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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyadics | In mathematics, specifically multilinear algebra, a dyadic or dyadic tensor is a second order tensor, written in a notation that fits in with vector algebra.
There are numerous ways to multiply two Euclidean vectors. The dot product takes in two vectors and returns a scalar, while the cross product returns a pseudovec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccyx | The coccyx (: coccyges or coccyxes), commonly referred to as the tailbone, is the final segment of the vertebral column in all apes, and analogous structures in certain other mammals such as horses. In tailless primates (e.g. humans and other great apes) since Nacholapithecus (a Miocene hominoid), the coccyx is the rem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbilaterian | The urbilaterian (from German ur- 'original') is the hypothetical last common ancestor of the bilaterian clade, i.e., all animals having a bilateral symmetry.
Appearance
Its appearance is a matter of debate, for no representative has been (or may or may not ever be) identified in the fossil record. Two reconstructed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable%20Cluster%20Environment | OpenSCE (Open Scalable Cluster Environment) is an Open-source beowulf-clustering software suite led by Kasetsart University, Thailand. It started from a small system monitoring for cluster, called SCMS (Scalable Cluster Monitoring System) and extend from its base to many sub-project. Currently OpenSCE has the following... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral%20hashing | Spiral hashing, also known as Spiral Storage is an extensible
hashing algorithm. As in all hashing schemes, spiral hashing stores records in a varying number of buckets, using a record key for addressing. In an expanding Linear hashing file, buckets are split in a predefined order. This results in adding a new bucket ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Fire%20%28novel%29 | Green Fire is a science fiction novel by American writer John Taine (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell). It was first published in 1928 by E. P. Dutton. The novel was adapted and produced as a play.
Plot introduction
The novel concerns two corporations competing to develop the power of atomic energy. Independent Laborat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Olympiad%20Program | The Mathematical Olympiad Program (abbreviated MOP; formerly called the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program, abbreviated MOSP) is an intensive summer program held at Carnegie Mellon University. The main purpose of MOP, held since 1974, is to select and train the six members of the U.S. team for the International Mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/375-line%20television%20system | 375-line corresponds to two different electronic television systems, both using 375 scan lines. One system (monochrome, 50 fields per second, interlaced) was used in Germany after 1936 along with the 180-line system, being replaced in a few years by the superior 441-line system. It was also tested in Italy around the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean%20Knowledge%20and%20Learning%20Network | The Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network (CKLN) is an inter-governmental agency of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM, responsible for developing and managing a high capacity, broadband fiber optic network called C@ribNET, connecting all CARICOM member states.
The Caribbean Knowledge Learning Network Agency was firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem%20Cell%20Therapeutic%20and%20Research%20Act%20of%202005 | The Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005 () is a United States federal law that assigns the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to create a national stockpile of cord blood stem cells, and rewrites provisions within the Public Health Service Act to account for cord blood and bone marrow donor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Magnetics | IEEE Transactions on Magnetics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the basic physics of magnetism, magnetic materials, applied magnetics, magnetic devices, and magnetic data storage. The editor-in-chief is Amr Adly (Cairo University, Egypt).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LumenVox | LumenVox is a privately held speech recognition software company based in San Diego, California. LumenVox has been described as one of the market leaders in the speech recognition software industry.
History
LumenVox was founded in 2001 as subsidiary of Progressive Computing. According to LumenVox CEO Edward Miller, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20bone | Primary bone is the first bone tissue that appears in embryonic development and in fracture repair. It is characterized by its random position of collagen fibers. In most places in adults this tissue is replaced by secondary bone tissue except, for example, near the sutures of calvara or tooth sockets. The secondary bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20parietal%20lobule | The superior parietal lobule is bounded in front by the upper part of the postcentral sulcus, but is usually connected with the postcentral gyrus above the end of the sulcus. The superior parietal lobule contains Brodmann's areas 5 and 7.
