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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboForm | RoboForm is a password manager, which is a class of software that allows users to have secure, unique passwords for every website accessed. It is amongst the older password managers on the market, developed by US company Siber Systems, distributed as a freemium product with a subscription plan, available on macOS, Win... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range%20gate | A range gate is an electronic circuit that selects signals within a given time period; the "gate" allows signals to pass through only within the selected time. The term is mostly used in radar, where range gates are used to select certain targets for further processing. It is also used in lidar, time-of-flight cameras ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR%20VRX | VRX is an acronym for Virtual Resource eXecutive, a proprietary operating system on the NCR Criterion series, and later the V-8000 series of mainframe computers manufactured by NCR Corporation during the 1970s and 1980s. It replaced the B3 Operating System originally distributed with the Century series, and inherited m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20fortune%20teller | A fortune teller is a form of origami used in children's games. Parts of the fortune teller are labelled with colors or numbers that serve as options for a player to choose from, and on the inside are eight flaps, each concealing a message. The person operating the fortune teller manipulates the device based on the cho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%27s%20minimal%20surface | In differential geometry, Catalan's minimal surface is a minimal surface originally studied by Eugène Charles Catalan in 1855.
It has the special property of being the minimal surface that contains a cycloid as a geodesic. It is also swept out by a family of parabolae.
The surface has the mathematical characteristics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaesthetic%20machine | An anaesthetic machine (British English) or anesthesia machine (American English) is a medical device used to generate and mix a fresh gas flow of medical gases and inhalational anaesthetic agents for the purpose of inducing and maintaining anaesthesia.
The machine is commonly used together with a mechanical ventilato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20Turkish%20encoding | Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as ASCII.
IBM uses code page 1281 (CCSID 1281) for Mac OS Turkish.
The character 0xF0 is a solid Apple logo. Apple uses U+F8FF in the Cor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richacls | Richacls is a Linux implementation of the NFSv4 ACLs which has been extended by file masks to more easily fit the proprietary POSIX draft file permission model.
Nowadays, they offer the most complex permission model for ext4 file system in Linux. They are even more complex than POSIX draft ACLs, which means it is not p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20compound | A lead compound (, i.e. a "leading" compound, not to be confused with various compounds of the metallic element lead) in drug discovery is a chemical compound that has pharmacological or biological activity likely to be therapeutically useful, but may nevertheless have suboptimal structure that requires modification to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEVS | DEVS abbreviating Discrete Event System Specification is a modular and hierarchical formalism for modeling and analyzing general systems that can be discrete event systems which might be described by state transition tables, and continuous state systems which might be described by differential equations, and hybrid con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%20coding | In the field of data compression, Shannon coding, named after its creator, Claude Shannon, is a lossless data compression technique for constructing a prefix code based on a set of symbols and their probabilities (estimated or measured). It is suboptimal in the sense that it does not achieve the lowest possible expecte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raunki%C3%A6r%20plant%20life-form | The Raunkiær system is a system for categorizing plants using life-form categories, devised by Danish botanist Christen C. Raunkiær and later extended by various authors.
History
It was first proposed in a talk to the Danish Botanical Society in 1904 as can be inferred from the printed discussion of that talk, but not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrifying%20bacteria | Nitrifying bacteria are chemolithotrophic organisms that include species of genera such as Nitrosomonas, Nitrosococcus, Nitrobacter, Nitrospina, Nitrospira and Nitrococcus. These bacteria get their energy from the oxidation of inorganic nitrogen compounds. Types include ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and nitrite-oxid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%E2%80%93Bolyai%E2%80%93Gerwien%20theorem | In geometry, the Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem, named after William Wallace, Farkas Bolyai and P. Gerwien, is a theorem related to dissections of polygons. It answers the question when one polygon can be formed from another by cutting it into a finite number of pieces and recomposing these by translations and rotation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noke%20%28worms%29 | Noke is a culinary term used by the Māori of New Zealand to refer to earthworms, some types of native worms (called noke whiti and noke kurekure in Māori) are historically local delicacies reserved for chiefs because of their sweet flavour which was said to "remain in the mouth for two days". Another notable kind of wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregular%20bone | The irregular bones are bones which, from their peculiar form, cannot be grouped as long, short, flat or sesamoid bones. Irregular bones serve various purposes in the body, such as protection of nervous tissue (such as the vertebrae protect the spinal cord), affording multiple anchor points for skeletal muscle attachme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omo%20remains | The Omo remains are a collection of hominin bones discovered between 1967 and 1974 at the Omo Kibish sites near the Omo River, in Omo National Park in south-western Ethiopia. The bones were recovered by a scientific team from the Kenya National Museums directed by Richard Leakey and others. The remains from Kamoya's Ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian%20%281968%20film%29 | Sebastian is a 1968 British spy film directed by David Greene, produced by Michael Powell, Herbert Brodkin and Gerry Fisher, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The motion picture is based on a story by Leo Marks, and Gerald Vaughan-Hughes wrote the screenplay.
