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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous%20monism | Anomalous monism is a philosophical thesis about the mind–body relationship. It was first proposed by Donald Davidson in his 1970 paper "Mental Events". The theory is twofold and states that mental events are identical with physical events, and that the mental is anomalous, i.e. under their mental descriptions, relatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20wave | In physics, a plane wave is a special case of wave or field: a physical quantity whose value, at any moment, is constant through any plane that is perpendicular to a fixed direction in space.
For any position in space and any time , the value of such a field can be written as
where is a unit-length vector, and is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20CD | A live CD (also live DVD, live disc, or live operating system) is a complete bootable computer installation including operating system which runs directly from a CD-ROM or similar storage device into a computer's memory, rather than loading from a hard disk drive. A live CD allows users to run an operating system for a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastocrithidia%20nuclear%20code | The Blastocrithidia nuclear code (translation table 31) is a genetic code used by the nuclear genome of the trypanosomatid genus Blastocrithidia.
The code (31)
AAs = FFLLSSSSYYEECCWWLLLLPPPPHHQQRRRRIIIMTTTTNNKKSSRRVVVVAAAADDEEGGGG
Starts = ----------**-----------------------M----------------------------
Base1 =... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20animal | The term rational animal (Latin: animal rationale or animal rationabile) refers to a classical definition of humanity or human nature, associated with Aristotelianism.
History
While the Latin term itself originates in scholasticism, it reflects the Aristotelian view of man as a creature distinguished by a rational pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-only%20memory | Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM cannot be electronically modified after the manufacture of the memory device. Read-only memory is useful for storing software that is rarely changed during the life of the system, also known as fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana%20equivalent%20dose | Banana equivalent dose (BED) is an informal unit of measurement of ionizing radiation exposure, intended as a general educational example to compare a dose of radioactivity to the dose one is exposed to by eating one average-sized banana. Bananas contain naturally occurring radioactive isotopes, particularly potassium-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20coordinate%20system | The sigma coordinate system is a common coordinate system used in computational models for oceanography, meteorology and other fields where fluid dynamics are relevant. This coordinate system receives its name from the independent variable used to represent a scaled pressure level.
Models that use a sigma coordinate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%20101 | Zinc finger protein 101 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF101 gene.
Function
Zinc finger proteins (ZNFs), such as ZNF101, bind nucleic acids and perform many key functions, the most important of which is regulating transcription (summary by Bellefroid et al., 1993 [PubMed 8467795]). See ZNF91 (MIM 6039... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning | Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Machine%20in%20Neptune%27s%20Garden | The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment is a 2004 book edited by Helen M. Rozwadowski and David K. van Keuren. The book takes its name from Leo Marx's influential book The Machine in the Garden. It is a product of the Maury III conference on the history of ocean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pray.com | Pray.com is a Christian social networking service and mobile app that serves as a social media platform for religious communities. The Pray platform includes social media, daily prayers, sermons, biblical content, and podcasts. Pray.com was founded in 2016 by Steve Gatena, Michael Lynn, Ryan Beck and Matthew Potter.
P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levinson%27s%20inequality | In mathematics, Levinson's inequality is the following inequality, due to Norman Levinson, involving positive numbers. Let and let be a given function having a third derivative on the range , and such that
for all . Suppose and for . Then
The Ky Fan inequality is the special case of Levinson's inequal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla%20gardening | Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening – raising food, plants, or flowers – on land that the gardeners do not have the legal rights to cultivate, such as abandoned sites, areas that are not being cared for, or private property. It encompasses a diverse range of people and motivations, ranging from gardeners who sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%20field | In mathematics, a Hardy field is a field consisting of germs of real-valued functions at infinity that are closed under differentiation. They are named after the English mathematician G. H. Hardy.
Definition
Initially at least, Hardy fields were defined in terms of germs of real functions at infinity. Specifically ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-grained%20reduction | In computational complexity theory, a fine-grained reduction is a transformation from one computational problem to another, used to relate the difficulty of improving the time bounds for the two problems.
Intuitively, it provides a method for solving one problem efficiently by using the solution to the other problem as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency%20injection | In software engineering, dependency injection is a programming technique in which an object or function receives other objects or functions that it requires, as opposed to creating them internally. Dependency injection aims to separate the concerns of constructing objects and using them, leading to loosely coupled prog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Turin | Luca Turin (born 20 November 1953) is a biophysicist and writer with a long-standing interest in bioelectronics, the sense of smell, perfumery, and the fragrance industry.
