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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapiche | A trapiche is a mill made of wooden rollers used to extract juice from fruit, originally olives, and since the Middle Ages, sugar cane as well. By extension the word is also sometimes applied to the location of the mill, whether the workshop or the entire plantation.
Etymology
The word has its origin in the Latin trap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaerophile | A microaerophile is a microorganism that requires environments containing lower levels of dioxygen than that are present in the atmosphere (i.e. < 21% O2; typically 2–10% O2) for optimal growth. A more restrictive interpretation requires the microorganism to be obligate in this requirement. Many microaerophiles are al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax%20%28programming%20languages%29 | In computer science, the syntax of a computer language is the rules that define the combinations of symbols that are considered to be correctly structured statements or expressions in that language. This applies both to programming languages, where the document represents source code, and to markup languages, where the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webby%20Awards | The Webby Awards (colloquially referred to as the Webbys) are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over three thousand industry experts and technology innovators. Categories include websites, advertising and media,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20testing | Game testing, also called quality assurance (QA) testing within the video game industry, is a subset of game development that involves a software testing process for quality control of video games. The primary function of game testing is the discovery and documentation of software defects. Interactive entertainment sof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofavolus%20alveolaris | Neofavolus alveolaris is a species of polypore fungus in the family Polyporaceae. It is widely distributed in the temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Its kidney- or fan-shaped fruit bodies measure in diameter. Initially reddish, they become cream to white when dry. The pores on the cap underside are angular to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfigured%20bass | Unfigured bass, less commonly known as under-figured bass, is a kind of musical notation used during the Baroque music era in Western Classical music (ca. 1600–1750) in which a basso continuo performer playing a chordal instrument (e.g., harpsichord, organ, or lute) improvises a chordal accompaniment from a notated bas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emendation%20%28zoology%29 | In zoological nomenclature, emendations are alterations made to the spelling of taxon names. In bacteriological nomenclature, emendations are made to the circumscription of a taxon.
In zoology
The change must be consciously made along with justification for altering the spelling originally used by the taxon author whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Metrics%20Metamodel | The OMG Structured Metrics Metamodel (SMM) specification defines a standard Metrics Metamodel. It is a publicly available specification from the Object Management Group (OMG). SMM specifies a metamodel for defining, representing and exchanging both measures and measurement information related to any structured informat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20streaming | Application streaming is a form of on-demand software distribution. In these scenarios, only essential portions of an application's code need to be installed on the computer: while the end user performs actions in the application, the necessary code and files are delivered over the network as and when they are required... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20lab | A battle lab or battle laboratory is an organization dedicated to studying changes in the military.
It provides means (premises, teams, operational equipment or operational platforms, hardware, software, IT infrastructure, processes, guidelines) to analyze or assess impacts that could be induced by changes in a milit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK-42%20reference%20system | The SK-42 reference system also known as the Krasovsky 1940 ellipsoid, is a coordinate system established in the Soviet Union in 1942 as Systema koordinat (), and provides parameters which are linked to the geocentric Cartesian coordinate system PZ-90. It was used in geodetic calculations, notably in military mapping a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovarian%20fossa | The ovarian fossa is a shallow depression on the lateral wall of the pelvis, where in the ovary lies.
This ovarian fossa has the following boundaries:
anteriorly : by the external iliac artery and vein
inferiorly : by the broad ligament of the uterus
posteriorly: by the ureter, internal iliac artery and vein
late... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Unix%20systems | Each version of the UNIX Time-Sharing System evolved from the version before, with version one evolving from the prototypal Unix. Not all variants and descendants are displayed.
Research Unix
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"Ken's new system" (Unics → Unix) (1969)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolinkage | In genetics, pseudolinkage is a characteristic of a heterozygote for a reciprocal translocation, in which genes located near the translocation breakpoint behave as if they are linked even though they originated on nonhomologous chromosomes.
Linkage is the proximity of two or more markers on a chromosome; the closer to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%20lobe | The temporal lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals. The temporal lobe is located beneath the lateral fissure on both cerebral hemispheres of the mammalian brain.
The temporal lobe is involved in processing sensory input into derived meanings for the appropriate retention of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%20point | In Euclidean geometry, the Fermat point of a triangle, also called the Torricelli point or Fermat–Torricelli point, is a point such that the sum of the three distances from each of the three vertices of the triangle to the point is the smallest possible or, equivalently, the geometric median of the three vertices. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel%20deLeeuw | Karel deLeeuw, or de Leeuw ( – ), was a mathematics professor at Stanford University, specializing in harmonic analysis and functional analysis.
