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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe%20%28biology%29 | In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes. By convention, all taxonomic ranks from genus upwards are capitalized, including both tribe and subtribe.
In zoology, the standard ending for the name of a zoological tribe is "-ini". Example... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20Reading | Code Reading () is a 2003 software development book written by Diomidis Spinellis.
The book is directed to programmers who want to improve their code reading abilities.
It discusses specific techniques for reading code written by others and outlines common programming concepts.
The code examples used in the book are t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Peticov | Antonio Peticov (born July 2, 1946) is a Brazilian painter, designer, sculptor, and engraver.
Self-taught, Peticov's approach is based on systematic personal research in the history of art and its integration into avant-garde artistic movements in the second half of the 1960s. He also specialized in sacred geometry an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staurogram | The staurogram (⳨), also monogrammatic cross or tau-rho, is a ligature composed of a superposition of the Greek letters tau (Τ) and rho (Ρ).
Early occurrence and significance
The symbol is of pre-Christian origin. It is found on copper coins minted by Herod I in 37 BC, interpreted as a tr ligature representing trikh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leishmania%20donovani | Leishmania donovani is a species of intracellular parasites belonging to the genus Leishmania, a group of haemoflagellate kinetoplastids that cause the disease leishmaniasis. It is a human blood parasite responsible for visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar, the most severe form of leishmaniasis. It infects the mononucle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon%27s%20identity | In mathematics, Dixon's identity (or Dixon's theorem or Dixon's formula) is any of several different but closely related identities proved by A. C. Dixon, some involving finite sums of products of three binomial coefficients, and some evaluating a hypergeometric sum. These identities famously follow from the MacMahon ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidambar%20cambodiana | Liquidambar cambodiana, commonly known as sdey, is a tree in the Altingiaceae family endemic to south west Cambodia.
Taxonomy
The species was originally named Altingia cambodiana in 1924 by the French botanist Paul Henri Lecomte (1856-1934). In 2013, US botanists Stefanie M. Ickert-Bond and Jun Wen (born 1963) demonst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmability | An electronic device or embedded system is said to be field-programmable or in-place programmable if its firmware (stored in non-volatile memory, such as ROM) can be modified "in the field", without disassembling the device or returning it to its manufacturer.
This is often an extremely desirable feature, as it can r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokaryote | A prokaryote () is a single-celled organism that lacks a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles. The word prokaryote comes from the Ancient Greek πρό () 'before' and κάρυον () 'nut, kernel'. In the two-empire system arising from the work of Édouard Chatton, prokaryotes were classified within the empire Prokaryota.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Biophysics%20Journal | The European Biophysics Journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the European Biophysical Societies Association. The journal publishes papers in the field of biophysics, defining this as the study of biological phenomena using physical methods and concepts. It publishes original papers, revi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression%20%28medicine%29 | Regression in medicine is the partial or complete reversal of a disease's signs and symptoms.
Clinically, regression generally refers to a decrease in severity of symptoms without completely disappearing. At a later point, symptoms may return. These symptoms are then called recidive.
In cancer, regression refers to a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20theorem | In mathematics, in the topology of 3-manifolds, the loop theorem is a generalization of Dehn's lemma. The loop theorem was first proven by Christos Papakyriakopoulos in 1956, along with Dehn's lemma and the Sphere theorem.
A simple and useful version of the loop theorem states that if for some 3-dimensional manifold ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-adic%20topology | In commutative algebra, the mathematical study of commutative rings, adic topologies are a family of topologies on the underlying set of a module, generalizing the -adic topologies on the integers.
Definition
Let be a commutative ring and an -module. Then each ideal of determines a topology on called the -adic to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined%20Cipher%20Machine | The Combined Cipher Machine (CCM) (or Combined Cypher Machine) was a common cipher machine system for securing Allied communications during World War II and, for a few years after, by NATO. The British Typex machine and the US ECM Mark II were both modified so that they were interoperable.
History
The British had sho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20Digital%20Archive%20Project | The Jewish Digital Archive Project (JDAP) is a community project that connects people by creating an online home for old movies, photographs and oral history interviews.
History
The Jewish Digital Archive Project (JDAP) began in 2011. The project is based at The Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre at Cape Town University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Weather%20Folios | The Todd Weather Folios are a collection of continental Australian synoptic charts that were published from 1879 to 1909.
