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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation%20of%20duties | Separation of duties (SoD), also known as segregation of duties, is the concept of having more than one person required to complete a task. It is an administrative control used by organisations to prevent fraud, sabotage, theft, misuse of information, and other security compromises. In the political realm, it is known ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation | The principle of individuation, or , describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinct from other things.
The concept appears in numerous fields and is encountered in works of Leibniz, Carl Jung, Gunther Anders, Gilbert Simondon, Bernard Stiegler, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, David Bohm, Hen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic%20square | In Indian mathematics, a Vedic square is a variation on a typical 9 × 9 multiplication table where the entry in each cell is the digital root of the product of the column and row headings i.e. the remainder when the product of the row and column headings is divided by 9 (with remainder 0 represented by 9). Numerous geo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fialuridine | Fialuridine, or 1-(2-deoxy-2-fluoro-1-D-arabinofuranosyl)-5-iodouracil (FIAU), is a nucleoside analogue that was investigated as a potential therapy for hepatitis B virus infection. In a 1993 clinical study at the NIH, unexpected toxicity led to the death of 5 out of 15 patients from liver failure alongside lactic acid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31%20%28number%29 | 31 (thirty-one) is the natural number following 30 and preceding 32. It is a prime number.
In mathematics
31 is the 11th prime number. It is a superprime and a self prime (after 3, 5, and 7), as no integer added up to its base 10 digits results in 31. It is the third Mersenne prime of the form 2n − 1, and the eighth ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan%20Samet | Hanan Samet is a Computer Science researcher and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland's Computer Science Department, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He completed his PhD at Stanford University in 1975.
Samet is a pioneer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash%20Express | The Dash Express was an Internet-enabled personal navigation device manufactured by Dash Navigation Dash Express transmitted information using a GPRS connection back to Dash Navigation in order to enhance traffic routing as well as use Wi-Fi for the purpose of updating GPS. At the time of its availability, the Dash Ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20William%20Bennett | Alfred William Bennett (24 June 1833 – 23 January 1902) was a British botanist and publisher. He was best known for his work on the flora of the Swiss Alps, cryptogams, and the Polygalaceae or Milkwort plant family, as well as his years in the publishing industry.
Early life
Alfred William Bennett was son of Quakers W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias%20Dase | Johann Martin Zacharias Dase (June 23, 1824, Hamburg – September 11, 1861, Hamburg) was a German mental calculator.
He attended schools in Hamburg from a very early age, but later admitted that his instruction had little influence on him. He used to spend a lot of time playing dominoes, and suggested that this played ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinny%20triangle | In trigonometry, a skinny triangle is a triangle whose height is much greater than its base. The solution of such triangles can be greatly simplified by using the approximation that the sine of a small angle is equal to that angle in radians. The solution is particularly simple for skinny triangles that are also isosce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr%20Whoppit | Mr Whoppit was the teddy bear mascot of Donald Campbell, the land and water speed record holder. Writing in his 2011 book, Donald Campbell: The Man Behind The Mask, journalist David Tremayne described Whoppit as Campbell's "magic talisman".
As was his father Sir Malcolm Campbell, Donald Campbell was highly superstitio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Stenb%C3%A4ck | Johnny Stenbäck is a Finnish software engineer mostly known for his work on the Mozilla browser. He was one of the first developers outside Netscape to get involved with the Mozilla source released by Netscape in March 1998. Stenbäck started working on the source code soon after the release, then working for the Finnis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%20numbers%20of%20the%20first%20kind | In mathematics, especially in combinatorics, Stirling numbers of the first kind arise in the study of permutations. In particular, the Stirling numbers of the first kind count permutations according to their number of cycles (counting fixed points as cycles of length one).
The Stirling numbers of the first and second... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gieseking%20manifold | In mathematics, the Gieseking manifold is a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold of finite volume. It is non-orientable and has the smallest volume among non-compact hyperbolic manifolds, having volume approximately . It was discovered by . The volume is called Gieseking constant and has a closed-form,
with Clausen function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%20jar | A Mars jar or Mars simulation chamber is a container that simulates the atmosphere of the planet Mars. It is used in astrobiology experiments to determine what kind of life on Mars might be viable.
