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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/304%20%28number%29 | 304 is the natural number following 303 and preceding 305.
In mathematics
304 is an even composite number with two prime factor.
304 is the sum of consecutive primes in two different ways. It is the sum of 41+43+47+53+59+61 and of 23+29+31+37+41+43+47+53.3
304 is a primitive semiperfect number meaning that it is a sem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Research%20and%20Analysis%20Center | The Research and Analysis Center (TRAC), formerly the TRADOC Analysis Center, is an analysis agency of the United States Army. TRAC conducts research on potential military operations worldwide to inform decisions about the most challenging issues facing the Army and the Department of Defense (DoD). TRAC relies upon the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing%27s%20recognition%20theorem | In topology, a branch of mathematics, Bing's recognition theorem, named for R. H. Bing, asserts that a necessary and sufficient condition for a 3-manifold M to be homeomorphic to the 3-sphere is that every Jordan curve in M be contained within a topological ball. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agda%20%28programming%20language%29 | Agda is a dependently typed functional programming language originally developed by Ulf Norell at Chalmers University of Technology with implementation described in his PhD thesis. The original Agda system was developed at Chalmers by Catarina Coquand in 1999. The current version, originally known as Agda 2, is a full ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash%20oil | Hash oil or cannabis oil is an oleoresin obtained by the extraction of cannabis or hashish. It is a cannabis concentrate containing many of its resins and terpenes – in particular, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol (CBD), and other cannabinoids. Hash oil is usually consumed by smoking, vaporizing or eating. Prepa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20topologies | In topology and related areas of mathematics, the set of all possible topologies on a given set forms a partially ordered set. This order relation can be used for comparison of the topologies.
Definition
A topology on a set may be defined as the collection of subsets which are considered to be "open". An alternative ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharpOS | SharpOS is a discontinued computer operating system based on the .NET Framework and related programming language C#. It was developed by a group of volunteers and presided over by a team of six project administrators: Mircea-Cristian Racasan, Bruce Markham, Johann MacDonagh, Sander van Rossen, Jae Hyun, and William Lah... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section%20%28category%20theory%29 | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a section is a right inverse of some morphism. Dually, a retraction is a left inverse of some morphism.
In other words, if and are morphisms whose composition is the identity morphism on , then is a section of , and is a retraction of .
Every section is a monomorphism ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giatec%20Scientific | Giatec Scientific Inc. is a Canadian-based company with headquarters located in Ottawa, Ontario. It is a developer and manufacturer of nondestructive testing quality control and condition assessment devices for the construction industry.
History
Giatec Scientific Inc. was co-founded by Pouria Ghods of Carleton Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20miser | In psychology, the human mind is considered to be a cognitive miser due to the tendency of humans to think and solve problems in simpler and less effortful ways rather than in more sophisticated and effortful ways, regardless of intelligence. Just as a miser seeks to avoid spending money, the human mind often seeks to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth-first%20search | Breadth-first search (BFS) is an algorithm for searching a tree data structure for a node that satisfies a given property. It starts at the tree root and explores all nodes at the present depth prior to moving on to the nodes at the next depth level. Extra memory, usually a queue, is needed to keep track of the child n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Fomin | Sergei Vasilyevich Fomin (; 9 December 1917 – 17 August 1975) was a Soviet mathematician who was co-author with Andrey Kolmogorov of Introductory real analysis, and co-author with Israel Gelfand of Calculus of Variations (1963), both books that are widely read in Russian and in English.
Fomin entered Moscow State Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioorthogonal%20chemistry | The term bioorthogonal chemistry refers to any chemical reaction that can occur inside of living systems without interfering with native biochemical processes. The term was coined by Carolyn R. Bertozzi in 2003. Since its introduction, the concept of the bioorthogonal reaction has enabled the study of biomolecules such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP%20before%20SMTP | POP before SMTP or SMTP after POP is a method of authentication used by mail server software which helps allow users the option to send e-mail from any location, as long as they can demonstrably also fetch their mail from the same place.
