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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile%20Borel | Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (; 7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability.
Biography
Borel was born in Saint-Affrique, Aveyron, the son of a Protestant pastor. He studied at the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait%C3%A9%20de%20m%C3%A9canique%20c%C3%A9leste | Traité de mécanique céleste () is a five-volume treatise on celestial mechanics written by Pierre-Simon Laplace and published from 1798 to 1825 with a second edition in 1829. In 1842, the government of Louis Philippe gave a grant of 40,000 francs for a 7-volume national edition of the Oeuvres de Laplace (1843–1847); th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swartz%20Prize | The Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, established in 2008, is an annual award supported by the Swartz Foundation and administered by the Society for Neuroscience. The award "honors an individual whose activities have produced a significant cumulative contribution to theoretical models or comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant%20subspace | In mathematics, an invariant subspace of a linear mapping T : V → V i.e. from some vector space V to itself, is a subspace W of V that is preserved by T. More generally, an invariant subspace for a collection of linear mappings is a subspace preserved by each mapping individually.
For a single operator
Consider a v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20jump | A hydraulic jump is a phenomenon in the science of hydraulics which is frequently observed in open channel flow such as rivers and spillways. When liquid at high velocity discharges into a zone of lower velocity, a rather abrupt rise occurs in the liquid surface. The rapidly flowing liquid is abruptly slowed and increa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%20ethanol | Corn ethanol is ethanol produced from corn biomass and is the main source of ethanol fuel in the United States, mandated to be blended with gasoline in the Renewable Fuel Standard. Corn ethanol is produced by ethanol fermentation and distillation. It is debatable whether the production and use of corn ethanol results i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inn%20sign | Inn signs have a history that extends beyond the Middle Ages, when many houses were identified by a sign, often a heraldic charge, which signified that the premises were under the special care of a nobleman, or a vivid image that impressed itself on the memory. The ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal that most of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidable%20sublanguages%20of%20set%20theory | In mathematical logic, various sublanguages of set theory are decidable. These include:
Sets with Monotone, Additive, and Multiplicative Functions.
Sets with restricted quantifiers. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%20H.%20Coulter%20Department%20of%20Biomedical%20Engineering | The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering is a department in the Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Engineering, and Peking University College of Engineering dedicated to the study of and research in biomedical engineering, and is named after the pioneer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiomer | In chemistry, an enantiomer (/ɪˈnænti.əmər, ɛ-, -oʊ-/ ih-NAN-tee-ə-mər; from Ancient Greek ἐνάντιος (enántios) 'opposite', and μέρος (méros) 'part') – also called optical isomer, antipode, or optical antipode – is one of two stereoisomers that are non-superposable onto their own mirror image. Enantiomers are much like ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20systems%20management%20systems | This is a list of notable systems management systems.
Overview
See also
Configuration management
Comparison of network monitoring systems
Comparison of open source configuration management software
Systems management
Systems management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis | Redis (; Remote Dictionary Server) is an open-source in-memory storage, used as a distributed, in-memory key–value database, cache and message broker, with optional durability. Because it holds all data in memory and because of its design, Redis offers low-latency reads and writes, making it particularly suitable for u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementarity%20%28molecular%20biology%29 | In molecular biology, complementarity describes a relationship between two structures each following the lock-and-key principle. In nature complementarity is the base principle of DNA replication and transcription as it is a property shared between two DNA or RNA sequences, such that when they are aligned antiparallel ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip%20bands%20in%20metals | Slip bands or stretcher-strain marks are localized bands of plastic deformation in metals experiencing stresses. Formation of slip bands indicates a concentrated unidirectional slip on certain planes causing a stress concentration. Typically, slip bands induce surface steps (e.g., roughness due persistent slip bands du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic%20flag | A diplomatic flag is a flag used by a sovereign state engaging in diplomacy which is different from the nation's normal national flag. Some nations also have personal flags that are used by their diplomatic representatives, such as the U.S. Foreign Service flags.
