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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesterolosis%20of%20gallbladder | In surgical pathology, strawberry gallbladder, more formally cholesterolosis of the gallbladder and gallbladder cholesterolosis, is a change in the gallbladder wall due to excess cholesterol.
The name strawberry gallbladder comes from the typically stippled appearance of the mucosal surface on gross examination, which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotropism | Genotropism is defined as the reciprocal attraction between carriers of the same or related latent recessive genes. Developed by the Hungarian psychiatrist Léopold Szondi in the 1930s, the theory concludes that instinct is biological and genetic in origin. Szondi believed that these genes regulated the "possibilities o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20information%20theory | Integrated information theory (IIT) proposes a mathematical model for the consciousness of a system. It comprises a framework ultimately intended to explain why some physical systems (such as human brains) are conscious, and to be capable of providing a concrete inference about whether any physical system is conscious,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlander%20pole%20changing%20motor | A Dahlander motor (also known as a pole changing motor, dual- or two speed-motor) is a type of multispeed three-phase induction motor, in which the speed of the motor is varied by altering the number of poles; this is achieved by altering the wiring connections inside the motor. The motor may have fixed or variable t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volari%20V3 | The Volari V3 is a video card manufactured by XGI Technology.
History
The V3 was introduced on September 15, 2003. It is a budget option, available with an 8x Accelerated Graphics Port interface from Walton Chaintech Corporation. It is similar in performance to the ATI Radeon 9200 SE, but is generally lower-priced. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands%20Forensic%20Institute | The Netherlands Forensic Institute (Dutch Nederlands Forensisch Instituut) is the national forensics institute of the Netherlands, located in the Ypenburg quarter of The Hague.
It is an autonomous division of the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice and falls under the Directorate-General for the Administration of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebychev%E2%80%93Gr%C3%BCbler%E2%80%93Kutzbach%20criterion | The Chebychev–Grübler–Kutzbach criterion determines the number of degrees of freedom of a kinematic chain, that is, a coupling of rigid bodies by means of mechanical constraints. These devices are also called linkages.
The Kutzbach criterion is also called the mobility formula, because it computes the number of param... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20computer%20programming | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to computer programming:
Computer programming – process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable computer programs. Programming involves activities such as analysis, developing understanding, generating algorithms... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen%20Charlotte%20%28doll%29 | A Frozen Charlotte is a specific form of china or bisque doll made in one solid piece without joints from c. 1850 to c. 1920. They were typically inexpensive, and the name Penny doll is also used, in particular for smallest, most affordable versions. The dolls had substantial popularity during the Victorian era.
Histo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash%20and%20Grab%20%28biology%29 | Smash and Grab is the name given to a technique developed by Charles S. Hoffman and Fred Winston used in molecular biology to rescue plasmids from yeast transformants into Escherichia coli, also known as E. coli, in order to amplify and purify them. In addition, it can be used to prepare yeast genomic DNA (and DNA from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monodromy | In mathematics, monodromy is the study of how objects from mathematical analysis, algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and differential geometry behave as they "run round" a singularity. As the name implies, the fundamental meaning of monodromy comes from "running round singly". It is closely associated with coverin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering%20ratio | Steering ratio refers to the ratio between the turn of the steering wheel (in degrees) or handlebars and the turn of the wheels (in degrees).
The steering ratio is the ratio of the number of degrees of turn of the steering wheel to the number of degrees the wheel(s) turn as a result. In motorcycles, delta tricycles an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20ending%20problem | In mathematics, the "happy ending problem" (so named by Paul Erdős because it led to the marriage of George Szekeres and Esther Klein) is the following statement:
This was one of the original results that led to the development of Ramsey theory.
The happy ending theorem can be proven by a simple case analysis: if fou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal%20protein%20reabsorption | Renal protein reabsorption is the part of renal physiology that deals with the retrieval of filtered proteins, preventing them from disappearing from the body through the urine.
Almost all reabsorption takes place in the proximal tubule. Only ~1% is left in the final urine.
