source stringlengths 31 227 | text stringlengths 9 2k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Erd%C5%91s%20Distance%20Problem | The Erdős Distance Problem is a monograph on the Erdős distinct distances problem in discrete geometry: how can one place points into -dimensional Euclidean space so that the pairs of points make the smallest possible distance set? It was written by Julia Garibaldi, Alex Iosevich, and Steven Senger, and published in 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20flags | This is a list of flags used in Italy. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Italy.
National flags
Military flags
Army rank flags
Naval rank flags
Standards
Historical flags
Roman Empire Vexilloids
Preunification era
Napoleonic era
Unification and Kingdom of Italy
Italian Re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20map | A cognitive map is a type of mental representation which serves an individual to acquire, code, store, recall, and decode information about the relative locations and attributes of phenomena in their everyday or metaphorical spatial environment. The concept was introduced by Edward Tolman in 1948. He tried to explain t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly%20the%20Bug | Beverly the Bug is the first and only known opal with an insect inclusion. It contains "the exoskeleton of a nymphal insect belonging to the order Hemiptera and either the family Tettigarctidae or the Cicadidae".
It was found on Java in 2015. Gemologist Brian T. Berger purchased the gem in 2018 and named it Beverly th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20All-Star%20Brawl%202 | Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 is an upcoming crossover fighting game developed by Ludosity and Fair Play Labs, and published by GameMill Entertainment. It is the sequel to Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021) and an entry in the Nickelodeon Super Brawl series. The game is scheduled for release on November 7, 2023 for Ninte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle%20inequality | In mathematics, the triangle inequality states that for any triangle, the sum of the lengths of any two sides must be greater than or equal to the length of the remaining side. This statement permits the inclusion of degenerate triangles, but some authors, especially those writing about elementary geometry, will exclud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic%20efficiency%20limit | Thermodynamic efficiency limit is the absolute maximum theoretically possible conversion efficiency of sunlight to electricity. Its value is about 86%, which is the Chambadal-Novikov efficiency, an approximation related to the Carnot limit, based on the temperature of the photons emitted by the Sun's surface.
Effect o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astalavista.box.sk | astalavista.box.sk was founded in 1994 as one of the first search engines for computer security information. In practice it turned out to be used as a search engine for security exploits, software for hacking, cracking and different keygenerators and software cracks.
In the early 1990s and 2000s, the site was popular... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Medical%20Education%20Directory | The International Medical Education Directory (IMED) was a public database of worldwide medical schools. The IMED was published as a joint collaboration of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) and the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER).
The i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matched%20filter | In signal processing, a matched filter is obtained by correlating a known delayed signal, or template, with an unknown signal to detect the presence of the template in the unknown signal. This is equivalent to convolving the unknown signal with a conjugated time-reversed version of the template. The matched filter is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevibacterium | Brevibacterium is a genus of bacteria of the order Micrococcales. They are Gram-positive soil organisms.
Species
Brevibacterium comprises the following species:
B. album Tang et al. 2008
B. ammoniilyticum Kim et al. 2013
B. anseongense Jung et al. 2019
B. antiquum Gavrish et al. 2005
B. atlanticum Pei et al. 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehalococcoidia | Dehalococcoidia is a class of Chloroflexota, a phylum of Bacteria. It is also known as the DHC group.
The name Dehalococcoidetes is a placeholder name given by Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt, 2004, after Dehalococcoides ethenogenes, a partially described species in 1997, whereas the first species fully described belongin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza%20A%20virus%20subtype%20H6N1 | Influenza A virus subtype H6N1 (A/H6N1), is a subtype of the influenza A virus. It has only infected one person, a woman in Taiwan, who recovered. Known to infect Eurasian teal, it is closely related to subtype H5N1. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20by%20descent | A DNA segment is identical by state (IBS) in two or more individuals if they have identical nucleotide sequences in this segment. An IBS segment is identical by descent (IBD) in two or more individuals if they have inherited it from a common ancestor without recombination, that is, the segment has the same ancestral or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston%20Laboratories | The Johnston Laboratories at the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, England, performed a variety of pathology and medical research during the 20th century. They are now located in the Johnston Building. The Laboratories were founded by early University benefactor and ship owner William Johnston and formally opened ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%E2%80%93Lifshitz%20model | In solid-state physics, the Landau–Lifshitz equation (LLE), named for Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, is a partial differential equation describing time evolution of magnetism in solids, depending on 1 time variable and 1, 2, or 3 space variables.
