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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon%20Composite | Epsilon Composite is a French company created in 1987 by Stephane LULL, its current CEO. Its revenue in 2021 was 33.5 M€ with 230 employees.
Epsilon Composite designs and produces a wide range of Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) products for various applications:
Manufacturing and printing machines (flexography... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20urinal | An interactive urinal is a device that allows users to play video games or control interactive displays while urinating. Several designs have been produced to date, usually comprising a urinal fitted with a pressure sensor to measure the strength and position of the urine flow and an LCD screen mounted above the urinal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysMath%20Central | PhysMath Central was an imprint of Springer Science+Business Media, publishing online open-access scientific journals in physics and mathematics and operated by BioMed Central. It was active from 2007 until 2011.
Journals published were:
PMC Physics A
PMC Physics B
PMC Biophysics
PMC Physics A and B were discontin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Parallel%20Computing%20Centre | EPCC, formerly the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, is a supercomputing centre based at the University of Edinburgh. Since its foundation in 1990, its stated mission has been to accelerate the effective exploitation of novel computing throughout industry, academia and commerce.
The University has supported high pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termitomyces%20tylerianus | Termitomyces tylerianus is a species of agaric fungus in the family Lyophyllaceae. Found in Africa and China, it was first formally described in 1964. Fruit bodies (mushrooms) grow in groups or clusters near termite nests in deciduous forests. The mushrooms are edible. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20164595 | HD 164595 is a G-type star located in the constellation of Hercules, from Earth that is notably similar to the Sun. With an apparent magnitude of 7.075, the star can be found with binoculars or a small telescope in the constellation Hercules.
The star has the same stellar classification as the Sun: G2V. It has a simi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readout%20integrated%20circuit | A Readout integrated circuit (ROIC) is an integrated circuit (IC) specifically used for reading detectors of a particular type. They are compatible with different types of detectors such as infrared and ultraviolet. The primary purpose for ROICs is to accumulate the photocurrent from each pixel and then transfer the re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20Connect%20%28protocol%29 | Direct Connect (DC) is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. Direct Connect clients connect to a central hub and can download files directly from one another. Advanced Direct Connect can be considered a successor protocol.
Hubs feature a list of clients or users connected to them. Users can search for files and downlo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Northumberland%20Forest | The Great Northumberland Forest is a proposed new forest in the north of England. Announced in September 2019, it is intended that up to a million trees will be planted between 2020 and 2024.
Announcement
The Great Northumberland Forest was announced by Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkspore | Darkspore was a video game that borrowed creature editing technology from Spore. It was described as "a fast-paced, science fiction action role-playing game in which the player battled across alien worlds to save the galaxy from the mutated forces of Darkspore". In addition to the creature editor, the game features a u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20beam-induced%20current | Electron-beam-induced current (EBIC) is a semiconductor analysis technique performed in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) or scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). It is most commonly used to identify buried junctions or defects in semiconductors, or to examine minority carrier properties. EBIC is similar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20C%2A-algebra | In the mathematical field of functional analysis, a nuclear C*-algebra is a C*-algebra such that for every C*-algebra the injective and projective C*-cross norms coincides on the algebraic tensor product and the completion of with respect to this norm is a C*-algebra. This property was first studied by under the n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20automaton | A cellular automaton (pl. cellular automata, abbrev. CA) is a discrete model of computation studied in automata theory. Cellular automata are also called cellular spaces, tessellation automata, homogeneous structures, cellular structures, tessellation structures, and iterative arrays. Cellular automata have found appli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav%20Gr%C4%8Dev | Miroslav Grčev (, ; born 1955) is a Macedonian architect, graphic designer, comics artist and caricaturist. He is known for having designed the current flag of North Macedonia and a popular proposal for a new coat of arms of North Macedonia.
