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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusztai%20affair | The Pusztai affair is a controversy that began in 1998. The protein scientist Árpád Pusztai went public with the initial results of unpublished research he was conducting at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, investigating the possible effects of genetically modified potatoes upon rats. Pusztai claimed that th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMmark | VMmark is a freeware virtual machine benchmark software suite from VMware, Inc. The suite measures the performance of virtualized servers while running under load on a set of physical hardware. VMmark was independently developed by VMware.
Technical overview
In order to measure the efficiency of the virtualization ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20binary | In gravitational wave astronomy, a golden binary is a binary black hole collision event whose inspiral and ringdown phases have been measured accurately enough to provide separate measurements of the initial and final black hole masses.
Testing general relativity
Current LIGO/Virgo protocol relies on its library of s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20conductor | A perfect conductor or perfect electric conductor (PEC) is an idealized material exhibiting infinite electrical conductivity or, equivalently, zero resistivity (cf. perfect dielectric). While perfect electrical conductors do not exist in nature, the concept is a useful model when electrical resistance is negligible com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microextrusion | Microextrusion is a microforming extrusion process performed at the submillimeter range. Like extrusion, material is pushed through a die orifice, but the resulting product's cross section can fit through a 1mm square. Several microextrusion processes have been developed since microforming was envisioned in 1990. Forwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrod%20Lecture%20and%20Medal | The Garrod Lecture and Medal is an award presented by the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. It was established in 1982 and named for L. P. Garrod. The medal is made of silver by the Birmingham Mint. The recipient of the award is considered by the society as having international authority in the field of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnailing%20%28histology%29 | In histopathology, hobnailing is the presence of smooth projections from an epithelial surface, which generally contain nuclei. Hobnailing is seen in clear cell ovarian adenocarcinoma, collecting duct carcinoma, and in end-stage cirrhosis. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL-S | PAL-S is the system of television receiver sets in the early days of the PAL system. Here PAL stands for Phase alternating at line rate and S stands for simple.
PAL system
The color hue modulates the phase of a subcarrier named color carrier. In PAL system the polarity of the phase in each frame is reversed to neutr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Fraenkel | Abraham Fraenkel (; February 17, 1891 – October 15, 1965) was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his contributions to axiomatic set theory, especially his additions to Ernst Zermelo's axioms, which resulte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Notification%20Protocol | Microsoft Notification Protocol (MSNP, also known as the Mobile Status Notification Protocol) is an instant messaging protocol developed by Microsoft for use by the Microsoft Messenger service and the instant messaging clients that connect to it, such as Skype since 2014, and the earlier Windows Live Messenger, MSN Mes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneonavicular%20joint | The cuneonavicular joint is a joint (articulation) in the human foot. It is formed between the navicular bone and the three cuneiform bones. The navicular and cuneiform bones are connected by dorsal and plantar ligaments.
Dorsal ligaments
The dorsal ligaments are three small bundles, one attached to each of the cuneif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babelgum | Babelgum was a free-to-view Internet television platform supported by advertising. The project was set up in 2005 by Italian media and telecommunications entrepreneur Silvio Scaglia (one of the founders of Italian TelCo FASTWEB) and scientist Erik Lumer, with the aim of developing interactive software for distributing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetomyography | Magnetomyography (MMG) is a technique for mapping muscle activity by recording magnetic fields produced by electrical currents occurring naturally in the muscles, using arrays of SQUIDs (superconducting quantum interference devices). It has a better capability than electromyography for detecting slow or direct currents... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal%20cupola | In geometry, the pentagonal cupola is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be obtained as a slice of the rhombicosidodecahedron. The pentagonal cupola consists of 5 equilateral triangles, 5 squares, 1 pentagon, and 1 decagon.
