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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/105%20%28number%29 | 105 (one hundred [and] five) is the natural number following 104 and preceding 106.
In mathematics
105 is a triangular number, a dodecagonal number, and the first Zeisel number. It is the first odd sphenic number and is the product of three consecutive prime numbers. 105 is the double factorial of 7. It is also the su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%20queue | In computer science, an input queue is a collection of processes in storage that are waiting to be brought into memory to run a program. Input queues are mainly used in Operating System Scheduling which is a technique for distributing resources among processes. Input queues not only apply to operating systems (OS), but... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aortic%20bifurcation | The aortic bifurcation is the point at which the abdominal aorta bifurcates (forks) into the left and right common iliac arteries. The aortic bifurcation is usually seen at the level of L4, just above the junction of the left and right common iliac veins.
The right common iliac artery passes in front of the left commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racah%20W-coefficient | Racah's W-coefficients were introduced by Giulio Racah in 1942. These coefficients have a purely mathematical definition. In physics they are used in calculations involving the quantum mechanical description of angular momentum, for example in atomic theory.
The coefficients appear when there are three sources of ang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus%20cluster | Brutus is the central high-performance cluster of ETH Zurich. It was introduced to the public in May 2008. A new computing cluster called EULER has been announced and opened to the public in May 2014.
Processors
Brutus is a heterogeneous system containing 11 different kinds of compute nodes:
Standard nodes
120 nod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium%20polyphosphate | Ammonium polyphosphate is an inorganic salt of polyphosphoric acid and ammonia containing both chains and possibly branching. Its chemical formula is H(NH4PO3)nOH showing that each monomer consists of an orthophosphate radical of a phosphorus atom with three oxygens and one negative charge neutralized by an ammonium c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzin%20N%20property | In mathematics, a function f on the interval [a, b] has the Luzin N property, named after Nikolai Luzin (also called Luzin property or N property) if for all such that , there holds: , where stands for the Lebesgue measure.
Note that the image of such a set N is not necessarily measurable, but since the Lebesgue mea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation%20hormesis | Radiation hormesis is the hypothesis that low doses of ionizing radiation (within the region of and just above natural background levels) are beneficial, stimulating the activation of repair mechanisms that protect against disease, that are not activated in absence of ionizing radiation. The reserve repair mechanisms a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindel%C3%B6f%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Lindelöf's lemma is a simple but useful lemma in topology on the real line, named for the Finnish mathematician Ernst Leonard Lindelöf.
Statement of the lemma
Let the real line have its standard topology. Then every open subset of the real line is a countable union of open intervals.
Generalized Stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gland%20%28botany%29 | In plants, a gland is defined functionally as a plant structure which secretes one or more products. This may be located on or near the plant surface and secrete externally, or be internal to the plant and secrete into a canal or reservoir. Examples include glandular hairs, nectaries, hydathodes, and the resin canals... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploded-view%20drawing | An exploded-view drawing is a diagram, picture, schematic or technical drawing of an object, that shows the relationship or order of assembly of various parts.
It shows the components of an object slightly separated by distance, or suspended in surrounding space in the case of a three-dimensional exploded diagram. An ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20photon | Produced in hadronic collisions, a direct photon is any real photon which originates directly from an electromagnetic vertex in a quark-quark, quark-gluon or gluon-gluon scattering subprocess (as opposed to "indirect" photons which arise from the decays of fragmentation products).
Because the QCD calculations for dire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny%20Dies | "Kenny Dies" is the thirteenth episode of the fifth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 78th episode of the series overall. "Kenny Dies" originally aired in the United States on December 5, 2001 on Comedy Central and in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2002 on Sky One. In the episode, Cartman co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangasami%20L.%20Kashyap | Rangasami Lakshminarayan Kashyap (28 March 1938 - 11 November 2022) was an Indian applied mathematician and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University.
He developed (with Harvard professor Yu-Chi Ho) the Ho-Kashyap rule, an important result (algorithm) in pattern recognition.
In 1982, he presented the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20network%20coding | In computer networking, linear network coding is a program in which intermediate nodes transmit data from source nodes to sink nodes by means of linear combinations.
