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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-algebra | Prealgebra is a common name for a course in middle school mathematics in the United States, usually taught in the 7th grade or 8th grade. The objective of it is to prepare students for the study of algebra. Usually, algebra is taught in the 8th and 9th grade.
As an intermediate stage after arithmetic, prealgebra helps... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric-affine%20gravitation%20theory | In comparison with General Relativity, dynamic variables of metric-affine gravitation theory are both a pseudo-Riemannian metric and a general linear connection on a world manifold . Metric-affine gravitation theory has been suggested as a natural generalization of Einstein–Cartan theory of gravity with torsion wher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal%20anomaly | A conformal anomaly, scale anomaly, trace anomaly or Weyl anomaly is an anomaly, i.e. a quantum phenomenon that breaks the conformal symmetry of the classical theory.
In quantum field theory when we set to zero we have only Feynman tree diagrams, which is a "classical" theory (equivalent to the Fredholm formulation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruckus%20Networks | RUCKUS Networks (formerly known as Ruckus Wireless) is a brand of wired and wireless networking equipment and software owned by CommScope. Ruckus offers Switches, Wi-Fi access points, CBRS access points, Controllers, Management systems, Cloud management, AAA/BYOD software, AI and ML analytics software, location softwar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopodia | A pseudopod or pseudopodium (: pseudopods or pseudopodia) is a temporary arm-like projection of a eukaryotic cell membrane that is emerged in the direction of movement. Filled with cytoplasm, pseudopodia primarily consist of actin filaments and may also contain microtubules and intermediate filaments. Pseudopods are us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moufang%20polygon | In mathematics, Moufang polygons are a generalization by Jacques Tits of the Moufang planes studied by Ruth Moufang, and are irreducible buildings of rank two that admit the action of root groups.
In a book on the topic, Tits and Richard Weiss classify them all. An earlier theorem, proved independently by Tits and Wei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20automaton | A tree automaton is a type of state machine. Tree automata deal with tree structures, rather than the strings of more conventional state machines.
The following article deals with branching tree automata, which correspond to regular languages of trees.
As with classical automata, finite tree automata (FTA) can be eit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betacoronavirus%201 | Betacoronavirus 1 is a species of coronavirus which infects humans and cattle. The infecting virus is an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus and is a member of the genus Betacoronavirus and subgenus Embecovirus. Like other embecoviruses, it has an additional shorter spike-like surface protein called he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab%20initio%20methods%20%28nuclear%20physics%29 | In nuclear physics, ab initio methods seek to describe the atomic nucleus from the bottom up by solving the non-relativistic Schrödinger equation for all constituent nucleons and the forces between them. This is done either exactly for very light nuclei (up to four nucleons) or by employing certain well-controlled appr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164 | E.164 is an international standard (ITU-T Recommendation), titled The international public telecommunication numbering plan, that defines a numbering plan for the worldwide public switched telephone network (PSTN) and some other data networks.
E.164 defines a general format for international telephone numbers. Plan-co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20W.%20Chun | Paul W. Chun is a professor emeritus at the University of Florida. He is a researcher in the field of protein folding equilibria, in particular, he is known as the "leading proponent" of using the Planck-Benzinger thermal work function to understand protein folding thermodynamics and stability. As such Chun has written... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deoxyadenosine%20diphosphate | Deoxyadenosine diphosphate is a nucleoside diphosphate. It is related to the common nucleic acid ATP, or adenosine triphosphate, with the -OH (hydroxyl) group on the 2' carbon on the nucleotide's pentose removed (hence the deoxy- part of the name), and with one fewer phosphoryl group than ATP. This makes it also simil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20of%20measurement | A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity. Any other quantity of that kind can be expressed as a multiple of the unit of measurement.
