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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Alembert%20operator | In special relativity, electromagnetism and wave theory, the d'Alembert operator (denoted by a box: ), also called the d'Alembertian, wave operator, box operator or sometimes quabla operator (cf. nabla symbol) is the Laplace operator of Minkowski space. The operator is named after French mathematician and physicist Jea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20common%20astronomy%20symbols | This is a compilation of symbols commonly used in astronomy, particularly professional astronomy.
Age (stellar)
τ - age
Astrometry parameters
Astrometry parameters
Rv - radial velocity
cz - apparent radial velocity
z - Redshift
μ - proper motion
π - parallax
J - epoch
α - Right Ascension
δ - Declination
λ -... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycarboxin | Oxycarboxin is an organic chemical used in agriculture to protect crops from fungal diseases. It was first marketed by Uniroyal in 1969 using their brand name Plantvax. The compound is an anilide which combines a heterocyclic acid with aniline to give an inhibitor of succinate dehydrogenase (SDHI).
Synthesis
Oxyxarbox... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoreversible%20thermodynamics | Endoreversible thermodynamics is a subset of irreversible thermodynamics aimed at making more realistic assumptions about heat transfer than are typically made in reversible thermodynamics. It gives an upper bound on the power that can be derived from a real process that is lower than that predicted by Carnot for a Car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tee%20%28command%29 | In computing, tee is a command in command-line interpreters (shells) using standard streams which reads standard input and writes it to both standard output and one or more files, effectively duplicating its input. It is primarily used in conjunction with pipes and filters. The command is named after the T-splitter use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PC%20DOS | IBM PC DOS (commonly called The IBM Personal Computer DOS and IBM DOS), an acronym for IBM Personal Computer Disk Operating System, is a discontinued disk operating system for the IBM Personal Computer, its successors, and IBM PC compatibles. It was manufactured and sold by IBM from the early 1980s into the 2000s. Deve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone%20connector%20%28audio%29 | A phone connector, also known as phone jack, audio jack, headphone jack or jack plug, is a family of electrical connectors typically used for analog audio signals. A plug, the "male" connector, is inserted into the jack, the "female" connector.
The phone connector was invented for use in telephone switchboards in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20%28journal%29 | Genetics is a monthly scientific journal publishing investigations bearing on heredity, genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology. Genetics is published by the Genetics Society of America. It has a delayed open access policy, and makes articles available online without a subscription after 12 months have elapsed sin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushbrooke%20inequality | In statistical mechanics, the Rushbrooke inequality relates the critical exponents of a magnetic system which exhibits a first-order phase transition in the thermodynamic limit for non-zero temperature T.
Since the Helmholtz free energy is extensive, the normalization to free energy per site is given as
The magnetiz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20K.%20Kruschke | John Kendall Kruschke is an American psychologist and statistician known for his work in connectionist models of human learning,
and in Bayesian statistical analysis.
He is Provost Professor Emeritus
in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington.
He won the Troland Researc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating%20model | In physics, The Keating Model is a model that theoretical physicist Patrick N. Keating introduced in 1966 to describe forces induced on neighboring atoms when one atom moves in a solid.
The term most often applies to the forces on first- and second-nearest neighboring atoms that arise when an atom is moved in tetrahed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%20pluralism | Strategic pluralism (also known as the dual-mating strategy) is a theory in evolutionary psychology regarding human mating strategies that suggests women have evolved to evaluate men in two categories: whether they are reliable long term providers, and whether they contain high quality genes. The theory of strategic pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse%20Che | Eclipse Che is an open-source, Java-based developer workspace server and Online IDE (integrated development environment). It includes a multi-user remote development platform. The workspace server comes with a flexible RESTful webservice. It also contains a SDK for creating plug-ins for languages, frameworks or tools. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donsker%27s%20theorem | In probability theory, Donsker's theorem (also known as Donsker's invariance principle, or the functional central limit theorem), named after Monroe D. Donsker, is a functional extension of the central limit theorem.
Let be a sequence of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables with mean 0 a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20memory | In plant biology, plant memory describes the ability of a plant to retain information from experienced stimuli and respond at a later time. For example, some plants have been observed to raise their leaves synchronously with the rising of the sun. Other plants produce new leaves in the spring after overwintering. Many ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodopirellula%20caenicola | Rhodopirellula caenicola is a Gram-negative, strictly aerobic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Rhodopirellula which has been isolated from isolated from iron sand. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical%20distance | Geographical distance or geodetic distance is the distance measured along the surface of the Earth. The formulae in this article calculate distances between points which are defined by geographical coordinates in terms of latitude and longitude. This distance is an element in solving the second (inverse) geodetic probl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital%20rubella%20syndrome | Congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) occurs when an unborn baby is infected with the rubella virus (German measles) via maternal-fetal transmission and develops birth defects. The most common congenital defects affect the ophthalmologic, cardiac, auditory, and neurologic systems.
