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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal%20precautions | Spinal precautions, also known as spinal immobilization and spinal motion restriction, are efforts to prevent movement of the spine in those with a risk of a spine injury. This is done as an effort to prevent injury to the spinal cord. It is estimated that 2% of people with blunt trauma will have a spine injury.
Uses ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macacine%20gammaherpesvirus%2011 | Macacine gammaherpesvirus 11 (McHV-11) is a species of virus in the genus Rhadinovirus, subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFA-100 | The PFA-100 (Platelet Function Assay or Platelet Function Analyser) is a platelet function analyser that aspirates blood in vitro from a blood specimen into disposable test cartridges through a microscopic aperture cut into a biologically active membrane at the end of a capillary. The membrane of the cartridges are coa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweak%20programming%20environment | Tweak is a graphical user interface (GUI) layer written by Andreas Raab for the Squeak development environment, which in turn is an integrated development environment based on the Smalltalk-80 computer programming language. Tweak is an alternative to an earlier graphic user interface layer called Morphic. Development b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plant%20family%20names%20with%20etymologies | Since the first edition of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. Related are in turn grouped into families. Each family's formal name ends in the Latin suffix -aceae and is derived from the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaper%20Genie | Diaper Genie is a baby diaper disposal system. It consists of a large plastic container with a plastic lid. The system seals diapers individually in a scented film to protect against germs and odors. By opening the lid on the top of the canister, a soiled diaper may be inserted into the "mouth" of the container. After ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riboviria | Riboviria is a realm of viruses that includes all viruses that use a homologous RNA-dependent polymerase for replication. It includes RNA viruses that encode an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, as well as reverse-transcribing viruses (with either RNA or DNA genomes) that encode an RNA-dependent DNA polymerase. RNA-depende... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraceptive%20sponge | The contraceptive sponge combines barrier and spermicidal methods to prevent conception. Sponges work in two ways. First, the sponge is inserted into the vagina, so it can cover the cervix and prevent any sperm from entering the uterus. Secondly, the sponge contains spermicide.
The sponges are inserted vaginally prior... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected%20sum | In mathematics, specifically in topology, the operation of connected sum is a geometric modification on manifolds. Its effect is to join two given manifolds together near a chosen point on each. This construction plays a key role in the classification of closed surfaces.
More generally, one can also join manifolds tog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomeronasal%20organ | The vomeronasal organ (VNO), or Jacobson's organ, is the paired auxiliary olfactory (smell) sense organ located in the soft tissue of the nasal septum, in the nasal cavity just above the roof of the mouth (the hard palate) in various tetrapods. The name is derived from the fact that it lies adjacent to the unpaired vom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergun%20equation | The Ergun equation, derived by the Turkish chemical engineer Sabri Ergun in 1952, expresses the friction factor in a packed column as a function of the modified Reynolds number.
Equation
where and are defined as
and
where:
is the modified Reynolds number,
is the packed bed friction factor
is the pressure dr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%20Time%20Immemorial | From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab–Jewish Conflict over Palestine is a 1984 book by Joan Peters, published by Harper & Row, about the demographics of the Arab population of Palestine and of the Jewish population of the Arab world before and after the formation of the State of Israel.
It was initially positi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth%20of%20discharge | Depth of discharge (DoD) is an important parameter appearing in the context of rechargeable battery operation. Two non-identical definitions can be found in commercial and scientific sources. The depth of discharge is defined as:
the maximum fraction or percentage of a battery's capacity (given in Ah) which is remove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Society%20for%20Biosemiotic%20Studies | The International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) is an academic society for the researchers in semiotic biology. The Society was established in 2005. Its official journal is Biosemiotics, published by Springer and launched in 2008.
