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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goody%20%28video%20game%29 | Goody is a platform game developed by Gonzalo Suárez Girard and released in 1987 by the Spanish company Opera Soft. The game was released for Amstrad CPC, MSX, ZX Spectrum, and MS-DOS compatible operating systems.
Goody was the first video game by the Spanish designer Gonzalo Suárez Girard, who went on to make Command... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20outlier%20factor | In anomaly detection, the local outlier factor (LOF) is an algorithm proposed by Markus M. Breunig, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Raymond T. Ng and Jörg Sander in 2000 for finding anomalous data points by measuring the local deviation of a given data point with respect to its neighbours.
LOF shares some concepts with DBSCAN and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emptiness%20problem | In theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a formal language is empty if its set of valid sentences is the empty set. The emptiness problem is the question of determining whether a language is empty given some representation of it, such as a finite-state automaton. For an automaton having states, this... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrinuron | Pyrinuron (Pyriminil, Vacor) is a chemical compound formerly used as a rodenticide. Commercial distribution was voluntarily suspended in 1979 and it is not approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in the United States. If it is ingested by humans in high doses, it may selectively destroy insulin-produci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday%20Clock | The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Maintained since 1947, the clock is a metaphor for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technological advances. A hypothetical global cat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20geometry%20code | Algebraic geometry codes, often abbreviated AG codes, are a type of linear code that generalize Reed–Solomon codes. The Russian mathematician V. D. Goppa constructed these codes for the first time in 1982.
History
The name of these codes has evolved since the publication of Goppa's paper describing them. Historically... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20musical%20symbols | Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesion%20network%20mapping | Lesion network mapping is a neuroimaging technique that analyzes the connectivity pattern of brain lesions to identify neuroanatomic correlates of symptoms. The technique was developed by Michael D. Fox and Aaron Boes to understand the network anatomy of lesion induced neurologic and psychiatric symptoms that can not b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RE%20%28complexity%29 | In computability theory and computational complexity theory, RE (recursively enumerable) is the class of decision problems for which a 'yes' answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time. Informally, it means that if the answer to a problem instance is 'yes', then there is some procedure that ta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma%20Olson | Wilma K. Olson (born ) is the Mary I. Bunting professor at the Rutgers Center for Quantitative Biology (CQB) (formerly known as BioMaPS institute for Quantitative Biology) at Rutgers University. Olson has her own research group on the New Brunswick campus. Although she is a polymer chemist by training, her research a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy%20sequence | In mathematics, a low-discrepancy sequence is a sequence with the property that for all values of N, its subsequence x1, ..., xN has a low discrepancy.
Roughly speaking, the discrepancy of a sequence is low if the proportion of points in the sequence falling into an arbitrary set B is close to proportional to the meas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erect%20image | In optics, an erect image is one that appears right-side up. An image is formed when rays from a point on the original object meet again after passing through an optical system. In an erect image, directions are the same as those in the object, in contrast to an inverted image. It is one of the properties of images for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20facilitator%20superfamily | The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) is a superfamily of membrane transport proteins that facilitate movement of small solutes across cell membranes in response to chemiosmotic gradients.
Function
The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) are membrane proteins which are expressed ubiquitously in all kingdoms of life... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin | Otherkin are a subculture of people who identify as partially or entirely nonhuman. Some otherkin believe their identity derives from spiritual phenomena (such as possessing a nonhuman soul, reincarnation, or the will of God), ancestry, symbolism, or metaphor. Others attribute it to unusual psychology or neurodivergen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point%20lemma%20for%20normal%20functions | The fixed-point lemma for normal functions is a basic result in axiomatic set theory stating that any normal function has arbitrarily large fixed points (Levy 1979: p. 117). It was first proved by Oswald Veblen in 1908.
Background and formal statement
A normal function is a class function from the class Ord of ordin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higuchi%20dimension | In fractal geometry, the Higuchi dimension (or Higuchi fractal dimension (HFD)) is an approximate value for the box-counting dimension of the graph of a real-valued function or time series. This value is obtained via an algorithmic approximation so one also talks about the Higuchi method. It has many applications in sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20pteridophytes%20of%20South%20Africa | This listing contains taxa of plants in the division Pteridophyta, recorded from South Africa. A pteridophyte is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that disperses spores. Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as "cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproducti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET%20transporters | The SWEET family (Sugars Will Eventually Be Exported Transporter), also known as the PQ-loop, Saliva or MtN3 family (TC# 2.A.123), is a family of sugar transporters and a member of the TOG superfamily. The proteins of the SWEET family have been found in plants, animals, protozoans, and bacteria. Eukaryotic family membe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topoln%C3%A1%20transmitter | The Topolná transmitter () was the central longwave broadcasting facility of the Czech Republic situated in the municipality of Topolná near the Morava River. Constructed in early 1950's, it was used for broadcasting until the end 2021 and its masts were blasted down in 2022.
