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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polony%20sequencing | Polony sequencing is an inexpensive but highly accurate multiplex sequencing technique that can be used to “read” millions of immobilized DNA sequences in parallel. This technique was first developed by Dr. George Church's group at Harvard Medical School. Unlike other sequencing techniques, Polony sequencing technology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20reactor%20physics | Nuclear reactor physics is the field of physics that studies and deals with the applied study and engineering applications of chain reaction to induce a controlled rate of fission in a nuclear reactor for the production of energy.
Most nuclear reactors use a chain reaction to induce a controlled rate of nuclear fission... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom-Pom%20director | [[File:The Royal Navy during the Second World War A3651.jpg|thumbnail|right|Mark IV Directors on HMS King George V. The large rectangular box centred above the director contains the gyro rate unit. This image was taken early in King George Vs career before the addition of Type 282 radar.]]"Pom-Pom" director''' was a di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%20Medal | The F. E. J. Fry Medal is an annual award for zoology given by the Canadian Society of Zoologists.
It is presented to "the Canadian zoologist who has made an outstanding contribution to knowledge and understanding of an area in zoology". The recipient is expected to give a lecture to the next annual conference.
The a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping%20barber%20problem | In computer science, the sleeping barber problem is a classic inter-process communication and synchronization problem that illustrates the complexities that arise when there are multiple operating system processes.
The problem was originally proposed in 1965 by computer science pioneer Edsger Dijkstra, who used it to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbuster | NumBuster! is a phone community that users can access via a mobile phone client and a Web application. Developed by NumBuster Ltd, it allows users to find contact details of any phone number, exchange information about numbers with other users and block calls and messages. The client is available for Android and Apple ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%20Daboll | Nathan Daboll ( – March 9, 1818) was an American teacher who wrote the mathematics textbook most commonly used in American schools in the first half of the 19th century. During the course of his career, he also operated a popular navigation school for merchant mariners, and published a variety of almanacs during the Am... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improper%20rotation | In geometry, an improper rotation (also called rotation-reflection, rotoreflection, rotary reflection, or rotoinversion) is an isometry in Euclidean space that is a combination of a rotation about an axis and a reflection in a plane perpendicular to that axis. Reflection and inversion are each special case of improper ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6ntgen%20equivalent%20physical | The Röntgen equivalent physical or rep (symbol rep) is a legacy unit of absorbed dose first introduced by Herbert Parker in 1945 to replace an improper application of the roentgen unit to biological tissue. It is the absorbed energetic dose before the biological efficiency of the radiation is factored in. The rep has v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purine%20analogue | Purine analogues are antimetabolites that mimic the structure of metabolic purines.
Examples
Nucleobase analogues
Thiopurines such as thioguanine are used to treat acute leukemias and remissions in acute granulocytic leukemias.
Azathioprine is the main immunosuppressive cytotoxic substance. A prodrug, it is widely use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared%20library | A shared library or shared object is a file that is intended to be shared by executable files and further shared object files. Modules used by a program are loaded from individual shared objects into memory at load time or runtime, rather than being copied by a linker when it creates a single monolithic executable file... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimagnesium%20phosphate | Trimagnesium phosphate describes inorganic compounds with formula Mg3(PO4)2.xH2O. They are magnesium acid salts of phosphoric acid, with varying amounts of water of crystallization: x = 0, 5, 8, 22.
The octahydrate forms upon reaction of stoichiometric quantities of monomagnesium phosphate (tetrahydrate) with magnesiu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-weight%20cycle%20problem | In computer science and graph theory, the zero-weight cycle problem is the problem of deciding whether a directed graph with weights on the edges (which may be positive or negative or zero) has a cycle in which the sum of weights is 0.
