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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch%20hardness | Scratch hardness refers to the hardness of a material in terms of resistance to scratches and abrasion by a harder material forcefully drawn over its surface. Scratch hardness test or scratch test refers to any of a number of methods of measuring scratch hardness. Resistance to abrasion is less affected by surface vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Pines | Alexander Pines (born June 22, 1945) is an American chemist. He is the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20%28complexity%29 | In computational complexity theory, R is the class of decision problems solvable by a Turing machine, which is the set of all recursive languages (also called decidable languages).
Equivalent formulations
R is equivalent to the set of all total computable functions in the sense that:
a decision problem is in R if and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosm%20%28experimental%20ecosystem%29 | Microcosms are artificial, simplified ecosystems that are used to simulate and predict the behaviour of natural ecosystems under controlled conditions. Open or closed microcosms provide an experimental area for ecologists to study natural ecological processes. Microcosm studies can be very useful to study the effects o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wald%27s%20maximin%20model | In decision theory and game theory, Wald's maximin model is a non-probabilistic decision-making model according to which decisions are ranked on the basis of their worst-case outcomes – the optimal decision is one with the least bad worst outcome. It is one of the most important models in robust decision making in gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20domain | A search domain is a domain used as part of a domain search list. The search list, as well as the local domain name, is used by a resolver to create a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) from a relative name. For this purpose, the local domain name functions as a single-item search list.
IPv4
In an IPv4 environment, s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculomotor%20nerve | The oculomotor nerve, also known as the third cranial nerve, cranial nerve III, or simply CN III, is a cranial nerve that enters the orbit through the superior orbital fissure and innervates extraocular muscles that enable most movements of the eye and that raise the eyelid. The nerve also contains fibers that innerv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Beatley | Dr Timothy Beatley is an internationally recognized sustainable city researcher and author. His writings have focused on creative strategies cities can use to reduce their ecological footprints and become more livable and equitable places in the process. Beatley coined the term green urbanism and uses it frequently in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoarchitecture | Cytoarchitecture (Greek κύτος= "cell" + ἀρχιτεκτονική= "architecture"), also known as cytoarchitectonics, is the study of the cellular composition of the central nervous system's tissues under the microscope. Cytoarchitectonics is one of the ways to parse the brain, by obtaining sections of the brain using a microtome ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennes-le-Ch%C3%A2teau | Rennes-le-Château (; ) is a commune approximately 5 km (3 miles) south of Couiza, in the Aude department in the Occitanie region in Southern France. In 2018, it had a population of 91.
This hilltop village is known internationally; it receives tens of thousands of visitors per year, drawn by conspiracy theories surrou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadomtsev%E2%80%93Petviashvili%20equation | In mathematics and physics, the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation (often abbreviated as KP equation) is a partial differential equation to describe nonlinear wave motion. Named after Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev and Vladimir Iosifovich Petviashvili, the KP equation is usually written as
where . The above form shows that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%20fair%20division | Strategic fair division is the branch of fair division in which the participants are assumed to hide their preferences and act strategically in order to maximize their own utility, rather than playing sincerely according to their true preferences.
To illustrate the difference between strategic fair division and classi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connector%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a connector is a map which can be defined for a linear connection and used to define the covariant derivative on a vector bundle from the linear connection.
Definition
Let ∇ be a connection on the tangent space TN of a smooth manifold N. For smooth mappings h:M→TN from any smooth manifold M, the conne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegated%20administration | In computing, delegated administration or delegation of control describes the decentralization of role-based-access-control systems. Many enterprises use a centralized model of access control. For large organizations, this model scales poorly and IT teams become burdened with menial role-change requests. These reque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATPIF1 | ATPase inhibitor, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ATPIF1 gene.
This gene encodes a mitochondrial ATPase inhibitor. Alternative splicing occurs at this locus and three transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been identified.
It prevents ATPase from switching to ATP hydrolysis du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenkichi%20Iwasawa | Kenkichi Iwasawa ( Iwasawa Kenkichi, September 11, 1917 – October 26, 1998) was a Japanese mathematician who is known for his influence on algebraic number theory.
