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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifiable%20random%20function
In cryptography, a verifiable random function (VRF) is a public-key pseudorandom function that provides proofs that its outputs were calculated correctly. The owner of the secret key can compute the function value as well as an associated proof for any input value. Everyone else, using the proof and the associated publ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20%28mathematical%20logic%29
In mathematical logic, a theory (also called a formal theory) is a set of sentences in a formal language. In most scenarios a deductive system is first understood from context, after which an element of a deductively closed theory is then called a theorem of the theory. In many deductive systems there is usually a su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20model%20%28mathematical%20logic%29
In model theory, a subfield of mathematical logic, an atomic model is a model such that the complete type of every tuple is axiomatized by a single formula. Such types are called principal types, and the formulas that axiomatize them are called complete formulas. Definitions Let T be a theory. A complete type p(x1, ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homothetic%20vector%20field
In physics, a homothetic vector field (sometimes homothetic collineation or homothety) is a projective vector field which satisfies the condition: where c is a real constant. Homothetic vector fields find application in the study of singularities in general relativity. They can also be used to generate new solutions f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Army%20Medical%20Research%20Institute%20of%20Infectious%20Diseases
The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID; ) is the U.S Army's main institution and facility for defensive research into countermeasures against biological warfare. It is located on Fort Detrick, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., and is a subordinate lab of the United States Army...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20computational%20materials%20engineering
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) is an approach to design products, the materials that comprise them, and their associated materials processing methods by linking materials models at multiple length scales. Key words are "Integrated", involving integrating models at multiple length scales, and "En...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperconnectivity
Hyperconnectivity is a term invented by Canadian social scientists Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman, arising from their studies of person-to-person and person-to-machine communication in networked organizations and networked societies. The term refers to the use of multiple means of communication, such as email, ins...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressor%20map
A compressor map is a chart which shows the performance of a turbomachinery compressor. This type of compressor is used in gas turbine engines, for supercharging reciprocating engines and for industrial processes, where it is known as a dynamic compressor. A map is created from compressor rig test results or predicted ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level-set%20method
Level-set methods (LSM) are a conceptual framework for using level sets as a tool for numerical analysis of surfaces and shapes. The advantage of the level-set model is that one can perform numerical computations involving curves and surfaces on a fixed Cartesian grid without having to parameterize these objects (this ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersingular%20variety
In mathematics, a supersingular variety is (usually) a smooth projective variety in nonzero characteristic such that for all n the slopes of the Newton polygon of the nth crystalline cohomology are all n/2 . For special classes of varieties such as elliptic curves it is common to use various ad hoc definitions of "supe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMEA%202000
NMEA 2000, abbreviated to NMEA2k or N2K and standardized as IEC 61162-3, is a plug-and-play communications standard used for connecting marine sensors and display units within ships and boats. Communication runs at 250 kilobits-per-second and allows any sensor to talk to any display unit or other device compatible with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear%20coherent%20states
Coherent states are quasi-classical states that may be defined in different ways, for instance as eigenstates of the annihilation operator , or as a displacement from the vacuum , where is the Sudarshan-Glauber displacement operator. One may think of a non-linear coherent state by generalizing the annihilation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20reaction
An elementary reaction is a chemical reaction in which one or more chemical species react directly to form products in a single reaction step and with a single transition state. In practice, a reaction is assumed to be elementary if no reaction intermediates have been detected or need to be postulated to describe the r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20as%20a%20biological%20variable
Sex as a biological variable (SABV) is a research policy recognizing sex as an important variable to consider when designing studies and assessing results. Research including SABV has strengthened the rigor and reproducibility of findings. Public research institutions including the European Commission, Canadian Institu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayab
