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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Robertson%20%28mathematician%29 | John Robertson (1712–1776) was an English mathematician, and a Fellow, clerk and librarian of the Royal Society. His book The Elements of Navigation became a classic textbook.
Life
Initially apprenticed to a trade, Robertson became a teacher of mathematics. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1741. In 1747... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC%201604 | The CDC 1604 was a 48-bit computer designed and manufactured by Seymour Cray and his team at the Control Data Corporation (CDC). The 1604 is known as one of the first commercially successful transistorized computers. (The IBM 7090 was delivered earlier, in November 1959.) Legend has it that the 1604 designation was ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprothermobacter%20platensis | Coprothermobacter platensis is a species of moderately thermophilic and strictly anaerobic bacterium belonging to the family Coprothermobacteraceae within the phylum Coprothermobacterota.
Like another species in the genus, Coprothermobacter proteolyticus, these bacteria are proteolytic, enabling them to break down pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20List | Christian List (born 1973) is a German philosopher and political scientist who serves as professor of philosophy and decision theory at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and co-director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He was previously professor of political science and philosophy at the Lon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid | is a 1986 block breaker arcade game developed and published by Taito. In North America, it was published by Romstar. Controlling a paddle-like craft known as the Vaus, the player is tasked with clearing a formation of colorful blocks by deflecting a ball towards it without letting the ball leave the bottom edge of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20interoperability | Language interoperability is the capability of two different programming languages to natively interact as part of the same system and operate on the same kind of data structures.
There are many ways programming languages are interoperable with one another. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are interoperable as they are used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20stature | Short stature refers to a height of a human which is below typical. Whether a person is considered short depends on the context. Because of the lack of preciseness, there is often disagreement about the degree of shortness that should be called short. Dwarfism is the condition of being very short, often caused by a med... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobic%20anoxygenic%20phototrophic%20bacteria | Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria (AAPBs) are Alphaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria that are obligate aerobes that capture energy from light by anoxygenic photosynthesis. Anoxygenic photosynthesis is the phototrophic process where light energy is captured and stored as ATP. The production of oxygen is non-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrasin | Each species of slime mold has its own specific chemical messenger, which are collectively referred to as acrasins. These chemicals signal that many individual cells aggregate to form a single large cell or plasmodium. One of the earliest acrasins to be identified was cyclic AMP, found in the species Dictyostelium disc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20flash%20analysis | The laser flash analysis or laser flash method is used to measure thermal diffusivity of a variety of different materials. An energy pulse heats one side of a plane-parallel sample and the resulting time dependent temperature rise on the backside due to the energy input is detected. The higher the thermal diffusivity ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Cohen%20Medal | The Lord Cohen Medal is a British medical award honouring individuals who "have made a considerable contribution to ageing research, either through original discoveries or in the promotion of the subject of gerontology in its broadest aspect". It is the highest award for services to gerontology in the United Kingdom an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape%20moir%C3%A9 | Shape moiré is one type of moiré patterns demonstrating the phenomenon of moiré magnification. 1D shape moiré is the particular simplified case of 2D shape moiré. One-dimensional patterns may appear when superimposing an opaque layer containing tiny horizontal transparent lines on top of a layer containing a complex sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-angle%20approximation | The small-angle approximations can be used to approximate the values of the main trigonometric functions, provided that the angle in question is small and is measured in radians:
These approximations have a wide range of uses in branches of physics and engineering, including mechanics, electromagnetism, optics, cartog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working%20fluid%20selection | Heat engines, refrigeration cycles and heat pumps usually involve a fluid to and from which heat is transferred while undergoing a thermodynamic cycle. This fluid is called the working fluid. Refrigeration and heat pump technologies often refer to working fluids as refrigerants. Most thermodynamic cycles make use of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar%20birthline | The stellar birthline is a predicted line on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram that relates the effective temperature and luminosity of pre-main-sequence stars at the start of their contraction. Prior to this point, the objects are accreting protostars, and are so deeply embedded in the cloud of dust and gas from which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%20filter | A Nyquist filter is an electronic filter used in TV receivers to equalize the video characteristics. The filter is named after the Swedish–US engineer Harry Nyquist (1889–1976).
