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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riboside | A riboside is any glycoside of ribose. Ribosides in the form of ribonucleosides and ribonucleotides play an important role in biochemistry. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketMail | PocketMail was a very small and inexpensive mobile computer, with a built-in acoustic coupler, developed by PocketScience.
History
PocketMail was developed by the company PocketScience and used technology developed by NASA. This was the first ever mass-market mobile email. The hardware cost around US$100 and the se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-celiac%20gluten%20sensitivity | Non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) or gluten sensitivity is a controversial disorder which can cause both gastrointestinal and other problems.
NCGS is included in the spectrum of gluten-related disorders. The definition and diagnostic criteria of non-celiac gluten sensitivity were debated and established by three co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20probability%20topics | This is a list of probability topics.
It overlaps with the (alphabetical) list of statistical topics. There are also the outline of probability and catalog of articles in probability theory. For distributions, see List of probability distributions. For journals, see list of probability journals. For contributors to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urogenital%20peritoneum | Urogenital peritoneum is a portion of the posterior abdominal peritoneum that is found below the linea terminalis.
It includes the broad ligament of uterus. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2N696 | The 2N696 and 2N697 were the first silicon transistors manufactured in Silicon Valley, in 1958, by Fairchild Semiconductor. Fairchild introduced itself to the world via its advertisements for these transistors, which were identical except for a post-manufacturing binning on current gain.
The 2N696/2N697 NPN mesa trans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming%20graph | Hamming graphs are a special class of graphs named after Richard Hamming and used in several branches of mathematics (graph theory) and computer science. Let be a set of elements and a positive integer. The Hamming graph has vertex set , the set of ordered -tuples of elements of , or sequences of length from . ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate%20resistance%20to%20HIV | A small proportion of humans show partial or apparently complete innate resistance to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The main mechanism is a mutation of the gene encoding CCR5, which acts as a co-receptor for HIV. It is estimated that the proportion of people with some form of resistance to HIV is under 10%.
History... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anelastic%20attenuation%20factor | In reflection seismology, the anelastic attenuation factor, often expressed as seismic quality factor or Q (which is inversely proportional to attenuation factor), quantifies the effects of anelastic attenuation on the seismic wavelet caused by fluid movement and grain boundary friction. As a seismic wave propagates th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20contour%20model | Active contour model, also called snakes, is a framework in computer vision introduced by Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, and Demetri Terzopoulos for delineating an object outline from a possibly noisy 2D image. The snakes model is popular in computer vision, and snakes are widely used in applications like object tracking... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20%28ring%20theory%29 | In algebra, a unit or invertible element of a ring is an invertible element for the multiplication of the ring. That is, an element of a ring is a unit if there exists in such that
where is the multiplicative identity; the element is unique for this property and is called the multiplicative inverse of . The set ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonido%2013 | Sonido 13 is a theory of microtonal music created by the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo around 1900 and described by Nicolas Slonimsky as "the field of sounds smaller than the twelve semitones of the tempered scale." Carrillo developed this theory in 1895 while he was experimenting with his violin. Though he became i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server%20farm | A server farm or server cluster is a collection of computer servers, usually maintained by an organization to supply server functionality far beyond the capability of a single machine. They often consist of thousands of computers which require a large amount of power to run and to keep cool. At the optimum performance ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stain | A stain is a discoloration that can be clearly distinguished from the surface, material, or medium it is found upon. They are caused by the chemical or physical interaction of two dissimilar materials. Accidental staining may make materials appear used, degraded or permanently unclean. Intentional staining is used in b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metagenics | The word metagenics uses the prefix meta and the suffix gen. Literally, it means "the creation of something which creates". In the context of biotechnology, metagenics is the practice of engineering organisms to create a specific enzyme, protein, or other biochemicals from simpler starting materials. The genetic engine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposon%20mutagenesis | Transposon mutagenesis, or transposition mutagenesis, is a biological process that allows genes to be transferred to a host organism's chromosome, interrupting or modifying the function of an extant gene on the chromosome and causing mutation. Transposon mutagenesis is much more effective than chemical mutagenesis, wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retort%20pouch | A retort pouch or retortable pouch is a type of food packaging made from a laminate of flexible plastic and metal foils. It allows the sterile packaging of a wide variety of food and drink handled by aseptic processing, and is used as an alternative to traditional industrial canning methods. Retort pouches are used in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname | In computer networking, a hostname (archaically nodename) is a label that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network and that is used to identify the device in various forms of electronic communication, such as the World Wide Web. Hostnames may be simple names consisting of a single word or phrase, or they... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20repair-deficiency%20disorder | A DNA repair-deficiency disorder is a medical condition due to reduced functionality of DNA repair.
