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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigi%20%28software%29 |
Rigi is an interactive graph editor tool for software reverse engineering using the white box method, i.e. necessitating source code, thus it is mainly aimed at program comprehension. Rigi is distributed by its main author, Hausi A. Müller and the Rigi research group at the University of Victoria.
Rigi provides inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnerat%27s%20shrew | Sonnerat's shrew (Diplomesodon sonnerati or Crocidura sonnerati) is a species of shrew that was first described by Pierre Sonnerat from Pondicherry somewhere in 1813.
Description
It was described as being larger than the commoner Suncus murinus and without a musky smell. Males were shiny black with a white band or pat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrosomonas%20europaea | Nitrosomonas europaea is a Gram-negative obligate chemolithoautotroph that can derive all its energy and reductant for growth from the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite and lives in several places such as soil, sewage, freshwater, the walls of buildings and on the surface of monuments especially in polluted areas where t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overclocking | In computing, overclocking is the practice of increasing the clock rate of a computer to exceed that certified by the manufacturer. Commonly, operating voltage is also increased to maintain a component's operational stability at accelerated speeds. Semiconductor devices operated at higher frequencies and voltages incre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic%20scale | The chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the interval of a semitone. Chromatic instruments, such as the piano, are made to produce the chromatic scale, while other instruments capable of continuously variable pitc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruit | Gruit (alternately grut or gruyt) is a herb mixture used for bittering and flavouring beer, popular before the extensive use of hops. The terms gruit and grut ale may also refer to the beverage produced using gruit. Historically, gruit is the term used in the historic Low Countries and the Holy Roman Empire (westernmos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolest%20Cooler | The Coolest Cooler was a multi-function cooler that was initially funded through the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. In the summer of 2014, Ryan Grepper raised over $13 million, making it the most funded Kickstarter campaign of 2014. In December 2019, the company announced that it was closing, with over 20,000 of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samara%20flag | The Samara Flag (, Samarsko zname, , Samarskoye znamya) is a historical military symbol of the Bulgarian Army.
History
The flag was woven by local nuns and given to the Bulgarian volunteers during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 by inhabitants of the Russian city of Samara, on 18 May 1877.
The flag became famous a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoundMe | RoundMe is a virtual tour application which allows users to create, upload and share 360 degree panoramic photos and multimedia content of real spaces, that users could visit virtually using Google Cardboard or any VR headsets. The app is available on the web, iOS and Android. Roundme was positioned as one of the Best ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagonal%20lemma | In mathematical logic, the diagonal lemma (also known as diagonalization lemma, self-reference lemma or fixed point theorem) establishes the existence of self-referential sentences in certain formal theories of the natural numbers—specifically those theories that are strong enough to represent all computable functions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Rip | In physical cosmology, the Big Rip is a hypothetical cosmological model concerning the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the matter of the universe, from stars and galaxies to atoms and subatomic particles, and even spacetime itself, is progressively torn apart by the expansion of the universe at a certain time i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20GABRIEL | Project GABRIEL was an investigation to gauge the impact of nuclear fallout resulting from nuclear warfare. The United States Atomic Energy Commission surmised that the radioactive isotope strontium-90 (Sr-90) presented the greatest hazard to life globally, which resulted in the commissioning of Project SUNSHINE: which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoluchowski%20coagulation%20equation | In statistical physics, the Smoluchowski coagulation equation is a population balance equation introduced by Marian Smoluchowski in a seminal 1916 publication, describing the time evolution of the number density of particles as they coagulate (in this context "clumping together") to size x at time t.
