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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel%20generator | A diesel generator (DG) (also known as a diesel genset) is the combination of a diesel engine with an electric generator (often an alternator) to generate electrical energy. This is a specific case of engine generator. A diesel compression-ignition engine is usually designed to run on diesel fuel, but some types are ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Burkov | Vladimir Nikolaevich Burkov is a Russian control theorist and the author of more than four hundred publications on control problems, game theory, and combinatorial optimization. Laureate of State Prize of USSR, of Prize of Cabinet Council of USSR, he is an Honoured Scholar of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Burkov is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleware%20analyst | Middleware analysts are computer software engineers with a specialization in products that connect two different computer systems together. These products can be open-source or proprietary. As the term implies, the software, tools, and technologies used by Middleware analysts sit "in-the-middle", between two or more sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddy%20test | The Oddy test is a procedure created at the British Museum by conservation scientist William Andrew Oddy in 1973, in order to test materials for safety in and around art objects.
Often, materials for construction and museum contexts (including artefact conservation) are evaluated for safety. However, though materials m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roelof%20Botha | Roelof F. Botha (born 19 September 1973) is a South African actuary, venture capitalist and company director.
Botha is a partner at Sequoia Capital and as of 2022 sits on the boards of MongoDB, Evernote, Bird, Ethos, Natera, Square, Unity, and Xoom. He also worked with AssureRX, FutureAdvisor, Instagram, Mixpanel and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylohyoid%20nerve | The mylohyoid nerve (or nerve to mylohyoid) is a mixed nerve of the head. It is a branch of the inferior alveolar nerve. It provides motor innervation the mylohyoid muscle, and the anterior belly of the digastric muscle. It provides sensory innervation to part of the submental area, and sometimes also the mandibular (l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Fano | Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano (11 November 1917 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a student and working lab partner to Claude Shannon, whom he admired zealously and assisted in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph%20Aluck%20Smokehouse | The Dolph Aluck Smokehouse is a stone smokehouse located on the north side of Milford Rd., in Pendleton County, Kentucky near Falmouth. It faces the confluence of the North Fork Licking River and the Licking River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
It was built in the mid-1800s and w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentophobia | Mentophobia or mentaphobia is a concept described by Donald Griffin, an American zoologist and the founder of cognitive ethology, to denote strong resistance from scientists to the idea that animals, other than humans, are conscious. Griffin argued that there is a taboo "against scientific consideration of private, con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yop1p | DP1/Yop1p is an integral membrane protein family that, along with the reticulons, is responsible for the shape of the tubular endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in yeast and mammalian cells. Furthermore, it is also believed that they might be involved in sheet ER formation.
About half the total area of membrane in an eukaryot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation%20dome | A saturation dome is a graphical representation of the combination of vapor and gas that is used in thermodynamics. It can be used to find either the pressure or the specific volume as long as one already has at least one of these properties.
Description
A saturation dome uses the projection of a P–v–T diagram (pressu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohomological%20descent | In algebraic geometry, a cohomological descent is, roughly, a "derived" version of a fully faithful descent in the classical descent theory. This point is made precise by the below: the following are equivalent: in an appropriate setting, given a map a from a simplicial space X to a space S,
is fully faithful.
The na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrogression%20heat%20treatment | Retrogression heat treatment (RHT) is a heat treatment process that rapidly heat treats age-hardenable aluminum alloys. Mainly induction heating is used for RHT. In the past, it was mainly used for 6061 and 6063 aluminum alloys. Therefore, forming of complex shapes is possible, without creating damages like cracks. Eve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20availability | High availability (HA) is a characteristic of a system that aims to ensure an agreed level of operational performance, usually uptime, for a higher than normal period.
Modernization has resulted in an increased reliance on these systems. For example, hospitals and data centers require high availability of their syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session%20multiplexing | Session multiplexing in a computer network is a service provided by the transport layer (see OSI Layered Model). It multiplexes several message streams, or sessions onto one logical link and keeps track of which messages belong to which sessions (see session layer).
