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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Mathematical%20Biology | The Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) is an international association co-founded in 1972 in the United States by George Karreman, Herbert Daniel Landahl and (initially chaired) by Anthony Bartholomay for the furtherance of joint scientific activities between Mathematics and Biology research communities. The societ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Panin%20%28mathematician%29 | Ivan Aleksandrovich Panin (Иван Александрович Панин, born 2 July 1959 in Apatity, Russia) is a Russian mathematician, specializing in algebra, algebraic geometry, and algebraic K-theory.
Education and career
In 1973 he entered boarding school at D. K. Faddeev Academic Gymnasium and graduated there in 1976 There he gra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemibiotrophs | Hemibiotrophs are the spectrum of plant pathogens, including bacteria, oomycete and a group of plant pathogenic fungi that keep its host alive while establishing itself within the host tissue, taking up the nutrients with brief biotrophic-like phase. It then, in later stages of infection switches to a necrotrophic life... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20Sciences%20Research%20Foundation | The Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF) is a postdoctoral fellowship program, with missions "to identify and fund exceptional young scientists at a critical juncture of their training in all areas of basic life sciences" and "to establish partnerships between those who support research in the life sciences and aca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon%E2%80%93Nikodym%20theorem | In mathematics, the Radon–Nikodym theorem is a result in measure theory that expresses the relationship between two measures defined on the same measurable space. A measure is a set function that assigns a consistent magnitude to the measurable subsets of a measurable space. Examples of a measure include area and volum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastopirellula%20cremea | Blastopirellula cremea is an aerobic and motile bacterium from the genus of Blastopirellula which has been isolated from a dead ark clam (Scapharca broughtonii) from Korea. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLA-Cw4 |
Alleles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20hostility | Basic hostility is a psychological concept first described by psychoanalyst Karen Horney. Horney described it as aggression which a child develops as a result of "basic evil". Horney generally defines basic evil as "invariably the lack of genuine warmth and affection". Basic evil includes all range of inappropriate par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximation%20algorithm | In computer science and operations research, approximation algorithms are efficient algorithms that find approximate solutions to optimization problems (in particular NP-hard problems) with provable guarantees on the distance of the returned solution to the optimal one. Approximation algorithms naturally arise in the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20nuclear%20protein | Transition nuclear proteins (TNPs) are proteins that are involved in the packaging of sperm nuclear DNA during spermiogenesis. They take the place of histones associated with the sperm DNA, and are subsequently themselves replaced by protamines.
TNPs in humans include TNP1 and TNP2.
See also
Chromatin
Histone
Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MutS-1 | MutS is a mismatch DNA repair protein, originally described in Escherichia coli.
Mismatch repair contributes to the overall fidelity of DNA replication and is essential for combating the adverse effects of damage to the genome. It involves the correction of mismatched base pairs that have been missed by the proofreadi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamics%20%28journal%29 | Magnetohydrodynamics is a peer-reviewed physics journal published by the Institute of Physics of the University of Latvia, covering fundamental and applied problems of magnetohydrodynamics in incompressible media, including magnetic fluids. This involves both classical and emerging areas in the physics, thermodynamic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR2 | Natural cytotoxicity triggering receptor 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NCR2 gene. NCR2 has also been designated as CD336 (cluster of differentiation 336), NKp44, NKP44; NK-p44, LY95, and dJ149M18.1. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack%20hunter | A pack hunter or social predator is a predatory animal which hunts its prey by working together with other members of its species. Normally animals hunting in this way are closely related, and with the exceptions of chimpanzees where only males normally hunt, all individuals in a family group contribute to hunting. Wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity%20ratio | The equity ratio is a financial ratio indicating the relative proportion of equity used to finance a company's assets. The two components are often taken from the firm's balance sheet or statement of financial position (so-called book value), but the ratio may also be calculated using market values for both, if the com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calpak%20Plant%20No.%2011 | The Calpak Plant No. 11 in Sacramento, California, is a building built in 1925. Calpak (later renamed "Del Monte Foods") constructed the building as a fruit cannery but it is now used by Blue Diamond Almonds It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
See also
History of Sacramento Cannery Ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/264%20%28number%29 | 264 is the natural number following 263 and preceding 265.
