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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20variational%20topics | This is a list of variational topics in from mathematics and physics. See calculus of variations for a general introduction.
Action (physics)
Averaged Lagrangian
Brachistochrone curve
Calculus of variations
Catenoid
Cycloid
Dirichlet principle
Euler–Lagrange equation cf. Action (physics)
Fermat's principle
Fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20Insight | Norton Insight whitelists files based on reputation. Norton-branded antivirus software then leverages the data to skip known files during virus scans. Symantec claims quicker scans and more accurate detection with the use of the technology.
Development
Insight was codenamed Mr. Clean. Its initial aim was to help user... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten%20disilicide | Tungsten silicide (WSi2) is an inorganic compound, a silicide of tungsten. It is an electrically conductive ceramic material.
Chemistry
Tungsten silicide can react violently with substances such as strong acids, fluorine, oxidizers, and interhalogens.
Applications
It is used in microelectronics as a contact material,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20de%20Broglie%20wavelength | In physics, the thermal de Broglie wavelength (, sometimes also denoted by ) is roughly the average de Broglie wavelength of particles in an ideal gas at the specified temperature. We can take the average interparticle spacing in the gas to be approximately where is the volume and is the number of particles. When th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorics%3A%20The%20Rota%20Way | Combinatorics: The Rota Way is a mathematics textbook on algebraic combinatorics, based on the lectures and lecture notes of Gian-Carlo Rota in his courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was put into book form by Joseph P. S. Kung and Catherine Yan, two of Rota's students, and published in 2009 by the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working%E2%80%93Hotelling%20procedure | In statistics, particularly regression analysis, the Working–Hotelling procedure, named after Holbrook Working and Harold Hotelling, is a method of simultaneous estimation in linear regression models. One of the first developments in simultaneous inference, it was devised by Working and Hotelling for the simple linear ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MICdb | MICdb (Microsatellites database) is a database of non-redundant microsatellites from prokaryotic genomes.
See also
InSatDb
Microsatellite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucotome | A leucotome or McKenzie leucotome is a surgical instrument used for performing leucotomies (also known as lobotomy) and other forms of psychosurgery.
Invented by Canadian neurosurgeon Dr. Kenneth G. McKenzie in the 1940s, the leucotome has a narrow shaft which is inserted into the brain through a hole in the skull, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopeptide%20bond | An isopeptide bond is a type of amide bond formed between a carboxyl group of one amino acid and an amino group of another. An isopeptide bond is the linkage between the side chain amino or carboxyl group of one amino acid to the α-carboxyl, α-amino group, or the side chain of another amino acid. In a typical peptide b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelvic%20digit | A pelvic digit, pelvic finger, or pelvic rib is a rare congenital abnormality in humans, in which bone tissue develops in the soft tissue near the pelvis, resembling a rib or finger and often divided into one or more segments with pseudo-articulations. Pelvic digits are typically benign and asymptomatic, and are usuall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%20encroachment | Temporal encroachment is an action that affects the perception of time or that affects the ability to take action in the future. Temporal means related to the measurement or passing of time and encroachment is an intrusion, usually unwelcome, into the space of another.
The space that temporal encroachment refers to is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronekton | A micronekton is a group of organisms of 2 to 20 cm in size which are able to swim independently of ocean currents. The word 'nekton' is derived from the Greek νήκτον, translit. nekton, meaning "to swim", and was coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1890.
Overview
Micronekton organisms are ubiquitous in the world's oceans and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20irreducibility | In mathematics, a multivariate polynomial defined over the rational numbers is absolutely irreducible if it is irreducible over the complex field. For example, is absolutely irreducible, but while is irreducible over the integers and the reals, it is reducible over the complex numbers as and thus not absolutely irr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream | DeepDream is a computer vision program created by Google engineer Alexander Mordvintsev that uses a convolutional neural network to find and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, thus creating a dream-like appearance reminiscent of a psychedelic experience in the deliberately overprocessed images.
