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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Brain%20Project | The China Brain Project is a 15-year project, approved by the Chinese National People's Congress in March 2016 as part of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016–2020); it is one of four pilot programs of the Innovation of Science and Technology Forward 2030 program, targeted at research into the neural basis of cognitive functi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via%20%28electronics%29 | A via (Latin, 'path' or 'way') is an electrical connection between two or more metal layers, and are commonly used in printed circuit boards (PCB). Essentially a via is a small drilled hole that goes through two or more adjacent layers; the hole is plated with metal (often copper) that forms an electrical connection th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20field%20resistance | Critical field resistance is a term that is associated with a shunt DC generator. In a DC shunt generator, the voltage induced across the armature, Va, is directly proportional to the flux acting across it, The flux in a DC generator is directly proportional to the field current, If. The critical field resistance is de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentilla%20simplex | Potentilla simplex, also known as common cinquefoil or old-field five-fingers or oldfield cinquefoil, is a perennial herb in the Rosaceae (rose) family native to eastern North America from Ontario, Quebec, and Labrador south to Texas, Alabama, and panhandle Florida.
Potentilla simplex is a familiar plant with prostrat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogSumExp | The LogSumExp (LSE) (also called RealSoftMax or multivariable softplus) function is a smooth maximum – a smooth approximation to the maximum function, mainly used by machine learning algorithms. It is defined as the logarithm of the sum of the exponentials of the arguments:
Properties
The LogSumExp function domain is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20cone%20gauge | In theoretical physics, light cone gauge is an approach to remove the ambiguities arising from a gauge symmetry. While the term refers to several situations, a null component of a field A is set to zero (or a simple function of other variables) in all cases.
The advantage of light-cone gauge is that fields, e.g. gluon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Winful | Herbert Graves Winful (born 3 December 1952) is a Ghanaian-American engineering professor, whose honours include in 2020 the Quantum Electronics Award. He is the Joseph E. and Anne P. Rowe Professor of Electrical Engineering, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a Professor of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20volume%20method%20for%20one-dimensional%20steady%20state%20diffusion | The Finite volume method in computational fluid dynamics is a discretization technique for partial differential equations that arise from physical conservation laws. These equations can be different in nature, e.g. elliptic, parabolic, or hyperbolic. The first well-documented
use of this method was by Evans and Harlow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iometer | Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It is used as a benchmark and troubleshooting tool and is easily configured to replicate the behaviour of many popular applications. One commonly quoted measurement provided by the tool is IOPS.
History
Created by Intel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20clock | An atomic clock is a clock that measures time by monitoring the resonant frequency of atoms. It is based on atoms having different energy levels. Electron states in an atom are associated with different energy levels, and in transitions between such states they interact with a very specific frequency of electromagnetic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC%20system | In computational geometry, a CC system or counterclockwise system is a ternary relation introduced by Donald Knuth to model the clockwise ordering of triples of points in general position in the Euclidean plane.
Axioms
A CC system is required to satisfy the following axioms, for all distinct points p, q, r, s, and t:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYSEAC | DYSEAC was the second Standards Electronic Automatic Computer. (See SEAC.)
DYSEAC was a first-generation computer built by the National Bureau of Standards for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. It was housed in a truck, making it one of the first movable computers (perhaps the first). It went into operation in April 1954.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSS%20%28operating%20system%29 | The Tri-Lab Operating System Stack (TOSS) is a Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that was created to provide a software stack for high performance computing (HPC) clusters for laboratories within the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The operating system allows multiple smaller ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range%20condition%20scoring | Range Condition Scoring was developed as a way to quantify biodiversity in a given rangeland system. This practice is widely used in the Sand Hills region of Nebraska, as well as the tallgrass prairie regions, as evidenced by the authoritative book on the subject, "Range Judging Handbook and Contest Guide for Nebraska.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20ecosystem | River ecosystems are flowing waters that drain the landscape, and include the biotic (living) interactions amongst plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (nonliving) physical and chemical interactions of its many parts. River ecosystems are part of larger watershed networks or catchments, where smaller... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20nuclear%20layer | In the anatomy of the eye, the inner nuclear layer or layer of inner granules, of the retina, is made up of a number of closely packed cells, of which there are three varieties: bipolar cells, horizontal cells, and amacrine cells.