Plot
Mr. Sebastian is a former Oxford professor, who i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20level | For computer networking, Link level: In the hierarchical structure of a primary or secondary station, the conceptual level of control or data processing logic that controls the data link.
Note: Link-level functions provide an interface between the station high-level logic and the data link. Link-level functions inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Androstene-3%2C6%2C17-trione | 4-Androstene-3,6,17-trione (4-AT; also marketed as 6-OXO or 4-etioallocholen-3,6,17-trione) is a drug or nutritional supplement that may increase the testosterone-estrogen ratio, but has no proven effect on body composition. Its use can be detected in urine.
4-AT is a potent irreversible aromatase inhibitor that inhib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk-cap | Milk-cap (also milk cap, milkcap, or milky) is a common name that refers to mushroom-forming fungi of the genera Lactarius, Lactifluus, and Multifurca, all in the family Russulaceae. The common and eponymous feature of their fruitbodies is the latex ("milk") they exude when cut or bruised. Mushrooms with typical milk-c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20concentration%20problem | The spectral concentration problem in Fourier analysis refers to finding a time sequence of a given length whose discrete Fourier transform is maximally localized on a given frequency interval, as measured by the spectral concentration.
Spectral concentration
The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) U(f) of a finite ser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK%20model | The NK model is a mathematical model described by its primary inventor Stuart Kauffman as a "tunably rugged" fitness landscape. "Tunable ruggedness" captures the intuition that both the overall size of the landscape and the number of its local "hills and valleys" can be adjusted via changes to its two parameters, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosorption | Biosorption is a physiochemical process that occurs naturally in certain biomass which allows it to passively concentrate and bind contaminants onto its cellular structure. Biosorption can be defined as the ability of biological materials to accumulate heavy
metals from wastewater through metabolically mediated or phys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voicemail | A voicemail system (also known as voice message or voice bank) is a computer-based system that allows users and subscribers to exchange personal voice messages; to select and deliver voice information; and to process transactions relating to individuals, organizations, products, and services, using an ordinary phone. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible%20diffusion | In mathematics, a reversible diffusion is a specific example of a reversible stochastic process. Reversible diffusions have an elegant characterization due to the Russian mathematician Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.
Kolmogorov's characterization of reversible diffusions
Let B denote a d-dimensional standard Brownian... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Jelinek | Frederick Jelinek (18 November 1932 – 14 September 2010) was a Czech-American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up".
Jelinek was bor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avast%20Antivirus | Avast Antivirus is a family of cross-platform internet security applications developed by Avast for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. Avast offers free and paid products that provide computer security, browser security, antivirus software, firewall, anti-phishing, antispyware, and anti-spam, among other servi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan%20function | In the theory of computation, the Sudan function is an example of a function that is recursive, but not primitive recursive. This is also true of the better-known Ackermann function. The Sudan function was the first function having this property to be published.
It was discovered (and published ) in 1927 by Gabriel Su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparity%20filter%20algorithm%20of%20weighted%20network | Disparity filter is a network reduction algorithm (a.k.a. graph sparsification algorithm
) to extract the backbone structure of undirected weighted network. Many real world networks such as citation networks, food web, airport networks display heavy tailed statistical distribution of nodes' weight and strength. Dispar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon%20R200%20series | The R200 is the second generation of GPUs used in Radeon graphics cards and developed by ATI Technologies. This GPU features 3D acceleration based upon Microsoft Direct3D 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3, a major improvement in features and performance compared to the preceding Radeon R100 design. The GPU also includes 2D GUI accele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20vaginal%20size | The dimensions and shape of human vaginas are of great importance in medicine and surgery, in addition to their relevance to sexual pleasure and childbirth; there appears to be no one way, however, to characterize the vagina's size and shape. In addition to variations from individual to individual, the size and shape o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20S.%20Rodwell | John S. Rodwell (1946 – present) is an ecologist who was based at the University of Lancaster, noted for his role in the development of the British National Vegetation Classification and as editor of the five volumes of British Plant Communities.
