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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEE%20Star%20Label | BEE Star Label is a program run by the Indian government's Bureau of Energy Efficiency under Ministry of Power that promotes energy efficiency. The program provides information on the energy consumption of products and devices using different standardized methods. The program for rating electrical appliances started in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobsthal%20sum | In mathematics, Jacobsthal sums are finite sums of Legendre symbols related to Gauss sums. They were introduced by .
Definition
The Jacobsthal sum is given by
where p is prime and () is the Legendre symbol. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Society%20for%20Developmental%20Biology | The British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) is a scientific society promoting developmental biology research; it is open to anyone with an interest in the subject who agrees with the principles of the Society.
History
The British Society for Developmental Biology was founded in 1948 as the London Embryologist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils%20Olav | Major General Sir Nils Olav III, Baron of the Bouvet Islands () is a king penguin who resides in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. He is the mascot and colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard. The name 'Nils Olav' and associated ranks have been passed down through three king penguins since 1972 – the current holder being... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared%20risk%20resource%20group | Shared risk resource group (commonly referred to as shared risk group or SRG) is a concept in optical mesh network routing that different networks may suffer from a common failure if they share a common risk or a common SRG. SRG is not limited to Optical mesh networks: SRGs are also used in MPLS, IP networks, and synch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20valve | A spin valve is a device, consisting of two or more conducting magnetic materials, whose electrical resistance can change between two values depending on the relative alignment of the magnetization in the layers. The resistance change is a result of the giant magnetoresistive effect. The magnetic layers of the device ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodospirillum%20rubrum | Rhodospirillum rubrum (R. rubrum) is a Gram-negative, pink-coloured bacterium, with a size of 800 to 1000 nanometers. It is a facultative anaerobe, thus capable of using oxygen for aerobic respiration under aerobic conditions, or an alternative terminal electron acceptor for anaerobic respiration under anaerobic condit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27%20principle | Archimedes' principle (also spelled Archimedes's principle) states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces. Archimedes' principle is a law of physics fundamental to fluid mechanics. It was formul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firstborn%20hypothesis | The firstborn hypothesis is a proposed solution to the Fermi paradox which states that no extraterrestrial intelligent life has been discovered because humanity is the first form of intelligent life in the universe.
Background
There is no reliable or reproducible evidence that aliens have visited Earth. No transmissi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitympanic%20recess | The epitympanic recess is the portion of the tympanic cavity (of the middle ear) situated superior to the tympanic membrane. The recess lodges the head of malleus, and the body of incus.
The mastoid antrum is situated posterior to the recess and opens into the recess at the posterior wall of the recess via the aditus ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman%20code | Chapman codes are a set of 3-letter codes used in genealogy to identify the administrative divisions in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
Use
They were created by the historian, Dr. Colin R Chapman, in the late 1970s, and as intended, provide a widely used shorthand in genealogy whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorflurazole | Chlorflurazole is an herbicide. It is classified as an extremely hazardous substance in the United States as defined in Section 302 of the U.S. Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. 11002), and is subject to strict reporting requirements by facilities which produce, store, or use it in significa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%E2%80%93temporal%20reasoning | Spatial–temporal reasoning is an area of artificial intelligence that draws from the fields of computer science, cognitive science, and cognitive psychology. The theoretic goal—on the cognitive side—involves representing and reasoning spatial-temporal knowledge in mind. The applied goal—on the computing side—involves d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20man%20not%20excluded | Random man not excluded (RMNE) is a type of measure in population genetics to estimate the probability that an individual randomly picked out of the general population would not be excluded from matching a given piece of genetic data.
