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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl%20tetrachloroterephthalate | Dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate (DCPA, with the main trade name Dacthal) is an organic compound with the formula C6Cl4(CO2CH3)2. It is the dimethyl ester of tetrachloroterephthalic acid, used as a preemergent herbicide with the ISO common name chlorthal-dimethyl. It kills annual grasses and many common weeds withou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laponia | Laponia may refer to:
Laponia (historical province), a historical Finnish and Swedish province
Laponia (historical province of Finland)
Laponian area, a wildlife area in Sweden
The Latin name for Lapland
See also
Lapponia (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta%20Metropolitan%20Institute%20of%20Gerontology | The Calcutta Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology (CMIG) is a non-profit, voluntary organisation involved in research, publication, training, and service programs in gerontology. It is located in Kolkata, India. It was established in 1988.
The aims and objectives of CMIG are provide a meaningful life to the elderly a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20complex%20analysis%20topics | Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematics that investigates functions of complex numbers. It is useful in many branches of mathematics, including number theory and applied mathematics; as well as in physics, including hydrodynamics, thermodynami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20elasticity%20of%20substitution | Constant elasticity of substitution (CES), in economics, is a property of some production functions and utility functions. Several economists have featured in the topic and have contributed in the final finding of the constant. They include Tom McKenzie, John Hicks and Joan Robinson. The vital economic element of the m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20K.%20Boardman | William Knight Boardman (February 3, 1915 – March 18, 1993) was a Republican Alaska legislator who served as Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1967 to 1968.
Born in Iowa, Boardman was a resident of Ketchikan, Alaska. An insurance businessman, he served as a member of the Territorial House of Represen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit%20trap | In mathematics, an orbit trap is a method of colouring fractal images based upon how close an iterative function, used to create the fractal, approaches a geometric shape, called a "trap". Typical traps are points, lines, circles, flower shapes and even raster images. Orbit traps are typically used to colour two dimens... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biliary%20pseudolithiasis | Biliary pseudolithiasis is an unusual complication of ceftriaxone where the drug complexes with calcium and mimics gallstones. It is reversed when ceftriaxone administration is stopped. It was first described in 1988 by Schaad et al. as "reversible ceftriaxone-associated biliary pseudolithiasis". Ceftriaxone has been f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20Design%20Language | Program Design Language (or PDL, for short) is a method for designing and documenting methods and procedures in software. It is related to pseudocode, but unlike pseudocode, it is written in plain language without any terms that could suggest the use of any programming language or library.
PDL was originally developed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential%20temperature | The potential temperature of a parcel of fluid at pressure is the temperature that the parcel would attain if adiabatically brought to a standard reference pressure , usually . The potential temperature is denoted and, for a gas well-approximated as ideal, is given by
where is the current absolute temperature (i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20gravity | In theoretical physics, composite gravity refers to models that attempted to derive general relativity in a framework where the graviton is constructed as a composite bound state of more elementary particles, usually fermions. A theorem by Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten shows that this is not possible in Lorentz cov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20operational%20modal%20analysis | Bayesian operational modal analysis (BAYOMA) adopts a Bayesian system identification approach for operational modal analysis (OMA). Operational modal analysis aims at identifying the modal properties (natural frequencies, damping ratios, mode shapes, etc.) of a constructed structure using only its (output) vibration re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction%20theory | In mathematics, obstruction theory is a name given to two different mathematical theories, both of which yield cohomological invariants.
In the original work of Stiefel and Whitney, characteristic classes were defined as obstructions to the existence of certain fields of linear independent vectors. Obstruction theory ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDUFS6 | NADH dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] iron-sulfur protein 6, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NDUFS6 gene.