DNA repair defects can cause an accelerated aging disease or an increased risk of cancer, or sometimes both.
DNA repair defects and accelerated aging
DNA repair defects are seen in nearly all of the diseases described... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted%20planar%20stochastic%20lattice | Physicists often use various lattices to apply their favorite models in them. For instance, the most favorite lattice is perhaps the square lattice. There are 14 Bravais space lattice where every cell has exactly the same number of nearest, next nearest, nearest of next nearest etc. neighbors and hence they are called ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec%20C | Aztec C is a discontinued C programming language compiler for CP/M-80, MS-DOS, Apple II (both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS), Commodore 64, early Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari ST. It was sold commercially by Manx Software Systems.
History
Manx Software Systems of Shrewsbury, New Jersey produced C programming language compilers beg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor%20William%20Evans | Ivor William Evans (24 July 1887 – 25 April 1960) was an Australian businessman. As a 14-year-old schoolboy, he was one of five winners of the 1901 Federal Flag Design Competition, held to design a national flag for Australia.
Biography
Evans was born on 24 July 1887 in Carlton, Victoria, the third son of Sally Clara... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard%20theory | Guard theory is a branch of immunology which concerns the innate sensing of stereotypical consequences of a virulence factor or pathogen. This is in contrast to the classical understanding of recognition by the innate immune system, which involves recognition of distinct microbial structures- pathogen-associated molecu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophily | Entomophily or insect pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen of plants, especially but not only of flowering plants, is distributed by insects. Flowers pollinated by insects typically advertise themselves with bright colours, sometimes with conspicuous patterns (honey guides) leading to rewards of pollen ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-M | The Beta-M is a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) that was used in Soviet-era lighthouses and beacons.
Design
The Beta-M contains a core made up of strontium-90, which has a half-life of 28.79 years. The service life of these generators is initially 10 years, and can be extended for another 5 to 10 years. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal%20fornix | The fornices of the vagina (: fornix of the vagina or fornix vaginae) are the superior portions of the vagina, extending into the recesses created by the vaginal portion of cervix. The word is Latin for 'arch'.
Structure
There are four named fornices (two primary) according to their anatomical position:
The posterior... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic%20press | A garlic press, also known as a garlic crusher, is a kitchen utensil to crush garlic cloves efficiently by forcing them through a grid of small holes, usually with some type of piston. Many garlic presses also have a device with a matching grid of blunt pins to clean out the holes.
The inventor of the garlic press is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty%20domain | In first-order logic the empty domain is the empty set having no members. In traditional and classical logic domains are restrictedly non-empty in order that certain theorems be valid. Interpretations with an empty domain are shown to be a trivial case by a convention originating at least in 1927 with Bernays and Schön... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20M.%20Mir%C3%B3-Roig | Rosa M. Miró-Roig (born August 6, 1960) is a professor of mathematics at the University of Barcelona, specializing in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. She did her graduate studies at the University of Barcelona, earning a Ph.D. in 1985 under the supervision of Sebastià Xambó-Descamps with a thesis entitled H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction%20set%20simulator | An instruction set simulator (ISS) is a simulation model, usually coded in a high-level programming language, which mimics the behavior of a mainframe or microprocessor by "reading" instructions and maintaining internal variables which represent the processor's registers.
Instruction simulation is a methodology employ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited%20principle%20of%20omniscience | In constructive mathematics, the limited principle of omniscience (LPO) and the lesser limited principle of omniscience (LLPO) are axioms that are nonconstructive but are weaker than the full law of the excluded middle. They are used to gauge the amount of nonconstructivity required for an argument, as in constructive ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostuviroid | Hostuviroid is a genus of ssRNA viroids that includes Hop stunt viroid, a species of viroids that infects many different types of plants, including the common hop plant. It belongs to the family Pospiviroidae.
Taxonomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PI4KAP2 | Putative phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase alpha-like protein P2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PI4KAP2 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomial%20ideal | In abstract algebra, a monomial ideal is an ideal generated by monomials in a multivariate polynomial ring over a field.
