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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-j%20symbol | In physics, Wigner's 9-j symbols were introduced by Eugene Paul Wigner in 1937. They are related to recoupling coefficients in quantum mechanics involving four angular momenta
Recoupling of four angular momentum vectors
Coupling of two angular momenta and is the construction of simultaneous eigenfunctions of and , ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64 | In computing on Microsoft platforms, WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit) is a subsystem of the Windows operating system capable of running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows. It is included in all 64-bit versions of Windows—including Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, IA-64 and x64 versions of Windows Server ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20%C3%97%20centifolia | Rosa × centifolia (lit. hundred leaved rose; syn. R. gallica var. centifolia (L.) Regel), the Provence rose, cabbage rose or Rose de Mai, is a hybrid rose developed by Dutch breeders in the period between the 17th century and the 19th century, possibly earlier.
History
Its parentage includes Rosa × damascena, but it m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNP%20world | The RNP world is a hypothesized intermediate period in the origin of life characterized by the existence of ribonucleoproteins. The period followed the hypothesized RNA world and ended with the formation of DNA and contemporary proteins. In the RNP world, RNA molecules began to synthesize peptides. These would eventual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleandrin | Oleandrin is a cardiac glycoside found in the poisonous plant oleander (Nerium oleander L.). As a main phytochemical of oleander, oleandrin is associated with the toxicity of oleander sap, and has similar properties to digoxin.
Oleander has been used in traditional medicine for its presumed therapeutic purposes, such ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Dispatch%20Protocol | The Media Dispatch Protocol (MDP) was developed by the Pro-MPEG Media Dispatch Group to provide an open standard for secure, automated, and tapeless delivery of audio, video and associated data files. Such files typically range from low-resolution content for the web to HDTV and high-resolution digital intermediate fil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside-pentoside-hexuronide%3Acation%20symporter%20family | The Glycoside-Pentoside-Hexuronide (GPH):Cation Symporter Family is part of the major facilitator superfamily and catalyzes uptake of sugars (mostly, but not exclusively, glycosides) in symport with a monovalent cation (H+ or Na+). The various members of the family have been reported to use Na+, H+ or Li, Na+ or Li+, o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row%20and%20column%20spaces | In linear algebra, the column space (also called the range or image) of a matrix A is the span (set of all possible linear combinations) of its column vectors. The column space of a matrix is the image or range of the corresponding matrix transformation.
Let be a field. The column space of an matrix with components ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motty | Motty (11 July – 21 July 1978) was the only proven hybrid between an Asian and an African elephant. The male calf was born in Chester Zoo, to Asian mother Sheba and African father Jumbolino. He was named after George Mottershead, who founded the Chester Zoo in 1931.
Appearance
Motty's head and ears were morphologicall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qizha | Qizha (Arabic قزحة qizḥaẗ, pronounced ʼɛzḥa in Palestine) is a black seed paste used in Palestinian cuisine. Made from crushed nigella seeds, the paste has a sharp, bitter taste with slight tones of sweetness. The paste can be used with other condiments, such as tahini, or baked into pies, breads, and pastries.
Produc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo%20hashing | Cuckoo hashing is a scheme in computer programming for resolving hash collisions of values of hash functions in a table, with worst-case constant lookup time. The name derives from the behavior of some species of cuckoo, where the cuckoo chick pushes the other eggs or young out of the nest when it hatches in a variatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceMeter | SourceMeter is a source code analyzer tool, which can perform deep static program analysis of the source code of complex programs in C, C++, Java, Python, C#, and RPG (AS/400). FrontEndART has developed SourceMeter based on the Columbus technology researched and developed at the Department of Software Engineering of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility%20maximization%20problem | Utility maximization was first developed by utilitarian philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. In microeconomics, the utility maximization problem is the problem consumers face: "How should I spend my money in order to maximize my utility?" It is a type of optimal decision problem. It consists of choosing ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korringa%E2%80%93Kohn%E2%80%93Rostoker%20method | The Korringa–Kohn–Rostoker (KKR) method is used to calculate the electronic band structure of periodic solids. In the derivation of the method using multiple scattering theory by Jan Korringa and the derivation based on the Kohn and Rostoker variational method, the muffin-tin approximation was used. Later calculations ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spongin | Spongin, a modified type of collagen protein, forms the fibrous skeleton of most organisms among the phylum Porifera, the sponges. It is secreted by sponge cells known as spongocytes.