Function
The multisubunit NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) is the first enzyme complex in the electron transport chain of mitochondria. The iron-sulfur protein (IP) fraction is ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20similarity%20%28Reynolds%20and%20Womersley%20numbers%29 | In fluid mechanics, dynamic similarity is the phenomenon that when there are two geometrically similar vessels (same shape, different sizes) with the same boundary conditions (e.g., no-slip, center-line velocity) and the same Reynolds and Womersley numbers, then the fluid flows will be identical. This can be seen from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcend%20Information | Transcend Information, Inc. () is a Taiwanese company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan that manufactures and distributes memory products. Transcend deals in over 2,000 products including memory modules, flash memory cards, USB flash drives, portable hard drives, multimedia products, solid-state drives, dashcams, body ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detection%20theory | Detection theory or signal detection theory is a means to measure the ability to differentiate between information-bearing patterns (called stimulus in living organisms, signal in machines) and random patterns that distract from the information (called noise, consisting of background stimuli and random activity of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes%20tube | A Crookes tube (also Crookes–Hittorf tube) is an early experimental electrical discharge tube, with partial vacuum, invented by English physicist William Crookes and others around 1869-1875, in which cathode rays, streams of electrons, were discovered.
Developed from the earlier Geissler tube, the Crookes tube consis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weill%20Cornell%20Graduate%20School%20of%20Medical%20Sciences | The Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (WCGS) (formerly known as the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences) is a graduate college of Cornell University that was founded in 1952 as an academic partnership between two major medical institutions in New York City: the Weill Cornell Medical C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46%20%28number%29 | 46 (forty-six) is the natural number following 45 and preceding 47.
In mathematics
Forty-six is
thirteenth discrete semiprime () and the eighth of the form (2.q), where q is a higher prime.
with an aliquot sum of 26; itself a semiprime, within an aliquot sequence of six composite numbers (46,26,16,15,9,4,3,1,0) t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maytenus%20sp.%20nov.%20A | {{Automatic taxobox
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20channel%2C%20voltage-dependent%2C%20T%20type%2C%20alpha%201H%20subunit | Calcium channel, voltage-dependent, T type, alpha 1H subunit, also known as CACNA1H, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the CACNA1H gene.
Function
This gene encodes Cav3.2, a T-type member of the α1 subunit family, a protein in the voltage-dependent calcium channel complex. Calcium channels mediate the influ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source%20video%20game | An open-source video game, or simply an open-source game, is a video game whose source code is open-source. They are often freely distributable and sometimes cross-platform compatible.
Definition and differentiation
Not all open-source games are free software; some open-source games contain proprietary non-free cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%20101 | In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 101 is a family of glycoside hydrolases.
Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED%20display | A LED display is a flat panel display that uses an array of light-emitting diodes as pixels for a video display. Their brightness allows them to be used outdoors where they are visible in the sun for store signs and billboards. In recent years, they have also become commonly used in destination signs on public transpor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary%20actuator | A rotary actuator is an actuator that produces a rotary motion or torque.
The simplest actuator is purely mechanical, where linear motion in one direction gives rise to rotation. The most common actuators are electrically powered; others may be powered pneumatically or hydraulically, or use energy stored in springs.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20requirements | To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer. These prerequisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. Most software defines two sets of system requirements... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codazzi%20tensor | In the mathematical field of differential geometry, a Codazzi tensor (named after Delfino Codazzi) is a symmetric 2-tensor whose covariant derivative is also symmetric. Such tensors arise naturally in the study of Riemannian manifolds with harmonic curvature or harmonic Weyl tensor. In fact, existence of Codazzi tensor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-layer%20materials | In materials science, the term single-layer materials or 2D materials refers to crystalline solids consisting of a single layer of atoms. These materials are promising for some applications but remain the focus of research. Single-layer materials derived from single elements generally carry the -ene suffix in their nam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstripes | Superstripes is a generic name for a phase with spatial broken symmetry that favors the onset of superconducting or superfluid
quantum order. This scenario emerged in the 1990s when non-homogeneous metallic heterostructures at the atomic limit with a broken spatial symmetry have been found to favor superconductivity. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume-weighted%20average%20price | In finance, volume-weighted average price (VWAP) is the ratio of the value of a security or financial asset traded to the total volume of transactions during a trading session. It is a measure of the average trading price for the period.
Typically, the indicator is computed for one day, but it can be measured between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subluxation | A subluxation is an incomplete or partial dislocation of a joint or organ.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a subluxation is a "significant structural displacement", and is therefore always visible on static imaging studies, such as X-rays.
