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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier%20division | Fourier division or cross division is a pencil-and-paper method of division which helps to simplify the process when the divisor has more than two digits. It was invented by Joseph Fourier.
Method
The following exposition assumes that the numbers are broken into two-digit pieces, separated by commas: e.g. 3456 becomes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby%20Vision | Dolby Vision is a set of technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories for high dynamic range (HDR) video. It covers content creation, distribution, and playback. It includes dynamic metadata that define the aspect ratio and adjust the picture based on a display's capabilities on a per-shot or even per-frame basis, opti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NordPass | NordPass is a proprietary password manager launched in 2019. It is meant to help its users to organise their passwords and secure notes, keeping them in a single place — an encrypted password vault. This service comes in both free and premium versions, though the free version lacks much of the paid functionality like m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outernet%20%28network%29 | Outernet is a wireless community network based in Poland, in which everyone owns their own node's hardware configured in a mesh network managed by OLSR. Participants must permit routing of other node's data through their routers, which allows building a large maintenance-free and low-cost network infrastructure which i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track%20%28moving%20medium%29 | A track is a path on a recording medium. There are some variations in nomenclature; for some media a track is a logical (content based) path and for others it is based on the geometry of the medium.
The term is not used for punched cards.
Content-based tracks
The terms session, title or track may be used, depending o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20idiom | In computer programming, a programming idiom or code idiom is a group of code fragments sharing an equivalent semantic role, which recurs frequently across software projects often expressing a special feature of a recurring construct in one or more programming languages or libraries. This definition is rooted in the de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zembly | Zembly (styled zembly) was a browser-based development environment from Sun Microsystems
that enabled social programming
of applications for Facebook, Meebo, OpenSocial, iPhone web applications, and other social platforms, as well as web widgets. Users of zembly interacted with one another via zembly's social netw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahiryuaq%20%28Northwest%20Territories%29 | Tahiryuaq, formerly Tahiryuak Lake, is a lake located in the Canadian Arctic's Northwest Territories. It is situated in northcentral Victoria Island, north of Prince Albert Sound, southeast of Minto Inlet.
The lake is populated with Arctic char It is designated as a Key Habitat Site because of the high density of nest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Joseph%20Muller | Hermann Joseph Muller (December 21, 1890 – April 5, 1967) was an American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation (mutagenesis), as well as his outspoken political beliefs. Muller frequently warned of long-term dangers of radioactive fallout... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20anatomy | Surface anatomy (also called superficial anatomy and visual anatomy) is the study of the external features of the body of an animal. In birds this is termed topography. Surface anatomy deals with anatomical features that can be studied by sight, without dissection. As such, it is a branch of gross anatomy, along with e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rellich%E2%80%93Kondrachov%20theorem | In mathematics, the Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is a compact embedding theorem concerning Sobolev spaces. It is named after the Austrian-German mathematician Franz Rellich and the Russian mathematician Vladimir Iosifovich Kondrashov. Rellich proved the L2 theorem and Kondrashov the Lp theorem.
Statement of the theorem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ives%E2%80%93Stilwell%20experiment | The Ives–Stilwell experiment tested the contribution of relativistic time dilation to the Doppler shift of light. The result was in agreement with the formula for the transverse Doppler effect and was the first direct, quantitative confirmation of the time dilation factor. Since then many Ives–Stilwell type experiments... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange%20B%20meson | The meson is a meson composed of a bottom antiquark and a strange quark. Its antiparticle is the meson, composed of a bottom quark and a strange antiquark.
B–B oscillations
Strange B mesons are noted for their ability to oscillate between matter and antimatter via a box-diagram with measured by CDF experiment at F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offline%20root%20certificate%20authority | An offline root certificate authority is a certificate authority (as defined in the X.509 standard and ) which has been isolated from network access, and is often kept in a powered-down state.
In a public key infrastructure, the chain of trusted authorities begins with the root certificate authority (root CA). Once th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical%20model | An anatomical model is a three-dimensional representation of human or animal anatomy, used for medical and biological education.
