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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RATF | RATF (Robustness Analysis and Technology Forecasting) is a software development methodology acting as a plug in to the Rational Unified Process (RUP), ICONIX, Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile software development. The first part of the method was first published by in 2005 at the IASTED International conference on So... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Pepper | Tom Pepper (born August 24, 1975 in Des Moines, Iowa) is a computer programmer best known for his collaboration with Justin Frankel on the Gnutella peer-to-peer system. He and Frankel co-founded Nullsoft, whose most popular program is Winamp, which was sold to AOL in May 1999. He subsequently worked for AOL developin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renin%E2%80%93angiotensin%20system | The renin–angiotensin system (RAS), or renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS), is a hormone system that regulates blood pressure, fluid and electrolyte balance, and systemic vascular resistance.
When renal blood flow is reduced, juxtaglomerular cells in the kidneys convert the precursor prorenin (already present ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20cell | A giant cell (also known as a multinucleated giant cell, or multinucleate giant cell) is a mass formed by the union of several distinct cells (usually histiocytes), often forming a granuloma. Although there is typically a focus on the pathological aspects of multinucleate giant cells (MGCs), they also play many importa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral%20contagion | Behavioral contagion is a form of social contagion involving the spread of behavior through a group. It refers to the propensity for a person to copy a certain behavior of others who are either in the vicinity, or whom they have been exposed to. The term was originally used by Gustave Le Bon in his 1895 work The Crowd:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation%20%28geometry%29 | In Euclidean geometry, a translation is a geometric transformation that moves every point of a figure, shape or space by the same distance in a given direction. A translation can also be interpreted as the addition of a constant vector to every point, or as shifting the origin of the coordinate system. In a Euclidean s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola%20misinformation | Multiple conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and quack cures have circulated about ebola viruses, regarding the origin of outbreaks, treatments for ebola virus disease, and preventative measures.
Unproven and disproven treatments
During the Western African Ebola virus epidemic (2013-2016), a number of unproven and fake treat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin%20equivalent | A skin equivalent is an in vitro skin model using to conduct experiments on processes involving the skin, such as wound healing and keratinocyte migration. It is a more complex form of the dermal equivalent. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procera%20Networks | Procera Networks is a networking equipment company based in Fremont, California, United States, that designs and sells Network Intelligence solutions based on deep packet inspection (DPI) technology. Procera sells solutions to telecom operators, governments, enterprises, and network equipment vendors in the areas of An... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho%20Forum | The Jericho Forum was an international group working to define and promote de-perimeterisation. It was initiated by David Lacey from the Royal Mail, and grew out of a loose affiliation of interested corporate CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers), discussing the topic from the summer of 2003, after an initial mee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere%20continuous%20function | In mathematics, a nowhere continuous function, also called an everywhere discontinuous function, is a function that is not continuous at any point of its domain. If is a function from real numbers to real numbers, then is nowhere continuous if for each point there is some such that for every we can find a point s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal%20position | Fetal position (British English: also foetal) is the positioning of the body of a prenatal fetus as it develops. In this position, the back is curved, the head is bowed, and the limbs are bent and drawn up to the torso. A compact position is typical for fetuses. Many newborn mammals, especially rodents, remain in a fet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subatomic%20scale | The subatomic scale is the domain of physical size that encompasses objects smaller than an atom. It is the scale at which the atomic constituents, such as the nucleus containing protons and neutrons, and the electrons in their orbitals, become apparent.
The subatomic scale includes the many thousands of times smaller... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computation | A computation is any type of arithmetic or non-arithmetic calculation that is well-defined. Common examples of computations are mathematical equations and computer algorithms.
