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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann%20Eddy | The Mann Eddy is a very small feature of ocean currents in the Atlantic. It is a persistent clockwise circulation in the middle of the North Atlantic ocean, specifically "a
mesoscale anticyclone, adjacent to the path of the North Atlantic Current (NAC) in the Newfoundland basin". The eddy has persisted since its initi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum%20italicum | Arum italicum is a species of flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the family Araceae, also known as Italian arum and Italian lords-and-ladies. It is native to the British Isles and much of the Mediterranean region, the Caucasus, Canary Islands, Madeira and northern Africa. It is also naturalized in Belgium, the Net... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm%20antibody%20autoimmune%20hemolytic%20anemia | Warm antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia (WAIHA) is the most common form of autoimmune haemolytic anemia. About half of the cases are of unknown cause, with the other half attributable to a predisposing condition or medications being taken. Contrary to cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia (e.g., cold agglutinin disease an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20balancing%20%28computing%29 | In computing, load balancing is the process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources (computing units), with the aim of making their overall processing more efficient. Load balancing can optimize the response time and avoid unevenly overloading some compute nodes while other compute nodes are left idle.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid%20W.%20Barton | Reid William Barton (born May 6, 1983) is a mathematician and also one of the most successful performers in the International Science Olympiads.
Biography
Barton is the son of two environmental engineers. Barton took part-time classes at Tufts University in chemistry (5th grade), physics (6th grade), and subsequentl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporgery | Sporgery is the disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, with the article headers falsified so that they appear to have been posted by others. The word is a portmanteau of spam and forgery, coined by German software developer, and critic of Scientology, Tilman Hausherr.
Sporgery resembles c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponastic%20response | In plant biology, the hyponastic response is a nastic movement characterized by an upward bending of leaves or other plant parts, resulting from accelerated growth of the lower side of the petiole in comparison to its upper part. This can be observed in many terrestrial plants and is linked to the plant hormone ethylen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%E2%80%93proton%20ratio | The neutron–proton ratio (N/Z ratio or nuclear ratio) of an atomic nucleus is the ratio of its number of neutrons to its number of protons. Among stable nuclei and naturally occurring nuclei, this ratio generally increases with increasing atomic number. This is because electrical repulsive forces between protons scale... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Standards%20of%20the%20People%27s%20Republic%20of%20China | The National Standards of the People's Republic of China (), coded as , are the standards issued by the Standardization Administration of China under the authorization of Article 10 of the Standardization Law of the People's Republic of China.
According to Article 2 of the Standarization Law, national standards are d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micius%20Quantum%20Prize | The Micius Quantum Prize is awarded every year since 2018 "for promoting the quantum information science and technology research". The recipients are awarded one million Chinese yuan (about 150,000 US dollars) and a gold medal. The prize is awarded by the Micius quantum foundation, which was established thanks to donat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratin-associated%20protein | Keratin-associated proteins (KRTAPs, KAPs) and keratins are the major components of hair and nails. The content of KRTAPs in hair varies considerably between species, ranging from less than 3% in human hair to 30–40% in echidna quill. Both keratin and KRTAPs are extensively cross-linked in hair through disulfide bonds ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Markov%20chain | In mathematics, the quantum Markov chain is a reformulation of the ideas of a classical Markov chain, replacing the classical definitions of probability with quantum probability.
Introduction
Very roughly, the theory of a quantum Markov chain resembles that of a measure-many automaton, with some important substitution... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellman%E2%80%93Ford%20algorithm | The Bellman–Ford algorithm is an algorithm that computes shortest paths from a single source vertex to all of the other vertices in a weighted digraph.
It is slower than Dijkstra's algorithm for the same problem, but more versatile, as it is capable of handling graphs in which some of the edge weights are negative numb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuobushi | is simmered, smoked and fermented skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis, sometimes referred to as bonito). It is also known as bonito flakes or broadly as .
