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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20data | Dark data is data which is acquired through various computer network operations but not used in any manner to derive insights or for decision making. The ability of an organisation to collect data can exceed the throughput at which it can analyse the data. In some cases the organisation may not even be aware that the d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketura%2C%20Israel | Ketura () is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located north of Eilat in the Aravah Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Eilot Regional Council. In it had a population of .
Name
The name Ketura was taken from a nearby hill and wadi, and is also the name of the second wife of Abraham ().
History
Ketura was fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability%20goals | Tools, devices or software (as diverse as a TV remote control, the interface of an oven, or a word processor) must be evaluated before their release on the market from different points of view such as their technical properties or their usability.
Usability evaluation allows assessing whether the product under evaluat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denizk%C3%B6y%20VLF%20transmitter | Denizköy VLF transmitter, also known as Bafa transmitter, is a facility of US Navy for military VLF transmission near Denizköy in Didim district of Aydın Province, Turkey, at 37°24'43"N 27°19'25"E. The facility situated at Denizköy uses two 380 metres tall guyed masts, which are the tallest man-made structures in Turke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet | The AMPRNet (AMateur Packet Radio Network) or Network 44 is used in amateur radio for packet radio and digital communications between computer networks managed by amateur radio operators. Like other amateur radio frequency allocations, an IP range of was provided in 1981 for Amateur Radio Digital Communications (a ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paravector | The name paravector is used for the combination of a scalar and a vector in any Clifford algebra, known as geometric algebra among physicists.
This name was given by J. G. Maks in a doctoral dissertation at Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands, in 1989.
The complete algebra of paravectors along with correspondi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypting%20File%20System | The Encrypting File System (EFS) on Microsoft Windows is a feature introduced in version 3.0 of NTFS that provides filesystem-level encryption. The technology enables files to be transparently encrypted to protect confidential data from attackers with physical access to the computer.
EFS is available in all versions o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20computing | Spatial computing was defined in 2003 by Simon Greenwold, as "human interaction with a machine in which the machine retains and manipulates referents to real objects and spaces". [Yale, June 1995.]
With the advent of consumer virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality, companies such as Microsoft and Magic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanier%E2%80%93Whitehead%20duality | In mathematics, Spanier–Whitehead duality is a duality theory in homotopy theory, based on a geometrical idea that a topological space X may be considered as dual to its complement in the n-sphere, where n is large enough. Its origins lie in Alexander duality theory, in homology theory, concerning complements in manifo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drava%20Statistical%20Region | The Drava Statistical Region () is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest city in the region is Maribor. The region's name comes from the Drava River and includes land on both banks along its course through Slovenia as well as the Pohorje mountains in the northeast of the region. The Drava is used for the produc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMC%20VPLEX | EMC VPLEX is a virtual computer data storage product introduced by EMC Corporation in May 2010. VPLEX implements a distributed "virtualization" layer within and across geographically disparate Fibre Channel storage area networks and data centers.
History
A previous virtual storage product from EMC Corporation called ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eospinus | Eospinus daniltshenkoi is an extinct tetraodontid bony fish from the Eocene. Its fossils are from the Danata Formation lagerstatten of Ypresian Turkmenistan.
E. daniltshenkoi had four dorsal spines, three of which were on the anterior end of its dorsal side, and the first spine being placed between and below the eyes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricholoma%20magnivelare | Tricholoma magnivelare, commonly known as the matsutake, white matsutake, ponderosa mushroom, pine mushroom, or American matsutake, is a gilled mushroom found East of the Rocky Mountains in North America growing in coniferous woodland. These ectomycorrhizal fungi are typically edible species that exist in a symbiotic r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind-wave%20dissipation | Wind-wave dissipation or "swell dissipation" is process in which a wave generated via a weather system loses its mechanical energy transferred from the atmosphere via wind. Wind waves, as their name suggests, are generated by wind transferring energy from the atmosphere to the ocean's surface, capillary gravity waves p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartment%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry, a compartment is a part of a protein that serves a specific function. They are essentially protein subunits with the added condition that a compartment has distinct functionality, rather than being just a structural component.