Behind it is the lateral part of the parietooccipital fissure, around the end of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm%20spotting | Storm spotting is a form of weather spotting in which observers watch for the approach of severe weather, monitor its development and progression, and actively relay their findings to local authorities.
History
Storm spotting developed in the United States during the early 1940s. A joint project between the military ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.19 | IEEE 802.19 is the Wireless Coexistence Working Group (WG) within the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee. The WG deals with coexistence between unlicensed wireless networks. Many of the IEEE 802 wireless standards use unlicensed spectrum and hence need to address the issue of coexistence. These unlicensed wireless de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disintegrin | Disintegrins are a family of small proteins (45–84 amino acids in length) from viper venoms that function as potent inhibitors of both platelet aggregation and integrin-dependent cell adhesion.
Operation
Disintegrins work by countering the blood clotting steps, inhibiting the clumping of platelets. They interact with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20circular%20dichroism | Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) is the differential absorption of left and right circularly polarized (LCP and RCP) light, induced in a sample by a strong magnetic field oriented parallel to the direction of light propagation. MCD measurements can detect transitions which are too weak to be seen in conventional optic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF%20Ash | Royal Air Force Ash or more simply RAF Ash (formerly RAF Sandwich) was a Royal Air Force underground control centre and radar station situated near the village of Woodnesborough, Kent, England.
History
RAF Sandwich
RAF Sandwich was originally a Ground Controlled Interception (GCI) site situated in Ash Road, Sandwich... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Clinical%20Research%20Center | International Clinical Research Center Brno (ICRC) is a conceptually novel project in biomedical research and clinical patient care which is being developed by the Czech Republic and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The goal of ICRC consists of creating a research platform to allow cutting edge clinical resea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingdon%20Life%20Sciences | Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) was a contract research organisation (CRO) founded in 1951 in Cambridgeshire, England. It had two laboratories in the United Kingdom and one in the United States. With over 1,600 staff, it was until 2015 the largest non-clinical CRO in Europe. In September 2015, Huntingdon Life Sciences, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Marine%20Biological%20Station%20Millport | The University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM) was a higher education institution located on the island of Great Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, and run by the university of London (of which it was a central academic body). It closed in 2013 and is now Millport Field Centre, run by the Field Studies... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating%20bridge | A mating bridge, also known as a conjugation or population bridge, is a connection between two bacterial cells that provides a passageway for DNA in bacterial conjugation.
A mating bridge is different from a sex pilus, which is a structure made by an F+ strain bacterium in bacterial conjugation. The pili (plural) act... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon%20Schechtman | Gideon Schechtman (; born 14 February 1947) is an Israeli mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Academic career
Schechtman received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1976 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University.
Since 1980 he ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTE%20%28direct%20to%20edit%29 | DTE (direct to edit) is a digital video direct-to-disk recording method (and also refers to the associated equipment) used to streamline the post-production video editing workflow of raw video files into a non-linear editing system (NLE). Recent developments have added solid-state memory recording units with removable... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoexpediency | Lipoexpediency refers to the beneficial effects of lipids in a cell or a tissue, primarily lipid-mediated signal transmission events, that may occur even in the setting of excess fatty acids. The term was coined as an antonym to lipotoxicity.
See also
Lipotoxicity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden%20graph%20characterization | In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, many important families of graphs can be described by a finite set of individual graphs that do not belong to the family and further exclude all graphs from the family which contain any of these forbidden graphs as (induced) subgraph or minor.
A prototypical example of this ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Hertwig | Oscar Hertwig (21 April 1849 in Friedberg – 25 October 1922 in Berlin) was a German embryologist and zoologist known for his research in developmental biology and evolution. Hertwig is credited as the first man to observe sexual reproduction by looking at the cells of sea urchins under the microscope.
Biography
Hertw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahler%20polynomial | In mathematics, the Mahler polynomials gn(x) are polynomials introduced by in his work on the zeros of the incomplete gamma function.
