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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%E2%80%93Littlewood%20maximal%20function | In mathematics, the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator M is a significant non-linear operator used in real analysis and harmonic analysis.
Definition
The operator takes a locally integrable function f : Rd → C and returns another function Mf.
For any point x ∈ Rd, the function Mf returns the maximum of a set of reals,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whetstone%20%28benchmark%29 | The Whetstone benchmark is a synthetic benchmark for evaluating the performance of computers. It was first written in Algol 60 in 1972 at the Technical Support Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry (later part of the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency) in the United Kingdom. It was derived from stati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spongiostromata | "Spongiostromata" is an antiquated form taxon that refers primarily to fossil cyanobacteria. "Spongiostromate" is also used to describe stromatolites and oncolites that do not preserve clear tubules or other cellular microstructure.
Pia (1927) erected the group to contain calcareous algal fossils that contain no visib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espalier | Espalier ( or ) is the horticultural and ancient agricultural practice of controlling woody plant growth for the production of fruit, by pruning and tying branches to a frame. Plants are frequently shaped in formal patterns, flat against a structure such as a wall, fence, or trellis, and also plants which have been sha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullimonstrum | Tullimonstrum, colloquially known as the Tully monster or sometimes Tully's monster, is an extinct genus of soft-bodied bilaterian animal that lived in shallow tropical coastal waters of muddy estuaries during the Pennsylvanian geological period, about 300 million years ago. A single species, T. gregarium, is known. Ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Kernel | T-Kernel is an open source real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for 32-bit microcontrollers. It is standardized by the T-Engine Forum, which distributes it under a T-License agreement. There is also a corresponding Micro T-Kernel (μT-Kernel) implementation designed for embedded systems with 16-bit or 8-bit microc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20group | The concept of a double group was introduced by Hans Bethe for the quantitative treatment of magnetochemistry of complexes of ions like Ti3+, that have a single unpaired electron in the metal ion's valence electron shell and to complexes of ions like Cu2+ which have a single "vacancy" in the valence shell.
In the sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi11%20holin%20family | The Phi11 Holin (φ11 Holin) Family (TC# 1.E.11) constitutes the Holin Superfamily I.
One characterized member of this family, pneumococcal EJ-1 phage holin (EJh; TC# 1.E.11.1.3), is a hydrophobic peptide of 85 amino acyl residues in length (aas) with 2 putative transmembrane segments (TMSs) displaying lethal inner mem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propidium%20iodide | Propidium iodide (or PI) is a fluorescent intercalating agent that can be used to stain cells and nucleic acids. PI binds to DNA by intercalating between the bases with little or no sequence preference. When in an aqueous solution, PI has a fluorescent excitation maximum of 493 nm (blue-green), and an emission maximum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/261%20%28number%29 | 261 (two hundred [and] sixty-one) is a natural number proceeded by the number 260 and followed by 262. It has the prime factorization 32·29.
Mathematical properties
There are six divisors of this number, the divisors being , , , , , and 261 itself. 261 is a deficient number, since
261 is nonagonal number, unique pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modiolus%20%28cochlea%29 | The modiolus is a conical shaped central axis in the cochlea. The modiolus consists of spongy bone and the cochlea turns approximately 2.75 times around the central axis in humans. The cochlear nerve, as well as spiral ganglion is situated inside it. The cochlear nerve conducts impulses from the receptors located withi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence%20space | In mathematics, a convergence space, also called a generalized convergence, is a set together with a relation called a that satisfies certain properties relating elements of X with the family of filters on X. Convergence spaces generalize the notions of convergence that are found in point-set topology, including metr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20law%20of%20cosines | In hyperbolic geometry, the "law of cosines" is a pair of theorems relating the sides and angles of triangles on a hyperbolic plane, analogous to the planar law of cosines from plane trigonometry, or the spherical law of cosines in spherical trigonometry. It can also be related to the relativistic velocity addition for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayTV | PlayTV is an add-on unit for the PlayStation 3 video game console that allows it to act as a digital television receiver, and digital video recorder, using the DVB-T standard.
