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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Ocean%20Data%20Assimilation | The Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) analysis is an oceanic reanalysis data set consisting of gridded state variables for the global ocean, as well as several derived fields. SODA was developed in the 1990s as a collaborative project between the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gromov%E2%80%93Witten%20invariant | In mathematics, specifically in symplectic topology and algebraic geometry, Gromov–Witten (GW) invariants are rational numbers that, in certain situations, count pseudoholomorphic curves meeting prescribed conditions in a given symplectic manifold. The GW invariants may be packaged as a homology or cohomology class in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residuated%20Boolean%20algebra | In mathematics, a residuated Boolean algebra is a residuated lattice whose lattice structure is that of a Boolean algebra. Examples include Boolean algebras with the monoid taken to be conjunction, the set of all formal languages over a given alphabet Σ under concatenation, the set of all binary relations on a given se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ancient%20oceans | This is a list of former oceans that disappeared due to tectonic movements and other geographical and climatic changes. In alphabetic order:
List
Bridge River Ocean, the ocean between the ancient Insular Islands (that is, Stikinia) and North America
Cache Creek Ocean, a Paleozoic ocean between the Wrangellia Superte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20kidney%20exchange | Optimal kidney exchange (OKE) is an optimization problem faced by programs for kidney paired donations (also called Kidney Exchange Programs). Such programs have large databases of patient-donor pairs, where the donor is willing to donate a kidney in order to help the patient, but cannot do so due to medical incompatib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20360 | Norton 360 is an "all-in-one" security suite developed by Gen Digital, formerly Symantec and later NortonLifeLock. The current suite was released in 2019 as a replacement for Norton Security, which had itself replaced an earlier suite named Norton 360.
See also
Norton AntiVirus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%20syndrome | Bart syndrome, also known as aplasia cutis congenita type VI, is a rare genetic disorder characterized by the association of congenital localized absence of skin, mucocutaneous blistering and absent and dystrophic nails.
History
This clinical trial was first described by Bruce J Bart in 1966, who reported a large fami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20optics | Ocean optics is the study of how light interacts with water and the materials in water. Although research often focuses on the sea, the field broadly includes rivers, lakes, inland waters, coastal waters, and large ocean basins. How light acts in water is critical to how ecosystems function underwater. Knowledge of oce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse%20colon | In human anatomy, the transverse colon is the longest and most movable part of the colon.
Anatomical position
It crosses the abdomen from the ascending colon at the right colic flexure (hepatic flexure) with a downward convexity to the descending colon where it curves sharply on itself beneath the lower end of the spl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagodinium%20b%C3%A9ii | Pelagodinium béii is a photosynthetic dinoflagellate that forms a symbiotic relationship with planktonic foraminifera.
Discovery and classification
P. béii was originally described as Gymnodinium béii by marine isotope geochemist Howard Spero in 1987, after being discovered in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It was redefi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%20Delta | The Arkansas Delta is one of the six natural regions of the state of Arkansas. Willard B. Gatewood Jr., author of The Arkansas Delta: Land of Paradox, says that rich cotton lands of the Arkansas Delta make that area "The Deepest of the Deep South."
The region runs along the Mississippi River from Eudora north to Blyth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universality%E2%80%93diversity%20paradigm | The universality–diversity paradigm is the analysis of biological materials based on the universality and diversity of its fundamental structural elements and functional mechanisms. The analysis of biological systems based on this classification has been a cornerstone of modern biology.
For example, proteins constitut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kripke%E2%80%93Platek%20set%20theory | The Kripke–Platek set theory (KP), pronounced , is an axiomatic set theory developed by Saul Kripke and Richard Platek.
The theory can be thought of as roughly the predicative part of ZFC and is considerably weaker than it.