There may be multiple compartments on one and the same protein. One example is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20tardigrades%20of%20South%20Africa | The list of tardigrades of South Africa is a list of species that form a part of the phylum Tardigrada of the fauna of South Africa. The list follows the SANBI listing.
Where common names are given, they are not necessarily the only common names in use for the species.
Class Heterotardigrada
Order Echiniscoidea
Fam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20pseudospectral%20method | The flat pseudospectral method is part of the family of the Ross–Fahroo pseudospectral methods introduced by Ross and Fahroo. The method combines the concept of differential flatness with pseudospectral optimal control to generate outputs in the so-called flat space.
Concept
Because the differentiation matrix, , in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Lopatin | Andrey Lopatin () is a Russian programmer, one of the main founders of VKontakte social network and Telegram messenger, two times world champion in competitive programming, 2009 Topcoder Open winner, coach of the SPBU competitive programming team since 2006.
Early years
Andrey Lopatin was born in St Petersburg into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20music%20software | This is a list of software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music. This article only includes software, not services.
For streaming services such as iHeartRadio, Pandora, Prime Music, and Spotify, see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services.
For storage, up... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid | In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionary strategies within parasitism, distinguished by the fatal prognosis for the host, which makes the strateg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrocruorin | Erythrocruorin (from Greek eruthros "red" + Latin cruor "blood"), and the similar chlorocruorin (from Greek khlōros "green" + Latin cruor "blood"), are large oxygen-carrying hemeprotein complexes, which have a molecular mass greater than 3.5 million Daltons. Both are sometimes called giant hemoglobin or hexagonal bilay... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization%20of%20polynomials | In mathematics and computer algebra, factorization of polynomials or polynomial factorization expresses a polynomial with coefficients in a given field or in the integers as the product of irreducible factors with coefficients in the same domain. Polynomial factorization is one of the fundamental components of compute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon%20Gartner | Gideon Isaiah Gartner (March 13, 1935 – December 12, 2020) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was often referred to as the father of the modern analyst industry. He is best known as the founder of Gartner, Inc. (formerly Gartner Group Inc.) a Stamford, Connecticut information technology (IT) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled%20meat | Marbled meat is meat, especially red meat, that contains various amounts of intramuscular fat, giving it an appearance similar to marble.
Important terms defined
Beef quality grades - A quality grade is a composite evaluation of factors that affect palatability of meat (tenderness, juiciness, and flavor). These facto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20Data%20Bank | The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a database for the three-dimensional structural data of large biological molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids. The data, typically obtained by X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, or, increasingly, cryo-electron microscopy, and submitted by biologists and biochemists from aro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov%20optimization | This article describes Lyapunov optimization for dynamical systems. It gives an example application to optimal control in queueing networks.
Introduction
Lyapunov optimization refers to the use of a Lyapunov function to optimally control a dynamical system. Lyapunov functions are used extensively in control theory to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycerate | Polycerates (meaning "many-horned") are animals with more than two horns.
Sheep
Polyceraty has been observed in ancient sheep remains dating to 6000 BCE from Çatalhöyük in modern Turkey.
Polycerate sheep breeds include the Hebridean, Icelandic, Jacob, Manx Loaghtan, Boreray and the Navajo-Churro. One example of a po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coiflet | Coiflets are discrete wavelets designed by Ingrid Daubechies, at the request of Ronald Coifman, to have scaling functions with vanishing moments. The wavelet is near symmetric, their wavelet functions have vanishing moments and scaling functions , and has been used in many applications using Calderón–Zygmund operator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaos%20Alexopoulos | Nicolaos Georgiou Alexopoulos (born March 30, 1942) is a Greek electrical engineer, former professor and university dean, and a champion of education and research. He currently serves as the Vice President for Academic Programs and University Relations at the Broadcom Foundation, and previously was Vice President for A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiton%20pattern | In software engineering, the multiton pattern is a design pattern which generalizes the singleton pattern. Whereas the singleton allows only one instance of a class to be created, the multiton pattern allows for the controlled creation of multiple instances, which it manages through the use of a map.
