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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone%20bush | Cone bush, conebush, or cone-bush is a common name for various plants, usually dicotyledonous shrubs that bear their flowers and seeds in compact, cone-shaped inflorescences and infructescences. The plants that the name most frequently applies to are members of the Proteaceae, and in particular the Australian genus Iso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20structure%20of%20boron-rich%20metal%20borides | Metals, and specifically rare-earth elements, form numerous chemical complexes with boron. Their crystal structure and chemical bonding depend strongly on the metal element M and on its atomic ratio to boron. When B/M ratio exceeds 12, boron atoms form B12 icosahedra which are linked into a three-dimensional boron fram... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniseia%20martinicensis | Aniseia martinicensis is a species of herb climber in the Convolvulaceae family. Native to subtropical and tropical America, it has been introduced to the tropics and sub-tropics of the Pacific Islands, Australia, Asia, and Africa. It is usually eaten as a supplementary vegetable. Even though it grows around the world,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe%20solver | The Roe approximate Riemann solver, devised by Phil Roe, is an approximate Riemann solver based on the Godunov scheme and involves finding an estimate for the intercell numerical flux or Godunov flux at the interface between two computational cells and , on some discretised space-time computational domain.
Roe schem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus%20speciosa | Prunus speciosa, the Oshima cherry, Japanese オオシマザクラ (Oshima zakura), is native to Izu Ōshima island and the Izu Peninsula on Honshū near Tokyo, Japan.
Description
Prunus speciosa is a deciduous tree typically high. The leaves are 5–10 cm long and 3–6 cm broad, with a double-toothed margin, and an acuminate apex.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%20density | In mathematics, the Dirichlet density (or analytic density) of a set of primes, named after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, is a measure of the size of the set that is easier to use than the natural density.
Definition
If A is a subset of the prime numbers, the Dirichlet density of A
is the limit
if it exists. Note ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas-Institut | The Thomas-Institut is a research Institute whose function is to study of medieval philosophy by preparing critical editions as well as historical and systematic studies of medieval authors.
General information
The Thomas-Institut was founded in 1950 by Josef Koch, then Professor for medieval philosophy at the Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenyang%20Xu | Chenyang Xu (; born 1981) is a Chinese mathematician in the area of algebraic geometry and a professor at Princeton University. Xu is known for his work in birational geometry, the minimal model program, and the K-stability of Fano varieties.
Career
After completing his PhD doctorate at Princeton under János Kollár's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpyloric%20plane | The transpyloric plane, also known as Addison's plane, is an imaginary horizontal plane, located halfway between the suprasternal notch of the manubrium and the upper border of the symphysis pubis at the level of the first lumbar vertebrae, L1. It lies roughly a hand's breadth beneath the xiphisternum or midway between... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fade%20%28audio%20engineering%29 | In audio engineering, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease in the level of an audio signal. The term can also be used for film cinematography or theatre lighting in much the same way (see fade (filmmaking) and fade (lighting)).
A recorded song may be gradually reduced to silence at its end (fade-out), or may gradu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIBERSORT | CIBERSORT, also called CIBERSORTx, is a bioinformatics tool used to deconvolute cell type proportions and gene expression profiles from bulk RNA sequencing datasets. It is among the fastest growing software tools in the life sciences. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudex | A caudex (: caudices) of a plant is a stem, but the term is also used to mean a rootstock and particularly a basal stem structure from which new growth arises.
In the strict sense of the term, meaning a stem, "caudex" is most often used with plants that have a different stem morphology from the typical angiosperm dico... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabanet | Sabanet, Neda Gostar Saba () is an Iranian ISP, It started in 2003, with PAP license from MICT.In 2020 was one of top 10 Internet and broadband market companies in Iran The company also serves an IP PBX system marketed as Sabatel for coupled wires. It was ranked low as having a low download speed for FTP in 2020. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar%E2%80%93tensor%20theory | In theoretical physics, a scalar–tensor theory is a field theory that includes both a scalar field and a tensor field to represent a certain interaction. For example, the Brans–Dicke theory of gravitation uses both a scalar field and a tensor field to mediate the gravitational interaction.