Education
Rodwell graduated in Botany from the University of Leeds in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPathshala | ePathshala is a portal/app developed by the CIET, and NCERT. It was initiated jointly by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, CIET, and NCERT,
About
launched in November 2015. It hosts educational resources for teachers, students, parents, researchers and educators, can be accessed on the Web, and is availabl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minni%20ritchi | Minni ritchi is a type of reddish-brown bark that continuously peels in small curly flakes, leaving the tree looking like it has a coat of red curly hair. Brooker and Kleinig (1990) formally described it as a bark type in which "the outer rich, red-brown smooth bark splits both longitudinally and horizontally, the fre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outage%20probability | In Information theory, outage probability of a communication channel is the probability that a given information rate is not supported, because of variable channel capacity. Outage probability is defined as the probability that information rate is less than the required threshold information rate. It is the probability... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majoron | In particle physics, majorons (named after Ettore Majorana) are a hypothetical type of Goldstone boson that are conjectured to mediate the neutrino mass violation of lepton number or B − L in certain high energy collisions such as
+ → + +
Where two electrons collide to form two W bosons and the majoron J. The U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FANC%20proteins | FANC proteins are a group of proteins associated with Fanconi anemia.
They are involved in DNA replication and damage response.
Components include:
core protein complex (FANCA, FANCB, FANCC, FANCE, FANCF, FANCG, FANCL, FANCM)
other: FANCD1, FANCD2, FANCI, FANCJ, FANCN, FANCP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20constraints | Biological constraints are factors which make populations resistant to evolutionary change. One proposed definition of constraint is "A property of a trait that, although possibly adaptive in the environment in which it originally evolved, acts to place limits on the production of new phenotypic variants." Constraint ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nik%20operon | The nik operon is an operon required for uptake of nickel ions into the cell. It is present in many bacteria, but has been extensively studied in Helicobacter pylori. Nickel is an essential nutrient for many microorganisms, where it participates in a variety of cellular processes. However, excessive levels of nickel io... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Excursions | Mathematical Excursions: Side Trips along Paths Not Generally Traveled in Elementary Courses in Mathematics is a book on popular mathematics. It was written by Helen Abbot Merrill, published in 1933 by the Norwood Press, and reprinted (posthumously) by Dover Publications in 1957.
Topics
The book is devoted to mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20optics | Optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians, followed by theories on light and vision developed by ancient Greek philosophers, and the development of geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world. The word optics is derived from the Greek term meaning 'appearance, look'. Optics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20literacy | Ecological literacy (also referred to as ecoliteracy) is the ability to understand the natural systems that make life on earth possible. To be ecoliterate means understanding the principles of organization of ecological communities (i.e. ecosystems) and using those principles for creating sustainable human communities.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univec | UniVec is a database that can be used to remove vector contamination from DNA sequences.
See also
Plasmid
VectorDB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-symmetric%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, a semi-symmetric graph is an undirected graph that is edge-transitive and regular, but not vertex-transitive. In other words, a graph is semi-symmetric if each vertex has the same number of incident edges, and there is a symmetry taking any of the graph's edges to any other of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20resolution | Optical resolution describes the ability of an imaging system to resolve detail, in the object that is being imaged.
An imaging system may have many individual components, including one or more lenses, and/or recording and display components. Each of these contributes (given suitable design, and adequate alignment) to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoEI%20R%20protein%20C-terminal%20domain | In molecular biology, the EcoEI R protein C-terminal domain is a protein domain found at the C-terminus of both the R subunit of type I restriction enzymes and the Res subunit of type III restriction enzymes. The type I enzymes include EcoEI, which recognises 5'-GAGN(7)ATGC-3; the R protein (HsdR) is required for both ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20exterior%20calculus | In mathematics, the discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is the extension of the exterior calculus to discrete spaces including graphs, finite element meshes, and lately also general polygonal meshes (non-flat and non-convex). DEC methods have proved to be very powerful in improving and analyzing finite element methods: fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20planting | Tree planting is the process of transplanting tree seedlings, generally for forestry, land reclamation, or landscaping purposes. It differs from the transplantation of larger trees in arboriculture and from the lower-cost but slower and less reliable distribution of tree seeds. Trees contribute to their environment ove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive%20Audience |
Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age is an American non-fiction book by the legal expert Susan P. Crawford.