Gayab () () is a 2004 Indian Hindi supernatural black comedy thriller film, directed by Prawaal Raman and produced by Ram Gopal Varma. It stars Tusshar Kapoor and Antara Mali as the lead protagonists. The film was declared a below average at the box office and was remade in Tamil as Jithan. Plot Vishnu Prasad (Tussh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre%20%28travel%20reservation%20system%29
Sabre Global Distribution System, owned by Sabre Corporation, is a travel reservation system used by travel agents and companies to search, price, book, and ticket travel services provided by airlines, hotels, car rental companies, rail providers and tour operators. Originally developed by American Airlines under CEO ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfobacillus
Sulfobacillus is a genus of bacteria containing six named species. Members of the genus are Gram-positive, acidophilic, spore-forming bacteria that are moderately thermophilic or thermotolerant. All species are facultative anaerobes capable of oxidizing sulfur-containing compounds; they differ in optimal growth tempera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.9
The 802.9 Working Group of the IEEE 802 networking committee developed standards for integrated voice and data access over existing Category 3 twisted-pair network cable installations. Its major standard was usually known as isoEthernet. IsoEthernet combines 10 megabits per second Ethernet and 96 64-kilobits per seco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality%20gap
In optimization problems in applied mathematics, the duality gap is the difference between the primal and dual solutions. If is the optimal dual value and is the optimal primal value then the duality gap is equal to . This value is always greater than or equal to 0 (for minimization problems). The duality gap is z...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescendo%20Networks
Crescendo Networks, Ltd. was a privately held computer networking company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with regional offices in EMEA and APAC. Crescendo Networks is not to be confused with Crescendo Communications, Inc. a CDDI/FDDI network equipment manufacturer that Cisco Systems Inc. acquired in 1993. Foun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyespot%20%28mimicry%29
An eyespot (sometimes ocellus) is an eye-like marking. They are found in butterflies, reptiles, cats, birds and fish. Eyespots could be explained in at least three different ways. They may be a form of mimicry in which a spot on the body of an animal resembles an eye of a different animal, to deceive potential predato...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiomeric%20excess
In stereochemistry, enantiomeric excess (ee) is a measurement of purity used for chiral substances. It reflects the degree to which a sample contains one enantiomer in greater amounts than the other. A racemic mixture has an ee of 0%, while a single completely pure enantiomer has an ee of 100%. A sample with 70% of one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Router%20Application%20Platform
The Wireless Router Application Platform (WRAP) is a format of single board computer defined by Swiss company PC Engines. This is specially designed for wireless router, firewall, load balancer, VPN or other network appliances. Basic specs 32-bit x86 compatible CPU, low energy consumption (AMD Geode SC1100 at 266 MH...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency%20counter
A frequency counter is an electronic instrument, or component of one, that is used for measuring frequency. Frequency counters usually measure the number of cycles of oscillation or pulses per second in a periodic electronic signal. Such an instrument is sometimes called a cymometer, particularly one of Chinese manufac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube-based%20nanostructure
Tube-based nanostructures are nanolattices made of connected tubes and exhibit nanoscale organization above the molecular level. Lattices Lattices are structures formed of arrays of uniformly sized cells. Ceramic lattice nanostructures have been formed using hollow tubes of titanium nitride (TiN). Using vertex-connect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance%20Services%20Office
Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO), a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, is a provider of statistical, actuarial, underwriting, and claims information and analytics; compliance and fraud identification tools; policy language; information about specific locations; and technical services. ISO serves insurers, reinsurers,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20allocation%20problem
The space allocation problem (SAP) is the process in architecture, or in any kind of space planning (SP) technique, of determining the position and size of several elements according to the input-specified design program requirements. These are usually topological and geometric constraints, as well as matters related t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed%20points%20of%20isometry%20groups%20in%20Euclidean%20space
A fixed point of an isometry group is a point that is a fixed point for every isometry in the group. For any isometry group in Euclidean space the set of fixed points is either empty or an affine space. For an object, any unique centre and, more generally, any point with unique properties with respect to the object is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20de%20F%C3%A1tima%20Agra