Formulae
The following formulae for volume, surface area and circumradius can be used if all ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenotypic%20plasticity | Phenotypic plasticity refers to some of the changes in an organism's behavior, morphology and physiology in response to a unique environment. Fundamental to the way in which organisms cope with environmental variation, phenotypic plasticity encompasses all types of environmentally induced changes (e.g. morphological, p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus%20rubiginosa | Ficus rubiginosa, the rusty fig or Port Jackson fig (damun in the Dharug language), is a species of flowering plant native to eastern Australia in the genus Ficus. Beginning as a seedling that grows on other plants (hemiepiphyte) or rocks (lithophyte), F. rubiginosa matures into a tree high and nearly as wide with a y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krull%E2%80%93Akizuki%20theorem | In commutative algebra, the Krull–Akizuki theorem states the following: Let A be a one-dimensional reduced noetherian ring, K its total ring of fractions. Suppose L is a finite extension of K. If and B is reduced,
then B is a one-dimensional noetherian ring. Furthermore, for every nonzero ideal of B, is finite over ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20calculator | A mechanical calculator, or calculating machine, is a mechanical device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic automatically, or (historically) a simulation such as an analog computer or a slide rule. Most mechanical calculators were comparable in size to small desktop computers and have been rendered obsol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20scheme | In mathematics, a group scheme is a type of object from algebraic geometry equipped with a composition law. Group schemes arise naturally as symmetries of schemes, and they generalize algebraic groups, in the sense that all algebraic groups have group scheme structure, but group schemes are not necessarily connected, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematical%20constants | A mathematical constant is a key number whose value is fixed by an unambiguous definition, often referred to by a symbol (e.g., an alphabet letter), or by mathematicians' names to facilitate using it across multiple mathematical problems. For example, the constant π may be defined as the ratio of the length of a circle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy-continuous%20function | In mathematics, a Cauchy-continuous, or Cauchy-regular, function is a special kind of continuous function between metric spaces (or more general spaces). Cauchy-continuous functions have the useful property that they can always be (uniquely) extended to the Cauchy completion of their domain.
Definition
Let and be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20interval | In mathematics, the unit interval is the closed interval , that is, the set of all real numbers that are greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1. It is often denoted (capital letter ). In addition to its role in real analysis, the unit interval is used to study homotopy theory in the field of topology.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Haraden%20Pratt%20Award | The IEEE Haraden Pratt Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1971 in honor of Haraden Pratt. This award is presented to recognize individuals who have rendered outstanding volunteer service to the IEEE.
This award is presented to an IEEE Senior Member or Fellow.
Following people received the IEEE H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halford%20Leicestershire%20Table%20Sauce | Halford Leicestershire Table Sauce, also Halford sauce or Leicestershire sauce, was once as common a condiment in the United States as ketchup is today. The product was similar to Worcestershire sauce, with some recipes of the time using it interchangeably.
Bottled in England, this sauce was imported to the United Sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20self | In environmental philosophy, ecological self is central to the school of Experiential Deep Ecology, which, based on the work of Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss, argues that through the process of self-actualisation, one transcends the notions of the individuated "egoic" self and arrives at a position of an ecological s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYNAS | DYNAS (from Dynamic Selectivity) is a dynamic analog filtering and tuning technology to improve the reception of FM radio broadcasts under adverse conditions.
Overview
The trademarked DYNAS system is based on the same principles as the In Channel Select (ICS) system by H.u.C. Elektronik. The novel tracking filter arra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axes%20conventions | In ballistics and flight dynamics, axes conventions are standardized ways of establishing the location and orientation of coordinate axes for use as a frame of reference. Mobile objects are normally tracked from an external frame considered fixed. Other frames can be defined on those mobile objects to deal with relativ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive%20closure | In mathematical logic, a set of logical formulae is deductively closed if it contains every formula that can be logically deduced from , formally: if always implies . If is a set of formulae, the deductive closure of is its smallest superset that is deductively closed.
The deductive closure of a theory is often ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded%20quantifier | In the study of formal theories in mathematical logic, bounded quantifiers (a.k.a. restricted quantifiers) are often included in a formal language in addition to the standard quantifiers "∀" and "∃". Bounded quantifiers differ from "∀" and "∃" in that bounded quantifiers restrict the range of the quantified variable. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equally%20spaced%20polynomial | An equally spaced polynomial (ESP) is a polynomial used in finite fields, specifically GF(2) (binary).
