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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20opinion | A second opinion is an opinion on a matter disputed by two or more parties.
Law
In legal cases, a second opinion which contradicts the opinion of a jointly retained expert may be disregarded as not being impartial.
Consumer rights
In cases such as car repairs, a second opinion should be obtained in writing, and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shephard%27s%20problem | In mathematics, Shephard's problem, is the following geometrical question asked by Geoffrey Colin Shephard in 1964: if K and L are centrally symmetric convex bodies in n-dimensional Euclidean space such that whenever K and L are projected onto a hyperplane, the volume of the projection of K is smaller than the volume o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte%20Carlo%20N-Particle%20Transport%20Code | Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport (MCNP) is a general-purpose, continuous-energy, generalized-geometry, time-dependent, Monte Carlo radiation transport code designed to track many particle types over broad ranges of energies and is developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory. Specific areas of application include, but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERISCOP | The PERISCOP is a pressurized recovery device designed for retrieving deep-sea marine life at depths exceeding 2,000 metres. The device was designed by Bruce Shillito and Gerard Hamel at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie. The name is an acronym for the French phrase Projet d’Enceinte de Remontée Isobare Servant la C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian%20Operations%20Research%20Society | The Hungarian Operations Research Society (HORS) is the professional non-profit society for the scientific field of Operations Research in Hungary. The society is recognized by the International Federation of Operational Research Societies and its subgrouping, the Association of European Operational Research Societies,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20reproductive%20morphology | Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction.
Among all living organisms, flowers, which are the reproductive structures of angiosperms, are the most varied physically and show a corresp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasteroid%20fungi | The gasteroid fungi are a group of fungi in the Basidiomycota. Species were formerly placed in the obsolete class Gasteromycetes Fr. (literally "stomach fungi"), or the equally obsolete order Gasteromycetales Rea, because they produce spores inside their basidiocarps (fruit bodies) rather than on an outer surface. Howe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-bit | In quantum mechanics, the u-bit or ubit is a proposed theoretical entity which arises in attempts to reformulate wave functions using only real numbers instead of the complex numbers conventionally used.
Description
In order to discover the real probability of a given quantum event occurring, the conventional calcula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20for%20Vegetation%20Science | The International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) promotes contact between scientists and others interested in the study of vegetation ecology, promotes research and publication of research results. In 1939 the International Phytosociological Society (IPS) was founded, with its headquarters in Montpellier, Fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-625%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-625 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms. Many microRNAs play important roles in cancer development and progression.
mir-625 and gastric cancer
mir-625 has been shown to be down regulated in gastric cancers.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevil%20Conway | Bevil Conway is a neuroscientist and artist, and an expert in color. Conway specialises in visual perception in his scientific work, and he often explores the limitations of the visual system in his artwork. At Wellesley College, Conway was Knafel Assistant Professor of Natural Science from 2007 to 2011, and associate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Flinders%20Petrie | John Flinders Petrie (April 26, 1907 – 1972) was an English mathematician who demonstrated remarkable geometric aptitude in his youth. He met the great geometer Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter as a student, beginning a lifelong friendship. They collaborated in discovering infinite warped polyhedra and (finite) warped po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Day%20of%20the%20Triffids | The Day of the Triffids is a 1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. After most people in the world are blinded by an apparent meteor shower, an aggressive species of plant starts killing people. Although Wyndham had already published other novels using other pen name combination... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace%20Walkington | Candace Walkington is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Southern Methodist University, and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Education
Walkington received her B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from Texas A&M University in 2004 and 2006, resp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation%20chemistry | Radiation chemistry is a subdivision of nuclear chemistry which studies the chemical effects of ionizing radiation on matter. This is quite different from radiochemistry, as no radioactivity needs to be present in the material which is being chemically changed by the radiation. An example is the conversion of water int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20code | In coding theory, a polynomial code is a type of linear code whose set of valid code words consists of those polynomials (usually of some fixed length) that are divisible by a given fixed polynomial (of shorter length, called the generator polynomial).
Definition
Fix a finite field , whose elements we call symbols. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septum%20%28cell%20biology%29 | A septum in cell biology is the new cell wall that forms between two daughter cells as a result of cell division.
In yeast, septins form a ring structure, to which other proteins are recruited. In particular, chitinase 2 is required, an enzyme that synthesises chitin thereby building up the primary septum. A secondary... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force%20of%20mortality | In actuarial science, force of mortality represents the instantaneous rate of mortality at a certain age measured on an annualized basis. It is identical in concept to failure rate, also called hazard function, in reliability theory.
