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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected%20transmission%20count | The ETX metric, or expected transmission count, is a measure of the quality of a path between two nodes in a wireless packet data network. It is widely utilized in mesh networking algorithms.
History
Douglas S.J. De Couto was the first to describe ETX in his 2004 doctoral dissertation at MIT. Subsequently, it has been... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Computational%20and%20Applied%20Mathematics | The Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering computational and applied mathematics. It was established in 1975 and is published biweekly by Elsevier. The editors-in-chief are Yalchin Efendiev (Texas A&M University), Taketomo Mitsui (Nagoya University), Michael Kwok... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanodot | Nanodot can refer to several technologies which use nanometer-scale localized structures. Nanodots generally exploit properties of quantum dots to localize magnetic or electrical fields at very small scales. Applications for nanodots could include high-density information storage, energy storage, and light-emitting dev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction%20of%20attosecond%20beating%20by%20interference%20of%20two-photon%20transitions | Reconstruction of attosecond beating by interference of two-photon transitions, more commonly known as RABBITT or RABBIT for short, is a widely used technique for obtaining the relative phase and amplitude of attosecond pulses. This technique involves the interference of two-photon interband transitions in solids. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20partial%20differential%20equation | Stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) generalize partial differential equations via random force terms and coefficients, in the same way ordinary stochastic differential equations generalize ordinary differential equations.
They have relevance to quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, and spatial mod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clebsch%E2%80%93Gordan%20coefficients%20for%20SU%283%29 | In mathematical physics, Clebsch–Gordan coefficients are the expansion coefficients of total angular momentum eigenstates in an uncoupled tensor product basis. Mathematically, they specify the decomposition of the tensor product of two irreducible representations into a direct sum of irreducible representations, where ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive%20dysfunction | In psychology and neuroscience, executive dysfunction, or executive function deficit, is a disruption to the efficacy of the executive functions, which is a group of cognitive processes that regulate, control, and manage other cognitive processes. Executive dysfunction can refer to both neurocognitive deficits and beha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falls%20in%20older%20adults | Falls in older adults are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality and are a major class of preventable injuries. Falling is one of the most common accidents that cause a loss in the quality of life for older adults, and is usually precipitated by a loss of balance and weakness in the legs. The cause of falling i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum%20coffee%20maker | A vacuum coffee maker brews coffee using two chambers where vapor pressure and gravity produce coffee. This type of coffee maker is also known as vac pot, siphon or syphon coffee maker, and was invented by Loeff of Berlin in the 1830s. These devices have since been used for more than a century in many parts of the worl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20Power%20Systems%20Research | Electric Power Systems Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on new applications of transmission, generation, distribution and uses of electric power. Its current editor-in-chief is Maria Teresa Correia de Barros. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2010 impact factor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian%20balds | In the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States, balds are mountain summits or crests covered primarily by thick vegetation of native grasses or shrubs occurring in areas where heavy forest growth would be expected.
Balds are found primarily in the Southern Appalachians, where, even at the highest elevations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila%20embryogenesis | Drosophila embryogenesis, the process by which Drosophila (fruit fly) embryos form, is a favorite model system for genetics and developmental biology. The study of its embryogenesis unlocked the century-long puzzle of how development was controlled, creating the field of evolutionary developmental biology. The small si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythia%20%28machine%20learning%29 | Pythia is an ancient text restoration model that recovers missing characters from a damaged text input using deep neural networks. It was created by Yannis Assael, Thea Sommerschield, and Jonathan Prag, researchers from Google DeepMind and the University of Oxford.
To study the society and the history of ancient civil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20Disk | Private Disk is a disk encryption application for the Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by Dekart SRL. It works by creating a virtual drive, the contents of which is encrypted on-the-fly; other software can use the drive as if it were a usual one.