Goo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRMT7 | Protein arginine methyltransferase 7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PRMT7 gene. Arginine methylation is an apparently irreversible protein modification catalyzed by arginine methyltransferases, such as PMT7, using S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) as the methyl donor. Arginine methylation is implicated in si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-dimensional%20space | In mathematics, a zero-dimensional topological space (or nildimensional space) is a topological space that has dimension zero with respect to one of several inequivalent notions of assigning a dimension to a given topological space. A graphical illustration of a nildimensional space is a point.
Definition
Specifically... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxiferine | Toxiferine (C-toxiferine I) is a curare toxin. It is a bisindole alkaloid derived from Strychnos toxifera and a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist. This alkaloid is the main toxic component of Calabash curare, and one of the most toxic plant alkaloids known. The lethal dose (LD50) for mice has been determined... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20redundancy%20feature%20selection | Minimum redundancy feature selection is an algorithm frequently used in a method to accurately identify characteristics of genes and phenotypes and narrow down their relevance and is usually described in its pairing with relevant feature selection as Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR).
Feature selection, one ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence%20in%20measure | Convergence in measure is either of two distinct mathematical concepts both of which generalize
the concept of convergence in probability.
Definitions
Let be measurable functions on a measure space . The sequence is said to converge globally in measure to if for every ,
,
and to converge locally in measure to if... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%C3%A0ng%20Xu%C3%A2n%20S%C3%ADnh | Hoàng Xuân Sính (born September 8, 1933) is a Vietnamese mathematician, a student of Grothendieck, the first female mathematics professor in Vietnam, the founder of , and a recipient of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
Early life and career
Hoàng was born in Cót, in the Từ Liêm District of Vietnam, one of seven child... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatiron%20School | Flatiron School is an educational organization founded in 2012 by Adam Enbar and Avi Flombaum. The organization is based in New York City and teaches software engineering, computer programming, data science, product design, and cybersecurity engineering. In 2017, the company was sued for making false statements about t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty%20Narrows%20Bridge | The Nutty Narrows Bridge is a squirrel bridge in Longview, Washington, United States. It spans Olympia Way near R. A. Long Park in downtown Longview, comprising a catenary bridge with a center section resembling a suspension bridge. The bridge was built by local contractor Amos Peters in 1963 and named by a city counc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental%20Cell | Developmental Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of cell and developmental biology. The journal was established in 2001, and is edited by Julie Sollier. It published by Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, and its articles becomes open access after an embargo period of one year.
External links
Cell Press acade... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champernowne%20constant | In mathematics, the Champernowne constant is a transcendental real constant whose decimal expansion has important properties. It is named after economist and mathematician D. G. Champernowne, who published it as an undergraduate in 1933.
For base 10, the number is defined by concatenating representations of successi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lubinski | David J. Lubinski is an American psychology professor known for his work in applied research, psychometrics, and individual differences. His work (with Camilla Benbow) has focussed on exceptionally able children: the nature of exceptional ability, the development of people with exceptional ability (in particular meetin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CACNB2 | Voltage-dependent L-type calcium channel subunit beta-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CACNB2 gene.
Clinical significance
Mutation in the CACNB2 gene are associated with Brugada syndrome, autism, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and schizop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20online%20marketplaces | This is a non-exhaustive list of online marketplaces. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Discoverers | The Discoverers is a non-fiction historical work by Daniel Boorstin, published in 1983, and is the first in the Knowledge Trilogy, which also includes The Creators and The Seekers. The book, subtitled A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, is a history of human discovery. Discovery in many forms is de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobian | In mathematics, a Jacobian, named for Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, may refer to:
Jacobian matrix and determinant
Jacobian elliptic functions
Jacobian variety
Intermediate Jacobian
Mathematical terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badlands%20%281984%20video%20game%29 | is a video game released and developed by Konami on the LaserDisc system in 1984 and published by both Konami and Centuri. It first debuted at the Amusement and Music Operators Association (AMOA) Show in October 1983 and was later released to the public in early 1984. In addition to its LaserDisc version, two versions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/129%20%28number%29 | 129 (one hundred [and] twenty-nine) is the natural number following 128 and preceding 130.
