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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Sebasti%C3%A3o%20e%20Silva | José Sebastião e Silva (12 December 1914 in Mértola – 25 May 1972 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese mathematician.
Silva graduated from the University of Lisbon in 1937, and in 1942 he received a grant from the Instituto de Alta Cultura allowing him to travel to Rome, where he studied mathematics with several members of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20B | Orange B is a food dye from the azo dye group. It is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use only in hot dog and sausage casings or surfaces, only up to 150 parts per million of the finished food weight. It is typically prepared as a disodium salt.
Orange B was first listed as an appro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo%20%28GNOME%29 | Bonobo is an obsolete component framework for the GNOME free desktop environment. Bonobo is designed to create reusable software components and compound documents. Through its development history it resembles Microsoft's OLE technology and is GNOME's equivalent of KDE's KParts.
Bonobo was developed as a solution to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto%20Inductive%20Remote%20Activation%20Munition%20System | The Magneto Inductive Remote Activation Munition System (MI-RAMS) is a variant of the Remote Munition System (RAMS) that uses electromagnetic induction to control electronic equipment, including demolition charges, munitions, and active barriers. The handheld MI-RAMS receiver consists of a box-shaped device with a fixe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristolochene | Aristolochene is a bicyclic sesquiterpene produced by certain fungi including the cheese mold Penicillium roqueforti. It is biosynthesized from farnesyl pyrophosphate by aristolochene synthase and is the parent hydrocarbon of a large variety of fungal toxins.
The substance was first isolated from Penicillium roquefor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20rank%20of%20a%20graph | In mathematics, the minimum rank is a graph parameter for a graph G. It was motivated by the Colin de Verdière graph invariant.
Definition
The adjacency matrix of an undirected graph is a symmetric matrix whose rows and columns both correspond to the vertices of the graph. Its elements are all 0 or 1, and the element... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule%20per%20mole | The joule per mole (symbol: J·mol−1 or J/mol) is the unit of energy per amount of substance in the International System of Units (SI), such that energy is measured in joules, and the amount of substance is measured in moles.
It is also an SI derived unit of molar thermodynamic energy defined as the energy equal to on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Sawyer | Patrick Oliver Sawyer ( - 24 July 2014) was a Liberian-American lawyer who was notable for being the index case for the introduction of Ebola virus disease into Nigeria during the West African Ebola epidemic in 2014. Sawyer was a naturalized U.S. citizen who lived in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. He has been variously descri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schur%E2%80%93Horn%20theorem | In mathematics, particularly linear algebra, the Schur–Horn theorem, named after Issai Schur and Alfred Horn, characterizes the diagonal of a Hermitian matrix with given eigenvalues. It has inspired investigations and substantial generalizations in the setting of symplectic geometry. A few important generalizations are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucus%20spiralis | Fucus spiralis is a species of seaweed, a brown alga (Heterokontophyta, Phaeophyceae), living on the littoral shore of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America. It has the common names of spiral wrack and flat wrack.
Description
Fucus spiralis is olive brown in colour and similar to Fucus vesiculosus and Fucus ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiprora | Amphiprora is a genus of diatoms belonging to the family Amphipleuraceae.
The genus was first described by C. G. Ehrenberg in 1843.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
Amphiprora alata
Amphiprora ornata
Amphiprora paludosa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCDC78 | Coiled-coil domain-containing 78 (CCDC78) is a protein in humans encoded by the CCDC78 gene. It has several aliases including C16orf25, FLJ34512, CNM4, and JFP10. It is located on the (-) strand on chromosome 16 (16p13.3). Its gene neighborhood includes NARFL (also on the minus strand), HAGHL, FAM173A, and METRN. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triparesis | Triparesis is a medical condition, similar to triplegia, but the major difference between the two is primarily that triplegia is total loss of function in three limbs, and triparesis denotes weakening of three limbs. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace%20listening | Workplace listening is a type of active listening that is generally employed in a professional environment. Listening skills are imperative for career success, organizational effectiveness, and worker satisfaction. Workplace listening includes understanding the listening process (i.e. perception, interpretation, evalua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-credible%20threat | A non-credible threat is a term used in game theory and economics to describe a threat in a sequential game that a rational player would not actually carry out, because it would not be in his best interest to do so.
A threat, and its counterparta commitment, are both defined by American economist and Nobel prize winn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biordered%20set | A biordered set (otherwise known as boset) is a mathematical object that occurs in the description of the structure of the set of idempotents in a semigroup.
