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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20game%20bot
In video games, a bot is a type of artificial intelligence (AI)–based expert system software that plays a video game in the place of a human. Bots are used in a variety of video game genres for a variety of tasks: a bot written for a first-person shooter (FPS) works very differently from one written for a massively mul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20iliac%20lymph%20nodes
The common iliac lymph nodes, four to six in number, are grouped behind and on the sides of the common iliac artery, one or two being placed below the bifurcation of the aorta, in front of the fifth lumbar vertebra. They drain chiefly the hypogastric and external iliac glands, and their efferents pass to the lateral a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Media%20Academy
Digital Media Academy is a digital art and technology education company, located in Palo Alto, CA, and Vancouver, BC, primarily offering STEM summer camp and arts programs for students, age 9-18, at several universities in the US and Canada, including Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Chicago, NYU, UBC, UoT, and more. Digital M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20S.%20Varga
Richard Steven Varga (October 9, 1928 - February 25, 2022) was an American mathematician who specialized in numerical analysis and linear algebra. He was an Emeritus University Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Kent State University and an adjunct Professor at Case Western Reserve University. Varga was known for hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiberg%20duality
In quantum field theory, Seiberg duality, conjectured by Nathan Seiberg in 1994, is an S-duality relating two different supersymmetric QCDs. The two theories are not identical, but they agree at low energies. More precisely under a renormalization group flow they flow to the same IR fixed point, and so are in the same...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilinear%20form
In mathematics, a bilinear form is a bilinear map on a vector space (the elements of which are called vectors) over a field K (the elements of which are called scalars). In other words, a bilinear form is a function that is linear in each argument separately: and and The dot product on is an example of a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramogen
The term ramogen refers to a biological factor, typically a growth factor or other protein, that causes a developing biological cell or tissue to branch in a tree-like manner. Ramogenic molecules are branch promoting molecules found throughout the human body,. Brief History The term was first coined (from the Latin ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-gain%20theorem
In nonlinear systems, the formalism of input-output stability is an important tool in studying the stability of interconnected systems since the gain of a system directly relates to how the norm of a signal increases or decreases as it passes through the system. The small-gain theorem gives a sufficient condition for f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrivadoVPN
PrivadoVPN is a VPN service provider with applications for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, AndroidTV and Amazon Fire TV along with custom configuration support for routers and Linux. PrivadoVPN is based in Switzerland and operates under Swiss privacy laws. Overview PrivadoVPN has server locations at 60 cities in 47 cou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASME%20Y14.5
ASME Y14.5 is a standard published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to establish rules, symbols, definitions, requirements, defaults, and recommended practices for stating and interpreting Geometric Dimensions and Tolerances (GD&T). ASME/ANSI issued the first version of this Y-series standard in 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20bath%20%28electrotherapy%29
An electric bath is a 19th-century medical treatment in which high-voltage electrical apparatus was used for electrifying patients by causing an electric charge to build up on their bodies. In the US this process was known as Franklinization after Benjamin Franklin. The process became widely known after Franklin desc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%20the%20Fuck%20to%20Sleep
Go the Fuck to Sleep is a satirical book written by American author Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortés. Described as a "children's book for adults", it reached No. 1 on Amazon.com's bestseller list a month before its release, thanks to an unintended viral marketing campaign during which booksellers forward...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20diversity
In ecology, alpha diversity (α-diversity) is the mean species diversity in a site at a local scale. The term was introduced by R. H. Whittaker together with the terms beta diversity (β-diversity) and gamma diversity (γ-diversity). Whittaker's idea was that the total species diversity in a landscape (gamma diversity) is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Clark%20%28inventor%29
John Clark (1785-1853) was a British printer and inventor who created the first automated text generator, the Latin Verse Machine (also known as the Eureka) between 1830 and 1843. Clark also patented a method for rubberising cloth that was used for air beds. Life John Clark was born on 21 November 1785 and died on 23...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20polynomial
