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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20number%20operator | In quantum mechanics, for systems where the total number of particles may not be preserved, the number operator is the observable that counts the number of particles.
The following is in bra–ket notation: The number operator acts on Fock space. Let
be a Fock state, composed of single-particle states drawn from a bas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front-side%20bus | The front-side bus (FSB) is a computer communication interface (bus) that was often used in Intel-chip-based computers during the 1990s and 2000s. The EV6 bus served the same function for competing AMD CPUs. Both typically carry data between the central processing unit (CPU) and a memory controller hub, known as the n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20replication%20factor%20CDT1 | CDT1 (Chromatin licensing and DNA replication factor 1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CDT1 gene. It is a licensing factor that functions to limit DNA from replicating more than once per cell cycle.
Role in pre-replication complexes
The protein encoded by this gene is a key licensing factor in the asse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical%20mean-field%20theory | Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is a method to determine the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials. In such materials, the approximation of independent electrons, which is used in density functional theory and usual band structure calculations, breaks down. Dynamical mean-field theory, a non-perturba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Kuhn%20%28chemist%29 | Werner Kuhn (February 6, 1899 – August 27, 1963) was a Swiss physical chemist who developed the first model of the viscosity of polymer solutions using statistical mechanics. He is known for being the first to apply Boltzmann's entropy formula:
to the modeling of rubber molecules, i.e. the "rubber band entropy model"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair%20Graham | Alastair Graham, FRS (6 November 1906 – 12 December 2000) was a Scottish zoologist and academic who specialised in malacology.
Biography
He was born in Costorphine, Edinburgh, and schooled at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, leaving in 1924 as Dux of School. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Ramsey%20%28mathematician%29 | Frank Plumpton Ramsey (; 22 February 1903 – 19 January 1930) was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist who made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and, as an undergraduate, translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterygoid%20hamulus | The pterygoid hamulus is a hook-like process at the lower extremity of the medial pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone of the skull. It is the superior origin of the pterygomandibular raphe, and the levator veli palatini muscle.
Structure
The pterygoid hamulus is part of the medial pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido%20Stampacchia | Guido Stampacchia (26 March 1922 – 27 April 1978) was an Italian mathematician, known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.
Life and academic career
Stampacchia was born in Naples, Italy, to Emanuele Stampacchia and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Hua's lemma, named for Hua Loo-keng, is an estimate for exponential sums.
It states that if P is an integral-valued polynomial of degree k, is a positive real number, and f a real function defined by
then
,
where lies on a polygonal line with vertices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory%20System%20Agent | A Directory System Agent (DSA) is the element of an X.500 directory service that provides User Agents with access to a portion of the directory (usually the portion associated with a single Organizational Unit). X.500 is an international standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P4-metric | P4 metric
enables performance evaluation of the binary classifier.
It is calculated from precision, recall, specificity and NPV (negative predictive value).
P4 is designed in similar way to F1 metric, however addressing the criticisms leveled against F1. It may be perceived as its extension.
Like the other known metr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-Efficient%20Ethernet | In computer networking, Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) is a set of enhancements to twisted-pair, twinaxial, backplane, and optical fiber Ethernet physical-layer variants that reduce power consumption during periods of low data activity. The intention is to reduce power consumption by 50% or more, while retaining full... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helper%20dependent%20virus | A helper dependent virus, also termed a gutless virus, is a synthetic viral vector dependent on the assistance of a helper virus in order to replicate, and can be used for purposes such as gene therapy. Naturally-occurring satellite viruses are also helper virus dependent, and can sometimes be modified to become viral ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative%20noise | In signal processing, the term multiplicative noise refers to an unwanted random signal that gets multiplied into some relevant signal during capture, transmission, or other processing.
An important example is the speckle noise commonly observed in radar imagery. Examples of multiplicative noise affecting digital pho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20decomposition | In multilinear algebra, a tensor decomposition is any scheme for expressing a "data tensor" (M-way array) as a sequence of elementary operations acting on other, often simpler tensors. Many tensor decompositions generalize some matrix decompositions.
Tensors are generalizations of matrices to higher dimensions (or ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Resident%20Matching%20Program | The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), also called The Match, is a United States-based private non-profit non-governmental organization created in 1952 to place U.S. medical school students into residency training programs located in United States teaching hospitals. Its mission has since expanded to include t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine%20cycle | The chlorine cycle (Cl) is the biogeochemical cycling of chlorine through the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere. Chlorine is most commonly found as inorganic chloride ions, or a number of chlorinated organic forms. Over 5,000 biologically-produced chlorinated organics have been identified.
