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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomen%20nudum | In taxonomy, a nomen nudum ('naked name'; plural nomina nuda) is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be one, but it has not been published with an adequate description. This makes it a "bare" or "naked" name, which cannot be accepted as it st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashing%20%28pejorative%29 | Bashing is a harsh, gratuitous, prejudicial attack on a person, group, or subject. Literally, bashing is a term meaning to hit or assault, but when it is used as a suffix, or in conjunction with a noun indicating the subject being attacked, it is normally used to imply that the act is motivated by bigotry.
The term is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Internet%20Policy%20and%20Public%20Interest%20Clinic | The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is a legal clinic at the University of Ottawa focused on maintaining fair and balanced policy making in Canada related to technology. Founded in the fall of 2003 by Michael Geist, its headquarters is at the University of Ottawa Faculty o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollakanth | A pollakanth is a plant that reproduces, flowers and sets seed recurrently during its life. The term was first used by Frans R. Kjellman.
Other terms with the same meaning are polycarpic and iteroparous.
Its antonym is hapaxanth.
Plant life-forms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisma%20Labs | Prisma Labs is a company based in Sunnyvale, California that launched the Prisma and Lensa apps. It was founded in 2016 by Andrey Usoltsev, Alexey Moiseenkov, and a team of Russian developers. Usoltsev is also the CEO. In 2016, the company launched the Prisma app, which uses artificial intelligence to duplicate photos ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNT2 | Potassium channel subfamily T, member 2, also known as KCNT2 is a human gene that encodes the KNa protein. KCNT2, also known as the Slick channel (sequence like an intermediate calcium channel) is an outwardly rectifying potassium channel activated by internal raises in sodium or chloride ions.
See also
SK channel
V... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide%20synthesis | In organic chemistry, peptide synthesis is the production of peptides, compounds where multiple amino acids are linked via amide bonds, also known as peptide bonds. Peptides are chemically synthesized by the condensation reaction of the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another. Protecting group st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography%20functional%20magnetic%20resonance%20imaging | EEG-fMRI (short for EEG-correlated fMRI or electroencephalography-correlated functional magnetic resonance imaging) is a multimodal neuroimaging technique whereby EEG and fMRI data are recorded synchronously for the study of electrical brain activity in correlation with haemodynamic changes in brain during the electric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheries%20and%20Marine%20Ecosystem%20Model%20Intercomparison%20Project | The Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project (Fish-MIP) is a marine biology project to compare computer models of the impact of climate change on sea life. Founded in 2013 as part of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP), it was established to answer questions about the fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20defense%20against%20herbivory | Plant defense against herbivory or host-plant resistance (HPR) is a range of adaptations evolved by plants which improve their survival and reproduction by reducing the impact of herbivores. Plants can sense being touched, and they can use several strategies to defend against damage caused by herbivores. Many plants pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain%20%28software%29 | Samhain is an integrity checker and host intrusion detection system that can be used on single hosts as well as large, UNIX-based networks. It supports central monitoring as well as powerful (and new) stealth features to run undetected in memory, using steganography.
