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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifractal%20system | A multifractal system is a generalization of a fractal system in which a single exponent (the fractal dimension) is not enough to describe its dynamics; instead, a continuous spectrum of exponents (the so-called singularity spectrum) is needed.
Multifractal systems are common in nature. They include the length of coas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Timesharing%20System | The Berkeley Timesharing System was a pioneering time-sharing operating system implemented between 1964 and 1967 at the University of California, Berkeley. It was designed as part of Project Genie and marketed by Scientific Data Systems for the SDS 940 computer system.
It was the first commercial time-sharing which all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Structure%20and%20Distribution%20of%20Coral%20Reefs | The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836, was published in 1842 as Charles Darwin's first monograph, and set out his theory of the formation of coral reefs and atolls. He conceiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwlCrate | OwlCrate is a web-based subscription service business specializing in monthly boxes shipped out internationally by mail, themed around books and book collecting. While OwlCrate is largely popular with book reviewers on social media, the service ships books to anybody within select available countries who places an orde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Janssen | Theo Willem Jan Marie Janssen (13 August 1936 – 29 September 2017), better known as Ted Janssen, was a Dutch physicist and Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Together with Pim de Wolff and Aloysio Janner, he was one of the founding fathers of N-dimensional superspace approach in c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20center%20network%20architectures | A data center is a pool of resources (computational, storage, network) interconnected using a communication network. A data center network (DCN) holds a pivotal role in a data center, as it interconnects all of the data center resources together. DCNs need to be scalable and efficient to connect tens or even hundreds o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-band%20agreement | In the exchange of information over a communication channel, an out-of-band agreement is an agreement or understanding between the communicating parties that is not included in any message sent over the channel but which is relevant for the interpretation of such messages.
By extension, in a client–server or provider-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermembranes | Supermembranes are hypothesized objects that live in the 11-dimensional theory called M-Theory and should also exist in 11-dimensional supergravity. Supermembranes are a generalisation of superstrings to another dimension. Supermembranes are 2-dimensional surfaces. For example, they can be spherical or shaped like a to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreaea%20rupestris | Andreaea rupestris is a species of moss in the class Andreaeopsida, are commonly referred to as the "lantern mosses" due to the appearance of their dehisced sporangia. It is typically found on smooth, acidic, exposed rock in the Northern hemisphere. It exhibits the common features of the genus Andreaea such as being ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial%20wave | Inertial waves, also known as inertial oscillations, are a type of mechanical wave possible in rotating fluids. Unlike surface gravity waves commonly seen at the beach or in the bathtub, inertial waves flow through the interior of the fluid, not at the surface. Like any other kind of wave, an inertial wave is caused by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%20control | Proportional control, in engineering and process control, is a type of linear feedback control system in which a correction is applied to the controlled variable, and the size of the correction is proportional to the difference between the desired value (setpoint, SP) and the measured value (process variable, PV). Two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraspecific%20competition | Intraspecific competition is an interaction in population ecology, whereby members of the same species compete for limited resources. This leads to a reduction in fitness for both individuals, but the more fit individual survives and is able to reproduce.
By contrast, interspecific competition occurs when members of di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20Mindstorms%20EV3 | LEGO Mindstorms EV3 (stylized: LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3) is the third generation robotics kit in LEGO's Mindstorms line. It is the successor to the second generation LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit. The "EV" designation refers to the "evolution" of the Mindstorms product line. "3" refers to the fact that it is the third generation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolerant%20sequence | In mathematical logic, a tolerant sequence is a sequence
,...,
of formal theories such that there are consistent extensions
,...,
of these theories with each interpretable in . Tolerance naturally generalizes from sequences of theories to trees of theories. Weak interpretability can be shown to be a special, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20structure | In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of the ordered arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a crystalline material. Ordered structures occur from the intrinsic nature of the constituent particles to form symmetric patterns that repeat along the principal directions of three-dimensional space in ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20stress | Social stress is stress that stems from one's relationships with others and from the social environment in general. Based on the appraisal theory of emotion, stress arises when a person evaluates a situation as personally relevant and perceives that they do not have the resources to cope or handle the specific situatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tifama | Tifama is a monotypic moth genus in the family Notodontidae (the prominent moths) erected by Francis Walker in 1855. Its only species, Tifama chera, was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. The species is known from Suriname and Brazil.