Maria de Fátima Agra (born 1952) is a Brazilian botanist and associate professor at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. Agra specializes in ethnobotany, pharmacognosy, and plant morphology, particularly pertaining to plants of the family Solanaceae in northeastern Brazil. Biogr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20Internet%20Research%20and%20Experimentation
Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) is a program funded by the European Union to do research on the Internet, its prospects, and its future, a field known as "future Internet". History Some researchers met with government officials in Zurich in March 2007. The first FIRE projects started in 2008, with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20YM2608
The YM2608, a.k.a. OPNA, is a sound chip developed by Yamaha. It is a member of Yamaha's OPN family of FM synthesis chips, and is the successor to the YM2203. It was notably used in NEC's PC-8801/PC-9801 series computers. The YM2608 consists of four internal modules: FM Sound Source, a six-channel FM synthesis sound s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20Developer
Perfect Developer (PD) is a tool for developing computer programs in a rigorous manner. It is used to develop applications in areas including IT systems and airborne critical systems. The principle is to develop a formal specification and refine the specification to code. Even though the tool is founded on formal metho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankish%20and%20Hunnic%20grape%20varieties
A division of grape varieties into Frankish and Hunnic grape varieties was practiced in German-speaking countries in the Middle Ages and separated varieties considered to be better from those considered to be lesser. Frankish (fränkisch) grapes were considered noble grapes, and the designation derived from the Franks, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC64%20V
The SPARC64 V (Zeus) is a SPARC V9 microprocessor designed by Fujitsu. The SPARC64 V was the basis for a series of successive processors designed for servers, and later, supercomputers. The servers series are the SPARC64 V+, VI, VI+, VII, VII+, X, X+ and XII. The SPARC64 VI and its successors up to the VII+ were used ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus-faced%20molecule
A Janus molecule (or Janus-faced molecule) is a molecule which can represent both beneficial and toxic effects. The term Janus-faced molecule is derived from the ancient Roman god, Janus. Janus is depicted as having two faces; one facing the past and one facing the future. This is synonymous to a Janus molecule having ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%20McCollum
Elmer Verner McCollum (March 3, 1879 – November 15, 1967) was an American biochemist known for his work on the influence of diet on health. McCollum is also remembered for starting the first rat colony in the United States to be used for nutrition research. His reputation has suffered from posthumous controversy. Time ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%27s%20inequality
In mathematics, Jordan's inequality, named after Camille Jordan, states that It can be proven through the geometry of circles (see drawing). Notes Further reading Serge Colombo: Holomorphic Functions of One Variable. Taylor & Francis 1983, , p. 167-168 (online copy) Da-Wei Niu, Jian Cao, Feng Qi: Generealizations...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narave%20pig
The Narave or Naravé pig is a type of domestic pig native to northern Vanuatu. Navare pigs are pseudohermaphrodite (intersex) male individuals that are kept for ceremonial purposes. Etymology The term narave is from Bislama. François (2021) documents Araki rave [ɾaβe] ‘hermaphrodite pig, of great customary value’ and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagen%E2%80%93Poiseuille%20equation
In nonideal fluid dynamics, the Hagen–Poiseuille equation, also known as the Hagen–Poiseuille law, Poiseuille law or Poiseuille equation, is a physical law that gives the pressure drop in an incompressible and Newtonian fluid in laminar flow flowing through a long cylindrical pipe of constant cross section. It can be ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumi%20%28software%29
lumi is a free, open source and open development software project for the analysis and comprehension of Illumina expression and methylation microarray data. The project was started in the summer of 2006 and set out to provide algorithms and data management tools of Illumina in the framework of Bioconductor. It is based...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Living%20Cosmos
The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe is a non-fiction book by the astronomer Chris Impey that discusses the subject of astrobiology and efforts to discover life beyond Earth. It was published as a hardcover by Random House in 2007 and as a paperback by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Summary The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcast
A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand. Essentially, webcasting is "broadcasting" over the Internet. The largest "webcasters" inc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20Channel%20Interpretation
Extended Channel Interpretation (ECI) is an extension to the communication protocol that is used to transmit data from a bar code reader to a host when a bar code symbol is scanned. It enables the application software to receive additional information about the intended interpretation of the message contained within th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpursEngine
SpursEngine is a microprocessor from Toshiba built as a media oriented coprocessor, designed for 3D- and video processing in consumer electronics such as set-top boxes and computers. The SpursEngine processor is also known as the Quad Core HD processor. Announced 20 September 2007. The SpursEngine is a stream processo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback%20arc%20set
In graph theory and graph algorithms, a feedback arc set or feedback edge set in a directed graph is a subset of the edges of the graph that contains at least one edge out of every cycle in the graph. Removing these edges from the graph breaks all of the cycles, producing a directed acyclic graph, an acyclic subgraph o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene%20oxide
Ethylene oxide is an organic compound with the formula . It is a cyclic ether and the simplest epoxide: a three-membered ring consisting of one oxygen atom and two carbon atoms. Ethylene oxide is a colorless and flammable gas with a faintly sweet odor. Because it is a strained ring, ethylene oxide easily participates ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien%20bridge%20oscillator
A Wien bridge oscillator is a type of electronic oscillator that generates sine waves. It can generate a large range of frequencies. The oscillator is based on a bridge circuit originally developed by Max Wien in 1891 for the measurement of impedances. The bridge comprises four resistors and two capacitors. The oscilla...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20fourth%20problem
In mathematics, Hilbert's fourth problem in the 1900 list of Hilbert's problems is a foundational question in geometry. In one statement derived from the original, it was to find — up to an isomorphism — all geometries that have an axiomatic system of the classical geometry (Euclidean, hyperbolic and elliptic), with t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosine
Mimosine or leucenol is a toxic non-protein amino acid chemically similar to tyrosine. It occurs in some Mimosa spp. (including M. pudica) and all members of the closely related genus Leucaena. This compound, also known as leucenol, was first isolated from the seeds of Leucaena glauca Benth., and was later investigate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellairs%20Research%20Institute
The Bellairs Research Institute, located on the Caribbean island of Barbados, was founded in 1954 as a marine biology field-station for McGill University. The main campus of McGill University is in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Bellairs was initial funding was from a bequest by British naval commander, Carlyon Bellairs, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20phagocytosis
The history of phagocytosis is an account of the discoveries of cells, known as phagocytes, that are capable of eating other cells or particles, and how that eventually established the science of immunology. Phagocytosis is broadly used in two ways in different organisms, for feeding in unicellular organisms (protists)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirodela%20polyrhiza
Spirodela polyrhiza ( S. polyrrhiza) is a species of duckweed known by the common names common duckmeat, greater duckweed, great duckmeat, common duckweed, and duckmeat. It can be found nearly worldwide in many types of freshwater habitat. Description Spirodela polyrhiza is a perennial aquatic plant usually growing i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DGP%20model
The DGP model is a model of gravity proposed by Gia Dvali, Gregory Gabadadze, and Massimo Porrati in 2000. The model is popular among some model builders, but has resisted being embedded into string theory. Overview The DGP model assumes the existence of a 4+1-dimensional Minkowski space, within which ordinary 3+1-di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Yesterdays
All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals is a 2012 art book on the palaeoartistic reconstruction of dinosaurs and other extinct animals by John Conway, C. M. Kosemen and Darren Naish. A central tenet of the book concerns the fact that many dinosaur reconstructions are outd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppArmor
AppArmor ("Application Armor") is a Linux kernel security module that allows the system administrator to restrict programs' capabilities with per-program profiles. Profiles can allow capabilities like network access, raw socket access, and the permission to read, write, or execute files on matching paths. AppArmor supp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20predictive%20analysis
Linear predictive analysis is a simple form of first-order extrapolation: if it has been changing at this rate then it will probably continue to change at approximately the same rate, at least in the short term. This is equivalent to fitting a tangent to the graph and extending the line. One use of this is in linear p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine%20line%20jumping
Vaccine line jumping is the act of obtaining a vaccine in which the supply fails to meet the demands of the population ahead of those for whom it has been prioritized, usually via fraudulent means, the exploitation of one's social status, or some other unethical manner. Vaccine line jumping is distinct from vaccine cha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger%20load%20factor