Tensor fields and field the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20orbital | In computational chemistry and molecular physics, Gaussian orbitals (also known as Gaussian type orbitals, GTOs or Gaussians) are functions used as atomic orbitals in the LCAO method for the representation of electron orbitals in molecules and numerous properties that depend on these.
Rationale
The use of Gaussian o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational%20properties | In evolutionary biology, the variational properties of an organism are those properties relating to the production of variation among its offspring. In a broader sense variational properties include phenotypic plasticity. Variational properties contrast with functional properties. While the functional properties of an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Sky%20Network | Blue Sky Network is a global satellite technology company headquartered in San Diego, California. Founded in 2001, Blue Sky Network offers satellite tracking solutions to support fleet managers and operators monitoring their assets on land, sea, and in the air. Blue Sky Network solutions use the satellite network from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuIST | The Quantum Information Science and Technology Program (abbreviated as QUIST or QuIST) was a five-year, $100M DARPA research program that ran from FY 2001 – 2005. The initiative was jointly created by the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) and the Information Technology Office (ITO) to accelerate development in the field of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard%E2%80%93Fuchs%20equation | In mathematics, the Picard–Fuchs equation, named after Émile Picard and Lazarus Fuchs, is a linear ordinary differential equation whose solutions describe the periods of elliptic curves.
Definition
Let
be the j-invariant with and the modular invariants of the elliptic curve in Weierstrass form:
Note that the j-inv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium%20canadense | Allium canadense, the Canada onion, Canadian garlic, wild garlic, meadow garlic and wild onion is a perennial plant native to eastern North America from Texas to Florida to New Brunswick to Montana. The species is also cultivated in other regions as an ornamental and as a garden culinary herb. The plant is also reporte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction%20information | The interaction information is a generalization of the mutual information for more than two variables.
There are many names for interaction information, including amount of information, information correlation, co-information, and simply mutual information. Interaction information expresses the amount of information (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Wars%20Episode%20I%3A%20The%20Gungan%20Frontier | Star Wars: Episode I - The Gungan Frontier is a 1999 video game by Lucas Learning.
Plot and gameplay
In a game similar to SimLife, the player aims to create a new ecology for Gungan colonisers by using the sacred creature known as the Kresch to build a new home on the moon given to the player by Boss Nass.
Critical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20Prize%20Problems | The Millennium Prize Problems are seven well-known complex mathematical problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. The Clay Institute has pledged a US$1 million prize for the first correct solution to each problem.
The Clay Mathematics Institute officially designated the title Millennium Problem for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomis | Bomis (, rhyming with "promise") was a dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis. By 2007, the company was inactive, with its Wikipedia-related resources transferred t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20design | In combinatorial mathematics, a block design is an incidence structure consisting of a set together with a family of subsets known as blocks, chosen such that frequency of the elements satisfies certain conditions making the collection of blocks exhibit symmetry (balance). Block designs have applications in many areas,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner%20transfer%20matrix | In statistical mechanics, the corner transfer matrix describes the effect of adding a quadrant to a lattice. Introduced by Rodney Baxter in 1968 as an extension of the Kramers-Wannier row-to-row transfer matrix, it provides a powerful method of studying lattice models. Calculations with corner transfer matrices led Bax... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental%20dam | A dental dam or rubber dam is a thin, square sheet, usually latex or nitrile, used in dentistry to isolate the operative site (one or more teeth) from the rest of the mouth. Sometimes termed "Kofferdam" (from German), it was designed in the United States in 1864 by . It is used mainly in endodontic, fixed prosthodonti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near%20letter-quality%20printing | Near letter-quality (NLQ) printing is a process where dot matrix printers produce high-quality text by using multiple passes to produce higher dot density. The tradeoff for the improved print quality is reduced printing speed. Software can also be used to produce this effect. The term was coined in the 1980s to disting... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaseweb | Leaseweb is a Dutch cloud computing and web services company with offices in the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America.
