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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism%20and%20Empirio-criticism | Materialism and Empirio-criticism (Russian: Материализм и эмпириокритицизм, Materializm i empiriokrititsizm) is a philosophical work by Vladimir Lenin, published in 1909. It was an obligatory subject of study in all institutions of higher education in the Soviet Union, as a seminal work of dialectical materialism, a pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Heredity | The Journal of Heredity is a peer-reviewed scientific journal concerned with heredity in a biological sense, covering all aspects of genetics. It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Genetic Association.
History
The trends in topics that have been published in the journal reflect the hist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann%20solver | A Riemann solver is a numerical method used to solve a Riemann problem. They are heavily used in computational fluid dynamics and computational magnetohydrodynamics.
Definition
Generally speaking, Riemann solvers are specific methods for computing the numerical flux across a discontinuity in the Riemann problem. They... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20on%20SportsChannel%20America | The NHL on SportsChannel America was the presentation of National Hockey League broadcasts on the now defunct SportsChannel America cable television network.
Terms of the deal
Taking over for ESPN, SportsChannel's contract paid US$51 million ($17 million per year) over three years, more than double what ESPN had paid ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy%20beaver | In theoretical computer science, the busy beaver game aims at finding a terminating program of a given size that produces the most output possible. Since an endlessly looping program producing infinite output is easily conceived, such programs are excluded from the game.
More precisely, the busy beaver game consists o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nob%20Yoshigahara | Nobuyuki Yoshigahara ( Yoshigahara Nobuyuki, commonly known as "Nob"; May 27, 1936 – June 19, 2004) was perhaps Japan's most celebrated inventor, collector, solver, and communicator of puzzles.
Nob graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in applied chemistry. After becoming disenchanted with his career in hig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20and%20wavelength%20assignment | The routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) problem is an optical networking problem with the goal of maximizing the number of optical connections.
Definition
The general objective of the RWA problem is to maximize the number of established connections. Each connection request must be given a route and wavelength. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name%20Service%20Switch | The Name Service Switch (NSS) connects the computer with a variety of sources of common configuration databases and name resolution mechanisms. These sources include local operating system files (such as , , and ), the Domain Name System (DNS), the Network Information Service (NIS, NIS+), and LDAP.
This operating syst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMP22 | NMP22 is a tumor marker for bladder cancer.
NMP22 is the abbreviated form of Nuclear Matrix Protein Number 22.
It reflects the mitotic activity of cells. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20of%20finite%20choice | In mathematics, the axiom of finite choice is a weak version of the axiom of choice which asserts that if is a family of non-empty finite sets, then
(set-theoretic product).
If every set can be linearly ordered, the axiom of finite choice follows.
Applications
An important application is that when is a measure spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20field%20arithmetic | In mathematics, finite field arithmetic is arithmetic in a finite field (a field containing a finite number of elements) contrary to arithmetic in a field with an infinite number of elements, like the field of rational numbers.
There are infinitely many different finite fields. Their number of elements is necessarily ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus%20reticulata%20%C3%97%20medica | Citrus reticulata × medica may refer to one of several hybrids between a mandarin orange and citron:
Rangpur lime, Citrus limonia
Rough lemon, Citrus jambhiri
Volkamer lemon, Citrus volkameriana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%20problem | In classical mechanics, the Kepler problem is a special case of the two-body problem, in which the two bodies interact by a central force F that varies in strength as the inverse square of the distance r between them. The force may be either attractive or repulsive. The problem is to find the position or speed of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20bialgebroid | A Lie bialgebroid is a mathematical structure in the area of non-Riemannian differential geometry. In brief a Lie bialgebroid are two compatible Lie algebroids defined on dual vector bundles. They form the vector bundle version of a Lie bialgebra.
Definition
Preliminary notions
Remember that a Lie algebroid is defi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Stringer | Christopher Brian Stringer is a British physical anthropologist noted for his work on human evolution.
Biography
Growing up in a working-class family in the East End of London, Stringer first took an interest in anthropology during primary school, when he undertook a project on Neanderthals. Stringer studied anthrop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20reciprocal%20magic%20square | A prime reciprocal magic square is a magic square using the decimal digits of the reciprocal of a prime number.