Features
Mars jars have evolved from simple glass containers that resembled kitchen jars in the 1950s to sophisticated t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Math%20%28song%29 | New Math is a 1965 song by American musician Tom Lehrer. Found on his album That Was the Year That Was, the song is a satire of the then-contemporary educational concept of New Math.
Composition
The song is composed in the key of C major in a 2/4 time signature. It correctly describes the step-by-step process for subt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodynamic%20heating | Aerodynamic heating is the heating of a solid body produced by its high-speed passage through air. In science and engineering, an understanding of aerodynamic heating is necessary for predicting the behaviour of meteoroids which enter the earth's atmosphere, to ensure spacecraft safely survive atmospheric reentry, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum%20Z.%20Shor | Naum Zuselevich Shor () (1 January 1937 – 26 February 2006) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician specializing in optimization.
He made significant contributions to nonlinear and stochastic programming, numerical techniques for non-smooth optimization, discrete optimization problems, matrix optimization, dual quad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avizo%20%28software%29 | Avizo (pronounce: ‘a-VEE-zo’) is a general-purpose commercial software application for scientific and industrial data visualization and analysis.
Avizo is developed by Thermo Fisher Scientific and was originally designed and developed by the Visualization and Data Analysis Group at Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) under th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoSCoW%20method | The MoSCoW method is a prioritization technique used in management, business analysis, project management, and software development to reach a common understanding with stakeholders on the importance they place on the delivery of each requirement; it is also known as MoSCoW prioritization or MoSCoW analysis.
The term ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAFM%20Company | RAFM Company, Inc. of Brantford, Ontario is a producer of miniatures, reference materials, and board games. RAFM has produced games, reference materials, and their own lines of miniature figures in 15 mm, 20 mm, 25 mm, and 28 mm scales since 1977. Their games concern soldiers, adventurers and monsters inspired by histo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAB27 | Rab27 is a member of the Rab subfamily of GTPases. Rab27 is post translationally modified by the addition of two geranylgeranyl groups on the two C-terminal cysteines.
Pathology
Mutations that prevent the expression of Rab27 ('knock out' mutations) cause the hypopigmentation and immunodeficiency disorder known as type... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musca%20depicta | Musca depicta ("painted fly" in Latin; plural: muscae depictae) is a depiction of a fly as a conspicuous element of various paintings. The feature was widespread in 15th- and 16th-century European paintings, and its presence has been subject to various interpretations by art historians.
Interpretations
James N. Hogue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Adobe%20software | The following is a list of software products by Adobe Inc.
Active products
Software suites
Experience Cloud
Adobe Experience Cloud (AEC) is a collection of integrated online marketing and Web analytics solutions by Adobe Inc. It includes a set of analytics, social, advertising, media optimization, targeting, Web ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20of%20America%20Mathematical%20Talent%20Search | The United States of America Mathematical Talent Search (USAMTS) is a mathematics competition open to all United States students in or below high school.
History
Professor George Berzsenyi initiated the contest in 1989 under the KöMaL model and under joint sponsorship of the Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology and the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e%20du%20Vin | The Musée du Vin (in ) is a cultural venue in the 16th arrondissement located at 5, square Charles Dickens, Paris, France next to the Trocadéro and the Eiffel Tower. The nearest métro station is Passy. It opened in 1984.
Overview
The museum testifies to the richness and diversity of the French craft of winemaking, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20variation | Genomic structural variation is the variation in structure of an organism's chromosome. It consists of many kinds of variation in the genome of one species, and usually includes microscopic and submicroscopic types, such as deletions, duplications, copy-number variants, insertions, inversions and translocations. Origin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoid | In histology, osteoid is the unmineralized, organic portion of the bone matrix that forms prior to the maturation of bone tissue. Osteoblasts begin the process of forming bone tissue by secreting the osteoid as several specific proteins. When the osteoid becomes mineralized, it and the adjacent bone cells have develop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Professor%20of%20Natural%20Philosophy%20%28Dublin%29 | The University Chair of Natural Philosophy is a professorship in the School of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin. It was established in 1847.
