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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Mission%20Analysis%20Tool | General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT) is open-source space mission analysis software developed by NASA and private industry.
It has been used for several missions, including LCROSS, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, OSIRIS-REx, the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia%20NVDEC | Nvidia NVDEC (formerly known as NVCUVID) is a feature in its graphics cards that performs video decoding, offloading this compute-intensive task from the CPU.
It is accompanied by NVENC for video encoding in Nvidia's Video Codec SDK.
Technology
NVDEC can offload video decoding to full fixed-function decoding hardwar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Axis2 | Apache Axis2 is a web service engine. It is a redesign and re-write of the widely used Apache Axis SOAP stack. Implementations of Axis2 are available in Java and C.
Axis2 provides the capability to add Web services interfaces to Web applications. It can also function as a standalone application server.
Why Apache Axi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ureaplasma%20felinum | Ureaplasma felinum is a species of Ureaplasma, a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. It has been isolated from cats. It possesses the sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: D78651. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20URI%20scheme | In programming, a file uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme is a specific format of URI, used to specifically identify a file on a host computer. While URIs can be used to identify anything, there is specific syntax associated with identifying files.
Format
A file URI has the format
file://host/path
where host i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asplenia | Asplenia refers to the absence of normal spleen function and is associated with some serious infection risks. Hyposplenism is used to describe reduced ('hypo-') splenic functioning, but not as severely affected as with asplenism.
Functional asplenia occurs when splenic tissue is present but does not work well (e.g. si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroimaging%20Informatics%20Tools%20and%20Resources%20Clearinghouse | The Neuroimaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory (NITRC) is a neuroimaging informatics knowledge environment for MR, PET/SPECT, CT, EEG/MEG, optical imaging, clinical neuroinformatics, imaging genomics, and computational neuroscience tools and resources.
Description
Initiated in 2006 and currently funded by NIH Gra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASA%20ratio | CASA ratio stands for current and savings account ratio. CASA ratio of a bank is the ratio of deposits in current, and saving accounts to total deposits. A higher CASA ratio indicates a lower cost of funds, because banks do not usually give any interests on current account deposits and the interest on saving accounts i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westcott%20Rule%20Company | The history of school and office products brand Westcott dates back to 1872, when Henry Westcott, together with his two sons Charles and Frank Westcott, started manufacturing wooden furniture used by printers and trellis units in Seneca Falls, New York. The company expanded rapidly and became one of the largest manufac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug%20compatible | Plug compatible refers to "hardware that is designed to perform exactly like another vendor's product." The term PCM was originally applied to manufacturers who made replacements for IBM peripherals. Later this term was used to refer to IBM-compatible computers.
PCM and peripherals
Before the rise of the PCM periphera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASP%20%28gene%29 | Nuclear autoantigenic sperm protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NASP gene. Multiple isoforms are encoded by transcript variants of this gene.
Function
This gene encodes a histone H1 binding protein that is involved in transporting histones into the nucleus of dividing cells. The somatic form is ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant%20soup | Instant soup is a type of soup designed for fast and simple preparation. Some are homemade, and some are mass-produced on an industrial scale and treated in various ways to preserve them. A wide variety of types, styles and flavors of instant soups exist. Commercial instant soups are usually dried or dehydrated, canned... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/189%20%28number%29 | 189 (one hundred [and] eighty-nine) is the natural number following 188 and preceding 190.
In mathematics
189 is a centered cube number and a heptagonal number.
The centered cube numbers are the sums of two consecutive cubes, and 189 can be written as sum of two cubes in two ways: and The smallest number that can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhesive%20category | In mathematics, an adhesive category is a category where pushouts of monomorphisms exist and work more or less as they do in the category of sets. An example of an adhesive category is the category of directed multigraphs, or quivers, and the theory of adhesive categories is important in the theory of graph rewriting.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipermeable%20membrane | Semipermeable membrane is a type of biological or synthetic, polymeric membrane that will allow certain molecules or ions to pass through it by osmosis. The rate of passage depends on the pressure, concentration, and temperature of the molecules or solutes on either side, as well as the permeability of the membrane to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Weakness%20Enumeration | The Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for hardware and software weaknesses and vulnerabilities. It is sustained by a community project with the goals of understanding flaws in software and hardware and creating automated tools that can be used to identify, fix, and prevent those flaws. The project... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison%20test | The Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison test (AFC) is a method of identifying substantial similarity for the purposes of applying copyright law. In particular, the AFC test is used to determine whether non-literal elements of a computer program have been copied by comparing the protectable elements of two programs. The A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre%20Channel | Fibre Channel (FC) is a high-speed data transfer protocol providing in-order, lossless delivery of raw block data. Fibre Channel is primarily used to connect computer data storage to servers in storage area networks (SAN) in commercial data centers.