Rather than havi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Skewes | Stanley Skewes (; 1899–1988) was a South African mathematician, best known for his discovery of the Skewes's number in 1933. He was one of John Edensor Littlewood's students at Cambridge University. Skewes's numbers contributed to the refinement of the theory of prime numbers.
Academic career
Skewes obtained a degree... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-schema | The T-schema ("truth schema", not to be confused with "Convention T") is used to check if an inductive definition of truth is valid, which lies at the heart of any realisation of Alfred Tarski's semantic theory of truth. Some authors refer to it as the "Equivalence Schema", a synonym introduced by Michael Dummett.
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction%20to%203-Manifolds | Introduction to 3-Manifolds is a mathematics book on low-dimensional topology. It was written by Jennifer Schultens and published by the American Mathematical Society in 2014 as volume 151 of their book series Graduate Studies in Mathematics.
Topics
A manifold is a space whose topology, near any of its points, is the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilenberg%E2%80%93Ganea%20conjecture | The Eilenberg–Ganea conjecture is a claim in algebraic topology. It was formulated by Samuel Eilenberg and Tudor Ganea in 1957, in a short, but influential paper. It states that if a group G has cohomological dimension 2, then it has a 2-dimensional Eilenberg–MacLane space . For n different from 2, a group G of coho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating | Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food. In the natural biological world, this is typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and nutrients and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivore... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarantaporo.gr | Sarantaporo.gr is a non-profit wireless network community founded in 2013 in Elassona Municipality in Greece. The network helps locals organize cooperative work to deploy and operate the wireless network infrastructure, organized as a commons.
The WCN participated in the CONFINE, the netCommons and the MAZI research p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace%20OS | Workplace OS is IBM's ultimate operating system prototype of the 1990s. It is the product of an exploratory research program in 1991 which yielded a design called the Grand Unifying Theory of Systems (GUTS), proposing to unify the world's systems as generalized personalities cohabitating concurrently upon a universally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yilan%20Distillery%20Chia%20Chi%20Lan%20Liquor%20Museum | The Yilan Distillery Chia Chi Lan Liquor Museum () or Chia Chi Lan Liquor Museum is a museum about wine in Yilan City, Yilan County, Taiwan.
History
The museum building was originally built in 1935.
Architecture
The museum building is a two-story house in Japanese style.
Exhibition
The museum houses the display of w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld%20television | A handheld television is a portable device for watching television that usually uses a TFT LCD or OLED and CRT color display. Many of these devices resemble handheld transistor radios.
History
In 1970, Panasonic released the first TV which was small enough to fit in a large pocket; called the Panasonic IC TV MODEL T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Borderlands%20Studies | The Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) is an international scholarly association dedicated exclusively to the systematic interchange of ideas and information relating to international borders and frontier areas. Founded in 1976 with the original emphasis on the study of the United States-Mexico borderlands regio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteroaggregative%20Escherichia%20coli | Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC or EAggEC) are a pathotype of Escherichia coli which cause acute and chronic diarrhea in both the developed and developing world. They may also cause urinary tract infections. EAEC are defined by their "stacked-brick" pattern of adhesion to the human laryngeal epithelial cell l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplacian%20of%20the%20indicator | In mathematics, the Laplacian of the indicator of the domain D is a generalisation of the derivative of the Dirac delta function to higher dimensions, and is non-zero only on the surface of D. It can be viewed as the surface delta prime function. It is analogous to the second derivative of the Heaviside step function i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syn%20and%20anti%20addition | In organic chemistry, syn- and anti-addition are different ways in which substituent molecules can be added to an alkene () or alkyne (). The concepts of syn and anti addition are used to characterize the different reactions of organic chemistry by reflecting the stereochemistry of the products in a reaction.