An s-ESP of degree sm can be written as:
for
or
Properties
Over GF(2) the ESP has many interesting properties, including:
The Hamming weight of the ESP is m + 1.
A 1-ESP is known as an all one polynomial and h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashCopy | FlashCopy is an IBM feature supported on various IBM storage devices that made it possible to create, nearly instantaneously,
point-in-time snapshot copies of entire logical volumes or data sets. The Hitachi Data Systems implementation providing similar function was branded as ShadowImage. Using either implementation, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%20of%20the%20Chief%20Actuary | The Office of the Chief Actuary is a government agency that has responsibility for actuarial estimates regarding social welfare programs. In Canada, the Office of the Chief Actuary works with the Canada Pension Plan and the Old Age Security Program. In the United States, the Social Security Administration has an Office... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncytiotrophoblast | Syncytiotrophoblast (from the Greek 'syn'- "together"; 'cytio'- "of cells"; 'tropho'- "nutrition"; 'blast'- "bud") is the epithelial covering of the highly vascular embryonic placental villi, which invades the wall of the uterus to establish nutrient circulation between the embryo and the mother. It is a multinucleate,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HegartyMaths | HegartyMaths is an educational subscription tool used by schools in the United Kingdom. It is sometimes used as a replacement for general mathematics homework tasks. Its creator, Colin Hegarty, was the UK Teacher of the Year in 2015 and shortlisted for the Varkey Foundation's Global Teacher Prize in 2016.
Usage
Hegart... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolerance%20graph | In graph theory, a tolerance graph is an undirected graph in which every vertex can be represented by a closed interval and a real number called its tolerance, in such a way that two vertices are adjacent in the graph whenever their intervals overlap in a length that is at least the minimum of their two tolerances.
Thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20media%20background%20check | A social media background check is an investigative technique that involves scrutinizing the social media profiles and activities of individuals, primarily for pre-employment screening and other official verifications. These checks are performed to review people's online behavioral history on social media websites such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridescence | Iridescence (also known as goniochromism) is the phenomenon of certain surfaces that appear to gradually change colour as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes. Iridescence is caused by wave interference of light in microstructures or thin films. Examples of iridescence include soap bubbles, feathers, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-SH | DVB-SH ("Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite services to Handhelds") is a physical layer standard for delivering IP based media content and data to handheld terminals such as mobile phones or PDAs, based on a hybrid satellite/terrestrial downlink and for example a GPRS uplink. The DVB Project published the DVB-SH st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarumitra | Tarumitra is a nationwide students' organization to promote ecological sensitivity in India. It has been campaigning for sensitizing various sections of society on ecological issues. It was started in 1988 by students in Patna, India. U.N has conferred a Special Consultative Status to Tarumitra from 2005. It has over 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBKF-LD | KBKF-LD, virtual and VHF digital channel 6, is a low-powered television station (LPTV) licensed to San Jose, California, United States. The station is owned by Venture Technologies Group, LLC. Its transmitter site is located on Loma Prieta Peak.
Although licensed as a TV station, KBKF-LD primarily functions as a radio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly%20number | In number theory, friendly numbers are two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy index, the ratio between the sum of divisors of a number and the number itself. Two numbers with the same "abundancy" form a friendly pair; n numbers with the same "abundancy" form a friendly n-tuple.
Being mutually friendly is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20leakage | The Fourier transform of a function of time, s(t), is a complex-valued function of frequency, S(f), often referred to as a frequency spectrum. Any linear time-invariant operation on s(t) produces a new spectrum of the form H(f)•S(f), which changes the relative magnitudes and/or angles (phase) of the non-zero values of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal%202 | Portal 2 is a 2011 puzzle-platform video game developed by Valve for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The digital PC version is distributed online by Valve's Steam service, while all retail editions were distributed by Electronic Arts. A port for the Nintendo Switch was included as part of Portal:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Rosen%20metric | The Einstein–Rosen metric is an exact solution of Einstein's field equation. It was derived by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen in 1937. It is the first exact solution of Einstein's equation that described the propagation of a gravitational wave.
