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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentity | The term presentity is a combination of two words - "presence" and "entity". It basically refers to an entity that has presence information associated with it; information such as status, reachability, and willingness to communicate.
Usage
The term presentity is often used to refer to users who post and update their p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDUFA6 | NADH dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] 1 alpha subcomplex subunit 6 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NDUFA6 gene. The NDUFA6 protein is a subunit of NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone), which is located in the mitochondrial inner membrane and is the largest of the five complexes of the electron transport chain.
Stru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovations%20in%20Theoretical%20Computer%20Science | The Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science is an academic conference about theoretical computer science. The conference was initiated by Andrew Yao in 2010, and was originally called Innovations in Computer Science. The proceedings were hosted online in 2010 and 2011, were published in the ACM Digita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facility%20condition%20assessment | Facility condition assessment is an analysis of the condition of a facility in terms of age, design, construction methods, and materials. The individuals who perform the assessment are typically architects and engineers, and skilled-trade technicians. Engineering and architectural professional opinions as to the condit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clevo | Clevo () is a Taiwanese OEM/ODM computer manufacturer which produces laptop computers exclusively. They sell barebone laptops chassis (barebooks) to value-added resellers who build customized laptops for individual customers.
History
Clevo was founded in 1983 as Nan Tan Computer (NTC). In 1987, the company established... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlebiarubrone | Phlebiarubrone is an antibiotic with the molecular formula C19H12O4 which is produced by the fungi Punctularia strigosozonata. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verification%20condition%20generator | A verification condition generator is a common sub-component of an automated program verifier that synthesizes formal verification conditions by analyzing a program's source code using a method based upon Hoare logic. VC generators may require that the source code contains logical annotations provided by the programmer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphQL | GraphQL is an open-source data query and manipulation language for APIs and a query runtime engine.
GraphQL enables declarative data fetching where a client can specify exactly what data it needs from an API. Instead of multiple endpoints that return separate data, a GraphQL server exposes a single endpoint and respo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial%20semigroup | In mathematics, a trivial semigroup (a semigroup with one element) is a semigroup for which the cardinality of the underlying set is one. The number of distinct nonisomorphic semigroups with one element is one. If S = { a } is a semigroup with one element, then the Cayley table of S is
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niky%20Kamran | Niky Kamran (born May 22, 1959) is a Belgian-Canadian mathematician whose research concerns geometric analysis, differential geometry, and mathematical physics. He is a James McGill Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University.
Early life and education
Kamran was born in Brussels, Be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum | A is a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or, equivalently, the complete renewal of a human population.
Background
Originally it meant the time from the moment that something happened (for example the founding of a city) until the point in time that all people who had lived at the firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didiereaceae | Didiereaceae is a family of flowering plants found in continental Africa and Madagascar.
It contains 20 species classified in three subfamilies and six genera. Species of the family are succulent plants, growing in sub-arid to arid habitats. Several are known as ornamental plants in specialist succulent collections. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20token | A social token is a type of cryptocurrency used to monetize a brand. They can be personal (or creator tokens) or community tokens. The value of a social token revolves around the brand issuing it, and are used by holders as a way to feel belonging to a certain group.
Social token are usually used by creators, as a way... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene%27s%20O | In set theory and computability theory, Kleene's is a canonical subset of the natural numbers when regarded as ordinal notations. It contains ordinal notations for every computable ordinal, that is, ordinals below Church–Kleene ordinal, . Since is the first ordinal not representable in a computable system of ordinal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-wandering-domain%20theorem | In mathematics, the no-wandering-domain theorem is a result on dynamical systems, proven by Dennis Sullivan in 1985.
The theorem states that a rational map f : Ĉ → Ĉ with deg(f) ≥ 2 does not have a wandering domain, where Ĉ denotes the Riemann sphere. More precisely, for every component U in the Fatou set of f, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoimmunotherapy | Photoimmunotherapy (PIT) is an oncological treatment that combines photodynamic therapy of tumor with immunotherapy treatment. Combining photodynamic therapy with immunotherapy enhances the immunostimulating response and has synergistic effects for metastatic cancer treatment.
