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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20shape%20analysis | Statistical shape analysis is an analysis of the geometrical properties of some given set of shapes by statistical methods. For instance, it could be used to quantify differences between male and female gorilla skull shapes, normal and pathological bone shapes, leaf outlines with and without herbivory by insects, etc. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%20factorization%20theorem | In mathematics, and particularly in the field of complex analysis, the Hadamard factorization theorem asserts that every entire function with finite order can be represented as a product involving its zeroes and an exponential of a polynomial. It is named for Jacques Hadamard.
The theorem may be viewed as an extensi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20wine | Second wine or second label (French: Second vin) is a term commonly associated with Bordeaux wine to refer to a second label wine made from cuvee not selected for use in the Grand vin or first label. In some cases a third wine or even fourth wine is also produced. Depending on the house winemaking style, individual p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon%20beta-1a | Interferon beta-1a (also interferon beta 1-alpha) is a cytokine in the interferon family used to treat multiple sclerosis (MS). It is produced by mammalian cells, while interferon beta-1b is produced in modified E. coli. Some research indicates that interferon injections may result in an 18–38% reduction in the rate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanity%20%28virtue%29 | Humanity is a virtue linked with altruistic ethics derived from the human condition. It signifies human love and compassion towards each other. Humanity differs from mere justice in that there is a level of altruism towards individuals included in humanity more so than in the fairness found in justice. That is, humanit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie%20Gold | Bonnie Gold (born 1948) is an American mathematician, mathematical logician, philosopher of mathematics, and mathematics educator. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at Monmouth University.
Education and career
Gold completed her Ph.D. in 1976 at Cornell University, under the supervision of Michael D. Morley.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quillen%E2%80%93Lichtenbaum%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Quillen–Lichtenbaum conjecture is a conjecture relating étale cohomology to algebraic K-theory introduced by , who was inspired by earlier conjectures of . and proved the Quillen–Lichtenbaum conjecture at the prime 2 for some number fields. Voevodsky, using some important results of Markus Rost, h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjors%20%26%20Sjimmie | Sjors & Sjimmie (George & Jimmy) is a Dutch adaptation of the comic strip Winnie Winkle, specifically the character Perry Winkle from that strip. The difference between the American original and the Dutch adaptation is that Sjors (Perry) forms a duo with Africa-born Sjimmie. They are raised by Sally and the Colonel. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20chess | Online chess is chess that is played over the Internet, allowing players to play against each other in real time. This is done through the use of Internet chess servers, which often include a system to pair up individual players based on their rating using an Elo or similar chess rating system. Online chess has existed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieb%20conjecture | In quantum information theory, the Lieb conjecture is a theorem concerning the Wehrl entropy of quantum systems for which the classical phase space is a sphere. It states that no state of such a system has a lower Wehrl entropy than the SU(2) coherent states.
The analogous property for quantum systems for which the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization%20%28image%20processing%29 | Quantization, involved in image processing, is a lossy compression technique achieved by compressing a range of values to a single quantum (discrete) value. When the number of discrete symbols in a given stream is reduced, the stream becomes more compressible. For example, reducing the number of colors required to repr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth%20and%20underinvestment | The Growth and Underinvestment Archetype is one of the common system archetype patterns defined as part of the system dynamics discipline.
System dynamics is an approach which strives to understand, describe and optimize nonlinear behaviors of complex systems over time, using tools such as feedback loops in order to f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacunarity | Lacunarity, from the Latin lacuna, meaning "gap" or "lake", is a specialized term in geometry referring to a measure of how patterns, especially fractals, fill space, where patterns having more or larger gaps generally have higher lacunarity. Beyond being an intuitive measure of gappiness, lacunarity can quantify addit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreaea%20frigida | Andreaea frigida, commonly known as icy rockmoss, is a moss endemic to Europe which is found in mountainous regions in Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Romania, Poland, and Spain. In the UK its occurrence is widespread in the Cairngorms National Park, where it is typically found on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20Up%20%28puzzle%29 | Light Up (Japanese: 美術館 bijutsukan, art gallery), also called Akari (明かり, light) is a binary-determination logic puzzle published by Nikoli. As of 2011, three books consisting entirely of Light Up puzzles have been published by Nikoli.