Motivation and definition
In a life table, we consider the probability of a person d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-site%20data%20protection | In computing, off-site data protection, or vaulting, is the strategy of sending critical data out of the main location (off the main site) as part of a disaster recovery plan. Data is usually transported off-site using removable storage media such as magnetic tape or optical storage. Data can also be sent electronical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution%20of%20Electronics%20and%20Telecommunication%20Engineers | The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) is India's leading recognized professional society devoted to the advancement of science, technology, electronics, telecommunication and information technology. Founded in 1953, it serves more than 70,000+ members through 60+ centers/sub centers prim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach%20Volleyball%20Database | The Beach Volleyball Database, also known as BVB Info, is an online website that tracks international beach volleyball players, tournaments and history, including results of continental and international tournaments. It is the only website of its kind in the sport of beach volleyball.
Volleyball Magazine calls the web... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimus%20polynomials | In mathematics, Geronimus polynomials may refer to one of the several different families of orthogonal polynomials studied by Yakov Lazarevich Geronimus. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic%20Federation%20%28ufology%29 | The Galactic Federation is a supposed alliance of extraterrestrial civilizations within the Milky Way. This intergalactic council was allegedly revealed through a few well known people in their networks. It was through channeling that Sheldan Nidle, founder of the Ground Crew Project revealed his awareness. Government ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockhead%20%28thought%20experiment%29 | Blockhead is the name of a theoretical computer system invented as part of a thought experiment by philosopher Ned Block, which appeared in a paper titled "Psychologism and Behaviorism". Block did not name the computer in the paper.
Overview
In "Psychologism and Behaviorism," Block argues that the internal mechanism o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20computing | Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over multiple locations, each of which is a data center. Cloud computing relies on sharing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal%20Genetics%20and%20Biology | Fungal Genetics and Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1977 as Experimental Mycology, obtaining its current title in 1996. It covers experimental investigations of fungi and their traditional allies that relate structure and function to growth, reproduction, morphogenesis, and differentiation.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20completeness | In logic, a functionally complete set of logical connectives or Boolean operators is one which can be used to express all possible truth tables by combining members of the set into a Boolean expression. A well-known complete set of connectives is { AND, NOT }. Each of the singleton sets { NAND } and { NOR } is function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estermann%20measure | In plane geometry the Estermann measure is a number defined for any bounded convex set describing how close to being centrally symmetric it is. It is the ratio of areas between the given set and its smallest centrally symmetric convex superset. It is one for a set that is centrally symmetric, and less than one for sets... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s%20law | Metcalfe's law states that the financial value or influence of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (2). The law is named for Robert Metcalfe and first proposed in 1980, albeit not in terms of users, but rather of "compatible communicating devices" (e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna%20Labs | Annapurna Labs is an Israeli microelectronics company. Since January 2015 it has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon.com. Amazon reportedly acquired the company for its Amazon Web Services division for US$350–370M.
History
Annapurna Labs, named after the Annapurna Massif in the Himalayas, was co-founded in 2011 b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucheuma | Eucheuma, commonly known as sea moss or gusô (), is a rhodophyte seaweed that may vary in color (purple, brown, and green). Eucheuma species are used in the production of carrageenan, an ingredient for cosmetics, food processing, and industrial manufacturing, as well as a food source for people in the Philippines, Cari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotomic%20polynomial | In mathematics, the nth cyclotomic polynomial, for any positive integer n, is the unique irreducible polynomial with integer coefficients that is a divisor of and is not a divisor of for any Its roots are all nth primitive roots of unity
, where k runs over the positive integers not greater than n and coprime to n ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket%205 | Socket 5 was created for the second generation of Intel P5 Pentium processors operating at speeds from 75 to 133 MHz as well as certain Pentium OverDrive and Pentium MMX processors with core voltage 3.3 V. It superseded the earlier Socket 4. It was released in March 1994. Consisting of 320 pins, this was the first sock... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtepass | Subtepass is the electronic smartcard used for trips on the Buenos Aires Metro. In addition to the regular Subtepass, there are special discounted and free versions available, based on category. Secondary and tertiary school students may purchase a discounted Abono Estudiantil (Spanish: Student Pass). Teachers that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20finite%20element%20software%20packages | This is a list of notable software packages that implement the finite element method for solving partial differential equations.