For example, a length is a physical quantity. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly%20connected%20edge%20list | The doubly connected edge list (DCEL), also known as half-edge data structure, is a data structure to represent an embedding of a planar graph in the plane, and polytopes in 3D. This data structure provides efficient manipulation of the topological information associated with the objects in question (vertices, edges, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berylliosis | Berylliosis, or chronic beryllium disease (CBD), is a chronic allergic-type lung response and chronic lung disease caused by exposure to beryllium and its compounds, a form of beryllium poisoning. It is distinct from acute beryllium poisoning, which became rare following occupational exposure limits established around ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition%20number | In many sports, a competition number is used to identify and differentiate the competitors taking part in a competitive endeavour. For example, runners in a race may wear prominent competition numbers so that they may be clearly identified from a distance. Competition numbers are differentiated from uniform numbers in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetens%20equation | The Tetens equation is an equation to calculate the saturation vapour pressure of water over liquid and ice. It is named after its creator, O. Tetens who was an early German meteorologist. He published his equation in 1930, and while the publication itself is rather obscure, the equation is widely known among meteoro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumpolar%20distribution | A circumpolar distribution is any range of a taxon that occurs over a wide range of longitudes but only at high latitudes; such a range therefore extends all the way around either the North Pole or the South Pole. Taxa that are also found in isolated high-mountain environments further from the poles are said to have ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracellular%20transport | Paracellular transport refers to the transfer of substances across an epithelium by passing through the intercellular space between the cells. It is in contrast to transcellular transport, where the substances travel through the cell, passing through both the apical membrane and basolateral membrane.
The distinction h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul%20of%20a%20Robot | Soul of a Robot is a video game sequel to Nonterraqueous for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX, released by Mastertronic in 1985. It was sometimes called Nonterraqueous 2.
Plot
The attempt to destroy the rogue computer from Nonterraqueous failed. Now the computer threatens to self-destruct with old age, taking th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo%20%28software%29 | Yojimbo is a personal information manager for MacOS by Bare Bones Software. It can store notes, images and media, URLs, web pages, and passwords. Yojimbo can also encrypt any of its contents and store the password in the Keychain. It is Bare Bones' second Cocoa application.
History
Yojimbo was first released on Janua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachyglene%20caenea | Brachyglene caenea is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Dru Drury in 1782. It is restricted
to south-eastern Brazil, from Rio de Janeiro south to Santa Catarina.
Description
Antennae black and setaceous. Thorax and abdomen nearly black. Wings deep brown, nearly black; the anterior having a yellow ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-front%20quantization%20applications | The light-front quantization of quantum field theories provides a useful alternative to ordinary equal-time quantization. In particular, it can lead to a relativistic description of bound systems in terms of quantum-mechanical wave functions. The quantization is based on the choice of light-front coordinates, where pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgametogenesis | Microgametogenesis is the process in plant reproduction where a microgametophyte develops in a pollen grain to the three-celled stage of its development. In flowering plants it occurs with a microspore mother cell inside the anther of the plant.
When the microgametophyte is first formed inside the pollen grain four se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20WSIT | Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) is an open-source project started by Sun Microsystems to develop the next-generation of Web service technologies. It provides interoperability between Java Web Services and Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
It consists of Java programming language APIs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihyun%20Kang | Mihyun Kang () is a South Korean mathematician specializing in combinatorics, including graph enumeration and the topological properties of random graphs. She is a professor in the Institute of Discrete Mathematics at the Graz University of Technology.
Education and career
Kang completed a PhD at KAIST, the Korea Adva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Congress%20of%20Mathematicians | The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before 2022 as the Nevanlinna Prize), the Gauss Prize, and the Chern Medal are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCDC92 | CCDC92, or Limkain beta-2, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the CCDC92 gene. It is likely involved in DNA repair or reduction/oxidation reactions. The gene ubiquitously found in humans and is highly conserved across animals.
The CCDC92 gene is located at cytogenic location 12q24.31 and is 36,576 bases long w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric%20genetics | Psychiatric genetics is a subfield of behavioral neurogenetics and behavioral genetics which studies the role of genetics in the development of mental disorders (such as alcoholism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism). The basic principle behind psychiatric genetics is that genetic polymorphisms (as indicated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20coefficient | In physics, the differential coefficient of a function f(x) is what is now called its derivative df(x)/dx, the (not necessarily constant) multiplicative factor or coefficient of the differential dx in the differential df(x).
A coefficient is usually a constant quantity, but the differential coefficient of f is a con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxon%20in%20disguise | In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of a similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. That happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear so radically different from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile-ITX | Mobile-ITX is the smallest (by 2009) x86 compliant motherboard form factor presented by VIA Technologies in December, 2009. The motherboard size (CPU module) is . There are no computer ports on the CPU module and it is necessary to use an I/O carrier board. The design is intended for medical, transportation and milita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dodo%20%28website%29 | The Dodo is an American media brand and digital publisher focused on telling animals' stories. The Dodo is headquartered in New York City.