Mahler polynomials are given by the generating function
Which is close to the generating function of the Touchard polynomials.
The first few examples are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20of%20binary%20search%20trees | In computer science, one approach to the dynamic optimality problem on online algorithms for binary search trees involves reformulating the problem geometrically, in terms of augmenting a set of points in the plane with as few additional points as possible in order to avoid rectangles with only two points on their boun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology | Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember many digits of the mathematical constant . The word is a play on the word "pi" itself and of the linguistic field of philology.
There are many ways to memorize , including the use of piems (a portmanteau, formed by combining pi and poem), wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Internet%20email%20address | A wide variety of non-Internet email address formats were used in early email systems before the ubiquity of the john.smith@example.com form used by Internet mail systems since the 1980s - and a few are still used in specialised contexts.
Single system
The earliest email addresses simply had to identify one user from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio%20Gagliardo | Emilio Gagliardo (5 November 1930, Genoa – 15 August 2008, Genoa) was an Italian mathematician working in the field of Analysis.
Life
He did his PhD in Algebraic Geometry at the University of Genoa with Eugenio Togliatti and graduated in 1953.He then became an assistant of Guido Stampacchia and started to study parti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loewner%27s%20torus%20inequality | In differential geometry, Loewner's torus inequality is an inequality due to Charles Loewner. It relates the systole and the area of an arbitrary Riemannian metric on the 2-torus.
Statement
In 1949 Charles Loewner proved that every metric on the 2-torus satisfies the optimal inequality
where "sys" is its systole, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lant | Lant is aged urine. The term comes from Old English , which referred to urine. Collected urine was put aside to ferment until used for its chemical content in many pre-industrial processes, such as cleaning and production.
History
Because of its ammonium content, lant was most commonly used for floor cleaning and la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Geometry%20of%20Musical%20Rhythm | The Geometry of Musical Rhythm: What Makes a "Good" Rhythm Good? is a book on the mathematics of rhythms and drum beats. It was written by Godfried Toussaint, and published by Chapman & Hall/CRC in 2013 and in an expanded second edition in 2020. The Basic Library List Committee of the Mathematical Association of Americ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Acetyl-1-pyrroline | 2-Acetyl-1-pyrroline (2AP) is an aroma compound and flavor that gives freshly baked bread, jasmine rice and basmati rice, the herb pandan (Pandanus amaryllifolius), and bread flowers (Vallaris glabra) their customary smell. Many observers describe the smell as similar to "hot, buttered popcorn", and it is credited for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dini%20continuity | In mathematical analysis, Dini continuity is a refinement of continuity. Every Dini continuous function is continuous. Every Lipschitz continuous function is Dini continuous.
Definition
Let be a compact subset of a metric space (such as ), and let be a function from into itself. The modulus of continuity of is
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%E2%80%93Birkhoff%20theorem | In symplectic topology and dynamical systems, Poincaré–Birkhoff theorem (also known as Poincaré–Birkhoff fixed point theorem and Poincaré's last geometric theorem) states that every area-preserving, orientation-preserving homeomorphism of an annulus that rotates the two boundaries in opposite directions has at least tw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girth%20%28geometry%29 | In three-dimensional geometry, the girth of a geometric object, in a certain direction, is the perimeter of its parallel projection in that direction. For instance, the girth of a unit cube in a direction parallel to one of the three coordinate axes is four: it projects to a unit square, which has four as its perimeter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic%20pseudo-Boolean%20optimization | Quadratic pseudo-Boolean optimisation (QPBO) is a combinatorial optimization method for quadratic pseudo-Boolean functions in the form
in the binary variables , with . If is submodular then QPBO produces a global optimum equivalently to graph cut optimization, while if contains non-submodular terms then the algorith... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohm%20diffusion | The diffusion of plasma across a magnetic field was conjectured to follow the Bohm diffusion scaling as indicated from the early plasma experiments of very lossy machines. This predicted that the rate of diffusion was linear with temperature and inversely linear with the strength of the confining magnetic field.