The POP before SMTP approach has been superseded by SMTP Authentication.
Technic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt%20%28anatomy%29 | Crypts are anatomical structures that are narrow but deep invaginations into a larger structure.
One common type of anatomical crypt is the Crypts of Lieberkühn. However, it is not the only type: some types of tonsils also have crypts. Because these crypts allow external access to the deep portions of the tonsils, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Glaeser | Georges Glaeser (8 November 1918 – 1 September 2002) was a French mathematician who was director of the IREM of Strasbourg. He worked in analysis and mathematical education and introduced Glaeser's composition theorem and Glaeser's continuity theorem. Glaeser was a Ph.D. student of Laurent Schwartz.
On 3 July 1973, G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20space | In topology, a branch of mathematics, the loop space ΩX of a pointed topological space X is the space of (based) loops in X, i.e. continuous pointed maps from the pointed circle S1 to X, equipped with the compact-open topology. Two loops can be multiplied by concatenation. With this operation, the loop space is an A∞-s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Charles%20Milner | Eric Charles Milner, FRSC (May 17, 1928 – July 20, 1997) was a mathematician who worked mainly in combinatorial set theory.
Biography
Born into a South East London working-class family, Milner was sent to a Reading boarding school for the war but, hating it, ran away and roamed the streets of London. Eventually, anoth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmis%20Expedition | The Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition (), commonly referred to as the Balmis Expedition, was a Spanish healthcare mission that lasted from 1803 to 1806, led by Dr Francisco Javier de Balmis, which vaccinated millions of inhabitants of Spanish America and Asia against smallpox. The vaccine was actually transported ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%E2%80%93nitrogen%20bond | A carbon–nitrogen bond is a covalent bond between carbon and nitrogen and is one of the most abundant bonds in organic chemistry and biochemistry.
Nitrogen has five valence electrons and in simple amines it is trivalent, with the two remaining electrons forming a lone pair. Through that pair, nitrogen can form an addi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixmath | mi×ma+h (or Mixmath) is a Canadian board game developed by Wrebbit and published in 1987. It resembles a variant of Scrabble in that tiles are placed on a crossword-style grid, with special premiums such as squares that double or triple the value of a tile and a 50-point bonus for playing all seven tiles on the player'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity%20maturation | In immunology, affinity maturation is the process by which TFH cell-activated B cells produce antibodies with increased affinity for antigen during the course of an immune response. With repeated exposures to the same antigen, a host will produce antibodies of successively greater affinities. A secondary response can ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parataxonomy | Parataxonomy is a system of labor division for use in biodiversity research, in which the rough sorting tasks of specimen collection, field identification, documentation and preservation are conducted by primarily local, less specialized individuals, thereby alleviating the workload for the "alpha" or "master" taxonomi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20rock | Math rock is a style of alternative and indie rock with roots in bands such as King Crimson and Rush. It is characterized by complex, atypical rhythmic structures (including irregular stopping and starting), counterpoint, odd time signatures, and extended chords. It bears similarities to post-rock.
Characteristics
M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersexuality | Hypersexuality is a term used for a presumed mental disorder causing people to engage in or think about sex to a point of distress or impairment. It is controversial whether it should be included as a clinical diagnosis used by mental healthcare professionals. Nymphomania and satyriasis were terms previously used for t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous%20sperm%20retrieval | Posthumous sperm retrieval (PSR) is a procedure in which spermatozoa are collected from the testes of a human corpse after brain death. There has been significant debate over the ethics and legality of the procedure, and on the legal rights of the child and surviving parent if the gametes are used for impregnation.
Ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrightSide%20Technologies | BrightSide Technologies Inc. (formerly Sunnybrook Technologies) was a firm spun-out from the Structured Surface Physics Laboratory of the University of British Columbia, developing and commercializing electronic display technologies, specifically high brightness display technology called HDR. The privately held company... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentaro%20Yano%20%28mathematician%29 | Kentaro Yano (1 March 1912 in Tokyo, Japan – 25 December 1993) was a mathematician working on differential geometry who introduced the Bochner–Yano theorem.
