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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20%28programming%20language%29 | Carbon is an experimental programming language designed for interoperability with C++. The project is open-source and was started at Google. Google engineer Chandler Carruth first introduced Carbon at the CppNorth conference in Toronto in July 2022. He stated that Carbon was created to be a C++ successor. The language ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20badge | An electronic badge (or electronic conference badge) is a gadget that is a replacement for a traditional paper-based badge or pass issued at public events. It is mainly handed out at computer (security) conferences and hacker events. Their main feature is to display the name of the attendee, but due to their electronic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Assisted%20Conception%20Consortium | The European Assisted Conception Consortium (EACC) is an organization whose aim is to bring together national ART regulators and practitioners within the European Union for professional cooperation and joint action.
Its inaugural meeting was in Copenhagen in 2005, under the chairmanship of Angela McNab.
See also
Euro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama9 | Panorama9 is a cloud-based service within enterprise Network management. The service is provided by the company of the same name and is a cloud-based remote monitoring and management RMM [Remote_monitoring_and_management] service which consists of a hosted Dashboard displaying the status of all devices on an enterprise... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIS%20code | The NIS code (Dutch: NIS-code, French: code INS) is a numeric code for regional areas of Belgium.
This code is used for statistical data treatment in Belgium.
This code was developed mid-1960s by the Statistics Belgium. It was first used for the census of 1970.
Structure of the code
The NIS code consists of 5 digits... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larvicide | A larvicide (alternatively larvacide) is an insecticide that is specifically targeted against the larval life stage of an insect. Their most common use is against mosquitoes. Larvicides may be contact poisons, stomach poisons, growth regulators, or (increasingly) biological control agents.
Biological agents
The biolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper%20acceleration | In relativity theory, proper acceleration is the physical acceleration (i.e., measurable acceleration as by an accelerometer) experienced by an object. It is thus acceleration relative to a free-fall, or inertial, observer who is momentarily at rest relative to the object being measured. Gravitation therefore does not ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupanov%20representation | Lupanov's (k, s)-representation, named after Oleg Lupanov, is a way of representing Boolean circuits so as to show that the reciprocal of the Shannon effect. Shannon had showed that almost all Boolean functions of n variables need a circuit of size at least 2nn−1. The reciprocal is that:
All Boolean functions of n var... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascofuranone | Ascofuranone is an antibiotic produced by various ascomycete fungi including Acremonium sclerotigenum that inhibits the Trypanosoma brucei alternative oxidase and is a lead compound in efforts to produce other drugs targeting this enzyme for the treatment of sleeping sickness. The compound is effective both in vitro ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected%20dominating%20set | In graph theory, a connected dominating set and a maximum leaf spanning tree are two closely related structures defined on an undirected graph.
Definitions
A connected dominating set of a graph G is a set D of vertices with two properties:
Any node in D can reach any other node in D by a path that stays entirely withi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic%20acid%20metabolism | Nucleic acid metabolism is a collective term that refers to the variety of chemical reactions by which nucleic acids (DNA and/or RNA) are either synthesized or degraded. Nucleic acids are polymers (so-called "biopolymers") made up of a variety of monomers called nucleotides. Nucleotide synthesis is an anabolic mechanis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write%20combining | Write combining (WC) is a computer bus technique for allowing data to be combined and temporarily stored in a buffer the write combine buffer (WCB) to be released together later in burst mode instead of writing (immediately) as single bits or small chunks.
Technique
Write combining cannot be used for general memory ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20carbon%20copy | Blind carbon copy (abbreviated Bcc) allows the sender of a message to conceal the person entered in the Bcc field from the other recipients. This concept originally applied to paper correspondence and now also applies to email.
In some circumstances, the typist creating a paper correspondence must ensure that multiple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreELEC | LibreELEC (short for Libre Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a non-profit fork of OpenELEC as an open source software appliance, a Linux-based Just enough operating system for the Kodi media player. This fork of OpenELEC announced in March 2016 as a split from the OpenELEC team after "creative differences", takin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%E2%80%93Euler%20operator | In mathematics a Cauchy–Euler operator is a differential operator of the form for a polynomial p. It is named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy and Leonhard Euler. The simplest example is that in which p(x) = x, which has eigenvalues n = 0, 1, 2, 3, ... and corresponding eigenfunctions xn.
See also
Cauchy–Euler equatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20computer-aided%20design%20software | The table below provides an overview of notable computer-aided design (CAD) software. It does not judge power, ease of use, or other user-experience aspects. The table does not include software that is still in development (beta software). For all-purpose 3D programs, see Comparison of 3D computer graphics software.
