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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilmos%20Totik | Vilmos Totik (Mosonmagyaróvár, March 8, 1954) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in classical analysis, harmonic analysis, orthogonal polynomials, approximation theory, potential theory. He is a professor of the University of Szeged. Since 1989 he is also a part-time professor at the University of South Florida (Tam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic%20dodecahedron | In geometry, the rhombic dodecahedron is a convex polyhedron with 12 congruent rhombic faces. It has 24 edges, and 14 vertices of 2 types. It is a Catalan solid, and the dual polyhedron of the cuboctahedron.
Properties
The rhombic dodecahedron is a zonohedron. Its polyhedral dual is the cuboctahedron. The long face-di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus%20subviolaceofuscus | Boletus subviolaceofuscus is an edible basidiomycete mushroom, of the genus Boletus in the family Boletaceae. Morphologically similar to Boletus violaceofuscus and belonging to the porcini group (Boletus sect. Boletus), it was first described in 2015, and is known to be found only in China, Yunnan Province.
Morphology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFR%CE%B1 | The GDNF family receptor-α (GFRα) proteins are a group of co-receptors which form complexes with GDNF-family ligands (GFLs) to activate RET, the receptor of the GFLs. The GFRα co-receptors include the following:
GFRα1 – preference for GDNF
GFRα2 – preference for neurturin
GFRα3 – preference for artemin
GFRα4 – pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Blaster%2016 | The Sound Blaster 16 is a series of sound cards by Creative Technology, first released in June 1992 for PCs with an ISA or PCI slot. It was the successor to the Sound Blaster Pro series of sound cards and introduced CD-quality digital audio to the Sound Blaster line. For optional wavetable synthesis, the Sound Blaster ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vafa%E2%80%93Witten%20theorem | In theoretical physics, the Vafa–Witten theorem, named after Cumrun Vafa and Edward Witten, is a theorem that shows that vector-like global symmetries (those that transform as expected under reflections) such as isospin and baryon number in vector-like gauge theories like quantum chromodynamics cannot be spontaneously ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Sang-mook | Lee Sang-Mook (born October 18, 1962) is a Korean marine geologist and computational scientist. He has worked as a researcher at the Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute from 1998 to 2003, and as a professor and researcher at Seoul National University since 2003.
As an associate professor in the School of Ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mesons | This list is of all known and predicted scalar, pseudoscalar and vector mesons. See list of particles for a more detailed list of particles found in particle physics.
This article contains a list of mesons, unstable subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark. They are part of the hadron particle famil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell%20Storage%20Manager | Novell Storage Manager is a system software package released by Novell in 2004 that uses identity, policy and directory events to automate full lifecycle management of file storage for individual users and organizational groups. By tying storage management to an organization's existing identity infrastructure, it has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach-back%20method | The teach-back method, also called the "show-me" method, is a communication confirmation method used by healthcare providers to confirm whether a patient (or care takers) understands what is being explained to them. If a patient understands, they are able to "teach-back" the information accurately. This is a communicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustical%20intelligence | Acoustical intelligence (ACOUSTINT, sometimes ACINT) is an intelligence gathering discipline that collects and processes acoustic phenomena. It is a subdiscipline of MASINT (Measurement and Signature Intelligence).
This uses broadband and narrowband analysis of acquired acoustic signatures from surface ships and subm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20sign%20problem | In applied mathematics, the numerical sign problem is the problem of numerically evaluating the integral of a highly oscillatory function of a large number of variables. Numerical methods fail because of the near-cancellation of the positive and negative contributions to the integral. Each has to be integrated to very ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20processor%20sharing | Generalized processor sharing (GPS) is an ideal scheduling algorithm for process schedulers and network schedulers. It is related to the fair-queuing principle which groups packets into classes and shares the service capacity between them. GPS shares this capacity according to some fixed weights.
In process scheduling... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern%20recognition | Pattern recognition is the automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data. While similar, pattern recognition (PR) is not to be confused with pattern machines (PM) which may possess (PR) capabilities but their primary function is to distinguish and create emergent pattern. PR has applications in statisti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20transporter%20ZIP8 | Zinc transporter ZIP8 is a cation/bicarbonate symporter protein which in humans is encoded by the SLC39A8 gene.