Spongin gives a sponge its flexibility. True spongin is found only in members of the class Demospongiae.
Research directions
Use in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Delivery%20Index | The Media Delivery Index (MDI) is a set of measures that can be used to monitor both the quality of a delivered video stream as well as to show system margin for IPTV systems by providing an accurate measurement of jitter and delay at network level (Internet Protocol, IP), which are the main causes for quality loss. Id... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20Electronics | Nature Electronics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established in 2018. The editor-in-chief is Owain Vaughan.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Science Citation Index Expanded
Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the jo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam | Steam is a substance containing water in the gas phase, and sometimes also an aerosol of liquid water droplets, or air. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization. Steam that is saturated or superheated (water vapor) is invisible; however,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planking%20%28fad%29 | Planking (or the Lying Down Game) is an activity consisting of lying in a face down position, sometimes in an unusual or incongruous location. The palms of the hands are typically touching the sides of the body and the toes are typically touching the ground. Some players compete to find the most unusual and original lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic%20cartilage | Elastic cartilage, fibroelastic cartilage or yellow fibrocartilage is a type of cartilage present in the pinnae (auricles) of the ear giving it shape, provides shape for the lateral region of the external auditory meatus, medial part of the auditory canal Eustachian tube, corniculate and cuneiform laryneal cartilages,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity%20set | In measure theory, a branch of mathematics, a continuity set of a measure μ is any Borel set B such that
where is the (topological) boundary of B. For signed measures, one asks that
The class of all continuity sets for given measure μ forms a ring.
Similarly, for a random variable X, a set B is called continu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%207064 | ISO/IEC 7064 is a standard promulgated by the International Standards Organization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) that defines algorithms for calculating check digit characters. The checks should be applicable to alphanumeric strings and should be able to detect all single substitution errors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter%20%28zoology%29 | A litter is the live birth of multiple offspring at one time in animals from the same mother and usually from one set of parents, particularly from three to eight offspring. The word is most often used for the offspring of mammals, but can be used for any animal that gives birth to multiple young. In comparison, a grou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20random%20number%20generators | Random number generators are important in many kinds of technical applications, including physics, engineering or mathematical computer studies (e.g., Monte Carlo simulations), cryptography and gambling (on game servers).
This list includes many common types, regardless of quality or applicability to a given use case.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone%20resorption | Bone resorption is resorption of bone tissue, that is, the process by which osteoclasts break down the tissue in bones and release the minerals, resulting in a transfer of calcium from bone tissue to the blood.
The osteoclasts are multi-nucleated cells that contain numerous mitochondria and lysosomes. These are the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20pharyngeal%20constrictor%20muscle | The inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle is a skeletal muscle of the neck. It is the thickest of the three outer pharyngeal muscles. It arises from the sides of the cricoid cartilage and the thyroid cartilage. It is supplied by the vagus nerve (CN X). It is active during swallowing, and partially during breathing and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatics%20Inc. | Chromatics Inc. was a color graphics display manufacturer based in Tucker, Georgia. Their systems predated the personal computer era of inexpensive graphics displays, and were typically used as peripheral devices, connected to a mainframe or minicomputer. In some configurations, a Chromatics graphics terminal could be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedling | A seedling is a young sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed. Seedling development starts with germination of the seed. A typical young seedling consists of three main parts: the radicle (embryonic root), the hypocotyl (embryonic shoot), and the cotyledons (seed leaves). The two classes of flowering pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GGDEF%20domain | In molecular biology, the GGDEF domain is a protein domain which appears to be ubiquitous in bacteria and is often linked to a regulatory domain, such as a phosphorylation receiver or oxygen sensing domain. Its function is to act as a diguanylate cyclase and synthesize cyclic di-GMP, which is used as an intracellular s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiome | The physiome of an individual's or species' physiological state is the description of its functional behavior. The physiome describes the physiological dynamics of the normal intact organism and is built upon information and
structure (genome, proteome, and morphome). The term comes from "physio-" (nature) and "-ome" (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary%20operation | In mathematics, a unary operation is an operation with only one operand, i.e. a single input. This is in contrast to binary operations, which use two operands. An example is any function , where is a set. The function is a unary operation on .