This metric can be written in a form such that the Belinski–Zakharov tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM%20Nimbus | RM Nimbus was a range of personal computers from British company Research Machines (now RM Education) sold from 1985 until the early 1990s, after which the designation Nimbus was discontinued. The first of these computers, the RM Nimbus PC-186, was not IBM PC compatible, but its successors the PC-286 and PC-386 were. R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20toughness | In graph theory, toughness is a measure of the connectivity of a graph. A graph is said to be -tough for a given real number if, for every integer , cannot be split into different connected components by the removal of fewer than vertices. For instance, a graph is -tough if the number of components formed by remo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Time%20Race | Real Time Race Limited is a company based at Daresbury Laboratory in North West England. The company was Founded in 2003 by Christopher Leigh and Stuart Scott-Goldstone.
In 2008, Real Time Race worked with Malaysian owned Lotus Cars to test a video capture vehicle. It was fitted with a rotating drum containing 64 lase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM52 | TRIM52, also known as RNF102, is a protein in the tripartite motif family. In humans, it is encoded by the gene of the same name. Knockdown of this gene induces apoptosis. This gene's overexpression has been implicated in multiple types of cancer including ovarian cancer, gastric cancer, and colon cancer. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin%20statistical%20areas | The U.S. currently has 36 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On March 6, 2020, the OMB delineated nine combined statistical areas, 15 metropolitan statistical areas, and 12 micropolitan statistical areas in Wisconsin.
Statistical areas
The Office of Management a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping%20library | Jumping libraries or junction-fragment libraries are collections of genomic DNA fragments generated by chromosome jumping. These libraries allow the analysis of large areas of the genome and overcome distance limitations in common cloning techniques.
A jumping library clone is composed of two stretches of DNA that are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroxasulfone | Pyroxasulfone is a pre-emergence herbicide that inhibits the production of very long chain fatty acids in plants. The structure of the existing herbicide thiobencarb served as the basis for development but pyroxasulfone requires a lower dose (100–25 g/ha) and is more stable resulting in longer efficacy. it had been re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Bridge | The West Bridge is a growing architectural approach, originally developed by Cypress Semiconductor, which enhances and modularizes a peripheral controller in an embedded computer architecture. Conceptually, the West Bridge parallels and complements the decentralization represented by the North Bridge and the South Brid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoallergy | A pseudoallergy is a condition named for its similar presentation to a true allergy, though due to different causes.
It may be due to alterations in the metabolism of histamine.
It can be the cause of some forms of food intolerance. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20circle | A math circle is a learning space where participants engage in the depths and intricacies of mathematical thinking, propagate the culture of doing mathematics, and create knowledge. To reach these goals, participants partake in problem-solving, mathematical modeling, the practice of art, and philosophical discourse. So... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattie%27s%20Call | Mattie's Call is an American law-enforcement-initiated public notification system to locate missing elderly, or otherwise disabled persons.
History
The first version of the Mattie's Call was drafted in 1996. From 1996 to 2009, 127 Mattie's Calls had been triggered.
