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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocals%20of%20primes | The reciprocals of prime numbers have been of interest to mathematicians for various reasons. They do not have a finite sum, as Leonhard Euler proved in 1737.
Like all rational numbers, the reciprocals of primes have repeating decimal representations. In his later years, George Salmon (1819–1904) concerned himself... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikon%20%28system%29 | Daikon is a computer program that detects likely invariants of programs. An invariant is a condition that always holds true at certain points in the program. It is mainly used for debugging programs in late development, or checking modifications to existing code.
Properties
Daikon can detect properties in C, C++, Jav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight%20programming%20language | Lightweight programming languages are designed to have small memory footprint, are easy to implement (important when porting a language to different computer systems), and/or have minimalist syntax and features.
These programming languages have simple syntax and semantics, so one can learn them quickly and easily. Som... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossophyte | The glossophytes are a clade of seed plants comprising the glossopterids and their descendants. This includes the Gnetales and angiosperms, as well as Bennettitales.
Their monophyly is rather well supported by molecular methods, although their internal relationships are somewhat more shaky.
The clade had diverged by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20substructuring | Dynamic Substructuring (DS) is an engineering tool used to model and analyse the dynamics of mechanical systems by means of its components or substructures. Using the dynamic substructuring approach one is able to analyse the dynamic behaviour of substructures separately and to later on calculate the assembled dynamics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fertility%20Transition%20in%20Iran | The Fertility Transition in Iran: Revolution and Reproduction is a 2009 book by Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi, Peter McDonald and Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi in which the authors examine the fertility rate changes in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The book was awarded Iran's Book of the Year Award. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath%20propagation | In radio communication, multipath is the propagation phenomenon that results in radio signals reaching the receiving antenna by two or more paths. Causes of multipath include atmospheric ducting, ionospheric reflection and refraction, and reflection from water bodies and terrestrial objects such as mountains and buildi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmendra%20Modha |
Dharmendra S. Modha is an Indian American manager and lead researcher of the Cognitive Computing group at IBM Almaden Research Center. He is known for his pioneering works in Artificial Intelligence and Mind Simulation. In November 2009, Modha announced at a supercomputing conference that his team had written a progra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisture%20stress | Moisture stress is a form of abiotic stress that occurs when the moisture of plant tissues is reduced to suboptimal levels. Water stress occurs in response to atmospheric and soil water availability when the transpiration rate exceeds the rate of water uptake by the roots and cells lose turgor pressure. Moisture stres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RingCube%20vDesk | RingCube vDesk is a Desktop virtualization product from RingCube Technologies. vDesk is a client virtualization or virtual workspace platform which virtualizes the entire desktop at an operating system level. The platform can be deployed in four different modes: on a local PC, on an external USB device, streamed across... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zak%20transform | In mathematics, the Zak transform (also known as the Gelfand mapping) is a certain operation which takes as input a function of one variable and produces as output a function of two variables. The output function is called the Zak transform of the input function. The transform is defined as an infinite series in which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorally%20anchored%20rating%20scales | Behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) are scales used to rate performance. BARS are normally presented vertically with scale points ranging from five to nine. It is an appraisal method that aims to combine the benefits of narratives, critical incidents, and quantified ratings by anchoring a quantified scale with s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20file%20transfer%20protocols | This article lists communication protocols that are designed for file transfer over a telecommunications network.
Protocols for shared file systems—such as 9P and the Network File System—are beyond the scope of this article, as are file synchronization protocols.
Protocols for packet-switched networks
A packet-switch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20watermark | An audio watermark is a unique electronic identifier embedded in an audio signal, typically used to identify ownership of copyright. It is similar to a watermark on a photograph.
