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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancaca | Chancaca is a typical Bolivian, Chilean and Peruvian, warm, sweet sauce made of raw unrefined sugar from sugarcane. It is often flavored with orange peel and cinnamon, and is consumed on sopaipillas or picarones.
Chancaca is also a synonym for panela, the unrefined sugar used to make chancaca syrup.
In Colombia, chan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20memory%20algorithm | In computing, external memory algorithms or out-of-core algorithms are algorithms that are designed to process data that are too large to fit into a computer's main memory at once. Such algorithms must be optimized to efficiently fetch and access data stored in slow bulk memory (auxiliary memory) such as hard drives or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Tholey | Paul Tholey (14 March 1937 – 7 December 1998) was a German Gestalt psychologist, and a professor of psychology and sports science at the University of Frankfurt and the Technical University of Braunschweig.
Tholey started the study of oneirology in an attempt to prove that dreams occur in color. Given the unreliabilit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20First%20TV | The First, also called The First TV and stylized as The F1rst, is a conservative opinion and commentary network in the United States started in October 2019. It has five hosts; including Bill O'Reilly.
History
The First was launched in October 2019 on Pluto TV, a streaming platform owned by Paramount Global. It was s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlovian-instrumental%20transfer | Pavlovian-instrumental transfer (PIT) is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when a conditioned stimulus (CS, also known as a "cue") that has been associated with rewarding or aversive stimuli via classical conditioning alters motivational salience and operant behavior. Two distinct forms of Pavlovian-instrumental t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root%20complex | In a PCI Express (PCIe) system, a root complex device connects the CPU and memory subsystem to the PCI Express switch fabric composed of one or more PCIe or PCI devices.
Similar to a host bridge in a PCI system, the root complex generates transaction requests on behalf of the CPU, which is interconnected through a lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar%20Image%20Computer | The Pixar Image Computer is a graphics computer originally developed by the Graphics Group, the computer division of Lucasfilm, which was later renamed Pixar. Aimed at commercial and scientific high-end visualization markets, such as medicine, geophysics and meteorology, the original machine was advanced for its time, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biolex | Biolex Therapeutics was a biotechnology firm in the Research Triangle of North Carolina which was founded in 1997 and raised $190 million from investors. It filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on July 5, 2012.
The company focused on expression of difficult-to-synthesize recombinant proteins in its LEX platform, which use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective%20vector%20field | A projective vector field (projective) is a smooth vector field on a semi Riemannian manifold (p.ex. spacetime) whose flow preserves the geodesic structure of without necessarily preserving the affine parameter of any geodesic. More intuitively, the flow of the projective maps geodesics smoothly into geodesics witho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG-edit | SVG-edit is a web-based free and open-source vector graphics editor. It can be used to create and edit Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images from within a web browser, not requiring additional software installation.
Overview
SVG-edit is a cross-browser web-based, JavaScript-driven web tool, and has also been made into... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%20Wenjun | Wu Wenjun (; 12 May 1919 – 7 May 2017), also commonly known as Wu Wen-tsün, was a Chinese mathematician, historian, and writer. He was an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), best known for Wu class, Wu formula, and Wu's method of characteristic set.
Biography
Wu's ancestral hometown was Jiashan, Zhej... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himanthalia%20elongata | Himanthalia elongata is a brown alga in the order Fucales, also known by the common names thongweed, sea thong and sea spaghetti. It is found in the north east Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.
According to the World Register of Marine Species Himanthalia elongata is the only member of its genus, Himanthalia Lyngbye, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones%27%20complement | The ones' complement of a binary number is the value obtained by inverting (flipping) all the bits in the binary representation of the number. The name "ones' complement" refers to the fact that such an inverted value, if added to the original, would always produce an "all ones" number (the term "complement" refers to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20statistical%20areas | The U.S. currently has 35 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated 7 combined statistical areas, 22 metropolitan statistical areas, and 6 micropolitan statistical areas in Florida.
