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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyrellus%20porphyrosporus | Porphyrellus porphyrosporus, commonly known as the dusky bolete, is a rare fungus belonging to the family Boletaceae. With its purple-brown cap and stem, P. porphyrosporus is not easy to spot, despite its large size. This summer and autumn species occurs under pines, but can also be found beneath deciduous trees. It is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20state%20machine | The algorithmic state machine (ASM) is a method for designing finite state machines (FSMs) originally developed by Thomas E. Osborne at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) since 1960, introduced to and implemented at Hewlett-Packard in 1968, formalized and expanded since 1967 and written about by Christopher R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20spot%20%28computer%20programming%29 | A hot spot in computer science is most usually defined as a region of a computer program where a high proportion of executed instructions occur or where most time is spent during the program's execution (not necessarily the same thing since some instructions are faster than others).
If a program is interrupted randoml... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Society%20for%20Mathematics%20and%20the%20Arts | European Society for Mathematics and the Arts (ESMA) is a European society to promoting mathematics and the arts. The first Conference of ESMA, took place in July 2010 at the Institute Henri Poincaré in Paris. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photobiology | Photobiology is the scientific study of the beneficial and harmful interactions of light (technically, non-ionizing radiation) in living organisms. The field includes the study of photophysics, photochemistry, photosynthesis, photomorphogenesis, visual processing, circadian rhythms, photomovement, bioluminescence, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20access%20server | A network access server (NAS) is a group of components that provides remote users with a point of access to a network.
Overview
A NAS concentrates dial-in and dial-out user communications. An access server may have a mixture of analog and digital interfaces and support hundreds of simultaneous users. A NAS consists of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20meteorology | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the field of Meteorology.
Meteorology The interdisciplinary, scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere with the primary focus being to understand, explain, and forecast weather events. Meteorology, is applied to and employed by a wide variety... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allenia%20%28plant%29 | Allenia is a taxonomic plant genus synonym that may refer to:
Allenia = Micrantheum
Allenia = Radyera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenel%27s%20conjectures | In mathematics, the Ravenel conjectures are a set of mathematical conjectures in the field of stable homotopy theory posed by Douglas Ravenel at the end of a paper published in 1984. It was earlier circulated in preprint. The problems involved have largely been resolved, with all but the "telescope conjecture" being pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20cryptanalysis | In cryptography, linear cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis based on finding affine approximations to the action of a cipher. Attacks have been developed for block ciphers and stream ciphers. Linear cryptanalysis is one of the two most widely used attacks on block ciphers; the other being differential cryp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsaev%27s%20theorem | Matsaev's theorem is a theorem from complex analysis, which characterizes the order and type of an entire function.
The theorem was proven in 1960 by Vladimir Igorevich Matsaev.
Matsaev's theorem
Let with be an entire function which is bounded from below as follows
where
and
Then is of order and has finite ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saybolt%20universal%20viscosity | Saybolt universal viscosity (SUV), and the related Saybolt FUROL viscosity (SFV), are specific standardised tests producing measures of kinematic viscosity. FUROL is an acronym for fuel and road oil. Saybolt universal viscosity is specified by the ASTMD2161. Both tests are considered obsolete to other measures of kinem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartz%20kernel%20theorem | In mathematics, the Schwartz kernel theorem is a foundational result in the theory of generalized functions, published by Laurent Schwartz in 1952. It states, in broad terms, that the generalized functions introduced by Schwartz (Schwartz distributions) have a two-variable theory that includes all reasonable bilinear f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronosophy | Chronosophy is the neologistic designation given by scholar Julius Thomas (J.T.) Fraser to "the interdisciplinary and normative study of time sui generis."
Overview
Etymology
Fraser derived the term from the Ancient Greek: χρόνος, chronos, "time" and σοφία, sophia, "wisdom". Chronosophia is thus defined as the "spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20Vector%20Language | SVL or Scientific Vector Language is a programming language created by Chemical Computing Group. It was first released in 1994. SVL is the built-in command, scripting and application development language of MOE. It is a "chemistry aware" computer programming language with over 1,000 specific functions for analyzing and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sudanese%20flags | The following is a list of flags used in Sudan.