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obash | Obash is a bash script obfuscator written in the C programming language. obash encodes and encrypts bash shell scripts into executable binaries much like shc, the project that inspired it, but uses AES-256 encryption and the key and initialization vector are retrieved from the hardware instead of being hard coded into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictive%20behavior | Fictive behavior is when an organism’s sensory input and/or motor output is silenced for physiological experiments.
Processes
A fictive preparation of the nervous system is achieved by surgical removal or chemical fixation, to observe behavior in response to experimental stimuli. Fixation allows for observation of tar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent%20homology | See homology for an introduction to the notation.
Persistent homology is a method for computing topological features of a space at different spatial resolutions. More persistent features are detected over a wide range of spatial scales and are deemed more likely to represent true features of the underlying space rath... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule%20of%20three%20%28C%2B%2B%20programming%29 | The rule of three and rule of five are rules of thumb in C++ for the building of exception-safe code and for formalizing rules on resource management. The rules prescribe how the default members of a class should be used to achieve these goals systematically.
Rule of three
The rule of three (also known as the law of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisture%20sorption%20isotherm | At equilibrium, the relationship between water content and equilibrium relative humidity of a material can be displayed graphically by a curve, the so-called moisture sorption isotherm.
For each humidity value, a sorption isotherm indicates the corresponding water content value at a given, constant temperature. If the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantachy | In mathematics, a pantachy or pantachie (from the Greek word πανταχη meaning everywhere) is a maximal totally ordered subset of a partially ordered set, especially a set of equivalence classes of sequences of real numbers. The term was introduced by to mean a dense subset of an ordered set, and he also introduced "inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20smear | Triple smear, also known as vaginal-cervical-endocervical (VCE) smear is a cytopathology technique for identifying lesions of the female genital tract. The smear is prepared on separate areas of a single slide with three distinct samples, each from ectocervix, vagina and endocervix. Each sample occupies one-third of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA-OS | DNA-OS is a French-made operating system to supersede MutekA, an obsolete operating system, while still providing POSIX thread API. As said on the SoCLib website, "It is a kernel-mode lightweight operating system for Multiprocessor System on a Chip. It is built on top of a thin HAL to ease porting on new platforms and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20navigation | Animal navigation is the ability of many animals to find their way accurately without maps or instruments. Birds such as the Arctic tern, insects such as the monarch butterfly and fish such as the salmon regularly migrate thousands of miles to and from their breeding grounds, and many other species navigate effectively... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet%20GN | Scarlet GN, or C.I. Food Red 2, FD&C Red No. 4, or C.I. 14815 is a red azo dye once used as a food dye. As a food additive, it has the E number E125. It is usually used as a disodium salt.
In the United States, it is not permitted for use in food or ingested drugs and may only be used in externally applied drugs and c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20immune%20system | In artificial intelligence, artificial immune systems (AIS) are a class of computationally intelligent, rule-based machine learning systems inspired by the principles and processes of the vertebrate immune system. The algorithms are typically modeled after the immune system's characteristics of learning and memory for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery%20industry%20in%20Quebec | The battery industry in the Canadian province of Quebec encompasses all activities related to the production, research, and development of electric batteries in Quebec. This industry has grown in response to the increasing demand for lithium-ion batteries, primarily in the context of electric mobility and renewable ene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossorial | A fossorial () animal is one adapted to digging which lives primarily, but not solely, underground. Some examples are badgers, naked mole-rats, clams, meerkats, and mole salamanders, as well as many beetles, wasps, bees and spiders.
Prehistoric evidence
The physical adaptation of fossoriality is widely accepted as be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippmann%20electrometer | A Lippmann electrometer is a device for detecting small rushes of electric current and was invented by Gabriel Lippmann in 1873.
The device consists of a tube which is thick on one end and very thin on the other. The thin end is designed to act as a capillary tube. The tube is half-filled with mercury with a small amou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk%20substitute | A milk substitute is any substance that resembles milk and can be used in the same ways as milk. Such substances may be variously known as non-dairy beverage, nut milk, grain milk, legume milk, mock milk and alternative milk.
For adults, milk substitutes take two forms: plant milks, which are liquids made from plants... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbier%27s%20theorem | In geometry, Barbier's theorem states that every curve of constant width has perimeter times its width, regardless of its precise shape. This theorem was first published by Joseph-Émile Barbier in 1860.
