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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthate%20partitioning | Photosynthate partitioning is the deferential distribution of photosynthates to plant tissues. A photosynthate is the resulting product of photosynthesis, these products are generally sugars. These sugars that are created from photosynthesis are broken down to create energy for use by the plant. Sugar and other compo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Hamilton%20Meeks%2C%20III | William Hamilton Meeks III (born 8 August 1947 in Washington, DC) is an American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry and minimal surfaces.
Meeks studied at the University of California, Berkeley, with bachelor's degree in 1971, master's degree in 1974, and Ph.D. in 1975 with supervisor H. Blaine Lawso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium%20%28programming%20language%29 | Tritium is a simple scripting language for efficiently transforming structured data like HTML, XML, and JSON. It is similar in purpose to XSLT but has a syntax influenced by jQuery, Sass, and CSS versus XSLT's XML based syntax.
History
Tritium was designed by Hampton Catlin, the creator of languages Sass and Haml an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFIC | RFIC is an abbreviation of radio-frequency integrated circuit. Applications for RFICs include radar and communications, although the term RFIC might be applied to any electrical integrated circuit operating in a frequency range suitable for wireless transmission.
There is considerable interest in RFIC research due to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTOS | FTOS or Force10 Operating System is the firmware family used on Force10 Ethernet switches. It has a similar functionality as Cisco's NX-OS or Juniper's Junos. FTOS 10 is running on Debian.
As part of a re-branding strategy of Dell FTOS will be renamed to Dell Networking Operating System (DNOS) 9.x or above, while the l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator%20torosus | Imperator torosus, commonly known as the brawny bolete, is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. It is native to southern Europe east to the Caucasus and Israel. It is generally associated with deciduous trees such as hornbeam, oak and beech in warm, dry locales. Although generally rare in Europe, it app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfam | Pfam is a database of protein families that includes their annotations and multiple sequence alignments generated using hidden Markov models. The most recent version, Pfam 35.0, was released in November 2021 and contains 19,632 families.
Uses
The general purpose of the Pfam database is to provide a complete and accura... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Neumann%20universal%20constructor | John von Neumann's universal constructor is a self-replicating machine in a cellular automaton (CA) environment. It was designed in the 1940s, without the use of a computer. The fundamental details of the machine were published in von Neumann's book Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, completed in 1966 by Arthur W. Bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20Supercomputer%20Center | The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) is a supercomputer facility located on the western end of the Ohio State University campus, just north of Columbus. Established in 1987, the OSC partners with Ohio universities, labs and industries, providing students and researchers with high performance computing, advanced cyberinf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today | archive.today (or archive.is) is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand, and has support for JavaScript-heavy sites such as Google Maps and progressive web apps such as Twitter. archive.today records two snapshots: one replicates the original webpage including any functional live links; t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order%20differential%20cryptanalysis | In cryptography, higher-order differential cryptanalysis is a generalization of differential cryptanalysis, an attack used against block ciphers. While in standard differential cryptanalysis the difference between only two texts is used, higher-order differential cryptanalysis studies the propagation of a set of differ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20game%20clone | A video game clone is either a video game or a video game console very similar to, or heavily inspired by, a previous popular game or console. Clones are typically made to take financial advantage of the popularity of the cloned game or system, but clones may also result from earnest attempts to create homages or expan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working%20landscape | Working landscapes are landscapes used for farming, ranching and/or forestry. Recently, these have become the focus of efforts to conserve biodiversity, as these now cover more than 80% of Earth's land, and therefore offer increasing opportunities for conservation and restoration. Though some parts of these landscapes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted%20analysis%20sequencing | Targeted analysis sequencing (sometimes called target amplicon sequencing) (TAS) is a next-generation DNA sequencing technique focusing on amplicons and specific genes. It is useful in population genetics since it can target a large diversity of organisms. The TAS approach incorporates bioinformatics techniques to prod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Test%20Specification%20Language | Universal Test Specification Language (UTSL) is a programming language used to describe ASIC tests in a format that leads to an automated translation of the test specification into an executable test code. UTSL is platform independent and provided a code generation interface for a specific platform is available, UTSL c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary%20feeder | Rotary feeders, also known as rotary airlocks or rotary valves, are commonly used in industrial and agricultural applications as a component in a bulk or specialty material handling system. Rotary feeders are primarily used for discharge of bulk solid material from hoppers/bins, receivers, and cyclones into a pressure ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality%20function%20deployment | Quality function deployment (QFD) is a method developed in Japan beginning in 1966 to help transform the voice of the customer into engineering characteristics for a product. Yoji Akao, the original developer, described QFD as a "method to transform qualitative user demands