In mathematics
129 is the sum of the first ten prime numbers. It is the smallest number that can be expressed as a sum of three squares in four different ways: , , , and .
129 is the product of only two primes, 3 and 43, making... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference%20on%20Neural%20Information%20Processing%20Systems | The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (abbreviated as NeurIPS and formerly NIPS) is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December. The conference is currently a double-track meeting (single-track until 2015) that includes invited talks as well as oral a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build%20the%20Earth | Build the Earth (BTE) is a project dedicated to creating a 1:1 scale model of Earth within the sandbox video game Minecraft.
History
Build The Earth was created by YouTuber PippenFTS in March 2020 as a collaborative effort to recreate Earth in the video game Minecraft. In a YouTube video, PippenFTS called for prosp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20Research%20Service | The War Research Service (WRS) was a civilian agency of the United States government established during World War II to pursue research relating to biological warfare. Established in May 1942 by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, the WRS was embedded in the Federal Security Agency, the federal agency that administered... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jada%20Toys | Jada Toys, Inc. is an American manufacturer of collectible scale model cars, figures, radio controlled model vehicles, and dolls. It was founded in 1999 by Jack and May Li. Jada's products are predominantly aimed at the collectible market, and are available and popular at retail outlets worldwide.
The company has or h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kre-O | KRE-O is a line of construction toys (similar to Lego and Mega Bloks) manufactured by South Koreabased Oxford and marketed by Hasbro. Kre-O was released in stores in Fall 2011. The name Kre-O comes from the Latin word creo, which means "I create".
Kre-O toys feature highly articulated humanoid figures called "Kreons".... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential%20looking | Preferential looking is an experimental method in developmental psychology used to gain insight into the young mind/brain. The method as used today was developed by the developmental psychologist Robert L. Fantz in the 1960s.
The Preferential Looking Technique
According to the American Psychological Association, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20sheet | Alpha sheet (also known as alpha pleated sheet or polar pleated sheet) is an atypical secondary structure in proteins, first proposed by Linus Pauling and Robert Corey in 1951. The hydrogen bonding pattern in an alpha sheet is similar to that of a beta sheet, but the orientation of the carbonyl and amino groups in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20wild | An urban wild is a remnant of a natural ecosystem found in the midst of an otherwise highly developed urban area.
Utility
Urban wilds, particularly those of several acres or more, are often intact ecological systems that can provide essential ecosystem functions such as the filtering of urban run-off, the storing and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reutericyclin | Reutericyclin is a bacteriocin produced by the bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri that has potential use as a food preservative. Reutericyclin is a hydrophobic, negatively charged molecule with the molecular formula C20H31NO4. Reutericyclin disrupts the cell membrane of sensitive bacteria by acting as a proton ionophore. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Center%20for%20Simulation | The National Center for Simulation (NCS) is an association of defense companies, government, academic, start-up companies, and industry members. NCS is located in the Central Florida Research Park, adjacent to Naval Support Activity Orlando, and the simulation headquarters of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20plane%20analysis | Critical plane analysis refers to the analysis of stresses or strains as they are experienced by a particular plane in a material, as well as the identification of which plane is likely to experience the most extreme damage. Critical plane analysis is widely used in engineering to account for the effects of cyclic, mul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%20reaction%20force | In physics, and in particular in biomechanics, the ground reaction force (GRF) is the force exerted by the ground on a body in contact with it.
For example, a person standing motionless on the ground exerts a contact force on it (equal to the person's weight) and at the same time an equal and opposite ground reaction f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20projection | In information theory, the information projection or I-projection of a probability distribution q onto a set of distributions P is
.
where is the Kullback–Leibler divergence from q to p. Viewing the Kullback–Leibler divergence as a measure of distance, the I-projection is the "closest" distribution to q of all the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional%20integrated%20circuit | A three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC) is a MOS (metal-oxide semiconductor) integrated circuit (IC) manufactured by stacking as many as 16 or more ICs and interconnecting them vertically using, for instance, through-silicon vias (TSVs) or Cu-Cu connections, so that they behave as a single device to achieve perf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle%20packing | In geometry, circle packing is the study of the arrangement of circles (of equal or varying sizes) on a given surface such that no overlapping occurs and so that no circle can be enlarged without creating an overlap. The associated packing density, , of an arrangement is the proportion of the surface covered by the cir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS%20930 | The SDS 930 was a commercial 24-bit computer using bipolar junction transistors sold by Scientific Data Systems.
