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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20megafauna%20in%20mythology%20and%20folklore | A giant animal in mythology is unusually large, either for their species or in relation to humans. The term giant carries some ambiguity; however, in mythology, definitions of what constitutes 'large' vary, with definitions ranging from 40 kg to 250 kg. At the upper, they may be further subdivided into small (250–500 k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic%20exclusion%20assay | A kinetic exclusion assay (KinExA) is a type of bioassay in which a solution containing receptor, ligand, and receptor-ligand complex is briefly exposed to additional ligand immobilized on a solid phase.
Description
During the assay, a fraction of the free receptor is captured by the solid phase ligand and subsequent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa%20Garrett%20Anderson | Louisa Garrett Anderson, CBE (28 July 1873 – 15 November 1943) was a medical pioneer, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, a suffragette, and social reformer. She was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, whose biography she wrote in 1939.
Anderson was the Chief Surge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched%20flour | Enriched flour is flour with specific nutrients returned to it that have been lost while being prepared. These restored nutrients include iron and B vitamins (folic acid, riboflavin, niacin, and thiamine). Calcium may also be supplemented. The purpose of enriching flour is to replenish the nutrients in the flour to mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial%20mat | A microbial mat is a multi-layered sheet of microorganisms, mainly bacteria and archaea, or bacteria alone. Microbial mats grow at interfaces between different types of material, mostly on submerged or moist surfaces, but a few survive in deserts. A few are found as endosymbionts of animals.
Although only a few centim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP107%20family | Cytochrome P450, family 107, also known as CYP107, is a cytochrome P450 monooxygenase family in bacteria, found to be conserved and highly populated in Streptomyces and Bacillus species. The first gene identified in this family is Cytochrome P450 eryF (CYP107A1) from Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Many enzymes of this fa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Glanville | Jacob Eli Gunn Glanville is an American computational immunoengineer and businessperson. He is co-founder and chief executive officer of the start-up company Distributed Bio and its spin-out, Centivax. Glanville was featured in the documentary series Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak. Glanville was born in The Dalle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermocompression%20bonding | Thermocompression bonding describes a wafer bonding technique and is also referred to as diffusion bonding, pressure joining, thermocompression welding or solid-state welding. Two metals, e.g. gold-gold (Au), are brought into atomic contact applying force and heat simultaneously. The diffusion requires atomic contact b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geras | In Greek mythology, Geras (), also written Gēras, was the god of old age. He was depicted as a tiny, shriveled old man. Gēras's opposite was Hebe, the goddess of youth. His Roman equivalent was Senectus. He is known primarily from vase depictions that show him with the hero Heracles; the mythic story that inspired the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonotopy | In physiology, tonotopy (from Greek tono = frequency and topos = place) is the spatial arrangement of where sounds of different frequency are processed in the brain. Tones close to each other in terms of frequency are represented in topologically neighbouring regions in the brain. Tonotopic maps are a particular case o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube%20%28algebra%29 | In arithmetic and algebra, the cube of a number is its third power, that is, the result of multiplying three instances of together.
The cube of a number or any other mathematical expression is denoted by a superscript 3, for example or .
The cube is also the number multiplied by its square:
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The cube function is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyworld | Polyworld is a cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS X) program written by Larry Yaeger to evolve Artificial Intelligence through natural selection and evolutionary algorithms.
It uses the Qt graphics toolkit and OpenGL to display a graphical environment in which a population of trapezoid agents search for food, mate, have o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfone | Zfone is software for secure voice communication over the Internet (VoIP), using the ZRTP protocol. It is created by Phil Zimmermann, the creator of the PGP encryption software. Zfone works on top of existing SIP- and RTP-programs, but should work with any SIP- and RTP-compliant VoIP-program.