Consider unit fractions such as 1/2, 1/3 or 1/7. In base ten, one-half has no repeating decimal while one-third repeats indefinitely. The remainder of one-seventh, on the other hand, repeats over six digits... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinaja | A tinaja is a surface pocket (depression) formed in bedrock that occurs below waterfalls, that is carved out by spring flow or seepage, or that is caused by sand and gravel scouring in intermittent streams (arroyos). Tinajas are an important source of surface water storage in arid environments.
These relatively rar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant | In physics and the philosophy of science, instant refers to an infinitesimal interval in time, whose passage is instantaneous. In ordinary speech, an instant has been defined as "a point or very short space of time," a notion deriving from its etymological source, the Latin verb instare, from in- + stare ('to stand'), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperRogue | HyperRogue is an independent video game developed by Zeno Rogue. It is a roguelike inspired by the puzzle game Deadly Rooms of Death and the art of M. C. Escher, taking place in the hyperbolic plane.
Gameplay
HyperRogue is a turn-based game in which the player controls one character exploring a world based on hyperb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Silverman | Brian Silverman is a Canadian computer scientist, the creator of many programming environments for children, and a researcher in cellular automata.
Silverman was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s, where he was one of the creators of a tinkertoy computer that played tic-tac-toe. As a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure%20of%20the%20Earth | In geodesy, the figure of the Earth is the size and shape used to model planet Earth. The kind of figure depends on application, including the precision needed for the model. A spherical Earth is a well-known historical approximation that is satisfactory for geography, astronomy and many other purposes. Several models ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20inverse%20scattering%20method | In quantum physics, the quantum inverse scattering method (QISM) or the algebraic Bethe ansatz is a method for solving integrable models in 1+1 dimensions, introduced by Leon Takhtajan and L. D. Faddeev in 1979.
It can be viewed as a quantized version of the classical inverse scattering method pioneered by Norman Zabu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natrinema%20limicola | Natrinema limicola is a species of archaea in the family Natrialbaceae. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrification | Nitrification is the biological oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via the intermediary nitrite. Nitrification is an important step in the nitrogen cycle in soil. The process of complete nitrification may occur through separate organisms or entirely within one organism, as in comammox bacteria. The transformation of ammon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Modern%20Applied%20Statistical%20Methods | The Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods is a biannual peer-reviewed open access journal. It was established in 2002 by Shlomo Sawilowsky, and is currently published by the Wayne State University Library System in Detroit, MI. The Current Index to Statistics classifies it as one of over 160 core statistics jou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%E2%80%93Miranda%20theorem | In mathematics, the Poincaré–Miranda theorem is a generalization of intermediate value theorem, from a single function in a single dimension, to functions in dimensions. It says as follows:
Consider continuous functions of variables, . Assume that for each variable , the function is nonpositive when and nonnegat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datakit | Datakit is a virtual circuit switch which was developed by Sandy Fraser at Bell Labs for both local-area and wide-area networks, and in widespread deployment by the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs).
Datakit uses a cell relay protocol similar to Asynchronous Transfer Mode. Datakit is a connection-oriented swit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20annuity%20trust | Prior to 2006, a private annuity trust (PAT) was an arrangement to enable the value of highly appreciated assets, such as real estate, collectables or an investment portfolio, to be realized without directly selling them and incurring substantial taxes from their sale.
A PAT was used to defer United States federal cap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeosaccion | Phaeosaccion is a genus of algae with monostromatic tubular to saccate thalli, up to long and to wide. It is the sole genus in the family Phaeosaccionaceae. It is olive brown and resembles young plants of Scytosiphon. The sole species in the genus is Phaeosaccion collinsii, a species of marine algae. It was first ide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn%20S.%20McKinley | Kathryn S. McKinley is an American computer scientist noted for her research on compilers, runtime systems, and computer architecture. She is also known for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. McKinley was co-chair of CRA-W from 2011 to 2014.
Biography
McKinley received a B.A. in computer science ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%20case%20survey | A use case survey is a list of names and perhaps brief descriptions of use cases associated with a system, component, or other logical or physical entity. This artifact is short and inexpensive to produce, and possibly advantageous over similar software development tools, depending on the needs of the project and analy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre%27s%20constant | Legendre's constant is a mathematical constant occurring in a formula constructed by Adrien-Marie Legendre to approximate the behavior of the prime-counting function . The value that corresponds precisely to its asymptotic behavior is now known to be 1.