Simultaneous coag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benthic%20boundary%20layer | The benthic boundary layer (BBL) is the layer of water directly above the sediment at the bottom of a body of water (river, lake, or sea, etc.). Through specific sedimentation processes, certain organisms are able to live in this deep layer of water. The BBL is generated by the friction of the water moving over the sur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon | In physics, a phonon is a collective excitation in a periodic, elastic arrangement of atoms or molecules in condensed matter, specifically in solids and some liquids. A type of quasiparticle, a phonon is an excited state in the quantum mechanical quantization of the modes of vibrations for elastic structures of interac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve%20conduction%20study | A nerve conduction study (NCS) is a medical diagnostic test commonly used to evaluate the function, especially the ability of electrical conduction, of the motor and sensory nerves of the human body. These tests may be performed by medical specialists such as clinical neurophysiologists, physical therapists, physiatris... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2%20port | The PS/2 port is a 6-pin mini-DIN connector used for connecting keyboards and mice to a PC compatible computer system. Its name comes from the IBM Personal System/2 series of personal computers, with which it was introduced in 1987. The PS/2 mouse connector generally replaced the older DE-9 RS-232 "serial mouse" connec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-Net | MS-Net, sometimes stylized as MS-NET, was a network operating system sold by Microsoft in the 1980s, the earliest days of local area networking.
Overview
MS-Net was not a complete networking system of its own; Microsoft licensed it to vendors who used it as the basis for server programs that ran on MS-DOS, porting it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20distribution%20function | In statistical mechanics, the radial distribution function, (or pair correlation function) in a system of particles (atoms, molecules, colloids, etc.), describes how density varies as a function of distance from a reference particle.
If a given particle is taken to be at the origin O, and if is the average number de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliopectineal%20line | The iliopectineal line is the border of the iliopubic eminence. It can be defined as a compound structure of the arcuate line (from the ilium) and pectineal line (from the pubis). With the sacral promontory, it makes up the linea terminalis.
The Iliopectineal line divides the pelvis into the pelvis major (false pelvis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocket | iSocket is a technology platform aiming to simplify guaranteed media sales. iSocket has two products: iSocket for Publishers (iFP) and iSocket for Advertisers (iFA). iFP is a suite of sales automation and programmatic direct tools that help publisher sales teams streamline the direct sales process. iFA is an automated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartouche%20%28design%29 | A cartouche (also cartouch) is an oval or oblong design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low-relief design. Since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian . Such cartouches are characteri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AhmadiPedia | AhmadiPedia (; a portmanteau of "The Ahmadiyya Encyclopaedia") is an online encyclopedia dedicated to the study of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. It is edited and maintained by the Ahmadiyya Archive & Research Centre (ARC) and is an official publication of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat.
Background
According ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20consistency%20%28finance%29 | Time consistency in the context of finance is the property of not having mutually contradictory evaluations of risk at different points in time. This property implies that if investment A is considered riskier than B at some future time, then A will also be considered riskier than B at every prior time.
Time consisten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Studio | Cyber Studio CAD-3D (or just CAD-3D) is a 3D modeling and animation package developed by Tom Hudson for the Atari ST computer and published by Antic Software. The package is a precursor to 3D Studio Max.
CAD-3D is a basic polygonal 3D modeling and rendering program. An operator can assemble a scene out of geometric pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beswick%20Pottery | John Beswick Ltd, formerly J. W. Beswick, was a pottery manufacturer, founded in 1894 by James Wright Beswick and his sons John and Gilbert in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. In 1969, the business was sold to Doulton & Co. Ltd. The factory closed in 2002 and the brand John Beswick was sold in 2004. The pottery was chiefly kn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olericulture | Olericulture is the science of vegetable growing, dealing with the culture of non-woody (herbaceous) plants for food.
Olericulture is the production of plants for use of the edible parts. Vegetable crops can be classified into nine major categories:
Potherbs and greens – spinach and collards
Salad crops – lettuce,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early-onset%20Alzheimer%27s%20disease | Early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD), also called younger-onset Alzheimer's disease (YOAD), is Alzheimer's disease diagnosed before the age of 65. It is an uncommon form of Alzheimer's, accounting for only 5–10% of all Alzheimer's cases. About 60% have a positive family history of Alzheimer's and 13% of them are inhe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate%20choice | Mate choice is one of the primary mechanisms under which evolution can occur. It is characterized by a "selective response by animals to particular stimuli" which can be observed as behavior. In other words, before an animal engages with a potential mate, they first evaluate various aspects of that mate which are indic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%20protection | Planetary protection is a guiding principle in the design of an interplanetary mission, aiming to prevent biological contamination of both the target celestial body and the Earth in the case of sample-return missions. Planetary protection reflects both the unknown nature of the space environment and the desire of the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20cellulose | Ethyl cellulose (or ethylcellulose) is a derivative of cellulose in which some of the hydroxyl groups on the repeating glucose units are converted into ethyl ether groups. The number of ethyl groups can vary depending on the manufacturer.