Common notations are prefix notation (e.g. ¬, −), postfix notation (e.g. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%27s%20Disease%20Society%20of%20America | The Huntington's Disease Society of America is a US non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of those affected by Huntington's disease, an incurable, genetically transmitted degenerative disease of the nervous system that affects movement, thinking, and some aspects of personality.
The Huntington's Dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20moving%20asymptotes | The Method of Moving Asymptotes (MMA) is an optimization algorithm developed by Krister Svanberg in the 1980s. It's primarily used for solving non-linear programming problems, particularly those related to structural design and topology optimization.
History
MMA was introduced by Krister Svanberg in a 1987 paper titl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecanorine%20lichen | A lichen has lecanorine fruiting body parts if they are shaped like a plate with a ring around them, and that ring is made of tissue similar to the main non-fruiting body part of the lichen. The name comes from the name of the lichen genus Lecanora, whose members have such apothecia. If a lichen has lecanorine apotheci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20sandwich%20problem | In graph theory and computer science, the graph sandwich problem is a problem of finding a graph that belongs to a particular family of graphs and is "sandwiched" between two other graphs, one of which must be a subgraph and the other of which must be a supergraph of the desired graph.
Graph sandwich problems generali... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20thermal%20shift%20assay | CEllular Thermal Shift Assay (CETSA®) is a patented label free chemoproteomics method that has enabled measurements of compound target engagement in intact cells and tissue, without modifications to the target protein. This is accomplished by comparing the measured cellular thermal stability of the protein in the prese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Milnor | John Willard Milnor (born February 20, 1931) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and one of the five mathematicians to have won the Fields Medal, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrosquamous%20suture | The petrosquamous suture is a cranial suture between the petrous portion and the squama of the temporal bone. It forms the Koerner's septum. The petrous portion forms the medial component of the osseous margin, while the squama forms the lateral component. The anterolateral portion (squama) arises from the mesenchyme ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINDO | LINDO (Linear, Interactive, and Discrete Optimizer) is a software package for linear programming, integer programming, nonlinear programming, stochastic programming and global optimization.
Today, LINDO solvers are part of LINDO API (Application Programming Interface) a set of software libraries that can be called fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20drip%20line | The nuclear drip line is the boundary beyond which atomic nuclei are unbound with respect to the emission of a proton or neutron.
An arbitrary combination of protons and neutrons does not necessarily yield a stable nucleus. One can think of moving up or to the right across the table of nuclides by adding a proton or a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor-Am%C3%A9d%C3%A9e%20Lebesgue | Victor-Amédée Lebesgue, sometimes written Le Besgue, (2 October 1791, Grandvilliers (Oise) – 10 June 1875, Bordeaux (Gironde)) was a mathematician working on number theory. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences in 1847.