National Flag
Government Flag
Ethnic Group Flags
Military Flags
Political Party Flags
Sub-National flag
Historical Flags
Makuria
Alodia
Ottoman Empire (Turkish Sudan)
Mahdist State
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Independence
See also
Flag of Sudan
Emblem of Sudan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope%20piezoelectric%20generator | A radioisotope piezoelectric generator (RPG) is a type of radioisotope generator that converts energy stored in radioactive materials into motion, which is used to generate electricity using the repeated deformation of a piezoelectric material. This approach creates a high-impedance source and, unlike chemical batterie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-center%20problem | The 1-center problem, also known as minimax problem or minmax location problem, is a classical combinatorial optimization problem in operations research of facilities location type. In its most general case the problem is stated as follows: given a set of n demand points, a space of feasible locations of a facility and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroma%20of%20ovary | The stroma of the ovary is a unique type of connective tissue abundantly supplied with blood vessels, consisting for the most part of spindle-shaped stroma cells. These appear similar to fibroblasts. The stroma also contains ordinary connective tissue such as reticular fibers and collagen. Ovarian stroma differs from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherics | Spherics (sometimes sphaerics, sphaerica, or sphericks) is the historical name for spherical geometry, from Ancient Greek . It can also refer to:
Theodosius' Spherics, a 2nd-century BC book about spherical geometry by Theodosius of Bithynia
Menelaus' Spherics, a 2nd-century AD book about spherical geometry by Menela... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko%20feet | The feet of geckos have a number of specializations. Their surfaces can adhere to any type of material with the exception of Teflon (PTFE). This phenomenon can be explained with three elements:
Foot structure
Structure of the material to which the foot adheres
The ability to adhere to a surface and become a part of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike%20potential | Spike potentials are one of the action potentials, which occur in electrical activity of smooth muscle contraction in animals.
These are true action potentials.
Examples
In the human gut they occur automatically when the resting membrane potential of the gastrointestinal smooth muscle becomes more positive than about... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20Cupcake | Captain Cupcake was the second mascot for Hostess brand baked goods along with Twinkie the Kid. He was portrayed as an anthropomorphic cupcake which wore a navy blue hat and gave the appearance of being the captain of a ship. At the character's introduction, he was included on boxes and packages of Hostess Cupcakes but... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Commission%20for%20Optics | The International Commission for Optics (ICO) was created in 1947 with the objective to contribute, on an international basis, to the progress and dissemination of the science of optics and photonics and their applications. It emphasises the unity of the crossdisciplinary field of optics.
Optics and photonics are def... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams%20spray%20equation | In combustion, the Williams spray equation, also known as the Williams–Boltzmann equation, describes the statistical evolution of sprays contained in another fluid, analogous to the Boltzmann equation for the molecules, named after Forman A. Williams, who derived the equation in 1958.