The cyclin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubang%20Jeriji%20Sal%C3%A9h | Lubang Jeriji Saleh is a limestone cave complex in Indonesia in the Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Karst located in the remote jungle of Bengalon district in East Kutai, East Kalimantan province on Borneo island. In a 2018 publication a team of researchers announced to have found the then-oldest known work of figurative art ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix%20Jean%20Ricard | The prix Jean-Ricard is a prize awarded by the Société française de physique (SFP) to a French physicist for remarkable and original work. Jean Ricard, alumnus of École Polytechnique, engineer École supérieure d'électricité (E.S.E), and member of the SFP since 1925, donated to the SFP in April 1970 a portfolio of secur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosection | A prosection is the dissection of a cadaver (human or animal) or part of a cadaver by an experienced anatomist in order to demonstrate for students anatomic structure. In a dissection, students learn by doing; in a prosection, students learn by either observing a dissection being performed by an experienced anatomist o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component%20causes | A component cause of a disease is an event required for the disease to develop.
Given a disease or medical condition, there is a causality chain of events from the first event to the appearance of the clinical disease
A cause of a disease event is an event that preceded the disease event in a disease causal chain. With... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryllide | Beryllide is an intermetallic compound of beryllium with other metals, e.g. zirconium, tantalum, titanium, nickel, or cobalt. Typical chemical formulae are Be12Ti and FeBe5. These are hard, metal-like materials that display properties distinct from the constituents, especially with regards to their resilience toward ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miura%20fold | The is a method of folding a flat surface such as a sheet of paper into a smaller area. The fold is named for its inventor, Japanese astrophysicist Kōryō Miura.
The crease patterns of the Miura fold form a tessellation of the surface by parallelograms. In one direction, the creases lie along straight lines, with each... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis%20%28project%29 | Coriolis involves 7 institutes in operational oceanography in France (CNES, CNRS, Ifremer, IPEV, IRD, Météo-France, Shom) decided in 2001 to joint their efforts within Coriolis in order to:
organise and maintain data acquisition in real-time and delayed mode of in-situ measurements necessary for operational oceanogra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20periodic%20table | The periodic table is an arrangement of the chemical elements, structured by their atomic number, electron configuration and recurring chemical properties. In the basic form, elements are presented in order of increasing atomic number, in the reading sequence. Then, rows and columns are created by starting new rows and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming%20%28psychology%29 | Priming is the idea that exposure to one stimulus may influence a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention. The priming effect refers to the positive or negative effect of a rapidly presented stimulus (priming stimulus) on the processing of a second stimulus (target stimulus) that appe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Chemical%20Identifier | The International Chemical Identifier (InChI or ) is a textual identifier for chemical substances, designed to provide a standard way to encode molecular information and to facilitate the search for such information in databases and on the web. Initially developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.15.4a | IEEE 802.15.4a (formally called IEEE 802.15.4a-2007) was an amendment to IEEE 802.15.4-2006 specifying that additional physical layers (PHYs) be added to the original standard.
It has been merged into and is superseded by IEEE 802.15.4-2011.
Overview
IEEE 802.15.4-2006 specified four different PHYs, three of which uti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20insemination | Artificial insemination is the deliberate introduction of sperm into a female's cervix or uterine cavity for the purpose of achieving a pregnancy through in vivo fertilization by means other than sexual intercourse. It is a fertility treatment for humans, and is a common practice in animal breeding, including dairy cat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog%20Z8 | The Zilog Z8 is a microcontroller architecture, originally introduced in 1979, which today also includes the Z8 Encore!, eZ8 Encore!, eZ8 Encore! XP, and eZ8 Encore! MC families.
Signifying features of the architecture are up to 4,096 fast on-chip registers which may be used as accumulators, pointers, or as ordinary r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent%20Universe | An emergent Universe scenario is a cosmological model that features the Universe being in a low-entropy "dormant" state before the Big Bang or the beginning of the cosmic inflation. Several such scenarios have been proposed in the literature.
"Cosmic egg" scenarios
A popular version proposed by George Ellis and other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrosomonas | Nitrosomonas is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria, belonging to the Betaproteobacteria. It is one of the five genera of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and, as an obligate chemolithoautotroph, uses ammonia (NH3) as an energy source and carbon dioxide (CO2) as a carbon source in presence of oxygen. Nitrosomonas are important... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhanusha%20%28unit%29 | Dhanusha is an ancient unit of measuring height used in Jain literature.
