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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby%20colic | Baby colic, also known as infantile colic, is defined as episodes of crying for more than three hours a day, for more than three days a week, for three weeks in an otherwise healthy child. Often crying occurs in the evening. It typically does not result in long-term problems. The crying can result in frustration of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Drury%20%28mathematician%29 | Stephen William Drury is a Anglo-Canadian mathematician and professor of mathematics at McGill University. He specializes in mathematical analysis, harmonic analysis and linear algebra. He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1970 under the supervision of Nicholas Varopoulos and completed his pos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient | A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health care provider.
Etymology
The word patient originally meant 'one who suffers'. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniofacial%20regeneration | Craniofacial regeneration refers to the biological process by which the skull and face regrow to heal an injury. This page covers birth defects and injuries related to the craniofacial region, the mechanisms behind the regeneration, the medical application of these processes, and the scientific research conducted on th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-pointed%20category | In category theory, a category with a terminal object is well-pointed if for every pair of arrows such that , there is an arrow such that . (The arrows are called the global elements or points of the category; a well-pointed category is thus one that has "enough points" to distinguish non-equal arrows.)
See also
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollweide%27s%20formula | In trigonometry, Mollweide's formula is a pair of relationships between sides and angles in a triangle.
A variant in more geometrical style was first published by Isaac Newton in 1707 and then by in 1746. Thomas Simpson published the now-standard expression in 1748. Karl Mollweide republished the same result in 1808 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Digital%20Library | The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded by the University of California in 1997. Under the leadership of then UC President Richard C. Atkinson, the CDL's original mission was to forge a better system for scholarly information management and improved support for teaching and research. In collaboration with the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Mobile | Windows Mobile was a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and personal digital assistants.
Its origin dated back to Windows CE in 1996, though Windows Mobile itself first appeared in 2000 as Pocket PC 2000 which ran on Pocket PC PDAs. It was renamed "Windows Mobile" in 2003, at whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20respiration | Community respiration (CR) refers to the total amount of carbon-dioxide that is produced by individuals organisms in a given
community, originating from the cellular respiration of organic material. CR is an important ecological index as it dictates the amount
of production for the higher trophic levels and influence b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythema%20nodosum | Erythema nodosum (EN) is an inflammatory condition characterized by inflammation of the fat cells under the skin, resulting in tender red nodules or lumps that are usually seen on both shins. It can be caused by a variety of conditions, and typically resolves spontaneously within 30 days. It is common in young people a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20test%20software | Enterprise test software (ETS) is a type of software that electronics and other manufacturers use to standardize product testing enterprise-wide, rather than simply in the test engineering department. It is designed to integrate and synchronize test systems to other enterprise functions such as research and development... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluentgrid | Fluentgrid (formerly Phoenix IT Solutions) is an Indian software product company, which was founded in 1998. It provides digital transformation services for power, water, and gas distribution utilities and smart cities and communities. The company received the 2012 IBM Beacon Award and was also the winner of the Fierc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic%20diagrams | Thermodynamic diagrams are diagrams used to represent the thermodynamic states of a material (typically fluid) and the consequences of manipulating this material. For instance, a temperature–entropy diagram (T–s diagram) may be used to demonstrate the behavior of a fluid as it is changed by a compressor.
Overview
Es... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrohydraulic%20servo%20valve | An electrohydraulic servo valve (EHSV) is an electrically-operated valve that controls how hydraulic fluid is sent to an actuator. Servo valves are often used to control powerful hydraulic cylinders with a very small electrical signal. Servo valves can provide precise control of position, velocity, pressure, and force ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91-Pinene | α-Pinene is an organic compound of the terpene class. It is one of the two isomers of pinene, the other being β-pinene. An alkene, it contains a reactive four-membered ring. It is found in the oils of many species of many coniferous trees, notably the pine. It is also found in the essential oil of rosemary (Rosmarinus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species%20Survival%20Plan | The American Species Survival Plan or SSP program was developed in 1981 by the (American) Association of Zoos and Aquariums to help ensure the survival of selected species in zoos and aquariums, most of which are threatened or endangered in the wild.