Fibre Channel networks form a switched fabric because the switches in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG%20program%20stream | Program stream (PS or MPEG-PS) is a container format for multiplexing digital audio, video and more. The PS format is specified in MPEG-1 Part 1 (ISO/IEC 11172-1) and MPEG-2 Part 1, Systems (ISO/IEC standard 13818-1/ITU-T H.222.0). The MPEG-2 Program Stream is analogous and similar to ISO/IEC 11172 Systems layer and i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Za%27atar | Za'atar ( ; , ) is a culinary herb or family of herbs. It is also the name of a spice mixture that includes the herb along with toasted sesame seeds, dried sumac, often salt, as well as other spices. As a family of related Middle Eastern herbs, it contains plants from the genera Origanum (oregano), Calamintha (basil th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifleman%27s%20rule | Rifleman's rule is a "rule of thumb" that allows a rifleman to accurately fire a rifle that has been calibrated for horizontal targets at uphill or downhill targets. The rule says that only the horizontal range should be considered when adjusting a sight or performing hold-over in order to account for bullet drop. Typ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Institute%20of%20Science%20Education%20and%20Research%2C%20Thiruvananthapuram | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram (IISER Thiruvananthapuram or IISER-TVM) is an autonomous public university located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The institute is one of the seven IISERs established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, to brid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic%20quadrant | A galactic quadrant, or quadrant of the Galaxy, is one of four circular sectors in the division of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Quadrants in the galactic coordinate system
In actual astronomical practice, the delineation of the galactic quadrants is based upon the galactic coordinate system, which places the Sun as the pole ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance%20intersection | Covariance intersection (CI) is an algorithm for combining two or more estimates of state variables in a Kalman filter when the correlation between them is unknown.
Formulation
Items of information a and b are known and are to be fused into information item c. We know a and b have mean/covariance , and , , but the cr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell%20ZENworks%20Application%20VIrtualization | Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization is an application virtualization and portable application creation console by Novell that allows a user to build applications that run like an executable file.
This product is now known as Micro Focus Desktop Containers.
History
ZENworks Application Virtualization was first ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n%20Ruszny%C3%A1k | István Rusznyák (Budapest, 22 January 1889 – Budapest, 15 October 1974), was a Hungarian physician. He was the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1949 and 1970.
Biography
Rusznyák came from a family of Jewish intellectuals. In 1911 he got a diploma in medicine from the Budapest University of Medic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataram | Dataram (formerly Dataram Corporation) is a manufacturer of computer memory and software products headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Dataram Memory was founded in 1967. It provided core memory for many early Digital Equipment computer systems. Dataram products include memory and storage, and related technical prod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learnability | Learnability is a quality of products and interfaces that allows users to quickly become familiar with them and able to make good use of all their features and capabilities.
Software testing
In software testing learnability, according to ISO/IEC 9126, is the capability of a software product to enable the user to learn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmecotrophy | Myrmecotrophy is the ability of plants to obtain nutrients from ants, a form of mutualism. Due to this behaviour the invasion of vegetation into harsh environments is promoted. The dead remains of insects thrown out by the ants are absorbed by the lenticular warts in myrmecophytes like Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia. Myrme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVE%20test%20card | The TVE colour test card (Spanish: Carta de ajuste en color de TVE) was an electronic analogue TV test card adopted by Televisión Española with the introduction of PAL colour broadcasts in 1975. It is notable for its unique design, created by the Danish engineer Finn Hendil in 1973, under the supervision of Erik Helmer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyMUCK | TinyMUCK or, more broadly, a MUCK, is a type of user-extendable online text-based role-playing game, designed for role playing and social interaction. Backronyms like "Multi-User Chat/Created/Computer/Character/Carnal Kingdom" and "Multi-User Construction Kit" are sometimes cited, but are not the actual origin of the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facility%20for%20Antiproton%20and%20Ion%20Research | The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is an international accelerator facility under construction which will use antiprotons and ions to perform research in the fields of: nuclear, hadron and particle physics, atomic and anti-matter physics, high density plasma physics, and applications in condensed matte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Balance | Power Balance is the original brand of hologram bracelets claimed by its manufacturers and vendors to use "holographic technology" to "resonate with and respond to the natural energy field of the body" to increase athletic performance. Numerous independent studies of the device have found it to be no more effective tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porina%20chlorotica | Porina chlorotica is a species of lichen belonging to the family Porinaceae.
