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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20variety | In algebraic geometry, given a reductive algebraic group G and a Borel subgroup B, a spherical variety is a G-variety with an open dense B-orbit. It is sometimes also assumed to be normal. Examples are flag varieties, symmetric spaces and (affine or projective) toric varieties.
There is also a notion of real spherical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked%20numbering%20scheme | A linked numbering scheme (LNS) is a dialing procedure in effect in a service area within which call routing between adjacent exchanges does not require a dialing code. The term is only used in the United Kingdom, but not in the North American Numbering Plan.
United Kingdom
The largest linked numbering scheme in the U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA%20postulate | In Euclidean geometry, the AA postulate states that two triangles are similar if they have two corresponding angles congruent.
The AA postulate follows from the fact that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is always equal to 180°. By knowing two angles, such as 32° and 64° degrees, we know that the next ang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanofluids%20in%20solar%20collectors | Nanofluid-based direct solar collectors are solar thermal collectors where nanoparticles in a liquid medium can scatter and absorb solar radiation. They have recently received interest to efficiently distribute solar energy. Nanofluid-based solar collector have the potential to harness solar radiant energy more effici... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Invisible%20Woman%20%281983%20film%29 | The Invisible Woman is a 1983 made-for-television science fiction comedy film starring Alexa Hamilton as Sandy Martinson, the titular character, and Bob Denver as her scientist uncle, Dr. Dudley Plunkett. The film first aired on NBC on Sunday, February 13, 1983.
Plot
Dr. Dudley Plunkett, a scientist, is experimenting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20and%20subtropical%20dry%20broadleaf%20forests | The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest is a habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature and is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes. Though these forests occur in climates that are warm year-round, and may receive several hundred centimeters of rain per year, they have long dry seasons t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20sociology | Computational sociology is a branch of sociology that uses computationally intensive methods to analyze and model social phenomena. Using computer simulations, artificial intelligence, complex statistical methods, and analytic approaches like social network analysis, computational sociology develops and tests theories ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattered%20order | In mathematical order theory, a scattered order is a linear order that contains no densely ordered subset with more than one element.
A characterization due to Hausdorff states that the class of all scattered orders is the smallest class of linear orders that contains the singleton orders and is closed under well-orde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determination%20of%20the%20day%20of%20the%20week | The determination of the day of the week for any date may be performed with a variety of algorithms. In addition, perpetual calendars require no calculation by the user, and are essentially lookup tables.
A typical application is to calculate the day of the week on which someone was born or a specific event occurred.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Enterprise%20Associates | New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is an American-based venture capital firm. NEA focuses investment stages ranging from seed stage through growth stage across an array of industry sectors. With ~$25 billion in committed capital, NEA is one of the world's largest venture capital firms.
Description
The firm is headquarte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20team%20%28computer%20security%29 | A blue team is a group of individuals who perform an analysis of information systems to ensure security, identify security flaws, verify the effectiveness of each security measure, and to make certain all security measures will continue to be effective after implementation.
History
As part of the United States compute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outgoing%20longwave%20radiation | Longwave (LW) radiation, in the context of climate science, is electromagnetic thermal radiation emitted by Earth's surface, atmosphere, and clouds. Longwave radiation may also be referred to as terrestrial radiation, thermal infrared radiation, or thermal radiation. This radiation is in the infrared portion of the spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20availability | Continuous availability is an approach to computer system and application design that protects users against downtime, whatever the cause and ensures that users remain connected to their documents, data files and business applications. Continuous availability describes the information technology methods to ensure busin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline%20%28surveying%29 | In surveying, a baseline is generally a line between two points on the earth's surface and the direction and distance between them. In a triangulation network, at least one baseline between two stations needs to be measured to calculate the size of the triangles by trigonometry.
