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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20H.%20Hunt | Kenneth Henderson Hunt (1920–2002) was Foundation Professor of Engineering at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and an expert in kinematics.
Hunt was born in Seaford, East Sussex, in the United Kingdom, on 7 June 1920. He studied engineering at Balliol College, Oxford University and, during World War II, serve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil%C3%A9%20powder | Filé powder, also called gumbo filé, is a spicy herb seasoning made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree (Sassafras albidum).
Culinary use
Filé powder is used in Louisiana Creole cuisine in the making of some types of gumbo, a thick Creole soup or stew often served over rice. Several ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough%20curve | A breakthrough curve in adsorption is the course of the effluent adsorptive concentration at the outlet of a fixed bed adsorber. Breakthrough curves are important for adsorptive separation technologies and for the characterization of porous materials.
Importance
Since almost all adsorptive separation processes are dy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20orifice | A body orifice is any opening in the body of an animal.
External
In a typical mammalian body such as the human body, the external body orifices are:
The nostrils, for breathing and the associated sense of smell
The mouth, for eating, drinking, breathing, and vocalizations such as speech
The ear canals, for the sen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPT%20Miniatures | EPT Miniatures is a range of Tékumel miniatures produced by Tékumel Games in 1983.
Contents
With figures by sculptors Bill Murray, Tom Myer, Jeff Barry, and Brian Apple, EPT Miniatures was a full line of miniatures, including military figures representing the Tsolyani, Yan Koryani and Mu'Uglavyani, as well as some fri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambia%20cough%20syrup%20scandal | Gambia cough syrup scandal refers to the deaths of 70 children in The Gambia from the consumption of four cough syrups manufactured in India. In October 2022, the World Health Organization issued a medical product alert asking regulators to remove Maiden Pharmaceuticals' products from the market. The four products were... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficolin | Ficolins are pattern recognition receptors that bind to acetyl groups present in the carbohydrates of bacterial surfaces and mediate activation of the lectin pathway of the complement cascade.
Structure
Ficolins (Fi+Col+Lin) are a group of oligomeric lectins with N-terminal collagen-like domain and a C-terminal fibri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20hacking | Google hacking, also named Google dorking, is a hacker technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites are using.
Basics
Google hacking involves using operators in the Google search engine to locate specific sections of text o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substring%20index | In computer science, a substring index is a data structure which gives substring search in a text or text collection in sublinear time. If you have a document of length , or a set of documents of total length , you can locate all occurrences of a pattern in time. (See Big O notation.)
The phrase full-text index is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm%20McFadden | Colm Anthony McFadden (; born 1983) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays at full forward for St Michael's and, from 2002 to 2016, for the Donegal county team.
McFadden is Donegal's most-capped Championship player. He played an integral role in Donegal's successful 2011–14 run of matches, starting every Championship... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal%20transmission | Horizontal transmission is the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship. This concept has been generalized to include transmissions of infectious agents, symbionts, and cultural traits between humans.
Because the evolutionary fate of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Antennas%20and%20Propagation | International Journal of Antennas and Propagation is a peer reviewed, scientific open access journal that publishes original and review articles in all areas of antennas and propagation. The editor-in-chief is Slawomir Koziel.
Abstracting and indexing
This journal is abstracted and indexed by the following services
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael%27s%20totient%20function%20conjecture | In mathematics, Carmichael's totient function conjecture concerns the multiplicity of values of Euler's totient function φ(n), which counts the number of integers less than and coprime to n. It states that, for every n there is at least one other integer m ≠ n such that φ(m) = φ(n).
Robert Carmichael first stated this... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrence%20%28quantum%20computing%29 | In quantum information science, the concurrence is a state invariant involving qubits.