Grčev was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now the capital of North Macedonia), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune%20inner%20ear%20disease | Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED) was first defined by Dr. Brian McCabe in a landmark paper describing an autoimmune loss of hearing. The disease results in progressive sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) that acts bilaterally and asymmetrically, and sometimes affects an individual's vestibular system. AIED is used to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 26° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 26th meridian east forms a great circle with the 154th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed%20wobble | Wobble, shimmy, tank-slapper, speed wobble, and even death wobble are all words and phrases used to describe a quick (4–10 Hz) oscillation of primarily just the steerable wheel(s) of a vehicle. Initially, the rest of the vehicle remains mostly unaffected, until translated into a vehicle yaw oscillation of increasing am... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest%20steppe | A forest steppe is a temperate-climate ecotone and habitat type composed of grassland interspersed with areas of woodland or forest.
Locations
Forest steppe primarily occurs in a belt of forest steppes across northern Eurasia from the eastern lowlands of Europe to eastern Siberia in northeast Asia. It forms transition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful%20nuclear%20explosion | Peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) are nuclear explosions conducted for non-military purposes. Proposed uses include excavation for the building of canals and harbours, electrical generation, the use of nuclear explosions to drive spacecraft, and as a form of wide-area fracking. PNEs were an area of some research from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogel%20encapsulation%20of%20quantum%20dots | The behavior of quantum dots (QDs) in solution and their interaction with other surfaces is of great importance to biological and industrial applications, such as optical displays, animal tagging, anti-counterfeiting dyes and paints, chemical sensing, and fluorescent tagging. However, unmodified quantum dots tend to be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selberg%20zeta%20function | The Selberg zeta-function was introduced by . It is analogous to the famous Riemann zeta function
where is the set of prime numbers. The Selberg zeta-function uses the lengths of simple closed geodesics instead of the prime numbers. If is a subgroup of SL(2,R), the associated Selberg zeta function is defined as fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmbieSense | AmbieSense was a large European project funded by the Information Society Technologies, Fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission (EU-IST 2001-34244). A company has been formed of the same name and has contributed to initiatives such as the open source Webinos project.
Objectives
The AmbieSense looks into... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Vakoch | Douglas A. Vakoch ( ; born June 16, 1961) is an American astrobiologist, search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) researcher, psychologist, and president of METI International, a nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to transmitting intentional signals to extraterrestrial civilizations. Vakoch ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodimeter |
The Geodimeter (acronym of geodetic distance meter) was the first optical electronic distance meter surveying instrument.
It was originally developed for measuring the speed of light.
It was invented in 1947 by and commercialized in 1953 by the AGA (Aktiebolaget Gasaccumulator) company of Sweden.
It was used in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arterial%20blood%20gas%20test | An arterial blood gas (ABG) test, or arterial blood gas analysis (ABGA) measures the amounts of arterial gases, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide. An ABG test requires that a small volume of blood be drawn from the radial artery with a syringe and a thin needle, but sometimes the femoral artery in the groin or another ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behnke%E2%80%93Stein%20theorem | In mathematics, especially several complex variables, the Behnke–Stein theorem states that a union of an increasing sequence (i.e., ) of domains of holomorphy is again a domain of holomorphy. It was proved by Heinrich Behnke and Karl Stein in 1938.
This is related to the fact that an increasing union of pseudoconvex ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy | Hypergamy (colloquially referred to as "dating up" or "marrying up") is a term used in social science for the act or practice of a person dating or marrying a spouse of higher social status or sexual capital than themselves.
The antonym "hypogamy" refers to the inverse: marrying a person of lower social class or statu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS | BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by W. A. Wulf, D. B. Russell, and A. N. Habermann around 1970. It was perhaps the best known system language until C debuted a few years later. Since then, C became popular and common, and BLISS faded into obscurity. When C was in its ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin-1%20receptor%20associated%20kinase | The interleukin-1 receptor (IL-1R) associated kinase (IRAK) family plays a crucial role in the protective response to pathogens introduced into the human body by inducing acute inflammation followed by additional adaptive immune responses. IRAKs are essential components of the Interleukin-1 receptor signaling pathway a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA%20Technologies | VIA Technologies Inc. (), is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory. It was the world's largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets. As a fabless semiconductor company, VIA conducts research and development of its chipsets in-house, then subcontracts ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20Union%20of%20Agriculture%20and%20Food | The Industrial Union of Agriculture and Food (, ABVG) was a trade union representing workers in the farming and food processing industries in the Netherlands.
