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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%20presentation | A case presentation is a formal communication between health care professionals such as doctors and nurses regarding a patient's clinical information.
Essential parts of a case presentation include:
Identification
Reason for consultation/admission
Chief complaints (CC) - what made patients seek medical attention.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20interior | In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, the algebraic interior or radial kernel of a subset of a vector space is a refinement of the concept of the interior.
Definition
Assume that is a subset of a vector space
The algebraic interior (or radial kernel) of with respect to is the set of all points at whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Help%20Viewer | Microsoft Help Viewer (HV) is the offline help system (local help) developed by Microsoft that ships with versions of Microsoft Windows including and subsequent to Windows 8, as well as Visual Studio 2010 and its associated MSDN Library.
Microsoft Help Viewer 1.x supersedes Microsoft Help 2 which is the help system us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar%20Data%20Systems | Pillar Data Systems, a computer data storage company headquartered in San Jose, California, developed midrange and enterprise network storage systems. Pillar Data employed 325 people and sold its products to organizations in the financial services, healthcare, government and legal industries. Its primary product-offeri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20lambda%20switching | Fractional lambda switching (FλS) leverages on time-driven switching (TDS) to realize sub-lambda switching in highly scalable dynamic optical networking, which requires minimum (possibly optical) buffers. Fractional lambda switching implies switching fractions of optical channels as opposed to whole lambda switching w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-party%20fair%20exchange%20protocol | In cryptography, a multi-party fair exchange protocol is protocol where parties accept to deliver an item if and only if they receive an item in return.
Definition
Matthew K. Franklin and Gene Tsudik suggested in 1998 the following classification:
An -party single-unit general exchange is a permutation on , where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNTV%20Transmitter | The UNTV Transmitter is a communication tower owned by Breakthrough and Milestones Productions International, Inc. located at Emerald Hills, Sumulong Highway, Antipolo, Rizal, Republic of the Philippines. It serves as the new transmitter facility for flagship stations DWAO-TV (UNTV News and Rescue) and DWNU, with broa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20model%20%28biophysics%29 | Lattice models in biophysics represent a class of statistical-mechanical models which consider a biological macromacromolecule (such as DNA, protein, actin, etc.) as a lattice of units, each unit being in different states or conformations.
For example, DNA in chromatin can be represented as a one-dimensional lattice, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam%20rupture | A steam rupture occurs within a pressurized system of super critical water when the pressure exceeds the design plus safety margin specification. A steam rupture can occur in any high temperature pressurized system, including, but not limited to: automobile cooling systems, stationary power plants, mobile power plant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%26B%20Hoovers | D&B Hoovers was founded by Gary Hoover and Patrick Spain in 1990 as an American business research company that provided information on companies and industries through their primary product platform named "Hoover's". In 2003, it was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet and operated for a time as a wholly owned subsidiary. In 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidIO | The RapidIO architecture is a high-performance packet-switched electrical connection technology. RapidIO supports messaging, read/write and cache coherency semantics. Based on industry-standard electrical specifications such as those for Ethernet, RapidIO can be used as a chip-to-chip, board-to-board, and chassis-to-ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger%20variational%20principle | Schwinger variational principle is a variational principle which expresses the scattering T-matrix as a functional depending on two unknown wave functions. The functional attains stationary value equal to actual scattering T-matrix. The functional is stationary if and only if the two functions satisfy the Lippmann-Schw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20Strang | William Gilbert Strang (born November 27, 1934) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra. He has made many contributions to mathematics education, including publishing mathematics textbooks. Strang was the MathWork... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20interface%20device | In telecommunications, a network interface device (NID; also known by several other names) is a device that serves as the demarcation point between the carrier's local loop and the customer's premises wiring. Outdoor telephone NIDs also provide the subscriber with access to the station wiring and serve as a convenient ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-slit%20interferometric%20equation | Quantum mechanics was first applied to optics, and interference in particular, by Paul Dirac. Richard Feynman, in his Lectures on Physics, uses Dirac's notation to describe thought experiments on double-slit interference of electrons. Feynman's approach was extended to -slit interferometers for either single-photon ill... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurimetrics | Jurimetrics is the application of quantitative methods, and often especially probability and statistics, to law. In the United States, the journal Jurimetrics is published by the American Bar Association and Arizona State University. The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies is another publication that emphasizes the stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensionless%20quantity | A dimensionless quantity (also known as a bare quantity, pure quantity as well as quantity of dimension one) is a quantity to which no physical dimension is assigned.
