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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN%20Megacast
ESPN Megacast, formerly known as ESPN Full Circle, is a multi-network simulcast of a single sporting event across multiple ESPN networks and serviceswith each feed providing a different version of the telecast making use of different features, functions or perspectives. These simulcasts typically involve ESPN's linear ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS2000
Baget RTOS (rus. ОСРВ Багет) is a real-time operating system developed by the Scientific Research Institute of System Development of the Russian Academy of Sciences for a MIPS architecture (Baget-MIPS variant) and Intel board support packages (BSPs) (x86 architecture). Baget is intended for software execution in a hard...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxWidgets
wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) is a widget toolkit and tools library for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for cross-platform applications. wxWidgets enables a program's GUI code to compile and run on several computer platforms with minimal or no code changes. A wide choice of compilers and other tools to use w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts%20statistical%20areas
The United States currently has eight statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On March 6, 2020, the OMB delineated one combined statistical area, six metropolitan statistical areas, and one micropolitan statistical area in Massachusetts. Statistical areas The Office ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal%20indicator
In written languages, an ordinal indicator is a character, or group of characters, following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number. In English orthography, this corresponds to the suffixes -st, -nd, -rd, -th in written ordinals (represented either on the line 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langmuir%E2%80%93Blodgett%20film
A Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film is a nanostructured system formed when Langmuir films—or Langmuir monolayers (LM)—are transferred from the liquid-gas interface to solid supports during the vertical passage of the support through the monolayers. LB films can contain one or more monolayers of an organic material, deposited...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%20cycle
The mercury cycle is a biogeochemical cycle influenced by natural and anthropogenic processes that transform mercury through multiple chemical forms and environments. Mercury is present in the Earth's crust and in various forms on the Earth's surface. It can be elemental, inorganic, or organic. Mercury exists in three...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation%20%28surveying%29
In surveying, triangulation is the process of determining the location of a point by measuring only angles to it from known points at either end of a fixed baseline by using trigonometry, rather than measuring distances to the point directly as in trilateration. The point can then be fixed as the third point of a trian...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krabbe%20disease
Krabbe disease (KD) (also known as globoid cell leukodystrophy or galactosylceramide lipidosis) is a rare and often fatal lysosomal storage disease that results in progressive damage to the nervous system. KD involves dysfunctional metabolism of sphingolipids and is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. The dise...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange%20number
In mathematics, the Lagrange numbers are a sequence of numbers that appear in bounds relating to the approximation of irrational numbers by rational numbers. They are linked to Hurwitz's theorem. Definition Hurwitz improved Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet's criterion on irrationality to the statement that a real numb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharellus%20lateritius
Cantharellus lateritius, commonly known as the smooth chanterelle, is a species of edible fungus in the mushroom family Cantharellaceae. An ectomycorrhizal species, it is found in Asia, Africa, and North America. The species has a complex taxonomic history, and has undergone several name changes since its first descrip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20conjectures
This is a list of notable mathematical conjectures. Open problems The following conjectures remain open. The (incomplete) column "cites" lists the number of results for a Google Scholar search for the term, in double quotes . Conjectures now proved (theorems) The conjecture terminology may persist: theorems often e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Affiliate%20Network
The Google Affiliate Network was the affiliate marketing company, specifically affiliate network, formerly known as Doubleclick Performics, which was bought by Google in 2007. On April 16, 2013, Google announced the closure of the Google Affiliate Network. History DoubleClick announced the acquisition of DoubleClick ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wobbulator
A wobbulator is an electronic device primarily used for the alignment of receiver or transmitter intermediate frequency strips. It is usually used in conjunction with an oscilloscope, to enable a visual representation of a receiver's passband to be seen, hence simplifying alignment; it was used to tune early consumer A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwell%20channel
