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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie%20Ann%20Jarrett | Sallie Ann Jarrett was the canine mascot of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry, accompanying the soldiers throughout nearly the entire American Civil War, until she was killed in action in February 1865. Sallie, as the men would come to call her, was born in the spring of 1861 and was described by Colonel Richard Coulter a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20officer | A flag officer is a commissioned officer in a nation's armed forces senior enough to be entitled to fly a flag to mark the position from which the officer exercises command.
The term is used differently in different countries:
In many countries, a flag officer is a senior officer of the navy, specifically those who h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ecoregions%20with%20high%20endemism | This list is for ecoregions with high endemism. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the following ecoregions have the highest percentage of endemic plants.
Ecoregions
Fynbos (South Africa)
Hawaiian tropical dry forests (United States)
Hawaiian tropical rainforests (United States)
Kwongan heathlands (Aust... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr%E2%80%93Van%20Leeuwen%20theorem | The Bohr–Van Leeuwen theorem states that when statistical mechanics and classical mechanics are applied consistently, the thermal average of the magnetization is always zero. This makes magnetism in solids solely a quantum mechanical effect and means that classical physics cannot account for paramagnetism, diamagnetism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/105th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 105° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 105th meridian west forms a great circle with the 75th meridian east.
It serves as the reference meridian for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20%28operator%29 | The parallel operator (pronounced "parallel", following the parallel lines notation from geometry; also known as reduced sum, parallel sum or parallel addition) is a mathematical function which is used as a shorthand in electrical engineering, but is also used in kinetics, fluid mechanics and financial mathematics. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracoepigastric%20vein | The thoracoepigastric vein runs along the lateral aspect of the trunk between the superficial epigastric vein below and the lateral thoracic vein above and establishes an important communication between the femoral vein and axillary vein. This is an especially important vein when the inferior vena cava (IVC) becomes ob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossmodal | Crossmodal perception or cross-modal perception is perception that involves interactions between two or more different sensory modalities. Examples include synesthesia, sensory substitution and the McGurk effect, in which vision and hearing interact in speech perception.
Crossmodal perception, crossmodal integration a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo%20de%20Astronom%C3%ADa%20y%20Ciencias%20del%20Espacio | The Grupo de Astronomía y Ciencias del Espacio (Group of Astronomy and Space Sciences, GACE-UV) is an astrophysics research group, part of the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) in the University of Valencia.
It is located in the Parc Científic in Paterna, Valencia.
See also
List of astronomical societies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforesting%20Scotland | Reforesting Scotland is a membership organisation concerned with the ecological and social regeneration of Scotland. It aims to significantly increase the forested areas of the country.
History
Reforesting Scotland is an environmental charity established in 1991. Its founding directors were Bernard Planterose, Emma Pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja%20Koduri | Rajabali Makaradhwaja Koduri (born 31 August 1968) is an Indian-American computer engineer and executive for computer graphics hardware. He was the chief architect and Executive Vice President of Intel's architecture, graphics and software (IAGS) division until April 2023. Before Intel, he worked as the senior vice pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertzian%20cone | A Hertzian cone is the cone produced when an object passes through a solid, such as a bullet through glass. More technically, it is a cone of force that propagates through a brittle, amorphous, or cryptocrystalline solid material from a point of impact. This force eventually removes a full or partial cone in the materi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate%20desertion | Mate desertion occurs when one or both parents abandon their current offspring, and thereby reduce or stop providing parental care. Often, by deserting, a parent attempts to increase breeding opportunities by seeking out another mate. This form of mating strategy behavior is exhibited in insects, birds and mammals. Typ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%20operators | The Stokes operators are the quantum mechanical operators corresponding to the classical Stokes parameters. These matrix operators are identical to the Pauli matrices .
External links
Stokes operators, angular momentum and radiation phase.