Dimensionless quantities are widely used in many fields, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, and economics. Dimensionless quantities ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Time%20Series%20Analysis | The Journal of Time Series Analysis is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering mathematical statistics as it relates to the analysis of time series data. It was established in 1980 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. The editor-in-chief is Robert Taylor (University of Essex). According to the Journal Cit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20C.%20Martin | Robert Cecil Martin (born 5 December 1952), colloquially called "Uncle Bob", is an American software engineer, instructor, and author. He is most recognized for promoting many software design principles and for being an author and signatory of the influential Agile Manifesto.
Martin has authored many books and magazin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20polynomial | In mathematics, exponential polynomials are functions on fields, rings, or abelian groups that take the form of polynomials in a variable and an exponential function.
Definition
In fields
An exponential polynomial generally has both a variable x and some kind of exponential function E(x). In the complex numbers the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20Young%20Researchers%20Conference%20on%20Computational%20and%20Omics%20Biology | The Asian Young Researchers Conference on Computational and Omics Biology (AYRCOB) is a conference series for young researchers and students who are conducting their research in the fields of computational, omics and systems biology in Asia. The main objectives of AYRCOB are to promote international exchange among youn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergradation | In zoology, intergradation is the way in which two distinct subspecies are connected via areas where populations are found that have the characteristics of both. There are two types of intergradation: primary and secondary intergradation.
Primary intergradation
This occurs in cases where two subspecies are connected ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20human%20anatomy | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to human anatomy:
Human anatomy – scientific study of the morphology of the adult human. It is subdivided into gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy. Gross anatomy (also called topographical anatomy, regional anatomy, or anthropotomy) is the study ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion%20silver%20plating | Immersion silver plating (or IAg plating) is a surface plating process that creates a thin layer of silver over copper objects. It consists in dipping the object briefly into a solution containing silver ions.
Immersion silver plating is used by the electronics industry in manufacture of printed circuit boards (PCBs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20art | Email art refers to artwork created for the medium of email. It includes computer graphics, animations, screensavers, digital scans of artwork in other media, and even ASCII art. When exhibited, Email art can be either displayed on a computer screen or similar type of display device, or the work can be printed out and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geroprotector | A geroprotector is a senotherapeutic that aims to affect the root cause of aging and age-related diseases, and thus prolong the life span of animals. Some possible geroprotectors include melatonin, carnosine, metformin, rapamycin, nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and delta sleep-inducing peptide.