Rubella infection in pregnancy can result... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20tissue | Biomedical tissue is biological tissue used for organ transplantation and medical research, particularly cancer research. When it is used for research it is a biological specimen.
Such tissues and organs may be referred to as implant tissue, allograft, xenograft, skin graft tissue, human transplant tissue, or implant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke%20volume | In cardiovascular physiology, stroke volume (SV) is the volume of blood pumped from the left ventricle per beat. Stroke volume is calculated using measurements of ventricle volumes from an echocardiogram and subtracting the volume of the blood in the ventricle at the end of a beat (called end-systolic volume) from th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurocutaneous%20melanosis | Neurocutaneous melanosis is a congenital disorder characterized by the presence of congenital melanocytic nevi on the skin and melanocytic tumors in the leptomeninges of the central nervous system. These lesions may occur in the amygdala, cerebellum, cerebrum, pons and spinal cord of patients. Although typically asympt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubuntu | Lubuntu ( ) is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and uses the LXQt desktop environment in place of Ubuntu's GNOME desktop. Lubuntu was originally touted as being "lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient", but now aims to be "a functional yet modular distribution focused on getting out of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racal%20suit | A Racal suit (also known as a Racal space suit) is a protective suit with a powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR). It consists of a plastic suit and a battery-operated blower with HEPA filters that supplies filtered air to a positive-pressure hood (also known as a Racal hood). Racal suits were among the protective su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinary%20ethics | Veterinary ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values and judgements to the practice of veterinary medicine. As a scholarly discipline, veterinary ethics encompasses its practical application in clinical settings as well as work on its history, philosophy, theology, and sociology. Veterinary ethics comb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20of%20solar%20cells | The theory of solar cells explains the process by which light energy in photons is converted into electric current when the photons strike a suitable semiconductor device. The theoretical studies are of practical use because they predict the fundamental limits of a solar cell, and give guidance on the phenomena that co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nailing%20the%20colours | Nailing the colours (also nailing the colours to the mast or nailing the flag) is a practice dating back to the Age of Sail that expresses a defiant refusal to surrender, and willingness to fight to the last man.
During the Age of Sail, ships would legally fight only while flying their national flag. Flying another fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferromagnetic%20resonance | Ferromagnetic resonance, or FMR, is coupling between an electromagnetic wave and the magnetization of a medium through which it passes. This coupling induces a significant loss of power of the wave. The power is absorbed by the precessing magnetization (Larmor precession) of the material and lost as heat. For this co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballochmyle%20cup%20and%20ring%20marks | The Ballochmyle cup and ring marks were first recorded at Ballochmyle (NS 5107 2552), Mauchline, East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1986, very unusually carved on a vertical red sandstone cliff face, forming one of the most extensive areas of such carvings as yet found in Britain. They have been designated a scheduled monument... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervention%20%28convention%29 | Intervention was a yearly Internet culture convention held in Rockville, Maryland. Intervention (a combination of the words "Internet" and "Convention") highlighted independent artists from all spectrums of creative output who use the Internet as their primary distribution method. The convention hosted panels, workshop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20MeSH%20codes%20%28D12.776.124%29 | The following is a partial list of the "D" codes for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), as defined by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM).
This list covers blood proteins. For other protein-related codes, see List of MeSH codes (D12.776).
Codes before these are found at List of MeSH codes (D12.776.097)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangaku | Sangaku or san gaku () are Japanese geometrical problems or theorems on wooden tablets which were placed as offerings at Shinto shrines or Buddhist temples during the Edo period by members of all social classes.
History
The sangaku were painted in color on wooden tablets (ema) and hung in the precincts of Buddhist te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clean%20Network | The Clean Network was a U.S. government-led, bi-partisan effort announced by then U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in August 2020 to address what it describes as "the long-term threat to data privacy, security, human rights and principled collaboration posed to the free world from authoritarian malign actors." Its p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Game%20of%20Logic | The Game of Logic is a book, published in 1886, written by the English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), better known under his literary pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
In addition to his well-known children's literature, Dodgson/Carroll was an academic mathematician who worked in mathematical logic. The boo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudder%20%28software%29 | Rudder is an open source audit and configuration management utility to help automate system configuration across large IT infrastructures. Rudder relies on a lightweight local agent installed on each managed machine.
