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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20conjugate%20line | In complex geometry, the complex conjugate line of a straight line is the line that it becomes by taking the complex conjugate of each point on this line.
This is the same as taking the complex conjugates of the coefficients of the line. So if the equation of is , then the equation of its conjugate is .
The conjuga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunning%20%28behaviour%29 | Sunning or basking, sometimes also known as sunbathing, is a thermoregulatory or comfort behaviour used by humans, animals, especially birds, reptiles, and insects, to help raise their body temperature, reduce the energy needed for temperature maintenance or to provide comfort. They may also have additional functions o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20EXpert | DEX (Decision EXpert) is a qualitative multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) method for decision making and is implemented in DEX software. This method was developed by a research team led by Bohanec, Bratko, and Rajkovič. The method supports decision makers in making complex decisions based on multiple, possibly con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%20sequence | In mathematics, a Weyl sequence is a sequence from the equidistribution theorem proven by Hermann Weyl:
The sequence of all multiples of an irrational α,
0, α, 2α, 3α, 4α, ...
is equidistributed modulo 1.
In other words, the sequence of the fractional parts of each term will be uniformly distributed in the interval [... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitative%20learning | Imitative learning is a type of social learning whereby new behaviors are acquired via imitation. Imitation aids in communication, social interaction, and the ability to modulate one's emotions to account for the emotions of others, and is "essential for healthy sensorimotor development and social functioning". The ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP%20Public%20Key%20Pinning | HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) is an obsolete Internet security mechanism delivered via an HTTP header which allows HTTPS websites to resist impersonation by attackers using misissued or otherwise fraudulent digital certificates. A server uses it to deliver to the client (e.g. web browser) a set of hashes of public key... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salpicon | Salpicon (, meaning "hodgepodge" or "medley"; ) is a dish of one or more ingredients diced or minced and bound with a sauce or liquid. There are different versions found in Spanish and the broader Latin American cuisine. A salpicon is sometimes used as stuffing.
In Mexican cuisine and Central American cuisine, the ter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorial%20of%20Ukraine | The following gallery displays the official coats of arms of the 27 oblasts, autonomous republics and cities with special status of Ukraine:
State
Regional
Historical
Coats of Arms of Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia of Kievan Rus
Coats of Arms of Voivodeships of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Cossack Hetmanate
Coats... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebadollah%20S.%20Mahmoodian | Ebadollah S. Mahmoodian (born 18 May 1943 in Zanjan, Iran) is a retired professor of mathematics at the Mathematical Sciences Department of Sharif University of Technology.
He received his Bachelor of Science in 1965 at University of Tehran and his master's degree in 1968 at Shiraz University. He got a Master's and a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing%20material | Many materials have been used to make garments throughout history. Grasses, furs and much more complex and exotic materials have been used. Cultures like the Arctic Circle, make their wardrobes out of prepared and decorated furs and skins.[1] Different cultures have added cloth to leather and skins as a way to replace ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20M.%20Gruber | Peter Manfred Gruber (28 August 1941, Klagenfurt – 7 March 2017, Vienna) was an Austrian mathematician working in geometric number theory as well as in convex and discrete geometry.
Biography
Gruber obtained his PhD at the University of Vienna in 1966, under the supervision of Nikolaus Hofreiter. From 1971, he was Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAP3K15 | Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase 15 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MAP3K15 gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family. These family members function in a protein kinase signal transduction cascade, where an activated M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FKBP7 | FK506 binding protein 7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FKBP7 gene. The gene is also known as FKBP23 and PPIase. FKBP7 belongs to the FKBP-type peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase (PPIase) family. Members of this family exhibit PPIase activity and function as molecular chaperones. The orthologous protein ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Lightning | Johnny Lightning is a brand of diecast model cars launched in 1969 by Topper Corporation (owner of the "Topper Toys" brand), similar to the hugely successful Mattel's Hot Wheels cars. Their claim to fame at that time was that they were extremely fast compared to other brands of die-cast cars. Their most important techn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish%20experiment | The Cavendish experiment, performed in 1797–1798 by English scientist Henry Cavendish, was the first experiment to measure the force of gravity between masses in the laboratory and the first to yield accurate values for the gravitational constant. Because of the unit conventions then in use, the gravitational constant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Design%20Effort | The Global Design Effort (GDE) was an international team tasked with designing the International Linear Collider (ILC), a particle accelerator to succeed machines such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), with the endorsement of the International Committee for Future Accelerato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville%20function | The Liouville lambda function, denoted by λ(n) and named after Joseph Liouville, is an important arithmetic function.