Main features
Complete integrity check
uses cryp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetractys | The tetractys (), or tetrad, or the tetractys of the decad is a triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows: one, two, three, and four points in each row, which is the geometrical representation of the fourth triangular number. As a mystical symbol, it was very important to the secret worship of Py... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20distance | In quantum mechanics, and especially quantum information and the study of open quantum systems, the trace distance T is a metric on the space of density matrices and gives a measure of the distinguishability between two states. It is the quantum generalization of the Kolmogorov distance for classical probability distri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20performance | Loop performance in control engineering indicates the performance of control loops, such as a regulatory PID loop. Performance refers to the accuracy of a control system's ability to track (output) the desired signals to regulate the plant process variables in the most beneficial and optimised way, without delay or ove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepaea | Cepaea is a genus of large air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicidae. The shells are often brightly colored and patterned with brown stripes. The two species in this genus, C. nemoralis and C. hortensis, are widespread and common in Western and Central Europe and have b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall%20plot | Waterfall plots are often used to show how two-dimensional phenomena change over time. A three-dimensional spectral waterfall plot is a plot in which multiple curves of data, typically spectra, are displayed simultaneously. Typically the curves are staggered both across the screen and vertically, with "nearer" curves m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20sign | The division sign () is a symbol consisting of a short horizontal line with a dot above and another dot below, used in Anglophone countries to indicate mathematical division. This usage, though widespread in some countries, is not universal and the symbol has a different meaning in other countries. Its use to denote ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20repository | A software repository, or repo for short, is a storage location for software packages. Often a table of contents is also stored, along with metadata. A software repository is typically managed by source or version control, or repository managers. Package managers allow automatically installing and updating repositories... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular%20Reactive%20Routing%20protocol | Vehicular Reactive Routing protocol (VRR) is a reactive routing protocol with geographical features which is specifically designed for Wireless Access for the Vehicular Environment (WAVE) standard in Vehicular ad hoc Networks (VANETs). The protocol takes advantages of the multichannel scheme defined in WAVE and uses th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundial%20de%20F%C3%BAtbol | Mundial de Fútbol is a football sports video game released for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, MSX and MS-DOS platforms. It was created in 1990 by Opera Soft. Due to internal problems of the company it was released after the celebration of the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
Gameplay
The simulation show an upper view with goals a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noonan%20syndrome | Noonan syndrome (NS) is a genetic disorder that may present with mildly unusual facial features, short height, congenital heart disease, bleeding problems, and skeletal malformations. Facial features include widely spaced eyes, light-colored eyes, low-set ears, a short neck, and a small lower jaw. Heart problems may in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate%20capacitance | In electronics, gate capacitance is the capacitance of the gate terminal of a field-effect transistor (FET). It can be expressed as the absolute capacitance of the gate of a transistor, or as the capacitance per unit area of an integrated circuit technology, or as the capacitance per unit width of minimum-length trans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgie%20%28desktop%20environment%29 | Budgie is an independent, free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that targets the desktop metaphor. Budgie is developed by the Buddies of Budgie organization, which is composed of a team of contributors from Linux distributions such as Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon%20gamma%20release%20assay | Interferon-γ release assays (IGRA) are medical tests used in the diagnosis of some infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis. Interferon-γ (IFN-γ) release assays rely on the fact that T-lymphocytes will release IFN-γ when exposed to specific antigens. These tests are mostly developed for the field of tuberculosis ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punished%20by%20Rewards | Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes is a 1993 book by Alfie Kohn that argues against the use of rewards to incentivize behavior.
Further reading
External links
1993 non-fiction books
Behaviorism
Books about education
American non-fiction books
English ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brams%E2%80%93Taylor%20procedure | The Brams–Taylor procedure (BTP) is a procedure for envy-free cake-cutting. It explicated the first finite procedure to produce an envy-free division of a cake among any positive integer number of players.
History
In 1988, prior to the discovery of the BTP, Sol Garfunkel contended that the problem solved by the theor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy-free%20item%20allocation | Envy-free (EF) item allocation is a fair item allocation problem, in which the fairness criterion is envy-freeness - each agent should receive a bundle that they believe to be at least as good as the bundle of any other agent.
Since the items are indivisible, an EF assignment may not exist. The simplest case is when t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section%20conjecture | In anabelian geometry, a branch of algebraic geometry, the section conjecture gives a conjectural description of the splittings of the group homomorphism , where is a complete smooth curve of genus at least 2 over a field that is finitely generated over , in terms of decomposition groups of rational points of . The c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipophosphoglycan | Lipophosphoglycan (LPG) is a class of molecules found on the surface of some eukaryotes, in particular protozoa. Each is made up of two parts, lipid and polysaccharide (also called glycan). They are bonded by a phosphodiester, hence the name lipo-phospho-glycan.