The charts were created by Sir Charles Todd's office at the Adelaide Observatory. In addition to the charts, the folios include clippings of newspaper articles and telegraphic and handwritten infor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register%20machine | In mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, a register machine is a generic class of abstract machines used in a manner similar to a Turing machine. All the models are Turing equivalent.
Overview
The register machine gets its name from its use of one or more "registers". In contrast to the tape and head us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller%20theorem | The Modigliani–Miller theorem (of Franco Modigliani, Merton Miller) is an influential element of economic theory; it forms the basis for modern thinking on capital structure. The basic theorem states that in the absence of taxes, bankruptcy costs, agency costs, and asymmetric information, and in an efficient market, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathic%20concern | Empathic concern refers to other-oriented emotions elicited by, and congruent with the perceived welfare of, someone in need. These other-oriented emotions include feelings of tenderness, sympathy, compassion and soft-heartedness.
Empathic concern is often confused with empathy. To empathize is to respond to another'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerator%20%28computer%20science%29 | An enumerator is a Turing machine with an attached printer. The Turing machine can use that printer as an output device to print strings. Every time the Turing machine wants to add a string to the list, it sends the string to the printer. Enumerator is a type of Turing machine variant and is equivalent with Turing mach... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockburn%20Scale | The Cockburn Scale, also known as the Project Classification Scale, is a method of describing how much formal process a software project requires. The scale was described in Alistair Cockburn's book Agile Software Development. According to the author, the scale can be applied to other types of project, not only those ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option%20type | In programming languages (especially functional programming languages) and type theory, an option type or maybe type is a polymorphic type that represents encapsulation of an optional value; e.g., it is used as the return type of functions which may or may not return a meaningful value when they are applied. It consist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrothed%20numbers | Betrothed numbers or quasi-amicable numbers are two positive integers such that the sum of the proper divisors of either number is one more than the value of the other number. In other words, (m, n) are a pair of betrothed numbers if s(m) = n + 1 and s(n) = m + 1, where s(n) is the aliquot sum of n: an equivalent cond... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoplexy | Apoplexy () is rupture of an internal organ and the accompanying symptoms. The term formerly referred to what is now called a hemorrhagic stroke, which is the result of a ruptured blood vessel in the brain. Today health care professionals do not use the term, but instead specify the anatomic location of the bleeding, s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s%20law%20of%20thermal%20radiation | In heat transfer, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation refers to wavelength-specific radiative emission and absorption by a material body in thermodynamic equilibrium, including radiative exchange equilibrium. It is a special case of Onsager reciprocal relations as a consequence of the time reversibility of microscopic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19%20%28number%29 | 19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number.
Mathematics
is the eighth prime number, and forms a sexy prime with 13, a twin prime with 17, and a cousin prime with 23. It is the third full reptend prime in decimal, the fifth central trinomial coefficient, and the seventh M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartSlab | SmartSlab is an LED technology invented in 1999 by Tom Barker. The SmartSlab technology uses a hexagonal pixel in a structural composite honeycomb, so that it is possible for displays to be integrated into architecture.
SmartSlab Ltd. was a London-based company that developed and marketed SmartSlab-based solutions. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Real%20Eve | The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa is a popular science book about the evolution of modern humans written by British geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer.
The book is largely based on the "out of Africa" theory of human origins. Oppenheimer uses information from various disciplines including genetics, archaeol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP%20Speed%2BMobility | HTTP Speed+Mobility was an experimental open-specification communication protocol developed primarily at Microsoft for transporting web content. HTTP Speed+Mobility was similar to HTTP, with particular goals to reduce web page load latency and improve web security. As a revision of Google's SPDY protocol, Microsoft's H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma-2%20receptor | The sigma-2 receptor (σ2R) is a sigma receptor subtype that has attracted attention due to its involvement in diseases such as cancer and neurological diseases. It is currently under investigation for its potential diagnostic and therapeutic uses.
Although the sigma-2 receptor was identified as a separate pharmacologi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIST1H4C | Histone H4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HIST1H4C gene.
Function
Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. Two molecules of each of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) form an octamer, around which approxima... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-box%20protein | F-box proteins are proteins containing at least one F-box domain. The first identified F-box protein is one of three components of the SCF complex, which mediates ubiquitination of proteins targeted for degradation by the 26S proteasome.