Linear network coding may be used to improve a network's throughput, efficiency, and scalability, as well as reducing attacks and eavesdropping. The nod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20urchin%20skeletogenesis | Skeletogenesis is a key morphogenetic event in the embryonic development of vertebrates and is of equal, although transient, importance in the development of the sea urchin, a marine invertebrate. The larval sea urchin does not resemble its adult form, because the sea urchin is an indirect developer, meaning its larva ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20to%20privacy | The right to privacy is an element of various legal traditions that intends to restrain governmental and private actions that threaten the privacy of individuals. Over 150 national constitutions mention the right to privacy. On 10 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice | Overchoice or choice overload is the paradoxical phenomenon that choosing between a large variety of options can be detrimental to decision making processes. The term was first introduced by Alvin Toffler in his 1970 book, Future Shock.
Psychological process
The phenomenon of overchoice occurs when many equivalent cho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commensurability%20%28astronomy%29 | Commensurability is the property of two orbiting objects, such as planets, satellites, or asteroids, whose orbital periods are in a rational proportion.
Examples include the 2:3 commensurability between the orbital periods of Neptune and Pluto, the 3:4 commensurability between the orbital periods of the Saturnian sate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video4Linux | Video4Linux (V4L for short) is a collection of device drivers and an API for supporting realtime video capture on Linux systems. It supports many USB webcams, TV tuners, and related devices, standardizing their output, so programmers can easily add video support to their applications.
Video4Linux is responsible for cr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Wormald | Nicholas Charles Wormald (born 1953) is an Australian mathematician and professor of mathematics at Monash University. He specializes in probabilistic combinatorics, graph theory, graph algorithms, Steiner trees, web graphs, mine optimization, and other areas in combinatorics.
In 1979, Wormald earned a Ph.D. in mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20sight-singing | Numerical sight-singing, an alternative to the solfege system of sight-singing, is a musical notation system that numbers the diatonic scale with the numbers one through eight (or, alternately, one to seven, with the octave again being one).
In this system, 1 is always the root or origin, but the scale being represent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylated%20distarch%20phosphate | Acetylated distarch phosphate, E1414 in the E number scheme of food additives, is a modified starch. These are not absorbed intact by the gut, but are significantly hydrolysed by intestinal enzymes and then fermented by intestinal microbiota. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruning%20%28artificial%20neural%20network%29 | In the context of artificial neural network, pruning is the practice of removing parameters (which may entail removing individual parameters, or parameters in groups such as by neurons) from an existing network. The goal of this process is to maintain accuracy of the network while increasing its efficiency. This can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak%20forest | An oak forest is a plant community with a tree canopy dominated by oaks (Quercus spp.). In terms of canopy closure, oak forests contain the most closed canopy, compared to oak savannas and oak woodlands.
Setting
Oak forests are categorized as deciduous forests which commonly have dense canopy cover (~70%) on dry soil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoglossus | The hyoglossus is a thin and quadrilateral extrinsic muscle of the tongue. It originates from the hyoid bone; it inserts onto the side of the tongue. It is innervated by the hypoglossal nerve (cranial nerve XII). It acts to depress and retract the tongue.
Structure
It forms a part of the floor of submandibular triangl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean%20surface%20growth | A number of processes of surface growth in areas ranging from mechanics of growing gravitational bodies through propagating fronts of phase transitions, epitaxial growth of nanostructures and 3D printing, growth of plants, and cell mobility require non-Euclidean description because of incompatibility of boundary condit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclebr%C3%A1s%20Equipamentos%20Pesados | The Nuclebrás Equipamentos Pesados S.A. (NUCLEP) is a Brazilian state-owned nuclear company specialized in nuclear engineering and heavy equipment for nuclear, defense, oil and gas industries, founded on 12 April 1975.
See also
Goiânia accident (Nuclebrás aided in response effort)
National Nuclear Energy Commission |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror%20matter | In physics, mirror matter, also called shadow matter or Alice matter, is a hypothetical counterpart to ordinary matter.