In mathematics, a symmetric polynomial is a polynomial in variables, such that if any of the variables are interchanged, one obtains the same polynomial. Formally, is a symmetric polynomial if for any permutation of the subscripts one has . Symmetric polynomials arise naturally in the study of the relation betwee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-bit%20message
A one-bit message is a type of communication that has no personalized or specified content, and as such transmits only a single binary bit of information. It signals an intent and a thought, but does not specify what it is. Marc Andreessen describes "one-bit communication" as having no content other than that it exists...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjorth%20parameters
Hjorth parameters are indicators of statistical properties used in signal processing in the time domain introduced by Bo Hjorth in 1970. The parameters are Activity, Mobility, and Complexity. They are commonly used in the analysis of electroencephalography signals for feature extraction. The parameters are normalised ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock%20network
A clock network or clock system is a set of synchronized clocks designed to always show exactly the same time by communicating with each other. Clock networks usually consist of a central master clock kept in sync with an official time source, and one or more slave clocks which receive and display the time from the m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-RASAR
The quantitative Read-Across Structure-Activity Relationship (q-RASAR) concept has been developed by merging Read-Across and QSAR. It is a statistical modeling approach that uses the similarity and error-based measures as descriptors in addition to the usual structural and physicochemical descriptors, and it has been s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer%20solution
A buffer solution (more precisely, pH buffer or hydrogen ion buffer) is an acid or a base aqueous solution consisting of a mixture of a weak acid and its conjugate base, or vice versa. Its pH changes very little when a small amount of strong acid or base is added to it. Buffer solutions are used as a means of keeping p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide-predicting%20machine
A tide-predicting machine was a special-purpose mechanical analog computer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, constructed and set up to predict the ebb and flow of sea tides and the irregular variations in their heights – which change in mixtures of rhythms, that never (in the aggregate) repeat themselves exact...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin%20of%20the%20International%20Statistical%20Institute
Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute (Bulletin de l'Institut international de statistique) was a journal that published the proceedings of the biennial International Statistical Institute World Statistics Congresses. It first appeared in 1886. It last appeared in 2012, being subsumed by webpage listings ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl%20Programming%20Documentation
Perl Programming Documentation, also called perldoc, is the name of the user manual for the Perl 5 programming language. It is available in several different formats, including online in HTML and PDF. The documentation is bundled with Perl in its own format, known as Plain Old Documentation (pod). Some distributions, s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector
Cylinder-head-sector (CHS) is an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive. It is a 3D-coordinate system made out of a vertical coordinate head, a horizontal (or radial) coordinate cylinder, and an angular coordinate sector. Head selects a circular surface: a platter in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20cooling
Electron cooling is a method to shrink the emittance (size, divergence, and energy spread) of a charged particle beam without removing particles from the beam. Since the number of particles remains unchanged and the space coordinates and their derivatives (angles) are reduced, this means that the phase space occupied b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phragmosome
The phragmosome is a sheet of cytoplasm forming in highly vacuolated plant cells in preparation for mitosis. In contrast to animal cells, plant cells often contain large central vacuoles occupying up to 90% of the total cell volume and pushing the nucleus against the cell wall. In order for mitosis to occur, the nucleu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20M1000e
The Dell blade server products are built around their M1000e enclosure that can hold their server blades, an embedded EqualLogic iSCSI storage area network and I/O modules including Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand switches. Enclosure The M1000e fits in a 19-inch rack and is 10 rack units high (44 cm), 17.6" (44...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches%20Rechtsw%C3%B6rterbuch
The Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (DRW) or Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms is a historic legal dictionary developed under the aegis of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The research unit took up work in 1897 and until today has completed 93,155 articles, ranging from Aachenfahrt (pilgrimage to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vascular%20cambium