In mathematics
264 is an even composite number, composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.
264 is a Harshad number.
264 can be divided by each of its digits.
In technology
Advanced Video Coding also known as "H-264"
+264 is the telephone country co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20measure | A synthetic measure (or synthetic indicator) is a value that is the result of combining other metrics, which are measurements of various features.
Examples
Quality of service
There is a method to measure quality of service in hotels. In related study authors aggregate tourist opinions, measured on a scale from 1 to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirenberg%20and%20Matthaei%20experiment | The Nirenberg and Matthaei experiment was a scientific experiment performed in May 1961 by Marshall W. Nirenberg and his post-doctoral fellow, J. Heinrich Matthaei, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The experiment deciphered the first of the 64 triplet codons in the genetic code by using nucleic acid homopoly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Quantum%20Initiative%20Act | The National Quantum Initiative Act is an Act of Congress passed on December 13, 2018, and signed into law on December 21, 2018. The law gives the United States a plan for advancing quantum technology, particularly quantum computing.
Act
The act was passed unanimously by the United States Senate and was signed into la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire%20%28software%29 | Wire is an encrypted communication and collaboration app created by Wire Swiss. It is available for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, and web browsers such as Firefox. Wire offers a collaboration suite featuring messenger, voice calls, video calls, conference calls, file-sharing, and external collaboration – all pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel%27s%20inequality | In mathematics, especially functional analysis, Bessel's inequality is a statement about the coefficients of an element in a Hilbert space with respect to an orthonormal sequence. The inequality was derived by F.W. Bessel in 1828.
Let be a Hilbert space, and suppose that is an orthonormal sequence in . Then, for a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelet | A wavelet is a wave-like oscillation with an amplitude that begins at zero, increases or decreases, and then returns to zero one or more times. Wavelets are termed a "brief oscillation". A taxonomy of wavelets has been established, based on the number and direction of its pulses. Wavelets are imbued with specific prope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20therapy%20of%20the%20human%20retina | Retinal gene therapy holds a promise in treating different forms of non-inherited and inherited blindness.
In 2008, three independent research groups reported that patients with the rare genetic retinal disease Leber's congenital amaurosis had been successfully treated using gene therapy with adeno-associated virus (A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVO2max | {{DISPLAYTITLE:vVO2max}}
vV̇O2max (velocity at maximal oxygen uptake), also known as maximal aerobic speed (MAS), is an intense running or swimming pace. This is the minimum speed for which the organism's maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) is reached, after a few minutes of constantly maintaining this exercise intensity. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Markov%20compression | Dynamic Markov compression (DMC) is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Gordon Cormack and Nigel Horspool. It uses predictive arithmetic coding similar to prediction by partial matching (PPM), except that the input is predicted one bit at a time (rather than one byte at a time). DMC has a good compress... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal%20flora | Vaginal flora, vaginal microbiota or vaginal microbiome are the microorganisms that colonize the vagina. They were discovered by the German gynecologist Albert Döderlein in 1892 and are part of the overall human flora.
The amount and type of bacteria present have significant implications for an individual's overall hea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Cluster%20Application%20Resources | Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) is a Linux-based software installation for high-performance cluster computing. OSCAR allows users to install a Beowulf type high performance computing cluster.
See also
TORQUE Resource Manager
Maui Cluster Scheduler
Beowulf cluster
External links
Official OSCAR sit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20Meteorological%20Data%20Acquisition%20System | AMeDAS (Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System), commonly known in Japanese as "アメダス" (amedasu), is a high-resolution surface observation network developed by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) used for gathering regional weather data and verifying forecast performance. The system began operating on 1 Nove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20White | Norman White (born January 7, 1938, San Antonio Texas) Canadian New Media artist considered to be a pioneer in the use of electronic technology and robotics in art.