Definition
The concurrence is an entanglement monotone (a way of measuring entanglement) defined for a mixed state of two qubits as:
in which are the eigenvalues, in decreasing order, of the Hermitian matrix
with
the spin-flippe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever%20rule | In chemistry, the lever rule is a formula used to determine the mole fraction (xi) or the mass fraction (wi) of each phase of a binary equilibrium phase diagram. It can be used to determine the fraction of liquid and solid phases for a given binary composition and temperature that is between the liquidus and solidus li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectile | A projectile is an object that is propelled by the application of an external force and then moves freely under the influence of gravity and air resistance. Although any objects in motion through space are projectiles, they are commonly found in warfare and sports (for example, a thrown baseball, kicked football, fired... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability | Usability can be described as the capacity of a system to provide a condition for its users to perform the tasks safely, effectively, and efficiently while enjoying the experience. In software engineering, usability is the degree to which a software can be used by specified consumers to achieve quantified objectives wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward%E2%80%93Takahashi%20identity | In quantum field theory, a Ward–Takahashi identity is an identity between correlation functions that follows from the global or gauge symmetries of the theory, and which remains valid after renormalization.
The Ward–Takahashi identity of quantum electrodynamics (QED) was originally used by John Clive Ward and Yasushi ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy%20effective%20radius | Galaxy effective radius or half-light radius () is the radius at which half of the total light of a galaxy is emitted. This assumes the galaxy has either intrinsic spherical symmetry or is at least circularly symmetric as viewed in the plane of the sky. Alternatively, a half-light contour, or isophote, may be used for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization%20of%20chaos | Synchronization of chaos is a phenomenon that may occur when two or more dissipative chaotic systems are coupled.
Because of the exponential divergence of the nearby trajectories of chaotic systems, having two chaotic systems evolving in synchrony might appear surprising. However, synchronization of coupled or driven ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20nightshade | African nightshades are several species of plants in the section Solanum of the genus Solanum, that are commonly consumed as leafy vegetables and herbs. African nightshades are grown in both high and lowland areas in West and East Africa, particularly in Nigeria and Cameroon.The Nso people call it Nyuuseji, and the Ko... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDI1 | DNA-damage inducible 1 homolog 1 (S. cerevisiae) is a protein. In humans it is encoded by the DDI1 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20security | Logical security consists of software safeguards for an organization's systems, including user identification and password access, authenticating, access rights and authority levels. These measures are to ensure that only authorized users are able to perform actions or access information in a network or a workstation.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosaraju%27s%20algorithm | In computer science, Kosaraju-Sharir's algorithm (also known as Kosaraju's algorithm) is a linear time algorithm to find the strongly connected components of a directed graph. Aho, Hopcroft and Ullman credit it to S. Rao Kosaraju and Micha Sharir. Kosaraju suggested it in 1978 but did not publish it, while Sharir inde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20SSEC | The IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) was an electromechanical computer built by IBM. Its design was started in late 1944 and it operated from January 1948 to August 1952. It had many of the features of a stored-program computer, and was the first operational machine able to treat its instructions as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation | In trigonometry and geometry, triangulation is the process of determining the location of a point by forming triangles to the point from known points.
Applications
In surveying
Specifically in surveying, triangulation involves only angle measurements at known points, rather than measuring distances to the point dire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal%20tortoise%20problem | The hexagonal tortoise problem () was invented by Korean aristocrat and mathematician Choi Seok-jeong (1646–1715). It is a mathematical problem that involves a hexagonal lattice, like the hexagonal pattern on some tortoises' shells, to the (N) vertices of which must be assigned integers (from 1 to N) in such a way tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oparin%20Medal | The Oparin/Urey Medal honours important contributions to the field of origins of life. The medal is awarded by the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (ISSOL). The award was originally named for Alexander Ivanovich Oparin, one of the pioneers in researching the origins of life. In 1993, the Societ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthomolecular%20medicine | Orthomolecular medicine is a form of alternative medicine that aims to maintain human health through nutritional supplementation. The concept builds on the idea of an optimal nutritional environment in the body and suggests that diseases reflect deficiencies in this environment. Treatment for disease, according to this... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20Sullivan | Jesse Sullivan (born c. 1966) is an American electrician best known for operating a fully robotic limb through a nerve-muscle graft, making him one of the first non-fictional cyborgs.