A toric ideal is an ideal generated by differences of monomials (provided the ideal is a prime ideal). An affine or projective algebraic variety defined by a toric ideal or a homogeneous toric ideal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirG%20Inc. | airG Incorporated (airG) is a Canadian software company.
History
AirG was founded and incorporated in April 2000 by Frederick Ghahramani, Vincent Yen, and Bryce Pasechnik. as a mobile entertainment content supplier and was headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company surpassed 20 million customers in 200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville%20number | In number theory, a Liouville number is a real number with the property that, for every positive integer , there exists a pair of integers with such that
Liouville numbers are "almost rational", and can thus be approximated "quite closely" by sequences of rational numbers. Precisely, these are transcendental number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semilinear%20map | In linear algebra, particularly projective geometry, a semilinear map between vector spaces V and W over a field K is a function that is a linear map "up to a twist", hence semi-linear, where "twist" means "field automorphism of K". Explicitly, it is a function that is:
additive with respect to vector addition:
the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne%20L.%20Smith | Daphne Letitia Smith was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in 1985. She is the president of the National Alumnae Association of Spelman College, her alma mater, and a member of Spelman's Board of Trustees; in 2011 she was honored with the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesicular%20transport%20adaptor%20protein | Vesicular transport adaptor proteins are proteins involved in forming complexes that function in the trafficking of molecules from one subcellular location to another. These complexes concentrate the correct cargo molecules in vesicles that bud or extrude off of one organelle and travel to another location, where the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taenia%20of%20fourth%20ventricle | In the brain, the taenia of the fourth ventricle (lingula, tenia of fourth ventricle) are two narrow bands of white matter, one on either side, which complete the lower part of the roof of the fourth ventricle.
Each consists of a vertical and a horizontal part.
The vertical part is continuous below the obex with the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric%20capture | Volumetric capture or volumetric video is a technique that captures a three-dimensional space, such as a location or performance. This type of volumography acquires data that can be viewed on flat screens as well as using 3D displays and VR goggles. Consumer-facing formats are numerous and the required motion capture t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic%20vector%20space | In mathematics, a symplectic vector space is a vector space V over a field F (for example the real numbers R) equipped with a symplectic bilinear form.
A symplectic bilinear form is a mapping that is
Bilinear Linear in each argument separately;
Alternating holds for all ; and
Non-degenerate for all implies that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy%20of%20Nutrition%20and%20Dietetics | The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is a 501(c)(6) trade association in the United States. With over 112,000 members, the association claims to be the largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. It has registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs), nutrition and dietetics technicians registered (NDTRs), an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20site%20survey | A wireless site survey, sometimes called an RF (Radio Frequency) site survey or wireless survey, is the process of planning and designing a wireless network, to provide a wireless solution that will deliver the required wireless coverage, data rates, network capacity, roaming capability and quality of service (QoS). Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RVU%20Alliance | The RVU Alliance (RVUA) is a standards body created to manage the RVU protocol standard as used by manufacturers of consumer electronics to allow entertainment devices within the home to share their content with each other across a home network.
Overview
The RVU Alliance exists to further the adoption and acceptance o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenergic | Adrenergic means "working on adrenaline (epinephrine) or noradrenaline (norepinephrine)" (or on their receptors). When not further qualified, it is usually used in the sense of enhancing or mimicking the effects of epinephrine and norepinephrine in the body.
Adrenergic nervous system, a part of the autonomic nervous s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT180 | The VT180 is a personal computer produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts, USA.
Introduced in early 1982, the CP/M-based VT180 was DEC's entry-level microcomputer. "VT180" is the unofficial name for the combination of the VT100 computer terminal and VT18X option. The VT18X includes a 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selected%20ion%20monitoring | Selected ion monitoring (SIM) is a mass spectrometry scanning mode in which only a limited mass-to-charge ratio range is transmitted/detected by the instrument, as opposed to the full spectrum range. This mode of operation typically results in significantly increased sensitivity. Due to their inherent nature, this tech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Therapy | Molecular Therapy is a scientific journal, published by Cell Press, that aims to develop and explore "molecular and cellular therapeutics to correct genetic and acquired diseases".
