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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneish%20M-score | The Beneish model is a statistical model that uses financial ratios calculated with accounting data of a specific company in order to check if it is likely (high probability) that the reported earnings of the company have been manipulated.
How to calculate
The Beneish M-score is calculated using 8 variables (financia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20physics | Digital physics is a speculative idea that the universe can be conceived of as a vast, digital computation device, or as the output of a deterministic or probabilistic computer program. The hypothesis that the universe is a digital computer was proposed by Konrad Zuse in his 1969 book Rechnender Raum ("Calculating Spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change%20material | A phase-change material (PCM) is a substance which releases/absorbs sufficient energy at phase transition to provide useful heat or cooling. Generally the transition will be from one of the first two fundamental states of matter - solid and liquid - to the other. The phase transition may also be between non-classical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVu | PowerVu is a conditional access system for digital television developed by Scientific Atlanta. It is used for professional broadcasting, notably by Retevision, Bloomberg Television, Discovery Channel, AFRTS, ABS-CBN, GMA Network, and American Forces Network. It is also used by cable companies to prevent viewing by unau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamous%20part%20of%20the%20frontal%20bone | The squamous part of the frontal bone is the superior (approximately two thirds) portion when viewed in standard anatomical orientation. There are two surfaces of the squamous part of the frontal bone: the external surface, and the internal surface.
External surface
The external surface is convex and usually exhibits... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketolysis | Ketolysis is the process of catabolizing ketones, the opposite of ketogenesis which is the process of synthesizing ketones. Ketolysis provides more energy for ATP synthesis than fatty acid oxidation (beta oxidation).
Ketogenesis occurs primarily in the liver, whereas ketolysis occurs in non-liver cells, especially in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergeometric%20function | In mathematics, the Gaussian or ordinary hypergeometric function 2F1(a,b;c;z) is a special function represented by the hypergeometric series, that includes many other special functions as specific or limiting cases. It is a solution of a second-order linear ordinary differential equation (ODE). Every second-order linea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Electric%20Propulsion%20System | Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) is a solar electric propulsion system for spacecraft that is being designed, developed and tested by NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne for large-scale science missions and cargo transportation. The first application of the AEPS is to propel the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20humeral%20circumflex%20artery | The anterior humeral circumflex artery (anterior circumflex artery, anterior circumflex humeral artery) is an artery in the arm. It is one of two circumflexing arteries that branch from the axillary artery, the other being the posterior humeral circumflex artery. The anterior humeral circumflex artery is considerably s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%20Linnik | Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (; January 8, 1915 – June 30, 1972) was a Soviet mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics.
Biography
Linnik was born in Bila Tserkva, in present-day Ukraine. He went to Saint Petersburg University where his supervisor was Vladimir Tartakovsky, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter%20scale | The Richter scale (), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Francis Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". This was later revised and rena... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Shape%20Modeling | The International Journal of Shape Modeling covers theories and techniques with regard to handling the shape of objects, focusing on disciplines, roles, and applications. Shape modeling should be intended both in a creative and an analytical sense. This includes articles on shape characteristics, as well as mathematica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium%20nitrogenase | Vanadium nitrogenase is a key enzyme for nitrogen fixation found in nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and is used as an alternative to molybdenum nitrogenase when molybdenum is unavailable. Vanadium nitrogenases are an important biological use of vanadium, which is uncommonly used by life. An important component of the nitroge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcuate%20nucleus%20%28medulla%29 | In the medulla oblongata, the arcuate nucleus is a group of neurons located on the anterior surface of the medullary pyramids. These nuclei are the extension of the pontine nuclei. They receive fibers from the corticospinal tract and send their axons through the anterior external arcuate fibers and medullary striae to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20sum | There are a number of common mathematical meanings of the term digital sum:
Values
The digit sum - add the digits of the representation of a number in a given base. For example, considering 84001 in base 10 the digit sum would be 8 + 4 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 13.
