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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced%20ovulation%20%28animals%29 | Induced ovulation is when a female animal ovulates due to an externally-derived stimulus during, or just prior to, mating, rather than ovulating cyclically or spontaneously. Stimuli causing induced ovulation include the physical act of coitus or mechanical stimulation simulating this, sperm and pheromones.
Ovulation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLCNKA | Chloride channel protein ClC-Ka is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CLCNKA gene. Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.
Function
This gene is a member of the CLC family of voltage-gated chloride channels. The encoded protein is predicted to have 12 transmemb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylstilbestrol | Diethylstilbestrol (DES), also known as stilbestrol or stilboestrol, is a nonsteroidal estrogen medication, which is presently rarely used. In the past, it was widely used for a variety of indications, including pregnancy support for those with a history of recurrent miscarriage, hormone therapy for menopausal symptoms... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inositol%20trisphosphate | Inositol trisphosphate or inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate abbreviated InsP3 or Ins3P or IP3 is an inositol phosphate signaling molecule. It is made by hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2), a phospholipid that is located in the plasma membrane, by phospholipase C (PLC).
Together with diacylglycerol (D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date%20of%20Easter | As a moveable feast, the date of Easter is determined in each year through a calculation known as . Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, which is the first full moon on or after 21 March (a fixed approximation of the March equinox). Determining this date in advance requires a correlatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Klein%20%28paleoanthropologist%29 | Richard G. Klein (born April 11, 1941) is a Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences. He earned his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1966, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in April 2003. Hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological%20Society%20of%20London | The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats. It was founded in 1826. Since 1828, it has maintained London Zoo, and since 1931 Whipsnade Zoo.
History
On 29 November 1822, the birthday of John Ray, "the father of modern zoology", a meeting held... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsa%20%28software%29 | Capsa is the name for a family of packet analyzers developed by Colasoft for network administrators to monitor, troubleshoot and analyze wired & wireless networks. The company provides a free edition for individuals, but paid licenses are available for businesses and enterprises. The software includes Ethernet packet a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20%28computing%29 | In computing, a process is the instance of a computer program that is being executed by one or many threads. There are many different process models, some of which are light weight, but almost all processes (even entire virtual machines) are rooted in an operating system (OS) process which comprises the program code, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilie%20Popa%20%28mathematician%29 | Ilie Popa (July 20, 1907 – July 26, 1983) was a Romanian mathematician and Head of the Mathematical Analysis Department at the University of Iași. He is known for his contributions to differential geometry, mathematical analysis, and the history of mathematics.
Born in Iași, he attended the Costache Negruzzi High Scho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-shock%20domain | In molecular biology, the cold-shock domain (CSD) is a protein domain of about 70 amino acids which has been found in prokaryotic and eukaryotic DNA-binding proteins. Part of this domain is highly similar to the RNP-1 RNA-binding motif.
When Escherichia coli is exposed to a temperature drop from 37 to 10 degrees Celsi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient-enhanced%20kriging | Gradient-enhanced kriging (GEK) is a surrogate modeling technique used in engineering. A surrogate model (alternatively known as a metamodel, response surface or emulator) is a prediction of the output of an expensive computer code.
This prediction is based on a small number of evaluations of the expensive computer co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chowla%E2%80%93Mordell%20theorem | In mathematics, the Chowla–Mordell theorem is a result in number theory determining cases where a Gauss sum is the square root of a prime number, multiplied by a root of unity. It was proved and published independently by Sarvadaman Chowla and Louis Mordell, around 1951.
In detail, if is a prime number, a nontrivial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-stored%20product%20entomology | Home-stored product entomology is the study of insects which infest foodstuffs stored in the home. It deals with the prevention, detection and eradication of the pests. The five major categories of insects considered in this article are flour beetles, the drugstore beetle, the sawtoothed grain beetle, the Indianmeal mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equating | Test equating traditionally refers to the statistical process of determining comparable scores on different forms of an exam. It can be accomplished using either classical test theory or item response theory.