The proteins cross the apical membrane by e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-browser%20compatibility | Cross-browser compatibility is the ability of a website or web application to function across different browsers and degrade gracefully when browser features are absent or lacking.
History
Background
The history of cross-browser is involved with the history of the "browser wars" in the late 1990s between Netscape Na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leticia%20Brambila%20Paz | Gloria Leticia Brambila Paz (born 1953) is a Mexican mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and the moduli of algebraic curves. She is a professor in the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT) in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Education and career
Brambila was born on 26 January 1953. She went to Swansea Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-C-methyl-D-erythritol%204-phosphate%20cytidylyltransferase | In enzymology, a 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate cytidylyltransferase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction:
2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate + CTP diphosphate + 4-(cytidine 5'-diphospho)-2-C-methyl-D-erythritol
Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are CTP and 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource | Resource refers to all the materials available in our environment which are technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally sustainable and help us to satisfy our needs and wants. Resources can broadly be classified upon their availability — they are classified into renewable and non-renewable resource... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kummer%27s%20congruence | In mathematics, Kummer's congruences are some congruences involving Bernoulli numbers, found by .
used Kummer's congruences to define the p-adic zeta function.
Statement
The simplest form of Kummer's congruence states that
where p is a prime, h and k are positive even integers not divisible by p−1 and the numbers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20and%20beta%20male | Alpha male and beta male, or simply put alpha and beta, are pseudoscientific terms for men derived from the designation for alpha and beta animals in ethology. They may also be used with other genders, such as women, or additionally use other letters of the Greek alphabet (such as omega). The popularization of these te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper%27s%20algorithm | In mathematics, Gosper's algorithm, due to Bill Gosper, is a procedure for finding sums of hypergeometric terms that are themselves hypergeometric terms. That is: suppose one has a(1) + ... + a(n) = S(n) − S(0), where S(n) is a hypergeometric term (i.e., S(n + 1)/S(n) is a rational function of n); then necessarily a(n)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choripetalae | Choripetalae Eichler (1876), is a descriptive botanical name used in the Eichler and Wettstein systems for a group of flowering plants. It was one of two groups within the Dicotyledones, the other being the Sympetalae. The latter have fused petals (sympetaly) which distinguishes them from the free, unfused petals of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonagnosia | Phonagnosia (from Ancient Greek φωνή phone, "voice" and γνῶσις gnosis, "knowledge") is a type of agnosia, or loss of knowledge, that involves a disturbance in the recognition of familiar voices and the impairment of voice discrimination abilities in which the affected individual does not suffer from comprehension defic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern%20bar | Fern bar is an American slang term for an upscale or preppy (or yuppie) bar or tavern catering to singles, usually decorated with ferns or other greenery, as well as such decor as fake Tiffany lamps. The phrase came into common regional usage in the late 1970s.
History
One of the first fern bars was the original T.G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix%20hash%20tree | A prefix hash tree (PHT) is a distributed data structure that enables more sophisticated queries over a distributed hash table (DHT). The prefix hash tree uses the lookup interface of a DHT to construct a trie-based data structure that is both efficient (updates are doubly logarithmic in the size of the domain being in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDX-184 | IDX-184 is an antiviral drug which was developed as a treatment for hepatitis C, acting as a NS5B RNA polymerase inhibitor. While it showed reasonable effectiveness in early clinical trials it did not progress past Phase IIb. However research using this drug has continued as it shows potentially useful activity against... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer%20and%20pick | The hammer and pick, rarely referred to as hammer and chisel, is a symbol of mining, often used in heraldry. It can indicate mining, mines (especially on maps or in cartography), or miners, and is also borne as a charge in the coats of arms of mining towns.
The symbol represents the traditional tools of the miner, a h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible%20component | In algebraic geometry, an irreducible algebraic set or irreducible variety is an algebraic set that cannot be written as the union of two proper algebraic subsets. An irreducible component is an algebraic subset that is irreducible and maximal (for set inclusion) for this property. For example, the set of solutions of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay%20insensitive%20circuit | A delay-insensitive circuit is a type of asynchronous circuit which performs a digital logic operation often within a computing processor chip. Instead of using clock signals or other global control signals, the sequencing of computation in delay-insensitive circuit is determined by the data flow.