One of Private Disk's key selling points is in its ease of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock%20skew | Clock skew (sometimes called timing skew) is a phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computer systems) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times due to gate or, in more advanced semiconductor technology, wire signal propagation delay. The instantaneou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion%20%28taxonomy%29 | The legion, in biological classification, is a non-obligatory taxonomic rank within the Linnaean hierarchy sometimes used in zoology.
Taxonomic rank
In zoological taxonomy, the legion is:
subordinate to the class
superordinate to the cohort.
consists of a group of related orders
Legions may be grouped into superlegi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon%20Schulte | Egon Schulte (born January 7, 1955 in Heggen (Kreis Olpe), Germany) is a mathematician and a professor of Mathematics at Northeastern University in Boston. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Technical University of Dortmund; his doctoral dissertation was on Regular Incidence Complexes (abstract regular polytopes).
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptxt | Adaptxt is a predictive text application for mobile phones, developed by KeyPoint Technologies, a UK-based software company. The application is designed to improve text entry on mobile devices by making it faster and error-free. It achieves this by predicting the next word as well as the word being typed, continuously ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egli%20model | The Egli model is a terrain model for radio frequency propagation. This model, which was first introduced by John Egli in his 1957 paper, was derived from real-world data on UHF and VHF television transmissions in several large cities. It predicts the total path loss for a point-to-point link. Typically used for outd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward%20masking | The concept of backward masking originated in psychoacoustics, referring to temporal masking of quiet sounds that occur moments before a louder sound.
In cognitive psychology, visual backward masking involves presenting one visual stimulus (a "mask" or "masking stimulus") immediately after a brief (usually 30 ms) "tar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20volume%20limiter%20system | An automatic volume limiter system (AVLS) is an option that limits the maximum volume level and is enabled through software or hardware in stationary or portable media player devices used with headphones such as the Walkman or Sony PSP. The aim of this feature is to stop the headphones drowning out all other noise, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20precision%20approach%20and%20landing%20system | The joint precision approach and landing system (JPALS) is a ship's system (CVN and LH type), all-weather landing system based on real-time differential correction of the Global Positioning System (GPS) signal, augmented with a local area correction message, and transmitted to the user via secure means. The onboard re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEmpix | MicroEmpix is the microkernel (much nearer to an exokernel) version of Empix, an operating system (OS) developed at the Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab) of the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the National Technical University of Athens.
Empix began in the late 1980's as the laboratory's effort to w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Bioscience%20and%20Bioengineering | The Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal. The editor-in-chief is Noriho Kamiya (Kyushu University). It is published by The Society for Biotechnology, Japan and distributed outside Japan by Elsevier. It was founded in 1923 as a Japanese-language journal and took its curr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen | A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation in a dwelling or in a commercial establishment. A modern middle-class residential kitchen is typically equipped with a stove, a sink with hot and cold running water, a refrigerator, and worktops and kitchen cabinets arranged according to a modu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family-based%20QTL%20mapping | Quantitative trait loci mapping or QTL mapping is the process of identifying genomic regions that potentially contain genes responsible for important economic, health or environmental characters. Mapping QTLs is an important activity that plant breeders and geneticists routinely use to associate potential causal genes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commit%20%28version%20control%29 | In version control systems, a commit is an operation which sends the latest changes of the source code to the repository, making these changes part of the head revision of the repository. Unlike commits in data management, commits in version control systems are kept in the repository indefinitely. Thus, when other user... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICO%20Xpress | The FICO Xpress optimizer is a commercial optimization solver for linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear programming (MILP), convex quadratic programming (QP), convex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP), second-order cone programming (SOCP) and their mixed integer counterparts. Xpress includes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda%20%28anatomy%29 | The lambda is the meeting point of the sagittal suture and the lambdoid suture. This is also the point of the occipital angle. It is named after the Greek letter lambda.