Shaved katsuobushi and dried kelp—kombu—are the main ingredients of dashi, a broth that forms the basis of many soups (such as miso) and sauces (e.g., soba no tsukej... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20index%20of%20inequality | The relative index of inequality (RII) is a regression-based index which summarizes the magnitude of socio-economic status (SES) as a source of inequalities in health. RII is useful because it takes into account the size of the population and the relative disadvantage experienced by different groups. The disease outcom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesinho | Sesinho is a popular Brazilian comic character and a mascot of SESI. He is characterized as a seven-year-old boy who is shrewd, smart, adventurous, and part of a gang named Sesinho's Gang. The character was created in 1947, became popular through the 1960s, and recently became known again with the relaunch of the char... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolem%27s%20paradox | In mathematical logic and philosophy, Skolem's paradox is a seeming contradiction that arises from the downward Löwenheim–Skolem theorem. Thoralf Skolem (1922) was the first to discuss the seemingly contradictory aspects of the theorem, and to discover the relativity of set-theoretic notions now known as non-absolutene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR%20%28disambiguation%29 | Okr or OKR can refer to:
Objectives and key results, a goal management tool to define quantifiable goals and assess their implementation
OKR, a vehicle registration plate code for Krapkowice County, Poland
okr, ISO language code for Kirike (Kirikeni okwoin), an Ijaw language of Nigeria
Optokinetic nystagmus, a com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLA-DOA | HLA class II histocompatibility antigen, DO alpha chain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HLA-DOA gene.
HLA-DOA belongs to the HLA class II alpha chain paralogues. HLA-DOA forms a heterodimer with HLA-DOB. The heterodimer, HLA-DO, is found in lysosomes in B cells and regulates HLA-DM-mediated peptide loadi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonds%E2%80%93Karp%20algorithm | In computer science, the Edmonds–Karp algorithm is an implementation of the Ford–Fulkerson method for computing the maximum flow in a flow network in time. The algorithm was first published by Yefim Dinitz (whose name is also transliterated "E. A. Dinic", notably as author of his early papers) in 1970 and independentl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBS%20Foods%20International | JBS Foods International (JBSFI) engages in the food business internationally, and is the largest meatpacking company in the world. It is a "controlled company" in SEC parlance. JBSFI operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Poultry, and Other. It offers fresh and processed beef, lamb, sheep, pork, and chicken. JBSFI... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptylparaben | Heptylparaben (heptyl p-hydroxybenzoate) is a compound with formula C7H15(C6H4OHCOO). It is a paraben which is the heptyl ester of p-hydroxybenzoic acid.
Heptylparaben has also been found to be produced in some microorganisms including Microbulbifer.
As a food additive it has E number E209, and is used as a preservat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfish%20herd%20theory | The selfish herd theory states that individuals within a population attempt to reduce their predation risk by putting other conspecifics between themselves and predators. A key element in the theory is the domain of danger, the area of ground in which every point is nearer to a particular individual than to any other i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%208284 | The Intel 8284 is a clock oscillator chip developed primarily for supplying clock signals for the Intel-8086/8087/8088/8089 series of processors. The commercial variant of the chip comes in 18-pin DIL and 20-pin PLCC packages, and originally was priced at $4.90 USD. The industrial version, rated for the temperatures ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3sa%27s%20theorem | Pósa's theorem, in graph theory, is a sufficient condition for the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle based on the degrees of the vertices in an undirected graph. It implies two other degree-based sufficient conditions, Dirac's theorem on Hamiltonian cycles and Ore's theorem. Unlike those conditions, it can be applied to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20dimension | In mathematics, complex dimension usually refers to the dimension of a complex manifold or a complex algebraic variety. These are spaces in which the local neighborhoods of points (or of non-singular points in the case of a variety) are modeled on a Cartesian product of the form for some , and the complex dimension is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk%20cost | In economics and business decision-making, a sunk cost (also known as retrospective cost) is a cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered. Sunk costs are contrasted with prospective costs, which are future costs that may be avoided if action is taken. In other words, a sunk cost is a sum paid in the pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegirosaurus | Aegirosaurus is an extinct genus of platypterygiine ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs known from the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous of Europe. It was originally named as a species of Ichthyosaurus.
