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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscone | Muscone is a macrocyclic ketone, an organic compound that is the primary contributor to the odor of musk.
The chemical structure of muscone was first elucidated by Leopold Ružička. It is a 15-membered ring ketone with one methyl substituent in the 3-position. It is an oily liquid that is found naturally as the (−)-ena... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s%20Breath%20%28dessert%29 | Dragon's Breath is a frozen dessert made from cereal dipped in liquid nitrogen. When placed in the eater's mouth, it produces vapors which comes out of the nose and mouth, giving the dessert its name.
Description
Dragon's Breath is made using colorful cereal balls described as having a flavor similar to Froot Loops. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20matter | Active matter is matter composed of large numbers of active "agents", each of which consumes energy in order to move or to exert mechanical forces. Such systems are intrinsically out of thermal equilibrium. Unlike thermal systems relaxing towards equilibrium and systems with boundary conditions imposing steady currents... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%20sumset%20conjecture | In additive combinatorics, the Erdős sumset conjecture is a conjecture which states that if a subset of the natural numbers has a positive upper density then there are two infinite subsets and of such that contains the sumset . It was posed by Paul Erdős, and was proven in 2019 in a paper by Joel Moreira, Florian... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS | AmigaOS is a family of proprietary native operating systems of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers. It was developed first by Commodore International and introduced with the launch of the first Amiga, the Amiga 1000, in 1985. Early versions of AmigaOS required the Motorola 68000 series of 16-bit and 32-bit microp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta%2A | Theta* is an any-angle path planning algorithm that is based on the A* search algorithm. It can find near-optimal paths with run times comparable to those of A*.
Description
For the simplest version of Theta*, the main loop is much the same as that of A*. The only difference is the function. Compared to A*, the parent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode-or%20circuit | A diode-OR circuit is used in electronics to isolate two or more voltage sources. There are two typical implementations:
When a DC supply voltage needs to be generated from one of a number of different sources, for example when terminating a parallel SCSI bus, a very simple circuit like this can be used:
In digital ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed%20dispersal | In spermatophyte plants, seed dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant. Plants have limited mobility and rely upon a variety of dispersal vectors to transport their seeds, including both abiotic vectors, such as the wind, and living (biotic) vectors such as birds. Seeds can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Gagnaire | Pierre Gagnaire (born 9 April 1950 in Apinac, Loire) is a French chef, and the head chef and owner of the eponymous Pierre Gagnaire restaurant at 6 rue Balzac in Paris (in the 8th arrondissement). Gagnaire is an iconoclastic chef at the forefront of the fusion cuisine movement. Beginning his career in St. Etienne where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNR3 | RNA, ribosomal 3, also known as RNR3, is a human gene. It is a minor isoform of large subunit of ribonucleotide-diphosphate reductase; the RNR complex catalyzes rate-limiting step in dNTP synthesis, regulated by DNA replication and DNA damage checkpoint pathways via localization of small subunits; RNR3 has a paralog, R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congruence%20relation | In abstract algebra, a congruence relation (or simply congruence) is an equivalence relation on an algebraic structure (such as a group, ring, or vector space) that is compatible with the structure in the sense that algebraic operations done with equivalent elements will yield equivalent elements. Every congruence rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyozellus | Polyozellus is a fungal genus in the family Thelephoraceae, a grouping of mushrooms known collectively as the leathery earthfans. Previously considered a monotypic genus, it now contains the Polyozellus multiplex species complex. The genus name is derived from the Greek poly meaning many, and oz, meaning branch. It is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence%20intermittency | Fluorescence intermittency, or blinking, is the phenomenon of random switching between ON (bright) and OFF (dark) states of the emitter under its continuous excitation. It is a common property of the nanoscale emitters (molecular fluorophores, colloidal quantum dots) related to the competition between the radiative and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral%20plater | A spiral plater is an instrument used to dispense a liquid sample onto a Petri dish in a spiral pattern. Commonly used as part of a CFU count procedure for the purpose of determining the number of microbes in the sample. In this setting, after spiral plating, the Petri dish is incubated for several hours after which th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log%20shipping | Log shipping is the process of automating the backup of transaction log files on a primary (production) database server, and then restoring them onto a standby server. This technique is supported by Microsoft SQL Server, 4D Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Similar to replication, the primary purpose of log shipping is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milner%E2%80%93Rado%20paradox | In set theory, a branch of mathematics, the Milner – Rado paradox, found by , states that every ordinal number less than the successor of some cardinal number can be written as the union of sets where is of order type at most κn for n a positive integer.