Leaseweb is a subsidiary of OCOM, an internet services company headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
History
Leaseweb was founded in 1997 by Dutch pilots Con Zwinkels and Laurens Ros... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindley%20equation | In probability theory, the Lindley equation, Lindley recursion or Lindley processes is a discrete-time stochastic process An where n takes integer values and:
An + 1 = max(0, An + Bn).
Processes of this form can be used to describe the waiting time of customers in a queue or evolution of a queue length over time. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime%20Continent | Maritime Continent is the name given primarily by meteorologists and oceanographers to the region of Southeast Asia which comprises, amongst other countries, Indonesia, Philippines and Papua New Guinea. In some usage the maritime continent includes the Malay Peninsula. Located between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virological.org | Virological.org is a discussion forum for the pre-publication sharing and discussion of pathogenic virus sequence data. The forum was launched in November 2014 by Andrew Rambaut. Scientists have often used the forum to publicly share the first available outbreak sequences, e.g. during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the 2022–... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coracohumeral%20ligament | The coracohumeral ligament is a broad ligament of the shoulder. It attaches to the coracoid process at one end, and to the greater and lesser tubercles of the humerus at the other (as two discrete bands). It strengthens the upper part of the joint capsule of the shoulder joint.
Anatomy
The coracohumeral ligament aris... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaeffer%E2%80%93Fulton%20stain | The Schaeffer–Fulton stain is a technique designed to isolate endospores by staining any present endospores green, and any other bacterial bodies red. The primary stain is malachite green, and the counterstain is safranin, which dyes any other bacterial bodies red.
Endospores cannot be stained by normal staining proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHealth | mHealth (also written as m-health or mhealth) is an abbreviation for mobile health, a term used for the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices. The term is most commonly used in reference to using mobile communication devices, such as mobile phones, tablet computers and personal digital assi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20neuroscience | From the ancient Egyptian mummifications to 18th-century scientific research on "globules" and neurons, there is evidence of neuroscience practice throughout the early periods of history. The early civilizations lacked adequate means to obtain knowledge about the human brain. Their assumptions about the inner workings ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20tempering | Parallel tempering, in physics and statistics, is a computer simulation method typically used to find the lowest energy state of a system of many interacting particles. It addresses the problem that at high temperatures, one may have a stable state different from low temperature, whereas simulations at low temperatures... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amira%20%28software%29 | Amira (pronounce: Ah-meer-ah) is a software platform for visualization, processing, and analysis of 3D and 4D data. It is being actively developed by Thermo Fisher Scientific in collaboration with the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), and commercially distributed by Thermo Fisher Scientific — together with its sister softwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20research%20into%20the%20origin%20of%20life | The history of research into the origin of life encompasses theories about how life began, from ancient times with the philosophy of Aristotle through to the Miller-Urey experiment in 1952.
Panspermia
Panspermia is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, comets a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anharmonicity | In classical mechanics, anharmonicity is the deviation of a system from being a harmonic oscillator. An oscillator that is not oscillating in harmonic motion is known as an anharmonic oscillator where the system can be approximated to a harmonic oscillator and the anharmonicity can be calculated using perturbation theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutive%20equation | In physics and engineering, a constitutive equation or constitutive relation is a relation between two physical quantities (especially kinetic quantities as related to kinematic quantities) that is specific to a material or substance, and approximates the response of that material to external stimuli, usually as applie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20hypergiant | A yellow hypergiant (YHG) is a massive star with an extended atmosphere, a spectral class from A to K, and, starting with an initial mass of about 20–60 solar masses, has lost as much as half that mass. They are amongst the most visually luminous stars, with absolute magnitude (MV) around −9, but also one of the rarest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaky%20clingfish | The streaky clingfish (Lissonanchus lusheri) is a species of clingfish only known from one specimen collected off the coast of southern Mozambique. The length of the only known specimen was SL. This species is the only known member of its genus. The single known specimen was collected at Ponte Zavora in southern Moz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20Bay%20jubilee | Jubilee is the name used locally for a natural phenomenon that occurs sporadically on the shores of Mobile Bay, a large body of water on Alabama's Gulf Coast. During a jubilee many species of crab and shrimp, as well as flounder, eels, and other demersal fish will leave deeper waters and swarm—in large numbers and ver... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternator%20%28automotive%29 | An alternator is a type of electric generator used in modern automobiles to charge the battery and to power the electrical system when its engine is running.