Early life and education
Turin was born in Beirut, Lebanon on 20 November 1953 into an Italian-Argentinian family, and raised in France, Italy and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s%20inequality%20for%20products | In mathematics, Young's inequality for products is a mathematical inequality about the product of two numbers. The inequality is named after William Henry Young and should not be confused with Young's convolution inequality.
Young's inequality for products can be used to prove Hölder's inequality. It is also widely us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Dewey-Hagborg | Heather Dewey-Hagborg (born June 4, 1982, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an information artist and bio-hacker. She is best known for her project Stranger Visions, a series of portraits created from DNA she recovered from discarded items, such as hair, cigarettes and chewing gum while living in Brooklyn, New York. From ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolem%20normal%20form | In mathematical logic, a formula of first-order logic is in Skolem normal form if it is in prenex normal form with only universal first-order quantifiers.
Every first-order formula may be converted into Skolem normal form while not changing its satisfiability via a process called Skolemization (sometimes spelled Skol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20European%20Cooperation%20in%20Statistical%20Physics | The Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO) is an international conference on statistical physics which takes place every year in a different country of Europe. MECO evolved in the early 1970s with the aim of bridging the gap between the communities of scientists from the Eastern and Western parts of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Fragile%20Intellect | "Our Fragile Intellect" is a 2012 article by American biochemist Gerald Crabtree, published in the journal Trends in Genetics. Crabtree's speculative and controversial thesis argues that human intelligence peaked sometime between 2,000 and 6,000 years ago and has been in steady decline since the advent of agriculture a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplansky%20density%20theorem | In the theory of von Neumann algebras, the Kaplansky density theorem, due to Irving Kaplansky, is a fundamental approximation theorem. The importance and ubiquity of this technical tool led Gert Pedersen to comment in one of his books that,
The density theorem is Kaplansky's great gift to mankind. It can be used every... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna%20of%20Poland | Fauna of Poland, according to the Polish Museum and Institute of Zoology, includes approximately 36,000 species. The most common type of fauna in Poland are arthropods (Arthropoda), and within the phyla, insects (Insecta) are most numerous.
Polish fauna is represented by vertebrates including but not limited to:
ray-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAtest | Parasoft SOAtest is a testing and analysis tool suite for testing and validating APIs and API-driven applications (e.g., cloud, mobile apps, SOA). Basic testing functionality include functional unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, system testing, security testing, simulation and mocking, runtime error... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Megafauna | American Megafauna is a board game on the topic of evolution designed by Phil Eklund, and published by Sierra Madre Games in 1997. While the game is not an attempt to be a simulation, a variety of genuine evolutionary factors are incorporated in the game, ranging from Milankovich cycles to dentition. The game can be pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative%20capacitor%20memory | Regenerative capacitor memory is a type of computer memory that uses the electrical property of capacitance to store the bits of data. Because the stored charge slowly leaks away, these memories must be periodically regenerated (i.e. read and rewritten, also called refreshed) to prevent data loss.
Other types of compu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93-Tocopherol | γ-Tocopherol (gamma-tocopherol) is a tocopherol and one of the chemical compounds that comprise vitamin E. As a food additive, it has E number E308.
See also
α-Tocopherol
β-Tocopherol
δ-Tocopherol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groasis%20Waterboxx | The Groasis Waterboxx is a device designed to help in growing trees in dry areas. It was invented and developed by Dutch former flower exporter Pieter Hoff, and won the Popular Science Green Tech Best of What’s New Innovation of the year award for 2010. The word "Groasis" is a neologism formed as a portmanteau of the w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casus%20irreducibilis | In algebra, () is one of the cases that may arise in solving polynomials of degree 3 or higher with integer coefficients algebraically (as opposed to numerically), i.e., by obtaining roots that are expressed with radicals. It shows that many algebraic numbers are real-valued but cannot be expressed in radicals without... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INDECT | INDECT is a research project in the area of intelligent security systems performed by several European universities since 2009 and funded by the European Union. The purpose of the project is to involve European scientists and researchers in the development of solutions to and tools for automatic threat detection throug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueJ | BlueJ is an integrated development environment (IDE) for the Java programming language, developed mainly for educational purposes, but also suitable for small-scale software development. It runs with the help of Java Development Kit (JDK).
BlueJ was developed to support the learning and teaching of object-oriented pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive%20population | A disjunctive population, in ecology, is a colony of plants or animals, whose geographical locus is severed from the continuous range of the bulk of the species distribution. Although a disjunctive population may sometimes occur on an island, which creates physical separation via water, a large percentage of disjunctiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20file%20systems | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file systems.