The digital root - repeatedly apply the digit sum operation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jq%20%28programming%20language%29 | jq is a very high-level lexically scoped functional programming language in which every JSON value is a constant. jq supports backtracking and managing indefinitely long streams of JSON data. It is related to the Icon and Haskell programming languages. The language supports a namespace-based module system and has some ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexive%20operator%20algebra | In functional analysis, a reflexive operator algebra A is an operator algebra that has enough invariant subspaces to characterize it. Formally, A is reflexive if it is equal to the algebra of bounded operators which leave invariant each subspace left invariant by every operator in A.
This should not be confused with a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%20peso%20sign | The Philippine peso sign (₱) is the currency symbol used for the Philippine peso, the official currency of the Philippines. The symbol resembles a Latin letter P with two horizontal strokes. It differs from the currency symbol used for the peso in Latin America, which is "$".
History
The Philippine peso sign was intro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilevel%20Antimicrobial%20Polymer | Multilevel Antimicrobial Polymer or MAP-1 is a coating spray that was developed by researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2020 and that can inactivate viruses, bacteria and spores on surfaces for up to 90 days.
The team of researchers was led by Prof. Yeung King Lun, Professor of the Depa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bursa%20of%20Fabricius | In birds, the bursa of Fabricius (Latin: bursa cloacalis or bursa fabricii) is the site of hematopoiesis. It is a specialized organ that, as first demonstrated by Bruce Glick and later by Max Dale Cooper and Robert Good, is necessary for B cell (part of the immune system) development in birds. Mammals generally do not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtosis%20risk | In statistics and decision theory, kurtosis risk is the risk that results when a statistical model assumes the normal distribution, but is applied to observations that have a tendency to occasionally be much farther (in terms of number of standard deviations) from the average than is expected for a normal distribution.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochlear%20fovea | The trochlear fovea is a slight depression on the anteromedial orbital surface of the orbital plate of the frontal bone. Attached to the trochlear fovea is the trochlea of the superior oblique muscle. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials%20for%20use%20in%20vacuum | Materials for use in vacuum are materials that show very low rates of outgassing in vacuum and, where applicable, are tolerant to bake-out temperatures. The requirements grow increasingly stringent with the desired degree of vacuum to be achieved in the vacuum chamber.
The materials can produce gas by several mechanism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteostasis | Proteostasis is the dynamic regulation of a balanced, functional proteome. The proteostasis network includes competing and integrated biological pathways within cells that control the biogenesis, folding, trafficking, and degradation of proteins present within and outside the cell. Loss of proteostasis is central to un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient%20vector%20flow | Gradient vector flow (GVF), a computer vision framework introduced by Chenyang Xu and Jerry L. Prince, is the vector field that is produced by a process that smooths and diffuses an input vector field. It is usually used to create a vector field from images that points to object edges from a distance. It is widely us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatou%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Fatou conjecture, named after Pierre Fatou, states that a quadratic family of maps from the complex plane to itself is hyperbolic for an open dense set of parameters. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin%28II%29%20chloride | Tin(II) chloride, also known as stannous chloride, is a white crystalline solid with the formula . It forms a stable dihydrate, but aqueous solutions tend to undergo hydrolysis, particularly if hot. SnCl2 is widely used as a reducing agent (in acid solution), and in electrolytic baths for tin-plating. Tin(II) chloride ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separable%20partial%20differential%20equation | A separable partial differential equation is one that can be broken into a set of separate equations of lower dimensionality (fewer independent variables) by a method of separation of variables. This generally relies upon the problem having some special form or symmetry. In this way, the partial differential equation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterobacteria%20phage%20P4 | Enterobacteria phage P4 (also known as satellite phage P4) is a temperate bacteriophage strain of species Escherichia virus P2 within genus Peduovirus (formerly P2-like viruses, P2virus, and P2likevirus), subfamily Peduovirinae, family Myoviridae. It is a satellite virus, requiring P2-related helper phage to grow lytic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophilia%20hypothesis | The biophilia hypothesis (also called BET) suggests that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life. Edward O. Wilson introduced and popularized the hypothesis in his book, Biophilia (1984). He defines biophilia as "the urge to affiliate with other forms of life".