Overview
Modern physics deals with three basic types of spatial symmetry: reflection, rotation, and translation. The known elementary particles respect rotation and translation symmetry but do not re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20of%20activation%20confusion%20model | SAC (source of activation confusion) is a computational model of memory encoding and retrieval. It has been developed by Lynne M. Reder at Carnegie Mellon University. It shares many commonalities with ACT-R.Ilyes le bosse
Structure
SAC specifies a memory representation consisting of a network of both semantic (conce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proactive%20maintenance | Proactive maintenance is the maintenance philosophy that supplants “failure reactive” with “failure proactive” by activities that avoid the underlying conditions that lead to machine faults and degradation. Unlike predictive or preventive maintenance, proactive maintenance commissions corrective actions aimed at failu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Biodiversity%20and%20Ecosystem%20Dynamics | The Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) is one of the ten research institutes of the Faculty of Science of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. IBED employs more than 100 researchers, with PhD students and Postdocs forming a majority, and 30 supporting staff. The total annual budget is around 10 m€, of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL%20%28programming%20language%29 | APL (named after the book A Programming Language) is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array. It uses a large range of special graphic symbols to represent most functions and operators, leading to very concise code. It has been an important... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofree%20coalgebra | In algebra, the cofree coalgebra of a vector space or module is a coalgebra analog of the free algebra of a vector space. The cofree coalgebra of any vector space over a field exists, though it is more complicated than one might expect by analogy with the free algebra.
Definition
If V is a vector space over a field F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20Master | Cloud Master is a horizontally scrolling shooter released as an arcade video game by Taito in 1988. Home versions were released for the Master System, PC Engine, and Famicom, with all save the Master System version released only in Japan. The PC Engine version of the game is titled . The Famicom version is titled Chuu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Bonnet%20gravity | In general relativity, Gauss–Bonnet gravity, also referred to as Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity, is a modification of the Einstein–Hilbert action to include the Gauss–Bonnet term (named after Carl Friedrich Gauss and Pierre Ossian Bonnet)
,
where
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This term is only nontrivial in 4+1D or greater, and as such, only ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Atallah | Mikhail Jibrayil (Mike) Atallah is a Lebanese American computer scientist, a distinguished professor of computer science at Purdue University.
Biography
Atallah received his bachelor's degree from the American University of Beirut in 1975. He then moved to Johns Hopkins University for his graduate studies, earning a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDGAP%20series | AIDGAP is an acronym for Aid to Identification in Difficult Groups of Animals and Plants.
The AIDGAP series is a set of books published by the Field Studies Council. They are intended to enable students and interested non-specialists to identify groups of taxa in Britain which are not covered by standard field guides.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericardial%20sinus | The pericardial sinuses are impressions in the pericardial sac formed between the points where great vessels enter it.
Structure
There are three pericardial sinuses: superior, transverse and oblique.
The superior sinus is anterior to the ascending aorta and the pulmonary trunk. It cannot be assessed in electrophysi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20Display%20Identification%20Data | Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) and Enhanced EDID (E-EDID) are metadata formats for display devices to describe their capabilities to a video source (e.g., graphics card or set-top box). The data format is defined by a standard published by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA).
The EDID data ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified%20music%20notation | Simplified music notation is an alternative form of music notation designed to make sight-reading easier. It was proposed by Peter Hayes George (1927–2012). It is based on classical staff notation, but sharps and flats are incorporated into the shape of the note heads. Notes such as double sharps and double flats are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool%20chlorine%20hypothesis | The pool chlorine hypothesis is the hypothesis that long-term attendance at indoor chlorinated swimming pools by children up to the age of about 6–7 years is a major factor in the rise of asthma in rich countries since the late twentieth century. A narrower version of the hypothesis, i.e. that asthma may be induced by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenform | In mathematics, an eigenform (meaning simultaneous Hecke eigenform with modular group SL(2,Z)) is a modular form which is an eigenvector for all Hecke operators Tm, m = 1, 2, 3, ....