In item response theory, equating is the process of placing scores from two or more parallel test forms onto ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication%20and%20repeated%20addition | In mathematics education, there was a debate on the issue of whether the operation of multiplication should be taught as being a form of repeated addition. Participants in the debate brought up multiple perspectives, including axioms of arithmetic, pedagogy, learning and instructional design, history of mathematics, ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shack%E2%80%93Hartmann%20wavefront%20sensor | A Shack–Hartmann (or Hartmann–Shack) wavefront sensor (SHWFS) is an optical instrument used for characterizing an imaging system. It is a wavefront sensor commonly used in adaptive optics systems. It consists of an array of lenses (called lenslets) of the same focal length. Each is focused onto a photon sensor (typical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefavirales | Lefavirales is an order of viruses.
Classification
Lefavirales contains the following three families:
Baculoviridae
Hytrosaviridae
Nudiviridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisp%20%27n%20Dry | Crisp 'n Dry is a brand of rapeseed oil manufactured by Edible Oils Limited and marketed by Princes Group. The manufacturer claims this vegetable oil leaves food dry after frying (hence its name Crisp 'n Dry), compared to other vegetable oils which require the fried food to be dried with kitchen paper to absorb excess... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic%20programming | Relativistic programming (RP) is a style of concurrent programming where instead of trying to avoid conflicts between readers and writers (or writers and writers in some cases) the algorithm is designed to tolerate them and get a correct result regardless of the order of events. Also, relativistic programming algorithm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMPSTE24 | ZMPSTE24 is a human gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a metallopeptidase. It is involved in the processing of lamin A. Defects in the ZMPSTE24 gene lead to similar laminopathies as defects in lamin A, because the latter is a substrate for the former. In humans, a mutation abolishing the ZMPSTE24 cleavage site ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroless%20nickel%20immersion%20gold | Electroless nickel immersion gold (ENIG or ENi/IAu), also known as immersion gold (Au), chemical Ni/Au or soft gold, is a metal plating process used in the manufacture of printed circuit boards (PCBs), to avoid oxidation and improve the solderability of copper contacts and plated through-holes. It consists of an electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Berger | Hans Berger (21 May 1873 – 1 June 1941) was a German psychiatrist. He is best known as the inventor of electroencephalography (EEG) in 1924, which is a method used for recording the electrical activity of the brain, commonly described in terms of brainwaves, and as the discoverer of the alpha wave rhythm which is a typ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipsogen | A dipsogen is an agent that causes thirst. (From Greek: δίψα (dipsa), "thirst" and the suffix -gen, "to create".)
Physiology
Angiotensin II is thought to be a powerful dipsogen, and is one of the products of the renin–angiotensin pathway, a biological homeostatic mechanism for the regulation of electrolytes and water.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20control | Adaptive control is the control method used by a controller which must adapt to a controlled system with parameters which vary, or are initially uncertain.<ref name=CMP-AC-T-01>{{cite journal|author=Chengyu Cao, Lili Ma, Yunjun Xu|title="Adaptive Control Theory and Applications", Journal of Control Science and Engineer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group-scheme%20action | In algebraic geometry, an action of a group scheme is a generalization of a group action to a group scheme. Precisely, given a group S-scheme G, a left action of G on an S-scheme X is an S-morphism
such that
(associativity) , where is the group law,
(unitality) , where is the identity section of G.
A right action... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadic%20second-order%20logic | In mathematical logic, monadic second-order logic (MSO) is the fragment of second-order logic where the second-order quantification is limited to quantification over sets. It is particularly important in the logic of graphs, because of Courcelle's theorem, which provides algorithms for evaluating monadic second-order f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivariant%20cohomology | In mathematics, equivariant cohomology (or Borel cohomology) is a cohomology theory from algebraic topology which applies to topological spaces with a group action. It can be viewed as a common generalization of group cohomology and an ordinary cohomology theory. Specifically, the equivariant cohomology ring of a spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginsberg%27s%20theorem | Ginsberg's theorem is a parody of the laws of thermodynamics in terms of a person playing a game. The quote was first attributed to the poet Allen Ginsberg in a 1975 issue of the Coevolution Quarterly.
