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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-spectrophotometry | Microspectrophotometry is the measure of the spectra of microscopic samples using different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation (e.g. ultraviolet, visible and near infrared, etc.) It is accomplished with microspectrophotometers, cytospectrophotometers, microfluorometers, Raman microspectrophotometers, etc. A micro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Vitaman | King Vitaman was an American brand of breakfast cereal produced by Quaker Oats and sold in the United States. The cereal was introduced in 1968, and changed mascots several times. The cereal was discontinued in 2019.
King Vitaman Cereal boasted high vitamin and iron content, in addition to a more modest amount of sug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinarian%27s%20Oath | The Veterinarian's Oath was adopted by the American Veterinary Medical Association's House of Delegates July 1969, and amended by the AVMA Executive Board, November 1999 and December 2010.
The Veterinarian Oath taken by Canadian veterinarians, established by the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association in 2004, has so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty%20method | Penalty methods are a certain class of algorithms for solving constrained optimization problems.
A penalty method replaces a constrained optimization problem by a series of unconstrained problems whose solutions ideally converge to the solution of the original constrained problem. The unconstrained problems are form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnCase | EnCase is the shared technology within a suite of digital investigations products by Guidance Software (acquired by OpenText in 2017). The software comes in several products designed for forensic, cyber security, security analytics, and e-discovery use. EnCase is traditionally used in forensics to recover evidence from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner%20solution | In mathematics and economics, a corner solution is a special solution to an agent's maximization problem in which the quantity of one of the arguments in the maximized function is zero. In non-technical terms, a corner solution is when the chooser is either unwilling or unable to make a trade-off between goods.
In eco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASAB%20Medal | The ASAB Medal is a scientific award given by the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB). It is cast in bronze to a design by Jonathan Kingdon, awarded "annually for contributions to the science of animal behaviour - through teaching, writing, broadcasting, research, through fostering any of these activi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20reference%20string%20model | In cryptography, the common reference string (CRS) model captures the assumption that a trusted setup in which all involved parties get access to the same string crs taken from some distribution D exists. Schemes proven secure in the CRS model are secure given that the setup was performed correctly. The common referenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20T90 | The Cray T90 series (code-named Triton during development) was the last of a line of vector processing supercomputers manufactured by Cray Research, Inc, superseding the Cray C90 series. The first machines were shipped in 1995, and featured a 2.2 ns (450 MHz) clock cycle and two-wide vector pipes, for a peak speed of 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-interference%20ratio | The signal-to-interference ratio (SIR or S/I), also known as the carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR or C/I), is the quotient between the average received modulated carrier power S or C and the average received co-channel interference power I, i.e. crosstalk, from other transmitters than the useful signal.
The CIR res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20F%C3%B6llmer | Hans Föllmer (20 May 1941 in Heiligenstadt, Thuringia, Germany) is a German mathematician, currently professor emeritus at the Humboldt University of Berlin, visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, and Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. He was awarded the Cantor medal in 2006.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexy | Rexy is the colloquial nickname for a fictional Tyrannosaurus rex that appears throughout the Jurassic Park franchise. She first appeared in Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and made her onscreen debut in the 1993 film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg. She returns in the 2015 film Jurassic World and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramariopsis%20kunzei | Ramariopsis kunzei is an edible species of coral fungi in the family Clavariaceae, and the type species of the genus Ramariopsis. It is commonly known as white coral because of the branched structure of the fruit bodies that resemble marine coral. The fruit bodies are up to tall by wide, with numerous branches origin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocultural%20diversity | Biocultural diversity is defined by Luisa Maffi, co-founder and director of Terralingua, as "the diversity of life in all its manifestations: biological, cultural, and linguistic — which are interrelated (and possibly coevolved) within a complex socio-ecological adaptive system." "The diversity of life is made up not o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesis%20%28biology%29 | Kinesis, like a taxis or tropism, is a movement or activity of a cell or an organism in response to a stimulus (such as gas exposure, light intensity or ambient temperature).
Unlike taxis, the response to the stimulus provided is non-directional. The animal does not move toward or away from the stimulus but moves at e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20video%20games%20that%20support%20cross-platform%20play | Cross-platform play is the ability to allow different gaming platforms to share the same online servers in a game, allowing players to join regardless of the platform they own. Since the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2, there have been online video games that support cross-play. Listed here is an incomplete list of games t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20802.15.4%20radio%20modules | An 802.15.4 radio module is a small device used to communicate wirelessly with other devices according to the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol.
