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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days%20sales%20outstanding | In accountancy, days sales outstanding (also called DSO and days receivables) is a calculation used by a company to estimate the size of their outstanding accounts receivable. It measures this size not in units of currency, but in average sales days.
Typically, days sales outstanding is calculated monthly. Generally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHDL | The VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) is a hardware description language (HDL) that can model the behavior and structure of digital systems at multiple levels of abstraction, ranging from the system level down to that of logic gates, for design entry, documentation, and verification purposes. Since 1987, VHDL... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzootic | Enzootic is the non-human equivalent of endemic and means, in a broad sense, "belonging to" or "native to", "characteristic of", or "prevalent in" a particular geography, race, field, area, or environment; native to an area or scope.
It also has two specific meanings:
an organism being "enzootic" means native to a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20to%20repair | Right to repair is a legal right for owners of devices and equipment to freely modify and repair products such as automobiles, electronics, and farm equipment. This right is framed in opposition to restrictions such as requirements to use only the manufacturer's maintenance services, restrictions on access to tools and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20number%20%28group%20theory%29 | A cyclic number is a natural number n such that n and φ(n) are coprime. Here φ is Euler's totient function. An equivalent definition is that a number n is cyclic if and only if any group of order n is cyclic.
Any prime number is clearly cyclic. All cyclic numbers are square-free.
Let n = p1 p2 … pk where the pi are d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20augmentation | In animal behaviour, the hypothesis of group augmentation is where animals living in a group behave so as to increase the group's size, namely through the recruitment of new members. Such behaviour could be selected for if larger group size increases the chance of survival of the individuals in the group. Supported hyp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patulin | Patulin is an organic compound classified as a polyketide. It is a white powder soluble in acidic water and in organic solvents. It is a lactone that is heat-stable, so it is not destroyed by pasteurization or thermal denaturation. However, stability following fermentation is lessened. It is a mycotoxin produced by a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteochondritis%20dissecans | Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD or OD) is a joint disorder primarily of the subchondral bone in which cracks form in the articular cartilage and the underlying subchondral bone. OCD usually causes pain during and after sports. In later stages of the disorder there will be swelling of the affected joint which catches and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20gluconate | Sodium gluconate is a compound with formula NaC6H11O7. It is the sodium salt of gluconic acid. Its E number is E576. This white, water-soluble powder has a wide range of applications across industries. Originally derived from gluconic acid in the 19th century, Sodium Gluconate is known for its chelating properties and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20Effect%203%20ending%20controversy | Mass Effect 3 is an action role-playing video game and the third installment of the Mass Effect video game series, developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts (EA). Upon its release March 6, 2012 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows, Mass Effect 3 generated controversy when its ending was po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvell%20Software%20Solutions%20Israel | Marvell Software Solutions Israel, known as RADLAN Computer Communications Limited before 2007, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marvell Technology Group, that specializes in local area network (LAN) technologies.
History
The company was founded in 1998 as a spin-off from RND, which was founded by brothers Yehuda and Z... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Gevrey | Maurice-Joseph Gevrey (13 March 1884 in Fauverney, Côte d'or, France – 19 September 1957 in Fauverney) was a French mathematician working on partial differential equations.
From 1919, he worked at the University of Burgundy, becoming a professor there in 1920.
In 1918, he introduced what is now called Gevrey classes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20herbalism | The history of herbalism is closely tied with the history of medicine from prehistoric times up until the development of the germ theory of disease in the 19th century. Modern medicine from the 19th century to today has been based on evidence gathered using the scientific method. Evidence-based use of pharmaceutical dr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror%20descent | In mathematics, mirror descent is an iterative optimization algorithm for finding a local minimum of a differentiable function.
It generalizes algorithms such as gradient descent and multiplicative weights.
History
Mirror descent was originally proposed by Nemirovski and Yudin in 1983.
