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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20inelastic%20scattering | In particle physics, deep inelastic scattering is the name given to a process used to probe the insides of hadrons (particularly the baryons, such as protons and neutrons), using electrons, muons and neutrinos. It was first attempted in the 1960s and 1970s and provided the first convincing evidence of the reality of qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation%20needle | An inoculation needle is a laboratory equipment used in the field of microbiology to transfer and inoculate living microorganisms. It is one of the most commonly implicated biological laboratory tools and can be disposable or re-usable. A standard reusable inoculation needle is made from nichrome or platinum wire affix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%27s%20mark | A mason's mark is an engraved symbol often found on dressed stone in buildings and other public structures.
In stonemasonry
Regulations issued in Scotland in 1598 by James VI's Master of Works, William Schaw, stated that on admission to the guild, every mason had to enter his name and his mark in a register. There a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20swine%20fever%20virus | African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large, double-stranded DNA virus in the Asfarviridae family. It is the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF). The virus causes a hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in domestic pigs; some isolates can cause death of animals as quickly as a week after infection. It pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Genetic%20Diversity%3A%20Lewontin%27s%20Fallacy | "Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy" is a 2003 paper by A. W. F. Edwards. He criticises an argument first made in Richard Lewontin's 1972 article "The Apportionment of Human Diversity", that the practice of dividing humanity into races is taxonomically invalid because any given individual will often have more ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posynomial | A posynomial, also known as a posinomial in some literature, is a function of the form
where all the coordinates and coefficients are positive real numbers, and the exponents are real numbers. Posynomials are closed under addition, multiplication, and nonnegative scaling.
For example,
is a posynomial.
Po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%20Mounds | Darwin Mounds is a large field of undersea sand mounds situated off the north west coast of Scotland that were first discovered in May 1998. They provide a unique habitat for ancient deep water coral reefs and were found using remote sensing techniques during surveys funded by the oil industry and steered by the joint ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondritic%20uniform%20reservoir | The CHondritic Uniform Reservoir (CHUR) is a scientific model in astrophysics and geochemistry for the mean chemical composition of the part of the Solar Nebula from which, during the formation of the Solar System, chondrites formed. This hypothetical chemical reservoir is thought to have been similar in composition to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janez%20Lawson | Janez Yvonne Lawson Bordeaux (February 22, 1930 – November 24, 1990) was an American chemical engineer who became one of NASA's computers. She was the first African-American hired into a technical position at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She programmed the IBM 701.
Early life and education
Lawson was born on February 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekiga | Ekiga (formerly called GnomeMeeting) is a VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME and Microsoft Windows. It is distributed as free software under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later. It was the default VoIP client in Ubuntu until October 2009, when it was replaced by Empathy. Ekiga supports both the SIP and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouchard%27s%20nodes | Bouchard's nodes are hard, bony outgrowths or gelatinous cysts on the proximal interphalangeal joints (the middle joints of fingers or toes). They are seen in osteoarthritis, where they are caused by formation of calcific spurs of the articular (joint) cartilage. Much less commonly, they may be seen in rheumatoid arthr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20Graphics%20File | PGF (Progressive Graphics File) is a wavelet-based bitmapped image format that employs lossless and lossy data compression. PGF was created to improve upon and replace the JPEG format. It was developed at the same time as JPEG 2000 but with a focus on speed over compression ratio.
PGF can operate at higher compression... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajima%27s%20D | Tajima's D is a population genetic test statistic created by and named after the Japanese researcher Fumio Tajima. Tajima's D is computed as the difference between two measures of genetic diversity: the mean number of pairwise differences and the number of segregating sites, each scaled so that they are expected to be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxomics | Fluxomics describes the various approaches that seek to determine the rates of metabolic reactions within a biological entity. While metabolomics can provide instantaneous information on the metabolites in a biological sample, metabolism is a dynamic process. The significance of fluxomics is that metabolic fluxes det... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-3 | The Cray-3 was a vector supercomputer, Seymour Cray's designated successor to the Cray-2. The system was one of the first major applications of gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors in computing, using hundreds of custom built ICs packed into a CPU. The design goal was performance around 16 GFLOPS, about 12 times tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/400%20%28number%29 | 400 (four hundred) is the natural number following 399 and preceding 401.