In 2004, radio stations and local law-enforcement a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C2%B2%20cohomology | In mathematics, L2 cohomology is a cohomology theory for smooth non-compact manifolds M with Riemannian metric. It is defined in the same way as de Rham cohomology except that one uses square-integrable differential forms. The notion of square-integrability makes sense because the metric on M gives rise to a norm on di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain%20%28Sid%20song%29 | "Rain" (レイン) is the seventeenth single by Japanese visual kei rock band SID, released digitally on April 4, 2010, and on CD on June 2 by Ki/oon Records. It was released in three editions: the regular edition and the limited editions A and B, which includes a DVD. "Rain" is one of the opening theme songs of Fullmetal Al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul%20World | Soul World is a fictional place appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, and created by writer/illustrator, Jim Starlin. Soul World was first alluded to in-story in Strange Tales #179 (1975), and first depicted on-the-page in Warlock Vol 2 #6 (1983). Soul World is described as a “pocket dimension” ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20high%20mode | System high mode, or simply system high, is a security mode of using an automated information system (AIS) that pertains to an environment that contains restricted data that is classified in a hierarchical scheme, such as Top Secret, Secret and Unclassified. System high pertains to the IA features of information proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex%20k-center%20problem | The vertex k-center problem is a classical NP-hard problem in computer science. It has application in facility location and clustering. Basically, the vertex k-center problem models the following real problem: given a city with facilities, find the best facilities where to build fire stations. Since firemen must atte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckart%20conditions | The Eckart conditions, named after Carl Eckart, simplify the nuclear motion (rovibrational) Hamiltonian that arises in the second step of the Born–Oppenheimer approximation. They make it possible to approximately separate rotation from vibration. Although the rotational and vibrational motions of the nuclei in a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribes%20burejense | Ribes burejense, sometimes known as the Bureja gooseberry, is a species of flowering plant in the currant/gooseberry family Grossulariacea, generally regarded as closely related to Ribes aciculare.
Like other Ribes species, R. burejense is particularly susceptible to honey fungus. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodiploid | Pseudodiploid or pseudoploid refers to one of the essential components in viral reproduction. It means having two RNA genomes per virion but giving rise to only one DNA copy in infected cells.
The term is also used to refer to cells that are diploid, but have chromosomal translocations.
Overview
Retrovirions for ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix%20delegation | IP networks are divided logically into subnetworks. Computers in the same subnetwork have the same address prefix. For example, in a typical home network with legacy Internet Protocol version 4, the network prefix would be something like 192.168.1.0/24, as expressed in CIDR notation.
With IPv4, commonly home networks ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin%20layers%20%28oceanography%29 | Thin layers are concentrated aggregations of phytoplankton and zooplankton in coastal and offshore waters that are vertically compressed to thicknesses ranging from several centimeters up to a few meters and are horizontally extensive, sometimes for kilometers. Generally, thin layers have three basic criteria: 1) they ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind%20Hudson | Rosalind Audrey Clare Hudson (née Latham; 31 July 1926 – 7 July 2013) was a British codebreaker and architectural model maker.
Early life
Rosalind was educated at Adcote School, Shropshire. In her early years she developed a love for architecture. Being the granddaughter of Walter Aubrey Thomas, who designed the Royal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen%E2%80%93Olesen%20vortex | In theoretical physics, a Nielsen–Olesen vortex is a point-like object localized in two spatial dimensions or, equivalently, a classical solution of field theory with the same property. This particular solution occurs if the configuration space of scalar fields contains non-contractible circles. A circle surrounding th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20recurrent%20artery | The radial recurrent artery arises from the radial artery immediately below the elbow.
It ascends between the branches of the radial nerve, lying on the supinator muscle and then between the brachioradialis muscle and the brachialis muscle, supplying these muscles and the elbow-joint, and anastomosing with the termina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProCurve | HP ProCurve was the name of the networking division of Hewlett-Packard from 1998 to 2010 and was associated with the products that it sold. The name of the division was changed to HP Networking in September 2010 after HP bought 3Com Corporation.
History
The HP division that became the HP ProCurve division began in Ros... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5GBioShield | The Bauer 5GBioShield, usually shortened to 5GBioShield, is a fraudulent scam protective device which the sellers claims to protect against radiation from 5G mobile networks. The device was invented by clinical pharmacist Jacques Bauer and former scientist Ilija Lakicevic and marketed by Sacha Stone. The product, which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl%20Ch%C3%A1vez%20Sarmiento | Raúl Arturo Chávez Sarmiento (born 24 October 1997) is a Peruvian child prodigy in mathematics. At the age of , he won a bronze medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the second youngest medalist in IMO history, behind Terence Tao who won bronze in 1986 at the age of 10.