The typ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border%20outpost | A border outpost, border out post, border observation post or BOP is an outpost maintained by a sovereign state on its border, usually one of a series placed at regular intervals, to watch over and safeguard its border with a neighboring state with which it may or may not have friendly relations. Such posts are staffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-micturition%20convulsion%20syndrome | In neurourology, post-micturition convulsion syndrome (PMCS), also known informally as pee shivers, is the experience of shivering during or after urination. The syndrome appears to be more frequently experienced by males.
The term "post-micturition convulsion syndrome" was coined in 1994 in the online question-and-an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium%20Systems%20Test%20Assembly | The Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) was a facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory dedicated to the development and demonstration of technologies required for fusion-relevant deuterium-tritium processing. Facility design was launched in 1977. It was commissioned in 1982, and the first tritium was processed in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein%20%281931%20film%29 | Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale, produced by Carl Laemmle Jr., and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The Webling play was adapted by John L. Balderston and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolivirales | Tolivirales is an order of RNA viruses which infect insects and plants. Member viruses have a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome. The virions are non-enveloped, spherical, and have an icosahedral capsid. The name of the group is a syllabic abbreviation of "tombusvirus-like" with the suffix -virales indicating a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Cosmic%20Ray%20Conference | The International Cosmic Ray Conference, or ICRC, is a physics conference organized biennially by the Commission C4 (Astroparticle Physics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) since 1947, where physicists from the whole world present the results of their research in Astroparticle Physics. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean%20distance%20matrix | In mathematics, a Euclidean distance matrix is an matrix representing the spacing of a set of points in Euclidean space.
For points in -dimensional space , the elements of their Euclidean distance matrix are given by squares of distances between them.
That is
where denotes the Euclidean norm on .
In the context ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owad%C3%B3w%E2%80%93Brzezinki%20site | The Owadów–Brzezinki site is a Jurassic fossil-bearing deposit cropping out in a quarry near the village of Owadów in central Poland.
Description
The Owadów–Brzezinki palaeontological site is located in the Tomaszów Syncline in the northwestern margin of the Holy Cross Mountains, near the village of Owadów, approxima... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective%20domain | In convex analysis, a branch of mathematics, the effective domain extends of the domain of a function defined for functions that take values in the extended real number line
In convex analysis and variational analysis, a point at which some given extended real-valued function is minimized is typically sought, where ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20Aserinsky | Eugene Aserinsky (May 6, 1921 – July 22, 1998), a pioneer in sleep research, was a graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1953 when he discovered REM sleep. He was the son of a dentist of Russian–Jewish descent.
He made the discovery after hours spent studying the eyelids of sleeping subjects. While the pheno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Numbers%20%28comics%29 | Big Numbers is an unfinished graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Bill Sienkiewicz. In 1990 Moore's short-lived imprint Mad Love published two of the planned twelve issues. The series was picked up by Kevin Eastman's Tundra Publishing, but the completed third issue did not print, and the remaining issues, whos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFE%20%28programming%20language%29 | Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE) is a functional, concurrent, garbage collected, general-purpose programming language and Lisp dialect built on Core Erlang and the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). LFE builds on Erlang to provide a Lisp syntax for writing distributed, fault-tolerant, soft real-time, non-stop applications. LFE a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred%20frame | In theoretical physics, a preferred frame or privileged frame is usually a special hypothetical frame of reference in which the laws of physics might appear to be identifiably different (simpler) from those in other frames.
In theories that apply the principle of relativity to inertial motion, physics is the same in a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Kadets | Mikhail Iosiphovich Kadets (, , sometimes transliterated as Kadec, 30 November 1923 – 7 March 2011) was a Soviet-born Jewish mathematician working in analysis and the theory of Banach spaces.
