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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20national%20flag%20proposals | Compilation of all the well documented national flag proposals of several countries, dependent territories, autonomies, and states with limited recognition.
An asterisk in headings denotes an incomplete list, which has more proposals not in Wikimedia Commons yet.
Algeria
Angola
In 1967, F. P. de Almeida Langhans de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentences%20of%20Sextus | The Sentences of Sextus, also called the Sayings of Sextus, is a Hellenistic Pythagorean collection of maxims which was popular among Christians and translated into several languages. The identity of the Sextus who originated the collection is unknown.
Transmission
The Sentences was probably compiled in the second cen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollodorus%20of%20Telmessus | Apollodorus of Telmessus is called by Artemidorus a notable or famous man (ἀνὴρ ἐλλόγιμος), and seems to have written a work on dreams. This seems to have specifically been on the subject of Oedipal dreams. His works are now lost.
Notes
Ancient Greek writers
Ancient Greek writers known only from secondary sources |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped%20SO%2810%29 | Flipped SO(10) is a grand unified theory which is to standard SO(10) as flipped SU(5) is to SU(5).
Details
In conventional SO(10) models, the fermions lie in three spinorial 16 representations, one for each generation, which decomposes under [SU(5) × U(1)χ]/Z5 as
This can either be the Georgi–Glashow SU(5) or flipped... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20occipital%20protuberance | Near the middle of the squamous part of occipital bone is the external occipital protuberance, the highest point of which is referred to as the inion. The inion is the most prominent projection of the protuberance which is located at the posterioinferior (rear lower) part of the human skull. The nuchal ligament and tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20for%20the%20Study%20of%20Child%20Language | The International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) is an academic society for first language acquisition researchers.
IASCL was founded in 1970 by a group of prominent language acquisition researchers to promote international and interdisciplinary cooperation in the study of child language. Its maj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20large%20numbers | In probability theory, the law of large numbers (LLN) is a theorem that describes the result of performing the same experiment a large number of times. According to the law, the average of the results obtained from a large number of trials should be close to the expected value and tends to become closer to the expected... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leccinum%20scabrum | Leccinum scabrum, commonly known as the rough-stemmed bolete, scaber stalk, and birch bolete, is an edible mushroom in the family Boletaceae, and was formerly classified as Boletus scaber. The birch bolete is widespread in Europe, in the Himalayas in Asia, and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, occurring only in myc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection%20coefficient | In physics and electrical engineering the reflection coefficient is a parameter that describes how much of a wave is reflected by an impedance discontinuity in the transmission medium. It is equal to the ratio of the amplitude of the reflected wave to the incident wave, with each expressed as phasors. For example, it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia%20Mathematica | Fantasia Mathematica
is an anthology published in 1958 containing stories, humor, poems, etc., all on mathematical topics, compiled by Clifton Fadiman. A companion volume was published as The Mathematical Magpie (1962). The volume contains writing by authors including Robert Heinlein, Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20modular%20curve | In number theory, the classical modular curve is an irreducible plane algebraic curve given by an equation
,
such that is a point on the curve. Here denotes the -invariant.
The curve is sometimes called , though often that notation is used for the abstract algebraic curve for which there exist various models. A re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signum%20manus | Signum manus (transl. sign of the hand, sometimes also known as Chrismon) refers to the medieval European practice of signing a document or charter with a special type of monogram or royal cypher. The practice is documented from at least the Merovingian period (ca. 5th century) until the 14th century in the Frankish Em... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAFacts | USAFacts is a not-for-profit organization and website that provides data and reports on the United States population, its government's finances, and government's impact on society. It was launched in 2017.