The purpose of the ISBS is to constitute an organizational framework for the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPIV | NPIV or N_Port ID Virtualization is a Fibre Channel feature whereby multiple Fibre Channel node port (N_Port) IDs can share a single physical N_Port. This allows multiple Fibre Channel initiators to occupy a single physical port, easing hardware requirements in Storage Area Network (SAN) design, especially where virtu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic%20acid | 5-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (5-HETE, 5(S)-HETE, or 5S-HETE) is an eicosanoid, i.e. a metabolite of arachidonic acid. It is produced by diverse cell types in humans and other animal species. These cells may then metabolize the formed 5(S)-HETE to 5-oxo-eicosatetraenoic acid (5-oxo-ETE), 5(S),15(S)-dihydroxyeicosatetr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant%20Trade%20Union | The Restaurant Trade Union (, RBF) was a trade union representing hospitality and food manufacturing workers in Denmark.
The union was founded in 1990, when the Danish Brewery, Distillery and Mineral Water Workers' Union merged with the Danish Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union, and the National Gastronomic Union. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%20polynomial%20%28finite%20fields%29 | In mathematics, the Conway polynomial Cp,n for the finite field Fpn is a particular irreducible polynomial of degree n over Fp that can be used to define a standard representation of Fpn as a splitting field of Cp,n. Conway polynomials were named after John H. Conway by Richard A. Parker, who was the first to define t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretching%20field | In applied mathematics, stretching fields provide the local deformation of an infinitesimal circular fluid element over a finite time interval ∆t. The logarithm of the stretching (after first dividing by ∆t) gives the finite-time Lyapunov exponent λ for separation of nearby fluid elements at each point in a flow. For p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solver | A solver is a piece of mathematical software, possibly in the form of a stand-alone computer program or as a software library, that 'solves' a mathematical problem. A solver takes problem descriptions in some sort of generic form and calculates their solution. In a solver, the emphasis is on creating a program or libra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome%20sort | Gnome sort (nicknamed stupid sort) is a variation of the insertion sort sorting algorithm that does not use nested loops. Gnome sort was originally proposed by Iranian computer scientist Hamid Sarbazi-Azad (professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Sharif University of Technology) in 2000. The sort was first cal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LA-2A%20Leveling%20Amplifier | The LA-2A Leveling Amplifier is an audio compressor produced by Teletronix Engineering Company from 1965 until 1969, and reissued in 2000 by Universal Audio.
History
The LA-2A was invented by James F. Lawrence II, founder of the Teletronix Engineering Company in Pasadena, California in the early 1960s. The LA-2A had e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Banach%20spaces | In the mathematical field of functional analysis, Banach spaces are among the most important objects of study. In other areas of mathematical analysis, most spaces which arise in practice turn out to be Banach spaces as well.
Classical Banach spaces
According to , the classical Banach spaces are those defined by , ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%20process | The Penrose process (also called Penrose mechanism) is theorised by Sir Roger Penrose as a means whereby energy can be extracted from a rotating black hole. The process takes advantage of the ergosphere – a region of spacetime around the black hole dragged by its rotation faster than the speed of light, meaning that fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20S.%20Russell | Edward Stuart Russell OBE FLS (25 March 1887 – 24 August 1954) was a Scottish biologist and philosopher of biology.
Russell was born near Glasgow. He studied at Greenock Academy and later at Glasgow University under Sir Graham Kerr and worked with J. Arthur Thompson after he graduated. He was influenced by his friend ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dattorro%20industry%20scheme | The Dattorro industry scheme is a digital system used to implement a wide range of delay-based audio effects for digital signals. It was proposed by Jon Dattorro. The common nature of these effects allows to produce an output signal as the linear combination of (dynamically modulated) delayed replicas of the input sign... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation%20timestamp | The presentation timestamp (PTS) is a timestamp metadata field in an MPEG transport stream or MPEG program stream that is used to achieve synchronization of programs' separate elementary streams (for example Video, Audio, Subtitles) when presented to the viewer. The PTS is given in units related to a program's overall ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unibox | Unibox is a satellite, cable and terrestrial digital receiver (set-top box). It has been distributed widely for use with Pay TV. It also enables the receiver to store digital copies of MPEG TS on internal harddisk or networked filesystems.
Linux on the Uni-box
Unibox was based on the Linux operating system.