Core components
F-box domain is a protein structural motif of about 50 amino aci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equitable%20cake-cutting | Equitable (EQ) cake-cutting is a kind of a fair cake-cutting problem, in which the fairness criterion is equitability. It is a cake-allocation in which the subjective value of all partners is the same, i.e., each partner is equally happy with his/her share. Mathematically, that means that for all partners and :
Where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phloem | Phloem (, ) is the living tissue in vascular plants that transports the soluble organic compounds made during photosynthesis and known as photosynthates, in particular the sugar sucrose, to the rest of the plant. This transport process is called translocation. In trees, the phloem is the innermost layer of the bark, he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakeya%20set | In mathematics, a Kakeya set, or Besicovitch set, is a set of points in Euclidean space which contains a unit line segment in every direction. For instance, a disk of radius 1/2 in the Euclidean plane, or a ball of radius 1/2 in three-dimensional space, forms a Kakeya set. Much of the research in this area has studied ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobramycin/dexamethasone | Tobramycin/dexamethasone, sold under the brand name Tobradex, is a fixed-dose combination medication in the form of eye drops and eye ointment, marketed by Alcon. The active ingredients are tobramycin (an antibiotic) and dexamethasone (a corticosteroid). It is prescribed for the treatment of pink eye in combination wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintessence%3A%20The%20Search%20for%20Missing%20Mass%20in%20the%20Universe | Quintessence: The Search for Missing Mass in the Universe is the fifth non-fiction book by the American theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss. The book was published by Basic Books on December 21, 2000. This text is an update of his 1989 book The Fifth Essence. It was retitled Quintessence after the now widely accep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86Box | 86Box is an IBM PC emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac based on PCem that specializes in running old operating systems and software that are designed for IBM PC compatibles. Originally forked from PCem, it later added support for other IBM PC compatible computers as well.
Features
Hardware
The main goal of 86Box is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACACS | Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS, ) refers to a family of related protocols handling remote authentication and related services for network access control through a centralized server. The original TACACS protocol, which dates back to 1984, was used for communicating with an authentication serve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%20dual%20coil%20resonator | A passive dual coil resonator (pDCR) is a purely passive receive coil insert for a preclinical magnetic particle imaging (MPI) system which provides frequency-selective signal enhancement. The pDCR aims to enhance the frequency components associated with high mixing orders, which are critical to achieve a high spatial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo%20Alto%20Baylands%20Nature%20Preserve | The Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve, known officially as the Baylands Nature Preserve, is the largest tract of undisturbed marshland remaining in the San Francisco Bay. Fifteen miles of multi-use trails provide access to a unique mixture of tidal and fresh water habitats. The preserve encompasses 1,940 acres in both... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Alphabet%20of%20Sanskrit%20Transliteration | The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on a scheme that emerged during the 19th century from suggestions by Charles Trevelyan, William Jones, Monier ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonyostomum | Gonyostomum is a genus of freshwater algae in the class Raphidophyceae. They include the species Gonyostomum semen, which causes nuisance algal blooms. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Electric%20KDF9 | KDF9 was an early British 48-bit computer designed and built by English Electric (which in 1968 was merged into International Computers Limited (ICL)). The first machine came into service in 1964 and the last of 29 machines was decommissioned in 1980 at the National Physical Laboratory. The KDF9 was designed for, and u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoanaerobacterales | The Thermoanaerobacterales is a polyphyletic order of bacteria placed within the polyphyletic class Clostridia, and encompassing four families: the Thermoanaerobacteraceae, the Thermodesulfobiaceae, the Thermoanaerobacterales Family III. Incertae Sedis, and the Thermoanaerobacterales Family IV. Incertae Sedis, and vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaw-rate%20sensor | A yaw-rate sensor is a gyroscopic device that measures a vehicle's yaw rate, its angular velocity around its vertical axis. The angle between the vehicle's heading and velocity is called its slip angle, which is related to the yaw rate.
Types
There are two types of yaw-rate sensors: the piezoelectric type and the mic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20unitary%20group | In mathematics, the special unitary group of degree , denoted , is the Lie group of unitary matrices with determinant 1.
The matrices of the more general unitary group may have complex determinants with absolute value 1, rather than real 1 in the special case.
