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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stub%20%28distributed%20computing%29
In distributed computing, a stub is a program that acts as a temporary replacement for a remote service or object. It allows the client application to access a service as if it were local, while hiding the details of the underlying network communication. This can simplify the development process, as the client applicat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inscribed%20figure
In geometry, an inscribed planar shape or solid is one that is enclosed by and "fits snugly" inside another geometric shape or solid. To say that "figure F is inscribed in figure G" means precisely the same thing as "figure G is circumscribed about figure F". A circle or ellipse inscribed in a convex polygon (or a sphe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive%20First%20Editions
The Exclusive First Editions (EFE) is a UK-based die-cast model manufacturer. It began trading in 1989, when the company released its first models of an AEC bus and truck. Models are mostly produced in 1/76th scale, which matches the standard scale for UK OO gauge model railways. The initial aim of EFE was to provide a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s%20line%20algorithm
Bresenham's line algorithm is a line drawing algorithm that determines the points of an n-dimensional raster that should be selected in order to form a close approximation to a straight line between two points. It is commonly used to draw line primitives in a bitmap image (e.g. on a computer screen), as it uses only in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfafstetter%20Coding%20System
The Pfafstetter Coding System is a hierarchical method of hydrologically coding river basins. It was developed by the Brazilian engineer in 1989. It is designed such that topological information is embedded in the code, which makes it easy to determine whether an event in one river basin will affect another by direct ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Microbial%20Oceanography%3A%20Research%20and%20Education
The Center for Microbial Oceanography (C-MORE) is a research and education organization established in 2006 as a National Science Foundation funded Science and Technology Center. Objectives It has been said that more is known about the surface of the Moon than about the Earth’s oceans. C-MORE was designed to explore t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional%20search
Bidirectional search is a graph search algorithm that finds a shortest path from an initial vertex to a goal vertex in a directed graph. It runs two simultaneous searches: one forward from the initial state, and one backward from the goal, stopping when the two meet. The reason for this approach is that in many cases i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blepharophimosis%20intellectual%20disability%20syndromes
Blepharophimosis intellectual disability syndromes are a group of rare genetic disorders which are characterized by blepharophimosis, ptosis, and intellectual disabilities. These disorders usually follow either autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant, x-linked recessive, or mitochondrial inheritance patterns. Types O...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphaenogaster%20praerelicta
Aphaenogaster praerelicta is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae known from a solitary Late Oligocene to Early Miocene fossil found in Mexico. At the time of description A. praerelicta was one of three Aphaenogaster species known from Mexico. History and classification Aphaenogaster praerelicta is k...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic%20pulmonary%20fibrosis
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), or (formerly) fibrosing alveolitis, is a rare, progressive illness of the respiratory system, characterized by the thickening and stiffening of lung tissue, associated with the formation of scar tissue. It is a type of chronic scarring lung disease characterized by a progressive and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium%20expansum
Penicillium expansum is a psychrophilic blue mold that is common throughout the world in soil. It causes Blue Mold of apples, one of the most prevalent and economically damaging post-harvest diseases of apples. Though primarily known as a disease of apples, this plant pathogen can infect a wide range of hosts, includi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmon
Cosmon or Cosmonium is a hypothetical form of matter. The idea was originally proposed by Georges Lemaître, who suggested the concept of a 'primeval atom’ (L'Hypothèse de l'Atome Primitif) 1946. He illustrated the idea by imagining an object 30 times larger than the volume of the sun containing all the matter of the Un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20optical%20disc%20authoring%20software
This is a list of optical disc authoring software. Open source Multi-platform cdrtools, a comprehensive command line-based set of tools for creating and burning CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools by the Debian project cdrdao, open source software for authoring and ripping of CDs in Disk-At-Once mode...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum%20%22L%22%20filter
The Optimum "L" filter (also known as a Legendre–Papoulis filter) was proposed by Athanasios Papoulis in 1958. It has the maximum roll off rate for a given filter order while maintaining a monotonic frequency response. It provides a compromise between the Butterworth filter which is monotonic but has a slower roll off ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deception
Deception or falsehood is an act or statement that misleads, hides the truth, or promotes a belief, concept, or idea that is not true. It is often done for personal gain or advantage. Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda and sleight of hand as well as distraction, camouflage or concealment. There is also sel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbird%20Reef
Redbird Reef is an artificial reef located in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Slaughter Beach, Delaware, east of the Indian River Inlet. Established by the Maryland Reef Initiative in 2001, this reef covers 1.3 square nautical miles of ocean floor and is located below the surface. The reef comprises 714 Redbir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DI.FM