In the United States Public Land Survey... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%20Labs%20Holmdel%20Complex | The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, in Holmdel Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States of America, functioned for 44 years as a research and development facility, initially for the Bell System and later Bell Labs. The centerpiece of the campus is an Eero Saarinen–designed structure that served as the home to ov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akinator | Akinator is a video game developed by French company Elokence. During gameplay, it attempts to determine what fictional or real-life character, object, or animal the player is thinking of by asking a series of questions (similar to the game Twenty Questions). It uses an artificial intelligence program that learns the b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity-driven%20testing | Modularity-driven testing is a term used in the testing of software. The test script modularity framework requires the creation of small, independent scripts that represent modules, sections, and functions of the application-under-test. These small scripts are then used in a hierarchical fashion to construct larger tes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermetric | Supermetric is a mathematical concept used in a number of fields in physics.
See also
Supergeometry
Supergravity
Super Minkowski space
Gauge gravitation theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpalatable%20food | Hyperpalatable food (HPF) combines high levels of fat, sugar, sodium, or carbohydrates to trigger the brain's reward system, encouraging excessive eating. The concept of hyperpalatability is foundational to ultra-processed foods, which are usually engineered to have enjoyable qualities of sweetness, saltiness, or richn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleman%27s%20inequality | Carleman's inequality is an inequality in mathematics, named after Torsten Carleman, who proved it in 1923 and used it to prove the Denjoy–Carleman theorem on quasi-analytic classes.
Statement
Let be a sequence of non-negative real numbers, then
The constant (euler number) in the inequality is optimal, that is, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic | Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and atomic number 33. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in combination with sulfur and metals, but also as a pure elemental crystal. Arsenic is a metalloid. It has various allotropes, but only the grey form, which has a metallic appearance, is important to industr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set1 | Set1 is a gene that codes for Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase and H3 lysine-4 specific proteins (H3K). Set1 proteins can also be referred to as COMPASS proteins. The first H3K4 methylase, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Set1/COMPASS, is highly conserved across a multitude of phylogenies. The histone methylation facilitated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20audio | Digital audio is a representation of sound recorded in, or converted into, digital form. In digital audio, the sound wave of the audio signal is typically encoded as numerical samples in a continuous sequence. For example, in CD audio, samples are taken 44,100 times per second, each with 16-bit sample depth. Digital au... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-making%20game | A box-making game (often called just a box game) is a biased positional game where two players alternately pick elements from a family of pairwise-disjoint sets ("boxes"). The first player - called BoxMaker - tries to pick all elements of a single box. The second player - called BoxBreaker - tries to pick at least one ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofeedback | Biofeedback is the technique of gaining greater awareness of many physiological functions of one's own body by using electronic or other instruments, and with a goal of being able to manipulate the body's systems at will. Humans conduct biofeedback naturally all the time, at varied levels of consciousness and intention... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20matrix | A logical matrix, binary matrix, relation matrix, Boolean matrix, or (0, 1)-matrix is a matrix with entries from the Boolean domain Such a matrix can be used to represent a binary relation between a pair of finite sets. It is an important tool in combinatorial mathematics and theoretical computer science.
Matrix repr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RpoB | The rpoB gene encodes the β subunit of bacterial RNA polymerase and the homologous plastid-encoded RNA polymerase (PEP). It codes for 1342 amino acids in E. coli, making it the second-largest polypeptide in the bacterial cell. It is targeted by the rifamycin family of antibacterials, such as rifampin. Mutations in rpo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPE2 | RPE2, or Relative server Performance Estimate 2, is a computer benchmark developed by Ideas International to compare the relative performance of servers built on x86, IA-64, and RISC processor architectures.
The benchmark is a composite of results, or estimated results, from the SAP SD Standard Application Two-Tier ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPtronics | IPtronics was a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Its products include integrated circuits for parallel optical interconnect applications intended for the computer, storage and communication industries. IPtronics' design center is certified by STMicroelectronics, which is also their se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20Armstrong%20Carriker | Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr. (February 14, 1879 – July 27, 1965) was an American ornithologist and entomologist.
