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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas%20Bourbaki | Nicolas Bourbaki () is the collective pseudonym of a group of mathematicians, predominantly French alumni of the École normale supérieure (ENS). Founded in 1934–1935, the Bourbaki group originally intended to prepare a new textbook in analysis. Over time the project became much more ambitious, growing into a large seri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC%20Tower%20%28Mont-Carmel%29 | The CBC Tower, also known as the WesTower Transmission Tower, was a guyed mast (now after its reconstruction) for FM- and TV-transmission located atop Mont-Carmel near Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada. The tower was built in 1972 and it served for several decades as Quebec's primary CBC transmission point and also served ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VASH2 | Vasohibin-2 (VASH2) is a multifaceted protein that is encoded for by the VASH2 gene. As a vasohibin protein, VASH2 is closely associated with the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family of proteins as well. VASH2 has therefore been implicated in playing a vital role in blood vessel generation (angiogenesis), e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniculate%20%28alga%29 | A geniculate habit, with reference to the red algae, is one in which the alga branches, tree-like, forming "fronds" that attach to the substrate with a holdfast. Non-calcified "genicula" serve as "knees" or hinges between the calcified intergenicula. The geniculate or non-geniculate form of algae was used to classify... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pon%20Pon | Pon Pon is the title character of an Italian comic strip created by Luciano Bottaro.
Background
Pon Pon was created by Bottaro in 1955 as Sor Funghetto and was published until 1970 in the children magazine Lo Scolaro. In 1967 it was renamed "Pon Pon" and in 1969 new stories of Pon Pon were published in Re di Picche. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycles%20of%20Time | Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe is a science book by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose published by The Bodley Head in 2010. The book outlines Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC) model, which is an extension of general relativity but opposed to the widely supported multidimensional s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangular%20potential%20barrier | In quantum mechanics, the rectangular (or, at times, square) potential barrier is a standard one-dimensional problem that demonstrates the phenomena of wave-mechanical tunneling (also called "quantum tunneling") and wave-mechanical reflection. The problem consists of solving the one-dimensional time-independent Schröd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20explanations%20of%20gravitation | Mechanical explanations of gravitation (or kinetic theories of gravitation) are attempts to explain the action of gravity by aid of basic mechanical processes, such as pressure forces caused by pushes, without the use of any action at a distance. These theories were developed from the 16th until the 19th century in con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cramer%27s%20paradox | In mathematics, Cramer's paradox or the Cramer–Euler paradox is the statement that the number of points of intersection of two higher-order curves in the plane can be greater than the number of arbitrary points that are usually needed to define one such curve. It is named after the Genevan mathematician Gabriel Cramer.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code.org | Code.org is a non-profit organization and educational website founded by Hadi and Ali Partovi aimed at K-12 students that specializes in computer science. The website includes free coding lessons, sounds, and many more things used to help students code fluently. The initiative also targets schools in an attempt to enco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20on%20Numbers%20and%20Computation | The Book on Numbers and Computation (), or the Writings on Reckoning, is one of the earliest known Chinese mathematical treatises. It was written during the early Western Han dynasty, sometime between 202 BC and 186 BC. It was preserved among the Zhangjiashan Han bamboo texts and contains similar mathematical problems ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuston | Neuston, also called pleuston, are organisms that live at the surface of a body of water, such as an ocean, estuary, lake, river, or pond. Neuston can live on top of the water surface or may be attached to the underside of the water surface. They may also exist in the surface microlayer that forms between the top side ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Grand%20%28roboticist%29 | Steve Grand OBE (born 12 February 1958) is a British computer scientist and roboticist. He was the creator and lead programmer of the Creatures artificial life simulation, which he discussed in his first book Creation: Life and How to Make It, a finalist for the 2001 Aventis Prize for Science Books. He is also an Offic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake%20news | Fake news or hoax news is false or misleading information (hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation) presented as news. Fake news often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue. Although false news has always been spread throughout history, the term "fake n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EchoLink | EchoLink is a computer-based Amateur Radio system distributed free of charge that allows radio amateurs to communicate with other amateur radio operators using Voice over IP (VoIP) technology on the Internet for at least part of the path between them. It was designed by Jonathan Taylor, a radio amateur with call sign K... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest%20people | This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of old age, names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body dealing in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) or Guinnes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20J.%20Clark | Philip Jason Clark (January 28, 1920 – December 24, 1964) was an American ecologist and zoologist. He taught at the University of Oklahoma and at Michigan State University. His expertise made serious contributions to human genetics, physical anthropology and community ecology. Those contributions are most reflected in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic | Arithmetic () is an elementary part of mathematics that consists of the study of the properties of the traditional operations on numbers—addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and extraction of roots. In the 19th century, Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano formalized arithmetic with his Pean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatable | A metatable is the section of a database or other data holding structure that is designated to hold data that will act as source code or metadata. In most cases, specific software has been written to read the data from the metatables and perform different actions depending on the data it finds.