It is possible that the quote originates as a slight misstatement of the opening lines of "You Can't Win," by Charlie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosacantha | Eosacantha is an extinct genus of tortoise beetle in the family Chrysomelidae and containing a single species Eosacantha delocranioides. The species is known only from the Middle Eocene Parachute Member, part of the Green River Formation, in the Piceance Creek Basin, Garfield County, northwestern Colorado, USA.
Histor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medullary%20command%20nucleus | The medullary command nucleus (MCN), also called the pacemaker nucleus, is a group of nerve cells found in the bodies of weakly electric fish. It controls the function of electrocytes by regulating the frequency of electrical impulses. Signals originating in the MCN are transmitted to electrocytes, where changes in ion... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khintchine%20inequality | In mathematics, the Khintchine inequality, named after Aleksandr Khinchin and spelled in multiple ways in the Latin alphabet, is a theorem from probability, and is also frequently used in analysis. Heuristically, it says that if we pick complex numbers , and add them together each multiplied by a random sign , then th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Herbert%20Swift%20Jr | George Herbert Swift, Jr (July 1, 1926, Minot, ND – September 23, 2014) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. Swift attended the University of Oregon, earning a master's degree in mathematics in 1951, before attending the University of Washington, where he earned a PhD in mathematics in 1954 under Edwin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate%20theory | In continuum mechanics, plate theories are mathematical descriptions of the mechanics of flat plates that draw on the theory of beams. Plates are defined as plane structural elements with a small thickness compared to the planar dimensions. The typical thickness to width ratio of a plate structure is less than 0.1. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch%20hypothesis | The Dutch hypothesis provides one of several biologically plausible explanations for the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a progressive disease known to be aetiologically linked to environmental insults such as tobacco smoke.
The Dutch hypothesis was originally proposed by Dick Orie and hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olecranon%20fossa | The olecranon fossa is a deep triangular depression on the posterior side of the humerus, superior to the trochlea. It provides space for the olecranon of the ulna during extension of the forearm.
Structure
The olecranon fossa is located on the posterior side of the distal humerus.
The joint capsule of the elbow att... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Ulanowicz | Robert Edward Ulanowicz ( ) is an American theoretical ecologist and philosopher of Polish descent who in his search for a unified theory of ecology has formulated a paradigm he calls Process Ecology. He was born September 17, 1943, in Baltimore, Maryland.
He served as professor of theoretical ecology at the Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Stac | Lempel–Ziv–Stac (LZS, or Stac compression or Stacker compression) is a lossless data compression algorithm that uses a combination of the LZ77 sliding-window compression algorithm and fixed Huffman coding. It was originally developed by Stac Electronics for tape compression, and subsequently adapted for hard disk compr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicornia%20europaea | Salicornia europaea, known as marsh samphire, common glasswort or just glasswort, is a halophytic annual dicot flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. Glasswort is a succulent herb also known as ‘Pickle weed’ or ‘Marsh samphire’. As a succulent, it has high water content, which accounts for its slightly translucen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote%20Point%20Systems | Coyote Point Systems was a manufacturer of computer networking equipment for application traffic management, also known as server load balancing. In March 2013, the company was acquired by Fortinet.
The company introduced hardware-based server load balancers nearly simultaneously with other large companies such as F5... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAM18 | Disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 18 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ADAM18 gene.
This gene encodes a member of the ADAM (a disintegrin and metalloprotease domain) family. Members of this family are membrane-anchored proteins structurally related to snake venom disintegrins, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20ascorbate | Sodium ascorbate is one of a number of mineral salts of ascorbic acid (vitamin C). The molecular formula of this chemical compound is C6H7NaO6. As the sodium salt of ascorbic acid, it is known as a mineral ascorbate. It has not been demonstrated to be more bioavailable than any other form of vitamin C supplement.
Sodi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20management | Key management refers to management of cryptographic keys in a cryptosystem. This includes dealing with the generation, exchange, storage, use, crypto-shredding (destruction) and replacement of keys. It includes cryptographic protocol design, key servers, user procedures, and other relevant protocols.