General information
Metadata
Features
File capabilities
Block capabilities
Note that in addition to the below table, block capabilities can be implemented below the file system layer in Linux (LVM, , cryptsetup) or Windows... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiperiodicity | Quasiperiodicity is the property of a system that displays irregular periodicity. Periodic behavior is defined as recurring at regular intervals, such as "every 24 hours". Quasiperiodic behavior is a pattern of recurrence with a component of unpredictability that does not lend itself to precise measurement. It is diffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadinenes | Cadinenes are a group of isomeric hydrocarbons that occur in a wide variety of essential oil-producing plants. The name is derived from that of the Cade juniper (Juniperus oxycedrus L.), the wood of which yields an oil from which cadinene isomers were first isolated.
Chemically, the cadinenes are bicyclic sesquiterpe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%20on%20Graphs | Erdős on Graphs: His Legacy of Unsolved Problems is a book on unsolved problems in mathematics collected by Paul Erdős in the area of graph theory. It was written by Fan Chung and Ronald Graham, based on a 1997 survey paper by Chung, and published in 1998 by A K Peters. A softcover edition with some updates and correct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel%27s%20paradox | Siegel's paradox is the phenomenon that uncertainty about future prices can theoretically push rational consumers to temporarily trade away their preferred consumption goods (or currency) for non-preferred goods (or currency), as part of a plan to trade back to the preferred consumption goods after prices become cleare... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20polygon | A magic polygon is a polygonal magic graph with integers on its vertices.
Perimeter magic polygon
A magic polygon, also called a perimeter magic polygon, is a polygon with an integers on its sides that all add up to a magic constant. It is where positive integers (from 1 to N) on a k-sided polygon add up to a constan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormyrus | Mormyrus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. They are weakly electric, enabling them to navigate, to find their prey, and to communicate with other electric fish.
Species
There are currently 22 recognized species in this genus:
Mormyrus bernhardi Pellegrin 1926 (Bernhard's elephant-snout fish)
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther%20Arkin | Esther M. (Estie) Arkin is an Israeli–American mathematician and computer scientist whose research interests include operations research, computational geometry, combinatorial optimization, and the design and analysis of algorithms. She is a professor of applied mathematics and statistics at Stony Brook University. At ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephrin | Ephrins (also known as ephrin ligands or Eph family receptor interacting proteins) are a family of proteins that serve as the ligands of the Eph receptor. Eph receptors in turn compose the largest known subfamily of receptor protein-tyrosine kinases (RTKs).
Since ephrin ligands (ephrins) and Eph receptors (Ephs) are b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%20value%20%28quantum%20mechanics%29 | In quantum mechanics, the expectation value is the probabilistic expected value of the result (measurement) of an experiment. It can be thought of as an average of all the possible outcomes of a measurement as weighted by their likelihood, and as such it is not the most probable value of a measurement; indeed the expec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholander%20pressure%20bomb | A pressure bomb, pressure chamber, or Scholander bomb is an instrument that can measure the approximate water potential of plant tissues. A leaf and petiole or stem segment is placed inside a sealed chamber. Pressurized gas (normally compressed nitrogen) is slowly added to the chamber. As the pressure increases, at som... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckeye%20Corpus | The Buckeye Corpus of conversational speech is a speech corpus created by a team of linguists and psychologists at Ohio State University led by Prof. Mark Pitt.
It contains high-quality recordings from 40 speakers in Columbus, Ohio conversing freely with an interviewer. The interviewer's voice is heard only faintly in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereulide | Cereulide is a toxin produced by some strains of Bacillus cereus, Bacillus megaterium and related species. It is a potent cytotoxin that destroys mitochondria. It also causes nausea and vomiting.
Cereulide acts as ionophore with a high affinity to potassium cations. Exposure to cereulide causes loss of the membrane po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20file%20system%20for%20cloud | A distributed file system for cloud is a file system that allows many clients to have access to data and supports operations (create, delete, modify, read, write) on that data. Each data file may be partitioned into several parts called chunks. Each chunk may be stored on different remote machines, facilitating the par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2048 | In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 48 is a family of glycoside hydrolases.
Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20activation%20and%20competition%20networks | Interactive activation and competition (IAC) networks are artificial neural networks used to model memory and intuitive generalizations. They are made up of nodes or artificial neurons which are arrayed and activated in ways that emulate the behaviors of human memory.