Eigenforms fall into the realm of number theory, but can be found in other areas of math and science such as analysis, combinatorics, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombyx%20hybrid | The Bombyx hybrid is a hybrid between a male Bombyx mandarina moth and a female Bombyx mori moth. They produce larvae called silkworms, like all species of Bombyx. The larvae look a lot like the other variations. They are brown in the first half and gray at the bottom half, but they get larger black spots than other va... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscarinic%20toxin%207 | Muscarinic toxin 7 (MT7) is one member of a family of small peptides of 65 amino acid residues
derived from the venom of African mamba snakes (Dendroaspis angusticeps), which mainly target M1-subtype of muscarinic receptor. Muscarinic toxins like the nicotinic toxins have the three-finger fold structure, characteristic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokoshnik%20architecture | Kokoshnik is a semicircular or keel-like exterior decorative element in the Old Russian architecture, a type of corbel zakomara (that is an arch-like semicircular top of the church wall). Unlike zakomara that continues the curvature of the vault behind and carries a part of the vault's weight, kokoshnik is pure decorat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20diffusion | Spin diffusion describes a situation wherein the individual nuclear spins undergo continuous exchange of energy. This permits polarization differences within the sample to be reduced on a timescale much shorter than relaxation effects.
Spin diffusion is a process by which magnetization can be exchanged spontaneously ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20manifold | In the mathematics of evolving systems, the concept of a center manifold was originally developed to determine stability of degenerate equilibria. Subsequently, the concept of center manifolds was realised to be fundamental to mathematical modelling.
Center manifolds play an important role in bifurcation theory becaus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position%20sensitive%20device | A position sensitive device and/or position sensitive detector (PSD) is an optical position sensor (OPS) that can measure a position of a light spot in one or two-dimensions on a sensor surface.
Principles
PSDs can be divided into two classes which work according to different principles: In the first class, the senso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST%20SP%20800-90B | NIST SP 800-90B ("SP" stands for "special publication") is a publication by the National Institute of Standards and Technology with the title Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation. The publication specifies the design principles and requirements for the entropy sources used by random-bit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance%20pupil | In an optical system, the entrance pupil is the optical image of the physical aperture stop, as 'seen' through the front (the object side) of the lens system. The corresponding image of the aperture as seen through the back of the lens system is called the exit pupil. If there is no lens in front of the aperture (as in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidradenitis%20suppurativa | Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), sometimes known as acne inversa or Verneuil's disease, is a long-term dermatological condition characterized by the occurrence of inflamed and swollen lumps. These are typically painful and break open, releasing fluid or pus. The areas most commonly affected are the underarms, under the b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20J.%20Straube | Emil Josef Straube is a Swiss and American mathematician.
Education and career
He received from ETH Zurich in 1977 his diploma in mathematics and in 1983 his doctorate in mathematics. For the academic year 1983–1984 Straube was a visiting research scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-to-cloth%20ratio | The air-to-cloth ratio is the volumetric flow rate of air (m3/minute; SI m3/second) flowing through a dust collector's inlet duct divided by the total cloth area (m2) in the filters. The result is expressed in units of velocity.
The air-to-cloth ratio is typically between 1.5 and 3.5 metres per minute, mainly dependin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDE%20surface | PDE surfaces are used in geometric modelling and computer graphics for creating smooth surfaces conforming to a given boundary configuration. PDE surfaces use partial differential equations to generate a surface which usually satisfy a mathematical boundary value problem.
PDE surfaces were first introduced into the ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotid%20groove | The carotid groove is an anatomical groove in the sphenoid bone located above the attachment of each great wing of the sphenoid bone. The groove is curved like the italic letter f, and lodges the internal carotid artery and the cavernous sinus. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic%20Zoology | Exotic Zoology is a 1959 cryptozoological book by Willy Ley, a science writer and space advocate. The illustrator of the book is Olga Ley.
Content
Ley had written a number of books containing scientific oddities; Exotic Zoology collects the cryptozoological matter from those books. Throughout the book he shows exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCIe | Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) is an open specification for a die-to-die interconnect and serial bus between chiplets. It is co-developed by AMD, Arm, ASE Group, Google Cloud, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung, and TSMC.
