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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petascale%20computing
Petascale computing refers to computing systems capable of calculating at least 1015 floating point operations per second (1 petaFLOPS). Petascale computing allowed faster processing of traditional supercomputer applications. The first system to reach this milestone was the IBM Roadrunner in 2008. Petascale supercomput...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed%20file
An indexed file is a computer file with an index that allows easy random access to any record given its file key. The key must be such that it uniquely identifies a record. If more than one index is present the other ones are called alternate indexes. The indexes are created with the file and maintained by the system....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardar%E2%80%93Parisi%E2%80%93Zhang%20equation
In mathematics, the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) equation is a non-linear stochastic partial differential equation, introduced by Mehran Kardar, Giorgio Parisi, and Yi-Cheng Zhang in 1986. It describes the temporal change of a height field with spatial coordinate and time coordinate : Here, is white Gaussian noise ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s%20B%C3%B3na
Miklós Bóna (born October 6, 1967, in Székesfehérvár) is an American mathematician of Hungarian origin. Bóna completed his undergraduate studies in Budapest and Paris, then obtained his Ph.D. at MIT in 1997 as a student of Richard P. Stanley. Since 1999, he has taught at the University of Florida, where in 2010 he was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakutani%27s%20theorem%20%28geometry%29
Kakutani's theorem is a result in geometry named after Shizuo Kakutani. It states that every convex body in 3-dimensional space has a circumscribed cube, i.e. a cube all of whose faces touch the body. The result was further generalized by Yamabe and Yujobô to higher dimensions, and by Floyd to other circumscribed par...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamella%20%28surface%20anatomy%29
In surface anatomy, a lamella is a thin plate-like structure, often one amongst many lamellae very close to one another, with open space between. Aside from respiratory organs, they appear in other biological roles including filter feeding and the traction surfaces of geckos. In fish, gill lamellae are used to increa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zariski%20tangent%20space
In algebraic geometry, the Zariski tangent space is a construction that defines a tangent space at a point P on an algebraic variety V (and more generally). It does not use differential calculus, being based directly on abstract algebra, and in the most concrete cases just the theory of a system of linear equations. M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsimar%20M.%20Coutinho
Elsimar Metzker Coutinho (18 May 1930 – 17 August 2020) was a Brazilian scientist of Luso-Austrian descent, professor, gynecologist, television personality, and character named as "Prince of Itapoa", in the books of Jorge Amado which references the Coutinho family's land in Itapoa where Amado himself lived. Biography ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher%20Check
Kosher Check is a hechsher of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of British Columbia. Its symbol is used on labels of food which are certified Kosher by the Council. Kosher Check is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Kosher Chek has an international network of regional coordinators and Rabbinic representatives...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side%20population
A side population (SP) in flow cytometry is a sub-population of cells that is distinct from the main population on the basis of the markers employed. By definition, cells in a side population have distinguishing biological characteristics (for example, they may exhibit stem cell-like characteristics), but the exact nat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit%20Parker
Kevin Kit Parker is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve and the Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at Harvard University. His research includes cardiac cell biology and tissue engineering, traumatic brain injury, and biological applications of micro- and nanotechnologies. Add...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Imitation%20Game
The Imitation Game is a 2014 period biographical thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. The film's title quotes the name of the game cryptanalyst Alan Turing proposed for answering the question "Can machines think?", in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromquist%E2%80%93Woodall%20theorem
The Stromquist–Woodall theorem is a theorem in fair division and measure theory. Informally, it says that, for any cake, for any n people with different tastes, and for any fraction w, there exists a subset of the cake that all people value at exactly a fraction w of the total cake value, and it can be cut using at mos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midphalangeal%20hair
Midphalangeal hair, or the presence/absence of hair on the middle phalanx of the ring finger, is one of the most widely studied markers in classical genetics of human populations. Although this polymorphism was observed at other fingers as well, for this kind of research, the fourth finger of the hand has been conventi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener%20deconvolution
