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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20domestication%20and%20management%20in%20the%20Philippines | Domesticated animals in the Philippines include pigs, chickens, water buffalo, goats, cats, and dogs. Domestication is when a species is selectively bred to produce certain traits that are seen as desirable. Some desirable traits include quicker growth and maturity, increased fertility, adaptability to various conditio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEUP | GEUP is a commercial interactive geometry software program, similar to Cabri Geometry. Originally using the Spanish language, it was programmed by Ramón
Alvarez Galván. Recent versions include support for three-dimensional geometry. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew%20abbreviations | Abbreviations () are a common part of the Hebrew language, with many organizations, places, people and concepts known by their abbreviations.
Typography
Acronyms in Hebrew use a special punctuation mark called gershayim (). This mark is placed between the last two letters of the non-inflected form of the acronym (e.g.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McStas | McStas is free and open-source (GNU Public License) software simulator for neutron scattering experiments. McStas is an abbreviation for Monte carlo Simulation of triple axis spectrometers, but the software can be used to simulate all types of neutron scattering instruments. The software is based on both Monte Carlo m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20science | Animal science is described as "studying the biology of animals that are under the control of humankind". It can also be described as the production and management of farm animals. Historically, the degree was called animal husbandry and the animals studied were livestock species, like cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-generation%20wavelet%20transform | In signal processing, the second-generation wavelet transform (SGWT) is a wavelet transform where the filters (or even the represented wavelets) are not designed explicitly, but the transform consists of the application of the Lifting scheme.
Actually, the sequence of lifting steps could be converted to a regular discr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation%20equation | In mathematics, a summation equation or discrete integral equation is an equation in which an unknown function appears under a summation sign. The theories of summation equations and integral equations can be unified as integral equations on time scales using time scale calculus. A summation equation compares to a diff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal%20testosterone%20transfer | Prenatal Testosterone Transfer (also known as prenatal androgen transfer or prenatal hormone transfer) refers to the phenomenon in which testosterone synthesized by a developing male fetus transfers to one or more developing fetuses within the womb and influences development. This typically results in the partial mascu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIP2%20experiment | The VIP2 experiment (Violation of the Pauli Principle) is an atomic physics experiment studying the possible violation of the Pauli exclusion principle for electrons. The experiment is located in the underground laboratory of Gran Sasso, LNGS-INFN, near the town L'Aquila in Italy. It is run by an international collabor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairing%20function | In mathematics, a pairing function is a process to uniquely encode two natural numbers into a single natural number.
Any pairing function can be used in set theory to prove that integers and rational numbers have the same cardinality as natural numbers.
Definition
A pairing function is a bijection
More generally, a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency%20Symbols%20%28Unicode%20block%29 | Currency Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing unique monetary signs. Many currency signs can be found in other Unicode blocks, especially when the currency symbol is unique to a country that uses a script not generally used outside that country.
The display of Unicode currency symbols amon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20ichthyology | This glossary of ichthyology is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in ichthyology, the study of fishes.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth-table%20reduction | In computability theory, a truth-table reduction is a reduction from one set of natural numbers to another.
As a "tool", it is weaker than Turing reduction, since not every Turing reduction between sets can be performed by a truth-table reduction, but every truth-table reduction can be performed by a Turing reduction. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20IP%20address | A virtual IP address (VIP or VIPA) is an IP address that does not correspond to a physical network interface. Uses for VIPs include network address translation (especially, one-to-many NAT), fault-tolerance, and mobility.