The set of idempotents in a semigroup is a biordered set and every biordered set is the set of idempotents of some semigroup.
A regular biordered set is a biorde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion%20flower | Carrion flowers, also known as corpse flowers or stinking flowers, are mimetic flowers that emit an odor that smells like rotting flesh. Apart from the scent, carrion flowers often display additional characteristics that contribute to the mimesis of a decaying corpse. These include their specific coloration (red, purpl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Society%20for%20Neurochemistry | The European Society for Neurochemistry (ESN) is a learned society for neurochemists and neuroscientists from Europe whose research concerns the role and interactions of small molecules in the function and pathology of the nervous system.
History
The society was founded in 1976 with the aim of helping to advance the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter%20Kacsuk | Péter Kacsuk is a Hungarian computer scientist at MTA-SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary.
Biography
Péter Kacsuk received his MSc and university doctorate degrees from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary in 1976 and 1984, respectively. He received the Kandidat degree (equivalent to PhD) from the Hungarian Academy i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s%20magnetic%20field | Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun. The magnetic field is generated by electric currents due to the motion of convection current... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium%20Digital%20Systems | Trillium Digital Systems, Inc. developed and licensed standards-based communications source code software to telecommunications equipment manufacturers for the wireless, broadband, Internet and telephone network infrastructure. Trillium was an early company to license source code. The Trillium Digital Systems business ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2070 | In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 70 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/Planetary%20Habitability%20Laboratory | The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) is a research remote laboratory intended to study the habitability of the Solar System and other stellar systems, specifically, potentially habitable exoplanets. The PHL is managed by the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo with the collaboration of international scientists ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%20%28military%29 | A director, also called an auxiliary predictor, is a mechanical or electronic computer that continuously calculates trigonometric firing solutions for use against a moving target, and transmits targeting data to direct the weapon firing crew.
Naval warships
For warships of the 20th century, the director is part of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%20foot%20skiff | Two foot skiffs also known as ‘Balmain Bugs’ were model racing skiffs typically raced on Sydney Harbour between the 1890s and 1950s. The model skiffs were crafted by shipwrights in their spare time. In the sports hey days the 1940s and 1950s there were up to 10 clubs at Abbotsford, Drummoyne, Balmain, North Sydney and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20for%20the%20Study%20of%20Dreams | The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) is a professional nonprofit organization for scientific dream research (oneirology), founded in 1983 and headquartered in the U.S.
Scope
The organization publishes scientific research across all dream-related subjects, including dreams in analytical psycholo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20with%20errors | In cryptography, Learning with errors (LWE) is a mathematical problem that is widely used in cryptography to create secure encryption algorithms. It is based on the idea of representing secret information as a set of equations with errors. In other words, LWE is a way to hide the value of a secret by introducing noise ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromaterials | In physics, electrical engineering and materials science, electromaterials are the set of materials which store, controllably convert, exchange and conduct electrically charged particles. The term electromaterial can refer to any electronically or ionically active material. While this definition is quite broad, the ter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20over%20LAN | Serial over LAN (SOL) is a mechanism that enables the input and output of the serial port of a managed system to be redirected over IP.
Details
On some managed systems, notably blade server systems, the serial ports on the managed computers are not normally connected to a traditional serial port socket. To allow users... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaggle | Kaggle is a data science competition platform and online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners under Google LLC. Kaggle enables users to find and publish datasets, explore and build models in a web-based data science environment, work with other data scientists and machine learning engineers, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat%20glaze | Meat glaze (French: glace de viande) is a dark brown, gelatinous flavouring agent used in food preparation. It is obtained by reducing brown stock through evaporation by slow heating. Compared to demi-glace, meat glaze is about twice as concentrated.
Its high viscosity and salt content gives it an unusually long shelf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical%20sieve | The surgical sieve is a thought process in medicine. It is a typical example of how to organise a structured examination answer for medical students and physicians when they are challenged with a question. It is also a way of constructing answers to questions from patients and their relatives in a logical manner, and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20culture | A blood culture is a medical laboratory test used to detect bacteria or fungi in a person's blood. Under normal conditions, the blood does not contain microorganisms: their presence can indicate a bloodstream infection such as bacteremia or fungemia, which in severe cases may result in sepsis. By culturing the blood, m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent%20cellular%20cytotoxicity | Antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC), also referred to as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity, is a mechanism of cell-mediated immune defense whereby an effector cell of the immune system kills a target cell, whose membrane-surface antigens have been bound by specific antibodies. It is one of the m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20C.%20P.%20Miller | Jeffrey Charles Percy Miller (31 August 1906 – 24 April 1981) was an English mathematician and computing pioneer. He worked in number theory and on geometry, particularly polyhedra, where Miller's monster refers to the great dirhombicosidodecahedron.