Zfone turns many existing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldberger%E2%80%93Wise%20mechanism | In particle physics, the Goldberger–Wise mechanism is a popular mechanism that determines the size of the fifth dimension in Randall–Sundrum models. The mechanism uses a scalar field that propagates throughout the five-dimensional bulk. On each of the branes that end the fifth dimension (frequently referred to as the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcuRed | EcuRed is a Cuban online encyclopedia built on MediaWiki software. The site was launched on 13 December 2010. The name is an acronym from the Spanish phrase (literally "Cuban Encyclopedia on the Network").
Content
EcuRed was launched by the Cuban government, is based in Wikipedia and its content is closely entwined ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis%20path%20testing | In software engineering, basis path testing, or structured testing, is a white box method for designing test cases. The method analyzes the control-flow graph of a program to find a set of linearly independent paths of execution. The method normally uses McCabe cyclomatic complexity to determine the number of linearly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisao%20Yamada | was a Japanese computer scientist, known for his influential contributions to theoretical computer science, as well as for the development of Japanese keyboard layouts, a challenging practical problem. From 1972 to 1991, he was professor of the formal languages division at the Department for Information Science at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly%20symmetric%20space | In mathematics, a weakly symmetric space is a notion introduced by the Norwegian mathematician Atle Selberg in the 1950s as a generalisation of symmetric space, due to Élie Cartan. Geometrically the spaces are defined as complete Riemannian manifolds such that any two points can be exchanged by an isometry, the symmetr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimodular%20matrix | In mathematics, a unimodular matrix M is a square integer matrix having determinant +1 or −1. Equivalently, it is an integer matrix that is invertible over the integers: there is an integer matrix N that is its inverse (these are equivalent under Cramer's rule). Thus every equation , where M and b both have integer com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armitage%20%28computing%29 | Armitage is a graphical cyber attack management tool for the Metasploit Project that visualizes targets and recommends exploits. It is a free and open source network security tool notable for its contributions to red team collaboration allowing for: shared sessions, data, and communication through a single Metasploit i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20frequency%20scaling | Dynamic frequency scaling (also known as CPU throttling) is a power management technique in computer architecture whereby the frequency of a microprocessor can be automatically adjusted "on the fly" depending on the actual needs, to conserve power and reduce the amount of heat generated by the chip. Dynamic frequency s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioSLAX | BioSLAX is a Live CD/Live DVD/Live USB comprising a suite of more than 300 bioinformatics tools and application suites. It has been released by the Bioinformatics Resource Unit of the Life Sciences Institute (LSI), National University of Singapore (NUS) and is bootable from any PC that allows a CD/DVD or USB boot optio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern%20ally | Fern allies are a diverse group of seedless vascular plants that are not true ferns. Like ferns, a fern ally disperses by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
Classification
Originally, three or four groups of plants were considered to be fern allies. In various classification schemes, these m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3511 | 3511 (three thousand, five hundred and eleven) is the natural number following 3510 and preceding 3512.
3511 is a prime number, and is also an emirp: a different prime when its digits are reversed.
3511 is a Wieferich prime, found to be so by N. G. W. H. Beeger in 1922 and the largest known – the only other being 109... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPR%20FOM | The Real-time Platform Reference Federation Object Model (RPR FOM) enables linking computer simulations of discrete physical entities into complex virtual worlds. It is a High Level Architecture (HLA) federation object model developed for distributed simulation applications of defense and security. RPR FOM is listed in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied%20gas | Liquefied gas (sometimes referred to as liquid gas) is a gas that has been turned into a liquid by cooling or compressing it. Examples of liquefied gases include liquid air, liquefied natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gas.
Liquid air
At the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, liquid air has been brought into... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachman%20Aronszajn | Nachman Aronszajn (26 July 1907 – 5 February 1980) was a Polish American mathematician. Aronszajn's main field of study was mathematical analysis, where he systematically developed the concept of reproducing kernel Hilbert space. He also contributed to mathematical logic.
Life
An Ashkenazi Jew, Aronszajn received his ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Unwin | Peter Nigel Tripp Unwin FRS is a British scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where he was Head of the Neurobiology Division from 1992 until 2008. He is currently also Emeritus Professor of Cell Biology at the Scripps Research Institute.
