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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichotomic%20search | In computer science, a dichotomic search is a search algorithm that operates by selecting between two distinct alternatives (dichotomies) at each step. It is a specific type of divide and conquer algorithm. A well-known example is binary search.
Abstractly, a dichotomic search can be viewed as following edges of an im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing%20down%20the%20food%20web | Fishing down the food web is the process whereby fisheries in a given ecosystem, "having depleted the large predatory fish on top of the food web, turn to increasingly smaller species, finally ending up with previously spurned small fish and invertebrates".
The process was first demonstrated by the fisheries scientist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodothermales | The Rhodothermales are an order of bacteria.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
See also
List of bacterial orders
List of bacteria genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire%20iron | A tire iron (also tire lever or tire spoon) is a specialized metal tool used in working with tires. Tire irons have not been in common use for automobile tires since the shift to the use of tubeless tires in the late 1950s.
Bicycle tire irons are still in use for those tires which have a separate inner tube, and can h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/102%20%28number%29 | 102 (one hundred [and] two) is the natural number following 101 and preceding 103.
In mathematics
102 is an abundant number and a semiperfect number. It is a sphenic number.
The sum of Euler's totient function φ(x) over the first eighteen integers is 102.
102 is the first three-digit base 10 polydivisible number, si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herring | Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.
Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, including the Baltic Sea, as well as off the west coast of South America. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise%20power | In telecommunication, the term noise power has the following meanings:
The measured total noise in a given bandwidth at the input or output of a device when the signal is not present; the integral of noise spectral density over the bandwidth
The power generated by a random electromagnetic process.
Interfering an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptic%20soy%20broth | Tryptic soy broth or Trypticase soy broth (frequently abbreviated as TSB) is used in microbiology laboratories as a culture broth to grow aerobic bacteria. It is a complex, general purpose medium that is routinely used to grow certain pathogenic bacteria, which tend to have high nutritional requirements (i.e., they are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiazygos%20vein | The hemiazygos vein (vena azygos minor inferior) is a vein running superiorly in the lower thoracic region, just to the left side of the vertebral column.
Structure
The hemiazygos vein and the accessory hemiazygos vein, when taken together, essentially serve as the left-sided equivalent of the azygos vein. That is, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facet%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a facet is a feature of a polyhedron, polytope, or related geometric structure, generally of dimension one less than the structure itself. More specifically:
In three-dimensional geometry, a facet of a polyhedron is any polygon whose corners are vertices of the polyhedron, and is not a face. To facet a po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA%20Quantum%20Network | The DARPA Quantum Network (2002–2007) was the world's first quantum key distribution (QKD) network, operating 10 optical nodes across Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. It became fully operational on October 23, 2003 in BBN's laboratories, and in June 2004 was fielded through dark fiber under the streets of Cambridge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell%20200 | The Honeywell 200 was a character-oriented two-address commercial computer introduced by Honeywell in December 1963, the basis of later models in Honeywell 200 Series, including 1200, 1250, 2200, 3200, 4200 and others, and the character processor of the Honeywell 8200 (1968).
Introduced to compete with IBM's 1401, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric%20differential | In mathematical analysis, a metric differential is a generalization of a derivative for a Lipschitz continuous function defined on a Euclidean space and taking values in an arbitrary metric space. With this definition of a derivative, one can generalize Rademacher's theorem to metric space-valued Lipschitz functions.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%2010 | iOS 10 is the tenth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., being the successor to iOS 9. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 13, 2016, and was released on September 13, that year. It was succeeded by iOS 11 on September 19, 2017.