Synonym:
Verrucaria chlorotica Ach., 1810 (= basionym) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorics%20of%20Finite%20Geometries | Combinatorics of Finite Geometries is an undergraduate mathematics textbook on finite geometry by Lynn Batten. It was published by Cambridge University Press in 1986 with a second edition in 1997 ().
Topics
The types of finite geometry covered by the book include partial linear spaces, linear spaces, affine spaces and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saliva%20testing | Saliva testing or Salivaomics is a diagnostic technique that involves laboratory analysis of saliva to identify markers of endocrine, immunologic, inflammatory, infectious, and other types of conditions. Saliva is a useful biological fluid for assaying steroid hormones such as cortisol, genetic material like RNA, prot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20genetics | Statistical genetics is a scientific field concerned with the development and application of statistical methods for drawing inferences from genetic data. The term is most commonly used in the context of human genetics. Research in statistical genetics generally involves developing theory or methodology to support rese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEDD4L | Neural precursor cell expressed developmentally downregulated gene 4-like (NEDD4L) or NEDD4-2 is an enzyme (ubiquitin ligase) of the NEDD4 family.
In human the protein is encoded by the NEDD4L gene. In mouse the protein is commonly known as NEDD4-2 and the gene Nedd4-2.
NEDD4-2 has been shown to ubiquitinate and ther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-Q%20transform | In mathematics and signal processing, the constant-Q transform and variable-Q transform, simply known as CQT and VQT, transforms a data series to the frequency domain. It is related to the Fourier transform and very closely related to the complex Morlet wavelet transform. Its design is suited for musical representation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%27s%20gamma%20function | In mathematics, Hadamard's gamma function, named after Jacques Hadamard, is an extension of the factorial function, different from the classical gamma function (it is an instance of a pseudogamma function.) This function, with its argument shifted down by 1, interpolates the factorial and extends it to real and complex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced%20dimensions%20form | In biophysics and related fields, reduced dimension forms (RDFs) are unique on-off mechanisms for random walks that generate two-state trajectories (see Fig. 1 for an example of a RDF and Fig. 2 for an example of a two-state trajectory). It has been shown that RDFs solve two-state trajectories, since only one RDF can b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma-sensitive%20yoga | Trauma-sensitive yoga is yoga as exercise, adapted from 2002 onwards for work with individuals affected by psychological trauma. Its goal is to help trauma survivors to develop a greater sense of mind-body connection, to ease their physiological experiences of trauma, to gain a greater sense of ownership over their bod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20logic%20clock | A quantum clock is a type of atomic clock with laser cooled single ions confined together in an electromagnetic ion trap. Developed in 2010 by physicists at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, the clock was 37 times more precise than the then-existing international standard. The quantum logic cloc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal%20Procrustes%20problem | The orthogonal Procrustes problem is a matrix approximation problem in linear algebra. In its classical form, one is given two matrices and and asked to find an orthogonal matrix which most closely maps to . Specifically, the orthogonal Procrustes problem is an optimization problem given by
where denotes the Fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20homotopy%20theory | In mathematics, simple homotopy theory is a homotopy theory (a branch of algebraic topology) that concerns with the simple-homotopy type of a space. It was originated by Whitehead in his 1950 paper "Simple homotopy types".
See also
Whitehead torsion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCOA4 | Nuclear receptor coactivator 4, also known as Androgen Receptor Activator (ARA70), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NCOA4 gene. It plays an important role in ferritinophagy, acting as a cargo receptor, binding to the ferritin heavy chain and latching on to ATG8 on the surface of the autophagosome.
Intera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20Topology%20Meets%20Chemistry | When Topology Meets Chemistry: A Topological Look At Molecular Chirality is a book in chemical graph theory on the graph-theoretic analysis of chirality in molecular structures. It was written by Erica Flapan, based on a series of lectures she gave in 1996 at the Institut Henri Poincaré, and was published in 2000 by th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition-minimized%20differential%20signaling | Transition-minimized differential signaling (TMDS) is a technology for transmitting high-speed serial data used by the DVI and HDMI video interfaces, as well as by other digital communication interfaces.