A related problem is to decide whether the graph has a negative cycle, a cycle in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Sea%20brine%20pool%20microbiology | The Red Sea and its extensions of the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba contain the largest recorded concentration of deep sea brine pools on the planet. These pools have many features that make them un-inhabitable to almost all organisms on the planet, yet, certain communities of microbes thrive within these extreme ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentation%20%28computer%20programming%29 | In the context of computer programming, instrumentation refers to the measure of a product's performance, in order to diagnose errors and to write trace information. Instrumentation can be of two types: source instrumentation and binary instrumentation.
Output
In programming, instrumentation means:
Profiling: measu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padovan%20sequence | In number theory, the Padovan sequence is the sequence of integers P(n) defined by the initial values
and the recurrence relation
The first few values of P(n) are
1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 16, 21, 28, 37, 49, 65, 86, 114, 151, 200, 265, ...
A Padovan prime is a Padovan number that is prime. The first Padov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS%20statistical%20regions%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic | The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of the Czech Republic for statistical purposes. The standard is developed and regulated by the European Union. The NUTS standard is instrumental in delivering the European Union's Structural Funds. The NUT... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCL%20Queen%20Square%20Institute%20of%20Neurology | The UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology is an institute within the Faculty of Brain Sciences of University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. Together with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, an adjacent facility with which it cooperates closely, the institute forms a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prechordal%20plate | In the development of vertebrate animals, the prechordal plate is a "uniquely thickened portion" of the endoderm that is in contact with ectoderm immediately rostral to the cephalic tip of the notochord. It is the most likely origin of the rostral cranial mesoderm.
STAGE 6
The prechordal plate is a thickening of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/32 | The IBM System/32 (IBM 5320) introduced in January 1975 was a midrange computer with built-in display screen, disk drives, printer, and database report software. It was used primarily by small to midsize businesses for accounting applications. RPG II was the primary programming language for the machine.
Overview
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandibular%20notch | The mandibular notch, also known as the sigmoid notch, is a groove in the ramus of the mandible. It is the gap between the coronoid process anteriorly and the condyloid process posteriorly.
Structure
The mandibular notch is a concave groove at the top of the ramus of the mandible. It is the gap between the coronoid p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen%20burn-in | Screen burn-in, image burn-in, ghost image, or shadow image, is a permanent discoloration of areas on an electronic display such as a cathode ray tube (CRT) in an old computer monitor or television set. It is caused by cumulative non-uniform use of the screen.
Newer liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) may suffer from a phe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulipalin%20A | Tulipalin A, also known as α-methylene-γ-butyrolactone, is a naturally occurring compound found in certain flowers such as tulips and alstroemerias. Tulipalin A has the molecular formula C5H6O2 and the CAS registry number 547-65-9. It is an allergen and has been known to cause occupational contact dermatitis, i.e. 'tul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouchterlony%20double%20immunodiffusion | Ouchterlony double immunodiffusion (also known as passive double immunodiffusion) is an immunological technique used in the detection, identification and quantification of antibodies and antigens, such as immunoglobulins and extractable nuclear antigens. The technique is named after Örjan Ouchterlony, the Swedish physi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptogrammoideae | Cryptogrammoideae is a subfamily of ferns in the family Pteridaceae. The subfamily contains three genera and about 23 species.
Taxonomy
In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), Cryptogrammoideae is one of the five subfamilies of the family Pteridaceae. Although the subfamily Cryptogrammoidea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2 | is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA. It is a successor to the Hayabusa mission, which returned asteroid samples for the first time in June 2010. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused in space with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu on 27 June 2018. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi%20Tau%20Sigma | Phi Tau Sigma () is the Honor Society for food science and technology. The organization was founded in at the University of Massachusetts Amherst by Dr. Gideon E. (Guy) Livingston, a food technology professor. It was incorporated under the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , as "Phi Tau Sigma Honorary ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Alphanumeric%20Symbols | Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols is a Unicode block comprising styled forms of Latin and Greek letters and decimal digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different letter styles. The letters in various fonts often have specific, fixed meanings in particular areas of mathematics. By providin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResearchGate | ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. According to a 2014 study by Nature and a 2016 article in Times Higher Education, it is the largest academic social network in terms of active users, although ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomen%20novum | In biological nomenclature, a nomen novum (Latin for "new name"), new replacement name (or replacement name, new substitute name, substitute name) is a scientific name that is created specifically to replace another scientific name, but only when this other name cannot be used for technical, nomenclatural reasons (for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3%20Pyber | László Pyber (born 8 May 1960 in Budapest) is a Hungarian mathematician. He is a researcher at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest. He works in combinatorics and group theory.