Rules
Light Up is played on a rectangular grid of white and black cells. The play... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20University%20Marine%20Laboratory | The Duke University Marine Laboratory (commonly referred to as the Duke Marine Lab) is a research facility and campus of Duke University on Piver's Island, near Beaufort and the Outer Banks, North Carolina specializing in studying marine biology. It is part of the Nicholas School of the Environment's Division of Marine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil%20Code%20%28programming%20language%29 | Pencil Code is an educational programming language and website. It allows programming using either Scratch-style block coding, or CoffeeScript. Code runs directly in the web browser and can be shared with others. The language centers on a model of a pencil programmatically drawing on a 2-dimensional screen, with the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modelling%20British%20railway%20prototypes | Modelling British railway prototypes is a hobby where railway modelling is applied to British prototypes. For historical reasons, British model scales have developed somewhat separately from those in other countries, and the commercial standards; 00 gauge and British N gauge are unique to British prototypes. The rail... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20moment%20point | The zero moment point (also referred to as zero-tilting moment point) is a concept related to the dynamics and control of legged locomotion, e.g., for humanoid or quadrupedal robots. It specifies the point with respect to which reaction forces at the contacts between the feet and the ground do not produce any moment in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic%20gravity | Entropic gravity, also known as emergent gravity, is a theory in modern physics that describes gravity as an entropic force—a force with macro-scale homogeneity but which is subject to quantum-level disorder—and not a fundamental interaction. The theory, based on string theory, black hole physics, and quantum informati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling%20tree | Space-filling trees are geometric constructions that are analogous to space-filling curves, but have a branching, tree-like structure and are rooted. A space-filling tree is defined by an incremental process that results in a tree for which every point in the space has a finite-length path that converges to it. In con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaxxon | is an isometric shooter arcade video game, developed and released by Sega in 1982. The player pilots a ship through heavily defended space fortresses. Japanese electronics company Ikegami Tsushinki also developed the game.
Zaxxon was the first game to employ axonometric projection, which lent its name to the game (AXX... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadmilling | In molecular biology, treadmilling is a phenomenon observed within protein filaments of the cytoskeletons of many cells, especially in actin filaments and microtubules. It occurs when one end of a filament grows in length while the other end shrinks, resulting in a section of filament seemingly "moving" across a stratu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoplasm | Sarcoplasm is the cytoplasm of a muscle cell. It is comparable to the cytoplasm of other cells, but it contains unusually large amounts of glycogen (a polymer of glucose), myoglobin, a red-colored protein necessary for binding oxygen molecules that diffuse into muscle fibers, and mitochondria. The calcium ion concentra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odesa%20National%20Academy%20of%20Food%20Technologies | Odesa National University of Technologies (ONTU) is a public HEI with the highest level of accreditation. It was established in 1902 and today is a modern innovative scientific center for training of high qualified personnel. ONTU is a multi-profile HEI which includes 4 scientific-educational institutions, 11 faculties... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Eyes%20of%20Darkness | The Eyes of Darkness is a thriller novel by American writer Dean Koontz, released in 1981. The book focuses on a mother who sets out on a quest to find out if her son indeed died one year ago, or if he's still alive.
Plot
A year after her son Danny dies in an alleged accident on a camping trip, stage producer Tina Eva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%27s%20Prize | Smith's Prize was the name of each of two prizes awarded annually to two research students in mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1769. Following the reorganization in 1998, they are now awarded under the names Smith-Knight Prize and Rayleigh-Knight Prize.
History
The Smith Prize f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinthia%20Statistical%20Region | The Carinthia Statistical Region () is a statistical region in northern Slovenia along the border with Austria.