National diplomatic flags
Currently, only two nations u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20of%20interface | In telecommunications a point of interface (POI) is used to show the physical interface between two different carriers, such as a local exchange carrier (LEC) and a wireless carrier, or an LEC and an IntereXchange Carrier (IXC). This demarcation point often defines responsibility as well as serving as a point for testi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentication%20server | An authentication server provides a network service that applications use to authenticate the credentials, usually account names and passwords, of their users. When a client submits a valid set of credentials, it receives a cryptographic ticket that it can subsequently use to access various services.
Authentication is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20signatures%20and%20law | Worldwide, legislation concerning the effect and validity of electronic signatures, including, but not limited to, cryptographic digital signatures, includes:
Argentina
Ley Nº 25.506 (B.O. 14/12/2001).
Decreto Nº 2628/02 (B.O. 20/12/2002).
Decreto N° 724/06 (B.O. 13/06/06).
Decisión Administrativa N° 927/14 (B.O. 03/1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Joaquin%20Experimental%20Range | The San Joaquin Experimental Range is an ecosystem research experimental area in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The range is located in O'Neals, California, outside of the Sierra National Forest about north of Fresno, California. The range includes a portion of California grassland and California woodlands with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20dichotomy | In the mathematical theory of dynamical systems, an exponential dichotomy is a property of an equilibrium point that extends the idea of hyperbolicity to non-autonomous systems.
Definition
If
is a linear non-autonomous dynamical system in Rn with fundamental solution matrix Φ(t), Φ(0) = I, then the equilibrium point ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogitBoost | In machine learning and computational learning theory, LogitBoost is a boosting algorithm formulated by Jerome Friedman, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani.
The original paper casts the AdaBoost algorithm into a statistical framework. Specifically, if one considers AdaBoost as a generalized additive model and then ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiopharmacology | Radiopharmacology is radiochemistry applied to medicine and thus the pharmacology of radiopharmaceuticals (medicinal radiocompounds, that is, pharmaceutical drugs that are radioactive). Radiopharmaceuticals are used in the field of nuclear medicine as radioactive tracers in medical imaging and in therapy for many disea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics%20middleware | Robotics middleware is middleware to be used in complex robot control software systems.
"...robotic middleware is designed to manage the complexity and heterogeneity of the hardware and applications, promote the integration of new technologies, simplify software design, hide the complexity of low-level communication an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helly%20space | In mathematics, and particularly functional analysis, the Helly space, named after Eduard Helly, consists of all monotonically increasing functions , where [0,1] denotes the closed interval given by the set of all x such that In other words, for all we have and also if then
Let the closed interval [0,1] be denote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergen | An allergen is a type of antigen that produces an abnormally vigorous immune response in which the immune system fights off a perceived threat that would otherwise be harmless to the body. Such reactions are called allergies.
In technical terms, an allergen is an antigen that is capable of stimulating a type-I hyperse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20computing | Natural computing, also called natural computation, is a terminology introduced to encompass three classes of methods: 1) those that take inspiration from nature for the development of novel problem-solving techniques; 2) those that are based on the use of computers to synthesize natural phenomena; and 3) those that em... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Mach | GNU Mach is an implementation of the Mach microkernel. It is the default microkernel in the GNU Hurd. GNU Mach runs on IA-32 machines. GNU Mach is maintained by developers on the GNU project. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
History
Early versions of the Hurd were developed on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20A.%20Martin | Donald Anthony Martin (born December 24, 1940), also known as Tony Martin, is an American set theorist and philosopher of mathematics at UCLA, where he is an emeritus professor of mathematics and philosophy.
Education and career
Martin received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962 and was a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara%20h1 | Ara h 1 is a seed storage protein from Arachis hypogaea (peanuts). It is a heat stable 7S vicilin-like globulin with a stable trimeric form that comprises 12-16% of the total protein in peanut extracts. Ara h 1 is known because sensitization to it was found in 95% of peanut-allergic patients from North America. In spit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety | Biosafety is the prevention of large-scale loss of biological integrity, focusing both on ecology and human health.