Feature comparison
This table is contributed by a FEA-compare project, which provides an alternative view of this table with the first row and Feature column being fixed for ease of table e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A1s%20Gy%C3%A1rf%C3%A1s | András Gyárfás (born 1945) is a Hungarian mathematician who specializes in the study of graph theory. He is famous for two conjectures:
Together with Paul Erdős he conjectured what is now called the Erdős–Gyárfás conjecture which states that any graph with minimum degree 3 contains a simple cycle whose length is a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Interchange%20Format | Data Interchange Format (.dif) is a text file format used to import/export single spreadsheets between spreadsheet programs.
Applications that still support the DIF format are Collabora Online, Excel, Gnumeric, and LibreOffice Calc. Historical applications that used to support it until they became end of life or no lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxian | is a 1979 fixed shooter arcade video game developed and published by Namco. The player assumes control of the Galaxip starfighter in its mission to protect Earth from waves of aliens. Gameplay involves destroying each formation of aliens, who dive down towards the player in an attempt to hit them.
Designed by company ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeadline | is a 1989 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and originally published by T&E Soft for the MSX2 and MSX2+ home computers. It was later ported to the X68000 computer and Sega Mega Drive, published by Palsoft, followed by digital re-releases for Microsoft Windows. Both the MSX2 and X68000 versions also rec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Location%20Code | The Open Location Code (OLC) is a geocode based in a system of regular grids for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth.
It was developed at Google's Zürich engineering office, and released late October 2014. Location codes created by the OLC system are referred to as "plus codes".
Open Location Code is a way of en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparability%20graph | In graph theory, a comparability graph is an undirected graph that connects pairs of elements that are comparable to each other in a partial order. Comparability graphs have also been called transitively orientable graphs, partially orderable graphs, containment graphs, and divisor graphs.
An incomparability graph is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sori%20%28music%29 | The sori (Persian:سری) is a symbol that corresponds to a quarter step higher in tone in Persian traditional music. It is written as a ">" sign, crossed by two vertical lines, and can be used like an accidental.
In the early 20th century, Iranian master musician Alinaghi Vaziri established this sign for the sori for us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCF7L2 | Transcription factor 7-like 2 (T-cell specific, HMG-box), also known as TCF7L2 or TCF4, is a protein acting as a transcription factor that, in humans, is encoded by the TCF7L2 gene. The TCF7L2 gene is located on chromosome 10q25.2–q25.3, contains 19 exons. As a member of the TCF family, TCF7L2 can form a bipartite tran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo%20de%20Zavala | Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y Sánchez (October 3, 1788 – November 15, 1836), known simply as Lorenzo de Zavala, was a Mexican and later Tejano physician, politician, diplomat and author. Born in Yucatán under Spanish rule, he was closely involved in drafting the constitution for the First Federal Republic of Me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering%20channel | In scattering theory, a scattering channel is a quantum state of the colliding system before or after the collision (). The Hilbert space spanned by the states before collision (in states) is equal to the space spanned by the states after collision (out states) which are both Fock spaces if there is a mass gap. This ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia%20reinwardtiana | Eugenia reinwardtiana is a shrub to small tree in the family Myrtaceae. Native to tropical forests in northern Queensland, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands, its common names include Cedar Bay Cherry, Beach Cherry, Australian Beach, Mountain Stopper, Nioi (Hawaiian), and A'abang (Chamorro). They are typically in heig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witches%27%20butter | Witches' butter (or Witch's butter) may refer to:
Exidia nigricans, a black, gelatinous fungus
Exidia glandulosa, a black, gelatinous fungus
Tremella mesenterica, a yellow, gelatinous fungus
Dacrymyces, a jelly fungus often confused with Tremella
Nostoc, a genus of gelatinous cyanobacteria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola%20mandshurica | Viola mandshurica is a perennial species of violet known by the common names (:zh:东北堇菜) meaning 'northeastern violet' in China, (:ko:제비꽃) meaning 'sparrow flower' in Korea, and (:ja:菫, :ja:スミレ) meaning 'violet' in Japan. In Japan, V. mandshurica is considered to be the basic species and other violet species have add... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprine | Coprine is a mycotoxin. It was first isolated from common inkcap (Coprinopsis atramentaria). It occurs in mushrooms in the genera Coprinopsis. When combined with alcohol, it causes "Coprinus syndrome". It inhibits the enzyme acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, which is involved in the metabolism of alcohol. This inhibition le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20quasiparticles | This is a list of quasiparticles. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simmons%E2%80%93Su%20protocols | The Simmons–Su protocols are several protocols for envy-free division. They are based on Sperner's lemma. The merits of these protocols is that they put few restrictions on the preferences of the partners, and ask the partners only simple queries such as "which piece do you prefer?".