Life and work
Kadets was born in Kiev. In 1943, he was drafted into the army. After demobilisation in 1946, he studied at Khar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS-Guard | DDoS-Guard is a Russian Internet infrastructure company which provides DDoS protection and web hosting services. Researchers and journalists have alleged that many of DDoS-Guard's clients are engaged in criminal activity, and investigative reporter Brian Krebs reported in January 2021 that a "vast number" of the websit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Mathematics%20Competition | The International Mathematics Competition (IMC) for University Students is an annual mathematics competition open to all undergraduate students of mathematics. Participating students are expected to be at most twenty three years of age at the time of the IMC. The IMC is primarily a competition for individuals, although... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC%203000%20AXP | DEC 3000 AXP was the name given to a series of computer workstations and servers, produced from 1992 to around 1995 by Digital Equipment Corporation. The DEC 3000 AXP series formed part of the first generation of computer systems based on the 64-bit Alpha AXP architecture. Supported operating systems for the DEC 3000 A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Monro%20Secundus | Alexander Monro of Craiglockhart and Cockburn (22 May 1733 – 2 October 1817) was a Scottish anatomist, physician and medical educator. He is typically known as or Junior to distinguish him as the second of three generations of physicians of the same name. His students included the naval physician and abolitionist Tho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulala%20%28Space%20Channel%205%29 | Ulala is a fictional character, mascot, and the main protagonist of Sega's Space Channel 5 series. Her character was created by Takashi Yuda, Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Jake Kazdel in the late 1990s and debuted in December 1999 with the release of Space Channel 5.
Within the fictional universe of Space Channel 5, Ulala is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Friedlander | John Friedlander is a Canadian mathematician specializing in analytic number theory. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1965, an M.A. from the University of Waterloo in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1972. He was a lecturer at M.I.T. in 1974–76, and has been on the faculty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successive%20over-relaxation | In numerical linear algebra, the method of successive over-relaxation (SOR) is a variant of the Gauss–Seidel method for solving a linear system of equations, resulting in faster convergence. A similar method can be used for any slowly converging iterative process.
It was devised simultaneously by David M. Young Jr. an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chow%20group | In algebraic geometry, the Chow groups (named after Wei-Liang Chow by ) of an algebraic variety over any field are algebro-geometric analogs of the homology of a topological space. The elements of the Chow group are formed out of subvarieties (so-called algebraic cycles) in a similar way to how simplicial or cellular h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20memory | Adaptive memory is the study of memory systems that have evolved to help retain survival- and fitness-related information, i.e., that are geared toward helping an organism enhance its reproductive fitness and chances of surviving. One key element of adaptive memory research is the notion that memory evolved to help sur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20Dynamics%20Prize%20%28APS%29 | The Fluid Dynamics Prize is a prize that has been awarded annually by the American Physical Society (APS) since 1979. The recipient is chosen for "outstanding achievement in fluid dynamics research". The prize is currently valued at . In 2004, the Otto Laporte Award—another APS award on fluid dynamics—was merged into t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Kingman |
Sir John Frank Charles Kingman (born 28 August 1939) is a British mathematician. He served as N. M. Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge from 2001 until 2006, when he was succeeded by David Wallace. He is known for developing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioHome | BioHome was a small facility created by NASA in the late 1980s that could support one person in a fully functional habitat. One of the influences on the project was the results from data obtained on the 1973 Skylab 3 (SL-3), where a total of 107 VOCs were offgassed by synthetic materials that composed the SL-3. Howev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP/CSS | VP/CSS was a time-sharing operating system developed by National CSS. It began life in 1968 as a copy of IBM's CP/CMS, which at the time was distributed to IBM customers at no charge, in source code form, without support, as part of the IBM Type-III Library. Through extensive in-house development, in what today would b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20random-access%20memory | Dynamic random-access memory (dynamic RAM or DRAM) is a type of random-access semiconductor memory that stores each bit of data in a memory cell, usually consisting of a tiny capacitor and a transistor, both typically based on metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) technology. While most DRAM memory cell designs use a capaci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytosolic%20ciliogenesis | Cytosolic ciliogenesis, otherwise cytoplasmic ciliogenesis, is a type of ciliogenesis where the cilium axoneme is formed in the cytoplasm or becomes exposed to the cytoplasm.