Description
Upperside: antennae setaceous (bristly). Head, thorax, and abdomen gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20music%20software | This article deals with music software created for the Amiga line of computers and covers the AmigaOS operating system and its derivates AROS and MorphOS and is a split of main article Amiga software.
See also related articles Amiga productivity software, Amiga programming languages, Amiga Internet and communications s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTQ%20implant | PTQ implant is a type of bio-compatible injectable bulking agent used in urinary and fecal incontinence. The material is a type of silicone, and is injected into the desired area to bulk out the tissues and reduce incontinence symptoms. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20comparative%20judgment | The law of comparative judgment was conceived by L. L. Thurstone. In modern-day terminology, it is more aptly described as a model that is used to obtain measurements from any process of pairwise comparison. Examples of such processes are the comparisons of perceived intensity of physical stimuli, such as the weights o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaede%20%28protein%29 | Kaede is a photoactivatable fluorescent protein naturally originated from a stony coral, Trachyphyllia geoffroyi. Its name means "maple" in Japanese. With the irradiation of ultraviolet light (350–400 nm), Kaede undergoes irreversible photoconversion from green fluorescence to red fluorescence.
Kaede is a homotetramer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20work | Remote work (also called telecommuting, telework, work from home, hybrid work, and other terms) is the practice of working from one's home or another space rather than from an office.
The practice began at a small scale in the 1970s, when technology was developed that linked satellite offices to downtown mainframes th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cough%20center | The cough center is a region of the brain which controls coughing. The cough center is located in the medulla oblongata in the brainstem. Cough suppressants focus their action on the cough center.
Structure
The exact location and functionality of the cough center has remained somewhat elusive: while Johannes Peter Mü... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard%20Heroes | Cardboard Heroes is a line of miniatures published in 1980 by Steve Jackson Games. An extension, Cardboard Heroes Champions Set 3: Enemies, was published in 1984.
Contents
Denis Loubet designed a set of miniatures called Cardboard Heroes (1980), a set of 40 full-color 25mm cardboard figures for use in fantasy rolepla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAC-1 | PAC-1 (first procaspase activating compound) is a synthesized chemical compound that selectively induces apoptosis, in cancerous cells. It was granted orphan drug status by the FDA in 2016.
History
PAC-1 was discovered in Professor Paul Hergenrother's laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign durin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intestinal%20arteries | The intestinal arteries arise from the convex side of the superior mesenteric artery. They are usually from twelve to fifteen in number, and are distributed to the jejunum and ileum.
Nomenclature
The term "intestinal arteries" can be confusing, because these arteries only serve a small portion of the intestines.
They... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastest | Fastest is a model-based testing tool that works with specifications written in the Z notation. The tool implements the Test Template Framework (TTF) proposed by Phil Stocks and David Carrington.
Usage
Fastest presents a command-line user interface. The user first needs to load a Z specification written in LaTeX form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filum%20terminale | The filum terminale ("terminal thread") is a delicate strand of fibrous tissue, about 20 cm in length, extending inferior-ward from the apex of the conus medullaris to attach onto the coccyx. The filum terminale acts to anchor the spinal cord and spinal meninges inferiorly.
The upper portion of the fila terminale is f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumkaaxvirus | Yumkaaxvirus is a genus of viruses in the family Ahmunviridae and order Maximonvirales. It includes one species: Yumkaaxvirus pescaderoense. Yumkaaxvirus pescaderoense is a dsDNA virus with host archea.