iOS 10 incorpora... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree-of-difference | Degree of Difference Testing, which is also known as DOD is a method to determine an overall difference among test and control groups when product in question has exhibited variability that would have caused because of multiple factors such as the production time, use of multiple components, preparation or others. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodesulfobium%20acidiphilum | Thermodesulfobium acidiphilum is a moderately thermoacidophilic, Gram-negative, sulfate-reducing and obligately anaerobic bacterium from the genus of Thermodesulfobium which has been isolated from geothermally heated soil from Uzon Caldera in Russia. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20annuity | A life annuity is an annuity, or series of payments at fixed intervals, paid while the purchaser (or annuitant) is alive. The majority of life annuities are insurance products sold or issued by life insurance companies however substantial case law indicates that annuity products are not necessarily insurance products.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollard%27s%20kangaroo%20algorithm | In computational number theory and computational algebra, Pollard's kangaroo algorithm (also Pollard's lambda algorithm, see Naming below) is an algorithm for solving the discrete logarithm problem. The algorithm was introduced in 1978 by the number theorist John M. Pollard, in the same paper as his better-known Polla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%202321%20Data%20Cell | The IBM 2321 Data Cell is a discontinued direct access storage device (DASD) for the IBM System/360. It was announced with System/360 in April, 1964. It holds up to 400 megabytes of data, with an access time of 95 milliseconds to 600 milliseconds, depending on the addressed strip position and data arrangement in each... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence%20partitioning | Equivalence partitioning or equivalence class partitioning (ECP) is a software testing technique that divides the input data of a software unit into partitions of equivalent data from which test cases can be derived. In principle, test cases are designed to cover each partition at least once. This technique tries to de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetone%E2%80%93butanol%E2%80%93ethanol%20fermentation | Acetone–butanol–ethanol (ABE) fermentation, also known as the Weizmann process, is a process that uses bacterial fermentation to produce acetone, n-butanol, and ethanol from carbohydrates such as starch and glucose. It was developed by chemist Chaim Weizmann and was the primary process used to produce acetone, which wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20M.%20V.%20Krishnamurthy | Edayyathu Mangalam Venkatarama Krishnamurthy (18 June 1934 – 26 October 2012) was an Indian-born computer scientist. He was a professor at the Department of Computer science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was an Emeritus Fellow, Computer Sciences Laboratory, Research School of Information Sciences and Eng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20bond | In chemistry, sigma bonds (σ bonds) are the strongest type of covalent chemical bond. They are formed by head-on overlapping between atomic orbitals. Sigma bonding is most simply defined for diatomic molecules using the language and tools of symmetry groups. In this formal approach, a σ-bond is symmetrical with respect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akinete | An akinete is an enveloped, thick-walled, non-motile, dormant cell formed by filamentous, heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria under the order Nostocales and Stigonematales. Akinetes are resistant to cold and desiccation. They also accumulate and store various essential material, both of which allows the akinete to serve a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20Mathematics%20%28journal%29 | Discrete Mathematics is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal in the broad area of discrete mathematics, combinatorics, graph theory, and their applications. It was established in 1971 and is published by North-Holland Publishing Company. It publishes both short notes, full length contributions, as well as survey... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune%20regulator | The autoimmune regulator (AIRE) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AIRE gene. It is a 13kb gene on chromosome 21q22.3 that has 545 amino acids. AIRE is a transcription factor expressed in the medulla (inner part) of the thymus. It is part of the mechanism which eliminates self-reactive T cells that would cau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manson%20Medal | The Manson Medal (full name Sir Patrick Manson Medal, originally the Manson Memorial Medal), named in honour of Sir Patrick Manson, is the highest accolade the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene awards. Started in 1923, it is awarded triennially to an individual whose contribution to tropical medicine or hy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20restriction%20enzyme%20cutting%20sites%3A%20Ba%E2%80%93Bc | This article contains a list of the most studied restriction enzymes whose names start with Ba to Bc inclusive. It contains approximately 120 enzymes.
The following information is given:
Whole list navigation
Restriction enzymes
Ba - Bc
Notes
Restriction enzyme cutting sites
Biotechnology
Restriction enzymes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catrobat | Catrobat is a block-based visual programming language and Open Source Software non-profit project. The first release dates back to 2010 and was initiated by Wolfgang Slany from the Technical University Graz in Austria. The multidisciplinary team develops the programming language and free apps for teenagers to create th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20T.%20Tutte | William Thomas Tutte OC FRS FRSC (; 14 May 1917 – 2 May 2002) was an English and Canadian codebreaker and mathematician. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system which was used for top-secret communications within t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatiotemporal%20database | A spatiotemporal database is a database that manages both space and time information. Common examples include:
Tracking of moving objects, which typically can occupy only a single position at a given time.