Discovery and species
Originally described by Wagner (1853) as a species of the genus Ichthyosaurus (I. leptospondylus), t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone%20decalcification | Bone decalcification is the softening of bones due to the removal of calcium ions, and can be performed as a histological technique to study bones and extract DNA. This process also occurs naturally during bone development and growth, and when uninhibited, can cause diseases such as osteomalacia.
Histology
Since calc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20signalling | Differential signalling is a method for electrically transmitting information using two complementary signals. The technique sends the same electrical signal as a differential pair of signals, each in its own conductor. The pair of conductors can be wires in a twisted-pair or ribbon cable or traces on a printed circuit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaben | Germaben II is a clear, viscous liquid used to inhibit microbial, yeast and mould growth in cosmetics and other personal products. It contains propylene glycol, propylparaben, methylparaben, and diazolidinyl urea. It is a Registered Trademark of International Specialty Products.
Germaben II is used primarily by smal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20JavaScript%20libraries | This is a list of notable JavaScript libraries.
Constraint programming
Cassowary (software)
CHR.js
DOM (manipulation) oriented
Google Polymer
Dojo Toolkit
jQuery
midori
MooTools
Prototype JavaScript Framework
Graphical/visualization (canvas, SVG, or WebGL related)
AnyChart
Babylon.js
Chart.js
Cytosc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supporting%20line | In geometry, a supporting line L of a curve C in the plane is a line that contains a point of C, but does not separate any two points of C. In other words, C lies completely in one of the two closed half-planes defined by L and has at least one point on L.
Properties
There can be many supporting lines for a curve at a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglio%20Rosso%20di%20Nubia | The Aglio Rosso di Nubia (Nubia Red Garlic), also known as Aglio di Paceco (Paceco Garlic) and Aglio di Trapani (Trapani Garlic), is a Sicilian variety of garlic, characterized by the intense purple color of the robes of its bulbils. It is mainly cultivated in Nubia, a fraction of the comune of Paceco, in the Province... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymidine%20monophosphate | Thymidine monophosphate (TMP), also known as thymidylic acid (conjugate base thymidylate), deoxythymidine monophosphate (dTMP), or deoxythymidylic acid (conjugate base deoxythymidylate), is a nucleotide that is used as a monomer in DNA. It is an ester of phosphoric acid with the nucleoside thymidine. dTMP consists of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20survey%20in%20fishing | Acoustic survey in fishing is one of the research methods that can detect the abundance of target species using acoustic detectors.
For example, many pelagic fisheries are generally very scattered over a broad ocean and difficult to detect.
Hence survey vessel with acoustic detector emits sound waves to estimate the de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMDoc | OMDoc (Open Mathematical Documents) is a semantic markup format for mathematical documents. While MathML only covers mathematical formulae and the related OpenMath standard only supports formulae and “content dictionaries” containing definitions of the symbols used in formulae, OMDoc covers the whole range of written m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergeometric%20distribution | In probability theory and statistics, the hypergeometric distribution is a discrete probability distribution that describes the probability of successes (random draws for which the object drawn has a specified feature) in draws, without replacement, from a finite population of size that contains exactly objects wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartogs%E2%80%93Rosenthal%20theorem | In mathematics, the Hartogs–Rosenthal theorem is a classical result in complex analysis on the uniform approximation of continuous functions on compact subsets of the complex plane by rational functions. The theorem was proved in 1931 by the German mathematicians Friedrich Hartogs and Arthur Rosenthal and has been wide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sy%20Friedman | Sy-David Friedman (born May 23, 1953, in Chicago) is an American and Austrian mathematician and a (retired) professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna and the former director of the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic. His main research interest lies in mathematical logic, in particular in set t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence-lifetime%20imaging%20microscopy | Fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy or FLIM is an imaging technique based on the differences in the exponential decay rate of the photon emission of a fluorophore from a sample. It can be used as an imaging technique in confocal microscopy, two-photon excitation microscopy, and multiphoton tomography.