Features
LiveTV
The Live TV feature of PlayTV provides access to free-to-air (unencrypted) channels through the DVB-T network. While using thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOSCOPE%20Observatory | The GEOSCOPE Observatory is a global network of 35 broadband seismic stations across 18 countries that share their data with the French and international scientific community. The observatory was established in 1982, and the acquired data is managed by and is available at the French Institut de Physique du Globe de Par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer%20jumping | Pointer jumping or path doubling is a design technique for parallel algorithms that operate on pointer structures, such as linked lists and directed graphs. Pointer jumping allows an algorithm to follow paths with a time complexity that is logarithmic with respect to the length of the longest path. It does this by "jum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACDC%20domain | The AP2-Coincident Domain mainly at the Carboxy-terminus, or ACDC domain, is a protein domain that occurs in proteins from apicomplexan parasites.
It is found exclusively in apicomplexan proteins that also contain AP2 (Apetala 2-integrase) DNA binding domains (ApiAP2 proteins). In 8 of 9 known examples in the malarial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji%20mermaid | The Fiji mermaid (also Feejee mermaid) was an object composed of the torso and head of a juvenile monkey sewn to the back half of a fish. It was a common feature of sideshows where it was presented as the mummified body of a creature that was supposedly half mammal and half fish, a version of a mermaid. The original ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond%20buffer | The diamond buffer or diamond follower is a four-transistor, two-stage, push-pull, translinear emitter follower, or less commonly source follower, in which the input transistors are folded, or placed upside-down with respect to the output transistors. Like any unity buffer, the diamond buffer does not alter the phase a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%20model%20engine | Cox model engines are used to power small model airplanes, model cars and model boats. They were in production for more than 60 years between 1945 and 2006. The business is named for founder Leroy M. Cox. He started L.M. Cox Manufacturing Co. Inc, which later became Cox Hobbies Inc., then Cox Products, before being sol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Semblio | Microsoft Semblio is a software development kit for development of rich educational software. Version 1.0 was published by Microsoft on 15 December 2008. Before its launch it was codenamed Grava, to become a set of tools for creating and using educational and training materials.
Components
The tools were to be built u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CXorf36 | Chromosome X open reading frame 36 (CXorf36) is a gene that in humans encodes a protein “hypothetical protein LOC79742”. This protein has a function that is not currently very well understood. Other known aliases are “FLJ14103, DKFZp313K0825, FLJ55198, PRO3743, FLJ55198, hCG1981635, bA435K1.1,” and “4930578C19Rik.”
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing%E2%80%93Borsuk%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Bing–Borsuk conjecture states that every -dimensional homogeneous absolute neighborhood retract space is a topological manifold. The conjecture has been proved for dimensions 1 and 2, and it is known that the 3-dimensional version of the conjecture implies the Poincaré conjecture.
Definitions
A to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupillary%20distance | Pupillary distance (PD), more correctly known as interpupillary distance (IPD) is the distance in millimeters between the centers of each pupil.
Interpupillary Distance Classifications
Distance PD is the separation between the visual axes of the eyes in their primary position, as the subject fixates on an infinitely d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremasteric%20fascia | The cremasteric fascia is a fascia in the scrotum. As the cremaster descends, it forms a series of loops which differ in thickness and length in different subjects. At the upper part of the cord the loops are short, but they become in succession longer and longer, the longest reaching down as low as the testis, where a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs%20A.%20De%20Loera | Jesús Antonio De Loera (born January 18, 1966) is a Mexican-American mathematician at the University of California, Davis, specializing in discrete mathematics and discrete geometry.
Education
De Loera did his undergraduate studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, earning a B.S. in mathematics in 1989... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matias%20D.%20Cattaneo | Matias Damian Cattaneo (born May 16, 1978) is a Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. His research focuses on statistics, econometrics, data science and decision science, with applications to program evaluation and causal inference. He is best known for his work on Regressi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sound%20chips | Sound chips come in different forms and use a variety of techniques to generate audio signals. This is a list of sound chips that were produced by a certain company or manufacturer, categorized by the sound generation of the chips.
