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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIT%20School%20of%20Electronic%20and%20Communications%20Engineering | The School of Electronic and Communications Engineering (SECE) at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) is one of the oldest schools of communications and electronic engineering in Ireland, with the first courses in wireless telegraphy inaugurated in 1911.
Other courses in Radio Communications were established prio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigram | A bigram or digram is a sequence of two adjacent elements from a string of tokens, which are typically letters, syllables, or words. A bigram is an n-gram for n=2.
The frequency distribution of every bigram in a string is commonly used for simple statistical analysis of text in many applications, including in computat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Generals%20%28game%29 | The Generals, or The Generals Electronic Strategy Game, is an electronic abstract strategy game published in 1980 by Ideal Toy Company. It implements the gameplay of the 1970 game Game of the Generals, in which two players contest control of spaces on a game board by moving game pieces with ranks hidden to their oppone... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobo%20%28Swedish%20comics%29 | Bobo is a Swedish comic strip, created by Lars Mortimer, published periodically between 1978 and 1990.
The main character is the eponymous "troll bear", encountering adventures in the forest, and occasionally the town nearby.
He is fond of sandwiches with cucumbers, and always carries around his "flaxkikare", (lit. a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exactis | Exactis LLC is a data broker established in 2015 and based in the U.S state of Florida. The firm reportedly handles business and consumer data in an effort to refine targeted advertising.
Data leak
Exactis became notable in June 2018, after a discovery by cybersecurity researcher Vinny Troia detailed how the organizat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ccrypt | ccrypt is a utility for the secure encryption and decryption of files and streams. It was designed as a replacement for the standard UNIX crypt utility, which is notorious for using a very weak encryption algorithm.
ccrypt is based on the Rijndael cypher, the same cipher used in the AES standard. However, in the AES s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoan%20Kiem%20turtle | The Hoàn Kiếm turtle, also Rafetus leloii, was an obsolete or controversial taxon of turtle from Southeast Asia, based on specimens from Hoàn Kiếm Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam. Most experts classify this turtle as synonymous with the rare Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), although some Vietnamese biologists... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Kingdom%20aircraft%20registration | United Kingdom aircraft registration is a register and means of identification for British owned and operated commercial and private aircraft, they are identified by registration letters starting with the prefix G-.
Registration
An aircraft registration is a unique alphanumeric string that identifies a civil aircraft,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbush%20Man | Forbush Man (spelled Forbush-Man in his early appearances) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Originally the mascot of Marvel's Not Brand Echh, he is the alter-ego of Irving Forbush, a fictional employee of "Marble Comics" (a parody of Marvel). Forbush was devised in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxide%20thin-film%20transistor | An oxide thin-film transistor (oxide TFT) or metal oxide thin film transistor is a type of thin film transistor where the semiconductor is a metal oxide compound. An oxide TFT is distinct from a metal oxide field effect transistor (MOSFET) where the word "oxide" refers to the insulating gate dielectric (normally silico... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap%20talk | In game theory, cheap talk is communication between players that does not directly affect the payoffs of the game. Providing and receiving information is free. This is in contrast to signaling in which sending certain messages may be costly for the sender depending on the state of the world.