In August 2022, Alibaba Group and Nvidia joined as board members.
Overview... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleobiota%20of%20the%20Chinle%20Formation | The Chinle Formation is an extensive geological unit in the southwestern United States, preserving a very diverse fauna of Late Triassic (primarily Norian-age) animals and plants. This is a list of fossilized organisms recovered from the formation.
Amniotes
Archosauromorphs
Crurotarsans
Other Archosauromorphs
Othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen%20evolution | Oxygen evolution is the process of generating molecular oxygen (O2) by a chemical reaction, usually from water. Oxygen evolution from water is effected by oxygenic photosynthesis, electrolysis of water, and thermal decomposition of various oxides. The biological process supports aerobic life. When relatively pure oxy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational%E2%80%93vibrational%20coupling | In physics, rotational–vibrational coupling occurs when the rotation frequency of a system is close to or identical to a natural internal vibration frequency. The animation on the right shows ideal motion, with the force exerted by the spring and the distance from the center of rotation increasing together linearly wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon%20gamma%20receptor%20%28IFNGR1%29%20family | In molecular biology, the interferon gamma receptor (IFNGR1) family is a family of proteins which includes several eukaryotic and viral interferon gamma receptor proteins.
Members of this family include:
The human interferon gamma receptor 1, which is a member of the hematopoietic cytokine receptor superfamily. It is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20cosines | In trigonometry, the law of cosines (also known as the cosine formula or cosine rule) relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the cosine of one of its angles. For a triangle with sides and opposite respective angles and (see Fig. 1), the law of cosines states:
The law of cosines generalizes the Pythago... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%20Society%20of%20Canada | The Huntington Society of Canada (HSC) (French: Société Huntington du Canada, SHC) is a non-profit organisation that supports people in Canada affected by the genetic neurodegenerative brain condition Huntington's disease (HD).
The HSC was founded in 1973 and is based in Waterloo, Ontario. It delivers support service... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Zalcman | Lawrence Allen Zalcman (June 9, 1943 – May 31, 2022) was a professor (and later a professor emeritus) of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. His research primarily concerned Complex analysis, potential theory, and the relations of these ideas to approximation theory, harmonic analysis, integral geometry and p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysimeter | A lysimeter (from Greek λύσις (loosening) and the suffix -meter) is a measuring device which can be used to measure the amount of actual evapotranspiration which is released by plants (usually crops or trees). By recording the amount of precipitation that an area receives and the amount lost through the soil, the amoun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20z%C5%82oty | The Polish złoty (alternative spelling: zloty; Polish: polski złoty, ; abbreviation: zł; code: PLN) is the official currency and legal tender of Poland. It is subdivided into 100 grosz (gr). It is the most traded currency in Central and Eastern Europe and ranks 21st most-traded in the foreign exchange market.
The word... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensing%20osteitis | Condensing osteitis is a periapical inflammatory disease that results from a reaction to a dental related infection. This causes more bone production rather than bone destruction in the area (most common site is near the root apices of premolars and molars). The lesion appears as a radiopacity in the periapical area h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MED29 | Mediator of RNA polymerase II transcription subunit 29 (Med29) is a transcription suppressor that in humans is encoded by the MED29 gene. It represents subunit MED29 of the Mediator complex.