Modern units
One Dhanusha equals 3 meters. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebine%20betaherpesvirus%201 | Cebine betaherpesvirus 1 (CbHV-1) is a species of virus in the genus Cytomegalovirus, subfamily Betaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D | In Zen, an is a circle hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create.
Description
The symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe, and (the void). It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics.
Drawing i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiquo%20Enterprise%20Edition | Abiquo Hybrid Cloud Management Platform is a web-based cloud computing software platform developed by
Abiquo. Written entirely in Java, it is used to build, integrate and manage public and private clouds in homogeneous environments. Users can deploy and manage servers, storage system and network and virtual devices. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20caterpillars | The collective behaviors of social caterpillars falls into five general categories: collective and cooperative foraging, group defense against predators and parasitoids, shelter building, thermoregulation and substrate silking to enhance steadfastness.
The most behaviorally sophisticated of the insect societies are fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritualized%20aggression | Ritualized aggression or ritualized fighting is when animals use a range of behaviours as posture or warning but without engaging in serious aggression or fighting, which would be expensive in terms of energy and the risk of injury. Ritualized aggression involves a graded series of behaviours or displays that include t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical%20Names%20Board%20of%20Canada | The Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) is a national committee with a secretariat in Natural Resources Canada, part of the Government of Canada, which authorizes the names used and name changes on official federal government maps of Canada.
History
It was created in December 1897, by Order in Council, as the Ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20recompilation | In computer science, dynamic recompilation is a feature of some emulators and virtual machines, where the system may recompile some part of a program during execution. By compiling during execution, the system can tailor the generated code to reflect the program's run-time environment, and potentially produce more effi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcogenide%20chemical%20vapour%20deposition | Chalcogenide chemical vapour deposition is a proposed technology for depositing thin films of chalcogenides, i.e. materials derived from sulfides, selenides, and tellurides. Conventional CVD can be used to deposit films of most metals, many non-metallic elements (notably silicon) as well as a large number of compounds... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deficiency%20%28medicine%29 | In medicine, a deficiency is a lack or shortage of a functional entity, by less than normal or necessary supply or function.
Nutrients
Undernutrition can cause various effects by deficiency of one or more nutrients. For example, vitamin A deficiency causes symptoms such as xerophthalmia (dry eyes) and night blindness... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction%20set | A construction set is a set of standardized pieces that allow for the construction of a variety of different models. Construction sets are generally marketed as toys. One very popular brand of construction set toys is Lego.
Toys
Psychological benefits
Construction toy play is beneficial for building social skills and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD%20checksum | The BSD checksum algorithm was a commonly used, legacy checksum algorithm. It has been implemented in old BSD and is also available through the sum command line utility.
This algorithm is useless from a security perspective, and is weaker than the CRC-32 cksum for error detection.
Computation of the BSD checksum
Belo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20sequence | In mathematics and theoretical computer science, an automatic sequence (also called a k-automatic sequence or a k-recognizable sequence when one wants to indicate that the base of the numerals used is k) is an infinite sequence of terms characterized by a finite automaton. The n-th term of an automatic sequence a(n) i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aseelahella | Aseelahella is a genus of branching alga that falls within the coralline stem group.
Fossil algae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptology%20Research%20Society%20of%20India | Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI) is a scientific organisation that supports research in India on cryptography, data security, and related fields. The organisation was founded in 2001. CRSI organises workshops and conferences about cryptology.
Activities
CRSI organises several annual workshops and conferen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille%20scale | In aircraft and armored vehicle scale modeling, Braille scale commonly means 1/72 or 1/76 scale. The term was coined by the owners of Missing-Lynx web forum in 1998. Other forums have taken a liking to the phrase since then, and incorporated in their own websites. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coincidence%20method | In particle physics, the coincidence method (or coincidence technique) is an experimental design through which particle detectors register two or more simultaneous measurements of a particular event through different interaction channels. Detection can be made by sensing the primary particle and/or through the detectio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey%E2%80%93Cass%E2%80%93Koopmans%20model | The Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model, or Ramsey growth model, is a neoclassical model of economic growth based primarily on the work of Frank P. Ramsey, with significant extensions by David Cass and Tjalling Koopmans. The Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model differs from the Solow–Swan model in that the choice of consumption is explic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiency%20%28network%20science%29 | In network science, the efficiency of a network is a measure of how efficiently it exchanges information and it is also called communication efficiency. The underlying idea (and main assumption) is that the more distant two nodes are in the network, the less efficient their communication will be. The concept of effic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Dungeon | is a series of role-playing video games developed by HummingBirdSoft. The first two installments were released on the Family Computer Disk System by Square's label DOG; the third one was released on the regular Family Computer by Square directly and the final one by Asmik.