Bipolar cells
The bipolar cells, by far the most numerous, are round or oval in shape, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20excess | The mass excess of a nuclide is the difference between its actual mass and its mass number in daltons. It is one of the predominant methods for tabulating nuclear mass. The mass of an atomic nucleus is well approximated (less than 0.1% difference for most nuclides) by its mass number, which indicates that most of the m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortrud%20Oellermann | Ortrud R. Oellermann is a South African mathematician specializing in graph theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Winnipeg.
Education and career
Oellermann was born in Vryheid.
She earned a bachelor's degree, cum laude honours, and a master's degree at the University of Natal in 1981, 1982, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood%E2%80%93Schlatter%20disease | Osgood–Schlatter disease (OSD) is inflammation of the patellar ligament at the tibial tuberosity (apophysitis). It is characterized by a painful bump just below the knee that is worse with activity and better with rest. Episodes of pain typically last a few weeks to months. One or both knees may be affected and flares ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalised%20circle | In geometry, a generalized circle, sometimes called a cline or circline, is a straight line or a circle.
The natural setting for generalized circles is the extended plane, a plane along with one point at infinity through which every straight line is considered to pass. Given any three distinct points in the extended p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holon%20%28physics%29 | Holons are one of three quasiparticles, along with spinons and orbitons, that electrons in solids are able to split into during the process of spin–charge separation, when extremely tightly confined at temperatures close to absolute zero. The electron can always be theoretically considered as a bound state of the three... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannie%20Heineman%20Prize%20for%20Astrophysics | The Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics is jointly awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics for outstanding work in astrophysics. It is funded by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman.
Recipients
Source: AAS
See also
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Belizean%20flags | The following is a list of flags used in Belize. For more information about the national flag, see the Flag of Belize.
National flag
Government flag
Ethnic group flags
City flags
Historical flags
Political flags
See also
Flag of Belize
Coat of arms of Belize |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drishti%20bommai | A drishti bommai (Tamil), drishti gombe (Kannada) or drishti bomma (Telugu) is a talisman represented as a doll, predominantly found in South India. Regarded to possess apotropaic properties, these dolls are prominently hung at construction sites, houses, residential buildings, and trucks, intended to ward off evil. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 28° 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 28th meridian east forms a great circle with the 152nd meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilomisole | Tilomisole (WY-18,251) is an experimental drug which acts as an immunomodulator and has been studied for the treatment of some forms of cancer.
It can also be seen to contain the arylacetic acid moiety that is endemic to many NSAIDs, e.g. ibufenac. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign%20Post%20Forest | Sign Post Forest is a collection of signs at Watson Lake, Yukon, Canada, and is one of the most famous of the landmarks along the Alaska Highway. It was started by a homesick GI in 1942. He was assigned light duty while recovering from an injury and erected the signpost for his hometown: Danville, Ill. 2835 miles. Visi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Gal | is an interactive movie video game developed and published by Taito and Toei Company, and originally released as a laserdisc game in Japan for the arcades in 1985. It is an action game which uses full motion video (FMV) to display the on-screen action. The player must correctly choose the on-screen character's actions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyTV%20%28Arabic%29 | myTV is an Arab American provider of Arabic live channels and video on demand in North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, using over-the-top technology.
History
myTV, an over-the-top content service provider with offices in Lebanon and the U.S., was founded on the June 15, 2011 by Lebanese expatriates livin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristian%20Dumitru%20Popescu | Cristian Dumitru Popescu (born 1964) is a Romanian-American mathematician at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are in algebraic number theory, and in particular, in special values of L-functions.