Original... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasource | DataSource is a name given to the connection set up to a database from a server. The name is commonly used when creating a query to the database. The data source name (DSN) need not be the same as the filename for the database. For example, a database file named friends.mdb could be set up with a DSN of school. Then DS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20envelope%20jets%20supernova | Common envelope jets supernova (CEJSN) is a type of supernova, where the explosion is caused by the merger of a giant or supergiant star with a compact star such as a neutron star or a black hole. As the compact star plunges into the envelope of the giant/supergiant, it begins to accrete matter from the envelope and la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching%20time | For a frequency synthesizer, the switching time or more colloquially the switching speed is the amount of time from when the command for the next frequency is requested until the time that the synthesizer's output becomes usable and meets the specified requirements. Such requirements will vary depending on the design... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia%20%C3%97%20thompsoniana | Magnolia × thompsoniana is a hybrid plant in the genus Magnolia and family Magnoliaceae. It is a semideciduous tree with large white fragrant flowers.
Hybrid origin
Magnolia × thompsoniana arose as a spontaneous seedling from a batch of seed taken and grown from an old tree of Magnolia virginiana in 1808 in the nurser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20unroofing | Cell unroofing is any of various methods to isolate and expose the cell membrane of cells. Differently from the more common membrane extraction protocols performed with multiple steps of centrifugation (which goal is to separate the membrane fraction from a cell lysate), in cell unroofing the aim is to tear and preserv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoclepsydrops | Protoclepsydrops is an extinct genus of early synapsids, found in Joggins, Nova Scotia. The name means 'first Clepsydrops''', and refers to it being the predecessor of the other early synapsid Clepsydrops.
Description
Like Archaeothyris, Protoclepsydrops resembled a modern lizard in superficial appearance. However, Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20T.%20Goodrich | Michael T. Goodrich is a mathematician and computer scientist. He is a distinguished professor of computer science and the former chair of the department of computer science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
University career
He received his B.A. in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayCable | PlayCable was an online service introduced in 1980 that allowed local cable television system operators to send games for the Intellivision over cable wires alongside normal television signals. Through the service, subscribers would use a device, called the PlayCable adapter, to download the games for play on their Int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roominate | Roominate is a construction set introduced by Maykah Inc., a company founded by Alice Brooks and Bettina Chen, in 2012. The product, marketed at girls aged 6–10, consists of modular plastic building pieces that can interlock to create models and includes circuits that can be wired. Originally funded through Kickstarter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20der%20Corput%27s%20method | In mathematics, van der Corput's method generates estimates for exponential sums. The method applies two processes, the van der Corput processes A and B which relate the sums into simpler sums which are easier to estimate.
The processes apply to exponential sums of the form
where f is a sufficiently smooth function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefania%20Jab%C5%82o%C5%84ska | Stefania Jabłońska (born Szela Ginzburg; 7 September 1920 – 8 May 2017) was a Polish physician and professor specializing in dermatology. She worked at the Medical University of Warsaw.
In 1972, she theorized the association of human papilloma viruses with skin cancer in epidermodysplasia verruciformis.
In 1978, Jabł... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20ovo | In ovo is Latin for in the egg. In medical usage it refers to the growth of live virus in chicken egg embryos for vaccine development for human use, as well as an effective method for vaccination of poultry against various Avian influenza and coronaviruses. During the incubation period, the virus replicates in the cell... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20of%20photography | The science of photography is the use of chemistry and physics in all aspects of photography. This applies to the camera, its lenses, physical operation of the camera, electronic camera internals, and the process of developing film in order to take and develop pictures properly.
Optics
Camera obscura
The fundamenta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumel | EUMEL (pronounced oimel for Extendable Multi User Microprocessor ELAN System and also known as L2 for Liedtke 2) is an operating system (OS) which began as a runtime system (environment) for the programming language ELAN. It was created in 1979 by Jochen Liedtke at the Bielefeld University. EUMEL initially ran on the 8... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Rayford | Robert Lee Rayford (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. This is based on evidence published in 1988 in which the authors claimed that medic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indohyus | Indohyus is an extinct genus of digitigrade even-toed ungulates known from Eocene fossils in Asia. This small chevrotain-like animal found in the Himalayas is one of the earliest known non-cetacean ancestors of whales.