He was an early member of the Computing Laboratory of the Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banting%20Medal | The Banting Medal, officially the Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, is an annual award conferred by the American Diabetes Association (ADA), which is the highest award of ADA. Inaugurated in 1941, the prize is given in memory of Sir Frederick Banting, a key discoverer of insulin and its therapeutic use.
Laurea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petriscript | PetriScript is a modeling language for Petri nets, designed by Alexandre Hamez and Xavier Renault. The CPN-AMI platform provides many tools to work on Petri nets, such as verifying and model-checking tools.
Originally, simple Petri nets were created through graphic design, but research conducted internally at LIP6 rev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sippenhaft | Sippenhaft or Sippenhaftung (, kin liability) is a German term for the idea that a family or clan shares the responsibility for a crime or act committed by one of its members, justifying collective punishment. As a legal principle, it was derived from Germanic law in the Middle Ages, usually in the form of fines and co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEAT%20repeat | A HEAT repeat is a protein tandem repeat structural motif composed of two alpha helices linked by a short loop. HEAT repeats can form alpha solenoids, a type of solenoid protein domain found in a number of cytoplasmic proteins. The name "HEAT" is an acronym for four proteins in which this repeat structure is found: Hun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stale%20pointer%20bug | A stale pointer bug, otherwise known as an aliasing bug, is a class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that does dynamic memory allocation, especially via the malloc function or equivalent.
If several pointers address (are "aliases for") a given chunk of storage, it may happen that the storage is free... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll%20moment | Roll moment is a moment, which is a product of a force and a distance, that tends to cause a vehicle to roll, that is to rotate about its longitudinal axis.
Landcraft
In vehicle dynamics, the roll moment can be calculated as the product of three quantities:
the vehicle's sprung mass, the portion of its mass supported ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kravchuk%20polynomials | Kravchuk polynomials or Krawtchouk polynomials (also written using several other transliterations of the Ukrainian surname ) are discrete orthogonal polynomials associated with the binomial distribution, introduced by .
The first few polynomials are (for q = 2):
The Kravchuk polynomials are a special case of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual%20Master%20File | The Individual Master File (IMF) is the system currently used by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to store and process tax submissions and used as the main data input to process the IRS's transactions. It is a running record of all of a person's individual tax events including refunds, payments, penalt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replacement%20migration | In demography, replacement migration is a theory of migration needed for a region to achieve a particular objective (demographic, economic or social). Generally, studies using this concept have as an objective to avoid the decline of total population and the decline of the working-age population.
Often, these overall ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leukocyte-promoting%20factor | Leukocyte-promoting factor, more commonly known as leukopoietin, is a category of substances produced by neutrophils when they encounter a foreign antigen. Leukopoietin stimulates the bone marrow to increase the rate of leukopoiesis in order to replace the neutrophils that will inevitably be lost when they begin to pha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20capsule | Polar capsules are structures found in the valves of Myxosporean parasites, which contain the polar filament. The polar capsule is constructed of a proteinaceous and a polysaccharide layer, both layers of which continue into the polar filament.
The mouth of the capsule is covered with a cap-like structure. This struct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramutation | In epigenetics, a paramutation is an interaction between two alleles at a single locus, whereby one allele induces a heritable change in the other allele. The change may be in the pattern of DNA methylation or histone modifications. The allele inducing the change is said to be paramutagenic, while the allele that has b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beilinson%E2%80%93Bernstein%20localization | The Beilinson–Bernstein localization theorem is a foundational result of geometric representation theory, a part of mathematics studying the representation theory of e.g. Lie algebras using geometry.
