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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnet%27s%20theorem | In classical mechanics, Bonnet's theorem states that if n different force fields each produce the same geometric orbit (say, an ellipse of given dimensions) albeit with different speeds v1, v2,...,vn at a given point P, then the same orbit will be followed if the speed at point P equals
History
This theorem was first ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20N800 | The Nokia N800 Internet tablet is a wireless Internet appliance from Nokia, originally announced at the Las Vegas CES 2007 Summit in January 2007. N800 allows the user to browse the Internet and communicate using Wi-Fi networks or with mobile phone via Bluetooth. The N800 was developed as the successor to the Nokia 770... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halobaculum |
Halobaculum (common abbreviation: Hbl.) is a genus of the Halorubraceae.
Further reading
Scientific journals
Scientific books
Scientific databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary%20Physics | Contemporary Physics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing introductory articles on important recent developments in physics.
Editorial screening and peer review is carried out by members of the editorial board.
Overview
Contemporary Physics has been published by Taylor & Francis since 1959 and publishes fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20oracle | In computing, software engineering, and software testing, a test oracle (or just oracle) is a mechanism for determining whether a test has passed or failed. The use of oracles involves comparing the output(s) of the system under test, for a given test-case input, to the output(s) that the oracle determines that product... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican%20red%20macaw | The Jamaican red macaw (Ara gossei) is a hypothetical species of parrot in the family Psittacidae that lived on Jamaica.
History
The only reported specimen was shot on Jamaica around 1765, and was later seen by a Dr. Robertson when it was stuffed; the specimen has since been lost. Robertson sent a description of it to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem%20photography | Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. There can be considerable dispute as to whether individual early photographs actually show a dead pers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%27s%20algorithm | In the theory of elliptic curves, Tate's algorithm takes as input an integral model of an elliptic curve E over , or more generally an algebraic number field, and a prime or prime ideal p. It returns the exponent fp of p in the conductor of E, the type of reduction at p, the local index
where is the group of -poin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearer%27s%20inequality | Shearer's inequality or also Shearer's lemma, in mathematics, is an inequality in information theory relating the entropy of a set of variables to the entropies of a collection of subsets. It is named for mathematician James B. Shearer.
Concretely, it states that if X1, ..., Xd are random variables and S1, ..., Sn are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Watrous%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John Harrison Watrous is the Technical Director of IBM Quantum Education at IBM and was a professor of computer science at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, a member of the Institute for Quantum Computing, an affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker%20model | In representation theory, a branch of mathematics, the Whittaker model is a realization of a representation of a reductive algebraic group such as GL2 over a finite or local or global field on a space of functions on the group. It is named after E. T. Whittaker even though he never worked in this area, because pointed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slur%20%28music%29 | A slur is a symbol in Western musical notation indicating that the notes it embraces are to be played without separation (that is, with legato articulation). A slur is denoted with a curved line generally placed over the notes if the stems point downward, and under them if the stems point upwards.
The example below sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw%20audio%20format | A raw audio file is any file containing un-containerized and uncompressed audio. The data is stored as raw pulse-code modulation (PCM) values without any metadata header information (such as sampling rate, bit depth, endian, or number of channels).
Extensions
Raw files can have a wide range of file extensions, common ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20analytic%20variety | In mathematics, and in particular differential geometry and complex geometry, a complex analytic variety or complex analytic space is a generalization of a complex manifold which allows the presence of singularities. Complex analytic varieties are locally ringed spaces which are locally isomorphic to local model spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora%20of%20Tropical%20East%20Africa | The Flora of Tropical East Africa (FTEA) is a catalogue of all 12,104 known wild plant species in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. The project began in 1948 and was finally completed in September 2012. Approximately 1,500 new plant species were described, by 135 botanists from 21 countries.
The Flora of Tropical East Afri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Gaussen | Marcel-Henri Gaussen (14 July 1891 in Cabrières-d'Aigues (Vaucluse) - 27 July 1981 in Toulouse), was a French botanist and biogeographer.