Vestigial Side Band (VSB)
In analogue TV broadcasting the visual radio frequency (RF) signal is produced by amplitude modulation (AM) i.e., ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmert%20transformation | The Helmert transformation (named after Friedrich Robert Helmert, 1843–1917) is a geometric transformation method within a three-dimensional space.
It is frequently used in geodesy to produce datum transformations between datums.
The Helmert transformation is also called a seven-parameter transformation and is a simi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChIP%20sequencing | ChIP-sequencing, also known as ChIP-seq, is a method used to analyze protein interactions with DNA. ChIP-seq combines chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) with massively parallel DNA sequencing to identify the binding sites of DNA-associated proteins. It can be used to map global binding sites precisely for any protein... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloch%20oscillation | Bloch oscillation is a phenomenon from solid state physics. It describes the oscillation of a particle (e.g. an electron) confined in a periodic potential when a constant force is acting on it.
It was first pointed out by Felix Bloch and Clarence Zener while studying the electrical properties of crystals. In particular... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20symbol | A solar symbol is a symbol representing the Sun.
Common solar symbols include circles (with or without rays), crosses, and spirals.
In religious iconography, personifications of the Sun or solar attributes are often indicated by means of a halo or a radiate crown.
When the systematic study of comparative mythology ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Message%20Queuing%20Protocol | The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard application layer protocol for message-oriented middleware. The defining features of AMQP are message orientation, queuing, routing (including point-to-point and publish-and-subscribe), reliability and security.
AMQP mandates the behavior of the messagin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20AMI%20code | Modified AMI codes are a digital telecommunications technique to maintain system synchronization. Alternate mark inversion (AMI) line codes are modified by deliberate insertion of bipolar violations. There are several types of modified AMI codes, used in various T-carrier and E-carrier systems.
Overview
The clock rate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse%20interstellar%20bands | Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption features seen in the spectra of astronomical objects in the Milky Way and other galaxies. They are caused by the absorption of light by the interstellar medium. Circa 500 bands have now been seen, in ultraviolet, visible and infrared wavelengths.
The origin of most DIB... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-hijack%20system | An anti-hijack system is an electronic system fitted to motor vehicles to deter criminals from hijacking them. Although these types of systems are becoming more common on newer cars, they have not caused a decrease in insurance premiums as they are not as widely known as other more common anti-theft systems such as ala... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dynamic-range%20rendering | High-dynamic-range rendering (HDRR or HDR rendering), also known as high-dynamic-range lighting, is the rendering of computer graphics scenes by using lighting calculations done in high dynamic range (HDR). This allows preservation of details that may be lost due to limiting contrast ratios. Video games and computer-ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction%20to%20Tropical%20Geometry | Introduction to Tropical Geometry is a book on tropical geometry, by Diane Maclagan and Bernd Sturmfels. It was published by the American Mathematical Society in 2015 as volume 161 of Graduate Studies in Mathematics.
Topics
The tropical semiring is an algebraic structure on the real numbers in which addition takes the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamfordvirae | Bamfordvirae is a kingdom of viruses. This kingdom is recognized for its use of double jelly roll major capsid proteins. It was formerly known as the PRD1-adenovirus lineage. The kingdom is named after Dennis H. Bamford who first promoted the evolutionary unity of all viruses encoding double jelly-roll major capsid pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP%20card | In cryptography, the OpenPGP card is an ISO/IEC 7816-4, -8 compatible smart card that is integrated with many OpenPGP functions. Using this smart card, various cryptographic tasks (encryption, decryption, digital signing/verification, authentication etc.) can be performed. It allows secure storage of secret key materia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal%20flame | Fractal flames are a member of the iterated function system class of fractals created by Scott Draves in 1992. Draves' open-source code was later ported into Adobe After Effects graphics software and translated into the Apophysis fractal flame editor.