Data flows from one... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Ionosphere%20CubeSat%20Experiment | The Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment (DICE) is a scientific mission consisting of two Miniaturized Satellites DICE-1 and DICE-2 flying in formation. The satellites are an unusual 1.5U variant of the CubeSat design for microsatellites. Both satellites were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in October 2011 ato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola%20%28computing%29 | Lola is designed to be a simple hardware description language for describing synchronous, digital circuits. Niklaus Wirth developed the language to teach digital design on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to computer science students while a professor at ETH Zurich.
The purpose of Lola is to statically describe ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpyramid | A hyperpyramid is a generalisation of the normal pyramid to n dimensions.
In the case of the pyramid one connects all vertices of the base, a polygon in a plane, to a point outside the plane, which is the peak. The pyramid's height is the distance of the peak from the plane. This construction gets generalised to n dim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20variability | Genetic variability is either the presence of, or the generation of, genetic differences.
It is defined as "the formation of individuals differing in genotype, or the presence of genotypically different individuals, in contrast to environmentally induced differences which, as a rule, cause only temporary, nonheritable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20game | A search game is a two-person zero-sum game which takes place in a set called the search space. The searcher can choose any continuous trajectory subject to a maximal velocity constraint. It is always assumed that neither the searcher nor the hider has any knowledge about the movement of the other player until their di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horocycle | In hyperbolic geometry, a horocycle (), sometimes called an oricycle, oricircle, or limit circle, is a curve whose normal or perpendicular geodesics all converge asymptotically in the same direction. It is the two-dimensional case of a horosphere (or orisphere).
The centre of a horocycle is the ideal point where all n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20B.%20Kronheimer | Peter Benedict Kronheimer (born 1963) is a British mathematician, known for his work on gauge theory and its applications to 3- and 4-dimensional topology. He is William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and former chair of the mathematics department.
Education
Kronheimer attended the Ci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRSDOS | TRSDOS (which stands for the Tandy Radio Shack Disk Operating System) is the operating system for the Tandy TRS-80 line of eight-bit Zilog Z80 microcomputers that were sold through Radio Shack from 1977 through 1991. Tandy's manuals recommended that it be pronounced triss-doss. TRSDOS should not be confused with Tandy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20expression | Transient expression, more frequently referred to "transient gene expression", is the temporary expression of genes that are expressed for a short time after nucleic acid, most frequently plasmid DNA encoding an expression cassette, has been introduced into eukaryotic cells with a chemical delivery agent like calcium p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20atomic%20mass | Relative atomic mass (symbol: A; sometimes abbreviated RAM or r.a.m.), also known by the deprecated synonym atomic weight, is a dimensionless physical quantity defined as the ratio of the average mass of atoms of a chemical element in a given sample to the atomic mass constant. The atomic mass constant (symbol: m) is d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue%20of%20Balto | A bronze statue of Balto by Frederick Roth is installed in Central Park, Manhattan, New York. Balto (1919 – March 14, 1933) was an Alaskan husky and sled dog belonging to musher and breeder Leonhard Seppala. He achieved fame when he reportedly led a team of sled dogs on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche%20%28horse%29 | Comanche was a mixed-breed horse who survived George Armstrong Custer's detachment of the United States 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25, 1876).
Biography
The horse was bought by the U.S. Army in 1868 in St. Louis, Missouri and sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His ancestry and date of birth ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code42 | Code42 is an American cybersecurity software company based in Minneapolis specializing in insider risk management. It is the maker of the cloud-native data protection product Incydr and security microlearning product Instructor. Code42’s Incydr is a SaaS data-loss protection product. Incydr is designed to help enterpri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%20684 | Zinc finger protein 684 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF684 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Identity%20Program | The Federal Identity Program (FIP, , PCIM) is the Government of Canada's corporate identity program. The purpose of the FIP is to provide to the public a consistent and unified image for federal government projects and activities. Other objectives of the program include facilitating public access to federal programs a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Davis%20Anderson | Richard Davis Anderson, Sr. (February 17, 1922 – March 4, 2008) was an American mathematician known internationally for his work in infinite-dimensional topology. Much of his early work focused on proofs surrounding Hilbert space and Hilbert cubes.