The group operation is matrix multiplication. The specia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20limiting | Current limiting is the practice of imposing a limit on the current that may be delivered to a load to protect the circuit generating or transmitting the current from harmful effects due to a short-circuit or overload. The term "current limiting" is also used to define a type of overcurrent protective device. According... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion%20wavelets | Diffusion wavelets are a fast multiscale framework for the analysis of functions on discrete (or discretized continuous) structures like graphs, manifolds, and point clouds in Euclidean space. Diffusion wavelets are an extension of classical wavelet theory from harmonic analysis. Unlike classical wavelets whose basis f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Amenta | Annamaria Beatrice "Nina" Amenta is an American computer scientist who works as the Tim Bucher Family Professor of Computer Science and the chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Davis. She specializes in computational geometry and computer graphics, and is particularly known for her ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiquinone | Semiquinones (or ubisemiquinones, if their origin is ubiquinone) are free radicals resulting from the removal of one hydrogen atom with its electron during the process of dehydrogenation of a hydroquinone, such as hydroquinone itself or catechol, to a quinone or alternatively the addition of a single hydrogen atom with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20iterative%20scaling | In statistics, generalized iterative scaling (GIS) and improved iterative scaling (IIS) are two early algorithms used to fit log-linear models, notably multinomial logistic regression (MaxEnt) classifiers and extensions of it such as MaxEnt Markov models and conditional random fields. These algorithms have been largely... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygyny%20threshold%20model | The polygyny threshold model is an explanation of polygyny, the mating of one male of a species with more than one female. The model shows how females may gain a higher level of biological fitness by mating with a male who already has a mate. The female makes this choice despite other surrounding males because the choi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state%20model | In cosmology, the steady-state model or steady state theory is an alternative to the Big Bang theory of evolution of the universe. In the steady-state model, the density of matter in the expanding universe remains unchanged due to a continuous creation of matter, thus adhering to the perfect cosmological principle, a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting%20tunnel%20junction | The superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) — also known as a superconductor–insulator–superconductor tunnel junction (SIS) — is an electronic device consisting of two superconductors separated by a very thin layer of insulating material. Current passes through the junction via the process of quantum tunneling. The STJ i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aplasmomycin | Aplasmomycin is an antibiotic with antimalarial activity isolated from Streptomycete. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%20series | In mathematics, a Dirichlet series is any series of the form
where s is complex, and is a complex sequence. It is a special case of general Dirichlet series.
Dirichlet series play a variety of important roles in analytic number theory. The most usually seen definition of the Riemann zeta function is a Dirichlet seri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keymark | The Keymark is a voluntary European certification mark demonstrating compliance with the European Standard (EN). It is owned by CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, and CENELEC, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization.
The Keymark is the European mark based on the principle “one standar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastin | Plastin is part of a family of actin-bundling proteins, specifically the α-actinin family of actin-binding protein, which are found in many lifeforms, from humans and other animals to plants and yeasts. These proteins are known to cross-link actin filaments into bundles for various cell purposes.Members of plastin incl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial%20stability | Initial stability or primary stability is the resistance of a boat to small changes in the difference between the vertical forces applied on its two sides. The study of initial stability and secondary stability are part of naval architecture as applied to small watercraft (as distinct from the study of ship stability c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20%28information%20theory%29 | Constraint in information theory is the degree of statistical dependence between or among variables.
Garner provides a thorough discussion of various forms of constraint (internal constraint, external constraint, total constraint) with application to pattern recognition and psychology.
See also
Mutual Information
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Asha%20platform | The Nokia Asha platform is a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for low-end borderline smartphones, based on software from Smarterphone which was acquired by Nokia. The platform inherits UI similarities mostly from MeeGo "Harmattan", and replaces Series 40 on Nokia's low-end devices. The user... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NComputing | NComputing is a desktop virtualization company that manufactures hardware and software to create virtual desktops (sometimes called zero clients or thin clients) which enable multiple users to simultaneously share a single operating system instance.
NComputing, based in San Mateo, California, is a privately held for-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperplane%20separation%20theorem | In geometry, the hyperplane separation theorem is a theorem about disjoint convex sets in n-dimensional Euclidean space. There are several rather similar versions. In one version of the theorem, if both these sets are closed and at least one of them is compact, then there is a hyperplane in between them and even two pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexilinea | Flexilinea is a bacteria genus from the family of Anaerolineaceae with one known species (Flexilinea flocculi). Flexilinea flocculi has been isolated from methanogenic granular sludge. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLADE%20%28software%29 | BLADE (Block All Drive-by Download Exploits) is a computer program that was developed by Phillip Porras and Vinod Yegneswaran at SRI International; and Long Lu and Wenke Lee at the Georgia Institute of Technology. BLADE is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the United States Army Research Laboratory... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markovian%20Parallax%20Denigrate | Markovian Parallax Denigrate is a series of hundreds of messages posted to Usenet in 1996. The messages, which appear to be gibberish, were all posted with the subject line "Markovian parallax denigrate".