It is mainly used as a thin-film coating material for coating paper, vitamin an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading-order%20term | The leading-order terms (or corrections) within a mathematical equation, expression or model are the terms with the largest order of magnitude. The sizes of the different terms in the equation(s) will change as the variables change, and hence, which terms are leading-order may also change.
A common and powerful way of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overspecialization | Overspecialization is when a person works in an excessively narrow occupation or scientific field.
Effects
In work
In the workplace, specialization of labor is used to divide up the workload in a manner that improves efficiency. However, holders of overspecialized positions tend to perform repetitive jobs, leading to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush%20hid%20the%20facts | Bush hid the facts is a common name for a bug present in some versions of Microsoft Windows, which causes text encoded in ASCII to be interpreted as if it were UTF-16LE, resulting in garbled text. When the string "Bush hid the facts", without quotes, was put in a new Notepad document and saved, closed, and reopened, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braitenberg%20vehicle | A Braitenberg vehicle is a concept conceived in a thought experiment by the Italian-Austrian cyberneticist Valentino Braitenberg. The book models the animal world in a minimalistic and constructive way, from simple reactive behaviours (like phototaxis) through the simplest vehicles, to the formation of concepts, spatia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20product%20of%20algebras | In mathematics, the tensor product of two algebras over a commutative ring R is also an R-algebra. This gives the tensor product of algebras. When the ring is a field, the most common application of such products is to describe the product of algebra representations.
Definition
Let R be a commutative ring and let A an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy%E2%80%93Hook%20coaddition%20method | The Lucy–Hook coaddition method is an image processing technique for combining sub-stepped astronomical image data onto a finer grid. The method allows the option of resolution and contrast enhancement or the choice of a conservative, re-convolved, output.
Tests with very deep Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20recurrence%20with%20constant%20coefficients | In mathematics (including combinatorics, linear algebra, and dynamical systems), a linear recurrence with constant coefficients (also known as a linear recurrence relation or linear difference equation) sets equal to 0 a polynomial that is linear in the various iterates of a variable—that is, in the values of the eleme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tg-PVR%20mouse | Tg-PVR mouse is a transgenic mouse, developed at the Central Institute for Experimental Animals (CIEA), carrying the human poliovirus receptor (PVR) gene, to be used in testing the neurovirulence of oral polio vaccine (OPV). The neurovirulent safety and consistency of OPV had been traditionally assayed in the monkey ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20groupoid | In abstract algebra, a partial groupoid (also called halfgroupoid, pargoid, or partial magma) is a set endowed with a partial binary operation.
A partial groupoid is a partial algebra.
Partial semigroup
A partial groupoid is called a partial semigroup (also called semigroupoid, semicategory, naked category, or pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20dimensioning%20and%20tolerancing | Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) is a system for defining and communicating engineering tolerances via a symbolic language on engineering drawings and computer-generated 3D models that describes a physical object's nominal geometry and the permissible variation thereof. GD&T is used to define the nominal (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRST%20quantization | In theoretical physics, the BRST formalism, or BRST quantization (where the BRST refers to the last names of Carlo Becchi, Alain Rouet, Raymond Stora and Igor Tyutin) denotes a relatively rigorous mathematical approach to quantizing a field theory with a gauge symmetry. Quantization rules in earlier quantum field theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20birefringence | When values of birefingence are very high, the property is termed giant birefringence which more generically is called giant optical anisotropy. Values for giant birefringence exceed 0.3. Much bigger numbers (over 2.0) are termed "colossal birefringence". These are achieved using nanostructures.