Fractal flames differ from ordinary iterated function systems in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision%20domain | A collision domain is a network segment connected by a shared medium or through repeaters where simultaneous data transmissions collide with one another. The collision domain applies particularly in wireless networks, but also affected early versions of Ethernet. A network collision occurs when more than one device att... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteroides | Bacteroides is a genus of Gram-negative, obligate anaerobic bacteria. Bacteroides species are non endospore-forming bacilli, and may be either motile or nonmotile, depending on the species. The DNA base composition is 40–48% GC. Unusual in bacterial organisms, Bacteroides membranes contain sphingolipids. They also cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischemic%20compression | Ischemic compression is a therapy technique used in manual therapy, where blockage of blood in an area of the body is deliberately made, so that a resurgence of local blood flow will occur upon release.
Ischemic compression is commonly applied to trigger points, in what is known as trigger point therapy, where enough ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20trimming | Laser trimming is the manufacturing process of using a laser to adjust the operating parameters of an electronic circuit.
One of the most common applications uses a laser to burn away small portions of resistors, raising their resistance value. The burning operation can be conducted while the circuit is being tested b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biovar | A biovar is a variant prokaryotic strain that differs physiologically or biochemically from other strains in a particular species. Morphovars (or morphotypes) are those strains that differ morphologically. Serovars (or serotypes) are those strains that have antigenic properties that differ from other strains.
List of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maas%E2%80%93Hoffman%20model | The Maas–Hoffman model is a mathematical tool to characterize the relation between crop production and soil salinity. It describes the crop response by a broken line of which the first part is horizontal and the second is sloping downward. The breakpoint (Pb) or threshold is also called tolerance because up to that poi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen%20Cart | Zen Cart is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for numerous languages and currencies, and it is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
History
Zen Cart is a software fork that branched from osCommerce in 2003. Beyond some ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%E2%80%93liquid%20extraction | Liquid–liquid extraction (LLE), also known as solvent extraction and partitioning, is a method to separate compounds or metal complexes, based on their relative solubilities in two different immiscible liquids, usually water (polar) and an organic solvent (non-polar). There is a net transfer of one or more species from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossale | The musical term colossale indicates that the performer is to play the so marked passage in a fashion that suggests immensity. An example of this rare expression can be found at the climax of the huge cadenza in the first movement of Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto in combination with the dynamic instruction fff.
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty%20acid%20metabolism | Fatty acid metabolism consists of various metabolic processes involving or closely related to fatty acids, a family of molecules classified within the lipid macronutrient category. These processes can mainly be divided into (1) catabolic processes that generate energy and (2) anabolic processes where they serve as buil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20soliton | A gravitational soliton is a soliton solution of the Einstein field equation. It can be separated into two kinds, a soliton of the vacuum Einstein field equation generated by the Belinski–Zakharov transform, and a soliton of the Einstein–Maxwell equations generated by the Belinski-Zakharov-Alekseev transform. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Hlawka | Edmund Hlawka (November 5, 1916, Bruck an der Mur, Styria – February 19, 2009) was an Austrian mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Hlawka did most of his work at the Vienna University of Technology. He was also a visiting professor at Princeton University and the Sorbonne. Hlawka died on February 19, 2009,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains%20hum | Mains hum, electric hum, cycle hum, or power line hum is a sound associated with alternating current which is twice the frequency of the mains electricity. The fundamental frequency of this sound is usually double that of fundamental 50/60Hz, i.e.100/120Hz, depending on the local power-line frequency. The sound often h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emin%20Pasha | Mehmed Emin Pasha (born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, baptized Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer; March 28, 1840 – October 23, 1892) was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile. The Ottoman Empire conferred the title "Pasha" on him in 18... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serratus%20posterior%20inferior%20muscle | The serratus posterior inferior muscle, also known as the posterior serratus muscle, is a muscle of the human body.