The fluores... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calocybe%20gambosa | Calocybe gambosa, commonly known as St. George's mushroom, is an edible mushroom that grows mainly in fields, grass verges and roadsides. Deriving its common name from when it first appears in the UK, namely on St George's Day (23 April). It appears in March in Italy, a warmer country where it is also a popular mushroo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal%20Kombat%2011 | Mortal Kombat 11 is a 2019 fighting game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is the eleventh main installment in the Mortal Kombat series and a sequel to Mortal Kombat X (2015). The game was announced at The Game Awards 2018 and was released in North America and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20identifier | In Unix-like systems, multiple users can be put into groups. POSIX and conventional Unix file system permissions are organized into three classes, user, group, and others. The use of groups allows additional abilities to be delegated in an organized fashion, such as access to disks, printers, and other peripherals. Thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Exchange%20Hosted%20Services | Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services, also known as FrontBridge, is an email filtering system owned by Microsoft. It was acquired in 2005 from Frontbridge Inc. FrontBridge Technologies began in 2000 as Bigfish Communications in Marina del Rey, California. The service is sold directly and through partnership with Sprint... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebScarab | WebScarab is a web security application testing tool. It serves as a proxy that intercepts and allows people to alter web browser web requests (both HTTP and HTTPS) and web server replies. WebScarab also may record traffic for further review.
Overview
WebScarab is an open source tool developed by The Open Web Applicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visceral%20pain | Visceral pain is pain that results from the activation of nociceptors of the thoracic, pelvic, or abdominal viscera (organs). Visceral structures are highly sensitive to distension (stretch), ischemia and inflammation, but relatively insensitive to other stimuli that normally evoke pain such as cutting or burning. Visc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root%20locus%20analysis | In control theory and stability theory, root locus analysis is a graphical method for examining how the roots of a system change with variation of a certain system parameter, commonly a gain within a feedback system. This is a technique used as a stability criterion in the field of classical control theory developed b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon%20upconversion | Photon upconversion (UC) is a process in which the sequential absorption of two or more photons leads to the emission of light at shorter wavelength than the excitation wavelength. It is an anti-Stokes type emission. An example is the conversion of infrared light to visible light. Upconversion can take place in both or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20Paperwork%20Elimination%20Act | The Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA, Title XVII) requires that, when practicable, federal agencies use electronic forms, electronic filing, and electronic signatures to conduct official business with the public by 2003. In doing this, agencies will create records with business, legal and, in some cases, his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Prix%20scientifique%20de%20la%20Fondation%20NRJ | Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation NRJ (The Scientific Grand Prize of the Foundation NRJ) is an award conferred annually by the Foundation NRJ at the Institut de France. It is awarded in the areas of medical science, particularly neuroscience. Each year the prize has a different theme. The award has a €150,000 pri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality%20%28book%29 | Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference (2000; updated 2009) is a book by Judea Pearl. It is an exposition and analysis of causality. It is considered to have been instrumental in laying the foundations of the modern debate on causal inference in several fields including statistics, computer science and epidemiolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-photon%20excitation%20microscopy | Two-photon excitation microscopy (TPEF or 2PEF) is a fluorescence imaging technique that is particularly well-suited to image scattering living tissue of up to about one millimeter in thickness. Unlike traditional fluorescence microscopy, where the excitation wavelength is shorter than the emission wavelength, two-phot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20group-1%20ISBN%20publisher%20codes | A list of publisher codes for (978) International Standard Book Numbers with a group code of one. (Data from published items by these publishers.)
Assignation
The group-1 publisher codes are assigned as follows:
2-digit publisher codes
3-digit publisher codes
4-digit publisher codes
5-digit publisher codes
6-dig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupled%20mode%20theory | Coupled mode theory (CMT) is a perturbational approach for analyzing the coupling of vibrational systems (mechanical, optical, electrical, etc.) in space or in time. Coupled mode theory allows a wide range of devices and systems to be modeled as one or more coupled resonators. In optics, such systems include laser cavi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20schema%20of%20specification | In many popular versions of axiomatic set theory, the axiom schema of specification, also known as the axiom schema of separation, subset axiom scheme or axiom schema of restricted comprehension is an axiom schema. Essentially, it says that any definable subclass of a set is a set.