Key management ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon%20Disk%20System | The Silicon Disk System was the first commercially available RAM disk for microcomputers.
It was written by Jerry Karlin in 1979/80. Karlin was joined by Peter Cheesewright, and their company Microcosm Research Ltd. marketed the product for a number of years. The product was available as a standalone and also bundled ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20captive-bred%20meat%20animals | The following is a list of animals that are or may have been raised in captivity for consumption by people. For other animals commonly eaten by people, see Game (food).
See also
Game (food)
List of meat dishes
Marine mammals as food |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts%20of%20the%20Tsunami | Ghosts Of The Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone is a 2017 non-fiction book written by Richard Lloyd Parry, an English reporter who lived in Japan and reported about events there for years before the 2011 Japanese tsunami, in particular, the fatal decision-making leading to the drowning of the 74 students... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-difference%20time-domain%20method | Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) or Yee's method (named after the Chinese American applied mathematician Kane S. Yee, born 1934) is a numerical analysis technique used for modeling computational electrodynamics (finding approximate solutions to the associated system of differential equations). Since it is a time-d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal%20functions | In mathematics, orthogonal functions belong to a function space that is a vector space equipped with a bilinear form. When the function space has an interval as the domain, the bilinear form may be the integral of the product of functions over the interval:
The functions and are orthogonal when this integral is zero... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overabundant%20species | In biology, overabundant species refers to an excessive number of individuals and occurs when the normal population density has been exceeded. Increase in animal populations is influenced by a variety of factors, some of which include habitat destruction or augmentation by human activity, the introduction of invasive s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20for%20Schools | The Web for Schools project was funded by the European Commission as part of its ESPRIT programme and ran from 1996-03-01 to 1998-02-28. It was a transformative project at the basis of the uptake of the World Wide Web in European schools.
The initial inspiration came from Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdural%20space | The subdural space (or subdural cavity) is a potential space that can be opened by the separation of the arachnoid mater from the dura mater as the result of trauma, pathologic process, or the absence of cerebrospinal fluid as seen in a cadaver. In the cadaver, due to the absence of cerebrospinal fluid in the subarachn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera%20Term | Tera Term (alternatively TeraTerm) is an open-source, free, software implemented, terminal emulator (communications) program. It emulates different types of computer terminals, from DEC VT100 to DEC VT382. It supports Telnet, SSH 1 & 2 and serial port connections. It also has a built-in macro scripting language (suppor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20strain | In continuum mechanics, lateral strain, also known as transverse strain, is defined as the ratio of the change in diameter of a circular bar of a material to its diameter due to deformation in the longitudinal direction. It occurs when under the action of a longitudinal stress, a body will extend in the direction of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckman%E2%80%93Quarles%20theorem | In geometry, the Beckman–Quarles theorem states that if a transformation of the Euclidean plane or a higher-dimensional Euclidean space preserves unit distances, then it preserves all Euclidean distances. Equivalently, every homomorphism from the unit distance graph of the plane to itself must be an isometry of the pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20Collections%20Network | The Plant Collections Network (PCN) (formerly the North American Plant Collections Consortium) is a group of North American botanical gardens and arboreta that coordinates a continent-wide approach to plant germplasm preservation, and promotes excellence in plant collections management. The program is administered by t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh%20plot | Raleigh plots, or Rayleigh plots (also called circlegrams and closely related to circular histograms, phasor diagrams, and wind roses), are statistical graphics that serve as graphical representations for a Raleigh test that map a mean vector to a circular plot. Raleigh plots have many applications in the field of chro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncometabolism | Oncometabolism is the field of study that focuses on the metabolic changes that occur in cells that make up the tumor microenvironment (TME) and accompany oncogenesis and tumor progression toward a neoplastic state.