Life and career
Born in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago, earning a B.S. degree in 1950. He stayed at Chicago... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining%20rules | In computational chemistry and molecular dynamics, the combination rules or combining rules are equations that provide the interaction energy between two dissimilar non-bonded atoms, usually for the part of the potential representing the van der Waals interaction. In the simulation of mixtures, the choice of combining ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Aaronson%20Bari | Ruth Aaronson Bari (November 17, 1917 – August 25, 2005) was an American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and algebraic homomorphisms. She was a professor at George Washington University, beginning in 1966.
Career
The daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants to the United States, Ruth Aaronson was born Nov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Privacy%20Guard | Android Privacy Guard (APG) is a free and open-source app for the Android operating system that provides strong, user-based encryption which is compatible with the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) programs. This allows users to encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign, and verify signatures for text, email... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%20complexity | In algorithmic information theory (a subfield of computer science and mathematics), the Kolmogorov complexity of an object, such as a piece of text, is the length of a shortest computer program (in a predetermined programming language) that produces the object as output. It is a measure of the computational resources n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong%E2%80%93Sandler%20mixing%20rule | The Wong–Sandler mixing rule is a thermodynamic mixing rule used for vapor–liquid equilibrium and liquid-liquid equilibrium calculations.
Summary
The first boundary condition is
which constrains the sum of a and b. The second equation is
with the notable limit as (and ) of
The mixing rules become
The cross ter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20bison | The American bison (Bison bison; : bison), also called the American buffalo or simply buffalo (not to be confused with true buffalo), is a species of bison native to North America. It is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the European bison. Its historical range, by 9000 BCE, is described as the great bison ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobes%20of%20the%20brain | The lobes of the brain are the major identifiable zones of the human cerebral cortex, and they comprise the surface of each hemisphere of the cerebrum. The two hemispheres are roughly symmetrical in structure, and are connected by the corpus callosum. They traditionally have been divided into four lobes, but are today ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20J-B%20Wets | Roger Jean-Baptiste Robert Wets (born February 1937) is a "pioneer" in stochastic programming and a leader in variational analysis who publishes as Roger J-B Wets. His research, expositions, graduate students, and his collaboration with R. Tyrrell Rockafellar have had a profound influence on optimization theory, comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20Fuchsian%20group | Arithmetic Fuchsian groups are a special class of Fuchsian groups constructed using orders in quaternion algebras. They are particular instances of arithmetic groups. The prototypical example of an arithmetic Fuchsian group is the modular group . They, and the hyperbolic surface associated to their action on the hyperb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarocin | Tarocin A and tarocin B are two structurally unrelated compounds that inhibit the TarO enzyme involved in teichoic acid biosynthesis in bacteria.
Using either of them with β-lactam antibiotics seems to be effective in mice against some β-lactam-resistant bacteria.
Because the tarocins lack activity when used alone it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbach%20energy | The Urbach Energy, or Urbach Edge, is a parameter typically denoted , with dimensions of energy, used to quantify energetic disorder in the band edges of a semiconductor. It is evaluated by fitting the absorption coefficient as a function of energy to an exponential function. It is often used to describe electron trans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric%20temperature | Atmospheric temperature is a measure of temperature at different levels of the Earth's atmosphere. It is governed by many factors, including incoming solar radiation, humidity and altitude. When discussing surface air temperature, the annual atmospheric temperature range at any geographical location depends largely upo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelbox%20Networks | Steelbox Networks Inc. was a privately owned company that engineered devices to distribute, store and retrieve large amounts of video data across IP networks. The company was noted for revolutionizing the video surveillance industry through the development of a specialized digital operating system (RTIK) addressing spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observed%20information | In statistics, the observed information, or observed Fisher information, is the negative of the second derivative (the Hessian matrix) of the "log-likelihood" (the logarithm of the likelihood function). It is a sample-based version of the Fisher information.
Definition
Suppose we observe random variables , independent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20econometrics | Financial econometrics is the application of statistical methods to financial market data. Financial econometrics is a branch of financial economics, in the field of economics. Areas of study include capital markets, financial institutions, corporate finance and corporate governance. Topics often revolve around asset ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine%20equation | The Antoine equation is a class of semi-empirical correlations describing the relation between vapor pressure and temperature for pure substances. The Antoine equation is derived from the Clausius–Clapeyron relation. The equation was presented in 1888 by the French engineer (1825–1897).
