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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation
In physics, chemistry, and materials science, percolation () refers to the movement and filtering of fluids through porous materials. It is described by Darcy's law. Broader applications have since been developed that cover connectivity of many systems modeled as lattices or graphs, analogous to connectivity of lattice...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbitol
Sorbitol (), less commonly known as glucitol (), is a sugar alcohol with a sweet taste which the human body metabolizes slowly. It can be obtained by reduction of glucose, which changes the converted aldehyde group (−CHO) to a primary alcohol group (−CH2OH). Most sorbitol is made from potato starch, but it is also foun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubimet
The Institute for Ubiquitous Meteorology (UBIMET) is a worldwide private provider of weather forecasts and severe weather warnings. History Ubimet was established in Vienna, Austria, by Dr. Michael Fassnauer and Manfred Spatzierer in September 2004 under the name Meteomedia GmbH. It began by providing weather service...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck%20Millipore
Merck Millipore was the brand used by Merck Group's (not US-based Merck & Co.) global life science business until 2015 when the company re-branded. It was formed when Merck acquired the Millipore Corporation in 2010. Merck is a supplier to the life science industry. The Millipore Corporation was founded in 1954, and li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20zoology%20through%201859
The history of zoology before Charles Darwin's 1859 theory of evolution traces the organized study of the animal kingdom from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of zoology as a single coherent field arose much later, systematic study of zoology is seen in the works of Aristotle and Galen in the ancient Greco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventrolateral%20medulla
The ventrolateral medulla, part of the medulla oblongata of the brainstem, plays a major role in regulating arterial blood pressure and breathing. It regulates blood pressure by regulating the activity of the sympathetic nerves that target the heart and peripheral blood vessels. The ventrolateral medulla consists of a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20Planet
Visualplanet Ltd specialises in the manufacture and global distribution of projected capacitance interactive touch screen foils, which are designed to be used in a wide variety of Touch Screen applications from through-window touch to direct integration into LCD Screens. From its headquarters in Cambridge, England, the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20graviton%20theorem
In physics, the soft graviton theorem, first formulated by Steven Weinberg in 1965, allows calculation of the S-matrix, used in calculating the outcome of collisions between particles, when low-energy (soft) gravitons come into play. Specifically, if in a collision between n incoming particles from which m outgoing pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruppel-like%20factors
In molecular genetics, the Krüppel-like family of transcription factors (KLFs) are a set of eukaryotic C2H2 zinc finger DNA-binding proteins that regulate gene expression. This family has been expanded to also include the Sp transcription factor and related proteins, forming the Sp/KLF family. Members The following h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Communications%20Hub
The Quantum Communications Hub is a quantum technology research hub established as part of the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme. The hub is a consortium of 8 UK universities and 13 industrial partners, which received funding of £24m over a 5-year period. The hub will develop techniques for quantum key distri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryostasis%20%28clathrate%20hydrates%29
The term cryostasis was introduced to name the reversible preservation technology for live biological objects which is based on using clathrate-forming gaseous substances under increased hydrostatic pressure and hypothermic temperatures. Living tissues cooled below the freezing point of water are damaged by the dehydr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Pathogenic%20Neisseria%20Conference
The International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference (IPNC) occurs every two years and is a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research on all aspects of the genus Neisseria. This includes immunology, vaccinology and physiology and metabolism of Neisseria meningitidis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and the commensal speci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir%20computing
Reservoir computing is a framework for computation derived from recurrent neural network theory that maps input signals into higher dimensional computational spaces through the dynamics of a fixed, non-linear system called a reservoir. After the input signal is fed into the reservoir, which is treated as a "black box,"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like%20terms
In mathematics, like terms are summands in a sum that differ only by a numerical factor. Like terms can be regrouped by adding their coefficients. Typically, in a polynomial expression, like terms are those that contain the same variables to the same powers, possibly with different coefficients. More generally, when...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112th%20meridian%20west
The meridian 112° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 112th meridian west forms a great circle with the 68th meridian east. From Pole to Pole Starting at the North...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20thermodynamics
Computational thermodynamics is the use of computers to simulate thermodynamic problems specific to materials science, particularly used in the construction of phase diagrams. Several open and commercial programs exist to perform these operations. The concept of the technique is minimization of Gibbs free energy of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20deprivation%20in%20children%20with%20hearing%20loss