DI.FM (formerly known as Digitally Imported) is an Internet radio broadcaster consisting of over 90 channels dedicated to electronic music, such as house, trance, techno, drum and bass, and dubstep. DI.FM broadcasts handpicked selections consisting of classic, new and up-and-coming hits, as well as weekly and monthly m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permeance
Permeance, in general, is the degree to which a material admits a flow of matter or energy. Permeance is usually represented by a curly capital P: . Electromagnetism In electromagnetism, permeance is the inverse of reluctance. In a magnetic circuit, permeance is a measure of the quantity of magnetic flux for a number ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace%20Hearne%20Institute
The Horace Hearne Jr. Institute for Theoretical Physics is at Louisiana State University. The Hearne Institute is funded by a donation of two endowed chairs by Horace Hearne Jr. and the State of Louisiana, as well as additional grants from a variety of national and international granting agencies. It currently has as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endotheliitis
Endotheliitis is an immune response within the endothelium in blood vessels, in which they become inflamed. The condition can cause oedema of the surrounding tissue, including the stroma, and can cause irritation and pain. If it is within the cornea, it can result in permanent loss of vision. The condition can be cause...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossa%20for%20lacrimal%20sac
A smooth, more deeply concave depression on the lacrimal bone, which forms the medial wall of the orbital cavity, in which the lacrimal sac that drains into the nasolacrimal duct is located, is referred to as the lacrimal fossa (or fossa for the lacrimal sac). See also Fossa for lacrimal gland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%20center
In geometry, the Chebyshev center of a bounded set having non-empty interior is the center of the minimal-radius ball enclosing the entire set , or alternatively (and non-equivalently) the center of largest inscribed ball of . In the field of parameter estimation, the Chebyshev center approach tries to find an estima...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Computer%20Network%20System
The , also known as the Famicom Net System and Famicom Modem, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer video game console, and was released in September 1988 only in Japan. Predating the modern Internet, its proprietary dial-up information service accessed live stock trades, video game cheats, jokes, weather fore...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST%20staple
The ST staple is a common four- or five-amino acid residue motif in proteins and polypeptides with serine or threonine as the C-terminal residue. It is characterized by a single hydrogen bond between the hydroxyl group of the serine or threonine (at residue i + 3 or i + 4) and the main chain carbonyl group of residue i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%20equation
The Born equation can be used for estimating the electrostatic component of Gibbs free energy of solvation of an ion. It is an electrostatic model that treats the solvent as a continuous dielectric medium (it is thus one member of a class of methods known as continuum solvation methods). It was derived by Max Born. w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20normal%20%28robotics%29
In robotics the common normal of two non-intersecting joint axes is a line perpendicular to both axes. The common normal can be used to characterize robot arm links, by using the "common normal distance" and the angle between the link axes in a plane perpendicular to the common normal. When two consecutive joint axes ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20beta%20decay
In nuclear physics, double beta decay is a type of radioactive decay in which two neutrons are simultaneously transformed into two protons, or vice versa, inside an atomic nucleus. As in single beta decay, this process allows the atom to move closer to the optimal ratio of protons and neutrons. As a result of this tran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20free%20blog%20hosting%20services
A number of websites offer free hosting of blogs. The services they offer are compared below. (This list is limited to services that have their own Wikipedia article.) Free blog hosting services See also Comparison of file hosting services Comparison of online backup services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name%20resolution%20%28programming%20languages%29
In programming languages, name resolution is the resolution of the tokens within program expressions to the intended program components. Overview Expressions in computer programs reference variables, data types, functions, classes, objects, libraries, packages and other entities by name. In that context, name resoluti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select%20%28Unix%29
is a system call and application programming interface (API) in Unix-like and POSIX-compliant operating systems for examining the status of file descriptors of open input/output channels. The select system call is similar to the facility introduced in UNIX System V and later operating systems. However, with the c10k...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arago%27s%20rotations
Arago's rotations is an observable magnetic phenomenon that involves the interactions between a magnetized needle and a moving metal disk. The effect was discovered by François Arago in 1824. At the time of their discovery, Arago's rotations were surprising effects that were difficult to explain. In 1831, Michael Farad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicka%20Chicka%201%2C%202%2C%203
Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 is the title of a children's picture book written by Bill Martin, Jr. and Michael Sampson, and illustrated by Lois Ehlert in 2004 by Simon & Schuster. The book features anthropomorphized numbers. Plot The number 0 tries to climb up an apple tree while watching the numbers from 1 to 20 (including ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%20Saiers
Nelson Saiers is an American mathematical artist and former hedge fund manager. Before 2014, he worked in finance as a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank AG and as the Chief Investment Officer at Saiers Capital, LLC (formerly Alphabet Management, LLC). In 2014, Saiers left finance to create mathematics-based art. Earl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastics%20and%20Dynamics