Life
Richard Anderson and his twin brother, John, were born Februa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20structure%20modeling | Product structure is a hierarchical decomposition of a product, typically known as the bill of materials (BOM).
As business becomes more responsive to unique consumer tastes and derivative products grow to meet the unique configurations, BOM management can become unmanageable. For manufacturers, a bill of materials (BO... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflecting%20cardinal | In set theory, a mathematical discipline, a reflecting cardinal is a cardinal number κ for which there is a normal ideal I on κ such that for every X∈I+, the set of α∈κ for which X reflects at α is in I+. (A stationary subset S of κ is said to reflect at α<κ if S∩α is stationary in α.)
Reflecting cardinals were intro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus%20Research | Virus Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which focuses on fundamental research in all aspects of virology. The journal was established in 1984 by Brian Mahy and Richard Compans.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20chloride%20transformation | Calcium chloride (CaCl2) transformation is a laboratory technique in prokaryotic (bacterial) cell biology. The addition of calcium chloride to a cell suspension promotes the binding of plasmid DNA to lipopolysaccharides (LPS). Positively charged calcium ions attract both the negatively charged DNA backbone and the nega... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature%20anomaly | A temperature anomaly is the departure, positive or negative, of a temperature from a base temperature that is normally chosen as an average of temperatures over a certain reference period, often called a base period. Commonly, the average temperature is calculated over a period of at least 30 years over a homogeneous ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20spectroscopy | Video spectroscopy combines spectroscopic measurements with video technique. This technology has resulted from recent developments in hyperspectral imaging. A video capable imaging spectrometer can work like a camcorder and provide full frame spectral images in real-time that enables advanced (vehicle based) mobility a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrosaurus%20Foulkii%20Leidy%20Site | The Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy Site is a historic paleontological site in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey. Now set in state-owned parkland, it is where the first relatively complete set of dinosaur bones were discovered in 1838, and then fully excavated by William Parker Foulke in 1858. The dinosaur was later na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle%20computing | Jungle computing is a form of high performance computing that distributes computational work across cluster, grid and cloud computing.
The increasing complexity of the high performance computing environment has provided a range of choices beside traditional supercomputers and clusters. Scientists can now use grid and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20tomography | Optical tomography is a form of computed tomography that creates a digital volumetric model of an object by reconstructing images made from light transmitted and scattered through an object. Optical tomography is used mostly in medical imaging research. Optical tomography in industry is used as a sensor of thickness an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew%20diacritics | Hebrew orthography includes three types of diacritics:
Niqqud in Hebrew is the way to indicate vowels, which are omitted in modern orthography, using a set of ancillary glyphs. Since the vowels can be understood from surrounding letters, context can help readers read the correct pronunciations of several letters of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation%20of%20machine%20translation | Various methods for the evaluation for machine translation have been employed. This article focuses on the evaluation of the output of machine translation, rather than on performance or usability evaluation.
Round-trip translation
A typical way for lay people to assess machine translation quality is to translate from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20and%20Water%20II | Sky and Water II is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in 1938. It is similar to the woodcut Sky and Water I, which was first printed only months earlier.
See also
Tessellation
Sources
M. C. Escher—The Graphic Work; Taschen Publishers.
M. C. Escher—29 Master Prints; Harry N. Abrams, Inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanum%20pentanickel | LaNi5 is a hexagonal intermetallic compound composed of rare earth element lanthanum and transition metal nickel. It presents a calcium pentacopper (CaCu5) crystal structure. It is a melting compound with the same composition and has hydrogen storage capacity.