Med29, along with Med11 and Med28 in mammals, is part of the core head-region of the Mediator complex. Med29 is the apparent ort... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography%20and%20the%20law | The intellectual property rights on photographs are protected in different jurisdictions by the laws governing copyright and moral rights. In some cases photography may be restricted by civil or criminal law. Publishing certain photographs can be restricted by privacy or other laws. Photography can be generally restric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery%20tester | A battery tester is an electronic device intended for testing the state of an electric battery, going from a simple device for testing the charge actually present in the cells and/or its voltage output, to a more comprehensive testing of the battery's condition, namely its capacity for accumulating charge and any possi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiez%20Laboratory | The Spiez Laboratory (German: Labor Spiez, French: Laboratoire de Spiez, Italian: Laboratorio Spiez) is the Swiss institute for the protection of the population against nuclear, biological and chemical threats and dangers. It is part of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports (DDPS) and is locat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huainan%20biota | The Huainan biota is a collection of macroscopic skeletal organisms discovered in the early 1980s by Wang and Sun Weiguo in the Precambrian deposits of China (Huainan City, Anhui Province) with an age of 840-740 Ma (Tonian). A similar biota was also found by M. B. Gnilovskaya in Russia, on the Timan Ridge; its age is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20subset%20sum | The multiple subset sum problem is an optimization problem in computer science and operations research. It is a generalization of the subset sum problem. The input to the problem is a multiset of n integers and a positive integer m representing the number of subsets. The goal is to construct, from the input integers, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20likelihood | In statistics, when selecting a statistical model for given data, the relative likelihood compares the relative plausibilities of different candidate models or of different values of a parameter of a single model.
Relative likelihood of parameter values
Assume that we are given some data for which we have a statistic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPS%20report | A TPS report ("test procedure specification") is a document used by a quality assurance group or individual, particularly in software engineering, that describes the testing procedures and the testing process.
Definition
The official definition and creation is provided by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics En... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes%20%28cheese%29 | Eyes are the round holes that are a characteristic feature of Swiss-type cheese (e.g. Emmentaler cheese) and some Dutch-type cheeses. The eyes are bubbles of carbon dioxide gas. The gas is produced by various species of bacteria in the cheese.
Swiss cheese
In Swiss-type cheeses, the eyes form as a result of the act... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish%20National%20Dictionary | The Scottish National Dictionary (SND) was published by the Scottish National Dictionary Association (SNDA) from 1931 to 1976 and documents the Modern (Lowland) Scots language. The original editor, William Grant, was the driving force behind the collection of Scots vocabulary. A wide range of sources were used by the e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20capacity | Channel capacity, in electrical engineering, computer science, and information theory, is the tight upper bound on the rate at which information can be reliably transmitted over a communication channel.
Following the terms of the noisy-channel coding theorem, the channel capacity of a given channel is the highest info... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign%20war | A sign war is a competition between two or more organizations to gain the best visibility, or simply to engage in friendly "one-upmanship". The goal may be to put up more signs than one's competitors, or it may be to put up wittier signs.
Business sign wars
Sign wars between local businesses may consist of good spiri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezili%20Dantor | Ezilí Dantor or Erzulie Dantò is the main loa (or lwa) or senior spirit of the Petro family in Haitian Vodou. Ezili Danto, or Ezili Dantò, is the "manifestation of Erzulie, the divinity of love,". It is said that Ezili Danto has a dark complexion and is maternal in nature. The Ezili are feminine spirits in Haitian vodo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20efficiency | Sleep efficiency (SE) is the ratio between the time a person spends asleep, and the total time dedicated to sleep (i.e. both sleeping and attempting to fall asleep or fall back asleep). It is given as a percentage. SE of 80% or more is considered normal/healthy with most young healthy adults displaying SE above 90%. SE... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA%201600 | The RCA 1600 is a discontinued 16-bit minicomputer designed and built by RCA in West Palm Beach, Florida and Marlboro, Massachusetts. It was developed to meet the needs of several RCA divisions, including the Graphics Systems Division (GSD), Instructional Systems, and Global Communications. It was introduced in 1968, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda%20Security | Panda Security is a Spanish cybersecurity software company. Panda Security's core offering is antivirus software and more recently has expanded into providing and developing cybersecurity software. This includes security products and services for both businesses and home users, as well as protection tools for systems, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium%20in%20biology | Magnesium is an essential element in biological systems. Magnesium occurs typically as the Mg2+ ion. It is an essential mineral nutrient (i.e., element) for life and is present in every cell type in every organism. For example, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the main source of energy in cells, must bind to a magnesium i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble%20Madness | Marble Madness is an arcade video game designed by Mark Cerny and published by Atari Games Inc. in 1984. It is a platform game in which the player must guide a marble through six courses, populated with obstacles and enemies, within a time limit. The player controls the marble by using a trackball. Marble Madness is kn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20desecration | Flag desecration is the desecration of a flag, violation of flag protocol, or various acts that intentionally destroy, damage, or mutilate a flag in public. In the case of a national flag, such action is often intended to make a political point against a country or its policies. Some countries have laws forbidding meth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinisTerrae | Finisterrae was the 100th supercomputer in Top500 ranking in November 2007. Running at 12.97 teraFLOPS, it would rank at position 258 on the list as of June 2008. It is also the third most powerful supercomputer in Spain (after MareNostrum and Magerit). It is located in Galicia.