History
The longwave frequency 272 kHz wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20monoid | In mathematics, the Chinese monoid is a monoid generated by a totally ordered alphabet with the relations cba = cab = bca for every a ≤ b ≤ c. An algorithm similar to Schensted's algorithm yields characterisation of the equivalence classes and a cross-section theorem. It was discovered by during their classification o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchara | Atchara (also spelled achara or atsara) is a pickle made from grated unripe papaya originating from the Philippines. This dish is often served as a side dish for fried or grilled foods such as pork barbecue.
History
The name atchara originated from the Indian achar, which was transmitted to the Philippines via the ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad%20Data%20Modeler | Toad Data Modeler is a database design tool allowing users to visually create, maintain, and document new or existing database systems, and to deploy changes to data structures across different platforms. It is used to construct logical and physical data models, compare and synchronize models, generate complex SQL/DDL,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texton | The term texton was introduced by Béla Julesz in 1981 to describe "the putative units of pre-attentive human texture perception."
The term reemerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s to describe vector quantized responses of a linear filter bank. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vu%20Televisions | Vu Televisions (also Vu Technologies) is a television brand and an LED TV and display manufacturer founded by Indian businessperson Devita Saraf, in United States in 2006. It is amongst top 10 largest-selling TV brand across e-commerce platforms in India.
History and products
Vu Technologies was founded as a high-end... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podkamennaya%20Tunguska | The Podkamennaya Tunguska (, literally Tunguska under the stones; , Ket: Ӄо’ль) also known as Middle Tunguska or Stony Tunguska, is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
History
In 1908, an asteroid impacted near the river and later became known as the Tunguska event.
In popular culture
The river was the set location ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercultural%20intelligence | Intercultural intelligence, or ICI, is a term that is used for the capability to function effectively in culturally diverse settings and consists of different dimensions (metacognitive, cognitive, motivational and behavioral) which are correlated to effectiveness in global environment (cultural judgement and decision m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatievka%20Cave | Ignatievka Cave (Ignateva cave, Ignatievskaya cave, , also known as Yamazy-Tash) is a large limestone cave on the banks of the Sim River, a tributary of the Belaya river in the southern Ural Mountains of Russia. In 1980 a parietal wall painting of a female figure was discovered. The twenty-eight red dots between her le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Cook | Matthew Cook (born February 7, 1970) is a mathematician and computer scientist who is best known for having proved Stephen Wolfram's conjecture that the Rule 110 cellular automaton is Turing-complete.
Biography
Cook was born in Morgantown, West Virginia and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. He completed his undergraduate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomalin | Glomalin is a hypothetical glycoprotein produced abundantly on hyphae and spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in soil and in roots. Glomalin was proposed in 1996 by Sara F. Wright, a scientist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service, but it was not isolated and described yet. The name comes from Glomerales,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wald%27s%20equation | In probability theory, Wald's equation, Wald's identity or Wald's lemma is an important identity that simplifies the calculation of the expected value of the sum of a random number of random quantities. In its simplest form, it relates the expectation of a sum of randomly many finite-mean, independent and identically d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRPM7 | Transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily M, member 7, also known as TRPM7, is a human gene encoding a protein of the same name.
Function
TRPs, mammalian homologs of the Drosophila transient receptor potential (trp) protein, are ion channels that are thought to mediate capacitative calcium entry into th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20services%20research | Health services research (HSR) became a burgeoning field in North America in the 1960s, when scientific information and policy deliberation began to coalesce. Sometimes also referred to as health systems research or health policy and systems research (HPSR), HSR is a multidisciplinary scientific field that examines how... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible%20spectrum | The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called visible light or simply light. A typical human eye will respond to wavelengths from about 380 to about 750 nanometers. In terms of frequency, this corres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20isospin | In particle physics, weak isospin is a quantum number relating to the electrically charged part of the weak interaction: Particles with half-integer weak isospin can interact with the bosons; particles with zero weak isospin do not.