Some oxides, for examp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp%20ash | Swamp ash is a common name for several North American trees in the genus Fraxinus which may grow in swamps and other wetlands. The wood of swamp ashes is relatively low in density and is used in the construction of musical instruments, particularly electric guitars.
Swamp ash may refer to:
Fraxinus caroliniana, nativ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCAL%20character%20set | In computing FOCAL character set refers to a group of 8-bit single byte character sets introduced by Hewlett-Packard since 1979. It was used in several RPN calculators supporting the FOCAL programming language, like the HP-41C/CV/CX as well as the later HP-42S, which was introduced in 1988 and produced up to 1995. As s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCR/DVD%20combo | A VCR/DVD combination, VCR/DVD combo, or DVD/VCR combo, is a multiplex or converged device that allows the ability to watch both VHS tapes and DVDs. Many such players can also play additional formats such as CD and VCD.
VCR/DVD player combinations were first introduced around the year 1999, with the first model relea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resilience%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematical modeling, resilience refers to the ability of a dynamical system to recover from perturbations and return to its original stable steady state. It is a measure of the stability and robustness of a system in the face of changes or disturbances. If a system is not resilient enough, it is more susceptible t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitude%20%28astronomy%29 | In astronomy, magnitude is measure of the brightness of an object, usually in a defined passband. An imprecise but systematic determination of the magnitude of objects was introduced in ancient times by Hipparchus.
Magnitude values do not have a unit. The scale is logarithmic and defined such that a magnitude 1 star i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azzopardi%20phenomenon | The Azzopardi phenomenon, or Azzopardi effect, is the presence of DNA in necrotic venules. It can occur in small cell carcinomas and in some high-grade malignant neoplasms. The effect is well known in diagnostic surgical pathology. The phenomenon is named after the pathologist, John G. Azzopardi.
Azzopardi was able... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking%20%28molecular%29 | In the field of molecular modeling, docking is a method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when a ligand and a target are bound to each other to form a stable complex. Knowledge of the preferred orientation in turn may be used to predict the strength of association or binding affinity ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipset | In a computer system, a chipset is a set of electronic components on one or more ULSI integrated circuits known as a "Data Flow Management System" that manages the data flow between the processor, memory and peripherals. It is usually found on the motherboard of computers. Chipsets are usually designed to work with a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20malate | Potassium malate is a compound with formula K2(C2H4O(COO)2). It is the potassium salt of malic acid.
As a food additive, it has the E number E351. It is used as acidity regulator or acidifier for use in, for example, canned vegetables, soups, sauces, fruit products, and soft drinks. It also acts as an antioxidant and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocFetcher | DocFetcher is a free and open source desktop search application. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and is written in Java. The application has a graphical user interface, which is written using the Standard Widget Toolkits.
The program is an indexing search tool, meaning it has a local database of file content t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 47° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 47th meridian west forms a great circle with the 133rd meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket%20prairie | A pocket prairie is a small, artificially created, self-sustaining area of land where forbs and plants predominate. Oftentimes these plants are native. Pocket prairies are typically found in urban and suburban areas where there exists a lack of vegetation and wildlife (e.g. vacant lots, backyards, green spaces). These ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermomechanical%20analysis | Thermomechanical analysis (TMA) is a technique used in thermal analysis, a branch of materials science which studies the properties of materials as they change with temperature.
Thermomechanical analysis is a subdiscipline of the thermomechanometry (TM) technique.
Related techniques and terminology
Thermomechanometry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermofilum | Thermofilum is a genus of archaea in the family Thermofilaceae.
Thermofilum pendens is a hyperthermic member of the archael kingdom Crenarchaeota, and represents a deep branch in the order Thermoproteales. T. pendens lacks the genes for purine nucleotide biosynthesis and thus relies on environmental sources to meet i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onverwacht%20Group | The Onverwacht Group or Onverwacht Series is a series of greenstone belts and volcanic rock formations from the Archean Eon in the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa and Eswatini.