Mechanical or electronic devices (or, historically, people) that perform computations are known as computers. The study of computation is the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleosynthesis | Nucleosynthesis is the process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons (protons and neutrons) and nuclei. According to current theories, the first nuclei were formed a few minutes after the Big Bang, through nuclear reactions in a process called Big Bang nucleosynthesis. After about 20 minutes, the un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Neural%20Machine%20Translation | Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) is a neural machine translation (NMT) system developed by Google and introduced in November 2016 that uses an artificial neural network to increase fluency and accuracy in Google Translate. The neural network consists of two main blocks, an encoder and a decoder, both of LSTM ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence%20Theory%20in%20Combinatorics | Independence Theory in Combinatorics: An Introductory Account with Applications to Graphs and Transversals is an undergraduate-level mathematics textbook on the theory of matroids. It was written by Victor Bryant and Hazel Perfect, and published in 1980 by Chapman & Hall.
Topics
A major theme of Independence Theory in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20hiding | In computer programming, error hiding (or error swallowing) is the practice of catching an error or exception, and then continuing without logging, processing, or reporting the error to other parts of the software. Handling errors in this manner is considered bad practice and an anti-pattern in computer programming. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalent | Catalent, Inc. (Catalent Pharma Solutions) is a multinational corporation headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey. It is a global provider of delivery technologies, development, drug manufacturing, biologics, gene therapies and consumer health products. It employs more than 14,000 people, including approximately 2,400 sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KidsCom | KidsCom was a virtual world geared toward kids ages 8–14. KidsCom had many "worlds" (virtual places) that the user can go to in order to have fun with an avatar. It was a website for a long time dealing with new competition such as Webkinz. KidsCom was published by the now defunct Circle 1 Network, LLC in Milwaukee, Wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20f%C3%BCr%20Kunststoffverarbeitung | The Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung in Industrie und Handwerk (IKV), the Institute for Plastics Processing in Industry and Trade at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany, is a teaching and research institute for the study of plastics technology. It stands for practice-oriented research, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20screen | A second screen involves the use of a computing device to provide a different viewing experience for content on another device.
The term commonly refers to the use of such devices to provide interactive features, like posts on social media platforms that take input from the audience during a broadcast, such as a tele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully%20qualified%20domain%20address | A fully qualified domain address (FQDA) is a string forming an Internet e-mail address. It was defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 3801 for the use in voice profiles for Internet mail, but has been used on the Internet as early as 1988.
A FQDA is composed of a local part, followed by the symbol and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor%20alar%20cartilage | In human anatomy the part of the nose which forms the lateral wall is curved to correspond with the ala of the nose; it is oval and flattened, narrow behind, where it is connected with the frontal process of the maxilla by a tough fibrous membrane, in which are found three or four small nasal cartilages the minor alar ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial%20mass%20function | In astronomy, the initial mass function (IMF) is an empirical function that describes the initial distribution of masses for a population of stars during star formation. IMF not only describes the formation and evolution of individual stars, it also serves as an important link that describes the formation and evolution... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal%20length | The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light; it is the inverse of the system's optical power. A positive focal length indicates that a system converges light, while a negative focal length indicates that the system diverges light. A system with a shorter foc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20localization%20in%20owls | Most owls are nocturnal or crepuscular birds of prey. Because they hunt at night, they must rely on non-visual senses. Experiments by Roger Payne have shown that owls are sensitive to the sounds made by their prey, not the heat or the smell. In fact, the sound cues are both necessary and sufficient for localization of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracula | Miracula is a genus of parasitic protists that parasite diatoms, containing the type species Miracula helgolandica. More recently, the species Miracula moenusica from the river Main in Frankfurt am Main, Miracula islandica from a shore in the north of Iceland, Miracula einbuarlaekurica from a stremlet in the north of I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20Laue%E2%80%93Langevin | The Institut Laue–Langevin (ILL) is an internationally financed scientific facility, situated on the Polygone Scientifique in Grenoble, France. It is one of the world centres for research using neutrons. Founded in 1967 and honouring the physicists Max von Laue and Paul Langevin, the ILL provides one of the most intens... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl%C3%A9e | Perlée and perlage are French words for pearl pattern, a decorative metallic finish consisting of a pattern of small circles (pearls) applied to a surface by grinding. It is mostly used in the automotive and watchmaking industries as an indicator of expensive craftsmanship, particularly if applied by hand rather than m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sialuria | Sialuria is a group of disorders resulting in an accumulation of free sialic acid. One type, known as the Finnish type or Salla disease has been described in northeastern Finland and is due to a mutation in gene SLC17A5 on chromosome 6q4-15. The "French type sialuria" (), is a very rare condition presenting in infancy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroduplex%20analysis | Heteroduplex analysis (HDA) is a method in biochemistry used to detect point mutations in DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) since 1992. Heteroduplexes are dsDNA molecules that have one or more mismatched pairs, on the other hand homoduplexes are dsDNA which are perfectly paired. This method of analysis depend up on the fact ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucus | Mucus ( ) is a slippery aqueous secretion produced by, and covering, mucous membranes. It is typically produced from cells found in mucous glands, although it may also originate from mixed glands, which contain both serous and mucous cells. It is a viscous colloid containing inorganic salts, antimicrobial enzymes (such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Buddies | Space Buddies is a 2009 American science fiction comedy film. It is the third film in the Air Buddies franchise. It was released on February 3, 2009. Like Air Buddies and Snow Buddies, it was released directly on DVD and became the first one to be released on Blu-ray.
Plot
The film starts with Buddha and his owner, Sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20chart%20language | Flow chart language (FCL) is a simple imperative programming language designed for the purposes of explaining fundamental concepts of program analysis and specialization, in particular, partial evaluation. The language was first presented in 1989 by Carsten K. Gomard and Neil D. Jones. It later resurfaced in their book... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekrasov%20matrix | In mathematics, a Nekrasov matrix or generalised Nekrasov matrix is a type of diagonally dominant matrix (i.e. one in which the diagonal elements are in some way greater than some function of the non-diagonal elements). Specifically if A is a generalised Nekrasov matrix, its diagonal elements are non-zero and the diago... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindRover | MindRover is a video game for PC, developed by CogniToy.
Gameplay
The game, which can be thought of as a successor to the Learning Company's Robot Odyssey, revolves around three activities:
Assemble virtual robots from a library of stock parts.
Programming robots using a special graphical interface (referred to in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating%20factorial | In mathematics, an alternating factorial is the absolute value of the alternating sum of the first n factorials of positive integers.
This is the same as their sum, with the odd-indexed factorials multiplied by −1 if n is even, and the even-indexed factorials multiplied by −1 if n is odd, resulting in an alternation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-vascular%20plant | Non-vascular plants are plants without a vascular system consisting of xylem and phloem. Instead, they may possess simpler tissues that have specialized functions for the internal transport of water.
Non-vascular plants include two distantly related groups:
Bryophytes, an informal group that taxonomists treat as thr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20automorphism | In mathematics, in the realm of group theory, a class automorphism is an automorphism of a group that sends each element to within its conjugacy class. The class automorphisms form a subgroup of the automorphism group. Some facts:
Every inner automorphism is a class automorphism.