Programmable sound generators (PSG)
Wavetable synthesis
Frequency modulation (FM) syn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry%20Shoulder%20Cord | The Infantryman Shoulder Cord is a United States military decoration worn over the right shoulder of all infantry-qualified U.S. Army soldiers. It is a fourragere in light blue, specifically PMS 5415 (dubbed "Infantry Blue" by the U.S. Army), worn under the right shoulder and under the right epaulette of a U.S. Army in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporangium | A sporangium (: sporangia; from Late Latin, ), is an enclosure in which spores are formed. It can be composed of a single cell or can be multicellular. Virtually all plants, fungi, and many other lineages form sporangia at some point in their life cycle. Sporangia can produce spores by mitosis, but in nearly all land p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic%20protein | A mosaic protein is a protein that is made up of different protein domains, giving the protein multiple functions. These proteins have quaternary structures, as they are made up of multiple tertiary structured protein domains. Protein domains can combine to form different types of proteins, creating a diversity of prot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keidel%20vacuum | The Keidel vacuum tube was a type of blood collecting device, first manufactured by Hynson, Wescott and Dunning in around 1922. This vacuum was one of the first evacuated systems, predating the more well known Vacutainer. Its primary use was to test for syphilis and typhoid fever.
Process
Essentially, the Keidel vacu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20pathogenesis | Viral pathogenesis is the study of the process and mechanisms by which viruses cause diseases in their target hosts, often at the cellular or molecular level. It is a specialized field of study in virology.
Pathogenesis is a qualitative description of the process by which an initial infection causes disease. Viral dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIC-1 | The MIC-1 is a processor architecture invented by Andrew S. Tanenbaum to use as a simple but complete example in his teaching book Structured Computer Organization.
It consists of a very simple control unit that runs microcode from a 512-words store.
The Micro-Assembly Language (MAL) is engineered to allow simple wri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters%20of%20March | "Waters of March" ( ) is a Brazilian song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927–1994) in 1972. Jobim wrote both the Portuguese and English lyrics. The lyrics, originally written in Portuguese, do not tell a story, but rather present a series of images that form a collage; nearly every line starts with "É..." ("[It] is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer%20Service%20Assurance | Customer Service Assurance (CSA) in telecom and Internet services means the collection of Communications Service Provider (CSP) customer usage information from all practical sources including network traffic, network devices, content servers, management databases and user devices to ensure customer service quality is c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted%20Swiss%20%28fabric%29 | Dotted Swiss, or Swiss Dot, is a sheer cotton fabric embellished with small dots. It is a fine, lightweight plain weave cotton fabric, ornamented with embroidery or flocking with dotted patterns.
The dots sequence is possible in several ways and colors. The placement of dots can be regular to irregular and single col... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20of%20Archimedes | The Garden of Archimedes (Italian: Il Giardino Di Archimede) is a museum for mathematics in Florence, Italy. It was founded on March 26, 2004 and opened its doors to the public on April 14 of that year. The mission of the museum is to enhance public understanding and perception of mathematics, to bring mathematics ou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Geographical%20Scheme%20for%20Recording%20Plant%20Distributions | The World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) is a biogeographical system developed by the international Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) organization, formerly the International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases. The WGSRPD standards, like other standards for data fields in botan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consed | Consed is a program for viewing, editing, and finishing DNA sequence assemblies. Originally developed for sequence assemblies created with phrap, recent versions also support other sequence assembly programs like Newbler.