Stochastics and Dynamics (SD) is an interdisciplinary journal published by World Scientific. It was founded in 2001 and covers "modeling, analyzing, quantifying and predicting stochastic phenomena in science and engineering from a dynamical system's point of view". Articles and papers in the journal describe theory, ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive%20cooperative%20coevolution
The constructive cooperative coevolutionary algorithm (also called C3) is a global optimisation algorithm in artificial intelligence based on the multi-start architecture of the greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP). It incorporates the existing cooperative coevolutionary algorithm (CC). The considered pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-processor%20interrupt
In computing, an inter-processor interrupt (IPI), also known as a shoulder tap, is a special type of interrupt by which one processor may interrupt another processor in a multiprocessor system if the interrupting processor requires action from the other processor. Actions that might be requested include: flushes of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20focusing
Weak focusing occurs in particle accelerators when charged particles are passing through uniform magnetic fields, causing them to move in circular paths due to the Lorentz force. Because of the circular movement, the orbits of two particles with slightly different positions may approximate or even cross each other. Be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOX1
Storkhead box 1 is a protein in humans that is encoded by the STOX1 gene. The protein encoded by this gene may function as a DNA binding protein. Mutations in this gene are associated with pre-eclampsia/eclampsia 4 (PEE4). Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot%20drawing
Sunspot drawing or sunspot sketching is the act of drawing sunspots. Sunspots are darker spots on the Sun's photosphere. Their prediction is very important for radio communication because they are strongly associated with solar activity, which can seriously damage radio equipment. History Sunspots were probably first...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20ratio
In aerospace engineering, mass ratio is a measure of the efficiency of a rocket. It describes how much more massive the vehicle is with propellant than without; that is, the ratio of the rocket's wet mass (vehicle plus contents plus propellant) to its dry mass (vehicle plus contents). A more efficient rocket design re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit%20hat
A fruit hat is a festive and colorful hat type popularized by Carmen Miranda and associated with warm locales. This type of hat has been worn by fashionistas, in films, by comic strip characters, and for Halloween. The fruit used tends to sit on the top or around the head, and varies in type, e.g. bananas, berries, che...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodaviridae
Nodaviridae is a family of nonenveloped positive-strand RNA viruses. Vertebrates and invertebrates serve as natural hosts. Diseases associated with this family include: viral encephalopathy and retinopathy in fish. There are nine species in the family, assigned to two genera. History The name of the family is derived ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20Renaissance
Brain Renaissance is a book written by Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone. It was published on the 500th anniversary of the birth and the 450th anniversary of the death of the anatomist Andreas Vesalius. In 2016 Brain Renaissance won the biennial Award for Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences presented b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary%20sequences
For complementary sequences in biology, see complementarity (molecular biology). For integer sequences with complementary sets of members see Lambek–Moser theorem. In applied mathematics, complementary sequences (CS) are pairs of sequences with the useful property that their out-of-phase aperiodic autocorrelation coeff...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieu-dit
Lieu-dit (; plural: lieux-dits) (literally said-location) is a French toponymic term for a small geographical area bearing a traditional name. The name usually refers to some characteristic of the place, its former use, a past event, etc. A lieu-dit may be uninhabited, which distinguishes it from an hameau (hamlet), wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auralization
Auralization is a procedure designed to model and simulate the experience of acoustic phenomena rendered as a soundfield in a virtualized space. This is useful in configuring the soundscape of architectural structures, concert venues, and public spaces, as well as in making coherent sound environments within virtual im...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation%20principle
In control theory, a separation principle, more formally known as a principle of separation of estimation and control, states that under some assumptions the problem of designing an optimal feedback controller for a stochastic system can be solved by designing an optimal observer for the state of the system, which feed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20pectoral%20nerve
The lateral pectoral nerve (also known as the lateral anterior thoracic nerve) arises from the lateral cord of the brachial plexus, and through it from the C5-7. It passes across the axillary artery and vein, pierces the clavipectoral (coracoclavicular) fascia, and enters the deep surface of the pectoralis major to in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Standards%20Agency
The Food Standards Agency is a non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for protecting public health in relation to food in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is led by a board appointed to act in the public interest. Its headquarters are in London, with offi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellebrite%20UFED
The UFED (Universal Forensics Extraction Device) is a product series of the Israeli company Cellebrite, which is used for the extraction and analysis of data from mobile devices by law enforcement agencies. Products Cellebrite sells various products in the UFED series: UFED Physical Analyzer UFED Logical Analyzer ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta%20Mittag-Leffler
Magnus Gustaf "Gösta" Mittag-Leffler (16 March 1846 – 7 July 1927) was a Swedish mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions, which today is called complex analysis. He founded the most important mathematical periodical Acta Mathematica and was its editor for 40 year...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halapricum