The IAC model is used by the parallel distributed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED%20vacuum | The QED vacuum or quantum electrodynamic vacuum is the field-theoretic vacuum of quantum electrodynamics. It is the lowest energy state (the ground state) of the electromagnetic field when the fields are quantized. When Planck's constant is hypothetically allowed to approach zero, QED vacuum is converted to classical v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20index | In mathematics (and particularly in combinatorics), the major index of a permutation is the sum of the positions of the descents of the permutation. In symbols, the major index of the permutation w is
For example, if w is given in one-line notation by w = 351624 (that is, w is the permutation of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyer%20Professor%20of%20Applied%20Mathematics | The Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics is an endowed professorial position in the Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England. The endowment came from the will of the celebrated locomotive designer and founder of locomotive builder Beyer, Peacock & Company, Charles Frederick Beyer. He was the universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn%20al-Haytham | Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen; ; full name ; ) was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq. Referred to as "the father of modern optics", he made significant contributions to the principles of optics and visual perception in particular. His most ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramicrobacteria | Ultramicrobacteria are bacteria that are smaller than 0.1 μm3 under all growth conditions. This term was coined in 1981, describing cocci in seawater that were less than 0.3 μm in diameter. Ultramicrobacteria have also been recovered from soil and appear to be a mixture of Gram-positive, Gram-negative and cell-wall-lac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichenology | Lichenology is the branch of mycology that studies the lichens, symbiotic organisms made up of an intimate symbiotic association of a microscopic alga (or a cyanobacterium) with a filamentous fungus.
Study of lichens draws knowledge from several disciplines: mycology, phycology, microbiology and botany. Scholars of li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review%20of%20systems | A review of systems (ROS), also called a systems enquiry or systems review, is a technique used by healthcare providers for eliciting a medical history from a patient. It is often structured as a component of an admission note covering the organ systems, with a focus upon the subjective symptoms perceived by the patien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-and-tumble%20motion | Run-and-tumble motion is a movement pattern exhibited by certain bacteria and other microscopic agents. It consists of an alternating sequence of "runs" and "tumbles": during a run, the agent propels itself in a fixed (or slowly varying) direction, and during a tumble, it remains stationary while it reorients itself in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain%20asymbolia | Pain asymbolia, also called pain dissociation, is a condition in which pain is experienced without unpleasantness. This usually results from injury to the brain, lobotomy, cingulotomy or morphine analgesia. Preexisting lesions of the insula may abolish the aversive quality of painful stimuli while preserving the locati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbreeding%20depression | Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness which has the potential to result from inbreeding (the breeding of related individuals). Biological fitness refers to an organism's ability to survive and perpetuate its genetic material. Inbreeding depression is often the result of a population bottleneck. In gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20machine%20translation | Interactive machine translation (IMT), is a specific sub-field of computer-aided translation. Under this translation paradigm, the computer software that assists the human translator attempts to predict the text the user is going to input by taking into account all the information it has available. Whenever such predic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past%20medical%20history | In a medical encounter, a past medical history (abbreviated PMH) is the total sum of a patient's health status prior to the presenting problem.
Questions to include
Different sources include different questions to be asked while conducting a PMH, but in general, they include the following:
General state of health: e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth%20oil | Amaranth oil is extracted from the seeds of two species of the genus Amaranthus — A. cruentus and A. hypochondriacus — that are called, collectively, amaranth grain.
Amaranth oil is a light-to-medium-colored, clear liquid that is pourable at low temperatures. It is a source of fatty acids, with oleic acid, linoleic ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook%20%28hand%20tool%29 | A hook is a hand tool used for securing and moving loads. It consists of a round wooden handle with a strong metal hook about long projecting at a right angle from the center of the handle. The appliance is held in a closed fist with the hook projecting between two fingers.
This type of hook is used in many different... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip%20Video | The Flip Video cameras was an American series of pocket video cameras for digital video created by Pure Digital Technologies, a company bought by Cisco Systems in March 2009; variants include the UltraHD, the MinoHD, and the SlideHD. Flip Video cameras were known for their simple interface with few buttons, minimal men... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Gaussian%20distribution | The q-Gaussian is a probability distribution arising from the maximization of the Tsallis entropy under appropriate constraints. It is one example of a Tsallis distribution. The q-Gaussian is a generalization of the Gaussian in the same way that Tsallis entropy is a generalization of standard Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditarily%20finite%20set | In mathematics and set theory, hereditarily finite sets are defined as finite sets whose elements are all hereditarily finite sets. In other words, the set itself is finite, and all of its elements are finite sets, recursively all the way down to the empty set.