Some mathematicians call it the axi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20set | A television set or television receiver (more commonly called TV, TV set, television, telly, or tele) is an electronic device for the purpose of viewing and hearing television broadcasts, or as a computer monitor. It combines a tuner, display, and loudspeakers. Introduced in the late 1920s in mechanical form, televisio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S4%20protein%20domain | In molecular biology, S4 domain refers to a small RNA-binding protein domain found in a ribosomal protein named uS4 (called S9 in eukaryotes). The S4 domain is approximately 60-65 amino acid residues long, occurs in a single copy at various positions in different proteins and was originally found in pseudouridine synth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclodextrin | Cyclodextrins are a family of cyclic oligosaccharides, consisting of a macrocyclic ring of glucose subunits joined by α-1,4 glycosidic bonds. Cyclodextrins are produced from starch by enzymatic conversion. They are used in food, pharmaceutical, drug delivery, and chemical industries, as well as agriculture and enviro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration | In mechanics, acceleration is the rate of change of the velocity of an object with respect to time. Acceleration is one of several components of kinematics, the study of motion. Accelerations are vector quantities (in that they have magnitude and direction). The orientation of an object's acceleration is given by the o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512 | DMX512 is a standard for digital communication networks that are commonly used to control lighting and effects. It was originally intended as a standardized method for controlling stage lighting dimmers, which, prior to DMX512, had employed various incompatible proprietary protocols. It quickly became the primary met... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentaffin | Argentaffin refers to cells which take up silver stain.
Enteroendocrine cells are sometimes also called "argentaffins", because they take up this stain. An argentaffin cell is any enteroendocrine cell, a hormone-secreting cell present throughout the digestive tract.
It is a property of melanin, and special stain can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge%20pressure | Discharge pressure (also called high side pressure or head pressure) is the pressure generated on the output side of a gas compressor in a refrigeration or air conditioning system. The discharge pressure is affected by several factors: size and speed of the condenser fan, condition and cleanliness of the condenser coil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular%20orthobicupola | In geometry, the triangular orthobicupola is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by attaching two triangular cupolas () along their bases. It has an equal number of squares and triangles at each vertex; however, it is not vertex-transitive. It is also called an anticuboctahedron, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%20oceanography | Planetary oceanography also called astro-oceanography or exo-oceanography is the study of oceans on planets and moons other than Earth. Unlike other planetary sciences like astrobiology, astrochemistry and planetary geology, it only began after the discovery of underground oceans in Saturn's moon Titan and Jupiter's mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav%20Zei%20Award | The Grand Miroslav Zei Award for Life Work in the Field of the Activities of the National Institute of Biology () is a scientific award in Slovenia awarded each year for outstanding scientific achievements in Biology. It has been bestowed since 2010 by the National Institute of Biology and includes a prize for achievem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%27s%20paradox | In statistics, Hand's paradox arises from ambiguity when comparing two treatments. It shows that a comparison of the effects of the treatments applied to two independent groups can contradict a comparison of the effects of both treatments applied to a single group.
Paradox
Comparisons of two treatments often involve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-term%20digital%20radio | The Near-term digital radio (NTDR) program provided a prototype mobile ad hoc network (MANET) radio system to the United States Army, starting in the 1990s. The MANET protocols were provided by Bolt, Beranek and Newman; the radio hardware was supplied by ITT. These systems have been fielded by the United Kingdom as the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20BIOS | Video BIOS is the BIOS of a graphics card in a (usually IBM PC-derived) computer. It initializes the graphics card at the computer's boot time. It also implements INT 10h interrupt and VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) for basic text and videomode output before a specific video driver is loaded. In UEFI 2.x systems, the INT 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xtraview%20Encryption%20System | Xtraview Video Encryption System refers to the now-defunct patented "encryption" system used on Xtraview and a number of other Top Up TV services, including Setanta Sports, Television X, Babestation and Red Hot TV.