A database of wireless communication networks, which may exist only for a short timespan within a geographic reg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enol | In organic chemistry, alkenols (shortened to enols) are a type of reactive structure or intermediate in organic chemistry that is represented as an alkene (olefin) with a hydroxyl group attached to one end of the alkene double bond (). The terms enol and alkenol are portmanteaus deriving from "-ene"/"alkene" and the "-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-energy%20adaptive%20clustering%20hierarchy | Low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy ("LEACH") is a TDMA-based MAC protocol which is integrated with clustering and a simple routing protocol in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The goal of LEACH is to lower the energy consumption required to create and maintain clusters in order to improve the life time of a wirel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urquhart%20graph | In computational geometry, the Urquhart graph of a set of points in the plane, named after Roderick B. Urquhart, is obtained by removing the longest edge from each triangle in the Delaunay triangulation.
The Urquhart graph was described by , who suggested that removing the longest edge from each Delaunay triangle woul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hub%20dynamo | A hub dynamo is a small electrical generator built into the hub of a bicycle wheel that is usually used to power lights. Often the hub "dynamo" is not actually a dynamo, which creates DC, but a low-power magneto that creates AC. Most modern hub dynamos are regulated to 3 watts at 6 volts, although some will drive up to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20B.%20Morrey%20Jr. | Charles Bradfield Morrey Jr. (July 23, 1907 – April 29, 1984) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the calculus of variations and the theory of partial differential equations.
Life
Charles Bradfield Morrey Jr. was born July 23, 1907, in Columbus, Ohio; his father was a professor of bact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity%20labeling | Enzyme-catalyzed proximity labeling (PL), also known as proximity-based labeling, is a laboratory technique that labels biomolecules, usually proteins or RNA, proximal to a protein of interest. By creating a gene fusion in a living cell between the protein of interest and an engineered labeling enzyme, biomolecules spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind%20%28board%20game%29 | Mastermind or Master Mind () is a code-breaking game for two players invented in Israel. It resembles an earlier pencil and paper game called Bulls and Cows that may date back a century.
History
Mastermind was invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert. After presentin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insensible%20perspiration | Insensible perspiration is the loss of water through the skin which does not occur as perceivable sweat. Insensible perspiration takes place at an almost constant rate and reflects evaporative loss from the epithelial cells of the skin. Unlike in
sweating, the fluid lost is pure water, i.e. no solutes are lost. For th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltapapillomavirus | Deltapapillomavirus is a genus of viruses, in the family Papillomaviridae. Ruminants serve as natural hosts. There are seven species in this genus. Diseases associated with this genus include: warts (papillomas and fibropapillomas) of the skin and alimentary tract (rarely cancers of the alimentary tract and urinary bla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20distortion | In signal processing, phase distortion or phase-frequency distortion is distortion, that is, change in the shape of the waveform, that occurs when (a) a filter's phase response is not linear over the frequency range of interest, that is, the phase shift introduced by a circuit or device is not directly proportional to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Bolibrukh | Andrei Andreevich Bolibrukh () (30 January 1950 – 11 November 2003) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He was known for his work on ordinary differential equations especially Hilbert's twenty-first problem (Riemann–Hilbert problem). Bolibrukh was the author of about a hundred research articles on theory of ordinar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanium%20tetrafluoride | Germanium tetrafluoride (GeF4) is a chemical compound of germanium and fluorine. It is a colorless gas.
Synthesis
Germanium tetrafluoride is formed by treating germanium with fluorine:
Ge + 2 F2 → GeF4
Alternatively germanium dioxide combines with hydrofluoric acid (HF):
GeO2 + 4 HF → GeF4 + 2 H2O
It is also form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesiculovirus | Vesiculovirus is a genus of negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses in the family Rhabdoviridae, within the order Mononegavirales.
