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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed%20air%20dryer | Compressed air dryers are special types of filter systems that are specifically designed to remove the water that is inherent in compressed air. The compression of air raises its temperature and concentrates atmospheric contaminants, primarily water vapor, as resulting in air with elevated temperature and 100% relative... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnier%20integrable%20system | In mathematical physics, the Garnier integrable system, also known as the classical Gaudin model is a classical mechanical system
discovered by René Garnier in 1919 by taking the 'Painlevé simplification' or 'autonomous limit' of the Schlesinger equations. It is a classical analogue to the quantum Gaudin model due to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade%20%28slope%29 | The grade (also called slope, incline, gradient, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal. It is a special case of the slope, where zero indicates horizontality. A larger number indicates higher or steeper degree of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Account%20sharing | Account sharing, also known as credential sharing, is the process of sharing login information with multiple users to access online accounts or services. This can include sharing information like e-mail addresses, usernames and passwords for social media accounts, subscription services, gaming platforms or other online... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Group%20Management%20Protocol%20with%20Access%20Control | The Internet Group Management Protocol with Access Control (IGMP-AC) has been designed for incorporating AAA protocol functionality in the existing IP multicast model. It will enforce authentication and authorization of an end user or receiver before joining or leaving a secured multicast group. To add AAA functionalit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exatron%20Stringy%20Floppy | The Exatron Stringy Floppy (or ESF) is a continuous-loop tape drive developed by Exatron.
History
The company introduced an S-100 stringy floppy drive at the 1978 West Coast Computer Faire, and a version for the Radio Shack TRS-80 in 1979. Exatron sold about 4,000 TRS-80 drives by August 1981 for $249.50 each, stati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log%E2%80%93log%20plot | In science and engineering, a log–log graph or log–log plot is a two-dimensional graph of numerical data that uses logarithmic scales on both the horizontal and vertical axes. Power functions – relationships of the form – appear as straight lines in a log–log graph, with the exponent corresponding to the slope, and th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenScientist | OpenScientist is an integration of open source products working together to do scientific visualization and data analysis, in particular for high energy physics (HEP).
Among other things, it contains a light C++ AIDA implementation that can be used to run the histogramming part of Geant4 examples.
External links
D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanant | In mathematics, the immanant of a matrix was defined by Dudley E. Littlewood and Archibald Read Richardson as a generalisation of the concepts of determinant and permanent.
Let be a partition of an integer and let be the corresponding irreducible representation-theoretic character of the symmetric group . The imman... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic1 | Sic1, a protein, is a stoichiometric inhibitor of Cdk1-Clb (B-type cyclins) complexes in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Because B-type cyclin-Cdk1 complexes are the drivers of S-phase initiation, Sic1 prevents premature S-phase entry. Multisite phosphorylation of Sic1 is thought to time Sic1 ubiquitinatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pesticide%20Question | The Pesticide Question: Environment, Economics and Ethics is a 1993 book edited by David Pimentel and Hugh Lehman. Use of pesticides has improved agricultural productivity, but there are also concerns about safety, health and the environment.
This book is the result of research by leading scientists and policy expert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20Birdseye | Clarence Birdseye (December 9, 1886 – October 7, 1956) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry. He founded the frozen food company Birds Eye. Among his inventions during his career was the double belt freezer.
One of nine children, Birdseye grew... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persulfate | A persulfate (sometimes known as peroxysulfate or peroxodisulfate) is a compound containing the anions or . The anion contains one peroxide group per sulfur center, whereas in , the peroxide group bridges the sulfur atoms. In both cases, sulfur adopts the normal tetrahedral geometry typical for the S(VI) oxidation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20chart | An E chart, also known as a tumbling E chart, is an ophthalmological chart used to measure a patient's visual acuity.
