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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson%E2%80%93Webb%20envy-free%20cake-cutting%20algorithm | The Robertson–Webb protocol is a protocol for envy-free cake-cutting which is also near-exact. It has the following properties:
It works for any number (n) of partners.
It works for any set of weights representing different entitlements of the partners.
The pieces are not necessarily connected, i.e. each partner mig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syn-Propanethial-S-oxide | syn-Propanethial S-oxide (or (Z)-propanethial S-oxide), a member of a class of organosulfur compounds known as thiocarbonyl S-oxides (formerly "sulfines"), is a volatile liquid that acts as a lachrymatory agent (triggers tearing and stinging on contact with the eyes). The chemical is released from onions, Allium cepa, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9chet%20space | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, Fréchet spaces, named after Maurice Fréchet, are special topological vector spaces.
They are generalizations of Banach spaces (normed vector spaces that are complete with respect to the metric induced by the norm).
All Banach and Hilbert spaces are Fréchet spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective%20%28medical%29 | An elective is a placement undertaken as part of a medical degree. The content and setting of the placement are largely decided by the student undertaking it, with some students choosing to spend it in a different country.
Elective placements are not exclusive to medical degrees; many other degree programmes within t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20S.%20Holmes | Frederick S. Holmes was an American safe and vault engineer, and inventor who designed the largest vaults in the world. During his career, Holmes designed hundreds of vaults throughout the United States, Canada and Japan from 1895 to 1941. The majority of Holmes designed vaults are located in New York's Financial Dist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Chaosheng | Hong Chaosheng (; 10 October 1920 – 19 August 2018) was a Chinese physicist best known for studying cryogenics. Hong was the teacher of Zhao Zhongxian, a laureate of Highest Science and Technology Award, the highest scientific award issued by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to scientists working in China.
He was a del... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn%20Moler | Kathryn Ann Moler (born 1966) is an American physicist, and current dean of research at Stanford University. She received her BSc (1988) and Ph.D. (1995) from Stanford University. After working as a visiting scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 1995, she held a postdoctoral position at Princeton University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1%20Audio%20Layer%20I | MPEG-1 Audio Layer I, commonly abbreviated to MP1, is one of three audio formats included in the MPEG-1 standard. It is a deliberately simplified version of MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (MP2), created for applications where lower compression efficiency could be tolerated in return for a less complex algorithm that could be ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%20prism | A Nicol prism is a type of polarizer. It is an optical device made from calcite crystal used to convert ordinary light into plane polarized light. It is made in such a way that it eliminates one of the rays by total internal reflection, i.e. the ordinary ray is eliminated and only the extraordinary ray is transmitted t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARKive | ARKive was a global initiative with the mission of "promoting the conservation of the world's threatened species, through the power of wildlife imagery", which it did by locating and gathering films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species into a centralised digital archive. Its priority was the complet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Kloss | Henry Kloss (February 21, 1929 – January 31, 2002) was a prominent American audio engineer and entrepreneur who helped advance high fidelity loudspeaker and radio receiver technology beginning in the 1950s. Kloss (pronounced with a long o, like "close") was an undergraduate student in physics at the Massachusetts Insti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm%20County%20Museum | Stockholm County Museum () is the regional museum of Stockholm County, Sweden.
The museum's head office is currently located at Flemingsberg in Huddinge Municipality. Previously, the museum was located at Sickla.