The Blackwell channel is a deterministic broadcast channel model used in coding theory and information theory. It was first proposed by mathematician David Blackwell. In this model, a transmitter transmits one of three symbols to two receivers. For two of the symbols, both receivers receive exactly what was sent; the t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoglobulin%20C2-set%20domain
The basic structure of immunoglobulin (Ig) molecules is a tetramer of two light chains and two heavy chains linked by disulphide bonds. There are two types of light chains: kappa and lambda, each composed of a constant domain (CL) and a variable domain (VL). There are five types of heavy chains: alpha, delta, epsilon, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow%20face
Narrow face is a condition in which the width of the face is abnormally reduced (upper and lower face width less than 2 SD below the mean subjectively, or apparent reduction of the width of the upper and lower face objectively). Syndromes (conditions) Narrow face is seen in the following conditions and syndromes: 5p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomonas%20clemancea
Pseudomonas clemancea is a species of Pseudomonas bacteria which was first discovered in the North of England. The specific epithet clemancea was given by microbiologist Pattanathu Rahman at Teesside University to bestow the CLEMANCE (Clean Environment Management Centre). This bacterium has DNA coding distinct from ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20brittleness
In computer programming and software engineering, software brittleness is the increased difficulty in fixing older software that may appear reliable, but actually fails badly when presented with unusual data or altered in a seemingly minor way. The phrase is derived from analogies to brittleness in metalworking. Cause...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles%20of%20Optics
Principles of Optics, colloquially known as Born and Wolf, is an optics textbook written by Max Born and Emil Wolf that was initially published in 1959 by Pergamon Press. After going through six editions with Pergamon Press, the book was transferred to Cambridge University Press who issued an expanded seventh edition i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied%20weighting
Implied weighting describes a group of methods used in phylogenetic analysis to assign the greatest importance to characters that are most likely to be homologous. These are a posteriori methods, which include also dynamic weighting, as opposed to a priori methods, which include adaptive, independent, and chemical cate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Biocenter
The Vienna BioCenter is a cluster of life science research institutes and biotechnology companies located in the 3rd municipal District of Vienna, Austria. It grew around the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), which opened in 1988. The entities at the Vienna BioCenter employ more than 2,000 people, includ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNS%20%28chemical%20weapon%29
CNS is a mixture of chloroacetophenone, chloropicrin and chloroform that is used as a chemical warfare agent. CNS has the lachrymatory effects of chloroacetophenone and choking effects of chloropicrin. It has a flypaper-like odor. CNS was used as a riot control agent, but it's no longer used now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMS%20state
In the statistical mechanics of quantum mechanical systems and quantum field theory, the properties of a system in thermal equilibrium can be described by a mathematical object called a Kubo–Martin–Schwinger (KMS) state: a state satisfying the KMS condition. Ryogo Kubo introduced the condition in 1957, and Julian Sch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20globule
Fat globules (also known as mature lipid droplets) are individual pieces of intracellular fat in human cell biology. The lipid droplet's function is to store energy for the organism's body and is found in every type of adipocytes. They can consist of a vacuole, droplet of triglyceride, or any other blood lipid, as oppo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material%20flow
Material flow is the description of the transportation of raw materials, pre-fabricates, parts, components, integrated objects and final products as a flow of entities. The term applies mainly to advanced modeling of supply chain management. As industrial material flow can easily become very complex, several different...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual%20quick%20freezing
Individual quick freezing, usually abbreviated IQF, is a descriptive term for freezing methods used in the food processing industry. The food is in individual pieces, and is frozen quickly. Products commonly frozen with IQF technologies are typically smaller pieces of food, and can include berries, fruits and vegetable...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%20longitude
In celestial mechanics, true longitude is the ecliptic longitude at which an orbiting body could actually be found if its inclination were zero. Together with the inclination and the ascending node, the true longitude can tell us the precise direction from the central object at which the body would be located at a par...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip%20graph