Until the 1960s, automobiles used DC dynamo generators with commutators. As silicon-diode rectifiers became widely available and affordable, the alternator gradu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptotope | A cryptotope is an antigenic site or epitope hidden in a protein or virion by surface subunits. Cryptotopes are antigenically active only after the dissociation of protein aggregates and virions Some infectious pathogens are known to escape immunological targeting by B-cells by masking antigen-binding sites as cryptoto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incomplete%20lineage%20sorting | Incomplete lineage sorting, also termed hemiplasy, deep coalescence, retention of ancestral polymorphism, or trans-species polymorphism, describes a phenomenon in population genetics when ancestral gene copies fail to coalesce (looking backwards in time) into a common ancestral copy until deeper than previous speciatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BARD1 | BRCA1-associated RING domain protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BARD1 gene. The human BARD1 protein is 777 amino acids long and contains a RING finger domain (residues 46-90), four ankyrin repeats (residues 420-555), and two tandem BRCT domains (residues 568-777).
Function
Most, if not all, BRCA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Fourier-related%20transforms | This is a list of linear transformations of functions related to Fourier analysis. Such transformations map a function to a set of coefficients of basis functions, where the basis functions are sinusoidal and are therefore strongly localized in the frequency spectrum. (These transforms are generally designed to be in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic%20self%20epitopes | In immunology, cryptic self epitopes are a source of autoimmunity.
Self epitopes, which are found in high concentration on the surface of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) in association with its major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are known as dominant epitopes. These are stimulants of negative selection mechanisms ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20and%20bridged-T%20equalizers | Lattice and bridged-T equalizers are circuits which are used to correct for the amplitude and/or phase errors of a network or transmission line. Usually, the aim is to achieve an overall system performance with a flat amplitude response and constant delay over a prescribed frequency range, by the addition of an equa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteolysis | Osteolysis is an active resorption of bone matrix by osteoclasts and can be interpreted as the reverse of ossification. Although osteoclasts are active during the natural formation of healthy bone the term "osteolysis" specifically refers to a pathological process. Osteolysis often occurs in the proximity of a prosthes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig%20Tree%20Formation | The Fig Tree Formation, also called Fig Tree Group, is a stromatolite-containing geological formation in South Africa. The rock contains fossils of microscopic life forms of about 3.26 billion years old. Identified organisms include the bacterium Eobacterium isolatum and the algae-like Archaeosphaeroides barbertonensis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protofection | Protofection is a protein-mediated transfection of foreign mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) into the mitochondria of cells in a tissue to supplement or replace the native mitochondrial DNA already present. The complete mtDNA genome or just fragments of mtDNA generated by polymerase chain reaction can be transferred into the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer%20complexity | In number theory, the integer complexity of an integer is the smallest number of ones that can be used to represent it using ones and any number of additions, multiplications, and parentheses. It is always within a constant factor of the logarithm of the given integer.
