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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20C.%20Kalmbach
Al C. Kalmbach (June 25, 1910 – October 14, 1981) was the founder of Kalmbach Publishing, a publisher of magazines and books geared towards enthusiasts of several different hobbies. Albert Carpenter Kalmbach was born in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. He grew up in Milwaukee, not far from the shops of the Milwaukee Road. He...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharyngeal%20arch
The pharyngeal arches, also known as visceral arches, are structures seen in the embryonic development of vertebrates that are recognisable precursors for many structures. In fish, the arches are known as the branchial arches, or gill arches. In the human embryo, the arches are first seen during the fourth week of dev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotaxis%20assay
Chemotaxis assays are experimental tools for evaluation of chemotactic ability of prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells. A wide variety of techniques have been developed. Some techniques are qualitative - allowing an investigator to approximately determine a cell's chemotactic affinity for an analyte - while others are quant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%20Eden
Murray Eden (August 17, 1920 – August 9, 2020), was an American physical chemist and academic. He was a professor in electrical engineering, a lecturer, a visiting professor and adjunct professor at institutions including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Institutes of Health. Eden was a pi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny%20in%20humans
Neoteny in humans is the retention of juvenile traits well into adulthood. This trend is greatly amplified in humans especially when compared to non-human primates. Neotenic features of the head include the globular skull; thinness of skull bones; the reduction of the brow ridge; the large brain; the flattened and broa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability%20of%20IQ
Research on the heritability of IQ inquires into the degree of variation in IQ within a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population. There has been significant controversy in the academic community about the heritability of IQ since research on the issue began in the late nineteen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20receptor%20potential%20channel-interacting%20protein%20database
Transient receptor potential channel-interacting protein database (TRIP) is a database of protein–protein interactions for the mammalian TRP channels. See also Protein-protein interactions TRP channels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20tangent%20bundle
In Riemannian geometry, the unit tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold (M, g), denoted by T1M, UT(M) or simply UTM, is the unit sphere bundle for the tangent bundle T(M). It is a fiber bundle over M whose fiber at each point is the unit sphere in the tangent bundle: where Tx(M) denotes the tangent space to M at x. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20polytope
In geometry, a complex polytope is a generalization of a polytope in real space to an analogous structure in a complex Hilbert space, where each real dimension is accompanied by an imaginary one. A complex polytope may be understood as a collection of complex points, lines, planes, and so on, where every point is the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate-of-living%20theory
The rate of living theory postulates that the faster an organism’s metabolism, the shorter its lifespan. First proposed by Max Rubner in 1908, the theory was based on his observation that smaller animals had faster metabolisms and shorter lifespans compared to larger animals with slower metabolisms. The theory gained f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s%20theorem%20about%20ovals
In mathematics, Newton's theorem about ovals states that the area cut off by a secant of a smooth convex oval is not an algebraic function of the secant. Isaac Newton stated it as lemma 28 of section VI of book 1 of Newton's Principia, and used it to show that the position of a planet moving in an orbit is not an alge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelics%20and%20ecology
Researchers have noted the relationship between psychedelics and ecology, particularly in relation to the altered states of consciousness (ASC) produced by psychedelic drugs and the perception of interconnectedness expressed through ecological ideas and themes produced by the psychedelic experience. This is felt throu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%20band%20%28NATO%29
The NATO K band is the obsolete designation given to the radio frequencies from 20 to 40 GHz (equivalent to wavelengths between 1.5 and 0.75 cm) during the cold war period. Since 1992 frequency allocations, allotment and assignments are in line to NATO Joint Civil/Military Frequency Agreement (NJFA). However, in order...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny%20Lehman%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Meir "Manny" Lehman, FREng (24 January 1925 - 29 December 2010) was a professor in the School of Computing Science at Middlesex University. From 1972 to 2002 he was a Professor and Head of the Computing Department at Imperial College London. His research contributions include the early realisation of the software evolu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols%20of%20Nunavut
Nunavut is one of Canada's territories, and has established several territorial symbols. Symbols of Nunavut "Qimmiq" or "qimmik" is the Inuit language word for "dog" Great Seal Like Yukon, Nunavut does not have an official Great Seal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servomotor
A servomotor (or servo motor or simply servo (to be differentiated from servomechanism, which may also be called a servo)) is a rotary actuator or linear actuator that allows for precise control of angular or linear position, velocity, and acceleration in a mechanical system. It consists of a suitable motor coupled to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20application%20security%20testing