Function
This transmembrane protein is responsible for the influx of zinc, manganese, iron, and cadmium. ZIP8 is distributed among the embryo, placenta, and yolk sac during development. Within the embryo, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbosacral%20plexus | The anterior divisions of the lumbar nerves, sacral nerves, and coccygeal nerve form the lumbosacral plexus, the first lumbar nerve being frequently joined by a branch from the twelfth thoracic. For descriptive purposes this plexus is usually divided into three parts:
lumbar plexus
sacral plexus
pudendal plexus
In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama%20Creature | The "Panama Creature" (also variously referred to as the "Panama Monster", "Panama ET" "Cerro Azul Monster", "Blue Stream Monster" or "Blue Hill Horror") refers to a carcass photographed near the town of Cerro Azul, Panama, in September 2009. After the animal was discovered and reputedly killed by a group of teenagers,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomolov%E2%80%93Miyaoka%E2%80%93Yau%20inequality | In mathematics, the Bogomolov–Miyaoka–Yau inequality is the inequality
between Chern numbers of compact complex surfaces of general type. Its major interest is the way it restricts the possible topological types of the underlying real 4-manifold. It was proved independently by and , after and proved weaker version... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20anatomical%20isthmi | In anatomy, isthmus refers to a constriction between organs. This is a list of anatomical isthmi:
Aortic isthmus, section of the aortic arch
Cavo-tricuspid isthmus of the right atrium of the heart, a body of fibrous tissue in the lower atrium between the inferior vena cava, and the tricuspid valve
Isthmus, the ear ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20permutation%20topics | This is a list of topics on mathematical permutations.
Particular kinds of permutations
Alternating permutation
Circular shift
Cyclic permutation
Derangement
Even and odd permutations—see Parity of a permutation
Josephus permutation
Parity of a permutation
Separable permutation
Stirling permutation
Superpattern
Tran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse%20%28signal%20processing%29 | A pulse in signal processing is a rapid, transient change in the amplitude of a signal from a baseline value to a higher or lower value, followed by a rapid return to the baseline value.
Pulse shapes
Pulse shapes can arise out of a process called pulse-shaping. Optimum pulse shape depends on the application.
Rectang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortex%20%28anatomy%29 | In anatomy and zoology, the cortex (: cortices) is the outermost (or superficial) layer of an organ. Organs with well-defined cortical layers include kidneys, adrenal glands, ovaries, the thymus, and portions of the brain, including the cerebral cortex, the best-known of all cortices.
Etymology
The word is of Latin or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailles%20rectangle | The Ailles rectangle is a rectangle constructed from four right-angled triangles which is commonly used in geometry classes to find the values of trigonometric functions of 15° and 75°. It is named after Douglas S. Ailles who was a high school teacher at Kipling Collegiate Institute in Toronto.
Construction
A 30°–60°... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20Nuclear%20Terrorism | In his 2007 book On Nuclear Terrorism, author Michael A. Levi surveys the issue of nuclear terrorism and explores the decisions a terrorist leader might take in pursuing a nuclear plot. Levi points out the many obstacles that such a terrorist scheme may encounter, which in turn leads to a host of possible ways that any... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dykstra%27s%20projection%20algorithm | Dykstra's algorithm is a method that computes a point in the intersection of convex sets, and is a variant of the alternating projection method (also called the projections onto convex sets method). In its simplest form, the method finds a point in the intersection of two convex sets by iteratively projecting onto eac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryometer | A cryometer is a thermometer used to measure very low temperatures of objects. Ethanol-filled thermometers are used in preference to mercury for meteorological measurements and can measure temperatures in the range of -38 to 70 °C (-36 to 94 °F). Their main physical limitation is the freezing and boiling point of the l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower%20Sava%20Statistical%20Region | The Lower Sava Statistical Region (; until December 31, 2014 ) is a statistical region in Slovenia. It has good traffic accessibility and is located in the Sava and Krka Valleys, with hilly areas with vineyards and an abundance of water. It is the second-smallest statistical region in Slovenia. The only nuclear power p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomorphogenesis | In developmental biology, photomorphogenesis is light-mediated development, where plant growth patterns respond to the light spectrum. This is a completely separate process from photosynthesis where light is used as a source of energy. Phytochromes, cryptochromes, and phototropins are photochromic sensory receptors tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androniki%20Drakou | Androniki Drakou (born 1965), also known as Nina Drakou, is a Greek doctor descended from Komotini, Greece specialized in orthopedic surgery. She is currently the Director of the Orthopaedics Clinic of Laiko General Hospital.