Usage
For one-to-many NAT, a VIP address is advertised from the NAT device (often a router), an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WakaWaka | WakaWaka is a global social enterprise that developed and sold portable solar products for people without access to electricity. The company was founded in 2012 by Maurits Groen and Camille van Gestel. WakaWaka means “shine bright” in Swahili. For every WakaWaka purchased, one solar light was donated to a family living... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer%20analysis | In geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis, buffer analysis is the determination of a zone around a geographic feature containing locations that are within a specified distance of that feature, the buffer zone (or just buffer). A buffer is likely the most commonly used tool within the proximity analys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar%27s%20H-function | In atmospheric radiation, Chandrasekhar's H-function appears as the solutions of problems involving scattering, introduced by the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The Chandrasekhar's H-function defined in the interval , satisfies the following nonlinear integral equation
where the characteri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYNAMO%20%28programming%20language%29 | DYNAMO (DYNAmic MOdels) is a simulation language and accompanying graphical notation developed within the system dynamics analytical framework. It was originally for industrial dynamics but was soon extended to other applications, including population and resource studies
and urban planning.
DYNAMO was initially deve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP%20hole%20punching | UDP hole punching is a commonly used technique employed in network address translation (NAT) applications for maintaining User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packet streams that traverse the NAT. NAT traversal techniques are typically required for client-to-client networking applications on the Internet involving hosts connec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically%20modified%20food%20controversies | Genetically modified food controversies are disputes over the use of foods and other goods derived from genetically modified crops instead of conventional crops, and other uses of genetic engineering in food production. The disputes involve consumers, farmers, biotechnology companies, governmental regulators, non-gover... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Seeger | Andreas Seeger is a mathematician who works in the field of harmonic analysis. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his PhD from Technische Universität Darmstadt in 1985 under the supervision of Walter Trebels.
He was elected a fellow of the American Mathematical Society... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy | Myco-heterotrophy (from Greek μύκης , "fungus", ἕτερος , "another", "different" and τροφή , "nutrition") is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. A myco-heterotroph is the parasitic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%20Beacon | Beacon formed part of Facebook's advertisement system that sent data from external websites to Facebook, for the purpose of allowing targeted advertisements and allowing users to share their activities with their friends. Beacon reported to Facebook on Facebook's members' activities on third-party sites that also parti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20History%20of%20the%20Mind | A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness is a 1992 book about the mind–body problem by the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey. Humphrey advances a hypothesis about consciousness that has been criticised as speculative.
Summary
Humphrey describes his book as "a partial history of a part of what cons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deleveraging | At the micro-economic level, deleveraging refers to the reduction of the leverage ratio, or the percentage of debt in the balance sheet of a single economic entity, such as a household or a firm. It is the opposite of leveraging, which is the practice of borrowing money to acquire assets and multiply gains and losses.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/160th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 160° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 160th meridian east forms a great circle with the 20th meridian west.
In Antarctica, the meridian defines the border b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered%20Bell%20number | In number theory and enumerative combinatorics, the ordered Bell numbers or Fubini numbers count the number of weak orderings on a set of elements. Weak orderings arrange their elements into a sequence allowing ties, such as might arise as the outcome of a horse race). Starting from , these numbers are
The ordered Be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20diffusion%20test | The disk diffusion test (also known as the agar diffusion test, Kirby–Bauer test, disc-diffusion antibiotic susceptibility test, disc-diffusion antibiotic sensitivity test and KB test) is a culture-based microbiology assay used in diagnostic and drug discovery laboratories. In diagnostic labs, the assay is used to det... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20graph%20%28layout%29 | In some tasks of integrated circuit layout design a necessity arises to optimize placement of non-overlapping objects in the plane. In general this problem is extremely hard, and to tackle it with computer algorithms, certain assumptions are made about admissible placements and about operations allowed in placement mod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20Handling%20System | Message Handling System (MHS) is an important early email protocol developed by Action Technologies, Inc. (ATI) in 1986. Novell licensed it in 1988 then later bought it.