into quantitative parameters, to deploy the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20optical%20quantum%20computing | Linear optical quantum computing or linear optics quantum computation (LOQC) is a paradigm of quantum computation, allowing (under certain conditions, described below) universal quantum computation. LOQC uses photons as information carriers, mainly uses linear optical elements, or optical instruments (including recipro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuratowski%20closure%20axioms | In topology and related branches of mathematics, the Kuratowski closure axioms are a set of axioms that can be used to define a topological structure on a set. They are equivalent to the more commonly used open set definition. They were first formalized by Kazimierz Kuratowski, and the idea was further studied by mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm | Sperm (: sperm or sperms) is the male reproductive cell, or gamete, in anisogamous forms of sexual reproduction (forms in which there is a larger, female reproductive cell and a smaller, male one). Animals produce motile sperm with a tail known as a flagellum, which are known as spermatozoa, while some red algae and fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island%20syndrome | Island syndrome describes the differences in morphology, ecology, physiology and behaviour of insular species compared to their continental counterparts. These differences evolve due to the different ecological pressures affecting insular species, including a paucity of large predators and herbivores as well as a consi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual%20access | Perpetual access is the stated continuous access of licensed electronic material after is it no longer accessible through an active paid subscription either through the library or publisher action. In many cases, the two parties involved in the license agree that it is necessary for the license to retain access to thes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homodyne%20detection | In electrical engineering, homodyne detection is a method of extracting information encoded as modulation of the phase and/or frequency of an oscillating signal, by comparing that signal with a standard oscillation that would be identical to the signal if it carried null information. "Homodyne" signifies a single freq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexer%20%28programming%29 | In object-oriented programming, an indexer allows instances of a particular class or struct to be indexed just like arrays. It is a form of operator overloading.
Implementation
Indexers are implemented through the get and set accessors for the . They are similar to properties, but differ by not being static, and the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerdijk%20Institute | The Westerdijk Institute, or Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The institute was renamed on 10 February 2017, after Johanna Westerdijk, the first female professor in the Netherlands and director of the institute from 1907 to 1958. The former name ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon | The word aeon , also spelled eon (in American and Australian English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timeless" or "for eternity". It is a Latin transliteration from the ancient Greek ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovulatory%20shift%20hypothesis | The ovulatory shift hypothesis holds that women experience evolutionarily adaptive changes in subconscious thoughts and behaviors related to mating during different parts of the ovulatory cycle. It suggests that what women want, in terms of men, changes throughout the menstrual cycle. Two meta-analyses published in 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhopalosiphum%20padi%20virus | Rhopalosiphum padi virus (RhPV) is a member of Dicistroviridae family, which includes cricket paralysis virus (CrPV), Plautia stali intestine virus and Drosophila C virus. Its 5'UTR region contains an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) element with a cross-kingdom activity. It can function efficiently in mammalian, pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%27s%20postulate | In relativistic cosmology, Weyl's postulate stipulates that in the Friedmann model of the universe (a fluid cosmological model), the wordlines of fluid particles (modeling galaxies) should be hypersurface orthogonal. Meaning, they should form a 3-bundle of non-intersecting geodesics orthogonal to a series of spacelike ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolem%20arithmetic | In mathematical logic, Skolem arithmetic is the first-order theory of the natural numbers with multiplication, named in honor of Thoralf Skolem. The signature of Skolem arithmetic contains only the multiplication operation and equality, omitting the addition operation entirely.
Skolem arithmetic is weaker than Peano a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide%20amphiphile | Peptide amphiphiles (PAs) are peptide-based molecules that self-assemble into supramolecular nanostructures including; spherical micelles, twisted ribbons, and high-aspect-ratio nanofibers. A peptide amphiphile typically comprises a hydrophilic peptide sequence attached to a lipid tail, i.e. a hydrophobic alkyl chain w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasideterminant | In mathematics, the quasideterminant is a replacement for the determinant for matrices with noncommutative entries. Example 2 × 2 quasideterminants are as follows:
In general, there are n2 quasideterminants defined for an n × n matrix (one for each position in the matrix), but the presence of the inverted terms abo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNase%20footprinting%20assay | A DNase footprinting assay is a DNA footprinting technique from molecular biology/biochemistry that detects DNA-protein interaction using the fact that a protein bound to DNA will often protect that DNA from enzymatic cleavage. This makes it possible to locate a protein binding site on a particular DNA molecule. The me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20bundle | In mathematics, a line bundle expresses the concept of a line that varies from point to point of a space. For example, a curve in the plane having a tangent line at each point determines a varying line: the tangent bundle is a way of organising these. More formally, in algebraic topology and differential topology, a li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharitonov%20region | A Kharitonov region is a concept in mathematics. It arises in the study of the stability of polynomials.