Biography
Life
Carriker was born in Sullivan, Illinois in 1879. He attended the University of Nebraska, where he studied Mallophaga (bird lice) under Lawrence Bruner. He had a son, Melbourne Romaine C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flake%20salt | Flake salt refers to a category of salt characterized by their dry, plate-like ("lamellose") crystals. Their structure is a result of differing growth rates between the faces and edges of the crystal, an effect that can be achieved in various ways. Flake salt may occur naturally but can also be produced by a variety of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octochara | Octochara is a genus of fossil charophyte (aquatic green alga) from the Famennian (Late Devonian). It is one of two genera of charophyte described from the Waterloo Farm lagerstätte in southern Africa. It and Hexachara, from the same locality provide the oldest record of reconstruct able charophytes with in situ oogoni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconer%27s%20formula | Heritability is the proportion of variance caused by genetic factors of a specific trait in a population. Falconer's formula is a mathematical formula that is used in twin studies to estimate the relative contribution of genetic vs. environmental factors to variation in a particular trait (that is, the heritability of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmembrane%20protein%20255A | Transmembrane protein 255A is a protein that is encoded by the TMEM255A gene. TMEM255A is often referred to as family with sequence similarity 70, member A (FAM70A). The TMEM255A protein is transmembrane and is predicted to be located the nuclear envelope of eukaryote organisms.
Gene
The TMEM25A gene (often referred... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAS%20Award%20in%20the%20Neurosciences | The NAS Award in the Neurosciences is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "in recognition of extraordinary contributions to progress in the fields of neuroscience, including neurochemistry, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, developmental neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and behavioral and clinical neuroscien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetApp%20FAS | A NetApp FAS is a computer storage product by NetApp running the ONTAP operating system; the terms ONTAP, AFF, ASA, FAS are often used as synonyms. "Filer" is also used as a synonym although this is not an official name. There are three types of FAS systems: Hybrid, All-Flash, and All SAN Array:
NetApp proprietary cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%20garden | An ant garden is a mutualistic interaction between certain species of arboreal ants and various epiphytic plants. It is a structure made in the tree canopy by the ants that is filled with debris and other organic matter in which epiphytes grow. The ants benefit from this arrangement by having a stable framework on whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS%20Adventurous | USNS Adventurous (T-AGOS-13) was a Stalwart-class modified tactical auxiliary general ocean surveillance ship of the United States Navy in service from 1988 to 1992. She was in non-commissioned service in the Military Sealift Command from 1988 to 1992, operating during the final years of the Cold War. She was transferr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative%20pulling%20paradigm | The cooperative pulling paradigm is an experimental design in which two or more animals pull rewards toward themselves via an apparatus that they cannot successfully operate alone. Researchers (ethologists, comparative psychologists, and evolutionary psychologists) use cooperative pulling experiments to try to understa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piecewise%20linear%20function | In mathematics and statistics, a piecewise linear, PL or segmented function is a real-valued function of a real variable, whose graph is composed of straight-line segments.
