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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorouracil
Fluorouracil (5-FU, 5-fluorouracil), sold under the brand name Adrucil among others, is a cytotoxic chemotherapy medication used to treat cancer. By intravenous injection it is used for treatment of colorectal cancer, oesophageal cancer, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, and cervical cancer. As a cream ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20Carpathian%20Museum
The Small Carpathian Museum (aka Little Carpathian Museum) in Pezinok, Bratislava, Slovakia, is a local museum with an emphasis on wine making. Overview The museum was reopened to the public on 18 November 2008 after two years of renovation. By using European Union funds and funds from the founder, the Bratislava sel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous%20commerce
Ubiquitous Commerce also known as U-Commerce, u commerce or uCommerce (not 'U.Commerce'), refers to a variety of goods and/or services. Sometimes, it is used to refer to the wireless, continuous communication and exchange of data and information between and among retailers, customers, and systems (e.g., applications) r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cph1%20holin%20family
The Cph1 Holin Family (TC# 1.E.16) is also called the CDD Holin 4 superfamily, but belongs to the Holin Superfamily IV as classified in the Transporter Classification Database (TCDB). A representative list of members belonging to the Cph1 family can be found in TCDB. See also Holin Lysin Transporter Classification...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%27s%202-state%203-symbol%20Turing%20machine
In his book A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram described a universal 2-state 5-symbol Turing machine, and conjectured that a particular 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine (hereinafter (2,3) Turing machine) might be universal as well. On May 14, 2007, Wolfram announced a $25,000 prize to be won by the first person to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime%20Math
Bedtime Math is a non-profit organization focused on mathematics education for young children, launched by Laura Overdeck in February 2012. History Bedtime Math was founded in February 2012, initially as a website. In March 2014, Bedtime Math launched Crazy 8s, a free nationwide after-school recreational math club. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calotropin
Calotropin is a toxic cardenolide found in plants in the family Asclepiadoideae. In extreme cases, calotropin poisoning can cause respiratory and cardiac failure. Accidental poisoning is common in livestock who have ingested milkweed. Calotropin is commonly stored as a defense mechanism by insects that eat milkweeds as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft%20f%C3%BCr%20Didaktik%20der%20Mathematik
The Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM) (Society for Didactics of Mathematics) is a scientific society pursuing the goal to foster mathematics education, particularly in German-speaking countries. It seeks cooperation with the respective institutions in other countries. Main interests The society primarily...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation%20theory%20of%20the%20Lorentz%20group
The Lorentz group is a Lie group of symmetries of the spacetime of special relativity. This group can be realized as a collection of matrices, linear transformations, or unitary operators on some Hilbert space; it has a variety of representations. This group is significant because special relativity together with qua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Android%20launchers
This is a List of Android launchers, which presents the main view of the device and is responsible for starting other apps and hosting live widgets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entanglement-assisted%20stabilizer%20formalism
In the theory of quantum communication, the entanglement-assisted stabilizer formalism is a method for protecting quantum information with the help of entanglement shared between a sender and receiver before they transmit quantum data over a quantum communication channel. It extends the standard stabilizer formalism by...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20doll
A Black doll is a doll of a black person. Black doll manufacture dates back to the 19th century, with representations being both realistic and stereotypical. More accurate, mass-produced depictions are manufactured today as toys and adult collectibles. European manufacture Several 19th-century European doll companies...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooibos
Rooibos ( ; , meaning "red bush"), or Aspalathus linearis, is a broom-like member of the plant family Fabaceae that grows in South Africa's fynbos biome. The leaves are used to make a herbal tea that is called rooibos (especially in Southern Africa), bush tea, red tea, or redbush tea (predominantly in Great Britain)....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP%20Strict%20Transport%20Security
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a policy mechanism that helps to protect websites against man-in-the-middle attacks such as protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking. It allows web servers to declare that web browsers (or other complying user agents) should automatically interact with it using only HTTPS...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive%20initials
Reproductive initials, or gonidial initials, are filaments below the cuticle surface of algae and fungi which give rise to the bulbs of spore-producing cells (in fungi, conidiophores).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-standard%20television
Multi-standard television sets were made for use in the television industry, so that one TV set or monitor could show video content from other television systems. Multistandard is only used with analogue television. In digital television, there are different standards, like DVB, ISDB, and ATSC. However digital multista...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotribology
Nanotribology is the branch of tribology that studies friction, wear, adhesion and lubrication phenomena at the nanoscale, where atomic interactions and quantum effects are not negligible. The aim of this discipline is characterizing and modifying surfaces for both scientific and technological purposes. Nanotribologic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/125th%20meridian%20east
The meridian 125° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, Australia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 125th meridian east forms a great circle with the 55th meridian west. From Pole to Pole Starting at the Nort...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery%20in%20ancient%20Rome
Ancient Roman surgical practices developed from Greek techniques. Roman surgeons and doctors usually learned through apprenticeships or studying. Ancient Roman doctors such as Galen and Celsus described Roman surgical techniques in their medical literature, such as De Medicina. These methods encompassed modern oral sur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigendecomposition%20of%20a%20matrix
In linear algebra, eigendecomposition is the factorization of a matrix into a canonical form, whereby the matrix is represented in terms of its eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Only diagonalizable matrices can be factorized in this way. When the matrix being factorized is a normal or real symmetric matrix, the decompositi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20immunology
Systems immunology is a research field under systems biology that uses mathematical approaches and computational methods to examine the interactions within cellular and molecular networks of the immune system. The immune system has been thoroughly analyzed as regards to its components and function by using a "reduction...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille%20Jordan
Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan (; 5 January 1838 – 22 January 1922) was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his influential Cours d'analyse. Biography Jordan was born in Lyon and educated at the École polytechnique. He was an engineer by profession; later in life he taug...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit%20card%20fraud
Credit card fraud is an inclusive term for fraud committed using a payment card, such as a credit card or debit card. The purpose may be to obtain goods or services or to make payment to another account, which is controlled by a criminal. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the data security s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20ionization%20velocity
Critical ionization velocity (CIV), or critical velocity (CV), is the relative velocity between a neutral gas and plasma (an ionized gas), at which the neutral gas will start to ionize. If more energy is supplied, the velocity of the atoms or molecules will not exceed the critical ionization velocity until the gas beco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tint%20control
Because the NTSC color television standard relies on the absolute phase of the color information, color errors occur when the phase of the video signal is altered between source and receiver, or due to non linearities in electronics. To correct for phase errors, a tint control is provided on NTSC television sets, whic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hive%20Social
Hive Social is a microblogging service and mobile app. The app received news coverage during the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk in November 2022. Hive Social was developed by Raluca Pop, also known as Kassandra Pop, with the help of a freelance developer, and the first version launched on the Apple App Store in O...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20logarithm
In mathematics, the binary logarithm () is the power to which the number must be raised to obtain the value . That is, for any real number , For example, the binary logarithm of is , the binary logarithm of is , the binary logarithm of is , and the binary logarithm of is . The binary logarithm is the logarithm t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS-DOS
iS-DOS is a disk operating system (DOS) for Soviet/Russian ZX Spectrum clones. iS-DOS was developed in 1990 or 1991, by Iskra Soft, in Leningrad, Soviet Union, now Saint Petersburg, Russia. It handles floppy disks (double sided, double density), hard disk drives, and CD-ROMs. Maximum iS-DOS disk partitioning size on a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral%20sink
"Behavioral sink" is a term invented by ethologist John B. Calhoun to describe a collapse in behavior which can result from overcrowding. The term and concept derive from a series of over-population experiments Calhoun conducted on Norway rats between 1958 and 1962. In the experiments, Calhoun and his researchers creat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoplast
The apoplast is the extracellular space outside of plant cell membranes, especially the fluid-filled cell walls of adjacent cells where water and dissolved material can flow and diffuse freely. Fluid and material flows occurring in any extracellular space are called apoplastic flow or apoplastic transport. The apoplas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Engineer%20Detachment
The Special Engineer Detachment (SED) was a US Army program that identified enlisted personnel with technical skills, such as machining, or who had some science education beyond high school. Those identified were organized into the Special Engineer Detachment, or SED. SED personnel began arriving at Los Alamos in Octob...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20series%20of%20preferred%20numbers
The E series is a system of preferred numbers (also called preferred values) derived for use in electronic components. It consists of the E3, E6, E12, E24, E48, E96 and E192 series, where the number after the 'E' designates the quantity of logarithmic value "steps" per decade. Although it is theoretically possible to p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20embryonic%20development