Model specs
The model may show the anatomy partially dissected, or have removable parts allowing the student to remove and inspect the modelled body parts. Some models may have changeable ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablature | Tablature (or tabulature, or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering or the location of the played notes rather than musical pitches.
Tablature is common for fretted stringed instruments such as the guitar, lute or vihuela, as well as many free reed aerophones such as the harmonica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20whale | The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of and weighing up to , it is the largest animal known ever to have existed. The blue whale's long and slender body can be of various shades of greyish-blue dorsally and somewhat lighter underneath. Four s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow%20vertex%20response | The slow vertex response (also called SVR or V potential) is an electrochemical signal associated with electrophysiological recordings of the auditory system, specifically Auditory evoked potentials (AEPs). The SVR of a normal human being recorded with surface electrodes can be found at the end of a recorded AEP wavefo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQC-6 | The CQC-6 (Close Quarters Combat — Six) or Viper Six is a handmade tactical folding knife with a tantō blade manufactured by knifemaker Ernest Emerson. Although initially reported as the sixth design in an evolution of fighting knives and the first model in the lineup of Emerson's Specwar Custom Knives, Emerson later r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3PAR | 3PAR Inc. was a manufacturer of systems and software for data storage and information management headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. 3PAR produced computer data storage products, including hardware disk arrays and storage management software.
It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise afte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchin%20system | In mathematics, the Hitchin integrable system is an integrable system depending on the choice of a complex reductive group and a compact Riemann surface, introduced by Nigel Hitchin in 1987. It lies on the crossroads of algebraic geometry, the theory of Lie algebras and integrable system theory. It also plays an import... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20Computing%20%28journal%29 | Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications is a peer-reviewed scientific journal on parallel processing, distributed computing systems, and computer communication networks. The journal was established in 1998.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2020 impact fac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Security%20Alliance | Internet Security Alliance (ISA) was founded in 2001 as a non-profit collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab and Electronic Industries Alliance, a federation of trade associations. The Internet Security Alliance is focused on cyber security, acting as a forum for information sharing and leadership on i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20vacuum%20collection | An automated vacuum waste collection system, also known as pneumatic refuse collection, or automated vacuum collection (AVAC), transports waste at a high speed through underground pneumatic tubes to a collection station where it is compacted and sealed in containers. When the container is full, it is transported away a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative%20computed%20tomography | Quantitative computed tomography (QCT) is a medical technique that measures bone mineral density (BMD) using a standard X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) scanner with a calibration standard to convert Hounsfield Units (HU) of the CT image to bone mineral density values. Quantitative CT scans are primarily used to evaluat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Mathematics%20of%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences%20of%20Armenia | The Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (Armenian: ) is owned and operated by the Armenian Academy of Sciences, located in Yerevan.
History
The Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia originated as the Section for Mathematics and Mechanics, created within the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exceptional%20set%20concepts | This is a list of exceptional set concepts. In mathematics, and in particular in mathematical analysis, it is very useful to be able to characterise subsets of a given set X as 'small', in some definite sense, or 'large' if their complement in X is small. There are numerous concepts that have been introduced to study '... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLEKHG2 | Pleckstrin homology domain containing, family G member 2 (PLEKHG2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PLEKHG2 gene. It is sometimes written as ARHGEF42, FLJ00018.
The PLEKHG2 protein is a huge protein of about 1300 amino acids, 130 kDa and has a Dbl homology (DH) domain and a pleckstrin homology (PH) domain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinian%20puzzle | A Darwinian puzzle is a trait that appears to reduce the fitness of individuals that possess it. Such traits attract the attention of evolutionary biologists. Several human traits pose challenges to evolutionary thinking, as they are relatively prevalent but are associated with lower reproductive success through reduce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Wierman | Adam Wierman is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work on scheduling (computing), heavy tails, green computing, queueing theory, and algorithmic game theory.