Static application security testing (SAST) is used to secure software by reviewing the source code of the software to identify sources of vulnerabilities. Although the process of statically analyzing the source code has existed as long as computers have existed, the technique spread to security in the late 90s and the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight%20distribution
Weight distribution is the apportioning of weight within a vehicle, especially cars, airplanes, and trains. Typically, it is written in the form x/y, where x is the percentage of weight in the front, and y is the percentage in the back. In a vehicle which relies on gravity in some way, weight distribution directly aff...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20Networks%20%28journal%29
Neural Networks is a monthly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal and an official journal of the International Neural Network Society, European Neural Network Society, and Japanese Neural Network Society. History Neural Networks was established in 1988 and is published by Elsevier. The journal covers all aspects of res...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%20experiment
The Wu experiment was a particle and nuclear physics experiment conducted in 1956 by the Chinese American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu in collaboration with the Low Temperature Group of the US National Bureau of Standards. The experiment's purpose was to establish whether or not conservation of parity (P-conservation), wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation%20%28computer%20science%29
In computer science, resource starvation is a problem encountered in concurrent computing where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work. Starvation may be caused by errors in a scheduling or mutual exclusion algorithm, but can also be caused by resource leaks, and can be intentionally ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20behavior%20analysis
Clinical behavior analysis (CBA; also called clinical behaviour analysis or third-generation behavior therapy) is the clinical application of behavior analysis (ABA). CBA represents a movement in behavior therapy away from methodological behaviorism and back toward radical behaviorism and the use of functional analytic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinuous-constituent%20phrase%20structure%20grammar
Discontinuous-constituent Phrase Structure Grammar (DCPSG) (distinct from Discontinuous Phrase Structure Grammar/DPSG) is a formalism for describing discontinuous phrase structures in natural language, such as verb phrases in VSO languages. The formalism was introduced in the slightly more constrained form of Discontin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor%20network
An attractor network is a type of recurrent dynamical network, that evolves toward a stable pattern over time. Nodes in the attractor network converge toward a pattern that may either be fixed-point (a single state), cyclic (with regularly recurring states), chaotic (locally but not globally unstable) or random (stocha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative%20Biochemistry%20and%20Physiology%20C
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Toxicology & Pharmacology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research in biochemistry and physiology. External links Biochemistry journals Physiology journals Elsevier academic journals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of%20the%20form
In mathematics, the phrase "of the form" indicates that a mathematical object, or (more frequently) a collection of objects, follows a certain pattern of expression. It is frequently used to reduce the formality of mathematical proofs. Example of use Here is a proof which should be appreciable with limited mathematic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Rivin
Igor Rivin (born 1961 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian-Canadian mathematician, working in various fields of pure and applied mathematics, computer science, and materials science. He was the Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St. Andrews from 2015 to 2017, and was the chief research officer at Crypt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale%20%28computer%20hardware%29
In computer architecture a locale is an abstraction of the concept of a localized set of hardware resources which are close enough to enjoy uniform memory access. For instance, on a computer cluster each node may be considered a locale given that there is one instance of the operating system and uniform access to memo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam
Foams are materials formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid. A bath sponge and the head on a glass of beer are examples of foams. In most foams, the volume of gas is large, with thin films of liquid or solid separating the regions of gas. Soap foams are also known as suds. Solid foams can be closed-cel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolipoprotein%20E
Apolipoprotein E (Apo-E) is a protein involved in the metabolism of fats in the body of mammals. A subtype is implicated in the Alzheimer's disease and cardiovascular diseases. It is encoded in humans by the gene APOE. Apo-E belongs to a family of fat-binding proteins called apolipoproteins. In the circulation, it is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5sum
is a computer program that calculates and verifies 128-bit MD5 hashes, as described in RFC 1321. The MD5 hash functions as a compact digital fingerprint of a file. As with all such hashing algorithms, there is theoretically an unlimited number of files that will have any given MD5 hash. However, it is very unlikely tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muribaculaceae
Muribaculaceae, previously known as S24-7, is a family of bacteria within the order Bacteroidales. Muribaculaceae is a prevalent and abundant bacterial component of the gut microbiome of mammals. In 2016, family S24-7 was studied in-depth and given the name "Homeothermaceae", however, as no isolates were provided as t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity%20Social