It was announced in December 1963, with first installations in June 1964.
Description
An SDS 930 system consists of at least three standard () cabinets, weighing about . It is composed of an arithmetic and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoeriodictyol | Homoeriodictyol is a bitter-masking flavanone extracted from Yerba Santa (Eriodictyon californicum) a plant growing in America.
Homoeriodictyol (3`-methoxy-4`,5,7-trihydroxyflavanone) is one of the 4 flavanones identified by Symrise in this plant eliciting taste-modifying property: homoeriodictyol sodium salt, eriodic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity%20quotient | Longevity Quotient (LQ) is a simplified measure to enable normalized comparisons of various species' longevity. It shares some similarity with measures such as Intelligence Quotient. It originated with Steven N. Austad and Kathleen E Fischer's 1991 paper on mammalian aging.
The detailed description of LQ was original... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Syme | David Syme (2 October 1827 – 14 February 1908) was a Scottish-Australian newspaper proprietor of The Age and regarded as "the father of protection in Australia" who had immense influence in the Government of Victoria. His first biographer, Ambrose Pratt, declared Syme "could hate as few men can [and] loved power as few... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic%20bicombing | In metric geometry, a geodesic bicombing distinguishes a class of geodesics of a metric space. The study of metric spaces with distinguished geodesics traces back to the work of the mathematician Herbert Busemann. The convention to call a collection of paths of a metric space bicombing is due to William Thurston. By im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise%20ratio | Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR or S/N) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise. SNR is defined as the ratio of signal power to noise power, often expressed in decibels. A ratio higher than 1:1 (greater than 0 dB) indicates more signal than no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20trifoliate%20plants | This is an incomplete list of plants with trifoliate leaves. Trifoliate leaves (also known as trifoliolate or ternate leaves) are a leaf shape characterized by a leaf divided into three leaflets. Species which are known to be trifoliate are listed here. Genera which are characteristically trifoliate are also listed, wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20software%20engineering | Social software engineering (SSE) is a branch of software engineering that is concerned with the social aspects of software development and the developed software.
SSE focuses on the socialness of both software engineering and developed software. On the one hand, the consideration of social factors in software enginee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signals%20intelligence%20by%20alliances%2C%20nations%20and%20industries | Signals intelligence by alliances, nations and industries comprises signals intelligence (SIGINT) gathering activities by national and non-national entities; these entities are commonly responsible for communications security (COMSEC) as well.
Many US and allied SIGINT activities are considered Sensitive Compartmented... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathologists%27%20assistant | A pathologists’ assistant (PA) is a physician extender whose expertise lies in gross examination of surgical specimens as well as performing forensic, medicolegal, and hospital autopsies.
General overview
PAs work under the indirect or direct supervision of a board certified anatomical pathologist, who ultimately ren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMP-16 | The IMP-16, by National Semiconductor, was the first multi-chip 16-bit microprocessor, released in 1973. It consisted of five PMOS integrated circuits: four identical RALU chips, short for register and ALU, providing the data path, and one CROM, Control and ROM, providing control sequencing and microcode storage. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20spider%20and%20the%20fly%20problem | The spider and the fly problem is a recreational mathematics problem with an unintuitive solution, asking for a shortest path or geodesic between two points on the surface of a cuboid. It was originally posed by Henry Dudeney.