History
The Dodo was launched in January 2014 by Izzie Lerer, the daughter of media executive Kenneth Lerer, and journalist Kerry Lauerman. The company—named after the dodo, an ext... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genelux%20Corporation | Genelux Corporation is a late clinical-stage public company (Nasdaq: GNLX) developing a pipeline of next-generation oncolytic viral immunotherapies for patients suffering from aggressive and/or difficult-to-treat solid tumor types. The Company’s most advanced product candidate, Olvi-Vec (olvimulogene nanivacirepvec), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin%20citrate | Lecithin citrate is a food additive used as a preservative. Its E number is 344. It is not approved for use in the UK. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globuloviridae | Globuloviridae is a family of hyperthermophilic archaeal viruses. Crenarchaea of the genera Pyrobaculum and Thermoproteus serve as natural hosts. There are four species in this family, assigned to a single genus, Alphaglobulovirus.
Taxonomy
The family contains one genus which contains four species:
Alphaglobulovirus
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime%20%28Dragon%20Quest%29 | are a fictional species of monster in the Dragon Quest role-playing video game franchise. Originally inspired by the game Wizardry to be a weak and common enemy for the 1986 video game Dragon Quest, Slimes have appeared in almost every Dragon Quest game since. Their popularity led to the appearance of many varieties of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue%20Engineering%20and%20Regenerative%20Medicine%20International%20Society | Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society is an international learned society dedicated to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Background
Regenerative medicine involves processes of replacing, engineering or regenerating human cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia%20virus%20Wphi | Escherichia virus Wphi is a virus of the family Myoviridae, genus Peduovirus.
As a member of the group I of the Baltimore classification, Escherichia virus Wphi is a dsDNA viruses. All the members of family Myoviridae share a nonenveloped morphology consisting of a head and a tail separated by a neck. Its genome is li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection%20rate | An infection rate (or incident rate) is the probability or risk of an infection in a population. It is used to measure the frequency of occurrence of new instances of infection within a population during a specific time period.
The number of infections equals the cases identified in the study or observed. An example w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative%20embryology | Comparative embryology is the branch of embryology that compares and contrasts embryos of different species, showing how all animals are related.
History
Aristotle was the earliest person in recorded history to study embryos. Observing embryos of different species, he described how animals born in eggs (oviparously) a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental%20noise | Developmental noise or stochastic noise is a concept within developmental biology in which the observable characteristics or traits (phenotype) varies between individuals even though both individuals share the same genetic code (genotypes) and the other environmental factors are completely the same. Factors that influe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-disk%20synchronization | Memory-disk synchronisation is a process used in computers that immediately writes to disk any data queued for writing in volatile memory. Data is often held in this way for efficiency's sake, since writing to disk is a much slower process than writing to RAM. Disk synchronization is needed when the computer is going... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requirements%20elicitation | In requirements engineering, requirements elicitation is the practice of researching and discovering the requirements of a system from users, customers, and other stakeholders. The practice is also sometimes referred to as "requirement gathering".
The term elicitation is used in books and research to raise the fact th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asprox%20botnet | The Asprox botnet (discovered around 2008), also known by its aliases Badsrc and Aseljo, is a botnet mostly involved in phishing scams and performing SQL injections into websites in order to spread malware. It is a highly infectious malware which spreads through an email or through a clone website. It can be used to tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interposer | An interposer is an electrical interface routing between one socket or connection to another. The purpose of an interposer is to spread a connection to a wider pitch or to reroute a connection to a different connection.
Interposer comes from the Latin word "interpōnere", meaning "to put between". They are often used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%20%28mathematical%20artwork%29 | Bird, also known as A Bird in Flight refers to bird-like mathematical artworks that are introduced by mathematical equations. A group of these figures are created by combing through tens of thousands of computer-generated images. They are usually defined by trigonometric functions. An example of A Bird in Flight is mad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindlimb | A hindlimb or back limb is one of the paired articulated appendages (limbs) attached on the caudal (posterior) end of a terrestrial tetrapod vertebrate's torso. With reference to quadrupeds, the term hindleg or back leg is often used instead. In bipedal animals with an upright posture (e.g. humans and some primates)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish%20collar | The fish collar, a cut from a fish's clavicle, is a seafood delicacy.
Summary
Fish collars are popular in Asian countries and are mostly found in Asian fish markets. Collars come in chunks of fins, skin, and bones and are difficult to clean. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND%20logic | The NAND Boolean function has the property of functional completeness. This means that any Boolean expression can be re-expressed by an equivalent expression utilizing only NAND operations. For example, the function NOT(x) may be equivalently expressed as NAND(x,x). In the field of digital electronic circuits, this imp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsorized%20mean | A winsorized mean is a winsorized statistical measure of central tendency, much like the mean and median, and even more similar to the truncated mean. It involves the calculation of the mean after winsorizing — replacing given parts of a probability distribution or sample at the high and low end with the most extreme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%20Bridge%20%28software%29 | The Brooklyn Bridge from White Crane Systems was a data transfer enabler. Although it came with some hardware, it was the software which was the basis of the product. It also could transform the data's format.
