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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponni%20rice | Ponni rice is a variety of rice developed by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in 1986. It is widely cultivated in Tamil Nadu, a state in India and is a hybrid variety of Taichung 65 and Myang Ebos 6080/2. Since the Kaveri River is also called 'Ponni' in Tamil literature, the rice could have been named after the river... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spending%20wave | In the economics of demography, the term spending wave refers to the economic effect of departure of children from the home. When a society experiences a high level of such family change then an economic decline follows from reduced spending overall.
Example
For example, in U.S. contemporary economics, Harry Dent, a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Colombian%20flags | This is a list of flags used in Colombia. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Colombia.
National flags
Presidential standards
Military
Army
Navy
Air Force
Police
Civil Ensign
Departments
Municipalities
Political flags
Ethnic groups flags
Historical Flags
Flag Proposal
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivid%20designator | In modal logic and the philosophy of language, a vivid designator is a term which is believed to designate the same thing in all possible worlds and nothing else where such an object does not exist in a possible world. It is the analogue, in the sense of believing, of a rigid designator, which is (refers to) the same i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doignon%27s%20theorem | Doignon's theorem in geometry is an analogue of Helly's theorem for the integer lattice. It states that, if a family of convex sets in Euclidean space have the property that the intersection of every contains an integer point, then the intersection of all of the sets contains an integer point. Therefore, integer lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Ageing%20Survey | The German Ageing Survey (DEAS) is a main source of information about ageing and old age as a stage of life in Germany. It is a nationally representative, cross-sectional and longitudinal survey of people in the second half of life (i. e. aged 40 and over).
The comprehensive study of people in their mid- and older adul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile%20Service%20Engine | Versatile Service Engine is a second generation IP Multimedia Subsystem developed by Nortel Networks that is compliant with Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture specifications. Nortel's versatile service engine provides capability to telecommunication service provider to
offer global System for mobile co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowing%20Plant%20project | The Glowing Plant project was the first crowdfunding campaign for a synthetic biology application. The project was started by the Sunnyvale-based hackerspace Biocurious as part of the DIYbio philosophy. According to the project's goals, funds were used to create a glowing Arabidopsis thaliana plant using firefly lumine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20system | A hybrid system is a dynamical system that exhibits both continuous and discrete dynamic behavior – a system that can both flow (described by a differential equation) and jump (described by a state machine or automaton). Often, the term "hybrid dynamical system" is used, to distinguish over hybrid systems such as those... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Entertainment%20Content%20Ecosystem | The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE, LLC.) was a consortium of major film studios, consumer electronics manufacturers and retailers, networking hardware vendors, systems integrators, and Digital Rights Management (DRM) vendors listed below. The consortium was announced in September 2008 by its president, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordonia%20%28bacterium%29 | Gordonia is a genus of gram-positive, aerobic, catalase-positive bacterium in the Actinomycetota, closely related to the Rhodococcus, Mycobacterium, Skermania, and Nocardia genera. Gordonia bacteria are aerobic, motile, and non-sporulating. Gordonia is from the same lineage that includes Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty%20Sullivan | Betty Julia Sullivan (31 May 1902 — 25 December 1999) was an American biochemist between the 1920s and 1940s at Russell Miller Milling Company. In 1947, Sullivan began her executive career as research director and vice-president for Russell Miller until the company became part of Peavey Company in 1958. After the merge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Skladanowsky | Max Skladanowsky (30 April 1863 – 30 November 1939) was a German inventor and early filmmaker. Along with his brother Emil, he invented the Bioscop, an early movie projector the Skladanowsky brothers used to display a moving picture show to a paying audience on 1 November 1895, shortly before the public debut of the Lu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20mesenteric%20lymph%20nodes | The superior mesenteric lymph nodes may be divided into three principal groups:
mesenteric lymph nodes
ileocolic lymph nodes
mesocolic lymph nodes
Structure
Mesenteric lymph nodes
The mesenteric lymph nodes or mesenteric glands are one of the three principal groups of superior mesenteric lymph nodes and lie betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placental%20cotyledon | The placenta of humans, and certain other mammals contains structures known as cotyledons, which transmit fetal blood and allow exchange of oxygen and nutrients with the maternal blood.
