1938–13 December 1995) was an American mathematician and professor whose research interests included graph theory and combinatorics. Longyear was the second woman to ever earn a mathematics Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, where she studied under the supervision of Sarvada... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20set%20identities%20and%20relations | This article lists mathematical properties and laws of sets, involving the set-theoretic operations of union, intersection, and complementation and the relations of set equality and set inclusion. It also provides systematic procedures for evaluating expressions, and performing calculations, involving these operations ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zariski%20geometry | In mathematics, a Zariski geometry consists of an abstract structure introduced by Ehud Hrushovski and Boris Zilber, in order to give a characterisation of the Zariski topology on an algebraic curve, and all its powers. The Zariski topology on a product of algebraic varieties is very rarely the product topology, but ri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Suger | Eduardo Suger Cofiño (November 29, 1938) is a Swiss-born Guatemalan physicist, scholar, educator, and politician. He is one of the founders of Galileo University in Guatemala City and of the Suger Montano Institute. Suger was the first Central American to receive his PhD in physics.
Early life
Suger was born in Zürich... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Weiss | Benjamin Weiss (; born 1941) is an American-Israeli mathematician known for his contributions to ergodic theory, topological dynamics, probability theory, game theory, and descriptive set theory.
Biography
Benjamin ("Benjy") Weiss was born in New York City. In 1962 he received B.A. from Yeshiva University and M.A. fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve%20of%20inferior%20vena%20cava | The valve of the inferior vena cava (eustachian valve) is a venous valve that lies at the junction of the inferior vena cava and right atrium.
Development
In prenatal development, the eustachian valve helps direct the flow of oxygen-rich blood through the right atrium into the left atrium and away from the right vent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BolA-like%20protein%20family | In molecular biology, the BolA-like protein family consists of the morpho-protein BolA from Escherichia coli, the Fra2 protein from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and various homologs. The BolA protein is a DNA-binding regulator; the Fra2 protein is an iron sulfur cluster protein that binds Grx3/4 and is involved in regulat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceful%20exit | A graceful exit (or graceful handling) is a simple programming idiom wherein a program detects a serious error condition and "exits gracefully" in a controlled manner as a result. Often the program prints a descriptive error message to a terminal or log as part of the graceful exit.
Usually, code for a graceful exit e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer%20f-function | The Mayer f-function is an auxiliary function that often appears in the series expansion of thermodynamic quantities related to classical many-particle systems. It is named after chemist and physicist Joseph Edward Mayer.
Definition
Consider a system of classical particles interacting through a pair-wise potential
wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound%20contracture | Wound contracture is a process that may occur during wound healing when an excess of wound contraction, a normal healing process, leads to physical deformity characterized by skin constriction and functional limitations. Wound contractures may be seen after serious burns and may occur on the palms, the soles, and the a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C6orf201 | Chromosome 6 open reading frame 201, C6orf201, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the C6orf201 gene.
In humans this gene encodes for a nuclear protein that is primarily expressed in the testis.
Gene
In humans, the gene is 51,558 base pairs long. The transcript that produces the longest protein of 140 amino acid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sider%20%28Automated%20Code%20Review%29 | Sider is an automated code review tool with GitHub. It's based on static code analysis and integrates with a number of open source static analysis tools. It checks style violations, code quality, security and dependencies and provides results as a comment on GitHub pull request.
Sider was developed by Tokyo-based star... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20All-Stars%20to%20the%20Rescue | Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue is a 1990 American animated television propaganda film starring many characters from several animated television series at the time of its release. Financed by McDonald's, Ronald McDonald Children's Charities, it was originally simulcast for a limited time on April 21, 1990, on all four ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam%20stack%20search | Beam stack search is a search algorithm that combines chronological backtracking (that is, depth-first search) with beam search and is similar to depth-first beam search. Both search algorithms are anytime algorithms that find good but likely sub-optimal solutions quickly, like beam search, then backtrack and continue ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Educational%20and%20Behavioral%20Statistics | The Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Educational Research Association and American Statistical Association. It covers statistical methods and applied statistics in the educational and behavioral sciences. The jo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20Essay%20on%20the%20Principle%20of%20Population | The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus. The book warned of future difficulties, on an interpretation of the population increasing in geometric progression (so as to double every 25 years) while food production... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20conductance%20and%20resistance | In heat transfer, thermal engineering, and thermodynamics, thermal conductance and thermal resistance are fundamental concepts that describe the ability of materials or systems to conduct heat and the opposition they offer to the heat current. The ability to manipulate these properties allows engineers to control tempe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20parallel%20proteolysis | Fast parallel proteolysis (FASTpp) is a method to determine the thermostability of proteins by measuring which fraction of protein resists rapid proteolytic digestion.
