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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20first-order%20theories | In first-order logic, a first-order theory is given by a set of axioms in some
language. This entry lists some of the more common examples used in model theory and some of their properties.
Preliminaries
For every natural mathematical structure there is a signature σ listing the constants, functions, and relations ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norzivirales | Norzivirales is an order of viruses, which infect prokaryotes. Most of these bacteriophages were discovered by metagenomics.
Taxonomy
Norzivirales contains the following four families:
Atkinsviridae
Duinviridae
Fiersviridae
Solspiviridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boule%20%28crystal%29 | A boule is a single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
A boule of silicon is the starting material for most of the integrated circuits used today. In the semiconductor industry synthetic boules can be made by a number of methods, such as the Bridgman technique and the Czochralski process, which result in a cyl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittaria%20longiloba | Sagittaria longiloba is a species of flowering plant in the water plantain family known by the common name longbarb arrowhead and Gregg arrowhead. It is native to the south-central and southwestern United States (Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arizona and California) plus Mexico, Venezuela and Nicaragua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20redistribution | Hydraulic redistribution is a passive mechanism where water is transported from moist to dry soils via subterranean networks. It occurs in vascular plants that commonly have roots in both wet and dry soils, especially plants with both taproots that grow vertically down to the water table, and lateral roots that sit clo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroCRIS | euroCRIS is an international not-for-profit association founded in 2002 in order to bring together experts on research information management and research information management systems (CRIS). The euroCRIS Office is located in Nijmegen (Netherlands).
euroCRIS maintains the CERIF standard (for Common European Research... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inosperma%20cookei | Inosperma cookei, commonly known as the straw fibrecap, is a species of mushroom in the family Inocybaceae. It was first described in 1892 by Giacomo Bresadola, and is named in honour of Mordecai Cubitt Cooke. The species is found in Europe, Asia, and North America. It produces small mushrooms of an ochre colour, with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie%20Savage%20%28football%20fan%29 | Robson 'Robbie' Savage (1967–2017) was a Namibian football fan and socialite. He was the official mascot of the Brave Warriors, Namibia's national football team, as well as of the first inter-racial rugby match between South Africa and pre-independent Namibia in 1987.
Savage was born on 31 January 1967 and grew up in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3%20Trio | The S3 Trio range were popular video cards for personal computers and were S3's first fully integrated graphics accelerators. As the name implies, three previously separate components were now included in the same ASIC: the graphics core, RAMDAC and clock generator. The increased integration allowed a graphics card to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinoembryonic%20antigen%20peptide-1 | Carcinoembryonic antigen peptide-1 is a nine amino acid peptide fragment of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), a protein that is overexpressed in several cancer cell types, including gastrointestinal, breast, and non-small-cell lung.
Synonyms:
CAP-1
Carcinoembryonic Antigen Peptide-1
Carcinoembryonic Peptide-1
CEA Pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev%20scale | The Kardashev scale () is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is capable of using. The measure was proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev (1932–2019) in 1964 and was named after him.
The scale is hypothetical, and refers to energy consumpt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%20quotient | In number theory, the Fermat quotient of an integer a with respect to an odd prime p is defined as
or
.
This article is about the former; for the latter see p-derivation. The quotient is named after Pierre de Fermat.