Protocols were developed for solv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20meat | In culinary terms, white meat is meat which is pale in color before and after cooking. In traditional gastronomy, white meat also includes rabbit, the flesh of milk-fed young mammals (in particular veal and lamb), and sometimes pork. In ecotrophology and nutritional studies, white meat includes poultry and fish, but ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video | S-Video (also known as separate video, Y/C, and erroneously Super-Video) is an analog video signal format that carries standard-definition video, typically at 525 lines or 625 lines. It encodes video luma and chrominance on two separate channels, achieving higher image quality than composite video which encodes all vid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Foundations%20of%20Quantum%20Mechanics | The book Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1932) by John von Neumann is an important early work in the development of quantum theory.
Publication history
The book was originally published in German in 1932 by Julius Springer, under the title .
An English translation by Robert T. Beyer was published in 195... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution%20frame | In telecommunications, a distribution frame is a passive device which terminates cables, allowing arbitrary interconnections to be made.
For example, the Main Distribution Frame (MDF) located at a telephone central office terminates the cables leading to subscribers on the one hand, and cables leading to active equipm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nojirimycin | Nojirimycin is the parent compound of a class of antibiotics and glycosidase inhibitors. Nojirimycin and its derivatives are mainly obtained from a class of Streptomyces species. Chemically, it is an iminosugar.
Derivatives
1-deoxynojirimycin or duvoglustat
1-deoxygalactonojirimycin or migalastat, a drug for the tre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20lipid%20bilayer | A model lipid bilayer is any bilayer assembled in vitro, as opposed to the bilayer of natural cell membranes or covering various sub-cellular structures like the nucleus. They are used to study the fundamental properties of biological membranes in a simplified and well-controlled environment, and increasingly in botto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-level%20laser%20therapy | Low-level laser therapy (LLLT), cold laser therapy, photobiomodulation (PBM) or red light therapy is a form of medicine that applies low-level (low-power) lasers or light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to the surface of the body. Whereas high-power lasers are used in laser medicine to cut or destroy tissue, it is claimed that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser%20omentum | The lesser omentum (small omentum or gastrohepatic omentum) is the double layer of peritoneum that extends from the liver to the lesser curvature of the stomach, and to the first part of the duodenum. The lesser omentum is usually divided into these two connecting parts: the hepatogastric ligament, and the hepatoduoden... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI%20system%20partition | The EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) system partition or ESP is a partition on a data storage device (usually a hard disk drive or solid-state drive) that is used by computers having the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). When a computer is booted, UEFI firmware loads files stored on the ESP to start ins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20number%20theory | A timeline of number theory.
Before 1000 BCE
ca. 20,000 BCE — Nile Valley, Ishango Bone: possibly the earliest reference to prime numbers and Egyptian multiplication although this is disputed.
About 300 BCE
300 BCE — Euclid proves the number of prime numbers is infinite.
1st millennium AD
250 — Diophantus writes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic%20electron%20transfer | Adiabatic electron-transfer is a type of oxidation-reduction processes. The mechanism is ubiquitous in nature in both the inorganic and biological spheres. Adiabatic electron-transfers proceed without making or breaking chemical bonds. Adiabatic electron-transfer can occur by either optical or thermal mechanisms. El... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanczos%20resampling | Lanczos filtering and Lanczos resampling are two applications of a mathematical formula. It can be used as a low-pass filter or used to smoothly interpolate the value of a digital signal between its samples. In the latter case, it maps each sample of the given signal to a translated and scaled copy of the Lanczos kern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20ID | Content-ID may refer to:
Content ID (system), a digital fingerprinting system used to identify and manage copyrighted content on YouTube
URI scheme (cid:), allows the use of MIME within email |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchenko%E2%80%93Pastur%20distribution | In the mathematical theory of random matrices, the Marchenko–Pastur distribution, or Marchenko–Pastur law, describes the asymptotic behavior of singular values of large rectangular random matrices. The theorem is named after Soviet mathematicians Vladimir Marchenko and Leonid Pastur who proved this result in 1967.
If... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/105th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 105° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. Under mean solar time represents the offset of UTC+07:00 time zone.