Biography
Pyber received his Ph.D. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1989 under the direction of László Lovász and Gyu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20convexity%20topics | This is a list of convexity topics, by Wikipedia page.
Alpha blending - the process of combining a translucent foreground color with a background color, thereby producing a new blended color. This is a convex combination of two colors allowing for transparency effects in computer graphics.
Barycentric coordinates - a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committed%20dose | The committed dose in radiological protection is a measure of the stochastic health risk due to an intake of radioactive material into the human body. Stochastic in this context is defined as the probability of cancer induction and genetic damage, due to low levels of radiation. The SI unit of measure is the sievert.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabinosyltransferase | An arabinosyltransferase is a transferase enzyme acting upon arabinose.
This enzyme is involved in polymerisation of arabinogalactan (an essential component of the mycobacterial cell wall). Mycobacterially, the more precise term is arabinofuranosyltransferase, since the arabinose residues occur only in a furanose form.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip%20Authentication%20Program | The Chip Authentication Program (CAP) is a MasterCard initiative and technical specification for using EMV banking smartcards for authenticating users and transactions in online and telephone banking. It was also adopted by Visa as Dynamic Passcode Authentication (DPA). The CAP specification defines a handheld device (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext%20fiction | Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature, characterized by the use of hypertext links that provide a new context for non-linearity in literature and reader interaction. The reader typically chooses links to move from one node of text to the next, and in this fashion arranges a story from a deeper pool of p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue%20note | In musical notation, a cue note is or cue notes are indications informing players, "of important passages being played by other instruments, [such as an] entrance after a long period of rest." A cue may also function as a guideline for another instrument for musical improvisation or if there are many bars rest to help ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Denvir | Tim Denvir (born 1939) is a British software engineer, specialising in formal methods.
Denvir studied for a Mathematics degree at Trinity College, Cambridge during 1959–1962.
Before his degree, during 1958–1959, Tim Denvir was an engineering assistant at Texas Instruments, designing, building and testing electronic c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux%20switching%20alternator | A flux switching alternator is a form of high-speed alternator, an AC electrical generator, intended for direct drive by a turbine. They are simple in design with the rotor containing no coils or magnets, making them rugged and capable of high rotation speeds. This makes them suitable for their only widespread use, in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradebe | Tradebe is a waste management company based in Barcelona that was established in 1980. It operates in Spain, France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Oman. The chairman is Josep Creixell, and the Chief Executive is Victor Creixell.
Tradebe is a significant player in the solvent recycling and automated oil tan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous%20orbit | In orbital mechanics, a Lissajous orbit (), named after Jules Antoine Lissajous, is a quasi-periodic orbital trajectory that an object can follow around a Lagrangian point of a three-body system with minimal propulsion. Lyapunov orbits around a Lagrangian point are curved paths that lie entirely in the plane of the two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Rindskopf | David Rindskopf is an American psychologist and applied statistician, currently a Distinguished Professor at City University of New York, and a published author of both books and many articles in refereed journals. . He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), was the President of its New York section... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian%20equilibrium | A population is in Malthusian equilibrium when all of its production is used only for subsistence. Malthusian equilibrium is a locally stable and a dynamic equilibrium.
See also
Thomas Malthus — See this article for further exposition.
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Malthusian growth model
Malthusian trap
Pop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callosobruchus%20gibbicollis | Callosobruchus gibbicollis, is a species of leaf beetle found in Sri Lanka.