Quantum mechanics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-cable%20distribution | Single-cable distribution is a satellite TV technology that enables the delivery of broadcast programming to multiple users over a single coaxial cable, and eliminates the numerous cables required to support consumer electronics devices such as twin-tuner digital video recorders (DVRs) and high-end receivers.
Without ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid%20Naderi%20Yeganeh | Hamid Naderi Yeganeh (; born July 26, 1990, in Iran) is an Iranian mathematical artist and digital artist. He is known for using mathematical formulas to create drawings of real-life objects, intricate and symmetrical illustrations, animations, fractals and tessellations. Naderi Yeganeh uses mathematics as the main too... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra%20%282017%20film%29 | Ezra is a 2017 Indian Malayalam-language supernatural horror thriller film written and directed by Jay K. starring Prithviraj Sukumaran, Priya Anand, Tovino Thomas, Sujith Shankar, Vijayaraghavan Pillai, and Sudev Nair in the leading roles. Principal photography began in late-June 2016. Major filming locations were For... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20unit | Ecological units, comprise concepts such as population, community, and ecosystem as the basic units, which are at the basis of ecological theory and research, as well as a focus point of many conservation strategies. The concept of ecological units continues to suffer from inconsistencies and confusion over its termino... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevPartner | DevPartner is a set of software development and testing tools developed by NuMega, acquired by Compuware in 1997, which on June 1, 2009 sold it to Micro Focus. There are two versions: one for native and .NET Windows applications, and another for Java applications. It is currently sold by Micro Focus.
DevPartner Stud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSim | VSim is a cross-platform computational framework for multiphysics including electrodynamics in the presence of metallic and dielectric shapes as well as with or without self-consistent charged particles and fluids. It is compatible with compatible with Windows, Linux, and macOS.
It comes with VSimComposer, a full-feat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent%27s%20disease | Dent's disease (or Dent disease) is a rare X-linked recessive inherited condition that affects the proximal renal tubules of the kidney. It is one cause of Fanconi syndrome, and is characterized by tubular proteinuria, excess calcium in the urine, formation of calcium kidney stones, nephrocalcinosis, and chronic kidney... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic%20transistor | A synaptic transistor is an electrical device that can learn in ways similar to a neural synapse. It optimizes its own properties for the functions it has carried out in the past. The device mimics the behavior of the property of neurons called spike-timing-dependent plasticity, or STDP.
Structure
Its structure is sim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panicle | A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are often racemes. A panicle may have determinate or indeterminate growth.
This type of infl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihedral%20group | In mathematics, a dihedral group is the group of symmetries of a regular polygon, which includes rotations and reflections. Dihedral groups are among the simplest examples of finite groups, and they play an important role in group theory, geometry, and chemistry.
The notation for the dihedral group differs in geometry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20Inhibitor%20of%20Apoptosis%20Protein%201 | cIAP1 (also named BIRC2) is the abbreviation for a human protein, cellular inhibitor of apoptosis protein-1. It belongs to the IAP family of proteins and therefore contains at least one BIR (baculoviral IAP repeat) domain.
cIAP1 is a multi-functional protein which can be found in the cytoplasm of cells and in the nucl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Meredith graph is a 4-regular undirected graph with 70 vertices and 140 edges discovered by Guy H. J. Meredith in 1973.
The Meredith graph is 4-vertex-connected and 4-edge-connected, has chromatic number 3, chromatic index 5, radius 7, diameter 8, girth 4 and is non-Hami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20calculation | In mathematical logic, a formal calculation, or formal operation, is a calculation that is systematic but without a rigorous justification. It involves manipulating symbols in an expression using a generic substitution without proving that the necessary conditions hold. Essentially, it involves the form of an expressio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20normality%20test | In complex analysis, a mathematical discipline, the fundamental normality test gives sufficient conditions to test the normality of a family of analytic functions. It is another name for the stronger version of Montel's theorem.