The 105th meridian east forms a great circle with the 7... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric%20escape | Atmospheric escape is the loss of planetary atmospheric gases to outer space. A number of different mechanisms can be responsible for atmospheric escape; these processes can be divided into thermal escape, non-thermal (or suprathermal) escape, and impact erosion. The relative importance of each loss process depends on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware%20Biotechnology%20Institute | The Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI) at the University of Delaware is a partnership among government, academia and industry with an aim to establish Delaware as a notable hub for biotechnology and life sciences.
Adjacent to the University of Delaware main campus, DBI's research facility is located in the Dela... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercopithecine%20alphaherpesvirus%209 | Cercopithecine alphaherpesvirus 9 (CeHV-9) is a species of virus in the genus Varicellovirus, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales.
Pathology
Cercopithecine alphaherpesvirus 9 infects primates and shares clinical, pathological, immunological, and virological features with varice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concolic%20testing | Concolic testing (a portmanteau of concrete and symbolic, also known as dynamic symbolic execution) is a hybrid software verification technique that performs symbolic execution, a classical technique that treats program variables as symbolic variables, along a concrete execution (testing on particular inputs) path. Sym... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycystin%201 | Polycystin 1 (PC1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PKD1 gene. Mutations of PKD1 are associated with most cases of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, a severe hereditary disorder of the kidneys characterised by the development of renal cysts and severe kidney dysfunction.
Protein structure and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Ocean%20Observing%20System | Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) is an international initiative of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR). It was officially launched in 2011. Its International Project Office is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivalenol | Nivalenol (NIV) is a mycotoxin of the trichothecene group. In nature it is mainly found in fungi of the Fusarium species. The Fusarium species belongs to the most prevalent mycotoxin producing fungi in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, therefore making them a considerable risk for the food crop producti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harish-Chandra%27s%20%CE%9E%20function | In mathematical harmonic analysis, Harish-Chandra's Ξ function is a special spherical function on a semisimple Lie group, studied by .
Harish-Chandra used it to define Harish-Chandra's Schwartz space.
gives a detailed description of the properties of Ξ.
Definition
where
K is a maximal compact subgroup of a semisi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oven%20temperatures | Common oven temperatures (such as terms: cool oven, very slow oven, slow oven, moderate oven, hot oven, fast oven, etc.) are set to control the effects of baking in an oven, for various lengths of time.
Standard phrases
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundlet | The rundlet is an archaic unit-like size of wine casks once used in Britain. It was equivalent to about 68 litres. It used to be defined as 18 wine gallons—one of several gallons then in use—before the adoption of the imperial system in 1824, afterwards it was 15 imperial gallons, which became the universal English bas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallophyca | Thallophyca is a non-mineralized Ediacarian alga that probably dwelt on the sea floor. Its thallus is differentiated into a cortex and a medulla. Possible reproductive structures have been identified. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro%20heat%20exchanger | Micro heat exchangers, Micro-scale heat exchangers, or microstructured heat exchangers are heat exchangers in which (at least one) fluid flows in lateral confinements with typical dimensions below 1 mm. The most typical such confinement are microchannels, which are channels with a hydraulic diameter below 1 mm. Microc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechnoSphere%20%28virtual%20environment%29 | TechnoSphere was an online digital environment launched on September 1, 1995 and hosted on a computer at a UK university. Created by Jane Prophet and Dr. Gordon Selley, TechnoSphere was a place where users from around the globe could create creatures and release them into the 3D environment, described by the creators a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumference | In geometry, the circumference (from Latin circumferens, meaning "carrying around") is the perimeter of a circle or ellipse. The circumference is the arc length of the circle, as if it were opened up and straightened out to a line segment. More generally, the perimeter is the curve length around any closed figure.
Cir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin%20Jiushao | Qin Jiushao (, ca. 1202–1261), courtesy name Daogu (道古), was a Chinese mathematician, meteorologist, inventor, politician, and writer. He is credited for discovering Horner's method as well as inventing Tianchi basins, a type of rain gauge instrument used to gather meteorological data.
Biography
Although Qin Jiushao ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCtte | The (originally , stylized as "HÜTTE" and pronounced ) is a reference work for engineers of various disciplines. It was compiled for the first time in 1857 by the (short , translating as "the hut") of the in Berlin, from which the association of German engineers Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) emerged. The authors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%20index | The Lincoln index is a statistical measure used in several fields to estimate the population size of an animal species. Described by Frederick Charles Lincoln in 1930, it is also sometimes known as the Lincoln-Petersen method after C.G. Johannes Petersen who was the first to use the related mark and recapture method.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Chat | Le Chat (Le Cat in English-language editions) is a Belgian comic strip, created by Philippe Geluck. Foremost published daily in the newspaper Le Soir from March 22, 1983, until March 23, 2013, it is since issued directly as complete albums.