See also
Magic number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas%20electron%20multiplier | A gas electron multiplier (GEM) is a type of gaseous ionization detector used in nuclear and particle physics and radiation detection.
All gaseous ionization detectors are able to collect the electrons released by ionizing radiation, guiding them to a region with a large electric field, and thereby initiating an elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan%20Packet%20Radio%20Experiment | The Spartan Packet Radio Experiment (SPRE) was an Amateur Radio communications experiment that flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavours STS-72 mission as part of NASA's Spartan/OAST-Flyer spacecraft in January 1996. The experiment was intended to test the tracking of satellites via amateur packet radio (Automatic Packet Re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture%20%28mathematics%29 | In combinatorial mathematics, a picture is a bijection between skew diagrams satisfying certain properties, introduced by in a generalization of the Robinson–Schensted correspondence and the Littlewood–Richardson rule. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%20flour | Rice flour (also rice powder) is a form of flour made from finely milled rice. It is distinct from rice starch, which is usually produced by steeping rice in lye. Rice flour is a common substitute for wheat flour. It is also used as a thickening agent in recipes that are refrigerated or frozen since it inhibits liquid ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20S%C3%A1mi | Mac OS Sámi is a character encoding used on classic Mac OS to represent the Sámi languages and the Finnish Kalo language. While not used in any official Apple product, it has been used in various fonts designed to support Sámi languages under classic Mac OS, including those from Evertype.
Each character is shown with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal%20movement%20grammar | In linguistics and theoretical computer science, literal movement grammars (LMGs) are a grammar formalism intended to characterize certain extraposition phenomena of natural language such as topicalization and cross-serial dependency. LMGs extend the class of context free grammars (CFGs) by adding introducing pattern-m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicarbazin | Nicarbazin is a coccidiostat used on meat chickens. It is also used as a contraceptive for population control of Canada geese and feral pigeons.
It is also a wide-spectrum anti-parasitic drug approved for veterinary use, effective on Toxocara canis, Toxascaris leonina, Ancylostoma caninum, Uncinaria stenocephala, Tric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20manifolds | This is a list of particular manifolds, by Wikipedia page. See also list of geometric topology topics. For categorical listings see :Category:Manifolds and its subcategories.