Statement
Let G be a reductive group over the complex numbers, and B a Borel subgroup. Then there is an equivalence o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfusion-related%20immunomodulation | Transfusion-related immunomodulation (TRIM) refers to the transient depression of the immune system following transfusion of blood products. This effect has been recognized in groups of individuals who have undergone kidney transplantation or have had multiple miscarriages. Some research studies have shown that, becaus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPd2Al3 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:UPd2Al3}}
UPd2Al3 is a heavy-fermion superconductor with a hexagonal crystal structure and critical temperature Tc=2.0K that was discovered in 1991. Furthermore, UPd2Al3 orders antiferromagnetically at TN=14K, and UPd2Al3 thus features the unusual behavior that this material, at temperatures below 2K, is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuchal%20fascia | The nuchal fascia is a fascia covering the autochthonous musculature of the neck as a part of the cervical fascia. It proceeds the thoracolumbar fascia to the top (cranial). The fascia itself is made of two parts: A superficial layer (lat.: Fascia nuchae superficialis) and a deeper layer that is located among the Trap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photofragment-ion%20imaging | Photofragment ion imaging or, more generally, Product Imaging is an experimental technique for making measurements of the velocity of product molecules or particles following a chemical reaction or the photodissociation of a parent molecule. The method uses a two-dimensional detector, usually a microchannel plate, to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus%20violaceofuscus | Boletus violaceofuscus is a fungus of the genus Boletus native to China. First Described by W.F Chiu in 1948. It is related to Boletus separans.
Description
The cap has a diameter of 4-7 cm, hemispherical when young, broad to almost flat when mature. Colored dark blue, "Blue Violet," and sometimes ageing to "Maroon ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP%20Biology | Advanced Placement (AP) Biology (also known as AP Bio) is an Advanced Placement biology course and exam offered by the College Board in the United States. For the 2012–2013 school year, the College Board unveiled a new curriculum with a greater focus on "scientific practices".
This course is designed for students who ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20finch | Known as the Society finch in North America and the Bengali finch or Bengalese finch elsewhere, Lonchura striata domestica is a domesticated finch not found in nature. It became a popular cage and trade bird after appearing in European zoos in the 1860s where it was imported from Japan. There have been many theories of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Jersey%20lunar%20sample%20displays | The New Jersey lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of small fragments of Moon specimen brought back with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 lunar missions and given in the 1970s to the people of the state of New Jersey by United States President Richard Nixon.
Description
Apollo 11
Apollo 17
H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho-Am%20Prize%20in%20Medicine | The Ho-Am Prize in Medicine was established in 1990 by Kun-Hee Lee, the Chairman of Samsung, to honour the late Chairman, Lee Byung-chul, the founder of the company. The Ho-Am Prize in Medicine is one of six prizes awarded annually, covering the five categories of Science, Engineering, Medicine, Arts, and Community Ser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture | Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body. Acupuncture is a pseudoscience; the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientific knowledge, and it has been characterized as quackery.
There is a range of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profilin | Profilin is an actin-binding protein involved in the dynamic turnover and reconstruction of the actin cytoskeleton. It is found in most eukaryotic organisms. Profilin is important for spatially and temporally controlled growth of actin microfilaments, which is an essential process in cellular locomotion and cell shape... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20passing | In computer science, message passing is a technique for invoking behavior (i.e., running a program) on a computer. The invoking program sends a message to a process (which may be an actor or object) and relies on that process and its supporting infrastructure to then select and run some appropriate code. Message passin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raking | Raking (also called "raking ratio estimation" or "iterative proportional fitting") is the statistical process of adjusting data sample weights of a contingency table to match desired marginal totals. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curved%20space | Curved space often refers to a spatial geometry which is not "flat", where a flat space has zero curvature, as described by Euclidean geometry. Curved spaces can generally be described by Riemannian geometry though some simple cases can be described in other ways. Curved spaces play an essential role in general relativ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware%20analysis | Malware analysis is the study or process of determining the functionality, origin and potential impact of a given malware sample such as a virus, worm, trojan horse, rootkit, or backdoor. Malware or malicious software is any computer software intended to harm the host operating system or to steal sensitive data from us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20level%20analysis | Error level analysis (ELA) is the analysis of compression artifacts in digital data with lossy compression such as JPEG.
Principles
When used, lossy compression is normally applied uniformly to a set of data, such as an image, resulting in a uniform level of compression artifacts.