Biography
Iwasawa was born in Shinshuku-mura, a town near Kiryū, in Gunma Prefecture. He attended elementary school there, but later moved to Tokyo to att... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Steinberg%20dithering | Floyd–Steinberg dithering is an image dithering algorithm first published in 1976 by Robert W. Floyd and Louis Steinberg. It is commonly used by image manipulation software, for example when an image is converted into GIF format that is restricted to a maximum of 256 colors.
Implementation
The algorithm achieves dith... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Burkers | The London Burkers were a group of body snatchers operating in London, England, who apparently modeled their activities on the notorious Burke and Hare murders. They came to prominence in 1831 for murdering victims to sell to anatomists, by luring and drugging them at their dwelling in the northern end of Bethnal Green... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptional%20divisor | In mathematics, specifically algebraic geometry, an exceptional divisor for a regular map
of varieties is a kind of 'large' subvariety of which is 'crushed' by , in a certain definite sense. More strictly, f has an associated exceptional locus which describes how it identifies nearby points in codimension one, and th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakai%20equation | In filtering theory the Zakai equation is a linear stochastic partial differential equation for the un-normalized density of a hidden state. In contrast, the Kushner equation gives a non-linear stochastic partial differential equation for the normalized density of the hidden state. In principle either approach allows... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clymenia%20%28plant%29 | Clymenia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae with two species. The genus is often included in Citrus.
Description
Clymenia forms a shrub or small tree, free of spines. Leaves feature a short, narrow petiole, which sets them apart from most other citrus, especially the papedas native to the sam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregeometry%20%28model%20theory%29 | Pregeometry, and in full combinatorial pregeometry, are essentially synonyms for "matroid". They were introduced by Gian-Carlo Rota with the intention of providing a less "ineffably cacophonous" alternative term. Also, the term combinatorial geometry, sometimes abbreviated to geometry, was intended to replace "simple ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl%20butyrate | Methyl butyrate, also known under the systematic name methyl butanoate, is the methyl ester of butyric acid. Like most esters, it has a fruity odor, in this case resembling apples or pineapples. At room temperature, it is a colorless liquid with low solubility in water, upon which it floats to form an oily layer. Altho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20q-Jacobi%20polynomials | In mathematics, the little q-Jacobi polynomials pn(x;a,b;q) are a family of basic hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials in the basic Askey scheme, introduced by . give a detailed list of their properties.
Definition
The little q-Jacobi polynomials are given in terms of basic hypergeometric functions by
Gallery
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoton%20%28company%29 | Videoton, officially VIDEOTON HOLDING Ltd. is a privately-owned company group based out of Székesfehérvár, Hungary and specializing in contract manufacturing (mainly EMS). The company was founded in 1938 and it became well known among the Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries for supplying stadium-sized electronic scoreboards.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AyosDito.ph | AyosDito.ph was an online classified-ads website for Filipinos to buy and sell online, regardless of their location in the Philippines. It was owned and operated by 701Search Pte. Ltd., which is a joint venture between media giants Singapore Press Holdings and Schibsted. Launched in March 2009, AyosDito offered free po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedentary%20lifestyle | Sedentary lifestyle is a lifestyle type, in which one is physically inactive and does little or no physical movement and or exercise. A person living a sedentary lifestyle is often sitting or lying down while engaged in an activity like socializing, watching TV, playing video games, reading or using a mobile phone or c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropism | Monotropism is a person's tendency to focus their attention on a small number of interests at any time, tending to miss things outside of this attention tunnel. This cognitive strategy is posited to be the central underlying feature of autism. The theory of monotropism was developed by Dinah Murray, Wenn Lawson and Mik... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman%20decomposition | In control theory, a Kalman decomposition provides a mathematical means to convert a representation of any linear time-invariant (LTI) control system to a form in which the system can be decomposed into a standard form which makes clear the observable and controllable components of the system. This decomposition result... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20run-on | A nuclear run-on assay is conducted to identify the genes that are being transcribed at a certain time point. Approximately one million cell nuclei are isolated and incubated with labeled nucleotides, and genes in the process of being transcribed are detected by hybridization of extracted RNA to gene specific probes on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20contact%20materials | Food contact materials are materials that are intended to be in contact with food. These can be things that are quite obvious like a glass or a can for soft drinks as well as machinery in a food factory or a coffee machine.