Statistical areas
The Office of Management and Bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Semiconductor | Crystal Semiconductor Corporation was an American computer company based in Austin, Texas, and active from 1984 to the early 2000s. Founded by Michael J. Callahan and James H. Clardy, the company originally specialized in the design and manufacture of silicon for mixed-signal integrated circuits, namely digital-to-anal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational%20spectroscopy | Rotational spectroscopy is concerned with the measurement of the energies of transitions between quantized rotational states of molecules in the gas phase. The rotational spectrum (power spectral density vs. rotational frequency) of polar molecules can be measured in absorption or emission by microwave spectroscopy or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Dokholyan | Nikolay V. Dokholyan is an American biophysicist, academic and researcher. He is a G. Thomas Passananti Professor and Vice Chair for Research at Penn State College of Medicine.
Dokholyan’s research primarily focuses on translational research, with a particular attention on the applications of basic science in terms of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%20systems | Work system has been used loosely in many areas. This article concerns its use in understanding IT-reliant systems in organizations. A notable use of the term occurred in 1977 in the first volume of MIS Quarterly in two articles by Bostrom and Heinen (1977). Later Sumner and Ryan (1994) used it to explain problems in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korovkin%20approximation | In mathematics the Korovkin approximation is a convergence statement in which the approximation of a function is given by a certain sequence of functions. In practice a continuous function can be approximated by polynomials. With Korovkin approximations one comes a convergence for the whole approximation with examinati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%2013567 | ISO 13567 is an international computer-aided design (CAD) layer standard.
Standard parts
The standard is divided into three parts:
ISO 13567-1:2017
Technical product documentation — Organization and naming of layers for CAD — Part 1: Overview and principles
ISO 13567-2:2017
Technical product documentation — Organizati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephania%20capitata | Stephania capitata also known as sumbat kendi or vase plug in Indonesian is a medicinal plant that was commonly used as a substitute of Cyclea barbata to produce green grass jelly. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20reciprocity | Strong reciprocity is an area of research in behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology, and evolutionary anthropology on the predisposition to cooperate even when there is no apparent benefit in doing so. This topic is particularly interesting to those studying the evolution of cooperation, as these behaviors seem ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Low%20Temperature%20Physics | The International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT) is an academic conference held every three years near the month of September attracting on average well over a thousand participants from all over the world. The LT conferences are endorsed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) via it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse%20code%20mnemonics | Morse code mnemonics are systems to represent the sound of Morse characters in a way intended to be easy to remember. Since every one of these mnemonics requires a two-step mental translation between sound and character, none of these systems are useful for using manual Morse at practical speeds. Amateur radio clubs c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20Raining%20Men | "It's Raining Men" is a song by the American musical duo the Weather Girls from their third studio album, Success (1983). It was released as the album's lead single on September 10, 1982, through Columbia Records and CBS Records International. Paul Jabara wrote the song in collaboration with Paul Shaffer, and produced ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%20Deep%20Field | The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is an image of a small region in the constellation Ursa Major, constructed from a series of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope. It covers an area about 2.6 arcminutes on a side, about one 24-millionth of the whole sky, which is equivalent in angular size to a tennis ball at a distanc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher%20Department%20of%20the%20High%20Command%20of%20the%20Luftwaffe | Cipher Department of the High Command of the Luftwaffe was the signals intelligence and cryptanalytic agency of the German Air Ministry before and during World War II. In 1945, the unit was known as the Luftnachrichten Abteilung 350, abbreviated as OKL/Ln Abt 350 and formerly called the (). It was the successor in Nove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Yakovlevich%20Sonin | Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (Russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Со́нин, February 22, 1849 – February 27, 1915) was a Russian mathematician.