In mathematics, Wiener deconvolution is an application of the Wiener filter to the noise problems inherent in deconvolution. It works in the frequency domain, attempting to minimize the impact of deconvolved noise at frequencies which have a poor signal-to-noise ratio. The Wiener deconvolution method has widespread us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo%20giusto
Tempo giusto () is a musical term that literally means 'in correct time'. General In the 17th and 18th centuries (Baroque and early Classical), tempo giusto referred to the idea that each meter has its own 'ideal' tempo; this was also referred to as tempo ordinario (ordinary time). The larger the beat value of the me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HumGen
The Centre of Genomics and Policy (previously the HumGen team) is affiliated with McGill University and the Genome Innovation Centre Canada. The Centre was launched to respond to the urgent need for informed public policy and analyses on socio-ethical issues related to human genetics research at the international, nati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiphonary%20of%20St.%20Benigne
The Antiphonary tonary missal of St. Benigne (also called Antiphonarium Codex Montpellier or Tonary of Saint-Bénigne of Dijon) was written in the last years of the 10th century, when the Abbot William of Volpiano at St. Benignus of Dijon reformed the liturgy of several monasteries in Burgundy. The chant manuscript reco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mung%20bean
The mung bean (Vigna radiata), alternatively known as the green gram, maash (٫ )٫ mūng (), monggo, đậu xanh (Vietnamese; literally, "green bean"), kacang hijau (Indonesian; literally "green bean") or munggo (Philippines), is a plant species in the legume family. The mung bean is mainly cultivated in East, Southeast an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg%20Institute%20of%20Material%20Physics%20and%20Chemistry
The Strasbourg Institute of Material Physics and Chemistry (IPCMS—) is a joint research unit between the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Strasbourg. It was founded in 1987 and is located in the district of Cronenbourg in Strasbourg, France. History The IPCMS was born from a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteritis
Enteritis is inflammation of the small intestine. It is most commonly caused by food or drink contaminated with pathogenic microbes, such as Serratia, but may have other causes such as NSAIDs, radiation therapy as well as autoimmune conditions like Crohn's disease and celiac disease. Symptoms include abdominal pain, cr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assay
An assay is an investigative (analytic) procedure in laboratory medicine, mining, pharmacology, environmental biology and molecular biology for qualitatively assessing or quantitatively measuring the presence, amount, or functional activity of a target entity. The measured entity is often called the analyte, the measur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze%20%28software%20engineering%29
In software engineering, a freeze is a point in time in the development process after which the rules for making changes to the source code or related resources become more strict, or the period during which those rules are applied. A freeze helps move the project forward towards a release or the end of an iteration by...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20ASCII
Extended ASCII is a repertoire of character encodings that include (most of) the original 96 ASCII character set, plus up to 128 additional characters. There is no formal definition of "extended ASCII", and even use of the term is sometimes criticized, because it can be mistakenly interpreted to mean that the American ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Genuchten%E2%80%93Gupta%20model
The Van Genuchten–Gupta model is an inverted S-curve applicable to crop yield and soil salinity relations. It is named after Martinus Theodore van Genuchten and Satyandra K. Gupta's work from the 1990s. Equation The mathematical expression is: where Y is the yield, Ym is the maximum yield of the model, C is salt con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%20Hall%20%28mathematician%29
Marshall Hall Jr. (17 September 1910 – 4 July 1990) was an American mathematician who made significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics. Education and career Hall studied mathematics at Yale University, graduating in 1932. He studied for a year at Cambridge University under a Henry Fellowship working ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt%20service%20ratio
In economics and government finance, a country’s debt service ratio is the ratio of its debt service payments (principal + interest) to its export earnings. A country's international finances are healthier when this ratio is low. For most countries the ratio is between 0 and 20%. In contrast to the debt service covera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinch%20analysis
Pinch analysis is a methodology for minimising energy consumption of chemical processes by calculating thermodynamically feasible energy targets (or minimum energy consumption) and achieving them by optimising heat recovery systems, energy supply methods and process operating conditions. It is also known as process int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desargues%27s%20theorem