Education
Drakou graduated from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channelizer | In digital signal processing, a channelizer is a term used for algorithms which select a certain frequency band from an input signal. The input signal typically has a higher sample rate than the sample rate of the selected channel. It is also used for algorithms that can select multiple channels from an input signal i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s%20limit | Bremermann's limit, named after Hans-Joachim Bremermann, is a limit on the maximum rate of computation that can be achieved in a self-contained system in the material universe. It is derived from Einstein's mass-energy equivalency and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and is c2/h ≈ 1.3563925 × 1050 bits per second ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterolysis%20%28biology%29 | In biology, heterolysis refers to cellular necrosis by hydrolytic enzymes from surrounding (usually inflammatory) cells. On the other hand, Autolysis is cell necrosis of a cell by its own enzymes, usually due to various causes such as infective agents or physical agents. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveguide%20rotary%20joint | A waveguide rotary joint is used in microwave communications to connect two different types of RF waveguides. Because coaxial parts are symmetrical in ø direction, free rotation without performance degradation is accomplished. In the rotating part, electrical continuity is achieved by λ/4-chokes eliminating metal con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminobacterium%20thunnarium | Aminobacterium thunnarium is a Gram-negative, anaerobic, mesophilic and non-spore-forming bacterium from the genus of Aminobacterium which has been isolated from sludge. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atypical%20teratoid%20rhabdoid%20tumor | An atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT) is a rare tumor usually diagnosed in childhood. Although usually a brain tumor, AT/RT can occur anywhere in the central nervous system (CNS), including the spinal cord. About 60% will be in the posterior cranial fossa (particularly the cerebellum). One review estimated 52%... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant%20binary%20representation | A redundant binary representation (RBR) is a numeral system that uses more bits than needed to represent a single binary digit so that most numbers have several representations. An RBR is unlike usual binary numeral systems, including two's complement, which use a single bit for each digit. Many of an RBR's properties ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20Improvement%20Area | Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs) are a network of large scale initiatives in the landscape of England to improve ecological connectivity and improve biodiversity.
They were launched in 2012.
At 2015, the NIAs covered 47,000 acres of England in total, achieved at a total cost of £7.5 million. At spring 2015, the NIAs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20loop | A control loop is the fundamental building block of control systems in general and industrial control systems in particular. It consists of the process sensor, the controller function, and the final control element (FCE) which controls the process necessary to automatically adjust the value of a measured process variab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity%20loss | Biodiversity loss includes the worldwide extinction of different species, as well as the local reduction or loss of species in a certain habitat, resulting in a loss of biological diversity. The latter phenomenon can be temporary or permanent, depending on whether the environmental degradation that leads to the loss is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-flow%20diagram | A data-flow diagram is a way of representing a flow of data through a process or a system (usually an information system). The DFD also provides information about the outputs and inputs of each entity and the process itself. A data-flow diagram has no control are no decision rules and no loops. Specific operations bas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkerley%27s%20method | Dunkerley's method is used in mechanical engineering to determine the critical speed of a shaft-rotor system. Other methods include the Rayleigh–Ritz method.