Language deprivation in deaf and hard-of-hearing children is a delay in language development that occurs when sufficient exposure to language, spoken or signed, is not provided in the first few years of a deaf or hard of hearing child's life, often called the critical or sensitive period. Early intervention, parental i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAD/CAM%20dentistry
CAD/CAM dentistry is a field of dentistry and prosthodontics using CAD/CAM (computer-aided-design and computer-aided-manufacturing) to improve the design and creation of dental restorations, especially dental prostheses, including crowns, crown lays, veneers, inlays and onlays, fixed dental prostheses (bridges), dental...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD8
CD8 (cluster of differentiation 8) is a transmembrane glycoprotein that serves as a co-receptor for the T-cell receptor (TCR). Along with the TCR, the CD8 co-receptor plays a role in T cell signaling and aiding with cytotoxic T cell-antigen interactions. Like the TCR, CD8 binds to a major histocompatibility complex (M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden%20Landing%20Ecological%20Reserve
Eden Landing Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve in Hayward and Union City, California, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. The reserve is managed by the California Department of Fish and Game and comprises 5,040 acres of former industrial salt ponds now used as a low salinity waterbird habitat. Background T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20web%20browser
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. It further provides for the capture or input of information which may be returned to the presenting system, then stored or processed as necessary. The method of accessing a particular page or ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%20resonance
Ground resonance is an imbalance in the rotation of a helicopter rotor when the blades become bunched up on one side of their rotational plane and cause an oscillation in phase with the frequency of the rocking of the helicopter on its landing gear. The effect is similar to the behavior of a washing machine when the cl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient%20of%20determination
In statistics, the coefficient of determination, denoted R2 or r2 and pronounced "R squared", is the proportion of the variation in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s). It is a statistic used in the context of statistical models whose main purpose is either the prediction of fut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio%20eradication
Polio eradication, the permanent global cessation of circulation of the poliovirus and hence elimination of the poliomyelitis (polio) it causes, is the aim of a multinational public health effort begun in 1988, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Rotary Founda...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20theoretical%20physicists
The following is a partial list of notable theoretical physicists. Arranged by century of birth, then century of death, then year of birth, then year of death, then alphabetically by surname. For explanation of symbols, see Notes at end of this article. Ancient times Kaṇāda (6th century BCE or 2nd century BCE) Thale...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%20generator
A Marx generator is an electrical circuit first described by Erwin Otto Marx in 1924. Its purpose is to generate a high-voltage pulse from a low-voltage DC supply. Marx generators are used in high-energy physics experiments, as well as to simulate the effects of lightning on power-line gear and aviation equipment. A ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20dynamical%20system
In mathematics, the concept of graph dynamical systems can be used to capture a wide range of processes taking place on graphs or networks. A major theme in the mathematical and computational analysis of GDSs is to relate their structural properties (e.g. the network connectivity) and the global dynamics that result. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientation%20%28vector%20space%29
The orientation of a real vector space or simply orientation of a vector space is the arbitrary choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented. In the three-dimensional Euclidean space, right-handed bases are typically declared to be positively oriented, but the choice is ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda%20lattice
The Toda lattice, introduced by , is a simple model for a one-dimensional crystal in solid state physics. It is famous because it is one of the earliest examples of a non-linear completely integrable system. It is given by a chain of particles with nearest neighbor interaction, described by the Hamiltonian and the eq...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight%20skeleton
In geometry, a straight skeleton is a method of representing a polygon by a topological skeleton. It is similar in some ways to the medial axis but differs in that the skeleton is composed of straight line segments, while the medial axis of a polygon may involve parabolic curves. However, both are homotopy-equivalent t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary%20equivalence%20relation
In mathematics, a ternary equivalence relation is a kind of ternary relation analogous to a binary equivalence relation. A ternary equivalence relation is symmetric, reflexive, and transitive. The classic example is the relation of collinearity among three points in Euclidean space. In an abstract set, a ternary equiva...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20stub
In software testing, test stubs are programs that simulate the behaviours of software components (or modules) that a module undergoing tests depends on. Test stubs provide canned answers to calls made during the test, usually not responding at all to anything outside what's programmed in for the test. Example Conside...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadose%20zone
The vadose zone, also termed the unsaturated zone, is the part of Earth between the land surface and the top of the phreatic zone, the position at which the groundwater (the water in the soil's pores) is at atmospheric pressure ("vadose" is from the Latin word for "shallow"). Hence, the vadose zone extends from the to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%27s%20Picks