Life
Nigel Unwin was born in New Zealand. He was a Ph.D. student... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64%20%28number%29 | 64 (sixty-four) is the natural number following 63 and preceding 65.
In mathematics
Sixty-four is the square of 8, the cube of 4, and the sixth-power of 2. It is the smallest number with exactly seven divisors. 64 is the first non-unitary sixth-power prime of the form p6 where p is a prime number.
The aliquot sum of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Couleur | John Francis Couleur (July 7 1925, Chicago – August 25 2007, Scottsdale, Arizona) was an American computer engineer and executive. He was the recipient of over 40 patents.
Early life
During World War II, Couleur enrolled in the V-12 Navy College Training Program.
He graduated summa cum laude from Southern Methodist Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality%20timeline | Chirality timeline presents a timeline of landmark events that unfold the developments happened in the field of chirality.
Many molecules come in two forms that are mirror images of each other, just like our hands. This type of molecule is called chiral. In nature, one of these forms is usually more common than the ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbons%E2%80%93Hawking%E2%80%93York%20boundary%20term | In general relativity, the Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term is a term that needs to be added to the Einstein–Hilbert action when the underlying spacetime manifold has a boundary.
The Einstein–Hilbert action is the basis for the most elementary variational principle from which the field equations of general relativit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azficel-T | Azficel-T, sold under the brand name Laviv, is a cell therapy product for the improvement of the appearance of moderate to severe nasolabial fold wrinkles in adults. It consists of fibroblasts harvested from the patient's own skin.
It was approved for medical use in the United States in June 2011. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20of%20the%20Lamps | Master of the Lamps is a music video game published in 1985 by Activision. It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, and MSX.
Plot
The death of an Arabian prince's father, the king, shatters three enchanted oil lamps, freeing the three genies trapped within. The genies overrun th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Lhermitte | Roger M. Lhermitte (May 28, 1920-November 21, 2016) was a French meteorologist who "pioneered the development of meteorological Doppler radar." His career extended from the 1950s until his death where he made numerous contributions to the field of Radar Meteorology resulting in over 100 publications and numerous patent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20%28computing%29 | In computer science, a library is a collection of non-volatile resources used by computer programs, often for software development. These may include configuration data, documentation, help data, message templates, pre-written code and subroutines, classes, values or type specifications. In IBM's OS/360 and its success... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretin%20receptor%20family | Secretin receptor family (class B GPCR subfamily) consists of secretin receptors regulated by peptide hormones from the glucagon hormone family. The family is different from adhesion G protein-coupled receptors.
The secretin-receptor family of GPCRs include vasoactive intestinal peptide receptors and receptors for sec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CXorf38%20Isoform%201 | Chromosome X Open Reading Frame 38 (CXorf38) is a protein which, in humans, is encoded by the CXorf38 gene. CXorf38 appears in multiple studies regarding the escape of X chromosome inactivation (see Clinical Significance).
Gene
The CXorf38 gene is located on chromosome X at p11.4. Including 5' and 3' untranslated reg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-plasmid | The F-plasmid (first named F by one of its discoverers Esther Lederberg；also called the sex factor in E. coli， the F sex factor, or the fertility factor) allows genes to be transferred from one bacterium carrying the factor to another bacterium lacking the factor by conjugation. The F factor was the first plasmid to b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge-based%20processor | Knowledge-based processors (KBPs) are used for processing packets in computer networks. Knowledge-based processors are designed with the goal of increased performance of the IPv6 network. By contributing to the buildout of the IPv6 network, KBPs provide the means to an improved and secure networking system.
Standard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous%20protocol | A rendezvous protocol is a computer network protocol that enables resources or P2P network peers to find each other. A rendezvous protocol uses a handshaking model, unlike an eager protocol which directly copies the data. In a rendezvous protocol the data is sent when the destination says it is ready, but in an eager p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North | North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. North is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.