Axioms
In its formulation, a Δ0 formula is one all of whose quantifiers are bounded. This mean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly%20%28key%20exchange%20protocol%29 | Firefly is a U.S. National Security Agency public-key key exchange protocol, used in EKMS, the STU-III secure telephone, and several other U.S. cryptographic systems. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Code%20of%20Nomenclature%20for%20Cultivated%20Plants | The International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP) is a guide to the rules and regulations for naming cultigens, plants whose origin or selection is primarily due to intentional human activity. It is also known as Cultivated Plant Code. Cultigens under the purview of the ICNCP include cultivars, Group... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%20code | Wolfram code is a widely used numbering system for one-dimensional cellular automaton rules, introduced by Stephen Wolfram in a 1983 paper and popularized in his book A New Kind of Science.
The code is based on the observation that a table specifying the new state of each cell in the automaton, as a function of the st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing%20Numbers%20of%20Graphs | Crossing Numbers of Graphs is a book in mathematics, on the minimum number of edge crossings needed in graph drawings. It was written by Marcus Schaefer, a professor of computer science at DePaul University, and published in 2018 by the CRC Press in their book series Discrete Mathematics and its Applications.
Topics
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbus | Z Matrix or bus impedance matrix in computing is an important tool in power system analysis. Though, it is not frequently used in power flow study, unlike Ybus matrix, it is, however, an important tool in other power system studies like short circuit analysis or fault study.
The Zbus matrix can be computed by matrix i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belyi%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Belyi's theorem on algebraic curves states that any non-singular algebraic curve C, defined by algebraic number coefficients, represents a compact Riemann surface which is a ramified covering of the Riemann sphere, ramified at three points only.
This is a result of G. V. Belyi from 1979. At the time i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMBRACE%20%28telescope%29 | EMBRACE (Electronic MultiBeam Radio Astronomy ConcEpt) is a prototype radio telescope for phase two of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. It's the first dense phased array for radioastronomy in the GHz frequency range (initially planned for covering the 0.5-1.5 GHz, mid-frequency band of SKA). It is composed of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar%E2%80%93Fermi%20method | Chandrasekhar–Fermi method or CF method or Davis–Chandrasekhar–Fermi method is a method that is used to calculate the mean strength of the interstellar magnetic field that is projected on the plane of the sky. The method was described by Leverett Davis Jr in 1951 and independently by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Enr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%20fever | Q fever or query fever is a disease caused by infection with Coxiella burnetii, a bacterium that affects humans and other animals. This organism is uncommon, but may be found in cattle, sheep, goats, and other domestic mammals, including cats and dogs. The infection results from inhalation of a spore-like small-cell va... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20homophily | Network homophily refers to the theory in network science which states that, based on node attributes, similar nodes may be more likely to attach to each other than dissimilar ones. The hypothesis is linked to the model of preferential attachment and it draws from the phenomenon of homophily in social sciences and mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Comprehensive%20Ocean-Atmosphere%20Data%20Set | The International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) is a digital database of 261 million weather observations made by ships, weather ships, and weather buoys spanning the years 1662 to 2007. The database was initially constructed in 1985 and continues to be expanded upon and updated on a regular basis. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane%20emulsification | Membrane emulsification (ME) is a relatively novel technique for producing all types of single and multiple emulsions for DDS (drug delivery systems), solid micro carriers for encapsulation of drug or nutrient, solder particles for surface-mount technology, mono dispersed polymer microspheres (for analytical column pac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Degazio | Bruno Degazio (born March 31, 1958) is a composer, researcher and film sound designer based in Ontario, Canada, where he is also a professor at Sheridan College. Degazio is an expert on computer music.
Education
Degazio received bachelor's and master's degrees in music from the University of Toronto, where he studied ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%209126 | ISO/IEC 9126 Software engineering — Product quality was an international standard for the evaluation of software quality. It has been replaced by ISO/IEC 25010:2011.
The fundamental objective of the ISO/IEC 9126 standard is to address some of the well-known human biases that can adversely affect the delivery and perc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undocumented%20feature | An undocumented feature is an unintended or undocumented hardware operation, for example an undocumented instruction, or software feature found in computer hardware and software that is considered beneficial or useful. Sometimes the documentation is omitted through oversight, but undocumented features are sometimes not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Glyph%20List%204 | Windows Glyph List 4, or more commonly WGL4 for short, also known as the Pan-European character set, is a character repertoire on Microsoft operating systems comprising 657 Unicode characters, two of them private use. Its purpose is to provide an implementation guideline for producers of fonts for the representation of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langley%20%28unit%29 | The langley (Ly) is a unit of heat transmission, especially used to express the rate of solar radiation (or insolation) received by the earth. The unit was proposed by Franz Linke in 1942 and named after Samuel Langley (1834–1906) in 1947.