Rick's Picks is an American manufacturer of pickles. It was co-founded in 2004 by CEO Rick Field and Lauren McGrath, a former caterer. It is based in Brooklyn, New York. History After he was laid off from his job as a television producer, co-founder Rick Field turned his hobby of pickling into a business. Field ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanaro%20Card
Hanaro Card is contactless smart card used in the public transportation system in Busan, South Korea. First used in 1997, the Hanaro Card is now also used for paying at parking lots and toll booths. The Hanaro system was adopted by Busan City in February 1998. This created the first integrated transport smart payment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech%20lattice
In mathematics, the Leech lattice is an even unimodular lattice Λ24 in 24-dimensional Euclidean space, which is one of the best models for the kissing number problem. It was discovered by . It may also have been discovered (but not published) by Ernst Witt in 1940. Characterization The Leech lattice Λ24 is the unique...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm%20Foleo
The Palm Foleo was a planned subnotebook computer that was announced by mobile device manufacturer Palm Inc. on May 30, 2007, and canceled three months later. It intended to serve as a companion for smartphones including Palm's own Treo line. The device ran on the Linux operating system and featured 256 MB of flash mem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference%20Equations%3A%20From%20Rabbits%20to%20Chaos
Difference Equations: From Rabbits to Chaos is an undergraduate-level textbook on difference equations, a type of recurrence relation in which the values of a sequence are determined by equations involving differences of successive terms of the sequence. It was written by Paul Cull, Mary Flahive, and Robby Robson, and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simply%20Local
Simply Local is a decentralized community social networking and neighborhood broadcasting service developed by Simply Local, based in New Delhi. The app is used as a tool by residents to bridge the information gap and know what is happening in the locality. Simply Local creates private geo-fenced networks for people l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blik
Blik (stylised: BLIK) is a payment system in Poland that allows users to make instant payments and withdraw cash using only the user's standard mobile banking app. The system allows users to make online and in-store purchases and to transfer money in real time between bank accounts and ATMs, including cash withdrawal ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20CleanSweep
Norton CleanSweep, designed by Quarterdeck, was designed to aid in the removal of installed programs on Microsoft Windows. CleanSweep was acquired by Symantec, and sold as a standalone product for a period of time. As of 2009, CleanSweep currently is unavailable from Symantec standalone and is incorporated in Norton S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20form
In mathematics, a modular form is a (complex) analytic function on the upper half-plane, , that satisfies: a kind of functional equation with respect to the group action of the modular group, and a growth condition. The theory of modular forms therefore belongs to complex analysis. The main importance of the theor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute%20grammar
An attribute grammar is a formal way to supplement a formal grammar with semantic information processing. Semantic information is stored in attributes associated with terminal and nonterminal symbols of the grammar. The values of attributes are result of attribute evaluation rules associated with productions of the gra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log%20sum%20inequality
The log sum inequality is used for proving theorems in information theory. Statement Let and be nonnegative numbers. Denote the sum of all s by and the sum of all s by . The log sum inequality states that with equality if and only if are equal for all , in other words for all . (Take to be if and if . The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-propagating%20high-temperature%20synthesis
Self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) is a method for producing both inorganic and organic compounds by exothermic combustion reactions in solids of different nature. Reactions can occur between a solid reactant coupled with either a gas, liquid, or other solid. If the reactants, intermediates, and products...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundee%20Society
The Dundee Society was a society of graduates of CA-400, a National Security Agency course in cryptology devised by Lambros D. Callimahos, which included the Zendian Problem (a practical exercise in traffic analysis and cryptanalysis). The class was held once a year, and new members were inducted into the Society upon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20slow%20rotators%20%28minor%20planets%29
This is a list of slow rotators—minor planets that have an exceptionally long rotation period. This period, typically given in hours, and sometimes called rotation rate or spin rate, is a fundamental standard physical property for minor planets. In recent years, the periods of many thousands of bodies have been obtaine...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s%20identity
In mathematics, Euler's identity (also known as Euler's equation) is the equality where is Euler's number, the base of natural logarithms, is the imaginary unit, which by definition satisfies , and is pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Euler's identity is named after the Swiss mathemati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian%20manifold
In mathematics, and more specifically in differential geometry, a Hermitian manifold is the complex analogue of a Riemannian manifold. More precisely, a Hermitian manifold is a complex manifold with a smoothly varying Hermitian inner product on each (holomorphic) tangent space. One can also define a Hermitian manifold ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20insurance
