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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor%20luminescence%20equations | The semiconductor luminescence equations (SLEs) describe luminescence of semiconductors resulting from spontaneous recombination of electronic excitations, producing a flux of spontaneously emitted light. This description established the first step toward semiconductor quantum optics because the SLEs simultaneously inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20actuarial%20science | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to actuarial science:
Actuarial science – discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in the insurance and finance industries.
What type of thing is actuarial science?
Actuarial science can be described as all of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulophaga | Cellulophaga is a Gram-negative, strictly aerobic and rod-shaped bacterial genus from the family of Flavobacteriaceae which occur in marine alga and beach mud. Cellulophaga species produce zeaxanthin. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loy%20%28spade%29 | A loy is an early Irish spade with a long heavy handle made of ash, a narrow steel plate on the face and a single footrest. The word loy comes from the Irish word láí (Old Irish láige, Proto-Celtic *laginā), which means "spade". It was used for manual ploughing prior to and during the Great Famine.
Construction
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Tricomi | Francesco Giacomo Tricomi (5 May 1897 – 21 November 1978) was an Italian mathematician famous for his studies on mixed type partial differential equations. He was also the author of a book on integral equations.
Biography
Tricomi was born in Naples. He first enrolled in the University of Bologna, where he took chemis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offspring | In biology, offspring are the young creation of living organisms, produced either by a single organism or, in the case of sexual reproduction, two organisms. Collective offspring may be known as a brood or progeny in a more general way. This can refer to a set of simultaneous offspring, such as the chicks hatched from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20acidification%20in%20the%20Arctic%20Ocean | The Arctic ocean covers an area of 14,056,000 square kilometers, and supports a diverse and important socioeconomic food web of organisms, despite its average water temperature being 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Over the last three decades, the Arctic Ocean has experienced drastic changes due to climate change. One of the ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquificaceae | The Aquificaceae family are bacteria that live in harsh environmental settings such as hot springs, sulfur pools, and hydrothermal vents. Although they are true bacteria as opposed to the other inhabitants of extreme environments, the Archaea, Aquificaceae genera are an early phylogenetic branch.
Phylogeny
The current... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwasha%20Lipton | Kwasha Lipton was an employee benefits consulting firm located in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
History
It was founded in 1944 by H. Charles "Chick" Kwasha and Maurice Lipton.
Kwasha Lipton is best known for creating a special type of defined benefit pension plan called a cash balance plan, which it designed for the employe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%20Anatomy%20Act%20of%201883 | The Pennsylvania Anatomy Act of 1883 is legislation of the State of Pennsylvania to facilitate medical education. This act allowed teachers and students to be able to dissect bodies without have to resort to buying from grave robbers or buying body parts. This act was written to prevent grave robbing, and to even out t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagic%20fish | Pelagic fish live in the pelagic zone of ocean or lake waters—being neither close to the bottom nor near the shore—in contrast with demersal fish that live on or near the bottom, and reef fish that are associated with coral reefs.
The marine pelagic environment is the largest aquatic habitat on Earth, occupying 1,370 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem%20cell%20fat%20grafting | Stem cell fat grafting is autotransplantation of adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) extracted from fat-abundant donor sites (i.e. thigh or stomach) to other areas such as the face, breast, and hip to reconstruct the operative areas into desirable shapes. ADSCs are multipotent stem cells found in adipose tissues, displa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewirtz%20graph | The Gewirtz graph is a strongly regular graph with 56 vertices and valency 10. It is named after the mathematician Allan Gewirtz, who described the graph in his dissertation.
Construction
The Gewirtz graph can be constructed as follows. Consider the unique S(3, 6, 22) Steiner system, with 22 elements and 77 blocks. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20vestibular%20nucleus | The medial vestibular nucleus (Schwalbe nucleus) is one of the vestibular nuclei. It is located in the medulla oblongata.