Every class automorphism is a family... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginogram | A vaginogram is a medical imaging method in which a radiocontrast agent is injected while X-ray pictures are taken, to visualize structures of the vagina. It has been used to visualize ureterovaginal fistulas. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scitopia | Scitopia.org is a free federated, vertical search portal that enables users to explore the collective content of 21 science and technology societies – the research most cited in scholarly work and patents – from a single search box on the open web. It aggregates the entire electronic libraries of its founders – societ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowsort | Slowsort is a sorting algorithm. It is of humorous nature and not useful. It is a reluctant algorithm based on the principle of multiply and surrender (a parody formed by taking the opposites of divide and conquer). It was published in 1984 by Andrei Broder and Jorge Stolfi in their paper Pessimal Algorithms and Simple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substrate%20%28biology%29 | In biology, a substrate is the surface on which an organism (such as a plant, fungus, or animal) lives. A substrate can include biotic or abiotic materials and animals. For example, encrusting algae that lives on a rock (its substrate) can be itself a substrate for an animal that lives on top of the algae. Inert substr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region%20connection%20calculus | The region connection calculus (RCC) is intended to serve for qualitative spatial representation and reasoning. RCC abstractly describes regions (in Euclidean space, or in a topological space) by their possible relations to each other. RCC8 consists of 8 basic relations that are possible between two regions:
disconnec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-one%20reduction | In computability theory and computational complexity theory, a many-one reduction (also called mapping reduction) is a reduction which converts instances of one decision problem (whether an instance is in ) to another decision problem (whether an instance is in ) using an effective function. The reduced instance is in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20trap | The term evolutionary trap has retained several definitions associated with different biological disciplines.
Evolutionary biology
Within evolutionary biology, this term has been used sporadically to refer to situations in which an evolved (and presumably well adapted and successful) trait has become obsolete or mala... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metyltetraprole | Metyltetraprole is a quinone outside inhibitor fungicide sold under the brand name Pavecto by its inventor, Sumitomo Chemical. It is the only tetrazolinone fungicide and the only one in the Fungicide Resistance Action Committee's subgroup 11A.
Development
Metyltetraprole was developed specifically to find an a.i. with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomab | The BOttle MAnnequin ABsorber phantom was developed by Bush in 1949 (Bush 1949) and has since been accepted in North America as the industry standard (ANSI 1995) for calibrating whole body counting systems.
The phantom consists of 10 polyethylene bottles, either cylinders or elliptical cylinders, that represent the he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20verification | Spatial verification is a technique in which similar locations can be identified in an automated way through a sequence of images. The general method involves identifying a correlation between certain points among sets images, using techniques similar to those used for image registration.
The main problem is that outl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minibar | A minibar is a small refrigerator, typically an absorption refrigerator, in a hotel room or cruise ship stateroom. The hotel staff fill it with drinks and snacks for the guest to purchase during their stay. It is stocked with a precise inventory of goods, with a price list. The guest is charged for goods consumed when ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability%20testing | Scalability testing is the testing of a software application to measure its capability to scale up or scale out in terms of any of its non-functional capability.
Performance, scalability and reliability testing are usually grouped together by software quality analysts.
The main goals of scalability testing are to det... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational%20rotation | In the mathematical theory of dynamical systems, an irrational rotation is a map
where is an irrational number. Under the identification of a circle with , or with the interval with the boundary points glued together, this map becomes a rotation of a circle by a proportion of a full revolution (i.e., an angle of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20machine | A logical machine or logical abacus is a tool containing a set of parts that uses energy to perform formal logic operations through the use of truth tables. Early logical machines were mechanical devices that performed basic operations in Boolean logic. The principal examples of such machines are those of William Stan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20order%20theory%20topics | Order theory is a branch of mathematics that studies various kinds of objects (often binary relations) that capture the intuitive notion of ordering, providing a framework for saying when one thing is "less than" or "precedes" another.
An alphabetical list of many notions of order theory can be found in the order theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SINIX | SINIX is a discontinued variant of the Unix operating system from Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme. SINIX supersedes SIRM OS and Pyramid Technology's DC/OSx. Following X/Open's acceptance that its requirements for the use of the UNIX trademark were met, version 5.44 and subsequent releases were published as Reliant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20multinomial%20distribution | In probability theory and statistics, the negative multinomial distribution is a generalization of the negative binomial distribution (NB(x0, p)) to more than two outcomes.