RMNE is frequently employed in cases where other types of tests such as random match... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20hares | The three hares (or three rabbits) is a circular motif appearing in sacred sites from East Asia, the Middle East and to the churches of Devon, England (as the "Tinners' Rabbits"), and historical synagogues in Europe. It is used as an architectural ornament, a religious symbol, and in other modern works of art or a logo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucine%20zipper | A leucine zipper (or leucine scissors) is a common three-dimensional structural motif in proteins. They were first described by Landschulz and collaborators in 1988 when they found that an enhancer binding protein had a very characteristic 30-amino acid segment and the display of these amino acid sequences on an ideali... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi%20categories%20security | Multi categories security (MCS) is an access control method in Security-Enhanced Linux that uses categories attached to objects (files) and granted to subjects (processes, ...) at the operating system level. The implementation in Fedora Core 5 is advisory because there is nothing stopping a process from increasing its ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20isomorphism | In the mathematical field of order theory, an order isomorphism is a special kind of monotone function that constitutes a suitable notion of isomorphism for partially ordered sets (posets). Whenever two posets are order isomorphic, they can be considered to be "essentially the same" in the sense that either of the orde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterranean%20fauna | Subterranean fauna refers to animal species that are adapted to live in an underground environment. Troglofauna and stygofauna are the two types of subterranean fauna. Both are associated with hypogean habitats – troglofauna is associated with terrestrial subterranean environment (caves and underground spaces above the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUEL%20Project | FUEL Project aims at solving the problem of inconsistency and lack of standardization in Software Translation across the platform. FUEL Project develops content especially for language users. It works at making technology friendly to user by working as an interpreter. An interpreter who has localized the language of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST%20hash%20function%20competition | The NIST hash function competition was an open competition held by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a new hash function called SHA-3 to complement the older SHA-1 and SHA-2. The competition was formally announced in the Federal Register on November 2, 2007. "NIST is initiating an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquinol%20oxidase | Ubiquinol oxidases () are enzymes in the bacterial electron transport chain that oxidise ubiquinol into ubiquinone and reduce oxygen to water. These enzymes are one set of the many alternative terminal oxidases in the branched prokaryotic electron transport chain. The overall structure of the E. coli ubiquinol oxidase ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal%20membranes | The fetal membranes are the four extraembryonic membranes, associated with the developing embryo, and fetus in humans and other mammals. They are the amnion, chorion, allantois, and yolk sac. The amnion and the chorion are the chorioamniotic membranes that make up the amniotic sac which surrounds and protects the embry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%20integral | In mathematics, there are two types of Euler integral:
The Euler integral of the first kind is the beta function
The Euler integral of the second kind is the gamma function
For positive integers and , the two integrals can be expressed in terms of factorials and binomial coefficients:
See also
Leonhard Euler
Li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27s%20criterion | In number theory, Li's criterion is a particular statement about the positivity of a certain sequence that is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis. The criterion is named after Xian-Jin Li, who presented it in 1997. In 1999, Enrico Bombieri and Jeffrey C. Lagarias provided a generalization, showing that Li's positivi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Earth%20Carbon%20Degassing%20Project | The Deep Earth Carbon Degassing (DECADE) project is an initiative to unite scientists around the world to make tangible advances towards quantifying the amount of carbon outgassed from the Earth's deep interior (core, mantle, crust) into the surface environment (e.g. biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere) thro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selected-ion%20flow-tube%20mass%20spectrometry | Selected-ion flow-tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS) is a quantitative mass spectrometry technique for trace gas analysis which involves the chemical ionization of trace volatile compounds by selected positive precursor ions during a well-defined time period along a flow tube. Absolute concentrations of trace compounds p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Army%20Corps%20of%20Engineers%20Bay%20Model | The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model is a working hydraulic scale model of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta System. While the Bay Model is still operational, it is no longer used for scientific research but is instead open to the public alongside educational exhibits about Bay hydrolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time%20Programming%20Language | Real-time Programming Language (RPL) is a compiled database programming language used on CMC/Microdata/McDonnell Douglas REALITY databases, derived and expanded from the PROC procedure language, with much extra functionality added. It was originally developed under the name "PORC" by John Timmons and Paul Desjardins i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20attack | In the field of security engineering, an oracle attack is an attack that exploits the availability of a weakness in a system that can be used as an "oracle" to give a simple go/no go indication to inform attackers how close they are to their goals. The attacker can then combine the oracle with a systematic search of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Assembly%20%28school%29 | General Assembly is an American-headquartered private, for-profit education organization founded by CEO Jake Schwartz, Adam Pritzker, Matthew Brimer, and Brad Hargreaves in early 2011 and purchased by The Adecco Group in 2018. It maintains campuses in various countries throughout the world to teach entrepreneurs and bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal%20breeder | Seasonal breeders are animal species that successfully mate only during certain times of the year. These times of year allow for the optimization of survival of young due to factors such as ambient temperature, food and water availability, and changes in the predation behaviors of other species. Related sexual interest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Db2 | Db2 is a family of data management products, including database servers, developed by IBM. It initially supported the relational model, but was extended to support object–relational features and non-relational structures like JSON and XML. The brand name was originally styled as DB/2, then DB2 until 2017 and finally ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20ffolliott%20Darling | James Johnston ffolliott Darling (December 1859 – April 1929) was an Irish trooper and naturalist.