Proof
The proof is by transfinite induction. Let be a li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20podcast%20clients | A podcast client, or podcatcher, is a computer program used to stream or download podcasts, usually via an RSS or XML feed.
While podcast clients are best known for streaming and downloading podcasts, many are also capable of downloading video, newsfeeds, text, and pictures. Some of these podcast clients can also auto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearfield%2C%20Inc. | Clearfield, Inc. manufactures and distributes passive connectivity products. Their fiber management and enclosure platform consolidates, distributes, and protects fiber through inside plant facilities, to outside plant facilities, to the home, and to the drop-off points in between. Clearfield's products service the wir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola%20Loreti | Paola Loreti is an Italian mathematician, and a professor of mathematical analysis at Sapienza University of Rome.
She is known for her research on Fourier analysis, control theory, and non-integer representations. The Komornik–Loreti constant, the smallest non-integer base for which the representation of 1 is unique, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav%20Fiedler | Miroslav Fiedler (7 April 1926 – 20 November 2015) was a Czech mathematician known for his contributions to linear algebra, graph theory and algebraic graph theory.
His article, "Algebraic Connectivity of Graphs", published in the Czechoslovak Math Journal in 1973, established the use of the eigenvalues of the Laplaci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20MTA | The Cray MTA, formerly known as the Tera MTA, is a supercomputer architecture based on thousands of independent threads, fine-grain communication and synchronization between threads, and latency tolerance for irregular computations.
Each MTA processor (CPU) has a high-performance ALU with many independent register set... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonextensive%20entropy | Entropy is considered to be an extensive property, i.e., that its value depends on the amount of material present. Constantino Tsallis has proposed a nonextensive entropy (Tsallis entropy), which is a generalization of the traditional Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy.
The rationale behind the theory is that Gibbs-Boltzmann ent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suslin%20operation | In mathematics, the Suslin operation 𝓐 is an operation that constructs a set from a collection of sets indexed by finite sequences of positive integers.
The Suslin operation was introduced by and . In Russia it is sometimes called the A-operation after Alexandrov. It is usually denoted by the symbol 𝓐 (a calligraph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20game | In mathematics, a topological game is an infinite game of perfect information played between two players on a topological space. Players choose objects with topological properties such as points, open sets, closed sets and open coverings. Time is generally discrete, but the plays may have transfinite lengths, and exten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasoft%20Virtualize | Parasoft Virtualize is a service virtualization product that can create, deploy, and manage simulated test environments for software development and software testing purposes. These environments simulate the behavior of dependent resources that are unavailable, difficult to access, or difficult to configure for develop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror%20%28programming%29 | In computer programming, a mirror is a reflection mechanism that is completely decoupled from the object whose structure is being introspected. This is as opposed to traditional reflection, for example in Java, where one introspects an object using methods from the object itself (e.g. getClass()).
Mirrors adhere to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protylopus | Protylopus is an extinct genus of camel that lived during middle to late Eocene some 50-40 million years ago in North America.
Along with being the oldest camel known, it was also the smallest, reaching a length of , and probably weighing around . Based on its teeth, it probably fed on the soft leaves of forest plants... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabi%20problem | The Rabi problem concerns the response of an atom to an applied harmonic electric field, with an applied frequency very close to the atom's natural frequency. It provides a simple and generally solvable example of light–atom interactions and is named after Isidor Isaac Rabi.