Generic families of manifolds
Euclidean space, Rn
n-sphere, Sn
n-torus, Tn
Real projective space, RPn
Complex projective space, CPn
Quate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional%20regularization |
In theoretical physics, dimensional regularization is a method introduced by Giambiagi and Bollini as well as – independently and more comprehensively – by 't Hooft and Veltman for regularizing integrals in the evaluation of Feynman diagrams; in other words, assigning values to them that are meromorphic functions of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathology%20Partnership | The Pathology Partnership was a joint venture between six NHS trusts in the East of England. It was established in May 2014 as a response to the NHS East of England Strategic Health Authority's Strategic Projects Team's Pathology Transformation Project, which was itself initiated in May 2010. The intention of the Patho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMAP215-Dis1%20family | The XMAP215/Dis1 family is a highly conserved group of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) in eukaryotic organisms. These proteins are unique MAPs because they primarily interact with the growing-end (plus-end) of microtubules. This special property classifies this protein family as plus-end tracking proteins (+TIPs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20Encoding%20Initiative | The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is an open-source effort to create a system for representation of musical documents in a machine-readable structure. MEI closely mirrors work done by text scholars in the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and while the two encoding initiatives are not formally related, they share many c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workgroup%20%28computer%20networking%29 | In computer networking a work group is collection of computers connected on a LAN that share the common resources and responsibilities. Workgroup is Microsoft's term for a peer-to-peer local area network. Computers running Microsoft operating systems in the same work group may share files, printers, or Internet connect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracture%20of%20soft%20materials | The fracture of soft materials involves large deformations and crack blunting before propagation of the crack can occur. Consequently, the stress field close to the crack tip is significantly different from the traditional formulation encountered in the Linear elastic fracture mechanics. Therefore, fracture analysis fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholphin | A wholphin (portmanteau of whale and dolphin) is an extremely rare cetacean hybrid born from a mating of a female common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) with a male false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens). The name implies a hybrid of whale and dolphin, although taxonomically, both are within the oceanic dolp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%B6mgren%20sphere | In theoretical astrophysics, there can be a sphere of ionized hydrogen (H II) around a young star of the spectral classes O or B. The theory was derived by Bengt Strömgren in 1937 and later named Strömgren sphere after him. The Rosette Nebula is the most prominent example of this type of emission nebula from the H II-r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roud%20Folk%20Song%20Index | The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud. Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index" compile... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen%20dioxide | Nitrogen dioxide is a chemical compound with the formula and is one of several nitrogen oxides. is an intermediate in the industrial synthesis of nitric acid, millions of tons of which are produced each year for use (primarily in the production of fertilizers). At higher temperatures, nitrogen dioxide is a reddish-br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscosity%20solution | In mathematics, the viscosity solution concept was introduced in the early 1980s by Pierre-Louis Lions and Michael G. Crandall as a generalization of the classical concept of what is meant by a 'solution' to a partial differential equation (PDE). It has been found that the viscosity solution is the natural solution co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20universal | A cultural universal (also called an anthropological universal or human universal) is an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all known human cultures worldwide. Taken together, the whole body of cultural universals is known as the human condition. Evolutionary psychologists hold that behaviors or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterigmatocystin | Sterigmatocystin is a polyketide mycotoxin produced by certain species of Aspergillus. The toxin is naturally found in some cheeses.
Sterigmatocystin is a toxic metabolite structurally closely related to the aflatoxins as it is the penultimate precursor of aflatoxins B1 and G1. It contains a xanthone nucleus attached ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia%20of%20Statistical%20Sciences | The Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences is an encyclopaedia of statistics published by John Wiley & Sons.
The first edition, in nine volumes, was published in 1982; it was edited by Norman Lloyd Johnson and Samuel Kotz. The second edition, in 16 volumes, was published in 2006; the senior editor was Samuel Kotz.
See... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatomammotrophic%20cell | A somatomammotroph or somatomammotrophic cell, also known as a somatolactotroph or somatolactotrophic cell, is a type of cell of the anterior pituitary gland that produces both somatotropin (growth hormone) and prolactin. Cells that secrete only somatotropin or only prolactin are known as somatotrophs and mammotrophs, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%20universe | In mathematics, a Grothendieck universe is a set U with the following properties:
If x is an element of U and if y is an element of x, then y is also an element of U. (U is a transitive set.)
If x and y are both elements of U, then is an element of U.
If x is an element of U, then P(x), the power set of x, is also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20talocalcaneal%20ligament | The anterior talocalcaneal ligament (anterior calcaneo-astragaloid ligament or anterior interosseous ligament) is a ligament in the foot.
The anterior talocalcaneal ligament extends from the front and lateral surface of the neck of the talus to the sinus tarsi of the calcaneus.