SimCity Social is a defunct online social game for the Facebook social network where users create their own city and interact with cities of their Facebook friends. The game was developed by Playfish and published by Electronic Arts. The game was announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012, during EA's press co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20SPARQL%20implementations
This list shows notable triplestores, APIs, and other storage engines that have implemented the W3C SPARQL standard. Amazon Neptune Apache Marmotta AllegroGraph Eclipse RDF4J Apache Jena with ARQ Blazegraph Cray Urika-GD IBM Db2 - Removed in v11.5. KAON2 MarkLogic Mulgara NitrosBase Ontotext GraphDB Oracle DB Enterpris...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20%28group%20theory%29
Let be a finite permutation group acting on a set . A sequence of k distinct elements of is a base for G if the only element of which fixes every pointwise is the identity element of . Bases and strong generating sets are concepts of importance in computational group theory. A base and a strong generating s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrackle
A thrackle is an embedding of a graph in the plane in which each edge is a Jordan arc and every pair of edges meet exactly once. Edges may either meet at a common endpoint, or, if they have no endpoints in common, at a point in their interiors. In the latter case, they must cross at their intersection point: the inte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative%20Biochemistry%20and%20Physiology%20B
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research in biochemistry, physiology, and molecular biology. External links Biochemistry journals Physiology journals Elsevier academic journals Academic journals established in 1971
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreeta
Spreeta is an electro-optical device utilizing surface plasmon resonance to detect small changes in refractive index of liquids. The Spreeta device was developed by Texas Instruments, Inc. in the 1990s. Device design incorporates a light-emitting diode (LED) illuminating a thin metal film (usually gold) in the Kretch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toffoli%20gate
In logic circuits, the Toffoli gate (also CCNOT gate), invented by Tommaso Toffoli, is a universal reversible logic gate, which means that any classical reversible circuit can be constructed from Toffoli gates. It is also known as the "controlled-controlled-not" gate, which describes its action. It has 3-bit inputs and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasting%20room
A tasting room is a part of a winery or brewery, typically located on the premises of the winery or brewery's production facilities, at which guests may sample the winery or brewery's products. Originally an informal public relations outreach effort of wineries and breweries to encourage visitors and build brand aware...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterated%20chloroform
Deuterated chloroform, also known as chloroform-d, is the organic compound with the formula or . Deuterated chloroform is a common solvent used in NMR spectroscopy. The properties of (chloroform) are virtually identical. Preparation Deuterated chloroform is commercially available. It is more easily produced and less...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/138%20%28number%29
138 (one hundred [and] thirty-eight) is the natural number following 137 and preceding 139. In mathematics 138 is a sphenic number, and the smallest product of three primes such that in base 10, the third prime is a concatenation of the other two: . It is also a one-step palindrome in decimal (138 + 831 = 969). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed%20Awale%20Liban
Hagi Mohammed Awale Liban (, ) was a Somali scholar. He is noted for having designed the flag of Somalia in 1954. Liban also later served as the Chief of Cabinet of the Presidency in the nascent Somali Republic. Awale was a nationalist who served in all Somali governments up until 1964. He maintained good relationship...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20diameter
The hydraulic diameter, , is a commonly used term when handling flow in non-circular tubes and channels. Using this term, one can calculate many things in the same way as for a round tube. When the cross-section is uniform along the tube or channel length, it is defined as where is the cross-sectional area of the flo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder%20height%20process
In probability theory, the ladder height process is a record of the largest or smallest value a given stochastic process has achieved up to the specified point in time. The Wiener-Hopf factorization gives the transition probability kernel in the discrete time case. See also Record value
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solithromycin
Solithromycin (trade name Solithera) is a ketolide antibiotic undergoing clinical development for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and other infections. Solithromycin exhibits excellent in vitro activity against a broad spectrum of Gram-positive respiratory tract pathogens, including macrolide-resistant s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered%20exponential
The ordered exponential, also called the path-ordered exponential, is a mathematical operation defined in non-commutative algebras, equivalent to the exponential of the integral in the commutative algebras. In practice the ordered exponential is used in matrix and operator algebras. Definition Let be an algebra ov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley%27s%20paradox
Bentley's paradox (named after Richard Bentley) is a cosmological paradox pointing to a problem occurring when Newton's theory of gravitation is applied to cosmology. Namely, if all the stars are drawn to each other by gravitation, they should collapse into a single point. In 1687, Isaac Newton published the Principia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmembrane%20domain%20of%20ABC%20transporters
ABC transporter transmembrane domain is the main transmembrane structural unit of ATP-binding cassette transporter proteins, consisting of six alpha helixes that traverse the plasma membrane. Many members of the ABC transporter family () have two such regions. This family appears to correspond to ABC1 by TCDB classifi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-ARPES