From 1724 to 1847 the Erasmus Smith's Professorship of Natural and Experimental Philosophy had a mathematical and theoretical orientation, with many holders being also mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koszul%20cohomology | In mathematics, the Koszul cohomology groups are groups associated to a projective variety X with a line bundle L. They were introduced by , and named after Jean-Louis Koszul as they are closely related to the Koszul complex.
surveys early work on Koszul cohomology, gives an introduction to Koszul cohomology, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees%20of%20freedom%20%28physics%20and%20chemistry%29 | In physics and chemistry, a degree of freedom is an independent physical parameter in the formal description of the state of a physical system. The set of all states of a system is known as the system's phase space, and the degrees of freedom of the system are the dimensions of the phase space.
The location of a parti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annulet%20%28architecture%29 | An annulet is a small square component in the Doric capital, under the quarter-round. It is also called a fillet or listel, although and are also more general terms for a narrow band or strip, such as the ridge between flutes.
An annulet is also a narrow flat architectural moulding, common in other parts of a column... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism%20%28biology%29 | In biology, metamerism is the phenomenon of having a linear series of body segments fundamentally similar in structure, though not all such structures are entirely alike in any single life form because some of them perform special functions.
In animals, metameric segments are referred to as somites or metameres. In pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Box | Jack Box (full name Jack I. Box or simply known as Jack) is the primary mascot of the Jack in the Box fast food restaurant chain. In television commercials, he is the founder, CEO and ad spokesman for the chain. His appearance is that of a typical male, with the exception of his spherical white head, blue dot eyes, con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemannian%20connection%20on%20a%20surface | In mathematics, the Riemannian connection on a surface or Riemannian 2-manifold refers to several intrinsic geometric structures discovered by Tullio Levi-Civita, Élie Cartan and Hermann Weyl in the early part of the twentieth century: parallel transport, covariant derivative and connection form. These concepts were pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcinia%20lanceifolia | Garcinia lanceifolia is an endemic medicinal evergreen plant with edible fruit native to Asia, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar. It has been used by various ethnic communities across North-Eastern India for treatment of dysentery, dyspepsia and biliousness etc. It is also used as pickles in various North Eastern Indian cuisi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekman%20spiral | The oceanic, wind driven Ekman spiral is the result of a force balance created by a shear stress force, Coriolis force and the water drag. This force balance gives a resulting current of the water different from the winds. In the ocean, there are two places where the Ekman spiral can be observed. At the surface of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolipoprotein%20L1 | Apolipoprotein L1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the APOL1 gene. Two transcript variants encoding two different isoforms have been found for this gene.
Species distribution
This gene is found only in humans, African green monkeys, and gorillas.
Structure
The gene that encodes the APOL1 protein is 14,522... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenome | An epigenome consists of a record of the chemical changes to the DNA and histone proteins of an organism; these changes can be passed down to an organism's offspring via transgenerational stranded epigenetic inheritance. Changes to the epigenome can result in changes to the structure of chromatin and changes to the fun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAgPIE | MAgPIE is a non-linear, recursive, dynamic-optimization, global land and water-use model with a cost-minimization objective function.