A well known part of the Onverwacht Series is visible in the Komati valley, located in the east of the Transvaal region.
Subdivision
The Onv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20decentralized%20system | An autonomous decentralized system (or ADS) is a decentralized system composed of modules or components that are designed to operate independently but are capable of interacting with each other to meet the overall goal of the system. This design paradigm enables the system to continue to function in the event of compon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap%20set | In affine geometry, a cap set is a subset of (an -dimensional affine space over a three-element field) with no three elements in a line.
The cap set problem is the problem of finding the size of the largest possible cap set, as a function of . The first few cap set sizes are 1, 2, 4, 9, 20, 45, 112, ... .
Cap sets ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterbenz%20lemma | In floating-point arithmetic, the Sterbenz lemma or Sterbenz's lemma is a theorem giving conditions under which floating-point differences are computed exactly.
It is named after Pat H. Sterbenz, who published a variant of it in 1974.
The Sterbenz lemma applies to IEEE 754, the most widely used floating-point number s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashruth%20Council%20of%20Canada | Kashruth Council of Canada (better known as COR), is a kosher certification agency in Canada. It is best known for its kosher supervision service, with the COR symbol found on the labels of many commercial and consumer food products. The council serves 1,000 facilities that provide 70,000 products to Canadian consumers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-set%20registration | In computer vision, pattern recognition, and robotics, point-set registration, also known as point-cloud registration or scan matching, is the process of finding a spatial transformation (e.g., scaling, rotation and translation) that aligns two point clouds. The purpose of finding such a transformation includes merging... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME | MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. Its intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin%20%28character%29 | Tintin (; ) is the titular protagonist of The Adventures of Tintin, the comic series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The character was created in 1929 and introduced in , a weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper . Appearing as a young man with a round face and quiff hairstyle, Tintin is depicted as a precocious,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBPF3 | Neuroblastoma breakpoint family, member 3, also known as NBPF3, is a human gene of the neuroblastoma breakpoint family, which resides on chromosome 1 of the human genome. NBPF3 is located at 1p36.12, immediately upstream of genes ALPL and RAP1GAP.
Protein sequence
The NBPF3 gene is 633 amino acids long and contains ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuzyk%20quantum%20gap | The Kuzyk quantum gap is a discrepancy between the maximum value of the nonlinear-optical susceptibility allowed by quantum mechanics and the highest values actually observed in real molecules. The highest possible value (in theory) is known as the Kuzyk limit, after its discoverer Professor Mark G. Kuzyk of Washington... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonite | Macedonite is a mineral named by Radusinović and Markov in 1971. It has the elemental formula PbTiO3 and exhibits tetragonal crystal system. The type locality is near Crni Kamen, Selecka Planina, Prilep Municipality, North Macedonia. It can be confused with perovskite. It is found in an amazonite-rich area.
Fame
Lead ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuculose | Fuculose or 6-deoxy-tagatose is a ketohexose deoxy sugar. Fuculose is involved in the process of sugar metabolism. -Fuculose can be formed from -fucose by -fucose isomerase and converted to L-fuculose-1-phosphate by -fuculose kinase.
See also
-fuculose-phosphate aldolase
-fuculosekinase |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Agroforestry%20Centre | World Agroforestry (a brand name used by the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, ICRAF) is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and founded in 1978 as "International Council for Research in Agroforestry". The centre specializes in the sustainable management, protection and regulati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PatientsLikeMe | PatientsLikeMe is an integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform. The platform currently has over 830,000 members who are dealing with more than 2,900 conditions. Data generated by patients themselves are systemically collected and quantified with the goal of providing an environment for peer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20metallopeptidase%2013 | Collagenase 3 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the MMP13 gene. It is a member of the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) family. Like most MMPs, it is secreted as an inactive pro-form. MMP-13 has an predicted molecular weight around 54 kDa. It is activated once the pro-domain is cleaved, leaving an active enzyme co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-platform%20support%20middleware | A cross-platform support middleware (CPSM) is a software abstraction layer that guarantees the existence, and correct implementation, of a set of services on top a set of platforms.