The transmitter incorporates an advanced coding algorithm which reduces electromagnetic interference over copper ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20particle | Alpha particles, also called alpha rays or alpha radiation, consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4 nucleus. They are generally produced in the process of alpha decay, but may also be produced in other ways. Alpha particles are named after the first letter in the G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monovalent%20cation%3Aproton%20antiporter-1 | The Monovalent Cation:Proton Antiporter-1 (CPA1) Family (TC# 2.A.36) is a large family of proteins derived from Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, blue-green bacteria, archaea, yeast, plants and animals. The CPA1 family belongs to the VIC superfamily. Transporters from eukaryotes have been functionally character... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobic%20effect | The hydrophobic effect is the observed tendency of nonpolar substances to aggregate in an aqueous solution and exclude water molecules. The word hydrophobic literally means "water-fearing", and it describes the segregation of water and nonpolar substances, which maximizes hydrogen bonding between molecules of water an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Connelly | Robert Connelly (born July 15, 1942) is a mathematician specializing in discrete geometry and rigidity theory. Connelly received his Ph.D. from University of Michigan in 1969. He is currently a professor at Cornell University.
Connelly is best known for discovering embedded flexible polyhedra. One such polyhedron is i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic%20instantons | Periodic instantons are finite energy solutions of Euclidean-time field equations which communicate (in the sense of quantum tunneling) between two turning points in the barrier of a potential and are therefore also known as bounces. Vacuum instantons, normally simply called instantons, are the corresponding zero ener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIBOX | LIBOX was a free platform that allowed users to access and share their high definition media collections, including video, photos and music, across various devices and with friends. LIBOX offered this service for free thanks to a patent pending combination of peer-to-peer, grid and distributed computing technologies. L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomously%20replicating%20sequence | An autonomously replicating sequence (ARS) contains the origin of replication in the yeast genome. It contains four regions (A, B1, B2, and B3), named in order of their effect on plasmid stability. The A-Domain is highly conserved, any mutation abolishes origin function. Mutations on B1, B2, and B3 will diminish, but n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinomial%20tree | The trinomial tree is a lattice-based computational model used in financial mathematics to price options. It was developed by Phelim Boyle in 1986. It is an extension of the binomial options pricing model, and is conceptually similar. It can also be shown that the approach is equivalent to the explicit finite differenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustock%20botnet | The Rustock botnet was a botnet that operated from around 2006 until March 2011.
It consisted of computers running Microsoft Windows, and was capable of sending up to 25,000 spam messages per hour from an infected PC. At the height of its activities, it sent an average of 192 spam messages per compromised machine per ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20modification | Surface modification is the act of modifying the surface of a material by bringing physical, chemical or biological characteristics different from the ones originally found on the surface of a material.
This modification is usually made to solid materials, but it is possible to find examples of the modification to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%20matrix | In mathematics, the term Cartan matrix has three meanings. All of these are named after the French mathematician Élie Cartan. Amusingly, the Cartan matrices in the context of Lie algebras were first investigated by Wilhelm Killing, whereas the Killing form is due to Cartan.
Lie algebras
A (symmetrizable) generalize... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gingerbreadman%20map | In dynamical systems theory, the Gingerbreadman map is a chaotic two-dimensional map. It is given by the piecewise linear transformation:
See also
List of chaotic maps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telmac%201800 | The Telmac 1800 was an early microcomputer delivered in kit form. It was introduced in 1977 by Telercas Oy, the Finnish importer of RCA microchips. Most of the 2,000 kits manufactured over four years were bought by electronics enthusiasts in Finland, Sweden and Norway.