Academic biography
Wierman studied at Carneg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitzHugh%E2%80%93Nagumo%20model | The FitzHugh–Nagumo model (FHN) describes a prototype of an excitable system (e.g., a neuron).
It is an example of a relaxation oscillator because, if the external stimulus exceeds a certain threshold value, the system will exhibit a characteristic excursion in phase space, before the variables and relax back to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreu%20Mas-Colell | Andreu Mas-Colell (; born 29 June 1944) is an economist, an expert in microeconomics and a prominent mathematical economist. He is the founder of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a professor in the department of economics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He has also served severa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20mirage | In physics, a quantum mirage is a peculiar result in quantum chaos. Every system of quantum dynamical billiards will exhibit an effect called scarring, where the quantum probability density shows traces of the paths a classical billiard ball would take. For an elliptical arena, the scarring is particularly pronounced a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Marcus%20%28mathematician%29 | Adam Wade Marcus (born 1979) is an American mathematician. He holds the Chair of Combinatorial Analysis in the Institute of Mathematics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
The team of Marcus, Daniel Spielman and Nikhil Srivastava was awarded the Pólya Prize in 2014 for their resolution of the Kadison–Singe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Wild%20%28neuroscientist%29 | Edward Wild, also known as Ed Wild, is a British neurologist and neuroscientist in the field of Huntington's disease and an advocate for scientific outreach to the public. He co-founded the Huntington's research news platform HDBuzz in 2010. He is a professor of neurology at UCL Institute of Neurology and is an associa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolylfluanid | Tolylfluanid is an organic chemical compound that is used as an active ingredient in fungicides and wood preservatives.
Synthesis
The synthesis of tolylfluanid begins with the reaction of dimethylamine and sulfuryl chloride. The product further reacts with p-toluidine and dichlorofluoromethanesulfenyl chloride to yi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCMU | DCMU (3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea) is an algicide and herbicide of the arylurea class that inhibits photosynthesis. It was introduced by Bayer in 1954 under the trade name of Diuron.
History
In 1952, chemists at E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company patented a series of aryl urea derivatives as herbicides. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLCN6 | Chloride transport protein 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CLCN6 gene.
The CLCN family of voltage-dependent chloride channel genes comprises nine members (CLCN1-7, Ka and Kb) which demonstrate quite diverse functional characteristics while sharing significant sequence homology. Chloride channel 6 and 7... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotrophic%20picoplankton | Heterotrophic picoplankton is the fraction of plankton composed by cells between 0.2 and 2 μm that do not perform photosynthesis. They form an important component of many biogeochemical cycles.
Cells can be either:
prokaryotes
Archaea form a major part of the picoplankton in the Antarctic and are abundant in other r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen%20Sandiego%20%28character%29 | Carmen Isabella Sandiego is a fictional character featured in a long-running edutainment video games series of the same name created by the American software company Broderbund. As an international lady thief, a criminal mastermind, and the elusive nemesis of the ACME Detective Agency, Carmen Sandiego is the principal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20continued%20fractions | The method of continued fractions is a method developed specifically for solution of integral equations of quantum scattering theory like Lippmann–Schwinger equation or Faddeev equations. It was invented by Horáček and Sasakawa in 1983. The goal of the method is to solve the integral equation
iteratively and to const... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converged%20network%20adapter | A converged network adapter (CNA), also called a converged network interface controller (C-NIC), is a computer input/output device that combines the functionality of a host bus adapter (HBA) with a network interface controller (NIC). In other words, it "converges" access to, respectively, a storage area network and a g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datafly%20algorithm | Datafly algorithm is an algorithm for providing anonymity in medical data. The algorithm was developed by Latanya Arvette Sweeney in 1997−98. Anonymization is achieved by automatically generalizing, substituting, inserting, and removing information as appropriate without losing many of the details found within the data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopia | Cyclopia (named after the Greek mythology character cyclopes), also known as alobar holoprosencephaly, is the most extreme form of holoprosencephaly and is a congenital disorder (birth defect) characterized by the failure of the embryonic prosencephalon to properly divide the orbits of the eye into two cavities. Its in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter%20%28supercomputer%29 | Carter is a supercomputer installed at Purdue University in the fall of 2011 in a partnership with Intel. The high-performance computing cluster is operated by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), the university's central information technology organization. ITaP also operates clusters named Steele built in 2008, C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root%20trainer | Many pot designs train the roots. One example is a truncated plastic cone in which a seedling is planted. There is a drainage hole at the bottom and the main tap root tends to grow towards this.