Definition
A piecewise linear function is a function defined on a (possibly unbounded) interval of real numbers, such that there is a collection o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstepping | In control theory, backstepping is a technique developed circa 1990 by Petar V. Kokotovic and others for designing stabilizing controls for a special class of nonlinear dynamical systems. These systems are built from subsystems that radiate out from an irreducible subsystem that can be stabilized using some other metho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Sided%20Matching | Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis is a book on matching markets in economics and game theory, particularly concentrating on the stable marriage problem. It was written by Alvin E. Roth and Marilda Sotomayor, with a preface by Robert Aumann, and published in 1990 by the Cambridge Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Minnesota%20Supercomputing%20Institute | The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota is a core research facility of the University of Minnesota that provides hardware and software resources, as well as technical user support, to faculty and researchers at the university and at other institutions of higher education in Minnesota. MSI... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollination | Pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther of a plant to the stigma of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind. Pollinating agents can be animals such as insects, birds, and bats; water; wind; and even plants themselves, when self-pollination occur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20dwarf%20%28red-dwarf%20stage%29 | A blue dwarf is a predicted class of star that develops from a red dwarf after it has exhausted much of its hydrogen fuel supply. Because red dwarfs fuse their hydrogen slowly and are fully convective (allowing their entire hydrogen supply to be fused, instead of merely that in the core), they are predicted to have lif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate%20Together%3A%20America%20Honors%20the%20High%20School%20Class%20of%202020 | Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 is an American television special that was simulcasted on the major television networks and online on May 16, 2020. Created by the XQ Institute, the LeBron James Family Foundation, and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, the special was curated by baske... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodontal%20disease | Periodontal disease, also known as gum disease, is a set of inflammatory conditions affecting the tissues surrounding the teeth. In its early stage, called gingivitis, the gums become swollen and red and may bleed. It is considered the main cause of tooth loss for adults worldwide. In its more serious form, called peri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannopeptimycin%20glycopeptide | Mannopeptimycin glycopeptide is a lead antibiotic peptide. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20L5 | Haplogroup L5 is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) clade. It was previously known as L1e.
Distribution
L5 is a small haplogroup centered in East Africa. The highest frequency is in Mbuti Pygmies from Eastern Central Africa at 15%.
It is present in relatively small frequencies in Tanzania (Sandawe and others), Kenya, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20active%20transformer | Distributed active transformer is a circuit topology that allows low-voltage transistors to be used to generate large amounts of RF (radio frequency) power. Its main use has been in making integrated CMOS power amplifier for wireless applications, such as GSM/GPRS cellular phones.
At the time it was introduced, the di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20chloride | Calcium chloride is an inorganic compound, a salt with the chemical formula . It is a white crystalline solid at room temperature, and it is highly soluble in water. It can be created by neutralising hydrochloric acid with calcium hydroxide.
Calcium chloride is commonly encountered as a hydrated solid with generic for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACA%20%28gene%29 | Nascent-polypeptide-associated complex alpha polypeptide, also known as NACA, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the NACA gene.
Function
NACA prevents short recently synthesized (i.e., nascent) ribosome-associated polypeptides from inappropriate interactions with cytosolic proteins. NACA binds nascent-polype... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRN3 | Secernin-3 (SCRN3) is a protein that is encoded by the human SCRN3 gene. SCRN3 belongs to the peptidase C69 family and the secernin subfamily. As a part of this family, the protein is predicted to enable cysteine-type exopeptidase activity and dipeptidase activity, as well as be involved in proteolysis. It is ubiquitou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosophy | Ecosophy or ecophilosophy (a portmanteau of ecological philosophy) is a philosophy of ecological harmony or equilibrium. The term was coined by the French post-structuralist philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari and the Norwegian father of deep ecology, Arne Næss.
Félix Guattari
Ecosophy also refers to a field ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCell | FreeCell is a solitaire card game played using the standard 52-card deck. It is fundamentally different from most solitaire games in that very few deals are unsolvable, and all cards are dealt face-up from the very beginning of the game. Although software implementations vary, most versions label the hands with a numbe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Iranian%20flags | The following is a list of flags of Iran.
National flag
Governmental flags
Military and police flags
City flags
Organization flags
Historical flags
Political flags
See also
Flag of Iran
Emblem of Iran
Imperial Standards of Iran
Lion and Sun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Committee%20for%20Interoperable%20Systems | The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) is an international non-profit association founded in 1989 in order to promote interoperability and market conditions in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector allowing vigorous competition on the merits and a diversity of consumer choice. ECIS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer%20membrane%20phospholipase%20A1 | Outer membrane phospholipase A1 (OMPLA) is an acyl hydrolase with a broad substrate specificity (EC:3.1.1.32.) from the bacterial outer membrane. It has been proposed that Ser164 is the active site of the protein (UniProt )
This integral membrane phospholipase was found in many Gram-negative bacteria and has a broad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%20capture | Proton capture is a nuclear reaction in which an atomic nucleus and one or more protons collide and merge to form a heavier nucleus.