Plant embryonic development, also plant embryogenesis is a process that occurs after the fertilization of an ovule to produce a fully developed plant embryo. This is a pertinent stage in the plant life cycle that is followed by dormancy and germination. The zygote produced after fertilization must undergo various cellu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, a space is a set (sometimes called a universe) with some added structure. While modern mathematics uses many types of spaces, such as Euclidean spaces, linear spaces, topological spaces, Hilbert spaces, or probability spaces, it does not define the notion of "space" itself. A space consists of selected...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20cokeri
Amanita cokeri, commonly known as Coker's amanita and solitary lepidella, is a mushroom in the family Amanitaceae. The mushroom is poisonous. First described as Lepidella cokeri in 1928, it was transferred to the genus Amanita in 1940. Taxonomy Amanita cokeri was first described as Lepidella cokeri by mycologists E....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal%20impedance
Nominal impedance in electrical engineering and audio engineering refers to the approximate designed impedance of an electrical circuit or device. The term is applied in a number of different fields, most often being encountered in respect of: The nominal value of the characteristic impedance of a cable or other form ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utmp
utmp, wtmp, btmp and variants such as utmpx, wtmpx and btmpx are files on Unix-like systems that keep track of all logins and logouts to the system. Format utmp, wtmp and btmp utmp maintains a full accounting of the current status of the system, system boot time (used by uptime), recording user logins at which ter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAGO%20%28database%29
YAGO (Yet Another Great Ontology) is an open source knowledge base developed at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken. It is automatically extracted from Wikipedia and other sources. YAGO3 has knowledge of more than 10 million entities and contains more than 120 million facts about these entities. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSSIM
OSSIM (Open Source Security Information Management) is an open source security information and event management system, integrating a selection of tools designed to aid network administrators in computer security, intrusion detection and prevention. The project began in 2003 as a collaboration between Dominique Karg, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimax
Pimax is a technology company specializing in virtual reality hardware products. Pimax Technology was founded in November 2015. In 2016 its first product, the Pimax 4K virtual reality headset, was released, becoming the first commercially available headset with a combined (left + right eye) resolution of 4K. That firs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holding%20period%20return
In finance, holding period return (HPR) is the return on an asset or portfolio over the whole period during which it was held. It is one of the simplest and most important measures of investment performance. HPR is the change in value of an investment, asset or portfolio over a particular period. It is the entire gain...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20Backus%E2%80%93Naur%20form
In computer science, augmented Backus–Naur form (ABNF) is a metalanguage based on Backus–Naur form (BNF), but consisting of its own syntax and derivation rules. The motive principle for ABNF is to describe a formal system of a language to be used as a bidirectional communications protocol. It is defined by Internet Sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Service%20Code
General Service Code is a code that was used during the American Civil War. The code uses one flag or two torches. The flags come in three color schemes: a red square in the middle of a white background, white on black, or black on white. The flag that is used at any time depends on the visibility. The flags come in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20claim
A health claim on a food label and in food marketing is a claim by a manufacturer of food products that their food will reduce the risk of developing a disease or condition. For example, it is claimed by the manufacturers of oat cereals that oat bran can reduce cholesterol, which will lower the chances of developing se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20SysML%20tools
This article compares SysML tools. SysML tools are software applications which support some functions of the Systems Modeling Language. General Features
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous%20silicon
Amorphous silicon (a-Si) is the non-crystalline form of silicon used for solar cells and thin-film transistors in LCDs. Used as semiconductor material for a-Si solar cells, or thin-film silicon solar cells, it is deposited in thin films onto a variety of flexible substrates, such as glass, metal and plastic. Amorphous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprosma%20neglecta
Coprosma neglecta is a coastal shrub that is native to New Zealand. C. neglecta is found around the North Cape of New Zealand. Comprosma neglecta grows up to 50 centimetres tall and has small, circular, glossy green leaves. The plant produces orange-red fruit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20algebra
Certain commutation relations among the current density operators in quantum field theories define an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra called a current algebra. Mathematically these are Lie algebras consisting of smooth maps from a manifold into a finite dimensional Lie algebra. History The original current algebra, p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence%20detection
Existence checking or existence detection is an important aspect of many computer programs. An existence check before reading a file can catch and/or prevent a fatal error, for instance. For that reason, most programming language libraries contain a means of checking whether a file exists. An existence check can somet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20Plot%202
Research Plot 2, located near Centennial Ave. and 18th St. N. on the North Dakota State University campus in Fargo, North Dakota. The plot was established in 1882 on land that was broken from native prairie sod. It has been sown to spring wheat continuously since that date. The plot was listed on the National Regist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam%20Cube