This basic setting set by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirp%20Z-transform | The chirp Z-transform (CZT) is a generalization of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). While the DFT samples the Z plane at uniformly-spaced points along the unit circle, the chirp Z-transform samples along spiral arcs in the Z-plane, corresponding to straight lines in the S plane. The DFT, real DFT, and zoom DFT c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20law%20of%20thermodynamics | The first law of thermodynamics is a formulation of the law of conservation of energy in the context of thermodynamic processes in which two principle forms of energy transfer, heat and thermodynamic work, are distinguished that modify a thermodynamic system of a constant amount of matter. The law also defines the inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki%20Institute%20of%20Physics | The Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP, , ) is a physics research institute operated jointly by University of Helsinki, Aalto University, University of Jyväskylä, Lappeenranta University of Technology and Tampere University of Technology. The operations of the institute began on September 1, 1996. The foundation of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furstenberg%27s%20rosette | The Furstenberg's rosette is a structure in the teat of cattle, sheep and other ruminants, located at the internal end of the teat canal (also known as the streak canal or teat duct) at the junction with the teat cistern. It often is considered a barrier for pathogens, yet it offers little resistance to milk leaving th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging%20in%20cats | Aging in cats is the process by which cats change over the course of their natural lifespans. The average lifespan of a domestic cat may range from 10 to 13 years. As cats senesce, they undergo predictable changes in health and behavior. Dental disease and loss of olfaction are common as cats age, affecting eating habi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebenza | The Sebenza is a folding pocket knife manufactured by Chris Reeve Knives of Boise, Idaho. It is constructed with a stainless steel blade and titanium handle. Its handle functions as the lock mechanism similar in concept to the Walker linerlock differing in that the handle itself forms the lock bar which holds the bla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickles | Wickles is an American food manufacturer that sells pickles. The company originated in Dadeville, Alabama. Wickles offers an original spicy pickle along with other signature products such as original relish, green jalapeno relish, red jalapeno relish, pickled okra, garden mix and their new dirty dill pickles line.
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider%E2%80%93Lang%20theorem | In mathematics, the Schneider–Lang theorem is a refinement by of a theorem of about the transcendence of values of meromorphic functions. The theorem implies both the Hermite–Lindemann and Gelfond–Schneider theorems, and implies the transcendence of some values of elliptic functions and elliptic modular functions.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrawoona%20Group | The Warrawoona Group is a geological unit in Western Australia containing putative fossils of cyanobacteria cells. Dated 3.465 Ga, these microstructures, found in Archean chert, are considered to be the oldest known geological record of life on Earth.
Description
The fossils in this group were discovered by Arthur Hu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda%E2%80%93Carnot%20equation | In fluid dynamics the Borda–Carnot equation is an empirical description of the mechanical energy losses of the fluid due to a (sudden) flow expansion. It describes how the total head reduces due to the losses. This is in contrast with Bernoulli's principle for dissipationless flow (without irreversible losses), where t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wool%20bale | A wool bale is a standard sized and weighted pack of classed wool compressed by the mechanical means of a wool press. This is the regulation required method of packaging for wool, to keep it uncontaminated and readily identifiable. A "bale of wool" is also the standard trading unit for wool on the wholesale national an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniProt | UniProt is a freely accessible database of protein sequence and functional information, many entries being derived from genome sequencing projects. It contains a large amount of information about the biological function of proteins derived from the research literature. It is maintained by the UniProt consortium, which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly%20accelerated%20life%20test | A highly accelerated life test (HALT) is a stress testing methodology for enhancing product reliability in which prototypes are stressed to a much higher degree than expected from actual use in order to identify weaknesses in the design or manufacture of the product. Manufacturing and research and development organizat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20immune%20system | The Earth immune system is a controversial proposal, claimed to be a consequence of the Gaia hypothesis. The Gaia hypothesis holds that the entire earth may be considered a single organism (Gaia). As a self-maintaining organism, Earth would have an immune system of some sort in order to maintain its health.
Some prop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocarpic | Monocarpic plants are those that flower and set seeds only once, and then die.
The term is derived from Greek (, "single" + , "fruit" or "grain"), and was first used by Alphonse de Candolle. Other terms with the same meaning are hapaxanth and semelparous. The antonym is polycarpic, a plant that flowers and sets seeds ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brascamp%E2%80%93Lieb%20inequality | In mathematics, the Brascamp–Lieb inequality is either of two inequalities. The first is a result in geometry concerning integrable functions on n-dimensional Euclidean space . It generalizes the Loomis–Whitney inequality and Hölder's inequality. The second is a result of probability theory which gives a concentration ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20region | A natural region (landscape unit) is a basic geographic unit. Usually, it is a region which is distinguished by its common natural features of geography, geology, and climate.