In projective geometry, Desargues's theorem, named after Girard Desargues, states: Two triangles are in perspective axially if and only if they are in perspective centrally. Denote the three vertices of one triangle by and , and those of the other by and . Axial perspectivity means that lines and meet in a poi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%20syrup
Corn syrup is a food syrup which is made from the starch of corn (called maize in many countries) and contains varying amounts of sugars: glucose, maltose and higher oligosaccharides, depending on the grade. Corn syrup is used in foods to soften texture, add volume, prevent crystallization of sugar, and enhance flavor....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watkins%20snark
In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Watkins snark is a snark with 50 vertices and 75 edges. It was discovered by John J. Watkins in 1989. As a snark, the Watkins graph is a connected, bridgeless cubic graph with chromatic index equal to 4. The Watkins snark is also non-planar and non-hamiltonian. It has boo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endeavour%20Software%20Project%20Management
Endeavour Software Project Management is an open-source solution to manage large-scale enterprise software projects in an iterative and incremental development process. History Endeavour Software Project Management was founded in September 2008 with the intention to develop a solution for replacing expensive and com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20II%20Cepheid
Type II Cepheids are variable stars which pulsate with periods typically between 1 and 50 days. They are population II stars: old, typically metal-poor, low mass objects. Like all Cepheid variables, Type IIs exhibit a relationship between the star's luminosity and pulsation period, making them useful as standard cand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicative%20conditional
In natural languages, an indicative conditional is a conditional sentence such as "If Leona is at home, she isn't in Paris", whose grammatical form restricts it to discussing what could be true. Indicatives are typically defined in opposition to counterfactual conditionals, which have extra grammatical marking which al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20biotechnology
Environmental biotechnology is biotechnology that is applied to and used to study the natural environment. Environmental biotechnology could also imply that one try to harness biological process for commercial uses and exploitation. The International Society for Environmental Biotechnology defines environmental biote...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahlswede%E2%80%93Daykin%20inequality
The Ahlswede–Daykin inequality , also known as the four functions theorem (or inequality), is a correlation-type inequality for four functions on a finite distributive lattice. It is a fundamental tool in statistical mechanics and probabilistic combinatorics (especially random graphs and the probabilistic method). T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence%20of%20measures
In mathematics, more specifically measure theory, there are various notions of the convergence of measures. For an intuitive general sense of what is meant by convergence of measures, consider a sequence of measures μn on a space, sharing a common collection of measurable sets. Such a sequence might represent an attemp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violacein
Violacein is a naturally-occurring bis-indole pigment with antibiotic (anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-tumor) properties. Violacein is produced by several species of bacteria, including Chromobacterium violaceum, and gives these organisms their striking purple hues. Violacein shows increasing commercia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criegee%20intermediate
A Criegee intermediate (also called a Criegee zwitterion or Criegee biradical) is a carbonyl oxide with two charge centers. These chemicals may react with sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides in the earth's atmosphere, and are implicated in the formation of aerosols, which are an important factor in controlling global cl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20silicon
In the electronics industry, dark silicon is the amount of circuitry of an integrated circuit that cannot be powered-on at the nominal operating voltage for a given thermal design power (TDP) constraint. Dennard scaling would posit that as transistors get smaller, they become more efficient in proportion to the increa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek%20Malinowski
Jacek Malinowski (born May 20, 1959), is a Polish professor and mathematical logician, the editor-in-chief of Studia Logica, Head of the Department of Logic and Cognitive Science at the Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland, and Head of the Section of Logical Semiotics at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Riesel
Hans Ivar Riesel (May 28, 1929 in Stockholm – December 21, 2014) was a Swedish mathematician who discovered the 18th known Mersenne prime in 1957, using the computer BESK: this prime is 23217-1 and consists of 969 digits. He held the record for the largest known prime from 1957 to 1961, when Alexander Hurwitz discovere...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20psychology
Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. The discipline is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, chroni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving%20Image%20Source