Its value is +1 if n is the product of an even number of prime numbers, and −1 if it is the product of an odd number of primes.
Explicitly, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic states that any posit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20%282006%20film%29 | The Secret is a 2006 Australian-American spirituality documentary consisting of a series of interviews designed to demonstrate the New Thought "law of attraction", the belief that everything one wants or needs can be satisfied by believing in an outcome, repeatedly thinking about it, and maintaining positive emotional ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20algae | Ice algae are any of the various types of algal communities found in annual and multi-year sea, and terrestrial lake ice or glacier ice.
On sea ice in the polar oceans, ice algae communities play an important role in primary production. The timing of blooms of the algae is especially important for supporting higher t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20defined%20storage | Data defined storage (also referred to as a data centric approach) is a marketing term for managing, protecting, and realizing value from data by combining application, information and storage tiers.
This is achieved through a process where users, applications, and devices gain access to a repository of captured metad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide-and-conquer%20algorithm | In computer science, divide and conquer is an algorithm design paradigm. A divide-and-conquer algorithm recursively breaks down a problem into two or more sub-problems of the same or related type, until these become simple enough to be solved directly. The solutions to the sub-problems are then combined to give a solut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit%20flow%20diagram | A shit flow diagram (also called excreta flow diagram or SFD) is a high level technical drawing used to display how excreta moves through a location, and functions as a tool to identify where improvements are needed. The diagram has a particular focus on treatment of the waste, and its final disposal or use. SFDs are m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizer | A polarizer or polariser (see spelling differences) is an optical filter that lets light waves of a specific polarization pass through while blocking light waves of other polarizations. It can filter a beam of light of undefined or mixed polarization into a beam of well-defined polarization, that is polarized light. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20Hadwiger | Hugo Hadwiger (23 December 1908 in Karlsruhe, Germany – 29 October 1981 in Bern, Switzerland) was a Swiss mathematician, known for his work in geometry, combinatorics, and cryptography.
Biography
Although born in Karlsruhe, Germany, Hadwiger grew up in Bern, Switzerland. He did his undergraduate studies at the Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steerable%20filter | In applied mathematics, a steerable filter
is an orientation-selective convolution kernel used for image enhancement and feature extraction that can be expressed via a linear combination of a small set of rotated versions of itself. As an example, the oriented first derivative of a 2D Gaussian is a steerable filter. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erytholus | Erytholus is a form genus for problematic fossils of Cambrian age in South Australia. It has been of special interest because of its morphological similarity with the Ediacaran fossil Ventogyrus, and may have been a late surviving vendobiont. It could be a slime mold.
Description
Erytholus is a globose, chambered fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ | DMOZ (from directory.mozilla.org, an earlier domain name, stylized in lowercase in its logo) was a multilingual open-content directory of World Wide Web links. The site and community who maintained it were also known as the Open Directory Project (ODP). It was owned by AOL (now a part of Verizon Media) but constructed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twipsy | Twipsy was the official Mascot of the EXPO 2000 World's Fair held in Hannover. The character was created by the Spanish designer Javier Mariscal. His draft was selected in 1995 by an international jury out of 17 proposals in total. During the course of the Expo, Twipsy could be acquired on the EXPO area on forms of mer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%27s%20problems | At the 1912 International Congress of Mathematicians, Edmund Landau listed four basic problems about prime numbers. These problems were characterised in his speech as "unattackable at the present state of mathematics" and are now known as Landau's problems. They are as follows:
Goldbach's conjecture: Can every even in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Ingpen | Robert Roger Ingpen AM, FRSA (born 13 October 1936) is an Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and writer. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986.