Uses
This chart is useful for patients who are unable to read the Latin alphabet – for example, very young children. It is also used in countries where people do not use the alphabet in their native ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20television | Mechanical television or mechanical scan television is an obsolete television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, such as a rotating disk with holes in it or a rotating mirror drum, to scan the scene and generate the video signal, and a similar mechanical device at the receiver to display the picture. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombu | Konbu (from ) is edible kelp mostly from the family Laminariaceae and is widely eaten in East Asia. It may also be referred to as dasima () or haidai ().
Kelp features in the diets of many civilizations, including Chinese and Icelandic; however, the largest consumers of kelp are the Japanese, who have incorporated kel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoas%20major%20muscle | The psoas major ( or ; from ) is a long fusiform muscle located in the lateral lumbar region between the vertebral column and the brim of the lesser pelvis. It joins the iliacus muscle to form the iliopsoas. In animals, this muscle is equivalent to the tenderloin.
Structure
The psoas major is divided into a superficia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative%20Auger%20effect | Radiative Auger effect is a decay channel of an inner-shell atomic vacancy state, in which an x-ray photon is emitted accompanying simultaneous promotion of an electron into either a bound or a continuum state. Thus the transition energy is shared between the photon and the electron.
The effect was first observed by F.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy%20H-Alpha%20Fabry-Perot%20System | The Galaxy Hα Fabry-Perot System for WHT (GHaFaS) is an astronomical instrument installed on the 4.2 metre William Herschel Telescope (WHT) at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the Canary island of La Palma. First light was on 6 July 2007. Its name is a play on the acronym: Galaxy Hα Fabry-Perot System and the Span... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%20expansion | In linear algebra, the Laplace expansion, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, also called cofactor expansion, is an expression of the determinant of an matrix as a weighted sum of minors, which are the determinants of some submatrices of . Specifically, for every , the Laplace expansion along the th row is the equalit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Electronic%20Test%20Chart | UEIT - Universal Electronic Test Chart (russian: УЭИТ - Универсальная электронная испытательная таблица) is a Soviet/Russian test card, designed to test TVs operating in the analogue SECAM colour standard.
UEIT was developed by N. G. Deryugin and V. A. Minaev at the NII Radio Scientific Research Institute as the succ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercube%20internetwork%20topology | In computer networking, hypercube networks are a type of network topology used to connect multiple processors with memory modules and accurately route data. Hypercube networks consist of nodes, which form the vertices of squares to create an internetwork connection. A hypercube is basically a multidimensional mesh net... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturm%20separation%20theorem | In mathematics, in the field of ordinary differential equations, Sturm separation theorem, named after Jacques Charles François Sturm, describes the location of roots of solutions of homogeneous second order linear differential equations. Basically the theorem states that given two linear independent solutions of such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptobiosis | Cryptobiosis or anabiosis is a metabolic state in extremophilic organisms in response to adverse environmental conditions such as desiccation, freezing, and oxygen deficiency. In the cryptobiotic state, all measurable metabolic processes stop, preventing reproduction, development, and repair. When environmental conditi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20K-theory | Algebraic K-theory is a subject area in mathematics with connections to geometry, topology, ring theory, and number theory. Geometric, algebraic, and arithmetic objects are assigned objects called K-groups. These are groups in the sense of abstract algebra. They contain detailed information about the original object... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20special%20relativity | The history of special relativity consists of many theoretical results and empirical findings obtained by Albert A. Michelson, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others. It culminated in the theory of special relativity proposed by Albert Einstein and subsequent work of Max Planck, Hermann Minkowski and others.
Intro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Berestycki | Henri Berestycki (born 25 March 1951) is a French mathematician who obtained his PhD from Université Paris VI – Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1975. His Dissertation was titled Contributions à l'étude des problèmes elliptiques non linéaires, and his doctoral advisor was Haïm Brezis. He was an L.E. Dickson Instr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supralittoral%20zone | The supralittoral zone, also known as the splash zone, spray zone or the supratidal zone, sometimes also referred to as the white zone, is the area above the spring high tide line, on coastlines and estuaries, that is regularly splashed, but not submerged by ocean water. Seawater penetrates these elevated areas only du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qullqa | A qullqa ( "deposit, storehouse"; (spelling variants: colca, collca, qolca, qollca) was a storage building found along roads and near the cities and political centers of the Inca Empire. To a "prodigious [extent] unprecedented in the annals of world prehistory" the Incas stored food and other commodities which could be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve%20%28tonality%29 | In image editing, a curve is a remapping of image tonality, specified as a function from input level to output level, used as a way to emphasize colours or other elements in a picture.