Motivation
In gradient des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenmann%20Medal | The Eisenmann Medal is awarded by the Linnaean Society of New York (LSNY) in recognition of the recipient's ornithological excellence and encouragement of amateur efforts in ornithology and birding.
The medal commemorates the ornithologist and prominent LSNY member Eugene Eisenmann (1906-1981). It has been awarded si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Blackwell | Emily Blackwell (October 8, 1826 – September 7, 1910) was the second woman to earn a medical degree at what is now Case Western Reserve University, after Nancy Talbot Clark. In 1993, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Early life and education
Blackwell was born on October 8, 1826, in Bristol, En... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litostroma | Litostroma is a genus of marine alga that may be a red, although green and brown affinities have also been proposed. It consists of single-cell-thick thalli that reached about 6 mm in diameter and 140 µm thickness. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Blaster%20Audigy | Sound Blaster Audigy is a product line of sound cards from Creative Technology. The flagship model of the Audigy family used the EMU10K2 audio DSP, an improved version of the SB-Live's EMU10K1, while the value/SE editions were built with a less-expensive audio controller.
The Audigy family is available for PCs with a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchanting%20%28programming%20language%29 | Enchanting is a free and open-source cross-platform educational programming language designed to program Lego Mindstorms NXT robots. It is primarily developed by Southern Alberta Robotics Enthusiasts group in the province of Alberta, Canada, and runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and experimentally on Linux devices. Since 2013... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimetridazole | Dimetridazole is a drug that combats protozoan infections. It is a nitroimidazole class drug. It used to be commonly added to poultry feed. This led to it being found in eggs. Because of suspicions of it being carcinogenic its use has been legally limited but it is still found in the eggs. It is now banned as a lives... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Isidori | Alberto Isidori was born on January 24, 1942, in Rapallo and is an Italian control theorist. He is a Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Rome and an Affiliate Professor of Electrical & Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is well-known as the author of the book Nonlinear Contr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative%20multithreading | Thread Level Speculation (TLS), also known as Speculative Multithreading, or Speculative Parallelization, is a technique to speculatively execute a section of computer code that is anticipated to be executed later in parallel with the normal execution on a separate independent thread. Such a speculative thread may nee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain%20%28heraldry%29 | Fountain or syke is in the terminology of heraldry a roundel depicted as a roundel barry wavy argent and azure, that is, containing alternating horizontal wavy bands of silver (or white) and blue. Traditionally, there are six bands: three of each tincture.
Because the fountain consists equally of parts in a metal and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressVPN | ExpressVPN is a VPN service offered by the British Virgin Islands-registered company Express Technologies Ltd. The software is marketed as a privacy and security tool that encrypts users' web traffic and masks their IP addresses.
As of September 2021, ExpressVPN is owned by Kape Technologies and reportedly has 4 milli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharellula%20umbonata | Cantharellula umbonata is a species of fungus in the genus Cantharellula. It is common in eastern North America, particularly in summer and autumn. It is associated with Polytrichum and other mosses found in the southeastern United States. It is edible, and best when young. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Longhurst | Robert Longhurst is an American sculptor who was born in Schenectady, New York in 1949. At an early age he was fascinated by his father's small figurative woodcarvings.
Longhurst received a Bachelor of Architecture from Kent State University in 1975. He began his artistic career in 1976 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBN%20Explorer | MBN Explorer (MesoBioNano Explorer) is a software package for molecular dynamics simulations, structure optimization and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. It is designed for multiscale computational analysis of structure and dynamics of atomic clusters and nanoparticles, biomolecules and nanosystems, nanostructured mate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20osmosis | Reverse osmosis (RO) is a water purification process that uses a semi-permeable membrane to separate water molecules from other substances. RO applies pressure to overcome osmotic pressure that favors even distributions. RO can remove dissolved or suspended chemical species as well as biological substances (principally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctography | Nyctography is a form of substitution cipher writing created by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1891.