Structure
The lambda is the meeting point of the sagittal suture and the lambdoid suture. It may be the exact midpoint of the lambdoid suture, but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Centre%20for%20Nature%20Conservation | The European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC) was a Dutch non-profit foundation which was active in the field of European nature and biodiversity policy between 1993 and 2017. It was set up as a network of university departments, expert centres and government agencies and operated as a European biodiversity expert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Machine%20Learning%20Research | The Journal of Machine Learning Research is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering machine learning. It was established in 2000 and the first editor-in-chief was Leslie Kaelbling. The current editors-in-chief are Francis Bach (Inria) and David Blei (Columbia University).
History
The journal was estab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener%27s%20Tauberian%20theorem | In mathematical analysis, Wiener's tauberian theorem is any of several related results proved by Norbert Wiener in 1932. They provide a necessary and sufficient condition under which any function in or
can be approximated by linear combinations of translations of a given function.
Informally, if the Fourier transfo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasitrace | In mathematics, especially functional analysis, a quasitrace is a not necessarily additive tracial functional on a C*-algebra. An additive quasitrace is called a trace. It is a major open problem if every quasitrace is a trace.
Definition
A quasitrace on a C*-algebra A is a map such that:
is homogeneous:
for ev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershgorin%20circle%20theorem | In mathematics, the Gershgorin circle theorem may be used to bound the spectrum of a square matrix. It was first published by the Soviet mathematician Semyon Aronovich Gershgorin in 1931. Gershgorin's name has been transliterated in several different ways, including Geršgorin, Gerschgorin, Gershgorin, Hershhorn, and H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20abscess | Brain abscess (or cerebral abscess) is an abscess within the brain tissue caused by inflammation and collection of infected material coming from local (ear infection, dental abscess, infection of paranasal sinuses, infection of the mastoid air cells of the temporal bone, epidural abscess) or remote (lung, heart, kidney... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheaf%20of%20Paddy%20%28politics%29 | The Sheaf of Paddy () is the political symbol of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
After the establishment of Pakistan, the National Awami Party (NAP) chose this symbol and participated in the elections. The Sheaf of Paddy was finalized as the symbol of NAP after the party was founded by Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20neural%20network | A physical neural network is a type of artificial neural network in which an electrically adjustable material is used to emulate the function of a neural synapse or a higher-order (dendritic) neuron model. "Physical" neural network is used to emphasize the reliance on physical hardware used to emulate neurons as oppose... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media-independent%20handover | Media Independent Handover (MIH) is a standard being developed by IEEE 802.21 to enable the handover of IP sessions from one layer 2 access technology to another, to achieve mobility of end user devices (MIH).
Importance
The importance of MIH derives from the fact that a diverse range of broadband wireless access tec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distortion%20problem | In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, the distortion problem is to determine by how much one can distort the unit sphere in a given Banach space using an equivalent norm. Specifically, a Banach space X is called λ-distortable if there exists an equivalent norm |x| on X such that, for all infinite-dimensiona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median%20sacral%20artery | The median sacral artery (or middle sacral artery) is a small artery that arises posterior to the abdominal aorta and superior to its bifurcation.
Structure
The median sacral artery arises from the abdominal aorta at the level of the bottom quarter of the third lumbar vertebra. It descends in the middle line in front... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denjoy%E2%80%93Young%E2%80%93Saks%20theorem | In mathematics, the Denjoy–Young–Saks theorem gives some possibilities for the Dini derivatives of a function that hold almost everywhere.
proved the theorem for continuous functions, extended it to measurable functions, and extended it to arbitrary functions.
and give historical accounts of the theorem.
Stateme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order%20sinusoidal%20input%20describing%20function |
Definition
The higher-order sinusoidal input describing functions (HOSIDF) were first introduced by dr. ir. P.W.J.M. Nuij. The HOSIDFs are an extension of the sinusoidal input describing function which describe the response (gain and phase) of a system at harmonics of the base frequency of a sinusoidal input signal. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20GGN | Orange GGN, also known as alpha-naphthol orange, is an azo dye formerly used as a food dye. It is the disodium salt of 1-(m-sulfophenylazo)-2-naphthol-6-sulfonic acid. In Europe, it was denoted by the E Number E111, but has been forbidden for use in foods since 1 January 1978. It has never been included in the food add... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psammoma%20body | A psammoma body is a round collection of calcium, seen microscopically. The term is derived from the Greek word ψάμμος (psámmos), meaning "sand".
