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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XARA
XARA is an acronym for "Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access", which describes a category of zero-day vulnerabilities in computer software systems. Initial Disclosure An academic research paper entitled "Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access on MAC OS X and iOS". was published on 26 May 2015 by a team of researche...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine%20hull
In mathematics, the affine hull or affine span of a set S in Euclidean space Rn is the smallest affine set containing S, or equivalently, the intersection of all affine sets containing S. Here, an affine set may be defined as the translation of a vector subspace. The affine hull aff(S) of S is the set of all affine c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20therapeutics
RNA therapeutics are a new class of medications based on ribonucleic acid (RNA). Research has been working on clinical use since the 1990s, with significant success in cancer therapy in the early 2010s. In 2020 and 2021, mRNA vaccines have been developed globally for use in combating the coronavirus disease (COVID-19 p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20N.%20Jackson
Douglas Northrop Jackson II (August 14, 1929 – August 22, 2004) was a Canadian psychology professor best known for his work in human assessment and psychological testing. Life and career Born in Merrick, New York, Jackson graduated from Cornell University in 1951 with a BSc in Industrial and Labor Relations and from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiling%20%28information%20science%29
In information science, profiling refers to the process of construction and application of user profiles generated by computerized data analysis. This is the use of algorithms or other mathematical techniques that allow the discovery of patterns or correlations in large quantities of data, aggregated in databases. Whe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerontology%20Research%20Group
The Gerontology Research Group (GRG) based in Los Angeles, California, USA, is a global non-profit scientific organization of researchers in various fields of gerontology, primarily concerned with validating the ages of, recording and researching supercentenarians (people who are at least 110 years old). The group en...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasilicic%20acid
Metasilicic acid is a hypothetical chemical compound with formula . Metasilicates occur widely in nature as inosilicates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeluros
Aeluros Inc was a semiconductor company developing integrated circuits for wireline communications - for Ethernet operating at 10 Gigabits per second. The company was founded in 2001, and produced physical layer ICs used in 10GE line cards and optical modules (such as XENPAK, SFP, XFP). Aeluros was the first to produc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porostromata
"Porostromata" is an antiquated form taxon that refers to fossil cyanobacteria. The term porostromate is also used as a descriptor of textures and microstructure of stromatolites and oncolites which contain tubules or other cellular structures. The group was defined by Pia (1927) as containing calcareous algae bearing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuantLib
QuantLib is an open-source software library which provides tools for software developers and practitioners interested in financial instrument valuation and related subjects. QuantLib is written in C++. History The QuantLib project was started by a few quantitative analysts who worked at RiskMap (currently StatPro Ital...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem%20running
Tandem running is a pair movement coordination observed in ants and termites. In ants, tandem running is used for social learning, by which one ant leads another native ant from the nest to the food source it has found. Tandem running is also used to find and choose better, new nest sites to which the colony can emig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy%20%28online%20service%29
Prodigy Communications Corporation was an online service from 1984 to 2001 that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services. It was one of the major internet service providers of the 1990s. The company claimed it was the first consumer online service, citing its graphical user interface and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin%20N.%20Hurmuzachi
Constantin N. Hurmuzachi (October 3, 1863–February 22, 1937) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian biologist. Born in Cernăuți to Natalia and Nicolae Hurmuzachi, he joined the Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna while still a schoolboy. He graduated high school in his native city in 1881. After studying at the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halostella
Halostella (common abbreviation Hsl.) is a genus of halophilic archaea in the family of Halobacteriaceae. Phylogeny The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). See also List of Archaea genera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapback%20%28electrical%29