Mathematical properties
400 is the square of 20. 400 is the sum of the powers of 7 from 0 to 3, thus making it a repdigit in base 7 (1111).
A circle is divided into 400 grads, which is equal to 360 degrees and 2π radians. (Degrees and radians... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Arbor%20staging | Ann Arbor staging is the staging system for lymphomas, both in Hodgkin's lymphoma (formerly designated Hodgkin's disease) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (abbreviated NHL). It was initially developed for Hodgkin's, but has some use in NHL. It has roughly the same function as TNM staging in solid tumors.
The stage depends on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20configuration%20management | In software engineering, software configuration management (SCM or S/W CM) is the task of tracking and controlling changes in the software, part of the larger cross-disciplinary field of configuration management. SCM practices include revision control and the establishment of baselines. If something goes wrong, SCM c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20principles%20of%20reinforcement | The mathematical principles of reinforcement (MPR) constitute of a set of mathematical equations set forth by Peter Killeen and his colleagues attempting to describe and predict the most fundamental aspects of behavior (Killeen & Sitomer, 2003).
The three key principles of MPR, arousal, constraint, and coupling, descr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20College%20of%20Pathologists | The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) is a professional membership organisation.
Its main function is the overseeing of postgraduate training, and its Fellowship Examination (FRCPath) is recognised as the standard assessment of fitness to practise in this branch of medicine.
Constitution
The Royal College of Path... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 4° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 4th meridian east forms a great circle with the 176th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP-DECT | IP-DECT is a technology used for on-site wireless communications. It uses the DECT air interface for reliable wireless voice and data communication between handsets and base stations and the well established VoIP technology for the corded voice communication between base stations and server functions.
The advantage is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%E2%80%93plane%20intersection | In analytic geometry, the intersection of a line and a plane in three-dimensional space can be the empty set, a point, or a line. It is the entire line if that line is embedded in the plane, and is the empty set if the line is parallel to the plane but outside it. Otherwise, the line cuts through the plane at a single ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%20transform%20applied%20to%20differential%20equations | In mathematics, the Laplace transform is a powerful integral transform used to switch a function from the time domain to the s-domain. The Laplace transform can be used in some cases to solve linear differential equations with given initial conditions.
First consider the following property of the Laplace transform:
O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail%20Drive | GMail Drive was a free third-party Windows Shell namespace extension ("add-on") for Google's Gmail. GMail Drive was not supported by Google. It allowed a user to access a virtual drive stored in a Gmail account by causing the contents of the Gmail account to appear as a new network share on the user's workstation. In o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite%20loop | In computer programming, an infinite loop (or endless loop) is a sequence of instructions that, as written, will continue endlessly, unless an external intervention occurs ("pull the plug"). It may be intentional.
Overview
This differs from "a type of computer program that runs the same instructions continuously until... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%20odometer | In mathematics, a Markov odometer is a certain type of topological dynamical system. It plays a fundamental role in ergodic theory and especially in orbit theory of dynamical systems, since a theorem of H. Dye asserts that every ergodic nonsingular transformation is orbit-equivalent to a Markov odometer.