Early life
James ffolliott Darling was born in December 1859 in Blackrock, Dublin. His father was John Singleton Darling of Clonakilty, Manager of the National Bank of Ireland. James Darling studied to become a physician... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull%20Gamma%203 | The Gamma 3 was an early electronic vacuum-tube computer. It was designed by Compagnie des Machines Bull in Paris, France and released in 1952.
Originally designed as an electronic accelerator for electromechanical tabulating machines, similar to the IBM 604, it was gradually enhanced with new features and evolved int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamy%20of%20entanglement | In quantum physics, the "monogamy" of quantum entanglement refers to the fundamental property that it cannot be freely shared between arbitrarily many parties.
In order for two qubits A and B to be maximally entangled, they must not be entangled with any third qubit C whatsoever. Even if A and B are not maximally enta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M-86 | CP/M-86 is a discontinued version of the CP/M operating system that Digital Research (DR) made for the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. The system commands are the same as in CP/M-80. Executable files used the relocatable .CMD file format. Digital Research also produced a multi-user multitasking operating system compatible w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XenClient | XenClient is a discontinued desktop virtualization product developed by Citrix that runs virtual desktops on endpoint devices. The product reached end of-life in December 2016. Desktops are run locally, without hosting applications or the operating system in a datacenter. It consists of a Type-1 Xen client hypervisor a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20algebraic%20curve | In geometry, a circular algebraic curve is a type of plane algebraic curve determined by an equation F(x, y) = 0, where F is a polynomial with real coefficients and the highest-order terms of F form a polynomial divisible by x2 + y2. More precisely, if
F = Fn + Fn−1 + ... + F1 + F0, where each Fi is homogeneous of degr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji%20domain | An emoji domain is a domain name with one or more emoji in it, for example 😉..
Function
With the exception of the information emoji (), the trademark emoji () and the "m" emoji (), for an emoji to work as a domain name, it must be converted into so-called "Punycode". Punycode is a character encoding method used fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Gabor%20Medal%20and%20Prize | The Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize (previously the Duddell Medal and Prize until 2008) is a prize awarded biannually by the Institute of Physics for distinguished contributions to the application of physics in an industrial, commercial or business context. The medal is made of silver and is accompanied by a prize and a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20loop | In computer programs, an important form of control flow is the loop which causes a block of code to be executed more than once. A common idiom is to have a loop nested inside another loop, with the contained loop being commonly referred to as the inner loop.
Background
Two main types of loop exist and they can be nes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDonkey%20network | The eDonkey Network (also known as the eDonkey2000 network or eD2k) is a decentralized, mostly server-based, peer-to-peer file sharing network created in 2000 by US developers Jed McCaleb and Sam Yagan that is best suited to share big files among users, and to provide long term availability of files. Like most sharing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20test%20image | A standard test image is a digital image file used across different institutions to test image processing and image compression algorithms. By using the same standard test images, different labs are able to compare results, both visually and quantitatively.