SSP program
SSP programs focus on animals that are near threatened, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautochrone%20curve | A tautochrone curve or isochrone curve (from Greek prefixes tauto- meaning same or iso- equal, and chrono time) is the curve for which the time taken by an object sliding without friction in uniform gravity to its lowest point is independent of its starting point on the curve. The curve is a cycloid, and the time is e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/275%20%28number%29 | 275 is the natural number following 274 and preceding 276.
In mathematics
275 is an odd composite number with 2 prime factors.
275 is equivalent to the number of partitions of 28 when no partition occurs only once. Partitions are the number of ways of writing a number as a sum of other positive integers.
275 is the su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20%28Mega%20Man%20X%29 | is the main antagonist of the Mega Man X video game series. Created by Dr. Cain, Sigma was considered the finest of the Reploids and was the first leader of the Maverick Hunters, peacekeeping androids who defend humans against their renegade counterparts. Although he was once respectable, Sigma unexpectedly goes berser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective%20reabsorption | Selective reabsorption is the process whereby certain molecules (e.g. ions, glucose and amino acids), after being filtered out of the capillaries along with nitrogenous waste products (i.e. urea) and water in the glomerulus, are reabsorbed from the filtrate as they pass through the nephron.
Selective reabsorbtion occur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20story | In software development and product management, a user story is an informal, natural language description of features of a software system. They are written from the perspective of an end user or user of a system, and may be recorded on index cards, Post-it notes, or digitally in project management software. Depending ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosteroid | Neurosteroids, also known as neuroactive steroids, are endogenous or exogenous steroids that rapidly alter neuronal excitability through interaction with ligand-gated ion channels and other cell surface receptors. The term neurosteroid was coined by the French physiologist Étienne-Émile Baulieu and refers to steroids s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HydroGeoSphere | HydroGeoSphere (HGS) is a 3D control-volume finite element groundwater model, and is based on a rigorous conceptualization of the hydrologic system consisting of surface and subsurface flow regimes. The model is designed to take into account all key components of the hydrologic cycle. For each time step, the model solv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20economy | Neutron economy is defined as the ratio of excess neutron production divided by the rate of fission. The numbers are a weighted average based primarily on the energies of the neutrons.
Nuclear fission is a process in which the nuclei of atoms are split apart. Among the various particles released in this process are hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare%20particle | In theoretical physics, a bare particle is an excitation of an elementary quantum field. Such a particle is not identical to the particles observed in experiments: the real particles are dressed particles that also include additional particles surrounding the bare one.
Quantum field theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algaculture | Algaculture is a form of aquaculture involving the farming of species of algae.
The majority of algae that are intentionally cultivated fall into the category of microalgae (also referred to as phytoplankton, microphytes, or planktonic algae). Macroalgae, commonly known as seaweed, also have many commercial and indust... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBU%20%28radio%20station%29 | RBU is a time code radio station located in Moscow (). It transmits a continuous 10 kW time code on 66⅔ kHz. This is commonly written as 66.66 or 66.666 kHz, but is actually 200/3 kHz. Until 2008, the transmitter site was near Kupavna and used as antenna three T-antennas spun between three 150 metres tall grounded mas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Lights%20Local%20Exchange%20Point | The Northern Lights Local Exchange Point (NLLXP) is a free Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States. The NLLXP public peering exchange is closely linked with the Northern Lights GigaPoP (NLG), an Internet2 project of the University of Minnesota Office of Information and Technology: ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-Methylcytosine | 5-Methylcytosine is a methylated form of the DNA base cytosine (C) that regulates gene transcription and takes several other biological roles. When cytosine is methylated, the DNA maintains the same sequence, but the expression of methylated genes can be altered (the study of this is part of the field of epigenetics). ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitnikov%20problem | The Sitnikov problem is a restricted version of the three-body problem named after Russian mathematician Kirill Alexandrovitch Sitnikov that attempts to describe the movement of three celestial bodies due to their mutual gravitational attraction. A special case of the Sitnikov problem was first discovered by the Americ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20synchronization | Phase synchronization is the process by which two or more cyclic signals tend to oscillate with a repeating sequence of relative phase angles.