Nyctography is written with a nyctograph (also invented by Carroll) and uses a system of dots and strokes all based on a dot placed in the upper left corner. Using the Nyctograph, one could quickly jot dow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew%20Braille | Hebrew Braille () is the braille alphabet for Hebrew. The International Hebrew Braille Code is widely used. It was devised in the 1930s and completed in 1944. It is based on international norms, with additional letters devised to accommodate differences between English Braille and the Hebrew alphabet. Unlike Hebrew, bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Constellations | Family Constellations, also known as Systemic Constellations and Systemic Family Constellations, is a pseudoscientific therapeutic method which draws on elements of family systems therapy, existential phenomenology and isiZulu beliefs and attitudes to family. In a single session, a Family Constellation attempts to reve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20manufacturing | Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) is a new manufacturing paradigm developed from existing advanced manufacturing models (e.g., ASP, AM, NM, MGrid) and enterprise information technologies under the support of cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), virtualization and service-oriented technologies, and advanced computing tec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Gustave%20Robin | Victor Gustave Robin (; 17 May 1855 – 1897) was a French mathematical analyst and applied mathematician who lectured in mathematical physics at the Sorbonne in Paris and also worked in the area of thermodynamics. He is known especially for the Robin boundary condition. The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Pri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%2062351 | IEC 62351 is a standard developed by WG15 of IEC TC57. This is developed for handling the security of TC 57 series of protocols including IEC 60870-5 series, IEC 60870-6 series, IEC 61850 series, IEC 61970 series & IEC 61968 series. The different security objectives include authentication of data transfer through digi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand | InfiniBand (IB) is a computer networking communications standard used in high-performance computing that features very high throughput and very low latency. It is used for data interconnect both among and within computers. InfiniBand is also used as either a direct or switched interconnect between servers and storage s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Transactions%20on%20Computational%20Logic | ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (ACM TOCL) is a scientific journal that aims to disseminate the latest findings of note in the field of logic in computer science. It is published by the Association for Computing Machinery, a premier scientific and educational society on computer science and computational techno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided%20consciousness | Divided consciousness is a term coined by Ernest Hilgard to define a psychological state in which one's consciousness is split into distinct components, possibly during hypnosis.
Origin(s)
The theory of a division of consciousness was touched upon by Carl Jung in 1935 when he stated, "The so-called unity of conscious... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy%20%28biology%29 | Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal (usually a bird) appears well outside its normal range; they are known as vagrants. The term accidental is sometimes also used. There are a number of poorly understood factors which might cause an animal to become a vagrant, including internal causes such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino%20Model%20Railway%20Museum | The Casino Model Railway Museum at Malahide, Ireland (previously called the Fry Model Railway) is the display home for the Fry Model Collection in the refurbished Casino cottage building in central Malahide. It opened to the public on 22 January 2020.
The railway and collection was moved from its previous home in Mala... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%20impedance | The wave impedance of an electromagnetic wave is the ratio of the transverse components of the electric and magnetic fields (the transverse components being those at right angles to the direction of propagation). For a transverse-electric-magnetic (TEM) plane wave traveling through a homogeneous medium, the wave imped... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20potential | The electric potential (also called the electric field potential, potential drop, the electrostatic potential) is defined as the amount of work energy needed per unit of electric charge to move this charge from a reference point to the specific point in an electric field. More precisely, it is the energy per unit charg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccopharyngeal%20membrane | The region where the crescentic masses of the ectoderm and endoderm come into direct contact with each other constitutes a thin membrane, the buccopharyngeal membrane (or oropharyngeal membrane), which forms a septum between the primitive mouth and pharynx. In front of the buccopharyngeal area, where the lateral cresce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmostat | The osmostat is the regulatory center in the hypothalamus that controls the osmolality of the extracellular fluid. The area in the anterior region of the hypothalamus contains the osmoreceptors, cells that control osmolality via the secretion of antidiuretic hormone (ADH).