Passenger load factor, or load factor, measures the capacity utilization of public transport services like airlines, passenger railways, and intercity bus services. It is generally used to assess how efficiently a transport provider fills seats and generates fare revenue. According to the International Air Transport A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halococcus
Halococcus (common abbreviation: Hcc.) is a genus of the Halococcaceae. Ecology Halococcus is a genus of extreme halophilic archaea, meaning that they require high salt levels, sometimes as high as 32% NaCl, for optimal growth. Halophiles are found mainly in inland bodies of water with high salinity, where their pigm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centroneuralia
Centroneuralia is a proposed clade of animals with bilateral symmetry as an embryo, consisting of the Chordata and Protostomia, united by the presence of a central nervous system. An alternative to the traditional protostome-deuterostome dichotomy, it has found weak support in several studies. Under this hypothesis, Ce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window%20of%20opportunity
A window of opportunity, also called a margin of opportunity or critical window, is a period of time during which some action can be taken that will achieve a desired outcome. Once this period is over, or the "window is closed", the specified outcome is no longer possible. Examples Windows of opportunity include: Bio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Franklin%20Award%20%28Bioinformatics%29
The Benjamin Franklin Award is an annual award for Open Access in the Life Sciences presented by Bioinformatics.org to an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted free and open access to the materials and methods used in the life sciences. Laureates Source: bioinformatics.org 2002 - Michael B. Eisen 2003 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon%20Baird
Damon S. Baird is a fictional character in the Gears of War franchise. He first appeared in the first and eponymous video game of the series as a supporting character. He has since appeared in every mainline installment of the Gears franchise, and is featured as the main protagonist of the spin-off title, Gears of War:...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RHPPC
The RHPPC is a radiation hardened processor based on PowerPC 603e technology licensed from Motorola (now Freescale) and manufactured by Honeywell. The RHPPC is equivalent to the commercial PowerPC 603e processor with the minor exceptions of the phase locked loop (PLL) and the processor version register (PVR). The RHPPC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20state
In physics, specifically in quantum mechanics, a coherent state is the specific quantum state of the quantum harmonic oscillator, often described as a state which has dynamics most closely resembling the oscillatory behavior of a classical harmonic oscillator. It was the first example of quantum dynamics when Erwin Sch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers%20Morgan%20Uncensored
Piers Morgan Uncensored is a television programme presented by Piers Morgan. It has been broadcast on TalkTV weeknights at 8 pm in the UK since 25 April 2022. It is also broadcast internationally by Sky News Australia in Australia and Fox Nation in the United States, which are both owned by subsidiaries or affiliates o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptotic%20equipartition%20property
In information theory, the asymptotic equipartition property (AEP) is a general property of the output samples of a stochastic source. It is fundamental to the concept of typical set used in theories of data compression. Roughly speaking, the theorem states that although there are many series of results that may be pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9aumur%20scale
The Réaumur scale (; °Ré, °Re, °r), also known as the "octogesimal division", is a temperature scale for which the melting and boiling points of water are defined as 0 and 80 degrees respectively. The scale is named for René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, who first proposed a similar scale in 1730. Change in scale R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar%20macrophage
An alveolar macrophage, pulmonary macrophage, (or dust cell) is a type of macrophage, a professional phagocyte, found in the airways and at the level of the alveoli in the lungs, but separated from their walls. Activity of the alveolar macrophage is relatively high, because they are located at one of the major boundar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinding%20%28cryptography%29
In cryptography, blinding is a technique by which an agent can provide a service to (i.e., compute a function for) a client in an encoded form without knowing either the real input or the real output. Blinding techniques also have applications to preventing side-channel attacks on encryption devices. More precisely, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormancy
Dormancy is a period in an organism's life cycle when growth, development, and (in animals) physical activity are temporarily stopped. This minimizes metabolic activity and therefore helps an organism to conserve energy. Dormancy tends to be closely associated with environmental conditions. Organisms can synchronize en...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farr%27s%20laws