See also
Anti-agi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypsis | In ecology, crypsis is the ability of an animal or a plant to avoid observation or detection by other animals. It may be a predation strategy or an antipredator adaptation. Methods include camouflage, nocturnality, subterranean lifestyle and mimicry. Crypsis can involve visual, olfactory (with pheromones) or auditory c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20expression | In mathematics, an algebraic expression is an expression built up from constant algebraic numbers, variables, and the algebraic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and exponentiation by an exponent that is a rational number). For example, is an algebraic expression. Since taking the square root... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic%20growth | In mathematics, logarithmic growth describes a phenomenon whose size or cost can be described as a logarithm function of some input. e.g. y = C log (x). Any logarithm base can be used, since one can be converted to another by multiplying by a fixed constant. Logarithmic growth is the inverse of exponential growth and i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier%20Leroy | Xavier Leroy (born 15 March 1968) is a French computer scientist and programmer. He is best known for his role as a primary developer of the OCaml system. He is
Professor of software science at Collège de France. Before his appointment at Collège de France in 2018, he was senior scientist (directeur de recherche) a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflicted%20insight | Inflicted insight is a possible consequence for subjects participating in certain kinds of research. It occurs when the subject is given insight into his or her flaws through his or her participation in an experiment, often unexpectedly or causing emotional pain. It is particularly common in social and psychological r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle%20charging | Trickle charging means charging a fully charged battery at a rate equal to its self-discharge rate, thus enabling the battery to remain at its fully charged level; this state occurs almost exclusively when the battery is not loaded, as trickle charging will not keep a battery charged if current is being drawn by a loa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult%20neurogenesis%20in%20songbirds | Adult neurogenesis is the process in which new neurons are born and subsequently integrate into functional brain circuits after birth and into adulthood. Avian species including songbirds are among vertebrate species that demonstrate particularly robust adult neurogenesis throughout their telencephalon, in contrast wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennation | In botany, perennation is the ability of organisms, particularly plants, to survive from one germinating season to another, especially under unfavourable conditions such as drought or winter cold. It typically involves development of a perennating organ, which stores enough nutrients to sustain the organism during the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguerre%20transform | In mathematics, Laguerre transform is an integral transform named after the mathematician Edmond Laguerre, which uses generalized Laguerre polynomials as kernels of the transform.
The Laguerre transform of a function is
The inverse Laguerre transform is given by
Some Laguerre transform pairs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreso | Doreso, is an automatic content recognition (ACR) company specialized in music discovery and social TV recognition service for the second screen. Their sound-to-sound music search engine allows users to obtain more detailed information about music and songs by singing, humming or by recording original music.
Features
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential%20motor%20reinnervation | Preferential motor reinnervation (PMR) refers to the tendency of a regenerating axon in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) to reinnervate a motor pathway as opposed to a somatosensory pathway. PMR affects how nerves regenerate and reinnervate within the PNS after surgical procedures or traumatic injuries. It is import... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20and%20horizontal | In astronomy, geography, and related sciences and contexts, a direction or plane passing by a given point is said to be vertical if it contains the local gravity direction at that point.
Conversely, a direction or plane is said to be horizontal (or leveled) if it is perpendicular to the vertical direction.
In general,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20%26%20Computational%20Geometry | Discrete & Computational Geometry is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published quarterly by Springer. Founded in 1986 by Jacob E. Goodman and Richard M. Pollack, the journal publishes articles on discrete geometry and computational geometry.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed in:
Mathematical Revie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20death | Brain death is the permanent, irreversible, and complete loss of brain function which may include cessation of involuntary activity necessary to sustain life. It differs from persistent vegetative state, in which the person is alive and some autonomic functions remain. It is also distinct from comas as long as some bra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwent%3A%20The%20Witcher%20Card%20Game | Gwent: The Witcher Card Game is a free-to-play digital collectible card game developed and published by CD Projekt for Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in 2018, for iOS in 2019, for Android in 2020, and for macOS in 2021. The game is derived from the card game of the same name featured in Andrzej Sapkowski's The Wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.culture | alt.culture was an online encyclopedia of youth culture, especially relating to Generation X, in the 1990s, based on the book Alt.Culture: An A-to-Z Guide to the 90's - Underground, Online and Over-the-Counter by Nathaniel Wice and Steven Daly.
The website was described by Chuck Klosterman in The Nineties as "an unkno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad%20ligament%20of%20the%20uterus | The broad ligament of the uterus is the wide fold of peritoneum that connects the sides of the uterus to the walls and floor of the pelvis.