Digital watermarking is the process of embedding information into a signal (e.g. audio, video or pictures) in a way that is difficult to rem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizostomins | Rhizostomins are proteins that are part of a pigment family only found in jellyfish in the order Rhizostomeae. These proteins are composed of a Kringle domain inserted within a cysteine-rich Frizzled domain, first identified in 2004 as the blue pigment in the barrel jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo. It also appears in rhizos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwasawa%20manifold | In mathematics, in the field of differential geometry, an Iwasawa manifold is a compact quotient of a 3-dimensional complex Heisenberg group by a cocompact, discrete subgroup. An
Iwasawa manifold is a nilmanifold, of real dimension 6.
Iwasawa manifolds give examples where the first two terms E1 and E2 of the Frölic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huff%20paste | Huff paste is a cooking technique involving making a stiff pie shell (or coffyn) using a mixture of flour, suet, and boiling water. The pastry when cooked creates a tough protective layer around the food inside. When cooked, the pastry is generally discarded as it is virtually inedible. However, the shell becomes soake... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20alphabet | The logic alphabet, also called the X-stem Logic Alphabet (XLA), constitutes an iconic set of symbols that systematically represents the sixteen possible binary truth functions of logic. The logic alphabet was developed by Shea Zellweger. The major emphasis of his iconic "logic alphabet" is to provide a more cognitivel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch56 | Nortel's Switch56 was a networking protocol built on top of the telephone cabling hardware of their Digital Multiplex System and other telephone switches.
The name comes from the fact that Switch56 carried 56 kbit/s of data on its 64 kbit/s lines, as opposed to most systems, including ISDN, where the entire 64 kbit/s ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Mapping%20Project | The Internet Mapping Project
was started by William Cheswick and Hal Burch at Bell Labs in 1997. It has collected and preserved traceroute-style paths to some hundreds of thousands of networks almost daily since 1998. The project included visualization of the Internet data, and the Internet maps were widely dissemin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20plantar%20artery | The medial plantar artery (internal plantar artery), much smaller than the lateral plantar artery, passes forward along the medial side of the foot.
It is at first situated above the abductor hallucis, and then between it and the flexor digitorum brevis, both of which it supplies.
At the base of the first metatarsal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20oxidation | Bacteria biooxidation is an oxidation process caused by microbes where the valuable metal remains (but becomes enriched) in the solid phase. In this process, the metal remains in the solid phase and the liquid can be discarded.
Bacterial oxidation is a biohydrometallurgical process developed for pre-cyanidation treatm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoplasmic-reticulum-associated%20protein%20degradation | Endoplasmic-reticulum-associated protein degradation (ERAD) designates a cellular pathway which targets misfolded proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum for ubiquitination and subsequent degradation by a protein-degrading complex, called the proteasome.
Mechanism
The process of ERAD can be divided into three steps:
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muisca%20numerals | Muisca numerals were the numeric notation system used by the Muisca, one of the civilizations of the Americas before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca. Just like the Mayas, the Muisca had a vigesimal numerical system, based on multiples of twenty (Chibcha: gueta). The Muisca numerals were based on counting with finger... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20external%20memory | In computer science, a parallel external memory (PEM) model is a cache-aware, external-memory abstract machine. It is the parallel-computing analogy to the single-processor external memory (EM) model. In a similar way, it is the cache-aware analogy to the parallel random-access machine (PRAM). The PEM model consists of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhibitor%20cystine%20knot | An inhibitor cystine knot (also known as ICK or Knottin) is a protein structural motif containing three disulfide bridges. Knottins are one of three folds in the cystine knot motif; the other closely related knots are the growth factor cystine knot (GFCK) and the cyclic cystine knot (CCK; cyclotide). Types include a) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalon | In physics, an anomalon is a hypothetical type of nuclear matter that shows an anomalously large reactive cross section. They were first noticed in experimental runs in the early 1980s as short tracks in film emulsions or plastic leaf detectors connected to medium-energy particle accelerators. The direction of the trac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbitan%20tristearate | Sorbitan tristearate is a nonionic surfactant. It is variously used as a dispersing agent, emulsifier, and stabilizer, in food and in aerosol sprays. As a food additive, it has the E number E492. Brand names for polysorbates include Alkest, Canarcel, and Span. The consistency of sorbitan tristearate is waxy; its color... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REBASE%20%28database%29 | In molecular biology, REBASE is a database of information about restriction enzymes and DNA methyltransferases. REBASE contains an extensive set of references, sites of recognition and cleavage, sequences and structures. It also contains information on the commercial availability of each enzyme. REBASE is one of the l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorcon | lorcon (acronym for Loss Of Radio CONnectivity) is an open source network tool. It is a library for injecting 802.11 (WLAN) frames, capable of injecting via multiple driver frameworks, without the need to change the application code. Lorcon is built by patching the third-party MadWifi-driver for cards based on the Qual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliofilm | Pliofilm was a plastic wrap made by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company at plants in the US state of Ohio. Invented in the early 1930s, it was made by dissolving rubber in a benzene solvent and treating it with gaseous hydrochloric acid. Pliofilm was more stable in a range of humidities than earlier cellulose-based wr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiFive | SiFive, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company and provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon chips based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). SiFive's products include cores, SoCs, IPs, and development boards.