If the base a is coprime to the exponent p then Fermat's little theorem says that qp(a) will be an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral%20%28book%29 | Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding (also published as Feral: rewilding the land, sea and human life) is a 2013 book by the British activist George Monbiot. In it, Monbiot discusses rewilding, particularly in the United Kingdom. It was first published by Allen Lane, a hardback imprint of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceful%20labeling | In graph theory, a graceful labeling of a graph with edges is a labeling of its vertices with some subset of the integers from 0 to inclusive, such that no two vertices share a label, and each edge is uniquely identified by the absolute difference between its endpoints, such that this magnitude lies between 1 and in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20cognition | Augmented cognition is an interdisciplinary area of psychology and engineering, attracting researchers from the more traditional fields of human-computer interaction, psychology, ergonomics and neuroscience. Augmented cognition research generally focuses on tasks and environments where human–computer interaction and in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic%20network | A phylogenetic network is any graph used to visualize evolutionary relationships (either abstractly or explicitly) between nucleotide sequences, genes, chromosomes, genomes, or species. They are employed when reticulation events such as hybridization, horizontal gene transfer, recombination, or gene duplication and lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distraction%20display | Distraction displays, also known as diversionary displays, or paratrepsis are anti-predator behaviors used to attract the attention of an enemy away from something, typically the nest or young, that is being protected by a parent. Distraction displays are sometimes classified more generically under "nest protection beh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggression | Aggression is hostile and antagonistic behavior, often with the intent to cause harm, although it can be channeled into creative and practical outlets for some. It may occur either reactively or without provocation. In humans, aggression can be caused by various triggers. For example, built-up frustration due to blocke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva%20neglecta | Malva neglecta is a species of plant of the family Malvaceae, native to most of the Old World except sub-Saharan Africa. It is an annual growing to 0.6 m (2 ft). It is known as common mallow in the United States and also as buttonweed, cheeseplant, cheeseweed, dwarf mallow, and roundleaf mallow.
This plant is often con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20gamma%20distribution | In statistics, a matrix gamma distribution is a generalization of the gamma distribution to positive-definite matrices. It is a more general version of the Wishart distribution, and is used similarly, e.g. as the conjugate prior of the precision matrix of a multivariate normal distribution and matrix normal distributio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20Reviews%20%28journal%20series%29 | Living Reviews is an open access journal series, which publishes regularly updated peer-reviewed review articles in various fields of science. Its concept of "living" articles takes advantage of web-based electronic publishing and allows authors to update their articles with the latest developments and research finding... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium%20%28software%29 | Stellarium is a free and open-source planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. A port of Stellarium called Stellarium Mobile is available for Android, iOS, and Symbian as a paid version, being developed by Noctua Software. These have a li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20functional | The energy functional is the total energy of a certain system, as a functional of the system's state.
In the energy methods of simulating the dynamics of complex structures, a state of the system is often described as an element of an appropriate function space. To be in this state, the system pays a certain cost in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier%20resilience | Barrier resilience is an algorithmic optimization problem in computational geometry motivated by the design of wireless sensor networks, in which one seeks a path through a collection of barriers (often modeled as unit disks) that passes through as few barriers as possible.
Definitions
The barrier resilience problem w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected%20value%20of%20including%20uncertainty | In decision theory and quantitative policy analysis, the expected value of including uncertainty (EVIU) is the expected difference in the value of a decision based on a probabilistic analysis versus a decision based on an analysis that ignores uncertainty.
Background
Decisions must be made every day in the ubiquitou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20chaos | In the kinetic theory of gases in physics, the molecular chaos hypothesis (also called Stosszahlansatz in the writings of Paul Ehrenfest) is the assumption that the velocities of colliding particles are uncorrelated, and independent of position. This means the probability that a pair of particles with given velocities ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudlet | A cloudlet is a mobility-enhanced small-scale cloud datacenter that is located at the edge of the Internet. The main purpose of the cloudlet is supporting resource-intensive and interactive mobile applications by providing powerful computing resources to mobile devices with lower latency. It is a new architectural elem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20Potts%20model | In computational biology, a Cellular Potts model (CPM, also known as the Glazier-Graner-Hogeweg model) is a computational model of cells and tissues. It is used to simulate individual and collective cell behavior, tissue morphogenesis and cancer development. CPM describes cells as deformable objects with a certain volu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewald%20summation | Ewald summation, named after Paul Peter Ewald, is a method for computing long-range interactions (e.g. electrostatic interactions) in periodic systems. It was first developed as the method for calculating the electrostatic energies of ionic crystals, and is now commonly used for calculating long-range interactions in c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping%20porch | A sleeping porch is a deck or balcony, sometimes screened or otherwise enclosed with screened windows, and furnished for sleeping in warmer months. They can be on ground level or on a higher storey and on any side of a home. A sleeping porch allows residents to sleep on a screened-in porch, avoiding warm convection cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keychain%20%28software%29 | Keychain is the password management system in macOS, developed by Apple. It was introduced with Mac OS 8.6, and has been included in all subsequent versions of the operating system, now known as macOS. A Keychain can contain various types of data: passwords (for websites, FTP servers, SSH accounts, network shares, wire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20divisor%20number | In mathematics, a harmonic divisor number or Ore number is a positive integer whose divisors have a harmonic mean that is an integer. The first few harmonic divisor numbers are
1, 6, 28, 140, 270, 496, 672, 1638, 2970, 6200, 8128, 8190 .