Equation
The Antoine equation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative%20biology | Comparative biology uses natural variation and disparity to understand the patterns of life at all levels—from genes to communities—and the critical role of organisms in ecosystems. Comparative biology is a cross-lineage approach to understanding the phylogenetic history of individuals or higher taxa and the mechanism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLCubed | XLCubed (XLCubed Ltd) is a business intelligence software and consulting services company. Established in 2001, XLCubed develops business intelligence software (for Microsoft Excel and Web-based reporting) and provides business intelligence and performance management consulting services. The company is privately held a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi%20Yang-do | Choi Yang-do () is a South Korean agricultural biotechnologist. His research focuses on the development of crops with stress-tolerant and yield-enhancing traits. One of his academic achievements is the discovery of a new jasmonate which enhances resistance against external stress of the crop. Choi is currently professo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%20relaxation | In materials science, stress relaxation is the observed decrease in stress in response to strain generated in the structure. This is primarily due to keeping the structure in a strained condition for some finite interval of time hence causing some amount of plastic strain. This should not be confused with creep, which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamulus | A hamus or hamulus is a structure functioning as, or in the form of, hooks or hooklets.
Etymology
The terms are directly from Latin, in which hamus means "hook". The plural is hami.
Hamulus is the diminutive – hooklet or little hook. The plural is hamuli.
Adjectives are hamate and hamulate, as in "a hamulate wing-co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosubtypic%20immunity | "Heterosubtypic immunity (HSI) is defined as cross-protection to infection with an influenza A virus serotype other than the one used for primary infection." In layman's terms: an 'infection with "seasonal" influenza A viruses could induce immunity against unrelated sub-strains.' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent%20Video%20Beam%20Television | The Advent VideoBeam is a big-screen television that was invented in the 1970s by Advent Corporation, founded by Henry Kloss. Both picture and sound are projected from the television's projector base towards a curved screen, where they are reflected back towards the viewer. It is a plug-and-play system, which means it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Leon%20Post | Emil Leon Post (; February 11, 1897 – April 21, 1954) was an American mathematician and logician. He is best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory.
Life
Post was born in Augustów, Suwałki Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (now Poland) into a Polish-Jewish famil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmoid | A plasmoid is a coherent structure of plasma and magnetic fields. Plasmoids have been proposed to explain natural phenomena such as ball lightning, magnetic bubbles in the magnetosphere, and objects in cometary tails, in the solar wind, in the solar atmosphere, and in the heliospheric current sheet. Plasmoids produced ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20algorithm | The Berkeley algorithm is a method of clock synchronisation in distributed computing which assumes no machine has an accurate time source. It was developed by Gusella and Zatti at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. Like Cristian's algorithm, it is intended for use within intranets.
The algorithm
Unlike C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20S.%20Shamma | Jeff S. Shamma (born c. 1961) is an American control theorist. He is the Department Head and Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Formerly, he was a Professor of Electrical engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Before... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20neutrino | A solar neutrino is a neutrino originating from nuclear fusion in the Sun's core, and is the most common type of neutrino passing through any source observed on Earth at any particular moment. Neutrinos are elementary particles with extremely small rest mass and a neutral electric charge. They only interact with matter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20Shops | Trusted Shops is a company founded in Cologne, Germany in 1999, which offers online shops and their customers trust-building services by means of a trustmark, a money-back guarantee process and a system of customer reviews. Online retailers are also provided with assistance in meeting legal requirements. Around 25,000 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullen%20Gardens%20and%20Miniature%20Village | Cullen Gardens & Miniature Village was a popular tourist attraction in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. Officially opened in May 1980 by founder Len Cullen and his wife, Connie, the Gardens were a major tourist attraction in Whitby for 25 years.
Features and attractions
Cullen Gardens combined the natural beauty of floral d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetix | Magnetix is a magnetic construction toy that combines plastic building pieces containing embedded neodymium magnets, and steel bearing balls that can be connected to form geometric shapes and structures. Designed to be a cheaper version of the Geomag magnetic construction set, Magnetix's image suffered severely when an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood.io | Flood IO is a load testing platform that executes globally-distributed performance tests from open source tools, including JMeter, Gatling, and Selenium. It also runs test plans written with Ruby JMeter, an open source RubyGem.