History and background
USAFacts was founded by former Microsoft CEO and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Stev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Installation%20Manager | Network Installation Manager (NIM) is an object-oriented system management framework on the IBM AIX operating system that installs and manages systems over a network. NIM is analogous to Kickstart in the Linux world. NIM is a client-server system in which a NIM server provides a boot image to client systems via the BOO... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytochalasin%20E | Cytochalasin E, a member of the cytochalasin group, is an inhibitor of actin polymerization in blood platelets. It inhibits angiogenesis and tumor growth. Unlike cytochalasin A and cytochalasin B, it does not inhibit glucose transport. Cytochalasin E, however, was noted to decrease glucose absorption in mice around the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquarian%20science%20books | Antiquarian science books are original historical works (e.g., books or technical papers) concerning science, mathematics and sometimes engineering. These books are important primary references for the study of the history of science and technology, they can provide valuable insights into the historical development of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem%20decay | Ecosystem decay is a term coined by Thomas Lovejoy to define the process of which species become extinct locally based on habitat fragmentation. This process is what led to the extinction of several species, including the Irish Elk. Ecosystem decay can be mainly attributed to population isolation, leading to inbreeding... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20triangular%20number | In mathematics, a square triangular number (or triangular square number) is a number which is both a triangular number and a square number. There are infinitely many square triangular numbers; the first few are:
0, 1, 36, , , , , , ,
Explicit formulas
Write for the th square triangular number, and write and for th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Assistant | Home Assistant is free and open-source software for home automation designed to be a central control system for smart home devices with a focus on local control and privacy. It can be accessed through a web-based user interface, by using companion apps for Android and iOS, or by voice commands via a supported virtual a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandes%20%28software%29 | Sandes is an Indian state-owned freeware instant messaging platform developed by the Government of India. It runs on Android, iOS and in web browsers. The platform is hosted exclusively at Government infrastructure and both are governed by the rules and regulations of Government of India.
Sandes offers instant messagi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduling%20%28computing%29 | In computing, scheduling is the action of assigning resources to perform tasks. The resources may be processors, network links or expansion cards. The tasks may be threads, processes or data flows.
The scheduling activity is carried out by a process called scheduler. Schedulers are often designed so as to keep all com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadwork | cadwork is a software suite that includes IFC-based virtual design and construction software tools developed by cadwork informatik AG. This suite of tools provides a solution for 3D wood manufacturing (Computer-aided manufacturing, CAM) and a solution for Building Information Modeling that includes project planning and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20H.%20Wright | Margaret H. Wright (born February 18, 1944) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. She is a Silver Professor of Computer Science and former Chair of the Computer Science department at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, with research interests in optimization, linear algebra, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chills | Chills is a feeling of coldness occurring during a high fever, but sometimes is also a common symptom which occurs alone in specific people. It occurs during fever due to the release of cytokines and prostaglandins as part of the inflammatory response, which increases the set point for body temperature in the hypothala... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Power%20Management | Advanced power management (APM) is a technical standard for power management developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS (part of the computer's firmware) to achieve power management.
Revision 1.2 was the last... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-21 | The MPEG-21 standard, from the Moving Picture Experts Group, aims at defining an open framework for multimedia applications. MPEG-21 is ratified in the standards ISO/IEC 21000 - Multimedia framework (MPEG-21).
MPEG-21 is based on two essential concepts:
definition of a Digital Item (a fundamental unit of distributio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%20Tsun%20Wu | Tai Tsun Wu (, September 1, 1933) is a Chinese-born American physicist and writer well known for his contributions to high-energy nuclear physics and statistical mechanics.
Life
Born in Shanghai, he studied electrical engineering at University of Minnesota and became a William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spongy%20tissue | Spongy tissue is a type of tissue found both in plants and animals.
In plants, it is part of the mesophyll, where it forms a layer next to the palisade cells in the leaf. The spongy mesophyll's function is to allow for the interchange of gases () that are needed for photosynthesis. The spongy mesophyll cells are less ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20solution | In chemistry, a regular solution is a solution whose entropy of mixing is equal to that of an ideal solution with the same composition, but is non-ideal due to a nonzero enthalpy of mixing. Such a solution is formed by random mixing of components of similar molar volume and without strong specific interactions, and its... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20pyramiding | Gene pyramiding is the simultaneous selection for and/or introduction of multiple genes during plant breeding. Objectives of gene pyramiding includes 1) enhancing trait performance by combining two or more complementary genes, 2) remedying deficits by introgressing genes from other sources, 3) increasing the durabilit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20and%20the%20Imagination | Geometry and the Imagination is the English translation of the 1932 book by David Hilbert and Stefan Cohn-Vossen.