Structure
LaNi5 has a calcium pentacopper (CaCu5) type c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy%20test | Allergy testing can help confirm or rule out allergies and consequently reduce adverse reactions and limit unnecessary avoidance and medications.
Correct allergy diagnosis, counseling and avoidance advice based on valid allergy test results is of utmost importance and can help reduce the incidence of symptoms, and th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefunken%20FuBK | The Telefunken FuBK (from the German Funkbetriebskommission for "Television Service Commission") is an electronic analogue television test card developed by AEG-Telefunken and Bosch Fernseh in West Germany as the successor to the monochrome T05 test card in the late-1960s and used with analogue 625-lines PAL broadcasts... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20assurance | Service assurance, in telecommunications, is the application of policies and processes by a Communications Service Provider (CSP) to ensure that services offered over networks meet a pre-defined service quality level for an optimal subscriber experience.
The practice of service assurance enables CSPs to identify fault... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper%20Fury | Sniper Fury is an online single player video game developed and published by Gameloft.
The action of Sniper Fury takes place in the near future. Technological development and geopolitical changes rendered former methods of resolving conflicts obsolete. Countries, corporations, and organizations employ services of high... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode | The nematodes ( or ; ; ) roundworms or eelworms, constitute the phylum Nematoda. They are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a broad range of environments. Most species are free-living, feeding on microorganisms, but there are many that are parasitic. The parasitic worms (helminths) are the cause of soil-transmitted h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P4%20%28programming%20language%29 | P4 is a programming language for controlling packet forwarding planes in networking devices, such as routers and switches. In contrast to a general purpose language such as C or Python, P4 is a domain-specific language with a number of constructs optimized for network data forwarding. P4 is distributed as open-source,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayellet%20Tal | Ayellet Tal (born 1962) is an Israeli researcher in computational geometry and computer graphics who holds the Alfred and Marion Bar Chair in Engineering at the Technion.
Research
Tal's research interests include computational geometry, computer graphics, geometric modeling, and geometry processing. She has also studi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20rectal%20vein | The inferior mesenteric vein begins in the rectum as the superior rectal vein (superior hemorrhoidal vein), which has its origin in the hemorrhoidal plexus, and through this plexus communicates with the middle and inferior hemorrhoidal veins.
The superior rectal vein leaves the lesser pelvis and crosses the left commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher%20Bureau%20%28film%29 | Cipher Bureau is a 1938 American film directed by Charles Lamont. The film was successful enough to elicit a sequel, Panama Patrol.
Plot
Philip Waring, the head of a listening agency in Washington D.C., is dedicated to breaking up a foreign radio-spy ring. He enlists his naval-officer brother and tangles with beautif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS%20black%20brane | An anti de Sitter black brane is a solution of the Einstein equations in the presence of a negative cosmological constant which possesses a planar event horizon. This is distinct from an anti de Sitter black hole solution which has a spherical event horizon. The negative cosmological constant implies that the spacetime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20complex%20developmental%20disorder | Multiple complex developmental disorder (MCDD) is a research category, proposed to involve several neurological and psychological symptoms where at least some symptoms are first noticed during early childhood and persist throughout life. It was originally suggested to be a subtype of pervasive developmental disorders (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum%20%28sculpture%29 | Continuum is a public artwork by American sculptor Charles O. Perry located in front of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, United States.
Description
The sculpture is a large swirling abstract that consists of 8 bronze pieces painted black and placed on a pole. It moves freely.
Information
Accordin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20potential | In classical mechanics, the gravitational potential is a scalar field associating with each point in space the work (energy transferred) per unit mass that would be needed to move an object to that point from a fixed reference point. It is analogous to the electric potential with mass playing the role of charge. The re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Billingham | Dr. John Billingham, BM BCh, (March 18, 1930 – August 4, 2013) was a British Physician and later director of the SETI Program Office and Director of the Life Sciences Division at the NASA Ames Research Center in the USA. After retiring from NASA he became a Trustee of the SETI Institute Board of Directors.