PIT is type of molecular targeted cancer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog%20display | A fog display, fog screen, vapor screen or vapor display is a system that uses haze machines or water vapor to create a semi-transparent wall, or "curtain" of suspended particles which trapped in a thin sheet (laminar flow) of air and are illuminated by a projector, in order to produce a display whose images seem to fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontiers%20of%20Biogeography | Frontiers of Biogeography is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal publishing biogeographical science, with the academic standards expected of a journal operated by and for an academic society. It published on behalf of the International Biogeographical Society, using the eScholarship Publishing platform. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20Petri%20net | An algebraic Petri net (APN) is an evolution of the well known Petri net in which elements of user defined data types (called algebraic abstract data types (AADT)) replace black tokens. This formalism can be compared to coloured Petri nets (CPN) in many aspects. However, in the APN case, the semantics of the data types... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenConnect | OpenConnect is a free and open-source cross-platform multi-protocol virtual private network (VPN) client software which implement secure point-to-point connections.
The OpenConnect client supports the following VPN protocols:
Cisco AnyConnect
Juniper Secure Connect (since 7.05)
Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect (sin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culmicole | A culmicole is an organism that lives on the tips of the leaves and stems of grasses. An example of a culmicole are species of planthoppers, which spend their lives perched on grass blades. The name was first coined by Lincoln et al. in 1985. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant%20mashed%20potatoes | Instant mashed potatoes are potatoes that have been through an industrial process of cooking, mashing and dehydrating to yield a packaged convenience food that can be reconstituted by adding hot water or milk, producing an approximation of mashed potatoes. They are available in many different flavors.
Mashed potatoes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense | pfSense is a firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. The open source pfSense Community Edition (CE) and pfSense Plus is installed on a physical computer or a virtual machine to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network. It can be configured and upgraded through a web-based interface, and r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20extraterrestrial%20life | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to extraterrestrial life:
Extraterrestrial life – is any type of lifeform, from prokaryotes to intelligent beings, that is neither native of Earth or transplanted from it. So far, no extraterrestrial life has ever been found.
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Astrobiology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification%20by%20example | Specification by example (SBE) is a collaborative approach to defining requirements and business-oriented functional tests for software products based on capturing and illustrating requirements using realistic examples instead of abstract statements. It is applied in the context of agile software development methods, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management%20features%20new%20to%20Windows%20Vista | Windows Vista contains a range of new technologies and features that are intended to help network administrators and power users better manage their systems. Notable changes include a complete replacement of both the Windows Setup and the Windows startup processes, completely rewritten deployment mechanisms, new diagno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interatrial%20sulcus | The interatrial sulcus, separating the two atria, is scarcely marked on the posterior surface, while anteriorly it is hidden by the pulmonary artery and aorta. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20Robot%20Battle | Color Robot Battle is a programming game developed by Glenn Sogge and Del Ogren for the TRS-80 Color Computer and published by Radio Shack in 1981.
Robot Programming
The aim of the game is to write a computer program that controls a (simulated) robot. Two programs are selected to do battle in an arena with the last r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort | Timsort is a hybrid, stable sorting algorithm, derived from merge sort and insertion sort, designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data. It was implemented by Tim Peters in 2002 for use in the Python programming language. The algorithm finds subsequences of the data that are already ordered (runs) and uses... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%20matrix | In mathematics, a Hadamard matrix, named after the French mathematician Jacques Hadamard, is a square matrix whose entries are either +1 or −1 and whose rows are mutually orthogonal. In geometric terms, this means that each pair of rows in a Hadamard matrix represents two perpendicular vectors, while in combinatorial t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered%20weighted%20averaging | In applied mathematics, specifically in fuzzy logic, the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators provide a parameterized class of mean type aggregation operators. They were introduced by Ronald R. Yager.