Natura... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20efficiency%20model | An automated efficiency model (AEM) is a mathematical model that estimates a real estate property’s efficiency (in terms of energy, commuting, etc) by using details specific to the property which are available publicly and/or housing characteristics which are aggregated over a given area such as a zip code. AEMs have s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP-seq | Translation complex profile sequencing (TCP-seq) is a molecular biology method for obtaining snapshots of momentary distribution of protein synthesis complexes along messenger RNA (mRNA) chains.
Application
Expression of genetic code in all life forms consists of two major processes, synthesis of copies of the geneti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet%20brush | A toilet brush is a tool for cleaning a toilet bowl.
Generally the toilet brush is used with toilet cleaner or bleach. The toilet brush can be used to clean the upper area of the toilet, around the bowl. However, it cannot be used to clean very far into the toilet's U-bend and should not be used to clean the toilet se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinian%20model | In mathematics, a Kleinian model is a model of a three-dimensional hyperbolic manifold N by the quotient space where is a discrete subgroup of PSL(2,C). Here, the subgroup , a Kleinian group, is defined so that it is isomorphic to the fundamental group of the surface N. Many authors use the terms Kleinian group and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyttaria%20gunnii | Cyttaria gunnii, commonly known as the myrtle orange or beech orange, is an orange-white coloured and edible ascomycete fungus native to Australia and New Zealand. It is a specific parasite of myrtle beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii) trees.
History
English botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley described the beech orange in 184... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam%C3%A1s%20Sz%C5%91nyi | Tamás Szőnyi (born July 23, 1957, Budapest) is a Hungarian mathematician, doing research in discrete mathematics, particularly finite geometry and algebraic coding theory. He is full professor at the department of computer science of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, vice director of the Institute of Mathematics,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retropharyngeal%20lymph%20nodes | The retropharyngeal lymph nodes, from one to three in number, lie in the buccopharyngeal fascia, behind the upper part of the pharynx and in front of the arch of the atlas, being separated, however, from the latter by the Longus capitis.
Their afferents drain the nasal cavities, the nasal part of the pharynx, and the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElephantDrive | ElephantDrive is a storage virtualization service used primarily as an online backup tool, but also as a remote access service/collaboration tool. The service runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android platforms, and allows users to create simple automated backups for protecting data by moving it into cloud-based E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio%20Toninelli | Fabio Toninelli (born 1975) is an Italian mathematician who works in probability theory, stochastic processes and probabilistic aspects of mathematical physics.
Education
He obtained his PhD in physics, in 2003, from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
Career
Between 2004 and 2020 he was senior researcher at Centre Na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid%20droplet | Lipid droplets, also referred to as lipid bodies, oil bodies or adiposomes, are lipid-rich cellular organelles that regulate the storage and hydrolysis of neutral lipids and are found largely in the adipose tissue. They also serve as a reservoir for cholesterol and acyl-glycerols for membrane formation and maintenance.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%20Wolfe | Nathan Daniel Wolfe (born 24 August 1970) is an American virologist. He was the founder (in 2007) and director of Global Viral and the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University.
Career
Wolfe spent over eight years conducting biomedical research in both sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme%20identification | Programme Identification (PI) is a service provided by radio stations transmitting Radio Data System (RDS) data as part of the FM radio broadcast. The PI code allows the radio to identify the station across different broadcast relay stations. This in turn allows listeners to stay tuned to a network whilst travelling... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granuloma | A granuloma is an aggregation of macrophages (along with other cells) that forms in response to chronic inflammation. This occurs when the immune system attempts to isolate foreign substances that it is otherwise unable to eliminate. Such substances include infectious organisms including bacteria and fungi, as well as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoVerif | CryptoVerif is a software tool for the automatic reasoning about security protocols written by Bruno Blanchet.