The union was founded in 1970, when the General Dutch Industrial Union of Agriculture merged with the General Union of the Food and Stimulant Industries. Like ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20of%20Ishtar | The Star of Ishtar or Star of Inanna is a Mesopotamian symbol of the ancient Sumerian goddess Inanna and her East Semitic counterpart Ishtar. The owl was also one of Ishtar's primary symbols. Ishtar is mostly associated with the planet Venus, which is also known as the morning star.
History
The star of Inanna usuall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klee%E2%80%93Minty%20cube | The Klee–Minty cube or Klee–Minty polytope (named after Victor Klee and George J. Minty) is a unit hypercube of variable dimension whose corners have been perturbed. Klee and Minty demonstrated that George Dantzig's simplex algorithm has poor worst-case performance when initialized at one corner of their "squashed cube... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium%28III%29%20selenide | Gallium(III) selenide (Ga2Se3) is a chemical compound. It has a defect sphalerite (cubic form of ZnS) structure. It is a p-type semiconductor
It can be formed by union of the elements. It hydrolyses slowly in water and quickly in mineral acids to form toxic hydrogen selenide gas. The reducing capabilities of the sele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexGen%20B.V. | FlexGen was a biotechnology company based in Leiden, Netherlands. FlexGen was a spin-off from Leiden University Medical Centre and Dutch Space (part of EADS) and had proprietary technologies for laser based in-situ synthesis of oligonucleotides and other biomolecules. On 21 December 2015, Flexgen Bv in Leiden (South Ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Alexanderson | Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson (January 25, 1878 – May 14, 1975) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer, who was a pioneer in radio and television development. He invented the Alexanderson alternator, an early radio transmitter used between 1906 and the 1930s for longwave long distance radio transmission. Ale... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference%20materials%20for%20stable%20isotope%20analysis | Isotopic reference materials are compounds (solids, liquids, gasses) with well-defined isotopic compositions and are the ultimate sources of accuracy in mass spectrometric measurements of isotope ratios. Isotopic references are used because mass spectrometers are highly fractionating. As a result, the isotopic ratio th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasterscan | Rasterscan is a video game published in 1987 by Mastertronic for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and MSX. It was written by Binary Design based in Parsonage Gardens, Manchester with the C64 version programmed by Phillip Allsopp.
Plot
The Rasterscan, a large damaged spacecraft, is drifting uncontrollably to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mom%27s%20Cancer | Mom's Cancer is an autobiographical graphic medicine webcomic by Brian Fies which describes his mother's fight against metastatic lung cancer, as well as his family's reactions to it. Mom's Cancer was the first webcomic to win an Eisner Award, winning in 2005. Its print collection, published in 2006, won a Harvey Award... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distelfink | A distelfink is a stylized goldfinch, probably based on the European variety. It frequently appears in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art. It represents happiness and good fortune and the Pennsylvania German people, and is a common theme in hex signs and in fraktur. The word distelfink (literally 'thistle-finch') is (besid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitposting | In Internet culture, shitposting or trashposting is the act of using an online forum or social media page to post content that is satirical and of "aggressively, ironically, and trollishly poor quality". Shitposts are generally intentionally designed to derail discussions or cause the biggest reaction with the least ef... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2026 | In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 26 is a family of glycoside hydrolases.
Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-dimensional%20distribution | In mathematics, finite-dimensional distributions are a tool in the study of measures and stochastic processes. A lot of information can be gained by studying the "projection" of a measure (or process) onto a finite-dimensional vector space (or finite collection of times).