Let be a simply-connected set in the complex plane and let be the polynomial family.
is said to be a Kharitonov region if
is a subset of Here, denotes the set of all vertex polynomials of complex interval po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intramolecular%20vibrational%20energy%20redistribution | Intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) is a process in which energy is redistributed between different quantum states of a vibrationally excited molecule, which is required by successful theories explaining unimolecular reaction rates such as RRKM theory. Such theories assume a full statistical redistri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Models%20of%20neural%20computation | Models of neural computation are attempts to elucidate, in an abstract and mathematical fashion, the core principles that underlie information processing in biological nervous systems, or functional components thereof. This article aims to provide an overview of the most definitive models of neuro-biological computatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20dispatch | In computing, static dispatch is a form of polymorphism fully resolved during compile time. It is a form of method dispatch, which describes how a language or environment will select which implementation of a method or function to use.
Examples are templates in C++, and generic programming in Fortran and other languag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics%20of%20the%20Hebrew%20Bible | Statistics of the Hebrew Bible is the counting of verses, words, and letters in the Bible which has been known since the days of the Talmud (around the 3rd century). Later in the Masora period (between the 5th and 10th centuries), counting words and letters was one of the basic acts that were done to create a uniform v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator%20function | In mathematics, an indicator function or a characteristic function of a subset of a set is a function that maps elements of the subset to one, and all other elements to zero. That is, if is a subset of some set , then if and otherwise, where is a common notation for the indicator function. Other common notations a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20history%20of%20genetics | The history of genetics can be represented on a timeline of events from the earliest work in the 1850s, to the DNA era starting in the 1940s, and the genomics era beginning in the 1970s.
Early timeline
1856–1863: Mendel studied the inheritance of traits between generations based on experiments involving garden pea p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20consequence%20relation | In logic, a rational consequence relation is a non-monotonic consequence relation satisfying certain properties listed below.
Properties
A rational consequence relation satisfies:
REF Reflexivity
and the so-called Gabbay–Makinson rules:
LLE Left logical equivalence
RWE Right-hand weakening
CMO Cautious m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional%20variable | In mathematical logic, a propositional variable (also called a sentential variable or sentential letter) is an input variable (that can either be true or false) of a truth function. Propositional variables are the basic building-blocks of propositional formulas, used in propositional logic and higher-order logics.
Use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotron%20J | Heliotron J is a fusion research device in Japan, specifically a helical-axis heliotron designed to study plasma confinement in this type of device. It is located at the Institute of Advanced Energy of Kyoto University. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succubous | Succubous is a manner in which the leaves of a liverwort overlap. If one were to look down from above (dorsal side) on a plant where the leaf attachment is succubous, the upper edge of each leaf would be covered by the next leaf along the stem. The lower edge of each leaf is visible from above, but the edge of the leaf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentinula%20ixodes | Lentinula ixodes is a species of edible agaric fungus in the family Marasmiaceae that is found in Amazon rainforest. Originally described as Agaricus ixodes from Guyana by Camille Montagne in 1854, it was then considered a synonym of Lentinula boryana and reestablished as an independent species by J.S. Oliveira, Tiara ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaestiones%20quaedam%20philosophicae | Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae (Certain philosophical questions) is the name given to a set of notes that Isaac Newton kept for himself during his earlier years in Cambridge. They concern questions in the natural philosophy of the day that interested him. Apart from the light it throws on the formation of his own ag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated%20encryption | Authenticated Encryption (AE) is an encryption scheme which simultaneously assures the data confidentiality (also known as privacy: the encrypted message is impossible to understand without the knowledge of a secret key) and authenticity (in other words, it is unforgeable: the encrypted message includes an authenticati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipalti | Tipalti is an accounting software financial technology business that provides accounts payable, procurement and global payments automation software for businesses.