Nano Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (Nano-ARPES), is a variant of the experimental technique ARPES (Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy). It has the ability to precisely determine the electronic band structure of materials in momentum space with submicron lateral resolution. Due to its demanding experi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP%20NetWeaver%20Visual%20Composer
SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer is SAP’s web-based software modelling tool. It enables business process specialists and developers to create business application components, without coding. Visual Composer produces applications in a declarative form, enabling code-free execution mode for multiple runtime environments. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20traffic%20light
Smart traffic lights or Intelligent traffic lights are a vehicle traffic control system that combines traditional traffic lights with an array of sensors and artificial intelligence to intelligently route vehicle and pedestrian traffic. They can form part of a bigger intelligent transport system. Research A technolog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radner%20equilibrium
Radner equilibrium is an economic concept defined by economist Roy Radner in the context of general equilibrium. The concept is an extension of the Arrow–Debreu equilibrium and the base for the first consistent incomplete markets framework. The concept departs from the Arrow-Debreu framework in two ways: Uncertaint...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s%20paradox
Berkson's paradox, also known as Berkson's bias, collider bias, or Berkson's fallacy, is a result in conditional probability and statistics which is often found to be counterintuitive, and hence a veridical paradox. It is a complicating factor arising in statistical tests of proportions. Specifically, it arises when th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krein%E2%80%93Smulian%20theorem
In mathematics, particularly in functional analysis, the Krein-Smulian theorem can refer to two theorems relating the closed convex hull and compactness in the weak topology. They are named after Mark Krein and Vitold Shmulyan, who published them in 1940. Statement Both of the following theorems are referred to as th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20cell
A band cell (also called band neutrophil, band form or stab cell) is a cell undergoing granulopoiesis, derived from a metamyelocyte, and leading to a mature granulocyte. It is characterized by having a curved but not lobular nucleus. The term "band cell" implies a granulocytic lineage (e.g., neutrophils). Clinical s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind%20the%20Mask%20%28organisation%29
Behind the Mask was an online archive for LGBT African activists and LGBT rights in Africa. Its offices were in Johannesburg, South Africa. Its web address was www.mask.org.za. It mainly focused on South Africa, but it also supported LGBT activists in East and Central Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Z...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon%20dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula , commonly found in nature as quartz. In many parts of the world, silica is the major constituent of sand. Silica is abundant as it comprises several minerals and as a synthetic products. All forms are white or colorless, although i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline%20teletype%20system
The airline teletype system uses teleprinters, which are electro-mechanical typewriters that can communicate typed messages from point to point through simple electric communications channels, often just pairs of wires. The most modern form of these devices are fully electronic and use a screen, instead of a printer. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20cathode
A cold cathode is a cathode that is not electrically heated by a filament. A cathode may be considered "cold" if it emits more electrons than can be supplied by thermionic emission alone. It is used in gas-discharge lamps, such as neon lamps, discharge tubes, and some types of vacuum tube. The other type of cathode is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20wavelet%20transform
The fast wavelet transform is a mathematical algorithm designed to turn a waveform or signal in the time domain into a sequence of coefficients based on an orthogonal basis of small finite waves, or wavelets. The transform can be easily extended to multidimensional signals, such as images, where the time domain is repl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor%20grid
A sensor grid integrates wireless sensor networks with grid computing concepts to enable real-time data collection and the sharing of computational and storage resources for sensor data processing and management. It is an enabling technology for building large-scale infrastructures, integrating heterogeneous sensor, da...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLARION%20%28cognitive%20architecture%29
Connectionist Learning with Adaptive Rule Induction On-line (CLARION) is a computational cognitive architecture that has been used to simulate many domains and tasks in cognitive psychology and social psychology, as well as implementing intelligent systems in artificial intelligence applications. An important feature ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caridea
The Caridea, commonly known as caridean shrimp or true shrimp, from the Greek word καρίς, καρίδος (karís, karídos, “shrimp”), are an infraorder of shrimp within the order Decapoda. This infraorder contains all species of true shrimp. They are found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Many other animal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanoluminescence
Galvanoluminescence Is the emission of light produced by the passage of an electric current through an appropriate electrolyte in which an electrode, made of certain metals such as aluminium or tantalum, has been immersed. An example being the electrolysis of sodium bromide (NaBr). Luminescence Materials science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20grid