Early life
Ingpen was born in Geelong, Victoria, and attended Geelon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt%20%28Unix%29 | In Unix computing, crypt or enigma is a utility program used for encryption. Due to the ease of breaking it, it is considered to be obsolete.
The program is usually used as a filter, and it has traditionally been implemented using a "rotor machine" algorithm based on the Enigma machine. It is considered to be cryptog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Federation%20of%20Clinical%20Chemistry%20and%20Laboratory%20Medicine | The European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) (formerly EFCC) is a federation of national member societies of clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine from Europe. EFLM has its registered office in Brussels and administrative office in Milan. EFLM is the European Region member of the In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simmondsin | Simmondsin is a component of jojoba seeds (pronounced "ho-HO-bah") (Simmondsia chinensis). While it had been considered toxic due to jojoba seed meal causing weight loss in animals, in recent years its appetite suppressant effect has also been researched as a potential treatment for obesity. It is thought to reduce app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS | NetBIOS () is an acronym for Network Basic Input/Output System. It provides services related to the session layer of the OSI model allowing applications on separate computers to communicate over a local area network. As strictly an API, NetBIOS is not a networking protocol. Operating systems of the 1980s (DOS and Novel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemturion | The Chemturion is a multi-use, positive pressure totally encapsulating protective suit, manufactured by ILC Dover. It is currently used by Public Health Canada, Boston University, USAMRIID and AI Signal Research, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, and many industrial companies such as DuPont, Dow, and Georgia P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locanto | locanto is a worldwide Locanto only network with areas dedicated to jobs, personals, for rent, for sale, services, community, real estate, vehicles, and pets.
Background
The Locanto Classifieds sites are operated by the German startup company Yalwa located in Wiesbaden, Germany. Locanto was launched in July 2006 wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opaque%20set | In discrete geometry, an opaque set is a system of curves or other set in the plane that blocks all lines of sight across a polygon, circle, or other shape. Opaque sets have also been called barriers, beam detectors, opaque covers, or (in cases where they have the form of a forest of line segments or other curves) opaq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Applied%20Physics%20and%20Computational%20Mathematics | The Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM) was established in 1958 in Beijing in the People's Republic of China. The institution conducts research on nuclear warhead design computations for the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) in Mianyang, Sichuan and focuses on applied theoreti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson%20dithering | Atkinson dithering is a variant of Floyd-Steinberg dithering designed by Bill Atkinson at Apple Computer, and used in the original Macintosh computer.
Implementation
The algorithm achieves dithering using error diffusion, meaning it pushes (adds) the residual quantization error of a pixel onto its neighboring pixels,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20error%20probable | In the military science of ballistics, circular error probable (CEP) (also circular error probability or circle of equal probability) is a measure of a weapon system's precision. It is defined as the radius of a circle, centered on the mean, whose perimeter is expected to enclose the landing points of 50% of the rounds... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20geometric%20statement%20of%20Jacobi | In differential geometry the last geometric statement of Jacobi is a conjecture named after Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, which states:
Every caustic from any point on an ellipsoid other than umbilical points has exactly four cusps.
Numerical experiments had indicated the statement is true before it was proven rigorousl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schl%C3%B6milch%27s%20series | Schlömilch's series is a Fourier series type expansion of twice continuously differentiable function in the interval in terms of the Bessel function of the first kind, named after the German mathematician Oskar Schlömilch, who derived the series in 1857. The real-valued function has the following expansion:
where
E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20conversion%20factors | This article gives a list of conversion factors for several physical quantities. A number of different units (some only of historical interest) are shown and expressed in terms of the corresponding SI unit.
Conversions between units in the metric system are defined by their prefixes (for example, 1 kilogram = 1000 gra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly1305 | Poly1305 is a universal hash family designed by Daniel J. Bernstein for use in cryptography.