Curves can usually be applied to all channels together in an image, or to each channel individually.
Applying a curve to all channels... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikeda%20lift | In mathematics, the Ikeda lift is a lifting of modular forms to Siegel modular forms. The existence of the lifting was conjectured by W. Duke and Ö. Imamoḡlu and also by T. Ibukiyama, and the lifting was constructed by . It generalized the Saito–Kurokawa lift from modular forms of weight 2k to genus 2 Siegel modular fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor%20unit | A monitor unit (MU) is a measure of machine output from a clinical accelerator for radiation therapy such as a linear accelerator or an orthovoltage unit. Monitor units are measured by monitor chambers, which are ionization chambers that measure the dose delivered by a beam and are built into the treatment head of radi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckert%20number | The Eckert number (Ec) is a dimensionless number used in continuum mechanics. It expresses the relationship between a flow's kinetic energy and the boundary layer enthalpy difference, and is used to characterize heat transfer dissipation. It is named after Ernst R. G. Eckert.
It is defined as
where
u is the local f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byteflight | Byteflight is an automotive databus created by BMW and partners Motorola, Elmos Semiconductor and Infineon to address the need for a modernized safety-critical, fault tolerant means of electronic communication between automotive components. It is a message-oriented protocol. As a predecessor to FlexRay, byteflight us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B2ji%C4%81ng%20virus | Mòjiāng virus (MojV), officially Mojiang henipavirus, is a virus in the family Paramyxoviridae. Based on phylogenetics, Mòjiāng virus is placed in the genus Henipavirus or described as a henipa-like virus. Antibodies raised against Mòjiāng virus glycoproteins are serologically distinct from other henipaviruses (among w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulant | In probability theory and statistics, the cumulants of a probability distribution are a set of quantities that provide an alternative to the moments of the distribution. Any two probability distributions whose moments are identical will have identical cumulants as well, and vice versa.
The first cumulant is the mea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overline | An overline, overscore, or overbar, is a typographical feature of a horizontal line drawn immediately above the text. In old mathematical notation, an overline was called a vinculum, a notation for grouping symbols which is expressed in modern notation by parentheses, though it persists for symbols under a radical sign... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvatest | Sylavtest is an ultrasonic measuring device that provides an overall diagnosis of a wooden component to test its mechanical strength. This is a specific non-destructive testing tool for wooden beams.
Description
Sylvatest is an acousto-ultrasonic measuring device that provides an overall diagnosis of the wood elemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elderly%20care | Elderly care, or simply eldercare (also known in parts of the English-speaking world as aged care), serves the needs of old adults. It encompasses assisted living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes (often called residential care), hospice care, and home care.
Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliFlash | IntelliFlash is a brand of DataDirect Networks (DDN) based in San Jose that manufactures flash storage arrays. The company, then known as Tegile Systems, was acquired by Western Digital in 2017 and by DDN in September 2019.
History
Tegile Systems was founded in 2010 by Rohit Kshetrapal, Rajesh Nair, Justin Cheen, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melde%27s%20experiment | Melde's experiment is a scientific experiment carried out in 1859 by the German physicist Franz Melde on the standing waves produced in a tense cable originally set oscillating by a tuning fork, later improved with connection to an electric vibrator. This experiment, "a lecture-room standby", attempted to demonstrate t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocurvature | In mathematics in the branch of differential geometry, the cocurvature of a connection on a manifold is the obstruction to the integrability of the vertical bundle.
