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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Howell | Emily Howell is a computer program created by David Cope, Dickerson Emeriti Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz. Emily Howell is an interactive interface that "hears" feedback from listeners, and builds its own musical compositions from a source database, derived from a previous composing program called Experiments in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal%20Environmental%20Genetic%20Alteration%20Agents | Horizontal Environmental Genetic Alteration Agents (HEGAAs) are any artificially developed agents that are engineered to edit the genome of eukaryotic species they infect when intentionally dispersed into the environment (outside of contained facilities such as laboratories or hospitals).
History
The term “genetic al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametrium | The parametrium is the fibrous and fatty connective tissue that surrounds the uterus. This tissue separates the supravaginal portion of the cervix from the bladder. The parametrium lies in front of the cervix and extends laterally between the layers of the broad ligaments. It connects the uterus to other tissues in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewtron | Viewtron was an online service offered by Knight-Ridder and AT&T from 1983 to 1986. Patterned after the British Post Office's Prestel system, it started as a videotex service requiring users to have a special terminal, the AT&T Sceptre. As home computers became important in the marketplace, the development focus shifte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafood%20basket | A seafood basket, also known as the fisherman's basket, is a fried dish usually consisting of fried seafood including fish fillet, prawns and calamari. Additional foods used can include fried scallops, oysters and crab sticks. It typically includes one or more dipping sauces, such as cocktail sauce, and may include chi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-in-one%20computer | An all-in-one (AIO) computer or all-in-one PC is a personal computer that integrates the system's internal components into the same case as the display, thus occupying a smaller footprint (with fewer cables) than desktops that incorporate a tower.
Advantages and disadvantages
Some advantages of the all-in-one computer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut%20milk%20powder | Coconut milk powder is a fine, white powder used in Southeast Asian and other cuisines. Coconut milk powder is manufactured through the spray drying process of raw unsweetened coconut cream and is reconstituted with water for use in recipes that call for coconut milk. Many commercially available coconut milk powders li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse%20ruler | A sparse ruler is a ruler in which some of the distance marks may be missing. More abstractly, a sparse ruler of length with marks is a sequence of integers where . The marks and correspond to the ends of the ruler. In order to measure the distance , with there must be marks and such that .
A complete spars... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer%20cake%20representation | In mathematics, the layer cake representation of a non-negative, real-valued measurable function defined on a measure space is the formula
for all , where denotes the indicator function of a subset and denotes the super-level set
The layer cake representation follows easily from observing that
and then using th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobi%C5%84ski%27s%20formula | In combinatorial mathematics, Dobiński's formula states that the n-th Bell number Bn (i.e., the number of partitions of a set of size n) equals
where denotes Euler's number.
The formula is named after G. Dobiński, who published it in 1877.
Probabilistic content
In the setting of probability theory, Dobiński's formu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelinoid | Myelinoids or myelin organoids are three dimensional in vitro cultured model derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) that represent various brain regions, spinal cord or the peripheral nervous system in early fetal human development. They have the capacity to recapitulate aspects of brain developmental proces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequate%20stimulus | The adequate stimulus is a property of a sensory receptor that determines the type of energy to which a sensory receptor responds with the initiation of sensory transduction. Sensory receptor are specialized to respond to certain types of stimuli. The adequate stimulus is the amount and type of energy required to stimu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20ulnar%20collateral%20artery | The superior ulnar collateral artery (inferior profunda artery), of small size, arises from the brachial artery a little below the middle of the arm; it frequently springs from the upper part of the a. profunda brachii.