Rudder is produced by Normation, founded in 2010. Its server-side web interface is written in Scala an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Federation%20on%20Ageing | The International Federation on Ageing (IFA; ) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1973 and based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada working in the field of ageing, older persons and ageing-related issues such as ageism, The intent of the organisation is for NGOs, the corporate sector, academia, gover... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium%20cycle | The chromium cycle is the biogeochemical cycle of chromium through the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and lithosphere.
Biogeochemical cycle
Terrestrial weathering and river transport
Chromium has two common oxidation states relevant for environmental conditions: trivalent chromium, Cr(III) (reduced form), and he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedtest.net | Speedtest.net, also known as Speedtest by Ookla, is a web service that provides free analysis of Internet access performance metrics, such as connection data rate and latency. It is the flagship product of Ookla, a web testing and network diagnostics company founded in 2006, and based in Seattle, Washington, United Sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candwich | Candwich is a canned food product created and produced by Mark One Foods, LLC (aka MK1 Foods). Candwich is marketed as "the only sandwich in a can." Its slogan is, "Quick & Tasty, Ready to Eat".
History
Founder and creator Mark Kirkland claims he came up with the idea for Candwich when he was drinking a can of soda wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin%20Rumyantsev | Valentin Vital'yevich Rumyantsev (ru: Валенти́н Вита́льевич Румя́нцев; 19 July 1921, in Novaya Skatovka, Saratov region – 10 June 2007, in Moscow) was a Russian engineer who played a crucial role in Soviet space program, mainly working on robotics and controls . He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1992)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introsort | Introsort or introspective sort is a hybrid sorting algorithm that provides both fast average performance and (asymptotically) optimal worst-case performance. It begins with quicksort, it switches to heapsort when the recursion depth exceeds a level based on (the logarithm of) the number of elements being sorted and it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitin-binding%20domain | Ubiquitin-binding domains (UBDs) are protein domains that recognise and bind non-covalently to ubiquitin through protein-protein interactions. As of 2019, a total of 29 types of UBDs had been identified in the human proteome. Most UBDs bind to ubiquitin only weakly, with binding affinities in the low to mid μM range. P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20polytope | In geometry, a uniform polytope of dimension three or higher is a vertex-transitive polytope bounded by uniform facets. The uniform polytopes in two dimensions are the regular polygons (the definition is different in 2 dimensions to exclude vertex-transitive even-sided polygons that alternate two different lengths of e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie%20stages | In embryology, Carnegie stages are a standardized system of 23 stages used to provide a unified developmental chronology of the vertebrate embryo.
The stages are delineated through the development of structures, not by size or the number of days of development, and so the chronology can vary between species, and to a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20risk | Absolute risk (or AR) is the probability or chance of an event. It is usually used for the number of events (such as a disease) that occurred in a group, divided by the number of people in that group.
Absolute risk is one of the most understandable ways of communicating health risks to the general public.
See also
A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s%20Boots | Rocky's Boots is an educational logic puzzle game by Warren Robinett and Leslie Grimm, published by The Learning Company in 1982. It was released for the Apple II, CoCo, Commodore 64, IBM PC and the IBM PCjr. It was followed by a more difficult sequel, Robot Odyssey. It won Software of the Year awards from Learning Ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrone%20map | An isochrone map in geography and urban planning is a map that depicts the area accessible from a point within a certain time threshold. An isochrone (iso = equal, chrone = time) is defined as "a line drawn on a map connecting points at which something occurs or arrives at the same time". In hydrology and transportatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20food%20additives | Food additives are substances added to food to preserve flavor or enhance its taste, appearance, or other qualities.