Definition
One langley is
1 thermochemical calorie per square centimetre,
41 8... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateman%20Manuscript%20Project | The Bateman Manuscript Project was a major effort at collation and encyclopedic compilation of the mathematical theory of special functions. It resulted in the eventual publication of five important reference volumes, under the editorship of Arthur Erdélyi.
Overview
The theory of special functions was a core activity ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibla%20carpenteri | Fibla carpenteri is an extinct species of snakefly in the Inocelliidae genus Fibla. F. carpenteri is named in honor of the paleoentomologist Dr Frank Carpenter, for his vast knowledge and interest in Raphidioptera.
The species is known from a single specimen, the holotype, deposited in the Harvard University, Museum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem%20cell%20therapy%20for%20macular%20degeneration | Stem cell therapy for macular degeneration is the use of stem cells to heal, replace dead or damaged cells of the macula in the retina. Stem cell based therapies using bone marrow stem cells as well as retinal pigment epithelial transplantation are being studied. A number of trials have occurred in humans with encourag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levich%20constant | A Levich constant (B) is often used in order to simplify the Levich equation. Furthermore, B is readily extracted from rotating disk electrode experimental data.
The B can be defined as:
where
n is the number of moles of electrons transferred in the half reaction (number)
F is the Faraday constant (C/mol)
A is the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20pulp | The red pulp of the spleen is composed of connective tissue known also as the cords of Billroth and many splenic sinusoids that are engorged with blood, giving it a red color. Its primary function is to filter the blood of antigens, microorganisms, and defective or worn-out red blood cells.
The spleen is made of red p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluazinam | Fluazinam is a broad-spectrum fungicide used in agriculture. It is classed as a diarylamine and more specifically an arylaminopyridine. Its chemical name is 3-chloro-N-(3-chloro-2,6-dinitro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-5-trifluoromethyl-2-pyridinamine. The mode of action involves the compound being an extremely potent unco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciPy | SciPy (pronounced "sigh pie") is a free and open-source Python library used for scientific computing and technical computing.
SciPy contains modules for optimization, linear algebra, integration, interpolation, special functions, FFT, signal and image processing, ODE solvers and other tasks common in science and engi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%27s%20axiom | In the mathematical field of set theory, Martin's axiom, introduced by Donald A. Martin and Robert M. Solovay, is a statement that is independent of the usual axioms of ZFC set theory. It is implied by the continuum hypothesis, but it is consistent with ZFC and the negation of the continuum hypothesis. Informally, it s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20oxidation | Alpha oxidation (α-oxidation) is a process by which certain branched-chain fatty acids are broken down by removal of a single carbon from the carboxyl end. In humans, alpha-oxidation is used in peroxisomes to break down dietary phytanic acid, which cannot undergo beta-oxidation due to its β-methyl branch, into pristani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oportuzumab%20monatox | Oportuzumab monatox is an experimental anti-cancer medication. Chemically, oportuzumab is a single chain variable fragment of a monoclonal antibody which binds to epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM, the tumor-associated calcium signal transducer 1). Oportuzumab is fused with Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromethalin | Bromethalin is a neurotoxic rodenticide that damages the central nervous system.
History
Bromethalin was discovered in the early 1980s through an approach to find replacement rodenticides for first-generation anticoagulants, especially to be useful against rodents that had become resistant to Warfarin-type anticoagula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylotheque | A xylotheque or xylothek (from the Greek for "wood" and meaning "repository") is special form of herbarium that consists of a collection of authenticated wood specimens. It is also known as a xylarium (from the Greek for "wood" and Latin meaning "separate place"). Traditionally, xylotheque specimens were in the for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20storage%20gateway | A cloud storage gateway is a hybrid cloud storage device, implemented in hardware or software, which resides at the customer premises and translates cloud storage APIs such as SOAP or REST to block-based storage protocols such as iSCSI or Fibre Channel or file-based interfaces such as NFS or SMB.