Finite-dimensional distributions of a measure
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minusheet%20perfusion%20culture%20system | Minusheet perfusion culture system is used for advanced cell culture experiments in combination with adherent cells and to generate specialized tissues in combination with selected biomaterials, special tissue carriers and compatible perfusion culture containers.
The technical development of the Minusheet perfusion cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise%20old%20man | The wise old man (also called senex, sage or sophos) is an archetype as described by Carl Jung, as well as a classic literary figure, and may be seen as a stock character. The wise old man can be a profound philosopher distinguished for wisdom and sound judgment.
Traits
This character is typically represented as a ki... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory%20threshold | In psychophysics, sensory threshold is the weakest stimulus that an organism can sense. Unless otherwise indicated, it is usually defined as the weakest stimulus that can be detected half the time, for example, as indicated by a point on a probability curve. Methods have been developed to measure thresholds in any of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20%28algebra%29 | In the context of a module M over a ring R, the top of M is the largest semisimple quotient module of M if it exists.
For finite-dimensional k-algebras (k a field) R, if rad(M) denotes the intersection of all proper maximal submodules of M (the radical of the module), then the top of M is M/rad(M). In the case of lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20branch%20of%20radial%20nerve | The radial nerve divides into a superficial (sensory) and deep (motor) branch at the cubital fossa. The deep branch of the radial nerve winds to the back of the forearm around the lateral side of the radius between the two planes of fibers of the Supinator, and is prolonged downward between the superficial and deep lay... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapLeaf | RapLeaf was a US-based marketing data and software company, which was acquired by email data provider TowerData in 2013.
Company
RapLeaf was founded in San Francisco by Auren Hoffman and Manish Shah in March 2005.
In May 2006 the Founders Fund led a seed round of about $1 million, including angel investors such as Pet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning%20%28polymers%29 | Spinning is a manufacturing process for creating polymer fibers. It is a specialized form of extrusion that uses a spinneret to form multiple continuous filaments.
Melt Spinning
If the polymer is a thermoplastic then it can undergo melt spinning. The molten polymer is extruded through a spinneret composed of capillari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUMO%20protein | In molecular biology, SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier) proteins are a family of small proteins that are covalently attached to and detached from other proteins in cells to modify their function. This process is called SUMOylation (sometimes written sumoylation). SUMOylation is a post-translational modification invo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean%20%28proof%20assistant%29 | Lean is a proof assistant and programming language. It is based on the calculus of constructions with inductive types. It is an open-source project hosted on GitHub. It was made by Microsoft Research.
History
Initially launched by Leonardo de Moura at Microsoft Research in 2013.
Lean 3 was implemented as a virtual m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20semantics | In computer science, having value semantics (also value-type semantics or copy-by-value semantics) means for an object that only its value counts, not its identity. Immutable objects have value semantics trivially, and in the presence of mutation, an object with value semantics can only be uniquely-referenced at any po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docosanoid | In biochemistry, docosanoids are signaling molecules made by the metabolism of twenty-two-carbon fatty acids (EFAs), especially the omega-3 fatty acid, Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) (i.e. 4Z,7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z,19Z-docosahexaenoic acid) by lipoxygenase, cyclooxygenase, and cytochrome P450 enzymes. Other docosanoids are metabol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker-Breaker%20game | A Maker-Breaker game is a kind of positional game. Like most positional games, it is described by its set of positions/points/elements () and its family of winning-sets (- a family of subsets of ). It is played by two players, called Maker and Breaker, who alternately take previously untaken elements.