Structure
The muscle is situated at the junction of the thoracic and lumbar regions. It has an irregularly quadrilateral form, broader than the serratus posterior superior muscle, and separated from it b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Yugoslav%20flags | This is a list of flags that were used by and in Yugoslavia.
National and civil flags
Proposed flags
Military flags
Army flags
Naval ensigns
Naval jacks
Defence Ministry Flags
Rank flags
Government flags
Governmental
Monarchical
Republic flags
Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Proposed flags
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoined%20gene | A conjoined gene (CG) is defined as a gene, which gives rise to transcripts by combining at least part of one exon from each of two or more distinct known (parent) genes which lie on the same chromosome, are in the same orientation, and often (95%) translate independently into different proteins. In some cases, the tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integration%20testing | Integration testing (sometimes called integration and testing, abbreviated I&T) is the phase in software testing in which the whole software module is tested or if it consists of multiple software modules they are combined and then tested as a group. Integration testing is conducted to evaluate the compliance of a syst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendel%20Lectures | The Mendel Lectures is a series of lectures given by the world's top scientists in genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, medicine and related areas which has been held in the refectory of the Augustian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Czech Republic since May 2003. The lectures were established to celebr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20freshwater%20flux | Oceanic freshwater fluxes are defined as the transport of non saline water between the oceans and the other components of the Earth's system (the lands, the atmosphere and the cryosphere). These fluxes have an impact on the local ocean properties (on sea surface salinity, temperature and elevation), as well as on the l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation%20point | In telephony, the demarcation point is the point at which the public switched telephone network ends and connects with the customer's on-premises wiring. It is the dividing line which determines who is responsible for installation and maintenance of wiring and equipment—customer/subscriber, or telephone company/provid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix%20time | Current Unix time ()
Unix time is a date and time representation widely used in computing. It measures time by the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, the Unix epoch, without adjustments made due to leap seconds. In modern computing, values are sometimes stored with higher granula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcinia%20pseudoguttifera | Garcinia pseudoguttifera, known as the mo'onia tree in its native range, is a species of flowering tree in the family Clusiaceae (Guttiferae). The specific epithet (pseudoguttifera) comes from Greek pseudo (= false) and Neo-Latin guttifera (= gum-bearing plant).
Distribution
Garcinia pseudoguttifera is native to Ocean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Journal%20of%20Steroid%20Biochemistry%20and%20Molecular%20Biology | The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, covering all aspects of steroid metabolism. It was established in the 1969 as Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and obtained its current name in 1990. The editor-in-chief is Jerzy Adamski (Helmholtz Zentrum München). Accordin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium%20III | The Pentium III (marketed as Intel Pentium III Processor, informally PIII or P3) brand refers to Intel's 32-bit x86 desktop and mobile CPUs based on the sixth-generation P6 microarchitecture introduced on February 28, 1999. The brand's initial processors were very similar to the earlier Pentium II-branded processors. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20angular%20momentum%20of%20light | The spin angular momentum of light (SAM) is the component of angular momentum of light that is associated with the quantum spin and the rotation between the polarization degrees of freedom of the photon.
Introduction
Spin is the fundamental property that distinguishes the two types of elementary particles: fermions w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%E2%80%93line%20intersection | In Euclidean geometry, the intersection of a line and a line can be the empty set, a point, or another line. Distinguishing these cases and finding the intersection have uses, for example, in computer graphics, motion planning, and collision detection.
In three-dimensional Euclidean geometry, if two lines are not in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20order%20theory | This is a glossary of some terms used in various branches of mathematics that are related to the fields of order, lattice, and domain theory. Note that there is a structured list of order topics available as well. Other helpful resources might be the following overview articles:
completeness properties of partial ord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc%20Margot | Jean-Luc Margot (born 1969) is a Belgian-born astronomer and a UCLA professor with expertise in planetary sciences and SETI.
Career
Margot has discovered and studied several binary asteroids with radar and optical telescopes. His discoveries include (87) Sylvia I Romulus, (22) Kalliope I Linus, S/2003 (379) 1, (702) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number%20of%20parliamentarians%20in%20the%20Fifth%20French%20Republic | The number of MPs and senators are prescribed in the French constitution of 4 October 1958.