Etymology
The word north is related to the Old High German nord, both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodding%20disease | Nodding disease is a disease which emerged in Sudan in the 1960s. It is a mentally and physically disabling disease that only affects children, typically between the ages of 5 and 15. It is currently restricted to small regions in South Sudan, Tanzania, and northern Uganda. Prior to the South Sudan outbreaks and subseq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20%28mathematical%20analysis%29 | In mathematical analysis, a domain or region is a non-empty connected open set in a topological space, in particular any non-empty connected open subset of the real coordinate space or the complex coordinate space . A connected open subset of coordinate space is frequently used for the domain of a function, but in gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20Riemannian%20and%20metric%20geometry | This is a glossary of some terms used in Riemannian geometry and metric geometry — it doesn't cover the terminology of differential topology.
The following articles may also be useful; they either contain specialised vocabulary or provide more detailed expositions of the definitions given below.
Connection
Curvatur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-setting%20study | Standard-setting study is an official research study conducted by an organization that sponsors tests to determine a cutscore for the test. To be legally defensible in the US, in particular for high-stakes assessments, and meet the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, a cutscore cannot be arbitrarily de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateman%27s%20principle | Bateman's principle, in evolutionary biology, is that in most species, variability in reproductive success (or reproductive variance) is greater in males than in females. It was first proposed by Angus John Bateman (1919–1996), an English geneticist. Bateman suggested that, since males are capable of producing millions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phall-O-Meter | The Phall-O-meter is a satirical measure that critiques medical standards for normal male and female phalluses. The tool was developed by Kiira Triea (Denise Tree) based on a concept by Suzanne Kessler and is used to demonstrate concerns with the medical treatment of intersex bodies.
Schematic representation
History
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicovery | Musicovery is an interactive and customised French webradio service. Listeners rate songs, resulting in a personalized programme. Reviewers have commented that unlike services that are governed by the user's choice of artist or genre, this method results in more discovery of artists to which the user might not otherwis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp%20and%20prawn%20as%20food | Shrimp and prawn are types of seafood that are consumed worldwide. Although shrimp and prawns belong to different suborders of Decapoda, they are very similar in appearance and the terms are often used interchangeably in commercial farming and wild fisheries. A distinction is drawn in recent aquaculture literature, whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearly%20neutral%20theory%20of%20molecular%20evolution | The nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution is a modification of the neutral theory of molecular evolution that accounts for the fact that not all mutations are either so deleterious such that they can be ignored, or else neutral. Slightly deleterious mutations are reliably purged only when their selection coeffic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatocoenosis | Thanatocoenosis (from Greek language thanatos - death and koinos - common) are all the embedded fossils at a single discovery site. This site may be referred to as a "death assemblage". Such groupings are composed of fossils of organisms which may not have been associated during life, often originating from different h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bind%20rune | A bind rune or bindrune () is a Migration Period Germanic ligature of two or more runes. They are extremely rare in Viking Age inscriptions, but are common in earlier (Proto-Norse) and later (medieval) inscriptions.
On some runestones, bind runes may have been ornamental and used to highlight the name of the carver.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dip%20slide | A dip slide (or dipslide) is a test for the presence of microorganisms in liquids. The use of dip slides is the method most frequently used to measure and observe microbial activity in liquid-based systems. It is often used in testing cooling systems. Dip slides are often used to determine the presence of slime forming... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzhaf%20power%20index | The Banzhaf power index, named after John Banzhaf (originally invented by Lionel Penrose in 1946 and sometimes called Penrose–Banzhaf index; also known as the Banzhaf–Coleman index after James Samuel Coleman), is a power index defined by the probability of changing an outcome of a vote where voting rights are not neces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redfish%20%28specification%29 | The Redfish standard is a suite of specifications that deliver an industry standard protocol providing a RESTful interface for the management of servers, storage, networking, and converged infrastructure.