Supported cryptographic mechanisms
It provides a mechanism for specifying the security assumptions on cryptographic primitives, which can handle in particular
symmetric encryption,
message authentication c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophysical%20global%20cooling | Before the concept of plate tectonics, global cooling was a geophysical theory by James Dwight Dana, also referred to as the contracting earth theory. It suggested that the Earth had been in a molten state, and features such as mountains formed as it cooled and shrank. As the interior of the Earth cooled and shrank, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20minute | Double minutes are small fragments of extrachromosomal DNA, which have been observed in a large number of human tumors including breast, lung, ovary, colon, and most notably, neuroblastoma. They are a manifestation of gene amplification as a result of chromothripsis, during the development of tumors, which give the cel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematics%20and%20the%20Origin%20of%20Species | Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist is a book written by zoologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, first published in 1942 by Columbia University Press. The book became one of the canonical publications on the modern synthesis and is considered to be exemplary of the original ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20statistical%20areas | The U.S. currently has 26 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On March 6, 2020, the OMB delineated four combined statistical areas, five metropolitan statistical areas, and 17 micropolitan statistical areas in Oklahoma.
Statistical areas
The Office of Management ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20Tronic | Key Tronic Corporation (branded Keytronic) is a technology company founded in 1969. Its core products initially included keyboards, mice and other input devices. KeyTronic currently specializes in PCBA and full product assembly. The company is among the ten largest contract manufacturers providing electronic manufactur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex%3A%20Shards%20of%20Fate | HEX: Shards of Fate (Hex, Hex TCG or Hex: Card Clash) was a massively multiplayer online trading card game (MMOTCG) by Cryptozoic Entertainment. It is the first game in the MMOTCG genre. It was funded via Kickstarter, and raised while its campaign was active. As of October 28, 2013, Hex was the 11th most-funded video ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylance | Cylance Inc., is an American software firm based in Irvine, California, that develops antivirus programs and other kinds of computer software that prevents viruses and malware.
In February 2019, the company was acquired by BlackBerry Limited. After the acquisition, it continues to operate as an independent subsidiary... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endophysics | Endophysics literally means “physics from within”. It is the study of how the observations are affected and limited by the observer being within the universe. This is in contrast with the common exophysics assumption of a system observed from the “outside”. The term endophysics has been coined by David Finkelstein in a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20address | A network address is an identifier for a node or host on a telecommunications network. Network addresses are designed to be unique identifiers across the network, although some networks allow for local, private addresses, or locally administered addresses that may not be unique. Special network addresses are allocated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation%20Frequency%20Decline | Mutation Frequency Decline (mfd) is the gene which encodes the protein Mfd (also known as Transcription Repair Coupling Factor, TRCF). Mfd functions in transcription-coupled repair to remove a stalled RNA polymerase that has encountered DNA damage and is unable to continue translocating.
About
Mfd utilizes ATP to tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20composition%20data | Food composition data (FCD) are detailed sets of information on the nutritionally important components of foods and provide values for energy and nutrients including protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins and minerals and for other important food components such as fibre. The data are presented in food composition datab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling%20fraction | In sampling theory, the sampling fraction is the ratio of sample size to population size or, in the context of stratified sampling, the ratio of the sample size to the size of the stratum.
The formula for the sampling fraction is
where n is the sample size and N is the population size. A sampling fraction value close ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20neurogenetic%20modeling | Computational neurogenetic modeling (CNGM) is concerned with the study and development of dynamic neuronal models for modeling brain functions with respect to genes and dynamic interactions between genes. These include neural network models and their integration with gene network models. This area brings together knowl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXpressDSP | eXpressDSP is a software package produced by Texas Instruments (TI). This software package is a suite of tools used to develop applications on Texas Instruments digital signal processor line of chips.
It consists of:
An integrated development environment called Code Composer Studio IDE.