Halapricum (common abbreviation Hpr.) is a genus of halophilic archaea in the family of Haloarculaceae.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roposo
Roposo is an Indian video-sharing social media service, owned by Glance, a subsidiary of InMobi. Roposo provides a space where users can share posts related to different topics like food, comedy, music, poetry, fashion and travel. It is a platform where people express visually with homemade videos and photos. The app o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirrors%20and%20Reflections
Mirrors and Reflections: The Geometry of Finite Reflection Groups is an undergraduate-level textbook on the geometry of reflection groups. It was written by Alexandre V. Borovik and Anna Borovik and published in 2009 by Springer in their Universitext book series. The Basic Library List Committee of the Mathematical Ass...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifidobacterium%20animalis
Bifidobacterium animalis is a gram-positive, anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium of the Bifidobacterium genus which can be found in the large intestines of most mammals, including humans. Bifidobacterium animalis and Bifidobacterium lactis were previously described as two distinct species. Presently, both are considered B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kihachiro%20Ueda
Kihachiro Ueda (上田毅八郎) was a Japanese painter. His primary subject matter is Japanese ships. During the Second World War, Ueda was an anti-aircraft gunner assigned to several merchant ships. He served on about 28 merchant ships, and 6 of those were attacked and destroyed while he was aboard. During his spare time, h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Reeb
Georges Henri Reeb (12 November 1920 – 6 November 1993) was a French mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and non-standard analysis. Biography Reeb was born in Saverne, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, to Theobald Reeb and Caroline Enge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20AIX
AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced ,) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms. Background Originally released for the IBM RT PC RISC workstation in 1986, AIX has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor%20and%20Extract%20Manufacturers%20Association
The Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA) is a food industry trade group based in the United States. FEMA was founded in 1909 by several flavor firms in response to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Founding members were McCormick & Company, Ulman Driefus & Company, Jones Brothers, Blank...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dose%20area%20product
Dose area product (DAP) is a quantity used in assessing the radiation risk from diagnostic X-ray examinations and interventional procedures. It is defined as the absorbed dose multiplied by the area irradiated, expressed in gray-centimetres squared (Gy·cm2 – sometimes the prefixed units mGy·cm2 or cGy·cm2 are also used...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkling%20wine
Sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it, making it fizzy. While the phrase commonly refers to champagne, European Union countries legally reserve that term for products exclusively produced in the Champagne region of France. Sparkling wine is usually either white or rosé, but there are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s%20Elements
The Elements ( ) is a mathematical treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulates, propositions (theorems and constructions), and mathematical proofs of the propositions. The books cover plane and solid Euclidean geometry, elem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20knock-out%20factor
The Taylor knock-out factor, also called Taylor KO factor or TKOF, is a formulaic mathematical approach for evaluating the stopping power of hunting cartridges, developed by John "Pondoro" Taylor in the middle of the 20th century. Taylor, an elephant hunter and author who wrote two books about rifles and cartridges for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%20Xuhua
Xuhua He (, born 1979) is a Chinese mathematician. Education and career In 2001, He graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Peking University. In 2005 he received his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with thesis Some subvarieties of the De Concini-Procesi compactification and advisor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RecargaPay
RecargaPay is a Brazilian fintech company that provides online money services. It was founded in 2010 by Rodrigo Teijeiro, Alvaro Teijeiro, and Gustavo Victorica. The company has over 300 employees based mainly in São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Miami, USA. History The company was founded in 2010 by brothers R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal%20gas%20law
The ideal gas law, also called the general gas equation, is the equation of state of a hypothetical ideal gas. It is a good approximation of the behavior of many gases under many conditions, although it has several limitations. It was first stated by Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron in 1834 as a combination of the empirical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C14orf119
C14orf119 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the c14orf119 gene. The c14orf119 protein is predicted to be localized in the nucleus. Additionally, c14orf119 expression is decreased in individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) when compared with healthy individual and is increased in individuals with var...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine-indicator%20dye
Urine-indicator dye is a mythical substance that is supposed to be able to react with urine to form a colored cloud in a swimming pool or hot tub, thus indicating the location of people who are urinating while they are in the water. A 2015 report from the National Swimming Pool Foundation called this "the most common p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloshing%20bucket%20model%20of%20evolution
The sloshing bucket model of evolution is a theory in evolutionary biology that describes how environmental disturbances varying in magnitude will affect the species present. The theory emphasizes the causal relationship between environmental factors that impinge and affect genealogical systems, providing an overarchin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C16orf90