Ruminants
The Artiodactyla have a cotyledonary placenta. In this form of placenta the chorionic villi form a number of separate circ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assured%20Food%20Standards | Assured Food Standards is a United Kingdom company which licenses the Red Tractor quality mark, a farm assurance programme for food products, animal feed and fertiliser. The scheme is subject to frequent media scrutiny because of the systematic and routine animal abuse that happens at Red Tractor assured farms and is p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%20hoc%20testing | Ad hoc testing is a commonly used term for planned software testing that is performed without initial test case documentation; however, ad hoc testing can also be applied to other scientific research and quality control efforts. Ad hoc tests are useful for adding additional confidence to a resulting product or process,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus%20pinetorum | Boletus pinetorum is an edible bolete fungus generally found in Fennoscandia. It was described as a new species in 2009 from a collection made in Finland. It resembles the popular Boletus edulis but is distinct from that species genetically. Fruitbodies of B. pinetorum have greyish brown caps with wrinkled margins. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Grid%20Services%20Architecture | Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) describes a service-oriented architecture for a grid computing environment for business and scientific use.
It was developed within the Open Grid Forum, which was called the Global Grid Forum (GGF) at the time, around 2002 to 2006.
Description
OGSA is a distributed interaction an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent%20aura%20without%20infarction | Persistent aura without infarction (PAWOI) is a rare and seemingly benign condition, first described in case reports in 1982 as "prolonged/persistent migraine aura status", and in 2000 as "migraine aura status", that is not yet fully understood. PAWOI is said to possibly be a factor involved in a variety of neurologic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverter%20%28logic%20gate%29 | In digital logic, an inverter or NOT gate is a logic gate which implements logical negation. It outputs a bit opposite of the bit that is put into it. The bits are typically implemented as two differing voltage levels.
Description
The NOT gate outputs a zero when given a one, and a one when given a zero. Hence, it in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonsound | Moonsound is the name of a sound card released for the MSX home-computer system at the Tilburg Computer Fair in 1995. It was designed by electronic engineer Henrik Gilvad and produced by Sunrise Swiss on a semi-hobby basis.
It arrived after the US branch of Microsoft abandoned the MSX system, instead focusing on the I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20oriented%20software%20development | Information Oriented Software Development is a software development methodology focused on working with information inside a computer program as opposed to working with just data. A significant difference exists between data and information. Information Oriented Software Development relies on data structures specifical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative%20trait%20locus | A quantitative trait locus (QTL) is a locus (section of DNA) that correlates with variation of a quantitative trait in the phenotype of a population of organisms. QTLs are mapped by identifying which molecular markers (such as SNPs or AFLPs) correlate with an observed trait. This is often an early step in identifying t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20tree | Attack trees are conceptual diagrams showing how an asset, or target, might be attacked. Attack trees have been used in a variety of applications. In the field of information technology, they have been used to describe threats on computer systems and possible attacks to realize those threats. However, their use is no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EISPACK | EISPACK is a software library for numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, written in FORTRAN. It contains subroutines for calculating the eigenvalues of nine classes of matrices: complex general, complex Hermitian, real general, real symmetric, real symmetric banded, real symmetric tridiagon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prasad%20V.%20Tetali | Prasad V. Tetali is an Indian-American mathematician and computer scientist who works as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His research concerns probability theory, discrete mathematics, and approximation algorithms.
Tetali was born in Visakhapatnam, India but is now a United States citizen. He graduated from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20H%C3%A9lein | Frédéric Hélein (born 22 April 1963) is a French mathematician. He is university professor at Paris Diderot University.