In a Maker-Break... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20Magnetic%20Resonance%20Data%20Bank | The Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (BioMagResBank or BMRB) is an open access repository of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic data from peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and other biologically relevant molecules. The database is operated by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is supported by th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxosome | The relaxosome is the complex of proteins that facilitates plasmid transfer during bacterial conjugation. The proteins are encoded by the tra operon on a fertility plasmid in the region near the origin of transfer, oriT. The most important of these proteins is relaxase, which is responsible for beginning the conjugat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Sagan%20Institute | The Carl Sagan Institute: Pale Blue Dot and Beyond was founded in 2014 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York to further the search for habitable planets and moons in and outside the Solar System. It is focused on the characterization of exoplanets and the instruments to search for signs of life in the universe. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakamura%20number | In cooperative game theory and social choice theory, the Nakamura number measures the degree of rationality
of preference aggregation rules (collective decision rules), such as voting rules.
It is an indicator of the extent to which an aggregation rule can yield well-defined choices.
If the number of alternatives (cand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 29° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 29th meridian west forms a great circle with the 151st meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapp%20oscillator | The Clapp oscillator or Gouriet oscillator is an LC electronic oscillator that uses a particular combination of an inductor and three capacitors to set the oscillator's frequency. LC oscillators use a transistor (or vacuum tube or other gain element) and a positive feedback network. The oscillator has good frequency st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Argentine%20flags | This is a list of flags used in or otherwise associated with Argentina.
National flags
Presidential standard
Military
Argentine Army
Argentine Navy
Argentine National Gendarmerie
Other
Scouts de Argentina
Sporting flags
Vexillology Association flags
First-level administrative divisions
Historical
City flag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20differential%20algebraic%20equation | In mathematics a partial differential algebraic equation (PDAE) set is an incomplete system of partial differential equations that is closed with a set of algebraic equations.
Definition
A general PDAE is defined as:
where:
F is a set of arbitrary functions;
x is a set of independent variables;
y is a set of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20salicylate | Ethyl salicylate is the ester formed by the condensation of salicylic acid and ethanol. It is a clear liquid that is sparingly soluble in water, but soluble in alcohol and ether. It has a pleasant odor resembling wintergreen and is used in perfumery and artificial flavors.
See also
Methyl salicylate
Isopropyl salicy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20median%20fissure%20of%20spinal%20cord | The anterior median fissure of the spinal cord is a deep midline groove of the anterior/ventral spinal cord. It divides the white matter of the anterior spinal cord nearly in two. The spinal pia mater extends into the fissure to line the surfaces of the spinal cord.
Anatomy
It has an average depth of about 3 mm, but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCOS | LOCOS, short for LOCal Oxidation of Silicon, is a microfabrication process where silicon dioxide is formed in selected areas on a silicon wafer having the Si-SiO2 interface at a lower point than the rest of the silicon surface. As of 2008 it was largely superseded by shallow trench isolation.
This technology was devel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20compression%20therapy | Cold compression therapy, also known as hilotherapy, combines two of the principles of rest, ice, compression, elevation to reduce pain and swelling from a sports or activity injury to soft tissues and is recommended by orthopedic surgeons following surgery. The therapy is especially useful for sprains, strains, pulled... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Island%20%28video%20game%29 | Hudson's Adventure Island, known as in Japan and also known as Adventure Island, is a side-scrolling platform game produced by Hudson Soft that was released in Japan for the Famicom and MSX on September 12, 1986. Adventure Island was released in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988 and in the PA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20enhancement%20by%20extravascular%20water%20protons | Signal enhancement by extravascular water protons, or SEEP, is a contrast mechanism for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which is an alternative to the more commonly employed BOLD (blood-oxygen-level dependent) contrast. This mechanism for image contrast changes corresponding to changes in neuronal activi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen%20protector | A screen protector is an additional sheet of material—commonly polyurethane or laminated glass—that can be attached to the screen of an electronic device and protect it against physical damage.
History
The first screen protector was designed and patented by Herbert Schlegel in 1968 for use on television screens.
Scr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus%20subalutaceus | Suillus subalutaceus is an edible species of mushroom in the genus Suillus. It is found in North America and in Taiwan.