Definition
If M is a manifold and P is a connection on M, that is a vector-valued 1-form on M which is a projection on TM such that PabPbc = Pac, then the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinterlacing | Deinterlacing is the process of converting interlaced video into a non-interlaced or progressive form. Interlaced video signals are commonly found in analog television, digital television (HDTV) when in the 1080i format, some DVD titles, and a smaller number of Blu-ray discs.
An interlaced video frame consists of two ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljung%E2%80%93Box%20test | The Ljung–Box test (named for Greta M. Ljung and George E. P. Box) is a type of statistical test of whether any of a group of autocorrelations of a time series are different from zero. Instead of testing randomness at each distinct lag, it tests the "overall" randomness based on a number of lags, and is therefore a por... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSEMU | DOSEMU, stylized as dosemu, is a compatibility layer software package that enables DOS operating systems (e.g., MS-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS) and application software to run atop Linux on x86-based PCs (IBM PC compatible computers).
Features
It uses a combination of hardware-assisted virtualization features and high-level... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmert%27s%20law | Emmert's law states that objects that generate retinal images of the same size will look different in physical size (linear size) if they appear to be located at different distances. Specifically, the perceived linear size of an object increases as its perceived distance from the observer increases. This makes intuiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPad | TMPad (the TransMembrane Protein Helix-Packing Database) is a repository of helix-helix interactions in membrane proteins
See also
Alpha helix
membrane protein |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20tympanic%20artery | The anterior tympanic artery (glaserian artery) is a branch of (the mandibular part of) the maxillary artery. It passes through the petrotympanic fissure to entre the middle ear where it contributes to the formation of the circular anastomosis around the tympanic membrane. It provides artieral supply to part of the lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Coral%20Reef%20Society | The International Coral Reef Society (ICRS; previously the International Society for Reef Studies) is an international, not-for profit, scientific society dedicated to the conservation of coral reefs through science and understanding. Founded in 1980, the primary objective of ICRS is the improvement of scientific knowl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflectron | A reflectron (mass reflectron) is a type of time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF MS) that comprises a pulsed ion source, field-free region, ion mirror, and ion detector and uses a static or time dependent electric field in the ion mirror to reverse the direction of travel of the ions entering it. Using the reflectro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nectar | Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries or nectarines, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide herbivore protection. Common nectar-consuming pollina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20doping | Gene doping is the hypothetical non-therapeutic use of gene therapy by athletes in order to improve their performance in those sporting events which prohibit such applications of genetic modification technology, and for reasons other than the treatment of disease. , there is no evidence that gene doping has been used f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustically%20Navigated%20Geological%20Underwater%20Survey | The Acoustically Navigated Geological Underwater Survey (ANGUS) was a deep-towed still-camera sled operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) in the early 1970s. It was the first unmanned research vehicle made by WHOI. ANGUS was encased in a large steel frame designed to explore rugged volcanic terrain ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylem | Ylem ( or ) is a hypothetical original substance or condensed state of matter, which became subatomic particles and elements as we understand them today. The term was used by George Gamow, his student Ralph Alpher, and their associates in the late 1940s, having resuscitated it from Middle English after Alpher found it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckstrom%27s%20law | In economics, Beckstrom's law is a model or theorem formulated by Rod Beckstrom. It purports to answer "the decades-old question of 'how valuable is a network'", and states in summary that "The value of a network equals the net value added to each user’s transactions conducted through that network, summed over all user... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20symmetric%20instability | Conditional symmetric instability, or CSI, is a form of convective instability in a fluid subject to temperature differences in a uniform rotation frame of reference while it is thermally stable in the vertical and dynamically in the horizontal (inertial stability). The instability in this case develop only in an incli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhaus%20theorem | In the mathematical field of real analysis, the Steinhaus theorem states that the difference set of a set of positive measure contains an open neighbourhood of zero. It was first proved by Hugo Steinhaus.