Education and career
The son of historian Dumitru Micu Popescu and biologist Rodica Jeriștean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megakaryocyte%E2%80%93erythroid%20progenitor%20cell | Megakaryocyte–erythroid progenitor cells, among other blood cells, are generated as a result of hematopoiesis, which occurs in the bone marrow. Hematopoietic stem cells can differentiate into one of two progenitor cells: the common lymphoid progenitor and the common myeloid progenitor. MEPs derive from the common myelo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry%20mechanism | The Berry mechanism, or Berry pseudorotation mechanism, is a type of vibration causing molecules of certain geometries to isomerize by exchanging the two axial ligands (see Figure at right) for two of the equatorial ones. It is the most widely accepted mechanism for pseudorotation and most commonly occurs in trigonal b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Hand%20of%20Ulster | The Red Hand of Ulster () is a symbol used in heraldry to denote the Irish province of Ulster and the Northern Uí Néill in particular. It has also been used however by other Irish clans across the island, including the ruling families of western Connacht (i.e. the O'Flahertys and McHughs) and the chiefs of the Midland... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldanaerovirga | Caldanaerovirga is a xylanolytic, anaerobic and alkalithermophilic genus of bacteria from the family of Thermosediminibacterales with one known species (Caldanaerovirga acetigignens). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20botany | The history of botany examines the human effort to understand life on Earth by tracing the historical development of the discipline of botany—that part of natural science dealing with organisms traditionally treated as plants.
Rudimentary botanical science began with empirically based plant lore passed from generation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Trim | Z-Trim was originally developed as a fat substitute by the U.S. Department of Agriculture made of natural dietary fibers. It is currently licensed for manufacture to Z-Trim Holdings.
This product was created as a health and diet aid; it has no calories since it consists of dietary fiber which cannot be digested by th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separator%20%28electricity%29 | A separator is a permeable membrane placed between a battery's anode and cathode. The main function of a separator is to keep the two electrodes apart to prevent electrical short circuits while also allowing the transport of ionic charge carriers that are needed to close the circuit during the passage of current in an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNA6 | Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 6 also known as Kv1.6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNA6 gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triiron%20ditin%20intermetallic | The compound with empirical formula Fe3Sn2 is the first known kagome magnet. It is an intermetallic compound composed of iron (Fe) and tin (Sn), with alternating planes of Fe3Sn and Sn.
Preparation
The iron-tin intermetallic forms at around and naturally assumes a kagome structure. Quenching in an ice bath then coo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirplet%20transform | In signal processing, the chirplet transform is an inner product of an input signal with a family of analysis primitives called chirplets.
Similar to the wavelet transform, chirplets are usually generated from (or can be expressed as being from) a single mother chirplet (analogous to the so-called mother wavelet of wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babington%20Plot | The Babington Plot was a plan in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, a Protestant, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, her Catholic cousin, on the English throne. It led to Mary's execution, a result of a letter sent by Mary (who had been imprisoned for 19 years since 1568 in England at the behest of Elizabeth) in which s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraves%20Cora | The Cora was a digital fire-control system designed by Hungarian-Swiss Peter Tóth and produced by the Swiss company Contraves.
Development
Peter Tóth started the design of Cora-1 in 1957. The system was intended for anti-aircraft fire direction with the Swiss Army. However, Cora-1 turned out to be too slow and too bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Dictionary%20of%20Musical%20Themes | A Dictionary of Musical Themes (New York: Crown, 1949) is a music reference book by Sam Morgenstern and Harold Barlow.