As with the univariate negative binomial distribution, if the parameter is a positive integer, the negative multinomial distribution has an urn m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda%20Cloud%20Antivirus | Panda Cloud Antivirus is an antivirus software developed by Panda Security, a free and a paid version are available. It is cloud-based in the sense that files are scanned on a remote server without using processing power of the user's machine. The cloud technology is based on Panda's Collective Intelligence. It can run... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News.admin.net-abuse.email | news.admin.net-abuse.email (sometimes abbreviated nanae or n.a.n-a.e, and often incorrectly spelled with a hyphen in "email") is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to discussion of the abuse of email systems, specifically through email spam and similar attacks. According to a timeline compiled by Keith Lynch, news.admin.net-ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-ported%20RAM | Dual-ported RAM (DPRAM) is a type of random-access memory that allows multiple reads or writes to occur at the same time, or nearly the same time, unlike single-ported RAM which allows only one access at a time.
Examples
Video RAM (VRAM) is a common form of dual-ported dynamic RAM mostly used for video memory, allowin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%20number | In mathematics, Stirling numbers arise in a variety of analytic and combinatorial problems. They are named after James Stirling, who introduced them in a purely algebraic setting in his book Methodus differentialis (1730). They were rediscovered and given a combinatorial meaning by Masanobu Saka in 1782.
Two different... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Margolus | Norman H. Margolus (born 1955) is a Canadian-American physicist and computer scientist, known for his work on cellular automata and reversible computing. He is a research affiliate with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education and career
Margo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddy%20%28hardware%29 | In computer hardware, a caddy is a container used to hold some medium, such as a CD-ROM. If the medium is a hard disk drive, the caddy is also referred to as a disk enclosure. Its functionality is similar to that of the 3.5" floppy disk's jacket.
The purpose of a disk caddy is to protect the disk from damage when han... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppers | Popper is a slang term given broadly to recreational drug of the chemical class called alkyl nitrites that are inhaled. They act on the body as vasodilators. Most widely sold products include the original isoamyl nitrite, isopentyl nitrite, and isopropyl nitrite. Isobutyl nitrite is also widely used but is banned in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX%20male%20syndrome | XX male syndrome, also known as de la Chapelle syndrome, is a rare congenital intersex condition in which an individual with a 46,XX karyotype (otherwise associated with females) has phenotypically male characteristics that can vary among cases. Synonyms include 46,XX testicular difference of sex development (46,XX DSD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACD%20operations | MACD operations are basic actions (Move, Add, Change, Delete) taken by computer network or telecom service agents in the support of hardware and services. It can also refer to the "hours" spent and billed doing those kinds of support tasks.
See also
Call center
Customer service
Technical support |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert360 | Expert360 is an online marketplace co-founded by Bridget Loudon and Emily Yue and headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Expert360 acts as a digital network for matching independent business consultants with clients (companies, organizations) for short or long-term project work. The company is best known for its innovati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain.com | Domain.com is a domain registrar and web hosting company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and is a subsidiary of Newfold Digital.
History
Domain.com's origins existed as part of the Dotster brand founded by George DeCarlo in 1998. A graduate of the University of Portland, DeCarlo launched Dotster as a project ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandibular%20nerve | In neuroanatomy, the mandibular nerve (V) is the largest of the three divisions of the trigeminal nerve, the fifth cranial nerve (CN V). Unlike the other divisions of the trigeminal nerve (ophthalmic nerve, maxillary nerve) which contain only afferent fibers, the mandibular nerve contains both afferent and efferent fib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pib2 | Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate-binding protein 2 (Pib2) is a yeast protein involved in the regulation of TORC1 signaling and lysosomal membrane permeabilization. It is essential for the reactivation of TORC1 following exposure to rapamycin or nutrient starvation.
Discovery
Pib2 was first identified as a FYVE domain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBoss%20Enterprise%20Application%20Platform | The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (or JBoss EAP) is a subscription-based/open-source Java EE-based application server runtime platform used for building, deploying, and hosting highly-transactional Java applications and services developed and maintained by Red Hat. The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicircle%20law%20%28quantum%20Hall%20effect%29 | The semicircle law, in condensed matter physics, is a mathematical relationship that occurs between quantities measured in the quantum Hall effect. It describes a relationship between the anisotropic and isotropic components of the macroscopic conductivity tensor , and, when plotted, appears as a semicircle.