In neurological conditions such as epilepsy o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperk%C3%A4hler%20quotient | In mathematics, the hyperkähler quotient of a hyperkähler manifold acted on by a Lie group G is the quotient of a fiber of a hyperkähler moment map over a G-fixed point by the action of G. It was introduced by Nigel Hitchin, Anders Karlhede, Ulf Lindström, and Martin Roček in 1987. It is a hyperkähler analogue of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondo | The rondo is a musical form that contains a principal theme (sometimes called the "refrain") which alternates with one or more contrasting themes, generally called "episodes", but also occasionally referred to as "digressions" or "couplets". Some possible patterns include: ABACA, ABACAB, ABACBA, or ABACABA.
The rondo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%20wave | Faraday waves, also known as Faraday ripples, named after Michael Faraday (1791–1867), are nonlinear standing waves that appear on liquids enclosed by a vibrating receptacle. When the vibration frequency exceeds a critical value, the flat hydrostatic surface becomes unstable. This is known as the Faraday instability. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterol%20carrier%20protein | Sterol carrier proteins (also known as nonspecific lipid transfer proteins) is a family of proteins that transfer steroids and probably also phospholipids and gangliosides between cellular membranes.
These proteins are different from plant nonspecific lipid transfer proteins but structurally similar to small proteins ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux%20transfer%20event | A flux transfer event (FTE) occurs when a magnetic portal opens in the Earth's magnetosphere through which high-energy particles flow from the Sun. This connection, while previously thought to be permanent, has been found to be brief and very dynamic. The European Space Agency's four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorito | Condorito (Little Condor in Spanish) is a Chilean comic book and comic strip series that features an anthropomorphic condor living in a fictitious town named Pelotillehue, a typical small Chilean provincial town. He is meant to be a representation of the Chilean people.
Condorito was first published on August 6, 1949,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansui%20AU-11000 | The Sansui AU-11000 is a home audio integrated amplifier built by Japanese audio electronics manufacturer Sansui during the mid 1970s. The amplifier is known across the audiophile community for its high-output power and low Total harmonic distortion (THD).
The AU-11000 has an output power of 110 watts-per-channel, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevated%20plus%20maze | The elevated plus maze (EPM) is a test measuring anxiety in laboratory animals that usually uses rodents as a screening test for putative anxiolytic or anxiogenic compounds and as a general research tool in neurobiological anxiety research such as PTSD and TBI. The model is based on the test animal's aversion to open s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DailyMed | DailyMed is a website operated by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) to publish up-to-date and accurate drug labels (also called a "package insert") to health care providers and the general public. The contents of DailyMed is provided and updated daily by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20smoke | Security smoke is a thermally generated white fog, aimed at inhibiting intruders from accessing items to steal, much used in the storage of high-value goods, and recommended by police and insurers. It consists of glycol or glycerine mixed with distilled water, which vaporises and then condenses in the air.
History
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotone | A biotone is a biogeographical region characterized not by distinctive biota but rather by a distinctive transition from one set of biota to another. They often contain the limits of distribution of the biota of neighbouring regions.
Biotones are especially useful in marine biogeography, where the movement of water ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore | In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual (in fungi) or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions. Spores form part of the life cycles of many plants, algae, fungi and protozoa.
Bacterial spores are not part of a sexual cycle,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble%20game | In mathematics and computer science, a pebble game is a type of mathematical game played by placing "pebbles" or "markers" on a directed acyclic graph according to certain rules:
A given step of the game consists of either placing a pebble on an empty vertex or removing a pebble from a previously pebbled vertex.
A ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre%20multi-object%20spectrograph | Fibre multi-object spectrograph (FMOS) is facility instrument for the Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The instrument consists of a complex fibre-optic positioning system mounted at the prime focus of the telescope. Fibres are then fed to a pair of large spectrographs, each weighing nearly 3000 kg. The instrume... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign%20Internet%20Law | The Sovereign Internet Law () is the informal name for a set of 2019 amendments to existing Russian legislation that mandate Internet surveillance and grants the Russian government powers to partition Russia from the rest of the Internet, including the creation of a national fork of the Domain Name System.