Name
The order name, Maximonvirales, is named after Mayan god Maximon, a god of travelers, merchants, mecidine men/w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erodium%20moschatum | Erodium moschatum is a species of flowering plant in the geranium family known by the common names musk stork's-bill and whitestem filaree. This is a weedy annual or biennial herb which is native to much of Eurasia and North Africa but can be found on most continents where it is an introduced species. The young plant s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet%20%28experiment%29 | COMET (Coherent Muon to Electron Transition) is a nuclear physics experiment in J-PARC, Tokai, Japan. In contrast to the usual muon decay to an electron and neutrino, COMET seeks to look for neutrinoless muon to electron conversion, where the electron flies away with an energy of 104.8 MeV. Muon to electron conversion ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20communication%20channel | The general communication channel (GCC) was defined by G.709 is an in-band side channel used to carry transmission management and signaling information within optical transport network elements.
Two types of GCC are available:
GCC0 – two bytes within OTUk overhead. GCC0 is terminated at every 3R (re-shaping, re-timi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20video%20game%20museums | This list of video game museums shows video game museums in the world.
Video game museums
Online video game museums
See also
List of museums
Video game
List of computer museums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20J.%20Dick | Steven J. Dick (born October 24, 1949, Evansville, Indiana) is an American astronomer, author, and historian of science most noted for his work in the field of astrobiology. Dick served as the chief historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 2003 to 2009 and as the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Libr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcriptome-wide%20association%20study | Transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) is a genetic methodology that can be used to compare the genetic components of gene expression and the genetic components of a trait to determine if an association is present between the two components. TWAS are useful for the identification and prioritization of candidate ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Journal%20of%20Translational%20Research | The American Journal of Translational Research is an open-access medical journal published by e-Century Publishing Corporation. The journal covers translational research of medical science and the relevant biomedical research areas. It was established in 2009. The editor-in-chief is Wen-Hwa Lee (University of Californi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoselectivity | In chemistry, stereoselectivity is the property of a chemical reaction in which a single reactant forms an unequal mixture of stereoisomers during a non-stereospecific creation of a new stereocenter or during a non-stereospecific transformation of a pre-existing one. The selectivity arises from differences in steric an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety%20Clearing-House | The Biosafety Clearing-House is an international mechanism that exchanges information about the movement of genetically modified organisms, established under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. It assists Parties (i.e. governments that have ratified the Protocol) to implement the protocol’s provisions and to facilitat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled%20pepper | A pickled pepper is a Capsicum pepper preserved by pickling, which usually involves submersion in a brine of vinegar and salted water with herbs and spices, often including peppercorns, coriander, dill, and bay leaf.
Common pickled peppers are the banana pepper, the Cubanelle, the bell pepper, sweet and hot cherry pep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind%20%28type%20theory%29 | In the area of mathematical logic and computer science known as type theory, a kind is the type of a type constructor or, less commonly, the type of a higher-order type operator. A kind system is essentially a simply typed lambda calculus "one level up", endowed with a primitive type, denoted and called "type", which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C1-Dimethyldiborane | 1,1-Dimethyldiborane is the organoboron compound with the formula (CH3)2B(μ-H)2BH2. A pair of related 1,2-dimethyldiboranes are also known. It is a colorless gas that ignites in air.
Formation
The methylboranes were first prepared by H. I. Schlesinger and A. O. Walker in the 1930s. Methylboranes are formed by the re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case-ready%20meat | Case-ready meat, retail-ready meat, or pre-packaged meat refers to fresh meat that is processed and packaged at a central facility and delivered to the store ready to be put directly into the meat case.
Background
Traditionally, most meat was shipped as primal cuts from the slaughterhouse to the butcher. Meat was the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%2039 | Code 39 (also known as Alpha39, Code 3 of 9, Code 3/9, Type 39, USS Code 39, or USD-3) is a variable length, discrete barcode symbology defined in ISO/IEC 16388:2007.