History
The Redfish standard has been elaborated under the SPMF umbrella at the DMTF in 2014. The first specifica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling-sand%20game | A falling-sand game is a genre of video game and subgenre of sandbox games using a two-dimensional particle game engine or a cellular automaton.
In falling-sand games, the user can interact with (e.g. place and remove) particles on a canvas which can interact with other particles in various ways, which can lead to com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Green%20Book%20%28immunisation%20guidance%2C%20UK%29 | Immunisation against infectious disease, popularly known as The Green Book, provides information on vaccines for vaccine-preventable diseases. It acts as a guide to the UK's vaccination schedule for health professionals and health departments that give vaccines in the United Kingdom.
The first two editions were publis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrie%27s%20law | Morrie's law is a special trigonometric identity. Its name is due to the physicist Richard Feynman, who used to refer to the identity under that name. Feynman picked that name because he learned it during his childhood from a boy with the name Morrie Jacobs and afterwards remembered it for all of his life.
Identity an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTC%20Corporation | SMTC Corporation (Surface Mount Technology Centre), founded in 1985, is a mid-size provider of end-to-end electronics manufacturing services (EMS) including PCBA production, systems integration and comprehensive testing services, enclosure fabrication, as well as product design, sustaining engineering and supply chain ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20rewilding | Sea rewilding (also known as marine rewilding) is an area of environmental conservation activity which focuses on rewilding, restoring ocean life and returning seas to a more natural state. Sea rewilding projects operate around the world, working to repopulate a wide range of organisms, including giant clams, sharks, s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%20of%20breathing | Work of breathing (WOB) is the energy expended to inhale and exhale a breathing gas. It is usually expressed as work per unit volume, for example, joules/litre, or as a work rate (power), such as joules/min or equivalent units, as it is not particularly useful without a reference to volume or time. It can be calculated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%20Samsung%20Storage%20Technology | Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation (abbreviated TSST) is an international joint venture company of Toshiba (Japan) and Samsung Electronics (South Korea). Toshiba used to own 51% of its stock, while Samsung used to own the remaining 49%. The company specialized in optical disc drive manufacturing. The com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphaedra%20eleus | Euphaedra eleus, the Eleus orange forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The habitat consists of primary forests and secondary fore... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indranil%20Biswas | Indranil Biswas (born 19 October 1964) is an Indian mathematician. He is professor of mathematics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. He is known for his work in the areas of algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and deformation quantization.
In 2006, the Government of India awarded him the Sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthology | Helminthology is the study of parasitic worms (helminths). The field studies the taxonomy of helminths and their effects on their hosts.
The origin of the first compound of the word is the Greek ἕλμινς - helmins, meaning "worm".
In the 18th and early 19th century there was wave of publications on helminthology; this ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coacervate | Coacervate ( or ) is an aqueous phase rich in macromolecules such as synthetic polymers, proteins or nucleic acids. It forms through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), leading to a dense phase in thermodynamic equilibrium with a dilute phase. The dispersed droplets of dense phase are also called coacervates, micro-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation%20box | In cryptography, a permutation box (or P-box) is a method of bit-shuffling used to permute or transpose bits across S-boxes inputs, retaining diffusion while transposing.
In block ciphers, the S-boxes and P-boxes are used to make the relation between the plaintext and the ciphertext difficult to understand (see Shanno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20conductivity | In science and engineering, hydraulic conductivity (, in SI units of meters per second), is a property of porous materials, soils and rocks,< that describes the ease with which a fluid (usually water) can move through the pore space, or fractures network. It depends on the intrinsic permeability (, unit: m) of the mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20ice%20%28aviation%29 | In aviation, blue ice is frozen sewage material that has leaked mid-flight from commercial aircraft lavatory waste systems. It is a mixture of human biowaste and liquid disinfectant that freezes at high altitude. The name comes from the blue color of the disinfectant. Airlines are not allowed to dump their waste tanks ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the word null (from meaning "zero", which is from meaning "none") is often associated with the concept of zero or the concept of nothing. It is used in varying context from "having zero members in a set" (e.g., null set) to "having a value of zero" (e.g., null vector).
