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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnoherpetology | Ethnoherpetology is the study of the past and present interrelationships between human cultures and reptiles and amphibians. It is a sub-field of ethnozoology, which in turn is a sub-field of ethnobiology.
Snakes and amphibians have been considered chthonic creatures in many cultures. Richly represented in mythology, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20distribution%20center | In cryptography, a key distribution center (KDC) is part of a cryptosystem intended to reduce the risks inherent in exchanging keys. KDCs often operate in systems within which some users may have permission to use certain services at some times and not at others.
Security overview
For instance, an administrator may ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider%20silk | Spider silk is a protein fibre or silk spun by spiders. Spiders use silk to make webs or other structures that function as adhesive traps to catch prey, to entangle and restrain prey before biting, to transmit tactile information, or as nests or cocoons to protect their offspring. They can also use the silk to suspend ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial%20defect | In materials science, an interstitial defect is a type of point crystallographic defect where an atom of the same or of a different type, occupies an interstitial site in the crystal structure. When the atom is of the same type as those already present they are known as a self-interstitial defect. Alternatively, small ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurturin | Neurturin (NRTN) is a protein that is encoded in humans by the NRTN gene. Neurturin belongs to the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) family of neurotrophic factors, which regulate the survival and function of neurons. Neurturin’s role as a growth factor places it in the transforming growth factor bet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible%20cable | Flexible cables, or 'continuous-flex' cables, are electrical cables specially designed to cope with the tight bending radii and physical stress associated with moving applications, such as inside cable carriers.
Due to increasing demands within the field of automation technology in the 1980s, such as increasing loads,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch%20Triple%20X | The Torch Triple X (or XXX) was a UNIX workstation computer produced by the British company Torch Computers, and launched in 1985. It was based on the Motorola 68010 microprocessor and ran a version of UNIX System V.
Hardware
The Triple X was based on an 8 MHz 68010 CPU, with a Hitachi 6303 "service processor". The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photometric%20redshift | A photometric redshift is an estimate for the recession velocity of an astronomical object such as a galaxy or quasar, made without measuring its spectrum. The technique uses photometry (that is, the brightness of the object viewed through various standard filters, each of which lets through a relatively broad passban... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphinine | Delphinine is a toxic diterpenoid alkaloid found in plants from the Delphinium (larkspur) and Atragene (a clematis) genera, both in the family Ranunculaceae. Delphinine is the principal alkaloid found in Delphinium staphisagria seeds – at one time, under the name stavesacre, a very well known herbal treatment for body ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashreghi%E2%80%93Ransford%20inequality | In Mathematics, the Mashreghi–Ransford inequality is a bound on the growth rate of certain sequences. It is named after J. Mashreghi and T. Ransford.
Let be a sequence of complex numbers, and let
and
Here the binomial coefficients are defined by
Assume that, for some , we have and as . Then Mashreghi-R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopolin | Monopolin is a protein complex that in budding yeast is composed of the four proteins CSM1, HRR25, LRS4, and MAM1. Monopolin is required for the segregation of homologous centromeres to opposite poles of a dividing cell during anaphase I of meiosis. This occurs by bridging DSN1 kinetochore proteins to sister kinetochor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20global%20sustainability%20statistics | Global sustainability statistics are benchmarks for measuring the status of sustainability parameters. The following agencies provide baseline data for sustainability governance. They are just one form of data used for sustainability accounting and are valuable for assessing trends and measuring progress.