DSP/BIOS Real-Time OS kernel
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlman%20syndrome | Perlman syndrome (PS) (also called renal hamartomas, nephroblastomatosis and fetal gigantism) is a rare overgrowth disorder present at birth. It is characterized by polyhydramnios and fetal overgrowth, including macrocephaly, neonatal macrosomia, visceromegaly, dysmorphic facial features, and an increased risk for Wilm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZYYX | ZYYX is a Swedish desktop 3D printer, designed primarily for office and educational applications. Originally launched in 2014 by Magicfirm Europe AB, based at Chalmers Innovation in Gothenburg, the ZYYX 3D Printer is based on FFF technology and features include an automated levelling function, smell-free operation (mos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adland | Adland is a website focusing on the advertising industry and an Internet archive of commercials. Adland incorporates advertising news, critical commentary on ads and the advertising industry, and archives of ads and ad campaigns, concentrating on television advertisements. In 2003, Variety described Adland as a "center... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman%E2%80%93Shanks%E2%80%93Williams%20prime | In mathematics, a Newman–Shanks–Williams prime (NSW prime) is a prime number p which can be written in the form
NSW primes were first described by Morris Newman, Daniel Shanks and Hugh C. Williams in 1981 during the study of finite simple groups with square order.
The first few NSW primes are 7, 41, 239, 9369319, 630... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry%20energy | In nuclear physics, the symmetry energy reflects the variation of the binding energy of the nucleons in the nuclear matter depending on its neutron to proton ratio as a function of baryon density. Symmetry energy is an important parameter in the equation of state describing the nuclear structure of heavy nuclei and neu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional%20signal%20processing | In signal processing, multidimensional signal processing covers all signal processing done using multidimensional signals and systems. While multidimensional signal processing is a subset of signal processing, it is unique in the sense that it deals specifically with data that can only be adequately detailed using more... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20interaction%20oscillator | The extended interaction oscillator (EIO) is a linear-beam vacuum tube designed to convert direct current to RF power. The conversion mechanism is the space charge wave process whereby velocity modulation in an electron beam transforms to current or density modulation with distance.
The tubes contain a single resonato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSBML | JSBML (Java Systems Biology Markup Language) is an open-source Java (API) for the SBML (Systems Biology Markup Language ) format. Its API strives to attain a strong similarity to the Java binding of the corresponding library libSBML, but is entirely implemented in Java and therefore platform independent. JSBML provides... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20Model%20Organism%20Database | The Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) project provides biological research communities with a toolkit of open-source software components for visualizing, annotating, managing, and storing biological data. The GMOD project is funded by the United States National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20levitation | Acoustic levitation is a method for suspending matter in air against gravity using acoustic radiation pressure from high intensity sound waves.
It works on the same principles as acoustic tweezers by harnessing acoustic radiation forces. However acoustic tweezers are generally small scale devices which operate in a fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20channel%20numbers%20assigned%20to%20FM%20frequencies%20in%20North%20America | In the Americas (defined as International Telecommunication Union (ITU) region 2), the FM broadcast band consists of 101 channels, each 200 kHz wide, in the frequency range from 87.8 to 108.0 MHz, with "center frequencies" running from 87.9 MHz to 107.9 MHz. For most purposes an FM station is associated with its center... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number%20bond | In mathematics education at primary school level, a number bond (sometimes alternatively called an addition fact) is a simple addition sum which has become so familiar that a child can recognise it and complete it almost instantly, with recall as automatic as that of an entry from a multiplication table in multiplicati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance%20modulus | The distance modulus is a way of expressing distances that is often used in astronomy. It describes distances on a logarithmic scale based on the astronomical magnitude system.