According to a 2011 r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteophagy | Osteophagy is the practice in which animals, usually herbivores, consume bones. Most vegetation around the world lacks sufficient amounts of phosphate. Phosphorus is an essential mineral for all animals, as it plays a major role in the formation of the skeletal system, and is necessary for many biological processes inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Griffith%27s%20sourdough%20starter | Carl Griffith's sourdough starter, also known as the Oregon Trail Sourdough or Carl's starter, is a sourdough culture, a colony of wild yeast and bacteria cultivated in a mixture of flour and water for use as leavening. Carl's starter has a long history, dating back at least to 1847, when it was carried along the Orego... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20consensus | Medical consensus is a public statement on a particular aspect of medical knowledge at the time the statement is made that a representative group of experts agree to be evidence-based and state-of-the-art (state-of-the-science) knowledge. Its main objective is to counsel physicians on the best possible and acceptable w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upload%20components | Upload components are software products that are designed to be embedded into a web site to add upload functionality to it. Upload components are designed to replace the standard HTML4 upload mechanism. Compared with HTML4, Upload Components have a more user-friendly interface and support a wider range of features.
HT... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Booth | Herbert Henry Howard Booth (26 August 1862 – 25 September 1926) was a Salvation Army officer, the third son of five children to William and Catherine Booth (Mumford), who later went on to serve as an independent evangelist. He oversaw the Limelight Department's development and he was the writer and director for Soldie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20resident%20orcas | Northern resident orcas, also known as northern resident killer whales (NRKW), are one of four separate, non-interbreeding communities of the exclusively fish-eating ecotype of orca in the northeast portion of the North Pacific Ocean. They live primarily off the coast of British Columbia (BC), Canada, and also travel t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrupole%20magnet | Quadrupole magnets, abbreviated as Q-magnets, consist of groups of four magnets laid out so that in the planar multipole expansion of the field, the dipole terms cancel and where the lowest significant terms in the field equations are quadrupole. Quadrupole magnets are useful as they create a magnetic field whose magni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callosobruchus%20maculatus | Callosobruchus maculatus is a species of beetles known commonly as the cowpea weevil or cowpea seed beetle. It is a member of the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae, and not a true weevil. This common pest of stored legumes has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on every continent except Antarctica. The beetle most ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov%20time | In mathematics, the Lyapunov time is the characteristic timescale on which a dynamical system is chaotic. It is named after the Russian mathematician Aleksandr Lyapunov. It is defined as the inverse of a system's largest Lyapunov exponent.
Use
The Lyapunov time mirrors the limits of the predictability of the system. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beevor%27s%20axiom | Beevor's Axiom is the idea that the brain does not know muscles, only movements. In other words, the brain registers the movements that muscles combine to make, not the individual muscles that are making the movements. Hence, this is why one can sign their name (albeit poorly) with their foot. Beevor's Axiom was coined... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train%20track%20map | In the mathematical subject of geometric group theory, a train track map is a continuous map f from a finite connected graph to itself which is a homotopy equivalence and which has particularly nice cancellation properties with respect to iterations. This map sends vertices to vertices and edges to nontrivial edge-path... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mechanical%20keyboards | Mechanical keyboards (or mechanical-switch keyboards) are computer keyboards which have an individual switch for each key.
The following table is a compilation list of mechanical keyboard models, brands, and series:
Mechanical keyboards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telogis | Telogis was a privately held US-based company that develops location-based software to manage mobile resources. Telogis sold software as a service (SaaS) which incorporated location information into applications for fleet owners as well as geospatial software development toolkits.
In 2016, Telogis was acquired by Veri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20power%20quality | Electric power quality is the degree to which the voltage, frequency, and waveform of a power supply system conform to established specifications. Good power quality can be defined as a steady supply voltage that stays within the prescribed range, steady AC frequency close to the rated value, and smooth voltage curve ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Art%20of%20Unix%20Programming | The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond is a book about the history and culture of Unix programming from its earliest days in 1969 to 2003 when it was published, covering both genetic derivations such as BSD and conceptual ones such as Linux.
