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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa%20Rica%20Thermal%20Dome | The Costa Rica Thermal Dome (CRTD; also called the Costa Rica Dome), is an oceanographic feature and marine biodiversity hotspot that varies in size from 300 to 1,000 km in diameter. The dome is located off the western coast of Central America in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Through the interaction of wind and ocean c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%201050 | The Visual 1050 was an 8-bit desktop computer sold by Visual Technology in the early 1980s. The computer ran under the CP/M operating system and used 2 400KB, 5¼, SSDD, 96tpi floppy disk drives (TEAC FD-55E) for mass storage with an optional 10Mb external Winchester hard disk drive. In addition to the Zilog Z80 proces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenchel%E2%80%93Moreau%20theorem | In convex analysis, the Fenchel–Moreau theorem (named after Werner Fenchel and Jean Jacques Moreau) or Fenchel biconjugation theorem (or just biconjugation theorem) is a theorem which gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a function to be equal to its biconjugate. This is in contrast to the general property th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Biological%20Nomenclature | New Biological Nomenclature (N.B.N.) is a system for naming the species and other taxa of animals, plants etc. in a way that differs from the traditional nomenclatures of the past, as defined by its founder Wim De Smet, a Flemish zoologist. This project arose and developed between 1970 and 2005 (approximately), which c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20layer%20%28surface%20science%29 | In surface science, a double layer (DL, also called an electrical double layer, EDL) is a structure that appears on the surface of an object when it is exposed to a fluid. The object might be a solid particle, a gas bubble, a liquid droplet, or a porous body. The DL refers to two parallel layers of charge surrounding t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly-falls | Jelly-falls are marine carbon cycling events whereby gelatinous zooplankton, primarily cnidarians, sink to the seafloor and enhance carbon and nitrogen fluxes via rapidly sinking particulate organic matter. These events provide nutrition to benthic megafauna and bacteria. Jelly-falls have been implicated as a major “ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzawa%27s%20theorem | Uzawa's theorem, also known as the steady state growth theorem, is a theorem in economic growth theory concerning the form that technological change can take in the Solow–Swan and Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans growth models. It was first proved by Japanese economist Hirofumi Uzawa.
One general version of the theorem consists o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20comb | In mathematics, a Dirac comb (also known as sha function, impulse train or sampling function) is a periodic function with the formula
for some given period . Here t is a real variable and the sum extends over all integers k. The Dirac delta function and the Dirac comb are tempered distributions. The graph of the func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging%20and%20society | Aging has a significant impact on society. People of different ages and gender tend to differ in many aspects, such as legal and social responsibilities, outlooks on life, and self-perceptions. Young people tend to have fewer legal privileges (if they are below the age of majority), they are more likely to push for pol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverberation%20mapping | Reverberation mapping (or Echo mapping) is an astrophysical technique for measuring the structure of the broad-line region (BLR) around a supermassive black hole at the center of an active galaxy, and thus estimating the hole's mass. It is considered a "primary" mass estimation technique, i.e., the mass is measured dir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-Based%20Math | Computer-Based Math is an educational project started by Conrad Wolfram in 2010 to promote the idea that routine mathematical calculations should be done with a computer.
Conrad Wolfram believes that mathematics education should make the greatest possible use of computers for performing computation leaving students to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-crystal | In algebraic geometry, F-crystals are objects introduced by that capture some of the structure of crystalline cohomology groups. The letter F stands for Frobenius, indicating that F-crystals have an action of Frobenius on them. F-isocrystals are crystals "up to isogeny".
F-crystals and F-isocrystals over perfect fiel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20in%20a%20bottle | A message in a bottle (abbrev. MIB) is a form of communication in which a message is sealed in a container (typically a bottle) and released into a conveyance medium (typically a body of water).
Messages in bottles have been used to send distress messages, in crowdsourced scientific studies of ocean currents, as memor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercostal%20nerves | The intercostal nerves are part of the somatic nervous system, and arise from the anterior rami of the thoracic spinal nerves from T1 to T11. The intercostal nerves are distributed chiefly to the thoracic pleura and abdominal peritoneum, and differ from the anterior rami of the other spinal nerves in that each pursues ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20spectrometry%20at%20Swansea | Swansea University has had a long established history of development and innovation in mass spectrometry and chromatography.