His bionic arm, a prototype developed by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, differs from most other prostheses, in that it does n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBRP | CBRP, or Cluster Based Routing Protocol, is a routing protocol for wireless mesh networks. CBRP was originally designed in mid 1998 by the National University of Singapore and subsequently published as an Internet Draft in August 1998. CBRP is one of the earlier hierarchical ad-hoc routing protocols. In CBRP, nodes dyn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s%20Red%20Mill | Bob's Red Mill is an American brand of whole-grain foods marketed by employee-owned American company Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods of Milwaukie, Oregon. The company was established in 1978 by Bob and Charlee Moore.
Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods is a producer of natural, with some certified organic choices, and gluten-fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformity%20tape | Uniformity tape is a microstructured thin-film mechanism for mixing and diffusing the light generated by light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in edge-lit digital displays, including monitors, televisions and signage.
Purpose
Compared to other sources of illumination, such as fluorescent and incandescent bulbs, LEDs are ener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20carbon | Blue carbon is a term used in the climate change mitigation context that refers to "biologically driven carbon fluxes and storage in marine systems that are amenable to management." Most commonly, it refers to the role that tidal marshes, mangroves and seagrasses can play in carbon sequestration. Such ecosystems can co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Queyrat | Vincent Jules Louis Queyrat (2 December 1856 in Chavanat, Creuse, France – 18 October 1933 in Paris, France) was a French dermatologist and syphilologist who is best remembered for the erythroplasia of Queyrat, a carcinoma in situ of the skin of the penis. From 1898 until 1923, Queyrat was head of the dermatology serv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenstra%E2%80%93Lenstra%E2%80%93Lov%C3%A1sz%20lattice%20basis%20reduction%20algorithm | The Lenstra–Lenstra–Lovász (LLL) lattice basis reduction algorithm is a polynomial time lattice reduction algorithm invented by Arjen Lenstra, Hendrik Lenstra and László Lovász in 1982. Given a basis with n-dimensional integer coordinates, for a lattice L (a discrete subgroup of Rn) with , the LLL algorithm calculate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane%20bound%20polyribosome |
Summary
In cell biology, membrane bound polyribosomes are attached to a cell's endoplasmic reticulum. When certain proteins are synthesized by a ribosome they can become "membrane-bound". The newly produced polypeptide chains are inserted directly into the endoplasmic reticulum by the ribosome and are then transpor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocid%20gammaherpesvirus%203 | Phocid gammaherpesvirus 3 (PhHV-3) is a species of virus in the genus Percavirus, subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floxing | In genetics, floxing refers to the sandwiching of a DNA sequence (which is then said to be floxed) between two lox P sites. The terms are constructed upon the phrase "flanking/flanked by LoxP". Recombination between LoxP sites is catalysed by Cre recombinase. Floxing a gene allows it to be deleted (knocked out), transl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ident%20protocol | The Ident Protocol (Identification Protocol, Ident), specified in RFC 1413, is an Internet protocol that helps identify the user of a particular TCP connection. One popular daemon program for providing the ident service is identd.
Function
The Ident Protocol is designed to work as a server daemon, on a user's compute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloropicrin | Chloropicrin, also known as PS and nitrochloroform, is a chemical compound currently used as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, and nematicide. It was used as a poison gas in World War I. Its chemical structural formula is Cl3CNO2.
Synthesis
Chloropicrin was discovered in 1848 by Scotti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraembryonic%20coelom | In the development of the human embryo, the intraembryonic coelom (or somatic coelom) is a portion of the conceptus forming in the mesoderm during the third week of development. During the third week of development, the lateral plate mesoderm splits into a dorsal somatic mesoderm (somatopleure) and a ventral splanchnic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wijsman%20convergence | Wijsman convergence is a variation of Hausdorff convergence suitable for work with unbounded sets.
Intuitively, Wijsman convergence is to convergence in the Hausdorff metric as pointwise convergence is to uniform convergence.