Whirling of a shaft
No shaft can ever be perfectly straight or perfectly balanced. When an element of mass is offset from the axis of rotation, centrifugal for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurocomputational%20speech%20processing | Neurocomputational speech processing is computer-simulation of speech production and speech perception by referring to the natural neuronal processes of speech production and speech perception, as they occur in the human nervous system (central nervous system and peripheral nervous system). This topic is based on neuro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate%20of%20penetration | In the drilling industry, the rate of penetration (ROP), also known as penetration rate or drill rate, is the speed at which a drill bit breaks the rock under it to deepen the borehole. It is normally measured in feet per minute or meters per hour, but sometimes it is expressed in minutes per foot.
Generally, ROP inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwann%20cell | Schwann cells or neurolemmocytes (named after German physiologist Theodor Schwann) are the principal glia of the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Glial cells function to support neurons and in the PNS, also include satellite cells, olfactory ensheathing cells, enteric glia and glia that reside at sensory nerve endings,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policeman%20%28laboratory%29 | A policeman is a hand-held flexible natural-rubber or plastic scraper. The common type of it is attached to a glass rod and used in chemical laboratories to transfer residues of precipitate or solid on glass surfaces when performing gravimetric analysis. This equipment works well under gentle, delicate and precise requ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Surprising%20Archaea | The Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life is a popular science book written about the domain Archaea. It was written by John L. Howland and first published in 2000 by the Oxford University Press. The book records the, "archaeal rise from obscurity...to their current prominent place in molecular and e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roivant%20Sciences | Roivant is a healthcare company focused on applying technology to drug development and building subsidiary biotech and healthcare technology companies, founded by Vivek Ramaswamy.
History
Vivek Ramaswamy founded Roivant in 2015. Ramaswamy's initial strategy was to in-license drug candidates and create subsidiaries foc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahalad%20Chunnilal%20Vaidya | Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya (P.C.Vaidya; 23 May 1918 – 12 March 2010), was an Indian physicist and mathematician, renowned for his instrumental work in the general theory of relativity. Apart from his scientific career, he was also an educationist and a follower of Gandhian philosophy in post-independence India, specific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20equilibrium%20theory | In economics, general equilibrium theory attempts to explain the behavior of supply, demand, and prices in a whole economy with several or many interacting markets, by seeking to prove that the interaction of demand and supply will result in an overall general equilibrium. General equilibrium theory contrasts with the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic%20card | Plastic cards usually serve as identity documents, thus providing authentication. In combination with other assets that complement the data stored on the card, like PIN numbers, they also serve authorization purposes, most often as bank cards for allowing their holders to do financial transactions. While early and simp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20common%20area | The core common area is that .
Named after magnetic core memory, the term has persisted into the modern era and is commonly used by both the Fortran and BASIC languages.
See also
Chain loading
Operating system technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDM6B | Lysine demethylase 6B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KDM6B gene.
Regulation during differentiation
KDM6B was found to be expressional increased during cardiac and endothelial differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells.
Small molecule inhibition
A small molecule inhibitor (GSK-J1) has been develop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy%20of%20fusion | In thermodynamics, the enthalpy of fusion of a substance, also known as (latent) heat of fusion, is the change in its enthalpy resulting from providing energy, typically heat, to a specific quantity of the substance to change its state from a solid to a liquid, at constant pressure.
It is the amount of energy required... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qandisha | Qandisha is a French language online magazine for women in Morocco and the wider Arab world. It was founded in 2011 by Fedwa Misk, a Moroccan journalist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and a group of other women concerned that women's rights were being ignored by the media during the Arab Spring. The publicatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydia%20research | Chlamydia research is the systematic study of the organisms in the taxonomic group of bacteria Chlamydiota (formerly Chlamydiae), the diagnostic procedures to treat infections, the disease chlamydia, infections caused by the organisms, the epidemiology of infection and the development of vaccines. The process of resear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial%20condition | In mathematics and particularly in dynamic systems, an initial condition, in some contexts called a seed value, is a value of an evolving variable at some point in time designated as the initial time (typically denoted t = 0). For a system of order k (the number of time lags in discrete time, or the order of the larges... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram | A nomogram (from Greek , "law" and , "line"), also called a nomograph, alignment chart, or abac, is a graphical calculating device, a two-dimensional diagram designed to allow the approximate graphical computation of a mathematical function. The field of nomography was invented in 1884 by the French engineer Philbert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20q-Legendre%20polynomials | In mathematics, the big q-Legendre polynomials are an orthogonal family of polynomials defined in terms of Heine's basic hypergeometric series as
.