Hélein earned his doctorate at École polytechnique under supervision of Jean-Michel Coron. In 1998 Hélein was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. He won the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuiyousphaeridium | Shuiyousphaeridium is an extinct genus of acritarch discovered in 1993. Dated to 1.8Ga, it represents one of the earliest fossil eukaryote taxa. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Ball%20%28detector%29 | The Crystal Ball was a hermetic particle detector used initially with the SPEAR particle accelerator at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center beginning in 1979. It was designed to detect neutral particles and was used to discover the ηc meson. Its central section was a spark chamber surrounded by a nearly-complete s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow%20escape%20problem | The narrow escape problem is a ubiquitous problem in biology, biophysics and cellular biology.
The mathematical formulation is the following: a Brownian particle (ion, molecule, or protein) is confined to a bounded domain (a compartment or a cell) by a reflecting boundary, except for a small window through which it ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20%CE%B2-Dihydroprogesterone | 20β-Dihydroprogesterone (20β-DHP), also known as 20β-hydroxyprogesterone (20β-OHP), is an endogenous metabolite of progesterone which is formed by 20β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (20β-HSD). It is a progestogen similarly to progesterone, with about 20 to 50% of the progestogenic activity of progesterone. It can be conv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barium%20borate | Barium borate is an inorganic compound, a borate of barium with a chemical formula BaB2O4 or Ba(BO2)2. It is available as a hydrate or dehydrated form, as white powder or colorless crystals. The crystals exist in the high-temperature α phase and low-temperature β phase, abbreviated as BBO; both phases are birefringent,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%20kernel | In mathematics, and specifically in potential theory, the Poisson kernel is an integral kernel, used for solving the two-dimensional Laplace equation, given Dirichlet boundary conditions on the unit disk. The kernel can be understood as the derivative of the Green's function for the Laplace equation. It is named for Si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell%20order | In mathematical set theory, the Mitchell order is a well-founded preorder on the set of normal measures on a measurable cardinal κ. It is named for William Mitchell. We say that M ◅ N (this is a strict order) if M is in the ultrapower model defined by N. Intuitively, this means that M is a weaker measure than N (note, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbleweed | A tumbleweed is a structural part of the above-ground anatomy of a number of species of plants. It is a diaspore that, once mature and dry, detaches from its root or stem and rolls due to the force of the wind. In most such species, the tumbleweed is in effect the entire plant apart from the root system, but in other p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotfernrohr%207 | The Carl Zeiss Lotfernrohr 7 (Lot meant "Vertical" and Fernrohr meant "Telescope"), or Lotfe 7, was the primary series of bombsights used in most Luftwaffe level bombers, similar to the United States' Norden bombsight, but much simpler to operate and maintain. Several models were produced and eventually completely repl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological%20gradient | In mathematical morphology and digital image processing, a morphological gradient is the difference between the dilation and the erosion of a given image. It is an image where each pixel value (typically non-negative) indicates the contrast intensity in the close neighborhood of that pixel. It is useful for edge detect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmanu | Parmanu is an Indian superhero published by Raj Comics His super powers include splitting into atoms and flying to travel from one place to other and to reduce or increase his own size. The character is inspired from Atom. Parmanu got killed in akhiri series by blasting himself in space to save earth.
Fictional Charac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31st%20meridian%20east | The meridian 31° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Turkey, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 31st meridian east forms a great circle with the 149th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-evolving%20block%20decimation | The time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) algorithm is a numerical scheme used to simulate one-dimensional quantum many-body systems, characterized by at most nearest-neighbour interactions. It is dubbed Time-evolving Block Decimation because it dynamically identifies the relevant low-dimensional Hilbert subspaces of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional%20neural%20network | Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a regularized type of feed-forward neural network that learns feature engineering by itself via filters (or kernel) optimization. Vanishing gradients and exploding gradients, seen during backpropagation in earlier neural networks, are prevented by using regularized weights over few... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autospore | An autospore is a non-motile (non-flagellated) aplanospore that is produced within a parent cell, and has the same shape as the parent cell, before release. Autospores, in addition to zoospore and aplanospore, are one of the three types of spores that algae use to reproduce and spread asexually. Autospores occur in se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20multi-coloured%20composite | A mobile multi-coloured composite (MMCC) is a two dimensional coloured barcode designed to distribute media via traditional print media, without the need for network connectivity. MMCC barcodes are designed to be scanned with ordinary camera-phones (from VGA resolution onward).