Cause
Psammoma bodies are associated with the papillary (nipple-like) histomorphology and are thought to arise from,
Infarction and calcification of papillae tips.
Calcifi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS%20Plus | DOS Plus (erroneously also known as DOS+) was the first operating system developed by Digital Research's OEM Support Group in Newbury, Berkshire, UK, first released in 1985. DOS Plus 1.0 was based on CP/M-86 Plus combined with the PCMODE emulator from Concurrent PC DOS 4.11. While CP/M-86 Plus and Concurrent DOS 4.1 st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Nagel | Thomas Nagel (; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he taught from 1980 to 2016. His main areas of philosophical interest are legal philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics.
Nagel is known for his critique of mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectus%20capitis%20anterior%20muscle | The rectus capitis anterior (rectus capitis anticus minor) is a short, flat muscle, situated immediately behind the upper part of the Longus capitis.
It arises from the anterior surface of the lateral mass of the atlas, and from the root of its transverse process, and passing obliquely upward and medialward, is insert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made%20in%20NY | Made in NY is an incentive program and marketing campaign of the City of New York Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting. Under the program, television and film productions which complete at least 75% of their shooting and rehearsal work in New York City are eligible for marketing incentives and tax credits, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20complexity | In logic and theoretical computer science, and specifically proof theory and computational complexity theory, proof complexity is the field aiming to understand and analyse the computational resources that are required to prove or refute statements. Research in proof complexity is predominantly concerned with proving p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HostLink%20Protocol | HostLink is communication protocol for use with or between PLC's made by Omron. It is an ASCII-based protocol generally used for communication over RS-232 or RS-422. The protocol enables communication between various pieces of equipment in an industrial environment for programming or controlling those pieces of equipme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipokine | A lipokine is a lipid-controlling hormone. The term was coined by Hotamisligil Lab in 2008 to classify fatty acids which modulate lipid metabolism by what he called a "chaperone effect".
The lipokine palmitoleic acid (C16:1n7-palmitoleate) travels to the muscles and liver, where it improves cell sensitivity to insulin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses%20%27N%20Chaos | Curses 'N Chaos is a 2D, wave-based, arena-brawler video game with a focus on 2-player co-op by independent developer Tribute Games. The game was released on August 18, 2015 for Windows, OS X, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita.
Gameplay
The game is a single screen arena brawler where you fight waves of enemies. Pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opetope | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, an opetope, a portmanteau of "operation" and "polytope", is a shape that captures higher-dimensional substitutions. It was introduced by John C. Baez and James Dolan so that they could define a weak n-category as a certain presheaf on the category of opetopes.
See also
hig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-672%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-672 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
miR-672 is underexpressed in neuroblastoma cells and has been associated with cancer pathways. It has further been identified as one of six miRNAs significantly down... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C2orf16 | C2orf16 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the C2orf16 gene. Isoform 2 of this protein (NCBI ID: CAH18189.1 henceforth referred to as C2orf16) is 1,984 amino acids long. The gene contains 1 exon and is located at 2p23.3. Aliases for C2orf16 include Open Reading Frame 16 on Chromosome 2 and P-S-E-R-S-H-H-S Repeat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FogBugz | FogBugz is an integrated web-based project management system featuring bug and issue tracking, discussion forums, wikis, customer relationship management, and evidence-based scheduling originally developed by Fog Creek Software.
History
FogBugz was re-branded as Manuscript at the end of 2017.
On August 3, 2018 Manus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreaming%20%28journal%29 | Dreaming is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association on behalf of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. IASD's other peer-reviewed publication, the International Journal of Dream Research (IJoDR) is published on Heidelberg University Library servers.