Discovery
The fossils were discovered among rocks that had been collected in 1971 in Kashmir by the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication%20timing%20quantitative%20trait%20loci | Replication timing quantitative trait loci (or rtQTL) are genetic variations that lead to a differential use of replication origins, exhibiting allele-specific effects on replication timing. Originally, 16 rtQTL were found in an analysis of human genomes. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocentric%20chromosome | The monocentric chromosome is a chromosome that has only one centromere in a chromosome and forms a narrow constriction.
Monocentric centromeres are the most common structure on highly repetitive DNA in plants and animals.
Structure
Monocentric chromosomes as compared to holocentric chromosomes where the entire len... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesk | Plesk is a commercial web hosting and server data center automation software developed for Linux and Windows-based retail hosting service providers.
It was developed by Plesk International GmbH, a company with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, and Schaffhausen, Switzerland, with offices in Barcelona, Spain, Cologne, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StatCrunch | StatCrunch is a web-based statistical software application from Pearson Education. StatCrunch was originally created for use in college statistics courses. As a full-featured statistics package, it is now also used for research and for other statistical analysis purposes.
History
American statistics professor Webst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20molar%20property | In thermodynamics, a partial molar property is a quantity which describes the variation of an extensive property of a solution or mixture with changes in the molar composition of the mixture at constant temperature and pressure. It is the partial derivative of the extensive property with respect to the amount (number o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammapapillomavirus | Gammapapillomavirus is a genus of viruses, in the family Papillomaviridae. Human serve as natural hosts. There are 27 species in this genus. Diseases associated with this genus include: warts, papilloma.
Taxonomy
The following 27 species are assigned to the genus:
Gammapapillomavirus 1
Gammapapillomavirus 2
Gammap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled%20magnetic%20recording | Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) is a magnetic storage data recording technology used in hard disk drives (HDDs) to increase storage density and overall per-drive storage capacity. Conventional hard disk drives record data by writing non-overlapping magnetic tracks parallel to each other (conventional magnetic recordi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle%20of%20normality | The Principle of normality in solid mechanics states that if a normal to the yield locus is constructed at the point of yielding, the strains that result from yielding are in the same ratio as the stress components of the normal. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20search | Voice search, also called voice-enabled search, allows the user to use a voice command to search the Internet, a website, or an app.
In a broader definition, voice search includes open-domain keyword query on any information on the Internet, for example in Google Voice Search, Cortana, Siri and Amazon Echo.
Voice sea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater%20acoustics | Underwater acoustics (also known as hydroacoustics) is the study of the propagation of sound in water and the interaction of the mechanical waves that constitute sound with the water, its contents and its boundaries. The water may be in the ocean, a lake, a river or a tank. Typical frequencies associated with underwate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20di-AMP | Cyclic di-AMP (also called c-di-AMP and c-di-adenosine monophosphate) is a second messenger used in signal transduction in bacteria and archaea. It is present in many Gram-positive bacteria, some Gram-negative species, and archaea of the phylum euryarchaeota.
It is one of many ubiquitous nucleotide second messengers i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claussen%20pickles | Claussen is an American brand of pickled cucumbers that is headquartered in Woodstock, Illinois, an exurb of Chicago. Unlike many other brands, Claussen pickles are uncooked and are typically located in the refrigerated section of grocery stores.
Claussen is advertised as having superior crunchiness to other brands. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyttaria%20espinosae | Cyttaria espinosae (Lloyd), also known by its local name digüeñe, dihueñe, lihueñe, quireñe, pinatra, or quideñe, is an orange-white coloured and edible ascomycete fungus native to south-central Chile and Argentinean Patagonia. The digüeñe is a strict and specific parasite of Nothofagus, mainly Nothofagus obliqua trees... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmit%20and%20receive%20integrated%20assembly | A transmit and receive integrated assembly (TRIA) is used on a two-way satellite dish to process signals to and from a ground-based system and an earth-orbiting satellite. The TRIA is the part of the antenna which contains both the feed horn and the circuits which convert high-frequency satellite signals such as X-band... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex%20scapular%20artery | The circumflex scapular artery (scapular circumflex artery, dorsalis scapulae artery) is a branch of the subscapular artery and part of the scapular anastomoses.