Tricentis Flood
Flood is SaaS load testing service that runs existing test scripts across a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholodny%E2%80%93Went%20model | In botany, the Cholodny–Went model, proposed in 1927, is an early model describing tropism in emerging shoots of monocotyledons, including the tendencies for the shoot to grow towards the light (phototropism) and the roots to grow downward (gravitropism).
In both cases the directional growth is considered to be due t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20bicarbonate | Sodium bicarbonate (IUPAC name: sodium hydrogencarbonate), commonly known as baking soda or bicarbonate of soda, is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3. It is a salt composed of a sodium cation (Na+) and a bicarbonate anion (HCO3−). Sodium bicarbonate is a white solid that is crystalline, but often appears as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocathiacin%20I | Nocathiacin I is an antibiotic peptide. It is a fermentation product isolated from Nocardia sp.
Notes
Synthesis of novel nocathiacin-class antibiotics. Condensation of glycolaldehyde with primary amides and tandem reductive amination of amadori-rearranged 2-oxoethyl intermediates
Antibiotics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permute%20instruction | Permute (and Shuffle) instructions, part of bit manipulation as well as vector processing, copy unaltered contents from a source array to a destination array, where the indices are specified by a second source array. The size (bitwidth) of the source elements is not restricted but remains the same as the destination si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured%20dextrose | Cultured dextrose is a food additive used to inhibit the growth of undesirable bacteria and mold in food. Often used in place of benzoates and sorbates, it is considered by some consumers to be a more "natural" ingredient, because it is prepared by the fermentation of milk or sugar powders by the probiotic bacteria Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halonotius | Halonotius (common abbreviation Hns.) is a genus of halophilic archaea in the family of Halorubraceae. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-oxidizing%20bacteria | Hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria are a group of facultative autotrophs that can use hydrogen as an electron donor. They can be divided into aerobes and anaerobes. The former use hydrogen as an electron donor and oxygen as an acceptor while the latter use sulphate or nitrogen dioxide as electron acceptors. Species of both ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Zaragoza | The Treaty of Zaragoza or Saragossa, also called the Capitulation of Zaragoza or Saragossa, was a peace treaty between Castile and Portugal, signed on 22 April 1529 by King JohnIII of Portugal and the Habsburg emperor Charles V in the Aragonese city of Zaragoza. The treaty defined the areas of Castilian and Portuguese ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam%20reporting | Spam reporting, more properly called abuse reporting, is the action of designating electronic messages as abusive for reporting to an authority (e.g. an email administrator) so that they can be dealt with. Reported messages can be email messages, blog comments, or any kind of spam.
Flagging user generated content in w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheim%20conjecture | In Diophantine approximation, the Oppenheim conjecture concerns representations of numbers by real quadratic forms in several variables. It was formulated in 1929 by Alexander Oppenheim and later the conjectured property was further strengthened by Harold Davenport and Oppenheim. Initial research on this problem took t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapd | The SLAPD (Standalone LDAP Daemon) and SLURPD (Stand-alone LDAP update replication daemon) originally evolved within the long-running project that developed the LDAP protocol. It was developed at the University of Michigan, and was the first Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) software.
Today, many LDAP Serv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturians%20%28New%20Age%29 | According to the beliefs of certain New Age movements, Arcturians are a very advanced extraterrestrial civilization from the Arcturus star system who wish to share their knowledge and wisdom with the citizens of Earth. They are described as other-dimensional, advanced star beings. Arcturians are said to be loving and p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20transition%20region | The solar transition region is a region of the Sun's atmosphere between the upper chromosphere and corona. It is important because it is the site of several unrelated but important transitions in the physics of the solar atmosphere:
Below, gravity tends to dominate the shape of most features, so that the Sun may often... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instantaneous%20phase%20and%20frequency | Instantaneous phase and frequency are important concepts in signal processing that occur in the context of the representation and analysis of time-varying functions. The instantaneous phase (also known as local phase or simply phase) of a complex-valued function s(t), is the real-valued function:
where arg is the comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20language%20design%20and%20implementation | Programming languages are typically created by designing a form of representation of a computer program, and writing an implementation for the developed concept, usually an interpreter or compiler. Interpreters are designed to read programs, usually in some variation of a text format, and perform actions based on what... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-transition%20equation | The state-transition equation is defined as the solution of the linear homogeneous state equation. The linear time-invariant state equation given by
with state vector x, control vector u, vector w of additive disturbances, and fixed matrices A, B, and E, can be solved by using either the classical method of solving li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelet%20modulation | Wavelet modulation, also known as fractal modulation, is a modulation technique that makes use of wavelet transformations to represent the data being transmitted. One of the objectives of this type of modulation is to send data at multiple rates over a channel that is unknown. If the channel is not clear for one specif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalised%20compound | A generalized compound is a mixture of chemical compounds of constant composition, despite possible changes in the total amount. The concept is used in the Dynamic Energy Budget theory, where biomass is partitioned into a limited set of generalised compounds, which contain a high percentage of organic compounds. The am... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfrid%20Svartholm | Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (born 17 October 1984), alias anakata, is a Swedish computer specialist, known as the former co-owner of the web hosting company PRQ and co-founder of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay together with Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde.