Landau–Lifshitz equation
The LLE describes an anisotropic magnet. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT.X100 | The RT.X100 Pro Suite was a real-time PCI video editing card manufactured by Matrox Corporation. With the use of Adobe Premiere it enabled a real time preview on TV or Video Monitor. It was generally bundled with Adobe Premiere Pro (video editing software), Adobe Audition (digital audio editor), and Adobe Encore DVD (f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike%20registry | Bike registries are databases of unique, identifying information about bicycles and their ownership. Most registration programs use the unique serial numbers which are permanently affixed to most bicycles during manufacture.
Bicycle registration programs generally aim to reduce the prevalence of bike theft. Bicycle th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briar%20%28software%29 | Briar is an open-source software communication technology, intended to provide secure and resilient peer-to-peer communications with no centralized servers and minimal reliance on external infrastructure. Messages can be transmitted through Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, over the internet via Tor or removable storage, such as USB s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism%20Parasitism%20Continuum | The hypothesis or paradigm of Mutualism Parasitism Continuum postulates that compatible host-symbiont associations can occupy a broad continuum of interactions with different fitness outcomes for each member.
At one end of the continuum lies obligate mutualism where both host and symbiont benefit from the interaction ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geobotanical%20prospecting | Geobotanical prospecting refers to prospecting based on indicator plants like metallophytes and the analysis of vegetation. For example, the Viscaria Mine in Sweden was named after the plant Silene suecica (syn. Viscaria alpina) that was used by prospectors to discover the ore deposits.
A "most faithful" indicator pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Computational%20Geometry | The Journal of Computational Geometry (JoCG) is an open access mathematics journal that was established in 2010. It covers research in all aspects of computational geometry. All its papers are published free of charge to both authors and readers, and are made freely available through a Creative Commons Attribution lice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescator | Rescator is the name of a Ukrainian hacker specialising in the sale of credit card details. According to Russian cyber-security consultancy Group-IB, "Rescator" (AKA Helkern and ikaikki) runs his own marketplace at rescator.cm and uploaded over 5 million card details onto the SWIPED carder marketplace.
Credit card de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction%20from%20slits | Diffraction processes affecting waves are amenable to quantitative description and analysis. Such treatments are applied to a wave passing through one or more slits whose width is specified as a proportion of the wavelength. Numerical approximations may be used, including the Fresnel and Fraunhofer approximations.
Gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-bit%20computing | In computer architecture, 8-bit integers or other data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet). Also, 8-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic logic unit (ALU) architectures are those that are based on registers or data buses of that size. Memory addresses (and thus address buses) for 8-bit CPUs are ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comisi%C3%B3n%20Nacional%20para%20el%20Conocimiento%20y%20Uso%20de%20la%20Biodiversidad | The (CONABIO; ) is a permanent inter-ministerial commission of the Federal Mexican government, created in 1992. It has the primary purpose of coordinating, supporting and executing activities and projects designed to foment understanding of biodiversity within Mexico and the surrounding region. As a governmental agenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20order | In quantum field theory a product of quantum fields, or equivalently their creation and annihilation operators, is usually said to be normal ordered (also called Wick order) when all creation operators are to the left of all annihilation operators in the product. The process of putting a product into normal order is ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cragie%20tube | The Cragie tube or Craigie tube is a method used in microbiology for determining bacterial motility.