In 1926, he defended his thesis on "the vegetation of the eastern half of the Pyrenees", which laid the foundation for future work on the border between biogeography and vegetation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic%20%28physiology%29 | Tonic in physiology refers to a physiological response which is slow and may be graded. This term is typically used in opposition to a fast response. For instance, tonic muscles are contrasted by the more typical and much faster twitch muscles, while tonic sensory nerve endings are contrasted to the much faster phasi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrvoje%20Brki%C4%87 | Hrvoje Brkić (Vinkovci, 17. 9. 1983.), Croatian biophysicist. He was born in Vinkovci, where he attended elementary school and Gymnasium Matija Antun Reljković. In 2007. he finished Physics department of J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, and approached to the PhD in Faculty of natural sciences in Zagreb. PhD thes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20random-access%20memory | Static random-access memory (static RAM or SRAM) is a type of random-access memory (RAM) that uses latching circuitry (flip-flop) to store each bit. SRAM is volatile memory; data is lost when power is removed.
The term static differentiates SRAM from DRAM (dynamic random-access memory):
SRAM will hold its data perm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plietesials | Plietesials are plants that grow for a number of years, flower gregariously (synchronously), set seed and then die.
The length of the cycle can vary between 8 and 16 years. For example, the neelakurinji plant flowers every 12 years and
bloomed as expected in 2006 and 2018 in the Munnar region of Kerala, India.
Certa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpoviron | A transpoviron is a plasmid-like genetic element found in the genomes of giant DNA viruses.
They are linear DNA elements of approximately 7 kilobases that encompass six to eight protein encoding genes. Two of these genes are homologous to virophage genes. Transpovirons encode a superfamily 1 helicase, which encompasse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magique%20%28mascot%29 | Magique (Magic) is the Olympic mascot of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and is a little imp in the shape of a star and a cube. It is created by Philippe Mairesse and was presented in 1989. His star shape symbolizes dreams and imagination. His colors come from the French flag, with a red hat and a blue costume.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius%20paradoxus | Lactarius paradoxus is a member of the large milk-cap genus Lactarius in the order Russulales. It was first described in 1940.
It is found in the eastern and southern United States, and is mycorrhizal with pine and oak. When damaged, it bleeds red latex.
The cap has a blue-green to gray color.
Habitat
The species can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancilla%20bit | In reversible computing, ancilla bits are extra bits being used to implement irreversible logical operations. In classical computation, any memory bit can be turned on or off at will, requiring no prior knowledge or extra complexity. However, this is not the case in quantum computing or classical reversible computing.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allosorus%20pulchellus | Allosorus pulchellus is a species name of a fern, which may refer to:
Allosorus pulchellus (Bory & Willd.) C.Presl, combination made in 1836, now Oeosporangium pulchellum
Allosorus pulchellus M.Martens & Galeotti, described in 1842, an invalid later homonym of the above, now called Argyrochosma formosa
Pteridaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20function | In thermodynamics, a quantity that is well defined so as to describe the path of a process through the equilibrium state space of a thermodynamic system is termed a process function, or, alternatively, a process quantity, or a path function. As an example, mechanical work and heat are process functions because they des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Molecular%20Structure | Journal of Molecular Structure is a scientific journal published by Elsevier ScienceDirect since 1968. Its articles discuss molecular structure in chemistry.
After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine it said that it would no longer consider manuscripts written by scientists at Russian institutions. Rui Fausto, the j... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%20expressions | A temporal expression in a text is a sequence of tokens (words, numbers and characters) that denote time, that is express a point in time, a duration or a frequency.
Examples:
A point in time:
He was born on <TIMEX>6 May, 1980</TIMEX>.
A duration:
The show lasted <TIMEX>7 minutes</TIMEX>.
A frequency:
The pump circul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle%20decompositions%20of%203-manifolds | In mathematics, a handle decomposition of a 3-manifold allows simplification of the original 3-manifold into pieces which are easier to study.