The vascular cambium is the main growth tissue in the stems and roots of many plants, specifically in dicots such as buttercups and oak trees, gymnosperms such as pine trees, as well as in certain other vascular plants. It produces secondary xylem inwards, towards the pith, and secondary phloem outwards, towards the ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobol%20sequence
Sobol’ sequences (also called LPτ sequences or (t, s) sequences in base 2) are an example of quasi-random low-discrepancy sequences. They were first introduced by the Russian mathematician Ilya M. Sobol’ (Илья Меерович Соболь) in 1967. These sequences use a base of two to form successively finer uniform partitions of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20network%20hosting%20service
A social network hosting service is a web hosting service that specifically hosts the user creation of web-based social networking services, alongside related applications. Such services are also known as vertical social networks due to the creation of SNSes which cater to specific user interests and niches; like large...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EntireX
EntireX DCOM is a commercial implementation of Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) technology by Software AG for the Windows, AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, AS/400, z/OS, z/VM, and BS2000/OSD platforms. Description EntireX is a software product developed and marketed by Software AG. It is primarily an e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplotype
A haplotype (haploid genotype) is a group of alleles in an organism that are inherited together from a single parent. Many organisms contain genetic material (DNA) which is inherited from two parents. Normally these organisms have their DNA organized in two sets of pairwise similar chromosomes. The offspring gets one ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed%20oil
Rapeseed oil is one of the oldest known vegetable oils. There are both edible and industrial forms produced from rapeseed, the seed of several cultivars of the plant family Brassicaceae. Historically, it was restricted as a food oil due to its content of erucic acid, which in laboratory studies was shown to be damaging...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20degree%20algorithm
In numerical analysis, the minimum degree algorithm is an algorithm used to permute the rows and columns of a symmetric sparse matrix before applying the Cholesky decomposition, to reduce the number of non-zeros in the Cholesky factor. This results in reduced storage requirements and means that the Cholesky factor can ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochran%27s%20theorem
In statistics, Cochran's theorem, devised by William G. Cochran, is a theorem used to justify results relating to the probability distributions of statistics that are used in the analysis of variance. Statement Let U1, ..., UN be i.i.d. standard normally distributed random variables, and . Let be symmetric matrices. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnification
Magnification is the process of enlarging the apparent size, not physical size, of something. This enlargement is quantified by a size ratio called optical magnification. When this number is less than one, it refers to a reduction in size, sometimes called de-magnification. Typically, magnification is related to scali...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlson%20Comorbidity%20Index
In medicine, the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) predicts the mortality for a patient who may have a range of concurrent conditions (comorbidities), such as heart disease, AIDS, or cancer (considering a total of 17 categories). A score of zero means that no comorbidities were found; the higher the score, the higher th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession%20number%20%28bioinformatics%29
An accession number, in bioinformatics, is a unique identifier given to a DNA or protein sequence record to allow for tracking of different versions of that sequence record and the associated sequence over time in a single data repository. Because of its relative stability, accession numbers can be utilized as foreign...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus%20action
In algebraic geometry, a torus action on an algebraic variety is a group action of an algebraic torus on the variety. A variety equipped with an action of a torus T is called a T-variety. In differential geometry, one considers an action of a real or complex torus on a manifold (or an orbifold). A normal algebraic var...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre%20function
In physical science and mathematics, the Legendre functions , and associated Legendre functions , , and Legendre functions of the second kind, , are all solutions of Legendre's differential equation. The Legendre polynomials and the associated Legendre polynomials are also solutions of the differential equation in spe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20phenylbutyrate
Sodium phenylbutyrate, sold under the brand name Buphenyl among others, is a salt of an aromatic fatty acid, 4-phenylbutyrate (4-PBA) or 4-phenylbutyric acid. The compound is used to treat urea cycle disorders, because its metabolites offer an alternative pathway to the urea cycle to allow excretion of excess nitrogen....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/137%20%28number%29