History and background
Proteolysis is widely used in biochemistry and cell biology to probe protein structure. In "limited trypsin proteolysis", low ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosology | Nosology () is the branch of medical science that deals with the classification of diseases. Fully classifying a medical condition requires knowing its cause (and that there is only one cause), the effects it has on the body, the symptoms that are produced, and other factors. For example, influenza is classified as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysome%20%28crystallography%29 | In crystallography, the term polysome is used to describe overall mineral structures which have structurally and compositionally different framework structures.
A general example is amphiboles, in which cutting along the {010} plane yields alternating layers of pyroxene and trioctahedral mica. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dimensional%20space | In physics and mathematics, a sequence of n numbers can specify a location in n-dimensional space. When , the set of all such locations is called a one-dimensional space. An example of a one-dimensional space is the number line, where the position of each point on it can be described by a single number.
In algebraic g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CG%20artist | CG artists (also known as computer graphics artists) create 2D and 3D art, usually for cinema, advertising or animation movies. A CG artist's work usually revolves around finding balance between artistic sensibilities and technical limitations while working within a development team.
In a game development context, CG ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian-Carlo%20Rota | Gian-Carlo Rota (April 27, 1932 – April 18, 1999) was an Italian-American mathematician and philosopher. He spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in combinatorics, functional analysis, probability theory, and phenomenology.
Early life and education
Rota was born in Vige... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOMAC | Low Water-Mark Mandatory Access Control (LOMAC) is a Mandatory Access Control model which protects the integrity of system objects and subjects by means of an information flow policy coupled with the subject demotion via floating labels. In LOMAC, all system subjects and objects are assigned integrity labels, made up ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophilic%20interaction%20chromatography | Hydrophilic interaction chromatography (or hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography, HILIC) is a variant of normal phase liquid chromatography that partly overlaps with other chromatographic applications such as ion chromatography and reversed phase liquid chromatography. HILIC uses hydrophilic stationary phases... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20diacritics | Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period. The more complex polytonic orthography (), which includes five diacritics, notates Ancient Greek phonology. The simpler monotonic orthography (), introduced in 1982, corresponds to Modern Greek phonology, and requires only two diacri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUROCAT%20%28medicine%29 | EUROCAT founded in 1979, is a high quality network of population-based congenital anomaly registries across Europe for the monitoring, surveillance and research of congenital anomalies.
In January 2023 the network has 43 member registries from 23 countries covering more than 25% of European births per year. The detail... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavilan%20SC | The Gavilan SC is a laptop computer that was the first ever to be marketed as a "laptop". The computer ran on an Intel 8088 microprocessor running at 5 MHz and sported a touchpad for a pointing device, one of the first computers to do so. The laptop was developed by Manuel "Manny" Fernandez and released by the Gavilan ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strudel%20%28ice%29 | A strudel (plural: strudel) is a vertical hole in sea ice through which downward jet-like, buoyancy-driven drainage of flood water is thought to occur. This feature is less than a few tens of meters in size and typically occurs within 30 km from a river mouth, in the sea ice expanse that is fastened to the coastline (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen%205%20Fibre%20Channel | Gen 5 Fibre Channel is the marketing name for purpose-built, data center network infrastructure for storage that provides reliability, scalability and up to 16 Gbit/s performance adopted by Brocade, Emulex, and QLogic. The name was created to move away from speed-based naming to technology generation-based naming. Gen ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triadobatrachus | Triadobatrachus is an extinct genus of salientian frog-like amphibians, including only one known species, Triadobatrachus massinoti. It is the oldest member of the frog lineage known, and an excellent example of a transitional fossil. It lived during the Early Triassic about 250 million years ago, in what is now Madaga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetoin | Acetoin, also known as 3-hydroxybutanone or acetyl methyl carbinol, is an organic compound with the formula CH3CH(OH)C(O)CH3. It is a colorless liquid with a pleasant, buttery odor. It is chiral. The form produced by bacteria is (R)-acetoin.