He was born... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven%20SOA | Event-driven SOA is a form of service-oriented architecture (SOA), combining the intelligence and proactiveness of event-driven architecture with the organizational capabilities found in service offerings. Before event-driven SOA, the typical SOA platform orchestrated services centrally, through pre-defined business pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder%20operator | In linear algebra (and its application to quantum mechanics), a raising or lowering operator (collectively known as ladder operators) is an operator that increases or decreases the eigenvalue of another operator. In quantum mechanics, the raising operator is sometimes called the creation operator, and the lowering ope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse%20of%20notation | In mathematics, abuse of notation occurs when an author uses a mathematical notation in a way that is not entirely formally correct, but which might help simplify the exposition or suggest the correct intuition (while possibly minimizing errors and confusion at the same time). However, since the concept of formal/synta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAC%20%28computer%29 | The SWAC (Standards Western Automatic Computer) was an early electronic digital computer built in 1950 by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Los Angeles, California. It was designed by Harry Huskey.
Overview
Like the SEAC which was built about the same time, the SWAC was a small-scale interim computer des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalolith | An omphalolith or umbolith or omphalith or navel stone or umbilical concretion is a periumbilical mass that may form due to the accumulation of sebum and keratin. The colour is black or brown, and may be related to the skin type of the patient. It may resemble a malignant melanoma. It may be caused by poor hygiene, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20logarithm | Irish logarithms were a system of number manipulation invented by Percy Ludgate for machine multiplication. The system used a combination of mechanical cams as look-up tables and mechanical addition to sum pseudo-logarithmic indices to produce partial products, which were then added to produce results. The technique is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirsonia | Pirsonia is a non photosynthetic genus of heterokonts. It comprises the entirety of the family Pirsoniaceae, order Pirsoniida and class Pirsonea in the subphylum Bigyromonada, phylum Gyrista.
Taxonomy
Class Pirsonea Cavalier-Smith 2017 [Pirsoniomycetes]
Order Pirsoniales Cavalier-Smith 1998 [Pirsoniida Cavalier-Smi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normally%20hyperbolic%20invariant%20manifold | A normally hyperbolic invariant manifold (NHIM) is a natural generalization of a hyperbolic fixed point and a hyperbolic set. The difference can be described heuristically as follows: For a manifold to be normally hyperbolic we are allowed to assume that the dynamics of itself is neutral compared with the dynamics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy%20pattern | In computer programming, the proxy pattern is a software design pattern. A proxy, in its most general form, is a class functioning as an interface to something else. The proxy could interface to anything: a network connection, a large object in memory, a file, or some other resource that is expensive or impossible to d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1n%20Min%C3%A1%C4%8D | Ján Mináč (born 15 June 1953) is a Canadian mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at The University of Western Ontario. His research interests include Galois groups, Galois cohomology, quadratic forms, and nonlinear dynamics.
Early life and education
Mináč received his bachelor's degree and his master's lev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-to-primate%20transmission | Human-to-primate transmission (HPT) is a seldom-remarked epidemiologic vector. It is by definition a cross-species transmission vector.
Unsupervised HPT
In 1998, The Zoonotic Importance of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Transmission From Human to Monkey was noticed.
In 2001, scientists noticed that antibodies peculiar ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opcode%20table | An opcode table (also called an opcode matrix) is a visual representation of all opcodes in an instruction set. It is arranged such that each axis of the table represents an upper or lower nibble, which combined form the full byte of the opcode. Additional opcode tables can exist for additional instructions created usi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20content-control%20software%20and%20providers | This is a list of content-control software and services. The software is designed to control what content may or may not be viewed by a reader, especially when used to restrict material delivered over the Internet via the Web, e-mail, or other means. Restrictions can be applied at various levels: a government can apply... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral%20nerve%20interface | A peripheral nerve interface is the bridge between the peripheral nervous system and a computer interface which serves as a bi‐directional information transducer recording and sending signals between the human body and a machine processor. Interfaces to the nervous system usually take the form of electrodes for stimula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest%20National%20Primate%20Research%20Center | The Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) is a federally funded biomedical research facility affiliated with the Texas Biomedical Research Institute. The SNPRC became the seventh National Primate Research Center in 1999.