In mathematics, a flip graph is a graph whose vertices are combinatorial or geometric objects, and whose edges link two of these objects when they can be obtained from one another by an elementary operation called a flip. Flip graphs are special cases of geometric graphs. Among noticeable flip graphs, one finds the 1-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20Driven%20Interoperability
Model Driven Interoperability (MDI) is a methodological framework, which provides a conceptual and technical support to make interoperable enterprises using ontologies and semantic annotations, following model driven development (MDD) principles. Overview The initial idea of works on MDI, was the application of model...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%20D-matrix
The Wigner D-matrix is a unitary matrix in an irreducible representation of the groups SU(2) and SO(3). It was introduced in 1927 by Eugene Wigner, and plays a fundamental role in the quantum mechanical theory of angular momentum. The complex conjugate of the D-matrix is an eigenfunction of the Hamiltonian of spherical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%20audio
Professional audio, abbreviated as pro audio, refers to both an activity and a category of high-quality, studio-grade audio equipment. Typically it encompasses sound recording, sound reinforcement system setup and audio mixing, and studio music production by trained sound engineers, audio engineers, record producers, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Encryption%20Standard%20process
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the symmetric block cipher ratified as a standard by National Institute of Standards and Technology of the United States (NIST), was chosen using a process lasting from 1997 to 2000 that was markedly more open and transparent than its predecessor, the Data Encryption Standard (DE...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20Intrusion%20Detection%20System
In computer security, the Linux Intrusion Detection System (LIDS) was a patch to the Linux kernel and associated administrative tools that enhanced the kernel's security by implementing mandatory access control (MAC). When LIDS was in effect all system network administration operations, chosen file access, any capabili...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeotic%20gene
Homeotic genes are genes which regulate the development of anatomical structures in various organisms such as echinoderms, insects, mammals, and plants. Homeotic genes often encode transcription factor proteins, and these proteins affect development by regulating downstream gene networks involved in body patterning. M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homologous%20series
In organic chemistry, a homologous series is a sequence of compounds with the same functional group and similar chemical properties in which the members of the series can be branched or unbranched, or differ by molecular formula of and molecular mass of 14u. This can be the length of a carbon chain, for example in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradyne
Paradyne Corporation, also referred to as AT&T Paradyne, was a maker of computer networking and telecommunications hardware, based in Largo, Florida. The company formed in 1969 to supply computer communications systems and expanded steadily through the 1970s and 80s. During these period they operated in the high-end mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola%E2%80%93Benguela%20Front
The Angola - Benguela front (ABF) is a permanent frontal feature situated between 15° and 17°S off the coast of Angola and Namibia, west Africa. It separates the saline, warm and nutrient-poor sea water of the Angola Current from the cold and nutrient-rich sea water associated with the Benguela Current. In comparison ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme-modified%20cheese
Enzyme-modified cheese (EMC) is a concentrated cheese flavour ingredient that is produced from cheese (or its upstream ingredients) by treatment with enzymes such as proteases (not including the usual rennet), lipases and esterases. These enzymes accelerate and intensify the ripening of cheese, which is normally done w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20video%20game%20mascots
A video game mascot is a mascot that is used by video game companies to promote both the company and their specific video game series and franchises. Video game mascots are sometimes considered to be similar to those at sporting events, with larger-than-life animals, such as Pikachu or Crash Bandicoot. However, some vi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FXYD%20family
The FXYD protein family is a family of small membrane proteins that share a 35-amino acid signature sequence domain, beginning with the amino acid sequence PFXYD and containing 7 invariant and 6 highly conserved amino acids. The approved human gene nomenclature for the family is FXYD-domain containing ion transport reg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperKEKB
SuperKEKB is a particle collider located at KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. SuperKEKB collides electrons with positrons at the centre-of-momentum energy close to the mass of the Υ(4S) resonance making it a second-generation B-factory for the Belle II experiment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Protection%20Act%202018
The Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which updates data protection laws in the UK. It is a national law which complements the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and replaces the Data Protection Act 1998. Background The Data Protection Bill was introduced t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%20sea%20creatures
The glass sea creatures (alternately called the Blaschka sea creatures, glass marine invertebrates, Blaschka invertebrate models, and Blaschka glass invertebrates) are works of glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. The artistic predecessors of the Glass Flowers, the sea creatures were the output of the Blaschkas' ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faltings%27s%20theorem
Faltings's theorem is a result in arithmetic geometry, according to which a curve of genus greater than 1 over the field of rational numbers has only finitely many rational points. This was conjectured in 1922 by Louis Mordell, and known as the Mordell conjecture until its 1983 proof by Gerd Faltings. The conjecture w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20signs%20in%20Mexico
Call signs in Mexico are unique identifiers for telecommunications, radio communication, radio broadcasting and transmission. They are regulated internationally by the ITU as well as nationally by the Federal Telecommunications Institute, which regulates broadcast stations, wireless telecommunications and spectrum use....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic%20aortic%20plexus
The thoracic aortic plexus is a sympathetic plexus in the region of the thoracic aorta.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20instantiation
In predicate logic, universal instantiation (UI; also called universal specification or universal elimination, and sometimes confused with dictum de omni) is a valid rule of inference from a truth about each member of a class of individuals to the truth about a particular individual of that class. It is generally given...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortepiano%20%28musical%20dynamic%29
The expression fortepiano (sometimes called forte piano) is a sudden dynamic change used in a musical score, usually with the abbreviation , to designate a section of music in which the music should be played loudly (forte), then immediately softly (piano). It is not unusual for it to be followed by a crescendo, a grad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-6
SMPTE ST 2117-1, informally known as VC-6, is a video coding format. Overview The VC-6 codec is optimized for intermediate, mezzanine or contribution coding applications. Typically, these applications involve compressing finished compositions for editing, contribution, primary distribution, archiving and other applic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotomic%20conjugate
In geometry, the isotomic conjugate of a point with respect to a triangle is another point, defined in a specific way from and : If the base points of the lines on the sides opposite are reflected about the midpoints of their respective sides, the resulting lines intersect at the isotomic conjugate of . Construct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteur%20point
The Pasteur point is a level of oxygen (about 0.3% by volume which is less than 1% of Present Atmospheric Level or PAL) above which facultative aerobic microorganisms and facultative anaerobes adapt from fermentation to aerobic respiration. It is also used to mark the level of oxygen in the early atmosphere of the Eart...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MimicCreme
MimicCreme was a brand of vegan imitation cream based on nuts and made without lactose, soy, or gluten. It was certified as pareve kosher. First produced commercially in January 2007 in Albany, New York, by Green Rabbit LLC, MimicCreme was primarily marketed toward vegans as an alternative to dairy products. The compan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20%28geometry%29
In geometry, a normal is an object (e.g. a line, ray, or vector) that is perpendicular to a given object. For example, the normal line to a plane curve at a given point is the (infinite) line perpendicular to the tangent line to the curve at the point. A normal vector may have length one (in which case it is a unit nor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20van%20der%20Corput
Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput (4 September 1890 – 16 September 1975) was a Dutch mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He was appointed professor at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1922, at the University of Groningen in 1923, and at the University of Amsterdam in 1946. He was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus%20chlorotic%20dwarf-associated%20virus
Citrus chlorotic dwarf-associated virus (CCDaV, genus Citlodavirus, family Geminiviridae) has been so far found in Turkey, China, and Thailand. Isolates from the three countries are genetically highly identical. CCDaV is currently considered as an emerging virus that threatens citrus plantations in the Mediterranean re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20wine%20press
The history of the wine press and of pressing is nearly as old as the history of wine itself with the remains of wine presses providing some of the longest-serving evidence of organised viticulture and winemaking in the ancient world. The earliest wine press was probably the human foot or hand, crushing and squeezing g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20matroid