Abstraction method
The abstraction method in the CPSM development is the method used to compile the concrete source code for a given plat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%20%28graphics%20chip%29 | Hollywood is the name of the graphics processing unit (GPU) used in Nintendo's Wii video game console. It was designed by ATI (now AMD), and is manufactured using the same 90 nm or 65 nm (depending on the hardware revision) CMOS process as Broadway, the Wii's central processing unit. Very few official details about Hol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Map%20of%20the%20World | The International Map of the World (IMW; also the Millionth Map of the World, after its scale of 1:1000000) was a project to create a complete map of the world according to internationally agreed standards. It was first proposed by the German geographer Albrecht Penck in 1891.
The Central Bureau of the Map of the Wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20national%20flowers | In a number of countries, plants have been chosen as symbols to represent specific geographic areas. Some countries have a country-wide floral emblem; others in addition have symbols representing subdivisions. Different processes have been used to adopt these symbols – some are conferred by government bodies, whereas o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebuthiuron | Tebuthiuron is a nonselective broad spectrum herbicide of the urea class. It is used in a number of herbicides manufactured by Dow AgroSciences, and is sold under several trade names, depending on the formulation. It is used to control weeds, woody and herbaceous plants, and sugar cane. It is absorbed by the roots an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLEIL | SOLEIL ("Sun" in French) is a synchrotron facility near Paris, France. It performed its first acceleration of electrons on May 14, 2006. The name SOLEIL is a backronym for Source optimisée de lumière d’énergie intermédiaire du LURE (LURE optimised intermediary energy light source), LURE meaning Laboratoire pour l'utili... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20physics | Applied physics is the application of physics to solve scientific or engineering problems. It is usually considered a bridge or a connection between physics and engineering.
"Applied" is distinguished from "pure" by a subtle combination of factors, such as the motivation and attitude of researchers and the nature of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Association | The Mathematical Association is a professional society concerned with mathematics education in the UK.
History
It was founded in 1871 as the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching and renamed to the Mathematical Association in 1894. It was the first teachers' subject organisation formed in England. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin%20Hangos | Katalin M. Hangos is a Hungarian chemical engineer whose research concerns control theory and chemical process modeling. She is a research professor in the Systems and Control Laboratory of the Institute for Computer Science and Control of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a professor of electrical engineering and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroma%20of%20iris | The stroma of the iris is a fibrovascular layer of tissue. It is the upper layer of two in the iris.
Structure
The stroma is a delicate interlacement of fibres. Some circle the circumference of the iris and the majority radiate toward the pupil. Blood vessels and nerves intersperse this mesh.
In dark eyes, the stroma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change%20of%20rings | In algebra, a change of rings is an operation of changing a coefficient ring to another.
Constructions
Given a ring homomorphism , there are three ways to change the coefficient ring of a module; namely, for a right R-module M and a right S-module N, one can form
, the induced module, formed by extension of scalars,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical%20presentism | Philosophical presentism is the view that only present entities exist (or, equivalently, that everything is present). According to presentism, there are no past or future entities. In a sense, the past and the future do not exist for presentists—past events have happened (have existed) and future events will happen (wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal%20bond | A paternal bond is the human bond between a father and his child.
Father-infant bonding
Infants can become attached to their fathers. Mother-infant bonding has been a common focus in household research; however, more studies in the United States and Europe have been focused on the details of father-children attachment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus%20subaureus | Suillus subaureus is a rare species of bolete fungus in the family Suillaceae. It is found in North America, where it associates with deciduous trees. Originally described in 1887 by Charles Horton Peck, it was transferred to genus Suillus by Wally Snell in 1944. Fruitbodies are pale yellow—reflecting its specific epit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTPS | SMTPS (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Secure) is a method for securing the SMTP using transport layer security. It is intended to provide authentication of the communication partners, as well as data integrity and confidentiality.