The Code 39 specification defines 43 characters, consisting of uppercase letters (A through Z), numeric digits (0 through 9) and a number of special cha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextroscope | The Dextroscope is a medical equipment system that creates a virtual reality (VR) environment in which surgeons can plan neurosurgical and other surgical procedures.
The Dextroscope is designed to show a patient's 3D anatomical relationships and pathology in great detail. Although its main purpose is for planning surg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Barbadian%20flags | This is a list of flags used in Barbados.
National flag
Governmental flags
Military flags
Historical flags
See also
Flag of the British Windward Islands
Flag of the West Indies Federation
National symbols of Barbados
External links
Flag of the prime minister of Barbados
Flag of the governor-general of Barbados
Hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duqqa | Duqqa, du'ah, do'a, or dukkah ( , ) is an Egyptian and Middle Eastern condiment consisting of a mixture of herbs, nuts (usually hazelnut), and spices. It is typically used as a dip with bread or fresh vegetables for an hors d'œuvre. Pre-made versions of duqqa can be bought in the spice markets of Cairo, where they are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit%20Museum | The Shit Museum () is a museum in the province of Piacenza, in the north of Italy, and is reported to be the world's first museum dedicated to faeces. The museum opened on 5 May 2015, having been founded by agricultural businessman Gianantonio Locatelli and three associates.
History
The museum, set in a medieval cast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20accommodation | Neural accommodation or neuronal accommodation occurs when a neuron or muscle cell is depolarised by slowly rising current (ramp depolarisation) in vitro. The Hodgkin–Huxley model also shows accommodation. Sudden depolarisation of a nerve evokes propagated action potential by activating voltage-gated fast sodium channe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument%20of%20periapsis | The argument of periapsis (also called argument of perifocus or argument of pericenter), symbolized as ω, is one of the orbital elements of an orbiting body. Parametrically, ω is the angle from the body's ascending node to its periapsis, measured in the direction of motion.
For specific types of orbits, terms such a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST200%20family | The ST200 is a family of very long instruction word (VLIW) processor cores based on technology jointly developed by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and STMicroelectronics under the name Lx. The main application of the ST200 family is embedded media processing.
Lx architecture
The Lx architecture is closer to the origin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperdeterminant | In algebra, the hyperdeterminant is a generalization of the determinant. Whereas a determinant is a scalar valued function defined on an n × n square matrix, a hyperdeterminant is defined on a multidimensional array of numbers or tensor. Like a determinant, the hyperdeterminant is a homogeneous polynomial with integer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterygopalatine%20ganglion | The pterygopalatine ganglion (aka Meckel's ganglion, nasal ganglion, or sphenopalatine ganglion) is a parasympathetic ganglion in the pterygopalatine fossa. It is one of four parasympathetic ganglia of the head and neck, (the others being the submandibular, otic, and ciliary ganglion).
It is largely innervated by the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Library%20of%20Babel | "The Library of Babel" () is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set.
The story was originally published in Spanish in Borges' 1941 collection of st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillistor | An oscillistor is a semiconductor device, consisting of a semiconductor specimen placed in magnetic field, and a resistor after a power supply. The device produces high-frequency oscillations, which are very close to sinusoidal.
The basic principle of operation is the effect of spiral unsteadiness of electron-hole (p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Machine%20Image | An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a special type of virtual appliance that is used to create a virtual machine within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2"). It serves as the basic unit of deployment for services delivered using EC2.
Overview
Like all virtual appliances, the main component of an AMI is a read-onl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manel%20Mu%C3%B1oz | Manel De Aguas Muñoz (born 10 October 1996 in Barcelona), known artistically as Manel De Aguas, is a Spanish cyborg artist and transpecies activist based in Barcelona, best known for developing and installing weather sensory fins in his head. The fins, formally known as 'Weather Fins', allow him to hear atmospheric pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%27s%20ratio | In materials science and solid mechanics, Poisson's ratio (nu) is a measure of the Poisson effect, the deformation (expansion or contraction) of a material in directions perpendicular to the specific direction of loading. The value of Poisson's ratio is the negative of the ratio of transverse strain to axial strain. F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh%20Awards%20for%20Ornithology | The five Marsh Awards for Ornithology are among over 40 Marsh Awards issued in the United Kingdom by the Marsh Charitable Trust and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), in the field of ornithology.