Example
For instance, the number 11 may be repres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageStream | PageStream (originally Publishing Partner) is a desktop publishing software package by Grasshopper LLC (United States) currently available for a variety of operating systems including Windows, Linux, and macOS. The software was originally released under the name Publishing Partner for the Atari ST in 1986 by Soft-Logic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root%20hair | Root hair, or absorbent hairs, are outgrowths of epidermal cells, specialized cells at the tip of a plant root. They are lateral extensions of a single cell and are only rarely branched. They are found in the region of maturation, of the root. Root hair cells improve plant water absorption by increasing root surface ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMFAK%20syndrome | CAMFAK syndrome (or CAMAK syndrome) is an acronym used to describe a rare inherited neurologic disease, characterized by peripheral and central demyelination of nerves, similar to that seen in Cockayne syndrome. The name "CAMFAK" comes from the first letters of the characteristic findings of the disease: cataracts, mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esky | Esky is a brand of portable coolers, originally Australian, derived from the word "Eskimo". The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin".... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%20envelopes%20problem | The two envelopes problem, also known as the exchange paradox, is a paradox in probability theory. It is of special interest in decision theory and for the Bayesian interpretation of probability theory. It is a variant of an older problem known as the necktie paradox.
The problem is typically introduced by formulating ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags%20of%20Norwegian%20subdivisions | Most of the Norwegian counties and municipalities have their own flag. They are based on the respective coat of arms of the subdivision. However they are seldom used. Most public buildings and private homes use the National flag. Note: As of 2020, many municipalities and counties have been merged. Because of this many ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroWordNet | EuroWordNet is a system of semantic networks for European languages, based on WordNet. Each language develops its own wordnet but they are interconnected with interlingual links stored in the Interlingual Index (ILI).
Unlike the original Princeton WordNet, most of the other wordnets are not freely available.
Languag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehari%20manifold | In the calculus of variations, a branch of mathematics, a Nehari manifold is a manifold of functions, whose definition is motivated by the work of . It is a differentiable manifold associated to the Dirichlet problem for the semilinear elliptic partial differential equation
Here Δ is the Laplacian on a bounded domain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Physics%20Awards | The Institute of Physics awards numerous prizes to acknowledge contributions to physics research, education and applications. It also offers smaller specific subject-group prizes, such as for PhD thesis submissions.
Bilateral awards
The Max Born Medal and Prize is awarded yearly by the German Physical Society and the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic%20meridional%20overturning%20circulation | The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is part of a global thermohaline circulation in the oceans and is the zonally integrated component of surface and deep currents in the Atlantic Ocean. It is characterized by a northward flow of warm, salty water in the upper layers of the Atlantic, and a southward ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinstein%27s%20neighbourhood%20theorem | In symplectic geometry, a branch of mathematics, Weinstein's neighbourhood theorem refers to a few distinct but related theorems, involving the neighbourhoods of submanifolds in symplectic manifolds and generalising the classical Darboux's theorem. They were proved by Alan Weinstein in 1971.
Darboux-Moser-Weinstein th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christogram | A Christogram () is a monogram or combination of letters that forms an abbreviation for the name of Jesus Christ, traditionally used as a religious symbol within the Christian Church.
One of the oldest Christograms is the Chi-Rho (☧). It consists of the superimposed Greek letters chi and rho , which are the first two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTA-102 | CTA 102, also known by its B1950 coordinates as 2230+114 (QSR B2230+114) and its J2000 coordinates as J2232+1143 (QSO J2232+1143), is a blazar-type quasar discovered in the early 1960s by a radio survey carried out by the California Institute of Technology. It has been observed by a large range of instruments since its... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20of%20non-choice | The axiom of non-choice, also called axiom of unique choice, axiom of function choice or function comprehension principle is a function existence postulate. The difference to the axiom of choice is that in the antecedent, the existence of is already granted to be unique for each .
The principle is important but as an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LedgerSMB | LedgerSMB is a free software double entry accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Accounting data is stored in a SQL database server and a standard web browser can be used as its user interface. The system uses the Perl programming language and a Perl database interface module for processing, and Pos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRBD%20agar | VRDBA, VRDB Agar, or Violet Red Bile Dextrose Agar, is a microbiological growth medium. It can be used in agar plates to monitor or assess bacterial growth in the laboratory, particularly the growth of Enterobacteriaceae, for which it is selective. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Association%20of%20Clinical%20Anatomists |
About
The American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) aims to advance the science and art of clinical anatomy. It encourages research and publication in the field and maintains high standards in the teaching of anatomy. Clinical anatomy is defined as anatomy in all its aspects - gross, histologic, developmenta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20quantization | A first quantization of a physical system is a possibly semiclassical treatment of quantum mechanics, in which particles or physical objects are treated using quantum wave functions but the surrounding environment (for example a potential well or a bulk electromagnetic field or gravitational field) is treated classical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20nap | A power nap or cat nap is a short sleep that terminates before deep sleep (slow-wave sleep; SWS). A power nap is intended to quickly revitalize the sleeper.