Many notable mean operators such as the max, arithmetic average, median and min, are members of this class. They ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20Communication%20Environment | The Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE) is an open source software framework used for network programming. It provides a set of object-oriented C++ classes designed to help address the inherent complexities and challenges in network programming by preventing common errors.
History
ACE was initially developed by D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records%20of%20the%20Parliaments%20of%20Scotland | The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 is an online publication of the Scottish Parliament and the University of St Andrews arising from a project to create a comprehensive online database of the proceedings of the Parliament of Scotland from 1235 to the Act of Union. The website was launched in 2008.
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cob%28I%29yrinic%20acid%20a%2Cc-diamide%20adenosyltransferase | In molecular biology, cob(I)yrinic acid a,c-diamide adenosyltransferase (also known as ATP:cob(I)alamin adenosyltransferase or ATP:corrinoid adenosyltransferase) is an enzyme which catalyses the conversion of cobalamin (vitamin B12) into one of its coenzyme forms, adenosylcobalamin (coenzyme B12, AdoCbl). Adenosylcoba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Morton%27s%20mare | Lord Morton’s mare was an equid hybrid and once an often-noticed example in the history of evolutionary theory.
In 1820, George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, F.R.S., reported to the President of the Royal Society that, being desirous of domesticating the quagga (a now extinct subspecies of the plains zebra), he had br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOBM | NASA Ocean Biogeochemical Model (NOBM) is a three-dimensional representation of coupled circulation/biogeochemical/radiative processes in the global oceans. It was built at the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office and is in the process of being coupled to the Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal%20cat | The Bengal cat is a domesticated cat breed created from a hybrid of the Asian leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis), with domestic cats, especially the spotted Egyptian Mau. It is then usually bred with a breed that demonstrates a friendlier personality, because after breeding a domesticated cat with a wildcat, its fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenylate%20kinase | Adenylate kinase (EC 2.7.4.3) (also known as ADK or myokinase) is a phosphotransferase enzyme that catalyzes the interconversion of the various adenosine phosphates (ATP, ADP, and AMP). By constantly monitoring phosphate nucleotide levels inside the cell, ADK plays an important role in cellular energy homeostasis.
Su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitesse%20Semiconductor | Vitesse Semiconductor was a fabless American semiconductor company based in Camarillo, California, which developed high-performance Ethernet integrated circuits solutions for Carrier, Enterprise networks. On March 18, 2015, Microsemi Corporation and Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation jointly announced that Microsemi wou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20crop%20monitoring | Satellite crop monitoring is the technology which facilitates real-time crop vegetation index monitoring via spectral analysis of high resolution satellite images for different fields and crops which enables to track positive and negative dynamics of crop development. The difference in vegetation index informs about si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20electron%20model | In solid-state physics, the free electron model is a quantum mechanical model for the behaviour of charge carriers in a metallic solid. It was developed in 1927, principally by Arnold Sommerfeld, who combined the classical Drude model with quantum mechanical Fermi–Dirac statistics and hence it is also known as the Drud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative%20hierarchy | In mathematics, specifically set theory, a cumulative hierarchy is a family of sets indexed by ordinals such that
If is a limit ordinal, then
Some authors additionally require that or that .
The union of the sets of a cumulative hierarchy is often used as a model of set theory.
The phrase "the cumulative h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20equation | A chemical equation is the symbolic representation of a chemical reaction in the form of symbols and chemical formulas. The reactant entities are given on the left-hand side and the product entities are on the right-hand side with a plus sign between the entities in both the reactants and the products, and an arrow tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickam%27s%20dictum | Hickam's dictum is a counterargument to the use of Occam's razor in the medical profession. While Occam's razor suggests that the simplest explanation is the most likely, implying in medicine that diagnosticians should assume a single cause for multiple symptoms, one form of Hickam's dictum states: "A man can have as m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20Air%20Lines%20food%20poisoning%20incident | On February 3, 1975, 197 people fell ill aboard a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 en route from Anchorage, Alaska, to Copenhagen, Denmark, after consuming an in-flight meal contaminated with Staphylococci. One hundred and forty-four people
needed hospitalization, making it the largest food poisoning incident aboard a commer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20mesenteric%20plexus | The superior mesenteric plexus is a continuation of the lower part of the celiac plexus, receiving a branch from the junction of the right vagus nerve with the plexus.