This list pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Proliferation%20Trust | The Non-Proliferation Trust (NPT) is a U.S. nonprofit organization that, at the beginning of the 21st century, advocated storing 10,000 tons of U.S. nuclear waste in Russia for a fee of $15 billion paid to the Russian government and $250 million paid to a fund for Russian orphans. The group was headed by Admiral Daniel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection%20%28measure%20theory%29 | In measure theory, projection maps often appear when working with product (Cartesian) spaces: The product sigma-algebra of measurable spaces is defined to be the finest such that the projection mappings will be measurable. Sometimes for some reasons product spaces are equipped with -algebra different than the product ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-gas%20gun | The light-gas gun is an apparatus for physics experiments. It is a highly specialized gun designed to generate extremely high velocities. It is usually used to study high-speed impact phenomena (hypervelocity research), such as the formation of impact craters by meteorites or the erosion of materials by micrometeoroids... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order%20compact%20finite%20difference%20scheme | High-order compact finite difference schemes are used for solving third-order differential equations created during the study of obstacle boundary value problems. They have been shown to be highly accurate and efficient. They are constructed by modifying the second-order scheme that was developed by Noor and Al-Said in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter%20%28social%20media%29 | Filters are appearance-altering digital image effects often used on social media. They initially simulated the effects of camera filters, and they have since developed with facial recognition technology and computer-generated augmented reality. Social media filters—especially beauty filters—are often used to alter the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical%20Research%20and%20Manufacturers%20of%20America | Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA, pronounced ), formerly known as the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, is a trade group representing companies in the pharmaceutical industry in the United States. Founded in 1958, PhRMA lobbies on behalf of pharmaceutical companies. PhRMA is headquart... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective%20orthogonal%20group | In projective geometry and linear algebra, the projective orthogonal group PO is the induced action of the orthogonal group of a quadratic space V = (V,Q) on the associated projective space P(V). Explicitly, the projective orthogonal group is the quotient group
PO(V) = O(V)/ZO(V) = O(V)/{±I}
where O(V) is the orthogona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Common%20Ground%20System | The Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) is a system which produces military intelligence for multiple branches of the American military.
DCGS Programs
DCGS-N - DCGS for the United States Navy
DCGS-A - DCGS for the United States Army
AF DCGS - DCGS for the United States Air Force
DCGS-MC - DCGS for the United ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKLF%20%28gene%29 | Chemokine-like factor (CKLF) is a member of the CKLF-like MARVEL transmembrane domain-containing family of proteins that in humans is encoded by the CKLF gene. This gene is located on band 22.1 in the long (i.e. "q") arm of chromosome 16.
Isoforms
Through the process of alternative splicing, the CKLF gene encodes 4 C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorock | Biorock (also seacrete) is a cement-like engineering material formed when a small electric current is passed between underwater metal electrodes placed in seawater causing dissolved minerals to accrete onto the cathode to form a thick layer of limestone. This 'accretion process' can be used to create building materials... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20noise%20logging | Spectral noise logging (SNL) is an acoustic noise measuring technique used in oil and gas wells for well integrity analysis, identification of production and injection intervals and hydrodynamic characterisation of the reservoir. SNL records acoustic noise generated by fluid or gas flow through the reservoir or leaks i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impalefection | Impalefection is a method of gene delivery using nanomaterials, such as carbon nanofibers, carbon nanotubes, nanowires. Needle-like nanostructures are synthesized perpendicular to the surface of a substrate. Plasmid DNA containing the gene, and intended for intracellular delivery, is attached to the nanostructure surfa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppForge | AppForge, Inc. was a software company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, providing mobile application development services as well as CrossFire, a software tool simplifying mobile applications for Symbian, Windows Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, and Palm OS. Crossfire was a software plugin for Visual Basic 6 and for Microsoft ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4FFF%20N618 | 4FFF N618 is a discontinued electronic-book reader developed by an Indian Company, Condor Technology Associates, and based on a Linux platform. The device is sold under various brand names worldwide.
Features
4FFF N618 provides a 16 levels of grayscale SiPix touchscreen display for viewing digital content. Pages are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity%20%28scattering%20theory%29 | In scattering theory and accelerator physics, luminosity (L) is the ratio of the number of events detected (dN) in a certain period of time (dt) to the cross-section (σ):
It has the dimensions of events per time per area, and is usually expressed in the cgs units of cm−2·s−1 or the non-SI units of b−1·s−1. In practice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messaging%20Architects | Messaging Architects (MA) is a Canadian software company specializing in e-mail products. Their flagship product is Netmail, an integrated email management platform.