Classical Rabi problem
In the classical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20Chester%E2%80%93Friedman%E2%80%93Ursell | In asymptotic analysis, the method of Chester–Friedman–Ursell is a technique to find asymptotic expansions for contour integrals. It was developed as an extension of the steepest descent method for getting uniform asymptotic expansions in the case of coalescing saddle points. The method was published in 1957 by Clive R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle%20packing%20in%20an%20isosceles%20right%20triangle | Circle packing in a right isosceles triangle is a packing problem where the objective is to pack unit circles into the smallest possible isosceles right triangle.
Minimum solutions (lengths shown are length of leg) are shown in the table below. Solutions to the equivalent problem of maximizing the minimum distance b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20goods%20and%20services | Ecological goods and services (EG&S) are the economical benefits (goods and services) arising from the ecological functions of ecosystems. Such benefits accrue to all living organisms, including animals and plants, rather than to humans alone. However, there is a growing recognition of the importance to society that ec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection%20Machine | A Connection Machine (CM) is a member of a series of massively parallel supercomputers that grew out of doctoral research on alternatives to the traditional von Neumann architecture of computers by Danny Hillis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the early 1980s. Starting with CM-1, the machines were inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown | A countdown is a sequence of backward counting to indicate the time remaining before an event is scheduled to occur. NASA commonly employs the terms "L-minus" and "T-minus" during the preparation for and anticipation of a rocket launch, and even "E-minus" for events that involve spacecraft that are already in space, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XF-73 | XF-73 (Exeporfinium chloride) is an experimental drug candidate. It is an anti-microbial that works via weakening bacteria cell walls. It is a potential treatment for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and possibly Clostridium difficile. It is being developed by Destiny Pharma Ltd.
Structurally, it is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal%20number | In mathematics, the surreal number system is a totally ordered proper class containing not only the real numbers but also infinite and infinitesimal numbers, respectively larger or smaller in absolute value than any positive real number. Research on the Go endgame by John Horton Conway led to the original definition an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-structure | In the branch of mathematics called homological algebra, a t-structure is a way to axiomatize the properties of an abelian subcategory of a derived category. A t-structure on consists of two subcategories of a triangulated category or stable infinity category which abstract the idea of complexes whose cohomology van... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMediaVault | OpenMediaVault (OMV) is a free Linux distribution designed for network-attached storage (NAS). The project's lead developer is Volker Theile, who instituted it in 2009. OMV is based on the Debian operating system, and is licensed through the GNU General Public License v3.
Background
By the end of 2009, Volker Theile w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gdium | The Gdium is a subnotebook / netbook computer produced by EMTEC. The Gdium product is distinguished by its unique Loongson MIPS processor and the use of a USB key as a primary storage device. The Gdium netbook is marketed as an interface device to the Gdium "learning community"—a website that provides hardware support,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYSV%20checksum | The SYSV checksum algorithm was a commonly used, legacy checksum algorithm.
It has been implemented in UNIX System V and is also available through the sum command line utility.
This algorithm is useless on a security perspective, and is weaker than the CRC-32 cksum for error detection.
Description of the algorithm
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Schnitzer | Mark Schnitzer is a Professor jointly in the Biology and Applied Physics departments at Stanford University and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is a recipient of a Paul Allen grant. His current research focuses on techniques for imaging individual neurons in vivo, including using fluorescent ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachyptery | Brachyptery is an anatomical condition in which an animal has very reduced wings. Such animals or their wings may be described as "brachypterous". Another descriptor for very small wings is microptery.
Brachypterous wings generally are not functional as organs of flight and often seem to be totally functionless and ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20hedgehog%20%28protein%29 | Indian hedgehog homolog (Drosophila), also known as IHH, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the IHH gene. This cell signaling protein is in the hedgehog signaling pathway. The several mammalian variants of the Drosophila hedgehog gene (which was the first named) have been named after the various species of hedg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OR%20gate | The OR gate is a digital logic gate that implements logical disjunction. The OR gate outputs "true" if any of its inputs are "true"; otherwise it outputs "false". The input and output states are normally represented by different voltage levels.