The basic exa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dressing%20overall | Dressing overall consists of stringing international maritime signal flags on a ship from stemhead to masthead, from masthead to masthead (if the vessel has more than one mast) and then down to the taffrail. It is a sign of celebration, and is done for celebratory occasions, anniversaries and events, whether national, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVM%20Lx86 | PowerVM Lx86 was a binary translation layer for IBM's System p servers. It enabled 32-bit x86 Linux binaries to run unmodified on the Power ISA-based hardware. IBM used this feature to migrate x86 Linux servers to the PowerVM virtualized environment; it was supported on all POWER5 and POWER6 hardware as well as BladeCe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASA%20Gold%20Medal | The ASA Gold Medal is an annual award presented by the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) to individuals in recognition of outstanding contributions to acoustics. The Gold Medal was first presented in 1954 and is the highest award of the ASA. Past recipients, which include the Nobel Laureate Georg von Békésy, are list... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein%20automaton | In computer science, a Levenshtein automaton for a string w and a number n is a finite-state automaton that can recognize the set of all strings whose Levenshtein distance from w is at most n. That is, a string x is in the formal language recognized by the Levenshtein automaton if and only if x can be transformed into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullin | Cullins are a family of hydrophobic scaffold proteins which provide support for ubiquitin ligases (E3). All eukaryotes appear to have cullins. They combine with RING proteins to form Cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases (CRLs) that are highly diverse and play a role in myriad cellular processes, most notably protein degradati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric%20electrical%20stimulation | Gastric electrical stimulation, also known as implantable gastric stimulation, is the use of specific devices to provide electrical stimulation to the stomach to try to bring about weight loss in those who are overweight or improve gastroparesis.
Gastric electrical stimulation is a pacemaker-like device with electrica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific%20instruction%20set%20processor | An application-specific instruction set processor (ASIP) is a component used in system on a chip design. The instruction set architecture of an ASIP is tailored to benefit a specific application. This specialization of the core provides a tradeoff between the flexibility of a general purpose central processing unit (CP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max-flow%20min-cut%20theorem | In computer science and optimization theory, the max-flow min-cut theorem states that in a flow network, the maximum amount of flow passing from the source to the sink is equal to the total weight of the edges in a minimum cut, i.e., the smallest total weight of the edges which if removed would disconnect the source fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeoaplysina | Palaeoaplysina is a genus of tabular, calcified fossils that are a component of many Late Palaeozoic reefs. The fossil acted as a baffle to trap sediment. Historically interpreted as a sponge or hydrozoan, recent studies are converging to its classification in the coralline stem group, placing it among the red algae.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC%20II | The UltraSPARC II, code-named "Blackbird", is a microprocessor implementation of the SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems. Marc Tremblay was the chief architect. Introduced in 1997, it was further development of the UltraSPARC operating at higher clock frequencies of 250 MHz, eventu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20utilities%20problem | The classical mathematical puzzle known as the three utilities problem or sometimes water, gas and electricity asks for non-crossing connections to be drawn between three houses and three utility companies in the plane. When posing it in the early 20th century, Henry Dudeney wrote that it was already an old problem. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20slope | In astrophysics and planetary science, spectral slope, also called spectral gradient, is a measure of dependence of the reflectance on the wavelength.
In digital signal processing, it is a measure of how quickly the spectrum of an audio sound tails off towards the high frequencies, calculated using a linear regression... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20load | In cognitive psychology, cognitive load refers to the amount of working memory resources used. However, it is essential to distinguish it from the actual construct of Cognitive Load (CL) or Mental Workload (MWL), which is studied widely in many disciplines. According to work conducted in the field of instructional desi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne%20Twister | The Mersenne Twister is a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) developed in 1997 by and . Its name derives from the fact that its period length is chosen to be a Mersenne prime.
The Mersenne Twister was designed specifically to rectify most of the flaws found in older PRNGs.
The most commonly used ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%20service | The "Y" service was a network of British signals intelligence collection sites, the Y-stations. The service was established during the First World War and used again during the Second World War. The sites were operated by a range of agencies including the Army, Navy and RAF plus the Foreign Office (MI6 and MI5), Genera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative%20anatomy | Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of different species. It is closely related to evolutionary biology and phylogeny (the evolution of species).