Lateral vestibulo-spinal tract (lateral vestibular nucleus “Deiters”)- via ventrolateral medulla and spinal cord to ventral funiculus (lumbo-sacral segments). ..Ipsilaterally for posture
Medial ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthCap | HealthCap is a specialized provider of venture capital within life sciences. HealthCap invests in innovative companies with focus on therapeutics. As of 2023, HealthCap has invested in over 125 companies since inception and completed initial public offerings of more than 45 companies. HealthCap has offices in Stockholm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20Audio%20Extensions | The Environmental Audio Extensions (or EAX) are a number of digital signal processing presets for audio, present in Creative Technology Sound Blaster sound cards starting with the Sound Blaster Live and the Creative NOMAD/Creative ZEN product lines. Due to the release of Windows Vista in 2007, which deprecated the Dire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrison%20Predictor | The Kerrison Predictor was one of the first fully automated anti-aircraft fire-control systems. It was used to automate the aiming of the British Army's Bofors 40 mm guns and provide accurate lead calculations through simple inputs on three main handwheels.
The predictor could aim a gun at an aircraft based on simple ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%20sign%20convention | In electrical engineering, the passive sign convention (PSC) is a sign convention or arbitrary standard rule adopted universally by the electrical engineering community for defining the sign of electric power in an electric circuit. The convention defines electric power flowing out of the circuit into an electrical c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couchbase%20Server | Couchbase Server, originally known as Membase, is a source-available, distributed (shared-nothing architecture) multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software package optimized for interactive applications. These applications may serve many concurrent users by creating, storing, retrieving, aggregating, manipula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autosomal%20dominant%20cerebellar%20ataxia%2C%20deafness%2C%20and%20narcolepsy | Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia, deafness, and narcolepsy (ADCADN) is a rare progressive genetic disorder that primarily affects the nervous system and is characterized by sensorineural hearing loss, narcolepsy with cataplexy, and dementia later in life. People with this disorder usually start showing symptoms whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G-LTE%20filter | 4G- filter is a low-pass filter or notch filter, to be used in OTA-reception installations (both collective and individual) if one is using an older/unfiltered TV antenna, without the risk of interference caused by the cellular transmitters on the higher channels. (See following section.)
These filters are usually use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord-1 | Nord-1 was Norsk Data's first minicomputer and the first commercially available computer made in Norway.
It was a 16-bit system, developed in 1967 from the Simulation for Automatic Machinery. The first Nord-1 (serial number 2) installed was at the heart of a complete ship system aboard a Japanese-built cargo liner, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic%20aberration | Relativistic aberration is the relativistic version of aberration of light, including relativistic corrections that become significant for observers who move with velocities close to the speed of light. It is described by Einstein's special theory of relativity.
Suppose, in the reference frame of the observer, the sou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persymmetric%20matrix | In mathematics, persymmetric matrix may refer to:
a square matrix which is symmetric with respect to the northeast-to-southwest diagonal (anti-diagonal); or
a square matrix such that the values on each line perpendicular to the main diagonal are the same for a given line.
The first definition is the most common in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis%20Bonnet | Alexis Bonnet is a French mathematician and investor. For his research on partial differential equations he was awarded the 1996 EMS Prize. He earned his doctorate from Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1992, under supervision of Henri Berestycki.
Bonnet subsequently joined Goldman Sachs, and was one of the founder... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified%20perturbations%20models | Simplified perturbations models are a set of five mathematical models (SGP, SGP4, SDP4, SGP8 and SDP8) used to calculate orbital state vectors of satellites and space debris relative to the Earth-centered inertial coordinate system. This set of models is often referred to collectively as SGP4 due to the frequency of us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20tools%20for%20static%20code%20analysis | This is a list of notable tools for static program analysis (program analysis is a synonym for code analysis).
Static code analysis tools
Languages
Ada
C, C++
C#
Fortran
Fortran-Lint (Information Processing Techniques, Inc)
IEC 61131-3
CODESYS Static Analysis integrated add-on for CODESYS (application code r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium | Psyllium , or ispaghula , is the common name used for several members of the plant genus Plantago whose seeds are used commercially for the production of mucilage. Psyllium is mainly used as a dietary fiber to relieve symptoms of both constipation and mild diarrhea, and occasionally as a food thickener. Allergy to psyl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea%20seed%20oil | Tea seed oil (also known as camellia oil, camellia seed oil, teanut oil) is an edible plant oil. It is obtained from the seeds of Camellia oleifera.