The museum serves the inhabitants in the county, especially those living in districts without a local mus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention%20for%20the%20Protection%20of%20Human%20Rights%20and%20Dignity%20of%20the%20Human%20Being%20with%20regard%20to%20the%20Application%20of%20Biology%20and%20Medicine | The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, otherwise known as the European Convention on Bioethics or the European Bioethics Convention, is an international instrument aiming to prohibit the misuse of innovations in biomedicin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20G.%20Glagoleva | Elena Georgievna Glagoleva (, 8 April 1926 – 20 July 2015) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and mathematics educator who organized a correspondence school for the mathematics in the Soviet Union based at Moscow State University, and as part of the project coauthored two mathematics textbooks with Israel Gelfand.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964%20Aberdeen%20typhoid%20outbreak | In 1964, there was an outbreak of typhoid in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. The first two cases were identified on 20 May 1964; eventually over 400 cases were diagnosed and the patients were quarantined at the City Hospital in Urquhart Road, Woodend Hospital in Eday Road, and Tor-na-Dee Hospital in Milltimber which wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight%20gain | Weight gain is an increase in body weight. This can involve an increase in muscle mass, fat deposits, excess fluids such as water or other factors. Weight gain can be a symptom of a serious medical condition.
Description
Weight gain occurs when more energy (as calories from food and beverage consumption) is gained th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bry%20and%20Boschan%20routine | In econometrics, the Bry and Boschan routine finds statistical maxima and minima while using certain censoring rules and phase and cycle length constraints.
The OECD has composite leading indicators and turning points that are recession indicators with peak through the trough turning points chronologies determined by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Garfield | Joan B. Garfield is an American educational psychologist specializing in statistics education. She is retired from the University of Minnesota as a professor emeritus of educational psychology.
Education
Garfield entered the University of Wisconsin intending to study anthropology, but graduated in 1972 with a bachelor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphodiesterase%203 | PDE3 is a phosphodiesterase. The PDEs belong to at least eleven related gene families, which are different in their primary structure, substrate affinity, responses to effectors, and regulation mechanism.
Most of the PDE families are composed of more than one gene. PDE3 is clinically significant because of its role in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestU01 | TestU01 is a software library, implemented in the ANSI C language, that offers a collection of utilities for the empirical randomness testing of random number generators (RNGs). The library was first introduced in 2007 by Pierre L’Ecuyer and Richard Simard of the Université de Montréal.
The library implements several... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzing | Fritzing is an open-source initiative to develop amateur or hobby CAD software for the design of electronics hardware, intended to allow designers and artists to build more permanent circuits from prototypes. It was developed at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Fritzing is free software under the GPL 3.0 or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipe%20%28mycology%29 | In mycology, a stipe () is the stem or stalk-like feature supporting the cap of a mushroom. Like all tissues of the mushroom other than the hymenium, the stipe is composed of sterile hyphal tissue. In many instances, however, the fertile hymenium extends down the stipe some distance. Fungi that have stipes are said to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CellNetix | CellNetix Pathology & Laboratories, LLC, headquartered in Tukwila, Washington, is a premier anatomic pathology provider in the Pacific Northwest, with 60 physicians and more than 300 total staff. Services include cytology, histology, fine needle aspiration (FNA) services, flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, immunoflu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan%27s%20congruences | In mathematics, Ramanujan's congruences are some remarkable congruences for the partition function p(n). The mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan discovered the congruences
This means that:
If a number is 4 more than a multiple of 5, i.e. it is in the sequence
4, 9, 14, 19, 24, 29, . . .
then the number of its partit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diastereomer | In stereochemistry, diastereomers (sometimes called diastereoisomers) are a type of stereoisomer. Diastereomers are defined as non-mirror image, non-identical stereoisomers. Hence, they occur when two or more stereoisomers of a compound have different configurations at one or more (but not all) of the equivalent (relat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cooling%20baths | This article contains a list of cooling bath mixtures.
Table |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron-hole%20droplets | Electron-hole droplets are a condensed phase of excitons in semiconductors. The droplets are formed at low temperatures and high exciton densities, the latter of which can be created with intense optical excitation or electronic excitation in a p-n junction.