What this achieves is to encourage the roots to grow a denser system of root hairs. How it does this is to have the pots des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20aberration | In optics, spherical aberration (SA) is a type of aberration found in optical systems that have elements with spherical surfaces. Lenses and curved mirrors are prime examples, because this shape is easier to manufacture. Light rays that strike a spherical surface off-centre are refracted or reflected more or less than ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential%20vorticity | In fluid mechanics, potential vorticity (PV) is a quantity which is proportional to the dot product of vorticity and stratification. This quantity, following a parcel of air or water, can only be changed by diabatic or frictional processes. It is a useful concept for understanding the generation of vorticity in cycloge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant%20sauce | Instant sauces are industrially prepared sauce mixes, typically dehydrated, used to prepare sauces. Instant sauces are typically thickened with thickening agents such as starch.
List of instant sauces
Some popular brands include:
Asian Home Gourmet
Bisto
Knorr
Lawry's
Durkee
French's
Colman's
Simply Organic
K... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles%20Reid | Miles Anthony Reid FRS (born 30 January 1948) is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry.
Education
Reid studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 under the supervision of Peter Swinnerton-Dyer and Pierre Deligne.
Career
Reid was a research fellow o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20fault | On the x86 architecture, a double fault exception occurs if the processor encounters a problem while trying to service a pending interrupt or exception. An example situation when a double fault would occur is when an interrupt is triggered but the segment in which the interrupt handler resides is invalid. If the proces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6ttcher%27s%20equation | Böttcher's equation, named after Lucjan Böttcher, is the functional equation
where
is a given analytic function with a superattracting fixed point of order at , (that is, in a neighbourhood of ), with n ≥ 2
is a sought function.
The logarithm of this functional equation amounts to Schröder's equation.
Solu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethmoid%20sinus | The ethmoid sinuses or ethmoid air cells of the ethmoid bone are one of the four paired paranasal sinuses. Unlike the other three pairs of paranasal sinuses which consist of one or two large cavities, the ethmoidal sinuses entail a number of small air-filled cavities ("air cells"). The cells are located within the late... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-e-App | One-e-App is a Web-based system that lets families and individuals apply for multiple health, social service and other support programs from one location. One-e-App is used by consumers themselves or by staff who assist families and individuals at community clinics, hospitals, state and county agencies, food banks and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharellus%20subalbidus | Cantharellus subalbidus, the white chanterelle, is a fungus native to California and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is a member of the genus Cantharellus along with other popular edible chanterelles. It is similar in appearance to other chanterelles except for its cream to white color and orange bru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%20operator | The Stokes operator, named after George Gabriel Stokes, is an unbounded linear operator used in the theory of partial differential equations, specifically in the fields of fluid dynamics and electromagnetics.
Definition
If we define as the Leray projection onto divergence free vector fields, then the Stokes Operator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus%20Mathematical%20Society | The Cyprus Mathematical Society (CMS) aims to promote the mathematical education and science. It was founded in 1983. The C.M.S. is a non-profit organization supported by the voluntary work of its members. The C.M.S. counts over 600 members. In order to promote its aims, C.M.S. organizes Mathematical competition betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh%E2%80%93Plesset%20equation | In fluid mechanics, the Rayleigh–Plesset equation or Besant–Rayleigh–Plesset equation is a nonlinear ordinary differential equation which governs the dynamics of a spherical bubble in an infinite body of incompressible fluid. Its general form is usually written aswhere
is the density of the surrounding liquid, assume... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atypical%20small%20acinar%20proliferation | In urologic pathology, atypical small acinar proliferation, is a collection of small prostatic glands, on prostate biopsy, whose significance is uncertain and cannot be determined to be benign or malignant.