This table lists production ready-to-use certified modules only, not radio chips. A ready-to-use module is a complete system with a transceiver, and optionally an MCU and antenna on a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem%20service | Ecosystem services are the many and varied benefits to humans provided by the natural environment and healthy ecosystems. Such ecosystems include, for example, agroecosystems, forest ecosystem, grassland ecosystems, and aquatic ecosystems. These ecosystems, functioning in healthy relationships, offer such things as nat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding%20Your%20Roots | Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a documentary television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that premiered on March 25, 2012, on PBS. In each episode, celebrities are presented with a "book of life" that is compiled with information researched by professional genealogists that allows them to view ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial%20electrotherapy%20stimulation | Cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) is a form of neurostimulation that delivers a small, pulsed, alternating current via electrodes on the head. CES is used with the intention of treating a variety of conditions such as anxiety, depression and insomnia. CES has been suggested as a possible treatment for headaches,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20propionate | Ethyl propionate is an organic compound with formula C2H5O2CCH2CH3. It is the ethyl ester of propionic acid. It is a colorless volatile liquid with a pineapple-like odor. Some fruits such as kiwis and strawberries contain ethyl propionate in small amounts.
Uses and reactions
It is also used in the production of some a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotome%20%28mathematics%29 | In the historical study of mathematics, an apotome is a line segment formed from a longer line segment by breaking it into two parts, one of which is commensurable only in power to the whole; the other part is the apotome. In this definition, two line segments are said to be "commensurable only in power" when the ratio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Miller%20Thomas | Joseph Miller Thomas (16 January 1898 – 1979) was an American mathematician, known for the Thomas decomposition of algebraic and differential systems.
Thomas received his Ph.D., supervised by Frederick Wahn Beal, from the University of Pennsylvania with thesis Congruences of Circles, Studied with reference to the Surf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%20version%20history | iOS is a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. and was first released as iPhone OS in June 2007, coinciding with the launch of the first generation iPhone. iPhone OS was renamed iOS following the release of the iPad, starting with iOS 4. With iOS 13, Apple began offering a separate operating system, iPadOS, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokrytie | Pokrytie ( ҇ ) is one of the historic diacritical signs of Cyrillic that was used in Old Church Slavonic, later medieval Cyrillic literary traditions and modern Church Slavonic.
It is a modification of titlo adapted for covering (hence its name, Old Slavonic for 'covering') combining Cyrillic letters (so called lett... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphBLAS | GraphBLAS () is an API specification that defines standard building blocks for graph algorithms in the language of linear algebra. GraphBLAS is built upon the notion that a sparse matrix can be used to represent graphs as either an adjacency matrix or an incidence matrix. The GraphBLAS specification describes how grap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Acetylmuramic%20acid | N-Acetylmuramic acid (NAM or MurNAc) is an organic compound with the chemical formula . It is a monomer of peptidoglycan in most bacterial cell walls, which is built from alternating units of N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) and N-acetylmuramic acid, cross-linked by oligopeptides at the lactic acid residue of MurNAc.
Form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDeeN | CoDeeN is a proxy server system created at Princeton University in 2003 and deployed for general use on PlanetLab.
It operates as per the following:
Users set their internet caches to a nearby high bandwidth proxy that participates in the system.
Requests to that proxy are then forwarded to an appropriate member of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20neighborhood%20network | Flat Neighborhood Network (FNN) is a topology for distributed computing and other computer networks. Each node connects to two or more switches which, ideally, entirely cover the node collection, so that each node can connect to any other node in two "hops" (jump up to one switch and down to the other node). This contr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%20anomalies%20of%20Britain%20and%20Ireland | Variations in the strength of gravity occur from place to place according to the density distribution of the rocks beneath the surface. Such gravity anomalies have been mapped across the British Isles and adjacent areas and they reveal aspects of these islands’ geological structure.
Negative anomalies
Negative gravity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbell%20Cassette%20Interface | The Tarbell Cassette Interface is an expansion card for use with the Altair 8800 early personal computer, or other systems using the Altair's S-100 bus. It was designed by Don Tarbell and sold by Tarbell Electronics as early as 1976. At the time, it was considered to be fast, reliable, and popular. While supporting the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaxart | Vaxart, Inc. is an American biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of oral recombinant vaccines administered using temperature-stable tablets that can be stored and shipped without refrigeration, eliminating the need for needle injection. Its development programs for oral vac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWXXM | IWXXM (ICAO Meteorological Information Exchange Model) is a format for reporting weather information in XML/GML. IWXXM includes XML/GML-based representations for products standardized in International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex III and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) No. 49, Vol II, such as METAR/... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%E1%BA%A1c%20Long%20Qu%C3%A2n | Lạc Long Quân (Chữ Hán:貉龍君; "Dragon King of Lạc"; also called Sùng Lãm 崇纜) is an ancient king of the Hồng Bàng dynasty of ancient Vietnam. Quân was the son of Kinh Dương Vương, the king of Xích Quỷ. He is the main figure in the Vietnamese creation myth of .