Cornell University social psychologist James Maas coined the term. A power nap combined with consuming caffeine is called a stimulant nap, coffee nap, caffeine ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiS%206326 | The SiS 6326 was a graphics processing unit (GPU) manufactured by Silicon Integrated Systems. It was introduced in June 1997 and became available to the consumer market in the end of that year. Although its performance was low compared to the GPUs of its age, eventually it became very successful, specially integrated i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooking | In computer programming, the term hooking covers a range of techniques used to alter or augment the behaviour of an operating system, of applications, or of other software components by intercepting function calls or messages or events passed between software components. Code that handles such intercepted function call... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbicularis%20oculi%20muscle | The orbicularis oculi is a muscle in the face that closes the eyelids. It arises from the nasal part of the frontal bone, from the frontal process of the maxilla in front of the lacrimal groove, and from the anterior surface and borders of a short fibrous band, the medial palpebral ligament.
From this origin, the fibe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBRIX%20Fusion | IBRIX Fusion is a parallel file system combined with a logical volume manager, availability features and a management interface. The software was produced, sold, and supported by IBRIX Incorporated of Billerica, Massachusetts. HP announced on July 17, 2009 that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire IBRIX. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar%20calcaneonavicular%20ligament | The plantar calcaneonavicular ligament (also known as the spring ligament or spring ligament complex) is a complex of three ligaments on the underside of the foot that connect the calcaneus with the navicular bone.
Structure
The plantar calcaneonavicular ligamentous complex is a broad and thick band with three consti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decreasing%20Demand%20procedure | The Decreasing Demand procedure is a procedure for fair item allocation. It yields a Pareto-efficient division that maximizes the rank of the agent with the lowest rank. This corresponds to the Rawlsian justice criterion of taking care of the worst-off agent.
The procedure was developed by Dorothea Herreiner and Cleme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondor | Sondor is a manufacturer of Audio Video equipment located in Zollikon, Switzerland until 2017.
Sondor was founded in 1952 by Willy Hungerbuehler. Sondor started as a manufacturer of 16 mm film and 35mm film magnetic film equipment. They are noted as inventing the standard for bi-phase interlocking pulse signals to syn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteolepis | Osteolepis (from 'bone' and 'scale') is an extinct genus of lobe-finned fish from the Devonian period. It lived in the Lake Orcadie of northern Scotland.
Osteolepis was about long, and covered with large, square scales. The scales and plates on its head were covered in a thin layer of spongy, bony material called... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeiffer%20effect | The Pfeiffer effect is an optical phenomenon whereby the presence of an optically active compound influences the optical rotation of a racemic mixture of a second compound.
Racemic mixtures do not rotate plane polarized light, but the equilibrium concentration of the two enantiomers can shift from unity in the presenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torricelli%27s%20experiment | Torricelli's experiment was invented in Pisa in 1643 by the Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647). The purpose of his experiment is to prove that the source of vacuum comes from atmospheric pressure.
Context
For much of human history, the pressure of gases like air was ignored, denied, or taken for gran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20V.%20Balakrishnan | Alampallam Venkatachalaiyer Balakrishnan (1922-2015) was an American applied mathematician and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Education and career
Balakrishnan grew up in Chennai, India, and entered the University of Madras in the early 1940s. While there he earned a scholarship from the Ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal%20gene%20transfer | Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) or lateral gene transfer (LGT) is the movement of genetic material between organisms other than by the ("vertical") transmission of DNA from parent to offspring (reproduction). HGT is an important factor in the evolution of many organisms. HGT is influencing scientific understanding of h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20width | In telecommunications, spectral width is the wavelength range over which the magnitude of all spectral components is equal to or greater than a specified fraction of the magnitude of the component having the maximum value.