C16orf90 or chromosome 16 open reading frame 90 produces uncharacterized protein C16orf90 in homo sapiens. C16orf90's protein has four predicted alpha-helix domains and is mildly expressed in the testes and lowly expressed throughout the body. While the function of C16orf90 is not yet well understood by the scientific ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermembral%20index
The intermembral index is a ratio used to compare limb proportions, expressed as a percentage. It is equal to the length of forelimbs (humerus plus radius) divided by the length of the hind limbs (femur plus tibia) multiplied by 100, otherwise written mathematically as: The intermembral index is used frequently in pri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon%20Communications
Ribbon Communications Inc. is a public company that makes software, IP and optical networking solutions for service providers, enterprises and critical infrastructure sectors. The company was formed in 2017, following the merger of Genband and Sonus Networks and is headquartered in Plano, Texas. History Ribbon Commun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptopharsa%20tacanae
Leptopharsa tacanae is an extinct species of lace bug in the family Tingidae. The species is solely known from the Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene Mexican amber deposits. The species is the first lace bug described from Mexican amber. History and classification Leptopharsa tacanae is known from the holotype specimen,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20symbol
The general prohibition sign, also known informally as the no symbol, 'do not' sign, circle-backslash symbol, nay, interdictory circle, prohibited symbol, don't do it symbol, or universal no, is a red circle with a 45-degree diagonal line inside the circle from upper-left to lower-right. It is overlaid on a pictogram t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requirement%20diagram
A requirement diagram is a diagram specially used in SysML in which requirements and the relations between them and their relationship to other model elements are shown as discussed in the following paragraphs. Derive requirement relationship If a requirement is derived from another requirement, their relation is na...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20fission
Fast fission is fission that occurs when a heavy atom absorbs a high-energy neutron, called a fast neutron, and splits. Most fissionable materials need thermal neutrons, which move more slowly. Fast reactors vs. thermal reactors Fast neutron reactors use fast fission to produce energy, unlike most nuclear reactors. In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitFunnel
BitFunnel is the search engine indexing algorithm and a set of components used in the Bing search engine, which were made open source in 2016. BitFunnel uses bit-sliced signatures instead of an inverted index in an attempt to reduce operations cost. History Progress on the implementation of BitFunnel was made public ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile-device%20testing
Mobile-device testing functions to assure the quality of mobile devices, like mobile phones, PDAs, etc. It is conducted on both hardware and software, and from the view of different procedures, the testing comprises R&D testing, factory testing and certificate testing. It involves a set of activities from monitoring...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthStation%205
Earth Station 5 (ES5) was a peer-to-peer network active between 2003 and 2005, operated by a company of the same name. The user client application also shared this name. Earth Station 5 was notable for its strong, if overstated, emphasis on user anonymity, and for its bold advocacy of piracy and copyright infringement....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etioplast
Etioplasts are an intermediate type of plastid that develop from proplastids that have not been exposed to light, and convert into chloroplasts upon exposure to light. They are usually found in stem and leaf tissue of flowering plants (Angiosperms) grown either in complete darkness, or in extremely low-light conditions...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock%20Software
Clock Software is a private limited company developing software and hardware for the hospitality industry - property management system, restaurant point of sale, online booking engine, channel manager, self-service kiosk, mobile hotel app. Its headquarters is in London, UK. History Clock Software was incorporated in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa-Tor
Wa-Tor is a population dynamics simulation devised by A. K. Dewdney and presented in the December 1984 issue of Scientific American in a five-page article entitled "Computer Recreations: Sharks and fish wage an ecological war on the toroidal planet Wa-Tor". Wa-Tor is usually implemented as a two-dimensional grid with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly%20keyboard
Butterfly keyboard may refer to keyboards used on specific laptop computer models: IBM ThinkPad 701 MacBook Pro MacBook Air
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeography
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area. Phytogeography is the branch of biogeography that s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty%20Gear%20Strive
is a fighting video game developed and published by Arc System Works. It is the seventh mainline installment of the Guilty Gear series, and the 25th overall. The game was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Windows in June 2021, for Japanese arcades in July 2021, and for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in March ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian%20field%20theory
In theoretical physics, Hamiltonian field theory is the field-theoretic analogue to classical Hamiltonian mechanics. It is a formalism in classical field theory alongside Lagrangian field theory. It also has applications in quantum field theory. Definition The Hamiltonian for a system of discrete particles is a funct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20System%20Assessment%20Tool
The Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT) is a module of Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11 that is available in the Control Panel under Performance Information and Tools (except in Windows 8.1, Windows 10 & Windows 11). It measures various performance characteristics and capabil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Micro-Electronics%2C%20Inc.