Contents
The book collects 10,000 musical themes (mostly classical works) and indexes them using a notation index based on transposing the pitches to C major or C minor (so that God Save the Queen/Am... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunslinger%20effect | The gunslinger effect, also sometimes called Bohr's law or the gunfighter's dilemma, is a psychophysical theory which says that an intentional or willed movement is slower than an automatic or reaction movement. The concept is named after physicist Niels Bohr, who first deduced that the person who draws second in a gun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20of%20costs%20of%20operations%20in%20elliptic%20curves | Elliptic curve cryptography is a popular form of public key encryption that is based on the mathematical theory of elliptic curves. Points on an elliptic curve can be added and form a group under this addition operation. This article describes the computational costs for this group addition and certain related operatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podokesaurus | Podokesaurus is a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur that lived in what is now the eastern United States during the Early Jurassic Period. The first fossil was discovered by the geologist Mignon Talbot near Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1910. The specimen was fragmentary, preserving much of the body, limbs, and tail. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triploid%20block | Triploid block is a phenomenon describing the formation of nonviable progeny after hybridization of flowering plants that differ in ploidy. The barrier is established in the endosperm, a nutritive tissue supporting embryo growth. This phenomenon usually happens when autopolyploidy occurs in diploid plants. Triploid blo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchfish | Crunchfish is a deep tech company developing a Digital Cash platform for Banks, Payment Services and CBDC implementations and Gesture Interaction technology for AR/VR and automotive industry. Crunchfish is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with subsidiary in I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion%20%28coastal%20management%29 | Accretion is the process of coastal sediment returning to the visible portion of a beach or foreshore after a submersion event. A sustainable beach or foreshore often goes through a cycle of submersion during rough weather and later accretion during calmer periods.
If a coastline is not in a healthy sustainable state,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20identifier | Unix-like operating systems identify a user by a value called a user identifier, often abbreviated to user ID or UID. The UID, along with the group identifier (GID) and other access control criteria, is used to determine which system resources a user can access. The password file maps textual user names to UIDs. UIDs a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20CitiNet | Started in 1983, Boston CitiNet was a local online service developed by Applied Videotex Systems, Inc. of Belmont, Massachusetts. The service allowed modem-equipped personal computer users to dial-in and access a range of information and messaging services including chat, forums, email and a variety of content. There ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/7 | OS/7 is a discontinued operating system from Sperry Univac for its 90/60 and 90/70 computer systems. The system was first announced in November 1971 for Univac's 9700 system and was originally scheduled for delivery in March 1973. However, the delivery slipped by nearly a year, which impacted the 9700 marketing effort.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20Croatian%20encoding | Mac OS Croatian is a character encoding used on Apple Macintosh computers to represent Gaj's Latin alphabet. It is a derivative of Mac OS Roman. The three digraphs, Dž, Lj, and Nj, are not encoded.
IBM uses code page 1284 (CCSID 1284) for Mac OS Croatian, while Microsoft uses code page 10082.
The Croatian letters are ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet-assisted%20transfection | Magnet-assisted transfection is a transfection method which uses magnetic interactions to deliver DNA into target cells. Nucleic acids are associated with magnetic nanoparticles, and magnetic fields drive the nucleic acid-particle complexes into target cells, where the nucleic acids are released.