MMCC is being developed at Edith Cowan U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20numbers%20in%20the%20Americas | All countries in the Americas use codes that start with "5", with these exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada, the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with the digit "2", which mostly is used by countries in Africa.
See... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20cassette | In biology, a gene cassette is a type of mobile genetic element that contains a gene and a recombination site. Each cassette usually contains a single gene and tends to be very small; on the order of 500–1000 base pairs. They may exist incorporated into an integron or freely as circular DNA. Gene cassettes can move aro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental%20selection | Developmental selection is selection that occurs on developmental units in an organism, such as cell lineages, embryos, and gametes or gametophytes. Generally, developmental selection is differentiated from natural selection because the targets of selection are internal to an organism contain the developmental units, r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20model | A decision model in decision theory is the starting point for a decision method within a formal (axiomatic) system. Decision models contain at least one action axiom.
An action is in the form "IF <this> is true, THEN do <that>". An action axiom tests a condition (antecedent) and, if the condition has been met, then (c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapioca | Tapioca (; ) is a starch extracted from the storage roots of the cassava plant (Manihot esculenta, also known as manioc), a species native to the North and Northeast regions of Brazil, but whose use is now spread throughout South America. It is a perennial shrub adapted to the hot conditions of tropical lowlands. Cassa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novobiocin | Novobiocin, also known as albamycin or cathomycin, is an aminocoumarin antibiotic that is produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces niveus, which has recently been identified as a subjective synonym for S. spheroides a member of the class Actinomycetia. Other aminocoumarin antibiotics include clorobiocin and coumermyci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20desktop%20publishing%20software | The following is a comparison of major desktop publishing software.
Overview
This table provides general software information including the developer, latest stable version, the year in which the software was first released, and the license under which it is available.
Operating system
This table gives a comparison o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern | An anti-pattern in software engineering, project management, and business processes is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive. The term, coined in 1995 by computer programmer Andrew Koenig, was inspired by the book Design Patterns (which highlights ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine | Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many other animals. Urine flows from the kidneys through the ureters to the urinary bladder. Urination results in urine being excreted from the body through the urethra.
Cellular metabolism generates many by-products that are rich in nitrogen and must be clea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20of%20Eden%20%28cellular%20automaton%29 | In a cellular automaton, a Garden of Eden is a configuration that has no predecessor. It can be the initial configuration of the automaton but cannot arise in any other way.
John Tukey named these configurations after the Garden of Eden in Abrahamic religions, which was created out of nowhere.
A Garden of Eden is dete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methionine%20sulfoxide | Methionine sulfoxide is the organic compound with the formula CH3S(O)CH2CH2CH(NH2)CO2H. It is an amino acid that occurs naturally although it is formed post-translationally.