Examination of available numerical data for known values of led ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadic%20predicate%20calculus | In logic, the monadic predicate calculus (also called monadic first-order logic) is the fragment of first-order logic in which all relation symbols in the signature are monadic (that is, they take only one argument), and there are no function symbols. All atomic formulas are thus of the form , where is a relation symb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan%20Research%20Network | Saskatchewan Research Network Incorporated (SRNET) is a research and education network providing networking service support education, research and innovation in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. SRNET is member-driven and is a not-for-profit member of Canada's National Research and Education Network, which provide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20for%20Food%20Protection | The International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), founded in 1911, is a non-profit association of food safety professionals based in Des Moines, Iowa. The organization claims a membership of over 3,000 members from 50 nations. The mission of the IAFP is to provide food safety professionals worldwide with a foru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocid%20alphaherpesvirus%201 | Phocid alphaherpesvirus 1 (PhHV-1) is a species of virus in the genus Varicellovirus, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity%20den | In the animal kingdom, a maternity den is a lair where a mother gives birth and nurtures her young when they are in a vulnerable life stage. While dens are typically subterranean, they may also be snow caves or simply beneath rock ledges. Characteristically there is an entrance, and optionally an exit corridor, in addi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69%20%28number%29 | 69 (sixty-nine) is the natural number following 68 and preceding 70.
In mathematics
69 is:
a lucky number.
the twentieth semiprime (3.23) and the seventh of the form (3.q) where q is a higher prime.
the aliquot sum of sixty-nine is 27 within the aliquot sequence (69,27,13,1,0) and is the third composite number ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean%20signed%20deviation | In statistics, the mean signed difference (MSD), also known as mean signed deviation and mean signed error, is a sample statistic that summarises how well a set of estimates match the quantities that they are supposed to estimate. It is one of a number of statistics that can be used to assess an estimation procedure,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethi%E2%80%93Ullman%20algorithm | In computer science, the Sethi–Ullman algorithm is an algorithm named after Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman, its inventors, for translating abstract syntax trees into machine code that uses as few registers as possible.
Overview
When generating code for arithmetic expressions, the compiler has to decide which is the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard-planting%20problem | In discrete geometry, the original orchard-planting problem (or the tree-planting problem) asks for the maximum number of 3-point lines attainable by a configuration of a specific number of points in the plane. There are also investigations into how many -point lines there can be. Hallard T. Croft and Paul Erdős proved... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy%20principle | In mathematics, the homotopy principle (or h-principle) is a very general way to solve partial differential equations (PDEs), and more generally partial differential relations (PDRs). The h-principle is good for underdetermined PDEs or PDRs, such as the immersion problem, isometric immersion problem, fluid dynamics, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantenna | A cantenna (a portmanteau blending the words can and antenna) is a homemade directional waveguide antenna, made out of an open-ended metal can.
Cantennas are typically used to increase the range (or discovery) of Wi-Fi networks.
Construction
The cylinder portion of the can may consist of metal-coated paperboard.
A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege%20separation | In computer programming and computer security, privilege separation is one software-based technique for implementing the principle of least privilege. With privilege separation, a program is divided into parts which are limited to the specific privileges they require in order to perform a specific task. This is used to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20address | An email address identifies an email box to which messages are delivered. While early messaging systems used a variety of formats for addressing, today, email addresses follow a set of specific rules originally standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the 1980s, and updated by . The term email addr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splenic%20plexus | The splenic plexus (lienal plexus in older texts) is formed by branches from the celiac plexus, the left celiac ganglion, and from the right vagus nerve.
It accompanies the lienal artery to the spleen, giving off, in its course, subsidiary plexuses along the various branches of the artery. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PanCam | The PanCam (Panoramic Camera) assembly is a set of two wide angle cameras for multi-spectral stereoscopic panoramic imaging, and a high resolution camera for colour imaging that has been designed to search for textural information or shapes that can be related to the presence of microorganisms on Mars. This camera asse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Green%20Algae%20of%20North%20America | The Green Algae of North America is an influential early book on American green algae written by algologist Frank Shipley Collins. It was published in 1909 by Tufts College. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20computing%20architecture | Cloud computing architecture refers to the components and subcomponents required for cloud computing. These components typically consist of a front end platform (fat client, thin client, mobile), back end platforms (servers, storage), a cloud based delivery, and a network (Internet, Intranet, Intercloud). Combined, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20Flaherty | Lauren Flaherty was the chief marketing officer and executive vice president of CA Technologies, an enterprise software firm.