The founder of the journal and its Editor-in-Chief in the first five years was Inder Verma. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Private%20LAN%20Service | Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) is a way to provide Ethernet-based multipoint to multipoint communication over IP or MPLS networks. It allows geographically dispersed sites to share an Ethernet broadcast domain by connecting sites through pseudowires. The term sites includes multiplicities of both servers and client... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi%20Prize | The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing achievements and advancements made in field of communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, and Internet). The prize is awarded by the Marconi Society, and it includes a $100,000 honorarium and a work of sculpture. Recipient... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Physical%20Journal%20A | The European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei is an academic journal, recognized by the European Physical Society, presenting new and original research results in a variety of formats, including Regular Articles, Reviews, Tools for Experiment and Theory/Scientific Notes and Letters.
Topics covered include:
Hadr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20LiveUpdate | Norton LiveUpdate is a utility developed by Symantec Corporation that downloads and installs security updates (such as spyware, firewall, or antivirus signature files) and software patches. LiveUpdate can only apply updates for a particular version of Norton; it cannot however upgrade a version of Norton to a later ver... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse%20tree | A parse tree or parsing tree or derivation tree or concrete syntax tree is an ordered, rooted tree that represents the syntactic structure of a string according to some context-free grammar. The term parse tree itself is used primarily in computational linguistics; in theoretical syntax, the term syntax tree is more co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20zirconate%20titanate | Lead zirconate titanate, also called lead zirconium titanate and commonly abbreviated as PZT, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula It is a ceramic perovskite material that shows a marked piezoelectric effect, meaning that the compound changes shape when an electric field is applied. It is used in a numb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Luzin | Nikolai Nikolayevich Luzin (also spelled Lusin; ; 9 December 1883 – 28 February 1950) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician known for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology. He was the eponym of Luzitania, a loose group of young Moscow math... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areal%20velocity | In classical mechanics, areal velocity (also called sector velocity or sectorial velocity) is a pseudovector whose length equals the rate of change at which area is swept out by a particle as it moves along a curve. It has SI units of square meters per second (m2/s) and dimension of square length per time L2 T-1.
In t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibragimov%E2%80%93Iosifescu%20conjecture%20for%20%CF%86-mixing%20sequences | Ibragimov–Iosifescu conjecture for φ-mixing sequences in probability theory is the collective name for 2 closely related conjectures by Ildar Ibragimov and :ro:Marius Iosifescu.
Conjecture
Let be a strictly stationary -mixing sequence, for which and . Then is asymptotically normally distributed.
-mixing coefficie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo%20%28C%2B%2B%20library%29 | Armadillo is a linear algebra software library for the C++ programming language. It aims to provide efficient and streamlined base calculations, while at the same time having a straightforward and easy-to-use interface. Its intended target users are scientists and engineers.
It supports integer, floating point (sing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20current | Energy current is a flow of energy defined by the Poynting vector (), as opposed to normal current (flow of charge). It was originally postulated by Oliver Heaviside. It is also an informal name for Energy flux.
Explanation
"Energy current" is a somewhat informal term that is used, on occasion, to describe the proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing%20chess | Losing chess (also known as antichess, the losing game, giveaway chess, suicide chess, killer chess, must-kill, take-all chess, take-me chess, capture chess or losums) is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère version. In s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focused%20ion%20beam | Focused ion beam, also known as FIB, is a technique used particularly in the semiconductor industry, materials science and increasingly in the biological field for site-specific analysis, deposition, and ablation of materials. A FIB setup is a scientific instrument that resembles a scanning electron microscope (SEM). H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6the%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Köthe conjecture is a problem in ring theory, open . It is formulated in various ways. Suppose that R is a ring. One way to state the conjecture is that if R has no nil ideal, other than {0}, then it has no nil one-sided ideal, other than {0}.
This question was posed in 1930 by Gottfried Köthe (190... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoecology | Paleoecology (also spelled palaeoecology) is the study of interactions between organisms and/or interactions between organisms and their environments across geologic timescales. As a discipline, paleoecology interacts with, depends on and informs a variety of fields including paleontology, ecology, climatology and biol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%20Hobart%20Clark | Austin Hobart Clark (December 17, 1880 – October 28, 1954) was an American zoologist. He was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts and died in Washington, D.C. His research covered a wide range of topics including oceanography, marine biology, ornithology, and entomology.