Oxidation of the sulfur of methionine results in methionine sulfoxide or methionine sulfone. The sulfur-containing amino acids methionine and cy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20correlation | Phase correlation is an approach to estimate the relative translative offset between two similar images (digital image correlation) or other data sets. It is commonly used in image registration and relies on a frequency-domain representation of the data, usually calculated by fast Fourier transforms. The term is applie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fileless%20malware | Fileless malware is a variant of computer related malicious software that exists exclusively as a computer memory-based artifact i.e. in RAM. It does not write any part of its activity to the computer's hard drive, thus increasing its ability to evade antivirus software that incorporate file-based whitelisting, signatu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability%20of%20matter | In physics, stability of matter refers to the problem of showing rigorously that a large number of charged quantum particles can coexist and form macroscopic objects, like ordinary matter. The first proof was provided by Freeman Dyson and Andrew Lenard in 1967–1968, but a shorter and more conceptual proof was found lat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsoring%20Consortium%20for%20Open%20Access%20Publishing%20in%20Particle%20Physics | The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (or SCOAP3) is an international collaboration in the high-energy physics community to convert traditional closed access physics journals to open access, freely available for everyone to read and reuse, shifting away the burden of the publishing co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20pumping | Spin pumping is the dynamical generation of pure spin current by the coherent precession of magnetic moments, which can efficiently inject spin from a magnetic material into an adjacent non-magnetic material. The non-magnetic material usually hosts the spin Hall effect that can convert the injected spin current into a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20suicide | Animal suicide is when an animal intentionally ends its own life through its actions. It implies a wide range of higher cognitive capacities that experts have been wary to ascribe to nonhuman animals such as a concept of self, death, and future intention. There is currently not enough empirical data on the subject for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force | The g-force or gravitational force equivalent is mass-specific force (force per unit mass), expressed in units of standard gravity (g, not to be confused with "g", the symbol for grams).
It is used for sustained accelerations, that cause a perception of weight. For example, an object at rest on Earth's surface is subj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass%20equivalence%20theorem | In geometry, the compass equivalence theorem is an important statement in compass and straightedge constructions. The tool advocated by Plato in these constructions is a divider or collapsing compass, that is, a compass that "collapses" whenever it is lifted from a page, so that it may not be directly used to transfer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53rd%20meridian%20east | The meridian 53° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 53rd meridian east forms a great circle with the 127th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACSM2B | Acyl-coenzyme A synthetase ACSM2B, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ACSM2B gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciculus%20Medicinae | Fasciculus Medicinae is a "bundle" of six independent and quite different medieval medical treatises. The collection, which existed only in two manuscripts (handwritten copies), was first printed in 1491 in Latin and came out in numerous editions over the next 25 years. Johannes de Ketham, the German physician routin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit%20computing | In computer architecture, 64-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 64 bits wide. Also, 64-bit central processing units (CPU) and arithmetic logic units (ALU) are those that are based on processor registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. A computer that uses such a processo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1%20broth | An A1 broth is a liquid culture medium used in microbiology for the detection of fecal coliforms in foods, treated wastewater and seawater bays using the most probable number (MPN) method. It is prepared according to the formulation of Andrews and Presnell given below. It is used with a Durham tube, a positive tube bei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Veterinary%20Year%202011 | World Veterinary Year was celebrated in 2011, in recognition of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the world's first veterinary school in Lyon, France, in 1761. World Veterinary Year was officially launched on 24 January 2011 in Versailles, France. The slogan was "Vet for health, Vet for food, Vet for the planet!... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferribacter%20thermophilus | Deferribacter thermophilus is an iron-reducing bacteria. It is a manganese- and iron-reducing bacterium. It is thermophilic and anaerobic bacterium, its type strain being designated as strain BMAT. The cells are straight to bent rods (1 to 5 by 0.3 to 0.5 μm). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a duality translates concepts, theorems or mathematical structures into other concepts, theorems or structures, in a one-to-one fashion, often (but not always) by means of an involution operation: if the dual of is , then the dual of is . Such involutions sometimes have fixed points, so that the dual ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietveld%20%28software%29 | Rietveld is a web-based collaborative code review tool for Subversion written by Guido van Rossum to run on Google's cloud service. Van Rossum based Rietveld on the experience he had writing Mondrian. Mondrian was a proprietary application used internally by Google to review their code.
Gerrit is a fork of Rietveld st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20DAO | The DAO was a digital decentralized autonomous organization and a form of investor-directed venture capital fund. After launching in April 2016 via a token sale, it became one of the largest crowdfunding campaigns in history, but it ceased activity after much of its funds were taken in a hack in June 2016.