In matroid theory, a binary matroid is a matroid that can be represented over the finite field GF(2). That is, up to isomorphism, they are the matroids whose elements are the columns of a (0,1)-matrix and whose sets of elements are independent if and only if the corresponding columns are linearly independent in GF(2). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20in%20the%20first%20mile
Ethernet in the first mile (EFM) refers to using one of the Ethernet family of computer network technologies between a telecommunications company and a customer's premises. From the customer's point of view, it is their first mile, although from the access network's point of view it is known as the last mile. A workin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Increased%20limit%20factor
Increased limit factors or ILFs are multiplicative factors that are applied to premiums for "basic" limits of coverage to determine premiums for higher limits of coverage. They are commonly used in casualty insurance pricing. Overview Often, limited data is available to determine appropriate charges for high limits o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-Sensitive%20Zone
Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZs) or Ecologically Fragile Areas (EFAs) are areas in India notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India around Protected Areas, National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries. The purpose of declaring ESZs is to create some kind of "shock absorbers" ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20hierarchy%20problem
In particle physics the little hierarchy problem in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is a refinement of the hierarchy problem. According to quantum field theory, the mass of the Higgs boson must be rather light for the electroweak theory to work. However, the loop corrections to the mass are naturally m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruzsa%E2%80%93Szemer%C3%A9di%20problem
In combinatorial mathematics and extremal graph theory, the Ruzsa–Szemerédi problem or (6,3)-problem asks for the maximum number of edges in a graph in which every edge belongs to a unique triangle. Equivalently it asks for the maximum number of edges in a balanced bipartite graph whose edges can be partitioned into a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper%20Advanced%20Targeting%20Pod
The Lockheed Martin Sniper is a targeting pod for military aircraft that provides positive target identification, autonomous tracking, GPS coordinate generation, and precise weapons guidance from extended standoff ranges. The system has been designated AN/AAQ-33 in U.S. military service as the Sniper Advanced Targetin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV
WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which allows user agents to collaboratively author contents directly in an HTTP web server by providing facilities for concurrency control and namespace operations, thus allowing Web to be viewed as a wri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroportin
Ferroportin-1, also known as solute carrier family 40 member 1 (SLC40A1) or iron-regulated transporter 1 (IREG1), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC40A1 gene, and is part of the Ferroportin (Fpn) Family (TC# 2.A.100). Ferroportin is a transmembrane protein that transports iron from the inside of a cell t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycological%20Society%20of%20San%20Francisco
The Mycological Society of San Francisco (MSSF) is an amateur club based in the San Francisco Bay Area, "dedicated to promoting the understanding and enjoyment of fungi." Meetings are held every third Tuesday, and the society newsletter, Mycena News, is published once a month during the mushroom season, from September ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan%20Commission%20on%20Biodefense
The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, formerly known as the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense, is an organization of former high-ranking government officials that analyzes US capabilities and capacity to defend against biological threats. According to the Commission's mission statement, the organization was form...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbook
A cloudbook is a small-storage laptop which depends on networked storage services (the cloud), which come packaged with the device. Examples include Google ChromeOS cloudbooks ("Chromebooks") installed with Google Drive and Windows OS cloudbooks bundled with Microsoft's OneDrive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20sauce
Brown sauce is a condiment commonly served with food in the United Kingdom and Ireland, normally dark brown in colour. The taste is either tart or sweet with a peppery taste similar to that of Worcestershire sauce. Brown sauce is typically eaten with meals such as full breakfasts, bacon sandwiches and chips. A combin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le%20Marcotte
Michèle Marcotte is an American food scientist who is a pioneer in food processing research. As a federal scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), she created a new method of fruit dehydration which can also be applied to vegetables, meat, or fish known as osmotic dehydration. Collaboration with private...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Microwave%20Theory%20and%20Techniques