Since protons have positive electric charge, they are repelled electrostatically by the positively charged nucleus. Therefore, it is more difficult for protons to enter the nucleus compa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend%20effect | In healthcare, the weekend effect is the finding of a difference in mortality rate for patients admitted to hospital for treatment at the weekend compared to those admitted on a weekday. The effects of the weekend on patient outcomes has been a concern since the late 1970s, and a 'weekend effect' is now well documented... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigram | Trigrams are a special case of the n-gram, where n is 3. They are often used in natural language processing for performing statistical analysis of texts and in cryptography for control and use of ciphers and codes.
Frequency
Context is very important, varying analysis rankings and percentages are easily derived by dra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slater%20determinant | In quantum mechanics, a Slater determinant is an expression that describes the wave function of a multi-fermionic system. It satisfies anti-symmetry requirements, and consequently the Pauli principle, by changing sign upon exchange of two electrons (or other fermions). Only a small subset of all possible fermionic wav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteur%20Institute%20of%20Algeria | The Pasteur Institute is an institute located in Algiers, Algeria. Its library holds 47,000 volumes.
Missions
The Institute has the following missions: carrying out analyzes and diagnoses, it also ensures epidemiological surveillance, research, training, production and import and distribution of the main vaccines to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrusion%20detection | Extrusion detection or outbound intrusion detection is a branch of intrusion detection aimed at developing mechanisms to identify successful and unsuccessful attempts to use the resources of a computer system to compromise other systems. Extrusion detection techniques focus primarily on the analysis of system activity ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRE%20Biochemistry%2C%20Cell%20and%20Molecular%20Biology%20Test | GRE Subject Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology was a standardized exam provided by ETS (Educational Testing Service) that was discontinued in December 2016. It is a paper-based exam and there are no computer-based versions of it. ETS places this exam three times per year: once in April, once in October and once i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%C5%8D%20Monogatari | Madō Monogatari, known in the west as Sorcery Saga, is a series of first-person dungeon crawler role-playing video games by Compile. The first game was released in 1990 for MSX2. Sega published the Game Gear remakes based on 1-2-3. The characters of this series would later be used in the puzzle game Puyo Puyo.
Plot
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Applied%20Biomechanics | The Journal of Applied Biomechanics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal and an official journal of the International Society of Biomechanics. It covers research on musculoskeletal and neuromuscular biomechanics in human movement, sport, and rehabilitation.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinky%20Toys | Dinky Toys was the brand name for a range of die-cast zamak zinc alloy scale model vehicles, traffic lights, and road signs produced by British toy company Meccano Ltd. They were made in England from 1934 to 1979, at a factory in Binns Road in Liverpool.
Dinky Toys were among the most popular die-cast vehicles ever ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenson-Allen%20Center%20for%20Noninvasive%20Brain%20Stimulation | Berenson-Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (abbreviated as CNBS or BACNBS) is a brain research institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) of Harvard Medical School in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The center is specialized in research, educating, and clini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a position or position vector, also known as location vector or radius vector, is a Euclidean vector that represents the position of a point P in space in relation to an arbitrary reference origin O. Usually denoted x, r, or s, it corresponds to the straight line segment from O to P.
In other words, it is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory%20service | In computing, a directory service or name service maps the names of network resources to their respective network addresses. It is a shared information infrastructure for locating, managing, administering and organizing everyday items and network resources, which can include volumes, folders, files, printers, users, gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease%20vector | In epidemiology, a disease vector is any living agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen to another living organism; agents regarded as vectors are organisms, such as parasites or microbes. The first major discovery of a disease vector came from Ronald Ross in 1897, who discovered the malaria pathogen wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythronium%20japonicum | Erythronium japonicum, known as Asian fawn lily, Oriental fawn lily, Japanese fawn lily is a pink-flowered species trout lily, belonging to the Lily family and native to Japan, Korea, the Russian Far East (Sakhalin Island, Kuril Islands) and northeastern China (Jilin and Liaoning). It is a spring ephemeral, blooming Ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linklog | A linklog is a type of blog which is meant to act as a linked list. Common practice is for the post titles to link directly to an external URLs, and the content of the post includes information to complement the associated URL.