The region is difficult to access and is poorly connected with the central part of Slovenia. The environment has been strongly affected by heavy industry in the valleys. The importance of agriculture is show... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferric%20sodium%20EDTA | Ferric sodium EDTA, also known as sodium ferric ethylenediaminetetraacetate, is a broad spectrum molluscicide used to kill snails and slugs and protect agricultural crops and garden plants, and in particular to eliminate infestations of Cornu aspersum, the common garden snail.
Chemically, it is a salt of ethylenediami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Samson | Peter R. Samson (born 1941 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts) is an American computer scientist, best known for creating pioneering computer software for the TX-0 and PDP-1.
Samson studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 1958-1963. He wrote, with characteristic wit, the first editions of the Tech ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetness%20of%20wine | The subjective sweetness of a wine is determined by the interaction of several factors, including the amount of sugar in the wine, but also the relative levels of alcohol, acids, and tannins. Sugars and alcohol enhance a wine's sweetness, while acids cause sourness and bitter tannins cause bitterness. These principles ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across%20the%20Universe%20%28message%29 | Across the Universe is an interstellar radio message (IRM) consisting of the song "Across the Universe" by the Beatles that was transmitted on 4 February 2008, at 00:00 UTC by NASA in the direction of the star Polaris. This transmission was made using a 70-meter "DSS-63" dish in the NASA Deep Space Network's (DSN) Mad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientation%20character | In algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics, an orientation character on a group is a group homomorphism where:
This notion is of particular significance in surgery theory.
Motivation
Given a manifold M, one takes (the fundamental group), and then sends an element of to if and only if the class it represents ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination%20communication | Elimination communication (EC) is a practice in which a caregiver uses timing, signals, cues, and intuition to address an infant's need to eliminate waste. Caregivers try to recognize and respond to babies' bodily needs and enable them to urinate and defecate in an appropriate place (e.g. a toilet). Caregivers may us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondo%20model | The Kondo model (sometimes referred to as the s-d model) is a model for a single localized quantum impurity coupled to a large reservoir of delocalized and noninteracting electrons. The quantum impurity is represented by a spin-1/2 particle, and is coupled to a continuous band of noninteracting electrons by an antiferr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20clustering | Brown clustering is a hard hierarchical agglomerative clustering problem based on distributional information proposed by Peter Brown, William A. Brown, Vincent Della Pietra, Peter V. de Souza, Jennifer Lai, and Robert Mercer. The method, which is based on bigram language models, is typically applied to text, grouping w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Rauch | Jeffrey B. Rauch (born 29 November 1945, New York City) is an American mathematical physicist, specializing in partial differential equations.
Rauch obtained his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1967, and his Ph.D. from New York University in 1971 (with Peter Lax as advisor).
He is a fellow of the America... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSOAP | gSOAP is a C and C++ software development toolkit for SOAP/XML web services and generic XML data bindings. Given a set of C/C++ type declarations, the compiler-based gSOAP tools generate serialization routines in source code for efficient XML serialization of the specified C and C++ data structures. Serialization takes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins%27%20problem | In probability theory, Robbins' problem of optimal stopping, named after Herbert Robbins, is sometimes referred to as the fourth secretary problem or the problem of minimizing the expected rank with full information.Let X1, ... , Xn be independent, identically distributed random variables, uniform on [0, 1]. We observe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20One | Google One is a subscription service developed by Google that offers expanded cloud storage and is intended for the consumer market. Google One paid plans offer cloud storage starting at 100 gigabytes, up to a maximum of 30 terabytes, an expansion from the free Google Account storage space of 15 GB, which is shared acr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20agent | There are various definitions of autonomous agent. According to Brustoloni (1991)
According to Maes (1995)
Franklin and Graesser (1997) review different definitions and propose their definition
They explain it
Agent appearance
Lee et al. (2015) post safety issue from how the combination of external appearance and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%20boiler | A hand boiler or (less commonly) love meter is a glass sculpture used as an experimental tool to demonstrate vapour-liquid equilibrium, or as a collector's item to whimsically "measure love." It consists of a lower bulb containing a volatile liquid and a mixture of gases that is connected usually by a twisting glass tu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Cybersyn | Project Cybersyn was a Chilean project from 1971 to 1973 during the presidency of Salvador Allende aimed at constructing a distributed decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy. The project consisted of four modules: an economic simulator, custom software to check factory performance, an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate%20Party%20UK | The Pirate Party UK (often abbreviated PPUK; in ) is a political party in the United Kingdom. The Pirate Party's core policies are to bring about reform to copyright and patent laws, support privacy, reduce surveillance from government and businesses, and support freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
The party ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20ray | A delta ray is a secondary electron with enough energy to escape a significant distance away from the primary radiation beam and produce further ionization, and is sometimes used to describe any recoil particle caused by secondary ionization. The term was coined by J. J. Thomson.