Biography
The son of Theodore Minot Clark and Jea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket%20%28programming%20language%29 | Racket is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language and a multi-platform distribution that includes the Racket language, compiler, large standard library, IDE, development tools, and a set of additional languages including Typed Racket (a sister language of Racket with a static type-checker), Swindle, FrTi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahta%20Moghaddam | Mahta Moghaddam is an Iranian-American electrical and computer engineer and William M. Hogue Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering. Moghaddam is also the president of the IEEE Antenna... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souvenaid | Souvenaid is a medical food in the form of a thick, yogurt-like drink that is marketed as helping people with Alzheimer's disease. It contains a mixture of docosahexaenoic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid, phospholipids, choline, uridine monophosphate, vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol equivalents), selenium, vitamin B12, vitami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouthuysen%E2%80%93Field%20coupling | Wouthuysen–Field coupling, or the Wouthuysen–Field effect, is a mechanism that couples the excitation temperature, also called the spin temperature, of neutral hydrogen to Lyman-alpha radiation. This coupling plays a role in producing a difference in the temperature of neutral hydrogen and the cosmic microwave backgrou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20antigen%20test | A rapid antigen test (RAT), sometimes called a rapid antigen detection test (RADT), antigen rapid test (ART), or loosely just a rapid test, is a rapid diagnostic test suitable for point-of-care testing that directly detects the presence or absence of an antigen. RATs are a type of lateral flow test detecting antigens, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoinverter | A nanoinverter, also referred to as a nano inverter or solar nano inverter, converts direct current (DC) from a single solar cell or small solar panel to alternating current (AC).
Advantages
Nanoinverters have several advantages over microinverters (which are connected to larger than 100-watt solar panels). The main ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus%20oil | Eucalyptus oil is the generic name for distilled oil from the leaf of Eucalyptus, a genus of the plant family Myrtaceae native to Australia and cultivated worldwide. Eucalyptus oil has a history of wide application, as a pharmaceutical, antiseptic, repellent, flavouring, fragrance and industrial uses. The leaves of sel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory%20event | Auditory events describe the subjective perception, when listening to a certain sound situation. This term was introduced by Jens Blauert (Ruhr-University Bochum) in 1966, in order to distinguish clearly between the physical sound field and the auditory perception of the sound.
Auditory events are the central objects ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering%20number | In mathematics, a covering number is the number of spherical balls of a given size needed to completely cover a given space, with possible overlaps. Two related concepts are the packing number, the number of disjoint balls that fit in a space, and the metric entropy, the number of points that fit in a space when constr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating%20%28biology%29 | Cheating is a term used in behavioral ecology and ethology to describe behavior whereby organisms receive a benefit at the cost of other organisms. Cheating is common in many mutualistic and altruistic relationships. A cheater is an individual who does not cooperate (or cooperates less than their fair share) but can po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCDSA | KCDSA (Korean Certificate-based Digital Signature Algorithm) is a digital signature algorithm created by a team led by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA). It is an ElGamal variant, similar to the Digital Signature Algorithm and GOST R 34.10-94. The standard algorithm is implemented over , but an elliptic cur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristic%20polynomial | In linear algebra, the characteristic polynomial of a square matrix is a polynomial which is invariant under matrix similarity and has the eigenvalues as roots. It has the determinant and the trace of the matrix among its coefficients. The characteristic polynomial of an endomorphism of a finite-dimensional vector spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrostichum%20aureum | Acrostichum aureum, the golden leather fern, is a large species of fern that grows in mangrove swamps and other wet locations. Other common names include swamp fern and mangrove fern.
Description
The golden leather fern has large fronds growing to a length of 1.8 metres (six feet). The leaves are glossy, broad and pin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorza%20variety | In mathematics, a k-Scorza variety is a smooth projective variety, of maximal dimension among those whose k–1 secant varieties are not the whole of projective space. Scorza varieties were introduced and classified by , who named them after Gaetano Scorza. The special case of 2-Scorza varieties are sometimes called Seve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copepod | Copepods (; meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat. Some species are planktonic (inhabiting sea waters), some are benthic (living on the ocean floor), a number of species have parasitic phases, and some continental species may live in limnoterrestrial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesiogenomics | Kinesiogenomics refers to the study of genetics in the various disciplines of the field of kinesiology, the study of human movement. The field has also been referred to as "exercise genomics" or "exercisenomics." Areas of study within kinesiogenomics include the role of gene sequence variation (i.e., alleles) in sport ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check%20%28pattern%29 | Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares. The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20topology | Quantum topology is a branch of mathematics that connects quantum mechanics with low-dimensional topology.
Dirac notation provides a viewpoint of quantum mechanics which becomes amplified into a framework that can embrace the amplitudes associated with topological spaces and the related embedding of one space within a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-harvest%20losses%20%28vegetables%29 | Post-harvest losses of vegetables and fruit occur at all points in the value chain from production in the field to the food being placed on a plate for consumption. Post-harvest activities include harvesting, handling, storage, processing, packaging, transportation and marketing.