It curves around the axillary border of the scapula, traveling through the anatomical "Triangular space" made up of the Teres minor superiorly, the Teres maj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Harrow | Benjamin Harrow (August 25, 1888 – December 9, 1970) was an American biochemist, nutritionist and science writer.
Harrow was born in London. He was educated at Finsbury Technical College from 1904 to 1906 and emigrated to the United States in 1907. He obtained a B.S. (1911), A.M. (1912) and Ph.D. (1913) from Columbia ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen%E2%80%93Ninomiya%20theorem | In lattice field theory, the Nielsen–Ninomiya theorem is a no-go theorem about placing chiral fermions on the lattice. In particular, under very general assumptions such as locality, hermiticity, and translational symmetry, any lattice formulation of chiral fermions necessarily leads to fermion doubling, where there ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20centaurs%20%28small%20Solar%20System%20bodies%29 | The following is a list of centaurs, a group of non-resonant small Solar System bodies whose orbit around the Sun lie typically between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune (5 to 30 AU). Centaurs are minor planets with characteristics of comets, and often classified as such. The dynamical group is formed due to Neptune's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%20Abort%20Guidance%20System | The Apollo Abort Guidance System (AGS, also known as Abort Guidance Section) was a backup computer system providing an abort capability in the event of failure of the Lunar Module's primary guidance system (Apollo PGNCS) during descent, ascent or rendezvous. As an abort system, it did not support guidance for a lunar l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian%20Business | Arabian Business (AB) is a weekly business magazine published in Dubai and focusing on global and regional news analysis. The brand is aimed at the English and Arabic-speaking communities and is published in both languages.
Its circulation figures for October–December 2007 were given as 20,468 copies. The audited circ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana%20ligature | In the Japanese writing system are ligatures in the kana writing system, both hiragana and katakana.
Kana such as and are not kana ligatures, but polysyllabic kana.
Hardly any kana ligatures or polysyllabic kana are represented in standard character encodings.
History
These characters were widely used until a sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20Cognition%20Framework | The Modular Cognition Framework (MCF) is an open-ended theoretical framework for research into the way the mind is organized. It draws on the common ground shared by contemporary research in the various areas that are collectively known as cognitive science and is designed to be applicable to all these fields of resear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus%20subrufescens | Agaricus subrufescens (syn. Agaricus blazei, Agaricus brasiliensis or Agaricus rufotegulis) is a species of mushroom, commonly known as almond mushroom, almond agaricus, mushroom of the sun, God's mushroom, mushroom of life, royal sun agaricus, jisongrong, or himematsutake (Chinese: , Japanese: , "princess matsutake") ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge%20Base%20Online | Bridge Base Online (BBO) is the world's largest bridge-playing online platform, with about 10 million monthly visits, as of November 2021. Originally created by professional bridge player Fred Gitelman, BBO was first published by Bridge Base, Inc. in 2001, as a Windows downloadable software, offering free online multip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurich%20Notebook | The Zurich Notebook is one of Albert Einstein's notebooks, from his time in Zurich. It contains much of the basic work for general relativity. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decagon | In geometry, a decagon (from the Greek δέκα déka and γωνία gonía, "ten angles") is a ten-sided polygon or 10-gon. The total sum of the interior angles of a simple decagon is 1440°.