Harmonic divisor numbers were introduced by Øystein Ore, who showed that every per... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20Star%20%28ILM%29 | The Death Star is the name of the render farm owned by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). It is a cluster computer originally built by SGI. Since then, it has been converted into a Linux system built by RackSaver (now Verari Systems) with AMD processors. It is one of the largest render farms. The system originally had 1,5... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73rd%20meridian%20east | The meridian 73° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 73rd meridian east forms a great circle with the 107th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterway%20restoration | Waterway restoration is the activity of restoring a canal or river, including special features such as warehouse buildings, locks, boat lifts, and boats.
In the United Kingdom, Canada, and United States, the focus of waterway restoration is on improving navigability, while in Australia the term may also include improv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepheloid%20layer | A nepheloid layer or nepheloid zone is a layer of water in the deep ocean basin, above the ocean floor, that contains significant amounts of suspended sediment. It is from 200 to 1000 m thick. The name comes from Greek: nephos, "cloud". The particles in the layer may come from the upper ocean layers and from stripping ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 | x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set, first announced in 1999. It introduced two new modes of operation, 64-bit mode and compatibility mode, along with a new 4-level paging mode.
With 64-bit mode and the new paging mode, it supports vastly larger amount... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostriction | In electromagnetism, electrostriction is a property of all electrical non-conductors, or dielectrics, that causes them to change their shape under the application of an electric field. It is the dual property to magnetostriction.
Explanation
Electrostriction is a property of all dielectric materials, and is caused by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20illumination | Quantum illumination is a paradigm for target detection that employs quantum entanglement between a signal electromagnetic mode and an idler electromagnetic mode, as well as joint measurement of these modes. The signal mode is propagated toward a region of space, and it is either lost or reflected, depending on whether... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantoux%20test | The Mantoux test or Mendel–Mantoux test (also known as the Mantoux screening test, tuberculin sensitivity test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for purified protein derivative) is a tool for screening for tuberculosis (TB) and for tuberculosis diagnosis. It is one of the major tuberculin skin tests used around the world, lar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoacoustic%20spectroscopy | Photoacoustic spectroscopy is the measurement of the effect of absorbed electromagnetic energy (particularly of light) on matter by means of acoustic detection. The discovery of the photoacoustic effect dates to 1880 when Alexander Graham Bell showed that thin discs emitted sound when exposed to a beam of sunlight that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucjan%20Zarzecki | Lucjan Zarzecki (1873–1925) was a Polish pedagogue and mathematician, a co-originator of national education concept. His area of study was general didactics and didactics of mathematics.
Member of the Polska Macierz Szkolna, professor and director of Pedagogics Department of the Wolna Wszechnica Polska in Warsaw.
Not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obturator%20internus%20muscle | The internal obturator muscle or obturator internus muscle originates on the medial surface of the obturator membrane, the ischium near the membrane, and the rim of the pubis.
It exits the pelvic cavity through the lesser sciatic foramen.
The internal obturator is situated partly within the lesser pelvis, and partly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAPH | Condensin complex subunit 2 also known as chromosome-associated protein H (CAP-H) or non-SMC condensin I complex subunit H (NCAPH) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NCAPH gene. CAP-H is a subunit of condensin I, a large protein complex involved in chromosome condensation. Abnormal expression of NCAPH may be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Almost%20Lost%20Detroit | We Almost Lost Detroit, a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller, presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown.