The r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage%20oil | Sage oils are essential oils that come in several varieties:
Dalmatian sage oil
Also called English, Garden, and True sage oil. Made by steam distillation of Salvia officinalis partially dried leaves. Yields range from 0.5 to 1.0%. A colorless to yellow liquid with a warm camphoraceous, thujone-like odor and sharp an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SENS%20Research%20Foundation | The SENS Research Foundation is a non-profit organization that does research programs and public relations work for the application of regenerative medicine to aging. It was founded in 2009, located in Mountain View, California, USA. The organization publishes its reports annually.
History
Before the foundation was f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20over%20SONET/SDH | Packet over SONET/SDH, abbreviated POS, is a communications protocol for transmitting packets in the form of the Point to Point Protocol (PPP) over SDH or SONET, which are both standard protocols for communicating digital information using lasers or light emitting diodes (LEDs) over optical fibre at high line rates. P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis%20mark | The emphasis mark or emphasis dot is a typographic marking used in some East Asian languages to indicate emphasis. The markings takes in many forms like, a dot or a bullet, a circle, or a triangle. It was used more traditionally, but nowadays, with technology, quotations or changing of font style prevails.
In Chinese ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bredt%27s%20rule | In organic chemistry, Bredt's rule is an empirical observation that states that a double bond cannot be placed at the bridgehead of a bridged ring system, unless the rings are large enough. The rule is named after Julius Bredt, who first discussed it in 1902 and codified it in 1924. It primarily relates to bridgehead... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomonas%20virus%2042 | Pseudomonas virus 42, formerly Pseudomonas phage 42, is a bacteriophage known to infect Pseudomonas bacteria. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20re-replication | DNA re-replication (or simply rereplication) is an undesirable and possibly fatal occurrence in eukaryotic cells in which the genome is replicated more than once per cell cycle. Rereplication is believed to lead to genomic instability and has been implicated in the pathologies of a variety of human cancers. To preven... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REG1 | REG1 is an anticoagulation system cosisting of two drugs: pegnivacogin, a single-stranded 31-nucleotide aptamer that binds and inhibits Factor IXa, and anivamersen, a complementary sequence reversal 15-nucleotide control agent. REG1 mechanism of action It involves inhibition of Factor IXa.
REG1 is being developed for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20biophysics | Clinical biophysics is that branch of medical science that studies the action process and the effects of non-ionising physical energies utilised for therapeutic purposes.
Physical energy can be applied for diagnostic or therapeutic aims.
The principle on which clinical biophysics is based are represented by the recog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish%20doorbell | A fish doorbell (Dutch: visdeurbel) is a system that allows fish to pass through a closed sluice gate through crowdsourced input when fish are present. The Utrecht Visdeurbel uses a livestreamed underwater camera that allows users to press a doorbell button to notify the lock operator that there are fish swimming in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtually%20Live | Virtually Live is a patented media method and system that uses visualization technology and telemetry to enable a fan experience of virtually attending live events and interact with them across multiple devices and platforms, creating an immersive and socially interactive experience.
Features
The Virtually Live media... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Lipman | Joseph Lipman (born June 15, 1938) is a Canadian-American mathematician, working in algebraic geometry.
Lipman graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor's degree in 1960 and then went to Harvard University, receiving his master's degree in 1961. He then earned a Ph.D. there in 1965 under the supervision... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile%20ayuda%20a%20Chile | Chile ayuda a Chile (Chile helps Chile) was a charity telethon being held from March 5 to March 6, 2010. The event was broadcast from Teatro Teletón in Santiago, Chile.
The telethon's aim was to raise money to help those affected by the 2010 Chile earthquake that struck the central-southern Chile on 27 February of tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20PlayStation%20applications | This is a list of PlayStation applications currently planned or released via the PlayStation Network.