Heegaard splittings
An important method used to decompose into handlebodies is the Heegaard splitting, which gives us a decomposition in two handlebodies of equal genus.
Exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20phototransduction | Visual phototransduction is the sensory transduction process of the visual system by which light is detected to yield nerve impulses in the rod cells and cone cells in the retina of the eye in humans and other vertebrates. It relies on the visual cycle, a sequence of biochemical reactions in which a molecule of retinal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-fucose%20isomerase | In enzymology, a L-fucose isomerase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
L-fucose L-fuculose
Hence, this enzyme has one substrate, L-fucose, and one product, L-fuculose.
This enzyme belongs to the family of isomerases, specifically those intramolecular oxidoreductases interconverting aldoses and ket... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer | A Caganer () is a figurine depicted in the act of defecation appearing in nativity scenes in Catalonia and neighbouring areas with Catalan culture such as Andorra, Valencia, Balearic Islands, and Northern Catalonia (in southern France). It is most popular and widespread in these areas, but can also be found in other ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AILU | The Association of Industrial Laser Users (AILU) was established in 1995 as an independent, non-profit organisation run by and for laser users involved in activities including manufacturing, healthcare, academic and industrial research; as well as suppliers of laser-related products and services.
The association promo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality%20%28mechanical%20engineering%29 | In mechanical engineering, many terms are associated into pairs called duals. A dual of a relationship is formed by interchanging force (stress) and deformation (strain) in an expression.
Here is a partial list of mechanical dualities:
force — deformation
stress — strain
stiffness method — flexibility method
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHOPCA%20clustering%20algorithm | KHOPCA is an adaptive clustering algorithm originally developed for dynamic networks. KHOPCA (-hop clustering algorithm) provides a fully distributed and localized approach to group elements such as nodes in a network according to their distance from each other. KHOPCA operates proactively through a simple set of rule... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS%20architecture%20processors | Since 1985, many processors implementing some version of the MIPS architecture have been designed and used widely.
MIPS microprocessors
The first MIPS microprocessor, the R2000, was announced in 1985. It added multiple-cycle multiply and divide instructions in a somewhat independent on-chip unit. New instructions wer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20flow%20problem | In combinatorial optimization, network flow problems are a class of computational problems in which the input is a flow network (a graph with numerical capacities on its edges), and the goal is to construct a flow, numerical values on each edge that respect the capacity constraints and that have incoming flow equal to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasikanth%20Manipatruni | Sasikanth Manipatruni is an American engineer and inventor in the fields of Computer engineering, Integrated circuit technology, Materials Engineering and semiconductor device fabrication. Manipatruni contributed to developments in silicon photonics, spintronics and quantum materials.
Manipatruni is a co-author of 50 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialexia | Dialexia Communications, Inc. is a privately held Canadian corporation headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, that develops, manufactures, and sells VoIP-based Telecommunication products and services.
Overview
The company specializes in the development of webRTC-enabled PBX software for organizations in specific sectors o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianchengichthys | Bianchengichthys is an extinct genus of maxillate placoderm fish from the late Silurian Period. Its fossils have been recovered from Yunnan Province, China, and it is represented by only one species: Bianchengichthys micros.
Description
Bianchengichthys is a small, somewhat dorsoventrally compressed placoderm fish. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobera%20glabra | Dobera glabra is an evergreen shrub or tree native to the Somali peninsula, Northeastern Kenya and Ethiopia as well as South Tihamah. In Somali speaking regions its widely known as Garas. In Ethiopia you will find it in Nechisar National Park and along the Sagan River in the Konso special woreda. It is also sparsely di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chentsov%27s%20theorem | In information geometry, Chentsov's theorem states that the Fisher information metric is, up to rescaling, the unique Riemannian metric on a statistical manifold that is invariant under sufficient statistics.