History
Consed was originally developed as a contig editing and finishing tool for large-scale ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux%20qubit | In quantum computing, more specifically in superconducting quantum computing, flux qubits (also known as persistent current qubits) are micrometer sized loops of superconducting metal that is interrupted by a number of Josephson junctions. These devices function as quantum bits. The flux qubit was first proposed by Ter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net%20positive%20suction%20head | In a hydraulic circuit, net positive suction head (NPSH) may refer to one of two quantities in the analysis of cavitation:
The Available NPSH (NPSHA): a measure of how close the fluid at a given point is to flashing, and so to cavitation. Technically it is the absolute pressure head minus the vapour pressure of the li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%E2%80%93Harrington%20theorem | In mathematical logic, the Paris–Harrington theorem states that a certain combinatorial principle in Ramsey theory, namely the strengthened finite Ramsey theorem, which is expressible in Peano arithmetic, is not provable in this system. The combinatorial principle is however provable in slightly stronger systems.
This... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiset | In mathematics, a multiset (or bag, or mset) is a modification of the concept of a set that, unlike a set, allows for multiple instances for each of its elements. The number of instances given for each element is called the multiplicity of that element in the multiset. As a consequence, an infinite number of multisets ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89l%C3%A9ments%20de%20g%C3%A9om%C3%A9trie%20alg%C3%A9brique | The Éléments de géométrie algébrique ("Elements of Algebraic Geometry") by Alexander Grothendieck (assisted by Jean Dieudonné), or EGA for short, is a rigorous treatise, in French, on algebraic geometry that was published (in eight parts or fascicles) from 1960 through 1967 by the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiqu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20Gottfried%20Wilhelm%20Leibniz | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (1 July 1646 [O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716); German polymath, philosopher logician, mathematician. Developed differential and integral calculus at about the same time and independentl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly%20triangular%20number | In mathematics, the doubly triangular numbers are the numbers that appear within the sequence of triangular numbers, in positions that are also triangular numbers. That is, if denotes the th triangular number, then the doubly triangular numbers are the numbers of the form .
Sequence and formula
The doubly triangular ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20point | In mathematics, an extreme point of a convex set in a real or complex vector space is a point in that does not lie in any open line segment joining two points of In linear programming problems, an extreme point is also called vertex or corner point of
Definition
Throughout, it is assumed that is a real or complex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connexin | Connexins (Cx) (TC# 1.A.24), or gap junction proteins, are structurally related transmembrane proteins that assemble to form vertebrate gap junctions. An entirely different family of proteins, the innexins, form gap junctions in invertebrates. Each gap junction is composed of two hemichannels, or connexons, which consi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/310%20%28number%29 | 310 is the natural number following 309 and preceding 311.
In mathematics
310 is an even composite number with 3 prime factors.
310 is a sphenic number meaning that it has 3 prime factors.
310 is a noncototient number which means that m − φ(m) = n has no solution for n=310.
310 is the number of Dyks 11 paths with stri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20phosphate | A sodium phosphate is a generic variety of salts of sodium (Na+) and phosphate (PO43−). Phosphate also forms families or condensed anions including di-, tri-, tetra-, and polyphosphates. Most of these salts are known in both anhydrous (water-free) and hydrated forms. The hydrates are more common than the anhydrous form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/166th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 166° 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 166th meridian west forms a great circle with the 14th meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket%20candy | Rocket Candy, or R-Candy, is a type of rocket propellant for model rockets made with a form of sugar as a fuel, and containing an oxidizer. The propellant can be divided into three groups of components: the fuel, the oxidizer, and the additive(s). In the past, sucrose was most commonly used as fuel. Modern formulations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20Botanical%20Society | The Pakistan Botanical Society is a learned society of professional botanists. It was established in 1968. Its headquarters are located in the Department of Biology at the University of Karachi and its current president is Ikram-ul-Haq.
Publications
The society publishes the Pakistan Journal of Botany bimonthly.
Exte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curio%20%27Trident%20Blue%27 | Curio 'Trident Blue', known commonly as Senecio 'Trident Blue', Trident Blue Chalk and Kleinia 'Trident Blue', is a spear-shaped succulent plant that is a hybrid of Curio repens and Curio talinoides.