Overview
The New York Times described its category as being among "communications packages used to transfer f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammatory%20bowel%20disease-22 | Inflammatory bowel disease-22 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IBD22 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarist | An aquarist is a person who manages aquariums, either professionally or as a hobby. They typically care for aquatic animals, including fish and marine invertebrates. Some may care for aquatic mammals. Aquarists often work at public aquariums. They may also work at nature reserves, zoos, and amusement parks. Some aquari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appearance%20energy | Appearance energy (also known as appearance potential) is the minimum energy that must be supplied to a gas phase atom or molecule in order to produce an ion. In mass spectrometry, it is accounted as the voltage to correspond for electron ionization. This is the minimum electron energy that produces an ion. In photoio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible%20bottle | An impossible bottle is a bottle containing an object that appears too large to fit through the bottle's mouth.
The ship in a bottle is a traditional and the most iconic type of impossible bottle. Other common objects include fruits, matchboxes, decks of cards, tennis balls, racketballs, Rubik's Cubes, padlocks, knot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megamaths | Megamaths is a BBC educational television series for primary schools that was originally aired on BBC Two from 16 September 1996 to 4 February 2002. For its first three series, it was set in a castle on top of Table Mountain, populated by the four card suits (Kings, Queens and Jacks/Jackies, and a Joker who looked afte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20online%20dating%20services | This is a partial, non-exhaustive list of notable online dating websites and mobile apps.
All services in the list that have an entry, whether they support heterosexual connections, currently support homosexual connections.
Online dating services
Defunct sites
SpeedDate.com
Yahoo! Personals
Spoonr
RocknRollDati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%20Corriher | Shirley O. Corriher (born February 23, 1935) is an American biochemist and author of CookWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking, winner of a James Beard Foundation award, and BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking. CookWise shows how scientific insights can be applied to traditional cooking, while Bake... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rightscorp | Rightscorp. Inc (formerly DigitalRights) is a Los-Angeles based copyright enforcement company, which locates alleged copyright violators and collects money from legal damages as well as out of court settlements on behalf of the copyright holder(s). Rightscorp manages copyrights of videos, music, and video games.
Servi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynkin%20system | A Dynkin system, named after Eugene Dynkin, is a collection of subsets of another universal set satisfying a set of axioms weaker than those of -algebra. Dynkin systems are sometimes referred to as -systems (Dynkin himself used this term) or d-system. These set families have applications in measure theory and probabi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASU%20Institute%20of%20Physics | The Institute of Physics (IOP) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine () founded in 1926 is the oldest research institution of physical science within the academy. Being on the path of both infrastructure development and research diversification for more than 80 years, the institute has eventually originated fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20tangent%20plane%20coordinates | Local tangent plane coordinates (LTP), also known as local ellipsoidal system, local geodetic coordinate system, or local vertical, local horizontal coordinates (LVLH), are a spatial reference system based on the tangent plane defined by the local vertical direction and the Earth's axis of rotation.
It consists of thre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc%20conjecture | The abc conjecture (also known as the Oesterlé–Masser conjecture) is a conjecture in number theory that arose out of a discussion of Joseph Oesterlé and David Masser in 1985. It is stated in terms of three positive integers and (hence the name) that are relatively prime and satisfy . The conjecture essentially state... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochratoxin%20A | Ochratoxin A—a toxin produced by different Aspergillus and Penicillium species — is one of the most-abundant food-contaminating mycotoxins. It is also a frequent contaminant of water-damaged houses and of heating ducts. Human exposure can occur through consumption of contaminated food products, particularly contaminate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys%20III%3A%20Wanderers%20from%20Ys | is a 1989 action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom. It is the third game in the Ys series.
Ys III was initially released for the PC-8801 and PC-9801 in 1989 under the title Wanderers from Ys, and versions for the MSX2 and X68000 soon followed. In 1991, a number of console ports were produced: versions for th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20signal | An analog signal is any continuous-time signal representing some other quantity, i.e., analogous to another quantity. For example, in an analog audio signal, the instantaneous signal voltage varies continuously with the pressure of the sound waves.