Cytosolic ciliogenesis is divided into three types: Primary cytosolic cilia are formed by exposing the axoneme of compartmentalized cilium (form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%E2%80%93ironbark%20forest | Box–ironbark forest is a forest or woodland ecosystem that is largely limited to central Victoria in south-eastern Australia. Because its component tree species produce abundant nectar and pollen throughout the year, it is important for the conservation of many species of birds and other animals.
History
Because box–... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACVR1B | Activin receptor type-1B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ACVR1B gene.
ACVR1B or ALK-4 acts as a transducer of activin or activin-like ligands (e.g., inhibin) signals. Activin binds to either ACVR2A or ACVR2B and then forms a complex with ACVR1B. These go on to recruit the R-SMADs SMAD2 or SMAD3. ACVR1B ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation%20condenser | In a reactor core isolation cooling system ("RCIC"), an isolation condenser (IC or iso. condenser; also isolation condenser system) is one of the emergency reactor safety systems in some nuclear plants (boiling water reactor safety systems).
Emergency passive system
It is a passive system for cooling of some reactors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saefftigen%27s%20pouch | Saefftigen's pouch is an anatomical feature found in male Acanthocephalans. It is an elongate genital pouch located inside the genital sheath which is continuous with the spaces of the bursal cap It functions to inject fluid for eversion of the bursa. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Museum%20of%20Mathematics | The National Museum of Mathematics or MoMath is a museum in Manhattan, New York City dedicated to mathematics.
Opened on December 15, 2012, it is the only museum in North America dedicated to mathematics and features over thirty interactive exhibits. The mission of the museum is to "enhance public understanding and pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations%20of%20the%20ichthys%20symbol | The ichthys symbol (or "Jesus fish") is a sign typically used to proclaim an affiliation with or affinity for Christianity. The fish was originally adopted by early Christians as a secret symbol, but the many variations known today first appeared in the 1980s. Some of these are made by Christians in order to promote a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20aversion | Algorithm aversion is "biased assessment of an algorithm which manifests in negative behaviours and attitudes towards the algorithm compared to a human agent." It describes a phenomenon where humans reject advice from an algorithm in a case where they would accept the same advice if they thought it was coming from anot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuintessenceLabs | QuintessenceLabs Pty Ltd. (or QuintessenceLabs) is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Canberra, Australia with offices in San Jose, California. QuintessenceLabs produces encryption key and policy management products that conform to the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), as well as a hardware random ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteur%20Medal%20%28Swedish%29 | The Pasteur Medal is given every ten years by the Swedish Society of Medicine (SSM) to a scientist who has excelled in the fields of bacteriology or hygiene. It first was struck and given to its honorand Louis Pasteur on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1892. The Yale Art Gallery mischaracterizes the bronze medalli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican%20green-and-yellow%20macaw | The Dominican green-and-yellow macaw (Ara atwoodi), Atwood's macaw or Dominican macaw, is an extinct species of macaw that may have lived on the island of Dominica. It is known only through the writings of British colonial judge Thomas Atwood in his 1791 book, The History of the Island of Dominica:
Austin Hobart Clark... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-61%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-61 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
See also
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAM23 | Disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 23 is a non-catalytic protein that in humans is encoded by the ADAM23 gene. It is a member of the ADAM family of extracellular matrix metalloproteinases.
Function
This gene encodes a member of the ADAM (a disintegrin and metalloprotease domain) family. Memb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20lunar%20sample%20displays | The Alaska lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of small fragments of Moon specimen brought back with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 lunar missions and given in the 1970s to the people of the state of Alaska by United States President Richard Nixon as goodwill gifts.