Mass Spectrometry Research Unit
In 1975, John H. Beynon was appointed the Royal Society Research Professor and established the Mass Spectrometry Research Unit at Swansea University (at that time... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner-take-all%20in%20action%20selection | Winner-take-all is a computer science concept that has been widely applied in behavior-based robotics as a method of action selection for intelligent agents. Winner-take-all systems work by connecting modules (task-designated areas) in such a way that when one action is performed it stops all other actions from being ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential%20density | The potential density of a fluid parcel at pressure is the density that the parcel would acquire if adiabatically brought to a reference pressure , often 1 bar (100 kPa). Whereas density changes with changing pressure, potential density of a fluid parcel is conserved as the pressure experienced by the parcel changes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20bisimulation | In theoretical computer science, probabilistic bisimulation is an extension of the concept of bisimulation for fully probabilistic transition systems first described by K.G. Larsen and A. Skou.
A discrete probabilistic transition system is a triple
where gives the probability of starting in the state s, performin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight%20Outta%20Nowhere%3A%20Scooby-Doo%21%20Meets%20Courage%20the%20Cowardly%20Dog | Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog is a 2021 American animated comedy film produced by Warner Bros. Animation, and is the thirty-sixth entry in the direct-to-video series of Scooby-Doo films. The film is a crossover between Scooby-Doo and the Cartoon Network show Courage the Cowardly Dog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20curves | This is a list of Wikipedia articles about curves used in different fields: mathematics (including geometry, statistics, and applied mathematics), physics, engineering, economics, medicine, biology, psychology, ecology, etc.
Mathematics (Geometry)
Algebraic curves
Rational curves
Rational curves are subdivided accor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar%20distance%20%28navigation%29 | In celestial navigation, lunar distance, also called a lunar, is the angular distance between the Moon and another celestial body. The lunar distances method uses this angle and a nautical almanac to calculate Greenwich time if so desired, or by extension any other time. That calculated time can be used in solving a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Magic%20Words%20are%20Squeamish%20Ossifrage | "The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage" was the solution to a challenge ciphertext posed by the inventors of the RSA cipher in 1977. The problem appeared in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in the August 1977 issue of Scientific American. It was solved in 1993–94 by a large, joint computer project co-ordina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20of%20a%20function | In mathematics, the graph of a function is the set of ordered pairs , where In the common case where and are real numbers, these pairs are Cartesian coordinates of points in two-dimensional space and thus form a subset of this plane.
In the case of functions of two variables, that is functions whose domain consist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GroupWise | GroupWise is a messaging and collaboration platform from Micro Focus that supports email, calendaring, personal information management, instant messaging, and document management. The GroupWise platform consists of desktop client software, which is available for Windows, (formerly Mac OS X, and Linux), and the server ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netropsin | Netropsin (also termed congocidine or sinanomycin) is a polyamide with antibiotic and antiviral activity. Netropsin was discovered by Finlay et al., and first isolated from the actinobacterium Streptomyces netropsis. It belongs to the class of pyrrole-amidine antibiotics.
DNA binding properties
Netropsin binds to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, coverage is one of several measures of the depth or completeness of DNA sequencing, and is more specifically expressed in any of the following terms:
Sequence coverage (or depth) is the number of unique reads that include a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence. Deep sequencing refers to the gener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20acoustic%20imaging | Thermal acoustic imaging (TAI) is a proprietary active thermographic inspection process developed by Pratt and Whitney (P&W) in 2005; TAI is a nondestructive testing (NDT) method to detect internal and external cracking of hollow core turbofan engine fan blades. TAI is performed to inspect the PW4000 diameter fan blad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Fox | Jacob Fox (born Jacob Licht in 1984) is an American mathematician. He is a professor at Stanford University. His research interests are in Hungarian-style combinatorics, particularly Ramsey theory, extremal graph theory, combinatorial number theory, and probabilistic methods in combinatorics.