Biography
He was born in Tula and attended Lomonosov University, studying mathematics and physics there from 1865 to 1869. His advisor was Nikolai Bugaev. He obtained a master's degree... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudometric%20space | In mathematics, a pseudometric space is a generalization of a metric space in which the distance between two distinct points can be zero. Pseudometric spaces were introduced by Đuro Kurepa in 1934. In the same way as every normed space is a metric space, every seminormed space is a pseudometric space. Because of this a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl%20%CE%B2-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside}}
Isopropyl β--1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) is a molecular biology reagent. This compound is a molecular mimic of allolactose, a lactose metabolite that triggers transcription of the lac operon, and it is therefore used to induce protein expression where the gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laakso%20space | In mathematical analysis and metric geometry, Laakso spaces are a class of metric spaces which are fractal, in the sense that they have non-integer Hausdorff dimension, but that admit a notion of differential calculus. They are constructed as quotient spaces of where K is a Cantor set.
Background
Cheeger defined a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogens%20in%20digestive%20tract%20of%20ruminants | Methanogens are a group of microorganisms that produce methane as a byproduct of their metabolism. They play an important role in the digestive system of ruminants. The digestive tract of ruminants contains four major parts: rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. The food with saliva first passes to the rumen for break... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libdmc | Libdmc is a library designed at the LIP6 laboratory. Its goal is to ease the distribution of existing model checkers. It has also been designed to provide the most generic interfaces, without sacrificing performance, thanks to the C++ language.
Model checking offers a way to automatically prove that a modeled system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting%20vector | In physics, the Poynting vector (or Umov–Poynting vector) represents the directional energy flux (the energy transfer per unit area, per unit time) or power flow of an electromagnetic field. The SI unit of the Poynting vector is the watt per square metre (W/m2); kg/s3 in base SI units. It is named after its discoverer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting%20lost | Getting lost is the occurrence of a person or animal losing spatial reference. This situation consists of two elements: the feeling of disorientation and a spatial component. While getting lost, being lost or totally lost, etc. are popular expressions for someone in a desperate situation (perhaps not literally lost), g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental%20mapping | In behavioral geography, a mental map is a person's point-of-view perception of their area of interaction. Although this kind of subject matter would seem most likely to be studied by fields in the social sciences, this particular subject is most often studied by modern-day geographers. They study it to determine subje... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasitopological%20space | In mathematics, a quasi-topology on a set X is a function that associates to every compact Hausdorff space C a collection of mappings from C to X satisfying certain natural conditions. A set with a quasi-topology is called a quasitopological space.
They were introduced by Spanier, who showed that there is a natural qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridging%20Systems%20Interface | Bridging Systems Interface is a standard protocol for communicating with physical interfaces which attach analog or digital voice radios to digital data networks—known as 'Radio over IP'--to make easier the use of remote radios by local users, and the sharing of radios by multiple users, in the service of improving eme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%2C294%2C967%2C295 | The number 4,294,967,295 is a whole number equal to 2 − 1. It is a perfect totient number, meaning it is equal to the sum of its iterated totients. It follows 4,294,967,294 and precedes 4,294,967,296. It has a factorization of .
In computing, 4,294,967,295 is the highest unsigned (that is, not negative) 32-bit integer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-Aside%20Interface | The Look-Aside Interface is a computer interface that was specified by an interface interoperability agreement produced by the Network Processing Forum. It specifies the method to interface a Network Processing Element (of which an NPU is an example) to a Network Search Element (of which a CAM is an example). The inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Practice%20of%20Programming | The Practice of Programming () by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike is a 1999 book about computer programming and software engineering, published by Addison-Wesley.
According to the preface, the book is about "topics like testing, debugging, portability, performance, design alternatives, and style", which, according to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species-typical%20behavior | The ethological concept of species-typical behavior is based on the premise that certain behavioral similarities are shared by almost all members of a species. Some of these behaviors are unique to certain species, but to be 'species-typical,' they do not have to be unique—they simply have to be characteristic of that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll%20center | The roll center of a vehicle is the notional point at which the cornering forces in the suspension are reacted to the vehicle body.