Life
White was born in San Antonio Texas in 1938. He grew up in and around Boston, Massachusetts, and obtained his B.A. in Biology from Harvard University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrifilm | The 3M Petrifilm plate is an all-in-one plating system made by the Food Safety Division of the 3M Company. They are heavily used in many microbiology-related industries and fields to culture various micro-organisms and are meant to be a more efficient method for detection and enumeration compared to conventional plati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosol%20mass%20spectrometry | Aerosol mass spectrometry is the application of mass spectrometry to the analysis of the composition of aerosol particles. Aerosol particles are defined as solid and liquid particles suspended in a gas (air), with size range of 3 nm to 100 μm in diameter and are produced from natural and anthropogenic sources, through ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20%28algebra%29 | The term center or centre is used in various contexts in abstract algebra to denote the set of all those elements that commute with all other elements.
The center of a group G consists of all those elements x in G such that xg = gx for all g in G. This is a normal subgroup of G.
The similarly named notion for a semig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle%20vector | A shuttle vector is a vector (usually a plasmid) constructed so that it can propagate in two different host species. Therefore, DNA inserted into a shuttle vector can be tested or manipulated in two different cell types. The main advantage of these vectors is they can be manipulated in E. coli, then used in a system w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obligate%20nasal%20breathing | Obligate nasal breathing describes a physiological necessity to breathe through the nose (or other forms of external nasal passages, depending on the species) as opposed to breathing through the mouth.
Definition
The term may be misleading, as it implies that the organism has no choice but to breathe through its nose;... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpei | Kanpei, also known as Ehime queen splash, is a Citrus cultivar that originated in Japan.
Genetics
Kanpei was created by crossing the dekopon and nishinokaori varieties in 1991, although it was not officially introduced until August 2007.
Description
The tree is vigorous and grows upright until the onset of fruit. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mivirus | Mivirus is a genus of negative-strand RNA viruses which infect arthropods. Member viruses have nonsegmented and bisegmented genomes. There are nine species in the genus.
Etymology
The name Mivirus derives from (), the ancestral name of King Zhuang of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period, along with -virus, the su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotiana%20%C3%97%20sanderi | Nicotiana × sanderi, also known as Nicotiana × sanderae, is a hybrid of the tobacco species Nicotiana alata (syn. N. affinis) and Nicotiana forgetiana (syn. N. rubra). It is the most common ornamental Nicotiana variety found and sold in the United Kingdom. Nicotiana × sanderi requires soft soil mixed with sand to thriv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclocarban | Triclocarban (sometimes abbreviated as TCC) is an antibacterial chemical once common in, but now phased out of, personal care products like soaps and lotions. It was originally developed for the medical field. Although the mode of action is unknown, TCC can be effective in fighting infections by targeting the growth of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN%20sync | DIN sync, also called Sync24, is a synchronization interface for electronic musical instruments. It was introduced in 1980 by Roland Corporation and has been superseded by MIDI.
Definition and history
DIN sync was introduced in 1980 by Roland Corporation with the release of the TR-808 drum machine. The intended use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Rights%20Group | The Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues and by fostering a community of grassroots activists. It campaigns on numerous issues including mass surveillance, internet filtering and censorship, and intellectual propert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuen%20Yan%20Cheng | Chuen Yan Cheng () is a Senior Scientist for the Population Council's Center for Biomedical Research. He is most well known as the inventor of the non-steroid male contraceptive drug——Adjudin, which is the first male contraceptive drug on the market now finished clinical trials showing no side effects.
Career
He gradu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20hours | Critical hours for radio stations is the time from sunrise to two hours after sunrise, and from two hours before sunset until sunset, local time. During this time, certain American radio stations may be operating with reduced power as a result of Section 73.187 of the Federal Communications Commission's rules.