As with any universal hash family, Poly1305 can be used as a one-time message authentication code to authenticate a single message using a secret key shared between sender and recipient,
similar to the way that a one-time pad ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso%20Toffoli | Tommaso Toffoli () is an Italian-American professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University where he joined the faculty in 1995. He has worked on cellular automata and the theory of artificial life (with Edward Fredkin and others), and is known for the invention of the Toffoli gate.
Early life and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NcRNA%20therapy | A majority of the human genome is made up of non-protein coding DNA. It infers that such sequences are not commonly employed to encode for a protein. However, even though these regions do not code for protein, they have other functions and carry necessary regulatory information.They can be classified based on the size... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crespi%20effect | The Crespi effect is a behavioural contrast phenomenon observed in classical conditioning in which a conditioned response changes disproportionately to a suddenly changed reinforcement. It was first observed in rats by American psychologist Leo P. Crespi in 1942.
He found that in a repeatedly carried out task such as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20possible%20dwarf%20planets | The number of dwarf planets in the Solar System is unknown. Estimates have run as high as 200 in the Kuiper belt and over 10,000 in the region beyond.
However, consideration of the surprisingly low densities of many large trans-Neptunian objects suggests that the number of dwarf planets may be much lower, perhaps only ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.%20Lakshmibai | Venkatraman Lakshmibai is an Indian mathematician who is a professor emerita of mathematics at Northeastern University in Boston. Her research concerns algebraic geometry, the theory of algebraic groups, and representation theory, including in particular the theory of flag varieties and Schubert varieties.
Lakshmibai ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immobilized%20whole%20cell | The immobilized whole cell system is an alternative to enzyme immobilization. Unlike enzyme immobilization, where the enzyme is attached to a solid support (such as calcium alginate or activated PVA or activated PEI), in immobilized whole cell systems, the target cell is immobilized. Such methods may be implemented whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapter%20molecule%20crk | Adapter molecule crk also known as proto-oncogene c-Crk is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CRK gene.
The CRK protein participates in the Reelin signaling cascade downstream of DAB1.
Function
Adapter molecule crk is a member of an adapter protein family that binds to several tyrosine-phosphorylated protei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRU%20%28security%29 | The HRU security model (Harrison, Ruzzo, Ullman model) is an operating system level computer security model which deals with the integrity of access rights in the system. It is an extension of the Graham-Denning model, based around the idea of a finite set of procedures being available to edit the access rights of a su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20sorting | External sorting is a class of sorting algorithms that can handle massive amounts of data. External sorting is required when the data being sorted do not fit into the main memory of a computing device (usually RAM) and instead they must reside in the slower external memory, usually a disk drive. Thus, external sorting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATAPI | ATAPI (ATA Packet Interface) is a protocol used with the Parallel ATA (IDE) and Serial ATA standards so that a greater variety of devices can be connected to a computer than with the ATA command set alone. It carries SCSI commands and responses through the ATA interface.
ATAPI devices include CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitrinoviricota | Kitrinoviricota is a phylum of RNA viruses that includes all positive-strand RNA viruses that infect eukaryotes and are not members of the phylum Pisuviricota or Lenarviricota. The name of the group derives from Greek κίτρινος (kítrinos), which means yellow (a reference to yellow fever virus), and -viricota, which is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker%20Bell%20%28Disney%20character%29 | Tinker Bell is a fictional fairy based on the same name character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie, and one of the most popular characters adapted for film and television by The Walt Disney Company. She first appear in the 1953 Disney animated film, Peter Pan, and has since become a widely recog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20control%20engineering | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to control engineering:
Control engineering – engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with desired behaviors. The practice uses sensors to measure the output performance of the device being controlled and those measureme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle-sensitive%20pixel | An angle-sensitive pixel (ASP) is a CMOS sensor with a sensitivity to incoming light that is sinusoidal in incident angle.