Food contact materials can be constructed from a variety of materials, including plastics, rubb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLC22A12 | Solute carrier family 22 (organic anion/cation transporter), member 12, also known as SLC22A12 and URAT1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the SLC22A12 gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is a urate transporter and urate-anion exchanger which regulates the level of urate in the blood. This prote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCAA%20Family | SCAA Family is a group of mascots for the Hong Kong First Division League football team South China ("SCAA"). They were officially created and released to the public on 20 September 2007. There are in total 10 members, of which 8 are named. Ballman and Greenman are the main characters.
Characters
Ballman
Name in Ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyniella | Rhyniella is a genus of fossil springtails (Collembola) from the Rhynie chert, which formed during the Pragian stage of the Early Devonian. One species has been described, Rhyniella praecursor. For some time it was believed to be the only hexapod from the Early Devonian ( )
History
Its remains were discovered in 1919.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry, topology provides a way of describing and predicting the molecular structure within the constraints of three-dimensional (3-D) space. Given the determinants of chemical bonding and the chemical properties of the atoms, topology provides a model for explaining how the atoms ethereal wave functions must fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Kriens | Scott Kriens is an American businessman. He is chairman and former CEO of Juniper Networks.
Early life and education
Kriens received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from California State University, East Bay, in Hayward, California, in 1979. A collector of European sports cars, Kriens, as an undergraduate, had repa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcat | Popcat is an Internet meme originating in October 2020, in a series of videos which showcase two images of a domestic short-haired cat named 'Oatmeal', where one image has its mouth closed and the other has its mouth open, with the second image being edited to give its mouth an 'O' shape. The meme was later created int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervised%20injection%20site | Supervised injection sites (SIS) are medically supervised facilities designed to provide a hygienic environment in which people are able to consume illicit recreational drugs intravenously and prevent deaths due to drug overdoses. Proponents say they saves lives and connect users to services while opponents believe the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL%20Enterprise | MySQL Enterprise is a subscription-based service produced by Oracle Corporation and targeted toward the commercial market. Oracle's official support, training and certification focus on MySQL Enterprise.
MySQL Enterprise contains
MySQL Enterprise Server software, a distribution of the MySQL Server
MySQL Enterprise ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharra | Tharra (Hindi: ठर्रा, Urdu: ٹھرا) is a type of Desi daru which is locally, and often illegally, brewed alcoholic drink in the Indian subcontinent, mainly India and Pakistan. It is made from yeast fermentation of sugarcane, or wheat husk, especially in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana. Since it is usually made ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric%20haptic%20display | A volumetric haptic display (VHD) is similar to a (visual) volumetric display, but informs touch instead of vision. A VHD projects a touch-based representation of a surface onto a 3D volumetric space. Users can feel the projected surface(s), usually with their hands. The display is otherwise not detectable, and offers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Ridler | Anna Ridler (born 1985) is an artist and researcher who lives and works in London. She works with collections of information or data, particularly self-generated data sets, to create new and unusual narratives in a variety of mediums.
Her work has been exhibited widely at cultural institutions including the Victoria a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme%20coin | A meme coin (also spelled memecoin) is a cryptocurrency that originated from an Internet meme or has some other humorous characteristic. It may be used in the broadest sense as a critique of the cryptocurrency market in its entirety—those based on particular memes such as "doge coins", celebrities like Coinye, and pump... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia | Cachexia () is a complex syndrome associated with an underlying illness, causing ongoing muscle loss that is not entirely reversed with nutritional supplementation. A range of diseases can cause cachexia, most commonly cancer, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monooxygenase | Monooxygenases are enzymes that incorporate one hydroxyl group (−OH) into substrates in many metabolic pathways. In this reaction, the two atoms of dioxygen are reduced to one hydroxyl group and one H2O molecule by the concomitant oxidation of NAD(P)H. One important subset of the monooxygenases, the cytochrome P450 o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonStop%20SQL | NonStop SQL is a commercial relational database management system that is designed for fault tolerance and scalability, currently offered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The latest version is SQL/MX 3.4.