It pierces the medial intermuscular septum, and descends on the surface of the medial head of the T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20System%20Design%20Guide | The PC System Design Guide (also known as the PC-97, PC-98, PC-99, or PC 2001 specification) is a series of hardware design requirements and recommendations for IBM PC compatible personal computers, compiled by Microsoft and Intel Corporation during 1997–2001. They were aimed at helping manufacturers provide hardware t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20Research | Polar Research is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering natural and social scientific research on the polar regions. It is published by the Norwegian Polar Institute. It covers a wide range of fields from biology to oceanography, including socio-economic and management topics. According to the Journal Ci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20derivative | In the context of Lagrangian mechanics, the fiber derivative is used to convert between the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian forms. In particular, if is the configuration manifold then the Lagrangian is defined on the tangent bundle , and the Hamiltonian is defined on the cotangent bundle —the fiber derivative is a map ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Gravitational%20Physics | The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) is a Max Planck Institute whose research is aimed at investigating Einstein's theory of relativity and beyond: Mathematics, quantum gravity, astrophysical relativity, and gravitational-wave astronomy. The institute was founded in 1995 and is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontinuity | In nonstandard analysis, a discipline within classical mathematics, microcontinuity (or S-continuity) of an internal function f at a point a is defined as follows:
for all x infinitely close to a, the value f(x) is infinitely close to f(a).
Here x runs through the domain of f. In formulas, this can be expressed as fol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenomics | Epigenomics is the study of the complete set of epigenetic modifications on the genetic material of a cell, known as the epigenome. The field is analogous to genomics and proteomics, which are the study of the genome and proteome of a cell. Epigenetic modifications are reversible modifications on a cell's DNA or histon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20distributed%20file%20systems | In computing, a distributed file system (DFS) or network file system is any file system that allows access to files from multiple hosts sharing via a computer network. This makes it possible for multiple users on multiple machines to share files and storage resources.
Distributed file systems differ in their performan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya%20VSP%204000%20series | The Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4000 series (VSP 4000) are products that, in computer networking terms, are standalone switch/routers (layer 2/layer 3) designed and manufactured by Avaya for Ethernet-based networks. The VSP 4000 hardware is a derivative of the earlier Ethernet routing switch 4000 series, leveraging... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBB%20%28software%29 | FBB is a free and open source bulletin board system for packet transmissions of radio amateurs. Written in C programming language, it allows transmission of messages over the AX.25 packet radio network by VHF, PACTOR on HF and Internet. Originally an MS-DOS program, the current versions run on Linux and 32-bit Windows.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedals%20%28bear%29 | Pedals (died October 2016, New Jersey, United States) was an American black bear (Ursus americanus) that walked upright on its hind legs because of injuries on its front paws. After videos of the bear were posted on the internet, more than 300,000 people signed a petition to move the bear to a wildlife sanctuary. Howe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force-sensing%20capacitor | A force-sensing capacitor is a material whose capacitance changes when a force, pressure or mechanical stress is applied. They are also known as "force-sensitive capacitors". They can provide improved sensitivity and repeatability compared to force-sensitive resistors but traditionally required more complicated electro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAPEG%20family | In molecular biology the MAPEG (Membrane-Associated Proteins in Eicosanoid and Glutathione metabolism) family of proteins are a group of membrane associated proteins with highly divergent functions. Included are the 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein (gene FLAP), leukotriene C4 synthase (), which catalyzes the productio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20magnetic%20resonance%20imaging | Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow. This technique relies on the fact that cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation are coupled. When an area of the brain is in use, blood flow to that region also increases.
The prim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-neutrophil%20cytoplasmic%20antibody | Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) are a group of autoantibodies, mainly of the IgG type, against antigens in the cytoplasm of neutrophils (the most common type of white blood cell) and monocytes. They are detected as a blood test in a number of autoimmune disorders, but are particularly associated with sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectinomycin | Spectinomycin, sold under the tradename Trobicin among others, is an antibiotic useful for the treatment of gonorrhea infections. It is given by injection into a muscle.