One species with extensive lipophosphoglycan coating is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malgorzata%20Dubiel | Malgorzata Dubiel is a Polish mathematician and mathematics educator who works as a senior lecturer at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
Education and career
Dubiel is the daughter of a Polish military rocket scientist and engineer.
She has a Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw, supervised by theoretical c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin%20Afraimovich | Valentin Afraimovich (, 2 April 1945, Kirov, Kirov Oblast, USSR – 21 February 2018, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) was a Soviet, Russian and Mexican mathematician. He made contributions to dynamical systems theory, qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations, bifurcation theory, concept of attractor, strange attrac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcrust%20pastry | Shortcrust pastry is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart, quiche, pie, or (in the British English sense) flan. Shortcrust pastry can be used to make both sweet and savory pies such as apple pie, quiche, lemon meringue or chicken pie.
Shortcrust pastry recipes usually call for twice as much flour as fat ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygacine | Zygacine is a steroidal alkaloid of the genera Toxicoscordion, Zigadenus, Stenanthium and Anticlea of the family Melanthiaceae. These plants are commonly known and generally referred to as death camas. Death camas is prevalent throughout North America and is frequently the source of poisoning for outdoor enthusiasts ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material%20selection | Material selection is a step in the process of designing any physical object. In the context of product design, the main goal of material selection is to minimize cost while meeting product performance goals. Systematic selection of the best material for a given application begins with properties and costs of candidate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poshlib | Posh is a software framework used in cross-platform software development. It was created by Brian Hook. It is BSD licensed and , at version 1.3.002.
The Posh software framework provides a header file and an optional C source file.
Posh does not provide alternatives where a host platform does not offer a feature, but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20metal%20thiolate%20complex | Transition metal thiolate complexes are metal complexes containing thiolate ligands. Thiolates are ligands that can be classified as soft Lewis bases. Therefore, thiolate ligands coordinate most strongly to metals that behave as soft Lewis acids as opposed to those that behave as hard Lewis acids. Most complexes cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20authentication | Electronic authentication is the process of establishing confidence in user identities electronically presented to an information system. Digital authentication, or e-authentication, may be used synonymously when referring to the authentication process that confirms or certifies a person's identity and works. When use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StorSimple | StorSimple was a privately held company based in Santa Clara, California, marketing cloud storage.
History
StorSimple was funded by venture capital from Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Mayfield Fund for a total of $31.5 million.
It was founded in 2009 by former Cisco Systems and Brocade Commu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20inference%20using%20Gibbs%20sampling | Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling (BUGS) is a statistical software for performing Bayesian inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. It was developed by David Spiegelhalter at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge in 1989 and released as free software in 1991.
The BUGS proje... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol%20%28colloid%29 | A sol is a colloidal suspension made out of tiny solid particles in a continuous liquid medium. Sols are stable and exhibit the Tyndall effect, which is the scattering of light by the particles in the colloid. Examples include amongst others blood, pigmented ink, cell fluids, paint, antacids and mud.
Artificial sols ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinorhodin | Actinorhodin is a benzoisochromanequinone dimer polyketide antibiotic produced by Streptomyces coelicolor. The gene cluster responsible for actinorhodin production contains the biosynthetic enzymes and genes responsible for export of the antibiotic. The antibiotic also has the effect of being a pH indicator due to its ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger%20Lake | Tiger Lake is Intel's codename for the 11th generation Intel Core mobile processors based on the Willow Cove Core microarchitecture, manufactured using Intel's third-generation 10 nm process node known as 10SF ("10 nm SuperFin"). Tiger Lake replaces the Ice Lake family of mobile processors, representing an optimization... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes%20of%20cancer | Cancer is caused by genetic changes leading to uncontrolled cell growth and tumor formation. The basic cause of sporadic (non-familial) cancers is DNA damage and genomic instability. A minority of cancers are due to inherited genetic mutations. Most cancers are related to environmental, lifestyle, or behavioral exposur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPC%20Australia | SPC Global Limited, formerly SPC Ardmona, is an Australian-based global agribusiness that specialises in food manufacturing, in particular large fruit processing and packing and owns and operates a factory in Shepparton and is one of the biggest employers in the Goulburn Valley region.