History
The convergence was defined by Robert Wijsman.
The same definition was used earlier ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20integrated%20development%20environment | An online integrated development environment, also known as a web IDE or cloud IDE, is a browser based integrated development environment. An online IDE can be accessed from a web browser, such as Firefox, Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, enabling software development on low-powered devices that are normally unsuitable... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabibullin%27s%20conjecture%20on%20integral%20inequalities | Khabibullin's conjecture is a conjecture in mathematics related to Paley's problem for plurisubharmonic functions and to various extremal problems in the theory of entire functions of several variables. The conjecture was named after its proposer, B. N. Khabibullin.
There are three versions of the conjecture, one in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanning%20friction%20factor | The Fanning friction factor, named after John Thomas Fanning, is a dimensionless number used as a local parameter in continuum mechanics calculations. It is defined as the ratio between the local shear stress and the local flow kinetic energy density:
where:
is the local Fanning friction factor (dimensionless)
is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20Signaled%20Interrupts | Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) are a method of signaling interrupts, using special in-band messages to replace traditional out-of-band signals on dedicated interrupt lines. While message signaled interrupts are more complex to implement in a device, they have some significant advantages over pin-based out-of-band in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root%20rot | Root rot is a condition in which anoxic conditions in the soil or potting media around the roots of a plant cause them to rot. This occurs due to excessive standing water around the roots. It is found in both indoor and outdoor plants, although it is more common in indoor plants due to overwatering, heavy potting media... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantile%20digital%20fibromatosis | Infantile digital fibromatosis (IDF), also termed inclusion body fibromatosis, Reye tumor, or Reye's tumor, usually occurs as a single, small, asymptomatic, nodule in the dermis on a finger or toe of infants and young children. IMF is a rare disorder with approximately 200 cases reported in the medical literature as of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz%20clock | Quartz clocks and quartz watches are timepieces that use an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time. This crystal oscillator creates a signal with very precise frequency, so that quartz clocks and watches are at least an order of magnitude more accurate than mechanical clocks. Generally, some f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogastronomy | Neurogastronomy is the study of flavor perception and the ways it affects cognition and memory. This interdisciplinary field is influenced by the psychology and neuroscience of sensation, learning, satiety, and decision making. Areas of interest include how olfaction contributes to flavor, food addiction and obesity, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilosaurus | Basilosaurus (meaning "king lizard") is a genus of large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale from the late Eocene, approximately 41.3 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). First described in 1834, it was the first archaeocete and prehistoric whale known to science. Fossils attributed to the type species B. cetoides we... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise%20intolerance | Exercise intolerance is a condition of inability or decreased ability to perform physical exercise at the normally expected level or duration for people of that age, size, sex, and muscle mass. It also includes experiences of unusually severe post-exercise pain, fatigue, nausea, vomiting or other negative effects. Exer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20evolutionarily%20stable%20strategy | A weak evolutionarily stable strategy (WESS) is a more broad form of evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS). Like ESS, a WESS is able to defend against an invading "mutant" strategy. This means the WESS cannot be entirely eliminated from the population.
The definition of WESS is similar to ESS. Any strategy s is a weakl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharyngeal%20plexus%20%28venous%29 | The pharyngeal plexus (venous) is a network of veins beginning in the pharyngeal (nerve) plexus on the outer surface of the pharynx, and, after receiving some posterior meningeal veins and the vein of the pterygoid canal, end in the internal jugular.
See also
Pterygoid venous plexus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partner%20Institute%20for%20Computational%20Biology | The CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB) was jointly established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the German Max Planck Society (MPG) in May 2005. It is located in Xu Hui district in Shanghai, P. R. China.
The institute focuses its research on the interface between theoretical and exp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearsome%20critters | In North American folklore, fearsome critters were tall tale animals jokingly said to inhabit the wilderness in or around logging camps, especially in the Great Lakes region. Today, the term may also be applied to similar fabulous beasts.