137 (one hundred [and] thirty-seven) is the natural number following 136 and preceding 138. Mathematics the 33rd prime number; the next is 139, with which it comprises a twin prime, and thus 137 is a Chen prime. an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and a real part of the form . the fourth Stern prime. a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20by%20type
Alleles have identity by type (IBT) when they have the same phenotypic effect or, if applied to a variation in the composition of DNA such as a single nucleotide polymorphism, when they have the same DNA sequence. Alleles that are identical by type fall into two groups; those that are identical by descent (IBD) becaus...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate%20tangent%20space
In geometric measure theory an approximate tangent space is a measure theoretic generalization of the concept of a tangent space for a differentiable manifold. Definition In differential geometry the defining characteristic of a tangent space is that it approximates the smooth manifold to first order near the point ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20at%20infinity
In projective geometry, a plane at infinity is the hyperplane at infinity of a three dimensional projective space or to any plane contained in the hyperplane at infinity of any projective space of higher dimension. This article will be concerned solely with the three-dimensional case. Definition There are two approach...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librsb
librsb is an open-source parallel library for sparse matrix computations using the Recursive Sparse Blocks (RSB) matrix format. librsb provides cache efficient multi-threaded Sparse BLAS operations via OpenMP, and is best suited to large sparse matrices. Features librsb provides: Conversion...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, value may refer to several, strongly related notions. In general, a mathematical value may be any definite mathematical object. In elementary mathematics, this is most often a number – for example, a real number such as or an integer such as 42. The value of a variable or a constant is any number or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancyromonas
Ancyromonas is a genus of basal Eukaryote consisting of heterotrophic flagellates. It includes the species Ancyromonas sigmoides, first described by Saville Kent in 1880. The genus was rediscovered in modern times by Hänel in 1979. They are about 5 μm long and live in both marine and freshwater habitats with a globa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow%20Man
Hollow Man is a 2000 American science fiction horror film directed by Paul Verhoeven, written by Andrew W. Marlowe, and starring Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, Greg Grunberg, Joey Slotnick, Mary Randle, and William Devane. The film is about Sebastian Caine, a scientist who volunteers to be the f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submucosal%20plexus
The submucosal plexus (Meissner's plexus, plexus of the submucosa, plexus submucosus) lies in the submucosa of the intestinal wall. The nerves of this plexus are derived from the myenteric plexus which itself is derived from the plexuses of parasympathetic nerves around the superior mesenteric artery. Branches from the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20fragmentation%20methods
Molecular fragmentation (mass spectrometry), or molecular dissociation, occurs both in nature and in experiments. It occurs when a complete molecule is rendered into smaller fragments by some energy source, usually ionizing radiation. The resulting fragments can be far more chemically reactive than the original molecul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing%20software%20development
Crowdsourcing software development or software crowdsourcing is an emerging area of software engineering. It is an open call for participation in any task of software development, including documentation, design, coding and testing. These tasks are normally conducted by either members of a software enterprise or people...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlap%20%28term%20rewriting%29
In mathematics, computer science and logic, overlap, as a property of the reduction rules in term rewriting system, describes a situation where a number of different reduction rules specify potentially contradictory ways of reducing a reducible expression, also known as a redex, within a term. More precisely, if a num...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosurgery
Radiosurgery is surgery using radiation, that is, the destruction of precisely selected areas of tissue using ionizing radiation rather than excision with a blade. Like other forms of radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy), it is usually used to treat cancer. Radiosurgery was originally defined by the Swedish neu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Bedborough
George Bedborough Higgs (10 January 1868 – 7 August 1940) was an English bookseller, journalist and writer who advocated for a number of causes, including sex reform, freethought, secularism, eugenics, animal rights, vegetarianism, and free love. He was the secretary of the Legitimation League and editor of the League'...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagin%27s%20theorem