They obey the orthogonality relation
and have the limiting behavior
where is the th Legendre polynomial. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Fiction%20Awards%20Database | The (SFADB) is an index of science fiction, fantasy, and horror awards compiled by Mark R. Kelly and published by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Known formerly as the Locus Index to SF Awards, it has been cited as an invaluable science fiction resource, and is often more up-to-date than the awards' own websites... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis%20Chinn | Phyllis Zweig Chinn (née Zweig, born September 26, 1941) is an American mathematician who holds a professorship in mathematics, women's studies, and teaching preparation at Humboldt State University in California. Her publications concern graph theory, mathematics education, and the history of women in mathematics.
Ed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofic%20group | In mathematics, a sofic group is a group whose Cayley graph is an initially subamenable graph, or equivalently a subgroup of an ultraproduct of finite-rank symmetric groups such that every two elements of the group have distance 1. They were introduced by as a common generalization of amenable and residually finite ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jablonski%20diagram | In molecular spectroscopy, a Jablonski diagram is a diagram that illustrates the electronic states and often the vibrational levels of a molecule, and also the transitions between them. The states are arranged vertically by energy and grouped horizontally by spin multiplicity. Nonradiative transitions are indicated by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro%20blue%20tetrazolium%20chloride | Nitro blue tetrazolium is a chemical compound composed of two tetrazole moieties. It is used in immunology for sensitive detection of alkaline phosphatase (with BCIP). NBT serves as the oxidant and BCIP is the AP-substrate (and gives also dark blue dye).
Clinical significance
In immunohistochemistry the alkaline phosp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20biodiversity | Global biodiversity is the measure of biodiversity on planet Earth and is defined as the total variability of life forms. More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 2 million to 1 trillion, but most estimates ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangram | The tangram () is a dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat polygons, called tans, which are put together to form shapes. The objective is to replicate a pattern (given only an outline) generally found in a puzzle book using all seven pieces without overlap. Alternatively the tans can be used to create original mini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Scientific%20Information | The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield in Philadelphia in 1956. ISI offered scientometric and bibliographic database services. Its specialty was citation indexing and analysis, a field pioneered by Garfield.
Services
ISI maintained citation databas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick%20Heal | Quick Heal Technologies, (known as Quick Heal) is an Indian multinational cybersecurity software company, headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra, India. The company was formerly known as CAT Computer Services (P) Ltd. and was started as a computer service centre in 1995. The company was renamed as Quick Heal Technologies P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20quadrupole%20mass%20spectrometer | A triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (TQMS), is a tandem mass spectrometer consisting of two quadrupole mass analyzers in series, with a (non-mass-resolving) radio frequency (RF)–only quadrupole between them to act as a cell for collision-induced dissociation. This configuration is often abbreviated QqQ, here Q1q2Q3.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20tibiofibular%20joint | The inferior tibiofibular joint, also known as the distal tibiofibular joint (tibiofibular syndesmosis), is formed by the rough, convex surface of the medial side of the distal end of the fibula, and a rough concave surface on the lateral side of the tibia.
Below, to the extent of about 4 mm, these surfaces are smooth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiological%20transition | In demography and medical geography, epidemiological transition is a theory which "describes changing population patterns in terms of fertility, life expectancy, mortality, and leading causes of death." For example, a phase of development marked by a sudden increase in population growth rates brought by improved food s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasma%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, a chiasma (: chiasmata) is the point of contact, the physical link, between two (non-sister) chromatids belonging to homologous chromosomes. At a given chiasma, an exchange of genetic material can occur between both chromatids, what is called a chromosomal crossover, but this is much more frequent during m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Base%20Event | Common Base Event (CBE) is an IBM implementation of the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Event Format standard. IBM also implemented the Common Event Infrastructure, a unified set of APIs and infrastructure for the creation, transmission, persistence and distribution of a wide range of business, system and ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20processor | A molecular processor is a processor that is based on a molecular platform rather than on an inorganic semiconductor in integrated circuit format.