Spam Cube, Inc was a high-tech startup company based in the midtown area of New York City. The company invented and manufactured the Spam Cube, a SaaS (Security As A Service) network security hardware device for consumers that blocked spam e-mail, computer viruses and phishing. The company invented a SaaS delivery plat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preisach%20model%20of%20hysteresis
In electromagnetism, the Preisach model of hysteresis is a model of magnetic hysteresis. Originally, it generalized hysteresis as the relationship between the magnetic field and magnetization of a magnetic material as the parallel connection of independent relay hysterons. It was first suggested in 1935 by Ferenc (Fran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis%20%28dynamical%20systems%29
In applied mathematics and astrodynamics, in the theory of dynamical systems, a crisis is the sudden appearance or disappearance of a strange attractor as the parameters of a dynamical system are varied. This global bifurcation occurs when a chaotic attractor comes into contact with an unstable periodic orbit or its st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xft
Xft, the X FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by Keith Packard. It uses the MIT/X license that The Open Group applied after the post X11R6.4 license restoration. It is designed to allow the FreeType font rasterizer to be used with the X Rendering Extension; it is generally employed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20contact%20terms
In quantum field theory, a contact term is a radiatively induced point-like interaction. These typically occur when the vertex for the emission of a massless particle such as a photon, a graviton, or a gluon, is proportional to (the invariant momentum of the radiated particle). This factor cancels the of the Feynm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleolus
A malleolus is the bony prominence on each side of the human ankle. Each leg is supported by two bones, the tibia on the inner side (medial) of the leg and the fibula on the outer side (lateral) of the leg. The medial malleolus is the prominence on the inner side of the ankle, formed by the lower end of the tibia. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narada%20multicast%20protocol
The Narada multicast protocol is a set of specifications which can be used to implement overlay multicast functionality on computer networks. It constructs an overlay tree from a redundantly meshed graph of nodes, source specific shortest path trees are then constructed from reverse paths. The group management is equa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Zuckerman%20%28computer%20scientist%29
David Zuckerman is an American theoretical computer scientist whose work concerns randomness in computation. He is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. Biography Zuckerman received an A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1987, where he was a Putnam Fellow in 1986. He went on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicover%20bifiltration
The multicover bifiltration is a two-parameter sequence of nested topological spaces derived from the covering of a finite set in a metric space by growing metric balls. It is a multidimensional extension of the offset filtration that captures density information about the underlying data set by filtering the points of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylalanine%20racemase%20%28ATP-hydrolysing%29
The enzyme phenylalanine racemase (, phenylalanine racemase, phenylalanine racemase (adenosine triphosphate-hydrolysing), gramicidin S synthetase I) is the enzyme that acts on amino acids and derivatives. It activates both the L & D stereo isomers of phenylalanine to form L-phenylalanyl adenylate and D-phenylalanyl ade...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20atom%20model
In computational chemistry and computational physics, the embedded atom model, embedded-atom method or EAM, is an approximation describing the energy between atoms and is a type of interatomic potential. The energy is a function of a sum of functions of the separation between an atom and its neighbors. In the original ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC-P27-1
IEC-P27-1 (or ISO IR-143) is an 8-bit character set developed by the IEC. When combined with the ISO/IEC 646 character set, this includes all characters required to print the symbols defined in IEC 60027-1. Character set
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonFly%20BSD
DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and FreeBSD developer between 1994 and 2003, began working on DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists on 16 July 2003. Dillon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay%20slot
In computer architecture, a delay slot is an instruction slot being executed without the effects of a preceding instruction. The most common form is a single arbitrary instruction located immediately after a branch instruction on a RISC or DSP architecture; this instruction will execute even if the preceding branch is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20static%20light%20scatter
Differential static light scatter (DSLS) is a term coined to represent the change in total light scatter of a system over time or temperature in a static environment. Static light scattering or SLS and its many types are well outlined in literature and is the base principal for DSLS but varies specifically in that the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramaria%20formosa
Ramaria formosa, commonly known as the salmon coral, beautiful clavaria, handsome clavaria, yellow-tipped- or pink coral fungus, is a coral fungus found in Europe. It is widely held to be mildly poisonous if consumed, giving rise to acute gastrointestinal symptoms of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and colicky pain. It is a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejection%20fraction
An ejection fraction (EF) is the volumetric fraction (or portion of the total) of fluid (usually blood) ejected from a chamber (usually the heart) with each contraction (or heartbeat). It can refer to the cardiac atrium, ventricle, gall bladder, or leg veins, although if unspecified it usually refers to the left ventri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiting%20event