Fagin's theorem is the oldest result of descriptive complexity theory, a branch of computational complexity theory that characterizes complexity classes in terms of logic-based descriptions of their problems rather than by the behavior of algorithms for solving those problems. The theorem states that the set of all pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20comfort
Thermal comfort is the condition of mind that expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment and is assessed by subjective evaluation (ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55). The human body can be viewed as a heat engine where food is the input energy. The human body will release excess heat into the environment, so the body ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric%20functions%20of%20matrices
The trigonometric functions (especially sine and cosine) for real or complex square matrices occur in solutions of second-order systems of differential equations. They are defined by the same Taylor series that hold for the trigonometric functions of real and complex numbers: with being the th power of the matrix , a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plexciton
Plexcitons are polaritonic modes that result from coherently coupled plasmons and excitons. Plexcitons aid direct energy flows in exciton energy transfer (EET). Plexcitons travel for 20 μm, similar to the width of a human hair. History Plasmons are a quantity of collective electron oscillations. Excitons are excited...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Socket%20Tunneling%20Protocol
Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) is a form of virtual private network (VPN) tunnel that provides a mechanism to transport PPP traffic through an SSL/TLS channel. SSL/TLS provides transport-level security with key negotiation, encryption and traffic integrity checking. The use of SSL/TLS over TCP port 443 (by de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetin
Beetin (BE27 or BE29) is a ribosome-inactivating protein found in the leaves of sugar beets, Beta vulgaris L, specifically attacking plant ribosomes. Sugar beet, beetins, that have been isolated meet all the criteria to be classified as single chain (type 1) ribosome inactivating proteins that are highly toxic to ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20Engineering%20Society
The Audio Engineering Society (AES) is a professional body for engineers, scientists, other individuals with an interest or involvement in the professional audio industry. The membership largely comprises engineers developing devices or products for audio, and persons working in audio content production. It also includ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BpuJI
In molecular biology, BpuJI is a type II restriction endonuclease which recognises the asymmetric sequence 5'-CCCGT and cuts at multiple sites in the surrounding area of the target sequence. The BpuJI protein consists of two distinct modules; an N-terminal DNA recognition domain, and a C-terminal dimerisation and catal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20procedure
A medical procedure is a course of action intended to achieve a result in the delivery of healthcare. A medical procedure with the intention of determining, measuring, or diagnosing a patient condition or parameter is also called a medical test. Other common kinds of procedures are therapeutic (i.e., intended to treat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20Y8950
The Yamaha Y8950 is a sound chip, produced in 1984. It is also known as MSX-Audio as it was designed for inclusion in an expansion cartridge for the MSX personal computer. The Y8950 is essentially a Yamaha YM3526 with an ADPCM encoder/decoder added on. It was introduced in three cartridge models: Philips NMS-1205 Tosh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YellowTAB
yellowTAB was a German software firm that produced an operating system called "yellowTAB ZETA". While the operating system was based on BeOS 5.1.0, the company never publicly confirmed that it has the BeOS source code or what their licensing agreement with BeOS's owners PalmSource was. The company went insolvent and ce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautel
Nautel Ltd. is a Canadian manufacturer of AM and FM radio broadcast transmitters, navigational radio beacons, Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) transmitters, NOAA weather radio transmitters, LF PNT/eLORAN transmitters, SONAR high-power low-frequency amplifiers and SONAR systems, medium frequency (MF) telegr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20therapy
Electron therapy or electron beam therapy (EBT) is a kind of external beam radiotherapy where electrons are directed to a tumor site for medical treatment of cancer. Equipment Electron beam therapy is performed using a medical linear accelerator. The same device can also be used to produce high energy photon beams. Wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20power%20by%20country
Nuclear power plants operate in 32 countries and generate about a tenth of the world's electricity. Most are in Europe, North America, East Asia and South Asia. The United States is the largest producer of nuclear power, while France has the largest share of electricity generated by nuclear power, at about 70%. China...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natronorubrum
Natronorubrum is a genus in the family Halobacteriaceae.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20phase