The science began in the classical era, continuing in the early modern period with work by Pierre Belon who noted the similaritie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coital%20incontinence | Coital incontinence (CI) is urinary leakage that occurs during either penetration or orgasm and can occur with a sexual partner or with masturbation. It has been reported to occur in 10% to 27% of sexually active women with urinary continence problems. There is evidence to suggest links between urinary leakage at penet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vena%20comitans | Vena comitans is Latin for accompanying vein and is also known as a satellite vein. It refers to a vein that is usually paired, with both veins lying on the sides of an artery. They are found in close proximity to arteries so that the pulsations of the artery aid venous return. Because they are generally found in pai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant%20manifold | In dynamical systems, a branch of mathematics, an invariant manifold is a topological manifold that is invariant under the action of the dynamical system. Examples include the slow manifold, center manifold, stable manifold, unstable manifold, subcenter manifold and inertial manifold.
Typically, although by no means ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo%20consumericus | Homo consumericus (mock Latin for consumerist person) is a neologism used in the social sciences, notably by Gad Saad in his book: The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption and by Gilles Lipovetsky in Le Bonheur Paradoxal. According to these and other scholars the phenomenon of mass consumption could be compared to certain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCube%20system | gCube is an open source software system specifically designed and developed to enact the building and operation of a Data Infrastructure providing their users with a rich array of services suitable for supporting the co-creation of Virtual Research Environments and promoting the implementation of open science workflow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooding%20%28computer%20networking%29 | Flooding is used in computer network routing algorithms in which every incoming packet is sent through every outgoing link except the one it arrived on.
Flooding is used in bridging and in systems such as Usenet and peer-to-peer file sharing and as part of some routing protocols, including OSPF, DVMRP, and those used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITRAN | HITRAN (an acronym for High Resolution Transmission) molecular spectroscopic database is a compilation of spectroscopic parameters used to simulate and analyze the transmission and emission of light in gaseous media, with an emphasis on planetary atmospheres. The knowledge of spectroscopic parameters for transitions be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20sky%20catastrophe | The blue sky catastrophe is a form of orbital indeterminacy, and an element of bifurcation theory.
Orbital dynamics
Blue sky catastrophe is a type of bifurcation of a periodic orbit. In other words, it describes a sort of behaviour stable solutions of a set of differential equations can undergo as the equations are gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexing%20Service | Indexing Service (originally called Index Server) was a Windows service that maintained an index of most of the files on a computer to improve searching performance on PCs and corporate computer networks. It updated indexes without user intervention. In Windows Vista it was replaced by the newer Windows Search Indexer.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20suite | In software development, a test suite, less commonly known as a validation suite, is a collection of test cases that are intended to be used to test a software program to show that it has some specified set of behaviors. A test suite often contains detailed instructions or goals for each collection of test cases and in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNV2 | Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily V member 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNV2 gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex36 | Testis expressed 36, TEX36, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the tex36 gene. TEX36 interacts with proteins involved in the MAP kinase family, supporting that TEX36 may be regulated with on or off configurations. The encoded protein is highly expressed in fetal, testes, and placental tissues and has backgroun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium-binding%20EGF%20domain | In molecular biology, the calcium-binding EGF domain is an EGF-like domain of about forty amino-acid residues found in epidermal growth factor (EGF). This domain is present in a large number of membrane-bound and extracellular, mostly animal, proteins. Many of these proteins require calcium for their biological functio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arend%20Heyting |
Arend Heyting (; 9 May 1898 – 9 July 1980) was a Dutch mathematician and logician.
Biography
Heyting was a student of Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer at the University of Amsterdam, and did much to put intuitionistic logic on a footing where it could become part of mathematical logic. Heyting gave the first formal dev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICOMP%20%28index%29 | iCOMP for Intel Comparative Microprocessor Performance was an index published by Intel used to measure the relative performance of its microprocessors.
There were three revisions of the iCOMP index. Version 1.0 (1992) was benchmarked against the 486SX 25, while version 2.0 (1996) was benchmarked against the Pentium 12... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance%20of%20angular%20momentum | The balance of angular momentum or Euler's second law in classical mechanics is a law of physics, stating that to alter the angular momentum of a body a torque must be applied to it.