Technique
A hollow tube with some culture medium is placed in semi-solid agar inside a bottle. A sample of the bacterium to be tested is inoculated into the medium in the hollow tube and the setup is incubated at 37 °... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined%20perimeter | A software-defined perimeter (SDP), also called a "black cloud", is an approach to computer security which evolved from the work done at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) under the Global Information Grid (GIG) Black Core Network initiative around 2007. Software-defined perimeter (SDP) framework was develo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalloprotein | Metalloprotein is a generic term for a protein that contains a metal ion cofactor. A large proportion of all proteins are part of this category. For instance, at least 1000 human proteins (out of ~20,000) contain zinc-binding protein domains although there may be up to 3000 human zinc metalloproteins.
Abundance
It is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain%20energy%20density%20function | A strain energy density function or stored energy density function is a scalar-valued function that relates the strain energy density of a material to the deformation gradient.
Equivalently,
where is the (two-point) deformation gradient tensor, is the right Cauchy–Green deformation tensor, is the left Cauchy–Green... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot%20Competition | Named in honor of Benoit Mandelbrot, the Mandelbrot Competition was a mathematics competition founded by Sam Vandervelde, Richard Rusczyk and Sandor Lehoczky that operated from 1990 to 2019. It allowed high school students to compete individually and in four-person teams.
Competition
The Mandelbrot was a "corresponden... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desulfonatronum%20thioautotrophicum | Desulfonatronum thioautotrophicum is a species of haloalkaliphilic sulfate-reducing bacteria. It is able to grow lithotrophically by dismutation of thiosulfate and sulfite. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20classical%20algebraic%20geometry | The terminology of algebraic geometry changed drastically during the twentieth century, with the introduction of the general methods, initiated by David Hilbert and the Italian school of algebraic geometry in the beginning of the century, and later formalized by André Weil, Jean-Pierre Serre and Alexander Grothendieck.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavaria%20fragilis | Clavaria fragilis, commonly known as fairy fingers, white worm coral, or white spindles, is a species of fungus in the family Clavariaceae. It is synonymous with Clavaria vermicularis. The fungus is the type species of the genus Clavaria and is a typical member of the clavarioid or club fungi. It produces tubular, unbr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge%20Networks | Madge Networks NV was a networking technology company founded by Robert Madge, and is best known for its work with Token Ring. It was a global leader and pioneer of high-speed networking solutions in the mid-1990s, and also made significant contributions to technologies such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Ethe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity%20%28biology%29 | Modularity refers to the ability of a system to organize discrete, individual units that can overall increase the efficiency of network activity and, in a biological sense, facilitates selective forces upon the network. Modularity is observed in all model systems, and can be studied at nearly every scale of biological ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary%20tract | The solitary tract (tractus solitarius, or fasciculus solitarius), is a compact fiber bundle that extends longitudinally through the posterolateral region of the medulla oblongata. The solitary tract is surrounded by the solitary nucleus, and descends to the upper cervical segments of the spinal cord. It was first nam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meguro%20Parasitological%20Museum | The is a small science museum in the Meguro Ward in central Tokyo, Japan. The museum is devoted to parasites and the science of parasitology, and was founded in 1953 by Dr. Satoru Kamegai.
History
The museum rebuilt to its present location in 1993. Dr. Kamegai died in 2002 and Professor Akihiko Uchida took over opera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menopause | Menopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time when menstrual periods permanently cease, marking the end of reproduction. It typically occurs between the ages of 45 and 55, although the exact timing can vary. Menopause is usually a natural change. It can occur earlier in those who smoke tobacco. Other causes inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipoint%20ground | A multipoint ground is an alternate type of electrical installation that attempts to solve the ground loop and mains hum problem by creating many alternate paths for electrical energy to find its way back to ground. The distinguishing characteristic of a multipoint ground is the use of many interconnected grounding co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20angle%20spinning | In solid-state NMR spectroscopy, magic-angle spinning (MAS) is a technique routinely used to produce better resolution NMR spectra. MAS NMR consists in spinning the sample (usually at a frequency of 1 to 130 kHz) at the magic angle θm (ca. 54.74°, where cos2θm=1/3) with respect to the direction of the magnetic field.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20control%20system | A hierarchical control system (HCS) is a form of control system in which a set of devices and governing software is arranged in a hierarchical tree. When the links in the tree are implemented by a computer network, then that hierarchical control system is also a form of networked control system.