The DAO had... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidermis%20%28botany%29 | The epidermis (from the Greek ἐπιδερμίς, meaning "over-skin") is a single layer of cells that covers the leaves, flowers, roots and stems of plants. It forms a boundary between the plant and the external environment. The epidermis serves several functions: it protects against water loss, regulates gas exchange, secrete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BinCARD | Bcl10-interacting CARD protein, also known as BinCARD, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the C9orf89 gene on chromosome 9. BinCARD is a member of the death-domain superfamily and contains a caspase recruitment domain (CARD). This protein regulates apoptosis and the immune response by inhibiting Bcl10, thus impl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo%20%28radio%20control%29 | Servos (also RC servos) are small, cheap, mass-produced servomotors or other actuators used for radio control and small-scale robotics.
Most servos are rotary actuators although other types are available. Linear actuators are sometimes used, although it is more common to use a rotary actuator with a bellcrank and push... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff%20distance | In mathematics, the Hausdorff distance, or Hausdorff metric, also called Pompeiu–Hausdorff distance, measures how far two subsets of a metric space are from each other. It turns the set of non-empty compact subsets of a metric space into a metric space in its own right. It is named after Felix Hausdorff and Dimitrie Po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRAS1 | Extracellular matrix protein FRAS1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FRAS1 (Fraser syndrome 1) gene. This gene encodes an extracellular matrix protein that appears to function in the regulation of epidermal-basement membrane adhesion and organogenesis during development.
Metastatic prostate cancer
A sing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon%20Glotzer | Sharon C. Glotzer is an American scientist and "digital alchemist", the Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering, the John Werner Cahn Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial | In geometry, coaxial means that several three-dimensional linear or planar forms share a common axis. The two-dimensional analog is concentric.
Common examples:
A coaxial cable is a three-dimensional linear structure. It has a wire conductor in the centre (D), a circumferential outer conductor (B), and an insulating ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%201115 | Code page 1115 (CCSID 1115), also known as Simplified Chinese PC Data, is a single byte character set (SBCS) used by IBM in its PC DOS operating system in China.
This code page is intended for use with code page 1380 (Simplified Chinese double byte character set). Together, code pages 1115 and 1380 make up 1381.
Code... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RARAF | The Radiological Research Accelerator Facility (RARAF), located on the Columbia University Nevis Laboratories campus in Irvington, New York is a National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering biotechnology resource center (P41) specializing in microbeam technology.
The facility is currently built around a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Wagner graph is a 3-regular graph with 8 vertices and 12 edges. It is the 8-vertex Möbius ladder graph.
Properties
As a Möbius ladder, the Wagner graph is nonplanar but has crossing number one, making it an apex graph. It can be embedded without crossings on a torus or pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifastuzumab%20vedotin | Lifastuzumab vedotin (INN; development code DNIB0600A) is an experimental monoclonal antibody-drug conjugate designed for the treatment of cancer.
This drug was developed by Genentech/Roche. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteg | Meteg (or meseg or metheg, Hebrew: , lit. 'bridle', also , lit. 'bellowing', , or ) is a punctuation mark used in Biblical Hebrew for stress marking. It is a vertical bar placed under the affected syllable.
Usage
Meteg is primarily used in Biblical Hebrew to mark secondary stress and vowel length.
Meteg is also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6b/8b%20encoding | In telecommunications, 6b/8b is a line code that expands 6-bit codes to 8-bit symbols for the purposes of maintaining DC-balance in a communications system.
The 6b/8b encoding is a balanced code --
each 8-bit output symbol contains 4 zero bits and 4 one bits. So the code can, like a parity bit, detect all single-bit e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly-Bernoulli%20number | In mathematics, poly-Bernoulli numbers, denoted as , were defined by M. Kaneko as
where Li is the polylogarithm. The are the usual Bernoulli numbers.