Fox grew up in West Hartf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective%20mixing | In fluid dynamics, convective mixing is the vertical transport of a fluid and its properties. In many important ocean and atmospheric phenomena, convection is driven by density differences in the fluid, e.g. the sinking of cold, dense water in polar regions of the world's oceans; and the rising of warm, less-dense air ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIPRE | VIPRE Security Group, (also known as VIPRE or VIPRE Security) a brand of Ziff Davis, is a privately held cybersecurity company headquartered in New York.
VIPRE develops cybersecurity products focused on endpoint and email security along with advanced threat intelligence applications. VIPRE is based globally with oper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desulfohalobium | Desulfohalobium is a Gram negative, anaerobic, sulfate-reducing, moderately halophilic and rod-shaped bacterial genus from the family of Desulfovibrionaceae.
See also
List of bacterial orders
List of bacteria genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggi | Maggi (, ) is an international brand of seasonings, instant soups, and noodles that originated in Switzerland in the late 19th century. The Maggi company was acquired by Nestlé in 1947.
History
Early history
In 1869, Julius Maggi (1846–1912) took over his father's mill business in Kemptthal, Switzerland. Under his ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamilon%20virophage | Mimivirus-dependent virus Zamilon, or Zamilon, is a virophage, a group of small DNA viruses that infect protists and require a helper virus to replicate; they are a type of satellite virus. Discovered in 2013 in Tunisia, infecting Acanthamoeba polyphaga amoebae, Zamilon most closely resembles Sputnik, the first viropha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloise%20Kruger | Eloise Andrews Kruger (June 26, 1914 – November 19, 1995) was an American miniature collector from Lincoln, Nebraska who was known for her collection of historically-accurate American miniatures.
Early life
Kruger was born in Lincoln, Nebraska on June 26, 1914 as the eldest of Vernon and Luella Dierks Andrews's four ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobolev%20orthogonal%20polynomials | In mathematics, Sobolev orthogonal polynomials are orthogonal polynomials with respect to a Sobolev inner product, i.e. an inner product with derivatives.
By having conditions on the derivatives, the Sobolev orthogonal polynomials in general no longer share some of the nice features that classical orthogonal polynomia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier-transform%20ion%20cyclotron%20resonance | Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry is a type of mass analyzer (or mass spectrometer) for determining the mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) of ions based on the cyclotron frequency of the ions in a fixed magnetic field. The ions are trapped in a Penning trap (a magnetic field with electric trapping pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral%20ring | The femoral ring is the opening at the proximal, abdominal end of the femoral canal, and represents the (superiorly directed/oriented) base of the conically-shaped femoral canal. The femoral ring is oval-shaped, with its long diameter being directed transversely and measuring about 1.25 cm. The opening of the femoral r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanic%20Gardens%20Conservation%20International | Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) is a plant conservation charity based in Kew, Surrey, England. It is a membership organisation, working with 800 botanic gardens in 118 countries, whose combined work forms the world's largest plant conservation network.
Founded in 1987, BGCI is a registered charity in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Engineering%20Process%20Group | A Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) is an organization's focal point for software process improvement activities. These individuals perform assessments of organizational capability, develop plans to implement needed improvements, coordinate the implementation of those plans, and measure the effectiveness of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zobellia%20galactanivorans | Zobellia galactanivorans is a gram-negative marine bacterium isolated from the surface of red algae of the coast of France. Z. galactanivorans forms yellow colonies with a bacillus or diplobacillus morphology. Furthermore, it is mesophilic and can grow degrade carrageenans and agars - both found in the cell wall of red... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTuber | A , or , is an online entertainer who uses a virtual avatar generated using computer graphics. Real-time motion capture software or technology are often—but not always—used to capture movement. The digital trend originated in Japan in the mid-2010s, and has become an international online phenomenon in the 2020s. A majo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20riverine%20forest | The northern riverine forest is a type of forest ecology most dominant along waterways in the northeastern and north-central United States and bordering areas of Canada. Key species include willow, elm, American sycamore, painted trillium, goldthread, common wood-sorrel, pink lady's-slipper, wild sarsaparilla, and cott... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Allura | Apache Allura is an open-source forge software for managing source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs and more for any number of individual projects. Allura graduated from incubation with the Apache Software Foundation in March 2013.