It took four years for the reactor to be repaired, and then performance was poor. In 1972, the reactor core was dismantl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout%202048 | Wipeout 2048 is a racing game in which players pilot anti-gravity ships around futuristic race tracks. It was developed by Studio Liverpool and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was a launch game for the Sony PlayStation Vita hand-held console, released worldwide in 2012. It is the ninth instalment of the Wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonit%20Sora | Gonit Sora (Assamese: গণিত চ’ৰা) is a multi-lingual (English and Assamese) web magazine devoted to publishing well written and original articles related to science and technology in general and mathematics in particular. Gonit Sora is an attempt to bridge the gap between classroom mathematics teaching and real life pra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGC50722 | MGC50722, also known as uncharacterized protein LOC399693, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MGC50722 gene (Mammalian Gene Collection Project Gene 50722). This 965 amino acid human protein has a molecular weight of 104.495 kDa and one domain of unknown function (DUF390). Generally conserved across mammals, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprachoroid%20lamina | The suprachoroid or suprachoroid lamina is a thin membrane forming part of the choroid of the eye. It lines the external surface of the choroid. It is composed of delicate non-vascular lamellae. The long and short ciliary nerves and the long posterior ciliary arteries pass anterior-ward within the suprachoroid lamina.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydropalmatine | Tetrahydropalmatine (THP) is an isoquinoline alkaloid found in several different plant species, mainly in the genus Corydalis (Yan Hu Suo), but also in other plants such as Stephania rotunda. These plants have traditional uses in Chinese herbal medicine. The pharmaceutical industry has synthetically produced the more p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%20middleware | RT-middleware (Robotics Technology Middleware) is a common computing platform technical standard for robots based on distributed object technology. RT-middleware supports the construction of various networked robotic systems by integrating various network-enabled robotic elements named RT-Components, which specificatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity%20distribution%20function | The metallicity distribution function is an important concept in stellar and galactic evolution. It is a curve of what proportion of stars have a particular metallicity ([Fe/H], the relative abundance of iron and hydrogen) of a population of stars such as in a cluster or galaxy.
MDFs are used to test different theorie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedoheptulose%207-phosphate | Sedoheptulose 7-phosphate is an intermediate in the pentose phosphate pathway.
It is formed by transketolase and acted upon by transaldolase.
Sedoheptulokinase is an enzyme that uses sedoheptulose and ATP to produce ADP and sedoheptulose 7-phosphate.
Sedoheptulose-bisphosphatase is an enzyme that uses sedoheptulose ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28E%29-4-Hydroxy-3-methyl-but-2-enyl%20pyrophosphate | (E)-4-Hydroxy-3-methyl-but-2-enyl pyrophosphate (HMBPP or HMB-PP) is an intermediate of the MEP pathway (non-mevalonate pathway) of isoprenoid biosynthesis. The enzyme HMB-PP synthase (GcpE, IspG) catalyzes the conversion of 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate (MEcPP) into HMB-PP. HMB-PP is then converted fur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Caraiani | Ana Caraiani (born 1985) is a Romanian-American mathematician, who is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Hausdorff Chair at the University of Bonn. Her research interests include algebraic number theory and the Langlands program.
Education
She was born in Bucharest and studied at Mihai Viteazul High School... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew%20binary%20number%20system | The skew binary number system is a non-standard positional numeral system in which the nth digit contributes a value of times the digit (digits are indexed from 0) instead of times as they do in binary. Each digit has a value of 0, 1, or 2. A number can have many skew binary representations. For example, a decimal n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klincewicz%20method | In thermodynamic theory, the Klincewicz method is a predictive method based both on group contributions and on a correlation with some basic molecular properties. The method estimates the critical temperature, the critical pressure, and the critical volume of pure components.