Canadia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, an integral graph is a graph whose adjacency matrix's spectrum consists entirely of integers. In other words, a graph is an integral graph if all of the roots of the characteristic polynomial of its adjacency matrix are integers.
The notion was introduced in 1974 by Frank Har... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballard%20Maturational%20Assessment | The Ballard Maturational Assessment, Ballard Score, or Ballard Scale is a commonly used technique of gestational age assessment. It was devised by Dr Jeanne L Ballard, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
The assessment assigns a score to vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround%20optical-fiber%20immunoassay | Surround optical-fiber immunoassay (SOFIA) is an ultrasensitive, in vitro diagnostic platform incorporating a surround optical-fiber assembly that captures fluorescence emissions from an entire sample. The technology's defining characteristics are its extremely high limit of detection, sensitivity, and dynamic range. S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Mairson | Harry George Mairson is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science in the Volen National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. His research is in the fields of logic in computer science, lambda calculus and functional programming, type theory and constructi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton%20overland%20flow | In soil science, Horton overland flow describes the tendency of water to flow horizontally across land surfaces when rainfall has exceeded infiltration capacity and depression storage capacity. It is named after Robert E. Horton, the engineer who made the first detailed studies of the phenomenon.
Paved surfaces such ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo | A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.
The term zoological garden refers to zoology, the study of animals. The term is derived from the Greek , , 'animal', and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enaptin | Enaptin also known as nesprin-1 or synaptic nuclear envelope protein 1 (syne-1) is an actin-binding protein that in humans that is encoded by the SYNE1 gene.
Function
This gene encodes a spectrin repeat containing protein expressed in skeletal and smooth muscle, and peripheral blood lymphocytes, that localizes to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel%20Wifi | DHI Telecom, LLC is a US commercial Internet service provider (ISP) that operates on U.S. and NATO bases in the Middle East including Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. DHI provides wired, fiber-optic cable, mobile Wi-Fi, and wireless commercial Internet access to US, coalition armed forces, direct-hire DoD, Department of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PB-28 | PB-28 is an agonist of the sigma-2 receptor.
It is derived from cyclohexylpiperazine. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercollegiate%20Biomathematics%20Alliance | The Intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance (IBA) is a syndicate of organizations focused on connecting both academic and non-academic institutions to promote the study of biomathematics, ecology, and other related fields. Biomathematics is a scientific area connecting biology, ecology, mathematics, and computer scienc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUC19 | pUC19 is one of a series of plasmid cloning vectors created by Joachim Messing and co-workers. The designation "pUC" is derived from the classical "p" prefix (denoting "plasmid") and the abbreviation for the University of California, where early work on the plasmid series had been conducted. It is a circular double str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-test | In statistics, the W-test is designed to test the distributional differences between cases and controls for categorical variable set, which can be a single SNP, SNP-SNP, or SNP-environment pairs. It takes a combined log of odds ratio form, calculated from the contingency table of the variable set. The test inherits a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocorticography | Electrocorticography (ECoG), a type of intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG), is a type of electrophysiological monitoring that uses electrodes placed directly on the exposed surface of the brain to record electrical activity from the cerebral cortex. In contrast, conventional electroencephalography (EEG) electro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20track | __notoc__
An animal track is an imprint left behind in soil, snow, or mud, or on some other ground surface, by an animal walking across it. Animal tracks are used by hunters in tracking their prey and by naturalists to identify animals living in a given area.
Books are commonly used to identify animal tracks, which m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20time%20property | In model checking, a branch of computer science, linear time properties are used to describe requirements of a model of a computer system. Example properties include "the vending machine does not dispense a drink until money has been entered" (a safety property) or "the computer program eventually terminates" (a livene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pestov%E2%80%93Ionin%20theorem | The Pestov–Ionin theorem in the differential geometry of plane curves states that every simple closed curve of curvature at most one encloses a unit disk.