It surrounds the superior mesenteric artery, accompanies it into the mesentery, and divides into a number of secondary plexuses, which are distributed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine%20oxidase%20A | Monoamine oxidase A, also known as MAO-A, is an enzyme (E.C. 1.4.3.4) that in humans is encoded by the MAOA gene. This gene is one of two neighboring gene family members that encode mitochondrial enzymes which catalyze the oxidative deamination of amines, such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. A mutation of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combating%20Online%20Infringement%20and%20Counterfeits%20Act | United States Senate Bill S.3804, known as the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was a bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on September 20, 2010. It proposed amendments to Chapter 113 of Title 18 of the United States Code that would authorize the Attorney General to bring an in rem ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endometrial%20cup | Endometrial cups form during pregnancy in mares and are the source of equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and a placenta-associated structure, which is derived from the fetus. Their purpose is to increase the immunological tolerance of the mare in order to protect the developing foal.
Function
Endometrial cups are uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20pregnancy%20loss | Early pregnancy loss is a medical term that when referring to humans can variously be used to mean:
Death of an embryo or fetus during the first trimester. This can happen by implantation failure, miscarriage, embryo resorption, early fetal resorption or vanishing twin syndrome.
Death of an embryo or fetus before 20 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyddane%E2%80%93Sachs%E2%80%93Teller%20relation | In condensed matter physics, the Lyddane–Sachs–Teller relation (or LST relation) determines the ratio of the natural frequency of longitudinal optic lattice vibrations (phonons) () of an ionic crystal to the natural frequency of the transverse optical lattice vibration () for long wavelengths (zero wavevector). The rat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/134%20%28number%29 | 134 (one hundred [and] thirty-four) is the natural number following 133 and preceding 135.
In mathematics
134 is a nontotient since there is no integer with exactly 134 coprimes below it. And it is a noncototient since there is no integer with 134 integers with common factors below it.
134 is .
In Roman numerals, 13... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20nonlinear%20partial%20differential%20equations | See also Nonlinear partial differential equation, List of partial differential equation topics and List of nonlinear ordinary differential equations.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescoping%20%28mechanics%29 | Telescoping in mechanics describes the movement of one part sliding out from another, lengthening an object (such as a telescope or the lift arm of an aerial work platform) from its rest state. In modern equipment this can be achieved by a hydraulics, but pulleys are generally used for simpler designs such as extendabl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Virtual%20Disk | Fast Virtual Disk (better known as FVD) is a virtualization-oriented disk image file format developed by IBM for the QEMU virtualization platform. It differs from existing paravirtualization-centric virtual disk image formats through a design that emphasizes lack of contention and separation of concerns between the hos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentavalent%20antimonial | Pentavalent antimonials (also abbreviated pentavalent Sb or SbV) are a group of compounds used for the treatment of leishmaniasis. They are also called pentavalent antimony compounds.
Types
The first pentavalent antimonial, urea stibamine, was synthesised by the Indian scientist Upendranath Brahmachari in 1922. Thou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane%20topology | Topology of a transmembrane protein refers to locations of N- and C-termini of membrane-spanning polypeptide chain with respect to the inner or outer sides of the biological membrane occupied by the protein.
Several databases provide experimentally determined topologies of membrane proteins. They include Uniprot, TOPD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20florilegia%20and%20botanical%20codices | A timeline of illustrated botanical works to 1900.
BCE
Enquiry into Plants Theophrastus (371—287 BCE)
1–100 CE
c. 77 De Materia Medica Dioscorides (40–90 CE)
Naturalis Historiae Gaius Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE)
201-300
c. 200 – 250 CE Shennong Ben Cao Jing Traditionally attributed to the mythical emperor Shenno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Acyl%20homoserine%20lactone | N-Acyl homoserine lactones (Abbreviated as AHLs or N-AHLs) are a class of signaling molecules involved in bacterial quorum sensing, a means of communication between bacteria enabling behaviors based on population density.