Taxonomy
The genus contains the following species:
Alagoas vesiculovirus
Carajas vesiculovirus
Chandipura vesiculovirus
Cocal vesiculovirus
Eptesicus vesiculovirus
Indiana vesicul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerophyllum%20tenax | Xerophyllum tenax is a North American species of plants in the corn lily family. It is known by several common names, including bear grass, soap grass, quip-quip, and Indian basket grass.
Ecology
Xerophyllum tenax has flowers with six sepals and six stamens borne in a terminal raceme. The plant is a perennial herb th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beating%20heart%20cadaver | A beating heart cadaver is a body that is pronounced dead in all medical and legal definitions, connected to a medical ventilator, and retains cardio-pulmonary functions. This keeps the organs of the body, including the heart, functioning and alive. As a result, the period of time in which the organs may be used for tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-photon%20avalanche%20diode | A single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) is a solid-state photodetector within the same family as photodiodes and avalanche photodiodes (APDs), while also being fundamentally linked with basic diode behaviours. As with photodiodes and APDs, a SPAD is based around a semi-conductor p-n junction that can be illuminated with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpineol | Terpineol is any of four isomeric monoterpenoids. Terpenoids are terpene that are modified by the addition of a functional group, in this case, an alcohol. Terpineols have been isolated from a variety of sources such as cardamom, cajuput oil, pine oil, and petitgrain oil. Four isomers exist: α-, β-, γ-terpineol, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choux%20pastry | Choux pastry, or (), is a delicate pastry dough used in many pastries. The essential ingredients are butter, water, flour and eggs.
Instead of a raising agent, choux pastry employs its high moisture content to create steam, as the water in the dough evaporates when baked, puffing the pastry. The pastry is used in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beurre%20fondue | Beurre fondue is a food prepared by melting butter in water. The preparation serves to maintain the butter as an emulsified and creamy concoction. Beurre fondue is used by chefs because it has a lesser feel of greasiness on the palate, and the sauce is also easy for chefs to use compared to whole butter. Its uses are m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecting%20Organizations%20for%20Regional%20Disease%20Surveillance | The Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS) is a "regional infectious disease surveillance network that neighboring countries worldwide are organizing to control cross-border outbreaks at their source." In 2012, CORDS was registered as a legal, non-profit international organization in Lyon, F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Nagy%20theorem | The Erdős–Nagy theorem is a result in discrete geometry stating that a non-convex simple polygon can be made into a convex polygon by a finite sequence of flips. The flips are defined by taking a convex hull of a polygon and reflecting a pocket with respect to the boundary edge. The theorem is named after mathematici... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimable%20Robert%20Jonckheere | Aimable Robert Jonckheere (25 May 1920 – 24 September 2005), commonly known by friends and colleagues as "Jonck", was a psychologist and statistician at University College London (UCL). He is probably best known for his work in nonparametric statistics, where he has a test named after him: Jonckheere's trend test.
Ear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronin | Coronin is an actin binding protein which also interacts with microtubules and in some cell types is associated with phagocytosis. Coronin proteins are expressed in a large number of eukaryotic organisms from yeast to humans.
Discovery
Initially, a 55 kDa protein was isolated from the actomyosin complex of Dictyostel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PASTA%20domain | The PASTA domain is a small protein domain that can bind to the beta-lactam ring portion of various β-lactam antibiotics. The domain was initially discovered in 2002 by Yeats and colleagues as a region of sequence similarity found in penicillin binding proteins and PknB-like kinases found in some bacteria. The name is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendroid%20%28malware%29 | Dendroid is malware that affects Android OS and targets the mobile platform.
It was first discovered in early of 2014 by Symantec and appeared in the underground for sale for $300.
Certain features were noted as being used in Dendroid, such as the ability to hide from emulators at the time.