Common side effects include pain at the area of injection, rash, nausea, fever, and trouble sleeping. Severe allergic reactions may occasionally occu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.S.%20Unnikrishnan | C. S. Unnikrishnan (born 25 July 1962) is an Indian physicist and professor known for his contributions in multiple areas of experimental and theoretical physics. He has been a professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai and is currently a professor in the School of Quantum Technology at the Defence ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle%20%28monster%29 | The gargoyle is a fantasy and horror monster inspired by the gargoyle architectural element. While they were believed in mythology to frighten away evil spirits, the idea of such statues physically coming to life is a more recent notion. Like golems, they are usually made of magically animated or transformed stone, but... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold%20energy | In particle physics, the threshold energy for production of a particle is the minimum kinetic energy that must be imparted to one of a pair of particles in order for their collision to produce a given result. If the desired result is to produce a third particle then the threshold energy is greater than or equal to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian%20integral | In mathematics, an abelian integral, named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, is an integral in the complex plane of the form
where is an arbitrary rational function of the two variables and , which are related by the equation
where is an irreducible polynomial in ,
whose coefficients , are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o%20Jo%C3%A3o%20da%20Bahia%20Theater | São João da Bahia Theater was a 19th Century Brazilian Theater located at Castro Alves Square (formerly Sé district) in the Salvador, Bahia. It was started to be built in 1806 and inaugurated in 1812. It was a very large Theater in Brazil, with a seating capacity of around two thousand people.
There is a virtual museu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM%20UB-85 | SM UB-85 was a Type UB III U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. Ordered on 23 September 1916, the U-boat was built at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen and commissioned on 24 November 1917, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Günther Krech.
Construction
SM UB-85 was built by AG Weser of Bremen and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Deuce%20VII | Big Deuce VII (born 2015) is a donkey used as a mascot of the United States Army's 2nd Battalion, 2nd Field Artillery Regiment.
The battalion first acquired a donkey as mascot in the 1950s, which was imported from Mexico. Big Deuce VII was assigned as unit mascot in August 2015, at age four months. He succeeded Big De... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting%20board | The counting board is the precursor of the abacus, and the earliest known form of a counting device (excluding fingers and other very simple methods). Counting boards were made of stone or wood, and the counting was done on the board with beads, pebbles etc. Not many boards survive because of the perishable materials u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia%20non%20olet | is a Latin saying that means "money does not stink". The phrase is ascribed to the Roman emperor Vespasian (ruled AD 69–79).
History
A tax on the disposal of urine was first imposed by Emperor Nero under the name of in the 1st century AD. The tax was removed after a while, but it was re-enacted by Vespasian around 7... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20topping | Tree topping is the practice of removing whole tops of trees or large branches and/or trunks from the tops of trees, leaving stubs or lateral branches that are too small to assume the role of a terminal leader. Other common names for the practice include hat-racking, heading, rounding over, and tipping. Some species of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneeze%20%28video%20game%29 | Sneeze is a 2009 browser game created in Adobe Flash. In every level, the player can sneeze only once and is awarded points based on how many people they are able to infect.
Sneeze was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust and Channel 4 to subversively teach children the importance of healthy practices. During the 2009 s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain%20%28antenna%29 | In electromagnetics, an antenna's gain is a key performance parameter which combines the antenna's directivity and radiation efficiency. The term power gain has been deprecated by IEEE. In a transmitting antenna, the gain describes how well the antenna converts input power into radio waves headed in a specified direc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCF%20audio | RCF S.p.A. (formerly Radio Cine Forniture - R.C.F. S.r.l.) is a widely recognized Italian manufacturer of high performance audio products including power amplifiers, loudspeakers, digital mixers and digital signal processors (DSP).
History
RCF is an Italian audio products manufacturer founded in 1949 in Reggio Emilia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemic%20domain%20model | The anemic domain model is described as a programming anti-pattern where the domain objects contain little or no business logic like validations, calculations, rules, and so forth. The business logic is thus baked into the architecture of the program itself, making refactoring and maintenance more difficult and time-co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor%20physical%20anomalies | Minor physical anomalies (MPAs) are relatively minor (typically painless and, in themselves, harmless) congenital physical abnormalities consisting of features such as low-set ears, single transverse palmar crease, telecanthus, micrognathism, macrocephaly, hypotonia and furrowed tongue. While MPAs may have a genetic ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sound%20art%20organizations%20and%20festivals | This is a list of sound art organizations and festivals.