History
Launched in March 1995 as ChronoFAX, the company was a distributor of computer-based fax software. ChronoFAX became Tobit Software North America ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93lag%20effect | A lead–lag effect, especially in economics, describes the situation where one (leading) variable is cross-correlated with the values of another (lagging) variable at later times.
In nature and climate, bigger systems often display more pronounced lag effects. The Arctic Sea Ice minimum is on September 17, three months... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20particle | A point particle, ideal particle or point-like particle (often spelled pointlike particle) is an idealization of particles heavily used in physics. Its defining feature is that it lacks spatial extension; being dimensionless, it does not take up space. A point particle is an appropriate representation of any object whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YopE%20protein%20domain | In molecular biology, the protein domain YopE refers to the secretion of virulence factors in Gram-negative bacteria involves transportation of the protein across two membranes to reach the cell exterior. It not only infects the host cell but also protects the bacteria. It undergoes several mechanisms to evade the host... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate%20chip%20cookie%20dough%20ice%20cream | Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream is a popular ice cream flavor in which unbaked chunks of chocolate chip cookie dough are embedded in vanilla flavored ice cream.
History
Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream was said to have originated in 1984 at the first Ben & Jerry's "scoop shop" in Burlington, Vermont, from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean%20agglutinin | Soybean agglutinins (SBA) also known as soy bean lectins (SBL) are lectins found in soybeans. It is a family of similar legume lectins. As a lectin, it is an antinutrient that chelates minerals. In human foodstuffs, less than half of this lectin is deactivated even with extensive cooking (boiling for 20 minutes).
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greisen%E2%80%93Zatsepin%E2%80%93Kuzmin%20limit | The Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit (GZK limit or GZK cutoff) is a theoretical upper limit on the energy of cosmic ray protons traveling from other galaxies through the intergalactic medium to our galaxy. The limit is (50 EeV), or about 8 joules (the energy of a proton travelling at ≈ % the speed of light). The limit is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Everist%20Greene | Robert Everist Greene (born 1943) is an American mathematician at UCLA.
Greene was an undergraduate at Michigan State University and a Putnam Fellow in 1963. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. His doctoral advisor was Hung-Hsi Wu; his doctoral thesis was titled Isometric Embeddin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20footprint | Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running.
The word footprint generally refers to the extent of physical dimensions that an object occupies, giving a sense of its size. In computing, the memory footprint of a software application indicates its runtime memory r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitschrift%20f%C3%BCr%20Angewandte%20Mathematik%20und%20Physik | The Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik (English: Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Birkhäuser Verlag. The editor-in-chief is Kaspar Nipp (ETH Zurich). It was established in 1950 and covers the fields of theoretical and applied mechanic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20Syndrome%20Act%202022 | The Down Syndrome Act 2022 is an Act of Parliament introduced as a private member's bill and sponsored by Conservative MP Liam Fox. It was described as "world leading" by MP Ian Paisley Jr and is intended to make legal provisions for people living with Down syndrome. It was introduced by Baroness Hollins in the House o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroclinic%20orbit | [[Image:Heteroclinic orbit in pendulum phaseportrait.png|thumb|right|The phase portrait of the pendulum equation {{math|1=''x + sin x = 0}}. The highlighted curve shows the heteroclinic orbit from to . This orbit corresponds with the (rigid) pendulum starting upright, making one revolution through its lowest position,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histotrophy | Histotrophy is a form of matrotrophy exhibited by some live-bearing sharks and rays, in which the developing embryo receives additional nutrition from its mother in the form of uterine secretions, known as histotroph (or "uterine milk"). It is one of the three major modes of elasmobranch reproduction encompassed by "ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20alternating%20pattern | The cyclic alternating pattern (abbreviated CAP) is a pattern of two, long-lasting alternate electroencephalogram (EEG) patterns that occur in sleep, as described by Terzano, et al., in 1985. It is a pattern of spontaneous cortical activity, which is ongoing and in the absence of sensory stimulation. It is the reorgani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20identifiability | In the area of system identification, a dynamical system is structurally identifiable if it is possible to infer its unknown parameters by measuring its output over time. This problem arises in many branch of applied mathematics, since dynamical systems (such as the ones described by ordinary differential equations) ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20theory%20of%20diffraction | In numerical analysis, the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD) is a high-frequency method for solving electromagnetic scattering problems from electrically small discontinuities or discontinuities in more than one dimension at the same point. UTD is an extension of Joseph Keller's geometrical theory of diffraction (GT... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoky%20Mountain%20Rain | "Smoky Mountain Rain" is a song written by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, and recorded by American country music singer Ronnie Milsap. It was released in September 1980 as the first and only single from his Greatest Hits compilation album. The single became one of his best-known songs.