Statement
Let be a family of analytic functions defined on a domain . If there are two fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20modular%20trailer | A hydraulic modular trailer (HMT) is a special platform trailer unit which feature swing axles, hydraulic suspension, independently steerable axles, two or more axle rows, compatible to join two or more units longitudinally and laterally and uses power pack unit (PPU) to steer and adjust height. These trailer units are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20cerebral%20distance | Functional Cerebral Distance is a neuropsychological principle developed by Marcel Kinsbourne. It states that, "...separate control centers that are functionally close together (i.e., highly connected in functional cerebral space) will conflict if they are independently engaged in unrelated activity." In other words, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearctic%20realm | The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America that are not in the Nearctic realm include most of coastal Mexico, southern M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget%20Systems | Puget Systems is a custom computer business based in Auburn, Washington. They operate primarily through their website, and sell a mixture of custom and preconfigured computers including desktops, workstations, and servers. The business was founded by Jon Bach in 2000.
History
Puget Systems was founded by Jon Bach, a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Morgan%20algebra |
In mathematics, a De Morgan algebra (named after Augustus De Morgan, a British mathematician and logician) is a structure A = (A, ∨, ∧, 0, 1, ¬) such that:
(A, ∨, ∧, 0, 1) is a bounded distributive lattice, and
¬ is a De Morgan involution: ¬(x ∧ y) = ¬x ∨ ¬y and ¬¬x = x. (i.e. an involution that additionally sati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearby%20Share | Nearby Share is a functionality developed by Google that allows data to be transferred between devices via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It is available on their mobile and desktop operating systems, Android and ChromeOS, as well as Microsoft's Windows. Nearby Share uses Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, WebRTC, UWB, and peer-to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapy | A therapy or medical treatment is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis. Both words, treatment and therapy, are often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx.
As a rule, each therapy has indications and contraindications. There are many different types of therapy. Not all therapies a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling%20cat%20problem | The falling cat problem is a problem that consists of explaining the underlying physics behind the observation of the cat righting reflex.
Although amusing and trivial to pose, the solution of the problem is not as straightforward as its statement would suggest. The apparent contradiction with the law of conservation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy%20electronics | Fuzzy electronics is an electronic technology that uses fuzzy logic, instead of the two-state Boolean logic more commonly used in digital electronics. Fuzzy electronics is fuzzy logic implemented on dedicated hardware. This is to be compared with fuzzy logic implemented in software running on a conventional processor.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley%20Alpert | Bradley K. Alpert is a computational scientist at NIST. He is probably best known for co-developing fast spherical filters. His fast spherical filters were (and remain) critical in the construction of the most efficient three-dimensional fast multipole methods (FMMs) for solving the Helmholtz equation and Maxwell's equ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe%20area%20%28television%29 | Safe area is a term used in television production to describe the areas of the television picture that can be seen on television screens.
Older televisions can display less of the space outside of the safe area than ones made more recently. Flat panel screens, plasma displays and liquid crystal display (LCD) screens g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless%20join%20decomposition | In database design, a lossless join decomposition is a decomposition of a relation into relations such that a natural join of the two smaller relations yields back the original relation. This is central in removing redundancy safely from databases while preserving the original data.
Criteria
Lossless join can also b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20jacksonii | Amanita jacksonii, also known as Jackson's slender amanita,
American Slender Caesar, and Eastern Caesar's Amanita,
is a species of fungus in the family Amanitaceae. It is a reddish-orange colored mushroom species extending from the Province of Quebec, Canada to at least the State of Hidalgo, Mexico. It was given its cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicial%20manifold | In physics, the term simplicial manifold commonly refers to one of several loosely defined objects, commonly appearing in the study of Regge calculus. These objects combine attributes of a simplex with those of a manifold. There is no standard usage of this term in mathematics, and so the concept can refer to a triang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20HGSA%20Orations | The HGSA Oration was established in 1990 in order to honour a pre-eminent member of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia (HGSA). It is a lecture given by a senior member of the HGSA who has contributed significantly to the profession over many years. The oration is given annually at the Annual Scientific Meeting o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20algebroid | In mathematics, a Lie algebroid is a vector bundle together with a Lie bracket on its space of sections and a vector bundle morphism , satisfying a Leibniz rule. A Lie algebroid can thus be thought of as a "many-object generalisation" of a Lie algebra.