Unlike the other encryption system used by Top Up TV, Mediaguard, the Xtraview Video Encryption System w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tight%20junction | Tight junctions, also known as occluding junctions or zonulae occludentes (singular, zonula occludens), are multiprotein junctional complexes whose canonical function is to prevent leakage of solutes and water and seals between the epithelial cells. They also play a critical role maintaining the structure and permeabil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arista%20Networks | Arista Networks (formerly Arastra) is an American computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company designs and sells multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking (SDN) for large datacenter, cloud computing, high-performance computing, and high-frequency trading env... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deslandres%20table | In electronic spectroscopy, constructing a Deslandres table is a useful method to assign vibronic transitions. In such a table, the frequencies of the lines seen in an electronic spectrum of a molecule are collected so that the differences in energy between adjacent columns or rows are all the same (within experimental... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haematera%20pyrame | Haematera pyrame is a South American species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1781 under the name Papilio pyramus, which was preoccupied (by the species now known as Tarsoctenus corytus). Jacob Hübner designated a slightly modified replacement na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBML | ibml (Imaging Business Machines, L.L.C.), founded in 1992, is a privately held information capture company headquartered in Irondale, Alabama, United States. Combining hardware and software products and services, ibml products provide end-to-end scanning and document capture.
History and technology
Founded as a docu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat%20line | Chat line is a services allowing for people to communicate with one another by telephone call. However, more recent chat lines are similar to CB radio in which a number of people both listen and speak together.
See also
Instant messaging
Online chat
Chat room
Beep line
Party line (telephony)
Synchronous confere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1458%20%28number%29 | 1458 is the integer after 1457 and before 1459.
The maximum determinant of an 11 by 11 matrix of zeroes and ones is 1458.
1458 is one of three numbers which, when its base 10 digits are added together, produces a sum which, when multiplied by its reversed self, yields the original number:
1 + 4 + 5 + 8 = 18
18 × 8... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascarene%20Islands | The Mascarene Islands (, ) or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of the islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of La Réunion. Their name derives from the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas, who first ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mtrace | mtrace is the memory debugger included in the GNU C Library.
Use
Note that mtrace tool works only with single threaded applications. One thread could temporarily remove the hook while another thread could malloc memory at the sametime leading to missed allocations in a multithreaded application!
The function mtrace ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damp%20proofing | Damp proofing in construction is a type of moisture control applied to building walls and floors to prevent moisture from passing into the interior spaces. Dampness problems are among the most frequent problems encountered in residences.
Damp proofing is defined by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20reference%20pulse | Zero reference pulse or Zero pulse is an artificially produced pulse in a professional television receiver imitating no radio frequency case for modulation index measurements in analogue TV transmitters.
Video signal
The composite monochrome video signal (CVS) is composed of a video signal superimposed on an auxilia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus%20bernardii | Agaricus bernardii, commonly called the salt-loving agaricus, or salt-loving mushroom, is an agaric fungus in the family Agaricaceae. A short, squat mushroom, the thick stem is usually less than the diameter of the cap, which ranges from . Found in Asia, Europe, North America, New Zealand and Australia it is a salt-to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Collection%20of%20Yeast%20Cultures | The National Collection of Yeast Cultures (NCYC) is a British yeast culture collection based at the Norwich Research Park in Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom, that currently maintains a collection of over 4400 strains and operates under the Budapest Treaty.
As well as the traditional baking and brewing yeast Saccharo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Complex%20Quantum%20Systems | The Center for Complex Quantum Systems is a research institute within the Department of Physics of The University of Texas at Austin in the United States.
The center, founded in 1967 by Ilya Prigogine, is dedicated to the theoretical and computational research of complex systems, statistical mechanics and chaos theory... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20efficiency | In computer science, algorithmic efficiency is a property of an algorithm which relates to the amount of computational resources used by the algorithm. An algorithm must be analyzed to determine its resource usage, and the efficiency of an algorithm can be measured based on the usage of different resources. Algorithmic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket%20toilet | A bucket toilet is a basic form of a dry toilet whereby a bucket (pail) is used to collect excreta. Usually, feces and urine are collected together in the same bucket, leading to odor issues. The bucket may be situated inside a dwelling, or in a nearby small structure (an outhouse).