Summary
It describes high-speed internet access in the United States as essential (like electricity) but currently too slow and too expensive. To enable widespread qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20functors%20for%20sheaves | In mathematics, especially in sheaf theory—a domain applied in areas such as topology, logic and algebraic geometry—there are four image functors for sheaves that belong together in various senses.
Given a continuous mapping f: X → Y of topological spaces, and the category Sh(–) of sheaves of abelian groups on a topol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creode | Creode or chreod is a neologistic portmanteau term coined by the English 20th century biologist C. H. Waddington to represent the developmental pathway followed by a cell as it grows to form part of a specialized organ. Combining the Greek roots for "necessary" and "path," the term was inspired by the property of regu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchian%20symbols | Aristarchian symbols are editorial marks developed during the Hellenistic period and the early Roman empire for annotating then-ancient Greek texts—mainly the works of Homer. They were used to highlight missing text, text which was discrepant between sources, and text which appeared in the wrong place.
Two main types ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20mixing%20console | In professional audio, a digital mixing console (DMC) is a type of mixing console used to combine, route, and change the dynamics, equalization and other properties of multiple audio input signals, using digital signal processing rather than analog circuitry. The digital audio samples, which is the internal representat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Lemmas | The Book of Lemmas or Book of Assumptions (Arabic Maʾkhūdhāt Mansūba ilā Arshimīdis) is a book attributed to Archimedes by Thābit ibn Qurra, though the authorship of the book is questionable. It consists of fifteen propositions (lemmas) on circles.
History
Translations
The Book of Lemmas was first introduced in Arabi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20physics | Medical physics deals with the application of the concepts and methods of physics to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases with a specific goal of improving human health and well-being. Since 2008, medical physics has been included as a health profession according to International Standard Classific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20wave%20theory | In theoretical physics, the pilot wave theory, also known as Bohmian mechanics, was the first known example of a hidden-variable theory, presented by Louis de Broglie in 1927. Its more modern version, the de Broglie–Bohm theory, interprets quantum mechanics as a deterministic theory, avoiding troublesome notions such a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20design | In software engineering, test design is the activity of deriving and specifying test cases from test conditions to test software.
Definition
A test condition is a statement about the test object. Test conditions can be stated for any part of a component or system that could be verified: functions, transactions, feat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Magnetism%20and%20Magnetic%20Materials | The Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers both basic research on magnetism and technological applications including magnetic recording. In addition to full-length research articles, it publishes review articles and rapid communications ("Letters to the Editor"). A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish%20Paste | The Amish Paste heirloom tomato is a plum tomato of Amish origins, that is used for cooking, although it can be eaten raw.
History
The Amish Paste tomato is said to have originated in the 1870s in Medford, Wisconsin, with the oldest Amish community in the state.
It rose to fame once acquired by Tom Hauch, of the Heir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20electromagnetic%20radio%20tomography | The Coherent Electromagnetic Radio Tomography (CERTO) is a radio beacon which measures ionospheric parameters in coordination with ground receivers. CERTO provides global ionospheric maps to aid prediction of radio wave scattering. CERTO was developed by the Naval Research Lab and is one of the 4 experiment packages ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20therapy | Neural therapy is a form of alternative medicine in which local anesthetic is injected into certain locations of the body in an attempt to treat chronic pain and illness.
The International Medical Association of Neural Therapy has about 400 members some of whom have been practising in this field for over 30 years. Neu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraparallel%20theorem | In hyperbolic geometry, two lines are said to be ultraparallel if they do not intersect and are not limiting parallel.
The ultraparallel theorem states that every pair of (distinct) ultraparallel lines has a unique common perpendicular (a hyperbolic line which is perpendicular to both lines).