Games in the series
Madō Senki
is a "dunge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20of%20Laser%20Applications | The International Conference on Lasers and Applications, Lasers 'XX was an annual conference organized by
the former Society for Optical and Quantum Electronics. The conference, known in short by Lasers 'XX (where XX refers to the particular year), was held at various locations in The United States from 1978 to 2000.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desulfurococcus | In taxonomy, Desulfurococcus is a genus of the Desulfurococcaceae. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Frostman | Otto Albin Frostman (3 January 1907 – 29 December 1977) was a Swedish mathematician, known for his work in potential theory and complex analysis.
Frostman earned his Ph.D. in 1935 at Lund University under the Hungarian-born mathematician Marcel Riesz, the younger brother of Frigyes Riesz. In potential theory, Frostman... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20cycling | Chemical cycling describes systems of repeated circulation of chemicals between other compounds, states and materials, and back to their original state, that occurs in space, and on many objects in space including the Earth. Active chemical cycling is known to occur in stars, many planets and natural satellites.
Chemi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiedemann%20effect | The twisting of a ferromagnetic rod through which an electric current is flowing when the rod is placed in a longitudinal magnetic field. It was discovered by the German physicist Gustav Wiedemann in 1858
. The Wiedemann effect is one of the manifestations of magnetostriction in a field formed by the combination of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite%20experiment | The kite experiment is a scientific experiment in which a kite with a pointed conductive wire attached to its apex is flown near thunder clouds to collect static electricity from the air and conduct it down the wet kite string to the ground. The experiment was first proposed in 1752 by Benjamin Franklin, who reportedly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20weight%20matching | In computer science and graph theory, the maximum weight matching problem is the problem of finding, in a weighted graph, a matching in which the sum of weights is maximized.
A special case of it is the assignment problem, in which the input is restricted to be a bipartite graph, and the matching constrained to be hav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearlet | In applied mathematical analysis, shearlets are a multiscale framework which allows efficient encoding of anisotropic features in multivariate problem classes. Originally, shearlets were introduced in 2006 for the analysis and sparse approximation of functions . They are a natural extension of wavelets, to accommodate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FHAD1 | Forkhead-associated domain containing protein 1 (FHAD1) is a protein encoded by the FHAD1 gene.
As the name suggests, it has a forkhead-associated domain and an extensive coiled coil structure. It is predicted to have a function related to DNA transcription. It is localized to the nucleus and has a nuclear localizatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20collateral%20ligament%20of%20wrist%20joint | The radial collateral ligament (external lateral ligament, radial carpal collateral ligament) extends from the tip of the styloid process of the radius and attaches to the radial side of the scaphoid (formerly Navicular bone of the hand), immediately adjacent to its proximal articular surface and some fibres extend to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-linear | Ultra-linear electronic circuits are those used to couple a tetrode or pentode vacuum-tube (also called "electron-valve") to a load (e.g. to a loudspeaker).
'Ultra-linear' is a special case of 'distributed loading'; a circuit technique patented by Alan Blumlein in 1937 (Patent No. 496,883), although the name 'distribu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrient%20artery | The nutrient artery (arteria nutricia, or central artery), usually accompanied by one or two nutrient veins, enters the bone through the nutrient foramen, runs obliquely through the cortex, sends branches upward and downward to the bone marrow, which ramify in the endosteum–the vascular membrane lining the medullary ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiomes%20of%20the%20built%20environment | Microbiomes of the built environment is a field of inquiry into the communities of microorganisms that live in human constructed environments like houses, cars and water pipes. It is also sometimes referred to as microbiology of the built environment.
The field has accelerated somewhat in recent years, with significan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties%20of%20water | Water () is a polar inorganic compound that is at room temperature a tasteless and odorless liquid, which is nearly colorless apart from an inherent hint of blue. It is by far the most studied chemical compound and is described as the "universal solvent" and the "solvent of life". It is the most abundant substance on t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20function%20virtualization | Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that leverages IT virtualization technologies to virtualize entire classes of network node functions into building blocks that may connect, or chain together, to create and deliver communication services.