Description
Bred by Australian gardener from Melbourne, Attila Kapitany, the plant features powdery blue-grey leaves wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cup%20Soccer%3A%20Italia%20%2790 | World Cup Soccer: Italia '90 is a football video game released for various home computers in 1990 by Virgin Mastertronic. It is the officially licensed game of the tournament. It was known simply as Italia '90 for the Tronix budget reissues.
Different games were also released by Virgin Mastertronic for Sega consoles a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDF5 | Growth/differentiation factor 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GDF5 gene.
The protein encoded by this gene is closely related to the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) family and is a member of the TGF-beta superfamily. This group of proteins is characterized by a polybasic proteolytic processing site whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependence%20relation | In mathematics, a dependence relation is a binary relation which generalizes the relation of linear dependence.
Let be a set. A (binary) relation between an element of and a subset of is called a dependence relation, written , if it satisfies the following properties:
if , then ;
if , then there is a finite s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80%20character%20set | The ZX80 character set is the character encoding used by the Sinclair Research ZX80 microcomputer with its original 4K BASIC ROM. The encoding uses one byte per character for 256 code points. It has no relationship with previously established ones like ASCII or EBCDIC, but it is related though not identical to the char... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compunet | Compunet was a United Kingdom-based interactive service provider, catering primarily for the Commodore 64 but later for the Amiga and Atari ST. It was also known by its users as CNet. It ran from 1984 to May 1993.
Overview
Compunet hosted a wide range of content, and users were permitted to create their own sections ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT-ND3 | MT-ND3 is a gene of the mitochondrial genome coding for the NADH dehydrogenase 3 (ND3) protein. The ND3 protein is a subunit of NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone), which is located in the mitochondrial inner membrane and is the largest of the five complexes of the electron transport chain. Variants of MT-ND3 are associate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop%20stunt%20viroid | The hop stunt viroid (abbreviated HSVd) is a viroid species that infects the common hop plant, citrus plants, grapevines, cucumber, and several Prunus species such as almond, apricot, plum, and peach. It is asymptomatic or latent in most host plants, but in some hosts it can cause stunting and other symphtoms. A study... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course-of-values%20recursion | In computability theory, course-of-values recursion is a technique for defining number-theoretic functions by recursion. In a definition of a function f by course-of-values recursion, the value of f(n) is computed from the sequence .
The fact that such definitions can be converted into definitions using a simpler for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocorynura%20electra | Neocorynura electra is an extinct species of sweat bee in the Halictidae genus Neocorynura.
N. electra is named from the Latin electrum meaning "amber". The species is known from a single female specimen, the holotype, deposited in the American Museum of Natural History, and which was first studied by Dr. Michael S. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Frederick%20Eberlein | William Frederick Eberlein (June 25, 1917, Shawano, Wisconsin – 1986, Rochester, New York) was an American mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis and mathematical physics.
Life
Eberlein studied from 1936 to 1942 at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard University, where he received in 1942 a PhD for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch%20process | The Fischer–Tropsch process (FT) is a collection of chemical reactions that converts a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, known as syngas, into liquid hydrocarbons. These reactions occur in the presence of metal catalysts, typically at temperatures of and pressures of one to several tens of atmospheres. The Fisc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allele%20age | Allele age (or mutation age) is the amount of time elapsed since an allele first appeared due to mutation. Estimating the time at which a certain allele appeared allows researchers to infer patterns of human migration, disease, and natural selection. Allele age can be estimated based on (1) the frequency of the allele ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofing%20filter | A roofing filter is a type of filter used in a HF radio receiver that limits the passband in the early stages of the receiver electronics. It blocks strong signals outside the receive channel which can overload following amplifier and mixer stages.
Purpose
The roofing filter is usually found after the first receiver ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exosortase | Exosortase refers to a family of integral membrane proteins that occur in Gram-negative bacteria that recognizes and cleaves the carboxyl-terminal sorting signal PEP-CTERM. The name derives from a predicted role analogous to sortase, despite the lack of any detectable sequence homology, and a strong association of exos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi%20deauthentication%20attack | A Wi-Fi deauthentication attack is a type of denial-of-service attack that targets communication between a user and a Wi-Fi wireless access point.