In 2010, "Smoky Mountain Rain"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue%20Gesellschaft/Frankfurter%20Hefte | Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte is a German monthly political journal (with two double issues in January and July). As its name implies it resulted from the merger in 1985 of two magazines Neue Gesellschaft and Frankfurter Hefte. It has existed in its present form since 1985, when the SPD-related journal Neue Gesel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen%20saturation%20%28medicine%29 | Oxygen saturation is the fraction of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin relative to total hemoglobin (unsaturated + saturated) in the blood. The human body requires and regulates a very precise and specific balance of oxygen in the blood. Normal arterial blood oxygen saturation levels in humans are 97–100 percent. If the lev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20hypersurface | In relativity and in pseudo-Riemannian geometry, a null hypersurface is a hypersurface whose normal vector at every point is a null vector (has zero length with respect to the local metric tensor). A light cone is an example.
An alternative characterization is that the tangent space at every point of a hypersurface c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear%20coefficient | The wear coefficient is a physical coefficient used to measure, characterize and correlate the wear of materials.
Background
Traditionally, the wear of materials has been characterized by weight loss and wear rate. However, studies have found that wear coefficient is more suitable. The reason being that it takes the w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Botanic%20Garden | The California Botanic Garden (formerly the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden) is a botanical garden in Claremont, California, in the United States, just south of the San Gabriel foothills. The garden, at , is the largest botanic garden in the state dedicated to California native plants. It contains some 70,000 native Ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Hulme | Barbara Hulme (née Poulter; 1930–2020) was a botanist, credited with being the first to produce experimental hybrids in the genus Atriplex or oraches, a genus of wild flower common on seaside strandlines. The Canadian botanist Pierre Michel Taschereau would later name the Atriplex X hulmeana hybrid after her.
Early l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plants%20from%20the%20mountains%20of%20Romania | A list of plants native to the mountain ranges of Romania.
Many Romanian mountain ranges, mountains, and peaks are part of the Southern Carpathians System, and the Carpathian montane forests ecoregion.
List of flowering plants of the Romanian mountain ranges
Aconitum anthora
Androsace lactea
Androsace villosa
Al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDUFA5 | NADH dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] 1 alpha subcomplex subunit 5 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NDUFA5 gene. The NDUFA5 protein is a subunit of NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone), which is located in the mitochondrial inner membrane and is the largest of the five complexes of the electron transport chain.
Stru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection%20broker | In software engineering, a connection broker is a resource manager that manages a pool of connections to connection-based resources such as databases or remote desktops, enabling rapid reuse of these connections by short-lived processes without the overhead of setting up a new connection each time.
Connection brokers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20green%20seaweeds%20of%20the%20Cape%20Peninsula%20and%20False%20Bay | This is a list of green seaweeds recorded from the oceans bordering the Cape Peninsula in South Africa from Melkbosstrand on the West Coast to Cape Hangklip on the South Coast. This list comprises locally used common names, scientific names with author citation and recorded ranges. Ranges specified may not be the entir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff-Text | Diff-Text is a web-based software tool that identifies differences between two blocks of plain text. It operates on a closed-source model and offers a donation or pay-what-you-want payment option. To be compared, text is pasted directly into the web-page. Diff-Text was developed by DiffEngineX LLC and uses improved alg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regge%20calculus | In general relativity, Regge calculus is a formalism for producing simplicial approximations of spacetimes that are solutions to the Einstein field equation. The calculus was introduced by the Italian theoretician Tullio Regge in 1961.