Mathematical description
The spra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%20code | The Hadamard code is an error-correcting code named after Jacques Hadamard that is used for error detection and correction when transmitting messages over very noisy or unreliable channels. In 1971, the code was used to transmit photos of Mars back to Earth from the NASA space probe Mariner 9. Because of its unique mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC%20%28specification%29 | Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) is a specification promulgated by a defunct consortium of computer manufacturers (the Advanced Computing Environment project), setting forth a standard MIPS RISC-based computer hardware and firmware environment. The firmware on Alpha machines that are compatible with ARC is known as AlphaB... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS%20p21%20protein%20activator%201 | RAS p21 protein activator 1 or RasGAP (Ras GTPase activating protein), also known as RASA1, is a 120-kDa cytosolic human protein that provides two principal activities:
Inactivation of Ras from its active GTP-bound form to its inactive GDP-bound form by enhancing the endogenous GTPase activity of Ras, via its C-termin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20ICPC%20Dhaka%20Site | ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (abbreviated as ACM-ICPC or just ICPC) is an annual multi-tiered competition among the universities of the world. There are eighteen different sites in Asia that host Asia Regional Final and Dhaka is one of them. Each year the winner of the Asia Regional Final Dhaka Site... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20FIFA%20World%20Cup%20official%20mascots | The FIFA World Cup official mascots are a series of characters for each World Cup event. The trend began with World Cup Willie in 1966 FIFA World Cup, one of the very first mascots to be associated with a major sporting competition. The mascot designs represent a characteristic or symbol of the host country, such as fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phred%20%28software%29 | Phred is a computer program for base calling, that is to say, identifying a nucleobase sequence from fluorescence "trace" data generated by an automated DNA sequencer that uses electrophoresis and 4-fluorescent dye method. When originally developed, Phred produced significantly fewer errors in the data sets examined th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergostane | Ergostane is a tetracyclic triterpene, also known as 24S-methylcholestane. The compound itself has no known uses; however various functionalized analogues are produced by plants and animals. The most important of these are the heavily derivatised withanolides. However simpler forms do exist, such as the sterane campest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20national%20de%20ressources%20textuelles%20et%20lexicales | The (CNRTL) () is a French organisation which publishes linguistic data and information online.
History and description
The CNRTL was created by the management of the department Homme et Société and the management of the scientific information of the CNRS, based on the UMR of the (ATILF) of the Nancy 2 University, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIstome | HIstome is a database that provides information about human histone proteins, their sites of modifications, variants and modifying enzymes, and diseases linked to histone modifications.
Update
HISTome2 is an updated version of the HIstome database released in 2020.
See also
Histone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natrinema%20longum | Haloterrigena longa is a species of archaea in the family Natrialbaceae. It was isolated from Aibi Salt Lake in Xinjiang, China in 2006. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology%20For%20All | Technology For All is a nonprofit organization based in Houston, Texas. Developed in 1997 by local entrepreneurs, Technology For All services community-based organizations (such as development centers, YMCAs, and local schools) with computer technology, training, and other digital incentives “to empower under-resourced... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units%20of%20textile%20measurement | Textile fibers, threads, yarns and fabrics are measured in a multiplicity of units.
A fiber, a single filament of natural material, such as cotton, linen or wool, or artificial material such as nylon, polyester, metal or mineral fiber, or man-made cellulosic fibre like viscose, Modal, Lyocell or other rayon fiber is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broyden%E2%80%93Fletcher%E2%80%93Goldfarb%E2%80%93Shanno%20algorithm | In numerical optimization, the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS) algorithm is an iterative method for solving unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems. Like the related Davidon–Fletcher–Powell method, BFGS determines the descent direction by preconditioning the gradient with curvature information. It does so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed-element%20model | In electrical engineering, the distributed-element model or transmission-line model of electrical circuits assumes that the attributes of the circuit (resistance, capacitance, and inductance) are distributed continuously throughout the material of the circuit. This is in contrast to the more common lumped-element mode... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20competence | In microbiology, genetics, cell biology, and molecular biology, competence is the ability of a cell to alter its genetics by taking up extracellular ("naked") DNA from its environment in the process called transformation. Competence may be differentiated between natural competence, a genetically specified ability of ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesodinium%20rubrum | Mesodinium rubrum (or Myrionecta rubra) is a species of ciliates. It constitutes a plankton community and is found throughout the year, most abundantly in spring and fall, in coastal areas. Although discovered in 1908, its scientific importance came into light in the late 1960s when it attracted scientists by the recur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox%20Media | Vox Media, Inc. is an American mass media company based in Washington, D.C., and New York City. The company was established in November 2011 by Jim Bankoff and Trei Brundrett to encompass SB Nation (a sports blog network founded in 2003 by Tyler Bleszinski, Markos Moulitsas, and Jerome Armstrong) and The Verge (a techn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translational%20medicine | Translational medicine (often called translational science, of which it is a form) develops the clinical practice applications of the basic science aspects of the biomedical sciences; that is, it translates basic science to applied science in medical practice. It is defined by the European Society for Translational Med... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming%20SIMD%20Extensions | In computing, Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is a single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instruction set extension to the x86 architecture, designed by Intel and introduced in 1999 in their Pentium III series of central processing units (CPUs) shortly after the appearance of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD's) 3DNow!. SS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphism%20%28crystallography%29 | In chemistry, isomorphism has meanings both at the level of crystallography and at a molecular level. In crystallography, crystals are isomorphous if they have identical symmetry and if the atomic positions can be described with a set of parameters (unit cell dimensions and fractional coordinates) whose numerical valu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLESS | BLESS, also known as breaks labeling, enrichment on streptavidin and next-generation sequencing, is a method used to detect genome-wide double-strand DNA damage. In contrast to chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-based methods of identifying DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by labeling DNA repair proteins, BLESS utiliz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-gonococcal%20urethritis | Nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) is an inflammation of the urethra that is not caused by gonorrheal infection.