The images are in many cases chosen to represent natural or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%20Waterman | Peter Alan Waterman (born 15 January 1947) is an English record producer, songwriter, radio and club DJ, television personality, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast. As a member of the Stock Aitken Waterman production and songwriting team, he wrote and produced many hit singles.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse%20Mercator%3A%20Redfearn%20series | Transverse Mercator projection has many implementations. Louis Krüger in 1912 developed one of his two implementations that expressed as a power series in the longitude difference from the central meridian. These series were recalculated by Lee in 1946, by Redfearn in 1948, and by Thomas in 1952. They are often refe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interoception | Interoception is the collection of senses providing information to the organism about the internal state of the body. This can be both conscious and subconscious. It encompasses the brain's process of integrating signals relayed from the body into specific subregions—like the brainstem, thalamus, insula, somatosensory,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foramen | In anatomy and osteology, a foramen (; : foramina, or foramens ) is an open hole that is present in extant or extinct amniotes. Foramina inside the body of animals typically allow nerves, arteries, veins, or other structures to connect one part of the body with another.
Skull
The skulls of vertebrates have foramina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20scheduling%20system | Music scheduling systems are employed to sequence music at radio stations. Although these systems were originally implemented by manual index card methods, since the late 1970s they have exploited the efficiency and speed of digital computers. They are essential tools for broadcasting by music radio stations.
These sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multispectral%20imaging | Multispectral imaging captures image data within specific wavelength ranges across the electromagnetic spectrum. The wavelengths may be separated by filters or detected with the use of instruments that are sensitive to particular wavelengths, including light from frequencies beyond the visible light range, i.e. infrare... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Forest%20Genetic%20Resources%20Programme | European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN) is an international network that promotes the conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Europe as an integral part of sustainable forest management. It was established in 1994 as a result of a resolution adopted in 1990 by the first Ministeria... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeball%20network | Eyeball network is a slang term used by network engineers and architects that refers to an access network whose primary users use the network to “look at things” (browse the Internet, read email, etc.) and consume content, as opposed to a network that may be used primarily to generate its own data, or “content networks... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy%20theorem | In mathematics, a toy theorem is a simplified instance (special case) of a more general theorem, which can be useful in providing a handy representation of the general theorem, or a framework for proving the general theorem. One way of obtaining a toy theorem is by introducing some simplifying assumptions in a theorem.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%20function | In mathematics, the Z function is a function used for studying the Riemann zeta function along the critical line where the argument is one-half. It is also called the Riemann–Siegel Z function, the Riemann–Siegel zeta function, the Hardy function, the Hardy Z function and the Hardy zeta function. It can be defined in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Abramovich%20Rokhlin | Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin (Russian: Влади́мир Абра́мович Ро́хлин) (23 August 1919 – 3 December 1984) was a Soviet mathematician, who made numerous contributions in algebraic topology, geometry, measure theory, probability theory, ergodic theory and entropy theory.
Life
Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin was born in Baku, A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20splatter | In radio electronics or acoustics, spectral splatter (also called switch noise) refers to spurious emissions that result from an abrupt change in the transmitted signal, usually when transmission is started or stopped.
For example, a device transmitting a sine wave produces a single peak in the frequency spectrum; how... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIM-100 | The TIM-100 was a PTT teller microcomputer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia) in 1985 (Ref.lit. #1). It was based on the Intel microprocessors types 80x86 and VLSI circuitry. RAM had capacity max.8MB, and the external memory were floppy disks of 5.25 or 3.50 inch. (Ref.literature #2, #3 and #4).
Multiuser, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat%20cascade | A habitat cascade is a common type of a facilitation cascade. where “indirect positive effects on focal organisms are mediated by successive formation or modification of biogenic habitat”.