He won a silver meda... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldmont%20Plus | Goldmont Plus is a microarchitecture for low-power Atom, Celeron and Pentium Silver branded processors used in systems on a chip (SoCs) made by Intel. The Gemini Lake platform with 14 nm Goldmont Plus core was officially launched on December 11, 2017. Intel launched the Gemini Lake Refresh platform on November 4, 2019.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystovirus | Cystovirus is a genus of double-stranded RNA viruses which infects bacteria. It is the only genus in the family Cystoviridae. The name of the group cysto derives from Greek kystis which means bladder or sack. There are seven species in this genus.
Discovery
Pseudomonas virus phi6 was the first virus in this family t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyadic%20transformation | The dyadic transformation (also known as the dyadic map, bit shift map, 2x mod 1 map, Bernoulli map, doubling map or sawtooth map) is the mapping (i.e., recurrence relation)
(where is the set of sequences from ) produced by the rule
.
Equivalently, the dyadic transformation can also be defined as the iterat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission%20%28mechanical%20device%29 | A transmission (also called a gearbox) is a mechanical device which uses gears to change the speed or direction of rotation in a machine. Many transmissions have multiple gear ratios, but there are also transmissions that use a single fixed gear ratio.
Most currently-produced passenger cars with petrol or diesel engin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohnyin%20tjin | Mohnyin Tjin, ( ; also Mon Nyin Jin, Mohn-hnyin Gyin) is a popular Burmese cuisine fermented food dish of vegetables preserved in rice wine and various seasonings. It is similar to Korean Kimchi and Japanese Takana Tsukemono. Mohnyin Tjin is popularly associated with the Shan and is a ubiquitous condiment for Shan dish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20fraction | A unit fraction is a positive fraction with one as its numerator, 1/. It is the multiplicative inverse (reciprocal) of the denominator of the fraction, which must be a positive natural number. Examples are 1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, etc. When an object is divided into equal parts, each part is a unit fraction of the whol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure%20domain | In computing, a failure domain encompasses a physical or logical section of the computing environment that is negatively affected when a critical device or service experiences problems. To put it another way, failure domains are regions or components of infrastructure that could fail. Each has its own risks and challen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAVIS%20%28software%29 | LAVIS is a software tool created by the TOOL Corporation, Japan. LAVIS is a "layout visualisation platform". It supports a variety of formats such as GDSII, OASIS and LEF/DEF and can be used as a platform for common IC processes. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Oetker | Dr. Oetker () is a German multinational company that produces baking powder, cake mixes, frozen pizza, pudding, cake decoration, cornflakes, birthday candles, and various other products.
The company is a wholly owned branch of the Oetker Group, headquartered in Bielefeld, Germany.
Portfolio
The portfolio includes mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scharnhorst%20effect |
The Scharnhorst effect is a hypothetical phenomenon in which light signals travel slightly faster than c between two closely spaced conducting plates. It was first predicted in a 1990 paper by Klaus Scharnhorst of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He showed using quantum electrodynamics that the effective re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous%20gene%20expression | Promiscuous gene expression (PGE), formerly referred to as ectopic expression, is a process specific to the thymus that plays a pivotal role in the establishment of central tolerance. This phenomenon enables generation of self-antigens, so called tissue-restricted antigens (TRAs), which are in the body expressed only b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20learning%20theory | Statistical learning theory is a framework for machine learning drawing from the fields of statistics and functional analysis. Statistical learning theory deals with the statistical inference problem of finding a predictive function based on data. Statistical learning theory has led to successful applications in fields... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced%20metric | In mathematics and theoretical physics, the induced metric is the metric tensor defined on a submanifold that is induced from the metric tensor on a manifold into which the submanifold is embedded, through the pullback. It may be determined using the following formula (using the Einstein summation convention), which is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug%20development | Drug development is the process of bringing a new pharmaceutical drug to the market once a lead compound has been identified through the process of drug discovery. It includes preclinical research on microorganisms and animals, filing for regulatory status, such as via the United States Food and Drug Administration fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysoviridae | Chrysoviridae is a family of double-stranded RNA viruses. Members of the family are called chrysoviruses.
Virology
The capsid is about 35-40 nm in diameter. The genome has four segments (tetrapartite). These segments are separately encapsulated.