Statement
Let A be a Lebesgue-measurable set on the real line such that the Lebesgue measure of A is not zero. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azorudivirus%20SRV | Stygiolobus rod-shaped virus (SRV), scientific name Azorudivirus SRV, is an archaeal virus and the sole species in the genus Azorudivirus. Its only known host is Stygiolobus archaea. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20grouper | The first hybrid grouper was a fish cross-bred by researchers from Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Malaysia, in collaboration with researchers from the Borneo Marine Research Institute of UMS, the Fisheries Development Authority of Malaysia (LKIM) and Kindai University of Japan, represented by Shigeharu Senoo of UMS.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20Gran%20Prix | Math Gran Prix (released as Maths Grand Prix in Europe) is an educational video game written for the Atari 2600 by Suki Lee and published by Atari, Inc. in 1982.
Gameplay
The player must advance a car through a Grand Prix race by answering mathematics questions, with 9 variations of play. Random bonuses may pop up du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20Harry%20Stine | George Harry Stine (March 26, 1928 – November 2, 1997) was one of the founding figures of model rocketry, a science and technology writer, and (under the name Lee Correy) a science fiction author.
Education and early career
Stine grew up in Colorado Springs and attended New Mexico Military Institute and Colorado Colle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage%20display | Phage display is a laboratory technique for the study of protein–protein, protein–peptide, and protein–DNA interactions that uses bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) to connect proteins with the genetic information that encodes them. In this technique, a gene encoding a protein of interest is inserted into a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC/TCP%20Packet%20Driver | PC/TCP Packet Driver is a networking API for MS-DOS, PC DOS, and later x86 DOS implementations such as DR-DOS, FreeDOS, etc. It implements the lowest levels of a TCP/IP stack, where the remainder is typically implemented either by terminate-and-stay-resident drivers or as a library linked into an application program. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid%20of%20revolution | In geometry, a solid of revolution is a solid figure obtained by rotating a plane figure around some straight line (the axis of revolution), which may not intersect the generatrix (except at its boundary). The surface created by this revolution and which bounds the solid is the surface of revolution.
Assuming that the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporotrichosis | Sporotrichosis, also known as rose handler's disease, is a fungal infection that may be localised to skin, lungs, bone and joint, or become systemic. It presents with firm painless nodules that later ulcerate. Following initial exposure to Sporothrix schenckii, the disease typically progresses over a period of a week t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spina%20helicis | At the front part of the auricula, where the helix bends upward, is a small projection of cartilage, called the spina helicis. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ax%E2%80%93Grothendieck%20theorem | In mathematics, the Ax–Grothendieck theorem is a result about injectivity and surjectivity of polynomials that was proved independently by James Ax and Alexander Grothendieck.
The theorem is often given as this special case: If P is an injective polynomial function from an n-dimensional complex vector space to itself ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentachlorophenol | Pentachlorophenol (PCP) is an organochlorine compound used as a pesticide and a disinfectant. First produced in the 1930s, it is marketed under many trade names. It can be found as pure PCP, or as the sodium salt of PCP, the latter of which dissolves easily in water. It can be biodegraded by some bacteria, including S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codon%20degeneracy | Degeneracy or redundancy of codons is the redundancy of the genetic code, exhibited as the multiplicity of three-base pair codon combinations that specify an amino acid. The degeneracy of the genetic code is what accounts for the existence of synonymous mutations.
Background
Degeneracy of the genetic code was identifi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta%20Computer | Quanta Computer Incorporated () () is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. Its customers include Apple Inc., Dell, Hewlett-Packard Inc., Acer Inc., Alienware, Amazon.com, Cisco, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenovo, LG, Maxdata, Microsoft, MPC, BlackBerry Ltd, Sharp Corporation, Siemens ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20metric | In acoustics and fluid dynamics, an acoustic metric (also known as a sonic metric) is a metric that describes the signal-carrying properties of a given particulate medium.