Examples
The most familiar examples of curves of constant width are the circle and the Reuleaux triangle. For a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat%20%28unit%29 | The natural unit of information (symbol: nat), sometimes also nit or nepit, is a unit of information or information entropy, based on natural logarithms and powers of e, rather than the powers of 2 and base 2 logarithms, which define the shannon. This unit is also known by its unit symbol, the nat. One nat is the inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TargetLink | TargetLink is a software for automatic code generation, based on a subset of Simulink/Stateflow models, produced by dSPACE GmbH. TargetLink requires an existing MATLAB/Simulink model to work on.
TargetLink generates both ANSI-C and production code optimized for specific processors. It also supports the generation of AU... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamella%20%28materials%29 | A lamella () is a small plate or flake, from the Latin, and may also be used to refer to collections of fine sheets of material held adjacent to one another, in a gill-shaped structure, often with fluid in between though sometimes simply a set of 'welded' plates. The term is used in biological contexts to describe thin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eizo | is a Japanese visual technology company, founded in March 1968, which manufactures display products and other solutions for markets such as business, healthcare, graphics, air traffic control, and maritime. The company is headquartered in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture.
Name
The name EIZO, pronounced AY-ZO, comes from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20talocalcaneal%20ligament | The medial talocalcaneal ligament (internal calcaneo-astragaloid ligament) connects the medial tubercle of the back of the talus with the back of the sustentaculum tali.
Its fibers blend with those of the plantar calcaneonavicular ligament. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Flynn | Eugene Victor Flynn is an American-born mathematician. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford.
Biography
Flynn was born in Washington, D.C., the son of academic James Flynn who took up a position at the University of Otago. He first studied at the University of Otago, before taking a Ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20resource%20management | Environmental resource management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment. It is not, as the phrase might suggest, the management of the environment itself. Environmental resources management aims to ensure that ecosystem services are protected and maintained for future hum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored%20Waste%20Examination%20Pilot%20Plant | The Stored Waste Examination Pilot Plant (SWEPP) is a facility at the Idaho National Laboratory for nondestructively examining containers of radioactive waste to determine if they meet criteria to be stored at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. SWEPP is part of the Radioactive Waste Management Complex, located southwest ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20thorium%20resources | Thorium resources are the estimated mineral reserves of thorium on Earth. Thorium is a future potential source of low-carbon energy. Thorium has been demonstrated to perform as a nuclear fuel in several reactor designs. It is present with a higher abundance than uranium in the crust of the earth. Thorium resources have... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition-ChIP | Competition-ChIP is variant of the Chip-Sequencing protocol, used to measure relative binding dynamics of a transcription factor (TF) on DNA. Since TF occupancy measures are thought to be a poor predictor of TF function at a given locus, Competition-ChIP is much more strongly linked to function than occupancy. The tech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20production%20schedule | A master production schedule (MPS) is a plan for individual commodities to be produced in each time period such as production, staffing, inventory, etc. It is usually linked to manufacturing where the plan indicates when and how much of each product will be demanded. This plan quantifies significant processes, parts, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Data%20Format | European Data Format (EDF) is a standard file format designed for exchange and storage of medical time series. Being an open and non-proprietary format, EDF(+) is commonly used to archive, exchange and analyse data from commercial devices in a format that is independent of the acquisition system. In this way, the data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20ant%20terms | This is a glossary of terms used in the descriptions of ants.
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Glossary of entomology terms
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Glossary of scientific naming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Singaporean%20flags |
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Armorial of Singapore
Majulah Singapura |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFAST | BFAST is a universal DNA sequence aligner tool developed at UCLA by Nils Homer.
The BFAST Web Server can be used to align short reads to reference sequences in both nucleotide space as well as ABI SOLiD color space.
Utilities include BFAST alignment, conversion between nucleotide and color space, calculating the a pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Van%20den%20Bergh | Michel Van den Bergh (born 25 July 1960) is a Belgian mathematician and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and does research at Hasselt University. His research interest is on the fundamental relationship between algebra and geometry. In 2003, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Exact Sciences.
Van den Bergh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank-Olaf%20Schreyer | Frank-Olaf Schreyer is a German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry and algorithmic algebraic geometry.
Schreyer received in 1983 his PhD from Brandeis University with thesis Syzgies of Curves with Special Pencils under the supervision of David Eisenbud. Schreyer was a professor at University of Bayreuth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi%20Yasuda | Hiroshi Yasuda (born 1944) is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo and works as a Consultant for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone.