Description
Body red in color. Body vestiture is white and moderately dense. Antennae, mid legs and hind legs are yellowish red. It is characterized by strongly developed pronotal gibbosity. Pronotum conical. Pygidium is extremely convex and c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEDLINE | MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care. M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS%20940 | The SDS 940 was Scientific Data Systems' (SDS) first machine designed to directly support time-sharing. The 940 was based on the SDS 930's 24-bit CPU, with additional circuitry to provide protected memory and virtual memory.
It was announced in February 1966 and shipped in April, becoming a major part of Tymshare's ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleton%E2%80%93Hartree%20equation | The Appleton–Hartree equation, sometimes also referred to as the Appleton–Lassen equation is a mathematical expression that describes the refractive index for electromagnetic wave propagation in a cold magnetized plasma. The Appleton–Hartree equation was developed independently by several different scientists, includin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked%20data | In computing, linked data is structured data which is interlinked with other data so it becomes more useful through semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web pages only for human readers, it extends them to share information in a way t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon%20mesh | In 3D computer graphics and solid modeling, a polygon mesh is a collection of , s and s that defines the shape of a polyhedral object. The faces usually consist of triangles (triangle mesh), quadrilaterals (quads), or other simple convex polygons (n-gons), since this simplifies rendering, but may also be more generally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female%20urinal | A female urinal is a urinal designed for the female anatomy to allow for ease of use by women and girls. Different models enable urination in standing, semi-squatting, or squatting postures, but usually without direct bodily contact with the toilet. Sitting models also exist, and are designed for body contact with the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex%20%28diacritic%29 | In written Latin, the apex (plural "apices") is a mark with roughly the shape of an acute accent which was sometimes placed over vowels to indicate that they are long.
The shape and length of the apex can vary, sometimes within a single inscription. While virtually all apices consist of a line sloping up to the right... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llin%C3%A1s%27s%20law | Llinás's law, or law of no interchangeability of neurons, is a statement in neuroscience made by Rodolfo Llinás in 1989, during his Luigi Galvani Award Lecture at the Fidia Research Foundation Neuroscience Award Lectures .
A neuron of a given kind (e.g. a thalamic cell) cannot be functionally replaced by one of anothe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccopharynx%20berteli | Saccopharynx berteli is a species of ray-finned fish within the family Saccopharyngidae. It is known from a single holotype collected from the central Pacific Ocean through an open fishing net at a depth of in 1977. The individual caught was an immature male with a length of . It has been classified as a 'Data deficie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatotopic%20arrangement | Somatotopy is the point-for-point correspondence of an area of the body to a specific point on the central nervous system. Typically, the area of the body corresponds to a point on the primary somatosensory cortex (postcentral gyrus). This cortex is typically represented as a sensory homunculus which orients the specif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese%20in%20biology | Manganese is an essential biological element in all organisms. It is used in many enzymes and proteins. It is essential in plants.
Biochemistry
The classes of enzymes that have manganese cofactors include oxidoreductases, transferases, hydrolases, lyases, isomerases and ligases. Other enzymes containing manganese are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%20site | A Chi site or Chi sequence is a short stretch of DNA in the genome of a bacterium near which homologous recombination is more likely to occur than on average across the genome. Chi sites serve as stimulators of DNA double-strand break repair in bacteria, which can arise from radiation or chemical treatments, or result ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmembrane%20domain | A transmembrane domain (TMD) is a membrane-spanning protein domain. TMDs may consist of one or several alpha-helices or a transmembrane beta barrel. Because the interior of the lipid bilayer is hydrophobic, the amino acid residues in TMDs are often hydrophobic, although proteins such as membrane pumps and ion channels... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s%20Last%20Theorem%20in%20fiction | The problem in number theory known as "Fermat's Last Theorem" has repeatedly received attention in fiction and popular culture. It was proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994.
Prose fiction
The theorem plays a key role in the 1948 mystery novel Murder by Mathematics by Hector Hawton.