Description
Any OR gate can be constructed with two or more inputs. It ou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float%20voltage | Float voltage is the voltage at which a battery is maintained after being fully charged to maintain that capacity by compensating for self-discharge of the battery. The voltage could be held constant for the entire duration of the cell's operation (such as in an automotive battery) or could be held for a particular pha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goody%20Goody%20Gum%20Drops | Goody Goody Gum Drops is a New Zealand flavour of ice cream made by Tip Top. It is pastel green-coloured, bubble gum flavoured ice cream that is laced with gumdrops. It is considered iconic to New Zealand, and perception of the flavour is polarised among New Zealanders. Some people consider it to be a "national delicac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20artifact | Visual artifacts (also artefacts) are anomalies apparent during visual representation as in digital graphics and other forms of imagery, especially photography and microscopy.
In digital graphics
Image quality factors, different types of visual artifacts
Compression artifacts
Digital artifacts, visual artifacts re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrin%20alpha%202 | Integrin alpha-2, or CD49b (cluster of differentiation 49b), is a protein which in humans is encoded by the CD49b gene.
The CD49b protein is an integrin alpha subunit. It makes up half of the α2β1 integrin duplex. Integrins are heterodimeric integral membrane glycoproteins composed of a distinct alpha chain and a comm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intestinal%20infectious%20diseases | Intestinal infectious diseases include a large number of infections of the bowels including: cholera, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, other types of salmonella infections, shigellosis, botulism, gastroenteritis, and amoebiasis among others.
Typhoid and paratyphoid resulted in 221,000 deaths in 2013 down from 259,000... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20console | The Linux console is a system console internal to the Linux kernel. A system console is the device which receives all kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user mode. The Linux console provides a way for the kernel and other processes to send text output to the user, and to receive text input f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20radiative%20transfer | In spectroscopy and radiometry, vector radiative transfer (VRT) is a method of modelling the propagation of polarized electromagnetic radiation in low density media. In contrast to scalar radiative transfer (RT), which models only the first Stokes component, the intensity, VRT models all four components through vector... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cluster%20management%20software | List of software for cluster management.
Free and open source
HA
Apache Mesos, from the Apache Software Foundation
Kubernetes, founded by Google Inc, from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Heartbeat, from Linux-HA
Docker Swarm
Red Hat cluster suite
OpenShift and OKD, from Red Hat
Nomad, from HashiCorp
Ran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy%27s%20surface | In geometry, Boy's surface is an immersion of the real projective plane in 3-dimensional space found by Werner Boy in 1901. He discovered it on assignment from David Hilbert to prove that the projective plane could not be immersed in 3-space.
Boy's surface was first parametrized explicitly by Bernard Morin in 1978. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant%20protein%20C | Surfactant protein C (SP-C), is one of the pulmonary surfactant proteins. In humans this is encoded by the SFTPC gene.
It is a membrane protein.
Structure
SFTPC is a 197-residue protein made up of two halves: a unique N-terminal propeptide domain and a C-terminal BRICHOS domain. The around 100-aa long propeptide do... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAPD2 | Condensin complex subunit 1 also known as chromosome-associated protein D2 (CAP-D2) or non-SMC condensin I complex subunit D2 (NCAPD2) or XCAP-D2 homolog is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NCAPD2 gene. CAP-D2 is a subunit of condensin I, a large protein complex involved in chromosome condensation. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20corticospinal%20tract | The anterior corticospinal tract (also called the ventral corticospinal tract, "Bundle of Turck", medial corticospinal tract, direct pyramidal tract, or anterior cerebrospinal fasciculus) is a small bundle of descending fibers that connect the cerebral cortex to the spinal cord. Descending tracts are pathways by which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailpile | Mailpile is a free and open-source email client with the main focus of privacy and usability. It is a webmail client, albeit one run from the user's computer, as a downloaded program launched as a local website.
Features
In the default setup of the program, the user is given a public and a private PGP key, for the pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard%20Mark%20IV | The Harvard Mark IV was an electronic stored-program computer built by Harvard University under the supervision of Howard Aiken for the United States Air Force. The computer was finished being built in 1952. It stayed at Harvard, where the Air Force used it extensively.