Discovery
Evidence for electron-hole droplets was first obs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinaigrette | Vinaigrette ( , ) is made by mixing an oil with a mild acid such as vinegar or lemon juice (citric acid). The mixture can be enhanced with salt, herbs and/or spices. It is used most commonly as a salad dressing, but can also be used as a marinade. Traditionally, a vinaigrette consists of 3 parts oil and 1 part vinegar ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyoluteorin | Pyoluteorin is a natural antibiotic that is biosynthesized from a hybrid nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) and polyketide synthase (PKS) pathway. Pyoluteorin was first isolated in the 1950s from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains T359 and IFO 3455 and was found to be toxic against oomycetes, bacteria, fungi, and again... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average%20memory%20access%20time | In computer science, Average Memory Access Time (AMAT) is a common metric to analyze computer memory system performance.
Metric
AMAT uses hit time, miss penalty, and miss rate to measure memory performance. It accounts for the fact that hits and misses affect memory system performance differently. In addition, AMAT ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan%20Naim | Hassan Naim is a Lebanese-Swiss biochemist. He currently holds the position of Director of the "Institut für Physiologische Chemie" (Institute for Physiological Chemistry/Biochemistry) at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover, while collaborating regularly with the University of Hannover.
Scientific career
Has... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%20River%20virus | Ross River virus (RRV) is a small encapsulated single-strand RNA Alphavirus endemic to Australia, Papua New Guinea and other islands in the South Pacific. It is responsible for a type of mosquito-borne non-lethal but extremely debilitating tropical disease known as Ross River fever, previously termed "epidemic polyart... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mild%20cognitive%20impairment | Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a neurocognitive disorder which involves cognitive impairments beyond those expected based on an individual's age and education but which are not significant enough to interfere with instrumental activities of daily living. MCI may occur as a transitional stage between normal aging an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohlia%20nutans | Pohlia nutans, the nodding thread-moss, is a species of moss in the family Mniaceae. It has a Cosmopolitan distribution, found on all seven continents; Europe, Iceland, Siberia, Japan, North America, Greenland, the Andes of South America, South Africa, Tasmania and nearby mainland Australia, New Zealand, and the Antarc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum%20curtain | Discovered by British engineer Christopher Cockerell, the momentum curtain is a unique and efficient way to reduce friction between a vehicle and its surface of travel, be it water or land, by levitating the vehicle above this surface via a cushion of air. It is this principle of levitation upon which a hovercraft is b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed%20layer | The oceanic or limnological mixed layer is a layer in which active turbulence has homogenized some range of depths. The surface mixed layer is a layer where this turbulence is generated by winds, surface heat fluxes, or processes such as evaporation or sea ice formation which result in an increase in salinity. The at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint-based%20Routing%20Label%20Distribution%20Protocol | Constraint-based Routing Label Distribution Protocol (CR-LDP) is a control protocol used in some computer networks.
As of February 2003, the IETF MPLS working group deprecated CR-LDP and decided to focus purely on RSVP-TE.
It is an extension of the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP), one of the protocols in the Multipr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikhil%20Srivastava | Nikhil Srivastava is an associate professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. In July 2014, he was named a recipient of the Pólya Prize with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman.
Early life and education
Nikhil Srivastava was born New Delhi, India. He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, gra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi-Civita%20field | In mathematics, the Levi-Civita field, named after Tullio Levi-Civita, is a non-Archimedean ordered field; i.e., a system of numbers containing infinite and infinitesimal quantities. Each member can be constructed as a formal series of the form
where are real numbers, is the set of rational numbers, and is to b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Hippocratism | Neo-Hippocratism was an influential movement and was the subject of numerous conversations and theorizations between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. The movement saw a revival in popularity with physicians after the First World War. It sought to reappraise the role of Hippocrates and Hippocratic medicine ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbard%20Brook%20Experimental%20Forest | Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is an area of land in the towns of Woodstock, Ellsworth and Thornton in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that functions as an outdoor laboratory for ecological studies. It was initially established in 1955 by the United States Forest Service for the study of the relationship betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20mail | Hybrid mail is mail that is delivered using a combination of electronic and physical delivery. Usually, it involves digital data being transformed into physical letter items at distributed print centres located as close as possible to the final delivery addresses. An e-mail letter (also L-mail and letter mail) is a let... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor%20histocompatibility%20antigen | Minor histocompatibility antigen (also known as MiHA) are peptides presented on the cellular surface of donated organs that are known to give an immunological response in some organ transplants. They cause problems of rejection less frequently than those of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Minor histocompati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%27s%20proof | Turing's proof is a proof by Alan Turing, first published in January 1937 with the title "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the ". It was the second proof (after Church's theorem) of the negation of Hilbert's ; that is, the conjecture that some purely mathematical yes–no questions can never be answered by c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Dot%20Payment | Red Dot Payment (RDP) is an online payment service provider headquartered in Singapore. The fintech company provides online payment gateway systems, payment consulting and merchant acquisition services for businesses that require the processing of online credit card transactions.