A whiting event is a phenomenon that occurs when a suspended cloud of fine-grained calcium carbonate precipitates in water bodies, typically during summer months, as a result of photosynthetic microbiological activity or sediment disturbance. The phenomenon gets its name from the white, chalky color it imbues to the wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Gentry%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Craig Gentry (born 1973) is an American computer scientist working as CTO of TripleBlind. He is best known for his work in cryptography, specifically fully homomorphic encryption. Education In 1993, while studying at Duke University, he became a Putnam Fellow. In 2009, his dissertation, in which he constructed the fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadara
Zadara is a cloud computing company founded in 2011, with headquarters in Irvine, California. The company develops computer software that it markets as storage-as-a-service, which can be used for cloud or on-premises servers, a model sometimes called private cloud. History Zadara Storage was founded in 2011 with $3 m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobylite%20%28video%20game%29
Chernobylite is a Polish science fiction survival video game developed by The Farm 51 and published by All in! Games. The game is set in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where the player's objective is to explore, as Ukrainian physicist Igor Khymynuk, and find his fiancée in the radioactive wasteland. It was released for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd%20graph
In the mathematical field of graph theory, the odd graphs are a family of symmetric graphs defined from certain set systems. They include and generalize the Petersen graph. The odd graphs have high odd girth, meaning that they contain long odd-length cycles but no short ones. However their name comes not from this pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary%20biology%20of%20the%20golden%20eagle
The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the most powerful predators in the avian world. One author described it as "the pre-eminent diurnal predator of medium-sized birds and mammals in open country throughout the Northern Hemisphere". Golden eagles usually hunt during daylight hours, but were recorded hunting f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20headache
Cluster headache (CH) is a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent severe headaches on one side of the head, typically around the eye(s). There is often accompanying eye watering, nasal congestion, or swelling around the eye on the affected side. These symptoms typically last 15 minutes to 3 hours. Attacks oft...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceduralist
Proceduralist is the broad term for a physician, usually a specialist or subspecialist who performs different diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Depending on the type of procedure, this is commonly referring to a: Surgeon (for surgical procedures) Interventional radiologist (for radiologically guided procedures)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxin
Carboxin is a narrow-spectrum fungicide used as a seed treatment in agriculture to protect crops from fungal diseases. It was first marketed by Uniroyal in 1969 using their brand name Vitavax. The compound is an anilide which combines a heterocyclic acid with aniline to give an inhibitor of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Fungi
Journal of Fungi is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by MDPI quarterly covering all aspects of Fungi. It was established in 2015. The editor in chief is David S. Perlin (Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation). The journal is associated with the European Confederation of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed%20geodesic
In differential geometry and dynamical systems, a closed geodesic on a Riemannian manifold is a geodesic that returns to its starting point with the same tangent direction. It may be formalized as the projection of a closed orbit of the geodesic flow on the tangent space of the manifold. Definition In a Riemannian man...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune%20skin%20diseases%20in%20dogs
Autoimmune skin disease in dogs are a group of diseases that occur in dogs that are caused by the body's immune system, where the body's white blood cells or body's antibodies attack its own tissues or extracellular protein of the skin. Overview The immune system has the ability to differentiate between the body's o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force%20control
Force control is the control of the force with which a machine or the manipulator of a robot acts on an object or its environment. By controlling the contact force, damage to the machine as well as to the objects to be processed and injuries when handling people can be prevented. In manufacturing tasks, it can compensa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordReference.com
WordReference is an online translation dictionary for, among others, the language pairs English–French, English–Italian, English–Spanish, French–Spanish, Spanish–Portuguese and English–Portuguese. WordReference formerly had Oxford Unabridged and Concise dictionaries available for a subscription. These dictionaries con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Mann%20%28mathematician%29
William Robert Mann (September 21, 1920 – January 20, 2006) was a mathematician from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mann worked in mathematical analysis. He was the discoverer and eponym of the Mann iteration, a dynamical system in a continuous function. He was one of Frantisek Wolf's students. Publications William Rob...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckman%E2%80%93Opdam%20polynomials
In mathematics, Heckman–Opdam polynomials (sometimes called Jacobi polynomials) Pλ(k) are orthogonal polynomials in several variables associated to root systems. They were introduced by . They generalize Jack polynomials when the roots system is of type A, and are limits of Macdonald polynomials Pλ(q, t) as q tends t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraploid%20complementation%20assay
