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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg%20of%20Columbus%20%28mechanical%20puzzle%29 | The names Egg of Columbus and Columbus Egg have been used for several mechanical toys and puzzles inspired on the legend of Columbus balancing an egg on its end to drive a point. Typically, these puzzles are egg-shaped objects with internal mechanisms that make the egg stand up, once the user discovers the secret.
Me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective%20mass%20%28spring%E2%80%93mass%20system%29 | In a real spring–mass system, the spring has a non-negligible mass . Since not all of the spring's length moves at the same velocity as the suspended mass (for example the point completely opposed to the mass , at the other end of the spring, is not moving at all), its kinetic energy is not equal to . As such, canno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoxacarb | Indoxacarb is an oxadiazine pesticide developed by DuPont that acts against lepidopteran larvae. It is marketed under the names Indoxacarb Technical Insecticide, Steward Insecticide and Avaunt Insecticide. It is also used as the active ingredient in the Syngenta line of commercial pesticides: Advion and Arilon.
Its m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop%20%28networking%29 | In wired computer networking, including the Internet, a hop occurs when a packet is passed from one network segment to the next. Data packets pass through routers as they travel between source and destination. The hop count refers to the number of network devices through which data passes from source to destination (de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20causality | Information causality is a physical principle suggested in 2009. Information Causality states that information gain that a receiver (Bob) can reach about data, previously unknown to him, from a sender (Alice), by using all his local resources and classical bits communicated by the sender, is at most bits.
The princi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations%20in%20Numbers%2C%20Data%2C%20and%20Space | Investigations in Numbers, Data, and Space is a K–5 mathematics curriculum, developed at TERC in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The curriculum is often referred to as Investigations or simply TERC. Patterned after the NCTM standards for mathematics, it is among the most widely used of the new reform mathemati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20collapse%20black%20hole | Direct collapse black holes (DCBHs) are high-mass black hole seeds, putatively formed within the redshift range z=15-30, when the Universe was about 100–250 million years old. Unlike seeds formed from the first population of stars (also known as Population III stars), direct collapse black hole seeds are formed by a di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schur%27s%20property | In mathematics, Schur's property, named after Issai Schur, is the property of normed spaces that is satisfied precisely if weak convergence of sequences entails convergence in norm.
Motivation
When we are working in a normed space X and we have a sequence that converges weakly to , then a natural question arises. Doe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clasp-knife%20response | Clasp-knife response refers to a Golgi tendon reflex with a rapid decrease in resistance when attempting to flex a joint, usually during a neurological examination. It is one of the characteristic responses of an upper motor neuron lesion. It gets its name from the resemblance between the motion of the limb and the sud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20genetic%20variation | Human genetic variation is the genetic differences in and among populations. There may be multiple variants of any given gene in the human population (alleles), a situation called polymorphism.
No two humans are genetically identical. Even monozygotic twins (who develop from one zygote) have infrequent genetic differe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald%20Macpherson | H. Dugald Macpherson is a mathematician and logician. He is Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds.
He obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1983 for his thesis entitled "Enumeration of Orbits of Infinite Permutation Groups" under the supervision of Peter Cameron. In 1997, he was awarde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline%20spongiform%20encephalopathy | Feline spongiform encephalopathy (FSE) is a disease that affects the brains of felines. It is caused by proteins called prions. FSE is thought to be related or identical to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). This disease is known to affect domestic and captive feline species. This infectious agent might be spread ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unramified%20morphism | In algebraic geometry, an unramified morphism is a morphism of schemes such that (a) it is locally of finite presentation and (b) for each and , we have that
The residue field is a separable algebraic extension of .
where and are maximal ideals of the local rings.
A flat unramified morphism is called an étale ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zemina | Zemina (Korean: 재미나, originally 제미나) was a South Korean software maker brand of Saehan Trading (Korean: 새한 상사) founded in 1981. They primarily made games for the Daewoo Zemmix, but because it was an MSX computer made to look and be played like a game console, they work on other MSX computers as well. Although many of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonneratia%20caseolaris | Sonneratia caseolaris, commonly known as mangrove apple, is a species of plant in the family Lythraceae. The fruit is noted for its outward similarity to the persimmon fruit.