The book was based on a series of lectures Hilbert made in the winter of 1920–21. The book is an attempt to present some then-current mathematical thought to "contribute to a more just appreciation of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20counting%20algorithm | Quantum counting algorithm is a quantum algorithm for efficiently counting the number of solutions for a given search problem.
The algorithm is based on the quantum phase estimation algorithm and on Grover's search algorithm.
Counting problems are common in diverse fields such as statistical estimation, statistical ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiki%20Mabuchi | Toshiki Mabuchi (kanji: 満渕俊樹, hiragana: マブチ トシキ, Mabuchi Toshiki, born in 1950) is a Japanese mathematician, specializing in complex differential geometry and algebraic geometry. In 2006 in Madrid he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. Mabuchi is known for introducing the Mabuchi fun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience%20of%20sleep | The neuroscience of sleep is the study of the neuroscientific and physiological basis of the nature of sleep and its functions. Traditionally, sleep has been studied as part of psychology and medicine. The study of sleep from a neuroscience perspective grew to prominence with advances in technology and the proliferatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20analytics | Speech analytics is the process of analyzing recorded calls to gather customer information to improve communication and future interaction. The process is primarily used by customer contact centers to extract information buried in client interactions with an enterprise. Although speech analytics includes elements of au... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascoseira | Ascoseira is a monotypic genus of seaweed in the brown algae (class Phaeophyceae). The single and type species, Ascoseira mirabilis Skottsberg, is a large parenchymatous macroalgae, and is endemic to the Antarctic Ocean. Ascoseira is assigned to its own order. The alga grows in subtidal waters at depths of from 3 to 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penitrem%20A | Penitrem A (tremortin) is an indole-diterpenoid mycotoxin produced by certain species of Aspergillus, Claviceps, and Penicillium, which can be found growing on various plant species such as ryegrass. Penitrem A is one of many secondary metabolites following the synthesis of paxilline in Penicillium crostosum. Penitrem ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamanian%20balboa | The balboa (sign: B/.; ISO 4217: PAB) is, along with the United States dollar, one of the official currencies of Panama. It is named in honor of the Spanish explorer/conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa. The balboa is subdivided into 100 centésimos.
History
The balboa replaced the Colombian peso in 1904 following the co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEGAS%20algorithm | The VEGAS algorithm, due to G. Peter Lepage, is a method for reducing error in Monte Carlo simulations by using a known or approximate probability distribution function to concentrate the search in those areas of the integrand that make the greatest contribution to the final integral.
The VEGAS algorithm is based on i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket%20eBook | The Rocket eBook is an early commercial handheld e-reader that was produced by NuvoMedia in late 1998; it uses a LCD screen and can store up to ten e-books. E-books are loaded on the device by connecting it to a computer and the device has two page turn buttons. Rocket-compatible e-books were sold online at Barnes & No... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodstein%27s%20theorem | In mathematical logic, Goodstein's theorem is a statement about the natural numbers, proved by Reuben Goodstein in 1944, which states that every Goodstein sequence eventually terminates at 0. Laurence Kirby and Jeff Paris showed that it is unprovable in Peano arithmetic (but it can be proven in stronger systems, such a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobar%20%28nuclide%29 | Isobars are atoms (nuclides) of different chemical elements that have the same number of nucleons. Correspondingly, isobars differ in atomic number (or number of protons) but have the same mass number. An example of a series of isobars is 40S, 40Cl, 40Ar, 40K, and 40Ca. While the nuclei of these nuclides all contain 40... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Biochemistry%2C%20Molecular%20Biology%20and%20Biotechnology | The Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IBMBB), Sri Lanka, is the National Node for European Molecular Biology Network (EMBnet) and is designated as a Resource Centre for Molecular Life Sciences by the International Programme in Chemical Sciences, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
External lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countably%20quasi-barrelled%20space | In functional analysis, a topological vector space (TVS) is said to be countably quasi-barrelled if every strongly bounded countable union of equicontinuous subsets of its continuous dual space is again equicontinuous.