See also
Catalan's conjecture
Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for specific expone... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyspermy | In biology, polyspermy describes the fertilization of an egg by more than one sperm. Diploid organisms normally contain two copies of each chromosome, one from each parent. The cell resulting from polyspermy, on the other hand, contains three or more copies of each chromosome—one from the egg and one each from multiple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite%20experiment | In experimental physics, and particularly in high energy and nuclear physics, a parasite experiment or parasitic experiment is an experiment performed using a big particle accelerator or other large facility, without interfering with the scheduled experiments of that facility. This allows the experimenters to proceed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unraid | Unraid is a proprietary Linux-based operating system designed to run on home media server setups that operates as a network-attached storage device, application server, and virtualization host. Unraid is proprietary software developed and maintained by Lime Technology, Inc. Users of the software are encouraged to write... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20Pythagorean%20theorem | In geometry, the inverse Pythagorean theorem (also known as the reciprocal Pythagorean theorem or the upside down Pythagorean theorem) is as follows:
Let , be the endpoints of the hypotenuse of a right triangle . Let be the foot of a perpendicular dropped from , the vertex of the right angle, to the hypotenuse. Then... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeman%20effect | The Zeeman effect (; ) is the effect of splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of a static magnetic field. It is named after the Dutch physicist Pieter Zeeman, who discovered it in 1896 and received a Nobel prize for this discovery. It is analogous to the Stark effect, the splitting of a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6 | 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number.
In mathematics
Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number. It is the second smallest composite number after four, equal to the sum and the product of its th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deception%20in%20animals | Deception in animals is the transmission of misinformation by one animal to another, of the same or different species, in a way that propagates beliefs that are not true.
Mimicry and camouflage enable animals to appear to be other than they are. Prey animals may appear as predators, or vice versa; both predators and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovine%20gammaherpesvirus%202 | Ovine gammaherpesvirus 2 (OvHV-2) is a species of virus in the genus Macavirus, subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet%20and%20Nutrition%20Association | The Diet and Nutrition Association (, KOST) is a trade union representing nutritionists and people in related jobs, in Denmark.
The union was founded in 1923, as the Food Economists' Association, and adopted its current name in 2005. Long a member of the Confederation of Professionals in Denmark, since 2019 it has be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation%20of%20trigonometric%20functions | The differentiation of trigonometric functions is the mathematical process of finding the derivative of a trigonometric function, or its rate of change with respect to a variable. For example, the derivative of the sine function is written sin′(a) = cos(a), meaning that the rate of change of sin(x) at a particular angl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi%20Transistorised%20Automatic%20Computer | The Marconi Transistorized Automatic Computer was the first all-transistor computer built by Britain's Marconi Company. It was designed and manufactured from around 1959.
The computer employed germanium transistors which by this time were sufficiently reliable in room temperatures kept below about 23 degrees C. The ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mevalonate%20kinase | Mevalonate kinase is an enzyme (specifically a kinase) that in humans is encoded by the MVK gene. Mevalonate kinases are found in a wide variety of organisms from bacteria to mammals. This enzyme catalyzes the following reaction:
.
Function
Mevalonate is a key intermediate, and mevalonate kinase a key early enzym... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd%20number%20theorem | The odd number theorem is a theorem in strong gravitational lensing which comes directly from differential topology.
The theorem states that the number of multiple images produced by a bounded transparent lens must be odd.
Formulation
The gravitational lensing is a thought to mapped from what's known as image plane ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successor%20cardinal | In set theory, one can define a successor operation on cardinal numbers in a similar way to the successor operation on the ordinal numbers. The cardinal successor coincides with the ordinal successor for finite cardinals, but in the infinite case they diverge because every infinite ordinal and its successor have the sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20propagation | Plant propagation is the process by which new plants grow from various sources, including seeds, cuttings, and other plant parts. Plant propagation can refer to both man-made or natural dispersal of seeds.
Propagation typically occurs as a step in the overall cycle of plant growth. For seeds, it happens after ripening... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birnenhonig | Birnenhonig () is a syrup made from pears in central Switzerland. In North America it is known as Pear Butter. It is very similar to the Belgian spread sirop de Liège.
Production
The pears are boiled and then pressed to obtain juice. The liquid is then heated for six to seven hours. The end product is sweet, opaque, c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-sequential%20color%20system | A field-sequential color system (FSC) is a color television system in which the primary color information is transmitted in successive images and which relies on the human vision system to fuse the successive images into a color picture. One field-sequential system was developed by Peter Goldmark for CBS, which was its... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique%20ridges%20of%20scapula | The oblique ridges cross the subscapular fossa from superomedial to inferiolateral (parallel to scapular spine). These ridges are formed by intramuscular tendons of the subscapularis muscle.