This tree is a type of mangrove growing up to 20 m in height and with a trunk reaching a maximum diameter of 50 cm. It is present in tropical ti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Stream | Microsoft Stream is a corporate video-sharing service which was released on June 20, 2017 that replaced the existing Office 365 Video.
In 2021 Microsoft announced Stream would be re-platformed onto SharePoint and fully integrated into Office 365. Several new capabilities were announced and introduced during 2021 and 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express%20Data%20Path | XDP (eXpress Data Path) is an eBPF-based high-performance data path used to send and receive network packets at high rates by bypassing most of the operating system networking stack. It is merged in the Linux kernel since version 4.8. This implementation is licensed under GPL. Large technology firms including Amazon, G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Fink | Thomas A. Fink (August 26, 1928 – June 4, 2021) was an American Republican politician from Alaska. He was Mayor of Anchorage from 1987 to 1994 and Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1973 to 1975. He was also a member of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, serving from 1997 to 2010.
Persona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw%20puzzle%20accessories | Jigsaw puzzle accessories are the different accessories used by jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts in pursuit of their hobby.
History
Jigsaw puzzles were made commercially available in England by John Spilsbury, around 1760 and have been widely accepted home entertainment in the UK ever since. Jigsaws enjoy similar popularity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digging%20bar | A digging bar is a long, straight metal bar used for various purposes, including as a post hole digger, to break up or loosen hard or compacted materials such as soil, rock, concrete and ice or as a lever to move objects. Known by other names depending on locale, structural features and intended purpose such as a hop b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism%20TV | Prism TV is an American IPTV service owned by CenturyLink. It is based on the same technology as the U-verse service deployed by AT&T.
History
Around the time that Sprint Nextel spun off their landline division to form Embarq, Verizon, and AT&T began work on their own IPTV services to compete with the local cable comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary%20succession | Secondary succession is the secondary ecological succession of a plant's life. As opposed to the first, primary succession, secondary succession is a process started by an event (e.g. forest fire, harvesting, hurricane, etc.) that reduces an already established ecosystem (e.g. a forest or a wheat field) to a smaller po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismoelectrical%20method | The seismoelectrical method (which is different from the electroseismic physical principle) is based on the generation of electromagnetic fields in soils and rocks by seismic waves. This technique is still under development and in the future it may have applications like detecting and characterizing fluids in the under... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo%20repeat | An armadillo repeat is a characteristic, repetitive amino acid sequence of about 42 residues in length that is found in many proteins. Proteins that contain armadillo repeats typically contain several tandemly repeated copies. Each armadillo repeat is composed of a pair of alpha helices that form a hairpin structure. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20design%20up%20front | Big design up front (BDUF) is a software development approach in which the program's design is to be completed and perfected before that program's implementation is started. It is often associated with the waterfall model of software development.
Synonyms for big design up front (BDUF) are big modeling up front (BMUF)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village%20Telco | Village Telco is an initiative to build low-cost community telephone network hardware and software. It is based on a suite of open-source applications that enable entrepreneurs to set up and operate a telephone service in a specific area or supporting the needs of a specific community.