By contrast, the pseudoscientific concept of a chiropractic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20variation%20denoising | In signal processing, particularly image processing, total variation denoising, also known as total variation regularization or total variation filtering, is a noise removal process (filter). It is based on the principle that signals with excessive and possibly spurious detail have high total variation, that is, the in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arborloo | An arborloo is a simple type of composting toilet in which feces are collected in a shallow pit and a fruit tree is later planted in the fertile soil of the full pit. Arborloos have: a pit like a pit latrine but less deep; a concrete, ferrocement or other strong floor; a superstructure (toilet house or outhouse) to pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20SMC-70 | The SMC-70 is a microcomputer that was produced by Sony and released in September 1982. The system was initially released for general office use in the United States, with the SMC-70G and SMC-70GP (released in 1983) designed for professional video generation, for example in cable television applications, and digital v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferential%20programming | In most computer programming, a programmer keeps a program's intended results in mind and painstakingly constructs a program to achieve those results. Inferential programming refers to (still mostly hypothetical) techniques and technologies enabling the inverse. This would allow describing an intended result to a compu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20gluteal%20artery | The superior gluteal artery is the terminal branch of the posterior division of the internal iliac artery. It exits the pelvis through the greater sciatic foramen before splitting into a superficial branch and a deep branch.
Structure
Origin
The superior gluteal artery is the largest and final branch of the internal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himno%20a%20la%20Monta%C3%B1a | "" (, "Hymn to the Mountain"), or "" ("Anthem of Cantabria"), is the official anthem of the Spanish autonomous community of Cantabria. It was composed in 1926 by Juan Guerrero Urresti at the behest of the then Provincial Council of Santander (Diputación Provincial de Santander) and subsequent arrangements by José del R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity%20correction | In probability theory, a continuity correction is an adjustment that is made when a discrete distribution is approximated by a continuous distribution.
Examples
Binomial
If a random variable X has a binomial distribution with parameters n and p, i.e., X is distributed as the number of "successes" in n independent Be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperator | A recuperator is a special purpose counter-flow energy recovery heat exchanger positioned within the supply and exhaust air streams of an air handling system, or in the exhaust gases of an industrial process, in order to recover the waste heat. Generally, they are used to extract heat from the exhaust and use it to pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%20Going%20Their%20Own%20Way | Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW ) is an anti-feminist, misogynistic, mostly online community advocating for men to separate themselves from women and a society which they believe has been corrupted by feminism. The community is a part of the manosphere, a collection of anti-feminist websites and online communities that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonal%20flow%20%28plasma%29 | In toroidally confined fusion plasma experiments the term zonal flow means a plasma flow within a magnetic surface primarily in the poloidal direction. This usage is inspired by the analogy between the quasi-two-dimensional nature of large-scale atmospheric and oceanic flows, where zonal means latitudinal, and the simi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFP%20record | A Secure Shell fingerprint record (abbreviated as SSHFP record) is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) which identifies SSH keys that are associated with a host name. The acquisition of an SSHFP record needs to be secured with a mechanism such as DNSSEC for a chain of trust to be established.
Str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Joseph%20Gall | Franz Josef Gall (; 9 March 175822 August 1828) was a German neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain.
Claimed as the founder of the pseudoscience of phrenology, Gall was an early and important researcher in his fields. His contributions to the field ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir%20%28programming%20language%29 | Elixir is a functional, concurrent, high-level general-purpose programming language that runs on the BEAM virtual machine, which is also used to implement the Erlang programming language. Elixir builds on top of Erlang and shares the same abstractions for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications. Elixir also p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbard%E2%80%93Stratonovich%20transformation | The Hubbard–Stratonovich (HS) transformation is an exact mathematical transformation invented by Russian physicist Ruslan L. Stratonovich and popularized by British physicist John Hubbard. It is used to convert a particle theory into its respective field theory by linearizing the density operator in the many-body inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramberg%E2%80%93Osgood%20relationship | The Ramberg–Osgood equation was created to describe the non linear relationship between stress and strain—that is, the stress–strain curve—in materials near their yield points. It is especially applicable to metals that harden with plastic deformation (see work hardening), showing a smooth elastic-plastic transition. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B | {{DISPLAYTITLE:TLA+}}
TLA+ is a formal specification language developed by Leslie Lamport. It is used for designing, modelling, documentation, and verification of programs, especially concurrent systems and distributed systems. TLA+ is considered to be exhaustively-testable pseudocode, and its use likened to drawing b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersensitivity | Hypersensitivity (also called hypersensitivity reaction or intolerance) is an abnormal physiological condition in which there is an undesirable and adverse immune response to antigen. It is an abnormality in the immune system that causes immune diseases including allergies and autoimmunity. It is caused by many types o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded%20bed%20adsorption | Expanded bed adsorption (EBA) is a preparative chromatographic technique which makes processing of viscous and particulate liquids possible.