The product was originally developed by Tandem Computers. Tandem was acquired by Compaq in 1997. Compaq was later a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoseb | Dinoseb is a common industry name for 6-sec-butyl-2,4-dinitrophenol, a herbicide in the dinitrophenol family. It is a crystalline orange solid which does not readily dissolve in water. Dinoseb is banned as an herbicide in the European Union (EU) and the United States because of its toxicity.
It also finds use as a pol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Garibian | Gregory Markari (Markarovich) Garibian (December 13, 1924 – June 8, 1991) was a Soviet Armenian physicist, academician-secretary of the Department of Physics and Mathematics of the Armenian Academy of Sciences (AS)(1973–1991). He is known for developing the Theory of Transition Radiation and showing the feasibility of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian%20tree | In probability theory, the Brownian tree, or Aldous tree, or Continuum Random Tree (CRT) is a random real tree that can be defined from a Brownian excursion. The Brownian tree was defined and studied by David Aldous in three articles published in 1991 and 1993. This tree has since then been generalized.
This random tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheperd%20Paine | Howard Sheperd "Shep" Paine was a military historian and a collector of militaria best known for the more than three decades he spent as a modeler, sculptor, miniature figure painter, and champion of the diorama. Paine arguably did more than anyone else to forward the unique hobby/art form of military miniatures around... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20rule | An artificial neural network's learning rule or learning process is a method, mathematical logic or algorithm which improves the network's performance and/or training time. Usually, this rule is applied repeatedly over the network. It is done by updating the weights and bias levels of a network when a network is simu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date-plum | Diospyros lotus, with common names date-plum, Caucasian persimmon, or lilac persimmon, is a widely cultivated species of the genus Diospyros, native to subtropical southwest Asia and southeast Europe. Its English name derives from the small fruit, which have a taste reminiscent of both plums and dates. It is among the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcallosal%20gyrus | The subcallosal gyrus (paraterminal gyrus, peduncle of the corpus callosum) is a narrow lamina on the medial surface of the hemisphere in front of the lamina terminalis, behind the parolfactory area, and below the rostrum of the corpus callosum. It is continuous around the genu of the corpus callosum with the indusium ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse%20%28physics%29 | In classical mechanics, impulse (symbolized by or Imp) is the change in momentum of an object. If the initial momentum of an object is , and a subsequent momentum is , the object has received an impulse :
Momentum is a vector quantity, so impulse is also a vector quantity.
Newton’s second law of motion states that t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelder%E2%80%93Mead%20method | The Nelder–Mead method (also downhill simplex method, amoeba method, or polytope method) is a numerical method used to find the minimum or maximum of an objective function in a multidimensional space. It is a direct search method (based on function comparison) and is often applied to nonlinear optimization problems for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deployment%20environment | In software deployment, an environment or tier is a computer system or set of systems in which a computer program or software component is deployed and executed. In simple cases, such as developing and immediately executing a program on the same machine, there may be a single environment, but in industrial use, the dev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Kingdom%20Mathematics%20Trust | The United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT) is a charity founded in 1996 to help with the education of children in mathematics within the UK.
History
The national mathematics competitions existed prior to the formation of the UKMT, but the foundation of the UKMT in the summer of 1996 enabled them to be run collectivel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pujol%20%28restaurant%29 | Pujol is a Mexican restaurant named by Wall Street Journal as the best in Mexico City.
The restaurant is run by chef Enrique Olvera, who trained at the Culinary Institute of America and who oversees the onboard menu in business class of airline Aeromexico.