The first AHL (N-3-(oxo-hexanoyl)-homoserine lactone) was found as the natural inducer of biolu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RavenDB | RavenDB is an open-source fully ACID document-oriented database written in C#, developed by Hibernating Rhinos Ltd. It is cross-platform, supported on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. RavenDB stores data as JSON documents and can be deployed in distributed clusters with master-master replication.
History
Originally named ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB-PVR | GB-PVR was a PVR (personal video recorder aka digital video recorder) application, running on Microsoft Windows, whose main function was scheduling TV recordings and playing back live TV. GB-PVR is no longer under active development and has been superseded by NextPVR, also known as nPVR.
GB-PVR also acts as a home med... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAD/CAM | CAD/CAM refers to the integration of Computer-aided design (CAD) and Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM). Both of these require powerful computers. CAD software helps designers and draftsmen; CAM "reduces manpower costs" in the manufacturing process.
Overview
Both CAD and CAM are computer-intensive. Although, in 1981, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lek%20mating | A lek is an aggregation of male animals gathered to engage in competitive displays and courtship rituals, known as lekking, to entice visiting females which are surveying prospective partners with which to mate. A lek can also indicate an available plot of space able to be utilized by displaying males to defend their o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heusler%20compound | Heusler compounds are magnetic intermetallics with face-centered cubic crystal structure and a composition of XYZ (half-Heuslers) or X2YZ (full-Heuslers), where X and Y are transition metals and Z is in the p-block. The term derives from the name of German mining engineer and chemist Friedrich Heusler, who studied such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor-input%20filter | A capacitor-input filter is a filter circuit in which the first element is a capacitor connected in parallel with the output of the rectifier in a linear power supply. The capacitor increases the DC voltage and decreases the ripple voltage components of the output. The capacitor is often referred to as a smoothing capa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche%20Entomologische%20Zeitschrift | Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering systematic and taxonomic entomology. It was established in 1857 as Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift and obtained its current title in 1875.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift and Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift
In 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-III-VI%20semiconductors | I-III-VI2 semiconductors are solid semiconducting materials that contain three or more chemical elements belonging to groups I, III and VI (IUPAC groups 1/11, 13 and 16) of the periodic table. They usually involve two metals and one chalcogen. Some of these materials have a direct bandgap, Eg, of approximately 1.5 eV, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer%20in%20the%20City%20%28song%29 | "Summer in the City" is a song by the American folk rock band the Lovin' Spoonful. Written by John Sebastian, Mark Sebastian and Steve Boone, the song was released as a non-album single in July 1966 and was included on the album Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful later that year. The single was the Lovin' Spoonful's fifth to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senecionine | Senecionine is a toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloid isolated from various botanical sources. It takes its name from the Senecio genus and is produced by many different plants in that genus, including Jacobaea vulgaris (Senecio jacobaea). It has also been isolated from several other plants, including Brachyglottis repanda, Em... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcicole | A calcicole, calciphyte or calciphile is a plant that thrives in lime rich soil. The word is derived from the Latin 'to dwell on chalk'. Under acidic conditions, aluminium becomes more soluble and phosphate less. As a consequence, calcicoles grown on acidic soils often develop the symptoms of aluminium toxicity, i.e. n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Angluin | Dana Angluin is a professor emeritus of computer science at Yale University. She is known for foundational work in computational learning theory and distributed computing.
Education
Angluin received her B.A. (1969) and Ph.D. (1976) at University of California, Berkeley. Her thesis, entitled "An application of the the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%205%27-ribonucleotides | Calcium 5'-ribonucleotides is listed as E number reference E634. This food additive is banned in Australia and New Zealand. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclave%20tape | Autoclave tape is an adhesive tape used in autoclaving (heating under high pressure with steam to sterilise) to indicate whether a specific temperature has been reached. Autoclave tape works by changing color after exposure to temperatures commonly used in sterilization processes, typically 121°C in a steam autoclave.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary%20Stevenson | Hilary Stevenson (1947-1994) was a food scientist and professor from Northern Ireland who made significant scientific contributions to the study of food irradiation in the 1980s and 1990s.