Lie algebroids play a similar same role in the theory of Lie gro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-cleaning%20surfaces | Self-cleaning surfaces are a class of materials with the inherent ability to remove any debris or bacteria from their surfaces in a variety of ways. The self-cleaning functionality of these surfaces are commonly inspired by natural phenomena observed in lotus leaves, gecko feet, and water striders to name a few. The ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girneys | Girneys are soft vocalizations used by species of Old World monkeys to ease affiliative social interactions between unrelated members of the same species. The vocalizations are most commonly used by adult females around birthing season; the female will direct the call towards an unrelated mother and her offspring as an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numberblocks | Numberblocks is a British animated television series for preschoolers that debuted on CBeebies on 23 January 2017. The programme was created by Joe Elliot and produced by Alphablocks Ltd with Blue Zoo. It was commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation, with Larkshead Media and Learning Resources holding merch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20programming | Constraint programming (CP) is a paradigm for solving combinatorial problems that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science, and operations research. In constraint programming, users declaratively state the constraints on the feasible solutions for a set of decision variables. C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth%20number | In number theory, an n-smooth (or n-friable) number is an integer whose prime factors are all less than or equal to n. For example, a 7-smooth number is a number whose every prime factor is at most 7, so 49 = 72 and 15750 = 2 × 32 × 53 × 7 are both 7-smooth, while 11 and 702 = 2 × 33 × 13 are not 7-smooth. The term see... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20mutation | A polar mutation affects expression of downstream genes or operons. It can also affect the expression of the gene in which it occurs, if it occurs in a transcribed region. These mutations tend to occur early within the sequence of genes and can be nonsense, frameshift, or insertion mutations. Polar mutations are found ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma-ideal | In mathematics, particularly measure theory, a -ideal, or sigma ideal, of a σ-algebra (, read "sigma") is a subset with certain desirable closure properties. It is a special type of ideal. Its most frequent application is in probability theory.
Let be a measurable space (meaning is a -algebra of subsets of ). A sub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDA%20database | An EDA database is a database specialized for the purpose of electronic design automation. These application specific databases are required because general purpose databases have historically not provided enough performance for EDA applications.
In examining EDA design databases, it is useful to look at EDA tool arc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 | In cryptography, PBKDF1 and PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function 1 and 2) are key derivation functions with a sliding computational cost, used to reduce vulnerability to brute-force attacks.
PBKDF2 is part of RSA Laboratories' Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) series, specifically PKCS#5 v2.0, also pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morisita%27s%20overlap%20index | Morisita's overlap index, named after Masaaki Morisita, is a statistical measure of dispersion of individuals in a population. It is used to compare overlap among samples (Morisita 1959). This formula is based on the assumption that increasing the size of the samples will increase the diversity because it will includ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributive%20homomorphism | A congruence θ of a join-semilattice S is monomial, if the θ-equivalence class of any element of S has a largest element. We say that θ is distributive, if it is a join, in the congruence lattice Con S of S, of monomial join-congruences of S.
The following definition originates in Schmidt's 1968 work and was subsequen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20World%20Evolving%20Network%20Models | Evolving networks are dynamic networks that change through time. In each period there are new nodes and edges that join the network while the old ones disappear. Such dynamic behaviour is characteristic for most real-world networks, regardless of their range - global or local. However, networks differ not only in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birnaviridae | Birnaviridae is a family of double-stranded RNA viruses. Salmonid fish, birds and insects serve as natural hosts. There are currently 11 species in this family, divided among seven genera. Diseases associated with this family include infectious pancreatic necrosis in salmonid fish, which causes significant losses to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA%20%28machine%29 | In the history of cryptography, the NEMA (NEue MAschine) ("new machine"), also designated the T-D (Tasten-Druecker-Maschine) ("key-stroke machine"), was a 10-wheel rotor machine designed by the Swiss Army during the World War II as a replacement for their Enigma machines.