History
Established in 2011, Red Dot ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey%20sentence | Donkey sentences are sentences that contain a pronoun with clear meaning (it is bound semantically) but whose syntactical role in the sentence poses challenges to grammarians. Such sentences defy straightforward attempts to generate their formal language equivalents. The difficulty is with understanding how English spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20hardness%20assumption | In computational complexity theory, a computational hardness assumption is the hypothesis that a particular problem cannot be solved efficiently (where efficiently typically means "in polynomial time"). It is not known how to prove (unconditional) hardness for essentially any useful problem. Instead, computer scientist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic%20curvature | In Riemannian geometry, the geodesic curvature of a curve measures how far the curve is from being a geodesic. For example, for 1D curves on a 2D surface embedded in 3D space, it is the curvature of the curve projected onto the surface's tangent plane. More generally, in a given manifold , the geodesic curvature is j... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helaman%20Ferguson | Helaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson (born 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American sculptor and a digital artist, specifically an algorist. He is also well known for his development of the PSLQ algorithm, an integer relation detection algorithm.
Early life and education
Ferguson's mother died when he was about three and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20form%20%28abstract%20rewriting%29 | In abstract rewriting, an object is in normal form if it cannot be rewritten any further, i.e. it is irreducible. Depending on the rewriting system, an object may rewrite to several normal forms or none at all. Many properties of rewriting systems relate to normal forms.
Definitions
Stated formally, if (A,→) is an a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlates%20of%20crime | The correlates of crime explore the associations of specific non-criminal factors with specific crimes.
The field of criminology studies the dynamics of crime. Most of these studies use correlational data; that is, they attempt to identify various factors are associated with specific categories of criminal behavior. S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triband%20%28flag%29 | A triband is a vexillological style which consists of three stripes arranged to form a flag. These stripes may be two or three colours, and may be charged with an emblem in the middle stripe. All tricolour flags are tribands, but not all tribands are tricolour flags, which requires three unique colours.
Design
Outsid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferromagnetic%20superconductor | Ferromagnetic superconductors are materials that display intrinsic coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity. They include UGe2, URhGe, and UCoGe. Evidence of ferromagnetic superconductivity was also reported for ZrZn2 in 2001, but later reports question these findings. These materials exhibit superconductivi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing%20%28materials%20science%29 | In metallurgy and materials science, annealing is a heat treatment that alters the physical and sometimes chemical properties of a material to increase its ductility and reduce its hardness, making it more workable. It involves heating a material above its recrystallization temperature, maintaining a suitable temperatu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20geometry | In mathematics, hyperbolic geometry (also called Lobachevskian geometry or Bolyai–Lobachevskian geometry) is a non-Euclidean geometry. The parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry is replaced with:
For any given line R and point P not on R, in the plane containing both line R and point P there are at least two distinct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methicillin-resistant%20Staphylococcus%20aureus | Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a group of gram-positive bacteria that are genetically distinct from other strains of Staphylococcus aureus. MRSA is responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans. It caused more than 100,000 deaths worldwide attributable to antimicrobial resistanc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula%20heterophylla | The edible wild mushroom Russula heterophylla, that has lately been given the common name of the greasy green brittlegill is placed in the genus Russula, the members of which are mostly known as brittlegills. It is a variably colored mushroom, found in deciduous forests, and woods in Britain, Europe, and Scandinavia. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20fermion | In physics, a Dirac fermion is a spin-½ particle (a fermion) which is different from its antiparticle. A vast majority of fermions fall under this category.