See also
Fisher information
Sufficient statistic
Information geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchu%20Jacu | Uchu Jacu (or Uchujacu; Quichua for hot flour) is a traditional flour produced from six different grains, originating from the Cayambe region in the northern part of the Ecuadorian province of Pichincha. After the recipe had almost been forgotten during some time, the flour is being produced again today in the mills of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting%20hypothesis | In paleoanthropology, the hunting hypothesis is the hypothesis that human evolution was primarily influenced by the activity of hunting for relatively large and fast animals, and that the activity of hunting distinguished human ancestors from other hominins.
While it is undisputed that early humans were hunters, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion%20ignition | Fusion ignition is the point at which a nuclear fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining. This occurs when the energy being given off by the reaction heats the fuel mass more rapidly than it cools. In other words, fusion ignition is the point at which the increasing self-heating of the nuclear fusion removes the need fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacy%20knot | The Lacy or de Lacy knot is a decorative heraldic knot, the badge of the de Lacy family. It features in the crest of the borough of Burnley and heraldic badge of Kirklees. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible%20Mom | Invisible Mom is a 1996 American comedy film about a mother who becomes invisible.
The film features a cameo from John Ashley.
Plot
A family's life is thrown into comical chaos after mom accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction, an invisibility potion.
Cast
Dee Wallace as Laura Griffin
Barry L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M30-Apoptosense%20ELISA | M30 Apoptosense® ELISA is an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay developed for the detection of soluble caspase-cleaved keratin 18 (ccK18, K18-Asp396, formerly cytokeratin 18, ccCK18 or CK18-Asp396).
History
The M30 Apoptosense® ELISA is a PEVIVA product owned by VLVbio (Nacka, Sweden) and was developed in collaboration... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antistatic%20bag | An antistatic bag is a bag used for storing electronic components, which are prone to damage caused by electrostatic discharge (ESD).
These bags are usually plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and have a distinctive color (silvery for metallised film, pink or black for polyethylene). The polyethylene variant may ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion%20list | In computer science, an inversion list is a data structure that describes a set of non-overlapping numeric ranges, stored in increasing order.
The set is stored in an array. Every other element is the first element of a range, and every other element is the first element after that range (a half-open range).
For exa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20delay%20line | An analog delay line is a network of electrical components connected in cascade, where each individual element creates a time difference between its input and output. It operates on analog signals whose amplitude varies continuously. In the case of a periodic signal, the time difference can be described in terms of a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezoid | In geometry, a trapezoid () in North American English, or trapezium () in British English, is a quadrilateral that has at least one pair of parallel sides.
The parallel sides are called the bases of the trapezoid. The other two sides are called the legs (or the lateral sides) if they are not parallel; otherwise, the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia%20extension%20connector | A multimedia extension connector (MXC) is a method of connecting video cameras and other video inputs to video capture cards and the like. MXC is based on the 8-pin Mini-DIN connector. It is used by Winnov's range of Videum capture cards.
External links
Videum 1000 Plus Family Quick Start Guide listing on page 9 the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight%20material | Ultralight materials are solids with a density of less than 10 mg/cm3, including silica aerogels, carbon nanotube aerogels, aerographite, metallic foams, polymeric foams, and metallic microlattices. The density of air is about 1.275 mg/cm3, which means that the air in the pores contributes significantly to the density ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyad%20%28philosophy%29 | The Dyad is a title used by the Pythagoreans for the number two, representing the principle of "twoness" or "otherness".