General insurance or non-life insurance policy, including automobile and homeowners policies, provide payments depending on the loss from a particular financial event. General insurance is typically defined as any insurance that is not determined to be life insurance. It is called property and casualty insurance in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelet%20packet%20decomposition
Originally known as optimal subband tree structuring (SB-TS), also called wavelet packet decomposition (WPD) (sometimes known as just wavelet packets or subband tree), is a wavelet transform where the discrete-time (sampled) signal is passed through more filters than the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Introduction ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole%20Barndorff-Nielsen
Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen (18 March, 1935 – 26 June, 2022) was a Danish statistician who has contributed to many areas of statistical science. Education and career He was born in Copenhagen, and became interested in statistics when, as a student of actuarial mathematics at the University of Copenhagen, he worked pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical%20behaviorism
Theoretical behaviorism is a framework for psychology proposed by J. E. R. Staddon as an extension of experimental psychologist B. F. Skinner's radical behaviorism. It originated at Harvard in the early 1960s. In the late 1980s, R. H. Ettinger and Staddon critiqued functional analysis. Application of selection and va...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telmac%20TMC-600
The Telmac TMC-600 was a Finnish microcomputer introduced in 1982 by Telercas Oy, a Finnish importer of RCA microchips. Only 600 units were produced, making it very rare today. The TMC-600 was the only commercially available BASIC-based home computer designed and manufactured in Finland. Specifications RCA 1802A (C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine%20Herbs%20Charm
The Nine Herbs Charm, Nigon Wyrta Galdor, Lay of the Nine Healing Herbs, or Nine Wort Spell (among other names) is an Old English charm recorded in the tenth-century CE. Anglo-Saxon medical compilation known as Lacnunga, which survives on the manuscript, Harley MS 585, in the British Library, in London. The charm invol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS-3D
MIPS-3D is an extension to the MIPS V instruction set architecture (ISA) that added 13 new instructions for improving the performance of 3D graphics applications. The instructions improved performance by reducing the number of instructions required to implement four common 3D graphics operations: vertex transformation,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation
In mathematics, summation is the addition of a sequence of any kind of numbers, called addends or summands; the result is their sum or total. Beside numbers, other types of values can be summed as well: functions, vectors, matrices, polynomials and, in general, elements of any type of mathematical objects on which an o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor%20Lake
Raptor Lake is Intel's codename for the 13th- and 14th-generation of Intel Core processors based on a hybrid architecture, utilizing Raptor Cove performance cores and Gracemont efficiency cores. Raptor Lake launched on October 20, 2022. Like Alder Lake, Raptor Lake is fabricated using Intel's Intel 7 process. At Intel'...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20forests%20in%20England
England's community forests are afforestation-based regeneration projects which were established in the early 1990s. Each of them is a partnership between the Forestry Commission and the Countryside Agency, which are agencies of the British government, and the relevant local councils. Most of the designated areas are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%E2%80%93Dutt%20twist
The Ray–Dutt twist is a mechanism proposed for the racemization of octahedral complexes containing three bidentate chelate rings. Such complexes typically adopt an octahedral molecular geometry in their ground states, in which case they possess helical chirality. The pathway entails formation of an intermediate of C2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phycodnaviridae
Phycodnaviridae is a family of large (100–560 kb) double-stranded DNA viruses that infect marine or freshwater eukaryotic algae. Viruses within this family have a similar morphology, with an icosahedral capsid (polyhedron with 20 faces). As of 2014, there were 33 species in this family, divided among 6 genera. This fam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Wohlstetter
Albert James Wohlstetter (December 19, 1913 – January 10, 1997) was an American political scientist noted for his influence on U.S. nuclear strategy during the Cold War. He and his wife Roberta Wohlstetter, an accomplished historian and intelligence expert, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorcysia
Phorcysia is a bacteria genus from the family Desulfurobacteriaceae.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Strength%20Physics%20and%20Materials%20Science%20SB%20RAS
Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences—one of the institutes of the Tomsk Research Center of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It is located in Tomsk Academic City. The Institute consists of 5 buildings with a total area of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine%20similarity
In data analysis, cosine similarity is a measure of similarity between two non-zero vectors defined in an inner product space. Cosine similarity is the cosine of the angle between the vectors; that is, it is the dot product of the vectors divided by the product of their lengths. It follows that the cosine similarity do...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific%20recombination
Site-specific recombination, also known as conservative site-specific recombination, is a type of genetic recombination in which DNA strand exchange takes place between segments possessing at least a certain degree of sequence homology. Enzymes known as site-specific recombinases (SSRs) perform rearrangements of DNA se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoppers%20%28game%29