Purposes
Additives are used for many purposes but the main uses are:
Acids Food acids are added to make flavors "sharper", and also act as preservatives and antioxidants. Common food acids include vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20night | A tropical night is a term used in many European countries to describe days when the temperature does not fall below during the nighttime. This definition is in use in countries including the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Roma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20ecology | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ecology:
Ecology – scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how the distribution and abundance are affected by interactions between the organisms and their environment. The environment of an organism includes bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-flow%20graph | In computer science, a control-flow graph (CFG) is a representation, using graph notation, of all paths that might be traversed through a program during its execution. The control-flow graph was discovered by Frances E. Allen, who noted that Reese T. Prosser used boolean connectivity matrices for flow analysis before.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinge%20theorem | In geometry, the hinge theorem (sometimes called the open mouth theorem) states that if two sides of one triangle are congruent to two sides of another triangle, and the included angle of the first is larger than the included angle of the second, then the third side of the first triangle is longer than the third side o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical%20number | In number theory, a practical number or panarithmic number is a positive integer such that all smaller positive integers can be represented as sums of distinct divisors of . For example, 12 is a practical number because all the numbers from 1 to 11 can be expressed as sums of its divisors 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6: as well as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei%20Abrikosov%20%28physicist%29 | Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (; June 25, 1928 – March 29, 2017) was a Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational-wave%20observatory | A gravitational-wave detector (used in a gravitational-wave observatory) is any device designed to measure tiny distortions of spacetime called gravitational waves. Since the 1960s, various kinds of gravitational-wave detectors have been built and constantly improved. The present-day generation of laser interferometers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20BladeCenter | The IBM BladeCenter was IBM's blade server architecture, until it was replaced by Flex System in 2012. The x86 division was later sold to Lenovo in 2014.
History
Introduced in 2002, based on engineering work started in 1999, the IBM eServer BladeCenter was relatively late to the blade server market. It differed from p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based%20one-time%20password | Time-based one-time password (TOTP) is a computer algorithm that generates a one-time password (OTP) that uses the current time as a source of uniqueness. As an extension of the HMAC-based one-time password algorithm (HOTP), it has been adopted as Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard .
TOTP is the cornersto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchromosome | A microchromosome is a chromosome defined for its relatively small size. They are typical components of the karyotype of birds, some reptiles, fish, amphibians, and monotremes. As many bird genomes have chromosomes of widely different lengths, the name was meant to distinguish them from the comparatively large macrochr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bits%20of%20Freedom | Bits Of Freedom is an independent Dutch digital rights foundation, which focuses on privacy and communications freedom in the digital age. The foundation protects the right for privacy and the right to communications freedom in the Netherlands. Bits of Freedom started in 2000 and had a break between 2006 and August 200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal%20complementarity%20hypothesis | Interpersonal complementarity hypothesis asserts that individuals often behave in ways that evoke complementary or reciprocal behavior from others. More specifically, this hypothesis predicts that positive behaviors evoke positive behaviors, negative behaviors evoke negative behaviors, dominant behaviors evoke submissi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20impedance | Iterative impedance is the input impedance of an infinite chain of identical networks. It is related to the image impedance used in filter design, but has a simpler, more straightforward definition.
Definition
Iterative impedance is the input impedance of one port of a two-port network when the other port is connect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic%20fungus | Radiotrophic fungi are fungi that can perform the hypothetical biological process called radiosynthesis, which means using ionizing radiation as an energy source to drive metabolism. It has been claimed that radiotrophic fungi have been found in extreme environments such as in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Most ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20W.%20Gerard%20Prize%20in%20Neuroscience | The Ralph W. Gerard Award of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is an award in neuroscience awarded annually since 1978 for Lifetime Achievement. It is the highest recognition conferred by the SfN. As of 2018, the prize winner receives US$25,000.
It is named in memory of the American neurophysiologist Ralph Waldo Gera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Journal%20of%20Taxonomy | The European Journal of Taxonomy is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal for descriptive taxonomy of living and fossil eukaryotes, covering subjects in zoology, botany, and palaeontology. It is supported by the EJT Consortium, a group of European natural history institutes, which fully funds the publication. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth%20mesh%20networking | Bluetooth Mesh is a computer mesh networking standard based on Bluetooth Low Energy that allows for many-to-many communication over Bluetooth radio. The Bluetooth Mesh specifications were defined in the Mesh Profile and Mesh Model specifications by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG). Bluetooth Mesh wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenESB | OpenESB is a Java-based open-source enterprise service bus. It can be used as a platform for both enterprise application integration and service-oriented architecture. OpenESB allows developers to integrate legacy systems, external and internal partners and new development in business processes. It supports a multitud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUoU%20battery%20charging | IUoU is a DIN-designation (DIN 41773) for a lead-acid battery charging procedure that is also known as 3-stage charging, 3-phase charging, or 3-step charging. It consists of three phases (or stages), to be executed by a battery charger. The three phases are: I-phase (constant electric current), Uo-phase (constant over-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendicitis | Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix. Symptoms commonly include right lower abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and decreased appetite. However, approximately 40% of people do not have these typical symptoms. Severe complications of a ruptured appendix include widespread, painful inflammation of the inner lining ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendred%20syndrome | Pendred syndrome is a genetic disorder leading to congenital bilateral (both sides) sensorineural hearing loss and goitre with euthyroid or mild hypothyroidism (decreased thyroid gland function). There is no specific treatment, other than supportive measures for the hearing loss and thyroid hormone supplementation in c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome%20S20%20series | Chrome 20 Series is a graphics accelerator by S3 Graphics, the successor of GammaChrome S18.