ASAP, generally, is not considered a pre-malignancy, or a carcinoma in situ; it is an expression of diagnostic u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20gradient | In vector calculus, the surface gradient is a vector differential operator that is similar to the conventional gradient. The distinction is that the surface gradient takes effect along a surface.
For a surface in a scalar field , the surface gradient is defined and notated as
where is a unit normal to the surface... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valuation%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a valuation is a finitely additive function from a collection of subsets of a set to an abelian semigroup.
For example, Lebesgue measure is a valuation on finite unions of convex bodies of Other examples of valuations on finite unions of convex bodies of are surface area, mean width, and Euler characte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jo1 | Anti-Jo1 is an anti-nuclear antibody.
Anti-Jo1 has been associated with inflammatory myopathies such as polymyositis, dermatomyositis and antisynthetase syndrome.
It has histidine-tRNA ligase as a target. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Point%20Interface | The Multi-Point Interface – Siemens (MPI) is a proprietary interface of the programmable logic controller SIMATIC S7 of the company Siemens.
It is used for connecting the stations programming (PC or personal computer), operator consoles, and other devices in the SIMATIC family. This technology has inspired the develop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plating | Plating is a finishing process in which a metal is deposited on a surface. Plating has been done for hundreds of years; it is also critical for modern technology. Plating is used to decorate objects, for corrosion inhibition, to improve solderability, to harden, to improve wearability, to reduce friction, to improve pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay%20Professional | Replay Professional was a sound sampling product for the Atari ST. This was released in 1988.
It consisted of a cartridge which interfaced an analog to digital converter (with 10, 12 and 14 bit variants) and software.
It included a suite of offline DSP functions Fast Fourier transform, a range of filters, so called f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-society | E-society, or "electronic society", is a society that consists of one or more e-Communities involved in the areas from e-Government, e-Democracy, and e-Business to e-Learning and e-Health, that use electronic information and communication technologies (ICT) in order to achieve a common interests and goals. Just as "e-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maudsley%20Bipolar%20Twin%20Study | The Maudsley Bipolar Twin Study is an ongoing twin study of bipolar disorder running at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London since 2003. The study is investigating possible differences between people with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and people without the diagnosis. In particular it is investigating... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20of%20equations | In mathematics, a set of simultaneous equations, also known as a system of equations or an equation system, is a finite set of equations for which common solutions are sought. An equation system is usually classified in the same manner as single equations, namely as a:
System of linear equations,
System of nonlinear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20state%20machine | In computer science, an abstract state machine (ASM) is a state machine operating on states that are arbitrary data structures (structure in the sense of mathematical logic, that is a nonempty set together with a number of functions (operations) and relations over the set).
Overview
The ASM Method is a practical and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive%20mapping | Drive mapping is how MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows associate a local drive letter (A through Z) with a shared storage area to another computer (often referred as a File Server) over a network. After a drive has been mapped, a software application on a client's computer can read and write files from the shared storage ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbard%20model | The Hubbard model is an approximate model used to describe the transition between conducting and insulating systems. It is particularly useful in solid-state physics. The model is named for John Hubbard.
The Hubbard model states that each electron experiences competing forces: one pushes it to tunnel to neighboring at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympatric%20speciation | Sympatric speciation is the evolution of a new species from a surviving ancestral species while both continue to inhabit the same geographic region. In evolutionary biology and biogeography, sympatric and sympatry are terms referring to organisms whose ranges overlap so that they occur together at least in some places.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20decay | Alpha decay or α-decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle (helium nucleus) and thereby transforms or 'decays' into a different atomic nucleus, with a mass number that is reduced by four and an atomic number that is reduced by two. An alpha particle is identical to the nucl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Math%20and%20Science%20Coaches%20Association | The Texas Math and Science Coaches Association or TMSCA is an organization for coaches of academic University Interscholastic League teams in Texas middle schools and high schools, specifically those that compete in mathematics and science-related tests.