Features
Allura can manage any number of projects, inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleoplasm | The nucleoplasm, also known as karyoplasm, is the type of protoplasm that makes up the cell nucleus, the most prominent organelle of the eukaryotic cell. It is enclosed by the nuclear envelope, also known as the nuclear membrane. The nucleoplasm resembles the cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell in that it is a gel-like subs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes | Eratosthenes of Cyrene (; ; – ) was a Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria. His work is comparable to what is now known as the study of geography, and he introduced some of the terminology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemadin | In molecular biology, haemadin is an anticoagulant peptide synthesised by the Indian leech, Haemadipsa sylvestris.
It adopts a secondary structure consisting of five short beta-strands (beta1-beta5), which are arranged in two antiparallel distorted sheets formed by strands beta1-beta4-beta5 and beta2-beta3 facing each ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-of-care%20genetic%20testing | Point-of-care genetic testing identifies variations in the genetic sequence at the bedside – enabling clinicians to react and alter therapy based upon the results.
Traditional genetic testing involves the analysis of DNA in order to detect genotypes related to a heritable disease or phenotype of interest for clinica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65%2C536 | 65536 is the natural number following 65535 and preceding 65537.
65536 is a power of two: (2 to the 16th power).
65536 is the smallest number with exactly 17 divisors.
In mathematics
65536 is , so in tetration notation 65536 is 42.
When expressed using Knuth's up-arrow notation, 65536 is
,
which is equal to
,
whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Wilhelm%20Gottfried%20von%20Waldeyer-Hartz | Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (6 October 1836 – 23 January 1921) was a German anatomist, known for summarizing neuron theory and for naming the chromosome. He is also remembered by anatomical structures of the human body which were named after him: Waldeyer's tonsillar ring (the lymphoid tissue ring of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorylation | In biochemistry, phosphorylation is the attachment of a phosphate group to a molecule or an ion. This process and its inverse, dephosphorylation, are common in biology. Protein phosphorylation often activates (or deactivates) many enzymes.
During respiration and photosynthesis
Phosphorylation is essential to the proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivector | An antivector is an element of grade in an n-dimensional exterior algebra. An antivector is always a blade, and it gets its name from the fact that its components each involve a combination of all except one basis vector, thus being the opposite of a vector whose components each involve exactly one basis vector. Like... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phialide | The phialide ( ; , diminutive of phiale, a broad, flat vessel) is a flask-shaped projection from the vesicle (dilated part of the top of conidiophore) of certain fungi. It projects from the mycelium without increasing in length unless a subsequent increase in the formation of conidia occurs.
It is the end cell of a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtiberian%20script | The Celtiberian script is a Paleohispanic script that was the main writing system of the Celtiberian language, an extinct Continental Celtic language, which was also occasionally written using the Latin alphabet. This script is a direct adaptation of the northeastern Iberian script, the most frequently used of the Iber... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stickler%20syndrome | Stickler syndrome (hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmodystrophy) is a group of rare genetic disorders affecting connective tissue, specifically collagen. Stickler syndrome is a subtype of collagenopathy, types II and XI. Stickler syndrome is characterized by distinctive facial abnormalities, ocular problems, hearin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclaurin%27s%20inequality | In mathematics, Maclaurin's inequality, named after Colin Maclaurin, is a refinement of the inequality of arithmetic and geometric means.