Camellia sasanqua is also given as a source of 'tea seed oil.
Description
The genus Camellia includes several commercially important species - Camellia oleifera is grown... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal%20vaccine | A nasal vaccine is a vaccine administered through the nose that stimulates an immune response without an injection. It induces immunity through the inner surface of the nose, a surface that naturally comes in contact with many airborne microbes. Nasal vaccines are emerging as an alternative to injectable vaccines becau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCHQ%20Bude | GCHQ Bude, also known as GCHQ Composite Signals Organisation Station Morwenstow, abbreviated to GCHQ CSO Morwenstow, is a UK Government satellite ground station and eavesdropping centre located on the north Cornwall coast at Cleave Camp, between the small villages of Morwenstow and Coombe. It is operated by the Britis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology%20Science%20and%20Technology%20for%20Exploring%20Planets | Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP) was a program established by NASA to sponsor research projects that advance the technology and techniques used in planetary exploration. The objective was to enable the study of astrobiology and to aid the planning of extraterrestrial exploration missio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamus%20erectus | Calamus erectus, also known as viagra palm and locally as tynriew, tara, and zhi li sheng teng, is a flowering shrub in the family Arecaceae. The specific epithet (erectus) refers to the plant's habit of growing straight rather than creeping or climbing like many species of the genus Calamus.
Distribution
Calamus erec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20P.%20Norton | Simon Phillips Norton (28 February 1952 – 14 February 2019) was a mathematician in Cambridge, England, who worked on finite simple groups.
Education
Simon Norton was born into a Sephardi family of Iraqi descent, the youngest of three brothers.
From 1964 he was a King's Scholar at Eton College, where he earned a reput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady%20state%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry, a steady state is a situation in which all state variables are constant in spite of ongoing processes that strive to change them. For an entire system to be at steady state, i.e. for all state variables of a system to be constant, there must be a flow through the system (compare mass balance). A simple ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotypical%20representation | In group theory, an isotypical, primary or factor representation of a group G is a unitary representation such that any two subrepresentations have equivalent sub-subrepresentations. This is related to the notion of a primary or factor representation of a C*-algebra, or to the factor for a von Neumann algebra: the re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating%20spacecraft | The concept of self-replicating spacecraft, as envisioned by mathematician John von Neumann, has been described by futurists including physicist Michio Kaku and discussed across a wide breadth of hard science fiction novels and stories. Self-replicating probes are sometimes referred to as von Neumann probes. Self-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kik%20Messenger | Kik Messenger, commonly called Kik, is a freeware instant messaging mobile app from the Canadian company Kik Interactive, available on iOS and Android operating systems.
The application uses a smartphone's internet connection to transmit and receive messages, photos, videos, sketches, mobile web pages, and other conte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdifferentiation | Transdifferentiation, also known as lineage reprogramming, is the process in which one mature somatic cell is transformed into another mature somatic cell without undergoing an intermediate pluripotent state or progenitor cell type. It is a type of metaplasia, which includes all cell fate switches, including the interc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20Doctor%20of%20the%20USSR | People's Doctor of the USSR () was an honorary title granted to doctors of the Soviet Union; it was established on 25 October 1977 by Leonid Brezhnev and its creation was officialized on the n°44/1977 issue of Supreme Soviet's official journal. Its regulation was later modified and completed by the Supreme Soviet's dec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwin%20Bruno%20Christoffel | Elwin Bruno Christoffel (; 10 November 1829 – 15 March 1900) was a German mathematician and physicist. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which would later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.
Life
Christoffel was born... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%20%28Heritage%20Models%29 | Lord of the Rings is a set of miniatures published by Heritage Models.