An example of session multiplexing—a single computer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery%20House | Mystery House is an adventure game released by On-Line Systems in 1980. It was designed, written and illustrated by Roberta Williams, and programmed by Ken Williams for the Apple II. Mystery House is the first graphical adventure game and the first game produced by On-Line Systems, the company which would evolve into S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty%20coefficient | In statistics, the uncertainty coefficient, also called proficiency, entropy coefficient or Theil's U, is a measure of nominal association. It was first introduced by Henri Theil and is based on the concept of information entropy.
Definition
Suppose we have samples of two discrete random variables, X and Y. By const... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple-As-Possible%20computer | The Simple-As-Possible (SAP) computer is a simplified computer architecture designed for educational purposes and described in the book Digital Computer Electronics by Albert Paul Malvino and Jerald A. Brown. The SAP architecture serves as an example in Digital Computer Electronics for building and analyzing complex lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival%20of%20the%20fittest | "Survival of the fittest" is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection. The biological concept of fitness is defined as reproductive success. In Darwinian terms, the phrase is best understood as "Survival of the form that will leave the most co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting%20principle | In mathematics, the splitting principle is a technique used to reduce questions about vector bundles to the case of line bundles.
In the theory of vector bundles, one often wishes to simplify computations, say of Chern classes. Often computations are well understood for line bundles and for direct sums of line bundle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenGIS | GenGIS merges geographic, ecological and phylogenetic biodiversity data in a single interactive visualization and analysis environment. A key feature of GenGIS is the testing of geographic axes that can correspond to routes of migration or gradients that influence community similarity. Data can also be explored using g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant%20Deadhead | Sergeant Deadhead is a 1965 musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Frankie Avalon. It features many cast members who appeared in the Beach Party movies.
Plot
Sergeant Deadhead is a bumbling soldier who is sent to the guardhouse for blowing up a model rocket on the parade ground of the air base wher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve%20audio%20amplifier | A valve audio amplifier (UK) or vacuum tube audio amplifier (US) is a valve amplifier used for sound reinforcement, sound recording and reproduction.
Until the invention of solid state devices such as the transistor, all electronic amplification was produced by valve (tube) amplifiers. While solid-state devices prevai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%20phenomenon | In complex analysis the Stokes phenomenon, discovered by , is where the asymptotic behavior of functions can differ in different regions of the complex plane. This seemingly gives rise to a paradox when looking at the asymptotic expansion of an analytic function. Since an analytic function is continuous you would expec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isentropic%20process | In thermodynamics, an isentropic process is an idealized thermodynamic process that is both adiabatic and reversible. The work transfers of the system are frictionless, and there is no net transfer of heat or matter. Such an idealized process is useful in engineering as a model of and basis of comparison for real pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20symbol | In mathematics, the radical symbol, radical sign, root symbol, radix, or surd is a symbol for the square root or higher-order root of a number. The square root of a number is written as
while the th root of is written as
It is also used for other meanings in more advanced mathematics, such as the radical of an idea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je%C5%A1t%C4%9Bd%20Tower | Ještěd Tower () is a television transmitter on the top of Mount Ještěd near Liberec in the Czech Republic. It is high. It is made of reinforced concrete shaped in a hyperboloid form. The tower's architect is Karel Hubáček who was assisted by Zdeněk Patrman, involved in building statics, and by Otakar Binar, who design... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Budd%20%28mathematician%29 | Christopher John Budd (born 15 February 1960) is a British mathematician known especially for his contribution to non-linear differential equations and their applications in industry. He is currently Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bath, and was Professor of Geometry at Gresham College from 2016 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specim | Specim, Spectral Imaging Ltd is a European technology firm headquartered in Oulu, Finland. Specim manufactures and sells imaging spectrographs, hyperspectral cameras and systems. Specim's airborne AISA hyperspectral cameras have been utilized for example in monitoring the environmental effects of major industrial catas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20compound%20microarray | A chemical compound microarray is a collection of organic chemical compounds spotted on a solid surface, such as glass and plastic. This microarray format is very similar to DNA microarray, protein microarray and antibody microarray. In chemical genetics research, they are routinely used for searching proteins that bin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable%20and%20attribute%20%28research%29 | In science and research, an attribute is a quality of an object (person, thing, etc.). Attributes are closely related to variables. A variable is a logical set of attributes. Variables can "vary" – for example, be high or low. How high, or how low, is determined by the value of the attribute (and in fact, an attribute ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mananambal | The Mananambal is a Filipino practitioner of traditional medicine; a medicine man who is also capable of performing sorcery. The mananambal treats both natural and supernatural maladies.