Het Apollohuis was a space for experimental music and visual arts, focused in particular on sound art, new music, performance art and the new media, founded in Eindhoven, Netherlands, by Remko Scha and Paul Panhuysen in a former 19th century cigar factory in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20intermuscular%20septum%20of%20leg | The posterior intermuscular septum of leg, or posterior crural intermuscular septum is a band of fascia which separates the lateral compartment of leg.
The deep fascia of leg gives off from its deep surface, on the lateral side of the leg, two strong intermuscular septa, the anterior and posterior peroneal septa, whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographical%20Number%20Theory | Typographical Number Theory (TNT) is a formal axiomatic system describing the natural numbers that appears in Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach. It is an implementation of Peano arithmetic that Hofstadter uses to help explain Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
Like any system implementing the Peano axioms, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle | A truffle is the fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus, predominantly one of the many species of the genus Tuber. In addition to Tuber, over one hundred other genera of fungi are classified as truffles including Geopora, Peziza, Choiromyces, and Leucangium. These genera belong to the class Pezizomycetes and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27l%20Rastus | Ulysses Simon Harrison (born ), known as Li'l Rastus and Rastus Simon, was an African American teenager who served as a mascot of the Detroit Tigers baseball team from 1908 to 1910.
Tigers mascot
In the early 1900s, it was not unusual for Major League Baseball teams to casually retain one or more urchins to act as ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20radiation%20therapy | The history of radiation therapy or radiotherapy can be traced back to experiments made soon after the discovery of X-rays (1895), when it was shown that exposure to radiation produced cutaneous burns. Influenced by electrotherapy and escharotics—the medical application of caustic substances—doctors began using radiati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervin%20Feldheim | Ervin Feldheim (Kassa, September 21, 1912 – Bor, 1944) was a Hungarian mathematician working on analysis, particularly, approximation theory. He was killed by the Nazis in 1944.
Selected publications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton%20Food%20Group | Hilton Food Group plc is a food packaging business. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
The company was established to operate a beef and lamb central meat packing facility in Huntingdon in 1994. It was the subject of an initial public offering in May 2007 whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER%20oxidoreductin | ER oxidoreductin 1 (Ero1) is an oxidoreductase enzyme that catalyses the formation and isomerization of protein disulfide bonds in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of eukaryotes. ER Oxidoreductin 1 (Ero1) is a conserved, luminal, glycoprotein that is tightly associated with the ER membrane, and is essential for the oxid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvezdelina%20Stankova | Zvezdelina Entcheva Stankova (; born 15 September 1969) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at Mills College and a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the founder of the Berkeley Math Circle, and an expert in the combinatorial enumeration of permutations with forbidd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%27s%20taxonomy | Duncan's taxonomy is a classification of computer architectures, proposed by Ralph Duncan in 1990. Duncan suggested modifications to Flynn's taxonomy to include pipelined vector processes.
Taxonomy
The taxonomy was developed during 1988-1990 and was first published in 1990. Its original categories are indicated below.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mm%20tree | Among Linux kernel developers, the -mm tree refers to a version of the kernel source code maintained by Andrew Morton.
The -mm kernel tree used to fill the role of Linux kernel development builds, formerly identified by odd version numbers following "2.6." (see this section on Linux kernel version numbering). New and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum%20energy | Vacuum energy is an underlying background energy that exists in space throughout the entire Universe. The vacuum energy is a special case of zero-point energy that relates to the quantum vacuum.
The effects of vacuum energy can be experimentally observed in various phenomena such as spontaneous emission, the Casimir e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20genetics | Medical genetics is the branch of medicine that involves the diagnosis and management of hereditary disorders. Medical genetics differs from human genetics in that human genetics is a field of scientific research that may or may not apply to medicine, while medical genetics refers to the application of genetics to medi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%20dissociation%20constant | In chemistry, an acid dissociation constant (also known as acidity constant, or acid-ionization constant; denoted ) is a quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution. It is the equilibrium constant for a chemical reaction
HA <=> A^- + H^+
known as dissociation in the context of acid–base reactions. The c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox%20of%20the%20plankton | In aquatic biology, the paradox of the plankton describes the situation in which a limited range of resources supports an unexpectedly wide range of plankton species, apparently flouting the competitive exclusion principle which holds that when two species compete for the same resource, one will be driven to extinction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20general-purpose%20CPUs | The history of general-purpose CPUs is a continuation of the earlier history of computing hardware.