Contents
Heritage Models produced Lord of the Rings figures licensed by Tolkien Enterprises, including 25mm diorama sets, and 75mm Collector Personalities, Paint 'n' Play sets such as Mines of Moria and Helm's Deep, a rule set for fantasy miniature... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20One%20Foundation%20Component%20Library | The Base One Foundation Component Library (BFC) is a rapid application development toolkit for building secure, fault-tolerant, database applications on Windows and ASP.NET. In conjunction with Microsoft's Visual Studio integrated development environment, BFC provides a general-purpose web application framework for wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errors%20and%20residuals | In statistics and optimization, errors and residuals are two closely related and easily confused measures of the deviation of an observed value of an element of a statistical sample from its "true value" (not necessarily observable). The error of an observation is the deviation of the observed value from the true value... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted%20mass%20spectrometry | Targeted mass spectrometry is a mass spectrometry technique that uses multiple stages of tandem mass spectrometry (MSn with n=2 or 3) for ions of specific mass (m/z), at specific time. The values of the m/z and time are defined in an inclusion list which is derived from a previous analysis.
Applications
Targeted analy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August-Wilhelm%20Scheer | August-Wilhelm Scheer (born July 27, 1941) is a German Professor of business administration and business information at Saarland University, and founder and director of IDS Scheer AG, a major IT service and software company. He is known for the development of the Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS) co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad%20Osterwalder | Konrad Osterwalder (born June 3, 1942) is a Swiss mathematician and physicist, former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations, former Rector of the United Nations University (UNU), and Rector Emeritus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). He is known for the Osterwalder–Schrader theorem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FT8 | FT8 or Franke & Taylor 8 is a frequency shift keying digital mode of radio communication used by amateur radio operators worldwide. Following release on June 29, 2017, by its creators Joe Taylor, K1JT, and Steve Franke, K9AN, along with the software package WSJT, FT8 was adopted rapidly and, in little over two years, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent%20rhythmic%20delta%20activity | Intermittent rhythmic delta activity (IRDA) is a type of brain wave abnormality found in electroencephalograms (EEG).
Types
It can be classified based on the area of brain it originates from:
frontal (FIRDA)
occipital (OIRDA)
temporal (TIRDA)
It can also be
Unilateral
Bilateral
Cause
It can be caused by a numb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20de%20la%20Sommellerie%20Internationale | The Association de la Sommellerie Internationale is a nonprofit organization founded in Reims in 1969 to develop and promote the sommelier profession around the world. Every three years since its creation, it holds a competition in an international city and names a person as the best sommelier in the world: the World's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20structural%20time%20series | Bayesian structural time series (BSTS) model is a statistical technique used for feature selection, time series forecasting, nowcasting, inferring causal impact and other applications. The model is designed to work with time series data.
The model has also promising application in the field of analytical marketing. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Beam | Apache Beam is an open source unified programming model to define and execute data processing pipelines, including ETL, batch and stream (continuous) processing. Beam Pipelines are defined using one of the provided SDKs and executed in one of the Beam’s supported runners (distributed processing back-ends) including Apa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20current | A heat current or thermal current is a kinetic exchange rate between molecules, relative to the material in which the kinesis occurs. It is defined as the net rate of flow of heat. The SI unit of heat current is the Watt, which is the flow of heat across a surface at the rate of one Joule per second.
For conduction, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/291%20%28number%29 | 291 is the natural number following 290 and preceding 292.
In mathematics
291 is an odd composite number with two prime factor.
291 is a semiprime number meaning that it has 2 prime factors.
291 can be written as the sum of the nth prime plus n. It is the 52nd prime (239) plus 52.
291 is one of the positions of “c” in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetPIPE | NetPIPE (Network Protocol-Independent Performance Evaluater) is a protocol independent performance tool that visually represents the network performance under a variety of conditions. It has modules for PVM, TCGMSG, and the 1-sided message-passing standards of MPI-2 and SHMEM.