Magnetic Nanoparticle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleation | In thermodynamics, nucleation is the first step in the formation of either a new thermodynamic phase or structure via self-assembly or self-organization within a substance or mixture. Nucleation is typically defined to be the process that determines how long an observer has to wait before the new phase or self-organize... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnoprimatology | Ethnoprimatology is the study of human and non-human primate interactions. Ethnoprimatology is a discourse aimed at an anthropological holistic understanding of non-human primates. Human cultures worldwide have deep-rooted, primordial connections with non-human primates. Non-human primates play key roles in creation st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanchoe | Kalanchoe ( ), also written Kalanchöe or Kalanchoë, is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa. A Kalanchoe species was one of the first plants to be sent into space, sent on a resupply to the Soviet Salyut 1 space... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Server%202022 | Windows Server 2022 is the 10th and current major long term servicing channel (LTSC) release of the Windows Server operating system by Microsoft Corporation, as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was announced at Microsoft's Ignite event from March 2-4, 2021. It was released on August 18, 2021, almo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Olympiads%20for%20Elementary%20and%20Middle%20Schools | Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools (MOEMS) is a worldwide math competition, organized by a not for profit foundation with the same name. It is held yearly from November through March with one test administered each month. Tests are given at individual schools and results are sent to MOEMS for scor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbchronology | Herbchronology is the analysis of annual growth rings (or simply annual rings) in the secondary root xylem of perennial herbaceous plants. While leaves and stems of perennial herbs die down at the end of the growing season the root often persists for many years or even the entire life. Perennial herb species belonging ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anochetus%20dubius | Anochetus dubius is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola. A. dubius is one of eight species in the ant genus Anochetus to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber and is one of a number of Anochetus species found in the Greater... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal%20tensor | In Newton's theory of gravitation and in various relativistic classical theories of gravitation, such as general relativity, the tidal tensor represents
tidal accelerations of a cloud of (electrically neutral, nonspinning) test particles,
tidal stresses in a small object immersed in an ambient gravitational field.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse%20myelinoclastic%20sclerosis | Diffuse myelinoclastic sclerosis, sometimes referred to as Schilder's disease, is a very infrequent neurodegenerative disease that presents clinically as pseudotumoural demyelinating lesions, making its diagnosis difficult. It usually begins in childhood, affecting children between 5 and 14 years old, but cases in adul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Women%27s%20Hospitals%20Service | The American Women's Hospitals Service (AWHS) is a charitable organization that promotes the relief of suffering worldwide by supporting independent clinics to provide care to high risk populations and by providing travel grants to medical students and residents to perform clinical projects abroad in under-served areas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgenics | Dysgenics (also known as cacogenics) is the decrease in prevalence of traits deemed to be either socially desirable or well adapted to their environment due to selective pressure disfavoring the reproduction of those traits.
The adjective "dysgenic" is the antonym of "eugenic". In 1915 the term was used by David Starr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covector%20mapping%20principle | The covector mapping principle is a special case of Riesz' representation theorem, which is a fundamental theorem in functional analysis. The name was coined by Ross and coauthors, It provides conditions under which dualization can be commuted with discretization in the case of computational optimal control.
Descrip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Carolina%20State%20University%20College%20of%20Agriculture%20and%20Life%20Sciences | North Carolina State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is the fourth largest college in the university and one of the largest colleges of its kind in the nation, with nearly 3,400 students pursuing associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees and 1,300 on-campus and 700 off-campus fac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Gombrich | Carl Gombrich is a British interdisciplinary educator, academic, former opera singer and co-founder of the London Interdisciplinary School.
Early life and education
Carl Gombrich was born in 1965, to Dorothea Amanda Friedrich and to renown British Indologist and scholar, Richard Gombrich. He is the grandson of Austri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Lehmer | Emma Markovna Lehmer (née Trotskaia) (November 6, 1906 – May 7, 2007) was a mathematician known for her work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory. She preferred to deal with complex number fields and integers, rather than the more abstract aspects of the theory.
Biography
She was born in Samara, Russian Em... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Bowen | Jonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA (born 1956) is a British computer scientist and an Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, where he headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods. Prof. Bowen is also the Chairman of Museophile Limited and has been a Professor of Computer Science at Birmingham City University, Vis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachite%20green | Malachite green is an organic compound that is used as a dyestuff and controversially as an antimicrobial in aquaculture. Malachite green is traditionally used as a dye for materials such as silk, leather, and paper. Despite its name the dye is not prepared from the mineral malachite; the name just comes from the simil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter%20serial%20number | A meter serial number (MSN, or 'meter ID') is an alphanumeric reference used in Great Britain to identify an electricity meter. Although meter serial numbers are intended to be unique, this can not be assured and duplicate serial numbers do exist. There are a variety of formats used over many years, but many meter seri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heatwork | Heatwork is the combined effect of temperature and time. It is important to several industries:
Ceramics
Glass and metal annealing
Metal heat treating
Pyrometric devices can be used to gauge heat work as they deform or contract due to heatwork to produce temperature equivalents. Within tolerances, firing can be under... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HumHot | HUMHOT is a database of human meiotic recombination hot spot DNA sequences.