Early life
Mary Hill (Hilary) Morrison was born in Coleraine, County Londonderry on January 12, 1947. She was the only daughter o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Astrobiology%20Network%20Association | The European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) coordinates and facilities research expertise in astrobiology in Europe.
EANA was created in 2001 to coordinate the different European centers in astrobiology and the related fields previously organized in paleontology, geology, atmospheric physics, planetary scienc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla%20event | The Azolla event is a paleoclimatology scenario hypothesized to have occurred in the middle Eocene epoch, around , when blooms of the carbon-fixing freshwater fern Azolla are thought to have happened in the Arctic Ocean. As the fern died and sank to the stagnant sea floor, they were incorporated into the sediment over... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20complaint | The chief complaint, formally known as CC in the medical field, or termed presenting complaint (PC) in Europe and Canada, forms the second step of medical history taking. It is sometimes also referred to as reason for encounter (RFE), presenting problem, problem on admission or reason for presenting. The chief complain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal%20patch | A causal patch is a region of spacetime connected within the relativistic framework of causality (causal light cones).
Background
After Leonard Susskind proposed the black hole complementarity conjecture for black holes in quantum gravity, he realized it would also apply to a de Sitter universe with a positive cosmol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord%20Krauskopf | Nord Krauskopf (January 26, 1922 – August 3, 1986) was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race car owner whose career spanned from 1966 to 1977. He was the owner of K&K Insurance and a part of the business since its foundation in 1952. This was a position that he kept in the corporate world while having a second career in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatarsophalangeal%20joints | The metatarsophalangeal joints (MTP joints), also informally known as toe knuckles, are the joints between the metatarsal bones of the foot and the proximal bones (proximal phalanges) of the toes. They are condyloid joints, meaning that an elliptical or rounded surface (of the metatarsal bones) comes close to a shallo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscopic%20theory | A microscopic theory is one that contains an explanation at the atomic or subatomic level in contrast to a higher level or classical macroscopic or phenomenological theory. e.g. in superconductivity BCS theory is a microscopic theory. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20Pro%20Bowl | The 2019 Pro Bowl was the National Football League's all-star game for the 2018 NFL season, played on January 27, 2019, at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. It was televised nationally by ESPN and its sister networks.
Game format
The 2019 game featured the same format as the previous five editions. For the si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar%20polarization | Chandrasekhar Polarization is a partial polarization of emergent radiation at the limb of rapidly rotating early-type stars or binary star system with purely electron-scattering atmosphere, named after the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who first predicted its existence theoretically in 1946... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20expansions%20for%20the%20moments%20of%20functions%20of%20random%20variables | In probability theory, it is possible to approximate the moments of a function f of a random variable X using Taylor expansions, provided that f is sufficiently differentiable and that the moments of X are finite.
First moment
Given and , the mean and the variance of , respectively, a Taylor expansion of the expected... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%20%28supercomputer%29 | Leonardo is a petascale supercomputer located at the CINECA datacenter in Bologna, Italy. The system consists of an Atos BullSequana XH2000 computer, with close to 14,000 Nvidia Ampere GPUs and 200Gb/s Nvidia Mellanox HDR InfiniBand connectivity. Inagurated in November 2022, Leonardo is capable of 250 petaflops (250 qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory-based%20coherence | Directory-based coherence is a mechanism to handle Cache coherence problem in Distributed shared memory (DSM) a.k.a. Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA). Another popular way is to use a special type of computer bus between all the nodes as a "shared bus" (a.k.a. System bus). Directory-based coherence uses a special direct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditaxis%20heterantha | Ditaxis heterantha is a member of the plant family Euphorbiaceae and grows wild in Guanajuato, Mexico, where it is known as azafrán, azafrancillo, azafrán de bolita or saffron pellets and has several culinary uses, including as a substitute for saffron. Ditaxis heterantha is not related to true saffron (Crocus sativus)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20space | In mathematics, a spectral space is a topological space that is homeomorphic to the spectrum of a commutative ring. It is sometimes also called a coherent space because of the connection to coherent topos.