Numenius of Apamea, a Neopythagorean philosopher in the latter 2nd century CE, said that Pythagoras gave the name of Monad to God, and the name of Dyad to matter. Aristotle equated matter as the for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crushed%20red%20pepper | Crushed red pepper or red pepper flakes is a condiment or spice consisting of dried and crushed (as opposed to ground) red chili peppers. This condiment is most often produced from cayenne-type peppers, although commercial producers may use a variety of different cultivars, usually within the 30,000–50,000 Scoville uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20of%20cloning | In bioethics, the ethics of cloning refers to a variety of ethical positions regarding the practice and possibilities of cloning, especially human cloning. While many of these views are religious in origin, some of the questions raised by cloning are faced by secular perspectives as well. Perspectives on human cloning... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaSeep | SeaSeep is a combination of 2D seismic data (a group of seismic lines acquired individually, as opposed to multiple closely space lines1), high resolution multibeam sonar which is an evolutionary advanced form of side-scan sonar, navigated piston coring (one of the more common sea floor sampling methods2), heat flow s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyletic%20gradualism | Phyletic gradualism is a model of evolution which theorizes that most speciation is slow, uniform and gradual. When evolution occurs in this mode, it is usually by the steady transformation of a whole species into a new one (through a process called anagenesis). In this view no clear line of demarcation exists between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlanetMath | PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, mathematics online encyclopedia. The emphasis is on rigour, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and also community of about 24,000 people with various maths interests. Intended to be comprehensive, the project is currently hosted by the University of Waterlo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute%20abdomen | An acute abdomen refers to a sudden, severe abdominal pain. It is in many cases a medical emergency, requiring urgent and specific diagnosis. Several causes need immediate surgical treatment.
Differential diagnosis
The differential diagnosis of acute abdomen includes:
Acute appendicitis
Acute peptic ulcer and its... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNAP%20Systems | QNAP Systems, Inc. () is a Taiwanese corporation that specializes in network-attached storage (NAS) appliances used for file sharing, virtualization, storage management and surveillance applications. Headquartered in Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, QNAP has offices in 16 countries and employs over 1000 people ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glufosinate | Glufosinate (also known as phosphinothricin and often sold as an ammonium salt) is a naturally occurring broad-spectrum herbicide produced by several species of Streptomyces soil bacteria. Glufosinate is a non-selective, contact herbicide, with some systemic action. Plants may also metabolize bialaphos and phosalacine,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI%20domain | In molecular biology, the EMI domain, first named after its presence in proteins of the EMILIN family, is a small cysteine-rich protein domain of around 75 amino acids. The EMI domain is most often found at the N terminus of metazoan extracellular proteins that are forming or are compatible with multimer formation. It ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberwolfach%20problem | The Oberwolfach problem is an unsolved problem in mathematics that may be formulated either as a problem of scheduling seating assignments for diners,
or more abstractly as a problem in graph theory, on the edge cycle covers of complete graphs. It is named after the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-righting%20mechanism | In robot combat, a self-righting mechanism or srimech (sometimes spelled as srimec or shrimech) is a device used to re-right a robot should it get flipped. Biohazard of BattleBots was the first robot to self-right.
Military applications
As of 2016, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), based at Aberdeen Proving Gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMIM15 | SMIM15(small integral membrane protein 15) is a protein in humans that is encoded by the SMIM15 gene. It is a transmembrane protein that interacts with PBX4. Deletions where SMIM15 is located have produced mental defects and physical deformities. The gene has been found to have ubiquitous but variable expression in man... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20mean | In mathematics, the Heinz mean (named after E. Heinz) of two non-negative real numbers A and B, was defined by Bhatia as:
with 0 ≤ x ≤ .
For different values of x, this Heinz mean interpolates between the arithmetic (x = 0) and geometric (x = 1/2) means such that for 0 < x < :
The Heinz means appear naturally when s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20Reserve%20Corps | The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a network in the U.S. of community-based units initiated and established by local organizations aimed to meet the public health needs of their communities. It is sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) in the United States Department of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20order%20message | A higher order message (HOM) in a computer programming language is a form of higher-order programming that allows messages that have other messages as arguments. The concept was introduced at MacHack 2003 by Marcel Weiher and presented in a more complete form in 2005 by Marcel Weiher and Stéphane Ducasse. Loops can be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20wort%20plants | This is an alphabetical listing of wort plants, meaning plants that employ the syllable wort in their English-language common names.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary's Ask Oxford site, "A word with the suffix -wort is often very old. The Old English word was wyrt. The modern variation, root, comes from Old N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferulic%20acid%20decarboxylase | Ferulic acid decarboxylases (Fdc) are decarboxylase enzymes capable of the reversible decarboxylation of aromatic carboxylic acids such as ferulic acid and cinnamic acid. Fdc's are fungal homologues of the E.coli UbiD enzyme which is involved in ubiquinone biosynthesis. This places Fdc within the wider UbiD enzyme fam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telematic%20control%20unit | A telematic control unit (TCU) in the automobile industry is the embedded system on board a vehicle that wirelessly connects the vehicle to cloud services or other vehicles via V2X standards over a cellular network. The TCU collects telemetry data from the vehicle, such as position, speed, engine data, connectivity qua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersson%20trace%20formula | In analytic number theory, the Petersson trace formula is a kind of orthogonality relation between coefficients of a holomorphic modular form. It is a specialization of the more general Kuznetsov trace formula.