Differential phase is a kind of linearity distortion which affects the color hue in TV broadcasting. Composite color video signal Composite color video signal (CCVS) consists of three terms: Monochrome (luminance) signal Auxiliary signals (sync pulse and blanking signals) Color signal, which is actually a subcarrier...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtship%20display
A courtship display is a set of display behaviors in which an animal, usually a male, attempts to attract a mate; the mate exercises choice, so sexual selection acts on the display. These behaviors often include ritualized movement ("dances"), vocalizations, mechanical sound production, or displays of beauty, strength,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes%20of%20mental%20disorders
A mental disorder is an impairment of the mind disrupting normal thinking, feeling, mood, behavior, or social interactions, and accompanied by significant distress or dysfunction. The causes of mental disorders are very complex and vary depending on the particular disorder and the individual. Although the causes of mos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Signal%20and%20the%20Noise
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don't is a 2012 book by Nate Silver detailing the art of using probability and statistics as applied to real-world circumstances. The book includes case studies from baseball, elections, climate change, the 2008 financial crash, poker, and weather foreca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade%20refrigeration
A cascade refrigeration cycle is a multi-stage thermodynamic cycle. An example two-stage process is shown at right. (Bottom on mobile) The cascade cycle is often employed for devices such as ULT freezers. In a cascade refrigeration system, two or more vapor-compression cycles with different refrigerants are used. The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiscale%20Electrophysiology%20Format
Multiscale Electrophysiology Format (MEF) was developed to handle the large amounts of data produced by large-scale electrophysiology in human and animal subjects. MEF can store any time series data up to 24 bits in length, and employs lossless range encoded difference compression. Subject identifying information in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller%20chain
Roller chain or bush roller chain is the type of chain drive most commonly used for transmission of mechanical power on many kinds of domestic, industrial and agricultural machinery, including conveyors, wire- and tube-drawing machines, printing presses, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles. It consists of a series of shor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20JTAG
The Open JTAG project is an open source project released under GNU License. It is a complete hardware and software JTAG reference design, based on a simple hardware composed by a FTDI FT245 USB front-end and an Altera EPM570 MAX II CPLD. The capabilities of this hardware configuration make the Open JTAG device able to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20economics
Biological economics is an interdisciplinary field in which the interaction of human biology and economics is studied. The journal Economics and Human Biology covers the field and has an impact factor of 2.722. See also Ecological economics Sociobiology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMB-45
HMB-45 is a monoclonal antibody that reacts against an antigen present in melanocytic tumors such as melanomas, and stands for Human Melanoma Black. It is used in anatomic pathology as a marker for such tumors. The specific antigen recognized by HMB-45 is now known as Pmel 17. History HMB-45 was discovered by Drs. All...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisioning%20%28technology%29
In telecommunication, provisioning involves the process of preparing and equipping a network to allow it to provide new services to its users. In National Security/Emergency Preparedness telecommunications services, "provisioning" equates to "initiation" and includes altering the state of an existing priority service...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPL%20sequence
JPL sequences or JPL codes consist of two linear feedback shift registers (LFSRs) whose code sequence lengths La and Lb must be prime (relatively prime). In this case the code sequence length of the generated overall sequence Lc is equal to: It is also possible for more than two LFSRs to be interconnected through mult...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20nuclide
An alpha nuclide is a nuclide that consists of an integer number of alpha particles. Alpha nuclides have equal, even numbers of protons and neutrons; they are important in stellar nucleosynthesis since the energetic environment within stars is amenable to fusion of alpha particles into heavier nuclei. Stable alpha nuc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%B6ger%E2%80%93Vink%20notation
Kröger–Vink notation is a set of conventions that are used to describe electric charges and lattice positions of point defect species in crystals. It is primarily used for ionic crystals and is particularly useful for describing various defect reactions. It was proposed by and . Notation The notation follows the sche...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schubert%20calculus
In mathematics, Schubert calculus is a branch of algebraic geometry introduced in the nineteenth century by Hermann Schubert, in order to solve various counting problems of projective geometry (part of enumerative geometry). It was a precursor of several more modern theories, for example characteristic classes, and in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson%E2%80%93Mingarelli%20theorem