For treatment purposes, doctors usually classify infectious urethritis in two categories: gonococcal urethritis, caused by gonorrhea, and nongonococcal urethritis (NGU).
Symptoms and signs
The symptoms of uret... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding%20filament%20theory | The sliding filament theory explains the mechanism of muscle contraction based on muscle proteins that slide past each other to generate movement. According to the sliding filament theory, the myosin (thick filaments) of muscle fibers slide past the actin (thin filaments) during muscle contraction, while the two group... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinSCP | WinSCP (Windows Secure Copy) is a free and open-source SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), WebDAV, Amazon S3, and secure copy protocol (SCP) client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is secure file transfer between a local computer and a remote server. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophorea | Xenophyophorea is a clade of foraminiferans. Members of this class are multinucleate unicellular organisms found on the ocean floor throughout the world's oceans, at depths of . They are a kind of foraminiferan that extract minerals from their surroundings and use them to form an exoskeleton known as a test.
They wer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intronerator | The Intronerator is a database of alternatively spliced genes and a database of introns for Caenorhabditis elegans.
See also
Alternative splicing
AspicDB
EDAS
Hollywood (database)
List of biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla%E2%80%93human%20last%20common%20ancestor | The gorilla–human last common ancestor (GHLCA, GLCA, or G/H LCA) is the last species that the tribes Hominini and Gorillini (i.e. the chimpanzee–human last common ancestor on one hand and gorillas on the other) share as a common ancestor. It is estimated to have lived (TGHLCA) during the late Miocene.
The fossil find... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow%20Jones%20News/Retrieval | Dow Jones News/Retrieval was an online service offered by Dow Jones & Company beginning in 1973, which greatly expanded its subscriber numbers during the 1980s. It focused on financial information offering access to securities prices including quotes on stocks, bonds, options and mutual funds as well as a news data bas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland%20Weitzenb%C3%B6ck | Roland Weitzenböck (26 May 1885 – 24 July 1955) was an Austrian mathematician working on differential geometry who introduced the Weitzenböck connection. He was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Amsterdam in 1923 at the initiative of Brouwer, after Hermann Weyl had turned down Brouwer’s offer.
Bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szil%C3%A1rd%20petition | The Szilárd petition, drafted and circulated in July 1945 by scientist Leo Szilard, was signed by 70 scientists working on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois. It asked President Harry S. Truman to inform Japan of the terms of surrender demanded by the a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic%20map | In mathematics—specifically, in differential geometry—a geodesic map (or geodesic mapping or geodesic diffeomorphism) is a function that "preserves geodesics". More precisely, given two (pseudo-)Riemannian manifolds (M, g) and (N, h), a function φ : M → N is said to be a geodesic map if
φ is a diffeomorphism of M on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopocera%20bipunctata | Prosopocera bipunctata is a species of flat-faced longhorn beetles in the subfamily Lamiinae. It was first described by Dru Drury in 1773, from Sierra Leone.