Right from the start, it quickly became one of the bestselling Franco-Belgian ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxation%20%28approximation%29 | In mathematical optimization and related fields, relaxation is a modeling strategy. A relaxation is an approximation of a difficult problem by a nearby problem that is easier to solve. A solution of the relaxed problem provides information about the original problem.
For example, a linear programming relaxation of an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate%20abstraction | In logic, predicate abstraction is the result of creating a predicate from a formula. If Q is any formula then the predicate abstract formed from that sentence is (λx.Q), where λ is an abstraction operator and in which every occurrence of x that is free in Q is bound by λ in (λx.Q). The resultant predicate (λx.Q(x)) is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accra%20Declaration | The Accra Declaration confirmed the support of the two main healthcare interoperability standards by the open source community. With the support of major open source advocates, this allowed free and unfettered access to the core healthcare interoperability standards which resulted in a substantial increase in their u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Wowk | Brian G. Wowk is a Canadian medical physicist and cryobiologist known for the discovery and development of synthetic molecules that mimic the activity of natural antifreeze proteins in cryopreservation applications, sometimes called "ice blockers". As a senior scientist at 21st Century Medicine, Inc., he was a co-devel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagicoccus | Pelagicoccus is a Gram-negative genus of bacteria from the family of Puniceicoccaceae.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
See also
List of bacterial orders
List of bacteria ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Ostrowski | Alexander Markowich Ostrowski (; ; 25 September 1893, in Kiev, Russian Empire – 20 November 1986, in Montagnola, Lugano, Switzerland) was a mathematician.
His father Mark having been a merchant, Alexander Ostrowski attended the Kiev College of Commerce, not a high school, and thus had an insufficient qualification to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Debye%20Award | The Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry is awarded annually by the American Chemical Society "to encourage and reward outstanding research in physical chemistry". The award is named after Peter Debye and
granted without regard to age or nationality.
Recipients
2020 Laura Gagliardi
2019 Daniel M. Neumark
2018
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic%20technology | Haptic technology (also kinaesthetic communication or 3D touch) is technology that can create an experience of touch by applying forces, vibrations, or motions to the user. These technologies can be used to create virtual objects in a computer simulation, to control virtual objects, and to enhance remote control of mac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology%20language | In computer science and artificial intelligence, ontology languages are formal languages used to construct ontologies. They allow the encoding of knowledge about specific domains and often include reasoning rules that support the processing of that knowledge. Ontology languages are usually declarative languages, are al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartoma | A hamartoma is a mostly benign, local malformation of cells that resembles a neoplasm of local tissue but is usually due to an overgrowth of multiple aberrant cells, with a basis in a systemic genetic condition, rather than a growth descended from a single mutated cell (monoclonality), as would typically define a benig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20space | In mathematics, hyperbolic space of dimension n is the unique simply connected, n-dimensional Riemannian manifold of constant sectional curvature equal to -1. It is homogeneous, and satisfies the stronger property of being a symmetric space. There are many ways to construct it as an open subset of with an explicitly w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSPB7 | Heat Shock Protein Family B (small) member 7 (HSPB7) in humans is a protein encoded by a gene of the same name with four exons that is located on chromosome 1p36.13.,. HSPB7 contains 170 amino acids and has a molecular weight of 18,611Da. HSPB7 is a member of human small heat shock protein (HSPB) family, which contains... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Dung%20Beetle%20Project | The Australian Dung Beetle Project (1965–1985), conceived and led by Dr George Bornemissza of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), was an international scientific research and biological control project with the primary goal to control the polluting effects of cattle dung.
Backgrou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20radar | Quantum radar is a speculative remote-sensing technology based on quantum-mechanical effects, such as the uncertainty principle or quantum entanglement. Broadly speaking, a quantum radar can be seen as a device working in the microwave range, which exploits quantum features, from the point of view of the radiation sour... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarfism%20in%20chickens | Dwarfism in chickens is an inherited condition found in chickens consisting of a significant delayed growth, resulting in adult individuals with a distinctive small size in comparison with normal specimens of the same breed or population.
The affected birds show no signs of dwarfism in the first weeks of age. Differe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Schneider%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Steve Schneider FBCS, CITP is an English computer scientist and Professor of Security. He is Director of the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security and Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) at the University of Surrey.
Biography
Steve Schneider studied at Oxford University, joining the Oxford University Computing Laborat... |
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