Definition
The distance modulus is the difference between the apparent magnitude (ideally, corrected from the effects of interstellar absor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaynes%E2%80%93Cummings%20model | The Jaynes–Cummings model (sometimes abbreviated JCM) is a theoretical model in quantum optics. It describes the system of a two-level atom interacting with a quantized mode of an optical cavity (or a bosonic field), with or without the presence of light (in the form of a bath of electromagnetic radiation that can caus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneAPI%20%28compute%20acceleration%29 | one-API is an open standard, adopted by Intel, for a unified application programming interface (API) intended to be used across different computing accelerator (coprocessor) architectures, including GPUs, AI accelerators and field-programmable gate arrays. It is an open, cross-industry, standards-based, unified, multi-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask%20generation%20function | A mask generation function (MGF) is a cryptographic primitive similar to a cryptographic hash function except that while a hash function's output has a fixed size, a MGF supports output of a variable length. In this respect, a MGF can be viewed as a extendable-output function (XOF): it can accept input of any length an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIA1 | TIA1 or Tia1 cytotoxic granule-associated rna binding protein is a 3'UTR mRNA binding protein that can bind the 5'TOP sequence of 5'TOP mRNAs. It is associated with programmed cell death (apoptosis) and regulates alternative splicing of the gene encoding the Fas receptor, an apoptosis-promoting protein. Under stress c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lah%20number | In mathematics, the (signed and unsigned) Lah numbers are coefficients expressing rising factorials in terms of falling factorials and vice versa. They were discovered by Ivo Lah in 1954. Explicitly, the unsigned Lah numbers are given by the formula involving the binomial coefficient
for .
Unsigned Lah numbers ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Wilbraham | Henry Wilbraham (25 July 1825 – 13 February 1883) was an English mathematician. He is known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before J. Willard Gibbs did. Gibbs and Maxime Bôcher, as well as nearly everyone else, were unaware of Wilbraham's paper on the Gibbs phenomenon.
Biography... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical%20system%20of%20ancient%20Greece | The musical system of ancient Greece evolved over a period of more than 500 years from simple scales of tetrachords, or divisions of the perfect fourth, into several complex systems encompassing tetrachords and octaves, as well as octave scales divided into seven to thirteen intervals.
Any discussion of the music of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%20Rho | The Chi Rho (☧, English pronunciation ; also known as chrismon) is one of the earliest forms of Christogram, formed by superimposing the first two (capital) letters—chi and rho (ΧΡ)—of the Greek word (Christos) in such a way that the vertical stroke of the rho intersects the center of the chi.
The Chi-Rho symbol wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20letters%20used%20in%20mathematics%2C%20science%2C%20and%20engineering | Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities. In these contexts, the capital letters and the small letters represent distinct and unrelat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20indicator | Ecological indicators are used to communicate information about ecosystems and the impact human activity has on ecosystems to groups such as the public or government policy makers. Ecosystems are complex and ecological indicators can help describe them in simpler terms that can be understood and used by non-scientists ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer%20toxin%20Kp4%20family | In molecular biology, the killer toxin Kp4 family is a family of killer toxins, which includes the Kp4 killer toxin from the smut fungus Ustilago maydis.