Principle
The protein binding principles in EBA are the same as in classical column chromatography and the common ion-exchange, hydrophobic interaction and affinity chromatograph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablation | Ablation ( – removal) is the removal or destruction of something from an object by vaporization, chipping, erosive processes, or by other means. Examples of ablative materials are described below, including spacecraft material for ascent and atmospheric reentry, ice and snow in glaciology, biological tissues in medici... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root%20nodule | Root nodules are found on the roots of plants, primarily legumes, that form a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Under nitrogen-limiting conditions, capable plants form a symbiotic relationship with a host-specific strain of bacteria known as rhizobia. This process has evolved multiple times within the legumes, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoscaling | Autoscaling, also spelled auto scaling or auto-scaling, and sometimes also called automatic scaling, is a method used in cloud computing that dynamically adjusts the amount of computational resources in a server farm - typically measured by the number of active servers - automatically based on the load on the farm. For... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integration%20by%20parts | In calculus, and more generally in mathematical analysis, integration by parts or partial integration is a process that finds the integral of a product of functions in terms of the integral of the product of their derivative and antiderivative. It is frequently used to transform the antiderivative of a product of funct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20Description%20Table | Service Description Table (SDT) is a metadata table used in Digital Video Broadcasting systems to describe the television, radio or other services contained in MPEG transport streams provided by the system. The purpose and format of the table is defined in ETSI EN 300 468: Specification for Service Information (SI) in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula%20claroflava | Russula claroflava, commonly known as the yellow russula, yellow swamp russula or yellow swamp brittlegill, is a basidiomycete mushroom of the genus Russula. It is found in wet places under birch and aspen woodlands across Europe and North America. It has a yellow cap, white gills and stipe and bruises grey. It is mild... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags%20of%20the%20lieutenant%20governors%20of%20Canada | As the viceregal representative of the monarch of Canada, the lieutenant governors of the Canadian provinces have since Confederation been entitled to and have used a personal standard. Within a lieutenant governor's province, this standard has precedence over any other flag, including the national one, though it comes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohit%20Jivanlal%20Parikh | Rohit Jivanlal Parikh (born November 20, 1936) is an Indian-American mathematician, logician, and philosopher who has worked in many areas in traditional logic, including recursion theory and proof theory. He is a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Research
Parikh wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine%20bundle | In mathematics, an affine bundle is a fiber bundle whose typical fiber, fibers, trivialization morphisms and transition functions are affine.
Formal definition
Let be a vector bundle with a typical fiber a vector space . An affine bundle modelled on a vector bundle is a fiber bundle whose typical fiber is an affin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal%20gradient | Geothermal gradient is the rate of change in temperature with respect to increasing depth in Earth's interior. As a general rule, the crust temperature rises with depth due to the heat flow from the much hotter mantle; away from tectonic plate boundaries, temperature rises in about 25–30 °C/km (72–87 °F/mi) of depth ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s%20differential%20equation | In mathematics, Euler's differential equation is a first-order non-linear ordinary differential equation, named after Leonhard Euler. It is given by:
This is a separable equation and the solution is given by the following integral equation: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti%20bridge | A spaghetti bridge is a bridge (architectural model) made of uncooked spaghetti or other hard, dry, straight noodles. Bridges are constructed for both educational experiments and competitions. The aim is usually to construct a bridge with a specific quantity of materials over a specific span, that can sustain a load. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%E2%80%93Beltrami%20operator | In differential geometry, the Laplace–Beltrami operator is a generalization of the Laplace operator to functions defined on submanifolds in Euclidean space and, even more generally, on Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. It is named after Pierre-Simon Laplace and Eugenio Beltrami.
For any twice-differentiable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation%20memory | Bifurcation memory is a generalized name for some specific features of the behaviour of the dynamical system near the bifurcation. An example is the recurrent neuron memory.