From the ecological point of view, the naturally occurring flora and fauna of the region are likely to be influenced by its geographical and ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesbitt%27s%20inequality | In mathematics, Nesbitt's inequality states that for positive real numbers a, b and c,
It is an elementary special case (N = 3) of the difficult and much studied Shapiro inequality, and was published at least 50 years earlier.
There is no corresponding upper bound as any of the 3 fractions in the inequality can be ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piriformis%20nerve | The piriformis nerve, also known as the nerve to piriformis, is the peripheral nerve that provides motor innervation to the piriformis muscle.
Structure
Origin
The nerve to piriformis is a branch of the sacral plexus. It (typically) arises from the posterior divisions/branches of anterior rami of S1 and S2.
Course ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-glomerular%20basement%20membrane%20antibody | Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody (anti-GBM Ab) is an antibody which is found in Goodpasture's syndrome but not found in microscopic polyangiitis.
Some sources consider "anti-GBM disease" and "Goodpasture disease" to be synonymous terms describing histological presentation, reserving the term "Goodpasture syn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelonin | Gelonin is a type 1 ribosome-inactivating protein and toxin of approximately 30 kDa found in the seeds of the Himalayan plant Gelonium multiflorum. In cell-free systems gelonin exerts powerful N-glycosidase activity on the 28S rRNA unit of eukaryotic ribosomes by cleaving out adenine at the 4324 site. Gelonin lacks car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Putnam%20algorithm | The Davis–Putnam algorithm was developed by Martin Davis and Hilary Putnam for checking the validity of a first-order logic formula using a resolution-based decision procedure for propositional logic. Since the set of valid first-order formulas is recursively enumerable but not recursive, there exists no general algori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUN/TAP | In computer networking, TUN and TAP are kernel virtual network devices. Being network devices supported entirely in software, they differ from ordinary network devices which are backed by physical network adapters.
The Universal TUN/TAP Driver originated in 2000 as a merger of the corresponding drivers in Solaris, Lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Links | TV Links was a user contributed online video directory for television programmes, films, and music videos. In a similar style to BitTorrent trackers such as The Pirate Bay, video content was not hosted by TV Links. Instead, videos were hosted by third-party video sharing websites. The website was operated as a hobby by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mladen%20Bestvina | Mladen Bestvina (born 1959) is a Croatian-American mathematician working in the area of geometric group theory. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah.
Biographical info
Mladen Bestvina is a three-time medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiad (two silver m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer%20overflow | In computer programming, an integer overflow occurs when an arithmetic operation attempts to create a numeric value that is outside of the range that can be represented with a given number of digits – either higher than the maximum or lower than the minimum representable value.
The most common result of an overflow is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric%20family | In mathematics and its applications, a parametric family or a parameterized family is a family of objects (a set of related objects) whose differences depend only on the chosen values for a set of parameters.
Common examples are parametrized (families of) functions, probability distributions, curves, shapes, etc.
In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariable%20plane | The invariable plane of a planetary system, also called Laplace's invariable plane, is the plane passing through its barycenter (center of mass) perpendicular to its angular momentum vector.
Solar System
In the Solar System, about 98% of this effect is contributed by the orbital angular momenta of the four jovian plan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phospholipid%20acyltransferase | This family contains acyltransferases involved in phospholipid biosynthesis and proteins of unknown function. This family also includes tafazzin, the Barth syndrome gene.
Subfamilies
1-acyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase
Human proteins containing this domain
AGPAT1; AGPAT2; AGPAT3; AGPAT4; AGPA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark-8 | The Mark-8 is a microcomputer design from 1974, based on the Intel 8008 CPU (which was the world's first 8-bit microprocessor). The Mark-8 was designed by Jonathan Titus, a Virginia Tech graduate student in chemistry. After building the machine, Titus decided to share its design with the community and reached out to Ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy | A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae. Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colourful flowers. One species of poppy, Papaver somniferum, is the source of the narcotic drug mixture opium which contains powerful medicinal alkaloids such as morphine and has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anupam%20%28supercomputer%29 | Anupam is a series of supercomputers designed and developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for their internal usages. It is mainly used for molecular dynamical simulations, reactor physics, theoretical physics, computational chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, and finite element analysis.