See also
meiotic recombination |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 127° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, Australia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 127th meridian east forms a great circle with the 53rd meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the Nort... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine%20plant | Alpine plants are plants that grow in an alpine climate, which occurs at high elevation and above the tree line. There are many different plant species and taxa that grow as a plant community in these alpine tundra. These include perennial grasses, sedges, forbs, cushion plants, mosses, and lichens. Alpine plants are a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON | DRAKON () is a free and open source algorithmic visual programming and modeling language developed as part of the defunct Soviet Union Buran space program in 1986 following the need in increase of software development productivity. The visual language provides a uniform way to represent processes in flowcharts.
There ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20%28truth%29 | A proof is sufficient evidence or a sufficient argument for the truth of a proposition.
The concept applies in a variety of disciplines,
with both the nature of the evidence or justification and the criteria for sufficiency being area-dependent. In the area of oral and written communication such as conversation, dial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20coordinates | Local coordinates are the ones used in a local coordinate system or a local coordinate space. Simple examples:
Houses. In order to work in a house construction, the measurements are referred to a control arbitrary point that will allow to check it: stick/sticks on the ground, steel bar, nails...
Addresses. Using hou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commensurate%20line%20circuit | Commensurate line circuits are electrical circuits composed of transmission lines that are all the same length; commonly one-eighth of a wavelength. Lumped element circuits can be directly converted to distributed-element circuits of this form by the use of Richards' transformation. This transformation has a particul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulite | Cellulite or gynoid lipodystrophy (GLD) is the herniation of subcutaneous fat within fibrous connective tissue that manifests as skin dimpling and nodularity, often on the pelvic region (specifically the buttocks), lower limbs, and abdomen. Cellulite occurs in most postpubescent females. A review gives a prevalence of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajo%20syndrome | Nakajo syndrome, also called nodular erythema with digital changes, is a rare autosomal recessive congenital disorder first reported in 1939 by A. Nakajo in the offspring of consanguineous (blood relative) parents. The syndrome can be characterized by erythema (reddened skin), loss of body fat in the upper part of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINA%20%28software%29 | LINA was a piece of open-source software that enabled users to run applications compiled for Linux under Windows and Mac OS X with a native look and feel. Version 1.00 beta1 was released in October 2009 and was available at the Open Lina web site. However, that domain is now up for sale.
Release
The latest binary vers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20prevention%20through%20environmental%20design | Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is an agenda for manipulating the built environment to create safer neighborhoods.
It originated in the contiguous United States around 1960, when urban renewal strategies were felt to be destroying the social framework needed for self-policing. Architect Oscar New... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Solar%20System%20objects | The following is a list of Solar System objects by orbit, ordered by increasing distance from the Sun. Most named objects in this list have a diameter of 500 km or more.
The Sun, a spectral class G2V main-sequence star
The inner Solar System and the terrestrial planets
Mercury
Mercury-crossing minor planets
Venus
Venu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitsuzend%C5%8D | is believed by Zen Buddhists to be a method of achieving samādhi (Japanese: 三昧 sanmai), which is a unification with the highest reality. Hitsuzendo refers specifically to a school of Japanese Zen calligraphy to which the rating system of modern calligraphy (well-proportioned and pleasing to the eye) is foreign. Instead... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Physics%20Michael%20Faraday%20Medal%20and%20Prize | The Michael Faraday Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually by the Institute of Physics in experimental physics. The award is made "for outstanding and sustained contributions to experimental physics." The medal is accompanied by a prize of £1000 and a certificate.