The first Village Telco network ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workshop%20on%20Geometric%20Methods%20in%20Physics | The Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics (WGMP) is a conference on mathematical physics focusing on geometric methods in physics . It is organized each year since 1982 in the village of Białowieża, Poland. It is organized by the Chair of Mathematical Physics of Faculty of Mathematics, University of Białystok. Its f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Jack%20%28mathematician%29 | Richard Jack (died 1759) was a Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and engineer active in the mid-18th century. He provided the only testimony against Lt.Gen.John Cope at the court martial following the Battle of Prestonpans during the 1745 Jacobite uprising, but Having exaggerated his own accomplishments and lacking c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador%20Luria | Salvador Edward Luria (born Salvatore Luria; August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Scientific%20Interchange | The Institute for Scientific Interchange (, ISI Foundation, ISI) is an independent, resident-based research institute located in Turin (Italy, EU). Its primary objective is scientific research and advanced training in the fields of data science, complex systems, and the applications of data and computational models for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent%20fault | An intermittent fault, often called simply an "intermittent", (or anecdotally "interfailing") is a malfunction of a device or system that occurs at intervals, usually irregular, in a device or system that functions normally at other times. Intermittent faults are common to all branches of technology, including computer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-in-the-loop | Human-in-the-loop or HITL is used in multiple contexts. It can be defined as a model requiring human interaction. HITL is associated with modeling and simulation (M&S) in the live, virtual, and constructive taxonomy. HITL along with the related human-on-the-loop are also used in relation to lethal autonomous weapons. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg%20jelly | Egg jelly (extracellular layer, jelly coat) is a gelatinous layer that surrounds the oocytes of many organisms and releases species-specific chemoattractants that activate and guide sperm to the oocyte. The release of chemoattractants is species dependent. For example, sperm in Lytechinus variegatus, the green sea urch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooring%20%28oceanography%29 | A mooring in oceanography is a collection of devices connected to a wire and anchored on the sea floor. It is the Eulerian way of measuring ocean currents, since a mooring is stationary at a fixed location. In contrast to that, the Lagrangian way measures the motion of an oceanographic drifter, the Lagrangian drifter.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20Cut%20and%20Join%20Model | The double cut and join (DCJ) model is a model for genome rearrangement used to define an edit distance between genomes based on gene order and orientation, rather than nucleotide sequence. It takes the fundamental units of a genome to be synteny blocks, maximal sections of DNA conserved between genomes. It focuses on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulation%20doping | Modulation doping is a technique for fabricating semiconductors such that the free charge carriers are spatially separated from the donors. Because this eliminates scattering from the donors, modulation-doped semiconductors have very high carrier mobilities.
History
Modulation doping was conceived in Bell Labs in 197... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy-enhanced%20computer%20display | Developed by Mitsubitshi Electric Research Laboratories, a privacy-enhanced computer display allows information that must remain private to be viewed on computer displays located in public areas (i.e. banks, hospitals and pharmacies) by employing the use of both ferroelectric shutter glasses and a unique device driver.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry%20Group | Kerry Group plc is a public food company headquartered in Ireland. It is quoted on the Dublin ISEQ and London stock exchanges.
Given the company's origins in the co-operative movement, farmer-suppliers of the company retain a significant interest in the company.
History
Kerry was founded in 1972 in Listowel, County ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression%20toward%20the%20mean | In statistics, regression toward the mean (also called reversion to the mean, and reversion to mediocrity) is the phenomenon where if one sample of a random variable is extreme, the next sampling of the same random variable is likely to be closer to its mean. Furthermore, when many random variables are sampled and the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20wave | In elastodynamics, Love waves, named after Augustus Edward Hough Love, are horizontally polarized surface waves. The Love wave is a result of the interference of many shear waves (S-waves) guided by an elastic layer, which is welded to an elastic half space on one side while bordering a vacuum on the other side. In sei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabla%20symbol | ∇
The nabla symbol
The nabla is a triangular symbol resembling an inverted Greek delta: or ∇. The name comes, by reason of the symbol's shape, from the Hellenistic Greek word for a Phoenician harp, and was suggested by the encyclopedist William Robertson Smith to Peter Guthrie Tait in correspondence.
The nabla symb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeobox%20protein%20NANOG | Homeobox protein NANOG (hNanog) is a transcriptional factor that helps embryonic stem cells (ESCs) maintain pluripotency by suppressing cell determination factors. hNanog is encoded in humans by the NANOG gene. Several types of cancer are associated with NANOG.
Etymology
The name NANOG derives from Tír na nÓg (Irish ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Hasselmann | Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann (, born 25 October 1931) is a German oceanographer and climate modeller. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Syukuro Manabe and Giorgio Parisi.