Tipalti is headquartered in Foster City, CA , with offices in London UK, Vancouver Canada, Toronto Canada, Amsterdam Netherlands, Plano Texas, and R&D in Gl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%20aluminide | Nickel aluminide typically refers to one of the two most widely used compounds, Ni3Al or NiAl, but can refer to most aluminides from the Ni-Al system. These alloys are widely used due to their corrosion resistance, low-density and easy production. Ni3Al is of specific interest as the strengthening γ' phase precipitate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%20of%20missing%20out | Fear of missing out (FOMO) is the feeling of apprehension that one is either not in the know about or missing out on information, events, experiences, or life decisions that could make one's life better. FOMO is also associated with a fear of regret, which may lead to concerns that one might miss an opportunity for soc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C20orf202 | C20orf202 (chromosome 20 open reading frame 202) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the C20orf202 gene.
In humans, this gene encodes for a nuclear protein that is primarily expressed in the lung and placenta.
Gene
C20orf202 is located on the plus strand of chromosome 20 at 20p13. The gene is 4,826 base pairs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickprop | Quickprop is an iterative method for determining the minimum of the loss function of an artificial neural network, following an algorithm inspired by the Newton's method. Sometimes, the algorithm is classified to the group of the second order learning methods. It follows a quadratic approximation of the previous gradi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodal%20analysis | In electric circuits analysis, nodal analysis, node-voltage analysis, or the branch current method is a method of determining the voltage (potential difference) between "nodes" (points where elements or branches connect) in an electrical circuit in terms of the branch currents.
In analyzing a circuit using Kirchhoff's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20fluidic%20circuit | Integrated fluidic circuit (IFC) is a type of integrated circuit based on fluidics.
See also
Microfluidics
Biotechnology
Fluid mechanics
Integrated circuits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifurtimox | Nifurtimox, sold under the brand name Lampit, is a medication used to treat Chagas disease and sleeping sickness. For sleeping sickness it is used together with eflornithine in nifurtimox-eflornithine combination treatment. In Chagas disease it is a second-line option to benznidazole. It is given by mouth.
Common side... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20paper | Digital paper, also known as interactive paper, is patterned paper used in conjunction with a digital pen to create handwritten digital documents. The printed dot pattern uniquely identifies the position coordinates on the paper. The digital pen uses this pattern to store handwriting and upload it to a computer.
The p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull%20and%20crossbones | A skull and crossbones is a symbol consisting of a human skull and two long bones crossed together under or behind the skull. The design originated in the Late Middle Ages as a symbol of death and especially as a memento mori on tombstones.
In modern contexts, it is generally used as a hazard symbol, usually in regard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songfacts | Songfacts is a music-oriented website that has articles about songs, detailing the meaning behind the lyrics, how and when they were recorded, and any other info that can be found.
The journalists who work for the site have interviewed thousands of artists and songwriters to get the facts behind the songs, including... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20probability%20journals | This is a list of peer-reviewed scientific journals published in the field of probability.
Advances in Applied Probability
ALEA - Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré
Annals of Applied Probability
Annals of Probability
Bernoulli
Brazilian Journal of Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite%20larva | Trilobite larva may refer to juvenile forms (larvae) of multiple unrelated groups of animals:
Trilobites, extinct arthropods
Xiphosura (horseshoe crabs), including living and fossil species
Platerodrilus or trilobite beetles, a genus of living insects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhesion%20%28medicine%29 | Adhesions are fibrous bands that form between tissues and organs, often as a result of injury during surgery. They may be thought of as internal scar tissue that connects tissues not normally connected.
Pathophysiology
Adhesions form as a natural part of the body's healing process after surgery in a similar way that a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20buffering | In computer science, multiple buffering is the use of more than one buffer to hold a block of data, so that a "reader" will see a complete (though perhaps old) version of the data, rather than a partially updated version of the data being created by a "writer". It is very commonly used for computer display images. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netduino | Netduino was an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on the .NET Micro Framework. It uses the ARM Cortex-M 32-bit RISC ARM processor core as a 32-bit ARM-microcontroller. The Netduino boards (except the discontinued Mini and Go models) are designed to be pin-compatible with most Arduino shields. Applicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return%20on%20capital | Return on capital (ROC), or return on invested capital (ROIC), is a ratio used in finance, valuation and accounting, as a measure of the profitability and value-creating potential of companies relative to the amount of capital invested by shareholders and other debtholders. It indicates how effective a company is at tu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package%20development%20process | A software package development process is a system for developing software packages. Packages are used to reuse and share code, e.g., via a software repository, a formal system for package checking that usually expose bugs, thereby potentially making it easier to produce trustworthy software (Chambers' prime directive)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milnor%27s%20sphere | In mathematics, specifically differential and algebraic topology, during the mid 1950's John Milnorpg 14 was trying to understand the structure of -connected manifolds of dimension (since -connected -manifolds are homeomorphic to spheres, this is the first non-trivial case after) and found an example of a space which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaja | Khaja is an Indian deep-fried pastry, commonly filled with fruit or soaked with sugar syrup.