Characteristics
A delta ray is charac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Eagle | IBM Eagle is a 127-qubit quantum processor. IBM claims that it can not be simulated by any classical computer. It is two times bigger than China's Jiuzhang 2. It was revealed on the 16th of November 2021 and was claimed to be the most powerful quantum processor ever made until November 2022, when the IBM Osprey overtoo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge%20cover | In graph theory, an edge cover of a graph is a set of edges such that every vertex of the graph is incident to at least one edge of the set.
In computer science, the minimum edge cover problem is the problem of finding an edge cover of minimum size. It is an optimization problem that belongs to the class of covering pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20physics%20articles%20%28V%29 | The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.
To navigate by individual letter use the table of contents below.
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V. Balakrishnan (physicist)
V838 Monocerotis
VELO
VEPP-2000
VINITI Database RAS
VIRGOHI21
VNIR
VORPAL
V band
V particle
Vacancy defect
Vacuum
Vacuum Rabi oscillation
Vacuum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Systematics%20and%20Ecology%20of%20Animals | The Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals (ISEA) () located in Novosibirsk is one of the oldest research organization in the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS). The institute was founded in 1944 as Biomedical Institute, the first Siberian academic establishment working in biology. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%20space | In mathematics, the Dirichlet space on the domain (named after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet), is the reproducing kernel Hilbert space of holomorphic functions, contained within the Hardy space , for which the Dirichlet integral, defined by
is finite (here dA denotes the area Lebesgue measure on the complex plane ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intra-flow%20interference | Intra-flow interference is interference between intermediate routers sharing the same flow path.
Application
In wireless routing, routing protocol WCETT, MIC and iAWARE incorporate consideration to the intra-flow interference metric.
See also
Collision domain
Inter-flow interference
Interference (communication) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptoracemic%20compounds | In Chemistry, a kryptoracemic compound or kryptoracemate (sometimes false conglomerate) is a racemic compound crystallizing in a Sohncke space group.
In most of the cases, racemic compounds crystallize in centrosymmetric crystal structures. In a kryptoracemic compound the chemical composition of the crystal is racemic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic%20cylinder%20function | In mathematics, the parabolic cylinder functions are special functions defined as solutions to the differential equation
This equation is found when the technique of separation of variables is used on Laplace's equation when expressed in parabolic cylindrical coordinates.
The above equation may be brought into two di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-complete%20space | In functional analysis, a topological vector space (TVS) is said to be quasi-complete or boundedly complete if every closed and bounded subset is complete.
This concept is of considerable importance for non-metrizable TVSs.
Properties
Every quasi-complete TVS is sequentially complete.
In a quasi-complete locally ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seletar%20Aerospace%20Park | Seletar Aerospace Park is an industrial park in Singapore catering to the aerospace industries. Located in Seletar, the plan to develop 140 hectares of land adjacent to Seletar Airport will further strengthen Singapore's position as an aviation hub. The development of the new aerospace park is geared towards deliverin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countryman%20line | In mathematics, a Countryman line (named after Roger Simmons Countryman Jr.) is an uncountable linear ordering whose square is the union of countably many chains. The existence of Countryman lines was first proven by Shelah. Shelah also conjectured that, assuming PFA, every Aronszajn line contains a Countryman line. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive%20set | In set theory, a branch of mathematics, a set is called transitive if either of the following equivalent conditions hold:
whenever , and , then .
whenever , and is not an urelement, then is a subset of .