It forms the posterior boundary of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflatoxin%20B1 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Aflatoxin B1}}
Aflatoxin B1 is an aflatoxin produced by Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus. It is a very potent carcinogen with a TD50 3.2 μg/kg/day in rats. This carcinogenic potency varies across species with some, such as rats and monkeys, seemingly much more susceptible than others. Aflatoxin B1 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20Reviews%20in%20Relativity | Living Reviews in Relativity is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal publishing reviews on relativity in the areas of physics and astrophysics. It was founded by Bernard Schutz and published at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics from 1998 to 2015. After it was sold by Max Planck Society in Jun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20hexagonal%20prism | In geometry, the augmented hexagonal prism is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by augmenting a hexagonal prism by attaching a square pyramid () to one of its equatorial faces. When two or three such pyramids are attached, the result may be a parabiaugmented hexagonal prism (), a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%3A350%20scale | 1:350 scale is a popular scale used by model ship kit manufacturers such as Tamiya, Hasegawa, Aoshima, Fujimi, Trumpeter and Revell.
History
The true instigator of the 1:350 scale ship series was the British kit company Frog (models), which was started in 1932 by Joe Mansour and brothers Charles and John Wilmot. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solus%20%28operating%20system%29 | Solus (previously known as Evolve OS) is an independently developed operating system for the x86-64 architecture based on the Linux kernel and a choice of Budgie, GNOME, MATE or KDE Plasma as the desktop environment. Its package manager, eopkg, is based on the PiSi package management system from Pardus Linux, and it ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gla%20domain | Vitamin K-dependent carboxylation/gamma-carboxyglutamic (GLA) domain is a protein domain that contains post-translational modifications of many glutamate residues by vitamin K-dependent carboxylation to form γ-carboxyglutamate (Gla). Proteins with this domain are known informally as Gla proteins. The Gla residues are r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali-metal%20thermal%20to%20electric%20converter | An alkali-metal thermal-to-electric converter (AMTEC, originally called the sodium heat engine or SHE) is a thermally regenerative electrochemical device for the direct conversion of heat to electrical energy. It is characterized by high potential efficiencies and no moving parts except for the working fluid, which mak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimRank | SimRank is a general similarity measure, based on a simple and intuitive graph-theoretic model.
SimRank is applicable in any domain with object-to-object relationships, that measures similarity of the structural context in which objects occur, based on their relationships with other objects.
Effectively, SimRank is a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s%20speed-up%20theorem | In mathematics, Gödel's speed-up theorem, proved by , shows that there are theorems whose proofs can be drastically shortened by working in more powerful axiomatic systems.
Kurt Gödel showed how to find explicit examples of statements in formal systems that are provable in that system but whose shortest proof is unim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumeration%20reducibility | In computability theory and computational complexity theory, enumeration reducibility is a method of reduction that determines if there is some effective procedure for determining enumerability between sets of natural numbers. An enumeration in the context of e-reducibility is a listing of the elements in a particular ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulabhadra | Mūlabhadra (മൂലഭദ്ര) aka Mūlabhadri (:ml:മൂലഭദ്രി) was a secret method of communication employed by the royal spies of the erstwhile Travancore Kingdom during the medieval period. The scheme was also colloquially referred to as Mūlapatra. It was essentially a cryptographic scheme involving a partial transposition of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus%20Mathematical%20Monographs | The Carus Mathematical Monographs is a monograph series published by the Mathematical Association of America. Books in this series are intended to appeal to a wide range of readers in mathematics and science.
Scope and audience
While the books are intended to cover nontrivial material, the emphasis is on exposition an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary%20electrophoresis | Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a family of electrokinetic separation methods performed in submillimeter diameter capillaries and in micro- and nanofluidic channels. Very often, CE refers to capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), but other electrophoretic techniques including capillary gel electrophoresis (CGE), capil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDF1 | Growth differentiation factor 1 (GDF1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GDF1 gene.