Parts of an interview with Svartholm commenting on the May 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20signature | A group signature scheme is a method for allowing a member of a group to anonymously sign a message on behalf of the group. The concept was first introduced by David Chaum and Eugene van Heyst in 1991. For example, a group signature scheme could be used by an employee of a large company where it is sufficient for a ver... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiometric%20sensor | A potentiometric sensor is a type of chemical sensor that may be used to determine the analytical concentration of some components of the analyte gas or solution. These sensors measure the electrical potential of an electrode when no current is present.
Principle
The signal is measured as the potential difference (v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20NAND%20Flash%20Interface%20Working%20Group | The Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group (ONFI or ONFi with a lower case "i") is a consortium of technology companies working to develop open standards for NAND flash memory and devices that communicate with them. The formation of ONFI was announced at the Intel Developer Forum in March 2006.
History
The group's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Evolutionary%20Biology | The Institute of Evolutionary Biology (In Spanish Instituto de Biología Evolutiva IBE (CSIC-UPF) is a joint research center of Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) founded in 2008. IBE is the only research center in Catalonia and the rest of Spain that is entirely dedicated to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20biochemistry | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to biochemistry:
Biochemistry – study of chemical processes in living organisms, including living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes.
Applications of biochemistry
Testing
Ames test – salmonella bacteria is expo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiReNT | The Singapore Satellite Positioning Reference Network (SiReNT), is an infrastructure network launched by the Survey Services section of the Singapore Land Authority in 2006. Its purpose is to define Singapore's official spatial reference framework and to support the cadastral system in SVY21. It is a multi-purpose high... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrarily%20large | In mathematics, the phrases arbitrarily large, arbitrarily small and arbitrarily long are used in statements to make clear of the fact that an object is large, small and long with little limitation or restraint, respectively. The use of "arbitrarily" often occurs in the context of real numbers (and its subsets thereof)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Certified%20Entry%20Networking%20Technician | The Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) certification was the first stage of Cisco's certification system. The certification was retired on 24 February 2020. The CCENT certification was an interim step to Associate level or directly with CCNA and CCDA certifications. While the CCENT covered basic networ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cent%20%28currency%29 | The cent is a monetary unit of many national currencies that equals of the basic monetary unit.
Etymologically, the word cent derives from the Latin meaning 'hundred'.
The cent sign is commonly a simple minuscule (lower case) letter ⟨c⟩. In North America, the ⟨c⟩ is crossed by a diagonal stroke or a vertical line ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS2 | AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) is a specification on how to transport structured business-to-business data securely and reliably over the Internet. Security is achieved by using digital certificates and encryption.
Background
AS2 was created in 2002 by the IETF to replace AS1, which they created in the early 1990s.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20learning%20theory | Algorithmic learning theory is a mathematical framework for analyzing
machine learning problems and algorithms. Synonyms include formal learning theory and algorithmic inductive inference. Algorithmic learning theory is different from statistical learning theory in that it does not make use of statistical assumptions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20by%20permutation | Programming by permutation, sometimes called "programming by accident" or "shotgunning", is an approach to software development wherein a programming problem is solved by iteratively making small changes (permutations) and testing each change to see if it behaves as desired. This approach sometimes seems attractive whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap%20junction | Gap junctions are one of four broad categories of intercellular connections that form between a multitude of animal cell types. First photographed around 1952 it wasn't until 1969 that gap junctions were referred to as "gap junctions". Named after the 2-4 nm gap they bridged between cell membranes, they had been chara... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Azidocoumarin | 3-Azidocoumarin is an organic compound that is used in the area of bioconjugation. It is a derivative of coumarin, a natural product and precursor for the widely used Coumadin. Azidocoumarin has emerged as a widely applicable labeling agent in diverse biological systems. In particular, it participates in the aptly name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT9 | N-acetyltransferase 9 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NAT9 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian%20dynamics | In physics, Brownian dynamics is a mathematical approach for describing the dynamics of molecular systems in the diffusive regime. It is a simplified version of Langevin dynamics and corresponds to the limit where no average acceleration takes place. This approximation is also known as overdamped Langevin dynamics or a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm%20Hexagon | Hexagon is the brand name for a family of digital signal processor (DSP) products by Qualcomm. Hexagon is also known as QDSP6, standing for “sixth generation digital signal processor.” According to Qualcomm, the Hexagon architecture is designed to deliver performance with low power over a variety of applications.