The tetraploid complementation assay is a technique in biology in which cells of two mammalian embryos are combined to form a new embryo. It is used to construct genetically modified organisms, to study the consequences of certain mutations on embryonal development, and in the study of pluripotent stem cells. Procedur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form-fit%20connection
A form-fit, form-locking or form-closed connection is a type of mechanical connection between two parts (example: screw and screwdriver), wherein these parts due to their forms interlock and block each other along at least one defined linear or rotational direction. Form-fit connections are created by the interlockin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20spine%20practitioner
Primary spine practitioners (also referred to as PSP, Spine Care Clinician, or Spine Care Specialist, or in the broader context a primary musculoskeletal specialist or provider) are health care professionals who are specially trained to provide primary care for patients with spinal disease. A PSP has the training nece...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophoresis
Photophoresis denotes the phenomenon that small particles suspended in gas (aerosols) or liquids (hydrocolloids) start to migrate when illuminated by a sufficiently intense beam of light. The existence of this phenomenon is owed to a non-uniform distribution of temperature of an illuminated particle in a fluid medium....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel%20upper%20half-space
In mathematics, the Siegel upper half-space of degree g (or genus g) (also called the Siegel upper half-plane) is the set of g × g symmetric matrices over the complex numbers whose imaginary part is positive definite. It was introduced by . It is the symmetric space associated to the symplectic group . The Siegel uppe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracutaneous%20mastocytoma
Extracutaneous mastocytoma presents with benign appearing mast cells occurring in sites other than the skin or bone marrow. See also Mastocytosis Skin lesion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borisova%20Gradina%20TV%20Tower
The Borisova Gradina TV Tower, or the Old TV Tower, is a TV tower (including the aerial) in the garden Borisova gradina in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It is known as the tower used for the first Bulgarian National Television broadcasts in 1959. History The tower was designed by architect Lyuben Podponev, engine...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercarrier%20method
The intercarrier method is a system in television that reduces the cost of transmitters and receiver sets by processing audio and video signals together and minimizing the number of separate stages for audio and video signals. Transmission of audio and video signals In television, unlike monophonic radio, at least tw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9minaire%20Lotharingien%20de%20Combinatoire
The Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire (English: Lotharingian Seminar of Combinatorics) is a peer-reviewed academic journal specialising in combinatorial mathematics, named after Lotharingia. It has existed since 1980 as a regular joint seminar in Combinatorics for the Universities of Bayreuth, Erlangen and Strasb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustrationes%20Florae%20Novae%20Hollandiae
Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae is an 1813 publication by the botanical illustrator Ferdinand Bauer. Bauer was scientific illustrator on board during Matthew Flinders' exploration of Australia, and as such he worked closely with the expedition's naturalist, Robert Brown. When these men returned to England in 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%20denial%20weapon
An area denial weapon is a defensive device used to prevent an adversary from occupying or traversing an area of land, sea or air. The specific method may not be totally effective in preventing passage, but is sufficient to severely restrict, slow down, or endanger the opponent. Some area denial weapons pose risks to c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraging%20Agriculture%20for%20Improving%20Nutrition%20and%20Health
Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health is the title of a global policy consultation and international conference to be held in New Delhi, India from 10 to 12 February 2011, which will examine the linkages between work undertaken in the agriculture, nutrition and health sectors. The conference is orga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AusCERT
AusCERT is a non-profit organisation founded in 1993, that provides advice and solutions to cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. The organisation covers their costs through member subscriptions, attendees to the annual AusCERT conference and service contracts. History In the early 1990s, Australian university s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone%20morphogenetic%20protein%201
Bone morphogenetic protein 1, also known as BMP1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the BMP1 gene. There are seven isoforms of the protein created by alternate splicing. Function BMP1 belongs to the peptidase M12A family of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs). It induces bone and cartilage development. Unlike ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can effectively generalize and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions. Recently, generative artificial neural networks have been able to surpass many previous approaches...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty%20Baker
Kitty Baker (born Sallie Kathryn Cardwell, August 21, 1912 – June 2, 2014) was an American mathematics educator, artist and weaver, and author of books on theater. Early life and education Sallie Kathryn Cardwell was born on August 21, 1912, in Lynchburg, Virginia. Her early interests included both mathematics and ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurture
Nurture is usually defined as the process of caring for an organism as it grows, usually a human. It is often used in debates as the opposite of "nature", whereby nurture means the process of replicating learned cultural information from one mind to another, and nature means the replication of genetic non-learned behav...