History
Started in 1917 by a gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric%20of%20health%20and%20medicine | The rhetoric of health and medicine (or medical rhetoric) is an academic discipline concerning language and symbols in health and medicine. Rhetoric most commonly refers to the persuasive element in human interactions and is often best studied in the specific situations in which it occurs. As a subfield of rhetoric, me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equidistributed%20sequence | In mathematics, a sequence (s1, s2, s3, ...) of real numbers is said to be equidistributed, or uniformly distributed, if the proportion of terms falling in a subinterval is proportional to the length of that subinterval. Such sequences are studied in Diophantine approximation theory and have applications to Monte Carl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20scientific%20computing | The following is a timeline of scientific computing, also known as computational science.
Before modern computers
18th century
Simpson rediscovers Simpson's rule, a century after Johannes Kepler (who derived it in 1615 after seeing it used for wine barrels).
1733 – The French naturalist Comte de Buffon poses his n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching%20loop | A switching loop or bridge loop occurs in computer networks when there is more than one layer 2 path between two endpoints (e.g. multiple connections between two network switches or two ports on the same switch connected to each other). The loop creates broadcast storms as broadcasts and multicasts are forwarded by swi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelog | Pelog (, , ) is one of the essential tuning systems used in gamelan instruments that has a heptatonic scale. The other, older, scale commonly used is called slendro. Pelog has seven notes, but many gamelan ensembles only have keys for five of the pitches. Even in ensembles that have all seven notes, many pieces only us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%97%20Beruladium%20procurrens | × Beruladium procurrens is an intergeneric hybrid plant in the umbellifer family (Apiaceae); the result of hybridisation between Berula erecta (lesser water parsnip) and Helosciadium nodiflorum (fool's water cress).
Discovery
In July 1979 Max Walters collected an unidentified plant from Chippenham Fen, Cambridgeshire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20foam | Sea foam, ocean foam, beach foam, or spume is a type of foam created by the agitation of seawater, particularly when it contains higher concentrations of dissolved organic matter (including proteins, lignins, and lipids) derived from sources such as the offshore breakdown of algal blooms. These compounds can act as sur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20of%20direction | Sense of direction is the ability to know one's location and perform wayfinding. It is related to cognitive maps, spatial awareness, and spatial cognition.
Sense of direction can be impaired by brain damage, such as in the case of topographical disorientation.
Humans create spatial maps whenever they go somewhere. Neu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos%20por%20Dos | Dos por Dos (transl: Two by two) is a Philippine national radio program. It was first aired over DZMM-AM from April 24, 2000, to May 5, 2020, and was simulcast on its sister cable television channel from its launch in March 12, 2007, until July 31, 2020. It resumed airing over DZRH and DZRH News Television on August 31... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20carbonate | Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula . It is a common substance found in rocks as the minerals calcite and aragonite, most notably in chalk and limestone, eggshells, gastropod shells, shellfish skeletons and pearls. Materials containing much calcium carbonate or resembling it are described... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/140th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 140° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The line is the divider in the area of warning responsibility between the National Hurricane Center and the Centra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least%20fixed%20point | In order theory, a branch of mathematics, the least fixed point (lfp or LFP, sometimes also smallest fixed point) of a function from a partially ordered set to itself is the fixed point which is less than each other fixed point, according to the order of the poset. A function need not have a least fixed point, but if i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Corby | Peter John Siddons Corby (8 July 1924 – 5 August 2021) was a British inventor. He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve after leaving school and served as a flight engineer with No. 78 Squadron RAF in the last weeks of the Second World War. Corby remained with the RAF after the war serving in teaching and main... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a vertex (: vertices or vertexes) is a point where two or more curves, lines, or edges meet or intersect. As a consequence of this definition, the point where two lines meet to form an angle and the corners of polygons and polyhedra are vertices.