Taxonomy
The following genera are recognized:
Alphachrysovirus
Betac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopedate | Pseudopedate is a term used in botany to describe the leaf architecture of certain ferns in the genus Adiantum (maidenhair ferns).
Plants
Historically, certain of the maidenhair ferns, such as Adiantum pedatum, have been described as having a pedate leaf architecture, with a forked rachis which bears subdivided pinn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20cerebral%20veins | The middle cerebral veins - the superficial middle cerebral vein and the deep middle cerebral vein - are two veins running along the lateral sulcus. The superficial middle cerebral vein is also known as the superficial Sylvian vein, and the deep middle cerebral vein is also known as the deep Sylvian vein. The lateral s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YchF-GTPase%20C%20terminal%20protein%20domain | In molecular biology, this protein domain is found at the C terminus of the GTP-binding protein, YchF-GTPase found in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Function
The function of this protein domain remains unknown, however, it is putatively thought to be necessary for ribosome function or for signal transduction from th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Nicholas%20Hitchon | William Nicholas Guy Hitchon (22 October 1957 – 23 July 2023), commonly known as Nick Hitchon, was a nuclear fusion scientist and professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Early life and education
Hitchon was born in Skipton, West Riding of Yorkshire (now North Yorkshire), the eldest of three sons to Iona (née Hall) a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20management | Security management is the identification of an organization's assets (including people, buildings, machines, systems and information assets), followed by the development, documentation, and implementation of policies and procedures for protecting assets.
An organization uses such security management procedures for in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peetre%27s%20inequality | In mathematics, Peetre's inequality, named after Jaak Peetre, says that for any real number and any vectors and in the following inequality holds:
The inequality was proved by J. Peetre in 1959 and has founds applications in functional analysis and Sobolev spaces.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allometric%20engineering | Allometric engineering is the process of experimentally shifting the scaling relationships, for body size or shape, in a population of organisms. More specifically, the process of experimentally breaking the tight covariance evident among component traits of a complex phenotype by altering the variance of one trait rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantoms%20%28novel%29 | Phantoms is a horror novel by American writer Dean Koontz, first published in 1983. The story is a version of the now-debunked urban legend involving a village mysteriously vanishing at Angikuni Lake.
The novel includes many literary tips of the hat to the work of H. P. Lovecraft, including the suggestion that the no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic%20greed | Diagnostic greed is a medical term coined by physician Maurice Pappworth to describe the rigidity of physicians in insisting on every classic symptom and physical sign be present before making a diagnosis. Pappworth explained that “overwhelming evidence is not essential for correct diagnosis, and the absence of some ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthus%20reaction | In immunology, the Arthus reaction () is a type of local type III hypersensitivity reaction. Type III hypersensitivity reactions are immune complex-mediated, and involve the deposition of antigen/antibody complexes mainly in the vascular walls, serosa (pleura, pericardium, synovium), and glomeruli. This reaction is us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20representation%20of%20Maxwell%27s%20equations | In electromagnetism, a branch of fundamental physics, the matrix representations of the Maxwell's equations are a formulation of Maxwell's equations using matrices, complex numbers, and vector calculus. These representations are for a homogeneous medium, an approximation in an inhomogeneous medium. A matrix representa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakless%20universe | A weakless universe is a hypothetical universe that contains no weak interactions, but is otherwise very similar to our own universe.
In particular, a weakless universe is constructed to have atomic physics and chemistry identical to standard atomic physics and chemistry. The dynamics of a weakless universe includes a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raingutter%20regatta | The raingutter regatta is a racing event for Cub Scouts in the Boy Scouts of America that is the sailboat equivalent of the pinewood derby. The sailboat kit consists of a seven-inch (178 mm) long balsa wood hull, a -inch mast, plastic sail, plastic rudder, and metal keel. Within the basic design rules, Scouts are free... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulabyte | Kulabyte was a private company headquartered in San Marcos, Texas that developed live video encoding and video streaming software and provided streaming event services. KulaByte was acquired by Haivision in 2011 and is now part of Haivision's product line. Kulabyte's claimed advantage in video encoding is that it provi... |
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