Integrated Micro-electronics, Inc. (abbreviated as IMI, ) provides electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and power semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) with manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America. Its headquarters is located in Biñan, Laguna. IMI serves original equipment manufacture...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornstalk%20fiddle
The cornstalk fiddle is a toy, and a type of bowed string instrument played historically in North America. The instrument consists of a cornstalk, with slits cut into the shaft to allow one or more fibrous sections to separate from the main body and serve as "strings." Pieces of wood or other material are wedged under...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Zimmerman
George Michael Zimmerman (born October 5, 1983) is an American man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American boy, in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, 2012. On July 13, 2013, he was acquitted of second-degree murder in Florida v. George Zimmerman. After his acquittal, Zimmerman was the target of a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue%20differentiation%20theorem
In mathematics, the Lebesgue differentiation theorem is a theorem of real analysis, which states that for almost every point, the value of an integrable function is the limit of infinitesimal averages taken about the point. The theorem is named for Henri Lebesgue. Statement For a Lebesgue integrable real or complex-va...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3M
S3M (Scream Tracker 3 Module) is a module file format, the successor to the STM format used by the original Scream Tracker. Both formats are based on the original MOD format used on the Amiga computer. The S3M format has many differences compared to its predecessors. The format is a hybrid of digital playback and sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher%20by%20ingredient
Kosher by ingredient is an approach to observing the laws of kashrut that determines whether a food is kosher or not based on ingredient, rather than by the presence of a hechsher. This approach has fallen out of favor with Orthodox Jews, but is practiced by many Conservative Jews as well as by some Reform Jews and Rec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spraint
Spraint is the dung of the otter. Spraints are typically identified by smell and are known for their distinct odors, the smell of which has been described as ranging from freshly mown hay to putrefied fish. The Eurasian otter's spraints are black and slimy, long and deposited in groups of up to four in prominent loca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenogram
A cenogram is a graphical comparison of the average adult weight of mammalian species within a terrestrial area. In studying ancient communities, it is used to draw conclusions about biome, including whether a biome is species rich, its relative humidity and level of forestation. Cenograms were introduced in 1964 by J....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulus-triggered%20acquisition%20of%20pluripotency
Stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) was a proposed method of generating pluripotent stem cells by subjecting ordinary cells to certain types of stress, such as the application of a bacterial toxin, submersion in a weak acid, or physical trauma. The technique gained prominence in January 2014 when rese...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glove%20problem
In operations research, the glove problem (also known as the condom problem) is an optimization problem used as an example that the cheapest capital cost often leads to dramatic increase in operational time, but that the shortest operational time need not be given by the most expensive capital cost. Problem statement ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have%20You%20Ever%20Seen%20the%20Rain%3F
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain" is a song written by John Fogerty and released as a single in 1971 from the album Pendulum (1970) by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. The song charted highest in Canada, reaching number one on the RPM 100 national singles chart in March 1971. In the U.S., in the same year i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20ring
In mathematics, a topological ring is a ring that is also a topological space such that both the addition and the multiplication are continuous as maps: where carries the product topology. That means is an additive topological group and a multiplicative topological semigroup. Topological rings are fundamentally re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscapular%20artery
The subscapular artery, the largest branch of the axillary artery, arises from the third part of the axillary artery at the lower border of the subscapularis muscle, which it follows to the inferior angle of the scapula, where it anastomoses with the lateral thoracic and intercostal arteries, and with the descending br...