The latest in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escapement | An escapement is a mechanical linkage in mechanical watches and clocks that gives impulses to the timekeeping element and periodically releases the gear train to move forward, advancing the clock's hands. The impulse action transfers energy to the clock's timekeeping element (usually a pendulum or balance wheel) to rep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defoliation%20bacilli%20bomb | Defoliation bacilli bombs, made between 1932 and 1933, were used by the Imperial Japanese Army to spread bubonic plague across China. The deployment of these lethal munitions provided the Japanese with the ability to launch devastating biological attacks, infecting agriculture, reservoirs, wells and populated areas wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottleneck%20traveling%20salesman%20problem | The Bottleneck traveling salesman problem (bottleneck TSP) is a problem in discrete or combinatorial optimization. The problem is to find the Hamiltonian cycle (visiting each node exactly once) in a weighted graph which minimizes the weight of the highest-weight edge of the cycle. It was first formulated by with some... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregate%20pattern | An Aggregate pattern can refer to concepts in either statistics or computer programming. Both uses deal with considering a large case as composed of smaller, simpler, pieces.
Statistics
An aggregate pattern is an important statistical concept in many fields that rely on statistics to predict the behavior of large gro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frege%E2%80%93Church%20ontology | The Frege–Church ontology is an ontology, a theory of existence. Everything is considered as being in three categories, object (referent, denotation), name, or concept (sense). The ontology was developed by Alonzo Church based on ideas of Gottlob Frege to resolve some paradoxes. The ontology is related to certain mod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20case-control%20sampling | In machine learning, local case-control sampling is an algorithm used to reduce the complexity of training a logistic regression classifier. The algorithm reduces the training complexity by selecting a small subsample of the original dataset for training. It assumes the availability of a (unreliable) pilot estimation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEAT%20LANrev | HEAT LANrev (formerly Absolute Manage) is systems lifecycle management software used by system administrators to automate IT administration tasks. The product includes server and client ("agent") software that runs on Windows and macOS.
History
Vancouver-based Absolute acquired LANrev from Pole Position Software in De... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/177th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 177° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 177th meridian east forms a great circle with the 3rd meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the No... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP5%20chip | The GP5 is a co-processor accelerator built to accelerate discrete belief propagation on factor graphs and other large-scale tensor product operations for machine learning. It is related to, and anticipated by a number of years, the Google Tensor Processing Unit
It is designed to run as a co-processor with another co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog%20Standard%20Gallery | Bog Standard Gallery was previously a portable toilet cubicle and is believed to be one of the smallest "art galleries" in the world.
The gallery, complete with white walls and an oak floor, the piece of installation art mimicking a traditional gallery space, was created and curated by UK-based artist, Melanie Boda (n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normapolles | Normapolles is an extinct angiosperm pollen group that arose in the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous). Normapolles persisted until the early Oligiocene Epoch (Tertiary Period) but were reduced in diversity by the early Eocene Epoch. Normapolles were widespread in the Late Cretaceous of southern and eastern North America and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagebuttenmark | Hagebuttenmark, also called Hägenmark (Swabian dialect), Hiffenmark (East Franconian dialect) or Buttenmost (Switzerland), is the traditional name for a fruit preserve made from rose hips, sugar, and sometimes red wine.