SiFive is one of the first companies to produce a chip that implements the RISC-V ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20Spanning%20Tree%20Protocol | The Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) and algorithm, provides both simple and full connectivity assigned to any given virtual LAN (VLAN) throughout a bridged local area network. MSTP uses bridge protocol data unit (BPDUs) to exchange information between spanning-tree compatible devices, to prevent loops in each Mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774%E2%80%93775%20carbon-14%20spike | The 774–775 carbon-14 spike is an observed increase of around 1.2% in the concentration of the radioactive carbon-14 isotope in tree rings dated to 774 or 775 CE, which is about 20 times higher than the normal year-to-year variation of radiocarbon in the atmosphere. It was discovered during a study of Japanese cedar tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Biophysical%20Society | The British Biophysical Society is a scientific society that exists to encourage and disseminate developments in the application of physical and chemical concepts to biological systems. It was founded in 1960 following a report from a Working Party on Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry initiated by the Council of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynodioecy | Gynodioecy is a rare breeding system that is found in certain flowering plant species in which female and hermaphroditic plants coexist within a population. Gynodioecy is the evolutionary intermediate between hermaphroditism (exhibiting both female and male parts) and dioecy (having two distinct morphs: male and female... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional%20reduction | Dimensional reduction is the limit of a compactified theory where the size of the compact dimension goes to zero. In physics, a theory in D spacetime dimensions can be redefined in a lower number of dimensions d, by taking all the fields to be independent of the location in the extra D − d dimensions.
For example, con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-Doppler%20signal%20processing | Pulse-Doppler signal processing is a radar and CEUS performance enhancement strategy that allows small high-speed objects to be detected in close proximity to large slow moving objects. Detection improvements on the order of 1,000,000:1 are common. Small fast moving objects can be identified close to terrain, near the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-isometry | In mathematics, a quasi-isometry is a function between two metric spaces that respects large-scale geometry of these spaces and ignores their small-scale details. Two metric spaces are quasi-isometric if there exists a quasi-isometry between them. The property of being quasi-isometric behaves like an equivalence relati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldimicrobium%20rimae | Caldimicrobium rimae is an extremely thermophilic, strictly anaerobic and facultatively chemolithoautotrophic bacterium from the genus of Caldimicrobium which has been isolated from the Treshchinnyi Spring from Uzon Caldera in Russia.
Origins of taxonomical branch
Caldimicrobium rimae varies from its family of Therm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetland | Wetlands, or simply a wetland, is a distinct ecosystem that is flooded or saturated by water, either permanently (for years or decades) or seasonally (for weeks or months). Flooding results in oxygen-free (anoxic) processes prevailing, especially in the soils. The primary factor that distinguishes wetlands from terrest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNK5 | Potassium channel subfamily K member 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNK5 gene.