Origins
Fearsome critters were an integral part of oral tradition in North Ame... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hough%20function | In applied mathematics, the Hough functions are the eigenfunctions of Laplace's tidal equations which govern fluid motion on a rotating sphere. As such, they are relevant in geophysics and meteorology where they form part of the solutions for atmospheric and ocean waves. These functions are named in honour of Sydney Sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler%20Description%20Language | Compiler Description Language (CDL) is a programming language based on affix grammars. It is very similar to Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation. It was designed for the development of compilers. It is very limited in its capabilities and control flow, and intentionally so. The benefits of these limitations are twofold.
O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kicked%20rotator | The kicked rotator, also spelled as kicked rotor, is a paradigmatic model for both Hamiltonian chaos (the study of chaos in Hamiltonian systems) and quantum chaos. It describes a free rotating stick (with moment of inertia ) in an inhomogeneous "gravitation like" field that is periodically switched on in short pulses. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection%20algorithm | In computer science, a selection algorithm is an algorithm for finding the th smallest value in a collection of ordered values, such as numbers. The value that it finds is called the order statistic. Selection includes as special cases the problems of finding the minimum, median, and maximum element in the collection.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard%20Fernholz | Friedrich August Erhard Fernholz (9 June 1909 – 14 December 1940) was a German chemist and investigator of sterols and bile acids.
Biography
Erhard Fernholz was the eldest son of Gustav Fernholz and Elisabeth Schwagmeyer, both school teachers in Hiddenhausen where Gustav was also the principal of the local school. Erh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur%20Land%20%28R%C3%BCgen%29 | Dinosaur Land on the German island of Rügen () was opened by Rüdiger Kunkel on 30 April 2008 on land that had belonged to the East German National People's Army (NVA). The site covers an area of 9.5 hectares in the municipality of Glowe and is not far from the villages of Spycker and Bobbin on Lake Spycker.
The focus ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laba%20garlic | The Laba garlic is a vinegar-preserved garlic. Its refined color is green or blue and its taste is sour and slightly spicy. Because it is usually made in the 8th day of the 12th month of the Chinese Lunar calendar, the Laba Festival, it was named Laba garlic. In general, green and vinegary garlic is called Laba garlic.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersen%20thermostat | The Andersen thermostat is a proposal in molecular dynamics simulation for maintaining constant temperature conditions. It is based on periodic reassignment of the velocities of atoms or molecules. For each atom or molecule, the reassigned velocity is picked randomly according to Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics for the gi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poikilohydry | Poikilohydry is the lack of ability (structural or functional mechanism) to maintain and/or regulate water content to achieve homeostasis of cells and tissue connected with quick equilibration of cell/tissue water content to that of the environment. The term is derived from Ancient Greek ποικίλος (poikílos, “spotted or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20L.%20Hudson | Robin Lyth Hudson (4 May 1940 – 12 January 2021) was a British mathematician notable for his contribution to quantum probability.
Education and career
Hudson received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1966 under John T. Lewis with a thesis entitled Generalised Translation-Invariant Mechanics. He was appointed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20factor | In electrical engineering, the power factor of an AC power system is defined as the ratio of the real power absorbed by the load to the apparent power flowing in the circuit. Real power is the average of the instantaneous product of voltage and current and represents the capacity of the electricity for performing work... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine%20pull%20schemes | Vine pull schemes are programs whereby grape growers receive a financial incentive to pull up their grape vines, a process known as arrachage in French. A large program of this kind was initiated by the European Union (EU) in 1988 to reduce the wine lake glut from overproduction and declining demand. In the first five ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACOT7 | Cytosolic acyl coenzyme A thioester hydrolase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ACOT7 gene.