Similarly, a class is transitive if every element of is a subset of .
Examples
Using the definition of ordi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal%20group%20%28taxonomy%29 | An informal group in taxonomy is a taxonomic rank that is not well defined.
This type of group can be paraphyletic or polyphyletic but is kept for ease, pending new systems of classification.
In zoology
Examples can be found in the classification of gastropods: Opisthobranchia, Sorbeoconcha, Hypsogastropoda, and Pte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenocyte | A coenocyte () is a multinucleate cell which can result from multiple nuclear divisions without their accompanying cytokinesis, in contrast to a syncytium, which results from cellular aggregation followed by dissolution of the cell membranes inside the mass. The word syncytium in animal embryology is used to refer to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUO%20Corporation | AUO Corporation (AUO; ) is a Taiwanese company that specialises in optoelectronic solutions. It was formed in September 2001 by the merger of Acer Display Technology, Inc. (the predecessor of AUO, established in 1996) and Unipac Optoelectronics Corporation. AUO offers display panel products and solutions, and in recent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication%20syndrome | Domestication syndrome refers to two sets of phenotypic traits that are common to either domesticated animals, or domesticated plants. These traits were identified by Charles Darwin in The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.
Domesticated animals tend to be smaller and less aggressive than their wild c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive%20transport%20modeling%20in%20porous%20media | Reactive transport modeling in porous media refers to the creation of computer models integrating chemical reaction with transport of fluids through the Earth's crust. Such models predict the distribution in space and time of the chemical reactions that occur along a flowpath. Reactive transport modeling in general can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolepis%20cernua | Isolepis cernua (basionym Scirpus cernuus) is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names low bulrush, slender club-rush, tufted clubrush, and fiberoptic grass. It is widespread, being native to many regions of the world, including parts of Australasia, Eurasia, Africa, and North and Sout... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20extra%20dimensions | In particle physics, models with universal extra dimensions include one or more spatial dimensions beyond the three spatial and one temporal dimensions that are observed.
Overview
Models with universal extra dimensions, studied in 2001 assume that all fields propagate universally in the extra dimensions; in contrast, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20fess | In heraldry and vexillology, a Spanish fess is a term occasionally used to describe the central horizontal stripe of a tricolour or triband flag that is twice the width of the stripes on either side of it.
The name is based on the most well-known example of this style of flag, the flag of Spain, and in analogy to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligado%20Networks | Ligado Networks, formerly known as LightSquared, is an American satellite communications company.
After restructuring, emerging from bankruptcy and modifying its network plan, the new company, Ligado Networks, launched in 2016. It operates the SkyTerra 1 satellite.
Operations
Ligado Networks is based in Reston, Virgi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace%20Cloud | The Rackspace Cloud is a set of cloud computing products and services billed on a utility computing basis from the US-based company Rackspace. Offerings include Cloud Storage ("Cloud Files"), virtual private server ("Cloud Servers"), load balancers, databases, backup, and monitoring.
History
Rackspace Cloud announce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%20reagent | Discovered in 1937 by Robin Hill, Hill reagents allowed the discovery of electron transport chains during photosynthesis.
These are dyes that act as artificial electron acceptors, changing color when they are reduced.
An example of a Hill reagent is 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol (DCPIP). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technetium%20%2899mTc%29%20sulesomab | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Technetium (99mTc) sulesomab}}
Technetium (99mTc) sulesomab (trade name LeukoScan) is a radio-pharmaceutical composed of anti-human mouse monoclonal antibody that targets the granulocyte associated NCA-90 cell antigen and a conjugated technetium-99m radionuclide. After intravenous administration, Leukos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Noid | The Noid is an advertising character for Domino's Pizza created in the 1980s and revived in 2021. Clad in a red, skin-tight, rabbit-eared body suit with a black N inscribed in a white circle on his chest, the Noid was a physical manifestation of all the challenges inherent in getting a pizza delivered in 30 minutes or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%20Fernbach%20Award | The Sidney Fernbach Award established in 1992 by the IEEE Computer Society, in memory of Sidney Fernbach, one of the pioneers in the development and application of high performance computers for the solution of large computational problems as the Division Chief for the Computation Division at Lawrence Livermore Laborat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s%20law | In computer architecture, Gustafson's law (or Gustafson–Barsis's law) gives the speedup in the execution time of a task that theoretically gains from parallel computing, using a hypothetical run of the task on a single-core machine as the baseline. To put it another way, it is the theoretical "slowdown" of an already p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization%20Tag%20Set | The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) is a set of attributes and elements designed to provide internationalization and localization support in XML documents.