He also published a classical book about geometric objects (i.e., sections of natural fiber bundles) and Lie derivatives of these objects.
Publications
Les espa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacking%20Faulty%20Reasoning | Attacking Faulty Reasoning is a textbook on logical fallacies by T. Edward Damer that has been used for many years in a number of college courses on logic, critical thinking, argumentation, and philosophy. It explains 60 of the most commonly committed fallacies. Each of the fallacies is concisely defined and illustrate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilenberg%E2%80%93Mazur%20swindle | In mathematics, the Eilenberg–Mazur swindle, named after Samuel Eilenberg and Barry Mazur, is a method of proof that involves paradoxical properties of infinite sums. In geometric topology it was introduced by and is often called the Mazur swindle. In algebra it was introduced by Samuel Eilenberg
and is known as t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icilin | Icilin (AG-3-5) is a synthetic super-agonist of the transient receptor potential M8 (TRPM8) ion channel. Although structurally not related to menthol, it produces an extreme sensation of cold, both in humans and animals. It is almost 200 times more potent than menthol, and 2.5 times more efficacious. Despite their simi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biothermia | Biothermia is the process of heating living tissue using non-ionizing radiation. Sources can include magnetic (inductive), electromagnetic (radiowaves), or conductive (organic materials).
See also
Bioelectrogenesis
Bioheat transfer
Electroreception
Biomedical engineering
Heat transfer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutilated%20chessboard%20problem | The mutilated chessboard problem is a tiling puzzle posed by Max Black in 1946 that asks:
Suppose a standard 8×8 chessboard (or checkerboard) has two diagonally opposite corners removed, leaving 62 squares. Is it possible to place 31 dominoes of size 2×1 so as to cover all of these squares?
It is an impossible puzzle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilms%27%20tumor | Wilms' tumor or Wilms tumor, also known as nephroblastoma, is a cancer of the kidneys that typically occurs in children (rarely in adults), and occurs most commonly as a renal tumor in child patients. It is named after Max Wilms, the German surgeon (1867–1918) who first described it.
Approximately 650 cases are diagno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20spectrum | In mathematics, a Dirac spectrum, named after Paul Dirac, is the spectrum of eigenvalues of a Dirac operator on a Riemannian manifold with a spin structure. The isospectral problem for the Dirac spectrum asks whether two Riemannian spin manifolds have identical spectra. The Dirac spectrum depends on the spin structur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelato%20Federation | The Gelato Federation (usually just Gelato) was a "global technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium platform through collaboration, education, and leadership." Formed in 2001, membership included more than seventy academic and research organizations around the world, including several that o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%E2%80%93Ni%20law | Within theoretical computer science, the Sun–Ni law (or Sun and Ni's law, also known as memory-bounded speedup) is a memory-bounded speedup model which states that as computing power increases the corresponding increase in problem size is constrained by the system’s memory capacity. In general, as a system grows in com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confluence%20%28abstract%20rewriting%29 | In computer science, confluence is a property of rewriting systems, describing which terms in such a system can be rewritten in more than one way, to yield the same result. This article describes the properties in the most abstract setting of an abstract rewriting system.
Motivating examples
The usual rules of eleme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-homed | Dual-homed or dual-homing can refer to either an Ethernet device that has more than one network interface, for redundancy purposes, or in firewall technology, one of the firewall architectures for implementing preventive security.
An example of dual-homed devices are enthusiast computing motherboards that incorporate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien%27s%20displacement%20law | Wien's displacement law states that the black-body radiation curve for different temperatures will peak at different wavelengths that are inversely proportional to the temperature. The shift of that peak is a direct consequence of the Planck radiation law, which describes the spectral brightness or intensity of black-b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard%20symbol | Hazard symbols or warning symbols are recognisable symbols designed to warn about hazardous or dangerous materials, locations, or objects, including electromagnetic fields, electric currents; harsh, toxic or unstable chemicals (acids, poisons, explosives); and radioactivity. The use of hazard symbols is often regulated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substring | In formal language theory and computer science, a substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. For instance, "the best of" is a substring of "It was the best of times". In contrast, "Itwastimes" is a subsequence of "It was the best of times", but not a substring.