NFV relies upon traditional server-virtua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit%20production%20and%20deforestation | Fruit production is a major driver of deforestation around the world. In tropical countries, forests are often cleared to plant fruit trees, such as bananas, pineapples, and mangos. This deforestation is having a number of negative environmental impacts, including biodiversity loss, ecosystem disruption, and land degra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurocranium | In human anatomy, the neurocranium, also known as the braincase, brainpan, or brain-pan is the upper and back part of the skull, which forms a protective case around the brain. In the human skull, the neurocranium includes the calvaria or skullcap. The remainder of the skull is the facial skeleton.
In comparative an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20ascorbate | Calcium ascorbate is a compound with the molecular formula CaC12H14O12. It is the calcium salt of ascorbic acid, one of the mineral ascorbates. It is approximately 10% calcium by mass.
As a food additive, it has the E number E 302. It is approved for use as a food in the EU, USA and Australia and New Zealand. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clethodim | Clethodim is an organic compound. A member of the cyclohexanedione family of herbicides, it is used to control grasses, especially Lolium rigidum. Although impure samples appear yellowish, the compound is colorless. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Robinson%20%28sculptor%29 | John Robinson (4 May 1935 – 6 April 2007) was a British sculptor and co-founder of the Bradshaw Foundation. Accounts of his work may be seen at the Robinson estate website, the website of the Centre for the Popularisation of Mathematics and the June and July 2007, issues of Hyperseeing. Among other distinctions, he was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elazar%20ben%20Tsedaka%20ben%20Yitzhaq | Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq (Samaritan Hebrew: ʾElā̊ʿzår ban Ṣīdqåʿ ban Yēṣʿā̊q; ; January 16, 1927 – February 3, 2010) was the Samaritan High Priest from 2004 until his death. He was born in Nablus. He succeeded his cousin Saloum Cohen in 2004. According to tradition he is the 131st holder of this post since Aaron... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid-to-cover%20ratio | Bid-To-Cover Ratio is a ratio used to measure the demand for a particular security during offerings and auctions. In general, it is used for shares, bonds, and other securities. It may be computed in two ways: either the number of bids received divided by the number of bids accepted, or the value of bids received divid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassmannian | In mathematics, the Grassmannian is a differentiable manifold that parameterizes the set of all -dimensional linear subspaces of an -dimensional vector space over a field .
For example, the Grassmannian is the space of lines through the origin in , so it is the same as the projective space of one dimension lower ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathologica | Pathologica is an academic journal which covers the field of general and human pathology, including studies of pathological processes using immunocytochemistry and molecular biology. Founded in 1908, it was published on behalf of the Società Anatomo Patologi Ospedalieri Italiani by Springer-Verlag Milan until 2003, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media-independent%20interface | The media-independent interface (MII) was originally defined as a standard interface to connect a Fast Ethernet (i.e., ) media access control (MAC) block to a PHY chip. The MII is standardized by IEEE 802.3u and connects different types of PHYs to MACs. Being media independent means that different types of PHY devices ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octafluorocubane | Octafluorocubane or perfluorocubane is an organofluorine compound with the formula , consisting of eight carbon atoms joined into a cube, with a fluorine bonded to each carbon corner. It is a colorless, sublimable solid at room temperature. It has been of longstanding theoretical interest, but was not synthesised until... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille | Braille ( , ) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille displays that connect to computers and smartphone devices. Braille can be written using a slate and stylus, a braille writer, an electronic braille notetaker or wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20scientist | A computational scientist is a person skilled in scientific computing. This person is usually a scientist, a statistician, an applied mathematician, or an engineer who applies high-performance computing and sometimes cloud computing in different ways to advance the state-of-the-art in their respective applied disciplin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Armstrong%20%28programmer%29 | Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems. He is best known as one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language.
Early life and education
Armstrong was born in Bournemouth, England in 1950.