Production in bacteria
Acetoin is a neutral, four-carbon molecule used as an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%20Grass%20Experiment | The Park Grass Experiment is a biological study originally set up to test the effect of fertilizers and manures on hay yields. The scientific experiment is located at the Rothamsted Research in the English county of Hertfordshire, and is notable as one of the longest-running experiments of modern science, as it was ini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking%20error | In finance, tracking error or active risk is a measure of the risk in an investment portfolio that is due to active management decisions made by the portfolio manager; it indicates how closely a portfolio follows the index to which it is benchmarked. The best measure is the standard deviation of the difference between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20Egyptian%20creation%20myths | Ancient Egyptian creation myths are the ancient Egyptian accounts of the creation of the world. The Pyramid Texts, tomb wall decorations, and writings, dating back to the Old Kingdom (c. 2700–2200 BCE) have provided the majority of information regarding ancient Egyptian creation myths. These myths also form the earlies... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrophil%20cytosolic%20factor%204 | Neutrophil cytosol factor 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NCF4 gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is a cytosolic regulatory component of the superoxide-producing phagocyte NADPH-oxidase, a multicomponent enzyme system important for host defense. This protein is preferentially expressed i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearls%20in%20Graph%20Theory | Pearls in Graph Theory: A Comprehensive Introduction is an undergraduate-level textbook on graph theory by Nora Hartsfield and Gerhard Ringel. It was published in 1990 by Academic Press with a revised edition in 1994 and a paperback reprint of the revised edition by Dover Books in 2003. The Basic Library List Committee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive%20medication%20management | Comprehensive medication management (CMM) is the process of delivering clinical services aimed at ensuring a patient's medications (including prescribed, over-the-counter, vitamins, supplements and alternative) are individually assessed to determine that they have an appropriate reason for use, are efficacious for trea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus%20Bowen | Robert Edward "Rufus" Bowen (23 February 1947 – 30 July 1978) was an internationally known professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, who specialized in dynamical systems theory. Bowen's work dealt primarily with axiom A systems, but the methods he used while exploring topolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilch%20%28electromagnetism%29 | In physics, zilch (or zilches) is a set of ten conserved quantities of the source-free electromagnetic field, which were discovered by Lipkin in 1964. The name refers to the fact that the zilches are only conserved in regions free of electric charge, and therefore have limited physical significance. One of the conserve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiman%27s%20theorem | In additive combinatorics, Freiman's theorem is a central result which indicates the approximate structure of sets whose sumset is small. It roughly states that if is small, then can be contained in a small generalized arithmetic progression.
Statement
If is a finite subset of with , then is contained in a genera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldata | FIELDATA (also written as Fieldata) was a pioneering computer project run by the US Army Signal Corps in the late 1950s that intended to create a single standard (as defined in MIL-STD-188A/B/C) for collecting and distributing battlefield information. In this respect it could be thought of as a generalization of the US... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20Plankton%20Recorder | The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey is one of the longest running marine biological monitoring programmes in the world. Started in 1931 by Sir Alister Hardy and Sir Cyril Lucas, the Survey provides marine scientists and policy-makers with measures of plankton communities, coupled with ocean physical, biologic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Silicon%20Initiative | The Google Open Silicon Initiative is an initiative launched by the Google Hardware Toolchains team to democratize access to custom silicon design. Google has partnered with SkyWater Technology and GlobalFoundries to open-source their Process Design Kits for 180nm, 130nm and 90nm process. This initiative provides free ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20phosphatase%202 | Protein phosphatase 2 (PP2), also known as PP2A, is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PPP2CA gene. The PP2A heterotrimeric protein phosphatase is ubiquitously expressed, accounting for a large fraction of phosphatase activity in eukaryotic cells. Its serine/threonine phosphatase activity has a broad substrate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Woodall | Douglas Robert Woodall (born November 1943 in Stoke-on-Trent) is a British mathematician and psephologist. He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham in 1969, his thesis being "Some results in combinatorial mathematics". He worked in the Department of Ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirring%E2%80%93Wess%20model | The Thirring–Wess model or Vector Meson model
is an exactly solvable quantum field theory, describing the interaction of a Dirac field with a vector field in dimension two.