Definition
Let X be a topological space and let K(X) be the set of all
compact open subsets of X. Then X is sai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20inductive%20logic | Pure inductive logic (PIL) is the area of mathematical logic concerned with the philosophical and mathematical foundations of probabilistic inductive reasoning. It combines classical predicate logic and probability theory (Bayesian inference). Probability values are assigned to sentences of a first-order relational lan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%207400-series%20integrated%20circuits | The following is a list of 7400-series digital logic integrated circuits. In the mid-1960s, the original 7400-series integrated circuits were introduced by Texas Instruments with the prefix "SN" to create the name SN74xx. Due to the popularity of these parts, other manufacturers released pin-to-pin compatible logic de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrolepiota%20excoriata | Macrolepiota excoriata is a mushroom in the family Agaricaceae.
Description
The height is . The color of the mushroom is white to cream. The cap is convex to shield shaped, is arched over with a raised center, in diameter, has a brownish center, and has ochre yellow to pale brown scales. The gills are white to cream.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare%20quotes | Scare quotes (also called shudder quotes, sneer quotes, and quibble marks) are quotation marks that writers place around a word or phrase to signal that they are using it in an ironic, referential, or otherwise non-standard sense. Scare quotes may indicate that the author is using someone else's term, similar to preced... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Iwate%20Prefecture | The is the prefectural flag of Iwate Prefecture, Japan. This article also discusses the Iwate prefectural emblem which is displayed on the flag.
Overview
To commemorate the construction of the Iwate Prefectural Office, a public contest was held to create a new symbol for Iwate, and the crest was announced on 10 Nove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fern%20families | Below are lists of extant fern families and subfamilies using the classification scheme proposed by the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group in 2016 (PPG I). The scheme is based on molecular phylogenetic studies, and also draws on earlier classifications, particularly those by Smith et al. (2006), Chase and Reveal (2009), and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaltomata%20procumbens | Jaltomata procumbens, the creeping false holly, is a plant species native to Arizona, USA, Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. It grows as a weed in agricultural fields and other disturbed locations, but in many places the people protect it because of the edible fruits it produces.
Jaltomata pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark%20%28XMPP%20client%29 | Spark is an open-source instant messaging program (based on XMPP protocol) that allows users to communicate in real time. It can be integrated with the Openfire server to provide additional features such as controlling the various Spark functionalities from a central management console, or integrating with a proprietar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Russian%20microprocessors | This is the list of Russian microprocessors, sorted by manufacturer
MCST
Elbrus 2000 – implements VLIW architecture, 300 MHz clock rate, developed by MCST
Elbrus-S
Elbrus-1S+ – single-core evolution of Elbrus 2000 SoC, 1000 MHz clock rate + GPU
Elbrus-2S+ – dual-core evolution of Elbrus 2000, 500 MHz clock rate + ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAD%2B%20Five-prime%20cap | In molecular biology, the NAD+ five-prime cap (NAD+ 5’ cap) refers to a molecule of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), a nucleoside-containing metabolite, covalently bonded the 5’ end of cellular mRNA. While the more common methylated guanosine (m7G) cap is added to RNA by a capping complex that associates with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam%20digester | The steam digester or bone digester (also known as Papin’s digester) is a high-pressure cooker invented by French physicist Denis Papin in 1679. It is a device for extracting fats from bones in a high-pressure steam environment, which also renders them brittle enough to be easily ground into bone meal. It is the foreru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20Review%20B | Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (also known as PRB) is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal, published by the American Physical Society (APS). The Editor of PRB is Stephen E. Nagler. It is part of the Physical Review family of journals. The current Editor in Chief is Randall Kamien. PRB current... |
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