Phase synchronisation is usually applied to two waveforms of the same frequency with identical phase angles with each cycle. However it can be applied if there is an integer re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoline%20Yellow%20WS | Quinoline Yellow WS is a mixture of organic compounds derived from the dye Quinoline Yellow SS (spirit soluble). Owing to the presence of sulfonate groups, the WS dyes are water-soluble (WS). It is a mixture of disulfonates (principally), monosulfonates and trisulfonates of 2-(2-quinolyl)indan-1,3-dione with a maximu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackelhahn | The rackelhahn or rackelwild is a hybrid between the western capercaillie and the black grouse. It is likely unable to produce offspring in the wild.
Tetraonini
Birds of Europe
Grouse
Bird hybrids
Intergeneric hybrids |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraxial%20approximation | In geometric optics, the paraxial approximation is a small-angle approximation used in Gaussian optics and ray tracing of light through an optical system (such as a lens).
A paraxial ray is a ray which makes a small angle (θ) to the optical axis of the system, and lies close to the axis throughout the system. Generall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DayCent | Daycent is a daily time series biogeochemical model used in agroecosystems to simulate fluxes of carbon and nitrogen between the atmosphere, vegetation, and soil. It is a daily version of the CENTURY biogeochemical model.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Department of Agriculture/ARS a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntrophobacter | Syntrophobacter is a genus of bacteria from the family of Syntrophobacteraceae. Syntrophobacter have the ability to grow on propionate. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghevont%20Alishan |
Ghevont Alishan () (July 6, 1820 – November 9, 1901) also spelled Ghevond Alishan, or Leonzio Alishan in Italian or Léonce Alichan in French) was an ordained Armenian Catholic priest, historian and a poet. He was awarded by the Legion of Honour of the French Academy (1866), an honorary member of the Asian Society of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20CAD%2C%20CAM%2C%20and%20CAE%20file%20viewers | This is an overview of notable viewers for files, that are produced by Computer aided design (CAD), Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and Computer-aided engineering (CAE) applications.
Comparison of notable CAD/CAM/CAE file viewers
See also
Comparison of computer-aided design software
List of CAD file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%20type%20inclusion | B-type inclusions, formerly known as Guarnieri bodies are cellular features found upon microscopic inspection of epithelial cells of individuals suspected of having poxvirus (e.g. smallpox or vaccinia). In cells stained with eosin, they appear as pink blobs in the cytoplasm of affected epithelial cells. The absence of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate%20biopsy | Prostate biopsy is a procedure in which small hollow needle-core samples are removed from a man's prostate gland to be examined for the presence of prostate cancer. It is typically performed when the result from a PSA blood test is high. It may also be considered advisable after a digital rectal exam (DRE) finds possi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20visual%20display | An electronic visual display, informally a screen, is a display device for presentation of images, text, or video transmitted electronically, without producing a permanent record. Electronic visual displays include television sets, computer monitors, and digital signage. By the above definition, an overhead projector ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavoatrial%20junction | The cavoatrial junction (CAJ) is the point at which the superior vena cava meets and melds into the superior wall of the cardiac right atrium. Both the superior and inferior vena cavae enter the right atrium, but only the superior entry is called the cavoatrial junction. This junction marks the inferior end of the supe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Chlorokynurenic%20acid | 7-Chlorokynurenic acid (7-CKA) is a tool compound that acts as a potent and selective competitive antagonist of the glycine site of the NMDA receptor. It produces ketamine-like rapid antidepressant effects in animal models of depression. However, 7-CKA is unable to cross the blood-brain-barrier, and for this reason, is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetry | Asymmetry is the absence of, or a violation of, symmetry (the property of an object being invariant to a transformation, such as reflection). Symmetry is an important property of both physical and abstract systems and it may be displayed in precise terms or in more aesthetic terms. The absence of or violation of symmet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMA-ES | Covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES) is a particular kind of strategy for numerical optimization. Evolution strategies (ES) are stochastic, derivative-free methods for numerical optimization of non-linear or non-convex continuous optimization problems. They belong to the class of evolutionary algor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror%20blocks | The Mirror Blocks, also known as the Mirror Cube and Bump Cube, is a type of combination puzzle and shape modification of the standard 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube and was invented in 2006. The puzzle's internal mechanism is nearly identical to that of the Rubik's Cube, although it differs from normal 3×3 cubes in that all piece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zariski%E2%80%93Riemann%20space | In algebraic geometry, a Zariski–Riemann space or Zariski space of a subring k of a field K is a locally ringed space whose points are valuation rings containing k and contained in K. They generalize the Riemann surface of a complex curve.