According to the myth, Lạc Long Quân married Âu Cơ, a mountai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynura%20procumbens | Gynura procumbens (also known as sabuñgai or sambung nyawa), sometimes called "longevity spinach" or "longevity greens", is an edible vine found in China, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Leaves are ovate-elliptic or lanceolate, long, and wide. Flowering heads are panicled, narrow, yellow, and long. The plant grows wild ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibor%20%C5%A0al%C3%A1t | Tibor Šalát ( – ) was a Slovak mathematician, professor of mathematics, and Doctor of Mathematics who specialized in number theory and real analysis. He was the author and co-author of undergraduate and graduate textbooks in mathematics, mostly in Slovak. And most of his scholarly papers have been published in various ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction%20%28hackathon%29 | Junction is a hackathon organizer with headquarters Espoo, Finland. Started in 2015, Junction grew to be one of the largest organizers in Europe. In 2018 it expanded globally with a Junction event at Tsinghua University in China and cooperation with Chinese and South Korean universities bringing high performing student... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holin%20superfamily%20VII | The Holin superfamily VII is a superfamily of integral membrane transport proteins. It is one of the seven different holin superfamilies in total. In general, these proteins are thought to play a role in regulated cell death, although functionality varies between families and individual members.
The Holin superfamily ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubby%20protein | The tubby protein is encoded by the TUB gene. It is an upstream cell signaling protein common to multicellular eukaryotes. The first tubby gene was identified in mice, and proteins that are homologous to tubby are known as "tubby-like proteins" (TULPs). They share a common and characteristic tertiary structure that c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgate%20%28botany%29 | Virgate (from the Latin , "rod-like") is an adjective in botanical and mycological jargon.
Botany
In botanical jargon, virgate most often refers to plants with wand-shaped erect branches or stems. For smaller plants or structures, the diminutive virgulate is used. The term occurs commonly in the biological names of pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Zelditch | Steven Morris Zelditch (13 September 1953 – 11 September 2022) was an American mathematician, specializing in global analysis, complex geometry, and mathematical physics (e.g. quantum chaos).
Zelditch received in 1975 from Harvard University his bachelor's degree in mathematics and in 1981 from the University of Calif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Bernhard%20Weinstein | Max Bernhard Weinstein (1 September 1852 in Kaunas, Vilna Governorate – 25 March 1918) was a German physicist and philosopher. He is best known as an opponent of Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and for having written a broad examination of various theological theories, including extensive discussion of pandeism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonitis | Trigonitis is a condition of inflammation of the trigone region of the bladder. It is more common in women.
The cause of trigonitis is not known, and there is no solid treatment. Electrocautery is sometimes used, but is generally unreliable as a treatment, and typically does not have quick results. Several drugs, su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20by%20algorithm | Government by algorithm (also known as algorithmic regulation, regulation by algorithms, algorithmic governance, algocratic governance, algorithmic legal order or algocracy) is an alternative form of government or social ordering where the usage of computer algorithms is applied to regulations, law enforcement, and gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20E.%20Caspersen | Danish computer scientist Michael Edelgaard Caspersen (born in 1960 in Svenborg, Denmark) has spent his academic life furthering computer science education, at all levels. His research interests are computing education, programming didactics, programming methodology, and object-oriented programming. He is best known fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biostatistics | Biostatistics (also known as biometry) is a branch of statistics that applies statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experiments and the interpretation of the results.
History
Biostatistics and genet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20HDLC | Cisco HDLC (cHDLC) is an extension to the High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) network protocol, and was created by Cisco Systems, Inc. HDLC is a bit-oriented synchronous data link layer protocol that was originally developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Often described as being a propr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nummela%20Standard%20Baseline | Nummela Standard Baseline is a baseline used to calibrate rangefinders, in Finland, located in the municipality of Vihti, Nummelanharju (esker) where it was built in 1932.