In applied mathematics, the Atkinson–Mingarelli theorem, named after Frederick Valentine Atkinson and A. B. Mingarelli, concerns eigenvalues of certain Sturm–Liouville differential operators. In the simplest of formulations let p, q, w be real-valued piecewise continuous functions defined on a closed bounded real inte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability%20%28systems%20engineering%29
A capability, in the systems engineering sense, is defined as the ability to execute a specified course of action. A capability may or may not be accompanied by an intention. The term is used in the defense industry but also in private industry (e.g. gap analysis). Capability gap analysis The Joint Capabilities Integ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche%20medicine
Mapuche medicine is the system of medical treatment historically used by the Mapuche people of southern Chile. It is essentially magical-religious in nature, believing disease to be caused by supernatural factors such as spells and curable by treatments based on rituals, thermal waters and herbs. Knowledge of medicinal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinesco%E2%80%93Sj%C3%B6gren%20syndrome
Marinesco–Sjögren syndrome (MSS), sometimes spelled Marinescu–Sjögren syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive disorder. Presentation The syndrome causes cerebellar ataxia (balance and coordination problems), intellectual disability, congenital cataracts in early childhood, muscle weakness, inability to chew food, thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX%20Video%20Acceleration
DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) is a Microsoft API specification for the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms that allows video decoding to be hardware-accelerated. The pipeline allows certain CPU-intensive operations such as iDCT, motion compensation and deinterlacing to be offloaded to the GPU. DXVA 2.0 allows ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Microwave%20Power%20and%20Electromagnetic%20Energy
The Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering industrial, medical, and scientific applications of electromagnetic and microwaves from 0.1 to 100 GHz, including topics such as food processing, instrumentation, polymer technologies, microwave chemistry ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall-type%20theorems%20for%20hypergraphs
In the mathematical field of graph theory, Hall-type theorems for hypergraphs are several generalizations of Hall's marriage theorem from graphs to hypergraphs. Such theorems were proved by Ofra Kessler, Ron Aharoni, Penny Haxell, Roy Meshulam, and others. Preliminaries Hall's marriage theorem provides a condition gu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20School%20for%20Advanced%20Studies
The International School for Advanced Studies (Italian: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati; SISSA) is an international, state-supported, post-graduate-education and research institute in Trieste, Italy. SISSA is active in the fields of mathematics, physics and neuroscience, offering both undergraduate a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20branch%20of%20ulnar%20nerve
The deep branch of the ulnar nerve is a terminal, primarily motor branch of the ulnar nerve. It is accompanied by the deep palmar branch of ulnar artery. Structure It passes between the abductor digiti minimi and the flexor digiti minimi brevis. It then perforates the opponens digiti minimi and follows the course of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20chiller
A water chiller is a device used to lower the temperature of water. Most chillers use refrigerant in a closed loop system to facilitate heat exchange from water where the refrigerant is then pumped to a location where the waste heat is transferred to the atmosphere. However, there are other methods in performing this a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indian%20state%20days
The Union of India is a federation in South Asia made up of 28 states and 8 union territories. Most states celebrate a state day to mark its formation, statehood or an other event central to it. Some of these states and union territories observe their state day as the official state holiday. State functions, parades, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoenitates%20Academicae
Amoenitates Academicae is the title of a multi-volume zoological and botanical publication (published during 1749–1790) consisting of the dissertations of the students of Carl Linnaeus, written during 1743–1776. Seven out of ten volumes were published by Linnaeus himself, the last three were edited by Johann Christia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind%20the%20Mirror
Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge () is a 1973 book by the ethologist Konrad Lorenz. Lorenz shows the essentials of a lifetime's work and summarizes it into his very own philosophy: evolution is the process of growing perception of the outer world by living nature itself. Stepping fr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire%20Surrey%20Pathology%20Service
Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) is a pathology network, serving NHS hospitals in Surrey and Berkshire. BSPS is a joint venture between Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Surrey County Hospital, and Surrey...