History
Khaja, plain or sweet mentioned in Silao, was a wheat flour preparation fried in ghee. Khaja is believed to have originated from the eastern parts of the former state of Magadh and the former United Provinces and Mag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Bolzano | Bernard Bolzano (, ; ; ; born Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano; 5 October 1781 – 18 December 1848) was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his liberal views.
Bolzano wrote in German, his native language. For the most part, his w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20production | Speech production is the process by which thoughts are translated into speech. This includes the selection of words, the organization of relevant grammatical forms, and then the articulation of the resulting sounds by the motor system using the vocal apparatus. Speech production can be spontaneous such as when a person... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoroll | Autoroll (also Key Autoroll) refers to TV-signal decryption software that automatically updates a video receiver's or DVR/receiver's IDEA keys when the transmitting signal provider changes its block cipher algorithm.
Mention of autoroll software often figures in discussions of free-to-air satellite TV receivers, for w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Workers%27%20Union | The Food Workers' Union (, VB) was a general union for agricultural and food production workers, in the Netherlands.
The union was founded in 1980, with the merger of the Industrial Union of Agriculture and Food and the Catholic Union of Agriculture, Food and Tobacco. These unions had previously been affiliated to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20lockout | A regional lockout (or region coding) is a class of digital rights management preventing the use of a certain product or service, such as multimedia or a hardware device, outside a certain region or territory. A regional lockout may be enforced through physical means, through technological means such as detecting the u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86%20instruction%20listings | The x86 instruction set refers to the set of instructions that x86-compatible microprocessors support. The instructions are usually part of an executable program, often stored as a computer file and executed on the processor.
The x86 instruction set has been extended several times, introducing wider registers and data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSAT-TV | KSAT-TV (channel 12) is a television station in San Antonio, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC. Owned by Graham Media Group, the station maintains studios on North St. Mary's Street on the northern edge of downtown, and its transmitter is located off Route 181 in northwest Wilson County (northeast of Elmendorf)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%20%28microarchitecture%29 | Kepler is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, first introduced at retail in April 2012, as the successor to the Fermi microarchitecture. Kepler was Nvidia's first microarchitecture to focus on energy efficiency. Most GeForce 600 series, most GeForce 700 series, and some GeForce 800M series GPU... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20disclaimer | An email disclaimer is a disclaimer, notice or warning which is added to an outgoing email and forms a distinct section which is separate from the main message. The reasons for adding such a disclaimer include confidentiality, copyright, contract formation, defamation, discrimination, harassment, privilege and viruses... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols%20of%20death | Symbols of death are the motifs, images and concepts associated with death throughout different cultures, religions and societies.
Images
Various images are used traditionally to symbolize death; these rank from blunt depictions of cadavers and their parts to more allusive suggestions that time is fleeting and all m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20Distributed%20Computing%20System | The Cambridge Distributed Computing System is an early discontinued distributed operating system, developed in the 1980s at Cambridge University. It grew out of the Cambridge Ring local area network, which it used to interconnect computers.
The Cambridge system connected terminals to "processor banks". At login, a use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20G%20Arless | Steven G Arless is a Canadian entrepreneur in the biomedical technology industry. He directed and developed several medical device companies treating cardiovascular disease from inception through major financing and public stock offering, advancing new medical devices from R&D to commercialization and global sales, inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet%20paper%20orientation | Some toilet roll holders or dispensers allow the toilet paper to hang in front of (over) or behind (under) the roll when it is placed parallel to the wall. This divides opinions about which orientation is better. Arguments range from aesthetics, hospitality, ease of access, and cleanliness, to paper conservation, ease ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought%20refuge | A drought refuge is a site that provides permanent fresh water or moist conditions for plants and animals, acting as a refuge habitat when surrounding areas are affected by drought and allowing ecosystems and core species populations to survive until the drought breaks. Drought refuges are important for conserving eco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%20Clement%20Sabine%20Medal | The Wallace Clement Sabine Medal of the Acoustical Society of America is presented to an individual of any nationality who has advanced the science of architectural acoustics, either by being published in professional journals or periodicals, or by another accomplishment in architectural acoustics at the discretion of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorem%20of%20Bertini | In mathematics, the theorem of Bertini is an existence and genericity theorem for smooth connected hyperplane sections for smooth projective varieties over algebraically closed fields, introduced by Eugenio Bertini. This is the simplest and broadest of the "Bertini theorems" applying to a linear system of divisors; sim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-5%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-5 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms. mir-5 has been implicated in regulation of VEGF in an experiment where a plasmid containing a cluster of mir-5, mir-10 and mir-7 was shown to down-regulate VEGF by 75%.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled%20NOT%20gate | In computer science, the controlled NOT gate (also C-NOT or CNOT), controlled-X gate, controlled-bit-flip gate, Feynman gate or controlled Pauli-X is a quantum logic gate that is an essential component in the construction of a gate-based quantum computer. It can be used to entangle and disentangle Bell states. Any quan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCI%20White | ASCI White was a supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which was briefly the fastest supercomputer in the world.