Hasse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20tibiofibular%20ligament | The anterior ligament of the lateral malleolus (anterior tibiofibular ligament or anterior inferior ligament) is a flat, trapezoidal band of fibers, broader below than above, which extends obliquely downward and lateralward between the adjacent margins of the tibia and fibula, on the front aspect of the syndesmosis.
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prem%20%28food%29 | Prem is a brand of canned meat similar to Spam first introduced in 1939 by the original Swift & Company in the United States. The brand is currently owned by Zwanenberg Food Group USA. In Canada, Prem continues to be sold under the Swift umbrella brand and both trademarks are currently owned by Maple Leaf Foods. Prem ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack%20and%20pinion | A rack and pinion is a type of linear actuator that comprises a circular gear (the pinion) engaging a linear gear (the rack). Together, they convert rotational motion into linear motion. Rotating the pinion causes the rack to be driven in a line. Conversely, moving the rack linearly will cause the pinion to rotate. A r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20neighborhood%20problem | In mathematics, the second neighborhood problem is an unsolved problem about oriented graphs posed by Paul Seymour. Intuitively, it suggests that in a social network described by such a graph, someone will have at least as many friends-of-friends as friends.
The problem is also known as the second neighborhood conject... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Toilet%20Restaurant | Modern Toilet Restaurant () is a unique toilet-themed restaurant chain, with three branches in Taiwan.
Description
Everything in this typical three-story restaurant that occupies is based on items from a toilet room or a bathroom. The checkered tile covered walls are adorned with showerheads, while plungers hang fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RePOP | RePOP is a load-balancing proxy server specific to the POP3 protocol. It operates by answering the initial POP3 handshake and authentication request from a POP3 client. RePOP obtains the username from the USER request from the POP3 client, and then looks for the location of the user's home POP3 server in a database. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YoungJu%20Choie | YoungJu Choie (, born June 15, 1959) is a South Korean mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Her research interests include number theory and modular forms.
Education and career
Choie graduated from Ewha Womans University in 1982, and earned... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorina%20Mitrea | Dorina Irena-Rita Mitrea (born April 30, 1965) is a Romanian-American mathematician known for her work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and the theory of distributions, and in mathematics education. She is a professor of mathematics and chair of the mathematics department at Baylor University.
Edu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Collar-2 | The white collar--2 (wc-2) gene in Neurospora crassa encodes the protein White Collar-2 (WC-2). WC-2 is a GATA transcription factor necessary for blue light photoreception and for regulating circadian rhythms in Neurospora. In both contexts, WC-2 binds to its non-redundant counterpart White Collar-1 (WC-1) through PAS ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterygium | Pterygium (plural pterygia or pterygiums) refers to any wing-like triangular membrane occurring in the neck, eyes, knees, elbows, ankles or digits.
The term comes from the Greek word pterygion meaning "wing".
Types
Popliteal pterygium syndrome, a congenital condition affecting the face, limbs, or genitalia but named... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20cow%20problem | The smart cow problem is the concept that, when a group of individuals is faced with a technically difficult task, only one of their members has to solve it. When the problem has been solved once, an easily repeatable method may be developed, allowing the less technically proficient members of the group to accomplish t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20SSH%20servers | An SSH server is a software program which uses the Secure Shell protocol to accept connections from remote computers. SFTP/SCP file transfers and remote terminal connections are popular use cases for an SSH server.
General
Platform
The operating systems or virtual machines the SSH servers are designed to run on with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isostructural | Isostructural chemical compounds have similar chemical structures. "Isomorphous" when used in the relation to crystal structures is not synonymous: in addition to the same atomic connectivity that characterises isostructural compounds, isomorphous substances crystallise in the same space group and have the same unit ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Information%20Assurance%20Glossary | Committee on National Security Systems Instruction No. 4009, National Information Assurance Glossary, published by the United States federal government, is an unclassified glossary of Information security terms intended to provide a common vocabulary for discussing Information Assurance concepts.