Farr's law is a law formulated by Dr. William Farr when he made the observation that epidemic events rise and fall in a roughly symmetrical pattern. The time-evolution behavior could be captured by a single mathematical formula that could be approximated by a bell-shaped curve. Background In 1840, Farr submitted a le...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino%20acid%20permease
Amino acid permeases are membrane permeases involved in the transport of amino acids into the cell. A number of such proteins have been found to be evolutionary related. These proteins contain 12 transmembrane segments. See also Amino acid transporter Human proteins containing this domain CIP1; SLC12A1; SLC12...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRDetect
HRDetect (Homologous Recombination Defficiency Detect) is a whole-genome sequencing (WGS)-based classifier designed to predict BRCA1 and BRCA2 deficiency based on six mutational signatures. Additionally, the classifier is able to identify similarities in mutational profiles of tumors to that of tumors with BRCA1 and B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANaerospace
CANaerospace is a higher layer protocol based on Controller Area Network (CAN) which has been developed by Stock Flight Systems in 1998 for aeronautical applications. Background CANaerospace supports airborne systems employing the Line-replaceable unit (LRU) concept to share data across CAN and ensures interoperabilit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20normalization
In neuroimaging, spatial normalization is an image processing step, more specifically an image registration method. Human brains differ in size and shape, and one goal of spatial normalization is to deform human brain scans so one location in one subject's brain scan corresponds to the same location in another subject...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic%20medicine
Heroic medicine, also referred to as heroic depletion theory, was a therapeutic method advocating for rigorous treatment of bloodletting, purging, and sweating to shock the body back to health after an illness caused by a humoral imbalance. Rising to the front of orthodox medical practice in the "Age of Heroic Medicin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosing%20Wisely
Choosing Wisely is a United States-based health educational campaign, led by the ABIM Foundation (American Board of Internal Medicine), about unnecessary health care. The campaign identifies over 500 tests and procedures and encourages doctors and patients to discuss, research, and possibly get second opinions, before...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton%20Smith
Burton J. Smith (March 21, 1941 – April 2, 2018) was an American computer architect. He was a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. Education Smith graduated from the Cate School in Carpinteria, California in 1958, where he established himself as a gifted math and science student. Taking a special interest in chemistry, he p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20Allen%20Emerson
Ernest Allen Emerson II (born June 2, 1954), better known as E. Allen Emerson, is an American computer scientist and winner of the 2007 Turing Award. He is Professor and Regents Chair Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. Emerson is recognized together with Edmund M. Clarke and Joseph Sifakis f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schering%20bridge
The Schering bridge is an electrical circuit used for measuring the insulating properties of electrical cables and equipment. It is an AC bridge circuit, developed by Harald Schering. It has the advantage that the balance equation is independent of frequency. The connections of the Schering bridge under balance cond...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS%20interrupt%20call
BIOS implementations provide interrupts that can be invoked by operating systems and application programs to use the facilities of the firmware on IBM PC compatible computers. Traditionally, BIOS calls are mainly used by DOS programs and some other software such as boot loaders (including, mostly historically, relative...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20cryptography
Financial cryptography is the use of cryptography in applications in which financial loss could result from subversion of the message system. Financial cryptography is distinguished from traditional cryptography in that for most of recorded history, cryptography has been used almost entirely for military and diplomatic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating%20multilinear%20map
In mathematics, more specifically in multilinear algebra, an alternating multilinear map is a multilinear map with all arguments belonging to the same vector space (for example, a bilinear form or a multilinear form) that is zero whenever any pair of arguments is equal. More generally, the vector space may be a module...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer%20ice%20cream
Beer ice cream is a type of ice cream prepared using beer as an ingredient. Beer ice cream prepared using darker beers typically has a more distinct flavor compared to that prepared using lighter beers. The alcohol in the beer is sometimes present in the finished ice cream, while other preparations involve cooking, whi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Pasta%E2%80%93Ulam%E2%80%93Tsingou%20problem
In physics, the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou (FPUT) problem or formerly the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem was the apparent paradox in chaos theory that many complicated enough physical systems exhibited almost exactly periodic behavior – called Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou recurrence (or Fermi–Pasta–Ulam recurrence) – instead of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20RTR