Alternatively, the data may consist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin-arginine%20translocation%20pathway | The twin-arginine translocation pathway (Tat pathway) is a protein export, or secretion pathway found in plants, bacteria, and archaea. In contrast to the Sec pathway which transports proteins in an unfolded manner, the Tat pathway serves to actively translocate folded proteins across a lipid membrane bilayer. In plant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana%20%28supercomputer%29 | Kalpana was a supercomputer at NASA Ames Research Center operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division and named in honor of astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and had worked as an engineer at Ames Research Center prior to joining the Space Shuttle program. It ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Biology | The Max Planck Institute for Biology is a research institute located in Tübingen, Germany, and was formerly known as the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. A predecessor institution operated under the same name from 1948 to 2004.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the forerunner to the Max Planck Society, estab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20Land | is a puzzle video game developed by Hudson Soft in 1983 for the MSX, FM-7, NEC PC-6001, NEC PC-8801, and in 1985 for the Famicom. The MSX version saw release in Japan by Hudson Soft and in Europe by Kuma Computers Ltd in 1984.
While the Famicom version has 99 levels, there is no ending screen implemented in the game.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil%E2%80%93globule%20transition | In polymer physics, the coil–globule transition is the collapse of a macromolecule from an expanded coil state through an ideal coil state to a collapsed globule state, or vice versa. The coil–globule transition is of importance in biology due to the presence of coil-globule transitions in biological macromolecules su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20fluid%20mechanics | The history of fluid mechanics is a fundamental strand of the history of physics and engineering. The study of the movement of fluids (liquids and gases) and the forces that act upon them dates back to pre-history. The field has undergone a continuous evolution, driven by human dependence on water, meteorological condi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamellipodium | The lamellipodium (: lamellipodia) (from Latin lamella, related to , "thin sheet", and the Greek radical pod-, "foot") is a cytoskeletal protein actin projection on the leading edge of the cell. It contains a quasi-two-dimensional actin mesh; the whole structure propels the cell across a substrate. Within the lamellipo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tixati | Tixati is a proprietary Linux and Windows BitTorrent client written in C++. It has standalone and portable versions with each new client version.
Features
In addition to standard BitTorrent client-sharing functions, Tixati provides integral chatrooms with channel chat as well as encrypted private messaging. Chatrooms... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20most%20expensive%20video%20games%20to%20develop | The following is a list of the most expensive video games ever developed, with a minimum total cost of US$50 million and sorted by the total cost adjusted for inflation. Most game budgets are not disclosed, so this list is not indicative of industry trends.
Lists
Official figures
Cancelled games
Unofficial figures
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensor%20hallucis%20longus%20muscle | The extensor hallucis longus muscle is a thin skeletal muscle, situated between the tibialis anterior and the extensor digitorum longus. It extends the big toe and dorsiflects the foot. It also assists with foot eversion and inversion.
Structure
The muscle ends as a tendon of insertion. The tendon passes through a di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate%20genomics | Chordate genomics is the study of the evolution of the chordate clade based on a comparison of the genomes of several species within the clade. The field depends on whole genome data (the entire DNA sequence) of organisms. It uses comparisons of synteny blocks, chromosome translocation, and other genomic rearrangements... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20econometrics | Bayesian econometrics is a branch of econometrics which applies Bayesian principles to economic modelling. Bayesianism is based on a degree-of-belief interpretation of probability, as opposed to a relative-frequency interpretation.
The Bayesian principle relies on Bayes' theorem which states that the probability of B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20for%20Cytotechnology | Founded in 1979, the American Society for Cytotechnology is a professional organization dedicated to the field of cytotechnology. The ASCT promotes cytotechnology through the development of practice standards, and by staying up to date regarding emerging technologies and the legislative and regulatory issues within th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%28g%29%20Scholar | f(g) Scholar also known as fg Scholar was a graphing, spreadsheet, and calculator software package published by Future Graph, Inc. The software received a number of awards as well as extensive press coverage. Although originally targeted towards technical academia in the fields of math, science, and engineering primari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous%20Transfer%20Mode | Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a telecommunications standard defined by the American National Standards Institute and ITU-T (formerly CCITT) for digital transmission of multiple types of traffic. ATM was developed to meet the needs of the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network as defined in the late 1980s, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%204 | iOS 4 is the fourth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., being the successor to iPhone OS 3. It was announced at the Apple Special Event on April 8, 2010, and was released on June 21, 2010. iOS 4 is the first iOS version issued under the "iOS" rebranding, dropping the "iPhone OS" na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20of%20Operations%20Research | Mathematics of Operations Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in February 1976. It focuses on areas of mathematics relevant to the field of operations research such as continuous optimization, discrete optimization, game theory, machine learning, simulation methodology, and stochastic m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire%20code | Automotive tires are described by an alphanumeric tire code (in North American English) or tyre code (in Commonwealth English), which is generally molded into the sidewall of the tire. This code specifies the dimensions of the tire, and some of its key limitations, such as load-bearing ability, and maximum speed. Somet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20turbulence | Quantum turbulence is the name given to the turbulent flow – the chaotic motion of a fluid at high flow rates – of quantum fluids, such as superfluids. The idea that a form of turbulence might be possible in a superfluid via the quantized vortex lines was first suggested by Richard Feynman. The dynamics of quantum flui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribrach%20%28instrument%29 | A tribrach is an attachment plate used to attach a surveying instrument, for example a theodolite, total station, GNSS antenna or target to a tripod. A tribrach allows the survey instrument to be repeatedly placed in the same position over a surveying marker point with sub-millimetre precision, by loosening and re-tig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain%20%28SWV%20song%29 | "Rain" is a 1998 single released by the group SWV. The musical backing track is based on Jaco Pastorius's "Portrait of Tracy". Released as the fourth and final single from the group's third album Release Some Tension, the song peaked at number 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number 7 on the US Hot R&B ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered%20species | An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction. Endangered species may be at risk due to factors such as habitat loss, poaching and invasive species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red Lis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient%20frontier | In modern portfolio theory, the efficient frontier (or portfolio frontier) is an investment portfolio which occupies the "efficient" parts of the risk–return spectrum.