When first discovered in 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20segregation | Online segregation is the unintentional segregation of people on the Internet, which is often believed to be a democratizing tool used to bring equality among people. For example, popular social network services such as MySpace and Facebook have been argued to magnify social, political, and class divides that already e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indole-3-glycerol-phosphate%20synthase | The enzyme indole-3-glycerol-phosphate synthase (IGPS) () catalyzes the chemical reaction
1-(2-carboxyphenylamino)-1-deoxy-D-ribulose 5-phosphate 1-C-(indol-3-yl)-glycerol 3-phosphate + CO2 + H2O
This enzyme belongs to the family of lyases, to be specific, the carboxy-lyases, which cleave carbon-carbon bonds. The s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass%20elliptic%20function | In mathematics, the Weierstrass elliptic functions are elliptic functions that take a particularly simple form. They are named for Karl Weierstrass. This class of functions are also referred to as ℘-functions and they are usually denoted by the symbol ℘, a uniquely fancy script p. They play an important role in the the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20de%20datos | Base de datos is a collaborative online encyclopedia written in the Spanish language launched on 8 December 2002, currently has more than 14,500 articles on all kinds of topics.
Wiki software
This website has developed its own wiki software called AngelCode with which users can edit articles without registering. How... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-485 | RS-485, also known as TIA-485(-A) or EIA-485, is a standard, originally introduced in 1983, defining the electrical characteristics of drivers and receivers for use in serial communications systems. Electrical signaling is balanced, and multipoint systems are supported. The standard is jointly published by the Telecomm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20physics%20mnemonics | This is a categorized list of physics mnemonics.
Mechanics
Work: formula
"Lots of Work makes me Mad!":
Work = Mad:
M=Mass
a=acceleration
d=distance
Thermodynamics
Ideal gas law
"Pure Virgins Never Really Tire":
PV=nRT
Gibbs's free energy formula
"Good Honey Tastes Sweet":
(delta)G = H - T(delta)S.
Electro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-652%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-652 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms, with expression levels of miRNAs and respective target mRNAs negatively correlated.
Lineage
miR-652 expression is specific to cells of the myeloid lineage, in this i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twimight | Twimight was an open source Android client for the social networking site Twitter. The client let users view in real time "tweets" or micro-blog posts on the Twitter website as well as publish their own.
Added value
In addition to being a fully functional, ad-free and open-source Twitter client, Twimight allowed comm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham%20potential | In theoretical chemistry, the Buckingham potential is a formula proposed by Richard Buckingham which describes the Pauli exclusion principle and van der Waals energy for the interaction of two atoms that are not directly bonded as a function of the interatomic distance . It is a variety of interatomic potentials.
Her... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizodermis | Rhizodermis is the root epidermis (also referred to as epiblem), the outermost primary cell layer of the root.
Specialized rhisodermal cells, trichoblasts, form long tubular structures (from 5 to 17 micrometers in diameter and from 80 micrometers to 1.5 millimeters in length) almost perpendicular to the main cell axis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal%20wireless%20network | A municipal wireless network is a citywide wireless network. This usually works by providing municipal broadband via Wi-Fi to large parts or all of a municipal area by deploying a wireless mesh network. The typical deployment design uses hundreds of wireless access points deployed outdoors, often on poles. The operator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failing%20badly | Failing badly and failing well are concepts in systems security and network security (and engineering in general) describing how a system reacts to failure. The terms have been popularized by Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer and security consultant.