The Mark IV was all electronic. The Mark IV use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supine%20position | The supine position ( or ) means lying horizontally with the face and torso facing up, as opposed to the prone position, which is face down. When used in surgical procedures, it grants access to the peritoneal, thoracic and pericardial regions; as well as the head, neck and extremities.
Using anatomical terms of locat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracellular%20vesicle | Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are lipid bilayer-delimited particles that are naturally released from almost all types of cells but, unlike a cell, cannot replicate. EVs range in diameter from near the size of the smallest physically possible unilamellar liposome (around 20-30 nanometers) to as large as 10 microns or mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCOS | NCOS is the graphical user interface-based operating system developed for use in Oracle Corporation's Network Computers, which are discontinued. It was adapted by Acorn Computers from its own , which was originally developed for their range of Archimedes desktop computers. It shares with the same 4 MB ROM size and sui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Fortet | Robert Fortet (1 May 1912, Boulazac, France – 3 July 1998, Paris) was a French mathematician working on analysis. His doctoral advisor was Maurice René Fréchet.
Fortet was a professor at the University of Caen and at the University of Paris. Some of his Ph.D. students in Paris were Egon Balas, Jyotiprasad Medhi and Ja... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabat%20numbering%20scheme | The Kabat numbering scheme is a scheme for the numbering of amino acid residues in antibodies based upon variable regions. The scheme is useful when comparing these variable regions between antibodies. Its foundations were laid by the American biomedical scientist Elvin A. Kabat, who started collecting and aligning ami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event%20%28particle%20physics%29 | In particle physics, an event refers to the results just after a fundamental interaction takes place between subatomic particles, occurring in a very short time span, at a well-localized region of space. Because of the uncertainty principle, an event in particle physics does not have quite the same meaning as it does i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20technique | In mathematics and computer science, an algorithmic technique is a general approach for implementing a process or computation.
General techniques
There are several broadly recognized algorithmic techniques that offer a proven method or process for designing and constructing algorithms. Different techniques may be used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20disk%20graph | In geometric graph theory, a unit disk graph is the intersection graph of a family of unit disks in the Euclidean plane. That is, it is a graph with one vertex for each disk in the family, and with an edge between two vertices whenever the corresponding vertices lie within a unit distance of each other.
They are commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreambox | Dreambox is a series of Linux-powered DVB satellite, terrestrial and cable digital television receivers (set-top boxes), produced by German multimedia vendor Dream Multimedia.
History and description
The Linux-based production software originally used by Dreambox was originally developed for DBox2, by the Tuxbox proj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topincs | Topincs is a software for rapid development of web databases and web applications. It is based on LAMP and the semantic technology Topic Maps. A Topincs web database makes information accessible through browsing very much like a Wiki. Editing a page on a subject is done through forms rather than markup editing. A web d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes%20number | In number theory, a Descartes number is an odd number which would have been an odd perfect number if one of its composite factors were prime. They are named after René Descartes who observed that the number would be an odd perfect number if only were a prime number, since the sum-of-divisors function for would sati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar%20neuron | A bipolar neuron, or bipolar cell, is a type of neuron that has two extensions (one axon and one dendrite). Many bipolar cells are specialized sensory neurons for the transmission of sense. As such, they are part of the sensory pathways for smell, sight, taste, hearing, touch, balance and proprioception. The other shap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate%20power%20amplifier | An Intermediate power amplifier (IPA) is one stage of the amplification process in a radio transmitter which usually occurs prior to the final high power amplification. The IPA provides lower power RF energy necessary to drive the final. In very high power transmitters, such as 10 kilowatts and above, multiple IPAs are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic%20architecture | Bionic architecture is a contemporary movement that studies the physiological, behavioural, and structural adaptions of biological organisms as a source of inspiration for designing and constructing expressive buildings. These structures are designed to be self-sufficient, being able to structurally modify themselves i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKATO | Russian Classification on Objects of Administrative Division (), or OKATO (), also called All-Russian classification on units of administrative and territorial distribution in English, is one of several Russian national registers. OKATO's purpose is organization of information about structure of the administrative divi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker%20motifs | The Walker A and Walker B motifs are protein sequence motifs, known to have highly conserved three-dimensional structures. These were first reported in ATP-binding proteins by Walker and co-workers in 1982.