Linklogs existed as a feature of computing systems before the internet as well. In distri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interosseous%20sacroiliac%20ligament | The interosseous sacroiliac ligament, also known as the axial interosseous ligament, is a ligament of the sacroiliac joint that lies deep to the posterior ligament. It connects the tuberosities of the sacrum and the ilium of the pelvis.
Structure
The interosseous sacroiliac ligament consists of a series of short, str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endornaviridae | Endornaviridae is a family of viruses. Plants, fungi, and oomycetes serve as natural hosts. There are 31 species in this family, assigned to 2 genera (Alphaendornavirus and Betaendornavirus). Members of Alphaendornavirus infect plants, fungi and the oomycete Phytophthora sp., members of Betaendornavirus infect ascomyce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower | A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). Flowers produce gametophytes, which in flowering plants consist of a few haploid cells which produce gametes. The "male" gametophyte, which produces non-motile sperm, is enclos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20decay | A quantity is subject to exponential decay if it decreases at a rate proportional to its current value. Symbolically, this process can be expressed by the following differential equation, where is the quantity and (lambda) is a positive rate called the exponential decay constant, disintegration constant, rate consta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum%20of%20radicals | In computational complexity theory, there is an open problem of whether some information about a sum of radicals may be computed in polynomial time depending on the input size, i.e., in the number of bits necessary to represent this sum. It is of importance for many problems in computational geometry, since the computa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milne%20model | The Milne model was a special-relativistic cosmological model proposed by Edward Arthur Milne in 1935. It is mathematically equivalent to a special case of the FLRW model in the limit of zero energy density and it obeys the cosmological principle. The Milne model is also similar to Rindler space in that both are simple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic%20reciprocity | Cubic reciprocity is a collection of theorems in elementary and algebraic number theory that state conditions under which the congruence x3 ≡ p (mod q) is solvable; the word "reciprocity" comes from the form of the main theorem, which states that if p and q are primary numbers in the ring of Eisenstein integers, both ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20Small%20Disk%20Interface | Enhanced Small Disk Interface (ESDI) is an obsolete disk interface designed by Maxtor Corporation in the early 1980s to be a follow-on to the ST-412/506 interface. ESDI improved on ST-506 by moving certain parts that were traditionally kept on the controller (such as the data separator) into the drives themselves, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumstix | Gumstix is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redwood City, California. It develops and manufactures small system boards comparable in size to a stick of gum. In 2003, when it was first fully functional, it used ARM architecture system on a chip (SoC) and an operating system based on Linux 2.6 kerne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir%20%28topography%29 | In topography, a nadir is a point on a surface that is lower in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a nadir is a local minimum of elevation. A nadir may be the lowest point of a dry basin or depression, or the deepest point of a body of water or ice. The nadir of a body of water is oft... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable%20matter | Programmable matter is matter which has the ability to change its physical properties (shape, density, moduli, conductivity, optical properties, etc.) in a programmable fashion, based upon user input or autonomous sensing. Programmable matter is thus linked to the concept of a material which inherently has the ability... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl%20benzoate | Methyl benzoate is an organic compound. It is an ester with the chemical formula C6H5CO2CH3. It is a colorless liquid that is poorly soluble in water, but miscible with organic solvents. Methyl benzoate has a pleasant smell, strongly reminiscent of the fruit of the feijoa tree, and it is used in perfumery. It also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrton%20shunt | Ayrton shunt or universal shunt is a high-resistance shunt used in galvanometers to increase their range without changing the damping.