Each... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus%20collinitus | Suillus collinitus is a pored mushroom of the genus Suillus in the family Suillaceae. It is an edible mushroom found in European pine forests. The mushroom has a reddish to chestnut-brown cap that reaches up to in diameter, and a yellow stem measuring up to tall by thick. On the underside of the cap are small angula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limosilactobacillus | Limosilactobacillus is a thermophilic and heterofermentative genus of lactic acid bacteria created in 2020 by splitting from Lactobacillus. The name is derived from the Latin "slimy", referring to the property of most strains in the genus to produce exopolysaccharides from sucrose. The genus currently includes 31 spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPDX | KPDX (channel 49) is a television station licensed to Vancouver, Washington, United States, serving the Portland, Oregon area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is the only major commercial station in Portland that is licensed to the Washington side of the market.
KPDX is owned by Gray Television alongside Fox affilia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provider-aggregatable%20address%20space | Provider-aggregatable address space (PA) is a block of IP addresses assigned by a regional Internet registry to an Internet service provider which can be aggregated into a single route advertisement for improved Internet routing efficiency.
Unlike provider-independent address space, the end-user of address blocks with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleuroperitoneal | Pleuroperitoneal is a term denoting the pleural and peritoneal serous membranes or the cavities they line. It is divided from the pericardial cavity by the transverse septum. Congenital defect or traumatic injury of pleuroperitoneal membrane can lead to diaphragmatic hernia.
Membrane biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray%20optics | X-ray optics is the branch of optics that manipulates X-rays instead of visible light. It deals with focusing and other ways of manipulating the X-ray beams for research techniques such as X-ray crystallography, X-ray fluorescence, small-angle X-ray scattering, X-ray microscopy, X-ray phase-contrast imaging, and X-ray ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Goonies%20%28MSX%20video%20game%29 | The Goonies is a 1986 platform game by Konami for the MSX based on the film of the same name. The music is a simple rendition of the song "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough", by Cyndi Lauper.
Gameplay
The Goonies is a platform and puzzle game, featuring five 'scenes'. After each successfully completed scene, a key word is g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AboutUs.com | AboutUs.com is a wiki Internet domain directory. It lists websites along with information about their content. As a wiki, AboutUs allows Internet users to add entries or modify information. AboutUs.com has since become a wiki for more than just websites. The site now allows pages to be created for people, places, and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20equation | An independent equation is an equation in a system of simultaneous equations which cannot be derived algebraically from the other equations. The concept typically arises in the context of linear equations. If it is possible to duplicate one of the equations in a system by multiplying each of the other equations by some... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 108° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 108th meridian east forms a great circle with the 72nd meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20potential | The quantum potential or quantum potentiality is a central concept of the de Broglie–Bohm formulation of quantum mechanics, introduced by David Bohm in 1952.
Initially presented under the name quantum-mechanical potential, subsequently quantum potential, it was later elaborated upon by Bohm and Basil Hiley in its inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroelectric%20ceramics | Ferroelectric ceramics is a special group of minerals that have ferroelectric properties: the strong dependence of the dielectric constant of temperature, electrical field, the presence of hysteresis and others.
The first widespread ferroelectric ceramics material, which had ferroelectric properties not only in the fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol%20use%20and%20sleep | Alcohol (also known formally as ethanol), found in alcoholic beverages, can exacerbate sleep disturbances. During abstinence, sleep disruption is one of the greatest predictors of relapse.
Moderate alcohol consumption and sleep disruptions
Moderate alcohol consumption 30–60 minutes before bedtime results in disruption... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure%20as%20a%20service | Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a cloud computing service model by means of which computing resources are supplied by a cloud services provider. The IaaS vendor provides the storage, network, servers, and virtualization (which mostly refers, in this case, to emulating computer hardware). This service enables user... |
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