Formal definition
A recursive definition of well-founded ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Brightwell | Graham Brightwell is a British mathematician working in the field of discrete mathematics.
Currently a professor at the London School of Economics, he has published nearly 100 papers in pure mathematics, including over a dozen with Béla Bollobás. His research interests include random combinatorial structures; partiall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogaol | Shogaols are pungent constituents of ginger similar in chemical structure to gingerol. The most common of the group is [6]-shogaol. Like zingerone, it is produced when ginger is dried or cooked. Moreover, shogaol (and gingerol) are converted to other constituents when heat is applied over time, which is why ginger lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha%20Looper | Marsha Looper (born c. 1959) was a Colorado legislator. Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican in 2006, Looper represented House District 19, which encompasses eastern El Paso County, Colorado from 2006 to 2012.
Early career
Born to a family of Eastern European descent, Looper was raised on C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS | OtherOS is a feature of early versions of the PlayStation 3 video game console, allowing user installed software, such as Linux or FreeBSD. The feature was removed since system firmware update 3.21, released on April 1, 2010.
Software running in the OtherOS environment has access to 6 of the 7 Synergistic Processing E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiorization | Superiorization is an iterative method for constrained optimization. It is used for improving the efficacy of an iterative method whose convergence is resilient to certain kinds of perturbations. Such perturbations are designed to "force" the perturbed algorithm to produce more useful results for the intended applicati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainsbury%20Laboratory%20Cambridge%20University | The Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (or SLCU) is located in Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Its aim is to elucidate the regulatory systems underlying plant growth and plant development.
Senior research staff
As of 2022 Senior research staff include:
Professor Henrik Jönsson, Director
Dr James Locke, As... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abas%20wittii | Abas is an extinct genus of diatoms consisting of only one known species: Abas wittii. Originally observed as a fossil genus classified with diatom spore forms under the name Syringidium. Abas was observed to be live from the Eocene to Oligocene epoch appearing in tropical sites. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora%20of%20China%20%28series%29 | Flora of China is a scientific publication aimed at describing the plants native to China.
The project is a collaborative scientific effort to publish the first modern English-language account of the 31,000 species of vascular plants of China. This number includes about 8,000 species of medicinal and economically impo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20method | In numerical analysis, a numerical method is a mathematical tool designed to solve numerical problems. The implementation of a numerical method with an appropriate convergence check in a programming language is called a numerical algorithm.
Mathematical definition
Let be a well-posed problem, i.e. is a real or compl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Computational%20Biology | The Journal of Computational Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering computational biology and bioinformatics. It was established in 1994 and is published by Mary Ann Liebert The editors-in-chief are Sorin Istrail (Brown University) and Michael S. Waterman (University of Southern California). Acc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium%20diglutamate | Magnesium diglutamate is a compound with formula Mg(C5H8NO4)2. It is a magnesium acid salt of glutamic acid.
It has the E number E625 and is used in foods as a flavor enhancer. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Empson | Susan Baker Empson is an American scholar of mathematics education whose work includes longitudinal studies of children's mathematical development, the use of Cognitively Guided Instruction in mathematics education, analyses of childhood understanding of the concept of fractions, and research on the professional develo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilator%20%28ring%20theory%29 | In mathematics, the annihilator of a subset of a module over a ring is the ideal formed by the elements of the ring that give always zero when multiplied by each element of .
Over an integral domain, a module that has a nonzero annihilator is a torsion module, and a finitely generated torsion module has a nonzero an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washout%20filter | In signal processing, a washout filter is a stable high pass filter with zero static gain. This leads to the filtering of lower frequency inputs signals, leaving the steady state output unaffected by unwanted low frequency inputs.
General Background
The common transfer function for a washout filter is:
Where is the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-varying%20phasor | In communication theory, time-varying phasors are used for analyzing narrow-band signals, whose signal bandwidths in the frequency domain are considerably smaller than the carrier frequency. Time-varying phasors are mostly used for analysis of frequency domain of band-pass systems. The method uses classical impulse res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin%20selection | Kin selection is a process whereby natural selection favours a trait due to its positive effects on the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even when at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction. Kin selection can lead to the evolution of altruistic behaviour. Kin selection is related to the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Computer%20Networks%20Conference | The Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN) is an annual international academic conference organized by the IEEE Computer Society. The first LCN was held in 1976, with the full name of "Conference on Experiments in New Approaches to Local Computer Networking". The second meeting in 1977 was called the "Conference on '... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microelectrode | A microelectrode is an electrode used in electrophysiology either for recording neural signals or for the electrical stimulation of nervous tissue (they were first developed by Ida Hyde in 1921). Pulled glass pipettes with tip diameters of 0.5 μm or less are usually filled with 3 molars potassium chloride solution ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lickorish%E2%80%93Wallace%20theorem | In mathematics, the Lickorish–Wallace theorem in the theory of 3-manifolds states that any closed, orientable, connected 3-manifold may be obtained by performing Dehn surgery on a framed link in the 3-sphere with ±1 surgery coefficients. Furthermore, each component of the link can be assumed to be unknotted.