Definition
Of an angle
The vertex of an angle is the poin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining%20software%20repositories | Within software engineering, the mining software repositories (MSR) field analyzes the rich data available in software repositories, such as version control repositories, mailing list archives, bug tracking systems, issue tracking systems, etc. to uncover interesting and actionable information about software systems,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLC22A24 | Solute carrier family 22 member 24 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC22A24 gene.
Function
SLC22A24 belongs to a large family of transmembrane proteins that function as uniporters, symporters, and antiporters to transport organic ions across cell membranes (Jacobsson et al., 2007 [PubMed 17714910]). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changestat | Changestat is a continuous cultivation method that is used for acquiring quantitative data of a microorganism's metabolism at various environmental conditions within a single experiment. Every changestat always starts as a continuous cultivation experiment (chemostat, turbidostat), but after reaching steady state, smoo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMWF%20re-analysis | The ECMWF reanalysis project is a meteorological reanalysis project carried out by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
The first reanalysis product, ERA-15, generated reanalyses for approximately 15 years, from December 1978 to February 1994. The second product, ERA-40 (originally intended ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscopic%20traffic%20flow%20model | Microscopic traffic flow models are a class of scientific models of vehicular traffic dynamics.
In contrast, to macroscopic models, microscopic traffic flow models simulate single vehicle-driver units, so the dynamic variables of the models represent microscopic properties like the position and velocity of single vehi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle%20Computer | Eagle Computer, Inc., was an early American computer company based in Los Gatos, California. Spun off from Audio-Visual Laboratories (AVL), it first sold a line of popular CP/M computers which were highly praised in the computer magazines of the day. After the IBM PC was launched, Eagle produced the Eagle 1600 series... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unipolar%20encoding | Unipolar encoding is a line code. A positive voltage represents a binary 1, and zero volts indicates a binary 0. It is the simplest line code, directly encoding the bitstream, and is analogous to on-off keying in modulation.
Its drawbacks are that it is not self-clocking and it has a significant DC component, which ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Embedded%20Industry | Windows Embedded Industry, formerly Windows Embedded POSReady and Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS), is an operating system subfamily developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows Embedded family of products. Based on Windows NT, Windows Embedded Industry is designed for use in industrial devices such as ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapour%20pressure%20thermometer | A vapour pressure thermometer is a thermometer that uses a pressure gauge to measure the vapour pressure of a liquid. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%20Nature | Mother Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth or the Earth Mother) is a personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it, in the form of the mother.
European tradition history
The word "nature" comes from the Latin word, "natura", meaning birth or character [s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge%20theory%20gravity | Gauge theory gravity (GTG) is a theory of gravitation cast in the mathematical language of geometric algebra. To those familiar with general relativity, it is highly reminiscent of the tetrad formalism although there are significant conceptual differences. Most notably, the background in GTG is flat, Minkowski spacet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Freudenthal | Hans Freudenthal (17 September 1905 – 13 October 1990) was a Jewish German-born Dutch mathematician. He made substantial contributions to algebraic topology and also took an interest in literature, philosophy, history and mathematics education.
Biography
Freudenthal was born in Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, on 17 Septemb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness%20and%20mathematical%20ability | Researchers have suggested a link between handedness and ability with mathematics. This link has been proposed by Geschwind, Galaburda, Annett, and Kilshaw. The suggested link is that a brain without extreme bias towards locating language in the left hemisphere would have an advantage in mathematical ability.