The s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArchNet | Archnet is a collaborative digital humanities project focused on Islamic architecture and the built environment of Muslim societies. Conceptualized in 1998 and originally developed at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in co-operation with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. It has been maintained by the Aga Khan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Arnoldus%20Schouten | Jan Arnoldus Schouten (28 August 1883 – 20 January 1971) was a Dutch mathematician and Professor at the Delft University of Technology. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and Ricci calculus, and was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam.
Biography
Schouten was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxiella%20burnetii | Coxiella burnetii is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen, and is the causative agent of Q fever. The genus Coxiella is morphologically similar to Rickettsia, but with a variety of genetic and physiological differences. C. burnetii is a small Gram-negative, coccobacillary bacterium that is highly resistant to e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Institute%20of%20Physics | The American Institute of Physics (AIP) promotes science and the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies. Its corporate headquarters are at the American Center for Physics in College Park, Maryl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2035 | In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 35 is a family of glycoside hydrolases.
Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayme%20Luiz%20Szwarcfiter | Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter (born July 5, 1942, in Rio de Janeiro) is a computer scientist in Brazil.
Biography
Szwarcfiter graduated in 1967 in electronic engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He received his MA in 1971 from COPPE. In 1975 he obtained his PhD in computer science from the Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic%20intermediate | Metabolic intermediates are molecules that are the precursors or metabolites of biologically significant molecules.
Although these intermediates are of relatively minor direct importance to cellular function, they can play important roles in the allosteric regulation of enzymes.
Clinical significance
Some can be usef... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Sklar | Jessica Katherine Sklar (born 1973) is a mathematician interested in abstract algebra, recreational mathematics, mathematics and art, and mathematics and popular culture. She is a professor of mathematics at Pacific Lutheran University, and former head of the mathematics department at Pacific Lutheran.
Education and c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaya%20melon | The Gaya melon, also known as the ivory gaya, snowball, sweet snowball, ghost, dino(saur), dino(saur) egg, snow leopard, matice, matisse, sugar baby, and silver star melons, is a small to medium-sized honeydew cultivar developed originally in Japan and Korea and now grown in China, Mexico, southern California, and Sout... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnat%20ha-Middot | The Mishnat ha-Middot (, 'Treatise of Measures') is the earliest known Hebrew treatise on geometry, composed of 49 mishnayot in six chapters. Scholars have dated the work to either the Mishnaic period or the early Islamic era.
History
Date of composition
Moritz Steinschneider dated the Mishnat ha-Middot to between 8... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20Minutes | The One Minutes is a global platform for one-minute videos. The One Minutes Foundation produces and distributes One Minutes, providing a platform for people to create and connect through short, accessible video art.
History
The One Minutes was initiated in 1998 by Katja van Stiphout and Michal Buttink, two students o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous%20with%20Rama%20%28video%20game%29 | Rendezvous with Rama is an interactive fiction game with graphics published by Telarium, a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, in 1984. It was developed in cooperation with Arthur C. Clarke and based upon his 1973 science fiction novel Rendezvous with Rama.
Reception
German reviewers recognized the complexity of the sto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo%20spiny%20mouse | The Cairo spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus), also known as the common spiny mouse, Egyptian spiny mouse, or Arabian spiny mouse, is a nocturnal species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Africa north of the Sahara, where its natural habitats are rocky areas and hot deserts. It is omnivorous and feeds on seeds... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonds%E2%80%93Pruhs%20protocol | Edmonds–Pruhs protocol is a protocol for fair cake-cutting. Its goal is to create a partially proportional division of a heterogeneous resource among n people, such that each person receives a subset of the cake which that person values as at least 1/an of the total, where is some sufficiently large constant. It is a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4-additivity | In mathematics, in the field of measure theory, τ-additivity is a certain property of measures on topological spaces.