Prefixes and suffixes are special ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMAC1 | Transmembrane protein 261 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TMEM261 gene located on chromosome 9. TMEM261 is also known as C9ORF123 and DMAC1, Chromosome 9 Open Reading Frame 123 and Transmembrane Protein C9orf123 and Distal membrane-arm assembly complex protein 1.
Gene features
TMEM261 is located at 9p24.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Duel%3A%20Test%20Drive%20II | The Duel: Test Drive II is a 1989 racing video game developed by Distinctive Software and published by Accolade for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Sega Genesis and SNES.
Gameplay
Like the original Test Drive, the focus of The Duel is driving exotic cars through danger... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxeter%27s%20loxodromic%20sequence%20of%20tangent%20circles | In geometry, Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles is an infinite sequence of circles arranged so that any four consecutive circles in the sequence are pairwise mutually tangent. This means that each circle in the sequence is tangent to the three circles that precede it and also to the three circles that fol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathovar | A pathovar is a bacterial strain or set of strains with the same or similar characteristics, that is differentiated at infrasubspecific level from other strains of the same species or subspecies on the basis of distinctive pathogenicity to one or more plant hosts.
Pathovars are named as a ternary or quaternary additio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasty%20neighbour%20effect | In ethology, the nasty neighbour effect describes the phenomenon whereby territory-holding animals behave more strongly toward familiar conspecific neighbours than to unfamiliar conspecifics. This phenomenon may be generally advantageous to an animal because the heightened response reduces the likelihood of a nearby i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-4 | The Cray-4 was intended to be Cray Computer Corporation's successor to the failed Cray-3 supercomputer. It was marketed to compete with the T90 from Cray Research. CCC went bankrupt in 1995 before any Cray-4 had been delivered.
Design
The earlier Cray-3 was the first major application of gallium arsenide (GaAs) semico... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinyu%20Ye | Yinyu Ye (; born 1948) is a Chinese American theoretical computer scientist working on mathematical optimization. He is a specialist in interior point methods, especially in convex minimization and linear programming. He is a professor of Management Science and Engineering and Kwoh-Ting Li Chair Professor of Engineerin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal%20O%27Shea | Donal O'Shea is a Canadian mathematician, who is also noted for his bestselling books. He served as the fifth president of New College of Florida in Sarasota, from July 1, 2012, until June 30, 2021. He was succeeded by Patricia Okker on July 1, 2021. Before coming to New College, he served in various roles at Mount Ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse%20cervical%20artery | The transverse cervical artery (transverse artery of neck or transversa colli artery) is an artery in the neck and a branch of the thyrocervical trunk, running at a higher level than the suprascapular artery.
Structure
It passes transversely below the inferior belly of the omohyoid muscle to the anterior margin of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETCONF | The Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) is a network management protocol developed and standardized by the IETF. It was developed in the NETCONF working group and published in December 2006 as RFC 4741 and later revised in June 2011 and published as RFC 6241. The NETCONF protocol specification is an Internet Stand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle%20oxidation%20state | Mantle oxidation state (redox state) applies the concept of oxidation state in chemistry to the study of the Earth's mantle. The chemical concept of oxidation state mainly refers to the valence state of one element, while mantle oxidation state provides the degree of decreasing of increasing valence states of all polyv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid%20food%20peptides | Opioid food peptides include:
Casomorphin (from milk)
Gluten exorphin (from gluten)
Gliadorphin/gluteomorphin (from gluten)
Rubiscolin (from spinach)
Soymorphin-5 (from soy)
Oryzatensin (from rice)
Peptides
Opioids |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most%20probable%20number | The most probable number method, otherwise known as the method of Poisson zeroes, is a method of getting quantitative data on concentrations of discrete items from positive/negative (incidence) data.