There are two definitions of roll center. The most commonly used is the geometric (or kinematic) roll center, whereas the Society of Automotive Engineers uses a force-based definition.
D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise%20Fluke | Louise Trimmier Fluke ( Funk; February 9, 1900 – July 27, 1986) was an American art teacher and designer of the Oklahoma state flag.
Biography
Louise Trimmier Funk was born in Van Buren, Arkansas to Richard Waller and Nancy Trimmier ( Sloan) Funk. She moved to Shawnee, Oklahoma with her family a year later. As a you... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functoid | A functoid is a tool for applying methods to data via a GUI drag 'n drop interface from within the BizTalk Mapping tool.
In a typical BizTalk map, the data is copied from a source to a destination by dragging a line between the two. A functoid sits in the middle of this operation and applies its method to the incoming... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Al-Khalili | Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili (; born 20 September 1962) is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in science at the University of Surrey. He is a regular broadcaster and presenter of science programmes on BBC radio and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAfee | McAfee Corp. ( ), formerly known as McAfee Associates, Inc. from 1987 to 1997 and 2004 to 2014, Network Associates Inc. from 1997 to 2004, and Intel Security Group from 2014 to 2017, is an American global computer security software company headquartered in San Jose, California.
The company was purchased by Intel in Fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassmann%20number | In mathematical physics, a Grassmann number, named after Hermann Grassmann (also called an anticommuting number or supernumber), is an element of the exterior algebra over the complex numbers. The special case of a 1-dimensional algebra is known as a dual number. Grassmann numbers saw an early use in physics to express... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame%20Street%3A%20Elmo%27s%20Playdate | Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate is a 2020 television special which was produced as an extension of Sesame Workshop's Caring for Each Other initiative in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The special follows Elmo and other Sesame Street characters having a virtual playdate, along with a few celebrit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTCondor | HTCondor is an open-source high-throughput computing software framework for coarse-grained distributed parallelization of computationally intensive tasks.
It can be used to manage workload on a dedicated cluster of computers, or to farm out work to idle desktop computersso-called cycle scavenging. HTCondor runs on Lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20of%20the%20median | A multiple of the median (MoM) is a measure of how far an individual test result deviates from the median. MoM is commonly used to report the results of medical screening tests, particularly where the results of the individual tests are highly variable.
MoM was originally used as a method to normalize data from parti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Kisembo | Rosemary Kisembo, is a Ugandan software engineer and corporate executive, who serves as the Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority of Uganda (NIRA) effective 14 May 2021. She took over from Judy Obitre–Gama, a lawyer, whose contract ended in 2020 and was not extended.
Background a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbow%20code | In computer programming, oxbow code refers to fragments of program code that were once needed but which are now never used. Such code is typically formed when a program is modified, either when an item is superseded with a newer version but the old version is not removed, or when an item is removed or replaced, but the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20Fourier%20transform | In mathematics, the graph Fourier transform is a mathematical transform which eigendecomposes the Laplacian matrix of a graph into eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Analogously to the classical Fourier transform, the eigenvalues represent frequencies and eigenvectors form what is known as a graph Fourier basis.
The Graph ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Label-free%20quantification | Label-free quantification is a method in mass spectrometry that aims to determine the relative amount of proteins in two or more biological samples. Unlike other methods for protein quantification, label-free quantification does not use a stable isotope containing compound to chemically bind to and thus label the prote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galbulus | A fleshy cone (megastrobilus); chiefly relating to those borne by junipers and cypresses, and often mistakenly called a berry. These cones (galbuli) are formed by fleshy cone scales which accrete into a single mass under a unified epidermis. Although originally used for the cypresses, the term is more applicable to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%20rule%20%28bankruptcy%29 | The proportional rule is a division rule for solving bankruptcy problems. According to this rule, each claimant should receive an amount proportional to their claim. In the context of taxation, it corresponds to a proportional tax.