Weak isospin is a construct parallel to the idea of isospin under the strong interacti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NA60%20experiment | The NA60 experiment was a high energy heavy ions experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. It studied "prompt dimuon and charm production with proton and heavy ion beams". The spokesperson for the experiment is Gianluca Usai. The experiment was proposed on 7 March 2000 and accepted on 15 June 2000. The experimen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting%20Frog%20Otolith | The Orbiting Frog Otolith (OFO) was a NASA space program which sent two bullfrogs into orbit on 9 November 1970 for the study of weightlessness. The name, derived through common use, was a functional description of the biological experiment carried by the satellite. Otolith referred to the frog's inner ear balance mech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20Today | Physics Today is the membership magazine of the American Institute of Physics. First published in May 1948, it is issued on a monthly schedule, and is provided to the members of ten physics societies, including the American Physical Society. It is also available to non-members as a paid annual subscription.
The magazi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop%20squark | In particle physics, a stop squark, symbol , is the superpartner of the top quark as predicted by supersymmetry (SUSY). It is a sfermion, which means it is a spin-0 boson (scalar boson). While the top quark is the heaviest known quark, the stop squark is actually often the lightest squark in many supersymmetry models... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligament%20of%20head%20of%20femur | The ligament of the head of the femur (round ligament of the femur, foveal ligament, or Fillmore’s ligament) is a weak ligament located in the hip joint. It is triangular in shape and somewhat flattened. The ligament is implanted by its apex into the anterosuperior part of the fovea capitis femoris and its base is atta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocorrelation%20technique | The autocorrelation technique is a method for estimating the dominating frequency in a complex signal, as well as its variance. Specifically, it calculates the first two moments of the power spectrum, namely the mean and variance. It is also known as the pulse-pair algorithm in radar theory.
The algorithm is both comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf%20War%20syndrome | The Gulf War syndrome (GWS) is a chronic and multi-symptomatic disorder affecting military veterans of both sides of the Gulf War (1990–1991). A wide range of acute and chronic symptoms have been linked to it, including fatigue, muscle pain, cognitive problems, insomnia, rashes and diarrhea. Approximately 250,000 of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus%20Cup | The Lycurgus Cup is a 4th-century Roman glass cage cup made of a dichroic glass, which shows a different colour depending on whether or not light is passing through it: red when lit from behind and green when lit from in front. It is the only complete Roman glass object made from this type of glass, and the one exhibit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%20equations | In probability theory, Kolmogorov equations, including Kolmogorov forward equations and Kolmogorov backward equations, characterize continuous-time Markov processes. In particular, they describe how the probability that a continuous-time Markov process is in a certain state changes over time.
Diffusion processes vs. j... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle%20K.%20Plyler%20Prize | The Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics is a prize that has been awarded annually by the American Physical Society since 1977. The recipient is chosen for "notable contributions to the field of molecular spectroscopy and dynamics". The prize is named after Earle K. Plyler, who was a leading ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoleamine%202%2C3-dioxygenase | Indoleamine-pyrrole 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO or INDO ) is a heme-containing enzyme physiologically expressed in a number of tissues and cells, such as the small intestine, lungs, female genital tract or placenta. In humans is encoded by the IDO1 gene. IDO is involved in tryptophan metabolism. It is one of three enzymes tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmful%20algal%20bloom | A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, mechanical damage to other organisms, or by other means. HABs are sometimes defined as only those algal blooms that produce toxins, and sometimes as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrography | Hydrography is the branch of applied sciences which deals with the measurement and description of the physical features of oceans, seas, coastal areas, lakes and rivers, as well as with the prediction of their change over time, for the primary purpose of safety of navigation and in support of all other marine activitie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoanaerobaculum%20aquaticum | Thermoanaerobaculum aquaticum is a species of Acidobacteriota. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters%20%281984%20video%20game%29 | Ghostbusters is a licensed game by Activision based on the film of the same name. It was designed by David Crane and released for several home computer platforms in 1984, and later for video game console systems, including the Atari 2600, Master System and Nintendo Entertainment System. The primary target was the Commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccinator%20lymph%20node | The buccinator lymph node or nodes are one or more lymph nodes placed on the Buccinator opposite the angle of the mouth. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Audio%20Coding | Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves higher sound quality than MP3 encoders at the same bit rate.
AAC has been standardized by ISO and IEC as part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 specifications. Part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20fold | The death fold is a tertiary structure motif commonly found in proteins involved in apoptosis or inflammation-related processes. This motif is commonly found in domains that participate in protein–protein interactions leading to the formation of large functional complexes. Examples of death fold domains include the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWiki | TWiki is a Perl-based structured wiki application, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal. Users can create wiki pages using the TWiki Markup Language, and developers can extend wiki application functionality with plugins.