This gene encodes K2P5.1, one of the members of the superfamily of potassium channel proteins containing two pore-forming P domains. The message for this gene is mainly expressed in the cortical distal tubules and collecti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama%20Software | Panorama Software is a Canadian software and consulting company specializing in business intelligence. The company was founded by Rony Ross in Israel in 1993; it relocated its headquarters to Toronto, Canada in 2003.
Panorama sold its online analytical processing (OLAP) technology to Microsoft in 1996, which was built ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task%20analysis%20environment%20modeling%20simulation | Task Analysis, Environment Modeling, and Simulation (TAEMS or TÆMS) is a problem domain independent modeling language used to describe the task structures and the problem-solving activities of intelligent agents in a multi-agent environment.
The intelligent agent operates in environments where:
responses by specific ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection%20principle | In mathematics, a selection principle is a rule asserting
the possibility of obtaining mathematically significant objects by
selecting elements from given sequences of sets. The theory of selection principles
studies these principles and their relations to other mathematical properties.
Selection principles mainly des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20II%20cytokine%20receptor | Type II cytokine receptors, also commonly known as class II cytokine receptors, are transmembrane proteins that are expressed on the surface of certain cells. They bind and respond to a select group of cytokines including interferon type I, interferon type II, interferon type III. and members of the interleukin-10 fami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access%20memory | Random-access memory (RAM; ) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code. A random-access memory device allows data items to be read or written in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data ins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20signal%20processing | Host signal processing (HSP) is a term used in computing to describe hardware such as a modem or printer which is emulated (to various degrees) in software. Intel refers to the technology as native signal processing (NSP). HSP replaces dedicated DSP or ASIC hardware by using the general purpose CPU of the host computer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous%20serial%20communication | Synchronous serial communication describes a serial communication protocol in which "data is sent in a continuous stream at constant rate."
Synchronous communication requires that the clocks in the transmitting and receiving devices are synchronized – running at the same rate – so the receiver can sample the signal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACLAME | ACLAME (The CLAssification of Mobile genetic Elements) is a database of sequenced mobile genetic elements.
See also
Gypsy (database)
Mobile genetic elements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C1QL1 | The complement component 1, q subcomponent-like 1 (or C1QL1) is encoded by a gene located at chromosome 17q21.31. It is a secreted protein and is 258 amino acids in length.
The protein is widely expressed but its expression is highest in the brain and may also be involved in regulation of motor control.
The pre-mRNA o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20chemistry | Mathematical chemistry is the area of research engaged in novel applications of mathematics to chemistry; it concerns itself principally with the mathematical modeling of chemical phenomena. Mathematical chemistry has also sometimes been called computer chemistry, but should not be confused with computational chemistry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam%C3%A9%27s%20stress%20ellipsoid | Lamé's stress ellipsoid is an alternative to Mohr's circle for the graphical representation of the stress state at a point. The surface of the ellipsoid represents the locus of the endpoints of all stress vectors acting on all planes passing through a given point in the continuum body. In other words, the endpoints of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20record%20pattern | In software engineering, the active record pattern is an architectural pattern. It is found in software that stores in-memory object data in relational databases. It was named by Martin Fowler in his 2003 book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. The interface of an object conforming to this pattern would i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripharyngeal%20space | The peripharyngeal space is a space in the neck.
It can be split into the retropharyngeal space and the parapharyngeal space. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycosynthase | The term glycosynthase refers to a class of proteins that have been engineered to catalyze the formation of a glycosidic bond. Glycosynthase are derived from glycosidase enzymes, which catalyze the hydrolysis of glycosidic bonds. They were traditionally formed from retaining glycosidase by mutating the active site nuc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer%2036 | Explorer 36 (also called GEOS 2 or GEOS B, acronym for Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite) was a NASA satellite launched as part of the Explorer program, being the second of the two satellites GEOS. Explorer 36 was launched on 11 January 1968 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, with Thor-Delta E1 launch vehicle.