Cells with increased growth and survivability differ from non-tumorigenic cells in terms of metabolism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgas%20Medal | The Gorgas Medal was originally established as an annual award in 1915 by the Medical Reserve Corps Association of New York in honor of Surgeon General William C. Gorgas, U.S. Army. The award was based on a writing competition open to members of the U.S. Army Medical Corps, the U.S. Army Medical Reserve Corps, and to M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirschberg%27s%20algorithm | In computer science, Hirschberg's algorithm, named after its inventor, Dan Hirschberg, is a dynamic programming algorithm that finds the optimal sequence alignment between two strings. Optimality is measured with the Levenshtein distance, defined to be the sum of the costs of insertions, replacements, deletions, and nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGHD-LD | KGHD-LD (channel 6) is a low-power television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The station is owned by Obidia Porras.
KGHD-LD is operated as a hybrid radio/TV station. The TV portion broadcasts in the ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) standard and airs programming from Diya TV. The radio station is broadcast at 87.75 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Web%20Services%20Research | The International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering web services. It was established in 2004 and is published by IGI Global. The editor-in-chief is Liang-Jie Zhang (Kingdee International Software Group in China and The Open Group).
Abstracting and indexing
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Bureau | The Central Bureau was one of two Allied signals intelligence (SIGINT) organisations in the South West Pacific area (SWPA) during World War II. Central Bureau was attached to the headquarters of the Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area, General Douglas MacArthur. The role of the Bureau was to research and decrypt ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal%20morphodynamics | Coastal morphodynamics (i.e. the dynamics of beach morphology) refers to the study of the interaction and adjustment of the seafloor topography and fluid hydrodynamic processes, seafloor morphologies and sequences of change dynamics involving the motion of sediment. Hydrodynamic processes include those of waves, tides... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20electrode%20leadless%20face | Metal electrode leadless face (MELF) is a type of leadless cylindrical electronic surface mount device that is metallized at its ends. MELF devices are usually diodes and resistors.
The EN 140401-803 and JEDEC DO-213 standards describe multiple MELF components.
Handling difficulties
Because of their cylindrical shap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribavirin | Ribavirin, also known as tribavirin, is an antiviral medication used to treat RSV infection, hepatitis C and some viral hemorrhagic fevers. For hepatitis C, it is used in combination with other medications such as simeprevir, sofosbuvir, peginterferon alfa-2b or peginterferon alfa-2a. Among the viral hemorrhagic fevers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Mitchell%20Samuels | Stephen Mitchell Samuels (1938, Brooklyn – July 26, 2012, Indiana) was a statistician and mathematician, known for his work on the secretary problem and for the Samuels Conjecture involving a Chebyshev-type inequality for sums of independent, non-negative random variables.
After completing his undergraduate degree at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quater-imaginary%20base | The quater-imaginary numeral system is a numeral system, first proposed by Donald Knuth in 1960. Unlike standard numeral systems, which use an integer (such as 10 in decimal, or 2 in binary) as their bases, it uses the imaginary number 2i (equivalent to ) as its base. It is able to (almost) uniquely represent every com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment%20%28physics%29 | In physics, a moment is a mathematical expression involving the product of a distance and physical quantity. Moments are usually defined with respect to a fixed reference point and refer to physical quantities located some distance from the reference point. In this way, the moment accounts for the quantity's location o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helimagnetism | Helimagnetism is a form of magnetic ordering where spins of neighbouring magnetic moments arrange themselves in a spiral or helical pattern, with a characteristic turn angle of somewhere between 0 and 180 degrees. It results from the competition between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic exchange interactions. It is p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presheaf%20%28category%20theory%29 | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a presheaf on a category is a functor . If is the poset of open sets in a topological space, interpreted as a category, then one recovers the usual notion of presheaf on a topological space.