A habitat cascade is composed of at least three organisms: a primary habitat former or modifier; a secondary habitat former or mod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Precision%20Airdrop%20System | The Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) is an American military airdrop system which uses the Global Positioning System (GPS), steerable parachutes, and an onboard computer to steer loads to a designated point of impact (PI) on a drop zone (DZ). The JPADS family of systems consists of several precision airdrop syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide | Thalidomide, sold under the brand names Contergan and Thalomid among others, is an oral medication used to treat a number of cancers (e.g. multiple myeloma), graft-versus-host disease, and many skin disorders (e.g. complications of leprosy such as skin lesions). While thalidomide has been used in a number of HIV-assoc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berezinskii%E2%80%93Kosterlitz%E2%80%93Thouless%20transition | The Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless (BKT) transition is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. It is a transition from bound vortex-antivortex pairs at low temperatures to unpaired vortices and anti-vortices at some critical temperature. The transition is named for condensed ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutation%20cell | The commutation cell is the basic structure in power electronics. It is composed of two electronic switches (today, a high-power semiconductor, not a mechanical switch). It was traditionally referred to as a chopper, but since switching power supplies became a major form of power conversion, this new term has become mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidatus%20Phytoplasma%20sacchari | Candidatus Phytoplasma sacchari is a species of phytoplasma pathogen associated with sugarcane grassy shoot disease (SCGS). This SCGS phytoplasma belongs to the Rice Yellow Dwarf (RYD) group. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Elements%20of%20Programming%20Style | The Elements of Programming Style, by Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger, is a study of programming style, advocating the notion that computer programs should be written not only to satisfy the compiler or personal programming "style", but also for "readability" by humans, specifically software maintenance engineers,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Paulli | Simon Paulli (6 April 1603 – 25 April 1680), was a Danish physician and naturalist. He was a professor of anatomy, surgery and botany at the University of Copenhagen. The genus Paullinia is named after him.
Paulli was the first court physician to Frederick III of Denmark, and made valuable contributions to anatomy and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigeminal%20nerve | In neuroanatomy, the trigeminal nerve (lit. triplet nerve), also known as the fifth cranial nerve, cranial nerve V, or simply CN V, is a cranial nerve responsible for sensation in the face and motor functions such as biting and chewing; it is the most complex of the cranial nerves. Its name (trigeminal, ) derives from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusing%20capacity%20for%20carbon%20monoxide | DLCO or TLCO (diffusing capacity or transfer factor of the lung for carbon monoxide (CO),) is the extent to which oxygen passes from the air sacs of the lungs into the blood. Commonly, it refers to the test used to determine this parameter. It was introduced in 1909.
Mechanism
This test involves measuring the partial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20vacuole | The food vacuole, or digestive vacuole, is an organelle found in simple eukaryotes such as protists. This organelle is essentially a lysosome. During the stage of the symbiont parasites' lifecycle where it resides within a human (or other mammalian) red blood cell, it is the site of haemoglobin digestion and the format... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopid%20race | Ethiopid (also spelled Aethiopid) is an outdated racial classification of humans indigenous to Northeast Africa, who were typically classified as part of the Caucasian race – the Hamitic sub-branch, or in rare instances the Negroid race. The racial classification was generally made up of mostly Afroasiatic-speaking pop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr%E2%80%93Favard%20inequality | The Bohr–Favard inequality is an inequality appearing in a problem of Harald Bohr on the boundedness over the entire real axis of the integral of an almost-periodic function. The ultimate form of this inequality was given by Jean Favard; the latter materially supplemented the studies of Bohr, and studied the arbitrary ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20accounting%20software | The following comparison of accounting software documents the various features and differences between different professional accounting software, personal and small enterprise software, medium-sized and large-sized enterprise software, and other accounting packages. The comparison only focus considering financial and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem | An emblem is an abstract or representational pictorial image that represents a concept, like a moral truth, or an allegory, or a person, like a monarch or saint.