Overview
The Chrome 20 series was introduced on March 11, 2005, with the Chrome S25 and Chrome S27 as launch products. Similar to the GammaChrome S18 PCI Express which preceded it, S20 was marketed to the low and mid range of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotronics | Chemotronics is an intersection field of chemistry (especially electrochemistry) and electronics dealing with the design of electrochemical and optical chemical sensors. One of pioneers of this field was Alexander Frumkin.
See also
Amperostat
Bioelectrochemistry
Bioelectronics
Electrochemical engineering
Potentiostat
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare%20breed | In modern agriculture, a rare breed is a breed of poultry or livestock that has a very small breeding population, usually from a few hundred to a few thousand. Because of their small numbers, rare breeds may have a threatened conservation status, and they may be protected under regional laws. Many countries have organi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milanuncios | Milanuncios.com is a Spanish website used for online classified advertisements.
The service of Milanuncios consists in the insertion of ads, created by the users of the website, in the portal milanuncios.com. This way Milanuncios helps to connect advertisers with those interested in the ad.
So far, the company has on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myokine | A myokine is one of several hundred cytokines or other small proteins (~5–20 kDa) and proteoglycan peptides that are produced and released by skeletal muscle cells (muscle fibers) in response to muscular contractions. They have autocrine, paracrine and/or endocrine effects; their systemic effects occur at picomolar con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul%20Bott | Raoul Bott (September 24, 1923 – December 20, 2005) was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous foundational contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse–Bott functions which he used in this context, and the Borel–Bott–Weil theorem.
Early life... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptotype | In taxonomy, a kleptotype is an unofficial term referring to a stolen, unrightfully displaced type specimen or part of a type specimen.
Etymology
The term is composed of klepto-, from the Ancient Greek (kléptō) meaning "to steal", and -type referring to type specimens. It translates to "stolen type".
History
Durin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight | Twilight is light produced by sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere, when the Sun is below the horizon, which illuminates the lower atmosphere and the Earth's surface. The word twilight can also refer to the periods of time when this illumination occurs.
The lower the Sun is beneath the horizon, the dimmer the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20V.%20D.%20Hodge | Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge (; 17 June 1903 – 7 July 1975) was a British mathematician, specifically a geometer.
His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAT-7 | KAT-7 is a radio telescope situated in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Developed as the precursor engineering test bed to the larger MeerKAT telescope, previously known as Karoo Array Telescope (KAT), it has become a science instrument in its own right. The construction was completed in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20enumeration | Network enumeration is a computing activity in which usernames and info on groups, shares, and services of networked computers are retrieved. It should not be confused with network mapping, which only retrieves information about which servers are connected to a specific network and what operating system runs on them.
N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBrite | AdBrite, Inc. was an online ad exchange, based in San Francisco, California, which was founded by Philip J. Kaplan and Gidon Wise in 2002. Founded as Marketbanker.com, the site was relaunched as AdBrite in 2004 as an advertising network and then in 2008 as an ad exchange.
AdBrite remained an independent ad exchange, r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laticifer | A laticifer is a type of elongated secretory cell found in the leaves and/or stems of plants that produce latex and rubber as secondary metabolites. Laticifers may be divided into:
Articulated laticifers, i.e., composed of a series of cells joined together, or
Non-articulated laticifers, consisting of one long coenocy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20identification | Animal identification using a means of marking is a process done to identify and track specific animals. It is done for a variety of reasons including verification of ownership, biosecurity control, and tracking for research or agricultural purposes.
History
Individual identification of animals by means of body marki... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoplasmosis | Histoplasmosis is a fungal infection caused by Histoplasma capsulatum. Symptoms of this infection vary greatly, but the disease affects primarily the lungs. Occasionally, other organs are affected; called disseminated histoplasmosis, it can be fatal if left untreated.
Histoplasmosis is common among AIDS patients becau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vu%2B | The Vu+ (pronounced VuPlus), is a series of Linux-powered DVB satellite, terrestrial digital television receivers (set-top box), produced by Korean multimedia brand Ceru Co., Ltd.