In the past it was an important addition on the everyday menu as rose hip is very rich in vitamin C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala%20Devi | Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian mental calculator and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer". Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. However, the certificate for the record was given posthumously on 30 July 2020, despite Devi ach... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deming%20regression | In statistics, Deming regression, named after W. Edwards Deming, is an errors-in-variables model which tries to find the line of best fit for a two-dimensional dataset. It differs from the simple linear regression in that it accounts for errors in observations on both the x- and the y- axis. It is a special case of tot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperiodic%20graph | In the mathematical area of graph theory, a directed graph is said to be aperiodic if there is no integer k > 1 that divides the length of every cycle of the graph. Equivalently, a graph is aperiodic if the greatest common divisor of the lengths of its cycles is one; this greatest common divisor for a graph G is calle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat | Bushmeat is meat from wildlife species that are hunted for human consumption. Bushmeat represents
a primary source of animal protein and a cash-earning commodity for inhabitants of humid tropical forest regions in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Bushmeat is an important food resource in poor, rural communities.
The nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20effectiveness%20index | The government effectiveness index is a ranking developed by the World Bank Group. It measures the quality of public services, civil service, policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of a government's commitment to improving or maintaining these aspects. The index includes 193 countries, each scored f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrated%20loop | The arbitrated loop, also known as FC-AL, is a Fibre Channel topology in which devices are connected in a one-way loop fashion in a ring topology. Historically it was a lower-cost alternative to a fabric topology. It allowed connection of many servers and computer storage devices without using then very costly Fibre C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldit | Foldit is an online puzzle video game about protein folding. It is part of an experimental research project developed by the University of Washington, Center for Game Science, in collaboration with the UW Department of Biochemistry. The objective of Foldit is to fold the structures of selected proteins as perfectly as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick%20rotation | In physics, Wick rotation, named after Italian physicist Gian Carlo Wick, is a method of finding a solution to a mathematical problem in Minkowski space from a solution to a related problem in Euclidean space by means of a transformation that substitutes an imaginary-number variable for a real-number variable. This tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20social%20mind | Deep social mind is a concept in evolutionary psychology; it refers to the distinctively human capacity to 'read' (that is, to infer) the mental states of others while reciprocally enabling those others to read one's own mental states at the same time. The term 'deep social mind' was first coined in 1999 by Andrew Whit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosynthesis%20%28metabolism%29 | Radiosynthesis is the theorized capture and metabolism, by living organisms, of energy from ionizing radiation, analogously to photosynthesis. Metabolism of ionizing radiation was theorized as early as 1956 by the Russian microbiologist S. I. Kuznetsov.
Beginning in the 1990s, researchers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Pow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totem%20and%20Ore | Totem and Ore is a collection of 5 000 photographs taken by B Wongar in the 1960s and early 1970s. The photographs were taken in northern and central Australia. The collection is about tragedy of Australian Aborigines - the people who lived through dual tragedy, the mining of uranium and the subsequent British nuclear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WW%20domain | The WW domain (also known as the rsp5-domain or WWP repeating motif) is a modular protein domain that mediates specific interactions with protein ligands. This domain is found in a number of unrelated signaling and structural proteins and may be repeated up to four times in some proteins. Apart from binding preferent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentric%20hypertrophy | Concentric hypertrophy is a hypertrophic growth of a hollow organ without overall enlargement, in which the walls of the organ are thickened and its capacity or volume is diminished.
Sarcomeres are added in parallel, as for example occurs in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
In the heart, concentric hypertrophy is related... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretomotor | The adjective secretomotor refers to the capacity of a structure (often a nerve) to induce a gland to secrete a substance (usually mucus or serous fluid).
Secretomotor nerve endings are frequently contrasted with sensory neuron endings and motor nerve endings. An example of secretomotor activity can be seen with the l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volfefe%20index | The Volfefe Index was a stock market index of volatility in market sentiment for US Treasury bonds caused by tweets by former President Donald Trump.