Explorer 3... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Daily%20WTF | The Daily WTF (also called Worse Than Failure from February to December 2007) is a humorous blog dedicated to "Curious Perversions in Information Technology". The blog, run by Alex Papadimoulis, "offers living examples of code that invites the exclamation ‘WTF!?'" (What The Fuck!?) and "recounts tales of disastrous de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Colinvaux | Paul Colinvaux (September 22, 1930 – February 28, 2016) was an ecologist and professor emeritus at Ohio State University.
Colinvaux was born in London, England. He attended University College School ("UCS") in London, where his activities included rowing in the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroimaging | Neuroimaging is the use of quantitative (computational) techniques to study the structure and function of the central nervous system, developed as an objective way of scientifically studying the healthy human brain in a non-invasive manner. Increasingly it is also being used for quantitative research studies of brain d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20transmission%20system | In North American digital terrestrial television broadcasting, a distributed transmission system (DTS or DTx) is a form of single-frequency network in which a single broadcast signal is fed via microwave, landline, or communications satellite to multiple synchronised terrestrial radio transmitter sites. The signal is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20subject%20research | Human subject research is systematic, scientific investigation that can be either interventional (a "trial") or observational (no "test article") and involves human beings as research subjects, commonly known as test subjects. Human subject research can be either medical (clinical) research or non-medical (e.g., socia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-equivalence | S-equivalence is an equivalence relation on the families of semistable vector bundles on an algebraic curve.
Definition
Let X be a projective curve over an algebraically closed field k. A vector bundle on X can be considered as a locally free sheaf. Every semistable locally free E on X admits a Jordan-Hölder filtrati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rencontres%20numbers | In combinatorial mathematics, the rencontres numbers are a triangular array of integers that enumerate permutations of the set { 1, ..., n } with specified numbers of fixed points: in other words, partial derangements. (Rencontre is French for encounter. By some accounts, the problem is named after a solitaire game.)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coincidence%20point | In mathematics, a coincidence point (or simply coincidence) of two functions is a point in their common domain having the same image.
Formally, given two functions
we say that a point x in X is a coincidence point of f and g if f(x) = g(x).
Coincidence theory (the study of coincidence points) is, in most settings, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20%28operating%20system%29 | Coherent is a clone of the Unix operating system for IBM PC compatibles and other microcomputers, developed and sold by the now-defunct Mark Williams Company (MWC). Historically, the operating system was a proprietary product, but it became open source in 2015, released under the BSD-3-Clause license.
Development
Cohe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications%20%26%20Information%20Services%20Corps | The Communications and Information Services Corps (CIS) () – formerly the Army Corps of Signals – is one of the combat support corps of the Irish Defence Forces, the military of Ireland. It is responsible for the installation, maintenance and operation of communications and information systems for the command, control ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift%20fence | A drift fence is any long, continuous fence used to control the movement of animals in a particular open range, or to collect animals for research.