The Marsh Award for Ornithology
Given:
The Marsh Local Ornithology Award
Given:
The Marsh Award for Innovative ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realization%20%28systems%29 | In systems theory, a realization of a state space model is an implementation of a given input-output behavior. That is, given an input-output relationship, a realization is a quadruple of (time-varying) matrices such that
with describing the input and output of the system at time .
LTI System
For a linear time... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Verona | Project Verona is an experimental research programming language developed by Microsoft and aimed at dealing with memory situations to make other programming languages safer.
The project is being supported by C# project manager Mads Torgensen and Microsoft Research Cambridge research software engineer Juliana Franco. P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20E.%20P.%20Box | George Edward Pelham Box (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
Education and early life
He was born in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winlink | Winlink, or formally, Winlink Global Radio Email (registered US Service Mark), also known as the Winlink 2000 Network, is a worldwide radio messaging system that uses amateur-band radio frequencies and government frequencies to provide radio interconnection services that include email with attachments, position reporti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation%20assessment | Automatic pronunciation assessment is the use of speech recognition to verify the correctness of pronounced speech, as distinguished from manual assessment by an instructor or proctor. Also called speech verification, pronunciation evaluation, and pronunciation scoring, the main application of this technology is comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion | Zion ( Ṣīyyōn, LXX , also variously transliterated Sion, Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon) is a placename in the Hebrew Bible used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole.
The name is found in 2 Samuel (5:7), one of the books of the Hebrew Bible dated to before or close to the mid-6th century BCE.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20display | A plasma display panel (PDP) is a type of flat panel display that uses small cells containing plasma: ionized gas that responds to electric fields. Plasma televisions were the first large (over 32 inches diagonal) flat panel displays to be released to the public.
Until about 2007, plasma displays were commonly used in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertemporal%20choice | Intertemporal choice is the study of the relative value people assign to two or more payoffs at different points in time. This relationship is usually simplified to today and some future date. Intertemporal choice was introduced by John Rae in 1834 in the "Sociological Theory of Capital". Later, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loye%20and%20Alden%20Miller%20Research%20Award | The Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, now known as the AOS Miller Award, was established in 1993 by the Cooper Ornithological Society (COS) to recognize lifetime achievement in ornithological research. The namesakes were Loye H. Miller and his son Alden H. Miller, both of whom focused largely on ornithology.
Sinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella%20d%27Italia | The Stella d'Italia ("Star of Italy"), popularly known as Stellone d'Italia ("Great Star of Italy"), is a five-pointed white star, which has symbolized Italy for many centuries. It is the oldest national symbol of Italy, since it dates back to Graeco-Roman mythology when Venus, associated with the West as an evening st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20Marius%20Clore | G. Marius Clore MAE, FRSC, FRS is a British-born, Anglo-American molecular biophysicist and structural biologist. He was born in London, U.K. and is a dual U.S./U.K. Citizen. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a NIH Distinguished Investigator, and the Chief of the Molecu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Benford | Frank Albert Benford Jr. (July 10, 1883 – December 4, 1948) was an American electrical engineer and physicist best known for rediscovering and generalizing Benford's Law, an earlier statistical statement by Simon Newcomb, about the occurrence of digits in lists of data.
Benford is also known for having devised, in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1%20cipher | The Amazon Kindle e-book reader DRM system uses the PC1 cipher, also called the Kindle cipher or Pukall cipher 1.
History
The PC1 cipher was designed by Alexander Pukall in 1991.
Successors
Caracachs Cipher formerly known as PC3 Cipher was released in 2000.