Regular decagon
A regular decagon has all sides of equal length and each internal angle will always be equal to 144°. Its Schläfli symbol ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20%27t%20Hoff%20equation | The Van 't Hoff equation relates the change in the equilibrium constant, , of a chemical reaction to the change in temperature, T, given the standard enthalpy change, , for the process. The subscript means "reaction" and the superscript means "standard". It was proposed by Dutch chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry, yield, also referred to as reaction yield, is a measure of the quantity of moles of a product formed in relation to the reactant consumed, obtained in a chemical reaction, usually expressed as a percentage. Yield is one of the primary factors that scientists must consider in organic and inorganic chemic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCAM | HDCAM is a high-definition video digital recording videocassette version of Digital Betacam introduced in 1997 that uses an 8-bit discrete cosine transform (DCT) compressed 3:1:1 recording, in 1080i-compatible down-sampled resolution of 1440×1080, and adding 24p and 23.976 progressive segmented frame (PsF) modes to lat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIOBE%20index | The TIOBE programming community index is a measure of popularity of programming languages, created and maintained by TIOBE Software BV, based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. TIOBE stands for The Importance of Being Earnest, the title of an 1895 comedy play by Oscar Wilde, to emphasize the organization's "sincere and pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuerda | The term "cuerda" (Spanish for rope) refers to a unit of measurement in some Spanish-speaking regions, including Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Cuba, Spain, and Paraguay. In Puerto Rico, the term cuerda (and "Spanish acre") refers to the unit of area measurement. In Guatemala, cuerda is both a unit of length measurement as w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABISMO | ABISMO (Automatic Bottom Inspection and Sampling Mobile) is a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) built by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for exploration of the deep sea. It is the only remaining ROV rated to 11,000-meters (after Nereus, built and operated by the Woods Hole Oc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle%27s%20minimal%20essential%20medium | Minimal Essential Medium (MEM) is a synthetic cell culture medium developed by Harry Eagle first published in 1959 in Science that can be used to maintain cells in tissue culture. It is based on 6 salts and glucose described in Earle's salts in 1934: (calcium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium sulfate, sodium chlo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayam%20Brand | Ayam Brand (simply known as Ayam) is a Singaporean multinational food company, specialising in prepared foods, including seafood, canned fish (sardines, mackerel, tuna) and canned vegetables, especially baked beans. Ayam's product offerings vary by country. The sole owner of Ayam Brand is a company called Ayam S.A.R.L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtyping | In programming language theory, subtyping (also called subtype polymorphism or inclusion polymorphism) is a form of type polymorphism. A subtype is a datatype that is related to another datatype (the supertype) by some notion of substitutability, meaning that program elements (typically subroutines or functions), writt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck%20effect | The Westermarck effect, also known as reverse sexual imprinting, is a psychological hypothesis that states that people tend not to be attracted to peers with whom they lived like siblings before age six. This hypothesis was first proposed by Finnish anthropologist Edvard Westermarck in his book The History of Human Mar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Graphics%20Technology | Intel Graphics Technology (GT) is the collective name for a series of integrated graphics processors (IGPs) produced by Intel that are manufactured on the same package or die as the central processing unit (CPU). It was first introduced in 2010 as Intel HD Graphics and renamed in 2017 as Intel UHD Graphics.
Intel Iri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant%20set%20postulate | The invariant set postulate concerns the possible relationship between fractal geometry and quantum mechanics and in particular the hypothesis that the former can assist in resolving some of the challenges posed by the latter. It is underpinned by nonlinear dynamical systems theory and black hole thermodynamics.
Autho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Kingsley | Stuart Kingsley (born May 15, 1948, in Stoke Newington, London, England) is considered a pioneer in the Optical Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence, also known as Optical SETI (OSETI).
While traditional SETI efforts survey the sky in hopes of finding radio transmissions from a nearby civilization, the optical app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20theorem%20of%20Hilbert%20spaces | In mathematics, specifically in functional analysis and Hilbert space theory, the fundamental theorem of Hilbert spaces gives a necessarily and sufficient condition for a Hausdorff pre-Hilbert space to be a Hilbert space in terms of the canonical isometry of a pre-Hilbert space into its anti-dual.
Preliminaries
Antil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean%20value%20theorem%20%28divided%20differences%29 | In mathematical analysis, the mean value theorem for divided differences generalizes the mean value theorem to higher derivatives.
Statement of the theorem
For any n + 1 pairwise distinct points x0, ..., xn in the domain of an n-times differentiable function f there exists an interior point
where the nth derivat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kith%20%28Poul%20Anderson%29 | The Kith are a starfaring culture featured in a number of science fiction stories by American writer Poul Anderson. They are:
"Ghetto" (1954)
"The Horn of Time the Hunter" (also known as "Homo Aquaticus", 1963)
The novel Starfarers (1998) - John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee, 1999
The Kith develop out of early i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido%20De%20Philippis | Guido De Philippis (born August 16, 1985 at Fiesole) is an Italian mathematician. He works on the calculus of variations, partial differential equations and geometric measure theory.