The glossary was prev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn%20Mahoney | Carolyn Ray Boone Mahoney (born 1946) is an American mathematician who served as president of Lincoln University of Missouri. Her research interests include combinatorics, graph theory, and matroids.
Early life and education
Carolyn Mahoney was born the sixth of thirteen children in 1946 in Memphis, Tennessee to Steph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20cryptography | In tropical analysis, tropical cryptography refers to the study of a class of cryptographic protocols built upon tropical algebras. In many cases, tropical cryptographic schemes have arisen from adapting classical (non-tropical) schemes to instead rely on tropical algebras. The case for the use of tropical algebras in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET%20Gadgeteer | Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer is an open-source rapid-prototyping standard for building small electronic devices using the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio/Visual C# Express.
The Gadgeteer platform
The Gadgeteer platform centers around a Gadgeteer mainboard with a microcontroller running the .NET ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testdroid | Testdroid is a set of mobile software development and testing products by Bitbar Technologies Limited.
Company
Bitbar was founded in 2009, with offices in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wrocław, Poland, and Oulu, Finland.
Marko Kaasila is a founder and serves as chief executive officer.
Other founders included Sakari Raut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted%20bell | The inverted bell is a metaphorical name for a geometric shape that resembles a bell upside-down.
By context
In architecture, the term is applied to describe the shape of the capitals of Corinthian columns.
The inverted bell is used in shape classification in pottery, often featured in archaeology as well as in moder... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20law | Computational Law is the branch of legal informatics concerned with the automation of legal reasoning. What distinguishes Computational Law systems from other instances of legal technology is their autonomy, i.e. the ability to answer legal questions without additional input from human legal experts.
While there are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teloblast | A teloblast is a large cell in the embryos of clitellate annelids which asymmetrically divide to form many smaller cells known as blast cells. These blast cells further proliferate and differentiate to form the segmental tissues of the annelid. Teloblasts are well studied in leeches, though they are also present in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Carolina%20statistical%20areas | The U.S. currently has 20 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated four combined statistical areas, ten metropolitan statistical areas, and six micropolitan statistical areas in .
Statistical areas
The Office of Management and Budg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Boulard | Henri Boulard was a French microbiologist who discovered the yeast Saccharomyces boulardii in 1923. He noticed people chewing on the skins of lychees and mangosteens to treat diarrhea during a cholera epidemic. He isolated and identified this strain of yeast, a probiotic. He sold his patented strain of saccharomyces ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanophora%20paradoxa | Cyanophora paradoxa is a freshwater species of Glaucophyte that is used as a model organism. C. paradoxa has two cyanelles or chloroplasts where photosynthesis occurs. Cyanelles are unusual organelles in that they retain a rudimentary peptidoglycan wall. The cyanelle genome of C. paradoxa strain LB 555 was sequenced ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKIDA1 | Ski/Dach domain-containing protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SKIDA1 gene. It is also known as C10orf140 and DLN-1. It has orthologs in vertebrates. It has two domains: the Ski/Sno/Dac domain and a domain of unknown function, DUF4854. It is associated with multiple types of cancer, like leukemia, o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Nualart | David Nualart (born 21 March 1951) is a Spanish mathematician working in the field of probability theory, in particular on aspects of stochastic processes and stochastic analysis.
He obtained his PhD titled "Contribución al estudio de la integral estocástica" in 1975 at the University of Barcelona under the supervisio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3%20Babai | László "Laci" Babai (born July 20, 1950, in Budapest) is a Hungarian professor of computer science and mathematics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on computational complexity theory, algorithms, combinatorics, and finite groups, with an emphasis on the interactions between these fields.
Life
In 1968... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar%20%28mathematics%29 | A scalar is an element of a field which is used to define a vector space.
In linear algebra, real numbers or generally elements of a field are called scalars and relate to vectors in an associated vector space through the operation of scalar multiplication (defined in the vector space), in which a vector can be multipl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20death%20time | Thermal death time is how long it takes to kill a specific bacterium at a specific temperature. It was originally developed for food canning and has found applications in cosmetics, producing salmonella-free feeds for animals (e.g. poultry) and pharmaceuticals.