In its simplest form the Petersson trace formula is as follows. Let be an orthonormal basis of , the space ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a category (sometimes called an abstract category to distinguish it from a concrete category) is a collection of "objects" that are linked by "arrows". A category has two basic properties: the ability to compose the arrows associatively and the existence of an identity arrow for each object. A simple e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intimate%20ion%20pair | In chemistry, the intimate ion pair concept, introduced by Saul Winstein, describes the interactions between a cation, anion and surrounding solvent molecules. In ordinary aqueous solutions of inorganic salts, an ion is completely solvated and shielded from the counterion. In less polar solvents, two ions can still be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzo | A dzo (also spelled zo, zho and dzho, ) is a hybrid between the yak and domestic cattle. The word dzo technically refers to a male hybrid, while a female is known as a or . In Mongolian, it is called a (хайнаг). There is also the English language portmanteau term of yattle, a combination of the words yak and cattle, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphplan | Graphplan is an algorithm for automated planning developed by Avrim Blum and Merrick Furst in 1995. Graphplan takes as input a planning problem expressed in STRIPS and produces, if one is possible, a sequence of operations for reaching a goal state.
The name graphplan is due to the use of a novel planning graph, to r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faltings%27%20annihilator%20theorem | In abstract algebra (specifically commutative ring theory), Faltings' annihilator theorem states: given a finitely generated module M over a Noetherian commutative ring A and ideals I, J, the following are equivalent:
for any ,
there is an ideal in A such that and annihilates the local cohomologies ,
provided eithe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20field | In theoretical physics, a source field is a background field coupled to the original field as
.
This term appears in the action in Feynman's path integral formulation and responsible for the theory interactions. In Schwinger's formulation the source is responsible for creating or destroying (detecting) particles. In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUDAS | The ASUDAS (Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System) is a reference system for collecting data on human tooth morphology and variation created by Christy G. Turner II, Christian R. Nichol, and G. Richard Scott. The ASUDAS gives detailed descriptions for common crown and root shape variants and their differe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band%20control | In-band control is a characteristic of network protocols with which data control is regulated. In-band control passes control data on the same connection as main data. Protocols that use in-band control include HTTP and SMTP. This is as opposed to Out-of-band control used by protocols such as FTP.
Example
Here is an e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Greenhill | Catherine Greenhill is an Australian mathematician known for her research on random graphs, combinatorial enumeration and Markov chains. She is a professor of mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales,
and an editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Biomathematics | The International Journal of Biomathematics is a quarterly mathematics journal covering research in the area of biomathematics, including mathematical ecology, infectious disease dynamical system, biostatistics and bioinformatics. It was established in 2008 and is published by World Scientific. The current editor-in-ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscated%20Perl%20Contest | The Obfuscated Perl Contest was a competition for programmers of Perl which was held annually between 1996 and 2000. Entrants to the competition aimed to write "devious, inhuman, disgusting, amusing, amazing, and bizarre Perl code". It was run by The Perl Journal and took its name from the International Obfuscated C C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentrigo | Sentrigo was a privately held software company located in Santa Clara, California, USA, until its acquisition in April, 2011 by McAfee.