Drift fences were used in the Texas Panhandle from 1882 to 1887 to control "cattle drift"—the winter migration of livestock to warmer territory. Long sections of barbed wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20beta%20barrel | An alpha/beta barrel is a protein fold formed by units composed of a short α-helix followed by two anti-parallel β-strands, followed by an α-helix and a β-strand; the three β-strands form a β-sheet that runs parallel to the barrel and the α-helix is in the outside of the barrel but does not contact the α-helices of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram | n-gram is a series of n adjacent letters (including punctuation marks and blanks), syllables, or rarely whole words found in a language dataset; or adjacent phonemes extracted from a speech-recording dataset, or adjacent base pairs extracted from a genome. They are collected from a text or speech corpus. If Latin nume... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBD%20algorithm | The KBD algorithm is a cluster update algorithm designed for the fully frustrated Ising model in two dimensions, or more generally any two dimensional spin glass with frustrated plaquettes arranged in a checkered pattern. It is discovered in 1990 by Daniel Kandel, Radel Ben-Av, and Eytan Domany, and generalized by P. D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20blue%20turaco | The great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) is a bird species of the family Musophagidae. At in length, it is the largest species of turaco. It has predominantly grey-blue plumage with an upright blue-black crest around high. The male and female have similar plumage. It is widespread throughout the African tropical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gens%20%28behaviour%29 | In animal behaviour, a gens (pl. gentes) or host race is a host-specific lineage of a brood parasite species. Brood parasites, such as cuckoos, which use multiple host species to raise their chicks evolve different gentes, each one specific to its host species. This specialisation allows the parasites to lay eggs that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehn%E2%80%93Sommerville%20equations | In mathematics, the Dehn–Sommerville equations are a complete set of linear relations between the numbers of faces of different dimension of a simplicial polytope. For polytopes of dimension 4 and 5, they were found by Max Dehn in 1905. Their general form was established by Duncan Sommerville in 1927. The Dehn–Sommerv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-on | In computing, instant-on is the ability to boot nearly instantly, allowing to go online or to use a specific application without waiting for a PC's traditional operating system to launch. Instant-on technology is today mostly used on laptops, netbooks, and nettops because the user can boot up one program, instead of wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colva%20Roney-Dougal | Colva Mary Roney-Dougal is a British mathematician specializing in group theory and computational algebra. She is Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, and the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra at St Andrews. She is also known for her popularization ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Information%20Assurance%20Partnership | The National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) is a United States government initiative to meet the security testing needs of both information technology consumers and producers that is operated by the National Security Agency (NSA), and was originally a joint effort between NSA and the National Institute of Sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving%20rivers | Revolving rivers are a surprising, uncommon way of sand pile growth that can be found in a few sands around the world, but has been studied in detail only for one Cuban sand from a place called Santa Teresa (Pinar del Rio province).
Description
When pouring "revolving" sand on a flat surface from a fixed position, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20for%20Ethical%20Biotrade | The Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) is a nonprofit association that promotes the "Sourcing with Respect" of ingredients that come from biodiversity. Members commit to gradually ensuring that their sourcing practices promote the conservation of biodiversity, respect traditional knowledge and assure the equitable shari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20admittance | Acoustic admittance is the measure of the flow of acoustic energy. It is measured in cubic meters per second (), per pascal (). By nature, acoustic impedance is the reciprocal of acoustic admittance. Immittance is a concept which combines both acoustic admittance and acoustic impedance.
Acoustic admittance is widely u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZNF821 | Zinc Finger Protein 821, also known as ZNF821, is a protein encoded by the ZNF821 gene. This gene is located on the 16th chromosome and is expressed highly in the testes, moderately expressed in the brain and low expression in 23 other tissues. The protein encoded is 412 amino acids long with 2 Zinc Finger motifs (C2H2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/115%20%28number%29 | 115 (one hundred [and] fifteen) is the natural number following 114 and preceding 116.
In mathematics
115 has a square sum of divisors:
There are 115 different rooted trees with exactly eight nodes, 115 inequivalent ways of placing six rooks on a 6 × 6 chess board in such a way that no two of the rooks attack each ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone%20dualization | In theoretical computer science, monotone dualization is a computational problem of constructing the dual of a monotone Boolean function. Equivalent problems can also be formulated as constructing the transversal hypergraph of a given hypergraph, of listing all minimal hitting sets of a family of sets, or of listing al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi%20Chierchia | Luigi Chierchia (born 1957) is an Italian mathematician, specializing in nonlinear differential equations, mathematical physics, and dynamical systems (celestial mechanics and Hamiltonian systems).
Chierchia studied physics and mathematics at the Sapienza University of Rome with Laurea degree in 1981 with supervisor G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20flow%20control | Ethernet flow control is a mechanism for temporarily stopping the transmission of data on Ethernet family computer networks. The goal of this mechanism is to avoid packet loss in the presence of network congestion.
The first flow control mechanism, the pause frame, was defined by the IEEE 802.3x standard. The follow-o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective%20connection | In differential geometry, a projective connection is a type of Cartan connection on a differentiable manifold.