Overview
In Cebu, located in the Visayas region of the Philippines, a traditional albularyo is called a Mananambal and their work o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeyd | Honeyd is an open source computer program created by Niels Provos that allows a user to set up and run multiple virtual hosts on a computer network. These virtual hosts can be configured to mimic several different types of servers, allowing the user to simulate an infinite number of computer network configurations. Hon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20aliasing | Type aliasing is a feature in some programming languages that allows the creation to refer to a type using another name. It does not create a new type hence does not increase type safety. It can be used to shorten a long name. Programing languages which allows type aliasing include C++, D, Dart, Elixir, Elm, F#, Go, Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20protection%20dongle | A software protection dongle (commonly known as a dongle or key) is an electronic copy protection and content protection device. When connected to a computer or other electronics, they unlock software functionality or decode content. The hardware key is programmed with a product key or other cryptographic protection me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesterol%20signaling | Cholesterol is a cell signaling molecule that is highly regulated in eukaryotic cell membranes. In human health, its effects are most notable in inflammation, metabolic syndrome, and neurodegeneration. At the molecular level, cholesterol primarily signals by regulating clustering of saturated lipids and proteins that d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard%20Computers | The Harvard Computers were a team of women working as skilled workers to process astronomical data at the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The team was directed by Edward Charles Pickering (1877 to 1919) and, following his death in 1919, by Annie Jump Cannon.
Other computers in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonchus%20asper | Sonchus asper, the prickly sow-thistle, rough milk thistle, spiny sowthistle, sharp-fringed sow thistle, or spiny-leaved sow thistle, is a widespread flowering plant in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae.
Description
Sonchus asper is an annual or biennial herb sometimes reaching a height of with spiny ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteBIRD | LiteBIRD (Lite (Light) satellite for the studies of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection) is a planned small space observatory that aims to detect the footprint of the primordial gravitational wave on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in a form of polarization pattern called ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rees%20algebra | In commutative algebra, the Rees algebra of an ideal I in a commutative ring R is defined to be The extended Rees algebra of I (which some authors refer to as the Rees algebra of I) is defined asThis construction has special interest in algebraic geometry since the projective scheme defined by the Rees algebra of an id... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral%20blood%20volume | Cerebral blood volume is the blood volume in a given amount of brain tissue.
Pathophysiology
The typical human adult's skull contains approximately 1500 grams of the brain (including gray matter and white matter), 100-130 milliliters of blood, and 75 milliliters of cerebrospinal fluid. About 15% of the blood volume i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILEPOST%20GCC | MILEPOST GCC is a free, community-driven, open-source, adaptive, self-tuning compiler that combines
stable production-quality GCC, Interactive Compilation Interface and machine learning plugins to
adapt to any given architecture and program automatically and predict profitable optimizations to improve program executi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropisomer | Atropisomers are stereoisomers arising because of hindered rotation about a single bond, where energy differences due to steric strain or other contributors create a barrier to rotation that is high enough to allow for isolation of individual conformers.