Description
In particle physics, all fermions in the standard model have distinct antiparticles (perhaps excepting neutrinos) and hence are Dirac fermions. They a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neochromosome | A neochromosome is a chromosome that is not normally found in nature. Cancer-associated neochromosomes are found in some cancer cells.
Neochromosomes have also been created using genetic engineering techniques.
Cancer-associated neochromosomes
Cancer-associated neochromosomes are giant supernumerary chromosomes. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression%20quantitative%20trait%20loci | Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) are genomic loci that explain variation in expression levels of mRNAs.
Distant and local, trans- and cis-eQTLs, respectively
An expression quantitative trait is an amount of an mRNA transcript or a protein. These are usually the product of a single gene with a specific chro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki%E2%80%93Kasami%20algorithm | The Suzuki–Kasami algorithm is a token-based algorithm for achieving mutual exclusion in distributed systems. The process holding the token is the only process able to enter its critical section.
This is a modification to Ricart–Agrawala algorithm in which a REQUEST and REPLY message are used for attaining the critica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper%20%28microarchitecture%29 | Hopper is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. It is designed for datacenters and is parallel to Ada Lovelace.
Named for computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper, the Hopper architecture was leaked in November 2019 and officially revealed in March 2022. It ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-site | The E-site is the third and final binding site for t-RNA in the ribosome during translation, a part of protein synthesis. The "E" stands for exit, and is accompanied by the P-site (for peptidyl) which is the second binding site, and the A-site (aminoacyl), which is the first binding site. It is involved in cellular pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis%20ecoregion | A crisis ecoregion is a terrestrial biome facing significant threat to its biodiversity and requiring well directed conservation efforts in order to curb the irreversible loss of plant and animal species and their surrounding habitats. Generally, an ecoregion is understood to be an area of particular ecological importa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie%27s%20principle | Curie's principle, or Curie's symmetry principle, is a maxim about cause and effect formulated by Pierre Curie in 1894:
The idea was based on the ideas of Franz Ernst Neumann and Bernhard Minnigerode. Thus, it is sometimes known as the Neuman–Minnigerode–Curie Principle. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%20reciprocity | In physics, Born reciprocity, also called reciprocal relativity or Born–Green reciprocity, is a principle set up by theoretical physicist Max Born that calls for a duality-symmetry among space and momentum. Born and his co-workers expanded his principle to a framework that is also known as reciprocity theory.
Born not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20plane | In crystallography, a lattice plane of a given Bravais lattice is any plane containing at least three noncollinear Bravais lattice points. Equivalently, a lattice plane is a plane whose intersections with the lattice (or any crystalline structure of that lattice) are periodic (i.e. are described by 2d Bravais lattices)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex-transitive%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, a vertex-transitive graph is a graph in which, given any two vertices and of , there is some automorphism
such that
In other words, a graph is vertex-transitive if its automorphism group acts transitively on its vertices. A graph is vertex-transitive if and only if its g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WomenLift%20Health | WomenLift Health is a nonprofit organization aimed at working with partners around the world to accelerate the advancement of talented women into senior leadership by investing in mid-career women and influencing the environments in which they live and work. In 2019, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission%20of%20plant%20viruses | Transmission of plant viruses is the movement of plant viruses between organisms.