Of the two motifs, the A motif is the main "P-loop" responsible for binding phosphate, while the B motif is a mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthopedic%20pathology | Orthopedic pathology, also known as bone pathology is a subspecialty of surgical pathology which deals with the diagnosis and feature of many bone diseases, specifically studying the cause and effects of disorders of the musculoskeletal system. It uses gross and microscopic findings along with the findings of in vivo r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinylpolypyrrolidone | Polyvinylpolypyrrolidone (polyvinyl polypyrrolidone, PVPP, crospovidone, crospolividone, or E1202) is a highly cross-linked modification of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP).
The cross-linked form of PVP is used as a disintegrant (see also excipients) in pharmaceutical tablets. PVPP is a highly cross-linked version of PVP, m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Gr%C3%B6tzsch | Camillo Herbert Grötzsch (21 May 1902 – 15 May 1993) was a German mathematician. He was born in Döbeln and died in Halle. Grötzsch worked in graph theory. He was the discoverer and eponym of the Grötzsch graph, a triangle-free graph that requires four colors in any graph coloring, and Grötzsch's theorem, the result tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timed%20comments | Timed comments are a feature offered by some audio and video players and websites where people can add comments associated with specific times in an audio or video. These comments are then displayed in the player when that time is reached while playing the audio or video.
Timed comments differ from annotations, captio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed%20set | In mathematics, a signed set is a set of elements together with an assignment of a sign (positive or negative) to each element of the set.
Representation
Signed sets may be represented mathematically as an ordered pair of disjoint sets, one set for their positive elements and another for their negative elements. Alter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20quantum%20Hall%20effect | The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a physical phenomenon in which the Hall conductance of 2-dimensional (2D) electrons shows precisely quantized plateaus at fractional values of . It is a property of a collective state in which electrons bind magnetic flux lines to make new quasiparticles, and excitations hav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debrecen%20Award%20for%20Molecular%20Medicine | The Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine was established in 2003. With the award the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Debrecen, Hungary aims to recognize extraordinary achievements in the field of biomedicine. Nominees are expected to have made great strides in life sciences leading to remarkable progress in o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20Habitat%20Site | A Key Habitat Site is a Canadian Wildlife Service designation for an area that supports at least 1% of the country's population of any migratory bird species, or subspecies, at any time. There may be overlap with areas designated as a migratory bird sanctuary or National Wildlife Area. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%20band%20%28infrared%29 | In infrared astronomy, the L band is an atmospheric transmission window centred on 3.5 micrometres (in the mid-infrared).
Electromagnetic spectrum
Infrared imaging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural%20differences%20in%20decision-making | Decision-making is a mental activity which is an integral part of planning and action taking in a variety of contexts and at a vast range of levels, including, but not limited to, budget planning, education planning, policy making, and climbing the career ladder. People all over the world engage in these activities. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration%20nationale%20des%20boulangers%20et%20p%C3%A2tissiers%20du%20Burkina | Fédération nationale des boulangers et pâtissiers du Burkina (FNBPB) is a trade union of bakery workers in Burkina Faso. The union was founded on April 4, 1960. FNBPB is affiliated to Confédération générale du travail du Burkina (CGT-B). Djigimdé Tiga is the president of FNBPB.
FNBPB is a member of the International U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elli | In Norse mythology (a subset of Germanic mythology), Elli (Old Norse: , "old age") is a personification of old age who, in the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, defeats Thor in a wrestling match.