GDF1 belongs to the transforming growth factor beta superfamily that has a role in left-right patterning and mesoderm induction during embryonic development. It is found in the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves of em... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillatory%20neural%20network | An oscillatory neural network (ONN) is an artificial neural network that uses coupled oscillators as neurons. Oscillatory neural networks are closely linked to the Kuramoto model, and are inspired by the phenomenon of neural oscillations in the brain. Oscillatory neural networks have been trained to recognize images. C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS%20%28ticket%20reservation%20system%29 | , which stands for Multi Access (originally Magnetic-electronic Automatic) seat Reservation System is a train ticket reservation system used by the railway companies of former Japanese National Railways, currently Japan Railways Group (JR Group) and travel agencies in Japan, developed jointly by Hitachi and the Railway... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile%20%28UML%29 | A profile in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) provides a generic extension mechanism for customizing UML models for particular domains and platforms. Extension mechanisms allow refining standard semantics in strictly additive manner, preventing them from contradicting standard semantics.
Profiles are defined using ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxicity | In graph theory, boxicity is a graph invariant, introduced by Fred S. Roberts in 1969.
The boxicity of a graph is the minimum dimension in which a given graph can be represented as an intersection graph of axis-parallel boxes. That is, there must exist a one-to-one correspondence between the vertices of the graph and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency%20synthesizer | A frequency synthesizer is an electronic circuit that generates a range of frequencies from a single reference frequency. Frequency synthesizers are used in many modern devices such as radio receivers, televisions, mobile telephones, radiotelephones, walkie-talkies, CB radios, cable television converter boxes, satellit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor%20residual%20spraying | Indoor residual spraying or IRS is the process of spraying the inside of dwellings with an insecticide to kill mosquitoes that spread malaria. A dilute solution of insecticide is sprayed on the inside walls of certain types of dwellings—those with walls made from porous materials such as mud or wood but not plaster as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleobiota%20of%20the%20London%20Clay | A list of prehistoric and extant species whose fossils have been found in the London Clay, which underlies large areas of southeast England.
Plant fossils, especially seeds and fruits, are found in abundance and have been collected from the London Clay for almost 300 years. Some 350 named species of plant have been fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPATH | AMPATH (America's Path) was developed in 2000 as a high performance exchange point in Miami, Florida, United States. AMPATH assists peer based and network research between U.S. and international research and education networks.
Some of AMPATH's founding partners include REUNA of Chile, RNP of Brazil, CNTI of Venezuela... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20Medicine%20and%20Biology | Nuclear Medicine and Biology is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier that covers research on all aspects of nuclear medicine, including radiopharmacology, radiopharmacy and clinical studies of targeted radiotracers. It is the official journal of the Society of Radiopharmaceutical Sciences. According to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerol%20ester%20of%20wood%20rosin | Glycerol ester of wood rosin (or gum rosin), also known as glyceryl abietate or ester gum, is an oil-soluble food additive (E number E445). The food-grade material is used in foods, beverages, and cosmetics to keep oils in suspension in water, and its name may be shortened in the ingredient list as glycerol ester of ro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles%20and%20Standards%20for%20School%20Mathematics | Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (PSSM) are guidelines produced by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) in 2000, setting forth recommendations for mathematics educators. They form a national vision for preschool through twelfth grade mathematics education in the US and Canada. It is th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontic%20logic | Deontic logic is the field of philosophical logic that is concerned with obligation, permission, and related concepts. Alternatively, a deontic logic is a formal system that attempts to capture the essential logical features of these concepts. It can be used to formalize imperative logic, or directive modality in natu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PottersWheel | PottersWheel is a MATLAB toolbox for mathematical modeling of time-dependent dynamical systems that can be expressed as chemical reaction networks or ordinary differential equations (ODEs). It allows the automatic calibration of model parameters by fitting the model to experimental measurements. CPU-intensive functions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Berlyand | Leonid Berlyand is a Soviet and American mathematician, a professor of Penn State University. He is known for his works on homogenization, Ginzburg–Landau theory, mathematical modeling of active matter and deep learning.