Model description
As a group contribution ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishijimicin%20A | Shishijimicin A is an enediyne antitumor antibiotic isolated from Didemnum proliferum. Isolated in 2003 it is part of the family of 10 member ringed enediyne antitumor antibiotic agents, which includes: namenamicin, esperamicin and, calicheamicin. Due to its high potency from cytotoxicity, Shishjimicin A is currently u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance%20gene | A resistance gene is any gene producing resistance against an agent. This gene may produce:
Drug resistance
Antimicrobial resistance
Multiple drug resistance
Gene-for-gene relationship
Tolerance to infections
Resistance to herbivores - plant defense against herbivory
See also
Resista... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallophycoides | Thallophycoides is an undifferentiated, globular, non-mineralized alga from the Ediacaran period. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20camel | A hybrid camel is a hybrid between a Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) and dromedary (Camelus dromedarius).
Names
Hybrid camels have different names depending on zone and language. Some names include turkoman, tülu, bukht, nar, iner, iver, majen, bertuar, yaml, dromano, and dromel.
Tülu
A tülu camel is a breed o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest%20leftmost%20branch | In set theory, an honest leftmost branch of a tree T on ω × γ is a branch (maximal chain) ƒ ∈ [T] such that for each branch g ∈ [T], one has ∀ n ∈ ω : ƒ(n) ≤ g(n). Here, [T] denotes the set of branches of maximal length of T, ω is the smallest infinite ordinal (represented by the natural numbers N), and γ is some other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructive%20dilemma | Destructive dilemma is the name of a valid rule of inference of propositional logic. It is the inference that, if P implies Q and R implies S and either Q is false or S is false, then either P or R must be false. In sum, if two conditionals are true, but one of their consequents is false, then one of their antecedents ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Giraud%20Elliot%20Medal | The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "for meritorious work in zoology or paleontology study published in a three- to five-year period." Named after Daniel Giraud Elliot, it was first awarded in 1917.
List of Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal winners
Source: National Academy of S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20state%20soil%20mechanics | Critical state soil mechanics is the area of soil mechanics that encompasses the conceptual models that represent the mechanical behavior of saturated remolded soils based on the Critical State concept.
Formulation
The Critical State concept is an idealization of the observed behavior of saturated remoulded clays in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TalkTalk%20TV%20Store | TalkTalk TV Store (formerly blinkbox) was a UK-based transactional (purchase and rental) video-on-demand (VoD) service available on Macintosh and Microsoft Windows computers, games consoles, tablet computers and Smart TVs. Content is generally streamed, with downloading currently possible on Windows PC/laptops. The bli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception%20score | The Inception Score (IS) is an algorithm used to assess the quality of images created by a generative image model such as a generative adversarial network (GAN). The score is calculated based on the output of a separate, pretrained Inceptionv3 image classification model applied to a sample of (typically around 30,000) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Eagle | Albert Eagle was an English mathematician and philosopher who wrote several books (some of them privately published) giving his forcefully expressed and somewhat eccentric views on science and mathematics.
Biography
He was an assistant to J. J. Thomson, and was later a lecturer at the Victoria University of Manchest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeko | Teeko is an abstract strategy game invented by John Scarne in 1937 and rereleased in refined form in 1952 and again in the 1960s. Teeko was marketed by Scarne's company, John Scarne Games Inc.; its quirky name, he said, borrowed letters from Tic-tac-toe, Chess, Checkers, and Bingo.
Gameplay
The Teeko board consists of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence%20and%20Information%20Warfare%20Directorate | The Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (or I2WD) is a component of the US Army Communications-Electronics RD&E Center, based out of Aberdeen Proving Ground. Consisting of five primary divisions, I2WD forms a Research and Development (R&D) enterprise.