(Generally, in mathematical physics, a metric describes the arrangement of relative distances within a surface or volume, usually measured by signa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%26E%20stain | Hematoxylin and eosin stain (or haematoxylin and eosin stain or hematoxylin-eosin stain; often abbreviated as H&E stain or HE stain) is one of the principal tissue stains used in histology. It is the most widely used stain in medical diagnosis and is often the gold standard. For example, when a pathologist looks at a b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective%20%28geometry%29 | Two figures in a plane are perspective from a point O, called the center of perspectivity, if the lines joining corresponding points of the figures all meet at O. Dually, the figures are said to be perspective from a line if the points of intersection of corresponding lines all lie on one line. The proper setting for t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive%20Reviews%20in%20Food%20Science%20and%20Food%20Safety | Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety is an online peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Institute of Food Technologists (Chicago, Illinois) that was established in 2002. Its main focus is food science and food safety. This includes nutrition, genetics, food microbiology, food chemistry, his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC%20standards | Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards are an American set of standards for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable and satellite networks. It is largely a replacement for the analog NTSC standard and, like that standard, is used mostly in the United States, Mexico, Canada, South Korea a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analyticity%20of%20holomorphic%20functions | In complex analysis, a complex-valued function of a complex variable :
is said to be holomorphic at a point if it is differentiable at every point within some open disk centered at , and
is said to be analytic at if in some open disk centered at it can be expanded as a convergent power series (this implies that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisting%20properties | Twisting properties in general terms are associated with the properties of samples that identify with statistics that are suitable for exchange.
Description
Starting with a sample observed from a random variable X having a given distribution law with a non-set parameter, a parametric inference problem consists of co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monic%20polynomial | In algebra, a monic polynomial is a non-zero univariate polynomial (that is, a polynomial in a single variable) in which the leading coefficient (the nonzero coefficient of highest degree) is equal to 1. That is to say, a monic polynomial is one that can be written as
with
Uses
Monic polynomials are widely used in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi%20Mollapour | Mehdi Mollapour (born June 14, 1973) is a British-American Biochemist and Cancer Biologist. He is a Professor, Vice Chair for Translational Research and Director of Renal Cancer Biology Program for the Department of Urology, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at SUNY Upstate M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20space%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, a state space is a discrete space representing the set of all possible configurations of a "system". It is a useful abstraction for reasoning about the behavior of a given system and is widely used in the fields of artificial intelligence and game theory.
For instance, the toy problem Vacuum World... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-modal%20energies | Pseudo-modal energies are used for estimating the energy content of a mechanical system near its resonance frequencies. They are defined as the integral of the frequency response function within a certain bandwidth around a resonance. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosecurity%20Act%202015 | The Biosecurity Act 2015 is an Act of the Parliament of Australia which manages biosecurity risks in Australia. It was enacted on 16 June 2015, after the Bill was passed with bipartisan support on 14 May 2015. It covers both agricultural and human medical biosecurity risks, including epidemics and pandemics, and is des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS%20Set-top%20Gateway | DOCSIS Set-top Gateway (or DSG) is a specification describing how out-of-band data is delivered to a cable set-top box. Cable set-top boxes need a reliable source of out of band data for information such as program guides, channel lineups, and updated code images.
Features
DSG is an extension of the DOCSIS protocol g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20content%20recognition |
How it works
To start the recognition, a short media clip (audio, video, or both) is selected from within a media file or captured as displayed on a device such as a smart TV. Using techniques such as fingerprinting and watermarking, the selected content is compared by the ACR software with a database of known record... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furuta%20pendulum | The Furuta pendulum, or rotational inverted pendulum, consists of a driven arm which rotates in the horizontal plane and a pendulum attached to that arm which is free to rotate in the vertical plane. It was invented in 1992 at Tokyo Institute of Technology by Katsuhisa Furuta and his colleagues. It is an example of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrophosphate | In chemistry, pyrophosphates are phosphorus oxyanions that contain two phosphorus atoms in a P–O–P linkage. A number of pyrophosphate salts exist, such as disodium pyrophosphate (Na2H2P2O7) and tetrasodium pyrophosphate (Na4P2O7), among others. Often pyrophosphates are called diphosphates. The parent pyrophosphates a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state%20vector%20formalism | The two-state vector formalism (TSVF) is a description of quantum mechanics in terms of a causal relation in which the present is caused by quantum states of the past and of the future taken in combination.