Applications
Mobile & PC
Entertainment services
Assorted
Virtual Reality
Archaic
License regions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20chromatin%20sequence | An active chromatin sequence (ACS) is a region of DNA in a eukaryotic chromosome in which histone modifications such as acetylation lead to exposure of the DNA sequence thus allowing binding of transcription factors and transcription to take place. Active chromatin may also be called euchromatin. ACSs may occur in non-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKFast | UKFast.Net Limited (trading as UKFast) is a business-to-business internet hosting company based in Manchester, UK. It is principally known for managed hosting, cloud services, and co-location. The business owns and operates its data centre complex in Trafford Park, Manchester.
As of 2019 the company employs more than ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-locked%20loop | A frequency-lock, or frequency-locked loop (FLL), is an electronic control system that generates a signal that is locked to the frequency of an input or "reference" signal. This circuit compares the frequency of a controlled oscillator to the reference, automatically raising or lowering the frequency of the oscillator ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissel%E2%80%93Mertens%20constant | The Meissel–Mertens constant (named after Ernst Meissel and Franz Mertens), also referred to as Mertens constant, Kronecker's constant, Hadamard–de la Vallée-Poussin constant or the prime reciprocal constant, is a mathematical constant in number theory, defined as the limiting difference between the harmonic series sum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathypelagic%20zone | The bathypelagic zone or bathyal zone (from Greek βαθύς (bathýs), deep) is the part of the open ocean that extends from a depth of below the ocean surface. It lies between the mesopelagic above and the abyssopelagic below. The bathypelagic is also known as the midnight zone because of the lack of sunlight; this featur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Agency%20for%20Food%20and%20Drug%20Administration%20and%20Control | The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is a Nigerian federal agency under the Federal Ministry of Health that is responsible for regulating and controlling the manufacture, importation, exportation, advertisement, distribution, sale, and use of food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20potential | In thermodynamics, the chemical potential of a species is the energy that can be absorbed or released due to a change of the particle number of the given species, e.g. in a chemical reaction or phase transition. The chemical potential of a species in a mixture is defined as the rate of change of free energy of a thermo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20Virtual%20Creature%20Evolution | 3D Virtual Creature Evolution, abbreviated to 3DVCE, is an artificial evolution simulation program created by Lee Graham. Its purpose is to visualize and research common themes in body plans and strategies to achieve a fitness function of the artificial organisms generated and maintained by the system in their given en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Filter | The Great Filter is the idea that in the development of life from the earliest stages of abiogenesis to reaching the highest levels of development on the Kardashev scale, there is a barrier to development that makes detectable extraterrestrial life exceedingly rare. The Great Filter is one possible resolution of the Fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%20sign | The per sign is a rare symbol used to indicate a ratio. In English, it can replace the word "per" in phrases such as miles per hour ("miles ⅌ hour").
Unicode
The Unicode code point is . The symbol does not appear in the ASCII set.
See also
Wiktionary's entry on the symbol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated%20bundle | In mathematics, the theory of fiber bundles with a structure group (a topological group) allows an operation of creating an associated bundle, in which the typical fiber of a bundle changes from to , which are both topological spaces with a group action of . For a fiber bundle F with structure group G, the transitio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count-distinct%20problem | In computer science, the count-distinct problem
(also known in applied mathematics as the cardinality estimation problem) is the problem of finding the number of distinct elements in a data stream with repeated elements.
This is a well-known problem with numerous applications. The elements might represent IP addresses ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer%20Product%20Information%20Database | The Consumer Product Information Database (CPID), former Household Products Database, is a collection of information about chemical ingredients in a variety of household products marketed in the United States.
Description
The Consumer Health Product Database is a web-based application that allows the public to search... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascomycota | Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The defining feature of this fungal group is the "ascus" (), a microscopic sexual ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Society%20for%20Cerebral%20Blood%20Flow%20%26%20Metabolism | The International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism is a professional society based in Rockville, Maryland for physicians and scientists focused on cerebrovascular function.