Let a1, a2, ..., an be positive real numbers, and for k = 1, 2, ..., n define the averages Sk as follows:
The numerator of this fraction is the elementary symmetric polynomial of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACSL3 | Long-chain-fatty-acid—CoA ligase 3 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ACSL3 gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is an isozyme of the long-chain fatty-acid-coenzyme A ligase family. Although differing in substrate specificity, subcellular localization, and tissue distribution, all isozymes of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacant%20niche | The issue of what exactly defines a vacant niche, also known as empty niche, and whether they exist in ecosystems is controversial. The subject is intimately tied into a much broader debate on whether ecosystems can reach equilibrium, where they could theoretically become maximally saturated with species. Given that sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Aleksandrovich%20Kozyrev | Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev (; 2 September 1908 – 27 February 1983) was a Soviet Russian astronomer and astrophysicist.
Biography
He was born in St. Petersburg, and by 1928 he had graduated from the Leningrad State University. In 1931 he began working at the Pulkovo Observatory, located to the south of Leningrad. He... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza%20A%20virus%20subtype%20H5N3 | H5N3 is a subtype of the species Influenza A virus (sometimes called the bird flu virus).
History
H5N3 was identified in Quebec in August 2005 and in Sweden in October 2005.
H5N3 virus was identified at a farm in La Garnache, France in late January 2009. Ninety birds were found dead between 29 January 2009 and 31 J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic%20Executive%20Partner | The Executive Partner (stylized as the Exec. Partner; model number FT-70) is an IBM PC-compatible portable computer that was introduced by the Panasonic Corporation in 1985. The portable computer is AC-powered exclusively, weighs between 28 and , and features a built-in printer. The Executive Partner was one of the fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris%20%C3%97%20hollandica | Iris × hollandica, commonly known as the Dutch iris, is a hybrid iris developed from species native to Portugal, Spain and North Africa (Iris tingitana × Iris xiphium).
Two varieties of Iris xiphium (var. praecox) from Spain and (var. lusitanica) from Portugal, were crossed with Iris tingitana (from North Africa). T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20algebra | In mathematics and mathematical logic, Boolean algebra is a branch of algebra. It differs from elementary algebra in two ways. First, the values of the variables are the truth values true and false, usually denoted 1 and 0, whereas in elementary algebra the values of the variables are numbers. Second, Boolean algebra u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20of%20Sound%20and%20Audiovisual%20Archives | The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) was established in 1969 to serve as a forum for international co-operation between archives, libraries, and individuals interested in the preservation of recorded sound and audiovisual documents.
IASA aims
The IASA constitution states the followi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFRE-TV | KFRE-TV (channel 59) is a television station licensed to Sanger, California, United States, serving the Fresno area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Visalia-licensed Fox affiliate KMPH-TV (channel 26). Both stations share studios on McKinley Avenue in eastern Fresno, while KF... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty%20Hall%20problem | The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, loosely based on the American television game show Let's Make a Deal and named after its original host, Monty Hall. The problem was originally posed (and solved) in a letter by Steve Selvin to the American Statistician in 1975. It became fam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cells%20Alive%20System | The Cells Alive System (CAS) is a line of commercial freezers manufactured by ABI Corporation, Ltd. of Chiba, Japan claimed to preserve food with greater freshness than ordinary freezing by using electromagnetic fields and mechanical vibrations to limit ice crystal formation that destroys food texture. They also are cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Li%20%28mathematician%29 | Peter Wai-Kwong Li (born 18 April 1952) is an American mathematician whose research interests include differential geometry and partial differential equations, in particular geometric analysis. After undergraduate work at California State University, Fresno, he received his Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibration%20curve | In analytical chemistry, a calibration curve, also known as a standard curve, is a general method for determining the concentration of a substance in an unknown sample by comparing the unknown to a set of standard samples of known concentration. A calibration curve is one approach to the problem of instrument calibrati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA%20insignia | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) insignia has three main official designs, although the one with stylized red curved text (the "worm") was retired from official use from May 22, 1992, until April 3, 2020, when it was reinstated as a secondary logo. The three logos include the NASA insignia (also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taioro | Taioro is a condiment made from the grated flesh of the coconut and allowed to ferment. It is traditional food found throughout the islands of Oceania and is often eaten as an accompaniment to meals.