Life and career
Berlyand was born in Kharkov on September 20, 1957. His father, Viktor Berlyand, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous%20cellular%20automaton | Cellular automata, as with other multi-agent system models, usually treat time as discrete and state updates as occurring synchronously. The state of every cell in the model is updated together, before any of the new states influence other cells. In contrast, an asynchronous cellular automaton is able to update individ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio%20ad%20absurdum | In logic, (Latin for "reduction to absurdity"), also known as (Latin for "argument to absurdity") or apagogical arguments, is the form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction.
This argument form traces back to Ancient Greek philos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VectorDB | VectorDB was a database of sequence information for common vectors used in molecular biology
See also
Univec
Plasmid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmogamy | Plasmogamy is a stage in the sexual reproduction of fungi, in which the protoplasm of two parent cells (usually from the mycelia) fuse without the fusion of nuclei, effectively bringing two haploid nuclei close together in the same cell. This state is followed by karyogamy, where the two nuclei fuse and then undergo me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Chinese%20milk%20scandal | The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a significant food safety incident in China. The scandal involved Sanlu Group's milk and infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulterated with the chemical melamine, which resulted in kidney stones and other kidney damage in infants. The chemical was used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20one%20polynomial | In mathematics, an all one polynomial (AOP) is a polynomial in which all coefficients are one. Over the finite field of order two, conditions for the AOP to be irreducible are known, which allow this polynomial to be used to define efficient algorithms and circuits for multiplication in finite fields of characteristic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Camiel%20Willems | Jan Camiel Willems (18 September 1939 – 31 August 2013) was a Belgian mathematical system theorist who has done most of his scientific work while residing in the Netherlands and the United States. He is most noted for the introduction of the notion of a dissipative system and for the development of the behavioral appro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort%20behaviour%20in%20animals | Comfort behaviours in animals are activities that help maintain the pelage, feathers, integuement or musculoskeletal system and increase the physical comfort of the animal.
Comfort behaviours are performed from an early age and change little during development. Several comfort behaviours are associated with the beginn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20identifier | In the context of the Microsoft Windows NT line of computer operating systems, the relative identifier (RID) is a variable length number that is assigned to objects at creation and becomes part of the object's Security Identifier (SID) that uniquely identifies an account or group within a domain. The Relative ID Master... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20sulfate%20symporter | Sodium sulfate symporters are integral membrane proteins that mediate the intake of a wide variety of molecules with the concomitant uptake of sodium ions. These sodium symporters can be grouped, on the basis of sequence and functional similarities into a number of distinct families. One of these families, also known a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coliform%20bacteria | Coliform bacteria are defined as either motile or non-motile Gram-negative non-spore forming Bacilli that possess β-galactosidase to produce acids and gases under their optimal growth temperature of 35-37 °C. They can be aerobes or facultative aerobes, and are a commonly used indicator of low sanitary quality of foods... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spliceosome | A spliceosome is a large ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex found primarily within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells. The spliceosome is assembled from small nuclear RNAs (snRNA) and numerous proteins. Small nuclear RNA (snRNA) molecules bind to specific proteins to form a small nuclear ribonucleoprotein complex (snRNP, pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartLink%20%28television%29 | SmartLink was the trademark name for a proprietary technology by Sharp Corporation for wireless transmission of television signals. The system involved two devices, each a little bit bigger than a paperback book: one attached to a television screen and the other was hooked up to a TV tuner, DVD player, or any playback... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic%20coefficient | In ballistics, the ballistic coefficient (BC, C) of a body is a measure of its ability to overcome air resistance in flight. It is inversely proportional to the negative acceleration: a high number indicates a low negative acceleration—the drag on the body is small in proportion to its mass. BC can be expressed with th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus%202000 | The Elbrus 2000, E2K () is a Russian 512-bit wide VLIW microprocessor developed by Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) and fabricated by TSMC.