Overview
The starting point for Regge's work is the fact that every four dimension... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaving%20%28disk%20storage%29 | In block storage devices such as hard disk drives, interleaving is a technique used to improve slow system performance by putting data accessed sequentially into non-sequential blocks, typically sectors. The number of physical sectors between consecutive logical sectors is called the interleave skip factor or skip fact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron%20%28bacteriophage%29 | A moron, in the context of bacteriophage genetics, is an extra gene in a prophage genome without a function in the phage's lysogenic cycle. These genes may code for products beneficial to the phage's bacterial host, as with the example of gp15 of phage HK97 serving as a superinfection exclusion protein. The term moron ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit%20field | A bit field is a data structure that consists of one or more adjacent bits which have been allocated for specific purposes, so that any single bit or group of bits within the structure can be set or inspected. A bit field is most commonly used to represent integral types of known, fixed bit-width, such as single-bit Bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEO1 | Neogenin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NEO1 gene.
Interactions
NEO1 has been shown to interact with PTK2. Also Neogenin receptor is pointed as a component of the mechanisms that determine skeletal cell fusion via RGMa (repulsive guidance molecule a) binding. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20needs%20dentistry | Special needs dentistry, also known as special care dentistry, is a dental specialty that deals with the oral health problems of geriatric patients, patients with intellectual disabilities, and patients with other medical, physical, or psychiatric issues.
Special needs dentists typically have additional postgraduate t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageostrophy | Ageostrophy or (ageostrophic flow) is the difference between the actual wind or current and the geostrophic wind or geostrophic current. Since geostrophy is an exact balance between the Coriolis force and the pressure gradient force, ageostrophic flow reflects an imbalance, and thus is often implicated in disturbances,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Whitehead%20%28explorer%29 | John Whitehead (30 June 1860 – 2 June 1899) was an English explorer, naturalist and professional collector of natural history specimens in Southeast Asia. He is the first documented person to reach the summit of Mount Kinabalu: this was in 1888, after annual attempts from 1885.
Whitehead was born in Colney Hatch Lane,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROMK | The renal outer medullary potassium channel (ROMK) is an ATP-dependent potassium channel (Kir1.1) that transports potassium out of cells. It plays an important role in potassium recycling in the thick ascending limb (TAL) and potassium secretion in the cortical collecting duct (CCD) of the nephron. In humans, ROMK is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Institute%20of%20Refrigeration | The International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) (also known, in French, as the Institut International du Froid (IIF)), is an independent intergovernmental science and technology-based organization which promotes knowledge of refrigeration and associated technologies and applications on a global scale that improve qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Katz | Mikhail "Mischa" Gershevich Katz (born 1958, in Chișinău) is an Israeli mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Bar-Ilan University. His main interests are differential geometry, geometric topology and mathematics education; he is the author of the book Systolic Geometry and Topology, which is mainly about systoli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist%20symbolism | Communist symbolism represents a variety of themes, including revolution, the proletariat, the peasantry, agriculture, or international solidarity. The red flag, the hammer and sickle and the red star or variations thereof are some of the symbols adopted by communist movements, governments, and parties worldwide.
A tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian%20Gang | Tian Gang (; born November 24, 1958) is a Chinese mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at Peking University and Higgins Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He is known for contributions to the mathematical fields of Kähler geometry, Gromov-Witten theory, and geometric analysis.
As of 2020, he is the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diastereomeric%20recrystallization | Diastereomeric recrystallisation is a method of chiral resolution of enantiomers from a racemic mixture. It differs from asymmetric synthesis, which aims to produce a single enantiomer from the beginning, in that diastereomeric recrystallisation separates two enantiomers that have already mixed into a single solution.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrical%20%CF%83-algebra | In mathematics — specifically, in measure theory and functional analysis — the cylindrical σ-algebra or product σ-algebra is a type of σ-algebra which is often used when studying product measures or probability measures of random variables on Banach spaces.