The ITS specification identifies concepts (called "ITS data categories") which are important for internationalization and localization. It also defines implemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%E2%80%93Brauer%20matrices | In mathematics, particularly in the theory of spinors, the Weyl–Brauer matrices are an explicit realization of a Clifford algebra as a matrix algebra of matrices. They generalize the Pauli matrices to dimensions, and are a specific construction of higher-dimensional gamma matrices. They are named for Richard Brauer a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OML%20encoding | OML (aka TeX math italic) is a 7-bit TeX encoding developed by Donald E. Knuth. It encodes italic Latin and Greek letters for mathematical formulas and various symbols.
Character set
See also
OMS encoding
OT1 encoding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valknut | The valknut is a symbol consisting of three interlocked triangles. It appears on a variety of objects from the archaeological record of the ancient Germanic peoples. The term valknut is a modern development; it is not known what term or terms were used to refer to the symbol historically.
Scholars have proposed a vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible%20ink | Invisible ink, also known as security ink or sympathetic ink, is a substance used for writing, which is invisible either on application or soon thereafter, and can later be made visible by some means, such as heat or ultraviolet light. Invisible ink is one form of steganography.
History
One of the earliest writers to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective%20radiated%20power | Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated power, is an IEEE standardized definition of directional radio frequency (RF) power, such as that emitted by a radio transmitter. It is the total power in watts that would have to be radiated by a half-wave dipole antenna to give the same radiation i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurotus%20purpureo-olivaceus | Pleurotus purpureo-olivaceus is a gilled fungus native to Australia and New Zealand. It is found on dead wood of Nothofagus trees. Although morphologically similar to some other Pleurotus fungi, it has been shown to be a distinct species incapable of cross-breeding and phylogenetically removed from other species of P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Darwin%27s%20education | Charles Darwin's education gave him a foundation in the doctrine of Creation prevalent throughout the West at the time, as well as knowledge of medicine and theology. More significantly, it led to his interest in natural history, which culminated in his taking part in the second voyage of HMS Beagle and the eventual in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulics | Hydraulics () is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids. At a very basic level, hydraulics is the liquid counterpart of pneumatics, which concerns gases. Fluid mechanics provides the theoretical foundation for hydraulics, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20ratio | A sex ratio is the ratio of female to males in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which reproduce sexually. However, many species deviate from an even sex ratio, either periodically or permanently. Examples include parthenogenic species, per... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurotus%20australis | Pleurotus australis, the brown oyster mushroom, is a gilled fungus native to Australia and New Zealand. It is found on dead wood. Although morphologically similar to some other Pleurotus fungi, it has been shown to be a distinct species incapable of cross-breeding.