Snapback is a mechanism in a bipolar transistor in which avalanche breakdown or impact ionization provides a sufficient base current to turn on the transistor. It is used intentionally in the design of certain ESD protection devices integrated onto semiconductor chips. It can also be a parasitic failure mechanism when ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemp%20Technologies
Kemp, Inc. is an American technology company that was founded in 2000 in Bethpage, New York and operates in the application delivery controller industry. The company builds load balancing products which balances user traffic between multiple application servers in a physical, virtual or cloud environment. In 2010, Kem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD23A
UV excision repair protein RAD23 homolog A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAD23A gene. Function The protein encoded by this gene is one of two human homologs of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad23, a protein involved in nucleotide excision repair (NER). This protein was shown to interact with, and elevate ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schreinemaker%27s%20analysis
Schreinemaker's Analysis is the use of Schreinemaker's Rules to create a phase diagram. After applying Schreinemaker's Rules and creating a phase diagram, the resulting geometric figure will be thermodynamically accurate, although the axes will be undetermined. In order to determine the correct orientation of the geom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20powerline%20bus
Universal Powerline Bus (UPB) is a proprietary software protocol developed by Powerline Control Systems for power-line communication between devices used for home automation. Household electrical wiring is used to send digital data between UPB devices via pulse-position modulation. Communication is peer to peer, with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels%20Workstation%20Extreme
Parallels Workstation Extreme is the first workstation virtualization product that lets users virtualize graphics-intensive software programs such as geophysical simulation, financial analysis, and digital content creation programs commonly used by engineers and digital animators in virtual machines on Windows and Linu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius%20subdulcis
Lactarius subdulcis, commonly known as the mild milkcap or beech milk cap, is an edible mushroom in the genus Lactarius. It is brown in colour, with a large number of gills and a particularly thin layer of flesh in the cap. Mycorrhizal, the mushroom is found from late summer to late autumn at the base of beech trees in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog%E2%80%93Sch%C3%B6nheim%20conjecture
In mathematics, the Herzog–Schönheim conjecture is a combinatorial problem in the area of group theory, posed by Marcel Herzog and Jochanan Schönheim in 1974. Let be a group, and let be a finite system of left cosets of subgroups of . Herzog and Schönheim conjectured that if forms a partition of with , then the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20graphics%20and%20descriptive%20geometry%20topics
This is a list of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics, by article name. 2D computer graphics 2D geometric model 3D computer graphics 3D projection Alpha compositing Anisotropic filtering Anti-aliasing Axis-aligned bounding box Axonometric projection Bézier curve Bézier surface Bicubic interpol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doneness
Doneness is a gauge of how thoroughly cooked a cut of meat is based on its color, juiciness, and internal temperature. The gradations are most often used in reference to beef (especially steaks and roasts) but are also applicable to other types of meat. Gradations, their descriptions, and their associated temperatures...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMTM2
CKLF-like MARVEL transmembrane domain-containing protein 2 (i.e. CMTM2), previously termed chemokine-like factor superfamily 2 ( i.e. CKLFSF2), is a member of the CKLF-like MARVEL transmembrane domain-containing family (CMTM) of proteins. In humans, it is encoded by the CMTM2 gene located in band 22 on the long (i.e. "...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELAN%20%28programming%20language%29
ELAN is an interpreted educational programming language for learning and teaching systematic programming. It was developed in 1974 by C.H.A. Koster and a group at the Technical University of Berlin as an alternative to BASIC in teaching, and approved for use in secondary schools in Germany by the "Arbeitskreis Schulsp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20ghost%20knifefish
The black ghost knifefish (Apteronotus albifrons) is a tropical fish belonging to the ghost knifefish family (Apteronotidae). They originate in freshwater habitats in South America where they range from Venezuela to the Paraguay–Paraná River, including the Amazon Basin. They are popular in aquaria. The fish is all blac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20spiral
In geometry, a golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral whose growth factor is , the golden ratio. That is, a golden spiral gets wider (or further from its origin) by a factor of for every quarter turn it makes. Approximations of the golden spiral There are several comparable spirals that approximate, but do not exact...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20mysticism