The TWiki pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark%20%28surveying%29 | The term benchmark, bench mark, or survey benchmark originates from the chiseled horizontal marks that surveyors made in stone structures, into which an angle iron could be placed to form a "bench" for a leveling rod, thus ensuring that a leveling rod could be accurately repositioned in the same place in the future. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle%20adjustment | In photogrammetry and computer stereo vision, bundle adjustment is simultaneous refining of the 3D coordinates describing the scene geometry, the parameters of the relative motion, and the optical characteristics of the camera(s) employed to acquire the images, given a set of images depicting a number of 3D points from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitability%20of%20yellow%20dwarf%20systems | Habitability of yellow dwarf systems defines the suitability for life of exoplanets belonging to yellow dwarf stars. These systems are the object of study among the scientific community because they are considered the most suitable for harboring living organisms, together with those belonging to K-type stars.
Yellow d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus%20Systems | Corvus Systems was a computer technology company that offered, at various points in its history, computer hardware, software, and complete PC systems.
History
Corvus was founded by Michael D'Addio and Mark Hahn in 1979. This San Jose, Silicon Valley company pioneered in the early days of personal computers, producing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett%20Communications | Barrett Communications is a specialist manufacturer and supplier of commercial high frequency (HF), tactical HF and very high frequency (VHF) communications equipment. Its head office for design and manufacturing is located in Perth, Western Australia. Barrett was acquired by Motorola Solutions in 2022.
History
Barre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Cosmology | The Journal of Cosmology is a website that describes itself as a "scientific journal". It has been criticized for lacking oversight and proper peer-review, and promoting fringe theories. It was established in 2009 by neuroscientist Rhawn Joseph; as of 2023, Rudolph Schild is the editor-in-chief.
Scope
The Journal of C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET%20Compact%20Framework%20controls | NET Compact Framework controls is a set of controls for .NET Compact Framework.
Overview
The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework is a sub-library of .NET Framework. It simplifies the mobile application development of smart devices. These are to a large extent limited by the screen size, CPU performance or memory capacity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone%20methyltransferase | Histone methyltransferases (HMT) are histone-modifying enzymes (e.g., histone-lysine N-methyltransferases and histone-arginine N-methyltransferases), that catalyze the transfer of one, two, or three methyl groups to lysine and arginine residues of histone proteins. The attachment of methyl groups occurs predominantly a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabola%20of%20safety | In classical mechanics and ballistics, the parabola of safety or safety parabola is the envelope of the parabolic trajectories of projectiles shot from a certain point with a given speed at different angles to horizon in a fixed vertical plane. The fact that this envelope is a parabola had been first established by Eva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Diaspro | Alberto Diaspro (born April 7, 1959, in Genoa, Italy) is an Italian scientist. He received his doctoral degree in electronic engineering from the university of Genoa, Italy, in 1983. He is full professor in applied physics at university of Genoa. He is research director of Nanoscopy Italian Institute of Technology. Alb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryonic%20stem%20cell | Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are pluripotent stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, an early-stage pre-implantation embryo. Human embryos reach the blastocyst stage 4–5 days post fertilization, at which time they consist of 50–150 cells. Isolating the inner cell mass (embryoblast) using immunosurge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAB%20Direct | CAB Direct is a source of references for the applied life sciences It incorporates two bibliographic databases: CAB Abstracts and Global Health. CAB Direct is an access point for multiple bibliographic databases produced by CABI. This database contains over 11 million bibliographic records, which includes 746,000 ful... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heawood%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Heawood graph is an undirected graph with 14 vertices and 21 edges, named after Percy John Heawood.
Combinatorial properties
The graph is cubic, and all cycles in the graph have six or more edges. Every smaller cubic graph has shorter cycles, so this graph is the 6-cage, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPAQ | The iPAQ is a discontinued Pocket PC and personal digital assistant which was first unveiled by Compaq in April 2000.
HP's line-up of iPAQ devices included PDA-devices, smartphones and GPS-navigators. A substantial number of devices were outsourced from Taiwanese HTC corporation.