Theory
The two-state vector formalism is one example of a time-symmetric interpretation of quantum mechanics (se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20in%20fish | Whether fish sleep or not is an open question, to the point of having inspired the title of several popular science books. In birds and mammals, sleep is defined by eye closure and the presence of typical patterns of electrical activity in the brain, including the neocortex, but fish lack eyelids and a neocortex. Som... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna-Tiles | Magna-Tiles are a construction toy system. The pieces are plastic tiles of varying shapes that snap together magnetically, allowing users to build various geometric structures.
Magna-Tiles were originally developed in Japan, where they were sold under the name Pythagoras. American salesman Rudy M. Valenta saw the toy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesocrystal | A mesocrystal is a material structure composed of numerous small crystals of similar size and shape, which are arranged in a regular
periodic pattern. It is a form of oriented aggregation, where the small crystals have parallel crystallographic alignment but are spatially separated.
When the sizes of individual compo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Sandler%20Memorial%20Award | The Larry Sandler Memorial Award is a prestigious international award given for research in the Drosophila community. The award is given for the best dissertation of the preceding year, and is given at the annual Drosophila Research Conference. Awardees may be nominated only by their graduate advisors.
The awardees ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20flight%20instrument%20system | In aviation, an electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) is a flight instrument display system in an aircraft cockpit that displays flight data electronically rather than electromechanically. An EFIS normally consists of a primary flight display (PFD), multi-function display (MFD), and an engine indicating and crew a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITE-Seq | CITE-Seq (Cellular Indexing of Transcriptomes and Epitopes by Sequencing) is a method for performing RNA sequencing along with gaining quantitative and qualitative information on surface proteins with available antibodies on a single cell level. So far, the method has been demonstrated to work with only a few proteins ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20system%20security | Control system security, or industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity, is the prevention of (intentional or unintentional) interference with the proper operation of industrial automation and control systems. These control systems manage essential services including electricity, petroleum production, water, transpor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germplasm%20Resources%20Information%20Network | Germplasm Resources Information Network or GRIN is an online USDA National Genetic Resources Program software project to comprehensively manage the computer database for the holdings of all plant germplasm collected by the National Plant Germplasm System.
GRIN has extended its role to manage information on the germpla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helixmith | Helixmith Co. LTD. is a biotechnology company located in Seoul, South Korea with US presence in San Diego. The company has an extensive gene therapy pipeline, including a non-viral plasmid DNA program for neuromuscular and ischemic disease, a CAR-T program targeting several different types of solid tumors, and an AAV v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doll | A doll is a model typically of a human or humanoid character, often used as a toy for children. Dolls have also been used in traditional religious rituals throughout the world. Traditional dolls made of materials such as clay and wood are found in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe. The earliest documented dolls go ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic%20and%20Health%20Surveys | The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program is responsible for collecting and disseminating accurate, nationally representative data on health and population in developing countries. The project is implemented by ICF International and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20Moored%20Array%20for%20African-Asian-Australian%20Monsoon%20Analysis%20and%20Prediction | The Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA) is a system of moored observation buoys in the Indian Ocean that collects meteorological and oceanographic data. The data collected by RAMA will greatly enhance the ability of scientists to understand climatic events and predi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-master%20bus | A multi-master bus is a computer bus in which there are multiple bus master nodes present on the bus.
This is used when multiple nodes on the bus must initiate transfer.
For example, direct memory access (DMA) is used to transfer data between peripherals and memory without the need to use the central processing unit (C... |
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