Overview
A human-bui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximodistal%20trend | The proximodistal trend is the tendency for more general functions of limbs to develop before more specific or fine motor skills. It comes from the Latin words proxim- which means "close" and "-dis-" meaning "away from", because the trend essentially describes a path from the center outward. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware%20of%20the%20dog | Beware of the dog (also rendered as Beware of dog) is a warning sign posted at the entrance to a building or other private area indicating that a dangerous dog is within. Such signs may be placed to deter burglary even if there is no dog, or if the dog is not actually a competent guard dog.
History
Warning signs of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouOS | YouOS was a web desktop and web integrated development environment, developed by Webshaka until June 2008.
From 2006 to 2008 YouOS replicated the desktop environment of a modern operating system on a webpage, using JavaScript to communicate with the remote server. This allowed users to save their current desktop state... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbs%20Production%20%26%20Processing%20Co.%20Ltd. | Herbs Production & Processing Co. Ltd. (abbr. HPPCL)()is a Government of Nepal undertaking herbal production company.
History
The company was established in 1981 under the supervision of government of Nepal. It is the first Nepali company to harvest the countries MAPs(Medicinal and Aromatic Plants) and produce medici... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopentenyl%20pyrophosphate | Isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP, isopentenyl diphosphate, or IDP) is an isoprenoid precursor. IPP is an intermediate in the classical, HMG-CoA reductase pathway (commonly called the mevalonate pathway) and in the non-mevalonate MEP pathway of isoprenoid precursor biosynthesis. Isoprenoid precursors such as IPP, and its ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade%20effect%20%28ecology%29 | An ecological cascade effect is a series of secondary extinctions that are triggered by the primary extinction of a key species in an ecosystem. Secondary extinctions are likely to occur when the threatened species are: dependent on a few specific food sources, mutualistic (dependent on the key species in some way), o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20algebra | In mathematics, especially in the fields of universal algebra and graph theory, a graph algebra is a way of giving a directed graph an algebraic structure. It was introduced by McNulty and Shallon, and has seen many uses in the field of universal algebra since then.
Definition
Let be a directed graph, and an eleme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden%20growth%20model | The Eden growth model describes the growth of specific types of clusters such as bacterial colonies and deposition of materials. These clusters grow by random accumulation of material on their boundary. These are also an example of a surface fractal. The model, named after Murray Eden, was first described in 1961 as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate%20Management%20Protocol | The Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) is an Internet protocol standardized by the IETF used for obtaining X.509 digital certificates in a public key infrastructure (PKI).
CMP is a very feature-rich and flexible protocol, supporting any types of cryptography.
CMP messages are self-contained, which, as opposed to ES... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stercobilin | Stercobilin is a tetrapyrrolic bile pigment and is one end-product of heme catabolism. It is the chemical responsible for the brown color of human feces and was originally isolated from feces in 1932. Stercobilin (and related urobilin) can be used as a marker for biochemical identification of fecal pollution levels in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20graph | In mathematics and computational geometry, the Gabriel graph of a set of points in the Euclidean plane expresses one notion of proximity or nearness of those points. Formally, it is the graph with vertex set in which any two distinct points and are adjacent precisely when the closed disc having as a diameter con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20Backus%E2%80%93Naur%20form | In computer science, extended Backus–Naur form (EBNF) is a family of metasyntax notations, any of which can be used to express a context-free grammar. EBNF is used to make a formal description of a formal language such as a computer programming language. They are extensions of the basic Backus–Naur form (BNF) metasynt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRC2 | PRC2 (polycomb repressive complex 2) is one of the two classes of polycomb-group proteins or (PcG). The other component of this group of proteins is PRC1 (Polycomb Repressive Complex 1).