Current technology
Molecular processors are currently in their infancy and currently only a few exist. At present a basic molecular processor is any biological or chemical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scedosporiosis | Scedosporiosis is the general name for any mycosis - i.e., fungal infection - caused by a fungus from the genus Scedosporium. Current population-based studies suggest Scedosporium prolificans (also known and recently more commonly referred to as Lomentospora prolificans) and Scedosporium apiospermum to be among the mos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycon | In geometry, a polycon is a kind of a developable roller. It is made of identical pieces of a cone whose apex angle equals the angle of an even sided regular polygon. In principle, there are infinitely many polycons, as many as there are even sided regular polygons. Most members of the family have elongated spindle li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter%27s%20constant | In mathematics, Porter's constant C arises in the study of the efficiency of the Euclidean algorithm. It is named after J. W. Porter of University College, Cardiff.
Euclid's algorithm finds the greatest common divisor of two positive integers and . Hans Heilbronn proved that the average number of iterations of Euclid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram%20John%20Walsh | Bertram John Walsh (born 7 May 1938) is an American mathematician, specializing in locally convex spaces, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations.
After receiving his bachelor's degree from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Walsh received in 1960 his master's degree and in 1963 his PhD from the University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foramina%20of%20Scarpa | In the maxilla, occasionally two additional canals are present in the middle line of the palatine process; they are termed the foramina of Scarpa, and when present transmit the nasopalatine nerves, the left passing through the anterior, and the right through the posterior canal.
See also
Antonio Scarpa – anatomist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk%20immunity | Milk immunity is the protection provided to immune system of an infant via the biologically active components in milk, typically provided by the infant's mother.
Mammalian milk
All mammalian milk contains water, sugar, fat, vitamins, and protein with the variation within and between species and individuals differing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20solenoid | An alpha solenoid (sometimes also known as an alpha horseshoe or as stacked pairs of alpha helices, abbreviated SPAH) is a protein fold composed of repeating alpha helix subunits, commonly helix-turn-helix motifs, arranged in antiparallel fashion to form a superhelix. Alpha solenoids are known for their flexibility and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainzelm%C3%A4nnchen | The Mainzelmännchen are six comedic cartoon characters used as mascots for German public service television broadcaster ZDF. They first aired on television in 1963 as a way to accommodate a government regulation disallowing confusion between advertising and content. The cartoon characters served as a transition between... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidence%20algebra | In order theory, a field of mathematics, an incidence algebra is an associative algebra, defined for every locally finite partially ordered set
and commutative ring with unity. Subalgebras called reduced incidence algebras give a natural construction of various types of generating functions used in combinatorics and nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20bias | Algorithmic bias describes systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create "unfair" outcomes, such as "privileging" one category over another in ways different from the intended function of the algorithm.
For mapping this to ideas in statistical learning, it is ```extremely important``` to note that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeOTFE | FreeOTFE is a discontinued open source computer program for on-the-fly disk encryption (OTFE). On Microsoft Windows, and Windows Mobile (using FreeOTFE4PDA), it can create a virtual drive within a file or partition, to which anything written is automatically encrypted before being stored on a computer's hard or USB dri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin-hopping | In applied mathematics, Basin-hopping is a global optimization technique that iterates by performing random perturbation of coordinates, performing local optimization, and accepting or rejecting new coordinates based on a minimized function value. The algorithm was described in 1997 by David J. Wales and Jonathan Doye.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2C%20The%20Complete%20Reference | C, The Complete Reference is a book on computer programming written by Herbert Schildt. The book gives an in-depth coverage of the C language and function libraries features.
The first edition was released by Osbourne in 1987. The current version is 4th. Last revision: January 13th, 2018.