Winding ridge of stratified gravel and sand was chosen as a location for measurements since temperature variations cause very little displacement o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93rd%20meridian%20east | The meridian 93° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 93rd meridian east forms a great circle with the 87th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal%20correlation | Horizontal correlation is a methodology for gene sequence analysis. Rather than referring to one specific technique, horizontal correlation instead encompasses a variety of approaches to sequence analysis that are unified by two specific themes:
Sequence analysis is performed by making comparisons horizontally, along... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijet%20event | In particle physics, a dijet event is a collision between subatomic particles that produces two particle jets.
Dijet events are measured at the LHC to constrain QCD models, in particular the parton evolution equations and parton distribution functions. This is accomplished by measuring the azimuthal correlations betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading%20frame | In molecular biology, a reading frame is a way of dividing the sequence of nucleotides in a nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) molecule into a set of consecutive, non-overlapping triplets. Where these triplets equate to amino acids or stop signals during translation, they are called codons.
A single strand of a nucleic acid mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributive%20law%20between%20monads | In category theory, an abstract branch of mathematics, distributive laws between monads are a way to express abstractly that two algebraic structures distribute one over the other one.
Suppose that and are two monads on a category C. In general, there is no natural monad structure on the composite functor ST. Howe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreev%20reflection | Andreev reflection (AR), named after the Russian physicist Alexander F. Andreev, is a type of particle scattering which
occurs at interfaces between a superconductor (S) and a normal state material (N). It is a charge-transfer process by which normal current in N is converted to supercurrent in S. Each Andreev reflect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Society%20Nepal | Internet Society Nepal is a non-profit organization, working with the main theme of "Internet is for Everyone". Registered under the Registration Act of Nepal, it was formalized on 11 November 2009 at District Administration Office, Kathmandu, Nepal. Previously, ISOC Nepal was a loose network and received its status of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built-up%20gun | A built-up gun is artillery with a specially reinforced barrel. An inner tube of metal stretches within its elastic limit under the pressure of confined powder gases to transmit stress to outer cylinders that are under tension. Concentric metal cylinders or wire windings are assembled to minimize the weight required ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histiocyte | A histiocyte is a vertebrate cell that is part of the mononuclear phagocyte system (also known as the reticuloendothelial system or lymphoreticular system). The mononuclear phagocytic system is part of the organism's immune system. The histiocyte is a tissue macrophage or a dendritic cell (histio, diminutive of histo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiology%20Society%20Prize%20Medal | Microbiology Society Prize Medal is awarded annually by the Microbiology Society to those who have made an impact beyond microbiology and are world leaders in their field.
It was introduced in 2009 as the Society for General Microbiology Prize Medal and renamed the Microbiology Society Prize Medal in 2015 when the soc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GABRA3 | Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit alpha-3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GABRA3 gene.
Function
GABA is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain where it acts at GABAA receptors, which are ligand-gated chloride channels. Chloride conductance of these channels can be modulated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewels%20of%20Darkness | Jewels of Darkness is a trilogy of text adventure games by Level 9. The individual games were initially released separately in 1982. They featured some themes and names inspired by the books of J. R. R. Tolkien and so became known as the Middle-Earth Trilogy. The individual releases were available for the BBC Micro unl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shudu%20Gram | Shudu Gram is a computer generated social media personality and model, a "virtual influencer". The character is considered the world's first digital supermodel.
She was created in April 2017 by the fashion photographer Cameron-James Wilson. Her appearance draws largely from the "Princess of South Africa" Barbie doll.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20and%20income%20breeding | Capital breeding and income breeding refer to the methods by which some organisms perform time breeding and use resources to finance their breeding. The former "describes the situation in which reproduction is financed using stored capital; [whereas the latter] [...] refers to the use of concurrent intake to pay for a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26-bit%20computing | In computer architecture, 26-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 26 bits wide, and thus can represent unsigned values up to 67,108,863. Two examples of computer processors that featured 26-bit memory addressing are certain second generation IBM System/370 mainframe computer models int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius%20sanguifluus | Lactarius sanguifluus, commonly known as the bloody milk cap, is a species of fungus in the family Russulaceae. First described from France in 1811, the species was given its current name by Elias Fries in 1838 when he transferred it to Lactarius. Found in Asia, Mediterranean Africa, and Europe, fruit bodies (mushrooms... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20data | Biological data refers to a compound or information derived from living organisms and their products. A medicinal compound made from living organisms, such as a serum or a vaccine, could be characterized as biological data. Biological data is highly complex when compared with other forms of data. There are many forms o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equihash | Equihash is a memory-hard Proof-of-work algorithm introduced by the University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the 2016 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. The algorithm is based on a generalization of the Birthday problem which finds colliding hash v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital%20node | An orbital node is either of the two points where an orbit intersects a plane of reference to which it is inclined. A non-inclined orbit, which is contained in the reference plane, has no nodes.