Body o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20Atmosphere%20Ocean%20project | The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) project is a major international effort that instrumented the entire tropical Pacific Ocean with approximately 70 deep ocean moorings. The development of the TAO array in 1985 was motivated by the 1982-1983 El Niño event and ultimately designed for the study of year-to-year climate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval%20vector | In musical set theory, an interval vector is an array of natural numbers which summarize the intervals present in a set of pitch classes. (That is, a set of pitches where octaves are disregarded.) Other names include: ic vector (or interval-class vector), PIC vector (or pitch-class interval vector) and APIC vector (o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interspecies%20family | The term "interspecies family" refers to a group consisting of at least two members of different species who deeply care for each other. Examples include a human and their dog, a couple and their cats, a dog and a cat, or even a mule and a sheep. The emphasis is on love and that the members of the group care for and tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20%26%20Lane%27s%20Ident%20Tones%20for%20Surround | Black & Lane's Ident Tones for Surround (BLITS) is a way of keeping track of channels in a mixed surround-sound, stereo, and mono world. It was developed by Martin Black and Keith Lane of Sky TV London in 2004. BLITS is used by Sky, the BBC and other European and US broadcasters to identify and lineup 5.1 broadcast cir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaraDNS | MaraDNS is an open-source (BSD licensed) Domain Name System (DNS) implementation, which acts as either a caching, recursive, or authoritative nameserver.
Features
MaraDNS has a string library, which is buffer overflow resistant and has its own random number generator. While MaraDNS does not directly support BIND zone... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger%20%28particle%20physics%29 | In particle physics, a trigger is a system that uses criteria to rapidly decide which events in a particle detector to keep when only a small fraction of the total can be recorded. Trigger systems are necessary due to real-world limitations in computing power, data storage capacity and rates. Since experiments are typi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemorepulsion | Chemorepulsion is the directional movement of a cell away from a substance. Of the two directional varieties of chemotaxis, chemoattraction has been studied to a much greater extent. Only recently have the key components of the chemorepulsive pathway been elucidated. The exact mechanism is still being investigated, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP%20Argon%20Programme | The WIMP Argon Programme (WARP) is an experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, for the research of cold dark matter. It aims to detect nuclear recoils in liquid argon induced by weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) through scintillation light; the apparatus can also detect ionization so to exclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luliconazole | Luliconazole, trade names Luzu among others, is an imidazole antifungal medication. As a 1% topical cream, It is indicated for the treatment of athlete's foot, jock itch, and ringworm caused by dermatophytes such as Trichophyton rubrum, Microsporum gypseum and ''Epidermophyton floccosum. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20memory | In computer science, distributed memory refers to a multiprocessor computer system in which each processor has its own private memory. Computational tasks can only operate on local data, and if remote data are required, the computational task must communicate with one or more remote processors. In contrast, a shared me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcriptional%20noise | Transcriptional noise is a primary cause of the variability (noise) in gene expression occurring between cells in isogenic populations (see also cellular noise) . A proposed source of transcriptional noise is transcriptional bursting although other sources of heterogeneity, such as unequal separation of cell contents... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeRTOS | BeRTOS is a real-time operating system designed for embedded systems.
It is free and open-source software released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2) or later, with a special exception granting proprietary applications the right to keep their source code closed while keeping the base BeRTOS code o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Williams%20%28educationist%29 | Elizabeth Williams (née Larby, formerly Emily May; 29 January 1895 – 29 March 1986) was a British mathematician and educationist.
Life
Williams was born on 29 January 1895 in Pimlico, London. She studied in Chelsea and Forest Gate during her childhood, and at the age of 16 began attending Bedford College, University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot%20code | The Baudot code () is an early character encoding for telegraphy invented by Émile Baudot in the 1870s. It was the predecessor to the International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 (ITA2), the most common teleprinter code in use before ASCII. Each character in the alphabet is represented by a series of five bits, sent over a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almeron%20Durkee%20House | The Almeron Durkee House is a historic house located at 13 Cayuga Street (NY-90) in Union Springs, Cayuga County, New York.