Events
There are four events in the TMSCA at both the middle a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP109B1 | Cytochrome P450 family 109 subfamily B member 1 (abbreviated CYP109B1) is a versatile prokaryote monooxygenase originally from Bacillus subtilis, its three-dimensional protein crystal structure has been solved. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroplast%20capture | Chloroplast capture is an evolutionary process through which inter-species hybridization and subsequent backcrosses yield a plant with new genetic combination of nuclear and chloroplast genomes. For instance, 1) species A's (having chloroplast genome a and nuclear genome AA) pollen hybridizes (backcross) to species B'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite-dimensional%20vector%20function | An infinite-dimensional vector function is a function whose values lie in an infinite-dimensional topological vector space, such as a Hilbert space or a Banach space.
Such functions are applied in most sciences including physics.
Example
Set for every positive integer and every real number Then the function defi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20wireless | Optical wireless is the combined use of "optical" (optical fibre) and "wireless" (radio frequency) communication to provide telecommunication to clusters of end points which are geographically distant. The high capacity optical fibre is used to span the longest distances. A lower cost wireless link carries the signal f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples%20of%20in%20vitro%20transdifferentiation%20by%20initial%20epigenetic%20activation%20phase%20approach | List:
Human dermal fibroblasts → multilineage blood progenitors (Oct4 and cytokine treatment)
Mouse dermal fibroblasts → polygonal hyaline chondrogenic cells (Klf4, c-Myc, Sox9)
Mouse dermal fibroblasts → cardiomyocytes (Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, JI1 and Bmp4)
Fibroblasts → neural stem/progenitor cells (Oct4, Sox2, c-Myc, Klf4... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20Operations%20Research%20Society | The Associazione Italiana di Ricerca Operativa (AIRO) – Optimization and Decision Sciences – is the professional non-profit society for the scientific field of Operations Research in Italy.
The society is recognized by the International Federation of Operational Research Societies and its subgrouping, the Association o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquiescence%20bias | Acquiescence bias, also known as agreement bias, is a category of response bias common to survey research in which respondents have a tendency to select a positive response option or indicate a positive connotation disproportionately more frequently. Respondents do so without considering the content of the question or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20cube | In computer programming contexts, a data cube (or datacube) is a multi-dimensional ("n-D") array of values. Typically, the term data cube is applied in contexts where these arrays are massively larger than the hosting computer's main memory; examples include multi-terabyte/petabyte data warehouses and time series of im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20Dynamics | Enterprise Dynamics is a discrete event simulation software platform developed by INCONTROL Simulation Solutions. It is used to design and implement simulation solutions. The Enterprise Dynamics (ED) platform has several market-specific libraries to conform to customer requirements. These libraries are:
ED Logistics
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20encoder | A beta encoder is an analog-to-digital conversion (A/D) system in which a real number in the unit interval is represented by a finite representation of a sequence in base beta, with beta being a real number between 1 and 2. Beta encoders are an alternative to traditional approaches to pulse-code modulation.
As a form ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation%20around%20a%20fixed%20axis | Rotation around a fixed axis or axial rotation is a special case of rotational motion around an axis of rotation fixed, stationary, or static in three-dimensional space. This type of motion excludes the possibility of the instantaneous axis of rotation changing its orientation and cannot describe such phenomena as wobb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon%20controller | A ribbon controller is a tactile sensor used to control synthesizers. It generally consists of a resistive strip that acts as a potentiometer. Because of its continuous control, ribbon controllers are often used to produce glissando effects.
Early examples of the use of ribbon controllers in a musical instrument are i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20%28glyph%29 | In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arrayed within an imaginary circle.