History
The Swiss became aware that their curr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20database | In database security, a negative database is a database that saves attributes that cannot be associated with a certain entry.
A negative database is a kind of database that contains huge amount of data consisting of simulating data.
When anyone tries to get access to such databases both the actual and the negative dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathema | Pathema was one of the eight bioinformatics resource centers funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a component of the National Institute of Health (NIH), which is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Pathema was funded for five years from 2004 t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20microelectronics%20manufacturing%20terms | Glossary of microelectronics manufacturing terms
This is a list of terms used in the manufacture of electronic micro-components. Many of the terms are already defined and explained in Wikipedia; this glossary is for looking up, comparing, and reviewing the terms. You can help enhance this page by adding new terms or c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn%20Bustoz%20Jr. | Joaquín Bustoz Jr. (1939–2003) was an American mathematician who worked as a professor of mathematics at Arizona State University. His mathematical research concerned functional analysis, including orthogonal polynomials and special functions, but he was primarily known as a mentor to underrepresented minorities in mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis%20medicatrix%20naturae | Vis medicatrix naturae (literally "the healing power of nature", and also known as natura medica) is the Latin rendering of the Greek Νόσων φύσεις ἰητροί ("Nature is the physician(s) of diseases"), a phrase attributed to Hippocrates. While the phrase is not actually attested in his corpus, it nevertheless sums up one o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20server | A home server is a computing server located in a private computing residence providing services to other devices inside or outside the household through a home network or the Internet. Such services may include file and printer serving, media center serving, home automation control, web serving (on the network or Inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20slowing%20down%20approximation%20range | The CSDA range is a very close approximation to the average distance traveled by a charged particle as it slows down to rest, calculated in the continuous-slowing-down approximation. In this approximation, the rate of energy loss at every point along the track is assumed to be equal to the same as the total stopping po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky%20meat%20shower | The Kentucky meat shower was an incident occurring for a period of several minutes between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. on March 3, 1876, where what appeared to be chunks of red meat fell from the sky in a area near Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky. There exist several explanations (from the plausible blood rain to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer%20read-only%20storage | Transformer read-only storage (TROS) was a type of read-only memory (ROM) used in the 1960s and early 1970s before solid-state memory devices were developed.
Overview
TROS was created by IBM as a read-only storage method for storing microcode for IBM computers. TROS used stacks of removable Mylar flexible printed wiri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaseous%20signaling%20molecules | Gaseous signaling molecules are gaseous molecules that are either synthesized internally (endogenously) in the organism, tissue or cell or are received by the organism, tissue or cell from outside (say, from the atmosphere or hydrosphere, as in the case of oxygen) and that are used to transmit chemical signals which in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku%20%28programming%20language%29 | Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. Formerly known as Perl 6, it was renamed in October 2019. Raku introduces elements of many modern and historical languages. Compatibility with Perl was not a goal, though a compatibility mode is part of the specification. The design process for Raku began in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru%20Balaban | Alexandru T. Balaban (born April 2, 1931 in Timișoara) is a Romanian chemist who made significant contributions to the fields of organic chemistry, theoretical chemistry, mathematical chemistry, and chemical graph theory.
Early life and education
Balaban was born in Timișoara, in the western part of Romania. His pare... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven%20testing | Data-driven testing (DDT), also known as table-driven testing or parameterized testing, is a software testing methodology that is used in the testing of computer software to describe testing done using a table of conditions directly as test inputs and verifiable outputs as well as the process where test environment set... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4%20shared%20address%20space | In order to ensure proper working of carrier-grade NAT (CGN), and, by doing so, alleviating the demand for the last remaining IPv4 addresses, a size IPv4 address block was assigned by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to be used as shared address space.