Emblems vs. symbols
Although the words emblem and symbol are often used interchangeably, an emblem is a pattern that is used to represent an idea or an indi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20part | The fractional part or decimal part of a non‐negative real number is the excess beyond that number's integer part. The latter is defined as the largest integer not greater than , called floor of or . Then, the fractional part can be formulated as a difference:
.
For a positive number written in a conventional posit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Centre%20for%20Cold-chain%20Development | The National Centre for Cold-chain Development (NCCD) is an autonomous think tank body established by the Government of India with an agenda to positively impact and promote the development of the cold-chain sector in the country. NCCD was registered under the Society Registration Act, 1860 and given sanction by the U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodesulfobacterium%20commune | Thermodesulfobacterium commune is a species of sulfate-reducing bacteria. It is small, Gram-negative, straight rod-shaped, and obligately anaerobic, and has an optimum growth temperature of . Its type strain is YSRA-1. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20APU | AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), formerly known as Fusion, is a series of 64-bit microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), combining a general-purpose AMD64 central processing unit (CPU) and 3D integrated graphics processing unit (IGPU) on a single die.
AMD announced the first generation APUs, Llano for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP53%20family | Cytochrome P450, family 53, also known as CYP53, is a cytochrome P450 monooxygenase family in fungi related to hydrocarbon assimilation. They are distributed in both Ascomycota and Basidiomycota, could be used as anti-fungal drug target. The first gene identified in this family is the CYP53A1 from Aspergillus niger enc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudermannian%20function | In mathematics, the Gudermannian function relates a hyperbolic angle measure to a circular angle measure called the gudermannian of and denoted . The Gudermannian function reveals a close relationship between the circular functions and hyperbolic functions. It was introduced in the 1760s by Johann Heinrich Lambert, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau%20Geste%20hypothesis | The Beau Geste hypothesis in animal behaviour is the hypothesis that tries to explain why some avian species have such elaborate song repertoires for the purpose of territorial defence. The hypothesis takes its name from the 1924 book Beau Geste and was coined by John Krebs in 1977.
Background
The Beau Geste hypothe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20hunting | "Night hunting", known in Bhutan as Bomena, is a traditional "courtship" custom that is practiced in some parts of Bhutan.
Similar customs have also existed in other cultures, namely in Japan.
Practice
"Night hunting" is a traditional culture of nightly courtship and romance that is practiced mostly in eastern and ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20function | In the mathematical field of real analysis, a simple function is a real (or complex)-valued function over a subset of the real line, similar to a step function. Simple functions are sufficiently "nice" that using them makes mathematical reasoning, theory, and proof easier. For example, simple functions attain only a f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmark%20point | In morphometrics, landmark point or shortly landmark is a point in a shape object in which correspondences between and within the populations of the object are preserved. In other disciplines, landmarks may be known as vertices, anchor points, control points, sites, profile points, 'sampling' points, nodes, markers, fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introgression | Introgression, also known as introgressive hybridization, in genetics is the transfer of genetic material from one species into the gene pool of another by the repeated backcrossing of an interspecific hybrid with one of its parent species. Introgression is a long-term process, even when artificial; it may take many hy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigia%20%C3%97%20fennica | Koenigia × fennica, known as Finnish knotweed, is a hybrid between two species of Koenigia, K. alpina and K. weyrichii, members of the family Polygonaceae, the knotweed family. It generally only known as a cultivated garden plant, but plants have been recorded a few times surviving in abandoned areas in northern Europe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity%20%28M.%20C.%20Escher%29 | Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953. The first version of this work was a woodcut made earlier that same year.
It depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. The architectural structure seems to be the centre of an idyllic community, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20analytics | Cloud analytics is a marketing term for businesses to carry out analysis using cloud computing. It uses a range of analytical tools and techniques to help companies extract information from massive data and present it in a way that is easily categorised and readily available via a web browser.