The circuit is named after its inventor William E. Ayrton. Multirange ammeters that use this technique are more accurate than those using a make-before-break switch. Also it will elimin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA%27s%20Environmental%20Real-time%20Observation%20Network | The NOAA Environmental Real-time Observation Network (NERON) is a project to establish a nationwide network of high quality near real-time weather monitoring stations across the United States. A 20-mile by 20-mile grid has been established, with the hopes of having one observation system within each grid cell. Effort i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible%20packaging | Edible packaging refers to packaging which is edible and biodegradable.
Edible food packaging
Several manufacturers are developing or producing food packaging that is edible. One example is made based on the seaweed, Eucheuma cottonii.
Traditional water containers
About 50 billion single-use plastic water bottles ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/141%20%28number%29 | 141 (one hundred [and] forty-one) is the natural number following 140 and preceding 142.
In mathematics
141 is:
a centered pentagonal number.
the sum of the sums of the divisors of the first 13 positive integers.
the second n to give a prime Cullen number (of the form n2n + 1).
an undulating number in base 10, with th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20Integrated%20Data%20Acquisition%20System | MIDAS is a data acquisition package developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, and TRIUMF, Canada. It was designed for particle detectors using CAMAC and VMEbus hardware.
Description
MIDAS (Maximum Integration Data Acquisition System) has been developed as a general purpose data acquisition system for sma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapha%C3%ABl%20Dubois | Raphaël Horace Dubois (20 June 1849, Le Mans – 21 January 1929) was a French pharmacologist known for his work on bioluminescence and anesthesia. He coined the terms proteon and bioproteon, from the Greek "proteon" for matter and "bios" for life. Bioproteon means "living matter". He concluded that there was no differ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligonucleotidase | Oligonucleotidase (, oligoribonuclease) is an exoribonuclease derived from Flammulina velutipes. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
3'-end directed exonucleolytic cleavage of viral RNA-DNA hybrid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Punter | Steve Punter (born 1958 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Toronto-based programmer and media personality.
Punter is noted for his work with Commodore microcomputers. He created WordPro, the first major word processor for the Commodore PET and Commodore 64 computers. He is also the designer of the Punter binary file transfer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transperineal%20biopsy | A prostate tissue biopsy is a medical procedure in which a sample of tissue is taken from the prostate gland for diagnostic purposes. The prostate gland can be accessed through the perineum, the skin between the scrotum and anus. There are several different methods for performing this type of biopsy, with the Precision... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial%20electrosynthesis | Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) is a form of microbial electrocatalysis in which electrons are supplied to living microorganisms via a cathode in an electrochemical cell by applying an electric current. The electrons are then used by the microorganisms to reduce carbon dioxide to yield industrially relevant products. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20algebraic%20geometry | Numerical algebraic geometry is a field of computational mathematics, particularly computational algebraic geometry, which uses methods from numerical analysis to study and manipulate the solutions of systems of polynomial equations.
Homotopy continuation
The primary computational method used in numerical algebraic g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacarpophalangeal%20joint | The metacarpophalangeal joints (MCP) are situated between the metacarpal bones and the proximal phalanges of the fingers. These joints are of the condyloid kind, formed by the reception of the rounded heads of the metacarpal bones into shallow cavities on the proximal ends of the proximal phalanges. Being condyloid, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%20Chisholm%20Young | Laurence Chisholm Young (14 July 1905 – 24 December 2000) was a British mathematician known for his contributions to measure theory, the calculus of variations, optimal control theory, and potential theory. He was the son of William Henry Young and Grace Chisholm Young, both prominent mathematicians. He moved to the U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billhook | A billhook or bill hook, also called a pruning knife or spar hook, is a versatile cutting tool used widely in agriculture and forestry for cutting woody material such as shrubs, small trees and branches. It is distinct from the sickle. It was commonly used in Europe with an important variety of traditional local patter... |
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