These prevention mechanisms include the conduction of regular reviews of biosafety in laboratory settings, as well as strict guidelines to follow. Biosafety is used to protect from harmful incidents. Many... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treewidth | In graph theory, the treewidth of an undirected graph is an integer number which specifies, informally, how far the graph is from being a tree. The smallest treewidth is 1; the graphs with treewidth 1 are exactly the trees and the forests. The graphs with treewidth at most 2 are the series–parallel graphs. The maximal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinyatoxin | Tinyatoxin (TTX or TTN) is an analog of the neurotoxin resiniferatoxin. It occurs naturally in Euphorbia poissonii.
It is a neurotoxin that acts via full agonism of the vanilloid receptors of sensory nerves. Tinyatoxin has a potential for pharmaceutical uses similar to uses of capsaicin. Tinyatoxin is about one third ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Fleming%20Stier%20Award | The Elizabeth Fleming Stier Award has been issued every year since 1997. It is awarded to a member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) who has pursued humanitarian ideals and unselfish dedication to the well-being of the food industry, academia, students, or the general public. The award is named for Elizabeth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations%20of%20Differential%20Geometry | Foundations of Differential Geometry is an influential 2-volume mathematics book on differential geometry written by Shoshichi Kobayashi and Katsumi Nomizu. The first volume was published in 1963 and the second in 1969, by Interscience Publishers. Both were published again in 1996 as Wiley Classics Library.
The first ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric%20mucosal%20restitution | Gastric mucosal restitution is an alteration in the morphology/organization of cells in response to gastric damage. It contributes to the reformation of the gastric mucosal barrier. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Society%20of%20Naturalists | The Western Society of Naturalists is a scientific organization with a strong focus on promoting the study of marine biology. Most of its members are on the Pacific coast of North America. Originally established in 1910 as the Biological Society of the Pacific, it changed its name in 1916. It held its first meeting und... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettle%20agent | Nettle agents (named after stinging nettles) or urticants are a variety of chemical warfare agents that produce corrosive skin and tissue injury upon contact, resulting in erythema, urticaria, intense itching, and a hive-like rash.
Most nettle agents, such as the best known and studied nettle agent, phosgene oxime, ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFINKS | Sfinks (Polish for "Sphynx") was also the initial name of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award
In cryptography, SFINKS is a stream cypher algorithm developed by An Braeken, Joseph Lano, Nele Mentens, Bart Preneel, and Ingrid Verbauwhede. It includes a message authentication code. It has been submitted to the eSTREAM Project of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Felder | Giovanni Felder (18 November 1958 in Aarau) is a Swiss mathematical physicist and mathematician, working at ETH Zurich. He specializes in algebraic and geometric properties of integrable models of statistical mechanics and quantum field theory.
Education and career
Felder attended school in Lugano and Willisau Distric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20and%20restoration%20of%20flags%20and%20banners | The conservation and restoration of flags and banners is the process by which conservators work to preserve and restore flags and banners from future deterioration and damage. As a part of Conservation of Textiles, flag and banner conservation require the care of a skilled and well trained textile conservator, specific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparassis | Sparassis (also known as cauliflower mushroom) is a genus of parasitic and saprobic mushroom characterised by its unique shape and appearance and is found around the globe. Its appearance can be described as similar to a sea sponge, a brain or a head of cauliflower, hence its popular name.
It is increasingly cultivat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20specific%20heat | In solid state physics the electronic specific heat, sometimes called the electron heat capacity, is the specific heat of an electron gas. Heat is transported by phonons and by free electrons in solids. For pure metals, however, the electronic contributions dominate in the thermal conductivity. In impure metals, the el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document%20classification | Document classification or document categorization is a problem in library science, information science and computer science. The task is to assign a document to one or more classes or categories. This may be done "manually" (or "intellectually") or algorithmically. The intellectual classification of documents has most... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinone-interacting%20membrane-bound%20oxidoreductase | Quinone-interacting membrane-bound oxidoreductase is a membrane-bound protein complex present in the electron transport chain of sulfate reducers (e.g. Desulfovibrio species) and some sulfur oxidizers.