Structure
Subdivisions
Contents
The contents of the broad ligament include the following:
Reproductive
uterine tubes (or Fallopian tube)
ovary (some sources consider the ova... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastContact | FastContact is an algorithm for the rapid estimate of contact and binding free energies for protein–protein complex structures. It is based on a statistically determined desolvation contact potential and Coulomb electrostatics with a distance-dependent dielectric constant. The application also reports residue contact f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried%20and%20salted%20cod | Dried and salted cod, sometimes referred to as salt cod or saltfish or salt dolly, is cod which has been preserved by drying after salting. Cod which has been dried without the addition of salt is stockfish. Salt cod was long a major export of the North Atlantic region, and has become an ingredient of many cuisines ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay%20product | In nuclear physics, a decay product (also known as a daughter product, daughter isotope, radio-daughter, or daughter nuclide) is the remaining nuclide left over from radioactive decay. Radioactive decay often proceeds via a sequence of steps (decay chain). For example, 238U decays to 234Th which decays to 234mPa which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIAMI%20Facilities | The MIAMI facility (acronym for Microscopes and Ion Accelerators for Materials Investigation) is a scientific laboratory located within the Ion Beam Centre at the University of Huddersfield. This facility is dedicated to the study of the interaction of ion beams with matter. The facilities combine ion accelerators in s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Indian%20Ocean%20Islands%20tundra | The Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra is a tundra ecoregion that includes several subantarctic islands in the southern Indian Ocean.
Location and description
The ecoregion stretches from Prince Edward Islands in the west, past the Crozet Islands to the Kerguelen Islands 1500 km to the east, and includes the active ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic%20search%20technology | Phonetic Search Technology (PST) is a method of speech recognition. An audio signal of speech is broken down into series of phonemes, which can be used to identify words.
A string of six phonemes for example, “_B _IY _T _UW _B _IY,” represent the acronym “B2B”. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20theorem%20of%20topos%20theory | In mathematics, The fundamental theorem of topos theory states that the slice of a topos over any one of its objects is itself a topos. Moreover, if there is a morphism in then there is a functor which preserves exponentials and the subobject classifier.
The pullback functor
For any morphism f in there is an a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Tall | David Orme Tall (born 15 May 1941) is Emeritus Professor in Mathematical Thinking at the University of Warwick. One of his early influential works is the joint paper with Vinner "Concept image and concept definition in mathematics with particular reference to limits and continuity". The "concept image" is a notion in c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variome | The variome is the whole set of genetic variations found in populations of species that have gone through a relatively short evolution change. For example, among humans, about 1 in every 1,200 nucleotide bases differ. The size of human variome in terms of effective population size is claimed to be about 10,000 individ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucine | Brucine, is an alkaloid closely related to strychnine, most commonly found in the Strychnos nux-vomica tree. Brucine poisoning is rare, since it is usually ingested with strychnine, and strychnine is more toxic than brucine. In synthetic chemistry, it can be used as a tool for stereospecific chemical syntheses.
Brucin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatranscriptomics | Metatranscriptomics is the set of techniques used to study gene expression of microbes within natural environments, i.e., the metatranscriptome.
While metagenomics focuses on studying the genomic content and on identifying which microbes are present within a community, metatranscriptomics can be used to study the dive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frobenius%20normal%20form | In linear algebra, the Frobenius normal form or rational canonical form of a square matrix A with entries in a field F is a canonical form for matrices obtained by conjugation by invertible matrices over F. The form reflects a minimal decomposition of the vector space into subspaces that are cyclic for A (i.e., spanne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypolith | In Arctic and Antarctic ecology, a hypolith is a photosynthetic organism, and an extremophile, that lives
underneath rocks in climatically extreme deserts such as Cornwallis Island and Devon Island in the Canadian high Arctic. The community itself is the hypolithon.
Hypolithons are protected by their rock from harsh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genaille%E2%80%93Lucas%20rulers | Genaille–Lucas rulers (also known as Genaille's rods) are an arithmetic tool invented by Henri Genaille, a French railway engineer, in 1891. The device is a variant of Napier's bones. By representing the carry graphically, the user can read off the results of simple multiplication problems directly, with no intermedi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Poupart | François Poupart (1661–1709) French physician, anatomist and entomologist.