History
In 1895, William Lyman Underwood of the Underwood... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waledac%20botnet | Waledac, also known by its aliases Waled and Waledpak, was a botnet mostly involved in e-mail spam and malware. In March 2010 the botnet was taken down by Microsoft.
Operations
Before its eventual takedown, the Waledac botnet consisted of an estimated 70,000–90,000 computers infected with the "Waledac" computer worm.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav%20Skula | Ladislav "Ladja" Skula (born June 30, 1937) is a Czech mathematician. His work spans across topology, algebraic number theory, and the theory of ordered sets. He has published over 80 papers and notable results on the Fermat quotient.
He obtained his Dr.Sc. degree from Charles University in Prague with a thesis on "ob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potion | A potion is a liquid "that contains medicine, poison, or something that is supposed to have magic powers." It derives from the Latin word potio which refers to a drink or the act of drinking. The term philtre is also used, often specifically for a love potion, a potion that is supposed to create feelings of love or a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAT8%20regulatory%20NSL%20complex%20subunit%201 | Uncharacterized protein KIAA1267 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KIAA1267 gene.
Interactions
KIAA1267 has been shown to interact with CCDC85B. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation%20ward | In hospitals and other medical facilities, an isolation ward is a separate ward used to isolate patients with infectious diseases. Several wards for individual patients are usually placed together in an isolation unit.
Design
In an isolation unit, several measures must be implemented in order to reduce the spread of i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20workload%20protection%20platform | A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) is a computer security software aimed at securing (potentially virtual) computer machines. CWPPs are usually agent-based, meaning that a software agent is running permanently within the machine to be protected, collecting security-relevant data and events and sending those to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite%20Bowl | is a 1987 video game that simulates the traditional game of bowling. The MSX version was released for both the MSX-1 and the MSX-2 generations of the computer.
Up to five players can play on any of the 30 bowling lanes available; simulating the concept of being in a bowling league. Players can change their lane positi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20gluteal%20artery | The inferior gluteal artery (sciatic artery) is a terminal branch of the anterior trunk of the internal iliac artery. It exits the pelvis through the greater sciatic foramen. It is distributed chiefly to the buttock and the back of the thigh.
Anatomy
Origin
It is the smaller of the two terminal branches of the anter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20K.%20Smith | Martha K. Smith is an American mathematician, mathematics educator, professor emerita in the department of mathematics, and associated professor emerita in the department of statistics and data science at the University of Texas at Austin. She made contributions to non-commutative algebra and as well as to mathematics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency%20allowance | The contingency allowance is the time allocated during planning for unscheduled events. Technical and personal disruptions result in changes in the indirect production costs. The contingency allowance is calculated in special contingency time studies, the results of which yield rates for indirect production costs. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vascular%20permeability | Vascular permeability, often in the form of capillary permeability or microvascular permeability, characterizes the capacity of a blood vessel wall to allow for the flow of small molecules (drugs, nutrients, water, ions) or even whole cells (lymphocytes on their way to the site of inflammation) in and out of the vessel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrallitisation | Ferrallitisation is the process in which rock is changed into a soil consisting of clay (kaolinite) and sesquioxides, in the form of hydrated oxides of iron and aluminium. In humid tropical areas, with consistently high temperatures and rainfall for all or most of the year, chemical weathering rapidly breaks down the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20spam | Image-based spam, or image spam, is a kind of email spam where the textual spam message is embedded into images, that are then attached to spam emails. Since most of the email clients will display the image file directly to the user, the spam message is conveyed as soon as the email is opened (there is no need to furth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20security | Physical security describes security measures that are designed to deny unauthorized access to facilities, equipment, and resources and to protect personnel and property from damage or harm (such as espionage, theft, or terrorist attacks). Physical security involves the use of multiple layers of interdependent systems ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlTF | glTF (Graphics Library Transmission Format or GL Transmission Format and formerly known as WebGL Transmissions Format or WebGL TF) is a standard file format for three-dimensional scenes and models. A glTF file uses one of two possible file extensions: .gltf (JSON/ASCII) or .glb (binary). Both .gltf and .glb files may r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only%20memory%20%28joke%29 | Write-only memory (WOM), the opposite of read-only memory (ROM), began as a humorous reference to a memory device that could be written to but not read, as there seemed to be no practical use for a memory circuit from which data could not be retrieved.