This property is a generalization of quasibarrelled spaces.
Definition
A TVS X with continuous du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hordenine | Hordenine is an alkaloid of the phenethylamine class that occurs naturally in a variety of plants, taking its name from one of the most common, barley (Hordeum species). Chemically, hordenine is the N-methyl derivative of N-methyltyramine, and the N,N-dimethyl derivative of the well-known biogenic amine tyramine, from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Portier%20%28physiologist%29 | Paul Jules Portier (22 May 1866 – 26 January 1962) was a French physiologist who made important contributions to the discovery of anaphylaxis and the development of symbiogenesis. On a scientific expedition organised by Albert I, Prince of Monaco, he and Charles Richet discovered that toxins produced by marine animals ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmoregulation | Osmoregulation is the active regulation of the osmotic pressure of an organism's body fluids, detected by osmoreceptors, to maintain the homeostasis of the organism's water content; that is, it maintains the fluid balance and the concentration of electrolytes (salts in solution which in this case is represented by bod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman%E2%80%93Keuls%20method | The Newman–Keuls or Student–Newman–Keuls (SNK) method is a stepwise multiple comparisons procedure used to identify sample means that are significantly different from each other. It was named after Student (1927), D. Newman, and M. Keuls. This procedure is often used as a post-hoc test whenever a significant difference... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20informatics | Environmental informatics is the science of information applied to environmental science. As such, it provides the information processing and communication infrastructure to the interdisciplinary field of environmental sciences aiming at data, information and knowledge integration, the application of computational inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20RISCstation | The NEC RISCstation was a line of computer workstations made by NEC in the mid-1990s, based on MIPS RISC microprocessors and designed to run Microsoft Windows NT. A series of nearly identical machines were also sold by NEC in headless (i.e., no video card or framebuffer) configuration as the RISCserver series, and were... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20Tree%20Method | The Classification Tree Method is a method for test design, as it is used in different areas of software development.
It was developed by Grimm and Grochtmann in 1993.
Classification Trees in terms of the Classification Tree Method must not be confused with decision trees.
The classification tree method consists of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal%20pathology | Renal pathology is a subspecialty of anatomic pathology that deals with the diagnosis and characterization of medical diseases (non-tumor) of the kidneys. In the academic setting, renal pathologists work closely with nephrologists and transplant surgeons, who typically obtain diagnostic specimens via percutaneous renal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Callebaut | Werner Callebaut (October 7, 1952 – November 6, 2014) was a professor at the University of Hasselt, scientific director of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, editor and chief of Biological Theory, and president of The International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic%20energy%20storage | Cryogenic energy storage (CES) is the use of low temperature (cryogenic) liquids such as liquid air or liquid nitrogen to store energy.
The technology is primarily used for the large-scale storage of electricity. Following grid-scale demonstrator plants, a 250 MWh commercial plant is now under construction in the UK, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicon%20of%20Canadian%20Geologic%20Units | The Lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units, also called the Lexicon of Canadian Geological Names or simply the Lexicon, is an online database provided by the Government of Canada. It includes the names of more than 16,000 geologic units throughout Canada, as well as information about each geologic unit from several sources... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM-Mark | The AM-Mark ("Allied Military Currency") was the currency issued in Allied-occupied Germany by AMGOT after the commencement of Operation Wild Dog in 1944.
Individual prefix identification for Occupation zones (USA > 1, British > 0, French > 00, Soviet > -) quantities printed represented 532,000,000 notes. These notes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20Supersymmetric%20Standard%20Model | The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is an extension to the Standard Model that realizes supersymmetry. MSSM is the minimal supersymmetrical model as it considers only "the [minimum] number of new particle states and new interactions consistent with "Reality". Supersymmetry pairs bosons with fermions, so ev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic%20valuation | In number theory, the valuation or -adic order of an integer is the exponent of the highest power of the prime number that divides .