Hilbert's construction
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality%20%28order%20theory%29 | In the mathematical area of order theory, every partially ordered set P gives rise to a dual (or opposite) partially ordered set which is often denoted by Pop or Pd. This dual order Pop is defined to be the same set, but with the inverse order, i.e. x ≤ y holds in Pop if and only if y ≤ x holds in P. It is easy to see ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myomegalin | Myomegalin, also known as phosphodiesterase 4D-interacting protein or cardiomyopathy-associated protein 2, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PDE4DIP gene. It has roles in the formation of microtubules from the centrosome. Its name derives from the fact that it is highly expressed in units of tubular myofibr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-autonomous%20mechanics | Non-autonomous mechanics describe non-relativistic mechanical systems subject to time-dependent transformations. In particular, this is the case of mechanical systems whose Lagrangians and Hamiltonians depend on the time. The configuration space of non-autonomous mechanics is a fiber bundle over the time axis coordin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular%20rate%20sensor | Angular rate sensors, ARS, are devices that directly measure angular rate, without integration in conditioning electronics. Gyroscopes also measure angular rate. Generally gyroscopes are able to measure a constant rotation rate, while rate sensors also include devices with a low cut off frequency that is other than zer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesity | Cohesity is an American privately held information technology company headquartered in San Jose, California with offices in India and Ireland. The company develops software that allows IT professionals to backup, manage and gain insights from their data across multiple systems or cloud providers. Their products also in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20subtraction%20scheme | In quantum field theory, the minimal subtraction scheme, or MS scheme, is a particular renormalization scheme used to absorb the infinities that arise in perturbative calculations beyond leading order, introduced independently by Gerard 't Hooft and Steven Weinberg in 1973. The MS scheme consists of absorbing only the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status%20marmoratus | Status marmoratus is a congenital condition due to maldevelopment of the corpus striatum associated with choreoathetosis, in which the striate nuclei have a marble-like appearance caused by altered myelination in the putamen, caudate, and thalamus (there are bilateral hyperdensities restricted to the thalamus). This re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemeroby | Hemeroby, or hemerochora is a term used in botanical and ecological sciences. It is often associated to naturalness as the complementary term, with a high degree of hemeroby equating to a high human influence on a natural environment. However, the two terms are not inversely related.
Etymology
The term is derived from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setaphyta | The Setaphyta are a clade within the Bryophyta which includes Marchantiophytina (liverworts) and Bryophytina (mosses). Anthocerotophytina (hornworts) are excluded. A 2018 study found through molecular sequencing that liverworts are more closely related to mosses than hornworts, with the implication that liverworts were... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitran | Multitran is an editable Russian multilingual online dictionary launched on 1 April 2001. The English–Russian–English dictionary contains over four million entries, while the total database has about eight million entries. The dictionary has a function for reporting translation errors for registered users.
Features
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastebasket%20taxon | Wastebasket taxon (also called a wastebin taxon, dustbin taxon or catch-all taxon) is a term used by some taxonomists to refer to a taxon that has the purpose of classifying organisms that do not fit anywhere else. They are typically defined by either their designated members' often superficial similarity to each other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20Lake%20virophage | Organic Lake virophage (OLV) is a double-stranded DNA virophage (a virus that requires the presence of another virus to replicate itself and in so doing limits the ability of the other virus to replicate). It was detected metagenomically in samples from Organic Lake, Antarctica.
Virology
The virus appears to be ~100 n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov%20radiation | Cherenkov radiation (; ) is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity (speed of propagation of a wavefront in a medium) of light in that medium. A classic example of Cherenkov radiation is the characteri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/103rd%20meridian%20east | The meridian 103° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 103rd meridian east forms a great circle with the 77th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary%20complex | A ternary complex is a protein complex containing three different molecules that are bound together. In structural biology, ternary complex can also be used to describe a crystal containing a protein with two small molecules bound, for example cofactor and substrate; or a complex formed between two proteins and a singl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PORS | Plus One Recall Store (PORS) is a problem used in evolutionary computation and genetic programming.
The PORS language consists of two terminal nodes (1 and recall), one unary operation (store) and one binary operation (plus) that together make up a parse tree that calculates a number. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits%20of%20integration | In calculus and mathematical analysis the limits of integration (or bounds of integration) of the integral
of a Riemann integrable function defined on a closed and bounded interval are the real numbers and , in which is called the lower limit and the upper limit. The region that is bounded can be seen as the area ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20eleventh%20problem | Hilbert's eleventh problem is one of David Hilbert's list of open mathematical problems posed at the Second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900. A furthering of the theory of quadratic forms, he stated the problem as follows:
Our present knowledge of the theory of quadratic number fields puts us ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas | Xmas (also X-mas) is a common abbreviation of the word Christmas. It is sometimes pronounced , but Xmas, and variants such as Xtemass, originated as handwriting abbreviations for the typical pronunciation . The 'X' comes from the Greek letter , which is the first letter of the Greek word (), which became Christ in Eng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nd%20game | A nd game (or nk game) is a generalization of the combinatorial game tic-tac-toe to higher dimensions. It is a game played on a nd hypercube with 2 players. If one player creates a line of length n of their symbol (X or O) they win the game. However, if all nd spaces are filled then the game is a draw. Tic-tac-toe is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Aminoisobutyric%20acid | 3-Aminoisobutyric acid (also known as β-aminoisobutyric acid or BAIBA) is a product formed by the catabolism of thymine.