Zariski–Riemann spaces were introduced by who (rather confusingly) called the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaan%20Cornelis%20Zaanen | Adriaan Cornelis "Aad" Zaanen (14 June 1913 in Rotterdam – 1 April 2003 in Wassenaar) was a Dutch mathematician working in analysis. He is known for his books on Riesz spaces (together with Wim Luxemburg).
Biography
Zaanen was born in Rotterdam, where he attended the Hogere Burgerschool. He graduated in 1930 with exce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylglycine | Trimethylglycine is an amino acid derivative that occurs in plants. Trimethylglycine was the first betaine discovered; originally it was simply called betaine because, in the 19th century, it was discovered in sugar beets (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris).
Medical uses
Betaine, sold under the brand name Cystadane among... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20F.%20Thompson | Richard Frederick Thompson (September 6, 1930 – September 16, 2014) was an American behavioral neuroscientist. He was the William M. Keck Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California, with a parallel appointment as professor of neurology. Thompson was known for his groundbrea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20%C3%89mile%20Appell | M. P. Appell is the same person: it stands for Monsieur Paul Appell.
Paul Émile Appell (27 September 1855, in Strasbourg – 24 October 1930, in Paris) was a French mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. Appell polynomials and Appell's equations of motion are named after him, as is rue Paul Appell in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%20Macchiarini | Paolo Macchiarini (born 22 August 1958) is a Swiss-born Italian thoracic surgeon and former regenerative medicine researcher who became known for research fraud and manipulative behavior. He has been convicted of research-related crimes in Italy and Sweden.
Previously considered a pioneer for using both biological and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Play | Google Play, also known as the Google Play Store and formerly Android Market, is a digital distribution service operated and developed by Google. It serves as the official app store for certified devices running on the Android operating system and its derivatives, as well as ChromeOS, allowing users to browse and downl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Henri%20L%C3%A9onard%20Pirenne | Maurice Henri Léonard Pirenne (30 May 1912, Verviers–11 October 1978, Oxford) was a Belgian scientist known for his work in vision physiology.
Early life and education
Pirenne was born to Maria (née Duesberg) and artist Maurice Lucien Henri Joseph Marie Pirenne on 30 May 1912 in Verviers, Belgium. His uncles were med... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective%20mass%20%28solid-state%20physics%29 | In solid state physics, a particle's effective mass (often denoted ) is the mass that it seems to have when responding to forces, or the mass that it seems to have when interacting with other identical particles in a thermal distribution. One of the results from the band theory of solids is that the movement of particl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippotragine%20gammaherpesvirus%201 | Hippotragine gammaherpesvirus 1 (HiHV-1) is a species of virus in the genus Macavirus, subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyer%20Animal%20Creations | Breyer Animal Creations (commonly referred to as simply Breyer) is primarily a manufacturer of model horses. Founded in 1950, the company, now a division of Reeves International, Inc, specializes in model horses made from cellulose acetate, a form of plastic, and produces other animal models from the same material as w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-mass%20system | In mechanics, a variable-mass system is a collection of matter whose mass varies with time. It can be confusing to try to apply Newton's second law of motion directly to such a system. Instead, the time dependence of the mass m can be calculated by rearranging Newton's second law and adding a term to account for the mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate%20Structure%20Database | Carbohydrate Structure Database (CSDB) is a free curated database and service platform in glycoinformatics, launched in 2005 by a group of Russian scientists from N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences. CSDB stores published structural, taxonomical, bibliographic and NMR-spectroscopic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroelongated%20pentagonal%20birotunda | In geometry, the gyroelongated pentagonal birotunda is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by gyroelongating a pentagonal birotunda (either or the icosidodecahedron) by inserting a decagonal antiprism between its two halves.