MAgPIE was developed and is employed by the land-use group working at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). It links regional economic information with grid-based biop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20mass | In building design, thermal mass is a property of the mass of a building that enables it to store heat and provide inertia against temperature fluctuations. It is sometimes known as the thermal flywheel effect. The thermal mass of heavy structural elements can be designed to work alongside a construction's lighter ther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20divider | In electronics, a current divider is a simple linear circuit that produces an output current (IX) that is a fraction of its input current (IT). Current division refers to the splitting of current between the branches of the divider. The currents in the various branches of such a circuit will always divide in such a wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%E2%80%93Washizu%20principle | In continuum mechanics, and in particular in finite element analysis, the Hu–Washizu principle is a variational principle which says that the action
is stationary, where is the elastic stiffness tensor. The Hu–Washizu principle is used to develop mixed finite element methods. The principle is named after Hu Haichang ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20dominant%20balance | In mathematics, the method of dominant balance is used to determine the asymptotic behavior of solutions to an ordinary differential equation without fully solving the equation. The process is iterative, in that the result obtained by performing the method once can be used as input when the method is repeated, to obtai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinagizado | The Zinagizado is an electrochemical process to provide a ferrous metal material with anti-corrosive properties. It involves the application of a constant electric current through a circuit to break the bonds and these are attached to the metal to be coated by forming a surface coating. The alloy used is called Zinag (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed%20circuit%20board | A printed circuit board (PCB), also called printed wiring board (PWB), is a medium used to connect or "wire" components to one another in a circuit. It takes the form of a laminated sandwich structure of conductive and insulating layers: each of the conductive layers is designed with an artwork pattern of traces, plane... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav%20Ne%C5%A1et%C5%99il | Jaroslav (Jarik) Nešetřil (; born March 13, 1946, in Brno) is a Czech mathematician, working at Charles University in Prague. His research areas include combinatorics (structural combinatorics, Ramsey theory), graph theory (coloring problems, sparse structures), algebra (representation of structures, categories, homom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma%20Y.%20Alan%C3%ADs | Alma Yolanda Alanís García (born 1980) is a Mexican electrical engineer and control theorist specializing in intelligent control, and in particular in the use of artificial neural networks for applications including the control of electric motors, robot manipulators, and unmanned aerial vehicles. She is a chair profess... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant%20conditioning | Operant conditioning, also called instrumental conditioning, is a learning process where behaviors are modified through the association of stimuli with reinforcement or punishment. In it, operants—behaviors that affect one's environment—are conditioned to occur or not occur depending on the environmental consequences o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips%20relationship | In astrophysics, the Phillips relationship is the relationship between the peak luminosity of a Type Ia supernova and the speed of luminosity evolution after maximum light. The relationship was independently discovered by the American statistician and astronomer Bert Woodard Rust and the Soviet astronomer in the 1970s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-collinear%20effective%20theory | In quantum field theory, soft-collinear effective theory (or SCET) is a theoretical framework for doing calculations that involve interacting particles carrying widely different energies.
The motivation for developing SCET was to control the infrared divergences that occur in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculations ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Eureka | The Eureka, also known as the Latin Verse Machine, is a mid-19th century machine for generating Latin verses, created and exhibited by the Quaker inventor John Clark of Bridgwater.
Clark, a cousin of Cyrus Clark, was born at Greinton in Somerset in 1785 and moved to Bridgwater in 1809. There he was first a grocer and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Schwichtenberg | Helmut Schwichtenberg (born 5 April 1942 in Żagań) is a German mathematical logician.
Schwichtenberg studied mathematics from 1961 at the FU Berlin and from 1964 at the University of Münster, where he received his doctorate in 1968 from Dieter Rödding. He then worked as an assistant and then as a professor in Münster,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector-valued%20Hahn%E2%80%93Banach%20theorems | In mathematics, specifically in functional analysis and Hilbert space theory, vector-valued Hahn–Banach theorems are generalizations of the Hahn–Banach theorems from linear functionals (which are always valued in the real numbers or the complex numbers ) to linear operators valued in topological vector spaces (TVSs).... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir%20modeling | In the oil and gas industry, reservoir modeling involves the construction of a computer model of a petroleum reservoir, for the purposes of improving estimation of reserves and making decisions regarding the development of the field, predicting future production, placing additional wells and evaluating alternative rese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral%20anomaly | In theoretical physics, a chiral anomaly is the anomalous nonconservation of a chiral current. In everyday terms, it is equivalent to a sealed box that contained equal numbers of left and right-handed bolts, but when opened was found to have more left than right, or vice versa.
Such events are expected to be prohibite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysophanol | Chrysophanol, also known as chrysophanic acid, is a fungal isolate and a natural anthraquinone. It is a C-3 methyl substituted chrysazin of the trihydroxyanthraquinone family.