She joined CA in August 2013, after two consecutive CMO roles with Juniper Networks and Nortel Networks and a 25-year marketing career at IBM. In addition to her role at CA, Flaherty serves on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%2C%20technology%2C%20engineering%2C%20and%20mathematics | Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the distinct but related technical disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The term is typically used in the context of education policy or curriculum choices in schools. It has implications for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor%20Research%20Corporation | Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), commonly known as SRC, is a high-technology research consortium active in the semiconductor industry. It is a leading semiconductor research consortium. Todd Younkin is the incumbent president and chief executive officer of the company.
The consortium comprises more than twent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanpen | is a white, square, triangle or round surimi product (fish or meat paste) with a soft, mild taste. It is believed to have been invented during the Edo period in Japan by a chef, of Suruga, and the dish is named after him. Another theory suggests that because it is triangle shaped and appears to have been cut in half f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami%20Maniac | The Miami Maniac (often shortened to just The Maniac) is the official mascot of the Miami Hurricanes baseball program at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Created in 1982 by visionary College Baseball Hall of Fame head coach Ron Fraser in 1982 and originally performed by John Routh, the Miami Maniac ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hankel%20contour | In mathematics, a Hankel contour is a path in the complex plane which extends from
(+∞,δ), around the origin counter clockwise and back to
(+∞,−δ), where δ is an arbitrarily small positive number. The contour thus remains arbitrarily close to the real axis but without crossing the real axis except for negative values ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self%20%28programming%20language%29 | Self is an object-oriented programming language based on the concept of prototypes. Self began as a dialect of Smalltalk, being dynamically typed and using just-in-time compilation (JIT) as well as the prototype-based approach to objects: it was first used as an experimental test system for language design in the 1980s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viburnum%20edule | Viburnum edule, the squashberry, mooseberry, moosomin, moosewood viburnum, pembina, pimina, highbush cranberry, or lowbush cranberry is a species of shrub native to Canada and the northern parts of the US. It stands roughly 2 m (6.5 ft) tall with many stems and smooth branches.
The tart berries ripen early in spring a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ%20theory%20of%20disease | The germ theory of disease is the currently accepted scientific theory for many diseases. It states that microorganisms known as pathogens or "germs" can cause disease. These small organisms, too small to be seen without magnification, invade humans, other animals, and other living hosts. Their growth and reproduction ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20security%20standards | Information security standards or cyber security standards are techniques generally outlined in published materials that attempt to protect the cyber environment of a user or organization. This environment includes users themselves, networks, devices, all software, processes, information in storage or transit, applicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus%20software | Antivirus software (abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malware.
Antivirus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses, hence the name. However, with the proliferation of other malware, antivirus software started... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20shadow | An acoustic shadow or sound shadow is an area through which sound waves fail to propagate, due to topographical obstructions or disruption of the waves via phenomena such as wind currents, buildings, or sound barriers.
Short-distance acoustic shadow
A short-distance acoustic shadow occurs behind a building or a sound... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin%20board%20system | A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H3K56ac | H3K56ac is an epigenetic modification to the DNA packaging protein Histone H3. It is a mark that indicates the acetylation at the 56th lysine residue of the histone H3 protein.
It is a covalent modification known as a mark of newly replicated chromatin as well as replication-independent histone replacement.
H3K56ac i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastoderm | A blastoderm (germinal disc, blastodisc) is a single layer of embryonic epithelial tissue that makes up the blastula. It encloses the fluid filled blastocoel. Gastrulation follows blastoderm formation, where the tips of the blastoderm begins the formation of the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm.
Formation
The blastode... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20microbiology | Soil microbiology is the study of microorganisms in soil, their functions, and how they affect soil properties. It is believed that between two and four billion years ago, the first ancient bacteria and microorganisms came about on Earth's oceans. These bacteria could fix nitrogen, in time multiplied, and as a result r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20lunar%20sample%20displays | The New York lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of small fragments of Moon specimen brought back with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 lunar missions and given in the 1970s to the people of the state of New York by United States President Richard Nixon as goodwill gifts.