An example of use is the playground merry-go-round in the picture. To put it in rotation it must be pushed. Technically one summons a t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Berkeley%20Software%20Distribution | The History of the Berkeley Software Distribution begins in the 1970s.
1BSD (PDP-11)
The earliest distributions of Unix from Bell Labs in the 1970s included the source code to the operating system, allowing researchers at universities to modify and extend Unix. The operating system arrived at Berkeley in 1974, at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimeric%20autotransporter%20adhesin | In molecular biology, trimeric autotransporter adhesins (TAAs), are proteins found on the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. Bacteria use TAAs in order to infect their host cells via a process called cell adhesion. TAAs also go by another name, oligomeric coiled-coil adhesins, which is shortened to OCAs. In esse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proca%20action | In physics, specifically field theory and particle physics, the Proca action describes a massive spin-1 field of mass m in Minkowski spacetime. The corresponding equation is a relativistic wave equation called the Proca equation. The Proca action and equation are named after Romanian physicist Alexandru Proca.
The Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora%20Svecica | Flora Svecica ("Flora of Sweden", ed. 1, Stockholm, 1745; ed. 2 Stockholm, 1755) was written by Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778).
This was the first full account of the plants growing in Sweden and one of the first examples of the Flora in the modern idiom. The full title... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20effect%20%28chemistry%29 | A field effect is the polarization of a molecule through space. The effect is a result of an electric field produced by charge localization in a molecule. This field, which is substituent and conformation dependent, can influence structure and reactivity by manipulating the location of electron density in bonds and/or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence%20group | An equivalence group is a set of unspecified cells that have the same developmental potential or ability to adopt various fates. Our current understanding suggests that equivalence groups are limited to cells of the same ancestry, also known as sibling cells. Often, cells of an equivalence group adopt different fates f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20impedance%20converter | The negative impedance converter (NIC) is an active circuit which injects energy into circuits in contrast to an ordinary load that consumes energy from them. This is achieved by adding or subtracting excessive varying voltage in series to the voltage drop across an equivalent positive impedance. This reverses the volt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwahara%20filter | The Kuwahara filter is a non-linear smoothing filter used in image processing for adaptive noise reduction. Most filters that are used for image smoothing are linear low-pass filters that effectively reduce noise but also blur out the edges. However the Kuwahara filter is able to apply smoothing on the image while pres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20personal%20information%20managers | The following is a list of personal information managers (PIMs) and online organizers.
Applications
Discontinued applications
See also
Comparisons
Comparison of email clients
Comparison of file managers
Comparison of note-taking software
Comparison of reference management software
Comparison of text editors
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glabella | The glabella, in humans, is the area of skin between the eyebrows and above the nose. The term also refers to the underlying bone that is slightly depressed, and joins the two brow ridges. It is a cephalometric landmark that is just superior to the nasion.
Etymology
The term for the area is derived from the Latin , me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viterbi%20decoder | A Viterbi decoder uses the Viterbi algorithm for decoding a bitstream that has been
encoded using a convolutional code or trellis code.
There are other algorithms for decoding a convolutionally encoded stream (for example, the Fano algorithm). The Viterbi algorithm is the most resource-consuming, but it does the maxim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VELCT | Velocity Energy-efficient and Link-aware Cluster-Tree (VELCT) is a cluster and tree-based topology management protocol for mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs).
See also
DCN
DCT
CIDT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink%20noise | Pink noise, noise or fractional noise or fractal noise is a signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the power spectral density (power per frequency interval) is inversely proportional to the frequency of the signal. In pink noise, each octave interval (halving or doubling in frequency) carries an equal a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Mycological%20Society | The British Mycological Society is a learned society established in 1896 to promote the study of fungi.