Failing badly
A system that fails badly is one that has a catastrophic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Real%20Application%20Testing | In database computing, Oracle Real Application Testing (RAT) provides a separately-licensed environment for controlled and reproducible testing of Oracle database use and changes. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAUS%20Tool%20Set | The JAUS Tool Set (JTS) is a software engineering tool for the design of software services used in a distributed computing environment. JTS provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and supporting tools for the rapid design, documentation, and implementation of service interfaces that adhere to the Society of Automoti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrococcus%20luteus | Micrococcus luteus is a Gram-positive to Gram-variable, nonmotile, tetrad-arranging, pigmented, saprotrophic coccus bacterium in the family Micrococcaceae. It is urease and catalase positive. An obligate aerobe, M. luteus is found in soil, dust, water and air, and as part of the normal microbiota of the mammalian skin.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconate-proton%20symporter | The gluconate:H+ symporter (GntP) family (TC# 2.A.8) is a family of transport proteins belonging to the ion transporter (IT) superfamily. Members of the GntP family include known gluconate permeases of E. coli and Bacillus species such as the D-Gluconate:H+ symporter of Bacillus subtillus (GntP; TC# 2.A.8.1.1) and the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochore | A biochore is a subdivision of the biosphere consisting of biotopes that resemble one another and thus are colonized by similar biota. The concept is relevant in biogeography to refer to a units regardless it rank (regardless the scale). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilocution | Antilocution describes a form of prejudice in which negative verbal remarks against a person, group, or community, are made but not addressed directly to the subject.
History
American psychologist Gordon Allport coined this term in his 1954 book, The Nature of Prejudice. Antilocution is the first point on Allport's S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20organisation | Biological organisation is the organisation of complex biological structures and systems that define life using a reductionistic approach. The traditional hierarchy, as detailed below, extends from atoms to biospheres. The higher levels of this scheme are often referred to as an ecological organisation concept, or as t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20Vazirani | Vijay Virkumar Vazirani (; b. 1957) is an Indian American distinguished professor of computer science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
Education and career
Vazirani first majored in electrical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem%205 | The Librem 5 is a smartphone manufactured by Purism that is part of their Librem line of products. The phone is designed with the goal of using free software whenever possible, includes PureOS, a Linux operating system, by default, and as of 2021 is the only smartphone recommended by the Free Software Foundation. Like ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-area%20motion%20imagery | Wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) is an approach to surveillance, reconnaissance, and intelligence-gathering that employs specialized software and a powerful camera system—usually airborne, and for extended periods of time—to detect and track hundreds of people and vehicles moving out in the open, over a city-sized area,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20A.%20Reed%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Daniel A. Reed is a computer scientist who is the provost of the University of Utah. He is current Chair of the National Science Board and was previously vice-president for research at the University of Iowa. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella%20octangula%20number | In mathematics, a stella octangula number is a figurate number based on the stella octangula, of the form .
The sequence of stella octangula numbers is
0, 1, 14, 51, 124, 245, 426, 679, 1016, 1449, 1990, ...
Only two of these numbers are square.
Ljunggren's equation
There are only two positive square stella octangu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adian%E2%80%93Rabin%20theorem | In the mathematical subject of group theory, the Adian–Rabin theorem is a result that states that most "reasonable" properties of finitely presentable groups are algorithmically undecidable. The theorem is due to Sergei Adian (1955) and, independently, Michael O. Rabin (1958).
Markov property
A Markov property P of fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology%20of%20depression | Scientific studies have found that different brain areas show altered activity in humans with major depressive disorder (MDD), and this has encouraged advocates of various theories that seek to identify a biochemical origin of the disease, as opposed to theories that emphasize psychological or situational causes. Facto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiling%27s%20axiom%20of%20symmetry | Freiling's axiom of symmetry () is a set-theoretic axiom proposed by Chris Freiling. It is based on intuition of Stuart Davidson
but the mathematics behind it goes back to Wacław Sierpiński.
Let denote the set of all functions from to countable subsets of . The axiom states:
For every , there exist such that an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBR322 | pBR322 is a plasmid and was one of the first widely used E. coli cloning vectors. Created in 1977 in the laboratory of Herbert Boyer at the University of California, San Francisco, it was named after Francisco Bolivar Zapata, the postdoctoral researcher and Raymond L. Rodriguez. The p stands for "plasmid," and BR for "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20log | A security log is used to track security-related information on a computer system. Examples include:
Windows Security Log
Internet Connection Firewall security log
According to Stefan Axelsson, "Most UNIX installations do not run any form of security logging software, mainly because the security logging facilities ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V2%20ratio | The V2 ratio (V2R) is a measure of excess return per unit of exposure to loss of an investment asset, portfolio or strategy, compared to a given benchmark.