Description
Apollo 11
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20geometry | Discrete geometry and combinatorial geometry are branches of geometry that study combinatorial properties and constructive methods of discrete geometric objects. Most questions in discrete geometry involve finite or discrete sets of basic geometric objects, such as points, lines, planes, circles, spheres, polygons, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian%20Collegiate%20Programming%20Contest | ACM Syrian Collegiate Programming Contest (abbreviated as ACM-SCPC or SCPC) is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of Syria and it's a qualifying round to the ACM Arabian Collegiate Programming Contest (ACPC). Winners of the SCPC qualify to the ACPC Finals. It is usually he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantlet | A plantlet is a young or small plant, produced on the leaf margins or the aerial stems of another plant.
Many plants such as spider plants naturally create stolons with plantlets on the ends as a form of asexual reproduction. Vegetative propagules or clippings of mature plants may form plantlets.
An example is mother ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1lint%20Vir%C3%A1g | Bálint Virág (born 1973) is a Hungarian mathematician working in Canada, known for his work in probability theory, particularly determinantal processes, random matrix theory, and random walks and other probabilistic questions on groups. He received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2000, under the direction of Yuval Pere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%20motion | The Fermi motion is the quantum motion of nucleons bound inside a nucleus. It was once posited as an explanation for the EMC effect. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximal%20independent%20set | In graph theory, a maximal independent set (MIS) or maximal stable set is an independent set that is not a subset of any other independent set. In other words, there is no vertex outside the independent set that may join it because it is maximal with respect to the independent set property.
For example, in the graph ,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defocus%20aberration | In optics, defocus is the aberration in which an image is simply out of focus. This aberration is familiar to anyone who has used a camera, videocamera, microscope, telescope, or binoculars. Optically, defocus refers to a translation of the focus along the optical axis away from the detection surface. In general, def... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse%20Reporting%20Format | The Abuse Reporting Format (ARF) also known as the Messaging Abuse Reporting Format (MARF) is a standard format for reporting spam via email.
History
A draft describing a standard format for feedback loop (FBL) reports was posted by Yakov Shafranovich in April 2005 and evolved to the current . AOL, who pioneered the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20genicular%20arteries | The superior genicular arteries (superior articular arteries), two in number, arise one on either side of the popliteal artery, and wind around the femur immediately above its condyles to the front of the knee-joint. The medial superior genicular artery is on the inside of the knee and the lateral superior genicular ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo-induced%20cross-linking%20of%20unmodified%20proteins | Photo-Induced Cross-Linking of Unmodified Proteins (PICUP) is a protein cross-linking method by visible light irradiation of a photocatalyst in the presence of an electron acceptor and the protein of interest. Irradiation results in a highly reactive protein radical that forms a covalent bond between the amino acid sid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazardous%20Substances%20Data%20Bank | The Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) was a toxicology database on the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET). It focused on the toxicology of potentially hazardous chemicals, and included information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20pentanoate | Ethyl pentanoate, also commonly known as ethyl valerate, is an organic compound used in flavors. It is an ester with the molecular formula C7H14O2. This colorless liquid is poorly soluble in water but miscible with organic solvents.
As is the case with most volatile esters, it has a pleasant aroma and taste. It is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable%20entry%20system | Cable entry systems are used for routing electrical cables, corrugated conduits or pneumatic and hydraulic hoses into switch cabinets, electrical enclosures, control panels and machines or in large heavy-duty vehicles, rolling stock and ships. Possible requirements can be high ingress protection rates or integrated str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneMatcher | GeneMatcher is an online service and database that aims to match clinicians studying patients with a rare disease presentation based on genes of interest. When two or more clinicians submit the same gene to the database, the service matches them together to allow them to compare cases. It also allows matching genes fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%202020 | Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission that includes the rover Perseverance, the small robotic helicopter Ingenuity, and associated delivery systems, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. Mars 2020 was launched from Earth on an Atlas V launch vehicle at 11:50:01 UTC on 30 July 2020, and confirmation of touch down in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode | Bencode (pronounced like Bee-encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data.
It supports four different types of values:
byte strings,
integers,
lists, and
dictionaries (associative arrays).
Bencoding is most commonly used in to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSACOG | INSACOG (Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics or Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genetics Consortium) is the forum set up under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare by the Government of India on 30 December 2020, to study and monitor genome sequencing and virus variation of circulating strains of COVID-19 in India. Initial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20of%20discourse | In the formal sciences, the domain of discourse, also called the universe of discourse, universal set, or simply universe, is the set of entities over which certain variables of interest in some formal treatment may range.
Overview
The domain of discourse is usually identified in the preliminaries, so that there is n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit%20theories%20of%20intelligence | In social and developmental psychology, an individual's implicit theory of intelligence refers to his or her fundamental underlying beliefs regarding whether or not intelligence or abilities can change, developed by Carol Dweck and colleagues.