See also
The Art of Comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C8orf34 | C8orf34 is a protein that, in Homo sapiens, is encoded by the C8orf34 gene. Aliases for C8orf34 include vestibule-1 or VEST-1. Within the cell, C8orf34 is localized to the nucleus and nucleoli where it may play a role in the regulation of gene expression as well as the cell cycle.
Gene
The C8orf34 gene is located on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vascular%20recruitment | Vascular recruitment is the increase in the number of perfused capillaries in response to a stimulus. I.e., the more you exercise regularly, the more oxygen can reach your muscles.
Vascular recruitment may also be called capillary recruitment.
Vascular recruitment in skeletal muscle
The term «vascular recruitment» or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photothermal%20microspectroscopy | Photothermal microspectroscopy (PTMS), alternatively known as photothermal temperature fluctuation (PTTF), is derived from two parent instrumental techniques: infrared spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM). In one particular type of AFM, known as scanning thermal microscopy (SThM), the imaging probe is a sub-m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperoperation | In mathematics, the hyperoperation sequence is an infinite sequence of arithmetic operations (called hyperoperations in this context) that starts with a unary operation (the successor function with n = 0). The sequence continues with the binary operations of addition (n = 1), multiplication (n = 2), and exponentiation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20calculus%20topics | This is a list of calculus topics.
Limits
Limit (mathematics)
Limit of a function
One-sided limit
Limit of a sequence
Indeterminate form
Orders of approximation
(ε, δ)-definition of limit
Continuous function
Differential calculus
Derivative
Notation
Newton's notation for differentiation
Leibniz's notation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf%20doll | A Waldorf doll (also called Steiner doll) is a form of doll compatible with Waldorf (or Steiner) education philosophies.
The dolls are generally made of natural fibers — such as wool, cotton, or linen — from their stuffing to their hair to their clothing. The doll makers use techniques drawing on traditional European ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt%20and%20pepper | Salt and pepper are the common names for edible salt and ground black pepper, which are ubiquitously paired on Western dining tables as to allow for the additional seasoning of food after its preparation. During food preparation or cooking, they may also be added in combination.
Salt and pepper are typically maintaine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggeseggele | A Muggeseggele or Muckenseckel is a humorous Alemannic German idiom used in Swabia to designate a nonspecific very small length or amount of something; it refers to a housefly's scrotum. It has been called the smallest Swabian unit of measurement and plays a similar role in northern Baden-Württemberg and Franconia.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%2082288 | The Intel 82288 is a bus controller designed for Intel 80286. The chip is supplied in 20-pin DIP package. It replaces 8288 used with earlier processors. Intel second sourced this chipset to Fujitsu Limited around 1985. The 20-pin PLCC version was available in sampling for first quarter of 1986.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyot | In marine geology, a guyot (), also called a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain (seamount) with a flat top more than below the surface of the sea. The diameters of these flat summits can exceed . Guyots are most commonly found in the Pacific Ocean, but they have been identified in all the oceans e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Modular%20Architecture%20Research%20Tool | Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool (SMART) is a biological database that is used in the identification and analysis of protein domains within protein sequences. SMART uses profile-hidden Markov models built from multiple sequence alignments to detect protein domains in protein sequences. The most recent release ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion%E2%80%93exclusion%20principle | In combinatorics, a branch of mathematics, the inclusion–exclusion principle is a counting technique which generalizes the familiar method of obtaining the number of elements in the union of two finite sets; symbolically expressed as
where A and B are two finite sets and |S | indicates the cardinality of a set S (whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posidonius | Posidonius (; , "of Poseidon") "of Apameia" (ὁ Ἀπαμεύς) or "of Rhodes" (ὁ Ῥόδιος) (), was a Greek politician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, historian, mathematician, and teacher native to Apamea, Syria. He was considered the most learned man of his time and, possibly, of the entire Stoic school. After a period ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive%20programming | Defensive programming is a form of defensive design intended to develop programs that are capable of detecting potential security abnormalities and make predetermined responses. It ensures the continuing function of a piece of software under unforeseen circumstances. Defensive programming practices are often used where... |
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