General information
The phenomenon is known also under the names of "stability loss delay for dynamical bifurcations" and "ghost attractor".
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Society%20on%20General%20Relativity%20and%20Gravitation | The International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG) is a learned society established in 1971 with the goal to promote research on general relativity (GR) and gravitation. To that end, it encourages communication between relativity researchers, in particular by organizing the triennial international... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroNames | NeuroNames is an integrated nomenclature for structures in the brain and spinal cord of the four species most studied by neuroscientists: human, macaque, rat and mouse. It offers a standard, controlled vocabulary of common names for structures, which is suitable for unambiguous neuroanatomical indexing of information i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection%20phase%20change | A phase change sometimes occurs when a wave is reflected, specifically from a medium with faster wave speed to the boundary of a medium with slower wave speed. Such reflections occur for many types of wave, including light waves, sound waves, and waves on vibrating strings.
General theory
For an incident wave traveli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positively%20separated%20sets | In mathematics, two non-empty subsets A and B of a given metric space (X, d) are said to be positively separated if the infimum
(Some authors also specify that A and B should be disjoint sets; however, this adds nothing to the definition, since if A and B have some common point p, then d(p, p) = 0, and so the infimu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical%20sexism | Botanical sexism is a term coined by horticulturist Tom Ogren to describe the planting of male plants instead of female plants of certain dioecious species including: willows, poplars, aspens, ashes, silver maples, pistache, mulberry, pepper tree and other woody plants such as junipers, yew pines, fern pines, wax myrt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless%20protocol | A stateless protocol is a communication protocol in which the receiver must not retain session state from previous requests. The sender transfers relevant session state to the receiver in such a way that every request can be understood in isolation, that is without reference to session state from previous requests reta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Adaptive%20Streaming%20over%20HTTP | Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), also known as MPEG-DASH, is an adaptive bitrate streaming technique that enables high quality streaming of media content over the Internet delivered from conventional HTTP web servers. Similar to Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) solution, MPEG-DASH works by breaking the con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20power%20series | In mathematics, a formal series is an infinite sum that is considered independently from any notion of convergence, and can be manipulated with the usual algebraic operations on series (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, partial sums, etc.).
A formal power series is a special kind of formal series, whose... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame%20%28linear%20algebra%29 | In linear algebra, a frame of an inner product space is a generalization of a basis of a vector space to sets that may be linearly dependent. In the terminology of signal processing, a frame provides a redundant, stable way of representing a signal. Frames are used in error detection and correction and the design and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunt%E2%80%93V%C3%A4is%C3%A4l%C3%A4%20frequency | In atmospheric dynamics, oceanography, asteroseismology and geophysics, the Brunt–Väisälä frequency, or buoyancy frequency, is a measure of the stability of a fluid to vertical displacements such as those caused by convection. More precisely it is the frequency at which a vertically displaced parcel will oscillate with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Experimental%20Centre | The Wireless Experimental Centre (WEC) was one of two overseas outposts of Station X, Bletchley Park, the British signals analysis centre during World War II. The other outpost was the Far East Combined Bureau. Codebreakers Wilfred Noyce and Maurice Allen broke the Japanese Army's Water Transport Code here in 1943, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based%20definition | Model-based definition (MBD), sometimes called digital product definition (DPD), is the practice of using 3D models (such as solid models, 3D PMI and associated metadata) within 3D CAD software to define (provide specifications for) individual components and product assemblies. The types of information included are ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamebird%20hybrids | Gamebird hybrids are the result of crossing species of game birds, including ducks, with each other and with domestic poultry. These hybrid species may sometimes occur naturally in the wild or more commonly through the deliberate or inadvertent intervention of humans.
Charles Darwin described hybrids of game birds and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral%20intelligence | Moral intelligence is the capacity to understand right from wrong and to behave based on the value that is believed to be right (similar to the notion of moral competence). Moral intelligence was first developed as a concept in 2005 by Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel, Ph.D. Much of the research involved with moral intellige... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal%20polynomials%20on%20the%20unit%20circle | In mathematics, orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle are families of polynomials that are orthogonal with respect to integration over the unit circle in the complex plane, for some probability measure on the unit circle. They were introduced by .