Formal definition
There is a certain amount of money to divide, denoted by (=Estate o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20Bernard%20Matthews%20H5N1%20outbreak | The 2007 Bernard Matthews H5N1 outbreak was an occurrence of avian influenza in England caused by the H5N1 subtype of Influenza virus A that began on 30 January 2007. The infection affected poultry at one of Bernard Matthews' farms in Holton in Suffolk. It was the third instance of H5N1-subtype detected in the United K... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perineal%20branches%20of%20posterior%20femoral%20cutaneous%20nerve | The perineal branches of the posterior femoral cutaneous nerve are distributed to the skin at the upper and medial side of the thigh.
One long perineal branch, inferior pudendal (long scrotal nerve), curves forward below and in front of the ischial tuberosity, pierces the fascia lata, and runs forward beneath the supe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27%20theorem | In graph theory, Brooks' theorem states a relationship between the maximum degree of a graph and its chromatic number. According to the theorem, in a connected graph in which every vertex has at most Δ neighbors, the vertices can be colored with only Δ colors, except for two cases, complete graphs and cycle graphs of o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20symmetric%20function | In mathematics and especially in algebraic combinatorics, the Stanley symmetric functions are a family of symmetric functions introduced by in his study of the symmetric group of permutations.
Formally, the Stanley symmetric function Fw(x1, x2, ...) indexed by a permutation w is defined as a sum of certain fundamen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg%27s%20tincture | Warburg's tincture was a pharmaceutical drug, now obsolete. It was invented in 1834 by Dr. Carl Warburg.
Warburg's tincture was well known in the Victorian era as a medicine for fevers, especially tropical fevers, including malaria. It was considered, by some, to be superior to quinine.
Warburg's Tincture was a secre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy%20%28information%20theory%29 | In information theory, redundancy measures the fractional difference between the entropy of an ensemble , and its maximum possible value . Informally, it is the amount of wasted "space" used to transmit certain data. Data compression is a way to reduce or eliminate unwanted redundancy, while forward error correction i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reshetnyak%20gluing%20theorem | In metric geometry, the Reshetnyak gluing theorem gives information on the structure of a geometric object built by using as building blocks other geometric objects, belonging to a well defined class. Intuitively, it states that a manifold obtained by joining (i.e. "gluing") together, in a precisely defined way, other ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia%20Perlman | Radia Joy Perlman (; born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the internet. She is most famous for her invention of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma%20and%20Allergy%20Friendly | Asthma & Allergy Friendly is a registered certification mark operated by Allergy Standards Limited in association with not-for-profit asthma and/or allergy organizations. They specialise in labelling products which have been put through and have passed standardised testing.
The Asthma & Allergy Friendly Certification ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%20effect | The Wigner effect (named for its discoverer, Eugene Wigner), also known as the discomposition effect or Wigner's disease, is the displacement of atoms in a solid caused by neutron radiation.
Any solid can display the Wigner effect. The effect is of most concern in neutron moderators, such as graphite, intended to red... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziziphin | Ziziphin, a triterpene glycoside which exhibits taste-modifying properties, has been isolated from the leaves of Ziziphus jujuba (Rhamnaceae).
Among ziziphin's known homologues found in this plant, it is the most anti-sweet. However, its anti-sweet activity is less effective than gymnemic acid 1, another anti-sweet co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analyte-specific%20reagent | Analyte-specific reagents (ASRs) are a class of biological molecules which can be used to identify and measure the amount of an individual chemical substance in biological specimens.