The the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20Mar%C3%ADa%20Farf%C3%A1n | Rosa María Farfán Márquez is a Mexican researcher in social epistemology and mathematics education, affiliated with CINVESTAV in the Instituto Politécnico Nacional.
Education and career
Farfán has been a researcher for CINVESTAV since 1985. She completed a doctorate through CINVESTAV in 1993, with the dissertation Con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introductio%20in%20analysin%20infinitorum | Introductio in analysin infinitorum (Latin: Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite) is a two-volume work by Leonhard Euler which lays the foundations of mathematical analysis. Written in Latin and published in 1748, the Introductio contains 18 chapters in the first part and 22 chapters in the second. It has Enest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosfomycin | Fosfomycin, sold under the brand name Monurol among others, is an antibiotic primarily used to treat lower urinary tract infections. It is not indicated for kidney infections. Occasionally it is used for prostate infections. It is generally taken by mouth.
Common side effects include diarrhea, nausea, headache, and va... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroglobulin%20domain | Thyroglobulin type-1 repeat is an evolutionary conserved protein domain.
Thyroglobulin type 1 repeats are thought to be involved in the control of proteolytic degradation. The domain usually contains six conserved cysteines. These form three disulphide bridges. Cysteines 1 pairs with 2, 3 with 4 and 5 with 6.
Human p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthosine%20triphosphate | Xanthosine 5'-triphosphate (XTP) is a nucleotide that is not produced by - and has no known function in - living cells. Uses of XTP are, in general, limited to experimental procedures on enzymes that bind other nucleotides. Deamination of purine bases can result in accumulation of such nucleotides as ITP, dITP, XTP, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Knoblauch | Johannes Knoblauch (27 August 1855, Halle (Saale) – 22 July 1915, Berlin) was a German mathematician.
Biography
Johannes Knoblauch, whose father was the physics professor Karl Hermann Knoblauch, studied law, mathematics and physics from 1872 in Halle, Heidelberg and Berlin. At the Friedrich Wilhelm University (later r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20synapse | Viral synapse (or virological synapse) is a molecularly organized cellular junction that is similar in some aspects to immunological synapses. Many viruses including herpes simplex virus (HSV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) have been shown to instigate the formation of these ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillator%20phase%20noise | Oscillators produce various levels of phase noise, or variations from perfect periodicity. Viewed as an additive noise, phase noise increases at frequencies close to the oscillation frequency or its harmonics. With the additive noise being close to the oscillation frequency, it cannot be removed by filtering without a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley%20flour | Barley flour is a flour prepared from dried and ground barley. Barley flour is used to prepare barley bread and other breads, such as flat bread and yeast breads.
There are two general types of barley flour: coarse and fine. Barley groats are milled to make coarse barley flour, and pearl barley is milled to make fine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2 | 2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures.
Evolution
Arabic digit
The digit used in the modern Western world to repr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20pages%20schema | A white pages schema is a data model, specifically a logical schema, for organizing the data contained in entries in a directory service, database, or application, such as an address book. In a white pages directory, each entry typically represents an individual person that makes use of network resources, such as by r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efferent%20coupling | Efferent coupling is a coupling metric in software development. It measures the number of data types a class knows about.
This includes inheritance, interface implementation, parameter types, variable types, and exceptions.
This has also been referred to by Robert C. Martin as the Fan-out stability metric which in hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20of%20two | A power of two is a number of the form where is an integer, that is, the result of exponentiation with number two as the base and integer as the exponent.
In a context where only integers are considered, is restricted to non-negative values, so there are 1, 2, and 2 multiplied by itself a certain number of times.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuv%C3%A9e | Cuvée () is a French wine term that derives from cuve, meaning vat or tank. Wine makers use the term cuvée with several different meanings, more or less based on the concept of a tank of wine put to some purpose.
Wines
Cuvée on wine labels generally denotes wine of a specific blend or batch. Since the term cuvée for t... |
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