Preparation
Taioro is made from the meat of the coconut drupe and allowed to ferment. The flesh from the coconut is gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer%20Bloch | Spencer Janney Bloch (born May 22, 1944; New York City) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry and algebraic K-theory. Bloch is a R. M. Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Chicago. He is a member of the U.S. Nati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed%20point%20%28mathematics%29 | {{hatnote|1=Fixed points in mathematics are not to be confused with other uses of "fixed point", or stationary points where {{math|1=f(x) = 0}}.}}
In mathematics, a fixed point (sometimes shortened to fixpoint), also known as an invariant point, is a value that does not change under a given transformation. Specificall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20testing%20machine | A universal testing machine (UTM), also known as a universal tester, materials testing machine or materials test frame, is used to test the tensile strength and compressive strength of materials. An earlier name for a tensile testing machine is a tensometer. The "universal" part of the name reflects that it can perfor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolz%E2%80%93Ces%C3%A0ro%20theorem | In mathematics, the Stolz–Cesàro theorem is a criterion for proving the convergence of a sequence. The theorem is named after mathematicians Otto Stolz and Ernesto Cesàro, who stated and proved it for the first time.
The Stolz–Cesàro theorem can be viewed as a generalization of the Cesàro mean, but also as a l'Hôpita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20shower%20%28physics%29 | Air showers are extensive cascades of subatomic particles and ionized nuclei, produced in the atmosphere when a primary cosmic ray enters the atmosphere. When a particle of the cosmic radiation, which could be a proton, a nucleus, an electron, a photon, or (rarely) a positron, interacts with the nucleus of a molecule i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20polynomial | In mathematics, the Alexander polynomial is a knot invariant which assigns a polynomial with integer coefficients to each knot type. James Waddell Alexander II discovered this, the first knot polynomial, in 1923. In 1969, John Conway showed a version of this polynomial, now called the Alexander–Conway polynomial, cou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20boom | A sonic boom is a sound associated with shock waves created when an object travels through the air faster than the speed of sound. Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, sounding similar to an explosion or a thunderclap to the human ear.
The crack of a supersonic bullet passing overhead or the crack of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%20Monster%20Stories | True Monster Stories, written by Terry Deary, is the first of the non-fiction True Stories Series of books. It was published in 1992 by Hippo Books from Scholastic.
Overview
The book details strange but apparently "true" encounters with a variety of monsters. The book is divided into eight sections; ranging from wil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose%20cryptanalysis | In cryptography, rubber-hose cryptanalysis is a euphemism for the extraction of cryptographic secrets (e.g. the password to an encrypted file) from a person by coercion or torture—such as beating that person with a rubber hose, hence the name—in contrast to a mathematical or technical cryptanalytic attack.
Details
A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20of%20entry | In general, a port of entry (POE) is a place where one may lawfully enter a country. It typically has border security staff and facilities to check passports and visas and to inspect luggage to assure that contraband is not imported. International airports are usually ports of entry, as are road and rail crossings on a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham%20Dribbler | Birmingham Dribbler or carpet railway describes a type of very early model railway. It is a bit of a misnomer, as the railway featured a model live steam railway locomotive, but no track – the locomotive was simply run across the floor. In some cases, the front wheels were even made steerable so that they could be run ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmental%20innervation | Segmental innervation refers to the distribution (innervation) of nerves within an organ or muscle. These nerves are attached to a segment of the spine.
Segmental innervation can be mapped through stimulation of the nerve at the spinal segment. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate%20immune%20system | The innate, or nonspecific, immune system is one of the two main immunity strategies (the other being the adaptive immune system) in vertebrates. The innate immune system is an alternate defense strategy and is the dominant immune system response found in plants, fungi, insects, and primitive multicellular organisms (s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sacred%20Mushroom%20and%20the%20Cross | The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East is a 1970 book about the linguistics of early Christianity and fertility cults in the Ancient Near East. It was written by John Marco Allegro (1923–1988).