See also
Netperf
Nuttcp
Iperf
Externa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinique%20macaw | The Martinique macaw or orange-bellied macaw (Ara martinicus) is a hypothetical extinct species of macaw which may have been endemic to the Lesser Antillean island of Martinique, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It was scientifically named by Walter Rothschild in 1905, based on a 1630s description of "blue and orange-yell... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition%20enhanced%20Natural%20language%20Information%20Analysis%20Method | Cognition enhanced Natural language Information Analysis Method (CogNIAM) is a conceptual fact-based modelling method, that aims to integrate the different dimensions of knowledge: data, rules, processes and semantics. To represent these dimensions world standards SBVR, BPMN and DMN from the Object Management Group (OM... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20of%20aggression | The field of psychology has been greatly influenced by the study of genetics. Decades of research have demonstrated that both genetic and environmental factors play a role in a variety of behaviors in humans and animals (e.g. Grigorenko & Sternberg, 2003). The genetic basis of aggression, however, remains poorly unders... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-theory%20of%20time | The B-theory of time, also called the "tenseless theory of time", is one of two positions regarding the temporal ordering of events in the philosophy of time. B-theorists argue that the flow of time is only a subjective illusion of human consciousness, that the past, present, and future are equally real, and that time ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound%20chocolate | Compound chocolate is a product made from a combination of cocoa, vegetable fat and sweeteners. It is used as a lower-cost alternative to pure chocolate, as it uses less-expensive hard vegetable fats such as coconut oil or palm kernel oil in place of the more expensive cocoa butter. It may also be known as "compound co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20A.%20Foster | Michael Anthony Foster (July 2, 1939 – November 14, 2020) was an American science fiction writer from Greensboro, North Carolina. He spent over sixteen years as a Captain and Russian linguist in the United States Air Force.
"Ler" books
Foster wrote a loosely connected trilogy about an offshoot of humanity called the L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20%28number%29 | 2016 is the natural number following 2015 and preceding 2017.
In mathematics
2016 is a triangular number, being 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 63. Equivalently, .
2016 is a 24-gonal number and a generalized 28-gonal (icosioctagonal) number .
2016 has 36 divisors.
211 − 25 = 2016.
2016 forms a friendly pair with 360, as and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%20steep%20liquor | Corn steep liquor is a by-product of corn wet-milling. A viscous concentrate of corn solubles which contains amino acids, vitamins and minerals, it is an important constituent of some growth media. It was used in the culturing of Penicillium during research into penicillin by American microbiologist Andrew J. Moyer. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus%20effect | The Magnus effect is an observable phenomenon commonly associated with a spinning object moving through a fluid. A lift force acts on the spinning object. The path of the object may be deflected in a manner not present when the object is not spinning. The deflection can be explained by the difference in pressure of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASINO | CASINO is a quantum Monte Carlo program that was originally developed in the Theory of Condensed Matter group at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. CASINO can be used to perform variational quantum Monte Carlo and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo simulations to calculate the energy and distribution of electrons in at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DREAM%20%28software%29 | The Distributed Real-time Embedded Analysis Method (DREAM) is a platform-independent open-source tool for the verification and analysis of distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems which focuses on the practical application of formal verification and timing analysis to real-time middleware. DREAM supports forma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handel%20%28warning%20system%29 | Handel was the code-name for the UK's national attack warning system in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console with two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed.
If an enemy airstrike was detected, a key on the left-hand side of the console would be turn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20system%20contribution%20to%20regeneration | Immune system contribution to regeneration of tissues generally involves specific cellular components, transcription of a wide variety of genes, morphogenesis, epithelia renewal and proliferation of damaged cell types (progenitor or tissue-resident stem cells). However, current knowledge reveals more and more studies a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcevian%20triangle | In Euclidean geometry, a circumcevian triangle is a special triangle associated with a reference triangle and a point in the plane of the triangle. It is also associated with the circumcircle of the reference triangle.
Definition
[[File:CircumCevianTriangle.png|thumb|
{{legend-line|solid brown|Circumcevian triangle ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20and%20Plausible%20Reasoning | Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning is a two-volume book by the mathematician George Pólya describing various methods for being a good guesser of new mathematical results. In the Preface to Volume 1 of the book Pólya exhorts all interested students of mathematics thus: "Certainly, let us learn proving, but also let us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus%20urinascens | Agaricus urinascens is a species of mushroom-forming fungus in the family Agaricaceae. It is edible and distributed throughout Europe. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom%20%28measure%20theory%29 | In mathematics, more precisely in measure theory, an atom is a measurable set which has positive measure and contains no set of smaller positive measure. A measure which has no atoms is called non-atomic or atomless.