Description
Apollo 11
Apo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone | TV-B-Gone is a universal remote control device for turning off various brands of television sets. Released in 2015, its inventor referred to it as "an environmental management device". Although it can require up to 72 seconds for the device to find the proper code for a particular television receiver, the most popular ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRAIL | The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) was an American lunar science mission in NASA's Discovery Program which used high-quality gravitational field mapping of the Moon to determine its interior structure. The two small spacecraft GRAIL A (Ebb) and GRAIL B (Flow) were launched on 10 September 2011 aboard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScreenSaver | XScreenSaver is a free and open-source collection of 240+
screensavers for Unix, macOS, iOS and Android operating systems. It was created by Jamie Zawinski in 1992 and is still maintained by him, with new releases coming out several times a year.
Platforms
The free software and open-source Unix-like operating systems ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus%20clavatus | Aspergillus clavatus is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus with conidia dimensions 3–4.5 x 2.5–4.5 μm. It is found in soil and animal manure. The fungus was first described scientifically in 1834 by the French mycologist John Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières.
The fungus can produce the toxin patulin, which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20and%20Archival%20Exhibitions%20on%20the%20Web | Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web is an international database of online exhibitions which is a service of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
Overview
Two categories of online exhibitions are included in the database: exhibitions created by libraries, archives, historical societies, and other scholarly i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 39° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 39th meridian west forms a great circle with the 141st meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WolfSSL | wolfSSL is a small, portable, embedded SSL/TLS library targeted for use by embedded systems developers. It is an open source implementation of TLS (SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and DTLS 1.0, 1.2, and 1.3) written in the C programming language. It includes SSL/TLS client libraries and an SSL/TLS server implementatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cum%20sole | Cum sole is a Latin phrase meaning with the sun. The term is sometimes used in meteorology and physical oceanography to refer to anticyclonic motion, which is clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere (but with the sun's apparent motion when facing Equator in both hemispheres)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPS%20%28format%29 | MPS (Mathematical Programming System) is a file format for presenting and archiving linear programming (LP) and mixed integer programming problems.
Overview
The format was named after an early IBM LP product and has emerged as a de facto standard ASCII medium among most of the commercial LP solvers. Essentially all ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quwivirus | Quwivirus is a genus of viruses in the subfamily Betaherpesvirinae, in the family Herpesviridae, in the order Herpesvirales.
Species
The genus consists of the following three species:
Caviid betaherpesvirus 2
Miniopterid betaherpesvirus 1
Tupaiid betaherpesvirus 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoinformatics | Geoinformatics is a technical science primarily within the domain of Computer Science. It focuses on the programming of applications, spatial data structures, and the analysis of objects and space-time phenomena related to the surface and underneath of Earth and other celestial bodies. The field develops software and w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selberg%27s%201/4%20conjecture | In mathematics, Selberg's conjecture, also known as Selberg's eigenvalue conjecture, conjectured by , states that the eigenvalues of the Laplace operator on Maass wave forms of congruence subgroups are at least 1/4. Selberg showed that the eigenvalues are at least 3/16. Subsequent works improved the bound, and the best... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBBS-PC | RBBS-PC (acronym for Remote Bulletin Board System for the Personal Computer) was a public domain, open-source BBS software program. It was written entirely in BASIC by a large team of people, starting with Russell Lane and then later enhanced by Tom Mack, Ken Goosens and others.
It supported messaging conferences, que... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristionchus%20pacificus | Pristionchus pacificus is a species of free-living nematodes (roundworms) in the family Diplogastridae. The species has been established as a satellite model organism to Caenorhabditis elegans, with which it shared a common ancestor 200–300 million years ago. The genome of P. pacificus has been fully sequenced, which i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split%20sharp | A split sharp is a kind of key found in some early keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord, clavichord, or organ. It is a musical key divided in two, with separately depressible front and back sections, each sounding its own pitch. The particular keys that were split were those that play the sharps and flats on t... |
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