For a product space, the cylinder σ-algebra is the one that i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yearbook%20of%20International%20Organizations | The Yearbook of International Organizations is a reference work on non-profit international organizations, published by the Union of International Associations. It was first published in 1908 under the title Annuaire de la vie internationale, and has been known under its current title since 1950. It is seen as a quasi-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20S.M.A.R.T.%20tools | This is an incomplete list of software that reads S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data from hard drives.
Notes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20Physics%20%28journal%29 | Nuclear Physics A, Nuclear Physics B, Nuclear Physics B: Proceedings Supplements and discontinued Nuclear Physics are peer-reviewed scientific journals published by Elsevier. The scope of Nuclear Physics A is nuclear and hadronic physics, and that of Nuclear Physics B is high energy physics, quantum field theory, stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%20Meteorological%20Data%20Relay | Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) is a program initiated by the World Meteorological Organization.
AMDAR is used to collect meteorological data worldwide by using commercial aircraft.
Data is collected by the aircraft navigation systems and the onboard standard temperature and static pressure probes.
The dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berge%27s%20theorem | In graph theory, Berge's theorem states that a matching M in a graph G is maximum (contains the largest possible number of edges) if and only if there is no augmenting path (a path that starts and ends on free (unmatched) vertices, and alternates between edges in and not in the matching) with M.
It was proven by Frenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus%20rubriceps | Boletus rubriceps is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. Although it was officially described as new to science in 2014, the bolete had previously been reported as either Boletus edulis or B. pinophilus. Molecular analysis showed that it was sufficiently different from other morphologically similar Bol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20content | Water content or moisture content is the quantity of water contained in a material, such as soil (called soil moisture), rock, ceramics, crops, or wood. Water content is used in a wide range of scientific and technical areas, and is expressed as a ratio, which can range from 0 (completely dry) to the value of the mater... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered%20memory | Registered (also called buffered) memory modules have a register between the DRAM modules and the system's memory controller. They place less electrical load on the memory controller and allow single systems to remain stable with more memory modules than they would have otherwise. When compared with registered memory,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toida%27s%20conjecture | In combinatorial mathematics, Toida's conjecture, due to Shunichi Toida in 1977, is a refinement of the disproven Ádám's conjecture from 1967.
Statement
Both conjectures concern circulant graphs. These are graphs defined from a positive integer and a set of positive integers.
Their vertices can be identified with th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulus%20filtering | Stimulus filtering occurs when an animal's nervous system fails to respond to stimuli that would otherwise cause a reaction to occur. The nervous system has developed the capability to perceive and distinguish between minute differences in stimuli, which allows the animal to only react to significant impetus. This enab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic%20Fungi | Fantastic Fungi is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Louie Schwartzberg. The film combines time-lapse cinematography, CGI, and interviews in an overview of the biology, environmental roles, and various uses of fungi. The film features interview segments with Paul Stamets and Michael Pollan, and is narrated b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20of%20a%20module | In mathematics, in the theory of modules, the radical of a module is a component in the theory of structure and classification. It is a generalization of the Jacobson radical for rings. In many ways, it is the dual notion to that of the socle soc(M) of M.
Definition
Let R be a ring and M a left R-module. A submodul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamoon | Shamoon (), also known as W32.DistTrack, is a modular computer virus that was discovered in 2012, targeting then-recent 32-bit NT kernel versions of Microsoft Windows. The virus was notable due to the destructive nature of the attack and the cost of recovery. Shamoon can spread from an infected machine to other compute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Simpson | Carlos Tschudi Simpson (born 30 June 1962) is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.
Simpson received his Ph.D. in 1987 from Harvard University, where he was supervised by Wilfried Schmid; his thesis was titled Systems of Hodge Bundles and Uniformization. He became a professor at the University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension%20of%20an%20algebraic%20variety | In mathematics and specifically in algebraic geometry, the dimension of an algebraic variety may be defined in various equivalent ways.