The costal or ventral surface of the scapula presents a broad concavity, the subscapular fossa. The medial two-thirds of the fos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington%20number | In astrophysics, the Eddington number, , is the number of protons in the observable universe. Eddington originally calculated it as about ; current estimates make it approximately .
The term is named for British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington, who in 1940 was the first to propose a value of and to explain why this n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%2C%20Truth%2C%20and%20Logic | Language, Truth and Logic is a 1936 book about meaning by the philosopher Alfred Jules Ayer, in which the author defines, explains, and argues for the verification principle of logical positivism, sometimes referred to as the criterion of significance or criterion of meaning. Ayer explains how the principle of verifiab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20only%20mode | Blue Only mode is a special display mode on display units such as projectors and television sets whereby only the blue pixels or the blue cathode ray tube is used to generate the image.
Displays featuring this mode are prominent especially in the broadcast area because it allows for hue and saturation to be adjusted q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20infective%20dose | The concept of a minimal infective dose (MID), also known as the infectious dose, has traditionally been used for infectious bacteria that contaminate foods. MID was defined as the number of bacteria ingested (the dose) from which a pathology is observed in the consumer. Examples such as this are found in textbooks: to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%20trace%20theorem | In functional analysis, the Grothendieck trace theorem is an extension of Lidskii's theorem about the trace and the determinant of a certain class of nuclear operators on Banach spaces, the so-called -nuclear operators. The theorem was proven in 1955 by Alexander Grothendieck. Lidskii's theorem does not hold in general... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarity%20system%20of%20triangles | A similarity system of triangles is a specific configuration involving a set of triangles. A set of triangles is considered a configuration when all of the triangles share a minimum of one incidence relation with one of the other triangles present in the set. An incidence relation between triangles refers to when two t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous%20communication%20mechanism | The role of an asynchronous communication mechanism (ACM) is to synchronize the transfer of data in a system between a writing process and a reading process operating concurrently.
Description
The mechanism by which the ACM performs its tasks varies heavily depending upon the situation in which the ACM is employed. A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders%20of%20magnitude%20%28power%29 | This page lists examples of the power in watts produced by various sources of energy. They are grouped by orders of magnitude from small to large.
Below 1 W
1 to 102 W
103 to 108 W
The productive capacity of electrical generators operated by utility companies is often measured in MW. Few things can sustain the tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadboard | A breadboard, solderless breadboard, or protoboard is a construction base used to build semi-permanent prototypes of electronic circuits. Unlike a perfboard or stripboard, breadboards do not require soldering or destruction of tracks and are hence reusable. For this reason, breadboards are also popular with students an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSavers | DriveSavers, Inc. is a computer hardware data recovery, digital forensics and electronic discovery firm located in Novato, California. It was founded by CEO Jay Hagan and former company President Scott Gaidano in 1985.
History
In 1985, former Jasmine Technologies executives Jay Hagan and Scott Gaidano founded DriveSav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Sandy%3A%20Coming%20Together | Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together was a one-hour, commercial-free benefit concert television special that aired simulcast in the United States on November 2, 2012 at 8 p.m. ET/CT live from New York City and tape delayed MT and PT. The special raised money for the relief efforts from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEX%20%28computing%29 | In computing, the SEX assembly language mnemonic has often been used for the "Sign EXtend" machine instruction found in the Motorola 6809. A computer's or CPU's "sex" can also mean the endianness of the computer architecture used. x86 computers do not have the same "byte sex" as HC11 computers, for example. Functions a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Nigeria | The flag of Nigeria was designed in 1959 and first officially hoisted on 1 October 1960.
The flag has three vertical bands of green, white, green. The two
green stripes represent natural wealth, and the white represents peace and unity.