Description
General colour brownish grey. Head deep and grey; one of the sexes having a remarkable thick and strong tubercle issuing from the middle of the face,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold%20vacuum | Manifold vacuum, or engine vacuum in an internal combustion engine is the difference in air pressure between the engine's intake manifold and Earth's atmosphere.
Manifold vacuum is an effect of a piston's movement on the induction stroke and the choked flow through a throttle in the intake manifold of an engine. It is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannequin | A mannequin (sometimes spelled as manikin and also called a dummy, lay figure, or dress form) is a doll, often articulated, used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, window dressers and others, especially to display or fit clothing and show off different fabrics and textiles. Previously, the English term referred to human... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductopenia | Ductopenia refers to a reduction in the number of ducts in an organ, in particular the absence of bile ducts of the expected size in the portal tract of the liver. It is the histological hallmark of vanishing bile duct syndrome (typically <0.5 bile ducts per portal triad). The most common cause of ductopenia is primary... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Pineal%20Research | Journal of Pineal Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on the pineal gland and its hormonal products, chiefly melatonin, in all vertebrate species. Experimental studies on circadian rhythms and sleep are also published by the journal. It is published by John Wiley & Sons and the editor-in-c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusavskia%20elegans | Rusavskia elegans (formerly Xanthoria elegans), commonly known as the elegant sunburst lichen, is a lichenized species of fungus in the genus Rusavskia, family Teloschistaceae. Recognized by its bright orange or red pigmentation, this species grows on rocks, often near bird or rodent perches. It has a circumpolar and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future | The future is the time after the past and present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently exists and will exist can be categorized as either permanent, meaning that i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexiScale | FlexiScale is a utility computing platform launched by XCalibre Communications in the summer of 2007, and subsequently acquired by Flexiant. Launched shortly after Amazon's EC2 service, it was Europe's first and the world's second cloud computing platform. Users are able to create, start, and stop servers as they requi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastocytosis | Mastocytosis, a type of mast cell disease, is a rare disorder affecting both children and adults caused by the accumulation of functionally defective mast cells (also called mastocytes) and CD34+ mast cell precursors.
People affected by mastocytosis are susceptible to a variety of symptoms, including itching, hives, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler%20spectroscopy | Doppler spectroscopy (also known as the radial-velocity method, or colloquially, the wobble method) is an indirect method for finding extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs from radial-velocity measurements via observation of Doppler shifts in the spectrum of the planet's parent star.
As of November 2022, about 19.5% of k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimastix | Trimastix is a genus of excavates, the sole occupant of the order Trimastigida. Trimastix are bacterivorous, free living and anaerobic. When first observed in 1881 by William Kent, the morphology of Trimastix was not well described but over time the oral structure and flagellar organization have become clearer. There a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20center%20management | Data center management is the collection of tasks performed by those responsible for managing ongoing operation of a data center. This includes Business service management and planning for the future.
Historically, "data center management" was seen as something performed by employees, with the help of tools collective... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tris-buffered%20saline | Tris-buffered saline (TBS) is a buffer used in some biochemical techniques to maintain the pH within a relatively narrow range. Tris (with HCl) has a slightly alkaline buffering capacity in the 7–9.2 range. The conjugate acid of Tris has a pKa of 8.07 at 25 °C. The pKa declines approximately 0.03 units per degree Celsi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQRF | IQRF is a technology for wireless packet-oriented communication via radio frequency (RF) in sub-GHz ISM bands. It is intended for general use where wireless connectivity is needed, either point-to-point or in complex networks, e.g. for telemetry, industrial control, automation of buildings and cities and Internet of Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/164%20%28number%29 | 164 (one hundred [and] sixty-four) is the natural number following 163 and preceding 165.
In mathematics
164 is a zero of the Mertens function.
In base 10, 164 is the smallest number that can be expressed as a concatenation of two squares in two different ways: as 1 concatenate 64 or 16 concatenate 4.