This complex has histone methyltransferase activity and primarily methylates histone H3 on lysine 27 (i.e. H3K27me3), a mark of tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20de%20Finetti | Bruno de Finetti (13 June 1906 – 20 July 1985) was an Italian probabilist statistician and actuary, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability. The classic exposition of his distinctive theory is the 1937 , which discussed probability founded on the coherence of betting odds and the consequences o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Treatise%20on%20the%20Circle%20and%20the%20Sphere | A Treatise on the Circle and the Sphere is a mathematics book on circles, spheres, and inversive geometry. It was written by Julian Coolidge, and published by the Clarendon Press in 1916. The Chelsea Publishing Company published a corrected reprint in 1971, and after the American Mathematical Society acquired Chelsea P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicodendron%20radicans | Toxicodendron radicans, commonly known as eastern poison ivy or poison ivy, is an allergenic flowering plant that occurs in Asia and eastern North America. The species is well known for causing urushiol-induced contact dermatitis, an itchy, irritating, and sometimes painful rash, in most people who touch it. The rash i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20of%20Bryologists | The International Association of Bryologists (IAB), established in 1969, is a professional association promoting bryology (the study of mosses, liverworts and hornworts) globally for both amateurs and professionals. IAB was established in 1969 at the XI International Botanical Congress in Seattle, Washington, with the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly%20rules | Community assembly rules are a set of controversial rules in ecology, first proposed by Jared Diamond.
Rules
The rules were developed after more than a decade of research into the avian assemblages on islands near New Guinea. The rules assert that competition is responsible for determining the patterns of assemblage ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom%20laser | An atom laser is a coherent state of propagating atoms. They are created out of a Bose–Einstein condensate of atoms that are output coupled using various techniques. Much like an optical laser, an atom laser is a coherent beam that behaves like a wave. There has been some argument that the term "atom laser" is misleadi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontostriatal%20circuit | Frontostriatal circuits are neural pathways that connect frontal lobe regions with the basal ganglia (striatum) that mediate motor, cognitive, and behavioural functions within the brain. They receive inputs from dopaminergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic, and cholinergic cell groups that modulate information processing.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossby%20whistle | The Rossby whistle is the oscillation of sea-level and bottom pressure in the Caribbean Sea with the period of 120 days and influenced by propagating westward oceanic Rossby wave.
It is observed that a baroclinic Rossby wave propagating westward across the Caribbean Sea, oscillating with a period of 120 days, is rapid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reo%20Coordination%20Language | Reo is a domain-specific language for programming and analyzing coordination protocols that compose individual processes into full systems, broadly construed.
Examples of classes of systems that can be composed with Reo include component-based systems, service-oriented systems, multithreading systems, biological system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacida | The Lacida, also called LCD, was a Polish rotor cipher machine. It was designed and produced before World War II by Poland's Cipher Bureau for prospective wartime use by Polish military higher commands.
History
The machine's name derived from the surname initials of Gwido Langer, Maksymilian Ciężki and Ludomir Danile... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerable%20species | A vulnerable species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being threatened with extinction unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve.
Vulnerability is mainly caused by habitat loss or destruction of the species' home.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amidase | In enzymology, an amidase (, acylamidase, acylase (misleading), amidohydrolase (ambiguous), deaminase (ambiguous), fatty acylamidase, N-acetylaminohydrolase (ambiguous)) is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of an amide. In this way, the two substrates of this enzyme are an amide and H2O, whereas its two products... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20the%20Fundamental%20Laws%20of%20Nature | The Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on theoretical particle physics and cosmology.
About
The Center for the Fundamental Laws of nature is the high-energy theory group in Harvard's Physics Department. , it had 12 faculty and affiliate faculty, 18 postdo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthonormal%20function%20system | An orthonormal function system (ONS) is an orthonormal basis in a vector space of functions. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20control | Master control is the technical hub of a broadcast operation common among most over-the-air television stations and television networks. It is distinct from a production control room (PCR) in television studios where the activities such as switching from camera to camera are coordinated. A transmission control room (TC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical%20systems%20theory | Dynamical systems theory is an area of mathematics used to describe the behavior of complex dynamical systems, usually by employing differential equations or difference equations. When differential equations are employed, the theory is called continuous dynamical systems. From a physical point of view, continuous dynam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front%20velocity | In physics, front velocity is the speed at which the first rise of a pulse above zero moves forward.