History and generalizations
Although a version of this was published for convex curves by Wilhelm Blaschke in 1916, it is named for and , who published a version o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary%20action | Capillary action (sometimes called capillarity, capillary motion, capillary rise, capillary effect, or wicking) is the process of a liquid flowing in a narrow space without the assistance of, or even in opposition to, any external forces like gravity.
The effect can be seen in the drawing up of liquids between the h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riser%20card | A riser card is a printed circuit board that gives a computer motherboard the option for additional expansion cards to be added to the computer.
Usage
A riser is usually connected to the mainboard's slot through an edge connector, though some, such as NLX and Next Unit of Computing Extreme, instead are plugged into a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutaredoxin | Glutaredoxins (also known as Thioltransferase) are small redox enzymes of approximately one hundred amino-acid residues that use glutathione as a cofactor. In humans this oxidation repair enzyme is also known to participate in many cellular functions, including redox signaling and regulation of glucose metabolism. Glut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming%20weight | The Hamming weight of a string is the number of symbols that are different from the zero-symbol of the alphabet used. It is thus equivalent to the Hamming distance from the all-zero string of the same length. For the most typical case, a string of bits, this is the number of 1's in the string, or the digit sum of the b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlyBase | FlyBase is an online bioinformatics database and the primary repository of genetic and molecular data for the insect family Drosophilidae. For the most extensively studied species and model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, a wide range of data are presented in different formats.
Information in FlyBase originates fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%20Hart | Victoria Hart (born 1988), commonly known as Vi Hart (), is an American mathematician and YouTuber. They describe themself as a "recreational mathemusician" and are well-known for creating mathematical videos on YouTube and popularizing mathematics. Hart founded the virtual reality research group eleVR and has co-autho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi | The renminbi (; symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB) is the official currency of the People's Republic of China. It is the 5th most traded currency as of April 2022.
The yuan ( or ) is the basic unit of the renminbi, but the word is also used to refer to the Chinese currency generally, especially in internatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20equation%20over%20a%20ring | In algebra, linear equations and systems of linear equations over a field are widely studied. "Over a field" means that the coefficients of the equations and the solutions that one is looking for belong to a given field, commonly the real or the complex numbers. This article is devoted to the same problems where "field... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty%20acid-binding%20protein | The fatty-acid-binding proteins (FABPs) are a family of transport proteins for fatty acids and other lipophilic substances such as eicosanoids and retinoids. These proteins are thought to facilitate the transfer of fatty acids between extra- and intracellular membranes. Some family members are also believed to transp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiron%20FS | Chiron Filesystem is a fault-tolerant replication file system.
Chiron FS is a FUSE based filesystem that implements replication at the filesystem level like RAID 1 does at the device level. The replicated filesystem may be of any kind; the only requisite is that it is mounted.
There is no need for special configurati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-3/SSS | The Cray-3/SSS (Super Scalable System) was a pioneering massively parallel supercomputer project that bonded a two-processor Cray-3 to a new SIMD processing unit based entirely in the computer's main memory. It was later considered as an add-on for the Cray T90 series in the form of the T94/SSS, but there is no evidenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex%20category | In mathematics, the simplex category (or simplicial category or nonempty finite ordinal category) is the category of non-empty finite ordinals and order-preserving maps. It is used to define simplicial and cosimplicial objects.