It is denoted .
Equivalently, is the exponent to which appears in the prime factorization of .
The -adic valuation is a valuation and gives rise to an analogue of the usual absolute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%88%9E-topos | In mathematics, an ∞-topos is, roughly, an ∞-category such that its objects behave like sheaves of spaces with some choice of Grothendieck topology; in other words, it gives an intrinsic notion of sheaves without reference to an external space. The prototypical example of an ∞-topos is the ∞-category of sheaves of spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Archival%20Information%20System | An Open Archival Information System (or OAIS) is an archive, consisting of an organization of people and systems, that has accepted the responsibility to preserve information and make it available for a Designated Community. The OAIS model can be applied to various archives, e.g., open access, closed, restricted, "dar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological%20specimen | A zoological specimen is an animal or part of an animal preserved for scientific use.
Various uses are: to verify the identity of a (species), to allow study, increase public knowledge of zoology.
Zoological specimens are extremely diverse. Examples are bird and mammal study skins, mounted specimens, skeletal material,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eike%20Best | Eike Best (born 13 March 1951) is a German computer scientist, best known for his contributions to concurrency theory.
Early life and education
Eike Best was born in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. During his childhood, he lived in Argentina, Germany, and Turkey, where his father worked as high school teacher. Best rece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20pluralism | Cosmic pluralism, the plurality of worlds, or simply pluralism, describes the belief in numerous "worlds" (planets, dwarf planets or natural satellites) in addition to Earth (possibly an infinite number), which may harbour extraterrestrial life.
The debate over pluralism began as early as the time of Anaximander (c. 6... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrintableString | A PrintableString is a restricted character string type in the ASN.1 notation.
It is used to describe data that consists only of a specific printable subset of the ASCII character set.
According to the ASN.1 Specification of basic notation, the character set of PrintableString can be expressed as:
The PrintableString... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise%20generator | A noise generator is a circuit that produces electrical noise (i.e., a random signal). Noise generators are used to test signals for measuring noise figure, frequency response, and other parameters. Noise generators are also used for generating random numbers.
Theory
There are several circuits used for noise generatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiking%20neural%20network | Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are artificial neural networks that more closely mimic natural neural networks. In addition to neuronal and synaptic state, SNNs incorporate the concept of time into their operating model. The idea is that neurons in the SNN do not transmit information at each propagation cycle (as it hap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite%20Rex | Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures is a nonfiction book by Carl Zimmer that was published by Free Press in 2000. The book discusses the history of parasites on Earth and how the field and study of parasitology formed, along with a look at the most dangerous parasites ever found ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Taylor%20%28dream%20worker%29 | Rev. Jeremy Taylor, DMin, (1943 – January 3, 2018) was an American dream worker, author and Unitarian Universalist minister. He was a co-founder and past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
He was known as a proponent of Projective Dreamwork, according to which participants in a dream g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMI%20cryptograph | The OMI cryptograph was a rotor cipher machine produced and sold by Italian firm Ottico Meccanica Italiana (OMI) in Rome.
The machine had seven rotors, including a reflecting rotor. The rotors stepped regularly. Each rotor could be assembled from two sections with different wiring: one section consisted of a "frame" c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20cases%20of%20Apollonius%27%20problem | In Euclidean geometry, Apollonius' problem is to construct all the circles that are tangent to three given circles. Special cases of Apollonius' problem are those in which at least one of the given circles is a point or line, i.e., is a circle of zero or infinite radius. The nine types of such limiting cases of Apoll... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20Mathematical%20Society | The Trinity Mathematical Society, abbreviated TMS, was founded in Trinity College, Cambridge in 1919 by G. H. Hardy to "promote the discussion of subjects of mathematical interest". It is the oldest mathematical university society in the United Kingdom and is believed to be the oldest existing subject society at any Br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manohar%20Vartak | Manohar N. Vartak (29 November 1926–1997) was a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. Professor Vartak was one of founder members of the Department of Mathematics and the head of the department (1973–1977). He was superannuated in 1986. Vartak was specialized i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHV%20Infected%20Cell%20Polypeptide%200 | Human Herpes Virus (HHV) Infected Cell Polypeptide 0 (ICP0) is a protein, encoded by the DNA of herpes viruses. It is produced by herpes viruses during the earliest stage of infection, when the virus has recently entered the host cell; this stage is known as the immediate-early or α ("alpha") phase of viral gene expres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20birds%20by%20flight%20heights | This is a list of birds by flight height.