Cloud analytics is term ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCray%20v.%20United%20States | McCray v. United States, 195 U.S. 27 (1904), was a 1904 case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that greenlighted the use of the federal taxing power for regulatory purposes. The Court upheld by a 63 vote a federal tax on colored oleomargarine, rejecting contentions that it exceeded Congressional authori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20radiation | An evolutionary radiation is an increase in taxonomic diversity that is caused by elevated rates of speciation, that may or may not be associated with an increase in morphological disparity. A significantly large and diverse radiation within a relatively short geologic time scale (e.g. a period or epoch) is often refer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochaeris%20chillensis | Hypochaeris chillensis (sometimes spelled Hypochoeris) also known as Brazilian cat's ear is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay) but has become naturalized in parts of North America, South Africa. and Taiwan. It is a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudo%20%28scouting%29 | A hudo is a temporary pit toilet in a camp, covered with a tarpaulin, not a permanent outhouse. The name is in common use in Dutch and Belgian scouting, and has international usage.
Etymology
The word hudo is derived from the Urdu word howdah, which is the covered carriage on elephants.
Other popular etymological exp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymatic | Hymatic, also known as Hymatic Engineering, are a British manufacturer of heat exchangers, fluid control technology and cryogenic systems as part of an aircraft's environmental control system (ECS), headquartered in Worcestershire.
History
The company was founded on 27 September 1937.
It began making air compressors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INO80%20Subfamily | The INO80 subfamily of chromatin remodeling complexes are ATPases, and includes the INO80 and SWR1 complexes.
Function
One of the main roles of the INO80 subfamily is the incorporation and removal of alternate histones in the nucleosome. In the presence of the H2A.Z histone, the INO80 subfamily of remodelers catalyze... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Angiola%20Borrino | Virginia Angiola Borrino (28 March 1880 – 14 January 1965) was an Italian physician and paediatrician in addition to being a university professor. Borrino was the first woman to serve as head of a university pediatric ward in Italy. She was one of the founding members of the Italian Association of Medical Women (Asso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abametapir | Abametapir, sold under the brand name Xeglyze, is a medication used for the treatment of head lice infestation in people six months of age and older.
The most common side effects include skin redness, rash, skin burning sensation, skin inflammation, vomiting, eye irritation, skin itching, and hair color changes.
Abam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeek | Zeek is a free and open-source software network analysis framework. Vern Paxson began development work on Zeek in 1995 at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Zeek is a network security monitor (NSM) but can also be used as a network intrusion detection system (NIDS). The Zeek project releases the software under the BSD lic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formylmethanofuran%E2%80%94tetrahydromethanopterin%20N-formyltransferase | In enzymology, a formylmethanofuran-tetrahydromethanopterin N-formyltransferase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
formylmethanofuran + 5,6,7,8-tetrahydromethanopterin methanofuran + 5-formyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydromethanopterin
Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are formylmethanofuran and 5,6,7,8-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cube%20Made%20Interesting | The Cube Made Interesting is a geometry book aimed at high school mathematics students, on the geometry of the cube. It was originally written in Polish by Aniela Ehrenfeucht (née Miklaszewska, 1905–2000), titled Ciekawy Sześcian [the interesting cube], and published by Polish Scientific Publishers PWN in 1960. Wacław ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangular%20cuboid | A rectangular cuboid, also called rectangular parallelepiped (or orthogonal parallelepiped) is a special case of cuboids and parallelepipeds in which all angles are right angles, and opposite faces are equal. By definition this makes it a right rectangular prism.
Rectangular prisms are often referred to colloquially a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API%20gravity | The American Petroleum Institute gravity, or API gravity, is a measure of how heavy or light a petroleum liquid is compared to water: if its API gravity is greater than 10, it is lighter and floats on water; if less than 10, it is heavier and sinks.
API gravity is thus an inverse measure of a petroleum liquid's densit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20der%20Pauw%20method | The van der Pauw Method is a technique commonly used to measure the resistivity and the Hall coefficient of a sample. Its power lies in its ability to accurately measure the properties of a sample of any arbitrary shape, as long as the sample is approximately two-dimensional (i.e. it is much thinner than it is wide), ... |
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