It was first described by Pires et al. (2003). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Precision%20Bus | The HP Precision bus (also called HP-PB and HP-NIO)
is the data transfer bus of the proprietary Hewlett Packard architecture HP 3000 and later many variants of the HP 9000 series of UNIX systems. This bus has a 32-bit data path with an 8 MHz clock. It supports a maximum transfer rate of 23 MB/s in burst mode. That bus ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery%20mathematics | Lottery mathematics is used to calculate probabilities of winning or losing a lottery game. It is based primarily on combinatorics, particularly the twelvefold way and combinations without replacement.
Choosing 6 from 49
In a typical 6/49 game, each player chooses six distinct numbers from a range of 1-49. If the six... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaio | VAIO () is a brand of personal computers and consumer electronics, currently developed by Japanese manufacturer , headquartered in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture.
VAIO was originally or formerly a brand of Sony, introduced in 1996. In February 2014, Sony created VAIO Corporation Inc., a special purpose company with invest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20Reservation%20Protocol | The Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) is a transport layer protocol designed to reserve resources across a network using the integrated services model. RSVP operates over an IPv4 or IPv6 and provides receiver-initiated setup of resource reservations for multicast or unicast data flows. It does not transport applicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrio%20holin%20family | The Vibrio Holin Family (TC# 1.E.30) consists of small proteins 50 to 65 amino acyl residues in length that exhibit a single N-terminal transmembrane domain. A representative list of proteins belonging to the Vibrio Holin family can be found in the Transporter Classification Database.
See also
Holin
Lysin
Transpo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20G.%20Truxal | John G. Truxal (February 19, 1924 - February 16, 2007) was an American control theorist and a Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Truxal was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is noted for his numerous contributions to control theory, for which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mdm2 | Mouse double minute 2 homolog (MDM2) also known as E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase Mdm2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MDM2 gene. Mdm2 is an important negative regulator of the p53 tumor suppressor. Mdm2 protein functions both as an E3 ubiquitin ligase that recognizes the N-terminal trans-activation domain ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlapped%20I/O | Overlapped I/O is a name used for asynchronous I/O in the Windows API. It was introduced as an extension to the API in Windows NT.
Utilizing overlapped I/O requires passing an OVERLAPPED structure to API functions that normally block, including ReadFile(), WriteFile(), and Winsock's WSASend() and WSARecv(). The reques... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife%20Acoustics | Wildlife Acoustics, Inc. is a privately held United States company based in Maynard, Massachusetts. The company provides bioacoustics monitoring technology for scientists, researchers, and government agencies internationally. The company was founded by Ian Agranat in 2003. The company originally developed a product cal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ap%C3%A9ry%27s%20constant | In mathematics, Apéry's constant is the sum of the reciprocals of the positive cubes. That is, it is defined as the number
where is the Riemann zeta function. It has an approximate value of
.
The constant is named after Roger Apéry. It arises naturally in a number of physical problems, including in the second-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine%20osmolality | Urine osmolality is a measure of urine concentration, in which large values indicate concentrated urine and small values indicate diluted urine. Consumption of water (including water contained in food) affects the osmolality of urine.
Osmolality is measured by osmometer, which evaluates the freezing point depression of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20theory | Informally in mathematical logic, an algebraic theory is a theory that uses axioms stated entirely in terms of equations between terms with free variables. Inequalities and quantifiers are specifically disallowed. Sentential logic is the subset of first-order logic involving only algebraic sentences.
The notion is v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauisaurus | Mauisaurus ("Māui lizard") is a dubious genus of plesiosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now New Zealand. Numerous specimens have been attributed to this genus in the past, but a 2017 paper restricts Mauisaurus to the lectotype and declares it a nomen dubium.