Description and history
It was built about 1820 and is a "remarkably intact" two-story, three-bay wide, side-hall stone dwelling in the Federal style. Attached to the main block are a -story win... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachbin%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, in the area of complex analysis, Nachbin's theorem (named after Leopoldo Nachbin) is commonly used to establish a bound on the growth rates for an analytic function. This article provides a brief review of growth rates, including the idea of a function of exponential type. Classification of growth rates... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPDFamily.com | BPDFamily.com is an online support group for the family members of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD). The group is one of the first "cyber" support groups to be recognized by the medical providers and receive professional referrals.
BPDFamily.com provides articles and message boards for family mem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabotropic%20receptor | A metabotropic receptor, also referred to by the broader term G-protein-coupled receptor, is a type of membrane receptor that initiates a number of metabolic steps to modulate cell activity. The nervous system utilizes two types of receptors: metabotropic and ionotropic receptors. While ionotropic receptors form an io... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-semi-inner%20product | In mathematics, there are two different notions of semi-inner-product. The first, and more common, is that of an inner product which is not required to be strictly positive. This article will deal with the second, called a L-semi-inner product or semi-inner product in the sense of Lumer, which is an inner product not r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinematics | Kinematics is a subfield of physics, developed in classical mechanics, that describes the motion of points, bodies (objects), and systems of bodies (groups of objects) without considering the forces that cause them to move. Kinematics, as a field of study, is often referred to as the "geometry of motion" and is occasio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality%20of%20reference | In computer science, locality of reference, also known as the principle of locality, is the tendency of a processor to access the same set of memory locations repetitively over a short period of time. There are two basic types of reference locality temporal and spatial locality. Temporal locality refers to the reuse of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple%20Penelope | Purple Penelope was a demonstration secure system created by the Defence Research Agency (DRA) in the UK. Its aim was to show that the security functionality of Windows NT could be extended to support users handling classified information.
Security Model
Purple Penelope implemented the Domain Based Security model ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcl-x%20interacting%20domain | In molecular biology, the Bcl-x interacting domain is a protein domain found in BAM, Bim and Bcl2-like protein 11. It is a long alpha helix, which is required for interaction with Bcl-x. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Turing%20Test%20%28video%20game%29 | The Turing Test is a first-person puzzle video game developed by Bulkhead Interactive and published by Square Enix Collective. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One in August 2016, for PlayStation 4 in January 2017, for Nintendo Switch in February 2020, and for Stadia in May 2020.
Gameplay
The Turin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen%20Nesper | Eugen Heinrich Josef Nesper (5 July 1879 – 3 May 1961) was a German radio pioneer and high-frequency technician.
Life
Eugen Nesper was born in Meiningen, and studied electrical engineering and economics until 1902 at the Technische Hochschule (technical high-school) in Charlottenburg. He experimented in wireless tele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 60° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The mean solar time of this meridian is the base for the Atlantic Time Zone (UTC-4 durin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry%20%28DHT%29 | Pastry is an overlay network and routing network for the implementation of a distributed hash table (DHT) similar to Chord. The key–value pairs are stored in a redundant peer-to-peer network of connected Internet hosts. The protocol is bootstrapped by supplying it with the IP address of a peer already in the network an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%2C%20Water%20Every%20Hare | Water, Water Every Hare is a 1952 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. The cartoon was released on April 19, 1952 and stars Bugs Bunny. The short is a return to the themes of the 1946 cartoon Hair-Raising Hare and brings the monster Gossamer back to the screen.
The title is a pun on the line "Wat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence%20polarization%20immunoassay | Fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) is a class of in vitro biochemical test used for rapid detection of antibody or antigen in sample. FPIA is a competitive homogenous assay, that consists of a simple prepare and read method, without the requirement of separation or washing steps.
The basis of the assay is fl... |
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