In a statem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium%20Club | The Megatherium Club was founded by William Stimpson. It was a group of Washington, D.C.-based scientists who were attracted to that city by the Smithsonian Institution's rapidly growing collection, from 1857 to 1866.
Many of the members had no formal education, but came by their expertise through extensive direct obs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20code | In coding theory, group codes are a type of code. Group codes consist of
linear block codes which are subgroups of , where is a finite Abelian group.
A systematic group code is a code over of order defined by homomorphisms which determine the parity check bits. The remaining bits are the information bits themse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Neumann%20bicommutant%20theorem | In mathematics, specifically functional analysis, the von Neumann bicommutant theorem relates the closure of a set of bounded operators on a Hilbert space in certain topologies to the bicommutant of that set. In essence, it is a connection between the algebraic and topological sides of operator theory.
The formal stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodeka%20music%20notation | The Dodeka Music Notation is an alternative music notation or musical notation system invented and designed in 1980s by inventor and musician Jacques-Daniel Rochat in an attempt to improve upon traditional music notation.
Staff and pitch
Unlike conventional musical notation, the Dodeka music notation system uses a ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20of%20Immunology%2C%20India | National Institute of Immunology (NII) is an autonomous research institute located in New Delhi, under the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) for research in immunology.
NII was established on 24 June 1981, with Prof. M. G. K. Menon as Chairman of its governing body. It has its origins in the ICMR–WHO Research & Train... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy%20%28grape%29 | In viticulture, the canopy of a grapevine includes the parts of the vine visible aboveground - the trunk, cordon, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruit. The canopy plays a key role in light energy capture via photosynthesis, water use as regulated by transpiration, and microclimate of ripening grapes. Canopy management is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sienna%20Morris | Sienna Morris (; born November 17, 1983) is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. She is an illustrator best known for her drawing technique, Numberism. This technique is similar to stippling or pointillism, but uses numbers and equations in place of dots.
Nominations and Publications
In 2013, Morris's Numberism draw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean%20Slate%20Program | The Clean Slate Program was an interdisciplinary research program at Stanford University which considered how the Internet could be redesigned with a "clean slate", without the accumulated complexity of existing systems but using the experience gained in their decades of development.
Its program director was Nick McKeo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesica%20piscis | The vesica piscis is a type of lens, a mathematical shape formed by the intersection of two disks with the same radius, intersecting in such a way that the center of each disk lies on the perimeter of the other. In Latin, "" literally means "bladder of a fish", reflecting the shape's resemblance to the conjoined dual a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy%20law | Privacy law is the body of law that deals with the regulating, storing, and using of personally identifiable information, personal healthcare information, and financial information of individuals, which can be collected by governments, public or private organisations, or other individuals. It also applies in the commer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention%20of%20the%20integrated%20circuit | The first planar monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip was demonstrated in 1960. The idea of integrating electronic circuits into a single device was born when the German physicist and engineer Werner Jacobi developed and patented the first known integrated transistor amplifier in 1949 and the British radio engineer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20applied%20physics | The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, applied physics:
Applied physics – physics intended for a particular technological or practical use.
It is usually considered as a bridge or a connection between "pure" physics and engineering.
Applied Physics – is the proper name of a journa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Neumann%20universe | In set theory and related branches of mathematics, the von Neumann universe, or von Neumann hierarchy of sets, denoted by V, is the class of hereditary well-founded sets. This collection, which is formalized by Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory (ZFC), is often used to provide an interpretation or motivation of the axioms of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversive%20congruential%20generator | Inversive congruential generators are a type of nonlinear congruential pseudorandom number generator, which use the modular multiplicative inverse (if it exists) to generate the next number in a sequence. The standard formula for an inversive congruential generator, modulo some prime q is:
Such a generator is denot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Venant%27s%20compatibility%20condition | In the mathematical theory of elasticity, Saint-Venant's compatibility condition defines the relationship between the strain and a displacement field by
where . Barré de Saint-Venant derived the compatibility condition for an arbitrary symmetric second rank tensor field to be of this form, this has now been general... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure%20Sphere | Azure Sphere is an application platform with integrated communications and security features developed and managed by Microsoft for Internet Connected Devices.