Principles of operation
ASPs are typically composed of two gratings (a diffraction grating and an analyzer grating) above a single photodiode. ASPs exploit the moire effect and the Talbot effect ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20data | Test data plays a crucial role in software development by providing inputs that are used to verify the correctness, performance, and reliability of software systems. Test data encompasses various types, such as positive and negative scenarios, edge cases, and realistic user scenarios, and it aims to exercise different ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20tensor | In mathematics, a symmetric tensor is a tensor that is invariant under a permutation of its vector arguments:
for every permutation σ of the symbols Alternatively, a symmetric tensor of order r represented in coordinates as a quantity with r indices satisfies
The space of symmetric tensors of order r on a finite-di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20flag | A green flag has various meanings.
National flags
The Flag of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya was a plain green flag.
The Flag of Saudi Arabia has a field of green, which represents Islam.
Irish nationalism was traditionally represented with a green flag. The current flag of Ireland is a tricolour ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian%27s%20dehiscence | Killian's dehiscence (also known as Killian's triangle) is a triangular area in the wall of the pharynx between the cricopharyngeus and thyropharyngeus which are the two parts of the inferior constrictors(also see Pharyngeal pouch). It can be seen as a locus minoris resistentiae.
Similar triangular area between circula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20probability | Probability has a dual aspect: on the one hand the likelihood of hypotheses given the evidence for them, and on the other hand the behavior of stochastic processes such as the throwing of dice or coins. The study of the former is historically older in, for example, the law of evidence, while the mathematical treatment ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20the%20Royal%20Statistical%20Society | The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of statistics. It comprises three series and is published by Oxford University Press for the Royal Statistical Society.
History
The Statistical Society of London was founded in 1834, but would not begin producing a journal for four ye... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve%20fascicle | A nerve fascicle, is a bundle of nerve fibers belonging to a nerve in the peripheral nervous system. A nerve fascicle is also called a fasciculus, as is a nerve tract in the central nervous system.
A nerve fascicle is enclosed by perineurium, a layer of fascial connective tissue. Each enclosed nerve fiber in the fasc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryll-Nardzewski%20fixed-point%20theorem | In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, the Ryll-Nardzewski fixed-point theorem states that if is a normed vector space and is a nonempty convex subset of that is compact under the weak topology, then every group (or equivalently: every semigroup) of affine isometries of has at least one fixed point. (Here... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachymetric%20anti-aircraft%20fire%20control%20system | A tachymetric anti-aircraft fire control system generates target position, speed, direction, and rate of target range change, by computing these parameters directly from measured data.
The target's range, height and observed bearing data are fed into a computer which uses the measured change in range, height and beari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4DCT | Four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) is a type of CT scanning which records multiple images over time. It allows playback of the scan as a video, so that physiological processes can be observed and internal movement can be tracked. The name is derived from the addition of time (as the fourth dimension) to tradit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything%20is%20a%20file | Everything is a file is an idea that Unix, and its derivatives, handle input/output to and from resources such as documents, hard-drives, modems, keyboards, printers and even some inter-process and network communications as simple streams of bytes exposed through the filesystem name space. Exceptions include semaphores... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menthofuran | Menthofuran is an organic compound found in a variety of essential oils including that of pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium). It is highly toxic and believed to be the primary toxin in pennyroyal responsible for its potentially fatal effects. After ingestion of menthofuran, it is metabolically activated to chemically react... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.lux | f.lux (pronounced "flux") is a cross-platform computer program that adjusts a display's color temperature according to location and time of day, offering functional respite for the eyes. The program is designed to reduce eye strain during night-time use, helping to reduce disruption of sleep patterns.
Functionality
O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab%20Breweries%20Workers%20Union | Punjab Breweries Workers Union, a trade union of brewery workers in Punjab, India. PBWU is affiliated to the All India Trade Union Congress. The president of PBWU is Gurbir Singh and the general secretary Kishan Chand. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond%20order%20potential | Bond order potential is a class of empirical (analytical) interatomic potentials which is used in molecular dynamics and molecular statics simulations. Examples include the Tersoff potential, the EDIP potential, the Brenner potential, the Finnis–Sinclair potentials,
ReaxFF,
and the second-moment tight-binding potenti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menudo%20%28stew%29 | Menudo, also known as ginamay or ginagmay (Cebuano: "[chopped into] smaller pieces"), is a traditional stew from the Philippines made with pork and sliced liver in tomato sauce with carrots and potatoes. Unlike the Mexican dish of the same name, it does not use tripe or red chili sauce.