History of discovery
Mauisauru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects%20of%20meditation | The psychological and physiological effects of meditation have been studied. In recent years, studies of meditation have increasingly involved the use of modern instruments, such as fMRI and EEG, which are able to observe brain physiology and neural activity in living subjects, either during the act of meditation itsel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20smallest%20fish | The world's smallest fish depends on the measurement used.
Based on minimum standard length at maturity the main contenders are Paedocypris progenetica where females can reach it at , the stout infantfish (Schindleria brevipinguis) where females reach it at and males at , and Photocorynus spiniceps where males can re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s%20law | Koomey's law describes a trend in the history of computing hardware: for about a half-century, the number of computations per joule of energy dissipated doubled about every 1.57 years. Professor Jonathan Koomey described the trend in a 2010 paper in which he wrote that "at a fixed computing load, the amount of battery ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20private%20network | A virtual private network (VPN) is a mechanism for creating a secure connection between a computing device and a computer network, or between two networks, using an insecure communication medium such as the public Internet.
A VPN can extend access to a private network (one that disallows or restricts public access) to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasensitivity | In molecular biology, ultrasensitivity describes an output response that is more sensitive to stimulus change than the hyperbolic Michaelis-Menten response. Ultrasensitivity is one of the biochemical switches in the cell cycle and has been implicated in a number of important cellular events, including exiting G2 cell c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre%20Mikhailovich%20Vinogradov | Alexandre Mikhailovich Vinogradov (; 18 February 1938 – 20 September 2019) was a Russian and Italian mathematician. He made important contributions to the areas of differential calculus over commutative algebras, the algebraic theory of differential operators, homological algebra, differential geometry and algebraic to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutshell | A nutshell is the outer shell of a nut. Most nutshells are inedible and are removed before eating the nut meat inside. It covers and protects the kernel, which may be edible.
Usage
Most nutshells are useful to some extent, depending on the circumstances. Walnut shells can be used for cleaning and polishing, as a fille... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20C.%20Rosenbloom | Paul Charles Rosenbloom (1920 in Portsmouth, Virginia – 2005) was an American mathematician.
Life
Rosenbloom studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where as an undergraduate he became a Putnam Fellow in 1941. In 1944 he earned his PhD from Stanford University under Gábor Szegő with thesis On sequences of polynom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20feedback | Positive feedback (exacerbating feedback, self-reinforcing feedback) is a process that occurs in a feedback loop which exacerbates the effects of a small disturbance. That is, the effects of a perturbation on a system include an increase in the magnitude of the perturbation. That is, A produces more of B which in turn ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost%20distance%20analysis | In spatial analysis and geographic information systems, cost distance analysis or cost path analysis is a method for determining one or more optimal routes of travel through unconstrained (two-dimensional) space. The optimal solution is that which minimizes the total cost of the route, based on a field of cost density ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon%20R430 | The Radeon R430 chip from ATI Technologies can be found in some models of the Radeon X800 GTO video card. The Radeon X800 "R430"-based 110 nanometer series was introduced at the end of 2004 along with ATI's new X850 cards. The X800 was designed to replace the position X700 XT failed to secure, with 12 pipelines and a 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Language%20Portal | Microsoft Language Portal is a multilingual online dictionary of computing terms.
It also offers free downloads of localization style guides, translations of user interface text, and a feedback feature. It was made public in 2009. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceNet | DeviceNet is a network protocol used in the automation industry to interconnect control devices for data exchange. It utilizes the Common Industrial Protocol over a Controller Area Network media layer and defines an application layer to cover a range of device profiles. Typical applications include information exchang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoustolith | Akoustolith is a porous ceramic material resembling stone. Akoustolith was a patented product of a collaboration between Rafael Guastavino Jr. (the son of Rafael Guastavino) and Harvard professor Wallace Sabine over a period of years starting in 1911. It was used to limit acoustic reflection and noise in large vaulted ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%27s%20theorem | In geometry, Stewart's theorem yields a relation between the lengths of the sides and the length of a cevian in a triangle. Its name is in honour of the Scottish mathematician Matthew Stewart, who published the theorem in 1746.