History
Technical improvements in the study of cerebral blood flow pioneered by Niels Lassen and David Ingvar in the mid-twentieth cen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallomesogen | Metallomesogens are metal complexes that exhibit liquid crystalline behavior. Thus, they adopt ordered structures in the molten phase, e.g. smectic and nematic phases. The dominant interactions responsible for their phase behavior are the nonbonding contacts between organic substituents. Two early classes of such ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20groupoid | In mathematics, a quantum groupoid is any of a number of notions in noncommutative geometry analogous to the notion of groupoid. In usual geometry, the information of a groupoid can be contained in its monoidal category of representations (by a version of Tannaka–Krein duality), in its groupoid algebra or in the commut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolocalization | Pseudolocalization (or pseudo-localization) is a software testing method used for testing internationalization aspects of software. Instead of translating the text of the software into a foreign language, as in the process of localization, the textual elements of an application are replaced with an altered version of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%20structure%20function | In 1973, Andrey Kolmogorov proposed a non-probabilistic approach to statistics and model selection. Let each datum be a finite binary string and a model be a finite set of binary strings. Consider model classes consisting of models of given maximal Kolmogorov complexity.
The Kolmogorov structure function of an individu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunamitism | Shunamitism (also referred to as gerocomy) is the practice of an old man sleeping with, but not necessarily having sex with, a young virgin to preserve his youth. It is considered an esoteric youth-enhancing method. The rationale was that the heat and moisture of the young woman would transfer to the old man and revita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Cyclops | Project Cyclops is a 1971 NASA project that investigated how SETI should be conducted. As a NASA product the report is in the public domain. The project team created a design for coordinating large numbers of radio telescopes to search for Earth-like radio signals at a distance of up to 1,000 light-years to find intel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20East%20Timorese%20flags |
National flag
Military flags
Historical flags
Political flags
Municipal flags
See also
Flag of East Timor
Coat of arms of East Timor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%20test | In quantum computation, the Hadamard test is a method used to create a random variable whose expected value is the expected real part , where is a quantum state and is a unitary gate acting on the space of . The Hadamard test produces a random variable whose image is in and whose expected value is exactly . It is po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Kuzmin%E2%80%93Wirsing%20operator | In mathematics, the Gauss–Kuzmin–Wirsing operator is the transfer operator of the Gauss map that takes a positive number to the fractional part of its reciprocal. (This is not the same as the Gauss map in differential geometry.) It is named after Carl Gauss, Rodion Kuzmin, and Eduard Wirsing. It occurs in the study of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password%20psychology | Living in the intersection of cryptography and psychology, password psychology is the study of what makes passwords or cryptographic keys easy to remember or guess.
In order for a password to work successfully and provide security to its user, it must be kept secret and un-guessable; this also requires the user to mem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20misunderstandings%20of%20genetics | During the latter half of the 20th century, the fields of genetics and molecular biology matured greatly, significantly increasing understanding of biological heredity. As with other complex and evolving fields of knowledge, the public awareness of these advances has primarily been through the mass media, and a number ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-86RK | The Radio-86RK () is a build-it-yourself home computer designed in the Soviet Union. It was featured in the popular Radio () magazine for radio hams and electronics hobbyists in 1986. The letters RK in the title stands for the words Radio ham's Computer (). Design of the computer was published in a series of articles d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsniff-ng | netsniff-ng is a free Linux network analyzer and networking toolkit originally written by Daniel Borkmann. Its gain of performance is reached by zero-copy mechanisms for network packets (RX_RING, TX_RING), so that the Linux kernel does not need to copy packets from kernel space to user space via system calls such as re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadym%20Slyusar | Vadym Slyusar (born 15 October 1964, vil. Kolotii, Reshetylivka Raion, Poltava region, Ukraine) – Soviet and Ukrainian scientist, Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honored Scientist and Technician of Ukraine, founder of tensor-matrix theory of digital antenna arrays (DAAs), N-OFDM and other theories in fields of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet%20Encke | Comet Encke , or Encke's Comet (official designation: 2P/Encke), is a periodic comet that completes an orbit of the Sun once every 3.3 years. (This is the shortest period of a reasonably bright comet; the faint main-belt comet 311P/PanSTARRS has a period of 3.2 years.) Encke was first recorded by Pierre Méchain on 17 J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperon | In particle physics, a hyperon is any baryon containing one or more strange quarks, but no charm, bottom, or top quark. This form of matter may exist in a stable form within the core of some neutron stars. Hyperons are sometimes generically represented by the symbol Y.