Gylfaginning
In Gylfaginning, Thor and his companions Loki and Þjálfi are in the hall of the jötunn Útgarða-Loki where they mee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okazaki%20fragments | Okazaki fragments are short sequences of DNA nucleotides (approximately 150 to 200 base pairs long in eukaryotes) which are synthesized discontinuously and later linked together by the enzyme DNA ligase to create the lagging strand during DNA replication. They were discovered in the 1960s by the Japanese molecular biol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20variation%20%28semiconductor%29 | Process variation is the naturally occurring variation in the attributes of transistors (length, widths, oxide thickness) when integrated circuits are fabricated. The amount of process variation becomes particularly pronounced at smaller process nodes (<65 nm) as the variation becomes a larger percentage of the full le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunotoxicology | Immunotoxicology (sometimes abbreviated as ITOX) is the study of the toxicity of foreign substances called xenobiotics and their effects on the immune system. Some toxic agents that are known to alter the immune system include: industrial chemicals, heavy metals, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, drugs, ultraviolet radia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasonic%20algae%20control | Ultrasonic algae control is a commercial technology that has been claimed to control the blooming of cyanobacteria, algae, and biofouling in lakes, and reservoirs, by using pulsed ultrasound. The duration of such treatment is supposed to take up to several months, depending on the water volume and algae species. Despit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperPrime | SuperPrime is a computer program used for calculating the primality of a large set of positive natural numbers. Because of its multi-threaded nature and dynamic load scheduling, it scales excellently when using more than one thread (execution core). It is commonly used as an overclocking benchmark to test the speed and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated%20Mobile%20Pages | AMP (originally an acronym for Accelerated Mobile Pages) is an open source HTML framework developed by the AMP Open Source Project. It was originally created by Google as a competitor to Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News. AMP is optimized for mobile web browsing and intended to help webpages load faster. AMP pag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-time%20quantum%20walk | A continuous-time quantum walk (CTQW) is a quantum walk on a given (simple) graph that is dictated by a time-varying unitary matrix that relies on the Hamiltonian of the quantum system and the adjacency matrix. The concept of a CTQW is believed to have been first considered for quantum computation by Edward Farhi and S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automate%20This | Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World is a book written by Christopher Steiner and published by Penguin Group. Steiner begins his study of algorithms on Wall Street in the 1980s but also provides examples from other industries. For example, he explains the history of Pandora Radio and the use of algor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatoduodenal%20ligament | The hepatoduodenal ligament is the portion of the lesser omentum extending between the porta hepatis of the liver and the superior part of the duodenum.
Running inside it are the following structures collectively known as the portal triad:
hepatic artery proper
portal vein
common bile duct
Manual compression of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptogram | A cryptogram is a type of puzzle that consists of a short piece of encrypted text. Generally the cipher used to encrypt the text is simple enough that the cryptogram can be solved by hand. Substitution ciphers where each letter is replaced by a different letter or number are frequently used. To solve the puzzle, one mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20migration | Email migration is a process in which an email or multiple email messages are migrated from one email client to another email client. An equivalent term is Mailbox Migration, in which case records such as e-mails, appointments, contacts or tasks may also be migrated. In general, email migration is required when a user ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid%20peptide | Opioid peptides or opiate peptides are peptides that bind to opioid receptors in the brain; opiates and opioids mimic the effect of these peptides. Such peptides may be produced by the body itself, for example endorphins. The effects of these peptides vary, but they all resemble those of opiates. Brain opioid peptide s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared-cost%20service | Shared-cost service is a type of telephone call billing where the charge for calling a particular telephone number is partially, but not entirely, paid for by the recipient.
Shared cost numbers normally enable non-geographical or long-distance calls that are priced to the caller as if they were local while the differe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide-Predicting%20Machine%20No.%202 | Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2, also known as Old Brass Brains, was a special-purpose mechanical computer that uses gears, pulleys, chains, and other mechanical components to compute the height and time of high and low tides for specific locations. The machine can perform tide calculations much faster than a person coul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elabela | ELABELA (ELA, Apela, Toddler) is a hormonal peptide that in humans is encoded by the APELA gene. Elabela is one of two endogenous ligands for the G-protein-coupled APLNR receptor.
Ela is secreted by certain cell types including human embryonic stem cells. It is widely expressed in various developing organs such as the... |
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