Arthur Porges' short story "The Devil and S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrode | A centrode, in kinematics, is the path traced by the instantaneous center of rotation of a rigid plane figure moving in a plane. There are two types of centrodes: a space or fixed centrode, and a body or moving centrode.
The moving centrode rolls without slip on the fixed centrode.
Gallery
See also
Four-bar_linkage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-mode%20waveguide | A zero-mode waveguide is an optical waveguide that guides light energy into a volume that is small in all dimensions compared to the wavelength of the light.
Zero-mode waveguides have been developed for rapid parallel sensing of zeptolitre sample volumes, as applied to gene sequencing, by Pacific Biosciences (previous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Advertising%20Initiative | The Network Advertising Initiative is an industry trade group founded in 2000 that develops self-regulatory standards for online advertising. Advertising networks created the organization in response to concerns from the Federal Trade Commission and consumer groups that online advertising — particularly targeted or beh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graded-commutative%20ring | In algebra, a graded-commutative ring (also called a skew-commutative ring) is a graded ring that is commutative in the graded sense; that is, homogeneous elements x, y satisfy
where |x | and |y | denote the degrees of x and y.
A commutative (non-graded) ring, with trivial grading, is a basic example. F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20current | Carrier current transmission, originally called wired wireless, employs guided low-power radio-frequency signals, which are transmitted along electrical conductors. The transmissions are picked up by receivers that are either connected to the conductors, or a short distance from them. Carrier current transmission is us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Taler | GNU Taler is a free software-based microtransaction and electronic payment system. Unlike most other decentralized payment systems, GNU Taler does not use a blockchain. A blind signature is used to protect the privacy of users as it prevents the exchange from knowing which coin it signed for which customer.
The projec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singa%20the%20Lion | Singa The Kindness Lion was a mascot used for various public education campaigns in Singapore. It was created to educate the public on courtesy, graciousness and eventually kindness. A public education campaign featuring Singa the Kindness Lion was launched in 1982 under the National Courtesy Campaign with the slogan, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific%20recombinase%20technology | Site-specific recombinase technologies are genome engineering tools that depend on recombinase enzymes to replace targeted sections of DNA.
History
In the late 1980s gene targeting in murine embryonic stem cells (ESCs) enabled the transmission of mutations into the mouse germ line, and emerged as a novel option to st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci%20search%20technique | In computer science, the Fibonacci search technique is a method of searching a sorted array using a divide and conquer algorithm that narrows down possible locations with the aid of Fibonacci numbers. Compared to binary search where the sorted array is divided into two equal-sized parts, one of which is examined furthe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic%20diameter | Kinetic diameter is a measure applied to atoms and molecules that expresses the likelihood that a molecule in a gas will collide with another molecule. It is an indication of the size of the molecule as a target. The kinetic diameter is not the same as atomic diameter defined in terms of the size of the atom's electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20oscillator | A ring oscillator is a device composed of an odd number of NOT gates in a ring, whose output oscillates between two voltage levels, representing true and false. The NOT gates, or inverters, are attached in a chain and the output of the last inverter is fed back into the first.
Details
Because a single inverter compu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paley%20graph | In mathematics, Paley graphs are dense undirected graphs constructed from the members of a suitable finite field by connecting pairs of elements that differ by a quadratic residue. The Paley graphs form an infinite family of conference graphs, which yield an infinite family of symmetric conference matrices. Paley graph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasch%27s%20theorem | In geometry, Pasch's theorem, stated in 1882 by the German mathematician Moritz Pasch, is a result in plane geometry which cannot be derived from Euclid's postulates.
Statement
The statement is as follows: [Here, for example, (, , ) means that point lies between points and .]
See also
Ordered geometry
Pasch's axi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20software%20related%20to%20augmented%20reality | The following is a list of notable augmented reality software including programs for application development, content management, gaming and integrated AR solutions. For a list specifically for AR video games, see List of augmented reality video games.