This gene encodes a member of the acyl coenzyme family. The encoded protein hydrolyzes the CoA thioester of palmitoyl-CoA and other long-chain fatty acids. Decreased expression of this gene may be associated with me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrowdOptic | CrowdOptic, Inc. (known as CrowdOptic) is a privately held San Francisco-based medical technology company founded in 2011. CrowdOptic, led by CEO Jon Fisher, is best known for its augmented reality technology and triangulation algorithms used in medicine, sports, and government that gathers and analyzes data from smar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normopathy | Normopathy is the pathological pursuit of conformity and societal acceptance at the expense of individuality. In her book, Plea for a Measure of Abnormality, psychoanalyst Joyce McDougall coined the term normopathy to describe fear of individuality. Normopathy is difficult to diagnose because normopaths are integrated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable%20Source%20Routing | Scalable Source Routing (SSR) is a routing protocol for unstructured networks such as mobile ad hoc networks, mesh networks, or sensor networks. It combines source routing with routing along a virtual ring, and is based on the idea of "pushing Chord into the underlay".
Concepts
Virtual ring
SSR operates on a flat add... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisling%20Judge | Aisling Judge is an Irish scientist from Kinsale, County Cork. She was the winner of the 42nd Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2006 at the age of 13. She was the youngest winner in the history of the competition, until her record was taken two years later by thirteen-year-old Emer Jones from Tralee in Count... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20categories%20in%20viticulture | In viticulture, the climates of wine regions are categorised based on the overall characteristics of the area's climate during the growing season. While variations in macroclimate are acknowledged, the climates of most wine regions are categorised (somewhat loosely based on the Köppen climate classification) as being p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpulmonary%20pressure | Transpulmonary pressure is the difference between the alveolar pressure and the intrapleural pressure in the pleural cavity. During human ventilation, air flows because of pressure gradients.
Ptp = Palv – Pip. Where Ptp is transpulmonary pressure, Palv is alveolar pressure, and Pip is intrapleural pressure.
Physiolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Amiga | The Amiga is a family of home computers that were designed and sold by the Amiga Corporation (and later by Commodore Computing International) from 1985 to 1994.
Amiga Corporation
The Amiga's Original Chip Set, code-named Lorraine, was designed by the Amiga Corporation during the end of the first home video game boom.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2042010 | ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 Systems and software engineering — Architecture description is an international standard for architecture descriptions of systems and software.
Overview
ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 defines requirements on the description of system, software and enterprise architectures. It aims to standardise the practi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track-before-detect | In radar technology and similar fields, track-before-detect (TBD) is a concept according to which a signal is tracked before declaring it a target. In this approach, the sensor data about a tentative target are integrated over time and may yield detection in cases when signals from any particular time instance are too... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20machine | A paper machine (or paper-making machine) is an industrial machine which is used in the pulp and paper industry
to create paper in large quantities at high speed. Modern paper-making machines are based on the principles of the Fourdrinier Machine, which uses a moving woven mesh to create a continuous paper web by filte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS%20statistical%20regions%20of%20Estonia | The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of Estonia for statistical purposes. The standard is developed and regulated by the European Union. The NUTS standard is instrumental in delivering the European Union's Structural Funds. The NUTS code for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20S.%20Zwicker | William Seymour Zwicker (born 1949) is an American mathematician and the William D. Williams Professor of Mathematics at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
Zwicker earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1971, and a Ph.D from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, under the supervision of Eu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Fibre%20Channel%20standards |
Fibre Channel
2005
FC-SATA (under development)
FC-PI-2 INCITS 404
2004
FC-SP ANSI INCITS 1570-D
FC-GS-4 (Fibre Channel Generic Services)ANSI INCITS 387. Includes the following standards:
FC-GS-2 ANSI INCITS 288 (1999)
FC-GS-3 ANSI INCITS 348 (2001)
FC-SW-3 INCITS 384. Includes the following standards:
FC-SW INCI... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluehost | Bluehost is a domain registration and web hosting company owned by Newfold Digital. It was one of the 20 largest web hosts in 2015 and was collectively hosting over 2 million domains in 2010.
Bluehost was among those studied in the analysis of web-based hosting services in collaborative online learning programs.
Blue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20data%20modeling%20tools | This article is a comparison of data modeling tools which are notable, including standalone, conventional data modeling tools and modeling tools supporting data modeling as part of a larger modeling environment.