This project is promoted by the Xunta d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20dioxide | Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula . It is made up of molecules that each have one carbon atom covalently double bonded to two oxygen atoms. It is found in the gas state at room temperature, and as the source of available carbon in the carbon cycle, atmospheric is the primary carbon source... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian%20hemorrhagic%20fever | Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (BHF), also known as black typhus or Ordog Fever, is a hemorrhagic fever and zoonotic infectious disease originating in Bolivia after infection by Machupo mammarenavirus.
BHF was first identified in 1963 as an ambisense RNA virus of the Arenaviridae family, by a research group led by Karl Jo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptamer | Aptamers are short sequences of artificial DNA, RNA, XNA, or peptide that bind a specific target molecule, or family of target molecules. They exhibit a range of affinities (KD in the pM to μM range), with variable levels of off-target binding and are sometimes classified as chemical antibodies. Aptamers and antibodies... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Remote%20Management | WinRM (Windows Remote Management) is Microsoft's implementation of WS-Management in Windows which allows systems to access or exchange management information across a common network. Utilizing scripting objects or the built-in command-line tool, WinRM can be used with any remote computers that may have baseboard manage... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool%20S | The Cool S is a graffiti sign in popular culture that is typically doodled on children's notebooks or graffitied on walls. The exact origin of the Cool S is unknown, but it became prevalent around the early 1970s as a part of graffiti culture.
Shape
The Cool S consists of 14 line segments, forming a stylized, pointed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20consequences | The term "inverse consequences" or the "Law of Inverse Consequences" refers to results that are the opposite of the expected results as initially intended or planned.
One consequence is in the "reverse predicament" of the other.
History
The term "inverse consequences" has been in use for over 175 years (since at least... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading%20gauge%20theory | In theoretical physics, a cascading gauge theory is a gauge theory whose coupling rapidly changes with the scale in such a way that Seiberg duality must be applied many times.
Igor Klebanov and Matthew Strassler studied this kind of N=1 gauge theory in the context of the AdS-CFT correspondence, which is dual to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoplasmic%20reticulum | The sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is a membrane-bound structure found within muscle cells that is similar to the smooth endoplasmic reticulum in other cells. The main function of the SR is to store calcium ions (Ca2+). Calcium ion levels are kept relatively constant, with the concentration of calcium ions within a cell b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent%20evolution | Emergent evolution is the hypothesis that, in the course of evolution, some entirely new properties, such as mind and consciousness, appear at certain critical points, usually because of an unpredictable rearrangement of the already existing entities. The term was originated by the psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan in 1922 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Caulfield | Maxine Caulfield is a fictional character from the Life Is Strange video game series published by Square Enix. Created by French developer Dontnod Entertainment, she first appears in the 2015 video game Life Is Strange as the main protagonist. She is voiced by American actress Hannah Telle.
The character received a ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCloud%20Memory | HyperCloud Memory (HCDIMM) is a DDR3 SDRAM dual in-line memory module (DIMM) used in server applications requiring a great deal of memory. It was initially launched in 2009 at the International Supercomputing Conference by Irvine, California, based company, Netlist Inc. It was never a JEDEC standard, and the main serve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micom | Micom was a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, best known for their line of concentrators. The company was founded by serial entrepreneur Stephen Bernard Dorsey in 1975 and sold to Philips NV in 1984. Micom acquired Spectrum Digital Corporation in 1987.
Micom concentrators
Micom became known for its ads, o... |
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