A Gaussian grid is used in the earth sciences as a gridded horizontal coordinate system for scientific modeling on a sphere (i.e., the approximate shape of the Earth). The grid is rectangular, with a set number of orthogonal coordinates (usually latitude and longitude). At a given latitude (or parallel), the gridpoin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20property
In mathematics, properties that hold for "typical" examples are called generic properties. For instance, a generic property of a class of functions is one that is true of "almost all" of those functions, as in the statements, "A generic polynomial does not have a root at zero," or "A generic square matrix is invertibl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-ecological%20system
A social-ecological system consists of 'a bio-geo-physical' unit and its associated social actors and institutions. Social-ecological systems are complex and adaptive and delimited by spatial or functional boundaries surrounding particular ecosystems and their context problems. Definitions A social-ecological system ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20cryptology%20from%20the%201500s%20to%20Meiji
The cipher system that the Uesugi are said to have used is a simple substitution usually known as a Polybius square or "checkerboard." The i-ro-ha alphabet contains forty-eight letters, so a seven-by-seven square is used, with one of the cells left blank. The rows and columns are labeled with a number or a letter. In t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural%20rendering
Architectural rendering, architectural illustration, or architectural visualization (often abbreviated to archviz or ArchViz) is the art of creating three-dimensional images or animations showing the attributes of a proposed architectural design. Computer generated renderings Images that are generated by a computer u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViewSonic
ViewSonic Corporation is a Taiwanese-American privately held multinational electronics company with headquarters in Brea, California, United States and a research & development center in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The company was founded in 1987 as Keypoint Technology Corporation by James Chu and was renamed to its pres...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvature%20of%20a%20measure
In mathematics, the curvature of a measure defined on the Euclidean plane R2 is a quantification of how much the measure's "distribution of mass" is "curved". It is related to notions of curvature in geometry. In the form presented below, the concept was introduced in 1995 by the mathematician Mark S. Melnikov; accordi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Coast%20Electric%20Transmission%20Association
The Pacific Coast Electric Transmission Association was an American engineering institute founded in 1884 in response to the East coast establishment of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. It published its proceedings in the journalist George P. Low's journal The Electrical Journal, later titled The Journa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-67%20microRNA%20precursor%20family
In molecular biology mir-67 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/Cottrell%20equation
In electrochemistry, the Cottrell equation describes the change in electric current with respect to time in a controlled potential experiment, such as chronoamperometry. Specifically it describes the current response when the potential is a step function in time. It was derived by Frederick Gardner Cottrell in 1903. F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Biomolecular%20NMR
The Journal of Biomolecular NMR publishes research on technical developments and innovative applications of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for the study of structure and dynamic properties of biopolymers in solution, liquid crystals, solids and mixed environments. Some of the main topics include experimental a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes%20Seamount
The Eratosthenes Seamount or Eratosthenes Tablemount is a seamount in the Eastern Mediterranean, in the Levantine basin about south of western Cyprus. Unlike most seamounts, it is a carbonate platform not a volcano. It is a large, submerged massif, about . Its peak lies at the depth of and it rises above the surrou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Principles%20of%20Mathematics
The Principles of Mathematics (PoM) is a 1903 book by Bertrand Russell, in which the author presented his famous paradox and argued his thesis that mathematics and logic are identical. The book presents a view of the foundations of mathematics and Meinongianism and has become a classic reference. It reported on deve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora
Passiflora, known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 550 species of flowering plants, the type genus of the family Passifloraceae. They are mostly tendril-bearing vines, with some being shrubs or trees. They can be woody or herbaceous. Passion flowers produce regular and usually showy fl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Petrovsky
Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky () (18 January 1901 – 15 January 1973) (the family name is also transliterated as Petrovskii or Petrowsky) was a Soviet mathematician working mainly in the field of partial differential equations. He greatly contributed to the solution of Hilbert's 19th and 16th problems, and discovered what ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue%20tone
A cue tone is a message consisting of audio tones, used to prompt an action. In broadcast networks, a DTMF cue tone or subaudible tone was traditionally used to prompt insertion of a local TV commercial or radio advertisement by the broadcast automation equipment at the broadcast station or cable headend. This has bee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledger%20%28software%29
Ledger is a command-line based double-entry bookkeeping application. Accounting data is stored in a plain text file, using a simple format, which the users prepare themselves using other tools. Ledger does not write or modify data, it only parses the input data and produces reports. Reviews Linux Weekly News editor Jo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon%20Corporation