A measure or set function on a space whose domain is a sigma-algebra is said to be if for any upward-directed family of nonempty open sets such that its union is in the measure of the union is th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20wisdom | Artificial wisdom is a software system that can demonstrate one or more qualities of being wise.
Artificial wisdom can be described as artificial intelligence reaching the top-level of decision-making when confronted with the most complex challenging situations. The term artificial wisdom is used when the "intelligenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/147th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 147° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 147th meridian east forms a great circle with the 33rd meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20B.%20Conway | John Bligh Conway (born September 22, 1939) is an American mathematician. He is currently a professor emeritus at the George Washington University. His specialty is functional analysis, particularly bounded operators on a Hilbert space.
Conway earned his B.S. from Loyola University and Ph.D. from Louisiana State Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe%20plastic%20deformation | Severe plastic deformation (SPD) is a generic term describing a group of metalworking techniques involving very large strains typically involving a complex stress state or high shear, resulting in a high defect density and equiaxed "ultrafine" grain (UFG) size (d < 500 nm) or nanocrystalline (NC) structure (d < 100 nm)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth%20value | In logic and mathematics, a truth value, sometimes called a logical value, is a value indicating the relation of a proposition to truth, which in classical logic has only two possible values (true or false).
Computing
In some programming languages, any expression can be evaluated in a context that expects a Boolean ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsauer%E2%80%93Townsend%20effect | The Ramsauer–Townsend effect, also sometimes called the Ramsauer effect or the Townsend effect, is a physical phenomenon involving the scattering of low-energy electrons by atoms of a noble gas. This effect is a result of quantum mechanics. The effect is named for Carl Ramsauer and John Sealy Townsend, who each indepen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aronson%20Prize | The Aronson Prize () is a prize awarded for achievements in microbiology and immunology. It was established by the will of the pediatrician and bacteriologist Hans Aronson and has been awarded since 1921. Aronson bequeathed a large part of his estate to the establishment of the prize. The prize is awarded biannually on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZB | NZB is an XML-based file format for retrieving posts from NNTP (Usenet) servers. The format was conceived by the developers of the Newzbin.com Usenet Index. NZB is effective when used with search-capable websites. These websites create NZB files out of what is needed to be downloaded. Using this concept, headers would ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20signature | A mobile signature is a digital signature generated either on a mobile phone or on a SIM card on a mobile phone.
Origins of the term
mSign
The term first appeared in articles introducing mSign (short for Mobile Electronic Signature Consortium). It was founded in 1999 and comprised 35 member companies. In October 200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS%20Technology%20CIA | The 6526/8520 Complex Interface Adapter (CIA) was an integrated circuit made by MOS Technology. It served as an I/O port controller for the 6502 family of microprocessors, providing for parallel and serial I/O capabilities as well as timers and a Time-of-Day (TOD) clock. The device's most prominent use was in the Commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodograph | A hodograph is a diagram that gives a vectorial visual representation of the movement of a body or a fluid. It is the locus of one end of a variable vector, with the other end fixed. The position of any plotted data on such a diagram is proportional to the velocity of the moving particle. It is also called a velocity d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20grid | Wireless grids are wireless computer networks consisting of different types of electronic devices with the ability to share their resources with any other device in the network in an ad hoc manner.
A definition of the wireless grid can be given as: "Ad hoc, distributed resource-sharing networks between heterogeneous wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment%20%28novel%29 | Fragment (Random House, 2009) is a science-based thriller by best-selling author and screenwriter Warren Fahy. The novel focuses on a crew of young scientists from a reality TV show who must try to survive when their research vessel, the Trident, lands on Henders Island, where predatory creatures have been living and e... |
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