Hoppers (ages 8+) is a classic Peg solitaire game released by ThinkFun in 1999. Players set up the board according to the pictures on each challenge card, then "leap frog" all the green frogs until only the red frog remains. The game was created by Nob Yoshigahara, and is based on the classic Peg Solitaire game “The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoexcitation
Photoexcitation is the production of an excited state of a quantum system by photon absorption. The excited state originates from the interaction between a photon and the quantum system. Photons carry energy that is determined by the wavelengths of the light that carries the photons. Objects that emit light with longer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shou%20%28character%29
Shòu () is the Chinese word/character for "longevity". Use Three of the most important goals in life in Chinese traditional thought are the propitious blessings of happiness (fú ), professional success or prosperity (lù ), and longevity (shòu ). These are visually represented by the three "star gods" of the same name...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127th%20meridian%20west
The meridian 127° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 127th meridian west forms a great circle with the 53rd meridian east. From Pole to Pole Starting at the North...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadability
In media studies and marketing, spreadability is the wide distribution and circulation of information on media platforms. Spreadability contrasts with the "stickiness" of aggregating media in centralized places. The original copy of the (textual, visual, audio) information does not need to be replicated perfectly in o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%20Deep%20Field%20South
The Hubble Deep Field South is a composite of several hundred individual images taken using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 over 10 days in September and October 1998. It followed the great success of the original Hubble Deep Field in facilitating the study of extremely distant galaxies ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoomorphs
Zoomorphs is a line of educational building toys made by River Dolphin Toys, a Brooklyn-based company. Each set of Zoomorphs contains between 30 and 100 plastic animal pieces that can be snapped together to form actual creatures, such as a cat or dinosaur, or rearranged to create fantasy creatures, such as a dino-cat-h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS%20theorem
In mathematics, the ATS theorem is the theorem on the approximation of a trigonometric sum by a shorter one. The application of the ATS theorem in certain problems of mathematical and theoretical physics can be very helpful. History of the problem In some fields of mathematics and mathematical physics, sums of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem%20myopathy
Bethlem myopathy is predominantly an autosomal dominant myopathy, classified as a congenital form of muscular dystrophy. There are two types of Bethlem myopathy, based on which type of collagen is affected. Bethlem myopathy 1 (BTHLM1), formerly known as Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 5 (LGMDD5), is caused by a mutatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NADSYN1
Glutamine-dependent NAD(+) synthetase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NADSYN1 gene. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is a coenzyme in metabolic redox reactions, a precursor for several cell signaling molecules, and a substrate for protein posttranslational modifications. NAD synthetase (EC 6.3.5.1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQuORE
SQUORE is a software analytics and static code analysis tool for software projects. It gathers information from different artefacts types (e.g. source code, test results, bug tracking system) and tools (reads outputs of Checkstyle, PMD, FindBugs, Polyspace, Coverity or SonarQube) and publishes a summarised view of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20properties%20of%20transition%20metal%20oxides
Transition metal oxides are compounds composed of oxygen atoms bound to transition metals. They are commonly utilized for their catalytic activity and semiconducting properties. Transition metal oxides are also frequently used as pigments in paints and plastics, most notably titanium dioxide. Transition metal oxides h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20norm
In mathematics, a matrix norm is a vector norm in a vector space whose elements (vectors) are matrices (of given dimensions). Preliminaries Given a field of either real or complex numbers, let be the -vector space of matrices with rows and columns and entries in the field . A matrix norm is a norm on . This ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartrazine
Tartrazine is a synthetic lemon yellow azo dye primarily used as a food coloring. It is also known as E number E102, C.I. 19140, FD&C Yellow 5, Yellow 5 Lake, Acid Yellow 23, Food Yellow 4, and trisodium 1-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-4-(4-sulfonatophenylazo)-5-pyrazolone-3-carboxylate). Tartrazine is a commonly used color al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALMS1
Alstrom syndrome 1 also known as ALMS1 is a protein which in humans is encoded by the ALMS1 gene. Molecular biology The gene is located on the short arm of chromosome 2 (2p13.2) on the plus (Watson) strand. It is 224,161 bases in length organised into 23 exons. The encoded protein has 4,167 amino acids and molecular...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral%20polyopia
Cerebral diplopia or polyopia describes seeing two or more images arranged in ordered rows, columns, or diagonals after fixation on a stimulus. The polyopic images occur monocular bilaterally (one eye open on both sides) and binocularly (both eyes open), differentiating it from ocular diplopia or polyopia. The number o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative%20programming
In computer science, imperative programming is a programming paradigm of software that uses statements that change a program's state. In much the same way that the imperative mood in natural languages expresses commands, an imperative program consists of commands for the computer to perform. Imperative programming foc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission%20Product%20Pilot%20Plant