This block of addresses is specifically meant to be used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20system%20image | In distributed computing, a single system image (SSI) cluster is a cluster of machines that appears to be one single system. The concept is often considered synonymous with that of a distributed operating system, but a single image may be presented for more limited purposes, just job scheduling for instance, which may ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanimals | Flanimals is a book series written by comedian Ricky Gervais and illustrated by Rob Steen It depicts an assortment of seemingly useless or inadequate fictional animals and their behaviour.
The cover Flanimal is the Grundit. The book is published by Faber and Faber, which has also published the sequels More Flanimals, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbicule | Orbicules (syn. Ubisch bodies, con-peito grains) are small acellular structures of sporopollenin that might occur on the inner tangential and radial walls of tapetal cells. The ornamentation of the orbicule surface often resembles that of the pollen sexine. Different hypotheses about their function have been proposed, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth%20perception | Depth perception is the ability to perceive distance to objects in the world using the visual system and visual perception. It is a major factor in perceiving the world in three dimensions. Depth perception happens primarily due to stereopsis and accommodation of the eye.
Depth sensation is the corresponding term for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GESTIS%20Substance%20Database | GESTIS Substance Database is a freely accessible online information system on chemical compounds. It is maintained by the Institut für Arbeitsschutz der Deutschen Gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung (IFA, Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance). Information on occupational medi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20function | In mathematics, the beta function, also called the Euler integral of the first kind, is a special function that is closely related to the gamma function and to binomial coefficients. It is defined by the integral
for complex number inputs
such that .
The beta function was studied by Leonhard Euler and Adrien-Marie ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20LPFK | The Lighted Program Function Keyboard (LPFK) is a computer input device manufactured by IBM that presents an array of buttons associated with lights.
Each button is associated to a function in supporting software, and according to the availability of that function in current context of the application, the light is swi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliocostalis | Iliocostalis muscle is the muscle immediately lateral to the longissimus that is the nearest to the furrow that separates the epaxial muscles from the hypaxial. It lies very deep to the fleshy portion of the serratus posterior muscle. It laterally flexes the vertebral column to the same side.
Structure
Iliocostalis mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTP%20Authentication | SMTP Authentication, often abbreviated SMTP AUTH, is an extension of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) whereby a client may log in using any authentication mechanism supported by the server. It is mainly used by submission servers, where authentication is mandatory.
History
SMTP as specified by Jon Postel in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory%20animal%20allergy | Laboratory animal allergy (LAA) is an occupational disease of laboratory animal technicians and scientists. It manifests as an allergic response to animal urine, specifically the major urinary proteins (Mups) of rodents, and can lead to the development of asthma. A study of 5641 workers in Japan who were exposed to lab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligand%20cone%20angle | In coordination chemistry, the ligand cone angle (θ) is a measure of the steric bulk of a ligand in a transition metal coordination complex. It is defined as the solid angle formed with the metal at the vertex of a cone and the outermost edge of the van der Waals spheres of the ligand atoms at the perimeter of the base... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20matrix | The Leslie matrix is a discrete, age-structured model of population growth that is very popular in population ecology named after Patrick H. Leslie. The Leslie matrix (also called the Leslie model) is one of the most well-known ways to describe the growth of populations (and their projected age distribution), in which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particular%20values%20of%20the%20gamma%20function | The gamma function is an important special function in mathematics. Its particular values can be expressed in closed form for integer and half-integer arguments, but no simple expressions are known for the values at rational points in general. Other fractional arguments can be approximated through efficient infinite pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six%20Degrees%3A%20The%20Science%20of%20a%20Connected%20Age | Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (2004 in paperback, and 2003 in hardcover, ) is a popular science book by Duncan J. Watts covering the application of network theory to sociology.