History and research
The first research into hyp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolentinus%20ponderosus | Neolentinus ponderosus, commonly known as the giant sawgill, or ponderous lentinus, is a species of fungus in the family Gloeophyllaceae. Found in western North America, it was originally described in 1965 as a species of Lentinus by American mycologist Orson K. Miller.
Taxonomy
The fungus was first described as Lenti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/96th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 96° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 96th meridian east forms a great circle with the 84th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20mania | Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St. John's Dance, tarantism and St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time. The mania affected adults a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20healing | Quantum healing is a pseudoscientific mixture of ideas which purportedly draws from quantum mechanics, psychology, philosophy, and neurophysiology. Advocates of quantum healing assert that quantum phenomena govern health and wellbeing. There are different versions, which allude to various quantum ideas including wave ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Spatial%20Science | The Journal of Spatial Science is an academic journal about spatial sciences published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Mapping Sciences Institute (Australia) and the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute.
It covers cartography, geodesy, geographic information science, hydrography, digital image analysis and pho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisyuk%20polynomials | In mathematics, Denisyuk polynomials Den(x) or Mn(x) are generalizations of the Laguerre polynomials introduced by given by the generating function
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20pendulum | The quantum pendulum is fundamental in understanding hindered internal rotations in chemistry, quantum features of scattering atoms, as well as numerous other quantum phenomena. Though a pendulum not subject to the small-angle approximation has an inherent nonlinearity, the Schrödinger equation for the quantized syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20Harvard%20architecture | A modified Harvard architecture is a variation of the Harvard computer architecture that, unlike the pure Harvard architecture, allows memory that contains instructions to be accessed as data. Most modern computers that are documented as Harvard architecture are, in fact, modified Harvard architecture.
Harvard archite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen%20Age%20Message | The Teen Age Message (TAM) was a series of interstellar radio transmissions sent from the Yevpatoria Planetary Radar to six solar-type stars during August–September 2001. The structure of the TAM was suggested by Alexander Zaitsev, Chief Scientist at Russia's Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics. The message'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiers%20de%20Topologie%20et%20G%C3%A9om%C3%A9trie%20Diff%C3%A9rentielle%20Cat%C3%A9goriques | The Cahiers de Topologie et Géométrie Différentielle Catégoriques (French: Notebooks of categorical topology and categorical differential geometry) is a French mathematical scientific journal established by Charles Ehresmann in 1957. It concentrates on category theory "and its applications, [e]specially in topology and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius%20resimus | Lactarius resimus is a species of mushrooms in the genus Lactarius, which is considered a delicacy in Russia and some other countries of Eastern Europe when pickled in salt. There it is considered one of three tastiest edible mushrooms, along with Boletus edulis and Lactarius deliciosus, though it is not held in high e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptocylindrus | Leptocylindrus is a genus of diatoms belonging to the family Leptocylindraceae. They are long, cylindrical diatoms that are made up of multiple cells in a line (described as a chain). These cells have chloroplast to allow it to produce energy through photosynthesis by taking in sunlight and carbon dioxide to create sug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopea | Photopea ( ) is a web-based photo and graphics editor. It is used for image editing, making illustrations, web design or converting between different image formats. Photopea is advertising-supported software. It is compatible with all modern web browsers, including Opera, Edge, Chrome, and Firefox. The app is compatibl... |
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