Operations previously resided at Fort Monmouth, NJ. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids | Boids is an artificial life program, developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986, which simulates the flocking behaviour of birds. His paper on this topic was published in 1987 in the proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference. The name "boid" corresponds to a shortened version of "bird-oid object", which refers to a bird-like... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoding%20Control%20Notation | The Encoding Control Notation (ECN) is a standardized formal language that is part of the Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) family of international standards. ECN is designed to be used along with ASN.1, and each ECN specification (a coherent set of encoding definitions) is explicitly related to a particular ASN.1 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman%E2%80%93Mandula%20theorem | In theoretical physics, the Coleman–Mandula theorem is a no-go theorem stating that spacetime and internal symmetries can only combine in a trivial way. This means that the charges associated with internal symmetries must always transform as Lorentz scalars. Some notable exceptions to the no-go theorem are conformal sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric%20flow%20rate | In physics and engineering, in particular fluid dynamics, the volumetric flow rate (also known as volume flow rate, or volume velocity) is the volume of fluid which passes per unit time; usually it is represented by the symbol (sometimes ). It contrasts with mass flow rate, which is the other main type of fluid flow r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convalescence | Convalescence is the gradual recovery of health and strength after illness or injury.
Details
It refers to the later stage of an infectious disease or illness when the patient recovers and returns to previous health, but may continue to be a source of infection to others even if feeling better. In this sense, "recover... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming%20%28agriculture%29 | Nano seed priming in botany and agriculture is a form of seed planting preparation in which the seeds are pre-soaked in nanoparticle solution. Seeds are considered to be an important part of crop life cycle as it influences the propagation of critical phases like germination and dormancy. Seed priming before sowing is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahawh%20Hmong | Pahawh Hmong (RPA: Phaj hauj Hmoob , Pahawh: ; known also as Ntawv Pahawh, Ntawv Keeb, Ntawv Caub Fab, Ntawv Soob Lwj) is an indigenous semi-syllabic script, invented in 1959 by Shong Lue Yang, to write two Hmong languages, Hmong Daw (Hmoob Dawb White Miao) and Hmong Njua AKA Hmong Leng (Moob Leeg Green Miao).
Termin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conic%20constant | In geometry, the conic constant (or Schwarzschild constant, after Karl Schwarzschild) is a quantity describing conic sections, and is represented by the letter K. The constant is given by where is the eccentricity of the conic section.
The equation for a conic section with apex at the origin and tangent to the y ax... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXQ1 | Forkhead box Q1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FOXQ1 gene.
Function
FOXQ1 is a member of the FOX gene family, which is characterized by a conserved 110-amino acid DNA-binding motif called the forkhead or winged helix domain. FOX genes are involved in embryonic development, cell cycle regulation, tissue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20organization%20%28grid%20computing%29 | In grid computing, a virtual organization (VO) refers to a dynamic set of individuals or institutions defined around a set of resource-sharing rules and conditions. All these virtual organizations share some commonality among them, including common concerns and requirements, but may vary in size, scope, duration, socio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroscopic%20quantum%20state | A macroscopic quantum state is a state of matter in which macroscopic properties, such as mechanical motion, thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity and viscosity, can be described only by quantum mechanics rather than merely classical mechanics. This occurs primarily at low temperatures where little thermal moti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNADS | SNADS or Systems Network Architecture Distribution Services is an "asynchronous
distribution service that can store data for delayed delivery."
SNADS uses SNA data links to allow messages and objects to be sent from system to system using the APPC protocol. It is a very robust service: once an object has been accepte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky%20and%20blunt%20ends | DNA ends refer to the properties of the ends of linear DNA molecules, which in molecular biology are described as "sticky" or "blunt" based on the shape of the complementary strands at the terminus. In sticky ends, one strand is longer than the other (typically by at least a few nucleotides), such that the longer stran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteridospermatophyta | Pteridospermatophyta, also called "pteridosperms" or "seed ferns" are a polyphyletic grouping of extinct seed-producing plants. The earliest fossil evidence for plants of this type is the genus Elkinsia and the Lyginopterids of late Devonian age. They flourished particularly during the Carboniferous and Permian periods... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B56%20domain | Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) is a major intracellular protein phosphatase that regulates multiple aspects of cell growth and metabolism. Phosphorylation enables the activation or The ability of this widely distributed heterotrimeric enzyme to act on a diverse array of substrates is largely controlled by the nature of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism | Behaviorism (also spelled behaviourism) is a systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals. It assumes that behavior is either a reflex evoked by the pairing of certain antecedent stimuli in the environment, or a consequence of that individual's history, including especially reinforcemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylin%20Pharmaceuticals | Amylin Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical founded in 1987 that was based in San Diego, California. The company was engaged in the discovery, development, and commercialization of drug candidates for the treatment of diabetes, obesity, and other diseases. Amylin produced three drugs: Symlin (pramlintide acetate), By... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiogram%20%28device%29 | In British English, a radiogram is a piece of furniture that combined a radio and record player. The word radiogram is a portmanteau of radio and gramophone. The corresponding term in American English is console.