Email clients
A wide variety of email clients used MHS, including:
Para-Mail - Paradox Development introduced version 2.0 along with Novell at Comde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostafa%20El-Sayed | Mostafa A. El-Sayed (Arabic: مصطفى السيد) is an Egyptian-American physical chemist, a leading nanoscience researcher, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a US National Medal of Science laureate. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physical Chemistry during a critical period of growth. He is also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canna%20leaf%20roller | Canna leaf roller refers to two different Lepidoptera species that are pests of cultivated cannas. Caterpillars of the Brazilian skipper butterfly (Calpodes ethlius), also known as the larger canna leaf roller, cut the leaves and roll them over to live inside while pupating and eating the leaf. In addition, caterpilla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20American%20Interchange | The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America via Central America to S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePack | MessagePack is a computer data interchange format. It is a binary form for representing simple data structures like arrays and associative arrays. MessagePack aims to be as compact and simple as possible. The official implementation is available in a variety of languages such as C, C++, C#, D, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch%20migration | Branch migration is the process by which base pairs on homologous DNA strands are consecutively exchanged at a Holliday junction, moving the branch point up or down the DNA sequence. Branch migration is the second step of genetic recombination, following the exchange of two single strands of DNA between two homologous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz%20crystal%20microbalance%20with%20dissipation%20monitoring | Within surface science, a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) is a type of quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) based on the ring-down technique. It is used in interfacial acoustic sensing. Its most common application is the determination of a film thickness in a liquid environment (such as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags%20of%20international%20organizations | This article contains a list of flags of international organizations.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Kagan | Veniamin Fyodorovich Kagan (; 10 March 1869 – 8 May 1953) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician and expert in geometry. He is the maternal grandfather of mathematicians Yakov Sinai and Grigory Barenblatt.
Biography
Kagan was born in Shavli, in the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Šiauliai, Lithuania) in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abivax | Abivax SA is a French clinical-stage, publicly traded biotechnology company harnessing the immune system to develop novel treatments against inflammatory diseases, viral diseases and cancer. The company is headquartered in Paris, France and closely cooperates with the CNRS Collaborative Laboratory in Montpellier, Fran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20North%20American%20E.%20coli%20O157%3AH7%20outbreaks | In 2006, there were several outbreaks of foodborne illness from spinach and lettuce contaminated by E. coli O157:H7.
Spinach
The initial outbreak occurred in September 2006 and its probable origin was an Angus cattle ranch that had leased land to a spinach grower (growing under organic practices). At least 205 consum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation%20of%20Agrifood | The Federation of Agrifood (, FEAGRA) was a trade union representing workers in food production and processing in Spain.
The union was established in 2000, when the Federation of Food Processing merged with the Federation of Agriculture. Like both its predecessors, it affiliated to the Workers' Commissions. In 2016,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artin%E2%80%93Tate%20lemma | In algebra, the Artin–Tate lemma, named after Emil Artin and John Tate, states:
Let A be a commutative Noetherian ring and commutative algebras over A. If C is of finite type over A and if C is finite over B, then B is of finite type over A.
(Here, "of finite type" means "finitely generated algebra" and "finite" means... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaved%20amplified%20polymorphic%20sequence | The cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) method is a technique in molecular biology for the analysis of genetic markers. It is an extension to the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) method, using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to more quickly analyse the results.
Like RFLP, CAPS works on the pri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisavirus | Brisavirus (isolate LC KY052047) is a species of Redondoviridae in the genus Torbevirus. Brisa- is from the Spanish word for "Breeze", which refers to their isolation from the human respiratory tract. It was discovered in a throat swab in a male traveler who presented with fever, enlarged adenoids, flushed skin and mya... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmotic%20shock | Osmotic shock or osmotic stress is physiologic dysfunction caused by a sudden change in the solute concentration around a cell, which causes a rapid change in the movement of water across its cell membrane. Under hypertonic conditions - conditions of high concentrations of either salts, substrates or any solute in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBK3 | SH3 Domain Binding Kinase Family Member 3 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the SBK3 gene (also known as SGK110). SBK3 is a member of the serine/threonine protein kinase family. The SBK3 protein is known to exhibit transferase activity, especially phosphotransferase activity, and tyrosine kinase activity. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbury%20Research%20Centre | The Sunbury Research Centre -- also known as ICBT Sunbury—is a main research institute of BP in north-east Surrey.