Moving Image Source is a website of the Museum of the Moving Image (New York City) devoted to the history of film, television, and digital media. Made possible with support from the Hazen Polsky Foundation, it features original articles by leading critics, authors, and scholars; a calendar that highlights major retrosp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levator%20ani
The levator ani is a broad, thin muscle group, situated on either side of the pelvis. It is formed from three muscle components: the pubococcygeus, the iliococcygeus, and the puborectalis. It is attached to the inner surface of each side of the lesser pelvis, and these unite to form the greater part of the pelvic floo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal%20transformation
In linear algebra, an orthogonal transformation is a linear transformation T : V → V on a real inner product space V, that preserves the inner product. That is, for each pair of elements of V, we have Since the lengths of vectors and the angles between them are defined through the inner product, orthogonal transfo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe%20modeling
Catastrophe modeling (also known as cat modeling) is the process of using computer-assisted calculations to estimate the losses that could be sustained due to a catastrophic event such as a hurricane or earthquake. Cat modeling is especially applicable to analyzing risks in the insurance industry and is at the conflue...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatromathematicians
Iatromathematicians (from Greek ἰατρική "medicine" and μαθηματικά "mathematics") were a school of physicians in 17th-century Italy who tried to apply the laws of mathematics and mechanics in order to understand the functioning of the human body. They were also keen students of anatomy. These iatromathematicians made an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension%20%28music%29
In music, an extension is a set of musical notes that lie outside the standard range or tessitura. Staff A note that lies outside the lines of a musical staff is an extension of the staff. The note will lie on a ledger line. Middle C, for example, is an extension note on both treble and bass clefs, however is not ou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPH%20insulin
Neutral Protamine Hagedorn (NPH) insulin, also known as isophane insulin, is an intermediate-acting insulin given to help control blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. It is used by injection under the skin once to twice a day. Onset of effects is typically in 90 minutes and they last for 24 hours. Versions are a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadyl%20ribonucleoside
Vanadyl ribonucleoside is a potent transition-state analog of ribonucleic acid and potent inhibitor of many species of ribonuclease formed from a vanadium coordination complex and one ribonucleoside. Vanadium's [Ar] 3d3 4s2 electron configuration allows it to make five sigma bonds and two pi bonds with adjacent atoms. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanov%27s%20theorem
In mathematics and information theory, Sanov's theorem gives a bound on the probability of observing an atypical sequence of samples from a given probability distribution. In the language of large deviations theory, Sanov's theorem identifies the rate function for large deviations of the empirical measure of a sequence...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9non%20map
In mathematics, the Hénon map, sometimes called Hénon–Pomeau attractor/map, is a discrete-time dynamical system. It is one of the most studied examples of dynamical systems that exhibit chaotic behavior. The Hénon map takes a point in the plane and maps it to a new point The map depends on two parameters, and , whic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya%20orbit
A Molniya orbit (, "Lightning") is a type of satellite orbit designed to provide communications and remote sensing coverage over high latitudes. It is a highly elliptical orbit with an inclination of 63.4 degrees, an argument of perigee of 270 degrees, and an orbital period of approximately half a sidereal day. The nam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy%20pattern
In computer programming, the strategy pattern (also known as the policy pattern) is a behavioral software design pattern that enables selecting an algorithm at runtime. Instead of implementing a single algorithm directly, code receives run-time instructions as to which in a family of algorithms to use. Strategy lets t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-version%20programming
N-version programming (NVP), also known as multiversion programming or multiple-version dissimilar software, is a method or process in software engineering where multiple functionally equivalent programs are independently generated from the same initial specifications. The concept of N-version programming was introduce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20Bellow
Alexandra Bellow (née Bagdasar; previously Ionescu Tulcea; born 30 August 1935) is a Romanian-American mathematician, who has made contributions to the fields of ergodic theory, probability and analysis. Biography Bellow was born in Bucharest, Romania, on August 30, 1935, as Alexandra Bagdasar. Her parents were both ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jira%20%28software%29