The name was borrowed from Compaq's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otidea%20leporina | Otidea leporina is a species of fungus in the family Pyronemataceae. It was given its current name by Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel in 1870. It contains toxins which may cause serious gastric upset. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20nasal%20cartilage | The lateral cartilage (upper lateral cartilage, lateral process of septal nasal cartilage) is situated below the inferior margin of the nasal bone, and is flattened, and triangular in shape.
Its anterior margin is thicker than the posterior, and is continuous above with the septal nasal cartilage, but separated from i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20magnetic%20resonance%20spectroscopy%20of%20nucleic%20acids | Nucleic acid NMR is the use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to obtain information about the structure and dynamics of nucleic acid molecules, such as DNA or RNA. It is useful for molecules of up to 100 nucleotides, and as of 2003, nearly half of all known RNA structures had been determined by NMR spectrosco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus | The caduceus (☤; ; , from "herald's wand, or staff") is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology and consequently by Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology. The same staff was borne by other heralds like Iris, the messenger of Hera. The short staff is entwined by two serpents, sometimes surmounted by w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrotizing%20pneumonia | Necrotizing pneumonia (NP), also known as cavitary pneumonia or cavitatory necrosis, is a rare but severe complication of lung parenchymal infection. In necrotizing pneumonia, there is a substantial liquefaction following death of the lung tissue, which may lead to gangrene formation in the lung. In most cases pati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%20function | In mathematics, the Dawson function or Dawson integral
(named after H. G. Dawson)
is the one-sided Fourier–Laplace sine transform of the Gaussian function.
Definition
The Dawson function is defined as either:
also denoted as or or alternatively
The Dawson function is the one-sided Fourier–Laplace sine transform ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20information%20graphics%20software | This is a list of software to create any kind of information graphics:
either includes the ability to create one or more infographics from a provided data set
either it is provided specifically for information visualization
Vector graphics
Vector graphics software can be used for manual graphing or for editing the o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleomorphism%20%28cytology%29 | Pleomorphism is a term used in histology and cytopathology to describe variability in the size, shape and staining of cells and/or their nuclei. Several key determinants of cell and nuclear size, like ploidy and the regulation of cellular metabolism, are commonly disrupted in tumors. Therefore, cellular and nuclear pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gescha%20Toys | Gescha was the name of a toy manufacturer established in Nuremberg, Germany in 1923. Sometime around 1980, the name was changed to Conrad Models, after the family that owned the company.
History
Tin toys, plates, and other products made in Germany between 1900 and 1920 were often marked Ges. Gesch. (gesetzlich geschü... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-angle%20laser%20light%20scattering | Low-angle laser light scattering or LALLS is an application of light scattering that is particularly useful in conjunction with the technique of Size exclusion chromatography, one of the most powerful and widely used techniques to study the molecular mass distribution of a polymer.
Typically the eluent of the SEC colu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyllycaconitine | Methyllycaconitine (MLA) is a diterpenoid alkaloid found in many species of Delphinium (larkspurs). In common with many other diterpenoid alkaloids, it is toxic to animals, although the acute toxicity varies with species. Early research was focused on identifying, and characterizing the properties of methyllycaconitine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid%20ibn%20Abd%20al-Malik%20al-Marwarrudhi | Khālid ibn ʿAbd al‐Malik al‐Marwarrūdhī () was a 9th-century Baghdadi astronomer.
In 827, Marwarrūdhī, together with the astronomer ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Asṭurlābī and a party of surveyors, measured the length of a meridian arc of one degree of latitude. The party travelled to the Nineveh Plains in the valley of the Tigris... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera%20Valor | The Vera Valor is a dual digital and physical gold currency of one troy ounce with no face value other than that of one ounce of "four nine" purity fine gold. The reverse side of the coin is particular by its embedded QR code which allows for digital liquidity.
History
The coin was privately developed in France and re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAPC | Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest (BAPC) is a programming contest for students from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. It is organized annually by an institution of higher education. From 1991 through 2004, the contest was held under the name NKP (Dutch Programming Championship).
Organisation
Since 2006, B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Knowledge%20Project | The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is a non-profit research initiative that is focused on the importance of making the results of publicly funded research freely available through open access policies, and on developing strategies for making this possible including software solutions. It is a partnership between the Fa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20the%20East%20India%20Company | The flag of the East India Company was used to represent the East India Company, which was chartered in England in 1600. The flag was altered as the nation changed from England to Great Britain to the United Kingdom. It was initially a red and white striped ensign with the flag of England in the canton. The flag displa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catabolite%20repression | Carbon catabolite repression, or simply catabolite repression, is an important part of global control system of various bacteria and other microorganisms. Catabolite repression allows microorganisms to adapt quickly to a preferred (rapidly metabolizable) carbon and energy source first. This is usually achieved through... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie%20restriction | Calorie restriction (caloric restriction or energy restriction) is a dietary regimen that reduces the energy intake from foods and beverages without incurring malnutrition. The possible effect of calorie restriction on body weight management, longevity, and aging-associated diseases has been an active area of research.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need%20for%20cognition | The need for cognition (NFC), in psychology, is a personality variable reflecting the extent to which individuals are inclined towards effortful cognitive activities.