See also
List of Pleurotus species |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridial%20necrotizing%20enteritis | Clostridial necrotizing enteritis (CNE) is a severe and potentially fatal type of food poisoning caused by a β-toxin of Clostridium perfringens, Type C. It occurs in some developing regions, particularly in New Guinea, where it is known as pig-bel. The disease was also documented in Germany following World War II, wher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verpa%20bohemica | Verpa bohemica is a species of fungus in the family Morchellaceae. Commonly known as the early morel or the wrinkled thimble-cap. The mushroom has a pale yellow or brown thimble-shaped cap— in diameter by long—that has a surface wrinkled and ribbed with brain-like convolutions. The cap hangs from the top of a lighter-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-Bromouracil | 5-Bromouracil (5-BrU, 5BrUra, or br5Ura) is a brominated derivative of uracil that acts as an antimetabolite or base analog, substituting for thymine in DNA, and can induce DNA mutation in the same way as 2-aminopurine. It is used mainly as an experimental mutagen, but its deoxyriboside derivative (5-bromo-2-deoxy-urid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20button | The "nuclear button" is a figurative term referring to the power to use nuclear weapons. "Pushing the nuclear button" refers to actually using them. The actual procedure for using such weapons is more complex than simply pushing a button. The "nuclear button" may be transferred to another official due to political chan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly | Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New York City. Bitly shortens 600 million links per month, for use in social networking, SMS, and email. Bitly makes money by charging for access to aggregate data created... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20gallery%20problem | The art gallery problem or museum problem is a well-studied visibility problem in computational geometry. It originates from the following real-world problem:
"In an art gallery, what is the minimum number of guards who together can observe the whole gallery?"
In the geometric version of the problem, the layout of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%20P.%20Eisenhart | Luther Pfahler Eisenhart (13 January 1876 – 28 October 1965) was an American mathematician, best known today for his contributions to semi-Riemannian geometry.
Life
Eisenhart was born in York, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Gettysburg College in 1896. He earned his doctorate in 1900 at Johns Hopkins University, whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-764%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-764 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
Osteoblast Differentiation
Expression of the mature miR-764-5p sequence is upregulated during osteoblast differentiation in both skull-specific calvarial and osteobl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiss%20relation | In algebraic geometry, the Reiss relation, introduced by , is a condition on the second-order elements of the points of a plane algebraic curve meeting a given line.
Statement
If C is a complex plane curve given by the zeros of a polynomial f(x,y) of two variables, and L is a line meeting C transversely and not meet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathophysiology | Pathophysiology (or physiopathology) is a branch of study, at the intersection of pathology and physiology, concerning disordered physiological processes that cause, result from, or are otherwise associated with a disease or injury. Pathology is the medical discipline that describes conditions typically observed during... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Liouville | Joseph Liouville (; ; 24 March 1809 – 8 September 1882) was a French mathematician and engineer.
Life and work
He was born in Saint-Omer in France on 24 March 1809. His parents were Claude-Joseph Liouville (an army officer) and Thérèse Liouville (née Balland).
Liouville gained admission to the École Polytechnique... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNP%20agar | PNP Agar is an agar medium used in microbiology to identify Staphylococcus species that have phosphatase activity. The medium changes color when p-nitrophenylphosphate disodium (PNP) is dephosphorylated.
PNP agar is composed of Mueller–Hinton agar buffered to pH 5.6 to 5.8, with the addition of 0.495 mg/mL PNP. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttation | Guttation is the exudation of drops of xylem sap on the tips or edges of leaves of some vascular plants, such as grasses, and a number of fungi, which are not plants but were previously categorized as such and studied as part of botany.
Process
At night, transpiration usually does not occur, because most plants have... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus%20%C3%97%20medioluteus | Narcissus × medioluteus (syn. Narcissus biflorus), common names primrose-peerless, April beauty, cemetery ladies, loving couples, pale narcissus, twin sisters, two-flowered narcissus, is a flowering plant, which is a naturally occurring hybrid between Narcissus poeticus and Narcissus tazetta (informally called "poetaz ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20parametric%20models | A parametric model is a set of related mathematical equations that incorporates variable parameters. A scenario is defined by selecting a value for each parameter. Software project managers use software parametric models and parametric estimation tools to estimate their projects' duration, staffing and cost.
In the ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimeric%20small%20molecule%20therapeutics | Chimeric small molecule therapeutics are a class of drugs designed with multiple active domains to operate outside of the typical protein inhibition model. While most small molecule drugs inhibit target proteins by binding their active site, chimerics form protein-protein ternary structures to induce degradation or, le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockin%20effect | In superconductivity, the Lockin effect refers to the preference of vortex phases to be positioned at certain points within cells of a crystal lattice of an organic superconductor. |
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