In a vector space, the null vec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating%20polynomial | In algebra, an alternating polynomial is a polynomial such that if one switches any two of the variables, the polynomial changes sign:
Equivalently, if one permutes the variables, the polynomial changes in value by the sign of the permutation:
More generally, a polynomial is said to be alternating in if it changes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20moduli | In mathematics, formal moduli are an aspect of the theory of moduli spaces (of algebraic varieties or vector bundles, for example), closely linked to deformation theory and formal geometry. Roughly speaking, deformation theory can provide the Taylor polynomial level of information about deformations, while formal modul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%20Pasopia%2016 | Toshiba Pasopia 16 or PA7020 (also known as T300 in the U.S. and PAP in Europe) is an IBM PC compatible computer from manufacturer Toshiba, released in 1982 and based around a Intel 8088-2 microprocessor running at 6 MHz.
Details
The operating system was MS-DOS 2.3 with CP/M-86 as an option. The machine included GW-B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20Nebraska | Nuclear Nebraska: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn’t Be Bought is a 2007 book by Susan Cragin which follows the controversy about a proposed low level nuclear waste dump, which was planned for Boyd County, Nebraska.
In 1989, two multinational corporations and several government agencies propos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroplus%20Blasterz%3A%20Heroines%20Infinite%20Duel | is a fighting game developed by Examu's Team Arcana and published by Nitroplus. The game crosses over heroines from various visual novels and games released by Nitroplus, as well as those from manga and anime series that Nitroplus writers have been involved with. The game was released in arcades on April 30, 2015 and w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Cordell | Dana Cordell is a Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney, where she directs and undertakes international and Australian research on sustainable food and phosphorus futures. Cordell's work in sustainability research has been recognised with the Eureka Prize for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Plankton%20Research | The Journal of Plankton Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on plankton. It is published by Oxford University Press and the editor-in-chief is John R. Dolan (Centre national de la recherche scientifique). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact fac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond%20turning | Diamond turning is turning using a cutting tool with a diamond tip. It is a process of mechanical machining of precision elements using lathes or derivative machine tools (e.g., turn-mills, rotary transfers) equipped with natural or synthetic diamond-tipped tool bits. The term single-point diamond turning (SPDT) is som... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number%20line | In elementary mathematics, a number line is a picture of a graduated straight line that serves as visual representation of the real numbers. Every point of a number line is assumed to correspond to a real number, and every real number to a point.
The integers are often shown as specially-marked points evenly spaced on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanchlani%20Global%20Health%20Research%20Award | The Chanchlani Global Health Research Award is a Canadian health sciences award that recognizes a world leading scholar in the area of Global Health. Each year a discipline within Global Health (i.e. Determinants of Health, Policy Development, and Innovative Solutions) is chosen by the internal review committee at McMa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward%20problem%20of%20electrocardiology | The forward problem of electrocardiology is a computational and mathematical approach to study the electrical activity of the heart through the body surface. The principal aim of this study is to computationally reproduce an electrocardiogram (ECG), which has important clinical relevance to define cardiac pathologies s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20Sheep | Electric Sheep is a volunteer computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver.
Process
The process is transparent to the casual user, who can simply install the software as a screensaver. Alternatively, the user... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Borderlands%20Studies | The Journal of Borderlands Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of borderlands studies. The journal was established in 1986 and is published by Routledge on behalf of the Association for Borderlands Studies. It appears five times a year and the editors-in-chief are Sergio Peña (El Colegio de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentz%27s%20algorithm | In mathematics, Lentz's algorithm is an algorithm to evaluate continued fractions and compute tables of spherical Bessel functions.
The version usually employed now is due to Thompson and Barnett.