Statement
Let , , be the lengths of the sides of a triangle. Let be the length of a ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUBMB%20Life | IUBMB Life is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of developmental biology that was established in 1999. It is one of four official journals of the IUBMB. The journal is published monthly by John Wiley & Sons.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.885, ranking it 147th out... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20fixed-point%20theorem | In discrete mathematics, a discrete fixed-point is a fixed-point for functions defined on finite sets, typically subsets of the integer grid .
Discrete fixed-point theorems were developed by Iimura, Murota and Tamura, Chen and Deng and others. Yang provides a survey.
Basic concepts
Continuous fixed-point theorems of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky%3A%20A%20%28Self%29%20Love%20Story | Sticky: A (Self) Love Story is a 2016 documentary and comedy film by Nicholas Tana that attempts to explain why most people are afraid to discuss masturbation. The movie is one of the first documentaries to address the myths and social taboos around masturbation. The trailer for Sticky: A (Self) Love Story was selected... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocomputation | Geocomputation (sometimes GeoComputation) is a field of study at the intersection of geography and computation.
See also
Geoinformatics
Geomathematics
Geographic information system
Bibliography
Openshaw, S., and R. J. Abrahart. (1996). “Geocomputation.” In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on GeoComput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseen%20equations | In fluid dynamics, the Oseen equations (or Oseen flow) describe the flow of a viscous and incompressible fluid at small Reynolds numbers, as formulated by Carl Wilhelm Oseen in 1910. Oseen flow is an improved description of these flows, as compared to Stokes flow, with the (partial) inclusion of convective acceleration... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient%20module | In algebra, given a module and a submodule, one can construct their quotient module. This construction, described below, is very similar to that of a quotient vector space. It differs from analogous quotient constructions of rings and groups by the fact that in these cases, the subspace that is used for defining the q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashorn%20%28JavaScript%20engine%29 | Nashorn is a JavaScript engine developed in the Java programming language originally by Oracle and later by the OpenJDK Community. It relies on the support for dynamically typed languages on the Java Platform (JSR 292) (a concept first realized in the experimental Da Vinci Machine and a standard part of Java 7 and late... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervelocity | Hypervelocity is very high velocity, approximately over 3,000 meters per second (6,700 mph, 11,000 km/h, 10,000 ft/s, or Mach 8.8). In particular, hypervelocity is velocity so high that the strength of materials upon impact is very small compared to inertial stresses. Thus, metals and fluids behave alike under hypervel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board%20microcontroller | A single-board microcontroller is a microcontroller built onto a single printed circuit board. This board provides all of the circuitry necessary for a useful control task: a microprocessor, I/O circuits, a clock generator, RAM, stored program memory and any necessary support ICs. The intention is that the board is im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicidal%20ideation | Homicidal ideation is a common medical term for thoughts about homicide. There is a range of homicidal thoughts which spans from vague ideas of revenge to detailed and fully formulated plans without the act itself. Most people who have homicidal ideation do not commit homicide. 50–91% of people surveyed on university g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%27s%20method%20of%20characteristic%20set | Wenjun Wu's method is an algorithm for solving multivariate polynomial equations introduced in the late 1970s by the Chinese mathematician Wen-Tsun Wu. This method is based on the mathematical concept of characteristic set introduced in the late 1940s by J.F. Ritt. It is fully independent of the Gröbner basis method, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendelluft | Pendelluft (Derived from the German words for pendulum and air.) refers to the movement of gas between two regions of the lung, usually between regions of differing compliance or airway resistance. Pendelluft is an important physiological concept to take into account during mechanical ventilation, particularly in patie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Courtauld | Elizabeth Courtauld (1867–1947) was a pioneer British physician and anaesthetist, practising in India. She was a volunteer doctor at a field hospital run by women (Scottish Women's Hospital) close to the front line in France during the First World War.
Family and early education
Elizabeth Courtauld was the third chi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction%20debt | In ecology, extinction debt is the future extinction of species due to events in the past. The phrases dead clade walking and survival without recovery express the same idea.