SMTPS is neither a proprietary protocol nor an extension of SMTP. It is a way to secure... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20code | In coding theory, a linear code is an error-correcting code for which any linear combination of codewords is also a codeword. Linear codes are traditionally partitioned into block codes and convolutional codes, although turbo codes can be seen as a hybrid of these two types. Linear codes allow for more efficient encodi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20P.%20Boas%20Jr. | Ralph Philip Boas Jr. (August 8, 1912 – July 25, 1992) was a mathematician, teacher, and journal editor. He wrote over 200 papers, mainly in the fields of real and complex analysis.
Biography
He was born in Walla Walla, Washington, the son of an English professor at Whitman College, but moved frequently as a child; ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy%20barrel | The bankruptcy barrel is a visual symbol, primarily of the 20th century, used in cartoons and other media as a token of destitution. Not intended to be realistic, it consists of a suit made of only a wooden barrel held on by suspenders, indicating that the subject is so poor that he is unable to afford even clothes. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supraspinous%20fossa | The supraspinous fossa (supraspinatus fossa, supraspinatous fossa) of the posterior aspect of the scapula (the shoulder blade) is smaller than the infraspinous fossa, concave, smooth, and broader at its vertebral than at its humeral end. Its medial two-thirds give origin to the Supraspinatus.
Structure
The fossa can ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chou%E2%80%93Fasman%20method | The Chou–Fasman method is an empirical technique for the prediction of secondary structures in proteins, originally developed in the 1970s by Peter Y. Chou and Gerald D. Fasman. The method is based on analyses of the relative frequencies of each amino acid in alpha helices, beta sheets, and turns based on known protein... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20scale-model%20industry%20people | This list contains the names of significant contributors to the history and development of the scale-model and model-kit industry, including engineers, artists, designers, draftsmen, tool-makers, executives, historians and promoters.
This list does not include people primarily notable for the competitive operation of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian%20key | The Palestinian key is the Palestinian symbol of their homes lost in the Nakba, when more than half of the population of Mandatory Palestine were either expelled or fled violence in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight and subsequently denied the right to return. Almost 75 years later the key remains a potent symb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20communications%20network | Personal communications network (PCN) is the European digital cellular mobile telephone network. The underlying standard is known as Digital Cellular System, which defines a variant of GSM operating at 1.7–1.88 GHz. GSM-1800 has since been adopted by other locations, not necessarily under the PCN/DCS name. The network ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic%20screen | A holographic screen is a two-dimensional display technology that uses coated glass media for the projection surface of a video projector. "Holographic" refers not to a stereoscopic effect, but to the coating that bundles light using formed microlenses. The lens design and attributes match the holographic area. The len... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20brakeforce%20distribution | Electronic brakeforce distribution (EBD or EBFD) or electronic brakeforce limitation (EBL) is an automobile brake technology that automatically varies the amount of force applied to each of a vehicle's wheels, based on road conditions, speed, loading, etc, thus providing intelligent control of both brake balance and ov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root%20vegetable | Root vegetables are underground plant parts eaten by humans as food. Although botany distinguishes true roots (such as taproots and tuberous roots) from non-roots (such as bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers, although some contain both hypocotyl and taproot tissue), the term "root vegetable" is applied to all these type... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid%20fabric | The Wireless Grid Fabric in communication is a MIMOS Berhad innovation for WiMAX multi-hop relay networks (IEEE802.16j) for rural area communication.
The idea of the Wireless Grid Fabric involves using multihop base stations (MR-BS) to forward messages to and from the network. Each relay station (RS) covers approximat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoose%20OS | Mongoose OS is an Internet of Things (IoT) Firmware Development Framework available under Apache License Version 2.0. It supports low power, connected microcontrollers such as: ESP32, ESP8266, TI CC3200, TI CC3220, STM32 (STM32L4, STM32F4, STM32F7 series). Its purpose is to be a complete environment for prototyping, de... |
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