Formal definition
The simplex category is usually denoted by . There are several equivalen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideographic%20approach | The ideographic approach refers to the idea in psychology proposed by Marc Brysbaert that the conclusions of a study stay limited to the phenomenon under study. It also focuses on the importance of individual traits when determining behavior instead of group norms. It reinforces the position that the study of the indiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computationally%20bounded%20adversary | In information theory, the computationally bounded adversary problem is a different way of looking at the problem of sending data over a noisy channel. In previous models the best that could be done was ensuring correct decoding for up to d/2 errors, where d was the Hamming distance of the code. The problem with doing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCaP | VCaP cells are a cell line of human prostate cancer commonly used in the field of oncology. The tissue was harvested at autopsy from a metastatic lesion to a lumbar vertebrae of a 59 year old Caucasian male with hormone refractory prostate cancer in 1997, which was then xenografted into SCID mice and later harvested an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jer%C3%B4nimo%20de%20Sousa%20Monteiro | Jerônimo de Sousa Monteiro (June 4, 1870 – October 23, 1933) was a Brazilian politician. He was a representative (in the local Espírito do Santo's Chamber of Representative and in the Brazilian Federal Chamber of Representatives), a Senator, and the 13th president (governor) of the state of Espírito Santo, a position h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20file%20comparison%20tools | This article compares computer software tools which are used for accomplishing comparisons of files of various types. The file types addressed by individual file comparison apps varies, but may include text, symbols, images, audio, or video. This category of software tool is often called "file comparison" or "diff tool... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1roly%20Bezdek | Károly Bezdek (born May 28, 1955 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-Canadian mathematician. He is a professor as well as a Canada Research Chair of mathematics and the director of the Centre for Computational and Discrete Geometry at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Also he is a professor (on le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag%20URI%20scheme | The tag URI scheme is a uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme for unique identifiers called tags, defined by RFC 4151 in October 2005.
The RFC identifies four requirements for tags:
Identifiers are likely to be unique across space and time, and come from a practically inexhaustible supply.
Identifiers are relativ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20geodesy | Space geodesy is geodesy by means of sources external to Earth, mainly artificial satellites (in satellite geodesy) but also quasars (in very-long-baseline interferometry, VLBI), visible stars (in stellar triangulation), and the retroreflectors on the Moon (in lunar laser ranging, LLR).
See also
Astronomical geodesy
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative%20weight%20update%20method | The multiplicative weights update method is an algorithmic technique most commonly used for decision making and prediction, and also widely deployed in game theory and algorithm design. The simplest use case is the problem of prediction from expert advice, in which a decision maker needs to iteratively decide on an exp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Csicsery | George Paul Csicsery (born March 17, 1948) is a Hungarian-American writer and independent filmmaker who has directed 35 films including performance films, dramatic shorts and documentaries. He is best known for his documentaries about mathematicians and mathematical communities.
Life and career
George Csicsery was bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitometer | Gravitometer may refer to:
Gravimeter, an instrument for measuring the local gravitational field
Hydrometer, referred to in pipeline work as a gravitometer
Gravimetry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contralateral%20brain | The contralateral organization of the forebrain (Latin: contra‚ against; latus‚ side; lateral‚ sided) is the property that the hemispheres of the cerebrum and the thalamus represent mainly the contralateral side of the body. Consequently, the left side of the forebrain mostly represents the right side of the body, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20grid%20reference%20system | The Irish grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references used for paper mapping in Ireland (both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland). The Irish grid partially overlaps the British grid, and uses a similar co-ordinate system but with a meridian more suited to its westerly location.
Usage
In g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique%20factorization%20domain | In mathematics, a unique factorization domain (UFD) (also sometimes called a factorial ring following the terminology of Bourbaki) is a ring in which a statement analogous to the fundamental theorem of arithmetic holds. Specifically, a UFD is an integral domain (a nontrivial commutative ring in which the product of any... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quique%20Somenzini | Quique Somenzini is a professional radio controlled aircraft pilot and designer, owner of model manufacturer QuiQue's Aircraft Company and the 2007 FAI world champion.