History and description
All older Vu+ hardware set-top boxes are MIPS-powered, newer are all ARM-powered and uses Enigma2 image based soft... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative%20flux | Radiative flux, also known as radiative flux density or radiation flux (or sometimes power flux density), is the amount of power radiated through a given area, in the form of photons or other elementary particles, typically measured in W/m2. It is used in astronomy to determine the magnitude and spectral class of a sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo%20mass%20function | In cosmology, the halo mass function is a mass distribution of dark matter halos. Specifically, it gives the number density of dark matter halos per mass interval. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation%20functor | In mathematical representation theory, a (Zuckerman) translation functor is a functor taking representations of a Lie algebra to representations with a possibly different central character. Translation functors were introduced independently by and . Roughly speaking, the functor is given by taking a tensor product wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20queue | In computer science, message queues and mailboxes are software-engineering components typically used for inter-process communication (IPC), or for inter-thread communication within the same process. They use a queue for messaging – the passing of control or of content. Group communication systems provide similar kinds... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArabic%20encoding | MacArabic encoding is an obsolete encoding for Arabic (and English) text that was used in Apple Macintosh computers to texts.
The encoding is identical to MacFarsi encoding, except the numerals. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishkeeping | Fishkeeping is a popular hobby, practiced by aquarists, concerned with keeping fish in a home aquarium or garden pond. There is also a piscicultural fishkeeping industry, serving as a branch of agriculture.
Origins of fishkeeping
Fish have been raised as food in pools and ponds for thousands of years. Brightly color... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating%20System%20Projects | OSP, an Environment for Operating System Projects, is a teaching operating system designed to provide an environment for an introductory course in operating systems. By selectively omitting specific modules of the operating system and having the students re-implement the missing functionality, an instructor can genera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Drug%20Availability%20Act%201996 | The Animal Drug Availability Act 1996 (ADAA) is a United States federal law. President Clinton signed the ADAA into law in October 1996. While still obligated to public health concerns, the Act intends more rapid drug approval and medicated feed approval to assist the animal health industry.
Overview
The Animal Drug ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrassBase | GrassBase (or GrassBase – The Online World Grass Flora) is a web-based database of grasses, continually maintained and updated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
As of 2015, GrassBase was one of the largest (along with GrassWorld) structured datasets for plants. In the January 2016 update, it had morphological descrip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorific | Motorific is the brand name of a line of battery-operated slot car toys and related accessories marketed by the Ideal Toy Company from 1964 to the early 1970s. It differed from traditional slot car sets in that the cars were powered independently by a pair of AA batteries, rather than by an electrical connection to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEEmadC | IEEEmadC (Mobile Applications Development Contest) is an international contest organized by volunteers for IEEE student members across the globe. The main goal is to educate and encourage students to pursue their future career as mobile application developers, develop their engineering, social and team skills and conse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair%20bond | In biology, a pair bond is the strong affinity that develops in some species between a mating pair, often leading to the production and rearing of offspring and potentially a lifelong bond. Pair-bonding is a term coined in the 1940s that is frequently used in sociobiology and evolutionary biology circles. The term ofte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s%20%CE%B2%20function | In mathematical logic, Gödel's β function is a function used to permit quantification over finite sequences of natural numbers in formal theories of arithmetic. The β function is used, in particular, in showing that the class of arithmetically definable functions is closed under primitive recursion, and therefore inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydration%20%28web%20development%29 | In web development, hydration or rehydration is a technique in which client-side JavaScript converts a static HTML web page, delivered either through static hosting or server-side rendering, into a dynamic web page by attaching event handlers to the HTML elements. Because the HTML is pre-rendered on a server, this allo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawamata%E2%80%93Viehweg%20vanishing%20theorem | In algebraic geometry, the Kawamata–Viehweg vanishing theorem is an extension of the Kodaira vanishing theorem, on the vanishing of coherent cohomology groups, to logarithmic pairs, proved independently by Viehweg and Kawamata in 1982.
The theorem states that if L is a big nef line bundle (for example, an ample line b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze%20%28physiology%29 | The term gaze is frequently used in physiology to describe coordinated motion of the eyes and neck. The lateral gaze is controlled by the paramedian pontine reticular formation (PPRF). The vertical gaze is controlled by the rostral interstitial nucleus of medial longitudinal fasciculus and the interstitial nucleus of C... |
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