Jira ( ) is a proprietary issue tracking product developed by Atlassian that allows bug tracking and agile project management. Naming The product name comes from the second and third syllables of the Japanese word pronounced as Gojira, which is Japanese for Godzilla. The name originated from a nickname Atlassian deve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndieAuth
IndieAuth is an open standard decentralized authentication protocol that uses OAuth 2.0 and enables services to verify the identity of a user represented by a URL, as well as to obtain an access token, that can be used to access resources under the control of the user. IndieAuth is developed in the IndieWeb community ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20sign
A ghost sign is an old hand-painted advertising sign that has been preserved on a building for an extended period of time. The sign may be kept for its nostalgic appeal, or simply indifference by the owner. History and preservation Ghost signs are found across the world with the United States, the United Kingdom, Fra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom%20gravy
Mushroom gravy is a simple sauce that can be composed from stock (beef is typical, but chicken may be used), roux (a mixture of equal parts butter and flour to thicken), and mushroom base. It can also be enhanced with mace, to add a delicate nutmeg flavor. See also List of gravies List of mushroom dishes Mushroom ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical%20energy%20conversion
Electrochemical energy conversion is a field of energy technology concerned with electrochemical methods of energy conversion including fuel cells and photoelectrochemical. This field of technology also includes electrical storage devices like batteries and supercapacitors. It is increasingly important in context of au...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord-10
Nord-10 was a medium-sized general-purpose 16-bit minicomputer designed for multilingual time-sharing applications and for real-time multi-program systems, produced by Norsk Data. It was introduced in 1973. The later follow up model, Nord-10/S, introduced in 1975, introduced CPU cache, paging, and other miscellaneous i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulma
is a fictional character featured in the Dragon Ball franchise, first appearing in the manga series created by Akira Toriyama. She debuted in the first chapter "Bulma and Son Goku", published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on June 19, 1984, issue 51, meeting Goku and recruiting him as her bodyguard to travel and find t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20cycle
The lead cycle is the biogeochemical cycle of lead through the atmosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere, which has been influenced by anthropogenic activities. Natural lead sources Lead (Pb) is a heavy trace element and is formed by the radioactive decay of uranium and thorium. In crustal rocks, it is pres...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20the%20British%20Pharmaceutical%20Industry
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is the trade association for over 120 companies in the UK producing prescription medicines for humans, founded in 1891. It is the British equivalent of America's PhRMA; however, the member companies research, develop, manufacture and supply medicines prescri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muniscins
The muniscin protein family was initially defined in 2009 as proteins having 2 homologous domains that are involved in clathrin mediated endocytosis (CME) and have been reviewed. In addition to FCHO1, FCHO2 and Syp1, SGIP1 is also included in the family because it contains the μ (mu) homology domain and is involved in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihara%E2%80%93Ismail%20polynomials
In mathematics, the Chihara–Ismail polynomials are a family of orthogonal polynomials introduced by , generalizing the van Doorn polynomials introduced by and the Karlin–McGregor polynomials. They have a rather unusual measure, which is discrete except for a single limit point at 0 with jump 0, and is non-symmetric, b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20optimization
Bayesian optimization is a sequential design strategy for global optimization of black-box functions that does not assume any functional forms. It is usually employed to optimize expensive-to-evaluate functions. History The term is generally attributed to and is coined in his work from a series of publications on gl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction%20hierarchies
In computer science, the method of contraction hierarchies is a speed-up technique for finding the shortest-path in a graph. The most intuitive applications are car-navigation systems: a user wants to drive from to using the quickest possible route. The metric optimized here is the travel time. Intersections are repr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20formation
In mathematics, a class formation is a topological group acting on a module satisfying certain conditions. Class formations were introduced by Emil Artin and John Tate to organize the various Galois groups and modules that appear in class field theory. Definitions A formation is a topological group G together with a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suricata%20%28software%29