Problem
In the typical version of the puzzle, an otherwise empty cuboid room 30 feet long, 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foil%20%28architecture%29 | A foil is an architectural device based on a symmetrical rendering of leaf shapes, defined by overlapping circles of the same diameter that produce a series of cusps to make a lobe. Typically, the number of cusps can be three (trefoil), four (quatrefoil), five (cinquefoil), or a larger number (multifoil).
Foil motifs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanillylmandelic%20acid | Vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) is a chemical intermediate in the synthesis of artificial vanilla flavorings and is an end-stage metabolite of the catecholamines (epinephrine, and norepinephrine). It is produced via intermediary metabolites.
Chemical synthesis
VMA synthesis is the first step of a two-step process practice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroepigenetics | Neuroepigenetics is the study of how epigenetic changes to genes affect the nervous system. These changes may effect underlying conditions such as addiction, cognition, and neurological development.
Mechanisms
Neuroepigenetic mechanisms regulate gene expression in the neuron. Often, these changes take place due to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESM | MESM (Ukrainian: MEOM, Мала Електронна Обчислювальна Машина; Russian: МЭСМ, Малая Электронно-Счетная Машина; 'Small Electronic Calculating Machine') was the first universally programmable electronic computer in the Soviet Union. By some authors it was also depicted as the first one in continental Europe, even though th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming%20space | In statistics and coding theory, a Hamming space (named after American mathematician Richard Hamming) is usually the set of all binary strings of length N. It is used in the theory of coding signals and transmission.
More generally, a Hamming space can be defined over any alphabet (set) Q as the set of words of a fix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia%20Plantarum%20%28Gessner%29 | Historia Plantarum (also called Conradi Gesneri Historia Plantarum) is an extensive botanical encyclopedia by the Swiss natural scientist, Conrad Gessner (1516 – 1565). Although compiled between 1555 and 1565, it was not published till 1754, since he died of the plague, prior to its completion. To complete the work, he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Engineering%20Anthropometry%20Resource | World Engineering Anthropometry Resource (WEAR) is an international not-for-profit group that "provides a digital platform for sharing anthropometric data from around the world." It is registered in Europe but its members and partners are from all over the globe. It is made up of “a group of interested experts involve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac%C3%ADfica%20Fern%C3%A1ndez | Pacífica Fernández Oreamuno (August 23, 1828 – March 31, 1885) was the inaugural First Lady of Costa Rica and wife of President José María Castro Madriz. She was born in San José, Costa Rica on August 23, 1828 to her parents former Head of State Manuel Fernández Chacón and Dolores Oreamuno Muñoz de la Trinidad, and was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRX%20expansion%20board | The SRX are a series of expansion boards produced by Roland Corporation. First introduced in 2000, they are small boards of electronic circuitry with 64MB ROMs containing patches (timbres) and rhythm sets (drum kits). They are used to expand certain models of Roland synthesizers, music workstations, keyboards, and soun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi%20Apel | Willi Apel (10 October 1893 – 14 March 1988) was a German-American musicologist and noted author of a number of books devoted to music. Among his most important publications are the 1944 edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music and French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century.
Life and career
Apel was born i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20displacement%20pipette | Piston-driven air displacement pipettes are a type of micropipette, which are tools to handle volumes of liquid in the microliter scale. They are more commonly used in biology and biochemistry, and less commonly in chemistry; the equipment is susceptible to damage from many organic solvents.
Operation
These pipettes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%20algebra | In mathematics, a Stone algebra, or Stone lattice, is a pseudo-complemented distributive lattice such that a* ∨ a** = 1. They were introduced by and named after Marshall Harvey Stone.
Boolean algebras are Stone algebras, and Stone algebras are Ockham algebras.
Examples:
The open-set lattice of an extremally discon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopband | A stopband is a band of frequencies, between specified limits, through which a circuit, such as a filter or telephone circuit, does not allow signals to pass, or the attenuation is above the required stopband attenuation level. Depending on application, the required attenuation within the stopband may typically be a va... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation%20%28projective%20geometry%29 | In projective geometry, a correlation is a transformation of a d-dimensional projective space that maps subspaces of dimension k to subspaces of dimension , reversing inclusion and preserving incidence. Correlations are also called reciprocities or reciprocal transformations.