Chrysophanol (other names; 1,8-dihydroxy-3-methyl-anthraquinone and chrysophanic acid) was found commonly within Chinese medicine and is a nat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formally%20smooth%20map | In algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, a ring homomorphism is called formally smooth (from French: Formellement lisse) if it satisfies the following infinitesimal lifting property:
Suppose B is given the structure of an A-algebra via the map f. Given a commutative A-algebra, C, and a nilpotent ideal , any A-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ictal%20asystole | Ictal asystole is a rare occurrence for patients that have temporal lobe epilepsy. It can often be identified by loss of muscle tone or the presence of bilateral asymmetric jerky limb movements during a seizure, although ECG monitoring is necessary to provide a firm result. Ictal asystole and Ictal bradycardia can caus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfera%20%28satellite%20series%29 | Sfera (meaning sphere, ) is a series of Soviet geodetic satellites.
Launches
18 satellites were launched from 1968 to 1978, with only one failure.
See also
Satellite geodesy
Geo-IK-2
List of Kosmos satellites (1–250)
List of Kosmos satellites (251–500)
List of Kosmos satellites (501–750)
List of Kosmos satell... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus%20subvelutipes | Boletus subvelutipes, commonly known as the red-mouth bolete, is a bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. It is found in Asia and North America, where it fruits on the ground in a mycorrhizal association with both deciduous and coniferous trees. Its fruit bodies (mushrooms) have a brown to reddish-brown cap, bright ye... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something%20%28concept%29 | Something and anything are concepts of existence in ontology, contrasting with the concept of nothing. Both are used to describe the understanding that what exists is not nothing without needing to address the existence of everything. The philosopher, David Lewis, has pointed out that these are necessarily vague terms,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction%20%28mathematics%29 | Abstraction in mathematics is the process of extracting the underlying structures, patterns or properties of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects with which it might originally have been connected, and generalizing it so that it has wider applications or matching among other abstract de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue%20of%20Spectroscopic%20Binary%20Orbits | The catalogue of spectroscopic binary orbits (SB) is a compilation of orbital data for spectroscopic binary stars which have been produced since 1969 by Alan Henry Batten of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and various collaborators.
At the 24th International Astronomical Union general assembly, in 2000, a workin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAM163A | FAM163A, also known as cebelin and neuroblastoma-derived secretory protein (NDSP) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FAM163A gene. This protein has been implicated in promoting proliferation and anchorage-independent growth of neuroblastoma cancer cells. In addition, this protein has been found to be up-regu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck%27s%20monadicity%20theorem | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, Beck's monadicity theorem gives a criterion that characterises monadic functors, introduced by in about 1964. It is often stated in dual form for comonads. It is sometimes called the Beck tripleability theorem because of the older term triple for a monad.
Beck's monadicit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRO%202000 | PRO 2000 is an experimental vaginal microbicide which has been proposed as a preventive medicine for reducing the risk of contracting HIV. It has never been recommended as an effective medicine to be used for any purpose. Some clinical trials have shown that under some conditions it may provide some protection against ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20code%20medication%20administration | Bar code medication administration (BCMA) is a bar code system designed by Glenna Sue Kinnick to prevent medication errors in healthcare settings and to improve the quality and safety of medication administration. The overall goals of BCMA are to improve accuracy, prevent errors, and generate online records of medica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockade%20of%20Italy | The cockade of Italy () is the national ornament of Italy, obtained by folding a green, white and red ribbon into a using the technique called (pleating). It is one of the national symbols of Italy and is composed of the three colours of the Italian flag with the green in the centre, the white immediately outside and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank%20error-correcting%20code | In coding theory, rank codes (also called Gabidulin codes) are non-binary linear error-correcting codes over not Hamming but rank metric. They described a systematic way of building codes that could detect and correct multiple random rank errors. By adding redundancy with coding k-symbol word to a n-symbol word, a rank... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sever%27s%20disease | Sever's disease, also known as calcaneus apophysitis, is an inflammation at the back of the heel (or calcaneus) growth plate in growing children. The condition is thought to be caused by repetitive stress at the heel. This condition is benign and common and usually resolves when the growth plate has closed or during pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthmae%20Sears | Ruthmae Sears is a Bahamian-American mathematics educator, focusing on systemic inequities that impede student understanding of mathematics. She is an associate professor for secondary mathematics education in the University of South Florida College of Education.