History
Ellen Leggett developed implicit theories of intelligence in 1985. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantanu%20Chowdhury | Shantanu Chowdhury (born 1968) is an Indian structural biologist and a professor at Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. He is known for developing a mechanism for gene regulation mediated by DNA Secondary-Structure in diverse cellular contexts. An elected ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearing%20%28physics%29 | In continuum mechanics, shearing refers to the occurrence of a shear strain, which is a deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another. It is induced by a shear stress in the material. Shear strain is distinguished from volumetric strain. The change in a material's volu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20density | In physics, energy density is the amount of energy stored in a given system or region of space per unit volume. It is sometimes confused with energy per unit mass which is properly called specific energy or .
Often only the useful or extractable energy is measured, which is to say that inaccessible energy (such as res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-alternative%20forced%20choice | Two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) is a method for measuring the sensitivity of a person or animal to some particular sensory input, stimulus, through that observer's pattern of choices and response times to two versions of the sensory input. For example, to determine a person's sensitivity to dim light, the observer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20Sea%20hypoxia | Baltic Sea hypoxia refers to low levels of oxygen in bottom waters, also known as hypoxia, occurring regularly in the Baltic Sea. the total area of bottom covered with hypoxic waters with oxygen concentrations less than 2 mg/L in the Baltic Sea has averaged 49,000 km2 over the last 40 years. The ultimate cause of hypo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%3A12%20scale | The 1:12 scale is a traditional scale (ratio) for models and miniatures. In this scale (ratio), one inch on the scale model or miniature is equal to twelve inches on the original object being copied. Depending on the application, this particular scale (ratio) is also called one-scale (since 1 inch equals 1 foot).
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20into%20centenarians | A centenarian is a person who has attained the age of 100 years or more. Research on centenarians has become more common with clinical and general population studies now having been conducted in France, Hungary, Japan, Italy, Finland, Denmark, the United States, and China. Centenarians are the second fastest-growing de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNE4 | Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily E member 4, originally named MinK-related peptide 3 or MiRP3 when it was discovered, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNE4 gene.
Function
Voltage-gated potassium channels (Kv) represent the most complex class of voltage-gated ion channels from both functional a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocar%C3%A9%20Island | Avocaré Island (Avoquer, Avocaire, L'Avocaire) is an island located in the St Brandon archipelago.
In the World Bank Report creating the marine protected area of St. Brandon, Avocaré Island was classified as a Group 3 Island together with Île Raphael, L'Île Coco and L'île du Sud.
In 1846, Avocaré Island was visited b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%20Armenia | Mother Armenia ( ) is a female personification of Armenia. Her most public visual rendering is a monumental statue in Victory Park overlooking the capital city of Yerevan, Armenia.
Mother Armenia statue in Yerevan
The current statue replaces a monumental statue of General Secretary Joseph Stalin that was created as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep%20problem | The jeep problem, desert crossing problem or exploration problem is a mathematics problem in which a jeep must maximize the distance it can travel into a desert with a given quantity of fuel. The jeep can only carry a fixed and limited amount of fuel, but it can leave fuel and collect fuel at fuel dumps anywhere in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate%20governance | Corporate governance are mechanisms, processes and relations by which corporations are controlled and operated ("governed").
Definitions
"Corporate governance" may be defined, described or delineated in diverse ways, depending on the writer's purpose. Writers focused on a disciplinary interest or context (such as acco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertidal%20zone | The intertidal zone or foreshore is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide: in other words, the part of the littoral zone within the tidal range. This area can include several types of habitats with various species of life, such as seastars, sea urchins, and many species of coral with region... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Systems%20International | Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) is an automation software company headquartered in Medina, Minnesota, with international offices in Canada, Colombia, Spain, India, Dubai, Australia, Singapore, and China. Founded in 1992, OSI is privately held and employee-owned. The company's systems are used for the real-time m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20pop-up%20blocking%20software | This is a list of software that can block pop-up ads. Blocking is usually a user-enabled option, and can in many cases allow specified exceptions.
Browsers that can block pop-up ads
Trident shells
AOL Explorer
Avant Browser
GreenBrowser
Internet Explorer
Lunascape
Maxthon
MSN Explorer
NeoPlanet
Netcaptor
Netscape 8
S... |
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