They occur naturally and are important in pharmaceutical design. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20%26%20Joseph%20Birman%20Research%20Prize%20in%20Topology%20and%20Geometry | The Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry is a prize given every other year by the Association for Women in Mathematics to an outstanding young female researcher in topology or geometry. The prize fund for the award was endowed by a donation in 2013 from Joan Birman and her husband, Joseph Birman... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian%20dictionaries | Dictionaries of Lithuanian language have been printed since the first half of the 17th century.
History
The first Lithuanian language dictionary was compiled by Konstantinas Sirvydas and printed in 1629 as a trilingual (Polish–Latin–Lithuanian) dictionary. Five editions of it were printed until 1713, but it was used a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20freedom | Internet freedom is an umbrella term that encompasses digital rights, freedom of information, the right to Internet access, freedom from Internet censorship, and net neutrality.
As a human right
Those who support internet freedom as a human right include the United Nations Human Rights Council, who declared internet ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runahead | Runahead is a technique that allows a computer processor to speculatively pre-process instructions during cache miss cycles. The pre-processed instructions are used to generate instruction and data stream prefetches by executing instructions leading to cache misses (typically called long latency loads) before they woul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation%20in%20Fr%C3%A9chet%20spaces | In mathematics, in particular in functional analysis and nonlinear analysis, it is possible to define the derivative of a function between two Fréchet spaces. This notion of differentiation, as it is Gateaux derivative between Fréchet spaces, is significantly weaker than the derivative in a Banach space, even between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-shot%20deviation%20principle | The one-shot deviation principle (also known as single-deviation property) is the principle of optimality of dynamic programming applied to game theory. It says that a strategy profile of a finite multi-stage extensive-form game with observed actions is a subgame perfect equilibrium (SPE) if and only if there exist no ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy%20research | Canopy research is the field of scientific research based upon data collected in the canopy of trees.
Objects
Description of plant and animal species residing in the tree-summits. Mainly ancient forests and tropical forests are studied.
Study of forest ecosystem dynamics, change drivers and other factors that shape ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 78° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 78th meridian east forms a great circle with the 102nd meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezoidal%20rule | In calculus, the trapezoidal rule (also known as the trapezoid rule or trapezium rule) is a technique for numerical integration, i.e., approximating the definite integral:
The trapezoidal rule works by approximating the region under the graph of the function
as a trapezoid and calculating its area. It follows that
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsallis%20statistics | The term Tsallis statistics usually refers to the collection of mathematical functions and associated probability distributions that were originated by Constantino Tsallis. Using that collection, it is possible to derive Tsallis distributions from the optimization of the Tsallis entropic form. A continuous real paramet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative%20coevolution | Cooperative Coevolution (CC) in the field of biological evolution is an evolutionary computation method. It divides a large problem into subcomponents, and solves them independently in order to solve the large problem.
The subcomponents are also called species. The subcomponents are implemented as subpopulations and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20lateral%20line | An Artificial Lateral Line (ALL) is a biomimetic lateral line system. A lateral line is a system of sensory organs in aquatic animals such as fish, that serves to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in their environment. An artificial lateral line is an artificial biomimetic array of distinct mechanosen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Card%20Foundation | Information Card Foundation (ICF) is an independent non-profit organization created in June 2008. The ICF consists of Steering Community board members and Steering Business board members. Some of the businesses include Equifax, Google, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle Corporation and PayPal. The foundation was formed to promo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branching%20factor | In computing, tree data structures, and game theory, the branching factor is the number of children at each node, the outdegree. If this value is not uniform, an average branching factor can be calculated.
For example, in chess, if a "node" is considered to be a legal position, the average branching factor has been sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-spectral%20phase%20coherence | Multi-spectral phase coherence (MSPC) is a generalized cross-frequency coupling metric introduced by Yang and colleagues in 2016. MSPC can be used to quantify nonlinear phase coupling between a set of base frequencies and their harmonic/intermodulation frequencies. MSPC is a model-free method, which can provide a syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20for%20Plant%20Taxonomy | The International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) is an organization established to promote an understanding of plant biodiversity, facilitate international communication of research between botanists, and oversee matters of uniformity and stability in plant names. The IAPT was founded on July 18, 1950, at the Se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya%20Blade | Sonya Blade is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise by Midway Games and NetherRealm Studios. She debuted in the original 1992 game as the roster's sole female fighter, a military officer with the Special Forces.