History |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playart | Playart was a toy company owned by Hong Kong industrialist Duncan Tong (唐鼎康) that specialized in die-cast cars, similar in size and style to Hot Wheels, Matchbox or Tomica. Cars were well done, but were often diecast seconds from other companies like Yatming or Tomica. Cars were made from 1965 to 1983 at the factory in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar%20gland | Alveolar glands, also called saccular glands, are glands with a saclike secretory portion, in contrast with tubular glands. They typically have an enlarged lumen (cavity), hence the name: they have a shape similar to alveoli, the very small air sacs in the lungs.
Some sources draw a clear distinction between acinar an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoho%20Office%20Suite | Zoho Office Suite is an Indian web-based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, web conferencing, customer relationship management (CRM), project management, invoicing and other applications. It is developed by Zoho Corporation.
History
Zoho Office ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus%20albicans | The corpus albicans (Latin for "whitening body"; also known as atretic corpus luteum, corpus candicans, or simply as albicans) is the regressed form of the corpus luteum. As the corpus luteum is being broken down by macrophages, fibroblasts lay down type I collagen, forming the corpus albicans. This process is called "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20Simms | David John Simms (13 January 1933 – 24 June 2018) was an Indian-born Irish mathematician who was a Fellow Emeritus and former Associate Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin. Born in Sankeshwar, Mysore (the state now known as Karnataka), India, he specialized in differential geometry and geometric quantis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectional%20density | Sectional density (often abbreviated SD) is the ratio of an object's mass to its cross sectional area with respect to a given axis. It conveys how well an object's mass is distributed (by its shape) to overcome resistance along that axis.
Sectional density is used in gun ballistics. In this context, it is the ratio ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENTH%20domain | The epsin N-terminal homology (ENTH) domain is a structural domain that is found in proteins involved in endocytosis and cytoskeletal machinery.
Structure
This domain is approximately 150 amino acids in length and is always found located at the N-termini of proteins. The domain forms a compact globular structure, comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dok-7 | Dok-7 is a non-catalytic cytoplasmic adaptor protein that is expressed specifically in muscle and is essential for the formation of neuromuscular synapses. Further, Dok-7 contains pleckstrin homology (PH) and phosphotyrosine-binding (PTB) domains that are critical for Dok-7 function. Finally, mutations in Dok-7 are com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1/2%20%E2%88%92%201/4%20%2B%201/8%20%E2%88%92%201/16%20%2B%20%E2%8B%AF | In mathematics, the infinite series
is a simple example of an alternating series that converges absolutely.
It is a geometric series whose first term is and whose common ratio is −, so its sum is
Hackenbush and the surreals
A slight rearrangement of the series reads
The series has the form of a positive integer p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56%20%28number%29 | 56 (fifty-six) is the natural number following 55 and preceding 57.
Mathematics
56 is:
The sum of the first six triangular numbers (making it a tetrahedral number).
The number of ways to choose 3 out of 8 objects or 5 out of 8 objects, if order does not matter.