History
It began in 1917 as the Sunbury Research Station. Research began with the employment of two chemists to look into the viscosity of fuel oil for the Navy in the First World War, and the production ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia%20coli%20NC101 | Escherichia coli (AIEC) NC101 is a mouse isolate, serotype O2:H6/41, that is pro-carcinogenic, adherent-invasive (AIEC), probiotic strain of Escherichia coli, a species of bacteria that thrives in the intestines of mammals. NC101 has also been identified as a nicotinic acid (NA) auxotroph, a pathobiont, which is an org... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPadOS%2016 | iPadOS 16 is the fourth major release of the iPadOS operating system developed by Apple for its iPad line of tablet computers. The successor to iPadOS 15, it was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 6, 2022, along with iOS 16, macOS Ventura, watchOS 9, and tvOS 16. It received numer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20psychology | Mathematical psychology is an approach to psychological research that is based on mathematical modeling of perceptual, thought, cognitive and motor processes, and on the establishment of law-like rules that relate quantifiable stimulus characteristics with quantifiable behavior (in practice often constituted by task pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingjing%20and%20Chacha | Jingjing and Chacha (警警 and 察察, a pun on the Chinese word for police, ) are the cartoon mascots of the Internet Surveillance Division of the Public Security Bureau in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China. Debuting on January 22, 2006, they are used to, amongst other things, inform Chinese Internet users what is and is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satao%20%28elephant%29 | Satao (c. 1968 – 30 May 2014) was one of Kenya's largest African elephants. He was known as a tusker because his tusks were so long that they almost touched the ground. The Tsavo Trust announced that Satao was killed by poachers using a poisoned arrow on 30 May 2014.
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Satao was an African elephant that lived... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayanotoxin | Grayanotoxins are a group of closely related neurotoxins named after Leucothoe grayana, a plant native to Japan originally named for 19th century American botanist Asa Gray. Grayanotoxin I (grayanotaxane-3,5,6,10,14,16-hexol 14-acetate) is also known as andromedotoxin, acetylandromedol, rhodotoxin and asebotoxin. Graya... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20point | In C and C++, a sequence point defines any point in a computer program's execution at which it is guaranteed that all side effects of previous evaluations will have been performed, and no side effects from subsequent evaluations have yet been performed. They are a core concept for determining the validity of and, if va... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwerty%20effect | The QWERTY effect (or qwerty effect) emphasizes ways that modern keyboard layouts have influenced human language, naming preferences and behavior.
The Wubi effect references the same process of influence driven by autocomplete, Chinese input methods for computers (such as the Wubi method), and real time input suggest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedberg%20numbering | In computability theory, a Friedberg numbering is a numbering (enumeration) of the set of all uniformly recursively enumerable sets that has no repetitions: each recursively enumerable set appears exactly once in the enumeration (Vereščagin and Shen 2003:30).
The existence of such numberings was established by Richard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporidia | Sporidia are result of homokaryotic smut fungi (which are not pathogenic), asexual reproduction through the process of budding.
Thus far, this has only been observed in vitro. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point%20error%20mitigation | Floating-point error mitigation is the minimization of errors caused by the fact that real numbers cannot, in general, be accurately represented in a fixed space. By definition, floating-point error cannot be eliminated, and, at best, can only be managed.
Huberto M. Sierra noted in his 1956 patent "Floating Decimal P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational%20Brownian%20motion%20%28astronomy%29 | In astronomy, rotational Brownian motion is the random walk in orientation of a binary star's orbital plane, induced by gravitational perturbations from passing stars.