Definition
The Lagrangian density is made of three terms:
the free vector field is described by
for and the boson mass must be
strictly p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold%20potential | In electrophysiology, the threshold potential is the critical level to which a membrane potential must be depolarized to initiate an action potential. In neuroscience, threshold potentials are necessary to regulate and propagate signaling in both the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS).... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesotrophic%20soil | Mesotrophic soils are soils with a moderate inherent fertility. An indicator of soil fertility is its base status, which is expressed as a ratio relating the major nutrient cations (calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium) found there to the soil's clay percentage. This is commonly expressed in hundredths of a mole of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artin%E2%80%93Verdier%20duality | In mathematics, Artin–Verdier duality is a duality theorem for constructible abelian sheaves over the spectrum of a ring of algebraic numbers, introduced by , that generalizes Tate duality.
It shows that, as far as etale (or flat) cohomology is concerned, the ring of integers in a number field behaves like a 3-dimensi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore%20%28software%29 | Carnivore, later renamed DCS1000, was a system implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that was designed to monitor email and electronic communications. It used a customizable packet sniffer that could monitor all of a target user's Internet traffic. Carnivore was implemented in October 1997. By 2005 i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulan%20%28Rivermaya%20song%29 | "Ulan" () is the first single released by Filipino rock band Rivermaya and also the first single released on their debut self-titled album in 1995. The song was produced by Chito S. Roño and Lizza G. Nakpil.
The song was written by rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Rico Blanco and Nathan Azarcon, the band's bassist. Bl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20assistant%20privacy | Virtual assistants are software technology that assist users complete various tasks. Well known virtual assistants include Amazon Alexa, and Siri, produced by Apple. Other companies, such as Google and Microsoft, also have virtual assistants. There are privacy issues concerning what information can go to the third part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20radiation%20experiments | [[File:Joseph Hamilton with radio sodium experiment 97401413.jpeg|thumb|250px|upright|Joseph G. Hamilton was the primary researcher for the human plutonium experiments done at U.C. San Francisco from 1944 to 1947. Hamilton wrote a memo in 1950 discouraging further human experiments because the AEC would be left open "t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%20space | In continuum mechanics, Haigh–Westergaard stress space, or simply stress space is a 3-dimensional space in which the three spatial axes represent the three principal stresses of a body subject to stress. This space is named after Bernard Haigh and Harold M. Westergaard.
In mathematical terms, H-W space can also be int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solving%20the%20Riddle%20of%20Phyllotaxis | Solving the Riddle of Phyllotaxis: Why the Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio Occur in Plants is a book on the mathematics of plant structure, and in particular on phyllotaxis, the arrangement of leaves on plant stems. It was written by Irving Adler, and published in 2012 by World Scientific. The Basic Library List... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation | In mathematics, a permutation of a set is, loosely speaking, an arrangement of its members into a sequence or linear order, or if the set is already ordered, a rearrangement of its elements. The word "permutation" also refers to the act or process of changing the linear order of an ordered set.
For example, there are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathophysiology%20%28journal%29 | Pathophysiology is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering pathology and pathophysiology. It was established in 1994 and was originally published by Elsevier on behalf of the International Society for Pathophysiology. It was established by Toshikazu Yoshikawa, who was also its first editor-in-chief. The curr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Year%20of%20Biodiversity | The International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) was a year-long celebration of biological diversity and its importance, taking place internationally in 2010. Coinciding with the date of the 2010 Biodiversity Target, the year was declared by the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2006.
It was meant to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TwoOStwo | twoOStwo was a commercial software product developed by Parallels Software Studio (prior to its acquisition by SWsoft). The workstation software consisted of a virtual machine suite for Intel x86-compatible computers which allowed the creation and execution of multiple x86 virtual computers simultaneously. Each virtual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECIPT | The Timişoara Polytechnic Institute Electronic Computer (Romanian: Mașina Electronică de Calcul Institutul Politehnic Timişoara), known as MECIPT, is the name used for a family of computers built from 1961 to 1968 at the Polytechnic University of Timișoara in Romania.
MECIPT-1 was a first generation computer built by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopic%20labeling | Isotopic labeling (or isotopic labelling) is a technique used to track the passage of an isotope (an atom with a detectable variation in neutron count) through a reaction, metabolic pathway, or cell. The reactant is 'labeled' by replacing specific atoms by their isotope. The reactant is then allowed to undergo the reac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%E2%80%93Baxter%20equation | In physics, the Yang–Baxter equation (or star–triangle relation) is a consistency equation which was first introduced in the field of statistical mechanics. It depends on the idea that in some scattering situations, particles may preserve their momentum while changing their quantum internal states. It states that a mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20UPS%20Tools | Network UPS Tools (NUT) is a suite of software component designed to monitor power devices, such as uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units, solar controllers and servers power supply units. Many brands and models are supported and exposed via a network protocol and standardized interface.