General
Features
See also
Comparison of database administration tools
List of Unified Modeling Languag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU%20Wars | CPU Wars is an underground comic strip by Charles Andres that circulated around Digital Equipment Corporation and other computer manufacturers starting in 1977. It described a hypothetical invasion of Digital's slightly disguised Maynard, Massachusetts ex-woolen mill headquarters (now located in Barnyard, Mass) by troo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZNF408 | Zinc finger protein 408 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF408 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizosphere | The mycorrhizosphere is the region around a mycorrhizal fungus in which nutrients released from the fungus increase the microbial population and its activities. The roots of most terrestrial plants, including most crop plants and almost all woody plants, are colonized by mycorrhiza-forming symbiotic fungi. In this rela... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloacal%20membrane | The cloacal membrane is the membrane that covers the embryonic cloaca during the development of the urinary and reproductive organs.
It is formed by ectoderm and endoderm coming into contact with each other. As the human embryo grows and caudal folding continues, the urorectal septum divides the cloaca into a ventral ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect%20pins | Insect pins are used by entomologists for mounting collected insects.
They can also be used in dressmaking for very fine silk or antique fabrics.
As standard, they are long and come in sizes from 000 (the smallest diameter), through 00, 0, and 1, to 8 (the largest diameter).
The most generally useful size in entomolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotspot%20Shield | Hotspot Shield is a public VPN service operated by AnchorFree, Inc. Hotspot Shield was used to bypass government censorship during the Arab Spring protests in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya.
Overview
Hotspot Shield is developed and operated by Dnick (former AnchorFree Inc.), a company in Chester county with offices in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%2C6-Dichlorobenzonitrile | 2,6-Dichlorobenzonitrile (DCBN or dichlobenil) is an organic compound with the chemical formula C6H3Cl2CN. It is a white solid that is soluble in organic solvents. It is widely used as an herbicide.
Mechanism of action
It has herbicidal properties killing young seedlings of both monocot and dicot species. DCBN inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Comparative%20Physiology%20B | The Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of comparative physiology. It was established in 1984, when it was split off from the Journal of Comparative Physiology. The editor-in-chief is Gerhard Heldmaier (Universität Marbur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenology | Phenology is the study of periodic events in biological life cycles and how these are influenced by seasonal and interannual variations in climate, as well as habitat factors (such as elevation).
Examples include the date of emergence of leaves and flowers, the first flight of butterflies, the first appearance of migr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelong%20Planning%20A%2A | LPA* or Lifelong Planning A* is an incremental heuristic search algorithm based on A*. It was first described by Sven Koenig and Maxim Likhachev in 2001.
Description
LPA* is an incremental version of A*, which can adapt to changes in the graph without recalculating the entire graph, by updating the g-values (distance... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeographic%20regions%20of%20Europe | The biogeographic regions of Europe are biogeographic regions defined by the European Environment Agency.
They were initially limited to the European Union member states, but later extended to cover all of Europe west of the Urals, including all of Turkey.
The map of biogeographic regions is deliberately simplified and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20architecture%20search | Neural architecture search (NAS) is a technique for automating the design of artificial neural networks (ANN), a widely used model in the field of machine learning. NAS has been used to design networks that are on par or outperform hand-designed architectures. Methods for NAS can be categorized according to the search ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl%20pivalate | Methyl pivalate is an organic compound with the formula CH3O2CC(CH3)3. It is a colorless liquid, the methyl ester of pivalic acid. The ester is well known for being resistant to hydrolysis to the parent acid. Hydrolysis can be effected with a solution of trimethylsilyl iodide in hot acetonitrile followed by aqueous wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle%20signature%20scheme | In hash-based cryptography, the Merkle signature scheme is a digital signature scheme based on Merkle trees (also called hash trees) and one-time signatures such as the Lamport signature scheme. It was developed by Ralph Merkle in the late 1970s and is an alternative to traditional digital signatures such as the Digita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 40° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The meridian is used in some contexts to delineate Europe or what is associated with the continent of Europe a... |
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