1950s: Early designs
In the early 1950s, each computer design was unique. There were no upward-compatible machines or computer architectures with multiple, differing implementations. Programs written for one machine w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Prize%20for%20Biology | The is an annual award for "outstanding contribution to the advancement of research in fundamental biology." The Prize, although it is not always awarded to a biologist, is one of the most prestigious honours a natural scientist can receive. There are no restrictions on the nationality of the recipient.
Past laureate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20wind | Cosmic wind is a powerful cosmic stream of charged particles that can push interstellar dust clouds of low density into intergalactic space. Although it easily pushes low density gas and dust clouds, it cannot easily push high density clouds. As the cosmic winds start to push the clouds, they start to separate and star... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast%20wave | In fluid dynamics, a blast wave is the increased pressure and flow resulting from the deposition of a large amount of energy in a small, very localised volume. The flow field can be approximated as a lead shock wave, followed by a self-similar subsonic flow field. In simpler terms, a blast wave is an area of pressure e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Phone%207 | Windows Phone 7 is the first release of the Windows Phone mobile client operating system, released worldwide on October 21, 2010, and in the United States on November 8, 2010. It runs on the Windows CE 6.0 kernel.
It received multiple large updates, the last being Windows Phone 7.8, which was released in January 2013... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags%20of%20Indian%20princely%20states | This is a list of flags used by Princely states during British rule in India:
Baluchistan
Central Provinces and Central India States
Deccan States
Eastern States
Gujarat
Punjab States
Jammu and Kashmir
Madras States
Mysore
Rajputana
Hyderabad
United Provinces
See also
Flag of India
List of Indian flags
Lis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End%20%28graph%20theory%29 | In the mathematics of infinite graphs, an end of a graph represents, intuitively, a direction in which the graph extends to infinity. Ends may be formalized mathematically as equivalence classes of infinite paths, as havens describing strategies for pursuit–evasion games on the graph, or (in the case of locally finite ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMCO4 | Transmembrane and coiled-coil domains 4, TMCO4, is a protein in humans that is encoded by the TMCO4 gene. Currently, its function is not well defined. It is transmembrane protein that is predicted to cross the endoplasmic reticulum membrane three times. TMCO4 interacts with other proteins known to play a role in cancer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retired%20number | Retiring the number of an athlete is an honor a team bestows upon a player, usually after the player has left the team, retires from the sport, or dies, by taking his or her former number out of circulation. Once a number is retired, no future player from the team may wear that number on their uniform, unless the playe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%20partition%20noise | Mode partition noise: In an optical communication link, is phase jitter of the signal caused by the combined effects of mode hopping in the optical source and intramodal distortion in the fiber.
Mode hopping causes random wavelength changes which in turn affect the group velocity, i.e., the propagation time. Over a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophis%20dunni | Geophis dunni, Dunn's earth snake, is a species of enigmatic snake in the family Colubridae. The species is presumably endemic to Nicaragua and is only known from a single specimen discovered in 1932. This specimen, the holotype, was discovered by Karl Patterson Schmidt in the stomach of a Central American coral snak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutriepigenomics | Nutriepigenomics is the study of food nutrients and their effects on human health through epigenetic modifications. There is now considerable evidence that nutritional imbalances during gestation and lactation are linked to non-communicable diseases, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic%20desensitization | Systematic desensitization, or graduated exposure therapy, is a behavior therapy developed by the psychiatrist Joseph Wolpe. It is used when a phobia or anxiety disorder is maintained by classical conditioning. It shares the same elements of both cognitive-behavioral therapy and applied behavior analysis. When used in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20health | Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces is the basis for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter%20water%20equivalent | In physics, the meter water equivalent (often m.w.e. or mwe) is a standard measure of cosmic ray attenuation in underground laboratories. A laboratory at a depth of 1000 m.w.e is shielded from cosmic rays equivalently to a lab below the surface of a body of water. Because laboratories at the same depth (in meters) can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20function | In mathematics, the error function (also called the Gauss error function), often denoted by , is a complex function of a complex variable defined as:
Some authors define without the factor of .