The Dre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaerhodopsin | Archaerhodopsin proteins are a family of retinal-containing photoreceptors found in the archaea genera Halobacterium and Halorubrum. Like the homologous bacteriorhodopsin (bR) protein, archaerhodopsins harvest energy from sunlight to pump H+ ions out of the cell, establishing a proton motive force that is used for ATP ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magda%20Wierzycka | Magdalena Franciszka Wierzycka (born 1969 in Gliwice, Poland) is a Polish-South African billionaire businesswoman. She is the co-founder and CEO of Sygnia Ltd, a financial services company. She is the richest woman in South Africa, and is also known for her anti-corruption activism. In 2020, the magazine Forbes listed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hut%208 | Hut 8 was a section in the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park (the British World War II codebreaking station, located in Buckinghamshire) tasked with solving German naval (Kriegsmarine) Enigma messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing. He was succeeded in November 1942 by his dep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonimaging%20optics | Nonimaging optics (also called anidolic optics) is the branch of optics concerned with the optimal transfer of light radiation between a source and a target. Unlike traditional imaging optics, the techniques involved do not attempt to form an image of the source; instead an optimized optical system for optimal radiativ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity%20theorem | The modularity theorem (formerly called the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture, Taniyama-Weil conjecture or modularity conjecture for elliptic curves) states that elliptic curves over the field of rational numbers are related to modular forms. Andrew Wiles proved the modularity theorem for semistable elliptic curves, which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunctival%20squamous%20cell%20carcinoma | Conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma (conjunctival SCC) and corneal intraepithelial neoplasia comprise ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN). SCC is the most common malignancy of the conjunctiva in the US, with a yearly incidence of 1–2.8 per 100,000. Risk factors for the disease are exposure to sun (specifically oc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woods%E2%80%93Saxon%20potential | The Woods–Saxon potential is a mean field potential for the nucleons (protons and neutrons) inside the atomic nucleus, which is used to describe approximately the forces applied on each nucleon, in the nuclear shell model for the structure of the nucleus. The potential is named after Roger D. Woods and David S. Saxon.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon%20elliptic%20functions | In mathematics, the Dixon elliptic functions sm and cm are two elliptic functions (doubly periodic meromorphic functions on the complex plane) that map from each regular hexagon in a hexagonal tiling to the whole complex plane. Because these functions satisfy the identity , as real functions they parametrize the cubic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse%20Genetics%20Project | The Mouse Genetics Project (MGP) is a large-scale mutant mouse production and phenotyping programme aimed at identifying new model organisms of disease.
Based at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the project uses knockout mice most of which were generated by the International Knockout Mouse Consortium. For each mut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio-visual%20speech%20recognition | Audio visual speech recognition (AVSR) is a technique that uses image processing capabilities in lip reading to aid speech recognition systems in recognizing undeterministic phones or giving preponderance among near probability decisions.
Each system of lip reading and speech recognition works separately, then their... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20differential%20calculus | Boolean differential calculus (BDC) (German: (BDK)) is a subject field of Boolean algebra discussing changes of Boolean variables and Boolean functions.
Boolean differential calculus concepts are analogous to those of classical differential calculus, notably studying the changes in functions and variables with respec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine%E2%80%93Hugoniot%20conditions | The Rankine–Hugoniot conditions, also referred to as Rankine–Hugoniot jump conditions or Rankine–Hugoniot relations, describe the relationship between the states on both sides of a shock wave or a combustion wave (deflagration or detonation) in a one-dimensional flow in fluids or a one-dimensional deformation in solids... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram%E2%80%93Euler%20theorem | In geometry, the Gram–Euler theorem, Gram-Sommerville, Brianchon-Gram or Gram relation (named after Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Leonhard Euler, Duncan Sommerville and Charles Julien Brianchon) is a generalization of the internal angle sum formula of polygons to higher-dimensional polytopes. The equation constrains the sums o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF1%20guanine%20nucleotide%20exchange%20domain | In molecular biology, the EF1 guanine nucleotide exchange domain is a protein domain found in the beta and delta chains of elongation factors from eukaryotes and archaea.