Design
The flag is an adaptation of the winning entry from Michael Taiwo Akinkun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20collecting | Plant collecting is the acquisition of plant specimens for the purposes of research, cultivation, or as a hobby. Plant specimens may be kept alive, but are more commonly dried and pressed to preserve the quality of the specimen. Plant collecting is an ancient practice with records of a Chinese botanist collecting roses... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20semigroup | In mathematics, a regular semigroup is a semigroup S in which every element is regular, i.e., for each element a in S there exists an element x in S such that . Regular semigroups are one of the most-studied classes of semigroups, and their structure is particularly amenable to study via Green's relations.
History
R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20ribbon | The red ribbon, as an awareness ribbon, is used as the symbol for the solidarity of people living with HIV/AIDS, and for the awareness and prevention of drug abuse and drunk driving. In Canada the red ribbon represents Canadians with Multiple Sclerosis.
Awareness symbol
The red ribbon is a symbol for Multiple Scleros... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT%20risk%20management | IT risk management is the application of risk management methods to information technology in order to manage IT risk, i.e.:
The business risk associated with the use, ownership, operation, involvement, influence and adoption of IT within an enterprise or organization
IT risk management can be considered a component o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal%20Alpha%20Numeric%20Encoding%20Technique | The Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique (PLANET) barcode was used by the United States Postal Service to identify and track pieces of mail during delivery - the Post Office's "CONFIRM" services. It was fully superseded by Intelligent Mail Barcode by January 28, 2013.
Barcode
A PLANET barcode appears either 12 or 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal%20immunomodulatory%20protein | Fungal immunomodulatory proteins (FIPs) are a type of functional compound (other compounds include polysaccharides and triterpenoids) found in various species of fungi. FIPs are part of the immunoglobulin (ig) family, which are structurally similar to human antibodies, and can interact with human peripheral blood monon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, an invariant is a property of a mathematical object (or a class of mathematical objects) which remains unchanged after operations or transformations of a certain type are applied to the objects. The particular class of objects and type of transformations are usually indicated by the context in which the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal%20distillate | Herbal distillates, also known as floral waters, hydrosols, hydrolates, herbal waters, and essential waters, are aqueous products of hydrodistillation. They are colloidal suspensions of essential oils as well as water-soluble components obtained by steam distillation or hydrodistillation (a variant of steam distillatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative%20prospect%20theory | Cumulative prospect theory (CPT) is a model for descriptive decisions under risk and uncertainty which was introduced by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in 1992 (Tversky, Kahneman, 1992). It is a further development and variant of prospect theory. The difference between this version and the original version of prospe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotomic%20unit | In mathematics, a cyclotomic unit (or circular unit) is a unit of an algebraic number field which is the product of numbers of the form (ζ − 1) for ζ an nth root of unity and 0 < a < n.
Properties
The cyclotomic units form a subgroup of finite index in the group of units of a cyclotomic field. The index of this subgr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine%20partition | Guillotine partition is the process of partitioning a rectilinear polygon, possibly containing some holes, into rectangles, using only guillotine-cuts. A guillotine-cut (also called an edge-to-edge cut) is a straight bisecting line going from one edge of an existing polygon to the opposite edge, similarly to a paper gu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection%20curve | In geometry, an intersection curve is a curve that is common to two geometric objects. In the simplest case, the intersection of two non-parallel planes in Euclidean 3-space is a line. In general, an intersection curve consists of the common points of two transversally intersecting surfaces, meaning that at any common ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Brown%20%28botanist%2C%20born%201773%29 | Robert Brown (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. His contributions include one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming; the observation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewar%20reactivity%20number | In Hückel theory, a Dewar reactivity number, also known as Dewar number, is a measure of the reactivity in aromatic systems. It is used to quantify the difference in energy between the π-system of the original molecule and the intermediate having the incoming electrophile or nucleophile attached. It can be used to stud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus%20II%20Bernoulli | Nicolaus II Bernoulli (also spelled as Niklaus or Nikolaus; 6 February 1695 in Basel – 31 July 1726 in Saint Petersburg) was a Swiss mathematician as were his father Johann Bernoulli and one of his brothers, Daniel Bernoulli. He was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
Work
Nicolaus work... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20of%20Shop%2C%20Distributive%20and%20Allied%20Workers | The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is a trade union in the United Kingdom, consisting of over 360,000 members. Usdaw members work in a variety of occupations and industries including: shopworkers, factory and warehouse workers, drivers, call centres, clerical workers, milkround and dairy process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-ring | In mathematics, and more specifically in abstract algebra, a pseudo-ring is one of the following variants of a ring:
A rng, i.e., a structure satisfying all the axioms of a ring except for the existence of a multiplicative identity.