In the storyline of the games, Sonya becomes involved with the eponymous Mort... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko%20Tadi%C4%87 | Marko Tadić (born 16 November 1953 in Tomislavgrad) is a Croatian mathematician.
Tadić does research in the field of noncommutative harmonic analysis, especially the representation theory of classical groups and classification of unitary representations and its interaction with the modern theory of automorphic forms t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise-induced%20anaphylaxis | Exercise-induced anaphylaxis (EIA, EIAn, EIAs) is a rare condition in which anaphylaxis, a serious or life-threatening allergic response, is brought on by physical activity. Approximately 5–15% of all reported cases of anaphylaxis are thought to be exercise-induced.
The exact proportion of the population with EIA is u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Jouvet | Michel Valentin Marcel Jouvet (16 November 1925 – 3 October 2017) was a French neuroscientist and medical researcher.
His works, and those of his team, have brought about the discovery of paradoxical sleep (a term he coined) and to its individualisation as the third state of functioning of the brain (1959), to the dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate-specific%20antigen | Prostate-specific antigen (PSA), also known as gamma-seminoprotein or kallikrein-3 (KLK3), P-30 antigen, is a glycoprotein enzyme encoded in humans by the KLK3 gene. PSA is a member of the kallikrein-related peptidase family and is secreted by the epithelial cells of the prostate gland.
PSA is produced for the ejacula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Lubiw | Anna Lubiw is a computer scientist
known for her work in computational geometry and graph theory. She is currently a professor at the University of Waterloo.
Education
Lubiw received her Ph.D from the University of Toronto in 1986 under the joint supervision of Rudolf Mathon and Stephen Cook.
Research
At Waterloo, L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm%27s-eye%20view | A worm's-eye view is a view of an object from below, as though the observer were a worm; it is the opposite of a bird's-eye view.
It can be used to look up to something to make an object look tall, strong, and mighty while the viewer feels childlike or powerless.
A worm's eye view commonly uses three-point perspectiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckling%20%28fish%29 | A buckling is a form of hot-smoked herring similar to the kipper and the bloater. The head and guts are removed but the roe or milt remain. They may be eaten hot or cold.
Terminology
The name comes from the German word bückling or the Swedish böckling, both words denoting a type of hot-smoked herring.
Bucklings, bloa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better%20Days%20%28Natalia%20Gutierrez%20y%20Angelo%20song%29 | "Better Days" (Spanish: "Mejores Dias") is a 2010 Colombian pop song by Natalia Gutierrez y Angelo. The song was created by the Colombian army and Radio Bemba, a small recording studio for commercial jingles, with the purpose of communicating a hidden message to Colombian soldiers held captive by FARC guerrillas.
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatory%20logic | Combinatory logic is a notation to eliminate the need for quantified variables in mathematical logic. It was introduced by Moses Schönfinkel and Haskell Curry, and has more recently been used in computer science as a theoretical model of computation and also as a basis for the design of functional programming languages... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20biochemistry%20awards | This list of biochemistry awards is an index to articles on notable awards for contributions to biochemistry, the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. The list gives the country of the organization that gives the award, but the award may not be limited to people from that country.