An expansion board, OSCOM, later became available... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20screen | A home screen, homescreen, or start screen, is the main screen on a device or computer program. Home screens are not identical because users rearrange icons as they please, and home screens often differ across mobile operating systems. Almost every smartphone has some form of home screen, which typically displays links... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20male%20sexuality | Human male sexuality encompasses a wide variety of feelings and behaviors. Men's feelings of attraction may be caused by various physical and social traits of their potential partner. Men's sexual behavior can be affected by many factors, including evolved predispositions, individual personality, upbringing, and cultur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaucellier%E2%80%93Lipkin%20linkage | The Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (or Peaucellier–Lipkin cell, or Peaucellier–Lipkin inversor), invented in 1864, was the first true planar straight line mechanism – the first planar linkage capable of transforming rotary motion into perfect straight-line motion, and vice versa. It is named after Charles-Nicolas Peaucelli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20proxy | In computer networks, a reverse proxy is an application that sits in front of back-end applications and forwards client (e.g. browser) requests to those applications. Reverse proxies help increase scalability, performance, resilience and security. The resources returned to the client appear as if they originated from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 50° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 50th meridian west forms a great circle with the 130th meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20reference%20monitor | A video reference monitor, also called a broadcast reference monitor or just reference monitor, is a specialized display device similar to a television set, used to monitor the output of a video-generating device, such as playout from a video server, IRD, video camera, VCR, or DVD player. It may or may not have profes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted%20alpha-particle%20therapy | Targeted alpha-particle therapy (or TAT) is an in-development method of targeted radionuclide therapy of various cancers. It employs radioactive substances which undergo alpha decay to treat diseased tissue at close proximity. It has the potential to provide highly targeted treatment, especially to microscopic tumour c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemistry%20of%20Alzheimer%27s%20disease | The biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, is not yet very well understood. Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been identified as a proteopathy: a protein misfolding disease due to the accumulation of abnormally folded amyloid beta (Aβ) protein in the brain. Amyloid beta is a short peptide th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasing%20without%20inversion | Lasing without inversion (LWI), or lasing without population inversion, is a technique used for light amplification by stimulated emission without the requirement of population inversion. A laser working under this scheme exploits the quantum interference between the probability amplitudes of atomic transitions in orde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigglypuff | Jigglypuff ( ), known in Japan as , is a Pokémon species. Jigglypuff first appeared in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue and subsequent sequels, later appearing in various merchandise, spinoff titles and animated and printed adaptations of the franchise. Jigglypuff is voiced by Rachael Lillis in English and by Mika ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-Pair | Re-Pair (short for recursive pairing) is a grammar-based compression algorithm that, given an input text, builds a straight-line program, i.e. a context-free grammar generating a single string: the input text. In order to perform the compression in linear time, it consumes the amount of memory that is approximately fiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outside%20broadcasting | Outside broadcasting (OB) is the electronic field production (EFP) of television or radio programmes (typically to cover television news and sports television events) from a mobile remote broadcast television studio. Professional video camera and microphone signals come into the production truck for processing, record... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NhaC%20family | The NhaC family (TC# 2.A.35) belongs to the Ion Transporter (IT) Superfamily. A representative list of proteins belonging to the NhaC family can be found in the Transporter Classification Database.
Two members of the NhaC family have been functionally characterized. One is believed to be a Na+:H+ antiporter; the other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critica%20Botanica | Critica Botanica ("Critique of botany", Leiden, July 1737) was written by Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). The book was published in Germany when Linnaeus was 29 with a discursus by the botanist Johannes Browallius (1707–1755), bishop of Åbo. The first edition was publish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihrab | Mihrab (, , pl. ) is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying. The wall in which a mihrab appears is thus the "qibla wall".
The minbar, which is the raised platform from which an imam (leader of prayer) addresses the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20power%20in%20Kenya | In 2017, the Kenya Nuclear Electrification Board (Kneb) estimated that a 1,000 MW nuclear plant could be operational by 2027 and cost Ksh500-600 billion ($5-$6 billion), to be located near a large body of water, such as the Indian Ocean, Lake Victoria or Lake Turkana.
Background
In September 2010 Former Energy and Pet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Th%C3%A9ophile%20Vandermonde | Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (28 February 1735 – 1 January 1796) was a French mathematician, musician, and chemist who worked with Bézout and Lavoisier; his name is now principally associated with determinant theory in mathematics. He was born in Paris, and died there.
Biography
Vandermonde was a violinist, and bec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20tree%20grammar | In theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a regular tree grammar is a formal grammar that describes a set of directed trees, or terms. A regular word grammar can be seen as a special kind of regular tree grammar, describing a set of single-path trees.
Definition
A regular tree grammar G is defined b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FURPS | FURPS is an acronym representing a model for classifying software quality attributes (functional and non-functional requirements):
Functionality - Capability (Size & Generality of Feature Set), Reusability (Compatibility, Interoperability, Portability), Security (Safety & Exploitability)
Usability (UX) - Human Facto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term%20potentiation | In neuroscience, long-term potentiation (LTP) is a persistent strengthening of synapses based on recent patterns of activity. These are patterns of synaptic activity that produce a long-lasting increase in signal transmission between two neurons. The opposite of LTP is long-term depression, which produces a long-lastin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%20of%20Technology%20Assessment | The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) was an office of the United States Congress that operated from 1974 to 1995. OTA's purpose was to provide congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century, i.e. technology asse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur%20size | Pterosaurs included the largest flying animals ever to have lived. They are a clade of prehistoric archosaurian reptiles closely related to dinosaurs. Species among pterosaurs occupied several types of environments, which ranged from aquatic to forested. Below are the lists that comprise the smallest and the largest pt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obturator%20nerve | The obturator nerve in human anatomy arises from the ventral divisions of the second, third, and fourth lumbar nerves in the lumbar plexus; the branch from the third is the largest, while that from the second is often very small.