In mathematics, it is used to describe the velocity of a propagating front in the solution of hyperbolic partial differential equation.
Various velocities
Associated with propagation of a disturbance are several diff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-side%20rule | A computer programming language is said to adhere to the off-side rule of syntax if blocks in that language are expressed by their indentation. The term was coined by Peter Landin, possibly as a pun on the offside rule in association football. This is contrasted with free-form languages, notably curly-bracket programmi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium%20oil | Magnesium oil (also referred to as transdermal magnesium, magnesium hexahydrate) is a compound of magnesium chloride dissolved in six molecules of water, with magnesium as the alkaline earth metal and chlorine as the nonmetal. In reality, it is not a "true" oil, as it is not composed of one or more hydrocarbons. Magnes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five%20Grains | The Five Grains or Cereals () are a grouping (or set of groupings) of five farmed crops that were all important in ancient China. Sometimes the crops themselves were regarded as sacred; other times, their cultivation was regarded as a sacred boon from a mythological or supernatural source. More generally, wǔgǔ can be e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calie%20Pistorius | Carl Wilhelm Irene ("Calie") Pistorius (born 9 August 1958) is a South African academic who is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. He announced, on 1 August 2016, that he would be stepping down from this role at the end of January 2017. His successor at Hull was Profe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycopodioideae | Lycopodioideae is a subfamily in the family Lycopodiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). It is equivalent to a broad circumscription of the genus Lycopodium in other classifications. Like all lycophytes, members of the Lycopodioideae reproduce by spores. The oldest fossils of modern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudspeakers%20in%20mosques | Loudspeakers were invented in the early 20th century, and they were introduced in mosques in the 1930s, where they are used by a muezzin for the adhan ("call to prayer"), and sometimes for khutbah in Islam. Outdoor loudspeakers, usually mounted on tall minarets, are used five times a day for the call to prayer. Loudspe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponens%20pollicis%20muscle | The opponens pollicis is a small, triangular muscle in the hand, which functions to oppose the thumb. It is one of the three thenar muscles. It lies deep to the abductor pollicis brevis and lateral to the flexor pollicis brevis.
Structure
The opponens pollicis muscle is one of the three thenar muscles. It originates f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI%20initiator%20and%20target | In computer data storage, a SCSI initiator is the endpoint that initiates a SCSI session, that is, sends a SCSI command. The initiator usually does not provide any Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs).
On the other hand, a SCSI target is the endpoint that does not initiate sessions, but instead waits for initiators' commands a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-transcriptional%20regulation | Post-transcriptional regulation is the control of gene expression at the RNA level. It occurs once the RNA polymerase has been attached to the gene's promoter and is synthesizing the nucleotide sequence. Therefore, as the name indicates, it occurs between the transcription phase and the translation phase of gene expres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDD%20and%20REDD%2B | REDD+ (or REDD-plus) is a framework to encourage developing countries to reduce emissions and enhance removals of greenhouse gases through a variety of forest management options, and to provide technical and financial support for these efforts. The acronym refers to "reducing emissions from deforestation and forest deg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20of%20the%20mind | An object of the mind is an object that exists in the imagination, but which, in the real world, can only be represented or modeled. Some such objects are abstractions, literary concepts, or fictional scenarios.