Award... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero%20della%20Francesca | Piero della Francesca (, , ; ; – 12 October 1492) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca is chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting is characterized by its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%20polynomials | The Chebyshev polynomials are two sequences of polynomials related to the cosine and sine functions, notated as and . They can be defined in several equivalent ways, one of which starts with trigonometric functions:
The Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind are defined by:
Similarly, the Chebyshev polynomials o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20domain | In molecular biology, the cache domain is an extracellular protein domain that is predicted to have a role in small-molecule recognition in a wide range of proteins, including the animal dihydropyridine-sensitive voltage-gated Ca2+ channel alpha-2delta subunit, and various bacterial chemotaxis receptors. The name Cache... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn%20al-Banna%27%20al-Marrakushi | Ibn al‐Bannāʾ al‐Marrākushī (), full name: Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Azdi al-Marrakushi () (29 December 1256 – 31 July 1321), was a Maghrebi Muslim polymath who was active as a mathematician, astronomer, Islamic scholar, Sufi and astrologer.
Biography
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman was born in the Q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-area-to-volume%20ratio | The surface-area-to-volume ratio or surface-to-volume ratio (denoted as SA:V, SA/V, or sa/vol) is the ratio between surface area and volume of an object or collection of objects.
SA:V is an important concept in science and engineering. It is used to explain the relation between structure and function in processes occu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydextrose | Polydextrose is a synthetic polymer of glucose. It is a food ingredient classified as soluble fiber by the US FDA as well as Health Canada, . It is frequently used to increase the dietary fiber content of food, to replace sugar, and to reduce calories and fat content. It is a multi-purpose food ingredient synthesized f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFAT | Nuclear factor of activated T-cells (NFAT) is a family of transcription factors shown to be important in immune response. One or more members of the NFAT family is expressed in most cells of the immune system. NFAT is also involved in the development of cardiac, skeletal muscle, and nervous systems. NFAT was first disc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20of%20Gerontology%20and%20Geriatrics | The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG), formerly the International Association of Gerontological Societies is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that promotes gerontological research and training, and represents gerontological organizations internationally.
History
The International Asso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriella%20Tarantello | Gabriella Tarantello (born 15 October 1958) is an Italian mathematician specializing in partial differential equations, differential geometry, and gauge theory. She is a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
Education and career
Tarantello was born in Pratola Peligna. She di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20College%20of%20Neuropsychopharmacology | Founded in 1961, the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) is a professional organization of leading brain and behavior scientists. The principal functions of the college are research and education. Their goals in research are to offer investigators an opportunity for cross-disciplinary communication and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel%20problem | The Basel problem is a problem in mathematical analysis with relevance to number theory, concerning an infinite sum of inverse squares. It was first posed by Pietro Mengoli in 1650 and solved by Leonhard Euler in 1734, and read on 5 December 1735 in The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Since the problem had withst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen%20Storey | Maureen Lee Storey is the president and CEO of the Alliance for Potato Research and Education (APRE), founded in 2010. APRE is dedicated to expanding and translating research into science-based policy and education initiatives on the role of all forms of the potato in a well-balanced diet. Regarding potatoes, she has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20of%20a%20function | In mathematics, the domain of a function is the set of inputs accepted by the function. It is sometimes denoted by or , where is the function. In layman's terms, the domain of a function can generally be thought of as "what x can be".
More precisely, given a function , the domain of is . In modern mathematical lang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Celix | Apache Celix is an open-source implementation of the OSGi specification adapted to C and C++ developed by the Apache Software Foundation. The project aims to provide a framework to develop (dynamic) modular software applications using component and/or service-oriented programming.
Apache Celix is primarily developed i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Mashup%20Alliance | The Open Mashup Alliance (OMA) is a non-profit consortium that promotes the adoption of mashup solutions in the enterprise through the evolution of enterprise mashup standards like EMML. The initial members of the OMA include some large technology companies such as Adobe Systems, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel and some ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethe%E2%80%93Feynman%20formula | The Bethe–Feynman efficiency formula, a simple method for calculating the yield of a fission bomb, was first derived in 1943 after development in 1942. Aspects of the formula are speculated to be secret restricted data.