History
The idea was introduced in 1973 by William J. Lentz and was simplified by him in 1982. Lentz suggested that calc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination%20%28artificial%20intelligence%29 | In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a hallucination or artificial hallucination (also called confabulation or delusion) is a response generated by an AI which contains false or misleading information presented as fact. For example, a hallucinating chatbot might, when asked to generate a financial report for a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping%20off | Damping off (or damping-off) is a horticultural disease or condition, caused by several different pathogens that kill or weaken seeds or seedlings before or after they germinate. It is most prevalent in wet and cool conditions.
Symptoms
There are various symptoms associated with damping off; these reflect the variety ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora-On | Flora-On is a portal coordinated by the Portuguese Botanical Society containing photographic, geographical, morphological and ecological information for all vascular plant species in Portugal (both in the mainland, Azores and Madeira).
The portal was created in 2012 by a group of young biologists within the Faculty of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C5orf46 | C5orf46 is a protein coding gene located on chromosome 5 in humans. It is also known as sssp1, or skin and saliva secreted protein 1. There are two known isoforms known in humans, with isoform 2 (analyzed throughout this page) being the longer of the two. The protein encoded is predicted to have one transmembrane domai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geplafuvirales | Geplafuvirales is an order of viruses.
Families
The following families are recognized:
Geminiviridae
Genomoviridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance%20of%20an%20organism | Maintenance of an organism is the collection of processes to stay alive, excluding production processes. The Dynamic Energy Budget theory delineates two classes
Somatic maintenance mainly comprises the turnover of structural mass (mainly proteins) and the maintenance of concentration gradients of metabolites across me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20Dictionary%20of%20Switzerland | The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse; DHS) is an encyclopedia on the history of Switzerland. It aims to present the history of Switzerland in the form of an encyclopaedia, published both on paper and on the Internet, in three of the country's national languages: German, French... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Lichtenbaum | Stephen Lichtenbaum (1939 in Brooklyn) is an American mathematician who is working in the fields of algebraic geometry, algebraic number theory and algebraic K-theory.
Lichtenbaum was an undergraduate at Harvard University (bachelor's degree "summa cum laude" in 1960), where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1964 (Curves ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20B.%20Plotkin | Joshua B. Plotkin is an evolutionary biologist and applied mathematician. He is the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Plotkin's research includes the study of the evolution of adaptation in populations, virus ecology, genetic drift, protein translation, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/283%20%28number%29 | 283 is the natural number following 282 and preceding 284.
In mathematics
283 is an odd prime number with 1 prime factors.
283 is a twin prime number and a super prime. The former are two prime numbers that are only separated by a single number with 281. The latter is a prime number that is the nth prime where n is a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous%20fission | Spontaneous fission (SF) is a form of radioactive decay in which a heavy atomic nucleus splits into two or more lighter nuclei. In comparison to induced fission, there is no inciting particle to trigger the decay, it is a purely probabilistic process.
Spontaneous fission is a dominant decay mode for superheavy element... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-throughput%20satellite | High-throughput satellite (HTS) is a communications satellite that provides more throughput than a classic FSS satellite (at least twice, though usually by a factor of 20 or more) for the same amount of allocated orbital spectrum, thus significantly reducing cost-per-bit.
ViaSat-1 and EchoStar XVII (also known as Jupit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower%20differentiation | Flower differentiation is a plant process by which the shoot apical meristem changes its anatomy to generate a flower or inflorescence in lieu of other structures. Anatomical changes begin at the edge of the meristem, generating first the outer whorls of the flower - the calyx and the corolla, and later the inner whorl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Accumulo | Apache Accumulo is a highly scalable sorted, distributed key-value store based on Google's Bigtable. It is a system built on top of Apache Hadoop, Apache ZooKeeper, and Apache Thrift. Written in Java, Accumulo has cell-level access labels and server-side programming mechanisms. According to DB-Engines ranking, Accumu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20in%20aquatic%20animals | Communication occurs when an animal produces a signal and uses it to influences the behaviour of another animal. A signal can be any behavioural, structural or physiological trait that has evolved specifically to carry information about the sender and/or the external environment and to stimulate the sensory system of t... |
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