Popularity
Radiograms reached their peak of popularity in the post-war era, supported by a rapidly growing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated%20absorption%20spectroscopy | Saturated absorption spectroscopy measures the transition frequency of an atom or molecule between its ground state and an excited state. In saturated absorption spectroscopy, two counter-propagating, overlapped laser beams are sent through a sample of atomic gas. One of the beams stimulates photon emission in excited ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORT%20%28journal%29 | SORT or Statistics and Operations Research Transactions is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes papers related to statistics. It is published by the Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, the statistical office of Catalonia, in English with a brief summary in Catalan.
The journal was established... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20skeleton | In shape analysis, skeleton (or topological skeleton) of a shape is a thin version of that shape that is equidistant to its boundaries. The skeleton usually emphasizes geometrical and topological properties of the shape, such as its connectivity, topology, length, direction, and width. Together with the distance of its... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed%20data%20structure | The term compressed data structure arises in the computer science subfields of algorithms, data structures, and theoretical computer science. It refers to a data structure whose operations are roughly as fast as those of a conventional data structure for the problem, but whose size can be substantially smaller. The s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained%20Delaunay%20triangulation | In computational geometry, a constrained Delaunay triangulation is a generalization of the Delaunay triangulation that forces certain required segments into the triangulation as edges, unlike the Delaunay triangulation itself which is based purely on the position of a given set of vertices without regard to how they sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SegaSoft | SegaSoft, originally headquartered in Redwood City, California and later San Francisco, was a joint venture by Sega and CSK (Sega's majority stockholder at the time), created in 1995 to develop and publish games for the PC and Sega Saturn, primarily in the North American market.
SegaSoft was responsible for, among oth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oct-1-en-3-one | Oct-1-en-3-one (CH2=CHC(=O)(CH2)4CH3), also known as 1-octen-3-one or amyl vinyl ketone, is the odorant that is responsible for the typical "metallic" smell of metals and blood coming into contact with skin. Oct-1-en-3-one has a strong metallic mushroom-like odor with an odor detection threshold of 0.03–1.12 µg/m3 and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20of%20the%20neutron | The discovery of the neutron and its properties was central to the extraordinary developments in atomic physics in the first half of the 20th century. Early in the century, Ernest Rutherford developed a crude model of the atom, based on the gold foil experiment of Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden. In this model, atoms ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20explanations%20of%20bewitchment | Medical explanations of bewitchment, especially as exhibited during the Salem witch trials but in other witch-hunts as well, have emerged because it is not widely believed today that symptoms of those claiming affliction were actually caused by bewitchment. The reported symptoms have been explored by a variety of resea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20twenty-first%20problem | The twenty-first problem of the 23 Hilbert problems, from the celebrated list put forth in 1900 by David Hilbert, concerns the existence of a certain class of linear differential equations with specified singular points and monodromic group.
Statement
The original problem was stated as follows (English translation fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Forecasting | The International Journal of Forecasting is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal on forecasting. It is published by Elsevier on behalf of the International Institute of Forecasters. Its objective is to "unify the field of forecasting and to bridge the gap between theory and practice, making forecasting useful a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular%20aperture | The angular aperture of a lens is the angular size of the lens aperture as seen from the focal point:
where
is the focal length
is the diameter of the aperture.
Relation to numerical aperture
In a medium with an index of refraction close to 1, such as air, the angular aperture is approximately equal to twice the... |
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