Pujol serves Mexican cuisine as refined and elegant plates bui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster%20bar | An oyster bar, also known as an oyster saloon, oyster house or a raw bar service, is a restaurant specializing in serving oysters, or a section of a restaurant which serves oysters buffet-style. Oysters have been consumed since ancient times and were common tavern food in Europe, but the oyster bar as a distinct restau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avionics | Avionics (a blend of aviation and electronics) are the electronic systems used on aircraft. Avionic systems include communications, navigation, the display and management of multiple systems, and the hundreds of systems that are fitted to aircraft to perform individual functions. These can be as simple as a searchlight... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based%20full%20disk%20encryption | Hardware-based full disk encryption (FDE) is available from many hard disk drive (HDD/SSD) vendors, including: ClevX, Hitachi, Integral Memory, iStorage Limited, Micron, Seagate Technology, Samsung, Toshiba, Viasat UK, Western Digital. The symmetric encryption key is maintained independently from the computer's CPU,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycosylamine | Glycosylamines are a class of biochemical compounds consisting of a glycosyl group attached to an amino group, -NR2. They are also known as N-glycosides, as they are a type of glycoside. Glycosyl groups can be derived from carbohydrates. The glycosyl group and amino group are connected with a β-N-glycosidic bond, formi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TringMe | TringMe is an Indian internet telephony company based in Bangalore. It focuses on a Flash-based browser client and the related API.
History
It was founded by Yusuf Motiwala & Apul Nahata in 2007, after Yusuf's father complained of downloads required to use VoIP programs. The firm focused on a browser-based app. The du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversary%20model | In computer science, an online algorithm measures its competitiveness against different adversary models. For deterministic algorithms, the adversary is the same as the adaptive offline adversary. For randomized online algorithms competitiveness can depend upon the adversary model used.
Common adversaries
The three c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamous%20part%20of%20occipital%20bone | The squamous part of occipital bone is situated above and behind the foramen magnum, and is curved from above downward and from side to side.
External surface
The external surface is convex and presents midway between the summit of the bone and the foramen magnum a prominence, the external occipital protuberance and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboforge | Roboforge is a strategy game developed by Liquid Edge and released in 2001.
Brief history
RoboForge is a video game released in 2001 by Liquid Edge, a small company mainly created to develop and sell this game.
The company's founder, Darren Green, was inspired by the well known Robot Wars (TV series). He noticed that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workshop%20on%20Numerical%20Ranges%20and%20Numerical%20Radii | Workshop on Numerical Ranges and Numerical Radii (WONRA) is a biennial workshop series on numerical ranges and numerical radii which began in 1992.
About
Numerical ranges and numerical radii are useful in the study of matrix and operator theory.
These topics have applications in many subjects in pure and applied mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collection%20%28abstract%20data%20type%29 | In computer programming, a collection is a grouping of some variable number of data items (possibly zero) that have some shared significance to the problem being solved and need to be operated upon together in some controlled fashion. Generally, the data items will be of the same type or, in languages supporting inher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebrator | Algebrator (also called Softmath) is a computer algebra system (CAS), which was developed in the late 1990s by Neven Jurkovic of Softmath, San Antonio, Texas. This is a CAS specifically geared towards algebra education. Beside the computation results, it shows step by step the solution process and context sensitive exp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holyland%20Model%20of%20Jerusalem | The Holyland Model of Jerusalem, also known as Model of Jerusalem at the end of the Second Temple period () is a 1:50 scale model of the city of Jerusalem in the late Second Temple period. The model, designed by Michael Avi-Yonah, was moved from its original location at the Holyland Hotel in Bayit VeGan, Jerusalem, to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventral%20ramus%20of%20spinal%20nerve | The ventral ramus (: rami) (Latin for 'branch') is the anterior division of a spinal nerve. The ventral rami supply the antero-lateral parts of the trunk and the limbs. They are mainly larger than the dorsal rami.