Birds by flight height
See also
Organisms at high altitude
List of birds by flight speed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20CS6400 | The Cray Superserver 6400, or CS6400, is a discontinued multiprocessor server computer system produced by Cray Research Superservers, Inc., a subsidiary of Cray Research, and launched in 1993. The CS6400 was also sold as the Amdahl SPARCsummit 6400E.
The CS6400 (codenamed SuperDragon during development) superseded the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice%20notation | Dice notation (also known as dice algebra, common dice notation, RPG dice notation, and several other titles) is a system to represent different combinations of dice in wargames and tabletop role-playing games using simple algebra-like notation such as d8+2.
Standard notation
In most tabletop role-playing games, die... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic%20inflammatory%20demyelinating%20polyneuropathy | Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an acquired autoimmune disease of the peripheral nervous system characterized by progressive weakness and impaired sensory function in the legs and arms. The disorder is sometimes called chronic relapsing polyneuropathy (CRP) or chronic inflammatory demyelinat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Neuroscience%20Association | The British Neuroscience Association (BNA) is a scientific society with around 2,500 members. Starting out as an informal gathering of scientists meeting at the Black Horse Public House in London to discuss brain-related topics (the 'London Black Horse Group'), on the 23rd of February 1968 it was formerly established a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamiaceae | The Zamiaceae are a family of cycads that are superficially palm or fern-like. They are divided into two subfamilies with eight genera and about 150 species in the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Australia and North and South America.
The Zamiaceae, sometimes known as zamiads, are perennial, evergreen, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels%20Nielsen%20%28mathematician%29 | Niels Nielsen (2 December 1865, in Ørslev – 16 September 1931, in Copenhagen) was a Danish mathematician who specialised in mathematical analysis.
Life and work
Nielsen was the son of humble peasants and grew up in the western part of the island of Funen. In 1891 he graduated in mathematics from the University of Cop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Mathematician%27s%20Apology | A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy, which offers a defence of the pursuit of mathematics. Central to Hardy's "apology" – in the sense of a formal justification or defence (as in Plato's Apology of Socrates) – is an argument that mathematics has value independent of possible a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti%20effect | In electrical engineering, the Ferranti effect is the increase in voltage occurring at the receiving end of a very long (> 200 km) AC electric power transmission line, relative to the voltage at the sending end, when the load is very small, or no load is connected. It can be stated as a factor, or as a percent increase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20kappa%20function | In control theory, it is often required to check if a nonautonomous system is stable or not. To cope with this it is necessary to use some special comparison functions. Class functions belong to this family:
Definition: a continuous function is said to belong to class if:
it is strictly increasing;
it is s.t. .
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20K%C3%B6lling | Michael Kölling is a German computer scientist, currently working at King's College London, best known for the development of the BlueJ and Greenfoot educational development environments and as author of introductory programming textbooks. In 2013 he received the SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20age%20of%20cosmology | The golden age of cosmology is a term often used to describe the period from 1992 to the present in which important advances in observational cosmology have been made.
The golden age of cosmology is a term used to describe a period of time that spans from 1992 to the present day. This period marks an era of tremendous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai%20Stem%20Cell%20Institute | The Shanghai Stem Cell Institute is an institute in Shanghai, People's Republic of China dedicated to stem cell research.
The institute
The institute, located within the Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the School of Medicine faculty, is entirely funded by the government of the People's Republic of China.