The gyroelongated pentagonal birotunda is one of five J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superb%20Internet | Superb Internet Technologies is a web hosting and Internet domain registrar company in business since 1996. According to Netcraft's January 2008 statistics, Superb Internet hosts over 340,000 unique sites, making it one of the world's 60 largest web hosts. Services offered by Superb Internet include basic web hosting, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artade | ARTADE (ARabidopsis Tiling Array-based Detection of Exons) is a database for the annotation of genome-wide tiling-array data in Arabidopsis
See also
DNA microarray |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReDigi | ReDigi was an online marketplace for used digital music, eBooks, games, apps, and software. It claims to be the only cloud storage service that verifies whether each digital file uploaded for storage was legally acquired from an eligible source. ReDigi's Cloud and Marketplace only accept lawfully purchased digital med... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSR3 | TSR3, or TSR3 Ribosome Maturation Factor, is a hypothetical human protein found on chromosome 16. Its protein is 312 amino acids long and its cDNA has 1214 base pairs. It was previously designated C16orf42.
Function
The function of C16orf42 is unknown. It is predicted to be a transmembrane protein, however the cellul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringent%20response | The stringent response, also called stringent control, is a stress response of bacteria and plant chloroplasts in reaction to amino-acid starvation, fatty acid limitation, iron limitation, heat shock and other stress conditions. The stringent response is signaled by the alarmone (p)ppGpp, and modulates transcription o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitability%20of%20K-type%20main-sequence%20star%20systems | K-type main-sequence stars, also known as orange dwarfs, may be candidates for supporting extraterrestrial life. These stars are known as "Goldilocks stars" as they emit enough radiation in the non-UV ray spectrum to provide a temperature that allows liquid water to exist on the surface of a planet; they also remain st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20capacitance | Differential capacitance in physics, electronics, and electrochemistry is a measure of the voltage-dependent capacitance of a nonlinear capacitor, such as an electrical double layer or a semiconductor diode. It is defined as the derivative of charge with respect to potential.
Description
In electrochemistry differen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostow%20rigidity%20theorem | In mathematics, Mostow's rigidity theorem, or strong rigidity theorem, or Mostow–Prasad rigidity theorem, essentially states that the geometry of a complete, finite-volume hyperbolic manifold of dimension greater than two is determined by the fundamental group and hence unique. The theorem was proven for closed manifo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%20cage | A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure used to block electromagnetic fields. A Faraday shield may be formed by a continuous covering of conductive material, or in the case of a Faraday cage, by a mesh of such materials. Faraday cages are named after scientist Michael Faraday, who invented them in 1836.
A Far... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHANK3 | SH3 and multiple ankyrin repeat domains 3 (Shank3), also known as proline-rich synapse-associated protein 2 (ProSAP2), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SHANK3 gene on chromosome 22. Additional isoforms have been described for this gene but they have not yet been experimentally verified.
Function
This g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor | A memristor (; a portmanteau of memory resistor) is a non-linear two-terminal electrical component relating electric charge and magnetic flux linkage. It was described and named in 1971 by Leon Chua, completing a theoretical quartet of fundamental electrical components which also comprises the resistor, capacitor and i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Communications%20Riser | The Advanced Communications Riser, or ACR, is a form factor and technical specification for PC motherboard expansion slots. It is meant as a supplement to PCI slots, a replacement for the original Audio/modem riser (AMR) slots, and a competitor and alternative to Intel's communications and networking riser (CNR) slots.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeoviscous%20adaptation | Homeoviscous adaptation is the adaptation of the cell membrane lipid composition to keep the adequate membrane fluidity.