Suricata is an open-source based intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS). It was developed by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). A beta version was released in December 2009, with the first standard release following in July 2010. Free intrusion detection systems OSSEC HI...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-use%20bioreactor
A single-use bioreactor or disposable bioreactor is a bioreactor with a disposable bag instead of a culture vessel. Typically, this refers to a bioreactor in which the lining in contact with the cell culture will be plastic, and this lining is encased within a more permanent structure (typically, either a rocker or a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephaptic%20coupling
Ephaptic coupling is a form of communication within the nervous system and is distinct from direct communication systems like electrical synapses and chemical synapses. It may refer to the coupling of adjacent (touching) nerve fibers caused by the exchange of ions between the cells, or it may refer to coupling of nerve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DashO%20%28software%29
DashO is a code obfuscator, compactor, optimizer, watermarker and encryptor for Java, Kotlin and Android applications. It aims to achieve little or no performance loss even as the code complexity increases. DashO can also statically analyze the code to find unused types, methods, and fields, and delete them, thereby m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s%20staff
The term Jacob's staff is used to refer to several things, also known as cross-staff, a ballastella, a fore-staff, a ballestilla, or a balestilha. In its most basic form, a Jacob's staff is a stick or pole with length markings; most staffs are much more complicated than that, and usually contain a number of measureme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemopoietic%20growth%20factor
Hemopoietic growth factors regulate the differentiation and proliferation of particular progenitor cells. Made available through recombinant DNA technology, they hold tremendous potential for medical uses when a person's natural ability to form blood cells is diminished or defective. Recombinant erythropoietin (EPO) i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp%20MZ%20character%20set
Sharp MZ character set is a character set is made by Sharp Corporation for Sharp MZ. Character set The following tables show the Sharp MZ-700 character sets. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent. Space and control characters are represented by the abbreviations for their names.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time%20kinematic%20positioning
Real-time kinematic positioning (RTK) is the application of surveying to correct for common errors in current satellite navigation (GNSS) systems. It uses measurements of the phase of the signal's carrier wave in addition to the information content of the signal and relies on a single reference station or interpolated ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20RAM
In computing, especially computational geometry, a real RAM (random-access machine) is a mathematical model of a computer that can compute with exact real numbers instead of the binary fixed point or floating point numbers used by most actual computers. The real RAM was formulated by Michael Ian Shamos in his 1978 Ph.D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tight%20binding
In solid-state physics, the tight-binding model (or TB model) is an approach to the calculation of electronic band structure using an approximate set of wave functions based upon superposition of wave functions for isolated atoms located at each atomic site. The method is closely related to the LCAO method (linear comb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion%20%28chemistry%29
In chemistry and physics, cohesion (), also called cohesive attraction or cohesive force, is the action or property of like molecules sticking together, being mutually attractive. It is an intrinsic property of a substance that is caused by the shape and structure of its molecules, which makes the distribution of surro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter%20%28computer%20programming%29
In computer programming, a parameter or a formal argument is a special kind of variable used in a subroutine to refer to one of the pieces of data provided as input to the subroutine. These pieces of data are the values of the arguments (often called actual arguments or actual parameters) with which the subroutine is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogolyubov%20Prize%20for%20young%20scientists
The Bogoliubov Prize for young scientists is an award offered to young researchers in theoretical physics by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), an international intergovernmental organization located in Dubna, Russia. The award is issued in memory of the physicist and mathematician Nikolay Bogoliubov. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deeplearning4j
Eclipse Deeplearning4j is a programming library written in Java for the Java virtual machine (JVM). It is a framework with wide support for deep learning algorithms. Deeplearning4j includes implementations of the restricted Boltzmann machine, deep belief net, deep autoencoder, stacked denoising autoencoder and recursiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20quantum%20system
In physics, an open quantum system is a quantum-mechanical system that interacts with an external quantum system, which is known as the environment or a bath. In general, these interactions significantly change the dynamics of the system and result in quantum dissipation, such that the information contained in the syst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20solutions%20for%20the%20Rubik%27s%20Cube