However, it was eventually recognized that write-only describes ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot%20pitch | Dot pitch (sometimes called line pitch, stripe pitch, or phosphor pitch) is a specification for a computer display, computer printer, image scanner, or other pixel-based devices that describe the distance, for example, between dots (sub-pixels) on a display screen. In the case of an RGB color display, the derived unit ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling%20in%20order | In statistics, some Monte Carlo methods require independent observations in a sample to be drawn from a one-dimensional distribution in sorted order. In other words, all n order statistics are needed from the n observations in a sample. The naive method performs a sort and takes O(n log n) time. There are also O(n) alg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo%20loss | Embryo loss (also known as embryo death) is the death of an embryo at any stage of its development which in humans, is between the second through eighth week after fertilization. Failed development of an embryo often results in the disintegration and assimilation of its tissue in the uterus, known as embryo resorption.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20equations%20of%20motion | The hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) technique derived by Yoshitaka Tanimura and Ryogo Kubo in 1989, is a non-perturbative approach developed to study the evolution of a density matrix of quantum dissipative systems. The method can treat system-bath interaction non-perturbatively as well as non-Markovian noise ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20FPDP | Serial Front Panel Data Port(Serial FPDP or SFPDP) is a high speed low latency data streaming serial communication protocol. It currently supports several distinct speeds:
1.0625 Gbit/s
2.125 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
5.0 Gbit/s
6.25 Gbit/s
8.5 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
10.3125 Gbit/s
25.78125 Gbit/s
Serial FPDP also recomm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysophyllum%20cainito | Chrysophyllum cainito is a tropical tree of the family Sapotaceae. It is native to the Isthmus of Panama, where it was domesticated. It has spread to the Greater Antilles and the West Indies and is now grown throughout the tropics, including Southeast Asia. It grows rapidly and reaches 20 meters in height.
Name
The fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caramboxin | Caramboxin (CBX) is a toxin found in star fruit (Averrhoa carambola). Individuals with some types of kidney disease are susceptible to adverse neurological effects including intoxication, seizures and even death after eating star fruit. Caramboxin has been identified as the neurotoxin responsible for these effects. Ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicographic%20max-min%20optimization | Lexicographic max-min optimization (also called lexmaxmin or leximin or leximax or lexicographic max-ordering optimization) is a kind of multi-objective optimization. In general, multi-objective optimization deals with optimization problems with two or more objective functions to be optimized simultaneously. Lexmaxmin ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZiiLABS | ZiiLABS is a global electronics company, producing a line of media-oriented application processors, reference platforms and enabling software, in a series of platforms named ZMS. Its products are found in low-power consumer electronics and embedded devices, including Android-based phones and tablets.
History
ZiiLABS ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20level%20mathematics | Advanced Level (A-Level) Mathematics is a qualification of further education taken in the United Kingdom (and occasionally other countries as well). In the UK, A-Level exams are traditionally taken by 17-18 year-olds after a two-year course at a sixth form or college. Advanced Level Further Mathematics is often taken b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xojo | The Xojo programming environment and programming language is developed and commercially marketed by Xojo, Inc. of Austin, Texas for software development targeting macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, the Web and Raspberry Pi. Xojo uses a proprietary object-oriented language.
History
In 1996 FYI Software, fou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20optimization | Continuous optimization is a branch of optimization in applied mathematics.
As opposed to discrete optimization, the variables used in the objective function are required to be continuous variables—that is, to be chosen from a set of real values between which there are no gaps (values from intervals of the real line).... |
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