Regulatory definition
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines analyte specific reagents (ASRs) in 21 CFR 864.4020 as “anti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Karn | Phil Karn (born October 4, 1956) is a retired American engineer from Lutherville, Maryland. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1978 and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979. From 1979 until 1984, Karn worked at Bell Labs in N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Standard%20Mean%20Ocean%20Water | Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water (VSMOW) is an isotopic standard for water, that is, a particular sample of water whose proportions of different isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen are accurately known. VSMOW is distilled from ocean water and does not contain salt or other impurities. Published and distributed by the Vienn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccessible%20cardinal | In set theory, an uncountable cardinal is inaccessible if it cannot be obtained from smaller cardinals by the usual operations of cardinal arithmetic. More precisely, a cardinal is strongly inaccessible if it satisfies the following three conditions: it is uncountable, it is not a sum of fewer than cardinals smaller... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota%20and%20Jot | In formal language theory and computer science, Iota and Jot (from Greek iota ι, Hebrew yodh י, the smallest letters in those two alphabets) are languages, extremely minimalist formal systems, designed to be even simpler than other more popular alternatives, such as the lambda calculus and SKI combinator calculus. Thus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty%20product | In mathematics, an empty product, or nullary product or vacuous product, is the result of multiplying no factors. It is by convention equal to the multiplicative identity (assuming there is an identity for the multiplication operation in question), just as the empty sum—the result of adding no numbers—is by convention ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%E2%80%93environment%20correlation | Gene–environment correlation (or genotype–environment correlation) is said to occur when exposure to environmental conditions depends on an individual's genotype.
Definition
Gene–environment correlations (or rGE) is correlation of two traits, e.g. height and weight, which would mean that when one changes, so does the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplotype%20block | In genetics, a haplotype block is a region of an organism's genome in which there is little evidence of a history of genetic recombination, and which contain only a small number of distinct haplotypes. According to the haplotype-block model, such blocks should show high levels of linkage disequilibrium and be separated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20tension | Surface tension is the tendency of liquid surfaces at rest to shrink into the minimum surface area possible. Surface tension is what allows objects with a higher density than water such as razor blades and insects (e.g. water striders) to float on a water surface without becoming even partly submerged.
At liquid–air i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIS/COBOL | BLIS/COBOL is a discontinued operating system that was written in COBOL. It is the only such system to gain reasonably wide acceptance. It was optimised to compile business applications written in COBOL. BLIS was available on a range of Data General Nova and Data General Eclipse 16-bit minicomputers. It was marketed b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAProf | The UAProf (User Agent Profile) specification is concerned with capturing capability and preference information for wireless devices. This information can be used by content providers to produce content in an appropriate format for the specific device.
UAProf is related to the Composite Capability/Preference Profiles ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Center%20for%20Functional%20Glycomics | The National Center for Functional Glycomics is an organization that is focused on the development of technology development in glycosciences. They are specifically focused on glycan analysis and molecular mechanisms of glycan recognition by proteins important in human biology and disease. The center was established at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchinson%20metric | In mathematics, the Hutchinson metric otherwise known as Kantorovich metric is a function which measures "the discrepancy between two images for use in fractal image processing" and "can also be applied to describe the similarity between DNA sequences expressed as real or complex genomic signals".
Formal definition
Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Statistical%20Meetings | The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) is a professional conference/academic conference for statisticians and data scientists held annually every year since 1840 (usually in August). Billed as "the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America", JSM has attracted over 5000 participants in recent years. The fol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geer%20tube | The Geer tube was an early single-tube color television cathode ray tube, developed by Willard Geer. The Geer tube used a pattern of small phosphor-covered three-sided pyramids on the inside of the CRT faceplate to mix separate red, green, and blue signals from three electron guns. The Geer tube had a number of disadva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20predictive%20control | Model predictive control (MPC) is an advanced method of process control that is used to control a process while satisfying a set of constraints. It has been in use in the process industries in chemical plants and oil refineries since the 1980s. In recent years it has also been used in power system balancing models and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virosphere | Virosphere (virus diversity, virus world, global virosphere) was coined to refer to all those places in which viruses are found or which are affected by viruses. However, more recently virosphere has also been used to refer to the pool of viruses that occurs in all hosts and all environments, as well as viruses associa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemmatimonadota | The Gemmatimonadota are a phylum of bacteria established in 2003. The phylum contains two classes Gemmatimonadetes and Longimicrobia.