PC4 was released in 2015. It's a block cipher specifically... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20staging | Disk staging is using disks as an additional, temporary stage of backup process before finally storing backup to tape. Backups stay on disk typically for a day or a week, before being copied to tape in a background process and deleted afterwards.
The process of disk staging is controlled by the same software that per... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg%20of%20Columbus%20%28tangram%20puzzle%29 | The Egg of Columbus (Ei des Columbus in German) is a dissection puzzle consisting of a flat egg-like shape divided into 9 or 10 pieces by straight cuts. The goal of the puzzle is to rearrange the pieces to form other specific shapes, such as animals (see below).
The earliest known examples were produced by German to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudkov%27s%20conjecture | In real algebraic geometry, Gudkov's conjecture, also called Gudkov’s congruence, (named after Dmitry Gudkov) was a conjecture, and is now a theorem, which states that an M-curve of even degree obeys the congruence
where is the number of positive ovals and the number of negative ovals of the M-curve. (Here, the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20difference%20coefficient | In mathematics, to approximate a derivative to an arbitrary order of accuracy, it is possible to use the finite difference. A finite difference can be central, forward or backward.
Central finite difference
This table contains the coefficients of the central differences, for several orders of accuracy and with unif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20states | Surface states are electronic states found at the surface of materials. They are formed due to the sharp transition from solid material that ends with a surface and are found only at the atom layers closest to the surface. The termination of a material with a surface leads to a change of the electronic band structure f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C-law%20algorithm | The μ-law algorithm (sometimes written mu-law, often approximated as u-law) is a companding algorithm, primarily used in 8-bit PCM digital telecommunication systems in North America and Japan. It is one of the two companding algorithms in the G.711 standard from ITU-T, the other being the similar A-law. A-law is used i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERQ | The PERQ, also referred to as the Three Rivers PERQ or ICL PERQ, was a pioneering workstation computer produced in the late 1970s through the early 1980s. In June 1979, the company took its very first order from the UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the computer was officially launched in August 1979 at SIGGRAPH ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam%20and%20Open%20Relay%20Blocking%20System | SORBS ("Spam and Open Relay Blocking System") is a list of e-mail servers suspected of sending or relaying spam (a DNS Blackhole List). It has been augmented with complementary lists that include various other classes of hosts, allowing for customized email rejection by its users.
History
The SORBS DNSbl project was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake%20projective%20space | In mathematics, a fake projective space is a complex algebraic variety that has the same Betti numbers as some projective space, but is not isomorphic to it.
There are exactly 50 fake projective planes. found four examples of fake projective 4-folds, and showed that no arithmetic examples exist in dimensions other th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli%20group | In physics and mathematics, the Pauli group on 1 qubit is the 16-element matrix group consisting of the 2 × 2 identity matrix and all of the Pauli matrices
,
together with the products of these matrices with the factors and :
.
The Pauli group is generated by the Pauli matrices, and like them it is named after Wolfg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SingldOut | SingldOut was an online dating platform that claimed to use genetic testing to identify potential relationship matches. The company marketed its intention to bridge the gap between digital networking and biological compatibility. The service used the professional networking site LinkedIn as well as DNA testing company ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse%20Computing | Multiverse Computing is a Spanish quantum computing software company headquartered in San Sebastian, Spain, with offices in Paris, Munich, London, Toronto and Sherbrooke, Canada. The Spanish startup applies quantum and quantum-inspired algorithms to problems in energy, logistics, manufacturing, mobility, life sciences,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestedness | Nestedness is a measure of structure in an ecological system, usually applied to species-sites systems (describing the distribution of species across locations), or species-species interaction networks (describing the interactions between species, usually as bipartite networks such as hosts-parasites, plants-pollinator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20theorems%20called%20fundamental | In mathematics, a fundamental theorem is a theorem which is considered to be central and conceptually important for some topic. For example, the fundamental theorem of calculus gives the relationship between differential calculus and integral calculus. The names are mostly traditional, so that for example the fundament... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Oil%20Chemists%27%20Society | The American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS) is an international professional organization based in Urbana, Illinois dedicated to providing the support network for those involved with the science and technology related to fats, oils, surfactants, and other related materials.