He described Poupart's ligament, which had been discovered by Gabriele Falloppio.
In 1789, botanists published Poupartia a genus of plants from Islands in the Indian Ocean in family Anacardiaceae. It was named in Poupart's honour.
Then in 200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTQ%20tree | CTQ trees (critical-to-quality trees) are the key measurable characteristics of a product or process whose performance standards or specification limits must be met in order to satisfy the customer. They align improvement or design efforts with customer requirements.
CTQs are used to decompose broad customer requireme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FANCI | Fanconi anemia, complementation group I (FANCI) also known as KIAA1794, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the FANCI gene. Mutations in the FANCI gene are known to cause Fanconi anemia.
Function
The Fanconi anemia complementation group (FANC) currently includes FANCA, FANCB, FANCC, FANCD1 (also called BRCA2)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective%20cell%20migration | Collective cell migration describes the movements of group of cells and the emergence of collective behavior from cell-environment interactions and cell-cell communication. Collective cell migration is an essential process in the lives of multicellular organisms, e.g. embryonic development, wound healing and cancer spr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruma%20Falk | Ruma Falk (, née Oren-Aharonovich, 1932–2020) was an Israeli psychologist and philosopher of mathematics known for her work on probability theory and human understanding of probability and statistics.
Falk was born in Jerusalem, and educated at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20server | Strictly, a private server is any machine or virtual machine used as a server that is privately administrated. Colloquially the term is nearly-exclusively used to refer to independently operated, unofficial servers for video games.
Private Servers (Broadly Defined)
As servers need adequate internet connection, power ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GABRB1 | Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit beta-1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GABRB1 gene.
Function
The gamma-aminobutyric acid A receptor (GABAA receptor) is a multisubunit chloride channel that mediates the fastest inhibitory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. This gene encodes GAB... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude%20change | Attitudes are associated beliefs and behaviors towards some object. They are not stable, and because of the communication and behavior of other people, are subject to change by social influences, as well as by the individual's motivation to maintain cognitive consistency when cognitive dissonance occurs—when two attitu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville%20Ridge | The Louisville Ridge, often now referred to as the Louisville Seamount Chain, is an underwater chain of over 70 seamounts located in the Southwest portion of the Pacific Ocean. As one of the longest seamount chains on Earth it stretches some from the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge northwest to the Tonga-Kermadec Trench, wher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Intelligent%20Systems%20for%20Molecular%20Biology%20keynote%20speakers | The following is a list of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) keynote speakers.
ISMB is an academic conference on the subjects of bioinformatics and computational biology organised by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The conference has been held annually since 1993 and keynote ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeReal | BeReal (stylized as BeReal.) is a French social media app released in 2020, developed by Alexis Barreyat and Kévin Perreau. Its main feature is a daily notification that encourages users to share a photo of themselves and their immediate surroundings given a randomly selected two-minute window every day. Critics noted ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular%20array | In mathematics and computing, a triangular array of numbers, polynomials, or the like, is a doubly indexed sequence in which each row is only as long as the row's own index. That is, the ith row contains only i elements.
Examples
Notable particular examples include these:
The Bell triangle, whose numbers count the par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20of%20Integrated%20Environmental%20and%20Economic%20Accounting | System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) is a framework to compile statistics linking environmental statistics to economic statistics. SEEA is described as a satellite system to the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA). This means that the definitions, guidelines and practical approaches of the SN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel%20Institute%20for%20Immunology | The Basel Institute for Immunology (BII) was founded in 1969 as a basic research institute in immunology located at 487 Grenzacherstrasse, Basel, Switzerland on the Rhine River down the street from the main Hoffmann-La Roche campus near the Swiss-German border. The institute opened its doors in 1971.