Background
Viruses are known to infect both plant cells and animal cells. Since viruses are obligate intracellular parasites they must develop direct methods of transmission, between hosts, in order to survive. The mobility of animals in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desulfonatronovibrio | Desulfonatronovibrio is a Gram-negative, vibrios, anaerobic and motile genus of bacteria from the family of Desulfohalobiaceae with a single polar flagellum.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventastega | Ventastega (Venta referring to the Venta River at the Ketleri Formation where Ventastega was discovered) is an extinct genus of stem tetrapod that lived during the Upper Fammenian of the Late Devonian, approximately 372.2 to 358.9 million years ago. Only one species is known that belongs in the genus, Ventastega curoni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrametric%20space | In mathematics, an ultrametric space is a metric space in which the triangle inequality is strengthened to . Sometimes the associated metric is also called a non-Archimedean metric or super-metric.
Formal definition
An ultrametric on a set is a real-valued function
(where denote the real numbers), such that for a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20diode | The term "thermal diode" can refer to:
a (possibly non-electrical) device which allows heat to flow preferentially in one direction;
an electrical (semiconductor) diode in reference to a thermal effect or function;
or it may describe both situations, where an electrical diode is used as a heat pump or thermoelectri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20vortex | In physics, a quantum vortex represents a quantized flux circulation of some physical quantity. In most cases, quantum vortices are a type of topological defect exhibited in superfluids and superconductors. The existence of quantum vortices was first predicted by Lars Onsager in 1949 in connection with superfluid heliu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Ocean%20Sampling%20Expedition | The Global Ocean Sampling Expedition (GOS) is an ocean exploration genome project whose goal is to assess genetic diversity in marine microbial communities and to understand their role in nature's fundamental processes. It was begun as a Sargasso Sea pilot sampling project in August 2003; Craig Venter announced the ful... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain | Split-brain or callosal syndrome is a type of disconnection syndrome when the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the brain is severed to some degree. It is an association of symptoms produced by disruption of, or interference with, the connection between the hemispheres of the brain. The surgical operati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermite%20normal%20form | In linear algebra, the Hermite normal form is an analogue of reduced echelon form for matrices over the integers Z. Just as reduced echelon form can be used to solve problems about the solution to the linear system Ax=b where x is in Rn, the Hermite normal form can solve problems about the solution to the linear system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features%20new%20to%20Windows%207 | Some of the new features included in Windows 7 are advancements in touch, speech and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, support for additional file formats, improved performance on multi-core processors, improved boot performance, and kernel improvements.
Shell and user interface
Windows 7 retain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous%20%28hacker%20group%29 | Anonymous is a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective and movement primarily known for its various cyberattacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations and the Church of Scientology.
Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan represen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetypes | Genetypes is a taxonomic concept proposed in 2010 to describe any genetic sequences from type specimens. This nomenclature integrates molecular systematics and terms used in biological taxonomy. This nomenclature is designed to label, or flag, genetic sequences that were sampled from type specimens. The nomenclature of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiVersus | MultiVersus is an upcoming free-to-play crossover fighting game developed by Player First Games and published by Warner Bros. Games for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. The game features characters from Warner Bros. Entertainment franchises.
Officially announced in November 2021 fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20leopard%20frog | Lithobates pipiens formerly Rana pipiens, commonly known as the northern leopard frog, is a species of leopard frog from the true frog family, native to parts of Canada and the United States. It is the state amphibian of Minnesota and Vermont.