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Consider a binary that consists of two massive objects (stars, black holes etc.) and that is embedded in a stellar system containing a large nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20%28optimal%20control%20theory%29 | In optimal control theory, a control is a variable chosen by the controller or agent to manipulate state variables, similar to an actual control valve. Unlike the state variable, it does not have a predetermined equation of motion. The goal of optimal control theory is to find some sequence of controls (within an admis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody%20%28operating%20system%29 | Rhapsody is an operating system that was developed by Apple Computer after its purchase of NeXT in the late 1990s. It is the fifth major release of the Mach-based operating system that was developed at NeXT in the late 1980s, previously called OPENSTEP and NEXTSTEP. Rhapsody was targeted to developers for a transition ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress%20cancellation | Ingress cancellation is a method for removing narrowband noise from an electromagnetic signal using a digital filter. This type of filter is used on hybrid fiber-coaxial broadband networks.
If a carrier appears in the middle of the upstream data signal, ingress cancellation can remove the interfering carrier without c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental%20tetrad | The elemental tetrad is a conceptual framework used in game design. Based on mechanics, aesthetics, stories and technology.
Description
Mechanics describe the rules of the game, what players can and cannot do, while trying to achieve the game's goal and what happens when they try.
Story some sort of sequences of ev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoanemonin | Protoanemonin (sometimes called anemonol or ranunculol) is a toxin found in all plants of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). When the plant is wounded or macerated, the unstable glucoside found in the plant, ranunculin, is enzymatically broken down into glucose and the toxic protoanemonin. It is the lactone of 4-hyd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance-nodulation-cell%20division%20superfamily | Resistance-nodulation-division (RND) family transporters are a category of bacterial efflux pumps, especially identified in Gram-negative bacteria and located in the cytoplasmic membrane, that actively transport substrates. The RND superfamily includes seven families: the heavy metal efflux (HME), the hydrophobe/amphip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecundity%20selection | Fecundity selection, also known as fertility selection, is the fitness advantage resulting from selection on traits that increases the number of offspring (i.e. fecundity). Charles Darwin formulated the theory of fecundity selection between 1871 and 1874 to explain the widespread evolution of female-biased sexual size ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z800%203DVisor | The Z800 3DVisor is a head-mounted display manufactured by eMagin since 2005.
Overview
The main part of the Z800 is a pair of OLED displays with magnifying lenses producing a 40-degree diagonal field of view for each eye, used to display stereoscopic images with a fixed resolution of 800x600 pixels, through the use of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20alcohol%20content | Blood alcohol content (BAC), also called blood alcohol concentration or blood alcohol level, is a measurement of alcohol intoxication used for legal or medical purposes; it is expressed as mass of alcohol per volume of blood. For example, a BAC of 0.10 (0.10% or one tenth of one percent) means that there is 0.10 g of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sialidase-1 | Sialidase-1, is a mammalian lysosomal neuraminidase enzyme which in humans is encoded by the NEU1 gene.
Function
The protein SIALIDASE-1 encoded by the NEU-1 gene encodes the lysosomal enzyme SIALIDASE-1, which cleaves terminal sialic acid residues from substrates such as glycoproteins and glycolipids. In the lysoso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Condon | Anne Elizabeth Condon, is an Irish-Canadian computer scientist, professor, and former head of the Computer Science Department of the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on computational complexity theory, DNA computing, and bioinformatics. She has also held the NSERC/General Motors Canada Chair for Wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Disk%20Control%20Protocol | Video Disk Control Protocol (VDCP) is a proprietary communications protocol primarily used in broadcast automation to control hard disk video servers for broadcast television. VDCP was originally developed by Louth Automation and is commonly called the Louth Protocol. At the time it was developed when Hewlett Packard (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%20model%20and%20process%20calculi%20history | The actor model and process calculi share an interesting history and co-evolution.