In 2007,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holoplankton | Holoplankton are organisms that are planktic (they live in the water column and cannot swim against a current) for their entire life cycle. Holoplankton can be contrasted with meroplankton, which are planktic organisms that spend part of their life cycle in the benthic zone. Examples of holoplankton include some diatom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirMagnet | AirMagnet was a Wi-Fi wireless network assurance company based in Sunnyvale, California. The firm was founded in 2001 by Dean T. Au, Chia-Chee Kuan and Miles Wu and shipped its first WLAN analyzer product in 2002. In August 2006, the company shipped the Vo-Fi Analyzer, the first voice-over-Wi-Fi analyzer that could b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Howard%20Bros.%20Circus | The Howard Bros. Circus is a ¾-inch-to-the-foot scale replica of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus located on the Ringling Estate in Sarasota, Florida. It includes a complete reproduction of the entire circus (circa the 1920s).
History
The name for the circus comes from the name of the creator, Howard C. Tibb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20brain%20stimulation | Electrical brain stimulation (EBS), also referred to as focal brain stimulation (FBS), is a form of electrotherapy used as a technique in research and clinical neurobiology to stimulate a neuron or neural network in the brain through the direct or indirect excitation of its cell membrane by using an electric current. E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20information%20about%20a%20microarray%20experiment | Minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME) is a standard created by the FGED Society for reporting microarray experiments.
MIAME is intended to specify all the information necessary to interpret the results of the experiment unambiguously and to potentially reproduce the experiment. While the standard d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl%20isobutyrate | Methyl isobutyrate is an organic compound with the formula CH3O2CCH(CH3)2. This colorless liquid, the methyl ester of isobutyric acid, is used as a solvent. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreton%20wave | A Moreton wave, Solar Tsunami, or Moreton-Ramsey wave is the chromospheric signature of a large-scale solar corona shock wave. Described as a kind of solar "tsunami", they are generated by solar flares. They are named for American astronomer Gail Moreton, an observer at the Lockheed Solar Observatory in Burbank, and Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henle%27s%20layer | Henle's layer is the third and the outermost layer of the inner root sheath of the hair follicle, consisting of a single layer of cubical cells with clear flattened nuclei. It is named after German physician, pathologist and anatomist Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle.
See also
List of distinct cell types in the adult hum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeituni%20Onyango | Zeituni Onyango ( ; May 29, 1952 April 7, 2014) was the half-aunt of United States President Barack Obama; she was born into the Luo tribe in Kenya. Born during the British rule of the Protectorate of Kenya, Onyango was the half-sister of Barack Obama Sr., father to the president. The younger Obama refers to her as "Au... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20of%20cells | Evolution of cells refers to the evolutionary origin and subsequent evolutionary development of cells. Cells first emerged at least 3.8 billion years ago approximately 750 million years after Earth was formed.
The first cells
The initial development of the cell marked the passage from prebiotic chemistry to partition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Goncharov | Alexander B. Goncharov (born April 7, 1960) is a Soviet American mathematician and the Philip Schuyler Beebe Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. He won the EMS Prize in 1992.
Goncharov won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1976. He attained his doctorate at Lomonosov Moscow State Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Elisseeff | Jennifer Hartt Elisseeff (; born September 25, 1973) is an American biomedical engineer, ophthalmologist and academic. She is the Morton Goldberg Professor and Director of the Translational Tissue Engineering Center at Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Wilmer Eye Institute with appointments in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20%28programming%20language%29 | Source is a family of sublanguages of JavaScript, developed for the textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, JavaScript Edition (SICP JS). The JavaScript sublanguages Source §1, Source §2, Source §3 and Source §4 are designed to be just expressive enough to support all examples of the respective chap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose%201%2C6-bisphosphatase | The enzyme fructose bisphosphatase (EC 3.1.3.11; systematic name D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate 1-phosphohydrolase) catalyses the conversion of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate to fructose 6-phosphate in gluconeogenesis and the Calvin cycle, which are both anabolic pathways:
D-fructose 1,6-bisphosphate + H2O = D-fructose 6-pho... |
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