Research
The SNPRC has two scientific units: "Infectious Diseases Immunology & Contro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopic%20expression | Ectopic is a word used with a prefix, ecto, meaning “out of place.” Ectopic expression is an abnormal gene expression in a cell type, tissue type, or developmental stage in which the gene is not usually expressed. The term ectopic expression is predominantly used in studies using metazoans, especially in Drosophila mel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOR2RRD | STOR2RRD is an open-source software tool that is used for monitoring and reporting performance in storage systems, SAN switches, and LAN switches. It is developed by the Czech company XoruX.
Overview
STOR2RRD is open-source software that is published under the GNU General Public License v3.0. As of November 2021, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20mouth | In human anatomy, the mouth is the first portion of the alimentary canal that receives food and produces saliva. The oral mucosa is the mucous membrane epithelium lining the inside of the mouth.
In addition to its primary role as the beginning of the digestive system, the mouth also plays a significant role in communi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp%20PC-7000 | The Sharp PC-7000 is a luggable portable computer released by Sharp Electronics in 1985. The PC-7000 was Sharp's second entry into the IBM PC-compatible portable computer market, their first being the PC-5000.
The PC-7000 eschewed the PC-5000's clamshell design, battery operation, and lighter weight— for the PC-7000 v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDUFS7 | NADH dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] iron-sulfur protein 7, mitochondrial, also knowns as NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase 20 kDa subunit, Complex I-20kD (CI-20kD), or PSST subunit is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NDUFS7 gene. The NDUFS7 protein is a subunit of NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone) also known as Comple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20Dynkin | Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (; 11 May 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a Soviet and American mathematician. He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynkin diagram, the Dynkin system, and Dynkin's lemma are named after him.
Biog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATC%20code%20V09 |
V09A Central nervous system
V09AA Technetium (99mTc) compounds
V09AA01 Technetium (99mTc) exametazime
V09AA02 Technetium (99mTc) bicisate
V09AB Iodine (123I) compounds
V09AB01 Iodine iofetamine (123I)
V09AB02 Iodine iolopride (123I)
V09AB03 Iodine ioflupane (123I)
V09AX Other central nervous system diagnostic radi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Weekly%20News | Food Weekly News is a weekly food science and agricultural newspaper reporting on the latest developments in research in food production. It is published by Vertical News, an imprint of NewsRx, LLC.
External links
Articles on HighBeam Research
Food science
Newspapers published in Atlanta
Agricultural magazines
Wee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative%20order | In number theory, given a positive integer n and an integer a coprime to n, the multiplicative order of a modulo n is the smallest positive integer k such that .
In other words, the multiplicative order of a modulo n is the order of a in the multiplicative group of the units in the ring of the integers modulo n.
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sight%20glass | A sight glass or water gauge is a type of level sensor, a transparent tube through which the operator of a tank or boiler can observe the level of liquid contained within.
Liquid in tanks
Simple sight glasses may be just a plastic or glass tube connected to the bottom of the tank at one end and the top of the tank at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detritus | In biology, detritus () is dead particulate organic material, as distinguished from dissolved organic material. Detritus typically includes the bodies or fragments of bodies of dead organisms, and fecal material. Detritus typically hosts communities of microorganisms that colonize and decompose (i.e. remineralize) it. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frobenius%20characteristic%20map | In mathematics, especially representation theory and combinatorics, a Frobenius characteristic map is an isometric isomorphism between the ring of characters of symmetric groups and the ring of symmetric functions. It builds a bridge between representation theory of the symmetric groups and algebraic combinatorics. Thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robovirus | A robovirus is a zoonotic virus that is transmitted by a rodent vector (i.e., rodent borne).
Roboviruses mainly belong to the virus families Arenaviridae and Hantaviridae. Like arbovirus (arthropod borne) and tibovirus (tick borne) the name refers to its method of transmission, known as its vector. This is distingui... |
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