It was a computer cluster based on IBM's commercial RS/6000 SP computer. 512 nodes were interconnected for ASCI White, with each node containing sixteen 375MHz IBM POWER... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Huskey | Harry Douglas Huskey (January 19, 1916 – April 9, 2017) was an American computer design pioneer.
Early life and career
Huskey was born in Whittier, in the Smoky Mountains region of North Carolina and grew up in Idaho. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Idaho. He was the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA%20Space%20Science%20Data%20Coordinated%20Archive | The NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA) serves as the permanent archive for NASA space science mission data. "Space science" includes astronomy and astrophysics, solar and space plasma physics, and planetary and lunar science. As the permanent archive, NSSDCA teams with NASA's discipline-specific spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20integrity | Biological integrity is associated with how "pristine" an environment is and its function relative to the potential or original state of an ecosystem before human alterations were imposed. Biological integrity is built on the assumption that a decline in the values of an ecosystem's functions are primarily caused by hu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemolin | Hemolin is an immunoglobulin-like protein exclusively found in Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). It was first discovered in immune-challenged pupae of Hyalophora cecropia and Manduca sexta.
Hemolin has a horseshoe crystal structure with four domains and resembles the developmental protein neuroglian.
Hemolin inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit%20set | In mathematics, especially in the study of dynamical systems, a limit set is the state a dynamical system reaches after an infinite amount of time has passed, by either going forward or backwards in time. Limit sets are important because they can be used to understand the long term behavior of a dynamical system. A sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual%20futures | In finance, a perpetual futures contract, also known as a perpetual swap, is an agreement to non-optionally buy or sell an asset at an unspecified point in the future. Perpetual futures are cash-settled, and differ from regular futures in that they lack a pre-specified delivery date, and can thus be held indefinitely w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical%20theatre | An anatomical theatre (Latin: ) was a specialised building or room, resembling a theatre, used in teaching anatomy at early modern universities. They were typically constructed with a tiered structure surrounding a central table, allowing a larger audience to see the dissection of cadavers more closely than would have ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders%20of%20magnitude%20%28voltage%29 | To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various voltage levels.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation%20%28embryology%29 | Cavitation is a process in early embryonic development that follows cleavage. Cavitation is the formation of the blastocoel, a fluid-filled cavity that defines the blastula, or in mammals the blastocyst. After fertilization, cell division of the zygote occurs which results in the formation of a solid ball of cells (bla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20Research | DNA Research is an international, peer-reviewed journal of genomics and DNA research. The journal was established in 1994, and is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Kazusa DNA Research Institute. The journal is edited by Michio Oishi.
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In 2014, the journal's impact factor was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant%20Bill | Sergeant Bill was a Canadian goat from Saskatchewan who served as the mascot of the 5th Infantry Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War.
Bill was able to hear and warn soldiers of incoming shell explosions, pushing 3 soldiers into a trench within seconds of an incoming shell. In anoth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%201667 | IEEE 1667 ("Standard Protocol for Authentication in Host Attachments of Transient Storage Devices") is a standard published and maintained by the IEEE that describes various methods for authenticating removable storage devices such as USB flash drives when they are inserted into a computer. The protocol is universal, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erodium%20cicutarium | Erodium cicutarium, also known as common stork's-bill, redstem filaree, redstem stork's bill or pinweed, is a herbaceous annual – or in warm climates, biennial – member of the family Geraniaceae of flowering plants. It is native to Macaronesia, temperate Eurasia and north and northeast Africa, and was introduced to Nor... |
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