In optical communications applications, the usual method of specifying spectral width is the ful... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humoral%20immunity | Humoral immunity is the aspect of immunity that is mediated by macromolecules - including secreted antibodies, complement proteins, and certain antimicrobial peptides - located in extracellular fluids. Humoral immunity is named so because it involves substances found in the humors, or body fluids. It contrasts with cel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternal%20foramen | Sternal foramen (or perforated sternum) is an oval foramen present at lower one-third of the sternum. It is a relatively common anatomical variation found in 2.5% to 13.8% of individuals.
Structure
This variation is usually present at the lower one-third of the sternal body. It has an oval shape and a unique "bow tie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent%20cooperator | In game theory, a contingent cooperator is a person or agent who is willing to act in the collective interest, rather than his short-term selfish interest, if he observes a majority of the other agents in the collective doing the same. The apparent contradiction in this stance is resolved by game theory, which shows th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewritable%20consumer%20timecode | The Rewriteable Consumer Timecode (RCTC, RC Timecode, or RC Time Code) is a nearly frame accurate timecode method developed by Sony for 8mm and Hi8 analog tape formats. The RC timecode tags each frame with the hour, minute, second and frame for each frame of video recorded to tape. Officially, RCTC is accurate to with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin%20registry | A twin registry is a database of information about both identical twins and fraternal twins, which is often maintained by an academic institution, such as a university, or by other research institutions.
Investigative use
The use of twins can improve the statistical power of a genetic study by reducing the amount of g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Foata | Dominique Foata (born October 12, 1934) is a mathematician who works in enumerative combinatorics. With Pierre Cartier and Marcel-Paul Schützenberger he pioneered the modern approach to classical combinatorics, that lead, in part, to the current blossoming of algebraic combinatorics. His pioneering work on permutation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%B1ora%20Juanita | Señora Juanita (diminutive of Juana) is a name used for the average Chilean, and specially the older women from the countryside (in the manner of Britishman John Bull). A typical usage is: "How would you explain that to Señora Juanita?" (¿Cómo le diría eso a la Señora Juanita?). An example of the name used in this gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hping | hping is an open-source packet generator and analyzer for the TCP/IP protocol created by Salvatore Sanfilippo (also known as Antirez).
It is one of the common tools used for security auditing and testing of firewalls and networks, and was used to exploit the idle scan scanning technique (also invented by the hping auth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostSecret | PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren in 2005, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on a homemade postcard. Selected secrets are then posted on the PostSecret website, or used for PostSecret's books or museum exhibits.
History
The concept of the project was that comple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20homing%20endonuclease%20cutting%20sites | The homing endonucleases are a special type of restriction enzymes encoded by introns or inteins. They act on the cellular DNA of the cell that synthesizes them; to be precise, in the opposite allele of the gene that encode them.
Homing endonucleases
The list includes some of the most studied examples. The following c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund%20Data%20Bank | The Dortmund Data Bank (short DDB) is a factual data bank for thermodynamic and thermophysical data. Its main usage is the data supply for process simulation where experimental data are the basis for the design, analysis, synthesis, and optimization of chemical processes. The DDB is used for fitting parameters for ther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateline%20gammaherpesvirus%203 | Ateline gammaherpesvirus 3 (AtHV-3) is a species of virus in the genus Rhadinovirus, subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos%20%28EGFR%20Inhibitor%29 | Argos is a secreted protein that is an inhibitor of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway in Drosophila melanogaster. Argos inhibits the EGFR pathway by sequestering the EGFR ligand Spitz. Argos binds the epidermal growth factor domain of Spitz, preventing interaction between Spitz and EGFR. Argos does no... |
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