Where people do not have access to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20shell%20model | In nuclear physics, atomic physics, and nuclear chemistry, the nuclear shell model is a model of the atomic nucleus that uses the Pauli exclusion principle to describe the structure of nuclei in terms of energy levels. The first shell model was proposed by Dmitri Ivanenko (together with E. Gapon) in 1932. The model was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20Reviews%20Genetics | Nature Reviews Genetics is a monthly review journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established in 2000 and covers the full breadth of modern genetics. The editor-in-chief is Linda Koch. The journal publishes review and perspective articles written by experts in the field subject to peer review and copy editing t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONA%20number | A MONA number (short for Moths of North America), or Hodges number after Ronald W. Hodges, is part of a numbering system for North American moths found north of Mexico in the Continental United States and Canada, as well as the island of Greenland. Introduced in 1983 by Hodges through the publication of Check List of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshoot%20%28plant%29 | Offshoots are lateral shoots that are produced on the main stem of a plant. They may be known colloquially as "suckers", “pups” or “sister plants”
See also
Stolon or runners
Plant anatomy
Plant morphology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netprov | Netprov is "networked, improvised literature" or collaborative literary improvisations performed on the internet. The word netprov is a portmanteau of "networked" and "improv" as in improvisational theatre. Netprov is considered a genre of electronic literature.
Background
Netprov is explicitly related to improvisati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeomastodon | Palaeomastodon ("ancient mastodon") is an extinct genus within the elephant order Proboscidea. Its fossils have been extracted from Oligocene strata conventionally dated to 33.9-23.03 million years old.
Usually considered an ancestor or near-ancestor of elephants or mastodons, it lived in marshes and fluvial-deltaic e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega%20%28service%29 | MEGA (a recursive acronym standing for MEGA Encrypted Global Access) is a file hosting service offered by MEGA CLOUD SERVICES LIMITED, a company based in Auckland, New Zealand. The service is offered through web-based apps. MEGA mobile apps are also available for Android and iOS.
The Web site and service was launched... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic%20artificial%20muscles | Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) are contractile or extensional devices operated by pressurized air filling a pneumatic bladder. In an approximation of human muscles, PAMs are usually grouped in pairs: one agonist and one antagonist.
PAMs were first developed (under the name of McKibben Artificial Muscles) in the 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision%20engineering | Precision engineering is a subdiscipline of electrical engineering, software engineering, electronics engineering, mechanical engineering, and optical engineering concerned with designing machines, fixtures, and other structures that have exceptionally low tolerances, are repeatable, and are stable over time. These app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Elastic%20Block%20Store | Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides raw block-level storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances and is used by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). It is one of the two block-storage options offered by AWS, with the other being the EC2 Instance Store.
Amazon EBS provides a range of options for stor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20language | A software language is an artificial language used in the development of software systems. The term is more general than programming language and also includes modelling languages, query languages, transformation languages, software interfaces, database schemata, domain-specific languages, markup languages, etc.
Furth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptozole | Apoptozole is a drug that acts as a potent and selective inhibitor of the heat shock protein Hsp70, and was one of the first compounds developed to act at this target. It induces apoptosis in susceptible cells, and displays anti-cancer, anti-malarial and antiviral activity. The promising results in animal studies makes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean%20Public%20Health%20Agency | The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is a regional public health agency headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago which was established by CARICOM leaders in July 2011 and began operation in 2013.
CARPHA combines the functions of five pre-existing regional health institutions: The Caribbean Environmental Health Inst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SacI%20homology%20domain | SacI homology domain is most notably found at the amino terminal of the inositol 5'-phosphatase synaptojanin. Synaptic vesicles are recycled with remarkable speed and precision in nerve terminals. A major recycling pathway involves clathrin-mediated endocytosis at endocytic zones located around sites of release. Differ... |
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