It follows ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch%20%28computing%29 | A patch is a set of changes to a computer program or its supporting data designed to update, fix, or improve it. This includes fixing security vulnerabilities and other bugs, with such patches usually being called bugfixes or bug fixes. Patches are often written to improve the functionality, usability, or performance ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formose%20reaction | The formose reaction, discovered by Aleksandr Butlerov in 1861, and hence also known as the Butlerov reaction, involves the formation of sugars from formaldehyde. The term formose is a portmanteau of formaldehyde and aldose.
Reaction and mechanism
The reaction is catalyzed by a base and a divalent metal such as calci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrastructural%20identity | Ultrastructural identity is a concept in biology. It asserts that evolutionary lineages of eukaryotes in general and protists in particular can be distinguished by complements and arrangements of cellular organelles. These ultrastructural components can be visualized by electron microscopy.
The concept emerged followi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakame | Wakame (Undaria pinnatifida) is a species of kelp native to cold, temperate coasts of the northwest Pacific Ocean. As an edible seaweed, it has a subtly sweet, but distinctive and strong flavour and texture. It is most often served in soups and salads.
Wakame has long been collected for food in East Asia, and sea farm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20David%20Birkhoff%20Prize | The George David Birkhoff Prize in applied mathematics is awarded – jointly by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) – in honour of George David Birkhoff (1884–1944). It is currently awarded every three years for an outstanding contribution to: "applied ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20cavity | A body cavity is any space or compartment, or potential space, in an animal body. Cavities accommodate organs and other structures; cavities as potential spaces contain fluid.
The two largest human body cavities are the ventral body cavity, and the dorsal body cavity. In the dorsal body cavity the brain and spinal cor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbing%20injuries | Injuries in rock climbing may occur due to falls, or due to overuse (see Sports injury). Injuries due to falls are relatively uncommon; the vast majority of injuries result from overuse, most often occurring in the fingers, elbows, and shoulders. Such injuries are often no worse than torn calluses, cuts, burns and brui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%E2%80%931993%20Jack%20in%20the%20Box%20E.%20coli%20outbreak | The 1992–1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak occurred when the Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacterium (originating from contaminated beef patties) killed four children and infected 732 people across four states. The outbreak involved 73 Jack in the Box restaurants in California, Idaho, Washington, and Nevada, and has bee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorestoration | Mycorestoration is the use of fungi to restore degraded environments. It is a multi-method approach to restore damaged habitats such as oil spill sites and logging roads, while also restoring the health of targeted forest sites that have been compromised in development. Mycorestoration is also used to control insect po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atypon | Atypon Systems, LLC, is an online publishing platform provider for publishers and other providers of scientific, technical, medical, scholarly, professional and government content. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It has been owned by John Wiley & Sons since 2016.
Atypon’s flagship product is Literatum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus | Disqus () is an American blog comment hosting service for websites and online communities that use a networked platform. The company's platform includes various features, such as social integration, social networking, user profiles, spam and moderation tools, analytics, email notifications, and mobile commenting. It wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodolith | Rhodoliths (from Greek for red rocks) are colorful, unattached calcareous nodules, composed of crustose, benthic marine red algae that resemble coral. Rhodolith beds create biogenic habitat for diverse benthic communities. The rhodolithic growth habit has been attained by a number of unrelated coralline red algae, orga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Naval%20Grid%20System | German Naval Grid Reference (German:Gradnetzmeldeverfahren), was a system for referencing a location on a map. Introduced initially by the German Luftwaffe just before World War II, it was used widely in the German armed forces until 1943. Each armed force had its own version of this reference.
The reference used in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carola%20Wenk | Carola Wenk (born 1973) is a German-American computer scientist known for her research on algorithms for finding similarities between geometric shapes, such as matching vehicle trajectories to road networks, comparing trajectories with each other using Fréchet distance, or testing similarity for gel electrophoresis dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation-free%20modeling | Equation-free modeling is a method for multiscale computation and computer-aided analysis. It is designed for a class of complicated systems in which one observes evolution at a macroscopic, coarse scale of interest, while accurate models are only given at a finely detailed, microscopic, level of description. The frame... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20zoology%20%281859%E2%80%93present%29 | This article considers the history of zoology since the theory of evolution by natural selection proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859.