Some of these definitions are of geometric nature, while some other are purely algebraic and rely on commutative algebra. Some are restricted to algebraic varieties while others apply... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative%20code | Derivative code or Chameleon code is source code which has been derived entirely from one or more other machine readable file formats. If recursive transcompiling is used in the development process, some code will survive all the way through the pipeline from beginning to end, and then back to the beginning again.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Biosciences | Mathematical Biosciences is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing work that provides new concepts or new understanding of biological systems using mathematical models, or methodological articles likely to find application to multiple biological systems. Papers are expected to present a major research fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereals%20%26%20Grains%20Association | Cereals & Grains Association (formerly AACC International, formerly the American Association of Cereal Chemists) is a non-profit professional organization of members who are specialists in the use of cereal grains in foods. Founded in 1916, they are headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota.
Sections
Cereals & Grains Associat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20threshold%20of%20hearing | The absolute threshold of hearing (ATH), also known as the absolute hearing threshold or auditory threshold, is the minimum sound level of a pure tone that an average human ear with normal hearing can hear with no other sound present. The absolute threshold relates to the sound that can just be heard by the organism. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore | A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet. As a result of their plant diet, herbivorous animals typically have mouthparts adapted to rasping or grinding. Horses and other herbivores have wide flat t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcl-2-associated%20death%20promoter | The BCL2 associated agonist of cell death (BAD) protein is a pro-apoptotic member of the Bcl-2 gene family which is involved in initiating apoptosis. BAD is a member of the BH3-only family, a subfamily of the Bcl-2 family. It does not contain a C-terminal transmembrane domain for outer mitochondrial membrane and nuclea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Intune | Microsoft Intune (formerly Windows Intune) is a Microsoft cloud-based unified endpoint management service for both corporate and BYOD devices. It extends some of the "on-premises" functionality of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager to the Microsoft Azure cloud.
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No on-premises infrastructure is requ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greville%20Spratt | Sir Greville Douglas Spratt, GBE, TD, JP, DL (1 May 1927 – 13 December 2012) was a British underwriter who was the 660th Lord Mayor of London from 1987 to 1988.
Biography
Spratt was educated at Leighton Park School, Charterhouse School, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served with the Coldstream Guards fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20language%20reference | In computing, a programming language reference or language reference manual is part of the documentation associated with most mainstream programming languages. It is written for users and developers, and describes the basic elements of the language and how to use them in a program. For a command-based language, for exa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%27s%20map | In dynamical systems theory, the baker's map is a chaotic map from the unit square into itself. It is named after a kneading operation that bakers apply to dough: the dough is cut in half, and the two halves are stacked on one another, and compressed.
The baker's map can be understood as the bilateral shift operator ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredholm%20integral%20equation | In mathematics, the Fredholm integral equation is an integral equation whose solution gives rise to Fredholm theory, the study of Fredholm kernels and Fredholm operators. The integral equation was studied by Ivar Fredholm. A useful method to solve such equations, the Adomian decomposition method, is due to George Ado... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally-X | is a maze chase arcade video game developed in Japan and Germany by Namco and released in 1980. In North America, it was distributed by Midway Manufacturing and in Europe by Karateco. Players drive a blue Formula One race car through a multidirectional scrolling maze to collect yellow flags. Boulders block some paths a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippostrongylus%20brasiliensis | Nippostrongylus brasiliensis is a gastrointestinal roundworm that infects rodents, primarily rats. This worm is a widely studied parasite due to its simple lifecycle and its ability to be used in animal models. Its lifecycle similar to the human hookworms Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale which includes five... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Rozovsky | Boris Rozovsky is Ford Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. His research is in stochastic analysis, particularly the study of stochastic partial differential equations.
Rozovsky started his studies in art school, but switched to mathematics; he earned a master's degree in 1968 and a Ph.D. i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic%20function | A mimic function changes a file so it assumes the statistical properties of another file . That is, if is the probability of some substring occurring in , then a mimic function , recodes so that approximates for all strings of length less than some . It is commonly considered to be one of the basic techniques fo... |
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