It supports two instruction set architectures (ISA):
Elbrus VLIW
Intel x86 (a complete, system-level implementation with a software dynamic binary translation virtual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactofen | Lactofen is a complex ester of acifluorfen and is a nitrophenyl ether selective herbicide and fungicide. It is used in postemergence applications to certain crops which are resistant to its action. The name "Lactofen" is approved by the American National Standards Institute and the Weed Science Society of America, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible%20display | A flexible display or rollable display is an electronic visual display which is flexible in nature, as opposed to the traditional flat screen displays used in most electronic devices. In recent years there has been a growing interest from numerous consumer electronics manufacturers to apply this display technology in e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational%20operator | In computer science, a relational operator is a programming language construct or operator that tests or defines some kind of relation between two entities. These include numerical equality (e.g., ) and inequalities (e.g., ).
In programming languages that include a distinct boolean data type in their type system, like... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMIT%20School%20of%20Science | The RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) School of Science is an Australian tertiary education school within the College of Science Engineering and Health of RMIT University. It was created in 2016 from the former schools of Applied Sciences, Computer Science and Information Technology, and Mathematical and G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waxy%20potato%20starch | Waxy potato starch is a variety of commercially available starch composed almost entirely of amylopectin molecules, extracted from new potato varieties. Standard starch extracted from traditional potato varieties contains both amylose and amylopectin.
Waxy potato starch, when gelatinized, has a clearer film, a stickie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanylate%20kinase | In enzymology, a guanylate kinase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
ATP + GMP ADP + GDP
Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are ATP and GMP, whereas its two products are ADP and GDP.
This enzyme belongs to the family of transferases, specifically those transferring phosphorus-containing group... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20arbitrary-precision%20arithmetic%20software | This article lists libraries, applications, and other software which enable or support arbitrary-precision arithmetic.
Libraries
Stand-alone application software
Software that supports arbitrary precision computations:
bc the POSIX arbitrary-precision arithmetic language that comes standard on most Unix-like systems... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlanetLab | PlanetLab was a group of computers available as a testbed for computer networking and distributed systems research. It was established in 2002 by Prof. Larry L. Peterson and Prof. David Culler, and as of June 2010, it was composed of 1090 nodes at 507 sites worldwide. Each research project had a "slice", or virtual ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar%20signal%20transduction | Sugar signal transduction is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism used by organisms to survive. Sugars have an overwhelming effect on gene expression. In yeast, glucose levels are managed by controlling the mRNA levels of hexose transporters, while in mammals, the response to glucose is more tightly controlled with g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampleon | Ampleon is a global semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Nijmegen (Gelderland), Netherlands and founded on December 7, 2015, spun off from the NXP Semiconductors in May 2015, following the acquisition of the NXP Semiconductors RF Power business by the Jianguang Asset Management Co., Ltd. for US$1.8 billion. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil%20Shadbolt | Cecil Victor Shadbolt (1859 – 8 July 1892) was a British photographer, who pioneered aerial photography from flying balloons.
Life
Shadbolt was born in 1859, the son of the mahogany dealer and photographer George Shadbolt.
He showed photographs of Welsh landscapes at the 1877 Photographic Society exhibition.
His f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific%20leaf%20area | Specific leaf area (SLA) is the ratio of leaf area to leaf dry mass. The inverse of SLA is Leaf Mass per Area (LMA).
Rationale
Specific leaf area is a ratio indicating how much leaf area a plant builds with a given amount of leaf biomass:
where A is the area of a given leaf or all leaves of a plant, and ML is the dry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop%20Research%20Center%20H%C3%BCll | The Hop Research Center Hüll (Hopfenforschungszentrum Hüll) is a research institution focussing on advances in hop breeding, hop harvesting, and hop chemistry. It is located in the Hallertau, the largest continuous hop-planting area in the world, in the German state of Bavaria. The institute is run by the German Hop Re... |
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