See also
List of North American boletes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20displacement%20amplification | Multiple displacement amplification (MDA) is a DNA amplification technique. This method can rapidly amplify minute amounts of DNA samples to a reasonable quantity for genomic analysis. The reaction starts by annealing random hexamer primers to the template: DNA synthesis is carried out by a high fidelity enzyme, prefer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20Goppa%20code | In mathematics and computer science, the binary Goppa code is an error-correcting code that belongs to the class of general Goppa codes originally described by Valerii Denisovich Goppa, but the binary structure gives it several mathematical advantages over non-binary variants, also providing a better fit for common usa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance%20testing | In engineering and its various subdisciplines, acceptance testing is a test conducted to determine if the requirements of a specification or contract are met. It may involve chemical tests, physical tests, or performance tests.
In systems engineering, it may involve black-box testing performed on a system (for example... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified%20senior%20broadcast%20radio%20engineer | Certified Senior Broadcast Radio Engineer (CSRE) is a title granted to an individual in the United States who successfully meets the experience and examination requirements of the certification. The certification is regulated by the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE). The CSRE title is protected by copyright laws. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20gauge%20transformation | Given a topological space M, a topological group G and a principal G-bundle over M, a global section of that principal bundle is a gauge fixing and the process of replacing one section by another is a gauge transformation. If a gauge transformation isn't homotopic to the identity, it is called a large gauge transformat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Norman%20Dancer | Edward Norman Dancer FAA (born 29 December 1946, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian mathematician, specializing in nonlinear analysis.
Dancer received in 1969 a Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc (Hons)) from the Australian National University and in 1972 a PhD from the University of Cambridge with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20College%20of%20Physical%20Scientists%20and%20Engineers%20in%20Medicine | The Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) is a professional organisation for medical physicists, biomedical engineers and allied professionals in Australia and New Zealand. The ACPSEM was first incorporated in 1977 as the Australasian College of Physical Scientists in Medicine. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow | The pilcrow, ¶, is a handwritten or typographical character used to identify a paragraph. It is also called the paragraph mark (or sign or symbol), paraph, or blind P.
The pilcrow may be used at the start of separate paragraphs or to designate a new paragraph in one long piece of copy, as Eric Gill did in his 1931 boo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Board%20for%20the%20Enrollment%20of%20Actuaries | The Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries licenses actuaries to perform a variety of actuarial tasks required of pension plans in the United States by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The Joint Board consists of five members – three appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury and two by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%20matrix | In linear algebra, a Moore matrix, introduced by , is a matrix defined over a finite field. When it is a square matrix its determinant is called a Moore determinant (this is unrelated to the Moore determinant of a quaternionic Hermitian matrix). The Moore matrix has successive powers of the Frobenius automorphism appli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response%20to%20sneezing | In English-speaking countries, the common verbal response to another person's sneeze is "[God] bless you", or, less commonly in the United States and Canada, "Gesundheit", the German word for health (and the response to sneezing in German-speaking countries). There are several proposed bless-you origins for use in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamino%20bodies | Kamino bodies are eosinophilic globoids. Kamino bodies are commonly observed microscopically with the condition spitz nevi, a benign melanocytic nevus, a type of skin lesion, affecting the epidermis and dermis.
See also
List of cutaneous conditions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20point%20%28network%20science%29 | In network science, a critical point is a value of average degree, which separates random networks that have a giant component from those that do not (i.e. it separates a network in a subcritical regime from one in a supercritical regime). Considering a random network with an average degree the critical point is
whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAF%20family | In molecular biology, the EAF family of proteins act as transcriptional transactivators of ELL and ELL2 RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) transcriptional elongation factors . EAF proteins form a stable heterodimer complex with ELL proteins to facilitate the binding of RNA polymerase II to activate transcription elongation. EL... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossa%20navicularis%20magna | Fossa navicularis magna (also known as pharyngeal fossa or phyaryngeal fovela) is a variant bony depression found at the midline of the occipital part of clivus. This fossa was first described by Tourtual. Its prevalence ranges from 0.9 to 5.3%.