Elongation factor EF1B (also known as EF-Ts or EF-1beta/gamma/delta) is a nucleotide exchange factor that is required to regenerate EF1A from its in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-noise%20amplifier | A low-noise amplifier (LNA) is an electronic component that amplifies a very low-power signal without significantly degrading its signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Any electronic amplifier will increase the power of both the signal and the noise present at its input, but the amplifier will also introduce some additional noi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20ecology | Industrial ecology (IE) is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. The global industrial economy can be modelled as a network of industrial processes that extract resources from the Earth and transform those resources into by-products, products and services which can be bought and sold to me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany%20Eyewear | Epiphany Eyewear are smartglasses developed by Vergence Labs. The glasses record video stored within the glasses' hardware for live-stream upload to a computer or social media. The glasses use smartphone technology. The head mounted display is a mobile computer and a high-definition camera. The glasses take photographi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronary%20ligament%20of%20the%20knee | The coronary ligaments of the knee (also known as meniscotibial ligaments) are portions of the joint capsule which connect the inferior edges of the fibrocartilaginous menisci to the periphery of the tibial plateaus.
Structure
The coronary ligaments of the knee are continuous with the joint capsule and the menisci.
F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuegong-1 | Lunar Palace 1, Moon Palace 1 or Yuegong-1 (Chinese: 月宫1号 or 月宫1 or 月宫一号 or 月宫一 ; pinyin: Yuègōng 1 hào or Yuègōng 1 or Yuègōng Yī hào or Yuègōng Yī) is a Chinese research facility for developing a moon base. It is an environmentally closed facility where occupants can simulate a long-duration self-contained mission wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy%20of%20neutralization | In chemistry and thermodynamics, the enthalpy of neutralization () is the change in enthalpy that occurs when one equivalent of an acid and a base undergo a neutralization reaction to form water and a salt. It is a special case of the enthalpy of reaction. It is defined as the energy released with the formation of 1 mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I3C%20%28bus%29 | I3C is a specification to enable communication between computer chips by defining the electrical connection between the chips and signaling patterns to be used. Short for "Improved Inter Integrated Circuit", the standard defines the electrical connection between the chips to be a two wire, shared (multidrop), serial da... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichroic%20glass | Dichroic glass is glass which can display multiple different colors depending on lighting conditions.
One dichroic material is a modern composite non-translucent glass that is produced by stacking layers of metal oxides which give the glass shifting colors depending on the angle of view, causing an array of colors to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle%20atrophy | Muscle atrophy is the loss of skeletal muscle mass. It can be caused by immobility, aging, malnutrition, medications, or a wide range of injuries or diseases that impact the musculoskeletal or nervous system. Muscle atrophy leads to muscle weakness and causes disability.
Disuse causes rapid muscle atrophy and often oc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irresistible%20force%20paradox | The irresistible force paradox (also unstoppable force paradox or shield and spear paradox), is a classic paradox formulated as "What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?" The immovable object and the unstoppable force are both implicitly assumed to be indestructible, or else the question would ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby%20powder | Baby powder is an astringent powder used for preventing diaper rash and for cosmetic uses. It may be composed of talc (in which case it is also called talcum powder) or corn starch. It may also contain additional ingredients like fragrances. Baby powder can also be used as a dry shampoo, cleaning agent (to remove grea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemur%20%28input%20device%29 | The Lemur was a highly customizable multi-touch device from French company JazzMutant founded by Yoann Gantch, Pascal Joguet, Guillaume Largillier and Julien Olivier in 2002, which served as a controller for musical devices such as synthesizers and mixing consoles, as well as for other media applications such as video ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDYST | FIDYST is a proprietary simulation tool developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics that simulates fibers in turbulent flows. The name FIDYST is an acronym and means Fiber Dynamics Simulation Tool.