Formally, it is the set of portfolios which satisfy the condition that no other portfolio exists with a higher expected return but with the same standa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMCO4 | Single-pass membrane and coiled-coil domain-containing protein 4 is a single-pass membrane protein with a colloid-coil domain containing protein 4. In humans it is encoded by the SMCO4 gene. A single-pass transmembrane protein, means that one end of the protein will remain in the cytoplasm, while the other end is expo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Geophysical%20Year | The International Geophysical Year (IGY; ), also referred to as the third International Polar Year, was an international scientific project that lasted from 1 July 1957 to 31 December 1958. It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War when scientific interchange between East and West had been seriously interr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Red | Mr. Red is the first mascot of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. He is a humanoid figure dressed in a Reds uniform, with an oversized baseball for a head. Sometimes, Mr. Red is referred to by the team as "The Running Man" for the way he has posed on the logo c. 1968.
Mr. Red was created by Henry "Hank" Zureick, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnett%20square | The Punnett square is a square diagram that is used to predict the genotypes of a particular cross or breeding experiment. It is named after Reginald C. Punnett, who devised the approach in 1905. The diagram is used by biologists to determine the probability of an offspring having a particular genotype. The Punnett squ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/146th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 146° 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 146th meridian west forms a great circle with the 34th meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20OTP%20applications | The following is a general comparison of OTP applications that are used to generate one-time passwords for two-factor authentication (2FA) systems using the time-based one-time password (TOTP) or the HMAC-based one-time password (HOTP) algorithms.
Authenticated implementations
See also
Password manager
List of pass... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20writing%20systems | This is a list of writing systems (or scripts), classified according to some common distinguishing features.
The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the language(s) in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20penis%20size | Human penises vary in size on a number of measures, including length and circumference when flaccid and erect. Besides the natural variability of human penises in general, there are factors that lead to minor variations in a particular male, such as the level of arousal, time of day, ambient temperature, anxiety level,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DelPhi | DelPhi is a scientific application which calculates electrostatic potentials in and around macromolecules and the corresponding electrostatic energies. It incorporates the effects of ionic strength mediated screening by evaluating the Poisson-Boltzmann equation at a finite number of points within a three-dimensional gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-contrast%20microscopy |
Phase-contrast microscopy (PCM) is an optical microscopy technique that converts phase shifts in light passing through a transparent specimen to brightness changes in the image. Phase shifts themselves are invisible, but become visible when shown as brightness variations.
When light waves travel through a medium oth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense%20in%20depth%20%28computing%29 | Defense in depth is a concept used in information security in which multiple layers of security controls (defense) are placed throughout an information technology (IT) system. Its intent is to provide redundancy in the event a security control fails or a vulnerability is exploited that can cover aspects of personnel, p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20latte | Cosmic latte is the average color of the universe as perceived from the Earth, found by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In 2002, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the average color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in a 2003 paper in wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylchloroisothiazolinone | Methylchloroisothiazolinone, also referred to as MCI, is the organic compound with the formula S(C2HCl)C(O)N(CH3). It is a white solid that melts near room temperature. The compound is an isothiazolinone, a class of heterocycles used as biocides. These compounds have an active sulphur moiety that is able to oxidize thi... |
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