Definition
Given a measurable space and a measure on that space, a set in is called an atom if
a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinfectant | A disinfectant is a chemical substance or compound used to inactivate or destroy microorganisms on inert surfaces. Disinfection does not necessarily kill all microorganisms, especially resistant bacterial spores; it is less effective than sterilization, which is an extreme physical or chemical process that kills all ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course%20allocation | Course allocation is the problem of allocating seats in university courses among students. Many universities impose an upper bound on the number of students allowed to register to each course, in order to ensure that the teachers can give sufficient attention to each individual student. Since the demand for some course... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys%20II%3A%20Ancient%20Ys%20Vanished%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Final%20Chapter | is a 1988 action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom. It is a sequel to Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished and takes place immediately following it. The game first released for the PC-8801 and PC-9801 and has seen several ports and remakes since.
Ys II was later adapted into the anime Ys II: Castle in the Heavens (1992... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript%20Standard%20Encoding | The PostScript Standard Encoding (often spelled StandardEncoding, aliased as PostScript) is one of the character sets (or encoding vectors) used by Adobe Systems' PostScript (PS) since 1984 (1982). In 1995, IBM assigned code page 1276 (CCSID 1276) to this character set. NeXT based the character set for its NeXTSTEP and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Ativ%20Q | The Samsung Ativ Q was a 13.3-inch convertible laptop to be manufactured by Samsung. Unveiled at a Samsung Premiere event on June 20, 2013, the tablet was to run Windows 8, but also shipped with software that also allowed it to run the Android operating system. The Ativ Q's hardware was also distinguished by multiple f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic%20footprinting | Phylogenetic footprinting is a technique used to identify transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) within a non-coding region of DNA of interest by comparing it to the orthologous sequence in different species. When this technique is used with a large number of closely related species, this is called phylogenetic shad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion%20of%20control | In software engineering, inversion of control (IoC) is a design pattern in which custom-written portions of a computer program receive the flow of control from a generic framework. The term "inversion" is historical: a software architecture with this design "inverts" control as compared to procedural programming. In pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20representations%20%28mathematics%20education%29 | In mathematics education, a representation is a way of encoding an idea or a relationship, and can be both internal (e.g., mental construct) and external (e.g., graph). Thus multiple representations are ways to symbolize, to describe and to refer to the same mathematical entity. They are used to understand, to develop,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCBioImpact | NCBioImpact is a group of organizations in the U.S. state of North Carolina created to enhance the trained workforce for biotechnology and other life science employers by educating students and retraining incumbent workers. The partnership works to promote economic development in North Carolina while offering comprehe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Coucoulas | Alexander Coucoulas is an American inventor, research engineer, and author. He was named "father of thermosonic bonding" by George Harman, the world's foremost authority on wire bonding, where he referenced Coucoulas's leading edge publications in his book, Wire Bonding In Microelectronics.Coucoulas, A., "Hot Work Ultr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20finiteness | In geometry, a group of isometries of hyperbolic space is called geometrically finite if it has a well-behaved fundamental domain. A hyperbolic manifold is called geometrically finite if it can be described in terms of geometrically finite groups.
Geometrically finite polyhedra
A convex polyhedron C in hyperbolic s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenulum | A frenulum or frenum (: frenula or frena, from the Latin frēnulum, "little bridle", the diminutive of frēnum) is a small fold of tissue that secures the motion of a mobile organ in the body.
In human anatomy
Frenula on the human body include several in the mouth, some in the digestive tract, and some connected to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris%20tweed | Harris Tweed ( or ) is a tweed cloth that is handwoven by islanders at their homes in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, finished in the Outer Hebrides, and made from pure virgin wool dyed and spun in the Outer Hebrides. This definition, quality standards and protection of the Harris Tweed name are enshrined in the Harris... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20Maze | 3D Maze is the name given to a screensaver, created in OpenGL, that was present in Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 until it was discontinued after Windows ME.