Shortly after a spinal nerve exits the intervertebral foramen, it branches into the dorsal ramus, the ven... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic%20level | The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web. A food chain is a succession of organisms that eat other organisms and may, in turn, be eaten themselves. The trophic level of an organism is the number of steps it is from the start of the chain. A food web starts at trophic level 1 with prim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permitted%20attached%20private%20lines | Permitted attached private lines, abbreviated PAPL, are voice-grade telephone wires that run point-to-point (rather than point-to-exchange) between locations in the telephone company's copper network. Data can travel across the PAPL link (at a distance of up to 3.5 km) at speeds of around 2Mb per second. Originally, PA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability%20theory | In mathematics, stability theory addresses the stability of solutions of differential equations and of trajectories of dynamical systems under small perturbations of initial conditions. The heat equation, for example, is a stable partial differential equation because small perturbations of initial data lead to small v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Unimaginable%20Mathematics%20of%20Borges%27%20Library%20of%20Babel | The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel is a popular mathematics book on Jorge Luis Borges and mathematics. It describes several mathematical concepts related to the short story "The Library of Babel", by Jorge Luis Borges. Written by mathematics professor William Goldbloom Bloch, and published in 2008... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatiha%20Alabau | Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira (born 1961) is a French applied mathematician specializing in the control theory of partial differential equations. She is affiliated with the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions of Sorbonne University as an external member, a professor at the University of Lorraine in the mathematics department of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic%20oil | Garlic oil is the volatile oil derived from garlic. It is usually prepared using steam distillation and can also be produced via distillation using ether. It is used in cooking and as a seasoning, a nutritional supplement, and also as an insecticide.
Preparation
Garlic oil is typically prepared using steam distillatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vflo | Vflo is a commercially available, physics-based distributed hydrologic model generated by Vieux & Associates, Inc. Vflo uses radar rainfall data for hydrologic input to simulate distributed runoff. Vflo employs GIS maps for parameterization via a desktop interface. The model is suited for distributed hydrologic forec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination | In mathematics, a combination is a selection of items from a set that has distinct members, such that the order of selection does not matter (unlike permutations). For example, given three fruits, say an apple, an orange and a pear, there are three combinations of two that can be drawn from this set: an apple and a pea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20chauvinism | Particle chauvinism is the term used by British astrophysicist Martin Rees to describe the (allegedly erroneous) assumption that what we think of as normal matter – atoms, quarks, electrons, etc. (excluding dark matter or other matter) – is the basis of matter in the universe, rather than a rare phenomenon.
Dominance ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COST%20Hata%20model | The COST Hata model is a radio propagation model (i.e. path loss) that extends the urban Hata model (which in turn is based on the Okumura model) to cover a more elaborated range of frequencies (up to 2 GHz). It is the most often cited of the COST 231 models (EU funded research project ca. April 1986 – April 1996), als... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartet%20distance | The quartet distance is a way of measuring the distance between two phylogenetic trees. It is defined as the number of subsets of four leaves that are not related by the same topology in both trees.
Computing the quartet distance
The most straightforward computation of the quartet distance would require time, where ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20ergodicity | In quantum chaos, a branch of mathematical physics, quantum ergodicity is a property of the quantization of classical mechanical systems that are chaotic in the sense of exponential sensitivity to initial conditions. Quantum ergodicity states, roughly, that in the high-energy limit, the probability distributions associ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop%20diversity | Crop diversity or crop biodiversity is the variety and variability of crops, plants used in agriculture, including their genetic and phenotypic characteristics. It is a subset of and a specific element of agricultural biodiversity. Over the past 50 years, there has been a major decline in two components of crop diversi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetyltributylcitrate | Acetyltributylcitrate is an organic compound that is used as a plasticizer. As such, it is a potential replacement of DEHP and DINP. It is a colorless liquid that is soluble in organic solvents. It is found in nail polish and other cosmetics. It is prepared by acetylation of tributylcitrate. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Institute%20of%20Food%20Technologists%20presidents | This a list of the people who have served as president of the Institute of Food Technologists since its establishment in 1939.
1939–41: Samuel C. Prescott
1941–42: Laurence V. Burton
1942–43: Roy C. Newton
1943–44: William V. Cruess
1944–45: Fred C. Blanck
1945–46: Fred W. Tanner
1946–47: Ellery R. Harvey
1947–48: Geo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoammonium%20glutamate | Monoammonium glutamate is a compound with formula NH4C5H8NO4. It is an ammonium acid salt of glutamic acid.