At 17, Armstrong ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brugada%20syndrome | Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a genetic disorder in which the electrical activity of the heart is abnormal due to channelopathy. It increases the risk of abnormal heart rhythms and sudden cardiac death. Those affected may have episodes of syncope. The abnormal heart rhythms seen in those with Brugada syndrome often occur a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point%20computation | Fixed-point computation refers to the process of computing an exact or approximate fixed point of a given function. In its most common form, we are given a function f that satisfies the condition to the Brouwer fixed-point theorem, that is: f is continuous and maps the unit d-cube to itself. The Brouwer fixed-point the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest%20and%20heaviest%20animals | The largest animal currently alive is the blue whale. The maximum recorded weight was 190 tonnes for a specimen measuring , whereas longer ones, up to , have been recorded but not weighed. It is estimated, this individual could have a mass of 250 tonnes. The longest non-colonial animal is the lion's mane jellyfish (36.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch%20per%20unit%20effort | In fisheries and conservation biology, the catch per unit effort (CPUE) is an indirect measure of the abundance of a target species. Changes in the catch per unit effort are inferred to signify changes to the target species' true abundance. A decreasing CPUE indicates overexploitation, while an unchanging CPUE indicate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosignature | A biosignature (sometimes called chemical fossil or molecular fossil) is any substance – such as an element, isotope, molecule, or phenomenon that provides scientific evidence of past or present life. Measurable attributes of life include its complex physical or chemical structures and its use of free energy and the pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic%20reconnaissance%20flight | Systematic Reconnaissance Flight (SRF) is a scientific method in wildlife survey for assessing the distribution and abundance of wild animals. It is widely used in Africa, Australia and North America for assessment of plains and woodland wildlife and other species.
The method involves systematic or random flight lines... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Object%20System | The Virtual Object System (VOS) is a computer software technology for creating distributed object systems. The sites hosting Vobjects are typically linked by a computer network, such as a local area network or the Internet. Vobjects may send messages to other Vobjects over these network links (remotely) or within the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basset%E2%80%93Boussinesq%E2%80%93Oseen%20equation | In fluid dynamics, the Basset–Boussinesq–Oseen equation (BBO equation) describes the motion of – and forces on – a small particle in unsteady flow at low Reynolds numbers. The equation is named after Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Alfred Barnard Basset and Carl Wilhelm Oseen.
Formulation
The BBO equation, in the formula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibule%20of%20the%20ear | The vestibule is the central part of the bony labyrinth in the inner ear, and is situated medial to the eardrum, behind the cochlea, and in front of the three semicircular canals.
The name comes from the Latin , literally an entrance hall.
Structure
The vestibule is somewhat oval in shape, but flattened transversely;... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adulteration%20of%20Coffee%20Act%201718 | The Adulteration of Coffee Act 1718 (5 Geo. 1. c. 11) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Great Britain concerning the adulteration of coffee, which made it illegal to debase coffee.
History
It was passed in 1718. The Act provided a penalty of "against divers [diverse] evil-disposed persons who at the time ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siblicide | Siblicide (attributed by behavioural ecologist Doug Mock to Barbara M. Braun) is the killing of an infant individual by its close relatives (full or half siblings). It may occur directly between siblings or be mediated by the parents, and is driven by the direct fitness benefits to the perpetrator and sometimes its par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/278%20%28number%29 | 278 is the natural number following 277 and preceding 279.
In mathematics
278 is an even composite number with 2 prime factors.
278 is equal to Φ(30). It is the sum of the totient function.
278 is a nontotient number which means that it is an even number that doesn't follow Euler's totient function.
278 is the smalles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus%20niger | Aspergillus niger is a mold classified within the Nigri section of the Aspergillus genus. The Aspergillus genus consists of common molds found throughout the environment within soil and water, on vegetation, in fecal matter, on decomposing matter, and suspended in the air. Species within this genus often grow quickly a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adessium%20Foundation | The Adessium Foundation is a charitable foundation based in the Netherlands.
It was created in 2005 by Gerard van Vliet and his family.
Budget and beneficiaries
Its annual budget is between fifteen and twenty million euros. This is distributed to programs “such as marine conservation and efforts to promote open and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20computing | Biological computers use biologically derived molecules — such as DNA and/or proteins — to perform digital or real computations.
The development of biocomputers has been made possible by the expanding new science of nanobiotechnology. The term nanobiotechnology can be defined in multiple ways; in a more general sense,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET | Attached Resource Computer NETwork (ARCNET or ARCnet) is a communications protocol for local area networks. ARCNET was the first widely available networking system for microcomputers; it became popular in the 1980s for office automation tasks. It was later applied to embedded systems where certain features of the proto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-UX | PC-UX is a discontinued NEC port of UNIX System III for their APC III and PC-9801 personal computer. It had extensive graphics capability. PC-UX and MS-DOS could reside on the same hard drive. It also had file transfer utilities that allowed files between PC-UX and MS-DOS.
In 1985, the suggested retail price for PC-UX... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper%20cars | Bumper cars or dodgems are the generic names for a type of flat amusement ride consisting of multiple small electrically powered cars which draw power from the floor or ceiling, and which are turned on and off remotely by an operator. They are also known as bumping cars, dodging cars and dashing cars. The first patent ... |
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