Technical details
Unlike most radio jammers, deauthentication acts in a unique way. The IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) protocol contains the provision for a deauthentication frame. S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Sensor%20Interface%20protocol | The Simple Sensor Interface (SSI) protocol is a simple communications protocol designed for data transfer between computers or user terminals and smart sensors. The SSI protocol is an Application layer protocol as in the OSI model.
The SSI protocol has been developed jointly by Nokia, Vaisala, Suunto, Ionific, Mermit ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20Equations%20with%20Latent%20Variables | Structural Equations with Latent Variables is a statistics textbook authored by Kenneth Bollen and published in 1989. It aims to provide a framework for understanding and applying structural equation modeling. It is commonly used in graduate-level courses that focus on structural equation modeling within the social sci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaeroblast | A sphaeroblast is a woody extrusion from the trunk or branch of a tree, usually taking the form of a rounded spherical shape, as if the tree had a boil or mole.
Sphaeroblasts originate from a bud initial or a cluster of buds (especially adventitious buds) on the trunk or branch that have abnormally generated a rounded... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIVAC%20Synchronous%20Corpus | LIVAC is an uncommon language corpus dynamically maintained since 1995. Different from other existing corpora, LIVAC has adopted a rigorous and regular as well as "Windows" approach in processing and filtering massive media texts from representative Chinese speech communities such as Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei, Singapore... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muyinatu%20Bell | Muyinatu "Bisi" A. Lediju Bell is a researcher and faculty member. She is the John C. Malone Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is also the director of the Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Systems Engineering Laboratory.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater%20energy%20balance | The groundwater energy balance is the energy balance of a groundwater body in terms of incoming hydraulic energy associated with groundwater inflow into the body, energy associated with the outflow, energy conversion into heat due to friction of flow, and the resulting change of energy status and groundwater level.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing | Nothing, no-thing, or no thing, is the complete absence of anything; the opposite of everything, or its complement. The concept of nothing has been a matter of philosophical debate since at least the 5th century BC. Early Greek philosophers argued that it was impossible for nothing to exist. The atomists allowed noth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20H.%20Waddington | Conrad Hal Waddington (8 November 1905 – 26 September 1975) was a British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology, epigenetics, and evolutionary developmental biology.
Although his theory of genetic assimilation had a Darwinian exp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri%20Botanical%20Garden | The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw. Its herbarium, with more than 6.6 million specimens, is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Bot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proctitis | Proctitis is an inflammation of the anus and the lining of the rectum, affecting only the last 6 inches of the rectum.
Signs and symptoms
A common symptom is a continual urge to have a bowel movement—the rectum could feel full or have constipation. Another is tenderness and mild irritation in the rectum and anal regio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClamTk | ClamTk is a free software graphical interface for the ClamAV command line antivirus software program, for Linux desktop users. It provides both on-demand and scheduled scanning. The project was started by Dave Mauroni in February 2004 and remains under development.
ClamTk was originally written using the Tk widget too... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Kleitman | Daniel J. Kleitman (born October 4, 1934) is an American mathematician and professor of applied mathematics at MIT. His research interests include combinatorics, graph theory, genomics, and operations research.
Biography
Kleitman was born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, the younger of Bertha and Milton Kleitman's two ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver%20Community%20Network | Vancouver Community Network (VCN) is a community-owned provider of free internet access, technical support, and web hosting services to individuals and nonprofit organizations in Vancouver, British Columbia.
It developed StreetMessenger, a communication service for the homeless.