A set R with two binary operations + and ⋅ such that is an abelian group with ident... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Gate | Tommy Gate is an American brand of hydraulic liftgate, or tail lift, manufactured by Woodbine Manufacturing Company. The company was formed in 1965 by Delbert "Bus" Brown and its production facility is located in Woodbine, Iowa.
History
Prior to founding Woodbine Manufacturing Company, Delbert Brown manufactured farmi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StaDyn%20%28programming%20language%29 | StaDyn is an object-oriented general-purpose programming language for the .NET platform that supports both static and dynamic typing in the same programming language.
The StaDyn compiler gathers type information for the dynamically typed code. That type information is used to detect type errors at compilation time and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen | Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction. It consists of pollen grains (highly reduced microgametophytes), which produce male gametes (sperm cells). Pollen grains have a hard coat made of sporopollenin that protects the gametophytes during the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fader%20creep | Fader creep is a colloquial term used in audio recording to describe a tendency for sound engineers to raise the gain of individual channels on a mixing console, rather than lowering others to achieve the desired change in the mix.
Results of creeping
As a result, the faders (potentiometers that operate by sliding up ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banks%E2%80%93Zaks%20fixed%20point | In quantum chromodynamics (and also N = 1 super quantum chromodynamics) with massless flavors, if the number of flavors, Nf, is sufficiently small (i.e. small enough to guarantee asymptotic freedom, depending on the number of colors), the theory can flow to an interacting conformal fixed point of the renormalization gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lira%20512 | Lira 512 (also known as Lira XT) was an IBM PC XT compatible computer made by the Yugoslav (now Serbian) company EI Niš in the late 1980s. It was first presented to the public in April 1988 at the “Kompjuter ‘88” computer show in Belgrade. Soon after that, Lira 512 was also presented in Yugoslav computer press.
What s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax%20SX | Parallax SX is a discontinued line of microcontrollers that was marketed by Parallax, from a design by Ubicom. Designed to be architecturally similar to the PIC microcontrollers used in the original versions of the BASIC Stamp, SX microcontrollers replaced the PIC in several subsequent versions of that product.
Produc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima%20%28song%29 | "Hiroshima" is an anti-war song performed by British band Wishful Thinking, written by David Morgan and produced by Lou Reizner, which tells about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The track was recorded at the Chappell Recording Studios in London in 1970. It was first released in 1971 as a single from their album of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20tube%20defect | Neural tube defects (NTDs) are a group of birth defects in which an opening in the spine or cranium remains from early in human development. In the third week of pregnancy called gastrulation, specialized cells on the dorsal side of the embryo begin to change shape and form the neural tube. When the neural tube does no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionotropic%20glutamate%20receptor | Ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) are ligand-gated ion channels that are activated by the neurotransmitter glutamate. They mediate the majority of excitatory synaptic transmission throughout the central nervous system and are key players in synaptic plasticity, which is important for learning and memory. iGluRs h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CenterPOS%20Malware | CenterPOS (also known as "Cerebrus") is a point of sale (POS) malware discovered Cyber Security Experts. It was discovered in September 2015 along with other kinds of POS malware, such as NewPOSThings, BlackPOS, and Alina. There are two versions which have been released by the developer responsible: version 1.7 and ver... |
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