This nonelementary integral is a sigmoid function that occurs often in probability, statistics, and partial differential equ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinceau | In architecture and the decorative arts, a rinceau (plural rinceaux; from the French, derived from old French rain 'branch with foliage') is a decorative form consisting of a continuous wavy stemlike motif from which smaller leafy stems or groups of leaves branch out at more or less regular intervals. The English term ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20concentration%20%28astronomy%29 | In astronomy, astrophysics and geophysics, a mass concentration (or mascon) is a region of a planet's or moon's crust that contains a large positive gravity anomaly. In general, the word "mascon" can be used as a noun to refer to an excess distribution of mass on or beneath the surface of an astronomical body (compared... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-to-surface%20intersection%20problem | The surface-to-surface intersection (SSI) problem is a basic workflow in computer-aided geometric design: Given two intersecting surfaces in R3, compute all parts of the intersection curve. If two surfaces intersect, the result will be a set of isolated points, a set of curves, a set of overlapping surfaces, or any com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs%E2%80%93Donnan%20effect | The Gibbs–Donnan effect (also known as the Donnan's effect, Donnan law, Donnan equilibrium, or Gibbs–Donnan equilibrium) is a name for the behaviour of charged particles near a semi-permeable membrane that sometimes fail to distribute evenly across the two sides of the membrane. The usual cause is the presence of a di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrimethanil | Pyrimethanil is a broad spectrum fungicide often applied to seeds. It inhibits methionine biosynthesis, thus affecting protein formation and subsequent cell division. Pyrimethanil works best on young fungus infestations.
See also
Fungicides
Aminopyrimidines
Phenyl compounds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware | Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no official support is available.
Within an intellectual rights contextual background, abandonware is a software (or hardware) sub-case of the general concept of orphan works. Museums and various organizations dedicated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2B972%20Magazine | +972 Magazine is a left-wing news and opinion webzine, established in August 2010 by a group of four Israeli writers in Tel Aviv. Noam Sheizaf, a co-founder and the +972 chief executive officer, said they wanted to express a new "and mostly young voice which would take part in the international debate regarding Israel ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benthic%20comb%20jelly | The benthic comb jelly is a comb jelly living in the Ryukyu Trench near Japan. Found at a depth of , it is the deepest dwelling ctenophore discovered.
Description
The benthic comb jelly is a gelatinous organism 5–8 cm wide and 10–20 cm long. It can attach itself to the sea floor using two long filaments and has two re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz-Zentrum%20Dresden-Rossendorf | The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) is a Dresden-based research laboratory. It conducts research in three of the Helmholtz Association's areas: materials, health, and energy. HZDR is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.
History
HZDR is located at the site of the former Central... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20broadband | Wireless broadband is a telecommunications technology that provides high-speed wireless Internet access or computer networking access over a wide area. The term encompasses both fixed and mobile broadband.
The term broadband
Originally the word "broadband" had a technical meaning, but became a marketing term for any k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantoscope | The Phantoscope was a film projection machine, a creation of Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. In the early 1890, Jenkins began creating the projector. He later met Thomas Armat, who provided financial backing and assisted with necessary modifications.