Proprietary
Open source
See also
Fyuse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fares%20Scale%20of%20Injuries%20due%20to%20Cluster%20Munitions | The Fares Scale of Injuries due to Cluster Munitions is an anatomical and neuropsychological classification method to identify and describe injury scales for victims of cluster munitions. It was published in 2013 by Lebanese physicians, Jawad Fares and Youssef Fares.
Elements of the scale
Interpretation
The scale ass... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy%20paradox | The accuracy paradox is the paradoxical finding that accuracy is not a good metric for predictive models when classifying in predictive analytics. This is because a simple model may have a high level of accuracy but be too crude to be useful. For example, if the incidence of category A is dominant, being found in 99%... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20operator | In mathematics, the trace operator extends the notion of the restriction of a function to the boundary of its domain to "generalized" functions in a Sobolev space. This is particularly important for the study of partial differential equations with prescribed boundary conditions (boundary value problems), where weak sol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/128th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 128° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, Australia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 128th meridian east forms a great circle with the 52nd meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the Nort... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnotobiosis | Gnotobiosis (from Greek roots gnostos "known" and bios "life") refers to an engineered state of an organism in which all forms of life (i.e., microorganisms) in or on it, including its microbiota, have been identified. The term gnotobiotic organism, or gnotobiote, can refer to a model organism that is colonized with a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3B%20series%20computers | The 3B series computers are a line of minicomputers made between the late 1970s and 1993 by AT&T Computer Systems' Western Electric subsidiary, for use with the company's UNIX operating system. The line primarily consists of the models 3B20, 3B5, 3B15, 3B2, and 3B4000. The series is notable for controlling a series of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief%20structure | A belief structure is a distributed assessment with beliefs.
Evidential reasoning
A belief structure is used in the evidential reasoning (ER) approach for multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to represent the performance of an alternative option on a criterion.
In the ER approach, an MCDA problem is modelled ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20contextuality | Quantum contextuality is a feature of the phenomenology of quantum mechanics whereby measurements of quantum observables cannot simply be thought of as revealing pre-existing values. Any attempt to do so in a realistic hidden-variable theory leads to values that are dependent upon the choice of the other (compatible) o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinquantenaire | The Parc du Cinquantenaire (French for "Park of the Fiftieth Anniversary", pronounced ) or Jubelpark (Dutch for "Jubilee Park", pronounced ) is a large public, urban park of in the easternmost part of the European Quarter in Brussels, Belgium.
Most buildings of the U-shaped complex that dominate the park were commiss... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20complexity%20%28optimization%29 | In mathematical optimization, oracle complexity is a standard theoretical framework to study the computational requirements for solving classes of optimization problems. It is suitable for analyzing iterative algorithms which proceed by computing local information about the objective function at various points (such as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wm.%20K.%20Walthers | Wm. K. Walthers, Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of model railroad supplies and tools.
History
Wm. K. Walthers, Inc., was officially founded in Milwaukee in 1932—though it started years earlier when seven-year-old William K. (Bill) Walthers got his first taste of the hobby with a small, wind-up toy train for Ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20trapdoor%20spiders | Trapdoor spider is a common name that is used to refer to various spiders from several different groups that create burrows with a silk-hinged trapdoor to help them ambush prey.
Several families within the infraorder Mygalomorphae contain trapdoor spiders:
Actinopodidae, a family otherwise known as 'mouse-spiders', i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaStation | The JavaStation was a Network Computer (NC) developed by Sun Microsystems between 1996 and 2000, intended to run only Java applications.
The hardware is based on the design of the Sun SPARCstation series, a very successful line of UNIX workstations.
The JavaStation, as an NC, lacks a hard drive, floppy or CD-ROM dri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station%20biologique%20de%20Roscoff | The Station biologique de Roscoff (SBR) is a French marine biology and oceanography research and teaching center. Founded by Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821–1901) in 1872, it is at the present time affiliated to the Sorbonne University (SU) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
Overview
The Stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoresistive%20effect | The piezoresistive effect is a change in the electrical resistivity of a semiconductor or metal when mechanical strain is applied. In contrast to the piezoelectric effect, the piezoresistive effect causes a change only in electrical resistance, not in electric potential.