Optimal solutions for the Rubik's Cube are solutions that are the shortest in some sense. There are two common ways to measure the length of a solution. The first is to count the number of quarter turns. The second is to count the number of outer-layer twists, called "face turns". A move to turn an outer layer two qua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSMD10
26S proteasome non-ATPase regulatory subunit 10 or gankyrin is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PSMD10 gene. First isolated in 1998 by Tanaka et al.; Gankyrin is an oncoprotein that is a component of the 19S regulatory cap of the proteasome. Structurally, it contains a 33-amino acid ankyrin repeat that forms ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmutzdecke
Schmutzdecke (German, "dirt cover" or dirty skin, sometimes wrongly spelled schmutzedecke) is a hypogeal biological layer formed on the surface of a slow sand filter. The schmutzdecke is the layer that provides the effective purification in potable water treatment, the underlying sand providing the support medium for t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial%20permeability%20transition%20pore
The mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP or MPTP; also referred to as PTP, mTP or MTP) is a protein that is formed in the inner membrane of the mitochondria under certain pathological conditions such as traumatic brain injury and stroke. Opening allows increase in the permeability of the mitochondrial memb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20soil%20crust
Biological soil crusts are communities of living organisms on the soil surface in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. They are found throughout the world with varying species composition and cover depending on topography, soil characteristics, climate, plant community, microhabitats, and disturbance regimes. Biological soil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution%20proof%20compression%20by%20splitting
In mathematical logic, proof compression by splitting is an algorithm that operates as a post-process on resolution proofs. It was proposed by Scott Cotton in his paper "Two Techniques for Minimizing Resolution Proof". The Splitting algorithm is based on the following observation: Given a proof of unsatisfiability ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered%20Mathematician
Chartered Mathematician (CMath) is a professional qualification in Mathematics awarded to professional practising mathematicians by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) in the United Kingdom. Chartered Mathematician is the IMA's highest professional qualification; achieving it is done through a rigo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coset%20construction
In mathematics, the coset construction (or GKO construction) is a method of constructing unitary highest weight representations of the Virasoro algebra, introduced by Peter Goddard, Adrian Kent and David Olive (1986). The construction produces the complete discrete series of highest weight representations of the Viras...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20signature
A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents. A valid digital signature on a message gives a recipient confidence that the message came from a sender known to the recipient. Digital signatures are a standard element of most cryptographic protocol suites, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireMonkey
FireMonkey (abbreviated FMX) is a cross-platform GUI framework developed by Embarcadero Technologies for use in Delphi, C++Builder or Python, using Object Pascal, C++ or Python to build cross platform applications for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. A 3rd party library, FMX Linux, enables the building of FireMonkey a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Evans%20Howe
Roger Evans Howe (born May 23, 1945) is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale University, and Curtis D. Robert Endowed Chair in Mathematics Education at Texas A&M University. He is known for his contributions to representation theory, in particular for the notion of a reductive dual pair ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20television%20adapter
A digital television adapter (DTA), commonly known as a converter box or decoder box, is a television tuner that receives a digital television (DTV) transmission, and converts the digital signal into an analog signal that can be received and displayed on an analog television set. Some also have an HDMI output since som...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20flags%20of%20Equatorial%20Guinea
This is a list of flags used in Equatorial Guinea in Africa. For more information about the national flag, see flag of Equatorial Guinea. National flag Ethnic group flags Municipality flags Historical flags See also Flag of Equatorial Guinea Coat of arms of Equatorial Guinea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Infoset
Fast Infoset (or FI) is an international standard that specifies a binary encoding format for the XML Information Set (XML Infoset) as an alternative to the XML document format. It aims to provide more efficient serialization than the text-based XML format. FI is effectively a lossless compression, analogous to gzip, ...