Historical development
1914-1965 Guthrie ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20B.%20Tayler | Alan Breach Tayler (1931–1995) was a British applied mathematician and pioneer of "industrial mathematics". He was a Founding Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford (1959-1995), the initiator of the Oxford Study Groups with Industry in 1968 (which developed into the European Study Groups with Industry), a driving fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant%20canary | A warrant canary is a method by which a communications service provider aims to implicitly inform its users that the provider has been served with a government subpoena despite legal prohibitions on revealing the existence of the subpoena. The warrant canary typically informs users that there has been a court-issued s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epostmailer | ePostMailer is a Microsoft Windows based email marketing application created in CodeGear Delphi by Khurram Zaveri of Spryka Incorporated. It was formerly known as Sprika LiteMail. The first version was released in 1997.
Description
The first version of LiteMail was created in Visual Basic 6. Subsequent versions have... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delsarte%E2%80%93Goethals%20code | The Delsarte–Goethals code is a type of error-correcting code.
History
The concept was introduced by mathematicians Ph. Delsarte and J.-M. Goethals in their published paper.
A new proof of the properties of the Delsarte–Goethals code was published in 1970.
Function
The Delsarte–Goethals code DG(m,r) for even m ≥... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20textbook | A digital textbook is a digital book or e-book intended to serve as the text for a class. Digital textbooks may also be known as e-textbooks or e-texts. Digital textbooks are a major component of technology-based education reform. They may serve as the texts for a traditional face-to-face class, an online course or deg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung%20Kai-lai | Kai Lai Chung (traditional Chinese: 鍾開萊; simplified Chinese: 钟开莱; September 19, 1917 – June 2, 2009) was a Chinese-American mathematician known for his significant contributions to modern probability theory.
Biography
Chung was a native of Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province. Chung entered Tsinghua Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completely%20regular%20semigroup | In mathematics, a completely regular semigroup is a semigroup in which every element is in some subgroup of the semigroup. The class of completely regular semigroups forms an important subclass of the class of regular semigroups, the class of inverse semigroups being another such subclass. Alfred H. Clifford was the fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superreal%20number | In abstract algebra, the superreal numbers are a class of extensions of the real numbers, introduced by H. Garth Dales and W. Hugh Woodin as a generalization of the hyperreal numbers and primarily of interest in non-standard analysis, model theory, and the study of Banach algebras. The field of superreals is itself a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliken%27s%20tree%20theorem | In mathematics, Milliken's tree theorem in combinatorics is a partition theorem generalizing Ramsey's theorem to infinite trees, objects with more structure than sets.
Let T be a finitely splitting rooted tree of height ω, n a positive integer, and the collection of all strongly embedded subtrees of T of height n. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism%20in%20evolution%20theory | Romanticism was an intellectual movement that arose in the late eighteenth century and continued through the nineteenth century. The movement had roots in the arts, literature, and science. Largely conceived as a reaction towards the extreme rationalism of the Enlightenment, it championed expressing emotions through ae... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-based%20mathematics%20education | Computer-based mathematics education (CBME) is an approach to teaching mathematics that emphasizes the use of computers.
Computers in math education
Computers are used in education in a number of ways, such as interactive tutorials, hypermedia, simulations and educational games. Tutorials are types of software that p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20matching%20polytope | In mathematics, economics, and computer science, the stable matching polytope or stable marriage polytope is a convex polytope derived from the solutions to an instance of the stable matching problem.
Description
The stable matching polytope is the convex hull of the indicator vectors of the stable matchings of the gi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibia%20%28taxon%29 | There are several taxons named amphibia. These include:
Amphibia (class), classis Amphibia, the amphibians
Species
Species with the specific epithet 'amphibia'
Rorippa amphibia (R. amphibia), a plant
Persicaria amphibia (P. amphibia), a plant
Neritina amphibia (N. amphibia), a snail
Aranea amphibia (A. amphibia)... |
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