Moreover, the Generalization of Poly-Bernoulli numbers with a,b,c parameters defined as follows
where Li is the polylogarithm.
Kaneko also gave two combinatorial fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo | Duolingo ( ) is an American educational technology company that produces learning apps and provides language certification.
Duolingo offers courses on music, math and over 40 languages, from popular languages such as English, French, and Spanish to less commonly studied languages such as Welsh, Irish, and Swahili. Ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIS%20hallmark | The BIS Hallmark is a hallmarking system for gold as well as silver jewellery sold in India, certifying the purity of the metal. It certifies that the piece of jewellery conforms to a set of standards laid by the Bureau of Indian Standards, the national standards organization of India. India is the second biggest marke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%20Anellis | Irving H. Anellis (1946 to 2013) was a historian of philosophy.
Anellis began his study of philosophy in Boston, Massachusetts at Northeastern University, gaining his B.A. in 1969. He continued in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at Duquesne University, gaining the M.A. in 1971.
He studied with Jean van Heijenoort at Brandei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20lacrimal%20crest | The posterior lacrimal crest is a vertical bony ridge on the orbital surface of the lacrimal bone. It divides the bone into two parts. It gives origin to the lacrimal part of the orbicularis oculi muscle.
Structure
The posterior lacrimal crest is a vertical bony ridge on the orbital (lateral) surface of the lacrimal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codomain | In mathematics, the codomain or set of destination of a function is the set into which all of the output of the function is constrained to fall. It is the set in the notation . The term range is sometimes ambiguously used to refer to either the codomain or image of a function.
A codomain is part of a function if ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9chet%E2%80%93Kolmogorov%20theorem | In functional analysis, the Fréchet–Kolmogorov theorem (the names of Riesz or Weil are sometimes added as well) gives a necessary and sufficient condition for a set of functions to be relatively compact in an Lp space. It can be thought of as an Lp version of the Arzelà–Ascoli theorem, from which it can be deduced. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza | Hamza ( ) () is a letter in the Arabic alphabet, representing the glottal stop . Hamza is not one of the 28 "full" letters and owes its existence to historical reform of standard writing system. It is derived from the Arabic letter ʿAyn ( ). In the Phoenician, Hebrew and Aramaic alphabets, from which the Arabic alphabe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rp-process | The rp-process (rapid proton capture process) consists of consecutive proton captures onto seed nuclei to produce heavier elements. It is a nucleosynthesis process and, along with the s-process and the r-process, may be responsible for the generation of many of the heavy elements present in the universe. However, it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvirus | Dalvirus is a genus of viruses in the realm Ribozyviria, containing the single species Dalvirus anatis.
Hosts
The grey teal (Anas gracilis), chestnut teal (A. castanea), and Pacific black duck (A. superciliosa) serve as its hosts. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDUFS4 | NADH dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] iron-sulfur protein 4, mitochondrial (NDUFS4) also known as NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase 18 kDa subunit is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NDUFS4 gene. This gene encodes a nuclear-encoded accessory subunit of the mitochondrial membrane respiratory chain NADH dehydrogenase (c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kell%20factor | The Kell factor, named after RCA engineer Raymond D. Kell, is a parameter used to limit the bandwidth of a sampled image signal to avoid the appearance of beat frequency patterns when displaying the image in a discrete display device, usually taken to be 0.7. The number was first measured in 1934 by Raymond D. Kell and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subthreshold%20membrane%20potential%20oscillations | Subthreshold membrane potential oscillations are membrane oscillations that do not directly trigger an action potential since they do not reach the necessary threshold for firing. However, they may facilitate sensory signal processing.
Neurons produce action potentials when their membrane potential increases past a cr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center-of-momentum%20frame | In physics, the center-of-momentum frame (COM frame), also known as zero-momentum frame, is the inertial frame in which the total momentum of the system vanishes. It is unique up to velocity, but not origin.
The center of momentum of a system is not a location, but a collection of relative momenta/velocities: a refere... |
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