Early work
The Actor model, first published in 1973, is a mathematical model of concurrent computation. The Actor model treats "Actors" as the universal primitives of concurrent digital computation: in response to a message that it rece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RING%20finger%20domain | In molecular biology, a RING (short for Really Interesting New Gene) finger domain is a protein structural domain of zinc finger type which contains a C3HC4 amino acid motif which binds two zinc cations (seven cysteines and one histidine arranged non-consecutively). This protein domain contains 40 to 60 amino acids. M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womersley%20number | The Womersley number ( or ) is a dimensionless number in biofluid mechanics and biofluid dynamics. It is a dimensionless expression of the pulsatile flow frequency in relation to viscous effects. It is named after John R. Womersley (1907–1958) for his work with blood flow in arteries. The Womersley number is important ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20median%20sulcus%20of%20spinal%20cord | The posterior median sulcus is the posterior end of the posterior median septum of neuroglia of the spinal cord. The septum varies in depth from 4 to 6 mm, but diminishes considerably in the lower part of the spinal cord. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurotus%20eryngii | Pleurotus eryngii (also known as king trumpet mushroom, French horn mushroom, eryngi, king oyster mushroom, king brown mushroom, boletus of the steppes, trumpet royale, aliʻi oyster) is an edible mushroom native to Mediterranean regions of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, but also grown in many parts of Asia.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segment%20routing | Segment routing, a form of computer networking, is a modern variant of source routing that is being developed within the SPRING and IPv6 working groups of the IETF. In a segment routed network, an ingress node may prepend a header to packets that contain a list of segments, which are instructions that are executed on s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20Physics%20Laboratory%20%28Saskatchewan%29 | The Plasma Physics Laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan was established in 1959 by H. M. Skarsgard. Early work centered on research with a Betatron.
Facilities
STOR-1M
STOR-1M is Canada's first tokamak built in 1983. In 1987 STOR-1M was the world’s first demonstration of alternating current in a tokamak.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20blister%20effect | The shadow blister effect is a visual phenomenon in which a shadow bulges (or blisters) as it approaches another.
The effect takes place when two objects are at varying distances between a non-point light source and a background upon which their shadows are cast. As the objects move transversely such that their shadow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible%20Embryo%20Project | The Visible Embryo Project (VEP) is a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary research project originally created in the early 1990s as a collaboration between the Developmental Anatomy Center at the National Museum of Health and Medicine and the Biomedical Visualization Laboratory (BVL) at the University of Illinois at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Bartik | Jean Bartik ( Betty Jean Jennings; December 27, 1924 – March 23, 2011) was one of the original six programmers for the ENIAC computer.
Bartik studied mathematics in school then began work at the University of Pennsylvania, first manually calculating ballistics trajectories and then using ENIAC to do so. The other five... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifidelity%20simulation | Multifidelity (or multi-fidelity) methods leverage both low- and high-fidelity data in order to maximize the accuracy of model estimates, while minimizing the cost associated with parametrization. They have been successfully used in impedance cardiography, wing-design optimization, robotic learning, computational biome... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin%20of%20the%20Russian%20Academy%20of%20Sciences%3A%20Physics | Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics is a translation of the Russian peer-reviewed scientific journal Известия РАН. Серия физическая (Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Seriya Fizicheskaya) that was established in 1936 as the Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of USSR: Physics Series, obtaining its cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoetales | Isoetales, sometimes also written Isoëtales, is an order of plants in the class Lycopodiopsida.