Closely related are intentional objects, which are what thoughts and feelings are about, even if they are n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20mode | A terminal mode is one of a set of possible states of a terminal or pseudo terminal character device in Unix-like systems and determines how characters written to the terminal are interpreted. In cooked mode data is preprocessed before being given to a program, while raw mode passes the data as-is to the program with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RALGPS1 | Ral GEF with PH domain and SH3 binding motif 1 is a protein in humans that is encoded by the RALGPS1 gene in chromosome 9. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Johnson%20%28businessman%29 | Kevin R. Johnson (born October 9, 1960) is an American businessman and software engineer who was the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Starbucks Coffee Company from 2017 to 2022. Succeeding Howard Schultz as CEO, Johnson previously served as the company's president and chief operating officer from 2015 to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CER-20 | CER (Serbian: Цифарски Електронски Рачунар / Cifarski Elektronski Računar - Digital Electronic Computer) model 20 was an early digital computer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia). It was designed as a functioning prototype of an "electronic bookkeeping machine". The first prototype was planned for 1964. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycotroph | A mycotroph is a plant that gets all or part of its carbon, water, or nutrient supply through symbiotic association with fungi. The term can refer to plants that engage in either of two distinct symbioses with fungi:
Many mycotrophs have a mutualistic association with fungi in any of several forms of mycorrhiza. The m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeytoken | In the field of computer security, honeytokens are honeypots that are not computer systems. Their value lies not in their use, but in their abuse. As such, they are a generalization of such ideas as the honeypot and the canary values often used in stack protection schemes. Honeytokens do not necessarily prevent any ta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20indication%20map | Traffic indication map (TIM) is a structure used in 802.11 wireless network management frames.
The Traffic indication map information element is covered under section 7.3.2.6 of 802.11-1999 standard.
The IEEE 802.11 standards use a bitmap to indicate to any sleeping listening stations that the Access Point (AP) has b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine64 | Pine Store Limited, known by its trade name Pine64 (styled as PINE64), is a Hong Kong-based organization that designs, manufactures, and sells single-board computers, notebook computers, as well as smartwatch/smartphones. Its name was inspired by the mathematical constants pi and with a reference to 64-bit computing p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCEbus | DCEbus is a computer bus standard, originally developed for industrial control computers interfacing to the "real world" by the Belgian company Data Applications International. It is physically based on Eurocard sizes, mechanicals and 31-pin connectors (DIN 41617 similar to the DIN 41612 but simpler), and using its own... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20virtualization | In software engineering, service virtualization or service virtualisation is a method to emulate the behavior of specific components in heterogeneous component-based applications such as API-driven applications, cloud-based applications and service-oriented architectures.
It is used to provide software development and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20application%20virtualization%20software | Application virtualization software refers to both application virtual machines and software responsible for implementing them. Application virtual machines are typically used to allow application bytecode to run portably on many different computer architectures and operating systems. The application is usually run on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20metamaterial | Quantum metamaterials extend the science of metamaterials to the quantum level. They can control electromagnetic radiation by applying the rules of quantum mechanics. In the broad sense, a quantum metamaterial is a metamaterial in which certain quantum properties of the medium must be taken into account and whose beha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telluric%20current | A telluric current (from Latin tellūs, "earth"), or Earth current, is an electric current that flows underground or through the sea, resulting from natural and human-induced causes. These currents are extremely low frequency and traverse large areas near or at the Earth's surface. The Earth's crust and mantle are host ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROFOR | ROFOR is a format for reporting weather information. ROFOR is an abbreviation for "Route Forecast". As the name suggests is the weather forecast of the route of any aircraft which will be flying through the route. ROFOR contains various information regarding date and time of forecast, direction and speed of the wind,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraflagellar%20transport | Intraflagellar transport (IFT) is a bidirectional motility along axoneme microtubules that is essential for the formation (ciliogenesis) and maintenance of most eukaryotic cilia and flagella. It is thought to be required to build all cilia that assemble within a membrane projection from the cell surface. Plasmodium fal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20built-in%20self-test | Logic built-in self-test (or LBIST) is a form of built-in self-test (BIST) in which hardware and/or software is built into integrated circuits allowing them to test their own operation, as opposed to reliance on external automated test equipment.
Advantages
The main advantage of LBIST is the ability to test internal c... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.