The author utilizes a comparative approach to explaining Unix by cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox%20Sigma%209 | The Xerox Sigma 9, also known as the XDS Sigma 9, was a high-speed, general purpose computer.
Xerox first became interested in office automation through computers in 1969 and purchased Scientific Data Systems or SDS. They then renamed the division Xerox Data Systems or XDS; they saw limited success, and the division ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%20Upfal |
Eli Upfal is a computer science researcher, currently the Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He completed his undergraduate studies in mathematics and statistics at the Hebrew University, Israel in 1978, received an M.Sc. in computer science from the Feinberg Graduate School of the Wei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodothermaceae | The Rhodothermaceae are a family of bacteria. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift | Xorshift random number generators, also called shift-register generators, are a class of pseudorandom number generators that were invented by George Marsaglia. They are a subset of linear-feedback shift registers (LFSRs) which allow a particularly efficient implementation in software without the excessive use of sparse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic%20harmonic | In fields like computational chemistry and solid-state and condensed matter physics the so-called atomic orbitals, or spin-orbitals, as they appear in textbooks on quantum physics, are often partially replaced by cubic harmonics for a number of reasons. These harmonics are usually named tesseral harmonics in the field ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20antibiotic-resistant%20bacteria | A list of antibiotic resistant bacteria is provided below. These bacteria have shown antibiotic resistance (or antimicrobial resistance).
Enzyme NDM-1 (New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase-1)
NDM-1 is an enzyme that makes bacteria resistant to a broad range of beta-lactam antibiotics.
NDM-1 (New Delhi Metallo-beta-lact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v | Delta-v (more known as "change in velocity"), symbolized as and pronounced delta-vee, as used in spacecraft flight dynamics, is a measure of the impulse per unit of spacecraft mass that is needed to perform a maneuver such as launching from or landing on a planet or moon, or an in-space orbital maneuver. It is a scala... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzaldehyde | Benzaldehyde (C6H5CHO) is an organic compound consisting of a benzene ring with a formyl substituent. It is the simplest aromatic aldehyde and one of the most industrially useful.
It is a colorless liquid with a characteristic almond-like odor, and is commonly used in cherry soda. A component of bitter almond oil, ben... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20algebras | This is a list of possibly nonassociative algebras. An algebra is a module, wherein you can also multiply two module elements. (The multiplication in the module is compatible with multiplication-by-scalars from the base ring).
*-algebra
Akivis algebra
Algebra for a monad
Albert algebra
Alternative algebra
Azumay... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn%20Silvia | Evelyn Marie Silvia (February 8, 1948 – January 21, 2006) was an American mathematician specializing in functional analysis and particularly in starlike functions. She was a professor at the University of California, Davis, and as well as teaching mathematics at the undergraduate and graduate levels there, was active i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypouricemia | Hypouricemia or hypouricaemia is a level of uric acid in blood serum that is below normal. In humans, the normal range of this blood component has a lower threshold set variously in the range of 2 mg/dL to 4 mg/dL, while the upper threshold is 530 μmol/L (6 mg/dL) for women and 619 μmol/L (7 mg/dL) for men. Hypourice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilia%20profundicola | Nautilia profundicola is a Gram-negative chemolithoautotrophic bacterium found around hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean. It was first discovered in 1999 on the East Pacific Rise at depth of , on the surface of the polychaete worm Alvinella pompejana. Nautilia profundicola lives symbiotically on the dorsal hairs of A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20Set%20Willy%20II | Jet Set Willy II: The Final Frontier is a platform game released 1985 by Software Projects as the Amstrad CPC port of Jet Set Willy. It was then rebranded as the sequel and ported other home computers. Jet Set Willy II was developed by Derrick P. Rowson and Steve Wetherill rather than Jet Set Willy programmer Matthew ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20power | In mathematics, a perfect power is a natural number that is a product of equal natural factors, or, in other words, an integer that can be expressed as a square or a higher integer power of another integer greater than one. More formally, n is a perfect power if there exist natural numbers m > 1, and k > 1 such that mk... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive%20state%20representation | In computer science, a predictive state representation (PSR) is a way to model a state of controlled dynamical system from a history of actions taken and resulting observations. PSR captures the state of a system as a vector of predictions for future tests (experiments) that can be done on the system. A test is a seque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20voltage%20prober | The laser voltage probe (LVP) is a laser-based voltage and timing waveform acquisition system which is used to perform failure analysis on flip-chip integrated circuits. The device to be analyzed is de-encapsulated in order to expose the silicon surface. The silicon substrate is thinned mechanically using a back side m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-terminal%20telopeptide | The N-terminal telopeptide (NTX), also known as amino-terminal collagen crosslinks, is the N-terminal telopeptide of fibrillar collagens such as collagen type I and type II. It is used as a biomarker to measure the rate of bone turnover. NTX can be measured in the urine (uNTX) or serum (serum NTX). The peptide consist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox%20system%20software | The Xbox system software is the operating system developed exclusively for Microsoft's Xbox home video game consoles. Across the four generations of Xbox consoles, the software has been based on a version of Microsoft Windows and incorporating DirectX features optimized for the home consoles. The user interface, the Xb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Mehlhorn | Kurt Mehlhorn (born 29 August 1949) is a German theoretical computer scientist. He has been a vice president of the Max Planck Society and is director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science.
Education and career
Mehlhorn graduated in 1971 from the Technical University of Munich, where he studied computer sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost-Pieter%20Katoen | Joost-Pieter Katoen (born October 6, 1964) is a Dutch theoretical computer scientist based in Germany. He is distinguished professor in Computer Science and head of the Software Modeling and Verification Group at RWTH Aachen University.
Furthermore, he is part-time associated to the Formal Methods & Tools group at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20design%20kit | A process design kit (PDK) is a set of files used within the semiconductor industry to model a fabrication process for the design tools used to design an integrated circuit. The PDK is created by the foundry defining a certain technology variation for their processes. It is then passed to their customers to use in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance%20engineering | Maintenance Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying engineering concepts for the optimization of equipment, procedures, and departmental budgets to achieve better maintainability, reliability, and availability of equipment.
Maintenance, and hence maintenance engineering, is increasing in importance du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20diffusion | Plasma diffusion across a magnetic field is an important topic in magnetic confinement of fusion plasma. It especially concerns how plasma transport is related to strength of an external magnetic field, B. Classical diffusion predicts 1/B2 scaling, while Bohm diffusion, borne out of experimental observations from the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-win%20situation | A no-win situation, also called a lose-lose situation, is one where a person has choices, but no choice leads to a net gain. For example, if a company finds a dangerous fault in one of its products, they can either issue a product recall and take some reputational damage, or allow the product to harm people: the compan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blown%20Away%20%28Carrie%20Underwood%20song%29 | "Blown Away" is a song by American recording artist Carrie Underwood, taken from her fourth studio album of the same name (2012). The song served as the album's second single on July 9, 2012, through Arista Nashville. Written by Chris Tompkins and Josh Kear, who previously wrote Underwood's single "Before He Cheats" (2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-bound%20function | Memory bound refers to a situation in which the time to complete a given computational problem is decided primarily by the amount of free memory required to hold the working data. This is in contrast to algorithms that are compute-bound, where the number of elementary computation steps is the deciding factor.