The posts are often mentioned in conjunction with other bizarre and/or unsolved internet mysteries, such as Sad Sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Cetacean%20Research | The is a research organization specializing in the "biological and social sciences related to whales".
In the past, it killed several hundred whales per year in the name of its 'research', the validity and necessity of which has been called into question. Among its activities, the ICR also used to sell "whale resear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pribnow%20box | The Pribnow box (also known as the Pribnow-Schaller box) is a sequence of TATAAT of six nucleotides (thymine, adenine, thymine, etc.) that is an essential part of a promoter site on DNA for transcription to occur in bacteria. It is an idealized or consensus sequence—that is, it shows the most frequently occurring base ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbert%20curve | The Hubbert curve is an approximation of the production rate of a resource over time. It is a symmetric logistic distribution curve, often confused with the "normal" gaussian function. It first appeared in "Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels," geologist M. King Hubbert's 1956 presentation to the American Petroleum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellmax | CellMax Technologies, also known as Cellmax, is a Swedish developer and manufacturer of efficient antennas used for base station s in mobile networks.
CellMax Technologies was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Kista, Stockholm, with subsidiaries in Singapore and the USA. In 2012, CellMax Technologies opened a fa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndie | Syndie is an open-source cross-platform computer application to syndicate (re-publish) data (mainly forums) over a variety of anonymous and non-anonymous computer networks.
Syndie is capable of reaching archives situated in the following anonymous networks: I2P, Tor, Freenet.
History
Syndie has been in development s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s%20Count%20Goats%21 | Let's Count Goats! is a 2010 children's picture book by Mem Fox and illustrated by Jan Thomas. It is a counting book with the narrator inviting the reader to count goats that appear in the pictures as they engage in humanlike behaviour.
Reception
In a review of Let's Count Goats!, School Library Journal wrote "Fox and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20ratio%20base | Golden ratio base is a non-integer positional numeral system that uses the golden ratio (the irrational number ≈ 1.61803399 symbolized by the Greek letter φ) as its base. It is sometimes referred to as base-φ, golden mean base, phi-base, or, colloquially, phinary. Any non-negative real number can be represented as a b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backcoating | Backcoating is the lamination of two sheets of paper back to back to create a superior paper for folding origami models.
Notes and references
Paper art
Origami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonator | A resonator is a device or system that exhibits resonance or resonant behavior. That is, it naturally oscillates with greater amplitude at some frequencies, called resonant frequencies, than at other frequencies. The oscillations in a resonator can be either electromagnetic or mechanical (including acoustic). Resonato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20function | In mathematics, an algebraic function is a function that can be defined
as the root of an irreducible polynomial equation. Quite often algebraic functions are algebraic expressions using a finite number of terms, involving only the algebraic operations addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and raising to a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20testing | In statistics and combinatorial mathematics, group testing is any procedure that breaks up the task of identifying certain objects into tests on groups of items, rather than on individual ones. First studied by Robert Dorfman in 1943, group testing is a relatively new field of applied mathematics that can be applied to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthecate%20bacteria | Prosthecate bacteria are a non-phylogenetically related group of Gram-negative bacteria that possess appendages, termed prosthecae. These cellular appendages are neither pili nor flagella, as they are extensions of the cellular membrane and contain cytosol. One notable group of prosthecates is the genus Caulobacter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%27s%20accurate%20tables | Gal's accurate tables is a method devised by Shmuel Gal to provide accurate values of special functions using a lookup table and interpolation. It is a fast and efficient method for generating values of functions like the exponential or the trigonometric functions to within last-bit
accuracy for almost all argument va... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globose%20nucleus | The globose nucleus is one of the deep cerebellar nuclei. It is located medial to the emboliform nucleus, and lateral to the fastigial nucleus. The globose nucleus and emboliform nucleus are known collectively as the interposed nuclei.
The globose nucleus is part of a neural circuit giving rise to descending motor tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministeria%20vibrans | Ministeria vibrans is a bacterivorous amoeba with filopodia that was originally described to be suspended by a flagellum-like stalk attached to the substrate. Molecular and experimental work later on demonstrated the stalk is indeed a flagellar apparatus.