Education and career
Sears is originally from the Baham... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE%20color%20bars | SMPTE color bars are a television test pattern used where the NTSC video standard is utilized, including countries in North America. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) refers to the pattern as Engineering Guideline (EG) 1-1990. Its components are a known standard, and created by test pattern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto%20Soejima | is a Japanese former competitive programmer. He is one of three people to have won both the Google Code Jam and the Facebook Hacker Cup and the only one to have also won a gold medal with a perfect score at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). In International Science Olympiads, he has won three gold medals a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vem | The VEM (Acronym of Vale eletrônico Metropolitano, Electronic Metropolitan Ticket) is a Smart card system used in bus, train and metro of the metropolitan area of Recife, Brazil.
The VEM cards operate by using contactless technology as they have an internal chip that communicates with the validator by RFID.
Since 11 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus%20of%20broadcasting%20systems | Calculus of broadcasting systems (CBS) is a CCS-like calculus where processes speak one at a time and each is heard instantaneously by all others. Speech is autonomous, contention between speakers being resolved nondeterministically, but hearing only happens when someone else speaks. Observationally meaningful laws dif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20perfect%20hashing | In computer science, dynamic perfect hashing is a programming technique for resolving collisions in a hash table data structure.
While more memory-intensive than its hash table counterparts, this technique is useful for situations where fast queries, insertions, and deletions must be made on a large set of elements.
D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesion | A lesion is any damage or abnormal change in the tissue of an organism, usually caused by injury or diseases. Lesion is derived from the Latin meaning "injury". Lesions may occur in plants as well as animals.
Types
There is no designated classification or naming convention for lesions. Since lesions can occur anywh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty%20semigroup | In mathematics, a semigroup with no elements (the empty semigroup) is a semigroup in which the underlying set is the empty set. Many authors do not admit the existence of such a semigroup. For them a semigroup is by definition a non-empty set together with an associative binary operation. However not all authors insist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven%20design | Domain-driven design (DDD) is a major software design approach, focusing on modeling software to match a domain according to input from that domain's experts.
Under domain-driven design, the structure and language of software code (class names, class methods, class variables) should match the business domain. For exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20striping | In computer data storage, data striping is the technique of segmenting logically sequential data, such as a file, so that consecutive segments are stored on different physical storage devices.
Striping is useful when a processing device requests data more quickly than a single storage device can provide it. By spreadi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20Portable%20486 | The Compaq Portable 486 is a computer released by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1991. It was the last portable computer/"luggable" released under the Compaq Portable series of computers.
The computer was released in several models with different hard disk configurations and in two screen types, a cheaper monochrome v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkins%E2%80%93Simon%20condition | The Hawkins–Simon condition refers to a result in mathematical economics, attributed to David Hawkins and Herbert A. Simon, that guarantees the existence of a non-negative output vector that solves the equilibrium relation in the input–output model where demand equals supply. More precisely, it states a condition for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelstam%20variables | In theoretical physics, the Mandelstam variables are numerical quantities that encode the energy, momentum, and angles of particles in a scattering process in a Lorentz-invariant fashion. They are used for scattering processes of two particles to two particles. The Mandelstam variables were first introduced by physicis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano%20tape | Nano tape, also called gecko tape; marketed under the name Alien Tape, is a synthetic adhesive tape consisting of arrays of carbon nanotubes transferred onto a backing material of flexible polymer tape. These arrays are called synthetic setae and mimic the nanostructures found on the toes of a gecko; this is an example... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARHGAP25 | Rho GTPase activating protein 25 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ARHGAP25 gene. The gene is also known as KAIA0053. ARHGAP25 belongs to a family of Rho GTPase-modulating proteins that are implicated in actin remodeling, cell polarity, and cell migration.