Losses of horticultural produce are a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFASC | Neurofascin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NFASC gene.
Function
Neurofascin is an L1 family immunoglobulin cell adhesion molecule (see L1CAM) involved in axon subcellular targeting and synapse formation during neural development.
Clinical importance
A homozygous mutation causing loss of Nfasc155 cau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amodal%20perception | Amodal perception is the perception of the whole of a physical structure when only parts of it affect the sensory receptors. For example, a table will be perceived as a complete volumetric structure even if only part of it—the facing surface—projects to the retina; it is perceived as possessing internal volume and hidd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakelocks%20anemone | The snakelocks anemone (Anemonia viridis) is a sea anemone found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The latter population is however sometimes considered a separate species, the Mediterranean snakelocks anemone (Anemonia sulcata).
The tentacles are usually a deep green colour with purple tips, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaniadakis%20exponential%20distribution | The Kaniadakis exponential distribution (or κ-exponential distribution) is a probability distribution arising from the maximization of the Kaniadakis entropy under appropriate constraints. It is one example of a Kaniadakis distribution. The κ-exponential is a generalization of the exponential distribution in the same ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamped%20circuit%20board | A stamped circuit board (SCB) is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. This technology is used for small circuits, for instance in the production of LEDs.
Similar to pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics and psychometrics, reliability is the overall consistency of a measure. A measure is said to have a high reliability if it produces similar results under consistent conditions:"It is the characteristic of a set of test scores that relates to the amount of random error from the measurement process that mig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental%20calculator | A mental calculator or human calculator is a person with a prodigious ability in some area of mental calculation (such as adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing large numbers).
The world's best mental calculators are invited every two years to compete for the Mental Calculation World Cup. On July 17, 2022, at He... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Duncan%20%28physicist%29 | Robert V. Duncan is a physicist at Texas Tech University, Texas and previously served as vice chancellor for research at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Prior to his current posting he held various assignments while
serving as a professor of physics at UNM, including associate dean for research in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20Network%20Connect | Trusted Network Connect (TNC) is an open architecture for Network Access Control, promulgated by the Trusted Network Connect Work Group (TNC-WG) of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG).
History
The TNC architecture was first introduced at the RSA Conference in 2005. TNC was originally a network access control standard wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberval%20balance | The Roberval balance is a weighing scale presented to the French Academy of Sciences by the French mathematician Gilles Personne de Roberval in 1669.
In this scale, two identical horizontal beams are attached, one directly above the other, to a vertical column, which is attached to a stable base. On each side, both ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar%20field%20dark%20matter | In astrophysics and cosmology scalar field dark matter is a classical, minimally coupled, scalar field postulated to account for the inferred dark matter.
Background
The universe may be accelerating, fueled perhaps by a cosmological constant or some
other field possessing long range ‘repulsive’ effects. A model must p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery%20procedure | In telecommunication, a recovery procedure is a process that attempts to bring a system back to a normal operating state. Examples:
The actions necessary to restore an automated information system's data files and computational capability after a system failure.
In data communications, a process whereby a data station... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20identification%20in%20the%20limit | Language identification in the limit is a formal model for inductive inference of formal languages, mainly by computers (see machine learning and induction of regular languages). It was introduced by E. Mark Gold in a technical report and a journal article with the same title.
In this model, a teacher provides to a le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20TPNS | Teleprocessing Network Simulator (TPNS) is an IBM licensed program, first released in 1976 as a test automation tool to simulate the end-user activity of network terminal(s) to a mainframe computer system, for functional testing, regression testing, system testing, capacity management, benchmarking and stress testing.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Laar%20equation | The Van Laar equation is a thermodynamic activity model, which was developed by Johannes van Laar in 1910-1913, to describe phase equilibria of liquid mixtures. The equation was derived from the Van der Waals equation. The original van der Waals parameters didn't give good description of vapor-liquid equilibria of phas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20trigonometry | Early study of triangles can be traced to the 2nd millennium BC, in Egyptian mathematics (Rhind Mathematical Papyrus) and Babylonian mathematics. Trigonometry was also prevalent in Kushite mathematics.
Systematic study of trigonometric functions began in Hellenistic mathematics, reaching India as part of Hellenistic as... |
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