Formation
The British Mycological Society (BMS) was formed by the combined efforts of two local societies: the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club of Hereford and the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. The Curator of the H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%20allergy | Rice allergy is a type of food allergy. People allergic to rice react to various rice proteins after they eat rice or breathe the steam from cooking rice. Although some reactions might lead to severe health problems, doctors can diagnose rice allergy with many methods and help allergic people to avoid reactions.
Sympt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunogenic%20cell%20death | Immunogenic cell death is any type of cell death eliciting an immune response. Both accidental cell death and regulated cell death can result in immune response. Immunogenic cell death contrasts to forms of cell death (apoptosis, autophagy or others) that do not elicit any response or even mediate immune tolerance.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20Substation%20Events | Generic Substation Events (GSE) is a control model defined as per IEC 61850 which provides a fast and reliable mechanism of transferring event data over entire electrical substation networks. When implemented, this model ensures the same event message is received by multiple physical devices using multicast or broadcas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine%20collection%20device | A urine collection device or UCD is a device that allows the collection of urine for analysis (as in medical or forensic urinalysis) or for purposes of simple elimination (as in vehicles engaged in long voyages and not equipped with toilets, particularly aircraft and spacecraft). UCDs of the latter type are sometimes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write%20precompensation | Write precompensation (abbreviated WPcom in the literature) is a technical aspect of the design of hard disks, floppy disks and other digital magnetic recording devices. It is the modification of the analog write signal, shifting transitions somewhat in time, in such a way as to ensure that the signal that will later b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini%E2%80%93mental%20state%20examination | The mini–mental state examination (MMSE) or Folstein test is a 30-point questionnaire that is used extensively in clinical and research settings to measure cognitive impairment. It is commonly used in medicine and allied health to screen for dementia. It is also used to estimate the severity and progression of cognitiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropine | Atropine is a tropane alkaloid and anticholinergic medication used to treat certain types of nerve agent and pesticide poisonings as well as some types of slow heart rate, and to decrease saliva production during surgery. It is typically given intravenously or by injection into a muscle. Eye drops are also available wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20App%20SDK | Windows App SDK (formerly known as Project Reunion) is a software development kit (SDK) from Microsoft that provides a unified set of APIs and components that can be used to develop desktop applications for both Windows 11 and Windows 10 version 1809 and later. The purpose of this project is to offer a decoupled implem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com%20company | A dot-com company, or simply a dot-com (alternatively rendered dot.com, dot com, dotcom or .com), is a company that does most of its business on the Internet, usually through a website on the World Wide Web that uses the popular top-level domain ".com". As of 2021, .com is by far the most used TLD, with almost half of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel%20as%20food | Eels are elongated fish, ranging in length from to . Adults range in weight from 30 grams to over 25 kilograms. They possess no pelvic fins, and many species also lack pectoral fins. The dorsal and anal fins are fused with the caudal or tail fin, forming a single ribbon running along much of the length of the animal.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Insulin%20Project | The Open Insulin Project is a community of researchers and advocates working to develop an open-source protocol for producing insulin that is affordable, has transparent pricing, and is community-owned.
History
The Open Insulin Project was started in 2015 by Anthony Di Franco, himself a type 1 diabetic. He started th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Lawrence%20Tower | William Lawrence Tower (22 December 1872– July 1967) was an American zoologist, born in Halifax, Massachusetts. He was educated at the Lawrence Scientific School (Harvard), the Harvard Graduate School, and the University of Chicago (B. S., 1902), where he taught thereafter, becoming associate professor in 1911.
Resear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervisory%20circuit | Supervisory circuits are electronic circuits that monitor one or more parameters of systems such as power supplies and microprocessors which must be maintained within certain limits, and take appropriate action if a parameter goes out of bounds, creating an unacceptable or dangerous situation.
Supervisory circuits are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Montenegro%20Faculty%20of%20Biotechnology | The University of Montenegro Biotechnical Faculty (Montenegrin: Biotehnički fakultet Univerziteta Crne Gore Биотехнички факултет Универзитета Црне Горе) is one of the educational institutions of the University of Montenegro. The building is located in Podgorica, at the University campus.