The book covers Watts' own work on small-world networks, and continues on to cover scale-free networks, network searching, epid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20processor | A network processor is an integrated circuit which has a feature set specifically targeted at the networking application domain.
Network processors are typically software programmable devices and would have generic characteristics similar to general purpose central processing units that are commonly used in many diffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manteia%20Predictive%20Medicine | Manteia Predictive Medicine S.A. (initially incorporated under the name "GenInEx S.A.") was a start-up company created in November 2000 as a spin-off of Serono, a Swiss-based biotechnology company, now part of Merck-Serono, by private founders. Its aim was to provide preventive and curative treatment guidelines for com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton%E2%80%93Pohl%20torus | In geometry, the Clifton–Pohl torus is an example of a compact Lorentzian manifold that is not geodesically complete. While every compact Riemannian manifold is also geodesically complete (by the Hopf–Rinow theorem), this space shows that the same implication does not generalize to pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. It is na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-frequency%20network | A single-frequency network or SFN is a broadcast network where several transmitters simultaneously send the same signal over the same frequency channel.
Analog AM and FM radio broadcast networks as well as digital broadcast networks can operate in this manner. SFNs are not generally compatible with analog television t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-Object%20Facility | The Meta-Object Facility (MOF) is an Object Management Group (OMG) standard for model-driven engineering. Its purpose is to provide a type system for entities in the CORBA architecture and a set of interfaces through which those types can be created and manipulated.
MOF may be used for domain-driven software design and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panophthalmitis | Panophthalmitis is the inflammation of all coats of the animal eye including intraocular structures. It can be caused by infection, particularly from Pseudomonas species, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Clostridium species, Whipple's disease, and also fungi. It can also be cause by other stress. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapper%282%29 | Mapper(2) is a database of transcription factor binding sites in multiple genomes.
See also
Transcription factor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporadic%20disease | In epidemiology, a sporadic disease is an infectious disease which occurs only infrequently, haphazardly, irregularly, or occasionally, from time to time in a few isolated places, with no discernible temporal or spatial pattern, as opposed to a recognizable epidemic outbreak or endemic pattern. The cases are so few (si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza | A mycorrhiza (from Greek μύκης , "fungus", and ῥίζα , "root"; : mycorrhizae, mycorrhiza or mycorrhizas) is a symbiotic association between a fungus and a plant. The term mycorrhiza refers to the role of the fungus in the plant's rhizosphere, its root system. Mycorrhizae play important roles in plant nutrition, soil bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase%20conjecture | The Coase conjecture, developed first by Ronald Coase, is an argument in monopoly theory. The conjecture sets up a situation in which a monopolist sells a durable good to a market where resale is impossible and faces consumers who have different valuations. The conjecture proposes that a monopolist that does not know ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namesco | Namesco Ltd (names.co.uk) provides professional online services for individuals and businesses including domain name registration, web hosting, website building tools, email services, ecommerce solutions and a range of managed and unmanaged servers.
History
Namesco was founded by Richard and Rachel Suthering as a sma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queuing%20Rule%20of%20Thumb | The Queuing Rule of Thumb (QROT) is a mathematical formula, known as the queuing constraint equation when it is used to find an approximation of servers required to service a queue. The formula is written as an inequality relating the number of servers (s), total number of service requestors (N), service time (r), and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siau%20scops%20owl | The Siau scops owl (Otus siaoensis) is a critically endangered owl species. They live on Siau Island, north of Sulawesi, Indonesia and are (were) forest dwellers. The species is only known from a single holotype from 1866 although there have been more recent potential sightings, including one in 2017. Even so, their ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duterte%20fist | The Duterte fist (or Duterte fist bump) is a hand gesture made by raising a clenched fist at chest or eye level. The gesture serves as a signature political symbol of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, his administration and allies, and his supporters.
Usage
During meetings with Duterte, some visitors and personal... |
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