A native of Rio Cuarto, Argentina, Somenzini has the distinction of being the youngest competitor in the history of the FAI championships, flying in co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremella%20fuciformis | Tremella fuciformis is a species of fungus; it produces white, frond-like, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruiting bodies). It is widespread, especially in the tropics, where it can be found on the dead branches of broadleaf trees. This fungus is commercially cultivated and is one of the most popular fungi in the cuisine and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitonic%20sorter | Bitonic mergesort is a parallel algorithm for sorting. It is also used as a construction method for building a sorting network. The algorithm was devised by Ken Batcher. The resulting sorting networks consist of comparators and have a delay of , where is the number of items to be sorted. This makes it a popular choic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental%20heuristic%20search | Incremental heuristic search algorithms combine both incremental and heuristic search to speed up searches of sequences of similar search problems, which is important in domains that are only incompletely known or change dynamically. Incremental search has been studied at least since the late 1960s. Incremental search ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard%20Huet | Gérard Pierre Huet (; born 7 July 1947) is a French computer scientist, linguist and mathematician. He is senior research director at INRIA and mostly known for his major and seminal contributions to type theory, programming language theory and to the theory of computation.
Biography
Gérard Huet graduated from the Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20Timing%20Formula | Generalized Timing Formula is a standard by VESA which defines exact parameters of the component video signal for analogue VGA display interface.
The video parameters defined by the standard include horizontal blanking (retrace) and vertical blanking intervals, horizontal frequency and vertical frequency (collectively... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20direct%20memory%20access | In computing, remote direct memory access (RDMA) is a direct memory access from the memory of one computer into that of another without involving either one's operating system. This permits high-throughput, low-latency networking, which is especially useful in massively parallel computer clusters.
Overview
RDMA suppo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snag%20%28ecology%29 | In forest ecology, a snag refers to a standing, dead or dying tree, often missing a top or most of the smaller branches. In freshwater ecology it refers to trees, branches, and other pieces of naturally occurring wood found sunken in rivers and streams; it is also known as coarse woody debris. Snags provide habitat for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown-rump%20length | Crown-rump length (CRL) is the measurement of the length of human embryos and fetuses from the top of the head (crown) to the bottom of the buttocks (rump). It is typically determined from ultrasound imagery and can be used to estimate gestational age.
Introduction
The embryo and fetus float in the amniotic fluid ins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20derivative | The topological derivative is, conceptually, a derivative of a shape functional with respect to infinitesimal changes in its topology, such as adding an infinitesimal hole or crack. When used in higher dimensions than one, the term topological gradient is also used to name the first-order term of the topological asympt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemokine%20receptor | Chemokine receptors are cytokine receptors found on the surface of certain cells that interact with a type of cytokine called a chemokine. There have been 20 distinct chemokine receptors discovered in humans. Each has a rhodopsin-like 7-transmembrane (7TM) structure and couples to G-protein for signal transduction wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blebbishield%20emergency%20program | Blebbishield emergency program is a process which acts as a last line of defense for cancer stem cells after induction of apoptosis where the apoptotic blebs fuse to shield the cells/nucleus from the destructive force of apoptosis by forming blebbishields. Blebbishields in turn fuse to each other and generate cancer st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20Museum%20of%20the%20American%20West | The Jewish Museum of the American West is an online museum sponsored by the Western States Jewish History Association dedicated to telling the stories of the participation of Jews in the development of the American West and why they were so successful. It was established in 2013 by Gladys Sturman and David W. Epstein o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahlfors%20theory | Ahlfors theory is a mathematical theory invented by Lars Ahlfors as a geometric counterpart of the Nevanlinna theory. Ahlfors was awarded one of the two very first Fields Medals for this theory in 1936.
It can be considered as a generalization of the basic properties of covering maps to the
maps which are "almost cov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20robot%20architecture | The Autonomous Robot Architecture (AuRA) is a hybrid deliberative/reactive robot architecture developed by American roboticist and roboethicist Ronald C. Arkin at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It was developed in mid-1980s. AuRA is one of the first Hybrid Robotic Architecture developed. Hybrid Robotic Architectu... |
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