History
The change of electrical resistance in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine%20nerves | The palatine nerves (descending branches) are distributed to the roof of the mouth, soft palate, tonsil, and lining membrane of the nasal cavity.
Most of their fibers are derived from the sphenopalatine branches of the maxillary nerve.
In older texts, they are usually categorized as three in number: anterior, middle,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting%20in%20healthcare | Waiting for healthcare refers to any waiting period experienced by a patient before or during medical treatment. Waiting to get an appointment with a physician, staying in a waiting room before an appointment, and being observed during a physician's watchful waiting are different concepts in waiting for healthcare.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysload%20Software | Sysload Software, was a computer software company specializing in systems measurement, performance and capacity management solutions for servers and data centers, based in Créteil, France. It has been acquired in September 2009 by ORSYP, a computer software company specialist in workload scheduling and IT Operations Ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaplasticity | Metaplasticity is a term originally coined by W.C. Abraham and M.F. Bear to refer to the plasticity of synaptic plasticity. Until that time synaptic plasticity had referred to the plastic nature of individual synapses. However this new form referred to the plasticity of the plasticity itself, thus the term meta-plastic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt%20%28C%29 | crypt is a POSIX C library function. It is typically used to compute the hash of user account passwords. The function outputs a text string which also encodes the salt (usually the first two characters are the salt itself and the rest is the hashed result), and identifies the hash algorithm used (defaulting to the "tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail-Crisp%20Award | The Trail-Crisp Award, of the Linnean Society of London, was established in 1966 and is an amalgamation of The Trail Award and The Crisp Award (both founded in 1910).
The Trail-Crisp Award is presented at intervals "in recognition of an outstanding contribution to biological microscopy that has been published in the U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20Moldovan%20Popoviciu | Elena Moldovan Popoviciu (26 August 1924–24 June 2009) was a Romanian mathematician known for her work in functional analysis and specializing in generalizations of the concept of a convex function. She was a winner of the Simion Stoilow Prize in mathematics.
Education and career
Elena Moldovan was born in Cluj to Ioa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20the%20European%20Coal%20and%20Steel%20Community | The flag of the European Coal and Steel Community was a horizontal bicolour flag defaced with stars which represented the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) between 1958 (six years after the ECSC was founded) until 2002 when the Community was merged into the European Union (EU). Prior to 1958 the ECSC did not hav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Locator%20Server | An Internet Locator Server (abbreviated ILS) is a server that acts as a directory for Microsoft NetMeeting clients. An ILS is not necessary within a local area network and some wide area networks in the Internet because one participant can type in the IP address of the other participant's host and call them directly. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian%20Firewall | Guardian Firewall is a VPN, firewall and password manager for iOS which also blocks data and location trackers. Its network crypto suite is IPSec (Using IKEv2). The service, which claims to collect no user information, takes the form of an app which first became available in June 2019.
The company behind the pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nl%20%28format%29 | nl is a file format for presenting and archiving mathematical programming problems. Initially, this format has been invented for connecting solvers to AMPL. It has also been adopted by other systems such as COIN-OR (as one of the input formats), FortSP (for interacting with external solvers), and Coopr (as one of its o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isodisomy | Isodisomy is a form of uniparental disomy in which both copies of a chromosome, or parts of it, are inherited from the same parent. It differs from heterodisomy in that instead of a complete pair of homologous chromosomes, the fertilized ovum contains two identical copies of a single parental chromosome. This may resul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Borwein | Jonathan Michael Borwein (20 May 1951 – 2 August 2016) was a Scottish mathematician who held an appointment as Laureate Professor of mathematics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He was a close associate of David H. Bailey, and they have been prominent public advocates of experimental mathematics.
Borwein's i... |
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