The Fission Product Pilot Plant, building 3515 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was built in 1948 to extract radioactive isotopes from liquid radioactive waste. It was formerly known as the 'ruthenium-106 tank arrangement'. It is a relatively small facility; the task of extracting radioactive isotopes later to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20Boot
Rapid Boot is an EFI BIOS alternative using a Linux kernel (in the BIOS flash part) developed by Intel Corporation, primarily intended for computer clusters. See also Coreboot Das U-Boot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MemcacheDB
MemcacheDB (pronunciation: mem-cash-dee-bee) is a persistence enabled variant of memcached. MemcacheDB has not been actively maintained since 2009. It is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in memory. It was developed by...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Web%20Services
The International Conference on Web Services or ICWS denotes an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners focused on Web services. Since 2018 there are two ICWS events, one is sponsored by Services Society and Springer, and the other is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE ICWS). The IEEE I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfield%27s%20paradox
Mayfield's Paradox states that to keep everyone out of an information system requires an infinite amount of money, and to get everyone onto an information system also requires infinite money, while costs between these extremes are relatively low. The paradox is depicted as a U-curve, where the cost of a system is on t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relation%20of%20degree%20zero
A relation of degree zero, 0-ary relation, or nullary relation is a relation with zero attributes. There are exactly two relations of degree zero. One has cardinality zero; that is, contains no tuples at all. The other has cardinality 1 contains the unique 0-tuple.:56 The zero-degree relations represent true and fa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20synchronization
Data synchronization is the process of establishing consistency between source and target data stores, and the continuous harmonization of the data over time. It is fundamental to a wide variety of applications, including file synchronization and mobile device synchronization. Data synchronization can also be useful in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphodiesterase
A phosphodiesterase (PDE) is an enzyme that breaks a phosphodiester bond. Usually, phosphodiesterase refers to cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases, which have great clinical significance and are described below. However, there are many other families of phosphodiesterases, including phospholipases C and D, autotaxin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen%20base%20percentage
Stolen base percentage is a statistic used in baseball. A player's stolen base percentage (a.k.a. SB%) measures his rate of success in stealing bases. Because stolen bases tend to help a team less than times caught stealing hurt, a player needs to have a high stolen base percentage in order to contribute much value to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20biopsy
A liquid biopsy, also known as fluid biopsy or fluid phase biopsy, is the sampling and analysis of non-solid biological tissue, primarily blood. Like traditional biopsy, this type of technique is mainly used as a diagnostic and monitoring tool for diseases such as cancer, with the added benefit of being largely non-inv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium%20siculum
Allium siculum (syn. Nectaroscordum siculum), known as honey garlic, Sicilian honey lily, Sicilian honey garlic, or Mediterranean bells, is a European and Turkish species of plant in the genus Allium. It is native to the regions around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and grown in other regions as an ornamental and as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBC%20Botanical%20Garden
UBC Botanical Garden, at the University of British Columbia, was established in 1916 under the directorship of John Davidson, British Columbia's first provincial botanist. It is the oldest botanical garden at a university in Canada. The garden measures approximately 44 hectares (440,000 m2 / 110 acres) and includes ov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite%20alleles%20model
The infinite alleles model is a mathematical model for calculating genetic mutations. The Japanese geneticist Motoo Kimura and American geneticist James F. Crow (1964) introduced the infinite alleles model, an attempt to determine for a finite diploid population what proportion of loci would be homozygous. This was,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20scientist
A computer scientist is a scholar who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on specific areas (such as algorithm and data structure development and design, so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claptrap
Claptrap is a fictional character that appears in the Gearbox Software video game series Borderlands. He is considered the franchise's mascot, and often serves as the comic relief throughout the games. Claptrap initially received widespread negative reception from both critics and audiences alike, often being described...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%20rod
A Philadelphia rod is a level staff used in surveying. The rod is used in levelling procedures to determine elevations and is read using a level. A Philadelphia rod consists of two sliding sections graduated in hundredths of a foot. On the front of the rod the graduation increasing from zero at the bottom. On the bac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered%20Physicist
Chartered Physicist (CPhys) is a chartered status and a professional qualification for physicists awarded by the Institute of Physics. It is denoted by the postnominals "CPhys". Description Achieving chartered status in any profession denotes to the wider community a high level of specialised subject knowledge and p...