Overview
The maze is randomly generated each time, with the "player" navigating through it in first-person, spawning in front of a floating start button. From... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytopathic%20effect | Cytopathic effect or cytopathogenic effect (abbreviated CPE) refers to structural changes in host cells that are caused by viral invasion. The infecting virus causes lysis of the host cell or when the cell dies without lysis due to an inability to replicate. Both of these effects occur due to CPEs. If a virus causes th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20Beijing | Dancing Beijing is the name of the official emblem of the 2008 Summer Olympics, which took place in Beijing in the People's Republic of China. It was unveiled on 3 August 2003 in a ceremony attended by 2,008 people at Beijing's Temple of Heaven.
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The emblem draws on various elements of Chinese culture, dep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20medullary%20velum | The inferior medullary velum (posterior medullary velum) is a thin layer of white substance, prolonged from the white center of the cerebellum, above and on either side of the nodule; it forms the infero-posterior part of the fourth ventricle.
Somewhat semilunar in shape, its convex edge is continuous with the white s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20correlation | In quantum mechanics, quantum correlation is the expected value of the product of the alternative outcomes. In other words, it is the expected change in physical characteristics as one quantum system passes through an interaction site. In John Bell's 1964 paper that inspired the Bell test, it was assumed that the outc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%20peso | The piso, often called the peso in English (Philippine English: , , plural pesos; ; sign: ₱; code: PHP), is the official currency of the Philippines. It is subdivided into 100 sentimo, also called centavos.
The peso has the symbol "₱", introduced during American rule in place of the original peso sign "$" used thro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITIL%20security%20management | ITIL security management describes the structured fitting of security into an organization. ITIL security management is based on the ISO 27001 standard. "ISO/IEC 27001:2005 covers all types of organizations (e.g. commercial enterprises, government agencies, not-for profit organizations). ISO/IEC 27001:2005 specifies th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala%20%28programming%20language%29 | Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system.
Vala is syntactically similar to C# and includes notable features such as anonymous functions, signals, properties, generics, assisted memory management, exception handling, type inference, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFAP%20stain | In histology, the GFAP stain is done to determine whether cells contain glial fibrillary acidic protein, a protein found in glial cells.
It is useful for determining whether a tumour is of glial origin. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Richard%20M.%20Emberson%20Award | The IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1986. It is presented to an IEEE member for distinguished service to the development, viability, advancement, and pursuit of the technical objectives of the IEEE.
Recipients of this award receives a bronze medal, illuminated certifica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflector%20%28cellular%20automaton%29 | In cellular automata such as Conway's Game of Life, a reflector is a pattern that can interact with a spaceship to change its direction of motion, without damage to the reflector pattern. In Life, many oscillators can reflect the glider; there also exist stable reflectors composed of still life patterns that, when they... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passage%20to%20Nirvana | Passage to Nirvana, A Survivor's Zen Voyage: Reflections on Loss, Discovery, Healing & Hope is a memoir by Lee Carlson, written over a several-year period from 2005 to 2010, primarily on board a 60-foot sailboat named Nirvana that he shared with his fiancée Meg. It was his first book, although he had made his living a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Philippe%20Marie%20Binet | Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (; 2 February 1786 – 12 May 1856) was a French mathematician, physicist and astronomer born in Rennes; he died in Paris, France, in 1856. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra which would later lead to important contributions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Hub | Black Duck Open Hub, formerly Ohloh, is a website which provides a web services suite and online community platform that aims to index the open-source software development community. It was founded by former Microsoft managers Jason Allen and Scott Collison in 2004 and joined by the developer Robin Luckey. , the site l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20executive | A cyclic executive is an alternative to a real-time operating system. It is a form of cooperative multitasking, in which there is only one task. The sole task is typically realized as an infinite loop in main(), e.g. in C.
The basic scheme is to cycle through a repeating sequence of activities, at a set frequency (A... |
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