Structure
Fossa navicularis magna is located on the anterior surface or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20build | In software development, a build is the process of converting source code files into standalone software artifact(s) that can be run on a computer, or the result of doing so.
Functions
Building software is an end-to-end process that involves many distinct functions. Some of these functions are described below.
V... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Namibian%20flags | This is a following list of the Namibian flags.
National flag and state flag
Governmental flag
Military flags
Flags of bantustans in South West Africa
Some of the bantustans established by South Africa during its period of administering South West Africa had adopted their own distinctive flags whilst others used th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryonated | Embryonated, unembryonated and de-embryonated are terms generally used in reference to eggs or, in botany, to seeds. The words are often used as professional jargon rather than as universally applicable terms or concepts. Examples of relevant fields in which the words are useful include reproductive biology, virology, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity%20stream | An activity stream is a list of recent activities performed by an individual, typically on a single website. For example, Facebook's News Feed is an activity stream. Since the introduction of the News Feed on September 6, 2006, other major websites have introduced similar implementations for their own users. Since the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20protocol-based%20intrusion%20detection%20system | An application protocol-based intrusion detection system (APIDS) is an intrusion detection system that focuses its monitoring and analysis on a specific application protocol or protocols in use by the computing system.
Overview
An APIDS will monitor the dynamic behavior and state of the protocol and will typically co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlef%20Gromoll | Detlef Gromoll (13 May 1938 – 31 May 2008) was a mathematician who worked in Differential geometry.
Biography
Gromoll was born in Berlin in 1938, and was a classically trained violinist.
After living and attending school in Rosdorf and graduating from high school in Bonn, he obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newzbin | Newzbin was a British Usenet indexing website, intended to facilitate access to content on Usenet. The site caused controversy over its stance on copyrighted material. Access to the Newzbin.com website was blocked by BT and Sky in late 2011, following legal action in the UK by Hollywood film studios.
The site announce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavum%20Vergae | The cavum Vergae is a posterior extension of the cavum septi pellucidi, an anomaly that is found in a small percentage of human brains. It was first described by Andrea Verga.
Brain
Ventricular system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcan%20formula | In quantified modal logic, the Barcan formula and the converse Barcan formula (more accurately, schemata rather than formulas) (i) syntactically state principles of interchange between quantifiers and modalities; (ii) semantically state a relation between domains of possible worlds. The formulas were introduced as axi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman%E2%80%93Enskog%20theory | Chapman–Enskog theory provides a framework in which equations of hydrodynamics for a gas can be derived from the Boltzmann equation. The technique justifies the otherwise phenomenological constitutive relations appearing in hydrodynamical descriptions such as the Navier–Stokes equations. In doing so, expressions for v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Bailovic | Rudolf Bailovic (born 1885 in Sarajevo) was a Serbo-Croatian interpreter and cryptographer, of Austrian descent, who was head of the Balkan Referat of General der Nachrichtenaufklärung during World War II. Bailovic held the civil service rank of civil servant () and was promoted to senior civil servant or Oberregierun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism | Ecofascism is a term used to describe individuals and groups which combine environmentalism with fascism.
Philosopher André Gorz characterized forms of totalitarianism based on an ecological orientation of politics. These individuals and groups synthesise radical far-right politics with environmentalism, and will typi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptospermone | Leptospermone is a chemical compound (a β-triketone) produced by some members of the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), such as Callistemon citrinus (Lemon Bottlebrush), a shrub native to Australia, and Leptospermum scoparium (Manuka), a New Zealand tree from which it gets its name. Modification of this allelopathic chemical t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim%20blaming | Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held entirely or partially at fault for the harm that befell them. There is historical and current prejudice against the victims of domestic violence and sex crimes, such as the greater tendency to blame victims of rape than victims of robbery if v... |
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