HP Reliable Transaction Router (RTR) is a transactional middleware for computer software, marketed by Hewlett Packard. RTR is used to integrate with applications that require reliable transaction services. Description RTR manages the messages which are sent between client-server to provide node and network fail-over ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20materials%20analysis%20methods
This is a list of analysis methods used in materials science. Analysis methods are listed by their acronym, if one exists. Symbols μSR – see muon spin spectroscopy χ – see magnetic susceptibility A AAS – Atomic absorption spectroscopy AED – Auger electron diffraction AES – Auger electron spectroscopy AFM – Ato...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kainosymmetry
Kainosymmetry (from Greek "new") describes the first atomic orbital of each azimuthal quantum number (ℓ). Such orbitals include 1s, 2p, 3d, 4f, 5g, and so on. The term kainosymmetric was coined by . Pekka Pyykkö referred to such orbitals as primogenic instead. Such orbitals are much smaller than all other orbitals wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20J.%20Ross
Ronald J. Ross is a Cleveland, Ohio radiologist known for research on brain injury in professional and amateur boxers and for the first clinical use of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMR later known as MRI) on human patients. Ross is also credited with the first use of head and whole body computed tomography imagi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psammophory
Psammophory is a method by which certain plants armor themselves with sand on their body parts, lowering the chance of them being eaten by animals. Over 200 species of plants hailing from 88 genera in 34 families have been identified as psammorphorous. The term was first proposed in 1989 by scientists studying the ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signs%20Of%20LIfe%20Detector
Signs Of LIfe Detector (SOLID) is an analytical instrument under development to detect extraterrestrial life in the form of organic biosignatures obtained from a core drill during planetary exploration. The instrument is based on fluorescent immunoassays and it is being developed by the Spanish Astrobiology Center (C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar%20Otto%20Bendixson
Ivar Otto Bendixson (1 August 1861 – 29 November 1935) was a Swedish mathematician. Biography Bendixson was born on 1 August 1861 at Villa Bergshyddan, Djurgården, Oscar Parish, Stockholm, Sweden, to a middle-class family. His father Vilhelm Emanuel Bendixson was a merchant, and his mother was Tony Amelia Warburg. On...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroG
MicroG (typically styled as microG) is a free and open-source implementation of proprietary Google libraries that serves as a replacement for Google Play Services on the Android operating system. It is maintained by German developer Marvin Wißfeld. In a presentation, Wißfeld described microG as "the framework (librarie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saygus
Saygus is an American developer of smartphones headquartered in South Jordan, Utah. It was founded by Chad Sayers. Saygus purportedly developed two smartphone devices: VPhone and V², neither of which were ever released. On April 20, 2021, the United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in the District of Ut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cryptocurrencies
|- | | | | | | | Since the creation of bitcoin in 2009, the number of new cryptocurrencies has expanded rapidly. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority estimated there were over 20,000 different cryptocurrencies by the start of 2023, although many of these were no longer traded and would never grow to a s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence%20system
In combinatorial mathematics, an independence system is a pair , where is a finite set and is a collection of subsets of (called the independent sets or feasible sets) with the following properties: The empty set is independent, i.e., . (Alternatively, at least one subset of is independent, i.e., .) Every subse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI%20Template
A URI Template is a way to specify a URI that includes parameters that must be substituted before the URI is resolved. It was standardized by RFC 6570 in March 2012. The syntax is usually to enclose the parameter in Braces ({example}). The convention is for a parameter to not be Percent encoded unless it follows a Qu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALTRAN
ALTRAN (ALgebraic TRANslator) is a programming language for the formal manipulation of rational functions of several variables with integer coefficients. It was developed at Bell Labs in 1960s. ALTRAN is a FORTRAN version of ALPAK rational algebra package, and “can be thought of as a variant of FORTRAN with the additio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myotubularin
Myotubularin domain represents a region within eukaryotic myotubularin-related proteins that is sometimes found with the GRAM domain . Myotubularin is a dual-specific lipid phosphatase that dephosphorylates phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate and phosphatidylinositol (3,5)-bi-phosphate. Mutations in gene encoding myotubul...