On September 25, 1895, Jenkins and Armat began the present... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xevious%3A%20Fardraut%20Saga | is a 1988 vertically scrolling shooter video game published by Namco for the MSX2 in Japan. An updated PC Engine version was released two years later. The fifth entry in the Xevious franchise, the player controls a spaceship in its mission to vanquish the Xevious forces before its supercomputer leader GAMP wipes out th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20Automatic%20Computer | FLAC, the Florida Automatic Computer, was an early digital electronic computer built for the United States Air Force at Patrick Air Force Base (PAFB) in Brevard County of Florida, to perform missile data reduction. The computer began service in 1953.
The system's architecture resembled that of the many machines of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%27s%20thought%20experiments | A hallmark of Albert Einstein's career was his use of visualized thought experiments () as a fundamental tool for understanding physical issues and for elucidating his concepts to others. Einstein's thought experiments took diverse forms. In his youth, he mentally chased beams of light. For special relativity, he emplo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosocial%20genomics | Psychosocial genomics (PG) is a field of research first proposed by Ernest L. Rossi in 2002. PG examines the modulation of gene expression in response to psychological, social and cultural experiences. Independent research shows that the experience of novelty, environmental enrichment and exercise facilitates activity ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Retail%20Predictive%20Application%20Server | The Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server (commonly referred to as RPAS) is a configurable software platform for developing forecasting and planning applications, following a Client/Server OLAP model. The RPAS platform provides capabilities such as a multidimensional database structure (it follows the MOLAP mode... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Carboxy-cis%2Ccis-muconic%20acid | 3-Carboxy-cis,cis-muconic acid is a metabolite of the catechin degradation by Bradyrhizobium japonicum.
The enzyme 3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate cycloisomerase uses 2-carboxy-2,5-dihydro-5-oxofuran-2-acetate to produce 3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate.
The enzyme carboxy-cis,cis-muconate cyclase uses 3-carboxy-2,5-dihydro-5-o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic%20boundary%20paradox | The term boundary paradox refers to the conflict between traditional, rank-based classification of life and evolutionary thinking. In the hierarchy of ranked categories it is implicitly assumed that the morphological gap is growing along with increasing ranks: two species from the same genus are more similar than other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henneberg%20surface | In differential geometry, the Henneberg surface is a non-orientable minimal surface named after Lebrecht Henneberg.
It has parametric equation
and can be expressed as an order-15 algebraic surface. It can be viewed as an immersion of a punctured projective plane. Up until 1981 it was the only known non-orientable min... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycan%20array | Glycan arrays, like that offered by the Consortium for Functional Glycomics (CFG), National Center for Functional Glycomics (NCFG) and Z Biotech, LLC, contain carbohydrate compounds that can be screened with lectins, antibodies or cell receptors to define carbohydrate specificity and identify ligands. Glycan array scre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20collaborative%20software | This list is divided into proprietary or free software, and open source software, with several comparison tables of different product and vendor characteristics. It also includes a section of project collaboration software, which is a standard feature in collaboration platforms.
Collaborative software
Comparison of n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20deployment | Continuous deployment (CD) is a software engineering approach in which software functionalities are delivered frequently and through automated deployments.
Continuous deployment contrasts with continuous delivery (also abbreviated CD), a similar approach in which software functionalities are also frequently delivered ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock%20modular%20form | In mathematics, a mock modular form is the holomorphic part of a harmonic weak Maass form, and a mock theta function is essentially a mock modular form of weight . The first examples of mock theta functions were described by Srinivasa Ramanujan in his last 1920 letter to G. H. Hardy and in his lost notebook. Sander Zwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine%20grid | The Palestine grid was the geographic coordinate system used by the Survey Department of Palestine.
The system was chosen by the Survey Department of the Government of Palestine in 1922. The projection used was the Cassini-Soldner projection. The central meridian (the line of longitude along which there is no local d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prydniprovsky%20Chemical%20Plant%20radioactive%20dumps | The now-defunct Prydniprovskyi Chemical Plant (; Prydniprovskyi khimichnyi zavod, PKhZ, also PChP) in the city of Kamianske, Ukraine, processed uranium ore for the Soviet nuclear program from 1948 through 1991, preparing yellowcake.
Its processing wastes are now stored in nine open-air dumping grounds containing about... |
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