Killer toxins are polypeptides secreted by some fungal species ("killer yeasts") that kill sensitive cells of the same or related species, often functioning by creat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerolinea | Anaerolinea is a bacteria genus from the family of Anaerolineaceae. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid%20on%20Bungeling%20Bay | Raid on Bungeling Bay (バンゲリングベイ lit.: Bungeling Bay) is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Will Wright and published by Broderbund for the Commodore 64 in 1984. It was the first video game designed by Will Wright. The Commodore 64 version was published in the UK by Ariolasoft. The game inspired Wright to develop Si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-low-drag%20bullet | A very-low-drag bullet (VLD) is primarily a small arms ballistics development of the 1980s–1990s, driven by the design objective of bullets with higher degrees of accuracy and kinetic efficiency, especially at extended ranges. To achieve this, the projectile must minimize air resistance in flight. Usage has been greate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeuti%27s%20conjecture | In mathematics, Takeuti's conjecture is the conjecture of Gaisi Takeuti that a sequent formalisation of second-order logic has cut-elimination (Takeuti 1953). It was settled positively:
By Tait, using a semantic technique for proving cut-elimination, based on work by Schütte (Tait 1966);
Independently by Prawitz (Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea%20gigantism | In zoology, deep-sea gigantism or abyssal gigantism is the tendency for species of invertebrates and other deep-sea dwelling animals to be larger than their shallower-water relatives across a large taxonomic range. Proposed explanations for this type of gigantism include colder temperature, food scarcity, reduced preda... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Ciarcia | Steve Ciarcia is an embedded control systems engineer. He became popular through his Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar column in BYTE magazine, and later through the Circuit Cellar magazine that he published. He is also the author of Build Your Own Z80 Computer, edited in 1981 and Take My Computer...Please!, published in 1978. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dressed%20particle | In theoretical physics, the term dressed particle refers to a bare particle together with some excitations of other quantum fields that are physically inseparable from the bare particle. For example, a dressed electron includes the cloud of virtual electron–positron pairs and photons surrounding the original electron.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20fingerprinting | Quantum fingerprinting is a proposed technique that uses a quantum computer to generate a string with a similar function to the cryptographic hash function. Alice and Bob hold -bit strings and . Their goal and a referee's is to obtain the correct value of . To do this, quantum states are produced from the O(logn)-qub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericycle | The pericycle is a cylinder of parenchyma or sclerenchyma cells that lies just inside the endodermis and is the outer most part of the stele of plants.
Although it is composed of non-vascular parenchyma cells, it's still considered part of the vascular cylinder because it arises from the procambium as do the vascular ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enstratius | Enstratius (formerly enStratus) was a cloud computing infrastructure management platform founded in Minneapolis in 2008. It was intended to address governance issues associated with deploying systems in public, private, and hybrid clouds.
More than twenty public and private clouds are supported, as well as configurat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-lubricating%20chain | Self-lubricating chains, also referred to as lube-free chains, are commonly found in both roller chain (ANSI Standards, British Standards, and DIN Standards) and conveyor chain varieties, with specialty self-lubricating chains also available. These chains utilize a bush made of an oil-impregnated sintered metal or plas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R10000 | The R10000, code-named "T5", is a RISC microprocessor implementation of the MIPS IV instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by MIPS Technologies, Inc. (MTI), then a division of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). The chief designers are Chris Rowen and Kenneth C. Yeager. The R10000 microarchitecture is known as ANDES, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20drama | A medical drama is a television movie / or film in which events center upon a hospital, clinic, physician's office, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment. Most recent medical dramatic programming goes beyond the events pertaining to the characters' jobs and portray some aspects of their personal lives. A typic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20compression | Signal compression is the use of various techniques to increase the quality or quantity of signal parameters transmitted through a given telecommunications channel.
Types of signal compression include:
Bandwidth compression
Data compression
Dynamic range compression
Gain compression
Image compression
Lossy compressio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%20return%20on%20capital%20invested | Cash return on capital invested (CROCI) is an advanced measure of corporate profitability, originally developed by Deutsche Bank's equity research department in 1996 (it now sits within DWS Group). This measure compares a post-tax, pre-interest cash flow to the gross level of capital invested and is a useful measure of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nape | The nape is the back of the neck. In technical anatomical/medical terminology, the nape is also called the nucha (from the Medieval Latin rendering of the Arabic , ). The corresponding adjective is nuchal, as in the term nuchal rigidity for neck stiffness.
In many mammals the nape bears a loose, non-sensitive area of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge%20Galam | Serge Galam (born 1952) is a French physicist and Scientist Emeritus at CNRS.
Biography
In 1975, Serge Galam obtained a PhD in physics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. In 1981, he received a Ph.D. in physics at Tel Aviv University. From 1981 to 1983, he taught at City University of New York and from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Force%20Network | Air Force Network (AFNet) is an Indian Air Force (IAF) owned, operated and managed digital information grid. The AFNet replaces the Indian Air Force's (IAF) old communication network set-up using the tropo-scatter technology of the 1950s making it a true net-centric combat force. The IAF project is part of the overall ... |
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