In two dimensions
In the real projective p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20Launch%20Assist | Hydraulic Launch Assist (HLA) is the name of a hydraulic hybrid regenerative braking system for land vehicles produced by the Eaton Corporation.
Background
The HLA system recycles energy by converting kinetic energy into potential energy during deceleration via hydraulics, storing the energy at high pressure in an acc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmert%20set | In mathematics, a Zimmert set is a set of positive integers associated with the structure of quotients of hyperbolic three-space by a Bianchi group.
Definition
Fix an integer d and let D be the discriminant of the imaginary quadratic field Q(√-d). The Zimmert set Z(d) is the set of positive integers n such that 4n2 <... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement%20activity | Displacement activities occur when an animal experiences high motivation for two or more conflicting behaviours: the resulting displacement activity is usually unrelated to the competing motivations. Birds, for example, may peck at grass when uncertain whether to attack or flee from an opponent; similarly, a human may ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20context-free%20language | In formal language theory, deterministic context-free languages (DCFL) are a proper subset of context-free languages. They are the context-free languages that can be accepted by a deterministic pushdown automaton. DCFLs are always unambiguous, meaning that they admit an unambiguous grammar. There are non-deterministi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-plate%20potential | End plate potentials (EPPs) are the voltages which cause depolarization of skeletal muscle fibers caused by neurotransmitters binding to the postsynaptic membrane in the neuromuscular junction. They are called "end plates" because the postsynaptic terminals of muscle fibers have a large, saucer-like appearance. When ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day%20convolution | In mathematics, specifically in category theory, Day convolution is an operation on functors that can be seen as a categorified version of function convolution. It was first introduced by Brian Day in 1970 in the general context of enriched functor categories. Day convolution acts as a tensor product for a monoidal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety%20sign | Safety signs are a type of sign designed to warn of hazards, indicate mandatory actions or required use of Personal protective equipment, prohibit actions or objects, identify the location of firefighting or safety equipment, or marking of exit routes.
In addition to being encountered in industrial facilities; safety ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester%20equation | In mathematics, in the field of control theory, a Sylvester equation is a matrix equation of the form:
It is named after English mathematician James Joseph Sylvester. Then given matrices A, B, and C, the problem is to find the possible matrices X that obey this equation. All matrices are assumed to have coefficients ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%20function | In statistics, the Cunningham function or Pearson–Cunningham function ωm,n(x) is a generalisation of a special function introduced by and studied in the form here by . It can be defined in terms of the confluent hypergeometric function U, by
The function was studied by Cunningham in the context of a multivariate gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20geology | Marine geology or geological oceanography is the study of the history and structure of the ocean floor. It involves geophysical, geochemical, sedimentological and paleontological investigations of the ocean floor and coastal zone. Marine geology has strong ties to geophysics and to physical oceanography.
Marine geolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isothermal%20titration%20calorimetry | In chemical thermodynamics, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) is a physical technique used to determine the thermodynamic parameters of interactions in solution. It is most often used to study the binding of small molecules (such as medicinal compounds) to larger macromolecules (proteins, DNA etc.) in a label-free... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endospore | An endospore is a dormant, tough, and non-reproductive structure produced by some bacteria in the phylum Bacillota. The name "endospore" is suggestive of a spore or seed-like form (endo means 'within'), but it is not a true spore (i.e., not an offspring). It is a stripped-down, dormant form to which the bacterium can r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20pipelining | Protocol pipelining is a technique in which multiple requests are written out to a single socket without waiting for the corresponding responses. Pipelining can be used in various application layer network protocols, like HTTP/1.1, SMTP and FTP.
The pipelining of requests results in a dramatic improvement in protocol ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thigmomorphogenesis | Thigmomorphogenesis (from Ancient Greek θιγγάνω (thingánō) to touch, μορφή (morphê) shape, and γένεσις (génesis) creation) is the response by plants to mechanical sensation (touch) by altering their growth patterns. In the wild, these patterns can be evinced by wind, raindrops, and rubbing by passing animals.