The structure of a projective connection is modeled on the geometry of projective space, rather than the affine space corresponding to an affine connection. Much like affine connections, projective connectio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20FX | [[File:SuperFX GSU-2-SP1 chip.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Super FX 2 chip on Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]
The Super FX is a coprocessor on the Graphics Support Unit (GSU) added to select Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) video game cartridges, primarily to facilitate advanced 2D and 3D graphics. The Super ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20leveler | An audio leveler performs an audio process similar to compression, which is used to reduce the dynamic range of a signal, so that the quietest portion of the signal is loud enough to hear and the loudest portion is not too loud.
Levelers work especially well with vocals, as there are huge dynamic differences in the h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-542%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-542 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
See also
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acidity%20regulator | Acidity regulators, or pH control agents, are food additives used to change or maintain pH (acidity or basicity). They can be organic or mineral acids, bases, neutralizing agents, or buffering agents. Typical agents include the following acids and their sodium salts: sorbic acid, acetic acid, benzoic acid, and propion... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobon%20triangle%20problem | The Kobon triangle problem is an unsolved problem in combinatorial geometry first stated by Kobon Fujimura (1903-1983). The problem asks for the largest number N(k) of nonoverlapping triangles whose sides lie on an arrangement of k lines. Variations of the problem consider the projective plane rather than the Euclidean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourdough%20Sam | Sourdough Sam is a mascot for the NFL's San Francisco 49ers.
History
Before the introduction of Sourdough Sam, the 49ers' first mascot was a mule named Clementine that wore a red saddle blanket and appeared in the 1950s and 1960s.
A gold rush prospector–themed character first appeared in the 1970s. The character's de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenic%20substance | A biogenic substance is a product made by or of life forms. While the term originally was specific to metabolite compounds that had toxic effects on other organisms, it has developed to encompass any constituents, secretions, and metabolites of plants or animals. In context of molecular biology, biogenic substances are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radoslav%20Rochallyi | Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1 May 1980), Bardejov , Czechoslovakia is a Slovak writer, and poet living in the Malta, and Czech Republic.
Biography
Rochallyi was born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia in a family with Lemko and Hungarian roots. He start reading even before started primary school. The first book he read was the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talari%20Networks | Talari Networks is a San Jose, CA-based manufacturer of networking equipment that allows businesses to combine private wide area networks (WANs) with less expensive broadband connections such as DSL or cable. It was founded in 2007 and launched its initial beta product in early 2008. The company was acquired by Oracle ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic%20process | In thermodynamics, an adiabatic process (Greek: adiábatos, "impassable") is a type of thermodynamic process that occurs without transferring heat or mass between the thermodynamic system and its environment. Unlike an isothermal process, an adiabatic process transfers energy to the surroundings only as work. As a key c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENEA%20AB | Enea AB is a global information technology company with its headquarters in Kista, Sweden that provides real-time operating systems and consulting services. Enea, which is an abbreviation of Engmans Elektronik Aktiebolag, also produces the OSE operating system.
History
Enea was founded 1968 by Rune Engman as Engmans E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial%20unfolded%20protein%20response | The mitochondrial unfolded protein response (UPRmt) is a cellular stress response related to the mitochondria. The UPRmt results from unfolded or misfolded proteins in mitochondria beyond the capacity of chaperone proteins to handle them. The UPRmt can occur either in the mitochondrial matrix or in the mitochondrial in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-knot | In loop quantum gravity, an s-knot is an equivalence class of spin networks under diffeomorphisms. In this formalism, s-knots represent the quantum states of the gravitational field.
External links
Living Reviews in Relativity: Loop Quantum Gravity: Diffeomorphism invariance
Loop quantum gravity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20liquid | Binary liquid is a type of chemical combination, which creates a special reaction or feature as a result of mixing two liquid chemicals, that are normally inert or have no function by themselves. A number of chemical products are produced as a result of mixing two chemicals as a binary liquid, such as plastic foams and... |
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