Structure
The obturator nerve originates from the anterior divisions of the L2, L3, and L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20reflector | "A block reflector is an orthogonal, symmetric matrix that reverses a subspace whose dimension may be greater than one."
It is built out of many elementary reflectors.
It is also referred to as a triangular factor, and is a triangular matrix and they are used in the Householder transformation.
A reflector belonging... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lichenologist | The Lichenologist is a peer-reviewed scientific journal specializing in lichenology. It is published bimonthly by the British Lichen Society. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the 2020 impact factor of The Lichenologist is 1.514, ranking it 149 out of 235 in plant sciences and 26 of 29 in mycology.
More tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%20Lectures | Erdős Lectures in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science is a distinguished lecture series at Hebrew University of Jerusalem named after mathematician Paul Erdős. It is bringing an outstanding mathematician or computer scientist to Israel every year in the Spring. The subject of the lectures is Discret... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20Planet%3A%20Extreme%20Condition | Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom for Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3. The game was released in Japan in December 2006 and worldwide in January 2007. Originally intended to be an Xbox 360 exclusive, it was later ported and released for Mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20network | In communication networks, cognitive network (CN) is a new type of data network that makes use of cutting edge technology from several research areas (i.e. machine learning, knowledge representation, computer network, network management) to solve some problems current networks are faced with. Cognitive network is diffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLRA2 | Glycine receptor subunit alpha-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GLRA2 gene.
See also
Glycine receptor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20plot | A food plot is a planted area set aside to act as a supplementary food source for wildlife. The term was coined by the U.S. hunting and outdoor industries and food plots are most commonly planted for game species.
Food plot crops generally consist of but are not limited to legumes (clovers, alfalfa, beans, etc.), gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud | iCloud is a cloud service developed by Apple Inc. Launched on October 12, 2011, iCloud enables users to store and sync data across devices, including Apple Mail, Apple Calendar, Apple Photos, Apple Notes, contacts, settings, backups, and files, to collaborate with other users, and track assets through Find My. It is bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAGE%20KE | The Science of Aging Knowledge Environment (SAGE KE) was an online scientific resource provided by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
History and organization
The American Association for the Advancement of Science established a collaboration with Stanford University Libraries and The Cen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20for%20Statistical%20Education | The International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) is a section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), a professional association of statisticians, devoted to statistics education. It was founded in 1991 as an outgrowth of the ISI Statistical Education Committee, which had operated since 1948.
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order%20function | In mathematics and computer science, a higher-order function (HOF) is a function that does at least one of the following:
takes one or more functions as arguments (i.e. a procedural parameter, which is a parameter of a procedure that is itself a procedure),
returns a function as its result.
All other functions are fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined%20speech | Imagined speech (also called silent speech, covert speech, inner speech, or, in the original Latin terminology used by clinicians, endophasia) is thinking in the form of sound – "hearing" one's own voice silently to oneself, without the intentional movement of any extremities such as the lips, tongue, or hands. Logical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared%20cirrus | Infrared cirrus or galactic cirrus are galactic filamentary structures seen in space over most of the sky that emit far-infrared light. The name is given because the structures are cloud-like in appearance. These structures were first detected by the Infrared Astronomy Satellite at wavelengths of 60 and 100 micrometres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infraorbital%20artery | The infraorbital artery is a small artery in the head that arises from the maxillary artery and passes through the inferior orbital fissure to enter the orbit, then passes forward along the floor of the orbit, finally exiting the orbit through the infraorbital foramen to reach the face.
Anatomy
Origin
The infraorbit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCL%20%28GTPase%29 | TCL is a small (~21 kDa) signaling G protein (more specifically a GTPase), and is a member of the Rho family of GTPases.,.
TCL (TC10-like) shares 85% and 78% amino acid similarity to TC10 and Cdc42, respectively. TCL mRNA is 2.5 kb long and is mainly expressed in heart. In vitro, TCL shows rapid GDP/GTP exchange and d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phototroph | Phototrophs () are organisms that carry out photon capture to produce complex organic compounds (e.g. carbohydrates) and acquire energy. They use the energy from light to carry out various cellular metabolic processes. It is a common misconception that phototrophs are obligatorily photosynthetic. Many, but not all, pho... |
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