Botani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-replaceable%20unit | A field-replaceable unit (FRU) is a printed circuit board, part, or assembly that can be quickly and easily removed from a computer or other piece of electronic equipment, and replaced by the user or a technician without having to send the entire product or system to a repair facility. FRUs allow a technician lacking i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified%20health%20physicist | Certified Health Physicist is an official title granted by the American Board of Health Physics, the certification board for health physicists in the United States. A Certified Health Physicist is designated by the letters CHP or DABHP (Diplomate of the American Board of Health Physics) after his or her name.
A certi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Samelson | Hans Samelson (3 March 1916 – 22 September 2005) was a German-American mathematician who worked in differential geometry, topology and the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras—important in describing the symmetry of analytical structures.
Career and personal life
The eldest of three sons, Samelson was born on 3 March... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetotaxis | Magnetotaxis is a process implemented by a diverse group of Gram-negative bacteria that involves orienting and coordinating movement in response to Earth's magnetic field. This process is mainly carried out by microaerophilic and anaerobic bacteria found in aquatic environments such as salt marshes, seawater, and fresh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYCL | SYCL is a higher-level programming model to improve programming productivity on various hardware accelerators. It is a single-source embedded domain-specific language (eDSL) based on pure C++17. It is a standard developed by Khronos Group, announced in March 2014.
Origin of the name
SYCL (pronounced ‘sickle’) original... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20transverse%20ligament%20of%20the%20tibiofibular%20syndesmosis | The inferior transverse ligament of the tibiofibular syndesmosis is a connective tissue structure in the lower leg that lies in front of the posterior ligament. It is a strong, thick band, of yellowish fibers which passes transversely across the back of the ankle joint, from the lateral malleolus to the posterior borde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinseltown%20in%20the%20Rain | "Tinseltown in the Rain" is a song by Scottish pop band The Blue Nile. It was released as the second single from their 1984 debut album A Walk Across the Rooftops. The song was written and produced by lead singer Paul Buchanan and bassist Robert Bell. It has been described as an "ode to the city" of Glasgow.
The song ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REFInd | rEFInd is a boot manager for UEFI and EFI-based machines. It can be used to boot multiple operating systems that are installed on a single non-volatile device. It also provides a way to launch UEFI applications.
It was forked from discontinued rEFIt in 2012, with 0.2.0 as its first release.
rEFind supports x86, x86-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit%20programming | Tacit programming, also called point-free style, is a programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments (or "points") on which they operate. Instead the definitions merely compose other functions, among which are combinators that manipulate the arguments. Tacit programming is of theoretic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures%20and%20promises | In computer science, future, promise, delay, and deferred refer to constructs used for synchronizing program execution in some concurrent programming languages. They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially unknown, usually because the computation of its value is not yet complete.
The ter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer%20%28microarchitecture%29 | The AMD Bulldozer Family 15h is a microprocessor microarchitecture for the FX and Opteron line of processors, developed by AMD for the desktop and server markets. Bulldozer is the codename for this family of microarchitectures. It was released on October 12, 2011, as the successor to the K10 microarchitecture.
Bulldoz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20Windows%209x | The Windows 9x series of operating systems refers to the kernel which lies at the heart of Windows 9x. Its architecture is monolithic.
The basic code is similar in function to MS-DOS. As a 16-/32-bit hybrid, it requires support from MS-DOS to operate.
Critical files
Windows 95 boots using the following set of files:
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glugging | Glugging (also referred to as "the glug-glug process") is the physical phenomenon which occurs when a liquid is poured rapidly from a vessel with a narrow opening, such as a bottle. It is a facet of fluid dynamics.
As liquid is poured from a bottle, the air pressure in the bottle is lowered, and air at higher pressur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Medicine%20and%20Biology | Mathematical Medicine and Biology is an academic journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. The Journal publishes articles addressing topics in medicine and biology with mathematical content.
Impact factor
Mathematical Medicine and Biology received an ... |
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