In astronomy
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOVA%E2%80%93simultaneous%20component%20analysis | In computational biology and bioinformatics, analysis of variance – simultaneous component analysis (ASCA or ANOVA–SCA) is a method that partitions variation and enables interpretation of these partitions by SCA, a method that is similar to principal components analysis (PCA). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a collecti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, especially in the areas of abstract algebra dealing with group cohomology or relative homological algebra, Shapiro's lemma, also known as the Eckmann–Shapiro lemma, relates extensions of modules over one ring to extensions over another, especially the group ring of a group and of a subgroup. It thus rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA%20March%20Madness%20%28TV%20program%29 | NCAA March Madness is the branding used for coverage of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament that is jointly produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network, and Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, the national sports division of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) in the United States. Through... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantificational%20variability%20effect | Quantificational variability effect (QVE) is the intuitive equivalence of certain sentences with quantificational adverbs (Q-adverbs) and sentences without these, but with quantificational determiner phrases (DP) in argument position instead.
1. (a) A cat is usually smart. (Q-adverb)
1. (b) Most cats are smart. (DP)
2.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-frame | In linear algebra, a branch of mathematics, a k-frame is an ordered set of k linearly independent vectors in a vector space; thus k ≤ n, where n is the dimension of the space, and if k = n an n-frame is precisely an ordered basis.
If the vectors are orthogonal, or orthonormal, the frame is called an orthogonal frame, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20emergency%20codes | Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrena | A pyrena or pyrene (commonly called a "pit" or "stone") is the fruitstone within a drupe or drupelet produced by the ossification of the endocarp or lining of the fruit. It consists of a hard endocarp tissue surrounding one or more seeds (also called the "kernel"). The hardened endocarp which constitutes the pyrene pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenomics | Tokenomics, also known as token economics, is an emerging field concerned with the economic properties of agent-driven systems that use cryptographic tokens that are typically created and managed on blockchain-based distributed ledgers.
Key areas of interest include determining the value properties of the tokens them... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruet-stand | A cruet-stand (or cruet in British English) is a small stand of metal, ceramic, or glass which holds containers for condiments. Typically these include salt and pepper shakers, and often cruets or bottles of vinegar and olive oil. The stand and containers form a cruet set.
Serving and dining
Condiments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response%20regulator | A response regulator is a protein that mediates a cell's response to changes in its environment as part of a two-component regulatory system. Response regulators are coupled to specific histidine kinases which serve as sensors of environmental changes. Response regulators and histidine kinases are two of the most commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanowire | A nanowire is a nanostructure in the form of a wire with the diameter of the order of a nanometre (10−9 metres). More generally, nanowires can be defined as structures that have a thickness or diameter constrained to tens of nanometers or less and an unconstrained length. At these scales, quantum mechanical effects are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkholderia%20virus%20phi52237 | Burkholderia virus phi52237 is a bacteriophage (a virus that infects bacteria) of the family Myoviridae, genus Tigrvirus. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93test%E2%80%93model | Model–test–model (MTM) is a process that intends to use high-fidelity/high-resolution combat models to simulate and replicate field operational tests. The MTM Process is divided into 5 phases:
Long-term planning – Identify the responsibility among interested organizations
Pretest modeling – Modeler creates a model o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauffman%20polynomial | In knot theory, the Kauffman polynomial is a 2-variable knot polynomial due to Louis Kauffman. It is initially defined on a link diagram as
,
where is the writhe of the link diagram and is a polynomial in a and z defined on link diagrams by the following properties:
(O is the unknot).
L is unchanged under type I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20APP%20SDK | AMD APP SDK is a software development kit by AMD for "Accelerated Parallel Processing" (APP). AMD APP SDK also targets Heterogeneous System Architecture (not only GPU).
AMD APP SDK was available for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows and Linux but was removed from AMD's official website. A developer state... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20fission | Cold fission or cold nuclear fission is defined as involving fission events for which fission fragments have such low excitation energy that no neutrons or gammas are emitted.
Cold fission events have so low a probability of occurrence that it is necessary to use a high-flux nuclear reactor to study them.