The maintenance of proper cell membrane fluidity is of critical importance for the function and integrity of the cell, essential for the mobility and function of embedded proteins and lipids, diffus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20t%20intron | Plasmid vectors are circular strands of DNA, found in virions, that are used in genetic engineering to integrate new genes into a host cell genome.
The small T intron is an intron, that is used in some plasmid vectors, in order to induce gene expression in mammalian cells.
Function
The function of this intron in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-high-density%20cable%20interconnect | A very-high-density cable interconnect (VHDCI) is a 68-pin connector that was introduced in the SPI-2 document of SCSI-3. The VHDCI connector is a very small connector that allows placement of four wide SCSI connectors on the back of a single PCI card slot. Physically, it looks like a miniature Centronics type connecto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Harbisson | Neil Harbisson (27 July 1982) is a Spanish-raised British-Irish-American cyborg artist and activist for transpecies rights. He is best known for being the first person in the world with an antenna implanted in his skull. Since 2004, international media has described him as the world's first legally recognised cyborg an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic%20food%20environment | A food environment is the "physical presence of food that affects a person’s diet, a person’s proximity to food store locations, the distribution of food stores, food service, and any physical entity by which food may be obtained, or a connected system that allows access to food".
The term toxic food environment was c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing | Ageing (or aging in American English) is the process of becoming older. The term refers mainly to humans, many other animals, and fungi, whereas for example, bacteria, perennial plants and some simple animals are potentially biologically immortal. In a broader sense, ageing can refer to single cells within an organism ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%2021164 | The Alpha 21164, also known by its code name, EV5, is a microprocessor developed and fabricated by Digital Equipment Corporation that implemented the Alpha instruction set architecture (ISA). It was introduced in January 1995, succeeding the Alpha 21064A as Digital's flagship microprocessor. It was succeeded by the Alp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound%20research%20interface | An ultrasound research interface (URI) is a software tool loaded onto a diagnostic clinical ultrasound device which provides functionality beyond typical clinical modes of operation.
A normal clinical ultrasound user only has access to the ultrasound data in its final processed form, typically a B-Mode image, in DICO... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinstein%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Weinstein conjecture refers to a general existence problem for periodic orbits of Hamiltonian or Reeb vector flows. More specifically, the conjecture claims that on a compact contact manifold, its Reeb vector field should carry at least one periodic orbit.
By definition, a level set of contact type... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfigurement | Disfigurement is the state of having one's appearance deeply and persistently harmed medically, such as from a disease, birth defect, or wound. General societal attitudes towards disfigurement have varied greatly across cultures and over time, with cultures possessing strong social stigma against it often causing psych... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiCortex | SiCortex was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in 2003 and headquartered in Clock Tower Place,
Maynard, Massachusetts. On 27 May 2009, HPCwire reported that the company had shut down its operations, laid off most of its staff, and is seeking a buyer for its assets. The Register reported that Gerbsman Partners was h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-machine%20scheduling | Single-machine scheduling or single-resource scheduling is an optimization problem in computer science and operations research. We are given n jobs J1, J2, ..., Jn of varying processing times, which need to be scheduled on a single machine, in a way that optimizes a certain objective, such as the throughput.
Single-ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed%20field%20gradient | A pulsed field gradient is a short, timed pulse with spatial-dependent field intensity. Any gradient is identified by four characteristics: axis, strength, shape and duration.
Pulsed field gradient (PFG) techniques are key to magnetic resonance imaging, spatially selective spectroscopy and studies of diffusion via dif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillai%27s%20arithmetical%20function | In number theory, the gcd-sum function,
also called Pillai's arithmetical function, is defined for every by
or equivalently
where is a divisor of and is Euler's totient function.
it also can be written as
where, is the divisor function, and is the Möbius function.