History
The organization was founded a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram%20%28software%29 | Telegram Messenger, commonly known as Telegram, is an encrypted, cloud-based, cross-platform instant messaging (IM) service. It allows users to exchange messages, share media and files, live location and hold private and group voice or video calls, as well public livestreams. It is available for Android, iOS, Windows, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe | In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:
the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome
the temperate grasslands, savannas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multigrid%20method | In numerical analysis, a multigrid method (MG method) is an algorithm for solving differential equations using a hierarchy of discretizations. They are an example of a class of techniques called multiresolution methods, very useful in problems exhibiting multiple scales of behavior. For example, many basic relaxation m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nv%20network | A Nv network is a term used in BEAM robotics referring to the small electrical Neural Networks that make up the bulk of BEAM-based robot control mechanisms.
Building blocks
The most basic component included in Nv Networks is the Nv neuron. The purpose of a Nv neuron is simply to take an input, do something with it, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofluid%20dynamics | Biofluid dynamics may be considered as the discipline of biological engineering or biomedical engineering in which the fundamental principles of fluid dynamics are used to explain the mechanisms of biological flows and their interrelationships with physiological processes, in health and in diseases/disorder. It can be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLOB | The SLOB (simple list of blocks) allocator is one of three available memory allocators in the Linux kernel. The other two are SLAB (slab allocator) and SLUB. The SLOB allocator is designed to require little memory for the implementation and housekeeping, for use in small systems such as embedded systems. Unfortunately,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Regnier | Eva Dorothy Regnier (born 1971) is a decision scientist whose research concerns the interaction between human decision-making and environmental prediction. She is a professor of decision science in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy of the Naval Postgraduate School.
Education and career
Regnier graduate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SampTA | SampTA (Sampling Theory and Applications) is a biennial interdisciplinary conference for mathematicians, engineers, and applied scientists. The main purpose of SampTA is to exchange recent advances in sampling theory and to explore new trends and directions in the related areas of application. The conference focuses on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding%20DFT | In applied mathematics, the sliding discrete Fourier transform is a recursive algorithm to compute successive STFTs of input data frames that are a single sample apart (hopsize − 1). The calculation for the sliding DFT is closely related to Goertzel algorithm.
Definition
Assuming that the hopsize between two consecut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano%20acoustics | Piano acoustics is the set of physical properties of the piano that affect its sound. It is an area of study within musical acoustics.
String length, mass and tension
The strings of a piano vary in thickness, and therefore in mass per length, with bass strings thicker than treble. A typical range is from , string siz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/72nd%20meridian%20east | The meridian 72° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 72nd meridian east forms a great circle with the 108th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picklesburgh | Picklesburgh is an annual pickle-themed festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It has taken place in Downtown Pittsburgh every summer since 2015 (excluding 2020), originally on the Three Sisters bridges and along the Allegheny Riverfront, before relocating to the Boulevard of the Allies and PPG Place for its 2023 instal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20dynorphin | Big dynorphin is an endogenous opioid peptide of the dynorphin family that is composed of both dynorphin A and dynorphin B. Big dynorphin has the amino acid sequence: Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu-Arg-Arg-Ile-Arg-Pro-Lys-Leu-Lys-Trp-Asp-Asn-Gln-Lys-Arg-Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu-Arg-Arg-Gln-Phe-Lys-Val-Val-Thr. It has nociceptive and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation%20loss | Generation loss is the loss of quality between subsequent copies or transcodes of data. Anything that reduces the quality of the representation when copying, and would cause further reduction in quality on making a copy of the copy, can be considered a form of generation loss. File size increases are a common result of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20basis%20chip | A system basis chip (SBC) is an integrated circuit that includes various functions of automotive electronic control units (ECU) on a single die.
It typically includes a mixture between digital standard functionality like communication bus interfaces and analog or power functionality, denoted as smart power. Therefore ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Physics | The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, research and application.
It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide membership of over 20,000. The IOP is the Physical Society for the UK and Ireland and supports physics in education, research ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular%20integral%20operators%20on%20closed%20curves | In mathematics, singular integral operators on closed curves arise in problems in analysis, in particular complex analysis and harmonic analysis. The two main singular integral operators, the Hilbert transform and the Cauchy transform, can be defined for any smooth Jordan curve in the complex plane and are related by a... |
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