There are about 140-150 living species, all of which are classified in the genus Isoetes (quillworts), with a cosmopolitan distribution, but often scarce to rare. Living species are mostly aquatic or semi-aquatic, and are f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20stiffness | The spin stiffness or spin rigidity or helicity modulus or the "superfluid density" (for bosons the superfluid density is proportional to the spin stiffness) is a constant which represents the change in the ground state energy of a spin system as a result of introducing a slow in plane twist of the spins. The importanc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Kasterin | Nikolai Petrovich Kasterin (1869–1947) was a physicist and a student of Aleksandr Stoletov. His 1903 doctoral dissertation, portions of which were published in German in the Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam under the sponsorship of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, is considered to be a pivotal contribut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20encryption | Link encryption is an approach to communications security that encrypts and decrypts all network traffic at each network routing point (e.g. network switch, or node through which it passes) until arrival at its final destination. This repeated decryption and encryption is necessary to allow the routing information cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieke%20Moerdijk | Izak (Ieke) Moerdijk (; born 23 January 1958) is a Dutch mathematician, currently working at Utrecht University, who in 2012 won the Spinoza prize.
Education and career
Moerdijk studied mathematics, philosophy and general linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD cum laude in 1985 at the same in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Society%20for%20Stereology%20%26%20Image%20Analysis | The International Society for Stereology & Image Analysis (ISSIA) is an international scientific society whose purpose is to encourage the development and dissemination of knowledge in stereology and image analysis in a wide range of disciplines. It was founded in 1961. Although the Society is currently based in the C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion%20Boxing | is a 1984 boxing sports video game developed and published by Sega for the SG-1000, and later ported to the arcades, only in Japan and Europe. It was Sega-AM2 founder and leader Yu Suzuki's debut creation, as well as that of Rieko Kodama. In 1985, a successor of Champion Boxing titled Champion Pro Wrestling was releas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biased%20positional%20game | A biased positional game is a variant of a positional game. Like most positional games, it is described by a set of positions/points/elements () and a family of subsets (), which are usually called the winning-sets. It is played by two players who take turns picking elements until all elements are taken. While in the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20flower | A blue flower () was a central symbol of inspiration for the Romanticism movement, and remains an enduring motif in Western art today. It stands for desire, love, and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable. It symbolizes hope and the beauty of things.
Early use of the symbol
German author Novalis ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport%20Carrier%20Release | Passport Carrier Release (PCR) is a version of the Passport Switch (now Multiservice Switch) software designed to run in telecommunications carrier environments. It was formerly developed by Nortel. After the sale in 2009 of most Nortel's assets, the passport SW is still used in several products of Alcatel-Lucent, Eric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20sorbate | Calcium sorbate is the calcium salt of sorbic acid. Calcium sorbate is a polyunsaturated fatty acid salt.
It is a commonly used food preservative; its E number is E203, but it is no longer allowed to be used in the European Union. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A1s%20Frank | András Frank (born 3 June 1949) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics, especially in graph theory, and combinatorial optimisation. He is director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Faculty of Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
Mathematical work
Using the LLL-algorithm, Frank, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxeter%20complex | In mathematics, the Coxeter complex, named after H. S. M. Coxeter, is a geometrical structure (a simplicial complex) associated to a Coxeter group. Coxeter complexes are the basic objects that allow the construction of buildings; they form the apartments of a building.
Construction
The canonical linear representation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20condensed%20matter%20physics | This article lists the main historical events in the history of condensed matter physics. This branch of physics focuses on understanding and studying the physical properties and transitions between phases of matter. Condensed matter refers to materials where particles (atoms, molecules, or ions) are closely packed tog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alar%20plate | The alar plate (or alar lamina) is a neural structure in the embryonic nervous system, part of the dorsal side of the neural tube, that involves the communication of general somatic and general visceral sensory impulses. The caudal part later becomes the sensory axon part of the spinal cord.
The alar plate specificall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopositioning | Geopositioning is the process of determining or estimating the geographic position of an object.
Geopositioning yields a set of geographic coordinates (such as latitude and longitude) in a given map datum; positions may also be expressed as a bearing and range from a known landmark.
In turn, positions can determine a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum-transfer%20cross%20section | In physics, and especially scattering theory, the momentum-transfer cross section (sometimes known as the momentum-transport cross section) is an effective scattering cross section useful for describing the average momentum transferred from a particle when it collides with a target. Essentially, it contains all the in... |
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