Memory a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conifer%20release | Conifer release is a term used in forest management circles to denote selective silvicide and herbicide use, in order to promote conifers at the expense of alternate species. An Oregon State University Extension Service specialist wrote in 2014 that:
History
Weyerhauser used Glyphosate as early as 1979 for its conifer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness%20risk | Skewness risk in financial modeling is the risk that results when observations are not spread symmetrically around an average value, but instead have a skewed distribution. As a result, the mean and the median can be different. Skewness risk can arise in any quantitative model that assumes a symmetric distribution (s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf%20of%20Maine%20Closed%20Areas | The Gulf of Maine has been fished since the 1700s, and has been a historic fishing area since. Climate change is having significant impacts on this ecosystem; between 2004 and 2013, the Gulf of Maine has warmed faster than 99.9% of the global oceans, increasing average temperature by . Having seen the depletion of grou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennard-Jones%20potential | In computational chemistry, the Lennard-Jones potential (also termed the LJ potential or 12-6 potential; named for John Lennard-Jones) is an intermolecular pair potential. Out of all the intermolecular potentials, the Lennard-Jones potential is probably the one that has been the most extensively studied. It is consider... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Species%20Foundation | The All Species Foundation (stylized as ALL Species Foundation) was an organization aiming to catalog all species on Earth by 2025 through their All Species Inventory initiative. The project was launched in 2000 by Kevin Kelly, Stewart Brand and Ryan Phelan. Along with other similar efforts, the All Species Foundatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Meselson | Matthew Stanley Meselson (born May 24, 1930) is a geneticist and molecular biologist currently at Harvard University, known for his demonstration, with Franklin Stahl, of semi-conservative DNA replication. After completing his Ph.D. under Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology, Meselson became a Profes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware%20Server | VMware Server (formerly VMware GSX Server) is a discontinued free-of-charge virtualization-software server suite developed and supplied by VMware, Inc.
VMware Server has fewer features than VMware ESX, software available for purchase, but can create, edit, and play virtual machines. It uses a client–server model, allo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casein%20kinase%201 | The Casein kinase 1 family () of protein kinases are serine/threonine-selective enzymes that function as regulators of signal transduction pathways in most eukaryotic cell types. CK1 isoforms are involved in Wnt signaling, circadian rhythms, nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling of transcription factors, DNA repair, and DNA tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20personal%20finance%20software | Personal finance software can be used to track spending, create budgets, and plan for future expenses. Some software differs by feature support, software code and development transparency, mobile app features, import methods, Monetization model, privacy and data storage practices.
Risks
The use of expense tracking, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization%20gradient%20cooling | Polarization gradient cooling (PG cooling) is a technique in laser cooling of atoms. It was proposed to explain the experimental observation of cooling below the doppler limit. Shortly after the theory was introduced experiments were performed that verified the theoretical predictions. While Doppler cooling allows atom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantomyia%20bozenae | Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) bozenae is an extinct species of crane fly in the family Limoniidae. The species is solely known from the Middle Eocene Baltic amber deposits in the Baltic Sea region of Europe. The species is one of six described from Baltic amber.
History and classification
Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81o%C5%9B%E2%80%93Tarski%20preservation%20theorem | The Łoś–Tarski theorem is a theorem in model theory, a branch of mathematics, that states that the set of formulas preserved under taking substructures is exactly the set of universal formulas. The theorem was discovered by Jerzy Łoś and Alfred Tarski.
Statement
Let be a theory in a first-order logic language and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20HoloLens | Microsoft HoloLens is an augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) headset developed and manufactured by Microsoft. HoloLens runs the Windows Mixed Reality platform under the Windows 10 operating system. Some of the positional tracking technology used in HoloLens can trace its lineage to the Microsoft Kinect, an access... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojan%20Mohar | Bojan Mohar (born September 21, 1956) is a Slovenian and Canadian mathematician, working in graph theory. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Ljubljana and the holder of a Canada Research Chair in graph theory at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Education
Mohar received... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyu%20kingfisher | The Ryukyu kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus miyakoensis) is an enigmatic taxon of tree kingfisher. It is extinct and is only known from a single specimen. Its taxonomic status is doubtful; it is most likely a subspecies of the Guam kingfisher, which would make its scientific name Todiramphus cinnamominus miyakoensi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20audience%20measurement | Web Audience Measurement (WAM) is an audience measurement and website analytics tool that measures Internet usage in India. The system, a joint effort of IMRB International and Internet and Mobile Association of India surveys over 6000 individuals across 8 metropolitan centers in India and tracks a variety of metrics s... |
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