Theories
The book relates ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental%20plasticity | Developmental plasticity is a general term referring to changes in neural connections during development as a result of environmental interactions as well as neural changes induced by learning. Much like neuroplasticity, or brain plasticity, developmental plasticity is specific to the change in neurons and synaptic con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20breeding | Molecular breeding is the application of molecular biology tools, often in plant breeding and animal breeding. In the broad sense, molecular breeding can be defined as the use of genetic manipulation performed at the level of DNA to improve traits of interest in plants and animals, and it may also include genetic engin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20Works%20Act | The Research Works Act, 102 H.R. 3699, was a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives at the 112th United States Congress on December 16, 2011, by Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) and co-sponsored by Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY). The bill contained provisions to prohibit open-access mandate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indian%20state%20emblems | India is a country in South Asia. It is made up of 28 states and 8 union territories. Most of the states and union territories of India have their own state emblem, seal or coat of arms which is used as an official governmental symbol, while five states and five union territories use the National Emblem of India as the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie%20gras%20controversy | The production of foie gras (the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened) involves the controversial force-feeding of birds with more food than they would eat in the wild, and more than they would voluntarily eat domestically. The feed, usually corn boiled with fat (to facilitate ingestion), deposit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Wahl | Jonathan Wahl is a mathematician based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Wahl received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1971 under the supervision of David Mumford. He earned a B.S. from Yale University in 1965 and M.A. from Yale in 1965.
In 2012, Wahl became a fellow of the American Mathematic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue%20validity | Cue validity is the conditional probability that an object falls in a particular category given a particular feature or cue. The term was popularized by , and especially by Eleanor Rosch in her investigations of the acquisition of so-called basic categories (;).
Definition of cue validity
Formally, the cue validity ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsudoporus%20floridanus | Exsudoporus floridanus is a species of edible bolete mushroom in the family Boletaceae. In 1945, American mycologist Rolf Singer described a species he found in Florida during his 1942–3 tenure of a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He originally described it as a subspecies of the eastern North American species Boletus ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Cytology%20and%20Genetics | Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences () is a research institute based in Novosibirsk, Russia. It was founded in 1957.
Experiments
Fox domestication experiment
Magazines
Vavilov's Journal of Genetics and Breeders
Ateroskleroz
The Siberian Scientific Medical J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Grossman | Gary Grossman was the primary developer of ActionScript programming language.
He currently works with Robert Tatsumi (creators of Adobe Flash) at Zendesk.
In his previous position as a principal scientist at Adobe Systems, Gary was a key architect of the Flash Player, which was once the most popular multimedia player... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballantine%20scale | The Ballantine scale is a biologically defined scale for measuring the degree of exposure level of wave action on a rocky shore. Devised in 1961 by W. J. Ballantine, then at the zoology department of Queen Mary College, London, the scale is based on the observation that where shoreline species are concerned "Different ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasundi | Kasundi () is the Asian or Bengali variety of mustard sauce or relish. It has the pungent paste of fermented mustard seeds, spices and sometimes dried mangoes, dried Indian plum and olives. Kasundi is popular as a dipping sauce in Bengali cuisine.
Description
Kasundi is a mustard sauce made by fermenting mustard seed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20dynamics | Historical dynamics broadly includes the scientific modeling of history. This might also be termed computer modeling of history, historical simulation, or simulation of history - allowing for an extensive range of techniques in simulation and estimation. Historical dynamics does not exist as a separate science, but t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%20State%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Physics | The Fizfak (Faculty of Physics) of Moscow State University is one of the most esteemed faculties of Moscow State University, widely regarded by students as one of the toughest faculties in the university. It was established in 1933. The current dean of the faculty - Nikolay Sysoev.
Departments of the faculty
Departmen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20PC | An industrial PC is a computer intended for industrial purposes (production of goods and services), with a form factor between a nettop and a server rack. Industrial PCs have higher dependability and precision standards, and are generally more expensive than consumer electronics. They often use complex instruction sets... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology%20of%20food | Anthropology of food is a sub-discipline of anthropology that connects an ethnographic and historical perspective with contemporary social issues in food production and consumption systems.
Although early anthropological accounts often dealt with cooking and eating as part of ritual or daily life, food was rarely rega... |
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