Description
It ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Antennas%20and%20Propagation | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society. It covers research on and applications of all aspects of antenna technology and the propagation of electromagnetic waves. The journal was established in 1952 and since 2022 the Edito... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno%20First | is an arcade video game developed by Konami and released in 1983. It was licensed to Gottlieb in the United States. Juno First is a fixed shooter with a slightly tilted perspective, similar to Nintendo's Radar Scope from 1980. The game was ported to the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family, MSX, IBM PC, and IBM PCjr.
Gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EZCast | EZCast is a line of digital media players, built by Actions Microelectronics, that allows users to mirror media content from smart devices, including mobile devices, personal computers, and project to high-definition televisions.
History
The first generation of EZCast was developed in 2013, shipped 1 million units wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical%20cover | A canonical cover for F (a set of functional dependencies on a relation scheme) is a set of dependencies such that F logically implies all dependencies in , and logically implies all dependencies in F.
The set has two important properties:
No functional dependency in contains an extraneous attribute.
Each left s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essure | Essure was a device for female sterilization. It is a metal coil which when placed into each fallopian tube induces fibrosis and blockage. Essure was designed as an alternative to tubal ligation. However, it was recalled by Bayer in 2018, and the device is no longer sold due to complications secondary to its implantati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20line%20ratios | The analysis of line intensity ratios is an important tool to obtain information about laboratory and space plasmas. In emission spectroscopy, the intensity of spectral lines can provide various information about the plasma (or gas) condition. It might be used to determine the temperature or density of the plasma. Sinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/243%20%28number%29 | 243 (two hundred [and] forty-three) is the natural number following 242 and preceding 244.
Additionally, 243 is:
the only 3-digit number that is a fifth power (35).
a perfect totient number.
the sum of five consecutive prime numbers (41 + 43 + 47 + 53 + 59).
an 82-gonal number. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Goldsmith%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Michael Goldsmith (born 1959) is a British computer scientist, senior research fellow and Lecturer at the University of Oxford, England.
He is a member of Oxford University's Department of Computer Science. He is an associate director of Oxford University's Cyber Security Centre, and an Oxford Martin Fellow of The Glob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20bone | Flat bones are bones whose principal function is either extensive protection or the provision of broad surfaces for muscular attachment. These bones are expanded into broad, flat plates, as in the cranium (skull), the ilium (pelvis), sternum and the rib cage.
The flat bones are: the occipital, parietal, frontal, nasal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%20Medal | The Darwin Medal is one of the medals awarded by the Royal Society for "distinction in evolution, biological diversity and developmental, population and organismal biology".
In 1885, International Darwin Memorial Fund was transferred to the Royal Society. The fund was devoted for promotion of biological research, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-serial%20dependencies | In linguistics, cross-serial dependencies (also called crossing dependencies by some authors) occur when the lines representing the dependency relations between two series of words cross over each other. They are of particular interest to linguists who wish to determine the syntactic structure of natural language; lang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20hypergeometric%20series | In mathematics, basic hypergeometric series, or q-hypergeometric series, are q-analogue generalizations of generalized hypergeometric series, and are in turn generalized by elliptic hypergeometric series.
A series xn is called hypergeometric if the ratio of successive terms xn+1/xn is a rational function of n. If th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20flags%20of%20Christmas%20Island | The Following is a List of Flags used in Christmas Island in Australia.
State Flag
Historical Flags
See also
List of Australian flags |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCumber%20cube | In 1991, John McCumber created a model framework for establishing and evaluating information security (information assurance) programs, now known as The McCumber Cube.
This security model is depicted as a three-dimensional Rubik's Cube-like grid.