According t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%20antigen | H antigen can refer to one of various types of antigens having diverse biological functions. H antigen is located on the 19th chromosome in humans, and has a variety of functions and definitions as follows:
Also known as substance H, H antigen is a precursor to each of the ABO blood group antigens, apparently present ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal%20virus | Algal viruses are the viruses infecting photosynthetic single-celled eukaryotes, algae. As of 2020, there were 61 viruses known to infect algae. Algae are integral components of aquatic food webs and drive nutrient cycling, so the viruses infecting algal populations also impacts the organisms and nutrient cycling syst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonella%20Ferrara | Antonella Ferrara (born 1963) is an Italian control theorist and engineer, known for her work on sliding mode control.
Education and career
Ferrara is originally from Genoa, and studied electrical engineering at the University of Genoa, earning a laurea in 1987 and completing a Ph.D. in 1992. She became an assistant p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersampling | In signal processing, undersampling or bandpass sampling is a technique where one samples a bandpass-filtered signal at a sample rate below its Nyquist rate (twice the upper cutoff frequency), but is still able to reconstruct the signal.
When one undersamples a bandpass signal, the samples are indistinguishable from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Administration%20of%20Quality%20Supervision%2C%20Inspection%20and%20Quarantine | The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (, abbreviated AQSIQ) was a ministerial-level department under the State Council of the People's Republic of China that is in charge of national quality, metrology, entry-exit commodity inspection, entry-exit ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20address%20spoofing | In computer networking, IP address spoofing or IP spoofing is the creation of Internet Protocol (IP) packets with a false source IP address, for the purpose of impersonating another computing system.
Background
The basic protocol for sending data over the Internet network and many other computer networks is the Intern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-DNOS |
Distributed Network Operating System (DNOS)
The Distributed Network Operating System (DNOS) is a general purpose,
multitasking operating system designed to operate with the Texas Instruments
990/10, 990/10A and 990/12 minicomputers.
DNOS includes a sophisticated file management package which provides support
for key... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicines%20Discovery%20Catapult | The Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) is the United Kingdom's catapult centre for medicine research and innovation, headquartered at Alderley Park in Cheshire.
History
The intention to form the company was announced by the Chancellor on 13 July 2015 with funding of £5m, on a visit to Cheshire. It would be part of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Forster | Otto Forster (born 8 July 1937 in Munich) is a German mathematician.
Education and career
Forster received his Diplom in 1960 from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. There he received in 1961 his doctorate. His thesis Banachalgebren stetiger Funktionen auf kompakten Rumen (Banach algebras of continuous functions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%E2%80%93Steiner%20formula | In mathematics, the Minkowski–Steiner formula is a formula relating the surface area and volume of compact subsets of Euclidean space. More precisely, it defines the surface area as the "derivative" of enclosed volume in an appropriate sense.
The Minkowski–Steiner formula is used, together with the Brunn–Minkowski the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomek%20Bartoszy%C5%84ski | Tomek Bartoszyński (born May 16, 1957 as Tomasz Bartoszyński in Warsaw) is a Polish-American mathematician who works in set theory.
He is the son of statistician Robert Bartoszyński.
Biography
Bartoszyński studied mathematics at the University of Warsaw from 1976 to 1981, and worked there from 1981 to 1987. In 1984... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11%CE%B2-Hydroxyandrostenedione | 11β-Hydroxyandrostenedione (11β-OHA4), also known as 11β-hydroxyandrost-4-ene-3,17-dione, is an endogenous, naturally occurring steroid and androgen prohormone that is produced primarily, if not exclusively, in the adrenal glands. It is closely related to adrenosterone (11-ketoandrostenedione; 11-KA4), 11-ketotestoster... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-heating%20food%20packaging | Self-heating food packaging is active packaging with the ability to heat food contents without external heat sources or power, usually using an exothermic chemical reaction. Packets can also be self-cooling. These packages are useful for military operations, during natural disasters, or whenever conventional cooking is... |
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