Model organisms
Model organisms have been used i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertase | β-Fructofuranosidase is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis (breakdown) of the table sugar sucrose into fructose and glucose. Alternative names for β-fructofuranosidase include invertase, saccharase, glucosucrase, β-fructosidase, invertin, sucrase, fructosylinvertase, alkaline invertase, acid invertase, and the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-monitor | Multi-monitor, also called multi-display and multi-head, is the use of multiple physical display devices, such as monitors, televisions, and projectors, in order to increase the area available for computer programs running on a single computer system. Research studies show that, depending on the type of work, multi-hea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudStore | CloudStore (KFS, previously Kosmosfs) was Kosmix's C++ implementation of the Google File System. It parallels the Hadoop project, which is implemented in the Java programming language. CloudStore supports incremental scalability, replication, checksumming for data integrity, client side fail-over and access from C++, J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20Country | Math Country is an instructional television program produced by Kentucky Educational Television, in the late 1970s.
The show taught elementary math concepts and featured actor Ray Walston as a ghost named Lionel Hardway who inhabits the family farm, now lived in and ran by his descendants, helping them with various ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorized%20Program%20Analysis%20Report | An APAR (Authorized Program Analysis Report) (pronounced A-PAR, rhymes with far) is an IBM designation of a document intended to identify situations that could result in potential problems. It also serves as a request for the correction of a defect in current releases of IBM-supplied programs.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic%20dysreflexia | Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially fatal medical emergency classically characterized by uncontrolled hypertension and cardiac arrhythmia. AD occurs most often in individuals with spinal cord injuries with lesions at or above the T6 spinal cord level, although it has been reported in patients with lesions as lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvernaviridae | Alvernaviridae is a family of non-enveloped positive-strand RNA viruses. Dinoflagellates serve as natural hosts. There is one genus in this family, Dinornavirus, which contains one species: Heterocapsa circularisquama RNA virus 01. Diseases associated with this family include host population control, possibly through l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytomegalovirus%20esophagitis | Cytomegalovirus esophagitis is a form of esophagitis associated with cytomegalovirus. Symptoms include dysphagia, upper abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and sometimes hematemesis. This condition occurs in the setting of patients with a weakened immune system who are susceptible to both infections by CMV and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobiont | Cyanobionts are cyanobacteria that live in symbiosis with a wide range of organisms such as terrestrial or aquatic plants; as well as, algal and fungal species. They can reside within extracellular or intracellular structures of the host. In order for a cyanobacterium to successfully form a symbiotic relationship, it m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazchem | Hazchem (; from hazardous chemicals) is a warning plate system used in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, India and the United Kingdom for vehicles transporting hazardous substances, and on storage facilities. The top-left section of the plate gives the Emergency Action Code (EAC) telling the fire brigade wha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GKM%20variety | In algebraic geometry, a GKM variety is a complex algebraic variety equipped with a torus action that meets certain conditions. The concept was introduced by Mark Goresky, Robert Kottwitz, and Robert MacPherson in 1998. The torus action of a GKM variety must be skeletal: both the set of fixed points of the action, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Tucker | Alan Curtiss Tucker is an American mathematician. He is a professor of applied mathematics at Stony Brook University, and the author of a widely used textbook on combinatorics; he has also made research contributions to graph theory and coding theory. He has had four children, Katie, Lisa, Edward, and James.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd%27s%20whistle | A shepherd's whistle is a specialized, modulatable, variable-pitch whistle used to train and transmit commands to working dogs and other animals. Unlike other whistles, they are placed inside the mouth. The pitch is controlled by the placement of the tongue; physically, shepherd's whistles are vessel flutes with the to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20M.%20Boothby | William Munger Boothby (April 1, 1918 – February 14, 2021) was an American mathematician and professor emeritus of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his work in differential geometry including the book An introduction to differentiable manifolds and Riemannian geometry (1975; 2nd ed. 1986).
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