Quantum mysticism, sometimes referred pejoratively to as quantum quackery or quantum woo, is a set of metaphysical beliefs and associated practices that seek to relate consciousness, intelligence, spirituality, or mystical worldviews to the ideas of quantum mechanics and its interpretations. Quantum mysticism is critic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphatic%20disease
Lymphatic disease is a class of disorders which directly affect the components of the lymphatic system. Examples include Castleman's disease and lymphedema. Types Diseases and disorder Hodgkin's Disease/Hodgkin's Lymphoma Hodgkin lymphoma This is a type of cancer of the lymphatic system. It can start almost anywher...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrlich%20ascites%20carcinoma
Ehrlich-Lettre ascites carcinoma (EAC) is also known as Ehrlich cell. It was originally established as an ascites tumor in mice. Ehrlich cell The tumor was cultured in vivo, which became known as the Ehrlich cell. After 1948 Ehrlich cultures spread around research institutes all over the world. The Ehrlich cell becam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingual%20septum
The lingual septum consists of a vertical layer of fibrous tissue, extending throughout the entire length of the median plane of the tongue, though not quite reaching the dorsum. The lingual septum is closely associated with the hyoglossus membrane, allowing the binding of the tongue to the hyoid muscles. Visualizatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tao%20of%20Physics
The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism is a 1975 book by physicist Fritjof Capra. A bestseller in the United States, it has been translated into 23 languages. Capra summarized his motivation for writing the book: “Science does not need mysticism and mysticism do...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20algorithm
The α-algorithm or α-miner is an algorithm used in process mining, aimed at reconstructing causality from a set of sequences of events. It was first put forward by van der Aalst, Weijters and Măruşter. The goal of Alpha miner is to convert the event log into a workflow-net based on the relations between various activit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trager%20approach
The Trager approach is a form of somatic education. Proponents claim the Trager approach helps release deep-seated physical and mental patterns and facilitates deep relaxation, increased physical mobility, and mental clarity. History The founder, Milton Trager, called his work Psychophysical Integration. He was an at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancidification
Rancidification is the process of complete or incomplete autoxidation or hydrolysis of fats and oils when exposed to air, light, moisture, or bacterial action, producing short-chain aldehydes, ketones and free fatty acids. When these processes occur in food, undesirable odors and flavors can result. In processed meats...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish%E2%80%93Fisher%20expansion
The Cornish–Fisher expansion is an asymptotic expansion used to approximate the quantiles of a probability distribution based on its cumulants. It is named after E. A. Cornish and R. A. Fisher, who first described the technique in 1937. Definition For a random variable X with mean μ, variance σ², and cumulants κn, i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretext
A pretext (adj: pretextual) is an excuse to do something or say something that is not accurate. Pretexts may be based on a half-truth or developed in the context of a misleading fabrication. Pretexts have been used to conceal the true purpose or rationale behind actions and words. They are often heard in political spee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroophoron
The paroophoron (of Johnson) consists of a few scattered rudimentary tubules, best seen in a child, situated in the broad ligament between the epoöphoron and the uterus. Named for the Welsh anatomist David Johnson who originally described the structure at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. It is a remnant of the me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrichomonal%20agent
An antitrichomonal agent is an antiprotozoal agent that acts on trichomonas parasites. Examples include: furazolidone nifuratel nimorazole ornidazole tinidazole usnic acid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullio%20phenomenon
Tullio phenomenon, sound-induced vertigo, dizziness, nausea or eye movement (nystagmus) was first described in 1929 by the Italian biologist Prof. Pietro Tullio. (1881–1941) During his experiments on pigeons, Tullio discovered that by drilling tiny holes in the semicircular canals of his subjects, he could subsequently...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus%20albolutescens
Agaricus albolutescens, commonly known as the amber-staining agaricus, is a moderate-sized, stocky-statured mushroom with a pleasant odor; it bruises slowly but persistently yellow. This character distinguishes it from other Agaricus species, such as Agaricus xanthodermus, a mildly toxic species which has a phenolic or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubiales%20%28plant%29
Rubiales was an order of flowering plants in the Cronquist system, including the families Rubiaceae and Theligonaceae. The latest APG system (2016) does not recognize this order and places the families within Gentianales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20cycle%20withdrawal