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (T-MTT) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal with a focus on that part of engineering and theory associated with microwave/millimeter-wave technology and components, electronic devices, guided wave structures and theory, electromagnetic theory, and Radio Fre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%20acceleration
Fermi acceleration, sometimes referred to as diffusive shock acceleration (a subclass of Fermi acceleration), is the acceleration that charged particles undergo when being repeatedly reflected, usually by a magnetic mirror (see also Centrifugal mechanism of acceleration). It receives its name from physicist Enrico Ferm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitIt
FitIt is graphical software to fit X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES). It can be used to determine the values of local atomic structure parameters on the basis of minimization between theoretical and experimental spectra. It is the program for the fitting and therefore it always uses external programs, for ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGrok
OpenGrok is a source code search and cross-reference engine. It helps programmers to search, cross-reference, and navigate source code trees to aid code comprehension. It can understand various program file formats and version control histories such as Monotone, SCCS, RCS, CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, Git, Clearcase, P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail%20party%20effect
The cocktail party effect refers to the phenomenon wherein the brain focuses a person's attention on a particular stimulus, usually auditory. This focus excludes a range of other stimuli from conscious awareness, as when a partygoer follows a single conversation in a noisy room. This ability is widely distributed among...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%E2%80%93Denning%20model
The Graham–Denning model is a computer security model that shows how subjects and objects should be securely created and deleted. It also addresses how to assign specific access rights. It is mainly used in access control mechanisms for distributed systems. There are three main parts to the model: A set of subjects, a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetices%20principia%2C%20nova%20methodo%20exposita
The 1889 treatise Arithmetices principia, nova methodo exposita (The principles of arithmetic, presented by a new method) by Giuseppe Peano is widely considered to be a seminal document in mathematical logic and set theory, introducing what is now the standard axiomatization of the natural numbers, and known as the Pea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%20projection%20theorem
In mathematics, the Hilbert projection theorem is a famous result of convex analysis that says that for every vector in a Hilbert space and every nonempty closed convex there exists a unique vector for which is minimized over the vectors ; that is, such that for every Finite dimensional case Some intuition for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nc/Nga%20mice%20model
Nc/Nga is an inbred mouse model bred in Japan at Nagoya University in 1957. It is used as a human atopic dermatitis model for its biological properties. If kept under so called conventional conditions these mice develop skin lesions clinically and histologically very similar to human atopic dermatitis. The hair of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion%20of%20validity
Illusion of validity is a cognitive bias in which a person overestimates their ability to interpret and predict accurately the outcome when analyzing a set of data, in particular when the data analyzed show a very consistent pattern—that is, when the data "tell" a coherent story. This effect persists even when the per...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell%20Storage%20Services
Novell Storage Services (NSS) is a file system used by the Novell NetWare operating system. Support for NSS was introduced in 2004 to SUSE Linux via low-level network NCPFS protocol. It has some unique features that make it especially useful for setting up shared volumes on a file server in a local area network. NSS ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20sine
In geometry, the polar sine generalizes the sine function of angle to the vertex angle of a polytope. It is denoted by psin. Definition n vectors in n-dimensional space Let v1, ..., vn (n ≥ 1) be non-zero Euclidean vectors in n-dimensional space (Rn) that are directed from a vertex of a parallelotope, forming the e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task%20state%20segment
The task state segment (TSS) is a structure on x86-based computers which holds information about a task. It is used by the operating system kernel for task management. Specifically, the following information is stored in the TSS: Processor register state I/O port permissions Inner-level stack pointers Previous T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMSAP2
Calmodulin regulated spectrin associated protein family member 2 (CAMSAP2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CAMSAP2 gene. It acts as a microtubule minus-end anchor, and binds microtubules through its CKK domain. See also CAMSAP3 CAMSAP1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie%20cup