Charles Darwin gave new direction to morphology and physiology, by uniting them in a common biological theory: the theory of organic evolution. The result was a reconstruction of the cla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jscrambler | Jscrambler is a technology company mainly known for its JavaScript obfuscator and eponymous monitoring framework. The obfuscator makes it harder to reverse engineer a web application's client-side code and tamper with its integrity. For real-time detection of web skimming, DOM tampering and user interface changes, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haganeyama%20Transmitter | Haganeyama Transmitter (はがね山標準電波送信所, ) is an LF-time signal transmitter at Fuji-cho, Saga-city, Saga-ken, Japan used for transmitting the time signal JJY on 60 kHz. The Haganeyama site is one of two JJY transmitters, another is the Otakadoyama site.
Summy
NAME: NICT Haganeyama LF station
Location: Summit of Mt. Hag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigsberger%20ratio | The Koenigsberger ratio is the proportion of remanent magnetization relative to induced magnetization in natural rocks. It was first described by . It is a dimensionless parameter often used in geophysical exploration to describe the magnetic characteristics of a geological body for help in interpreting magnetic anomal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread%20control%20block | Thread Control Block (TCB) is a data structure in the operating system kernel which contains thread-specific information needed to manage it. The TCB is "the manifestation of a thread in an operating system."
An example of information contained within a TCB is:
Thread Identifier: Unique id (tid) is assigned to every ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20memory%20access | Direct memory access (DMA) is a feature of computer systems that allows certain hardware subsystems to access main system memory independently of the central processing unit (CPU).
Without DMA, when the CPU is using programmed input/output, it is typically fully occupied for the entire duration of the read or write op... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus%20vivendi | Modus vivendi (plural modi vivendi) is a Latin phrase that means "mode of living" or "way of life". In international relations, it often is used to mean an arrangement or agreement that allows conflicting parties to coexist in peace. In science, it is used to describe lifestyles.
Modus means "mode", "way", "method", o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L2%20holin%20family | The Putative Acholeplasma Phage L2 Holin (L2 Holin) Family (TC# 1.E.59) consists of a putative holin (TC# 1.E.59.1.1; 81 amino acyl residues (aas) and 2 transmembrane segments (TMSs)) and a homologous uncharacterized protein (TC# 1.E.59.1.2; 75 aas and 2 TMSs). These proteins are of particular interest because they may... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20File%20System | Google File System (GFS or GoogleFS, not to be confused with the GFS Linux file system) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware. Google file system was replaced by Colossus in 2010.
Design
GFS is enhanced for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic%20Mac%20OS | Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9. The Macintosh operating system is credited with having popularized the graphical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCL7 | Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 7 (CCL7) is a small cytokine that was previously called monocyte-chemotactic protein 3 (MCP3). CCL7 is a small protein that belongs to the CC chemokine family and is most closely related to CCL2 (previously called MCP1).
Genomics
In the human genome, CCL7 is encoded by the CCL7 gene which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midjourney | Midjourney is a generative artificial intelligence program and service created and hosted by San Francisco–based independent research lab Midjourney, Inc. Midjourney generates images from natural language descriptions, called "prompts", similar to OpenAI's DALL-E and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion.
The tool is curren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency%20for%20Toxic%20Substances%20and%20Disease%20Registry | The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a federal public health agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The agency focuses on minimizing human health risks associated with exposure to hazardous substances. It works closely with other federal, state, and local age... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonquetella | Jonquetella is a Gram-negative and strictly aerobic genus of bacteria from the family of Synergistaceae with one known species (Jonquetella anthropi). Jonquetella anthropi has been isolated from a human cyst from Montpellier in France. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20vision | Color vision, a feature of visual perception, is an ability to perceive differences between light composed of different frequencies independently of light intensity. Color perception is a part of the larger visual system and is mediated by a complex process between neurons that begins with differential stimulation of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost | In set theory, when dealing with sets of infinite size, the term almost or nearly is used to refer to all but a negligible amount of elements in the set. The notion of "negligible" depends on the context, and may mean "of measure zero" (in a measure space), "finite" (when infinite sets are involved), or "countable" (wh... |
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