The goal of the V2 ratio is to improve on existing and popular measures of risk-adjusted return, such as the Sharpe ratio, information ratio or Sterling ratio by t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology%20support%20net | A Technology Support Net (TSN) is the required physical, energy, information, legal and cultural structures that support the development of technology core. In order to function effectively, the technology core (hardware, software and brainware) needs to be embedded in its support structure (TSN). Changes in the core t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20entropy | Loop entropy is the entropy lost upon bringing together two residues of a polymer within a prescribed distance. For a single loop, the entropy varies logarithmically with the number of residues in the loop
where is the Boltzmann constant and is a coefficient that depends on the properties of the polymer. This ent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples%20of%20vector%20spaces | This page lists some examples of vector spaces. See vector space for the definitions of terms used on this page. See also: dimension, basis.
Notation. Let F denote an arbitrary field such as the real numbers R or the complex numbers C.
Trivial or zero vector space
The simplest example of a vector space is the trivial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equianalgesic | An equianalgesic chart is a conversion chart that lists equivalent doses of analgesics (drugs used to relieve pain). Equianalgesic charts are used for calculation of an equivalent dose (a dose which would offer an equal amount of analgesia) between different analgesics. Tables of this general type are also available fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20browsing | Private browsing is a privacy feature in some web browsers. When operating in such a mode, the browser creates a temporary session that is isolated from the browser's main session and user data. Browsing history is not saved, and local data associated with the session, such as Cookies, Web cache, are cleared when the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridge%20function | In mathematics, a ridge function is any function that can be written as the composition of a univariate function with an affine transformation, that is: for some and .
Coinage of the term 'ridge function' is often attributed to B.F. Logan and L.A. Shepp.
Relevance
A ridge function is not susceptible to the curse o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-fastness | Acid-fastness is a physical property of certain bacterial and eukaryotic cells, as well as some sub-cellular structures, specifically their resistance to decolorization by acids during laboratory staining procedures. Once stained as part of a sample, these organisms can resist the acid and/or ethanol-based decolorizati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dominican%20Republic%20flags | This is a lists of flags used in the Dominican Republic. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of the Dominican Republic.
National flags
Standards
Military
Land Force
Navy
Air Force
Police
Institutional flags
Political flags
Historical flags
See also
Provinces of the Dominican... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20supermultiplet | In theoretical physics, a short supermultiplet is a supermultiplet i.e. a representation of the supersymmetry algebra whose dimension is smaller than where is the number of real supercharges. The representations that saturate the bound are known as the long supermultiplets.
The states in a long supermultiplet may be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taira%20Honda | was a Japanese mathematician working on number theory who proved the Honda–Tate theorem classifying abelian varieties over finite fields. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventive%20and%20social%20medicine | Preventive and social medicine is a branch of medicine dealing with providing health services in areas of prevention, promotion and treatment of rehabilitative diseases. Studies in preventive and social medicine are helpful in providing guided care, medicine in environmental health, offering scholarly services, policy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-professional | E-professional or "eprofessional" or even "eProfessional" is a term used in Europe to describe a professional whose work relies on concepts of remote work: working at a distance using information technology and communications technology, as well as online collaboration (i.e. virtual team, mass collaboration, massively ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nap | A nap is a short period of sleep, typically taken during daytime hours as an adjunct to the usual nocturnal sleep period. Naps are most often taken as a response to drowsiness during waking hours. A nap is a form of biphasic or polyphasic sleep, where the latter terms also include longer periods of sleep in addition to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia%20Kl%C3%BCppelberg | Claudia Klüppelberg (born May 23, 1953) is a German mathematical statistician and applied probability theorist, known for her work in risk assessment and statistical finance. She is a professor emerita of mathematical statistics at the Technical University of Munich.
Education and career
Klüppelberg completed a doctor... |
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