A morphism of presheaves is defined to be a natural transformation of functors. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycenter%20%28astronomy%29 | In astronomy, the barycenter (or barycentre; ) is the center of mass of two or more bodies that orbit one another and is the point about which the bodies orbit. A barycenter is a dynamical point, not a physical object. It is an important concept in fields such as astronomy and astrophysics. The distance from a body's c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Webb%20%28scientist%29 | Stephen Webb is a physicist and author of numerous popular science and math books, as well as academic publications. Webb was educated at Bristol University (BSc (Hons) Physics – First Class) and, as a graduate student, attended Manchester University (PhD – Theoretical Particle Physics). Webb is currently on the academ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolf%20Zillmann | Dolf Zillmann (born March 12, 1935) is dean emeritus, and professor of information sciences, communication and psychology at the University of Alabama (UA). Zillmann predominantly conducted research in media psychology, a branch of psychology focused on the effects of media consumption on human affect, developing and e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20Human | The Happy Human is an icon that has been adopted as an international symbol of secular humanism.
Created by Dennis Barrington, the figure was the winning design in a competition arranged by Humanists UK (formerly the British Humanist Association) in 1965. Various forms of it are now used across the world by humanist or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Chardonnay%20Showdown | The Great Chardonnay Showdown, held in the spring of 1980, was organized by Craig Goldwyn, the wine columnist for the Chicago Tribune and the founder of the Beverage Testing Institute, with help from three Chicago wine stores. A total of 221 Chardonnays from around the world were selected for the blind wine competitio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20lip%20%28cervix%29 | The name given to the anterior part of the vaginal portion of the cervix.
Obstetrics
The anterior section of the cervix is nearly always the last part of the woman's cervix to be finally taken up into the lower segment of the uterus. An anterior lip occurs when the top of the cervix swells, but the rest of the cervix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anammox%20for%20wastewater%20treatment | Anammox is a wastewater treatment technique that removes nitrogen using anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox). This process is performed by anammox bacteria which are autotrophic, meaning they do not need organic carbon for their metabolism to function. Instead, the metabolism of anammox bacteria convert ammonium and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-male%20group | Basic requirements of individual primates include obtaining food, avoiding predators, and reproducing. When these basic requirements are best pursued in the company of others, groups will form. Multi-male groups, also known as multi-male/multi-female, are a type of social organization where the group contains more than... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate%20gradient%20method | In mathematics, the conjugate gradient method is an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations, namely those whose matrix is positive-definite. The conjugate gradient method is often implemented as an iterative algorithm, applicable to sparse systems that are too large to be handled ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naver%20Pay | Naver Pay (Hangul: 네이버 페이) is a mobile payment service launched by Naver Corporation. It is Naver's second mobile payment service after Line Pay, which was launched by Naver's Japanese subsidiary, Line Corporation in 2014.
Service
Naver Pay was launched on June 25, 2015 with support for 14 banks and 3 credit card comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryant%20surface | In Riemannian geometry, a Bryant surface is a 2-dimensional surface embedded in 3-dimensional hyperbolic space with constant mean curvature equal to 1. These surfaces take their name from the geometer Robert Bryant, who proved that every simply-connected minimal surface in 3-dimensional Euclidean space is isometric to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20theorem | In mathematics, particularly linear algebra and functional analysis, a spectral theorem is a result about when a linear operator or matrix can be diagonalized (that is, represented as a diagonal matrix in some basis). This is extremely useful because computations involving a diagonalizable matrix can often be reduced t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linearised%20polynomial | In mathematics, a linearised polynomial (or q-polynomial) is a polynomial for which the exponents of all the constituent monomials are powers of q and the coefficients come from some extension field of the finite field of order q.
We write a typical example as
where each is in for some fixed positive integer .
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20function%20theorem | In mathematics, specifically differential calculus, the inverse function theorem gives a sufficient condition for a function to be invertible in a neighborhood of a point in its domain: namely, that its derivative is continuous and non-zero at the point. The theorem also gives a formula for the derivative of the invers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameframe | A gameframe is a hybrid computer system that was first used in the online video game industry. It is an combination of the technologies and architectures for supercomputers and mainframes, namely high computing power and high throughput.
History
In 2007, Hoplon and IBM jointly started the gameframe project in which t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse%20facial%20artery | The transverse facial artery is an artery that branches from the superficial temporal artery and runs across the face.