During exercise, the increase of PGC-1α protein triggers the secretion of BAIBA from exercising muscles to blood (concentration 2 to 3 μM in human serum). When BAIBA reaches the white fat tissue, it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatility%20risk%20premium | In mathematical finance, the volatility risk premium is a measure of the extra amount investors demand in order to hold a volatile security, above what can be computed based on expected returns.
It can be defined as the compensation for inherent volatility risk divided by the volatility beta.
Bibliography
Options an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20R.%20Tweedie | George R. Tweedie (1857-1937) was a businessman who gained fame in 1891 by running a popular magic lantern show, titled "Gossip about Ghosts". The show, which cost sixpence, consisted of fifty slides, each illustrating a story about ghosts or supernatural occurrences. One concerned George Villiers, 1st Duke of Bucking... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax%20error | In computer science, a syntax error is an error in the syntax of a sequence of characters or tokens that is intended to be written in a particular programming language.
For compiled languages, syntax errors are detected at compile-time. A program will not compile until all syntax errors are corrected. For interpreted ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Tseng | George Chien-Cheng Tseng is a Biostatistician and Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Biostatistics (primary), Computational & Systems Biology (secondary) and Human Genetics (secondary) at University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
Education
Tseng studied Mathematics at Bachelor ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%20three-circle%20theorem | In complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, the
Hadamard three-circle theorem is a result about the behavior of holomorphic functions.
Let be a holomorphic function on the annulus
Let be the maximum of on the circle Then, is a convex function of the logarithm Moreover, if is not of the form for some constan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiable%20programming | Differentiable programming is a programming paradigm in which a numeric computer program can be differentiated throughout via automatic differentiation. This allows for gradient-based optimization of parameters in the program, often via gradient descent, as well as other learning approaches that are based on higher ord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay%20network | A relay network is a broad class of network topology commonly used in wireless networks, where the source and destination are interconnected by means of some nodes. In such a network the source and destination cannot communicate to each other directly because the distance between the source and destination is greater t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effacement%20%28histology%29 | Effacement is the shortening, or thinning, of a tissue.
It can refer to cervical effacement. It can also refer to a process occurring in podocytes in nephrotic syndrome.
In histopathology, it refers to the near obliteration of a tissue, as in the normal parenchyma of tissues in the case of some cancers. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appell%20series | In mathematics, Appell series are a set of four hypergeometric series F1, F2, F3, F4 of two variables that were introduced by and that generalize Gauss's hypergeometric series 2F1 of one variable. Appell established the set of partial differential equations of which these functions are solutions, and found various red... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalman%20Usiskin | Zalman Usiskin is an educator best known as the Director of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project.
He was born to Nathan and Esther Usiskin.
A faculty member since 1969, he also has taught junior and senior high-school mathematics and has authored and co-authored many textbooks, including a six-volume ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%202.0%20Conference | The Office 2.0 Conference is an annual conference coordinated by Ismael Ghalimi on the subject of Office 2.0, "focused heavily on using collaborative Web technologies to increase productivity gains and business agility". The first conference was in 2006 and the next is scheduled for 2009.
applies to the term this co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Programming%20Specialist%20Group | The Advanced Programming Specialist Group (APSG) is a Specialist Group (SG) of the British Computer Society (BCS). It held its first meeting, when it was referred to as "BCS Study Group No. 5", at Bishop's House, High Holborn, London WC1, England on 17 December 1959. It has met continuously in London since then, gener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte%20Carlo%20localization | Monte Carlo localization (MCL), also known as particle filter localization, is an algorithm for robots to localize using a particle filter. Given a map of the environment, the algorithm estimates the position and orientation of a robot as it moves and senses the environment. The algorithm uses a particle filter to repr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motexafin%20gadolinium | Motexafin gadolinium (proposed tradename Xcytrin) is an inhibitor of thioredoxin reductase and ribonucleotide reductase. It has been proposed as a possible chemotherapeutic agent in the treatment of brain metastases.
History
On May 9, 2006, a New Drug Application was submitted to the United States Food and Drug Admini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/133rd%20meridian%20west | The meridian 133° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 133rd meridian west forms a great circle with the 47th meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20command%20shells | A command shell is a command-line interface to interact with and manipulate a computer's operating system.
General characteristics
Interactive features
Background execution
Background execution allows a shell to run a command without user interaction in the terminal, freeing the command line for additional work wit... |
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