Bloomberg News observed Volfefe was created due to the statistical significance of Trump tweets on bond prices. ABC News Online posited Volfefe could help analyze intere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Presentation%20Facility | Information Presentation Facility (IPF) is a system for presenting online help and hypertext on IBM OS/2 systems. IPF also refers to the markup language that is used to create IPF content. The IPF language has its origins in BookMaster and Generalized Markup Language developed by IBM. The IPF language is very similar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gametic%20phase | In genetics, a gametic phase represents the original allelic combinations that a diploid individual inherits from both parents. It is therefore a particular association of alleles at different loci on the same chromosome. Gametic phase is influenced by genetic linkage. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue%20of%20Life | The Catalogue of Life is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxonomic Information System. The Catalogue is used by research scientists, citizen scien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Pustyl%27nikov%20model | The Fermi–Pustyl'nikov model, named after Enrico Fermi and Lev Pustyl'nikov, is a model of the Fermi acceleration mechanism.
A point mass falls with a constant acceleration vertically on the infinitely heavy horizontal wall, which moves vertically in accordance with analytic periodic law in time. The point interacts w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20Astrobiology%20Center | Spanish Astrobiology Center ( (CAB)) is a state-run institute in Spain dedicated to astrobiology research, and it is part of the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA) as well as the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). It was created in 1999 and it is affiliated with NASA Astrobiology Institute.
Its m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20database | An XML database is a data persistence software system that allows data to be specified, and sometimes stored, in XML format. This data can be queried, transformed, exported and returned to a calling system. XML databases are a flavor of document-oriented databases which are in turn a category of NoSQL database.
Ration... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky%20integrator | In mathematics, a leaky integrator equation is a specific differential equation, used to describe a component or system that takes the integral of an input, but gradually leaks a small amount of input over time. It appears commonly in hydraulics, electronics, and neuroscience where it can represent either a single neu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Eves | Steve Eves formerly held the world record for the tallest and heaviest amateur rocket ever successfully launched. The rocket was tall and weighed . On Saturday April 25, 2009 Eves launched the 1/10 scale replica of the Saturn V rocket into the air, and successfully recovered it. The launch occurred on the eastern sho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotspot%20gateway | A hotspot gateway is a device that provides authentication, authorization and accounting for a wireless network. This can keep malicious users off of a private network even in the event that they are able to break the encryption.
A wireless hotspot gateway helps solve guest user connectivity problems by offering insta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPCS-steganography | BPCS-steganography (Bit-Plane Complexity Segmentation steganography) is a type of digital steganography.
Digital steganography can hide confidential data (i.e. secret files) very securely by embedding them into some media data called "vessel data." The vessel data is also referred to as "carrier, cover, or dummy data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventory%20turnover | In accounting, the inventory turnover is a measure of the number of times inventory is sold or used in a time period such as a year. It is calculated to see if a business has an excessive inventory in comparison to its sales level. The equation for inventory turnover equals the cost of goods sold divided by the average... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehead%20manifold | In mathematics, the Whitehead manifold is an open 3-manifold that is contractible, but not homeomorphic to discovered this puzzling object while he was trying to prove the Poincaré conjecture, correcting an error in an earlier paper where he incorrectly claimed that no such manifold exists.
A contractible manifold ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirapinna | Mirapinna esau, the hairyfish, is a species of fish in the family Cetomimidae only known from the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores. Formerly considered a member of the no-longer-recognized family Mirapinnidae, this species is the only known member of the genus Mirapinna.
Description
Mirapinna esau grows to a length of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridged%20and%20paralleled%20amplifiers | Multiple electronic amplifiers can be connected such that they drive a single floating load (bridge) or a single common load (parallel), to increase the amount of power available in different situations. This is commonly encountered in audio applications.
Overview
Bridged or paralleled modes of working, normally inv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducens%20nerve | The abducens nerve or abducent nerve, also known as the sixth cranial nerve, cranial nerve VI, or simply CN VI, is a cranial nerve in humans and various other animals that controls the movement of the lateral rectus muscle, one of the extraocular muscles responsible for outward gaze. It is a somatic efferent nerve.
St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolithic%20microwave%20integrated%20circuit | Monolithic microwave integrated circuit, or MMIC (sometimes pronounced "mimic"), is a type of integrated circuit (IC) device that operates at microwave frequencies (300 MHz to 300 GHz). These devices typically perform functions such as microwave mixing, power amplification, low-noise amplification, and high-frequency s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Callion | John Cragg Callion is a British ornithologist. His 25-year study of the European stonechat and his findings on the Eurasian dotterel have revealed much previously unknown information about both species.