The concept of this model is that, in developing information assurance s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladder%20training | Bladder training, also known as scheduled voiding and bladder re-education is urinating at specific times of the day. It is used as a first line treatment of overactive bladder on mixed urinary incontinence. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20DNA%20binary%20system | A transfer DNA (T-DNA) binary system is a pair of plasmids consisting of a T-DNA binary vector and a vir helper plasmid. The two plasmids are used together (thus binary) to produce genetically modified plants. They are artificial vectors that have been derived from the naturally occurring Ti plasmid found in bacterial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Allan%20Award | The William Allan Award, given by the American Society of Human Genetics, was established in 1961 in memory of William Allan (1881–1943), one of the first American physicians to conduct extensive research in human genetics.
The William Allan Award is presented annually to recognize substantial and far-reaching scient... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defoliant | A defoliant is any herbicidal chemical sprayed or dusted on plants to cause their leaves to fall off. Defoliants are widely used for the selective removal of weeds in managing croplands and lawns. Worldwide use of defoliants, along with the development of other herbicides and pesticides, allowed for the Green Revolutio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stericycle | Stericycle is a compliance company that specializes in collecting and disposing regulated medical waste, such as medical waste and sharps, pharmaceuticals, hazardous waste, and providing services for recalled and expired goods. It also provides related education and training services, and patient communication services... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McConnell%20%28peace%20activist%29 | John McConnell (March 22, 1915 – October 20, 2012) was the founder and creator of Earth Day, and The Earth Society Foundation. He was known for designing the Earth Flag, pursuing causes relating to peace, religion, and science.
Early years
John McConnell was born on March 22, 1915, in Davis City, Iowa, United States.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20differencing | In computer science and information theory, data differencing or differential compression is producing a technical description of the difference between two sets of data – a source and a target. Formally, a data differencing algorithm takes as input source data and target data, and produces difference data such that gi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seega%20%28game%29 | Seega is an abstract strategy game that originated in Egypt. It can be played on boards with cells in a 5×5, 7×7 or 9×9 disposition. Other names include Seejeh, Siga and Sidjah.
The board starts out empty, and players take turns placing two pieces in any empty cell, excluding the center cell. Then, players move their ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forme%20fruste | In medicine, a forme fruste (French, "crude, or unfinished, form"; pl., formes frustes) is an atypical or attenuated manifestation of a disease or syndrome, with the implications of incompleteness, partial presence or aborted state. The context is usually one of a well defined clinical or pathological entity, which the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirSim | AirSim (Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation) is an open-source, cross platform simulator for drones, ground vehicles such as cars and various other objects, built on Epic Games’ proprietary Unreal Engine 4 as a platform for AI research. It is developed by Microsoft and can be used to experiment with deep learnin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVSP | OpenVSP, also known as Open Vehicle Sketch Pad, is an open source parametric aircraft geometry tool originally developed by NASA. It can be used to create 3D models of aircraft and to support engineering analysis of those models. Predecessors to OpenVSP including VSP and Rapid Aircraft Modeler (RAM) were developed by J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition%20matroid | In mathematics, a partition matroid or partitional matroid is a matroid that is a direct sum of uniform matroids. It is defined over a base set in which the elements are partitioned into different categories. For each category, there is a capacity constraint - a maximum number of allowed elements from this category. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture%20Description%20Language | Gesture Description Language (GDL or GDL Technology) is a method of describing and automatic (computer) syntactic classification of gestures and movements created
by doctor Tomasz Hachaj (PhD) and professor Marek R. Ogiela(PhD, DSc).
GDL uses context-free formal grammar named GDLs (Gesture Description Language script).... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fubini%E2%80%93Study%20metric | In mathematics, the Fubini–Study metric (IPA: /fubini-ʃtuːdi/) is a Kähler metric on projective Hilbert space, that is, on a complex projective space CPn endowed with a Hermitian form. This metric was originally described in 1904 and 1905 by Guido Fubini and Eduard Study.
A Hermitian form in (the vector space) Cn+1 d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girsanov%20theorem | In probability theory, the Girsanov theorem tells how stochastic processes change under changes in measure. The theorem is especially important in the theory of financial mathematics as it tells how to convert from the physical measure, which describes the probability that an underlying instrument (such as a share pric... |
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