Cell cycle withdrawal refers to the natural stoppage of cell cycle during cell division.  When cells divide, there are many internal or external factors that would lead to a stoppage of division. This stoppage could be permanent or temporary, and could occur in any one of the four cycle phases (G1, S, G2 and M), depen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorica
Combinatorica is an international journal of mathematics, publishing papers in the fields of combinatorics and computer science. It started in 1981, with László Babai and László Lovász as the editors-in-chief with Paul Erdős as honorary editor-in-chief. The current editors-in-chief are Imre Bárány and József Solymosi. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable%20universe
The observable universe is a ball-shaped region of the universe comprising all matter that can be observed from Earth or its space-based telescopes and exploratory probes at the present time; the electromagnetic radiation from these objects has had time to reach the Solar System and Earth since the beginning of the cos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean%20plane%20isometry
In geometry, a Euclidean plane isometry is an isometry of the Euclidean plane, or more informally, a way of transforming the plane that preserves geometrical properties such as length. There are four types: translations, rotations, reflections, and glide reflections (see below under ). The set of Euclidean plane isome...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganjam%20Kewda%20Rooh
Ganjam Kewda Rooh (Screw pine, IPA://, Pandanus fascicularis) is a plant native to the Indian state of Odisha primarily in the Ganjam district. Kewda has been identified as a Geographical Indications in India. They are found between the rivers Rushikulya on the north and Bahuda on the south. It is an economically impo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronese%20bell%20ringing
Veronese bell ringing is a style of ringing church bells that developed around Verona, Italy, from the eighteenth century. The bells are rung full circle (mouth uppermost to mouth uppermost), being held up by a rope and wheel until a note is required. History Early history In The History of Verona Ludovico Moscardo ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerkin%20method
In mathematics, in the area of numerical analysis, Galerkin methods are named after the Soviet mathematician Boris Galerkin. They convert a continuous operator problem, such as a differential equation, commonly in a weak formulation, to a discrete problem by applying linear constraints determined by finite sets of basi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-relative%20interior
In topology, a branch of mathematics, the quasi-relative interior of a subset of a vector space is a refinement of the concept of the interior. Formally, if is a linear space then the quasi-relative interior of is where denotes the closure of the conic hull. Let is a normed vector space, if is a convex finite-d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioCreative
BioCreAtIvE (A critical assessment of text mining methods in molecular biology) consists in a community-wide effort for evaluating information extraction and text mining developments in the biological domain. It was preceded by the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) Challenge Cup for detection of gene mentions...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price-Jones%20curve
A Price-Jones curve is a graph showing the distribution of diameters of red blood cells. Higher diameter may be seen in pernicious anaemia, while lower diameter may be seen after haemorrhage. Medical uses A Price-Jones curve can be used in the diagnosis of anaemia. Price-Jones curves usually vary both by average red ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superposition%20Benchmark
Superposition Benchmark is benchmarking software based on the UNIGINE Engine. The benchmark was developed and published by UNIGINE Company in 2017. The main purpose of software is performance and stability testing for GPUs. Users can choose a workload preset, Low to Extreme, or set the parameters by custom. The benchma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative%20psychology
Quantitative psychology is a field of scientific study that focuses on the mathematical modeling, research design and methodology, and statistical analysis of psychological processes. It includes tests and other devices for measuring cognitive abilities. Quantitative psychologists develop and analyze a wide variety of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive%20contamination
Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids, liquids, or gases (including the human body), where their presence is unintended or undesirable (from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) definition). Such ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurophilicity
In chemistry, aurophilicity refers to the tendency of gold complexes to aggregate via formation of weak metallophilic interactions. The main evidence for aurophilicity is from the crystallographic analysis of Au(I) complexes. The aurophilic bond has a length of about 3.0 Å and a strength of about 7–12 kcal/mol, which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Morse%20Nice%20Medal