Species
The type species Gemmatimonas aurantiaca strain T-27T was isolated from activated sludge in a sewage treatment system in 2003. It is a Gram-negative bacterium able to grow by bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmonic%20solar%20cell | A plasmonic-enhanced solar cell, commonly referred to simply as plasmonic solar cell, is a type of solar cell (including thin-film or wafer-based cells) that converts light into electricity with the assistance of plasmons, but where the photovoltaic effect occurs in another material.
A direct plasmonic solar cell is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testudinid%20alphaherpesvirus%203 | Testudinid alphaherpesvirus 3 (TeHV-3) is a species of virus in the genus Scutavirus, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberCode | CyberCode is a visual tagging system based on a 2D barcode technology. Designed to be read by low-cost CMOS or CCD cameras common in mobile devices, it can also be used to determine the 3D position of the tagged object as well as its ID number.
A CyberCode tag is a 2D barcode symbology designed to be read from many an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter | A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters for specifying the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text, mathematical expressions or other data streams. An example of a delimiter is the comma character, which acts as a field delimiter in a sequence of comma-separated values. Another example ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellis-Owl | Trellis Owl (alternately, Trellis or Trellis-Owl) is a defunct object-oriented programming language created by Digital Equipment Corporation. A programming environment, just called Trellis, was also produced. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruch%27s%20membrane | Bruch's membrane or lamina vitrea is the innermost layer of the choroid of the eye. It is also called the vitreous lamina or Membrane vitriae, because of its glassy microscopic appearance. It is 2–4 μm thick.
Anatomy
Structure
Bruch's membrane consists of five layers (from inside to outside):
the basement membrane o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20theorem%20for%20finitely%20generated%20modules%20over%20a%20principal%20ideal%20domain | In mathematics, in the field of abstract algebra, the structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain is a generalization of the fundamental theorem of finitely generated abelian groups and roughly states that finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain (PID) can be uniquely ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordem%20dos%20Bi%C3%B3logos | The Ordem dos Biólogos (OdB) is a professional body for biologists, primarily those working in Portugal. The Ordem dos Biólogos is headquartered in Lisbon, and has regional branches in several other cities across Portugal. It was founded on 4 July 1998 by the Decree-Law 183/98. Any citizen with accredited degree and pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopf%20decomposition | In mathematics, the Hopf decomposition, named after Eberhard Hopf, gives a canonical decomposition of a measure space (X, μ) with respect to an invertible non-singular transformation T:X→X, i.e. a transformation which with its inverse is measurable and carries null sets onto null sets. Up to null sets, X can be writte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile%20da%20Foligno | Gentile Gentili da Foligno (died 18 June 1348) was an Italian professor and doctor of medicine, trained at Padua and the University of Bologna, and teaching probably first at Bologna, then at the University of Perugia, Siena (1322–1324), where his annual stipend was 60 gold florins; he was called to Padua (1325–1335) b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20puzzle | A mechanical puzzle is a puzzle presented as a set of mechanically interlinked pieces in which the solution is to manipulate the whole object or parts of it. While puzzles of this type have been in use by humanity as early as the 3rd century BC, one of the most well-known mechanical puzzles of modern day is the Rubik's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6ffler%27s%20medium | Löffler's medium is a special substance used to grow diphtheria bacilli to confirm the diagnosis.
History
In 1887, Friedrich Loeffler devised a culture medium containing horse serum, meat infusion, and dextrose for use in the cultivation of corynebacteria and for differentiating them from other organisms. Perry and P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agequake | Agequake: Riding the Demographic Rollercoaster Shaking Business, Finance and our World is a book written by Paul Wallace and published in 1999, that investigates what possible ramifications are likely as a significant and unprecedented portion of the human population age. The book argues that rising longevity and lowe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20%28law%29 | Discovery, in the law of common law jurisdictions, is a pre-trial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from the other party or parties by means of discovery devices such as interrogatories, requests for production of documents, requests for admissions and d... |
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