Description
The dish is made wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable%20count | Viable count is a method used in cell culture to determine the number of living cells in a culture. This is different from other cell counting techniques because it makes a distinction between live and dead cells.
Method
A dilution of the cells to be counted is prepared and mixed with Trypan blue, this is normally th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molality | In chemistry, molality is a measure of the amount of solute in a solution relative to a given mass of solvent. This contrasts with the definition of molarity which is based on a given volume of solution.
A commonly used unit for molality is the moles per kilogram (mol/kg). A solution of concentration 1 mol/kg is also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20McLarty | Colin McLarty (born July 12, 1951) is an American logician whose publications have ranged widely in philosophy and the foundations of mathematics, as well as in the history of science and of mathematics.
Research
Category theory
He has written papers about Saunders Mac Lane, one of the founders of category theory.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20SX | NEC SX describes a series of vector supercomputers designed, manufactured, and marketed by NEC. This computer series is notable for providing the first computer to exceed 1 gigaflop, as well as the fastest supercomputer in the world between 1992–1993, and 2002–2004. The current model, as of 2018, is the SX-Aurora TSUBA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher%20wood | Gopher wood or gopherwood is a term used once in the Bible for the material used to construct Noah's ark. states that Noah was instructed to build the Ark of (), commonly transliterated as wood, a word not otherwise used in the Bible or the Hebrew language in general. Although some English Bibles attempt a translati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical%20systems%20theory | Biochemical systems theory is a mathematical modelling framework for biochemical systems, based on ordinary differential equations (ODE), in which biochemical processes are represented using power-law expansions in the variables of the system.
This framework, which became known as Biochemical Systems Theory, has been ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium%20%C3%97%20cantabrigiense | Geranium × cantabrigiense is a hybrid flowering plant in the cranesbill family Geraniaceae. It is an hybrid between Geranium dalmaticum and G. macrorrhizum.
Etymology
The name cantabrigiense comes from Cantabrigia, the Latin name for Cambridge, England.
Origin
Geranium × cantabrigiense was originally obtained in cult... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex%20geometry | In mathematics, convex geometry is the branch of geometry studying convex sets, mainly in Euclidean space. Convex sets occur naturally in many areas: computational geometry, convex analysis, discrete geometry, functional analysis, geometry of numbers, integral geometry, linear programming, probability theory, game theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofer%20Zeitouni | Ofer Zeitouni (עפר זיתוני, born 23 October 1960, Haifa) is an Israeli mathematician, specializing in probability theory.
Biography
Zeitouni received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1980 from the Technion.
He obtained in 1986 his doctorate in electrical engineering under the supervision of
Moshe Za... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Koch%20Medal%20and%20Award | The Robert Koch Medal and Award are two prizes awarded annually by the German for excellence in the biomedical sciences. These awards grew out of early attempts by German physician Robert Koch to generate funding to support his research into the cause and cure for tuberculosis. Koch discovered the bacteria (Mycobact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square%20law | In science, an inverse-square law is any scientific law stating that a specified physical quantity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of that physical quantity. The fundamental cause for this can be understood as geometric dilution corresponding to point-source radiation into three-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofosbuvir | Sofosbuvir, sold under the brand name Sovaldi among others, is a medication used to treat hepatitis C. It is taken by mouth.
Common side effects include fatigue, headache, nausea, and trouble sleeping. Side effects are generally more common in interferon-containing regimens. Sofosbuvir may reactivate hepatitis B in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20geometry | Synthetic geometry (sometimes referred to as axiomatic geometry or even pure geometry) is geometry without the use of coordinates. It relies on the axiomatic method for proving all results from a few basic properties initially called postulate, and at present called axioms.