Echelon Corporation was an American company which designed control networks to connect machines and other electronic devices, for the purposes of sensing, monitoring and control. Echelon is now owned by Adesto Technologies. History Echelon was founded in February 1988 in Palo Alto, California by Clifford "Mike" Markk...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20wireless%20sensor%20nodes
A sensor node, also known as a mote (chiefly in North America), is a node in a sensor network that is capable of performing some processing, gathering sensory information and communicating with other connected nodes in the network. A mote is a node but a node is not always a mote. List of Wireless Sensor Nodes See al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley%20Park
Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years following 1883 for the financier and politician Sir Herbert Leon in the Victorian Gothic,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanovirin-N
Cyanovirin-N (CV-N) is a protein produced by the cyanobacterium Nostoc ellipsosporum that displays virucidal activity against several viruses, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A cyanobacterial protein called cyanovirin-N (CV-N) has strong anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) neutralizing properties. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20entropy
In information theory, the graph entropy is a measure of the information rate achievable by communicating symbols over a channel in which certain pairs of values may be confused. This measure, first introduced by Körner in the 1970s, has since also proven itself useful in other settings, including combinatorics. Defin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxin-antitoxin%20database
TADB is a database of Type 2 toxin-antitoxin loci in bacterial and archaeal genomes. See also Toxin-antitoxin system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachu
is a fictional species in the Pokémon media franchise. Designed by Atsuko Nishida and Ken Sugimori, Pikachu first appeared in the 1996 Japanese video games Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green created by Game Freak and Nintendo, which were released outside of Japan in 1998 as Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue. Pikachu is a yellow,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS%20color%20attributes
A BIOS Color Attribute is an 8 bit value where the low 4 bits represent the character color and the high 4 bits represent the background color. The name comes from the fact that these colors are used in BIOS interrupts, specifically INT 10h, the video interrupt. When writing text to the screen, a BIOS color attribute i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclosion%20assay
Eclosion assays are experimental procedures used to study the process of eclosion in insects, particularly in the model organism drosophila (fruit flies). Eclosion is the process in which an adult insect emerges from its pupal case, or a larval insect hatches from its egg. In holometabolous insects, the circadian clock...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastline
Lastline, Inc. is an American cyber security company and breach detection platform provider based in Redwood City, California. The company offers network-based security breach detection and other security services that combat malware used by advanced persistent threat (APT) groups for businesses, government organizatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore%20Blum
Lenore Carol Blum (née Epstein, born December 18, 1942) is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made contributions to the theories of real number computation, cryptography, and pseudorandom number generation. She was a distinguished career professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyploviricotina
Polyploviricotina is a subphylum of viruses in the phylum Negarnaviricota. It is one of only two virus subphyla, the other being Haploviricotina, which is also in Negarnaviricota. The name comes from , the Ancient Greek for 'complex', along with the suffix for a virus subphylum; 'viricotina'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Stephan
Dr. Friedrich Karl Stephan (born 27 May 1941) is an American academic who is a circadian physiologist. He is the Curt P. Richter Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Florida State University. His research focuses on localization and function of biological clocks in vertebrates, light and food as en...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moresque
Moresque is an obsolete alternative term to "Moorish" in English, and in the arts has some specific meanings. By itself, the word is used to describe the stylized plant-based forms of tendrils and leaves found in ornament and decoration in the applied arts in Renaissance Europe that are derived from the arabesque patt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Facts%20of%20Life%20%28Darlington%20book%29
The Facts of Life is a book published in 1953 by C. D. Darlington of the subject of race, heredity and evolution. Darlington was a major contributor to the field of genetics around the time of the modern synthesis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20governance
Information governance, or IG, is the overall strategy for information at an organization. Information governance balances the risk that information presents with the value that information provides. Information governance helps with legal compliance, operational transparency, and reducing expenditures associated with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingspan%20%28board%20game%29
Wingspan is a board game designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and published by Stonemaier Games in 2019. It is a card-driven, board game in which players compete to attract birds to their wildlife reserves. During the game's development process, Hargrave constructed personal charts of birds observed in Maryland, with statis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat-free%20days
Meat-free days or veggiedays are declared to discourage or prohibit the consumption of meat on certain days of the week. Mondays and Fridays are the most popular days. There are also movements encouraging people giving up meat on a weekly, monthly, or permanent basis. History Abstention from meat, other than fish, w...