Definition
Suppose that is a probability measure on the unit ci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest%20neighbour%20algorithm | The nearest neighbour algorithm was one of the first algorithms used to solve the travelling salesman problem approximately. In that problem, the salesman starts at a random city and repeatedly visits the nearest city until all have been visited. The algorithm quickly yields a short tour, but usually not the optimal on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C1%2C1%2C2-Tetrafluoroethane | 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane (also known as norflurane (INN), R-134a, Klea®134a, Freon 134a, Forane 134a, Genetron 134a, Green Gas, Florasol 134a, Suva 134a, or HFC-134a) is a hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) and haloalkane refrigerant with thermodynamic properties similar to R-12 (dichlorodifluoromethane) but with insignificant o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instapaper | Instapaper is a social bookmarking service that allows web content to be saved so it can be "read later" on a different device, such as an e-reader, smartphone, or tablet. The service was founded in 2008 by Marco Arment. In April 2013, Arment sold a majority stake to Betaworks and by mid 2016 Pinterest acquired the com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday%20Night%20Football%20%28NRL%29 | Friday Night Football is an Australian sports broadcast of National Rugby League games on Friday evenings.
In 1982, several early season NSWRL games were played on a Friday night, however regular non-weekend football began as Monday Night Football in 1985, with Canterbury meeting Manly on 24 June. However moderate att... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KlickEx | KlickEx is a Polynesian Central Bank Money payments system for domestic, high value, low value, securities, cheque, and electronic foreign exchange transactions using an interbank smart market retail system. It provides exchange clearing service platforms to central bank, commercial bank, nonbank, and non-financial cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois%20connection | In mathematics, especially in order theory, a Galois connection is a particular correspondence (typically) between two partially ordered sets (posets). Galois connections find applications in various mathematical theories. They generalize the fundamental theorem of Galois theory about the correspondence between subgro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latimer%E2%80%93MacDuffee%20theorem | The Latimer–MacDuffee theorem is a theorem in abstract algebra, a branch of mathematics.
It is named after Claiborne Latimer and Cyrus Colton MacDuffee, who published it in 1933. Significant contributions to its theory were made later by Olga Taussky-Todd.
Let be a monic, irreducible polynomial of degree . The Lati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonworld%20%28video%20game%29 | Dragonworld is an interactive fiction game with graphics. The game was published by Telarium (formerly Trillium), a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, in the year 1984. The game was based on the novel written in 1979 by Byron Preiss and Michael Reaves; text for the game was written by J. Brynne Stephens.
Reception
A G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator%20input%20methods | There are various ways in which calculators interpret keystrokes. These can be categorized into two main types:
On a single-step or immediate-execution calculator, the user presses a key for each operation, calculating all the intermediate results, before the final value is shown.
On an expression or formula calculat... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20criminology | Computational criminology is an interdisciplinary field which uses computing science methods to formally define criminology concepts, improve our understanding of complex phenomena, and generate solutions for related problems.
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Computing science methods being used include:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American%20Journal%20of%20Aquatic%20Sciences | The Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal. It covers research on all aspects of the aquatic sciences. Articles are published in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and is indexed in Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphapapillomavirus | Alphapapillomavirus is a genus of viruses, in the family Papillomaviridae. Human and monkeys serve as natural hosts. There are 14 species in this genus. Diseases associated with this genus include: warts, papilloma, malignant tumours. Genital-type, high-risk of malignancy (cervical cancer): HPV-16, 18. Genital-type, l... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDUFS8 | NADH dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] iron-sulfur protein 8, mitochondrial also known as NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase 23 kDa subunit, Complex I-23kD (CI-23kD), or TYKY subunit is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NDUFS8 gene. The NDUFS8 protein is a subunit of NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone) also known as Complex ... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Level%20Authentication | Network Level Authentication (NLA) is a feature of Remote Desktop Services (RDP Server) or Remote Desktop Connection (RDP Client) that requires the connecting user to authenticate themselves before a session is established with the server.
Originally, if a user opened an RDP (remote desktop) session to a server it wou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20Onsager%20Prize | The Lars Onsager Prize is a prize in theoretical statistical physics awarded annually by the American Physical Society. Prize recipients receive a medal, certificate, and $10,000. It was established in 1993 by Drs. Russell and Marian Donnelly in memory of Lars Onsager.
Recipients
See also
List of physics awards
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