Planes of reference
Common planes of reference include the following:
For a geocentric orbit, Earth's equatorial plane. In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine%20tasting%20descriptors | The use of wine tasting descriptors allows the taster to qualitatively relate the aromas and flavors that the taster experiences and can be used in assessing the overall quality of wine. Wine writers differentiate wine tasters from casual enthusiasts; tasters attempt to give an objective description of the wine's taste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaTek | MediaTek Inc. () is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that provides chips for wireless communications, high-definition television, handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers, navigation systems, consumer multimedia products and digital subscriber line services as well as optical disc drives.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20console | One meaning of system console, computer console, root console, operator's console, or simply console is the text entry and display device for system administration messages, particularly those from the BIOS or boot loader, the kernel, from the init system and from the system logger. It is a physical device consisting o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20on%20TPTP | System on TPTP is an online interface to several automated theorem proving systems and other automated reasoning tools.
It allows users to run the systems either on problems from the latest releases from the TPTP problem library or on user-supplied problems in the TPTP syntax.
The system is maintained by Geoff Sutclif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Communication%20Format | Universal communication format is a communication protocol developed by the IEEE for multimedia communication. Y. Hiranaka, H. Sakakibara and T. Taketa of Yamagata University proposed UCF in 2005.
From the abstract:
Various intelligent equipments and software are gradually designed to communicate with other equipment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafood%20in%20Australia | Seafood in Australia comes from local and international commercial fisheries, aquaculture and recreational anglers. It is an economically important sector, and along with agriculture and forestry contributed $24,744 million to Australia's GDP in year 2007–2008, out of a total GDP of $1,084,146 million. Commercial fishe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIM | SPIM is a MIPS processor simulator, designed to run assembly language code for this architecture. The program simulates R2000 and R3000 processors, and was written by James R. Larus while a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The MIPS machine language is often taught in college-level assembly courses, esp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROJ | PROJ (formerly PROJ.4) is a library for performing conversions between cartographic projections. The library is based on the work of Gerald Evenden at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), but since 2019-11-26 is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) project maintained by the PROJ Project Steering Committe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide%20sequence%20tag | A peptide sequence tag is a piece of information about a peptide obtained by tandem mass spectrometry that can be used to identify this peptide in a protein database.
Mass spectrometry
In general, peptides can be identified by fragmenting them in a mass spectrometer. For example, during collision-induced dissociation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93brain%20interface | A brain–brain interface is a direct communication pathway between the brain of one animal and the brain of another animal.
Brain to brain interfaces have been used to help rats collaborate with each other. When a second rat was unable to choose the correct lever, the first rat noticed (not getting a second reward), an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutreptiella | Eutreptiella is a genus of Euglenozoa belonging to the family Eutreptiidae.
The genus was first described by A. M. da Cunha in 1914.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
Eutreptiella braarudii Throndsen
Eutreptiella cornubiense Butcher
Eutreptiella dofleinii (Schiller) Pascher
Eutreptiella elegans ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracheid | A tracheid is a long and tapered lignified cell in the xylem of vascular plants. It is a type of conductive cell called a tracheary element. Angiosperms use another type of conductive cell, called vessel elements, to transport water through the xylem. The main functions of tracheid cells are to transport water and inor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20coordinates | In analytical mechanics, generalized coordinates are a set of parameters used to represent the state of a system in a configuration space. These parameters must uniquely define the configuration of the system relative to a reference state. The generalized velocities are the time derivatives of the generalized coordinat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/176th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 176° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 176th meridian west forms a great circle with the 4th meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacefiller | In Conway's Game of Life and related cellular automata, a spacefiller is a pattern that spreads out indefinitely, eventually filling the entire space with a still life pattern. It typically consists of three components: stretchers that resemble spaceships at the four corners of the pattern, a growing boundary region al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertransitive%20class | In set theory, a supertransitive class is a transitive class which includes as a subset the power set of each of its elements.
Formally, let A be a transitive class. Then A is supertransitive if and only if
Here P(x) denotes the power set of x.
See also
Rank (set theory) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest | Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforests can be generally classified as tropical rainforests or temperate rainforests, but other types have been described.