Course
The transverse facial artery is given off from the superficial temporal artery before that vessel leaves the parotid gland; running forward through the substance of the gland, it passes transve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20Radio | HD Radio (HDR) is a trademark for an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio broadcast technology. HD radio generally simulcasts an existing analog radio station in digital format with less noise and with additional text information. HD Radio is used primarily by AM and FM radio stations in the United States, U.S. Virg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20Equipment | Siege Equipment is a line of miniatures published by Rafm Miniatures beginning in 1982.
Contents
Siege Equipment is a line of twelve different kits of 25mm miniatures containing pieces such as catapults and ballistas as well as less common items including the crow and fire raiser.
Reception
Steve Jackson reviewed Sie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou%20Chaochen | Zhou Chaochen (; born 1 November 1937) is a Chinese computer scientist.
Zhou was born in Nanhui, Shanghai, China. He studied as an undergraduate at the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Peking University (1954–1958) and as a postgraduate at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipotentiality | Equipotentiality refers to a psychological theory in both neuropsychology and behaviorism. Karl Spencer Lashley defined equipotentiality as "The apparent capacity of any intact part of a functional brain to carry out… the [memory] functions which are lost by the destruction of [other parts]". In other words, the brain ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED%20circuit | In electronics, an LED circuit or LED driver is an electrical circuit used to power a light-emitting diode (LED). The circuit must provide sufficient current to light the LED at the required brightness, but must limit the current to prevent damaging the LED. The voltage drop across an LED is approximately constant over... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI%202001 | The EMI 2001 broadcast studio camera was an early, very successful British made Plumbicon studio camera that included the lens within the body of the camera. Four 30 mm tubes allowed one tube to be dedicated solely to producing a relatively high resolution monochrome signal, with the other three tubes each providing re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borsuk%27s%20conjecture | The Borsuk problem in geometry, for historical reasons incorrectly called Borsuk's conjecture, is a question in discrete geometry. It is named after Karol Borsuk.
Problem
In 1932, Karol Borsuk showed that an ordinary 3-dimensional ball in Euclidean space can be easily dissected into 4 solids, each of which has a small... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-neutral%20complex | An ion-neutral complex in chemistry is an aggregate of an ion with one or more neutral molecules in which at least one of the partners has a rotational degree of freedom about an axis perpendicular to the intermolecular direction In chemistry, the dissociation of a molecule into two or more fragments can take place i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author%20citation%20%28zoology%29 | In zoological nomenclature, author citation refers to listing the person (or team) who first makes a scientific name of a taxon available. This is done in scientific work while fulfilling the formal requirements under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature ("the Code"). According to Article 51.1 of the Code,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROOT | ROOT is an object-oriented computer program and library developed by CERN. It was originally designed for particle physics data analysis and contains several features specific to the field, but it is also used in other applications such as astronomy and data mining. The latest minor release is 6.28, as of 2023-02-03.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic%20proofreading | Kinetic proofreading (or kinetic amplification) is a mechanism for error correction in biochemical reactions, proposed independently by John Hopfield (1974) and Jacques Ninio (1975). Kinetic proofreading allows enzymes to discriminate between two possible reaction pathways leading to correct or incorrect products with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19%20vaccine%20clinical%20research | COVID-19 vaccine clinical research uses clinical research to establish the characteristics of COVID-19 vaccines. These characteristics include efficacy, effectiveness, and safety. , 40 vaccines are authorized by at least one national regulatory authority for public use:
one DNA vaccine: ZyCoV-D
four RNA vaccines: Pfi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematical%20proofs | A list of articles with mathematical proofs:
Theorems of which articles are primarily devoted to proving them
Bertrand's postulate and a proof
Estimation of covariance matrices
Fermat's little theorem and some proofs
Gödel's completeness theorem and its original proof
Mathematical induction and a proof
Proof that 0.9... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertemporal%20CAPM | Within mathematical finance, the Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model, or ICAPM, is an alternative to the CAPM provided by Robert Merton. It is a linear factor model with wealth as state variable that forecasts changes in the distribution of future returns or income.
In the ICAPM investors are solving lifetime co... |
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