The sum of six consecutive primes (3 + 5 + 7 + 11 +... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%20space%20%28topology%29 | In mathematics, more specifically point-set topology, a Moore space is a developable regular Hausdorff space. That is, a topological space X is a Moore space if the following conditions hold:
Any two distinct points can be separated by neighbourhoods, and any closed set and any point in its complement can be separated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20App%20Connect%20Enterprise | IBM App Connect Enterprise (abbreviated as IBM ACE, formerly known as IBM Integration Bus or WebSphere Message Broker) is IBM's premier integration software offering, allowing business information to flow between disparate applications across multiple hardware and software platforms. Rules can be applied to the data fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colortrak | Colortrak was a trademark used on several RCA color televisions beginning in the 1970s and lasting into the 1990s. After RCA was acquired by General Electric in 1986, GE began marketing sets identical to those from RCA. GE sold both RCA and GE consumer electronics lines to Thomson SA in 1988. RCA televisions with the C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%27eeb | Laeeb () was the official mascot of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which was held in Qatar. The name means "super-skilled player" in Arabic, and is a representation of the popular men's headdress keffiyeh, used in many parts of the Arab world. He was designed by Indian firm Fractal Picture, and animated by Qatari firm Katara... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluing%20axiom | In mathematics, the gluing axiom is introduced to define what a sheaf on a topological space must satisfy, given that it is a presheaf, which is by definition a contravariant functor
to a category which initially one takes to be the category of sets. Here is the partial order of open sets of ordered by inclusion ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited-memory%20BFGS | Limited-memory BFGS (L-BFGS or LM-BFGS) is an optimization algorithm in the family of quasi-Newton methods that approximates the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithm (BFGS) using a limited amount of computer memory. It is a popular algorithm for parameter estimation in machine learning. The algorithm's target pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIOLIN%20vaccine%20database | The Vaccine Investigation and OnLine Information Network (VIOLIN) is the largest web-based vaccine database and analysis system. VIOLIN currently contains over 3,000 vaccines or vaccine candidates for over 190 pathogens. The vaccine information in the database is collected by manual curation from over 1,600 peer-review... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioremediation%20of%20polychlorinated%20biphenyls | Polychorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, are a type of chemical that was widely used in the 1960s and 1970s, and which are a contamination source of soil and water. They are fairly stable and therefore persistent in the environment. Bioremediation of PCBs is the use of microorganisms to degrade PCBs from contaminated sites, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathukumalli%20Vidyasagar | Mathukumalli Vidyasagar (born 29 September 1947) is a leading control theorist and a Fellow of Royal Society. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad. Previously he was the Cecil & Ida Green (II) Chair of Systems Biology Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Kinesis | Amazon Kinesis is a family of services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for processing and analyzing real-time streaming data at a large scale. Launched in November 2013, it offers developers the ability to build applications that can consume and process data from multiple sources simultaneously. Kinesis supports ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy%20points | Airy points (after George Biddell Airy) are used for precision measurement (metrology) to support a length standard in such a way as to minimise bending or drop of a horizontally supported beam.
Choice of support points
A kinematic support for a one-dimensional beam requires exactly two support points. Three or mor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Delbr%C3%BCck%20Medal | The Max Delbrück Medal has been awarded annually from 1992 to 2013 by the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (German: Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin or MDC). Named after the German biophysicist Max Delbrück, it is presented in Berlin to an outstanding scientist on the occasion of the annual "Berlin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo%E2%80%93Lam | In cryptography, Woo–Lam refers to various computer network authentication protocols designed by Simon S. Lam and Thomas Woo. The protocols enable two communicating parties to authenticate each other's identity and to exchange session keys, and involve the use of a trusted key distribution center (KDC) to negotiate bet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen%27s%20formula | In the mathematical field known as complex analysis, Jensen's formula, introduced by , relates the average magnitude of an analytic function on a circle with the number of its zeros inside the circle. It forms an important statement in the study of entire functions.
Formal statement
Suppose that is an analytic func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox%20Star | The Xerox Star workstation, officially named Xerox 8010 Information System, is the first commercial personal computer to incorporate technologies that have since become standard in personal computers, including a bitmapped display, a window-based graphical user interface, icons, folders, mouse (two-button), Ethernet ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer%20state | In quantum Darwinism and similar theories, pointer states are quantum states, sometimes of a measuring apparatus, if present, that are less perturbed by decoherence than other states, and are the quantum equivalents of the classical states of the system after decoherence has occurred through interaction with the enviro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20plume | A river plume is a freshened water mass that is formed in the sea as a result of mixing of river discharge and saline seawater. River plumes are formed in coastal sea areas at many regions in the World. River plumes generally occupy wide, but shallow sea surface layer bounded by sharp density gradient. The area of a ri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataONE | DataONE is a network of interoperable data repositories facilitating data sharing, data discovery, and open science. Originally supported by $21.2 million in funding from the US National Science Foundation as one of the initial DataNet programs in 2009, funding was renewed in 2014 through 2020 with an additional $15 m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioflupane%20%28123I%29 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Ioflupane (123I)}}
Ioflupane (123I) is the international nonproprietary name (INN) of a cocaine analogue which is a neuro-imaging radiopharmaceutical drug, used in nuclear medicine for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and the differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease over other disorders present... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiarin | Antiarins are cardiac glycoside poisons produced by the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). There are two forms, α-antiarin and β-antiarin.