Biography
John Callion was born on 14 September 1946 in Workington, Cumbria. He developed an interest in birds whil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyl%20isothiocyanate | Allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) is a naturally occurring unsaturated isothiocyanate. The colorless oil is responsible for the pungent taste of Cruciferous vegetables such as mustard, radish, horseradish, and wasabi. This pungency and the lachrymatory effect of AITC are mediated through the TRPA1 and TRPV1 ion channels. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20distance%20%28astronomy%29 | In the celestial equatorial coordinate system Σ(α, δ) in astronomy, polar distance (PD) is an angular distance of a celestial object on its meridian measured from the celestial pole, similar to the way declination (dec, δ) is measured from the celestial equator.
Definition
Polar distance in celestial navigation is th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20chemistry%20of%20cooking | In cooking several factors, including materials, techniques, and temperature, can influence the surface chemistry of the chemical reactions and interactions that create food. All of these factors depend on the chemical properties of the surfaces of the materials used. The material properties of cookware, such as hydrop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomagnetism | Photomagnetism (photomagnetic effect) is the effect in which a material acquires (and in some cases loses) its ferromagnetic properties in response to light. The current model for this phenomenon is a light induced electron transfer, accompanied by the reversal of the spin direction of an electron. This leads to an inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatism | Mithridatism is the practice of protecting oneself against a poison by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts. The word is derived from Mithridates VI, the King of Pontus, who so feared being poisoned that he regularly ingested small doses, aiming to develop immunity.
Background
Mithridates VI's father, Mithr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20Research | Cell Research is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering cell biology. It is published by the Nature Research on behalf of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and is affiliated with the Chinese Society for Cell Biology. It was established in 1990. The editor-in-chie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20layer%20forces | Double layer forces occur between charged objects across liquids, typically water. This force acts over distances that are comparable to the Debye length, which is on the order of one to a few tenths of nanometers. The strength of these forces increases with the magnitude of the surface charge density (or the electrica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20O.%20Wells%20Jr. | Raymond O'Neil Wells Jr. (born 1940), "Ronny", is an American mathematician, working in complex analysis in several variables as well as wavelets.
Wells received his BA from Rice University in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1965 from New York University under the supervision of Lipman Bers (On the local holomorphic hull of a r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20virulence | Optimal virulence is a concept relating to the ecology of hosts and parasites. One definition of virulence is the host's parasite-induced loss of fitness. The parasite's fitness is determined by its success in transmitting offspring to other hosts. For about 100 years, the consensus was that virulence decreased and par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberman%27s%20lemma | Liberman's lemma is a theorem used in studying intrinsic geometry of convex surface.
It is named after Joseph Liberman.
Formulation
If is a unit-speed minimizing geodesic on the surface of a convex body K in Euclidean space then for any point p ∈ K, the function
is concave. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regius%20Professor%20of%20Botany%20%28Glasgow%29 | The Regius Chair of Botany at the University of Glasgow is a Regius Professorship established in 1818.
A lectureship in botany had been founded in 1704. From 1718 to 1818, the subject was combined with Anatomy. The chair was founded in 1818 by King George III.
Regius Professors of Botany
For 1718–1818, see: Regius P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation%20immunity | In mathematics, the correlation immunity of a Boolean function is a measure of the degree to which its outputs are uncorrelated with some subset of its inputs. Specifically, a Boolean function is said to be correlation-immune of order m if every subset of m or fewer variables in is statistically independent of the val... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAML%20Browser%20Applications | XAML Browser Applications (XBAP, pronounced "ex-bap") are Windows Presentation Foundation (.xbap) applications that are hosted and run inside a web browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. Hosted applications run in a partial trust sandbox environment and are not given full access to the computer's resources like ... |
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