Purpose
There are many discrete entities that are easily detected but difficult to count. Any sort of amplification re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy%20effect | The Lindy effect (also known as Lindy's Law) is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLIC2 | Chloride intracellular channel protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CLIC2 gene.
Chloride channels are a diverse group of proteins that regulate fundamental cellular processes including stabilization of cell membrane potential, transepithelial transport, maintenance of intracellular pH, and regulatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Data%20Representation | Common Data Representation (CDR) is used to represent structured or primitive data types passed as arguments or results during remote invocations on Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) distributed objects.
It enables clients and servers written in different programming languages to work together. For exa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-Aminobenzoyl-glutamate%20transporter | The p-aminobenzoyl-glutamate transporter (AbgT) family (TC# 2.A.68) is a family of transporter proteins belonging to the ion transporter (IT) superfamily. The AbgT family consists of the AbgT (YdaH; TC# 2.A.68.1.1) protein of E. coli and the MtrF drug exporter (TC# 2.A.68.1.2) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The former prote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy%20disk%20hardware%20emulator | A floppy disk hardware emulator or semi-virtual diskette (SVD) is a device that emulates a floppy disk drive with a solid state or network storage device that is plug compatible with the drive it replaces, similar to how solid-state drives replace mechanical hard disk drives.
History
Older models of computers, elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widom%20insertion%20method | The Widom insertion method is a statistical thermodynamic approach to the calculation of material and mixture properties. It is named for Benjamin Widom, who derived it in 1963. In general, there are two theoretical approaches to determining the statistical mechanical properties of materials. The first is the direct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Olds | James Olds (May 30, 1922 – August 21, 1976) was an American psychologist who co-discovered the pleasure center of the brain with Peter Milner while he was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in 1954. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern neuroscience and received numerous distinctions ranging from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder-actuated%20tool | A powder-actuated tool (PAT, often generically called a Hilti gun or a Ramset gun after their manufacturing companies) is a type of nail gun used in construction and manufacturing to join materials to hard substrates such as steel and concrete. Known as direct fastening or explosive fastening, this technology is powere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous%20recursion | In computer science, anonymous recursion is recursion which does not explicitly call a function by name. This can be done either explicitly, by using a higher-order function – passing in a function as an argument and calling it – or implicitly, via reflection features which allow one to access certain functions dependi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20%28software%20engineering%29 | A domain is the targeted subject area of a computer program. It is a term used in software engineering. Formally it represents the target subject of a specific programming project, whether narrowly or broadly defined. For example, for a particular programming project that has as a goal the creation of a program for a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/390 | The IBM System/390 is a discontinued mainframe product family implementing ESA/390, the fifth generation of the System/360 instruction set architecture. The first computers to use the ESA/390 were the Enterprise System/9000 (ES/9000) family, which were introduced in 1990. These were followed by the 9672, Multiprise, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarisch%E2%80%93Herxheimer%20reaction | A Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction is a sudden and typically transient reaction that may occur within 24 hours of being administered antibiotics for an infection by a spirochete, including syphilis, leptospirosis, Lyme disease, and relapsing fever. Signs and symptoms include fever, chills, shivers, feeling sick, headache, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-bar%20linkage | In kinematics, a five-bar linkage is a mechanism with two degrees of freedom that is constructed from five links that are connected together in a closed chain. All links are connected to each other by five joints in series forming a loop. One of the links is the ground or base. This configuration is also called a panto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelomere | A myelomere is the segment of spinal cord to which a given pair of dorsal and ventral roots is attached.