The Margaret Morse Nice Medal is an ornithological award made annually by the Wilson Ornithological Society (WOS). It was established in 1997 and named in honour of ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974). The medal recipient is expected to give the plenary lecture at the WOS annual general meeting. Recipients...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpora%20amylacea
Corpora amylacea (CA) (from the Latin meaning "starch-like bodies;" also known as wasteosomes) is a general term for small hyaline masses found in the prostate gland, nervous system, lung, and sometimes in other organs of the body. Corpora amylacea increase in number and size with advancing age, although this increase...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-home%20DVR
Whole home DVR is a system where there is only 1 physical DVR in the house, but the remaining set top boxes can act like a DVR. A multi-DVR system where all DVR's are networked together, and can stream recordings to and from each other, would also be a whole-home DVR solution. Digital video recorders Set-top box
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenoble%20Observatory%20for%20Sciences%20of%20the%20Universe
The Grenoble Observatory for Sciences of the Universe (OSUG) () is an astronomical observatory in France that is attached to CNRS-INSU and Grenoble Alpes University. OSUG engages in scientific studies related to all aspects of the universe, the earth and environmental systems. The OSUG federates 1100 personals in 6 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented%20modeling
Object-oriented modeling (OOM) is an approach to modeling an application that is used at the beginning of the software life cycle when using an object-oriented approach to software development. The software life cycle is typically divided up into stages going from abstract descriptions of the problem to designs then t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20physics%20articles
Physics (Greek: physis–φύσις meaning "nature") is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as mass, charge, matter and its motion and all that derives from these, such as energy, force and spacetime. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the world and uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Food%20Safety%20Authority
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) that provides independent scientific advice and communicates on existing and emerging risks associated with the food chain. EFSA was established in February 2002, is based in Parma, Italy, and for 2021 it has a budget of €118.6 million, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropathology
Neuropathology is the study of disease of nervous system tissue, usually in the form of either small surgical biopsies or whole-body autopsies. Neuropathologists usually work in a department of anatomic pathology, but work closely with the clinical disciplines of neurology, and neurosurgery, which often depend on neuro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleogenetics
Paleogenetics is the study of the past through the examination of preserved genetic material from the remains of ancient organisms. Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling introduced the term in 1963, long before the sequencing of DNA, in reference to the possible reconstruction of the corresponding polypeptide sequences o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell
Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building technologies, performance materials and technologies (PMT), and safety and productivity solutions (SPS). H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20inferior%20iliac%20spine
The posterior inferior iliac spine (Sweeney's Tubercle) is an anatomical landmark that describes a bony "spine", or projection, at the posterior and inferior surface of the iliac bone. It is one of two such spines on the posterior surface, the other being the posterior superior iliac spine. These two spines are separa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed%20information
Directed information is an information theory measure that quantifies the information flow from the random string to the random string . The term directed information was coined by James Massey and is defined as where is the conditional mutual information . Directed information has applications to problems wher...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei%20E5
The E5 is a mobile Wi-Fi device produced by Huawei Technologies, and is part of the company's mobile Wi-Fi series that includes the E5830s, E585, E583c and E586. The E5 series connect to other devices using a wireless interface. The devices are pocket size and allow users to access the Internet through any Wi-Fi device...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocomb
Eurocomb, the European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications, is an academic conference in the mathematical field of combinatorics. Eurocomb has been held biennially since 2001. Since 2003, the European Prize in Combinatorics has been awarded at the conference. For each instance of the conference...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secotioid
Secotioid fungi are an intermediate growth form between mushroom-like hymenomycetes and closed bag-shaped gasteromycetes, where an evolutionary process of gasteromycetation has started but not run to completion. Secotioid fungi may or may not have opening caps, but in any case they often lack the vertical geotropic or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytodetritus
In oceanography, phytodetritus is the organic particulate matter resulting from phytoplankton and other organic material in surface waters falling to the seabed. This process takes place almost continuously as a "marine snow" of descending particles, falling at the rate of about per day. Under certain conditions, phyt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20model
In software development, a feature model is a compact representation of all the products of the Software Product Line (SPL) in terms of "features". Feature models are visually represented by means of feature diagrams. Feature models are widely used during the whole product line development process and are commonly used...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larmor%20precession
In physics, Larmor precession (named after Joseph Larmor) is the precession of the magnetic moment of an object about an external magnetic field. The phenomenon is conceptually similar to the precession of a tilted classical gyroscope in an external torque-exerting gravitational field. Objects with a magnetic moment a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie%20Corteel
Sylvie Corteel is a French mathematician at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Paris Diderot University and the University of California, Berkeley, who was an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A. Her research concerns the enumerative combinatorics and algebraic combinatori...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth%20expansion
Bandwidth expansion is a technique for widening the bandwidth or the resonances in an LPC filter. This is done by moving all the poles towards the origin by a constant factor . The bandwidth-expanded filter can be easily derived from the original filter by: Let be expressed as: The bandwidth-expanded filter can be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative%20cascade
In mathematics, a multiplicative cascade is a fractal/multifractal distribution of points produced via an iterative and multiplicative random process. Definition The plots above are examples of multiplicative cascade multifractals. To create these distributions there are a few steps to take. Firstly, we must create ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20scanning
3D scanning is the process of analyzing a real-world object or environment to collect three dimensional data of its shape and possibly its appearance (e.g. color). The collected data can then be used to construct digital 3D models. A 3D scanner can be based on many different technologies, each with its own limitations...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20LC%20circuit
An LC circuit can be quantized using the same methods as for the quantum harmonic oscillator. An LC circuit is a variety of resonant circuit, and consists of an inductor, represented by the letter L, and a capacitor, represented by the letter C. When connected together, an electric current can alternate between them a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separase
Separase, also known as separin, is a cysteine protease responsible for triggering anaphase by hydrolysing cohesin, which is the protein responsible for binding sister chromatids during the early stage of anaphase. In humans, separin is encoded by the ESPL1 gene. History In S. cerevisiae, separase is encoded by the e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomatitis
Stomatitis is inflammation of the mouth and lips. It refers to any inflammatory process affecting the mucous membranes of the mouth and lips, with or without oral ulceration. In its widest meaning, stomatitis can have a multitude of different causes and appearances. Common causes include infections, nutritional defici...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator%20function%20%28complex%20analysis%29
In the field of mathematics known as complex analysis, the indicator function of an entire function indicates the rate of growth of the function in different directions. Definition Let us consider an entire function . Supposing, that its growth order is , the indicator function of is defined to be The indicator fun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast%20of%20the%20Gods%20%28art%29
The Feast of the Gods or Banquet of the Gods as a subject in art showing a group of deities at table has a long history going back into antiquity. Showing Greco-Roman deities, it enjoyed a revival in popularity in the Italian Renaissance, and then in the Low Countries during the 16th century, when it was popular with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS%20Certification%20Authority%20Authorization
DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) is an Internet security policy mechanism that allows domain name holders to indicate to certificate authorities whether they are authorized to issue digital certificates for a particular domain name. It does this by means of a "CAA" Domain Name System (DNS) resource recor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard%20%28information%20security%29
In information security, a guard is a device or system for allowing computers on otherwise separate networks to communicate, subject to configured constraints. In many respects a guard is like a firewall and guards may have similar functionality to a gateway. Whereas a firewall is designed to limit traffic to certain ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20algebraic%20topology%20topics