Description
The northern leopard frog is a fairly large species of frog, r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome%20Centre%20for%20Human%20Neuroimaging | The Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at University College London is a world-leading interdisciplinary centre for neuroimaging research based in London, United Kingdom. Researchers at the Centre use expertise to investigate how the human brain generates behaviour, thoughts and feelings and how to use this knowled... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory%20water%20bath | A water bath is laboratory equipment made from a container filled with heated water. It is used to incubate samples in water at a constant temperature over a long period of time. Most water baths have a digital or an analogue interface to allow users to set a desired temperature, but some water baths have their tempera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal%20fMRI | Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the spinal cord (spinal fMRI) is an adaptation of the fMRI method that has been developed for use in the brain. Although the basic principles underlying the methods are the same, spinal fMRI requires a number of specific adaptations to accommodate the periodic motion of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus%20%28time-reversible%20computing%20programming%20language%29 | Janus is a time-reversible programming language written at Caltech in 1982. The operational semantics of the language were formally specified, together with a program inverter and an invertible self-interpreter, in 2007 by Tetsuo Yokoyama and Robert Glück. A Janus inverter and interpreter is made freely available by th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20C.%20%C3%98rsted%20Medal | The H. C. Ørsted Medal is a medal for scientific achievement awarded by the Danish Selskabet for naturlærens udbredelse (The Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science). Named for the society's founder Hans Christian Ørsted, it is awarded chiefly to Danes. The medal is awarded in three versions: gold is for outst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBOR | Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a binary data serialization format loosely based on JSON authored by C. Bormann. Like JSON it allows the transmission of data objects that contain name–value pairs, but in a more concise manner. This increases processing and transfer speeds at the cost of human readability... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution%20enhancement%20technologies | Resolution enhancement technologies are methods used to modify the photomasks in the lithographic processes used to make integrated circuits (ICs or "chips") to compensate for limitations in the optical resolution of the projection systems. These processes allow the creation of features well beyond the limit that would... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hering%E2%80%93Breuer%20reflex | The Hering–Breuer inflation reflex, named for Josef Breuer and Ewald Hering, is a reflex triggered to prevent the over-inflation of the lung. Pulmonary stretch receptors present on the wall of bronchi and bronchioles of the airways respond to excessive stretching of the lung during large inspirations.
Once activated, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POODLE | POODLE (which stands for "Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption") is a security vulnerability which takes advantage of the fallback to SSL 3.0. If attackers successfully exploit this vulnerability, on average, they only need to make 256 SSL 3.0 requests to reveal one byte of encrypted messages. Bodo Möller, Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20theory | In algebra, ring theory is the study of rings—algebraic structures in which addition and multiplication are defined and have similar properties to those operations defined for the integers. Ring theory studies the structure of rings, their representations, or, in different language, modules, special classes of rings (g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland%20Speicher | Roland Speicher (born 12 June 1960) is a German mathematician, known for his work on free probability theory. He is a professor at the Saarland University.
After winning the 1979 German national competition Jugend forscht in the field of mathematics and computer science, Speicher studied physics and mathematics at th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightness%20temperature | Brightness temperature or radiance temperature is a measure of the intensity of electromagnetic energy coming from a source. In particular, it is the temperature at which a black body would have to be in order to duplicate the observed intensity of a grey body object at a frequency .
This concept is used in radio astro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magistrato%20alla%20Sanit%C3%A0 | The () was the office of the Republic of Venice definitively instituted in 1490 to manage public health in the city of Venice and its territories, with specific attention on preventing the spread of epidemics within the maritime republic. The magistracy was among the first health authorities in Europe to institute pub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurer%20rose | In geometry, the concept of a Maurer rose was introduced by Peter M. Maurer in his article titled A Rose is a Rose.... A Maurer rose consists of some lines that connect some points on a rose curve.
Definition
Let r = sin(nθ) be a rose in the polar coordinate system, where n is a positive integer. The rose has n petals... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Museum%20of%20Women | The International Museum of Women (IMOW), headquartered in San Francisco, California, is an online museum that covers women's issues worldwide. Since March 2014 it has been part of the Global Fund for Women.
Creation and expansion
I.M.O.W. was founded as the Women's Heritage Museum in 1985. As the Women's Heritage M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating%20sequential%20processes | In computer science, communicating sequential processes (CSP) is a formal language for describing patterns of interaction in concurrent systems. It is a member of the family of mathematical theories of concurrency known as process algebras, or process calculi, based on message passing via channels. CSP was highly influ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI8-RU | KOI8-RU is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian which use a Cyrillic alphabet. It is closely related to KOI8-R, which covers Russian and Bulgarian, but replaces ten box drawing characters with five Ukrainian and Belarusian letters Ґ, Є, І, Ї, and Ў in both upper case and low... |
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