Because the adult spinal cord does not extend down as far as the vertebral column does, the lower myelomeres are not opposite their correspondingly numbered vertebrae. Thus myelomere S1 is opposite the T12 vertebra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20Anything%20Protocol | The Test Anything Protocol (TAP) is a protocol to allow communication between unit tests and a test harness. It allows individual tests (TAP producers) to communicate test results to the testing harness in a language-agnostic way. Originally developed for unit testing of the Perl interpreter in 1987, producers and pars... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20de%20la%20Loub%C3%A8re | Simon de la Loubère (; 21 April 1642 – 26 March 1729) was a French diplomat to Siam (Thailand), writer, mathematician and poet. He is credited with bringing back a document which introduced Europe to Indian astronomy, the "Siamese method" of making magic squares, as well as one of the earliest description of parachutes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20computing | Organic computing is computing that behaves and interacts with humans in an organic manner. The term "organic" is used to describe the system's behavior, and does not imply that they are constructed from organic materials. It is based on the insight that we will soon be surrounded by large collections of autonomous sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicanonical%20ensemble | In statistics and physics, multicanonical ensemble (also called multicanonical sampling or flat histogram) is a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling technique that uses the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm to compute integrals where the integrand has a rough landscape with multiple local minima. It samples states according t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frond%20dimorphism | Frond dimorphism refers to a difference in ferns between the fertile and sterile fronds. Since ferns, unlike flowering plants, bear spores on the leaf blade itself, this may affect the form of the frond itself. In some species of ferns, there is virtually no difference between the fertile and sterile fronds, such as in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinPT | WinPT or Windows Privacy Tray is frontend to the Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) for the Windows platform. Released under GPL, it is compatible with OpenPGP compliant software.
WinPT represents a collection of user interface tools designed to ease the use of asymmetric encryption software. Based on GnuPG, and OpenPGP-compat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iproute2 | iproute2 is a collection of userspace utilities for controlling and monitoring various aspects of networking in the Linux kernel, including routing, network interfaces, tunnels, traffic control, and network-related device drivers.
iproute2 is an open-source project released under the terms of version 2 of the GNU Gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Population%20Project%20in%20Genomics | P3G (Public Population Project in Genomics and Society) is a not-for-profit international consortium dedicated to facilitating collaboration between researchers and biobanks working in the area of human population genomics.
P3G is member-based and composed of experts from the different disciplines in the areas of and r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20on%20Titan | Whether there is life on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is currently an open question and a topic of scientific assessment and research. Titan is far colder than Earth, but of all the places in the Solar System, Titan is the only place besides Earth known to have liquids in the form of rivers, lakes, and seas on it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotket | In computer hardware terminology, slotkets, also known as slockets, (both short for slot to socket adapter) are adapters that allow socket-based microprocessors to be used on slot-based motherboards.
Slotkets were first created to allow the use of Socket 8 Pentium Pro processors on Slot 1 motherboards. Later, they bec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPRS%20Tunnelling%20Protocol | GPRS Tunnelling Protocol (GTP) is a group of IP-based communications protocols used to carry general packet radio service (GPRS) within GSM, UMTS, LTE and 5G NR radio networks. In 3GPP architectures, GTP and Proxy Mobile IPv6 based interfaces are specified on various interface points.
GTP can be decomposed into separa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20entropy%20probability%20distribution | In statistics and information theory, a maximum entropy probability distribution has entropy that is at least as great as that of all other members of a specified class of probability distributions. According to the principle of maximum entropy, if nothing is known about a distribution except that it belongs to a certa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-slope | The Q-slope method for rock slope engineering and rock mass classification is developed by Barton and Bar. It expresses the quality of the rock mass for slope stability using the Q-slope value, from which long-term stable, reinforcement-free slope angles can be derived.
The Q-slope value can be determined with:
Q-slo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigidity%20theory%20%28physics%29 | Rigidity theory, or topological constraint theory, is a tool for predicting properties of complex networks (such as glasses) based on their composition. It was introduced by James Charles Phillips in 1979 and 1981, and refined by Michael Thorpe in 1983. Inspired by the study of the stability of mechanical trusses as pi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%20setting | Mode setting is a software operation that activates a display mode (screen resolution, color depth, and refresh rate) for a computer's display controller by using VESA BIOS Extensions or UEFI Graphics extensions (on more modern computers).