This is a list of algebraic topology topics. Homology (mathematics) Simplex Simplicial complex Polytope Triangulation Barycentric subdivision Simplicial approximation theorem Abstract simplicial complex Simplicial set Simplicial category Chain (algebraic topology) Betti number Euler characteristic Genus Riemann–Hurwi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic
An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time. For example, in meningococcal infections, an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is consider...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow%20shock
In astrophysics, a bow shock occurs when the magnetosphere of an astrophysical object interacts with the nearby flowing ambient plasma such as the solar wind. For Earth and other magnetized planets, it is the boundary at which the speed of the stellar wind abruptly drops as a result of its approach to the magnetopause...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faint%20young%20Sun%20paradox
The faint young Sun paradox or faint young Sun problem describes the apparent contradiction between observations of liquid water early in Earth's history and the astrophysical expectation that the Sun's output would be only 70 percent as intense during that epoch as it is during the modern epoch. The paradox is this: w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20analytics
Game analytics is the form of behavioral analytics that deals with video games. Game analytics involve using quantitative measures, metrics, and tools that can be used to track events that occur over the course of a game, with the goal of capturing such data for statistical analysis. A simple example would be programmi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20manual%20image%20annotation%20tools
Manual image annotation is the process of manually defining regions in an image and creating a textual description of those regions. Such annotations can for instance be used to train machine learning algorithms for computer vision applications. This is a list of computer software which can be used for manual annotat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley%20McAdams
Harley H. McAdams (born 1938, Liberty, Texas) is an American physicist, microbial geneticist, and developmental biologist. McAdams and his collaborators have published foundational insights on the nature of genetic regulatory logic and cell biology, the molecular basis for inevitable random variation levels of protein ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MedCity%20%28London%29
MedCity (London) describes the collaboration between the Mayor of London and the capital's health science centres of three premier academic institutions Imperial College London, King's College London and University College London comprising the London part of the 'golden triangle'. MedCity was launched in 2014 to incre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal%20polymorphism
In genetics, chromosomal polymorphism is a condition where one species contains members with varying chromosome counts or shapes. Polymorphism is a general concept in biology where more than one version of a trait is present in a population. In some cases of differing counts, the difference in chromosome counts is the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telocator%20Alphanumeric%20Protocol
Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol (TAP) is an industry-standard protocol for sending short messages via a land-line modem to a provider of pager and/or SMS services, for onward transmission to pagers and mobile phones. TAP, initially known as Motorola Page Entry (PET) was adopted in September 1988, by the Personal Commu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog%20%28models%29
Frog was a well-known British brand of flying model aircraft and scale model construction kits from the 1930s to the 1970s. The company's first model, an Interceptor Mk. 4, was launched in 1932, followed in 1936 by a range of 1:72 scale model aircraft kits made from cellulose acetate, which were the world's first. Pol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%20number
A Markov number or Markoff number is a positive integer x, y or z that is part of a solution to the Markov Diophantine equation studied by . The first few Markov numbers are 1, 2, 5, 13, 29, 34, 89, 169, 194, 233, 433, 610, 985, 1325, ... appearing as coordinates of the Markov triples (1, 1, 1), (1, 1, 2), (1, 2,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet%20and%20loud%20aliens
The concept of quiet and loud aliens is used in the modelling of hypotheses for the prevalence of extraterrestrial intelligence, particularly in the context of the Fermi Paradox. Hypothetical "loud" aliens expand their sphere of influence rapidly in a highly detectable way; hypothetical "quiet" aliens are hard or impos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductor%20digiti%20minimi%20muscle%20of%20foot
The abductor digiti minimi (abductor minimi digiti, abductor digiti quinti) is a muscle which lies along the lateral (outer) border of the foot, and is in relation by its medial margin with the lateral plantar artery, vein and nerves. Its homolog in the arm is the abductor digiti minimi muscle in the hand. Origin and...