The amoeboid protist Ministeria vibrans occupies a key position... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalded%20milk | Scalded milk is dairy milk that has been heated to . At this temperature, bacteria are killed, enzymes in the milk are destroyed, and many of the proteins are denatured. Since most milk sold today is pasteurized, which accomplishes the first two goals, milk is typically scalded to increase its temperature, or to change... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arboretum | An arboretum (: arboreta) is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, many modern arboreta are in botanical gardens as living collections of woody plants and is intended at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney%20topologies | In mathematics, and especially differential topology, functional analysis and singularity theory, the Whitney topologies are a countably infinite family of topologies defined on the set of smooth mappings between two smooth manifolds. They are named after the American mathematician Hassler Whitney.
Construction
Let M ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Union%20of%20Physiological%20Sciences | The International Union of Physiological Sciences, abbreviated IUPS, is the global umbrella organization for physiology.
IUPS aims to facilitate initiatives that strengthen the discipline of physiology. IUPS is a scientific union member of the International Council for Science (ICSU), and is accredited with the World ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20Killer%20%28call%20sign%29 | GIANT KILLER is a military Air Traffic Control (ATC) call sign used within certain regions of the contiguous United States (CONUS). The callsign is primarily administered by the United States Navy for military flight operations on the East Coast.
The call sign is utilized by military air traffic controllers responsibl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBie | Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) is a United States-originated specification relating to managed asset information including space and equipment. It is closely associated with building information modeling (BIM) approaches to design, construction, and management of built assets.
Purpose
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham%20%28chimpanzee%29 | Ham (July 1957 – January 19, 1983), a chimpanzee also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was the first great ape launched into space. On January 31, 1961, Ham flew a suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part of the U.S. space program's Project Mercury.
Ham's name is an acronym for the labo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erenlai | eRenlai is a monthly internet magazine concentrating on the cultural, social and spiritual concerns of contemporary Asia and throughout the world. published in English, and traditional Chinese. eRenlai is also a network of readers and project builders who share insights, stories and resources as part of the Pan-Asian c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioModels | BioModels is a free and open-source repository for storing, exchanging and retrieving quantitative models of biological interest created in 2006. All the models in the curated section of BioModels Database have been described in peer-reviewed scientific literature.
The models stored in BioModels' curated branch are co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20geodesists | This is a list of geodesists, people who made notable contributions to geodesy, whether or not geodesy was their primary field. These include historical figures who laid the foundations for the field of geodesy.
Geodesists before 1900 (arranged by date)
Pythagoras 580–490 BC (ancient Greece)
Eratosthenes 276–194 B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-1%20%28puzzle%29 | The Square-1 is a variant of the Rubik's Cube. Its distinguishing feature among the numerous Rubik's Cube variants is that it can change shape as it is twisted, due to the way it is cut, thus adding an extra level of challenge and difficulty. The Super Square One and Square Two puzzles have also been introduced. The Su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFATC2 | Nuclear factor of activated T-cells, cytoplasmic 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NFATC2 gene.
Function
This gene is a member of the nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) family. The product of this gene is a DNA-binding protein with a REL-homology region (RHR) and an NFAT-homology region (NHR). ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-incompatibility | Self-incompatibility (SI) is a general name for several genetic mechanisms that prevent self-fertilization in sexually reproducing organisms, and thus encourage outcrossing and allogamy. It is contrasted with separation of sexes among individuals (dioecy), and their various modes of spatial (herkogamy) and temporal (di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20of%20things | The Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks. The Internet of things encompasses electronics, communication and computer science engineerin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawtograph | A pawtograph is a print of an animal's paw, regarded in some contexts as equivalent to a human signature. This term is used in particular for the practice of collecting pawtographs of celebrity animals. The hobby of collecting pawtographs is known as pawtography.
A pawtograph is made by one of two methods:
directly s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmodesma | Plasmodesmata (singular: plasmodesma) are microscopic channels which traverse the cell walls of plant cells and some algal cells, enabling transport and communication between them. Plasmodesmata evolved independently in several lineages, and species that have these structures include members of the Charophyceae, Charal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mist%20net | Mist nets are used by hunters and poachers, but also by ornithologists and chiropterologists to capture wild birds and bats for banding or other research projects. Mist nets are typically made of nylon or polyester mesh suspended between two poles, resembling a volleyball net. When properly deployed in the correct habi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20tap | A network tap is a system that monitors events on a local network. A tap is typically a dedicated hardware device, which provides a way to access the data flowing across a computer network.
The network tap has (at least) three ports: an A port, a B port, and a monitor port. A tap inserted between A and B passes all tr... |
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