In 2016 he was awarded the EMS Prize, "for his outstanding contributions to the regularity of solutions of Monge–Ampère equation and opt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov%20fractal | In mathematics, Lyapunov fractals (also known as Markus–Lyapunov fractals) are bifurcational fractals derived from an extension of the logistic map in which the degree of the growth of the population, r, periodically switches between two values A and B.
A Lyapunov fractal is constructed by mapping the regions of stabi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door%20hanger | A door hanger (also spelled doorhanger or door-hanger) is a plastic or cardboard sign, generally rectangular in shape, cut to hang from the handle or knob of a door. They are sometimes used to distribute print advertising to residences. Door hangers are often seen in hotels and other places of lodging as a means for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20constant | The prime constant is the real number whose th binary digit is 1 if is prime and 0 if is composite or 1.
In other words, is the number whose binary expansion corresponds to the indicator function of the set of prime numbers. That is,
where indicates a prime and is the characteristic function of the set of pri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20catastrophe | Error catastrophe refers to the cumulative loss of genetic information in a lineage of organisms due to high mutation rates. The mutation rate above which error catastrophe occurs is called the error threshold. Both terms were coined by Manfred Eigen in his mathematical evolutionary theory of the quasispecies.
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocontainment%20of%20genetically%20modified%20organisms | Since the advent of genetic engineering in the 1970s, concerns have been raised about the dangers of the technology. Laws, regulations, and treaties were created in the years following to contain genetically modified organisms and prevent their escape. Nevertheless, there are several examples of failure to keep GM cr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Life%20in%20Orange | My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru is an account of a child growing up in the Rajneesh movement led by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The book is a firsthand account, written by Tim Guest at the age of 27, years after his experiences. The book was published in 2004 by Granta Books. The book's title is a reference to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Media%20Network | The Open Media Network (OMN) was a P2PTV service and application which provided distribution of educational and public service programs. The network was founded in 2005 by Netscape pioneers Mike Homer and Marc Andreessen. After operating for an extended beta period, development ended with the serious illness and subseq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference%20frame%20%28video%29 | Reference frames are frames of a compressed video that are used to define future frames. As such, they are only used in inter-frame compression techniques. In older video encoding standards, such as MPEG-2, only one reference frame – the previous frame – was used for P-frames. Two reference frames (one past and one fut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd%20Squad | Odd Squad (stylized as ODD SQUAD) is a children's live action educational television series that premiered on TVOKids in Canada and PBS Kids in the United States on November 26, 2014. The series ran for three seasons and 108 episodes in a span of seven years, airing its final episode on July 8, 2022. Similar to Cyberch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%20state | The ground state of a quantum-mechanical system is its stationary state of lowest energy; the energy of the ground state is known as the zero-point energy of the system. An excited state is any state with energy greater than the ground state. In quantum field theory, the ground state is usually called the vacuum state ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivanti%E2%80%93Pringsheim%20theorem | The Vivanti–Pringsheim theorem is a mathematical statement in complex analysis, that determines a specific singularity for a function described by certain type of power series. The theorem was originally formulated by Giulio Vivanti in 1893 and proved in the following year by Alfred Pringsheim.
More precisely the the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing%20attack | In the context of information security, and especially network security, a spoofing attack is a situation in which a person or program successfully identifies as another by falsifying data, to gain an illegitimate advantage.
Internet
Spoofing and TCP/IP
Many of the protocols in the TCP/IP suite do not provide mecha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornidazole | Ornidazole is an antibiotic used to treat protozoan infections. A synthetic nitroimidazole, it is commercially obtained from an acid-catalyzed reaction between 2-methyl-5-nitroimidazole and epichlorohydrin.
Antimicrobial spectrum is similar to that of metronidazole and is more well tolerated; however there are concer... |
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