The platform consists of integrated hardware built around a secure silicon chip, the Azure Sphere OS (operating system for Azure Sphere), a high-end operating ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential%20Customer%20Equivalent | Residential Customer Equivalent (RCE) is a unit of measures used by the energy industry to denote the typical annual commodity consumption by a single-family residential customer. Also known as "RCE" for short, a single RCE represents 1,000 therms of natural gas or 10,000 kWh of electricity.
RCE is often used to help ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20data%20analysis | Geometric data analysis comprises geometric aspects of image analysis, pattern analysis, and shape analysis, and the approach of multivariate statistics, which treat arbitrary data sets as clouds of points in a space that is n-dimensional. This includes topological data analysis, cluster analysis, inductive data analys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20P.%20Anderson | David Pope Anderson (born 1955) is an American research scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, and an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Houston. Anderson leads the SETI@home, BOINC, Bossa, and Bolt software projects.
Education
Anderson received ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIP%20%28software%29 | The uIP is an open-source implementation of the TCP/IP network protocol stack intended for use with tiny 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers. It was initially developed by Adam Dunkels of the Networked Embedded Systems group at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, licensed under a BSD style license, and further develo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluopyram | Fluopyram is a fungicide and nematicide used in agriculture. It is used to control fungal diseases such as gray mold (Botrytis cinerea), powdery mildew, apple scab, Alternaria, Sclerotinia, and Monilinia. It is an inhibitor of succinate dehydrogenase (SDHI fungicide).
Developed and produced by Bayer, it was approved ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoRI-20041 | SoRI-20041 is an "antagonist-like" allosteric modulator of amphetamine-induced dopamine release (in contrast to the related research chemicals SoRI-9804 and SoRI-20040, which are "agonist-like"). SoRI-20041 is believed to be the first example of a drug that separately modulates uptake versus release in the dopamine tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20audit%20review | A software audit review, or software audit, is a type of software review in which one or more auditors who are not members of the software development organization conduct "An independent examination of a software product, software process, or set of software processes to assess compliance with specifications, standard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine%20tar | Pine tar is a form of wood tar produced by the high temperature carbonization of pine wood in anoxic conditions (dry distillation or destructive distillation). The wood is rapidly decomposed by applying heat and pressure in a closed container; the primary resulting products are charcoal and pine tar.
Pine tar consists... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20M.%20Hoy | Charles McCauley Hoy (1897–1923) was a field naturalist who obtained series of mammal and bird specimens for United States National Museum, travelling on expeditions to Australia, China and elsewhere. The large collections of specimens and notes he made in Australia from 1919 to 1922 followed a period of dramatic decli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous%20algebraic%20reconstruction%20technique | Simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART) is a computerized tomography (CT) imaging algorithm useful in cases when the projection data is limited; it was proposed by Anders Andersen and Avinash Kak in 1984.
It generates a good reconstruction in just one iteration and it is superior to standard algebraic re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MycoBank | MycoBank is an online database, documenting new mycological names and combinations, eventually combined with descriptions and illustrations. It is run by the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute in Utrecht.