History
Scientific research ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seckel%20syndrome | Seckel syndrome, or microcephalic primordial dwarfism (also known as bird-headed dwarfism, Harper's syndrome, Virchow–Seckel dwarfism and bird-headed dwarf of Seckel) is an extremely rare congenital nanosomic disorder. Inheritance is autosomal recessive. It is characterized by intrauterine growth restriction and postna... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee%20screwdriver | The trade name "Yankee" screwdriver was first marketed by North Brothers Manufacturing Company in ≈16 April 1895, with the No. ≠130 spiral ratchet screwdriver. Yankee soon became and still is a well-known name in automatic spiral ratchet screwdrivers, with several other models, and model improvements patented by North ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger%20Dryas%20impact%20hypothesis | The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) or Clovis comet hypothesis is a speculative attempt to explain the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cooling at the end of the Last Glacial Period, around 12,900 years ago. The hypothesis is controversial and not widely accepted by relevant experts.
It is an alternative to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carath%C3%A9odory%27s%20extension%20theorem | In measure theory, Carathéodory's extension theorem (named after the mathematician Constantin Carathéodory) states that any pre-measure defined on a given ring of subsets R of a given set Ω can be extended to a measure on the σ-ring generated by R, and this extension is unique if the pre-measure is σ-finite. Conseque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too%20Much%20Coffee%20Man | Too Much Coffee Man (TMCM) is an American satirical superhero created by cartoonist Shannon Wheeler. Too Much Coffee Man wears what appears to be a spandex version of old-fashioned red "long johns" with a large mug attached atop his head. He is an anxious Everyman who broods about the state of the world, from politics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androstenediol%20sulfate | Androstenediol sulfate, also known as androst-5-ene-3β,17β-diol 3β-sulfate, is an endogenous, naturally occurring steroid and a urinary metabolites of androstenediol. It is a steroid sulfate which is formed from sulfation of androstenediol by steroid sulfotransferase and can be desulfated back into androstenediol by st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicutoxin | Cicutoxin is a naturally-occurring poisonous chemical compound produced by several plants from the family Apiaceae including water hemlock (Cicuta species) and water dropwort (Oenanthe crocata). The compound contains polyene, polyyne, and alcohol functional groups and is a structural isomer of oenanthotoxin, also foun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meru%20Networks | Meru Networks was a supplier of wireless local area networks (WLANs) to healthcare, enterprise, hospitality, K-12 education, higher education, and other markets. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States, the company made its initial public offering in March 2010, and was acquired by For... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwanzig%20projection%20operator | The Zwanzig projection operator is a mathematical device used in statistical mechanics. It operates in the linear space of phase space functions and projects onto the linear subspace of "slow" phase space functions. It was introduced by Robert Zwanzig to derive a generic master equation. It is mostly used in this or si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSAN | A virtual storage area network (virtual SAN, VSAN or vSAN) is a logical representation of a physical storage area network (SAN). A VSAN abstracts the storage-related operations from the physical storage layer, and provides shared storage access to the applications and virtual machines by combining the servers' local st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%20death | Gray death is a slang term which refers to a potent mixture of synthetic opioids, for example benzimidazole opioids or fentanyl analogues, often sold on the street misleadingly as "heroin". However, other substances such as cocaine have also been laced with opioids that resulted in illness and death.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradbury%E2%80%93Nielsen%20shutter | A Bradbury–Nielsen shutter (or Bradbury–Nielsen gate) is a type of electrical ion gate, which was first proposed in an article by Norris Bradbury and Russel A. Nielsen, where they used it as an electron filter. Today they are used in the field of mass spectrometry where they are used in both TOF mass spectrometers and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucoprotective | Mucoprotective agents are pharmaceutical or herbal medicines that protect mucous membrane tissues. They include such things as demulcents. |
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