Pixie cup may refer to: Fungi Geopyxis carbonaria, fungus also known as a "pixie cup" Geopyxis vulcanalis, fungus commonly known as the "vulcan pixie cup" Scutellinia scutellata, fungus also known as the "eyelash pixie cup" Lichen A number of species of the lichens Cladonia (cup lichen) Cladonia asahinae, lichen ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroelongated%20pentagonal%20cupola
In geometry, the gyroelongated pentagonal cupola is one of the Johnson solids (J24). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by gyroelongating a pentagonal cupola (J5) by attaching a decagonal antiprism to its base. It can also be seen as a gyroelongated pentagonal bicupola (J46) with one pentagonal cupola removed....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20vaccine%20excipients
This is a list of excipients per vaccine, as published by the United States Centers for Disease Control. Vaccine ingredients and production in other nations are substantially the same. Also listed are substances used in the manufacturing process. See also Excipient Vaccine types Vaccination schedule Adjuvant Pres...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photohydrogen
In photochemistry, photohydrogen is hydrogen produced with the help of artificial or natural light. This is how the leaf of a tree splits water molecules into protons (hydrogen ions), electrons (to make carbohydrates) and oxygen (released into the air as a waste product). Photohydrogen may also be produced by the photo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hericium%20cirrhatum
Hericium cirrhatum is a saprotrophic fungus, commonly known as the tiered tooth fungus or spine face. The species is edible and good eating when young. It has a texture not unlike tender meat or fish. The flesh is cream in colour with an attractive smell when young, but it develops a very unpleasant odour in older spec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntiPatterns
AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis is a book about anti-patterns: specific repeated practices in software architecture, software design and software project management that initially appear to be beneficial, but ultimately result in bad consequences that outweigh hoped-for advanta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%20classification
Baltimore classification is a system used to classify viruses based on their manner of messenger RNA (mRNA) synthesis. By organizing viruses based on their manner of mRNA production, it is possible to study viruses that behave similarly as a distinct group. Seven Baltimore groups are described that take into considerat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper%20type%20II%20ascorbate-dependent%20monooxygenase
In molecular biology, the copper type II ascorbate-dependent monooxygenases are a class of enzymes that require copper as a cofactor and which use ascorbate as an electron donor. This family contains two related enzymes, dopamine beta-monooxygenase and peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase . There are a few re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand%20effect
The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead backfires by increasing awareness of that information. It is named after American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project's photogr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuravirus
Kuravirus is a genus of viruses within the Podoviridae family. This genus was established based on a combination of morphological features and genome organization. Taxonomy The following species are recognized: Escherichia virus 172-1 Escherichia virus ECB2 Escherichia virus NJ01 Escherichia virus phiEco32 Esche...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling%20%28economics%29
In contract theory, signalling (or signaling; see spelling differences) is the idea that one party (the agent) credibly conveys some information about itself to another party (the principal). Although signalling theory was initially developed by Michael Spence based on observed knowledge gaps between organisations and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%27s%20Hole
Mel's Hole is, according to an urban legend, a "bottomless pit" near Ellensburg, Washington. Claims about it were first made on the radio show Coast to Coast AM by a guest calling himself Mel Waters. Later investigation revealed no such person was listed as residing in that area, and no credible evidence has been given...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal%20strand
Coastal strand is a plant community of flowering plants that form along the shore in loose sand just above the high tide line. Many plants that grow in this area are endemic to the strand. The community has low species diversity because so few plants can tolerate the harsh conditions of high winds, battering salt spra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsio
Epsio is a suite developed by the Belgian company EVS Broadcast Equipment which allows virtual graphic overlay insertions in real-time or in instant replays. All these effects can instantly be added with the Multicam (LSM) remote controller and are immediately available. Operators can also insert virtual advertisements...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20feature%20format
In bioinformatics, the general feature format (gene-finding format, generic feature format, GFF) is a file format used for describing genes and other features of DNA, RNA and protein sequences. GFF Versions The following versions of GFF exist: General Feature Format Version 2, generally deprecated Gene Transfer Form...