It has the E number E624 and is used as a flavor enhancer.
See also
Monopotassium glutamate
Glutamates
Ammonium compounds
E-number additives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legoland | Legoland (, trademark in uppercase as LEGOLAND) is a chain of family theme parks focusing on the Lego building toy brand. They are owned and operated by the British theme park company Merlin Entertainments, which shares a common owner (Kirkbi A/S) with The Lego Group.
The Legoland Billund Resort opened in Billund, Den... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon%20T90 | The Canon T90, introduced in 1986, was the top of the line in Canon's T series of 35 mm Single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras. It is the last professional-level manual-focus camera from Canon, and the last professional camera to use the Canon FD lens mount. Although it was overtaken by the autofocus revolution and Canon's n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20localization%20sequence | A nuclear localization signal or sequence (NLS) is an amino acid sequence that 'tags' a protein for import into the cell nucleus by nuclear transport. Typically, this signal consists of one or more short sequences of positively charged lysines or arginines exposed on the protein surface. Different nuclear localized pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mealy%20machine | In the theory of computation, a Mealy machine is a finite-state machine whose output values are determined both by its current state and the current inputs. This is in contrast to a Moore machine, whose output values are determined solely by its current state. A Mealy machine is a deterministic finite-state transducer:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandino%27s%20theorem | Commandino's theorem, named after Federico Commandino (1509–1575), states that the four medians of a tetrahedron are concurrent at a point S, which divides them in a 3:1 ratio. In a tetrahedron a median is a line segment that connects a vertex with the centroid of the opposite face – that is, the centroid of the opposi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20RPC |
Open Network Computing (ONC) Remote Procedure Call (RPC), commonly known as Sun RPC is a remote procedure call system. ONC was originally developed by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s as part of their Network File System project.
ONC is based on calling conventions used in Unix and the C programming language. It seriali... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal%20stenosis | Spinal stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of the spinal canal or neural foramen that results in pressure on the spinal cord or nerve roots. Symptoms may include pain, numbness, or weakness in the arms or legs. Symptoms are typically gradual in onset and improve with leaning forward. Severe symptoms may include loss of b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thionin | Thionins are a family of small proteins found solely in higher plants. Typically, a thionin consists of 45–48 amino acid residues. 6–8 of these are cysteine forming 3–4 disulfide bonds. They include phoratoxins and viscotoxins.
Alpha- and beta- thionins are related to each other. The gamma thionins have a superficiall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating%20margin | In business, operating margin—also known as operating income margin, operating profit margin, EBIT margin and return on sales (ROS)—is the ratio of operating income ("operating profit" in the UK) to net sales, usually expressed in percent.
Net profit measures the profitability of ventures after accounting for all cos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection%20attack | In computer security, a reflection attack is a method of attacking a challenge–response authentication system that uses the same protocol in both directions. That is, the same challenge–response protocol is used by each side to authenticate the other side. The essential idea of the attack is to trick the target into p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descending%20limb%20of%20loop%20of%20Henle | Within the nephron of the kidney, the descending limb of loop of Henle is the portion of the renal tubule constituting the first part of the loop of Henle.
Physiology
The permeability is as follows:
Also, the medullary interstitium is highly concentrated (because of the activity of the ascending limb), leading to a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20human%20ecosystem | Total human ecosystem (THE) is an eco-centric concept initially proposed by ecology professors Zeev Naveh and Arthur S. Lieberman in 1994.
History of the concept
Naveh and Lieberman (1994) proposed the holistic, eco-centric concept of the Total Human Ecosystem in order to study the anthropocene ecology and improve la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo%20%28religious%20iconography%29 | A halo (; also called a nimbus, aureole, glory, or gloriole) is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light that surrounds a person in art. It has been used in the iconography of many religions to indicate holy or sacred figures, and has at various periods also been used in images of rulers and heroes. In the relig... |
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