β-Antiarin
β-Antiarin, a cardiac glycoside steroid, can be isolated from upas tree latex (Antiaris toxicaria). Its use ranges from medical use, such as hypertension treatment, to arr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRAM%20domain | The GRAM domain is found in glucosyltransferases, myotubularins and other membrane-associated proteins. The structure of the GRAM domain is similar to that found in PH domains.
Proteins containing GRAM domains are found in all eukaryotes and bacteria, but not archaea. Various GRAM domains can bind proteins or lipids... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipping%20sauce | A dip or dip sauce is a common condiment for many types of food. Dips are used to add flavor or texture to a food, such as pita bread, dumplings, crackers, chopped raw vegetables, fruits, seafood, cubed pieces of meat and cheese, potato chips, tortilla chips, falafel, and sometimes even whole sandwiches in the case of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix%20%28ear%29 | The helix is the prominent rim of the auricle. Where the helix turns downwards posteriorly, a small tubercle is sometimes seen, namely the auricular tubercle of Darwin.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24%20%28number%29 | 24 (twenty-four) is the natural number following 23 and preceding 25.
In mathematics
24 is an even composite number, with 2 and 3 as its distinct prime factors. It is the first number of the form 2q, where q is an odd prime. It is the smallest number with at least eight positive divisors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24;... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhthoff%27s%20phenomenon | Uhthoff's phenomenon (also known as Uhthoff's syndrome, Uhthoff's sign, and Uhthoff's symptom) is the worsening of neurologic symptoms in multiple sclerosis (MS) and other demyelinating diseases when the body is overheated. This may occur due to hot weather, exercise, fever, saunas, hot tubs, hot baths, and hot food an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersia | Battersia is a genus of algae belonging to the family Sphacelariaceae.
The genus name of Battersia is in honour of Edward Arthur Lionel Batters (1860–1907), an English botanist and author of "A catalogue of the British Marine algae" in 1902.
The species of this genus are found in Europe and Northern America.
Specie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TabletKiosk | TabletKiosk is a manufacturer of enterprise-grade Tablet PCs and UMPCs located in Torrance, California, United States. All mobile computers produced by TabletKiosk fall into the slate category, featuring touchscreen or pen (active digitizer) input, in lieu of integrated or convertible keyboards. Current products includ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer%20to%20Peer%20Remote%20Copy | Peer to Peer Remote Copy or PPRC is a protocol to replicate a storage volume to another control unit in a remote site. Synchronous PPRC causes each write to the primary volume to be performed to the secondary as well, and the I/O is only considered complete when update to both primary and secondary have completed. Asyn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Ecological%20Safety%20Collaborative%20Organization | The International Ecological Safety Collaborative Organization (abbreviated IESCO) was established in 2006 in China and founded as an international organization. It had cooperation with some related UN agencies and was in compliance with UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Structure
The World Ecological Safety As... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkboy | Talkboy is a line of handheld voice recorder and sound novelty toys manufactured by Tiger Electronics in the 1990s. The brand began as a result of a promotional tie-in with the 1992 film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; the most well-known product was the Deluxe Talkboy, a cassette recorder and player with a variable-sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20principles%20in%20structural%20mechanics | Energy principles in structural mechanics express the relationships between stresses, strains or deformations, displacements, material properties, and external effects in the form of energy or work done by internal and external forces. Since energy is a scalar quantity, these relationships provide convenient and altern... |
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