Founded in 1909, AOCS has approximately 2,000 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%20force | In classical mechanics, the Euler force is the fictitious tangential force
that appears when a non-uniformly rotating reference frame is used for analysis of motion and there is variation in the angular velocity of the reference frame's axes. The Euler acceleration (named for Leonhard Euler), also known as azimuthal ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitelline%20envelope | The insect vitelline envelope is the outer proteinaceous layer outside the oocyte and egg. The vitelline envelope, not being a cellular structure, is commonly referred to as a membrane. However, this is a technical misnomer as the structure is composed of protein and is not a cellular component. It varies in thickness... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TomP2P | TomP2P is a distributed hash table which provides a decentralized key-value infrastructure for distributed applications. Each peer has a table that can be configured either to be disk-based or memory-based to store its values.
Overview and key concept
TomP2P stores key-value pairs in a distributed hash table. To fin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomes%20OnLine%20Database | The Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) is a web-based resource for comprehensive information regarding genome and metagenome sequencing projects, and their associated metadata, around the world. Since 2011, the GOLD database has been run by the DOE Joint Genome Institute
The GOLD database was created in 1997; the first ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OptimJ | OptimJ is an extension for Java with language support for writing optimization models and abstractions for bulk data processing. The extensions and the proprietary product implementing the extensions were developed by Ateji which went out of business in September 2011.
OptimJ aims at providing a clear and concise algeb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Institute%20of%20Biological%20Sciences | The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is a nonprofit scientific public charitable organization. The organization's mission is to promote the use of science to inform decision-making and advance biology for the benefit of science and society.
Overview
AIBS serves as a society of societies. AIBS has o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity%20symbol | The infinity symbol () is a mathematical symbol representing the concept of infinity. This symbol is also called a lemniscate, after the lemniscate curves of a similar shape studied in algebraic geometry, or "lazy eight", in the terminology of livestock branding.
This symbol was first used mathematically by John Walli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creamed%20corn | Creamed corn (which is also known by other names, such as cream-style sweet corn) is a type of creamed vegetable dish made by combining pieces of whole sweetcorn with a soupy liquid of milky residue from immature pulped corn kernels scraped from the cob. Originating in Native American cuisine, it is now most commonly e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20thermodynamic%20relation | In thermodynamics, the fundamental thermodynamic relation are four fundamental equations which demonstrate how four important thermodynamic quantities depend on variables that can be controlled and measured experimentally. Thus, they are essentially equations of state, and using the fundamental equations, experimental ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20calculator | A software calculator is a calculator that has been implemented as a computer program, rather than as a physical hardware device.
They are among the simpler interactive software tools, and, as such, they provide operations for the user to select one at a time. They can be used to perform any process that consists of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20sprint | A design sprint is a time-constrained, five-phase process that uses design thinking with the aim of reducing the risk when bringing a new product, service or a feature to the market. The process aims to help teams to clearly define goals, validate assumptions and decide on a product roadmap before starting development.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOASTA | SOASTA, Inc. is an American subsidiary of Akamai Technologies that provides services to test websites and web applications.
It is a provider of cloud-based testing services, and created a browser-based website testing product. Website tests include load testing, software performance testing, functional testing and use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium%20cycle | The global vanadium cycle is controlled by physical and chemical processes that drive the exchange of vanadium between its two main reservoirs: the upper continental crust and the ocean. Anthropogenic processes such as coal and petroleum production release vanadium to the atmosphere.
Sources
Natural sources
Vanadium... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Bosack | Leonard X. Bosack (born 1952) is a co-founder of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology, and services. His net worth is approximately $200 million. He was awarded the Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2009 for co-fou... |
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