Each novelty, after being screened by nomenclatural experts and found in accordance with the ICN (Internatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphadenopathy | Lymphadenopathy or adenopathy is a disease of the lymph nodes, in which they are abnormal in size or consistency. Lymphadenopathy of an inflammatory type (the most common type) is lymphadenitis, producing swollen or enlarged lymph nodes. In clinical practice, the distinction between lymphadenopathy and lymphadenitis i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assumed%20mean | In statistics the assumed mean is a method for calculating the arithmetic mean and standard deviation of a data set. It simplifies calculating accurate values by hand. Its interest today is chiefly historical but it can be used to quickly estimate these statistics. There are other rapid calculation methods which are mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain%20lunar%20sample%20displays | The Spain lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of tiny fragments of Moon specimens brought back with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 lunar missions. These plaques were given to the people of Spain by United States President Richard Nixon as goodwill gifts.
Description
Apollo 11
Apollo 17
His... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthine%20oxidase%20inhibitor | A xanthine oxidase inhibitor is any substance that inhibits the activity of xanthine oxidase, an enzyme involved in purine metabolism. In humans, inhibition of xanthine oxidase reduces the production of uric acid, and several medications that inhibit xanthine oxidase are indicated for treatment of hyperuricemia and re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Schulthess | Wilhelm Schulthess (18 May 1855 in Villnachern – 6 March 1917 in Zürich) was a Swiss internist and pediatrician, known for his work in the field of orthopedics. He was the brother of politician Edmund Schulthess (1868–1944).
In 1883, with August Lüning (1852–1925), he opened a private orthopedic institute in Zürich. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sierra%20Leone%20flags | The following is a list of flags used in Sierra Leone.
National flag
Government flag
Military flags
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maass%E2%80%93Selberg%20relations | In mathematics, the Maass–Selberg relations are some relations describing the inner products of truncated real analytic Eisenstein series, that in some sense say that distinct Eisenstein series are orthogonal. Hans Maass introduced the Maass–Selberg relations for the case of real analytic Eisenstein series on the upper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactitol-1-phosphate%205-dehydrogenase | In enzymology, a galactitol-1-phosphate 5-dehydrogenase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
galactitol-1-phosphate + NAD+ L-tagatose 6-phosphate + NADH + H+
Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are galactitol-1-phosphate and NAD+, whereas its 3 products are L-tagatose 6-phosphate, NADH, and H+.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandortuzumab%20vedotin | Vandortuzumab vedotin (INN; development code RG7450) is a humanized monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of cancer.
This drug was developed by Genentech/Roche. Development was discontinued in 2017. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understory | In forestry and ecology, understory (American English), or understorey (Commonwealth English), also known as underbrush or undergrowth, includes plant life growing beneath the forest canopy without penetrating it to any great extent, but above the forest floor. Only a small percentage of light penetrates the canopy so ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deoxyadenosine | Deoxyadenosine (symbol dA or dAdo) is a deoxyribonucleoside. It is a derivative of the nucleoside adenosine, differing from the latter by the replacement of a hydroxyl group (-OH) by hydrogen (-H) at the 2′ position of its ribose sugar moiety. Deoxyadenosine is the DNA nucleoside A, which pairs with deoxythymidine (T) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking%20Machines%20Corporation | Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer and artificial intelligence (AI) company, founded in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1983 by Sheryl Handler and W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis to turn Hillis's doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on massively parallel computing architectur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodoxanthin | Rhodoxanthin is a xanthophyll pigment with a purple color that is found in small quantities in a variety of plants including Taxus baccata and Lonicera morrowii. It is also found in the feathers of some birds. As a food additive it is used under the E number E161f as a food coloring. It is not approved for use in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGSN | Lengsin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LGSN gene.
Lengsin is a survivor of an ancient family of class I glutamine synthetases in eukaryotes that has undergone evolutionary re-engineering for a tissue-specific, noncatalytic role in the lens of the vertebrate eye. Lengsin is the result of the recruitment ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task%20allocation%20and%20partitioning%20in%20social%20insects | Task allocation and partitioning is the way that tasks are chosen, assigned, subdivided, and coordinated within a colony of social insects. Task allocation and partitioning gives rise to the division of labor often observed in social insect colonies, whereby individuals specialize on different tasks within the colony (... |
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