Related formula
a = internal energy per gram
b = growth rate
c = sphere radius
A numerical coeffic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day%20length%20fluctuations | The length of the day (LOD), which has increased over the long term of Earth's history due to tidal effects, is also subject to fluctuations on a shorter scale of time. Exact measurements of time by atomic clocks and satellite laser ranging have revealed that the LOD is subject to a number of different changes. These s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar%20Hall%20sensor | The planar Hall sensor is a type of magnetic sensor based on the planar Hall effect of ferromagnetic materials. It measures the change in anisotropic magnetoresistance caused by an external magnetic field in the Hall geometry. As opposed to an ordinary Hall sensor, which measures field components perpendicular to the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baily%E2%80%93Borel%20compactification | In mathematics, the Baily–Borel compactification is a compactification of a quotient of a Hermitian symmetric space by an arithmetic group, introduced by .
Example
If C is the quotient of the upper half plane by a congruence subgroup of SL2(Z), then the Baily–Borel compactification of C is formed by adding a finite n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20universal%20common%20ancestor | The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is mostly hypothesized to have been a common ancestral cell from which the three domains of life, the Bacteria, the Archaea, and the Eukarya originated. It is suggested to have been a "cellular organism that had a lipid bilayer and used DNA, RNA, and protein". The LUCA has also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands%20Bioinformatics%20Centre | The Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre or NBIC (2003-2013) was a Dutch, government-funded organization, that coordinated all academic work on bioinformatics in the Netherlands. NBIC consisted of programs for research (BioRange), for education (BioWise), and for support (BioAssist). NBIC partners are all Dutch universiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End%20extension | In model theory and set theory, which are disciplines within mathematics, a model of some axiom system of set theory in the language of set theory is an end extension of , in symbols , if
is a substructure of , (i.e., and ), and
whenever and hold, i.e., no new elements are added by to the elements of .
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest%20%28protein%20structural%20motif%29 | The Nest is a type of protein structural motif. It is a small recurring anion-binding feature of both proteins and peptides. Each consists of the main chain atoms of three consecutive amino acid residues. The main chain NH groups bind the anions while the side chain atoms are often not involved. Proline residues lack ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSv | OSv (stylized OSv) is a cloud computing focused computer operating system released on September 16, 2013. It is a special-purpose operating system built to run as a guest on top of a virtual machine, thus it does not include drivers for bare-metal hardware. It is a unikernel, designed to run a single Linux executable o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20filter | An adaptive filter is a system with a linear filter that has a transfer function controlled by variable parameters and a means to adjust those parameters according to an optimization algorithm. Because of the complexity of the optimization algorithms, almost all adaptive filters are digital filters. Adaptive filters a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whorl | A whorl ( or ) is an individual circle, oval, volution or equivalent in a whorled pattern, which consists of a spiral or multiple concentric objects (including circles, ovals and arcs).
In nature
For mollusc whorls, the body whorl in a mollusc shell is the most recently formed whorl of a spiral shell, terminating in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finisar | Finisar Corporation is a manufacturer of optical communication components and subsystems.
The company was founded in April 1987 by Frank Levinson and Jerry Rawls in Menlo Park, California. In November 1999, it went public via an initial public offering. In 2008 Finisar merged with Optium Corporation. In September 201... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveform%20viewer | A waveform viewer is a software tool for viewing the signal levels of either a digital or analog circuit design.
Waveform viewers comes in two varieties:
simulation waveform viewers for displaying signal levels of simulated design models, and
in-circuit waveform viewers for displaying signal levels captured in-circu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNI | VNI Software Company is a developer of various education, entertainment, office, and utility software packages. They are known for developing an encoding (VNI encoding) and a popular input method (VNI Input) for Vietnamese on for computers. VNI is often available on computer systems to type Vietnamese, alongside TELEX ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntrophaceticus%20schinkii | Syntrophaceticus schinkii is a species of strictly anaerobic, mesophilic, endospore-forming, syntrophic, acetate-oxidizing bacterium, the type species of its genus. Its type strain is Sp3T (=JCM 16669T), which was isolated from an anaerobic filter treating wastewater in a fishmeal factory. |
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