The display mode is set by the kernel. In user-space mode-setting (UMS), the di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elanor%20Huntington | Elanor H. Huntington is Executive Director of Digital, National Facilities & Collections at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and a Professor of Quantum Cybernetics at the Australian National University. She led a research program in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australo-Melanesian | Australo-Melanesians (also known as Australasians or the Australomelanesoid, Australoid or Australioid race) is an outdated historical grouping of various people indigenous to Melanesia and Australia. Controversially, some groups found in parts of Southeast Asia and South Asia were also sometimes included.
While most... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmin%20Forerunner | The Garmin Forerunner series is a selection of sports watches produced by Garmin. Most models use the Global Positioning System (GPS), and are targeted at road runners and triathletes. Forerunner series watches are designed to measure distance, speed, heart rate (optional), time, altitude, and pace.
Models
The Foreru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labile%20cell | In cellular biology, labile cells are cells that continuously multiply and divide throughout life . Labile cells replace the cells that are lost from the body. When injured, labile cells are repaired rapidly due to an aggressive TR response. This continual division of labile cells allows them to reproduce new stem cel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20phenotyping | Digital phenotyping is a multidisciplinary field of science, first defined in a May 2016 paper in JMIR Mental Health authored by John Torous, Mathew V Kiang, Jeanette Lorme, and Jukka-Pekka Onnela as the "moment-by-moment quantification of the individual-level human phenotype in situ using data from personal digital de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%20674 | Zinc finger protein 674 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF674 gene.
Function
This gene encodes a zinc finger protein with an N-terminal Kruppel-associated box-containing (KRAB) domain and 11 Kruppel-type C2H2 zinc finger domains. Like other zinc finger proteins, this gene may function as a transcriptio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction%20of%20an%20irreducible%20Markov%20chain%20in%20the%20Ising%20model | Construction of an irreducible Markov chain in the Ising model is a mathematical method to prove results.
In applied mathematics, the construction of an irreducible Markov Chain in the Ising model is the first step in overcoming a computational obstruction encountered when a Markov chain Monte Carlo method is used to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastitis | Mastitis is inflammation of the breast or udder, usually associated with breastfeeding. Symptoms typically include local pain and redness. There is often an associated fever and general soreness. Onset is typically fairly rapid and usually occurs within the first few months of delivery. Complications can include absces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese%20Quoted-Readable | Vietnamese Quoted-Readable (usually abbreviated VIQR), also known as Vietnet, is a convention for writing Vietnamese using ASCII characters encoded in only 7 bits, making possible for Vietnamese to be supported in computing and communication systems at the time. Because the Vietnamese alphabet contains a complex system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20restriction%20enzyme%20cutting%20sites%3A%20A | This article contains a list of restriction enzymes whose names start with A and have a clearly defined cutting site.
The following information is given for each enzyme:
Name of Restriction Enzyme: Accepted name of the molecule, according to the internationally adopted nomenclature, and bibliographical references. N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginga%20%28middleware%29 | Ginga is the middleware specification for the Nipo-Brazilian Digital Television System (SBTVD, from the Portuguese Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão Digital). Ginga is also ITU-T Recommendation for IPTV Services. It is also considered in ITU-T recommendations for Cable Broadcast services (ITU-T J.200 Recommendation serie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20redundancy | Active redundancy is a design concept that increases operational availability and that reduces operating cost by automating most critical maintenance actions.
This concept is related to condition-based maintenance and fault reporting.
History
The initial requirement began with military combat systems during World Wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl%20barley | Pearl barley, or pearled barley, is barley that has been processed to remove its fibrous outer hull and polished to remove some or all of the bran layer.
It is the most common form of barley for human consumption because it cooks faster and is less chewy than other, less-processed forms of the grain such as "hulled ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/159th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 159° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 159th meridian west forms a great circle with the 21st meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Biodiversity%20Authority | The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) is a statutory autonomous body under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India established in 2003 to implement the provisions under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, after India signed Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992.
Over... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF%20antenna%20ion%20source | An RF antenna ion source (or radio frequency antenna ion source) is an internal multi-cusp design that can produce a particle beam of about ~30 to 40 mA current. It is used in high energy particle physics and in accelerator laboratories.
Previous RF antennas would penetrate the porcelain enamel coating on the antenna ... |
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