This multiplicative arithmetical function wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt%20criticality | In nuclear engineering, prompt criticality describes a nuclear fission event in which criticality (the threshold for an exponentially growing nuclear fission chain reaction) is achieved with prompt neutrons alone and does not rely on delayed neutrons. As a result, prompt supercriticality causes a much more rapid growt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymic%20mimetic%20cells | Thymic mimetic cells are a heterogeneous population of cells located in the thymus that exhibit phenotypes of a wide variety of differentiated peripheral cells. They arise from medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs) and also function in negative selection of self-reactive T cells.
History
Some subsets of these cel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candido%27s%20identity | __notoc__
Candido's identity, named after the Italian mathematician Giacomo Candido, is an identity for real numbers. It states that for two arbitrary real numbers and the following equality holds:
The identity however is not restricted to real numbers but holds in every commutative ring.
Candido originally devise... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frictional%20contact%20mechanics | Contact mechanics is the study of the deformation of solids that touch each other at one or more points. This can be divided into compressive and adhesive forces in the direction perpendicular to the interface, and frictional forces in the tangential direction. Frictional contact mechanics is the study of the deformati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Soldier%20%28video%20game%29 | is a shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo Entertainment System and the MSX. The player pilots the starship "Caesar", travelling through space stations occupied by powerful supercomputers known as "Starbrains" who threaten the galactic empire. Star Soldier greatly resembles the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20ribbon | The yellow ribbon is used for various purposes. It may be worn on a person, placed on a vehicle, around a tree, or for a neck tie.
History and etymology
Early Puritan history
The song/poem "She wore a yellow ribbon" has appeared in various forms for at least four centuries. It is based upon the same general theme: A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic%20entomology | Economic entomology is a field of entomology, which involves the study of insects that benefit or harm humans, domestic animals, and crops. Insects that pose disadvantages are considered pests. Some species can cause indirect damage by spreading diseases, and these are termed as disease vectors. Those that are benefici... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munc-13 | Munc-13 (an acronym for mammalian uncoordinated-13) is a protein which complexes with RIM and likely comprises part of cellular structure which anchors synaptic vesicles. Its activation by DAG seems to be important for maintaining high rate of synaptic release during prolonged repetitive stimulation. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials%20with%20memory | In continuum physics, materials with memory, also referred as materials with hereditary effects are a class of materials whose constitutive equations contains a dependence upon the past history of thermodynamic, kinetic, electromagnetic or other kind of state variables.
Historical notes
The study of these materials ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20load%20testing | The term load testing is used in different ways in the professional software testing community. Load testing generally refers to the practice of modeling the expected usage of a software program by simulating multiple users accessing the program concurrently. As such, this testing is most relevant for multi-user system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Information%20Assurance%20Training%20and%20Education%20Center | The National Information Assurance Training and Education Center (NIATEC) is an American consortium of academic, industry, and government organizations to improve the literacy, awareness, training and education standards in Information Assurance. It serves to develop professionals with IA expertise in various disciplin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-impact%20hypothesis | The giant-impact hypothesis, sometimes called the Big Splash, or the Theia Impact, suggests that the Moon was formed from the ejecta of a collision between the early Earth and a Mars-sized planet, approximately 4.5 billion years ago in the Hadean eon (about 20 to 100 million years after the Solar System coalesced). The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicate%20perovskite | Silicate perovskite is either (the magnesium end-member is called bridgmanite) or (calcium silicate known as davemaoite) when arranged in a perovskite structure. Silicate perovskites are not stable at Earth's surface, and mainly exist in the lower part of Earth's mantle, between about depth. They are thought to form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology%3A%20Can%20We%20Survive%20Under%20Capitalism%3F | Ecology: Can We Survive Under Capitalism? is a book by Gus Hall, published in 1972 by International Publishers.
Reception
The book received reviews from publications including Ecology Law Quarterly and Labour Monthly.
A review from Labour Monthly written by John Moss stated that "A book on ecology written by the gen... |
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