The company was founded in 2006 by Nathan Shuchami and Slavik Markovich, to address several key challenges in Database security. Specifically, the inability to monitor activity of pri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS%20satellite%20blocks | GPS satellite blocks are the various production generations of the Global Positioning System (GPS) used for satellite navigation. The first satellite in the system, Navstar 1, was launched on 22 February 1978. The GPS satellite constellation is operated by the 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2SOPS) of Space Delta 8, Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonal%20polynomial | In mathematics, a zonal polynomial is a multivariate symmetric homogeneous polynomial. The zonal polynomials form a basis of the space of symmetric polynomials.
They appear as zonal spherical functions of the Gelfand pairs
(here, is the hyperoctahedral group) and , which means that they describe canonical basis of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicky | is a platform game developed by Sega and released as an arcade video game in May 1984. It was licensed to Bally Midway for distribution in the United States. In Flicky, the player controls the eponymous blue bird and must gather all the small birds called Chirps in each round and bring them safely to the exit. There ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die%20preparation | Die preparation is a step of semiconductor device fabrication during which a wafer is prepared for IC packaging and IC testing. The process of die preparation typically consists of two steps: wafer mounting and wafer dicing.
Wafer mounting
Wafer mounting is a step that is performed during the die preparation of a waf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej%20Pli%C5%9B | Andrzej Pliśz (March 17, 1929 – November 28, 1991) was a Polish mathematician, specializing in differential equations and optimal control theory.
Education and career
Pliś received his undergraduate degree from the Jagiellonian University, where he studied from 1947 to 1951. He received his PhD from the Mathematical I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20vaccine | A DNA vaccine is a type of vaccine that transfects a specific antigen-coding DNA sequence into the cells of an organism as a mechanism to induce an immune response.
DNA vaccines work by injecting genetically engineered plasmid containing the DNA sequence encoding the antigen(s) against which an immune response is soug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D-Jury | 3D-Jury is a metaserver that aggregates and compares models from various protein structure prediction servers. It takes in groups of predictions made by a collection of servers and assigns each pair a 3D-Jury score, based on structural similarity. The score is generated by counting the number of Cα atoms in the two p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUNI | WUNI (channel 66) is a television station licensed to Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Boston area. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision alongside Derry, New Hampshire–licensed True Crime Network affiliate WWJE-DT (channel 50); Entravision Communications ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZapA%20family | In molecular biology, the ZapA protein family is a group of related proteins that includes the cell division protein ZapA. The structure of ZapA has a core structure consisting of two layers alpha/beta, and has a long C-terminal helix that forms dimeric parallel and tetrameric antiparallel coiled coils. ZapA interacts ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Rowbottom | Frederick Rowbottom (16 January 1938 – 12 October 2009) was a British logician and mathematician. The large cardinal notion of Rowbottom cardinals is named after him.
Biography
After graduating from Cambridge University, Rowbottom studied under Howard Jerome Keisler at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platysma%20muscle | The platysma muscle is a superficial muscle of the human neck that overlaps the sternocleidomastoid. It covers the anterior surface of the neck superficially. When it contracts, it produces a slight wrinkling of the neck, and a "bowstring" effect on either side of the neck.
Structure
The platysma muscle is a broad she... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilii%20Iskovskikh | Vasilii (or Vasily) Alekseevich Iskovskikh (Василий Алексеевич Исковских, 1 July 1939, Orenburg Oblast – 4 January 2009, Moscow) was a Russian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.
Education and career
Born into a peasant family, Iskovskikh entered in 1958 the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Tashkent S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illipe | Illipe butter is a vegetable fat from the nut (known as the "false illipe nut") of the Shorea stenoptera tree, sometimes used as a butter substitute. Borneo tallow nut oil is extracted from this species. The word Illipe is derived from the Tamil word for the tree Iluppai (இலுப்பை). The true illipe nut is from the spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak%20%28programming%20language%29 | Oak is a discontinued programming language created by James Gosling in 1989, initially for Sun Microsystems' set-top box project. The language later evolved to become Java.
The name Oak was used by Gosling after an oak tree that stood outside his office.
History
In 1985, Sun Microsystems was attempting to develop a ... |
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