Four points
Five points
See also
Mullet (heraldry)
Pentagram
Six points
See also
Seal of Solomon
Hexagram
Seven points
Commonwealth Star
Heptagram
Eight points
Nine points
See also
Enneagram
Ten poi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorial%20of%20the%20Netherlands | This is an armorial of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Kingdom of the Netherlands
The different versions of Coat of arms of the Netherlands are shown here:
Countries
The coats of arms of the countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands are shown here:
Provinces
The coats of arms of the twelve provinces of the Netherl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigya | Gigya, Inc. is a technology company founded in Tel Aviv, Israel and headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional offices in New York, Tel Aviv, London, Paris, Hamburg, and Sydney.
Offering
Gigya offers a customer identity management platform for managing profiles, preference, opt-in and consent setting... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MakeHuman | MakeHuman is a free and open source 3D computer graphics middleware designed for the prototyping of photorealistic humanoids. It is developed by a community of programmers, artists, and academics interested in 3D character modeling.
Technology
MakeHuman is developed using 3D morphing technology. Starting from a stand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogier%20the%20Dane | Ogier the Dane (; ) is a legendary paladin of Charlemagne who appears in many Old French chansons de geste. In particular, he features as the protagonist in La Chevalerie Ogier (), which belongs to the Geste de Doon de Mayence ("cycle of the rebellious vassals"; Doon is Ogier's grandfather). The first part of this epic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammator | ӀA Gammator was a gamma irradiator made by the Radiation Machinery Corporation during the U.S. Atoms for Peace project of the 1950s and 1960s. The gammator was distributed by the "Atomic Energy Commission to schools, hospitals, and private firms to promote nuclear understanding." Around 120-140 Gammators were distribut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swingometer | The swingometer is a graphics device that shows the effects of the swing from one party to another on British election results programmes. It is used to estimate the number of seats that will be won by different parties, given a particular national swing (in percentage points) in the vote towards or away from a given p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20complements | In mathematics and computing, the method of complements is a technique to encode a symmetric range of positive and negative integers in a way that they can use the same algorithm (or mechanism) for addition throughout the whole range. For a given number of places half of the possible representations of numbers encode t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alston%20Scott%20Householder | Alston Scott Householder (5 May 1904 – 4 July 1993) was an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical biology and numerical analysis.
He is the inventor of the Householder transformation and of Householder's method.
Career
Householder was born in Rockford, Illinois, USA. He received a BA in philosophy fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenic%20Semiconductor | Ingenic Semiconductor is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Beijing, China founded in 2005. They purchased licenses for the MIPS architecture instruction sets in 2009 and design CPU-microarchitectures based on them. They also design system on a chip products including their CPUs and licensed semiconductor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Osborne%20Abbott | Robert Osborne Abbott ( – ) was an American surgeon and medical director of the Department of Washington during the American Civil War.
Robert Osborne Abbott was born in in Pennsylvania. He entered the United States Army in 1849 as assistant surgeon, and in that capacity accompanied Magruder's battery to California... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poecilogony | The term poecilogony was coined by Alfred Mathieu Giard to describe a polymorphism in larval development in marine invertebrates. To date, this life history trait is only known in a small number of polychaete taxa, as well as some sacoglossan mollusks. In some cases, the variation in larval type is a 'plastic' trait in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20nutritional%20groups | Primary nutritional groups are groups of organisms, divided in relation to the nutrition mode according to the sources of energy and carbon, needed for living, growth and reproduction. The sources of energy can be light or chemical compounds; the sources of carbon can be of organic or inorganic origin.
The terms aerob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20method%20in%20the%20calculus%20of%20variations | In mathematics, the direct method in the calculus of variations is a general method for constructing a proof of the existence of a minimizer for a given functional, introduced by Stanisław Zaremba and David Hilbert around 1900. The method relies on methods of functional analysis and topology. As well as being used to p... |
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