In contrast, a digital signal represents the original time-varying qua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomegranate%20%28publisher%29 | Pomegranate Communications is a publishing and printing company formerly based in Petaluma, California, having moved to Portland, Oregon in 2013. The company, founded by Thomas F. Burke, began by publishing works of psychedelic art from San Francisco in 1968 under the name ThoFra Distributors. It distributed posters fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise%20physiology | Exercise physiology is the physiology of physical exercise. It is one of the allied health professions, and involves the study of the acute responses and chronic adaptations to exercise. Exercise physiologists are the highest qualified exercise professionals and utilise education, lifestyle intervention and specific fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closest%20string | In theoretical computer science, the closest string is an NP-hard computational problem, which tries to find the geometrical center of a set of input strings.
To understand the word "center", it is necessary to define a distance between two strings. Usually, this problem is studied with the Hamming distance in mind.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-abelian%20category | In mathematics, specifically in category theory, a pseudo-abelian category is a category that is preadditive and is such that every idempotent has a kernel. Recall that an idempotent morphism is an endomorphism of an object with the property that . Elementary considerations show that every idempotent then has a cokern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitarsone | Nitarsone is an organoarsenic compound that is used in poultry production as a feed additive to increase weight gain, improve feed efficiency, and prevent histomoniasis (blackhead disease). It is marketed as Histostat by Zoetis.
Nitarsone once was one of four arsenical food-animal drugs—along with roxarsone, arsanilic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xetal | Xetal is the name of a family of non commercial massively parallel processors developed within Philips Research.
Background
The Xetal was conceived in 1999 at Philips Research when researchers Kleihorst, Abbo and Van der Avoird investigated possibilities for combining a CMOS image sensor with powerful image processing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20biconditional | In logic and mathematics, the logical biconditional, also known as material biconditional or equivalence or biimplication or bientailment, is the logical connective used to conjoin two statements and to form the statement " if and only if " (often abbreviated as " iff "), where is known as the antecedent, and the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20cleaning | Terminal cleaning is the thorough cleaning of a room after use, used in healthcare environments to control the spread of infections.
Justification
Nosocomial infections claim approximately 90,000 lives in the United States annually. When patients are hospitalized and identified as having methicillin-resistant Staphyl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Sobral | David Ricardo Serrano Gonçalves Sobral (born 11 February 1986) is a Portuguese Astrophysicist, best known for the discovery of galaxy CR-7. He was an Astrophysics lecturer and Reader at Lancaster University from January 2016 to August 2022.
Publications
A large H alpha survey at z=2.23, 1.47, 0.84 and 0.40: the 11 G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate%20choice%20copying | Mate-choice copying, or non-independent mate choice, occurs when a female of an animal species copies another fellow female's mate choice. In other words, non-independent mate-choice is when a female's sexual preferences get socially inclined toward those of their fellow females. This behavior is speculated to be one o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant%27s%20mark | A merchant's mark is an emblem or device adopted by a merchant, and placed on goods or products sold by him in order to keep track of them, or as a sign of authentication. It may also be used as a mark of identity in other contexts.
History
Ancient use
Merchants' marks are as old as the sealings of the third millen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTS%20Galactitol%20Family | The PTS Galactitol (Gat) Family (TC# 4.A.5) is part of the PTS-AG superfamily. The biochemistry of this family is poorly defined. The only well-characterized member of this family is the galactitol permease of Escherichia coli. However, a homologous IIC protein from Listeria monocytogenes has been shown to be required ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houses%20for%20Visiting%20Mathematicians | The Houses for Visiting Mathematicians (also known as the Mathematics Research Centre houses) are a set of five houses and two flats, built for academics attending mathematical conferences at the University of Warwick.
The buildings are Grade II* listed and were built between 1968 and 1969 to the design of architect B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20placentophagy | Human placentophagy, or consumption of the placenta, is defined as "the ingestion of a human placenta postpartum, at any time, by any person, either in raw or altered (e.g., cooked, dried, steeped in liquid) form". While there are several anecdotes of different cultures practicing placentophagy in varying contexts, mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini%20Wing | Gemini Wing is a vertically scrolling shooter created by Tecmo and released in arcades in 1987. One or two players control a futuristic aircraft flying over terrain and shooting enemies of an animalistic or insectoid design.
Home conversions were released for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeding%20back | Breeding back is a form of artificial selection by the deliberate selective breeding of domestic (but not exclusively) animals, in an attempt to achieve an animal breed with a phenotype that resembles a wild type ancestor, usually one that has gone extinct. Breeding back is not to be confused with dedomestication.
It ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20competence | Social competence consists of social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral skills needed for successful social adaptation. Social competence also reflects having the ability to take another's perspective concerning a situation, learn from past experiences, and apply that learning to the changes in social interactions.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiparticle | In particle physics, every type of particle is associated with an antiparticle with the same mass but with opposite physical charges (such as electric charge). For example, the antiparticle of the electron is the positron (also known as an antielectron). While the electron has a negative electric charge, the positron h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility%20representation%20theorem | In economics, a utility representation theorem asserts that, under certain conditions, a preference ordering can be represented by a real-valued utility function, such that option A is preferred to option B if and only if the utility of A is larger than that of B.
Background
Suppose a person is asked questions of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework-oriented%20design | Framework Oriented Design (FOD) is a programming paradigm that uses existing frameworks as the basis for an application design.
The framework can be thought of as fully functioning template application. The application development consists of modifying callback procedure behaviour and modifying object behaviour using... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C13orf38 | C13orf38 is a protein found in the thirteenth chromosome with an open reading frame number 38. It is 139 amino acids long. The protein goes by a number of aliases CCDC169-SOHLH2 and CCDC169. The protein is found to be over expressed in the testis of humans. It is not known what the exact function of the protein is at t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid%3A%20Revenge%20of%20Doh | Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh (a.k.a. Arkanoid 2) is an arcade game released by Taito in 1987 as a sequel to Arkanoid.
Plot
The mysterious enemy known as DOH has returned to seek vengeance on the Vaus space vessel. The player must once again take control of the Vaus (paddle) and overcome many challenges in order to destroy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timestamping%20%28computing%29 | In computing, timestamping refers to the use of an electronic timestamp to provide a temporal order among a set of events.
Timestamping techniques are used in a variety of computing fields, from network management and computer security to concurrency control. For instance, a heartbeat network uses timestamping to mon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilizer%20code | The theory of quantum error correction plays a prominent role in the practical realization and engineering of
quantum computing and quantum communication devices. The first quantum
error-correcting codes are strikingly similar to classical block codes in their
operation and performance. Quantum error-correcting codes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian%20Bibliography | The Hessian Bibliography () is a German regional bibliography. Its aim is to completely capture all the literature connected with the geography, history and culture of the German federal state of Hesse from the year 1974. It is based on the holdings of the copyright libraries at Kassel, Fulda, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profundal%20zone | The profundal zone is a deep zone of an inland body of freestanding water, such as a lake or pond, located below the range of effective light penetration. This is typically below the thermocline, the vertical zone in the water through which temperature drops rapidly. The temperature difference may be large enough to ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deficient%20number | In number theory, a deficient number or defective number is a positive integer for which the sum of divisors of is less than . Equivalently, it is a number for which the sum of proper divisors (or aliquot sum) is less than . For example, the proper divisors of 8 are , and their sum is less than 8, so 8 is deficient... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleLink | AppleLink was the name of both Apple Computer's online service for its dealers, third-party developers, and users, and the client software used to access it. Prior to the commercialization of the Internet, AppleLink was a popular service for Mac and Apple IIGS users. The service was offered from about 1986 to 1994 to v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden%20Planet | Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. Shot in Eastman... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouff%C3%A9e%20d%C3%A9lirante | Bouffée délirante (BD) is an acute and transient psychotic disorder. It is a uniquely French psychiatric diagnostic term with a long history in France and various French speaking nations: Caribbean, e.g., Haiti, Guadeloupe, Antilles and Francophone Africa. The term BD was originally coined and described by Valentin Mag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolpertinger | In German folklore, a Wolpertinger (also called Wolperdinger or Woiperdinger) is an animal said to inhabit the alpine forests of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Southern Germany.
Description
It has a body comprising various animal parts – generally wings, antlers, a tail, and fangs; all attached to the body of a smal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libroadrunner | libRoadRunner is a C/C++ software library that supports simulation of SBML based models.. It uses LLVM to generate extremely high-performance code and is the fastest SBML-based simulator currently available. Its main purpose is for use as a reusable library that can be hosted by other applications, particularly on larg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliobacteria | Heliobacteria are a unique subset of prokaryotic bacteria that process light for energy. Distinguishable from other phototrophic bacteria, they utilize a unique photosynthetic pigment, bacteriochlorophyll g and are the only known Gram-positive phototroph. They are a key player in symbiotic nitrogen fixation alongside ... |
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