History
In 1995 the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics started a research project in o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20resources | Marine resources are resources (physical and biological entities) that are found in oceans and are useful for humans. The term was popularized through Sustainable Development Goal 14 which is about "Life below water" and is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2015. The offic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm%20O%27Donnell | Colm P. O'Donnell is an Irish chemist and engineer; he is a professor of biosystems and food engineering at the University College Dublin who is active in the field of process analytical technology (PAT); he is also a head of university School of biosystems and food engineering — as well as a chairperson of the Dairy p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepper | A stepper is a device used in the manufacture of integrated circuits (ICs) that is similar in operation to a slide projector or a photographic enlarger. Stepper is short for step-and-repeat camera. Steppers are an essential part of the complex process, called photolithography, which creates millions of microscopic circ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teamwire | Teamwire is a technology start-up based in Munich, Germany, that was originally called grouptime GmbH. The company focuses on mobile messaging apps and secure communications for regulated industries. The core product is Teamwire, an encrypted instant messaging app for enterprises and the public sector. In addition to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterobacterial%20common%20antigen | The enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) is a carbohydrate antigen found in the outer membrane of many Enterobacterales species. The antigen is unanimously absent from other gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. Aeromonas hydrophila 209A is the only organism outside of Enterobacterales that expresses the ECA. More ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20%28programming%20language%29 | E is an object-oriented programming language for secure distributed computing, created by Mark S. Miller, Dan Bornstein, Douglas Crockford, Chip Morningstar and others at Electric Communities in 1997. E is mainly descended from the concurrent language Joule and from Original-E, a set of extensions to Java for secure di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaisberg%20Transmitter | Gaisberg Transmitter is a facility for FM and TV-transmission on the Gaisberg mountain near Salzburg, Austria. It was the first large transmitter in Austria finished after the war and started its work on 22 August 1956 (however, a provisional transmitter already broadcast a VHF radio signal since 1953 with 1kW). It use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic%20field | In mathematics, specifically the area of algebraic number theory, a cubic field is an algebraic number field of degree three.
Definition
If K is a field extension of the rational numbers Q of degree [K:Q] = 3, then K is called a cubic field. Any such field is isomorphic to a field of the form
where f is an irreducibl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%2026 | Zinc finger protein 26 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF26 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerEdge%20VRTX | Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a computer hardware product line from Dell.
It is a mini-blade chassis with built-in storage system. The VRTX comes in two models: a 19" rack version that is 5 rack units high or as a stand-alone tower system.
Specifications
The VRTX system is partially based on the Dell M1000e blade-enclosure ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blight | Blight refers to a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism.
Description
Blight is a rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral organs. Accordingly, many diseases that primarily exhibit this symptom are call... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20theory%20landscape | In string theory, the string theory landscape (or landscape of vacua) is the collection of possible false vacua, together comprising a collective "landscape" of choices of parameters governing compactifications.
The term "landscape" comes from the notion of a fitness landscape in evolutionary biology. It was first ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insects%20in%20Japanese%20culture | Within Japanese culture, insects have occupied an important role as aesthetic, allegorical, and symbolic objects. In addition, insects have had a historical importance within the context of the culture and art of Japan.
Kenta Takada, longhorn beetle collector and author, noted that the Japanese appreciation for insect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOL-1%20Switch%20protein%20N-terminal%20domain | In molecular biology, Xol-1 is a protein domain, also named the Switch protein, is essentially a sex-determining protein. This entry focuses on the N-terminal domain of Xol-1.
Xol-1, the master switch gene controlling sex-determination system and dosage
compensation. This protein is normally expressed in males, where ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st%20meridian%20east | The meridian 41° 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.
Part of the border between Kenya and Somalia runs about 1 km west of the meridian, parallel to it.
The 41st ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysteine | Cysteine (symbol Cys or C; ) is a semiessential proteinogenic amino acid with the formula . The thiol side chain in cysteine often participates in enzymatic reactions as a nucleophile. Cysteine is chiral, with only L-cysteine being found in nature.
The thiol is susceptible to oxidation to give the disulfide derivative... |
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