The term "synthetic geometry" was coined o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond%20norm | In quantum information, the diamond norm, also known as completely bounded trace norm, is a norm on the space of quantum operations, or more generally on any linear map that acts on complex matrices. Its main application is to measure the "single use distinguishability" of two quantum channels. If an agent is randomly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20biodiversity | Soil biodiversity refers to the relationship of soil to biodiversity and to aspects of the soil that can be managed in relative to biodiversity. Soil biodiversity relates to some catchment management considerations.
Biodiversity
According to the Australian Department of the Environment and Water Resources, biodiversit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsden%20square | Marsden square mapping or Marsden squares is a system that divides a world map with latitude-longitude gridlines (e.g. plate carrée projection, Mercator or other) between 80°N and 70°S latitudes (or 90°N and 80°S: refer chart at Ocean Teacher’s Ocean Geography page) into grid cells of 10° latitude by 10° longitude, eac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20trypanosomiasis | Animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana and nagana pest, or sleeping sickness, is a disease of vertebrates. The disease is caused by trypanosomes of several species in the genus Trypanosoma such as T. brucei. T. vivax causes nagana mainly in West Africa, although it has spread to South America. The trypanosomes in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%201100/2200%20series | The UNIVAC 1100/2200 series is a series of compatible 36-bit computer systems, beginning with the UNIVAC 1107 in 1962, initially made by Sperry Rand. The series continues to be supported today by Unisys Corporation as the ClearPath Dorado Series. The solid-state 1107 model number was in the same sequence as the earlier... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20UI | One UI is a user interface (UI) developed by Samsung Electronics for its Android devices running Android 9 "Pie" and later. Succeeding Samsung Experience and TouchWiz, it is designed to make using larger smartphones easier and be more visually appealing. To provide more clarity, some elements of the UI are tweaked to m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20physics%20articles%20%28H%29 | The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.
To navigate by individual letter use the table of contents below.
H
H-1NF
H-alpha
H-stable potential
H-theorem
H. Dieter Zeh
H. Eugene Stanley
H. J. Round
H. Jay Melosh
H. Pierre Noyes
H. Richard Crane
H. Stanley Allen
H1 (particle detector)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%20conductivity | Ground conductivity refers to the electrical conductivity of the subsurface of the earth. In the International System of Units (SI) it is measured in millisiemens per meter (mS/m).
Radio propagation
Ground conductivity is an extremely important factor in determining the field strength and propagation of surface wave ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20Cocks | Clifford Christopher Cocks (born 28 December 1950) is a British mathematician and cryptographer.
In 1973, while working at the United Kingdom Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), he invented a public-key cryptography algorithm equivalent to what would become (in 1977) the RSA algorithm.
The idea was classif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatin%20immunoprecipitation | Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a type of immunoprecipitation experimental technique used to investigate the interaction between proteins and DNA in the cell. It aims to determine whether specific proteins are associated with specific genomic regions, such as transcription factors on promoters or other DNA bind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Peanut | Mr. Peanut is the advertising logo and mascot of Planters, an American snack-food company owned by Hormel. He is known for dying in January of 2020, but revived a couple days later. He is depicted as an anthropomorphic peanut in its shell, wearing the formal clothing of an old-fashioned gentleman, with a top hat, mono... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/777%20%28number%29 | 777 (seven hundred [and] seventy-seven) is the natural number following 776 and preceding 778. The number 777 is significant in numerous religious and political contexts.
In mathematics
777 is an odd, composite, palindromic repdigit. It is also a sphenic number, with 3, 7, and 37 as its prime factors. Its largest prim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkermansia | Akkermansia is a genus in the phylum Verrucomicrobiota (Bacteria). The genus was first proposed by Derrien et al. (2004), with the type species Akkermansia muciniphila (gen. nov., sp. nov).
Etymology
The name Akkermansia derives from:Neo-Latin feminine gender noun Akkermansia, named after Anton Dirk Louis Akkermans (2... |
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