Extinction debt occurs because of time delays between impacts on a species, such as 0 of habitat, and the species' ultimate disappearance. For i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDMNES | The FDMNES program calculates the spectra of different spectroscopies related to the real or virtual absorption of x-ray in material. It gives the absorption cross sections of photons around the ionization edge, that is in the energy range of XANES. The calculation is performed with all conditions of rectilinear or cir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratophyllaceae | Ceratophyllaceae is a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants including one living genus commonly found in ponds, marshes, and quiet streams in tropical and in temperate regions. It is the only extant family in the order Ceratophyllales. Species are commonly called coontails or hornworts, although hornwort is also used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androsterone%20sulfate | Androsterone sulfate, also known as 3α-hydroxy-5α-androstan-17-one 3α-sulfate, is an endogenous, naturally occurring steroid and one of the major urinary metabolites of androgens. It is a steroid sulfate which is formed from sulfation of androsterone by the steroid sulfotransferase SULT2A1 and can be desulfated back in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20Raining%2C%20It%27s%20Pouring |
"It's Raining, It's Pouring" is an English language nursery rhyme and children's song. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16814.
Origins
The first two lines of this rhyme can be found in The Little Mother Goose, published in the US in 1912. The melody is associated with "A Tisket, A Tasket" and "What Are Little... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherbird | The Weatherbird is a cartoon character and a single-panel comic. It is printed on the front of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and has been in the paper continuously since 1901, making it the longest-running American newspaper cartoon and a mascot of the newspaper.
Cartoonists
The Weatherbird, in its long run, has been dr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20modem | A satellite modem or satmodem is a modem used to establish data transfers using a communications satellite as a relay. A satellite modem's main function is to transform an input bitstream to a radio signal and vice versa.
There are some devices that include only a demodulator (and no modulator, thus only allowing dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corestriction | In mathematics, a corestriction of a function is a notion analogous to the notion of a restriction of a function. The duality prefix co- here denotes that while the restriction changes the domain to a subset, the corestriction changes the codomain to a subset. However, the notions are not categorically dual.
Given any... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne%20Hort | Joanne Hort is a New Zealand food science academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Massey University and holds the 'Fonterra Riddet Chair in Consumer and Sensory Science'.
Academic career
After a 1997 PhD titled 'Cheddar cheese : Its texture, chemical composition and rheological properties' at the Sheffi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healing | With physical trauma or disease suffered by an organism, healing involves the repairing of damaged tissue(s), organs and the biological system as a whole and resumption of (normal) functioning. Medicine includes the process by which the cells in the body regenerate and repair to reduce the size of a damaged or necrotic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpuerperal%20mastitis | The term nonpuerperal mastitis describes inflammatory lesions of the breast (mastitis) that occur unrelated to pregnancy and breastfeeding.
It is sometimes equated with duct ectasia, but other forms can be described.
Types
Duct ectasia—periductal mastitis complex
Duct ectasia in the literal sense (literally: duct w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal%20function | In mathematics, a cardinal function (or cardinal invariant) is a function that returns cardinal numbers.
Cardinal functions in set theory
The most frequently used cardinal function is a function that assigns to a set A its cardinality, denoted by | A |.
Aleph numbers and beth numbers can both be seen as cardinal f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOATA | MOATA was a 100 kW thermal Argonaut class reactor built at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (later ANSTO) Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, Sydney. MOATA went critical at 5:50am on 10 April 1961 and ended operations on 31 May 1995. MOATA was the first reactor to be decommissioned in Australia in 2009.
Ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Secretariat%20of%20Brewery%20Workers | The International Secretariat of Brewery Workers was a global union federation bringing together trade unions representing workers in breweries and mills which processed grains for brewing.
History
The first international conference of brewery workers' trade unions was held in London in 1896, and it agreed to set up a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Framework | Robot Framework is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). It is a keyword-driven testing framework that uses tabular test data syntax.
History
The basic ideas for Robot Framework were shaped in Pekka Klärck's masters thesis in 2005. The first version ... |
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