Estimates vary fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamina%20%28anatomy%29 | Lamina is a general anatomical term meaning "plate" or "layer". It is used in both gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy to describe structures.
Some examples include:
The laminae of the thyroid cartilage: two leaf-like plates of cartilage that make up the walls of the structure.
The vertebral laminae: plates of bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Corcoran%20%28logician%29 | John Corcoran ( ; 20 March 1937 – 8 January 2021) was an American logician, philosopher, mathematician, and historian of logic. He is best known for his philosophical work on concepts such as the nature of inference, relations between conditions, argument-deduction-proof distinctions, the relationship between logic and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincetoxicum%20lineare | Vincetoxicum lineare is an edible species of plant found in arid regions of Australia, it is also known as the bush bean. The habit of the slender plant is a climber or trailer, with stems obtaining a length around two metres. The flowers appear throughout the year, except during February to March, the purple brown col... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptomino | A heptomino (or 7-omino) is a polyomino of order 7, that is, a polygon in the plane made of 7 equal-sized squares connected edge-to-edge. The name of this type of figure is formed with the prefix hept(a)-. When rotations and reflections are not considered to be distinct shapes, there are 108 different free heptominoes.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATH-MATIC | MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3) compiler, an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.
MATH-MATIC was written beginning around 1955 by a team led by Charles Katz under the direction of Grace Hopper. A preliminary manual was produced in 1957 and a final manual the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20Physics%20Letters | Applied Physics Letters is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by the American Institute of Physics. Its focus is rapid publication and dissemination of new experimental and theoretical papers regarding applications of physics in all disciplines of science, engineering, and modern technology. Ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgett-Burnham%20Canning%20Company | Edgett-Burnham Canning Company, was founded in 1863 as the Wayne County Preserving Co. by Ezra Edgett of Camden, New York. The company was located all during its history, in Wayne County, New York.
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All local produce and crops were grown at first on the factory farm, or purchased from area farmers. Featured wer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitzer%20equations | Pitzer equations are important for the understanding of the behaviour of ions dissolved in natural waters such as rivers, lakes and sea-water. They were first described by physical chemist Kenneth Pitzer. The parameters of the Pitzer equations are linear combinations of parameters, of a virial expansion of the excess G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNS3 | VNS3 is a software-only virtual appliance that allows users to control access and network topology and secure data in motion across public and private clouds. VNS3 is a virtual router, switch, firewall, protocol re-distributor, and SSL/IPSec VPN concentrator. The Network Virtualization Software creates a customer-contr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukacs%20Distinguished%20Professor | The Lukacs Distinguished Professor chair was established in 1989 by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Bowling Green State University in honor of Eugene Lukacs, who came to Bowling Green with his colleagues Radha Laha and Vijay Rohatgi in 1972 to establish the doctoral program in statistics. Eugene Lukacs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching%20quantum%20mechanics | Quantum mechanics is a difficult subject to teach due to its counterintuitive nature. As the subject is now offered by advanced secondary schools, educators have applied scientific methodology to the process of teaching quantum mechanics, in order to identify common misconceptions and ways of improving students' unders... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprifermin | Sprifermin (INN) (developmental code name AS-902330), is a recombinant human fibroblast growth factor 18 (rhFGF18) analog, which is under development by TrialSpark for the treatment of osteoarthritis. FGF18 and sprifermin act via the Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor (FGFR) family, with preferential activity via FGFR3c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Aminopurine | 2-Aminopurine, a purine analog of guanine and adenine, is a fluorescent molecular marker used in nucleic acid research. It most commonly pairs with thymine as an adenine-analogue, but can also pair with cytosine as a guanine-analogue. For this reason it is sometimes used in the laboratory for mutagenesis.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic%20Handler | Seismic Handler (SH) is an interactive analysis program for preferably continuous waveform data. It was developed at the Seismological Observatory Gräfenberg and is in use there for daily routine analysis of local and global seismic events. In original form Seismic Handler was command line based, but now an interactiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20pyramid | The learning pyramid (also known as “the cone of learning”, “the learning cone”, “the cone of retention”, “the pyramid of learning”, or “the pyramid of retention”) is a group of popular learning models and representations relating different degrees of retention induced from various type of learning. The representations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%20Fieldbus | Foundation Fieldbus (styled Fieldbus) is an all-digital, serial, two-way communications system that serves as the base-level network in a plant or factory automation environment. It is an open architecture, developed and administered by FieldComm Group.
It is targeted for applications using basic and advanced regulat... |
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