Need for cognition has been variously defined as "a need to structure relevant situations in meaningful, integrated ways" and "a need to understand and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20presence%20detection | Human presence detection is a range of technologies and methods for detecting the presence of a human body in an area of interest (AOI), or verification that computer, smartphone (or other device controlled by software) is operated by human.
Software and hardware technologies are used for human presence detection. Unl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzyl%20acetate | Benzyl acetate is an organic ester with the molecular formula . It is formed by the condensation of benzyl alcohol and acetic acid.
Similar to most other esters, it possesses a sweet and pleasant aroma, owing to which, it finds applications in personal hygiene and health care products. It is a constituent of jasmin an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremal%20graph%20theory | Extremal graph theory is a branch of combinatorics, itself an area of mathematics, that lies at the intersection of extremal combinatorics and graph theory. In essence, extremal graph theory studies how global properties of a graph influence local substructure.
Results in extremal graph theory deal with quantitative c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farina%20%28food%29 | Farina is a form of milled wheat popular in the United States. It is often cooked as a hot breakfast cereal, or porridge. The word farina comes from the Latin word for "meal" or "flour".
Farina may also be cooked like polenta and farofa, which are made with ground corn and ground cassava, respectively. Farina with m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20ring | A storage ring is a type of circular particle accelerator in which a continuous or pulsed particle beam may be kept circulating typically for many hours. Storage of a particular particle depends upon the mass, momentum and usually the charge of the particle to be stored. Storage rings most commonly store electrons, po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop%20computer | A desktop computer (often abbreviated desktop) is a personal computer designed for regular use at a stationary location on or near a desk (as opposed to a portable computer) due to its size and power requirements. The most common configuration has a case that houses the power supply, motherboard (a printed circuit boar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrin | Abrin is an extremely toxic toxalbumin found in the seeds of the rosary pea (or jequirity pea), Abrus precatorius. It has a median lethal dose of 0.7 micrograms per kilogram of body mass when given to mice intravenously (approximately 31.4 times more toxic than ricin, being 22 micrograms per kilogram). The median toxic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe%20Islands%20domestic%20animals | The domestic animals of the Faroe Islands are a result of 1200 years of isolated breeding. As a result, many of the islands' domestic animals are found nowhere else in the world.
Faroe pony
The Faroe pony () is a small but strong pony. Its height is between . In the old days it was used as a work horse, carrying hea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedLibre | RedLibre is a non-profit project in which a combination of people, groups, entities, administrations or companies interested in the development and/or use of networks create a free, community data network that allows users to contribute content and share resources, among other uses.
RedLibre has been connected mainly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian%20Citation%20Index | Serbian Citation Index (; SCIndeks) is a combination of an online multidisciplinary bibliographic database, a national citation index, an Open Access full-text journal repository and an electronic publishing platform. It is produced and maintained by the Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES), based... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20theory | In theoretical chemistry, Marcus theory is a theory originally developed by Rudolph A. Marcus, starting in 1956, to explain the rates of electron transfer reactions – the rate at which an electron can move or jump from one chemical species (called the electron donor) to another (called the electron acceptor). It was or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanophase%20material | Nanophase materials are materials that have grain sizes under 100 nanometres. They have different mechanical and optical properties compared to the large grained materials of the same chemical composition.
Transparency and different transparent colours can be achieved with nanophase materials by varying the grain size... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%3A64%20scale | 1:64 scale is a traditional scale for models and miniatures, in which one unit (such as an inch or a centimeter) on the model represents 64 units on the actual object. It is also known as "three-sixteenths scale", since 3/16 of an inch represents one foot. A human is approximately tall in 1:64 scale. The scale origina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattpad | Wattpad is a free online platform that allows users to read and publish original stories. Wattpad has stories available in more than 50 languages, and nearly 300,000 writers from 35 countries take part every year in the largest writing competition, The Watty Awards. Some of these stories have been transformed into TV d... |
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