In the sphere of international standardization, together with Leonardo Chiariglione he founded the Moving Picture Experts Group which standardized MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, better kn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halpern%E2%80%93L%C3%A4uchli%20theorem | In mathematics, the Halpern–Läuchli theorem is a partition result about finite products of infinite trees. Its original purpose was to give a model for set theory in which the Boolean prime ideal theorem is true but the axiom of choice is false. It is often called the Halpern–Läuchli theorem, but the proper attribution... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20integration%20theory | Feature integration theory is a theory of attention developed in 1980 by Anne Treisman and Garry Gelade that suggests that when perceiving a stimulus, features are "registered early, automatically, and in parallel, while objects are identified separately" and at a later stage in processing. The theory has been one of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20%28physics%29 | In the terminology of quantum field theory, a ghost, ghost field, ghost particle, or gauge ghost is an unphysical state in a gauge theory. Ghosts are necessary to keep gauge invariance in theories where the local fields exceed a number of physical degrees of freedom.
If a given theory is self-consistent by the introdu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotypic%20taxon | In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispecific" or "monospecific" is sometimes preferred. In botanical nomenclature, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM%20SafetyPIN%20software | ATM SafetyPIN software is a software application that would allow users of automated teller machines (ATMs) to alert law enforcement of a forced cash withdrawal (such as in robbery) by entering their personal identification number (PIN) in reverse order. The system was patented by Illinois lawyer Joseph Zingher ().
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default%20mode%20network | In neuroscience, the default mode network (DMN), also known as the default network, default state network, or anatomically the medial frontoparietal network (M-FPN), is a large-scale brain network primarily composed of the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, precuneus and angular gyrus. It is b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20American%20Institute%20of%20Geography%20and%20History | The Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH, - IPGH) is an international organisation dedicated to the generation and transference of knowledge specialized in the fields of cartography, geography, history and geophysics.
The institute was created on February 7, 1928, during a conference held in Havana.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotelephony | Videotelephony (also known as videoconferencing, video teleconferencing, or simply video call) is the two-way or multipoint reception and transmission of audio and video signals by people in different locations for real-time communication. A videophone is a telephone with a video camera and video display, capable of si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI%20Virtu | SGI Virtu is a computer product line from Silicon Graphics dedicated to visualization, announced in April 2008. It represents a return of Silicon Graphics to the visualization market after several years of focus on high-performance computing.
SGI Virtu workstations effectively replaced the SGI Fuel, SGI Tezro and SG... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacresol%20purple | Metacresol purple or m-cresol purple, also called ''m''-cresolsulfonphthalein, is a triarylmethane dye and a pH indicator. It is used as a capnographic indicator for detecting detect end-tidal carbon dioxide to ensure successful tracheal intubation in an emergency. It can be used to measure the pH in subzero temperatur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20time%20%28rides%29 | In the context of amusement rides, air time, or airtime, refers to the time during which riders of a roller coaster or other ride experience either frictionless or negative G-forces. The negative g-forces that a rider experiences is what creates the sensation the rider feels of floating out of their seat. With roller c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virusoid | Virusoids are circular single-stranded RNA(s) dependent on viruses for replication and encapsidation. The genome of virusoids consist of several hundred (200–400) nucleotides and does not code for any proteins.
Virusoids are essentially viroids that have been encapsulated by a helper virus coat protein. They are thus ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interconnection | In telecommunications, interconnection is the physical linking of a carrier's network with equipment or facilities not belonging to that network. The term may refer to a connection between a carrier's facilities and the equipment belonging to its customer, or to a connection between two or more carriers.
In United St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent%2047 | Agent 47 is a fictional character, the protagonist and the player character of the Hitman video game franchise, developed by IO Interactive. He has been featured in all games of the series, as well as various spin-off media, including two theatrically released films, a series of comics, and two novels. He has been voic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratified%20space | In mathematics, especially in topology, a stratified space is a topological space that admits or is equipped with a stratification, a decomposition into subspaces, which are nice in some sense (e.g., smooth or flat).
A basic example is a subset of a smooth manifold that admits a Whitney stratification. But there is al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20f%C3%BCr%20Meereskunde%20Kiel | The Institut für Meereskunde (IfM, Institute of Marine Sciences) in Kiel, Germany, existed from April 1, 1937 to January 1, 2004. It was an essential element of the long history of marine sciences in Kiel. This history started with the work of Samuel Reyher published in 1697 and is today continued within the GEOMAR Hel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rarita%E2%80%93Schwinger%20equation | In theoretical physics, the Rarita–Schwinger equation is the
relativistic field equation of spin-3/2 fermions in a four-dimensional flat spacetime. It is similar to the Dirac equation for spin-1/2 fermions. This equation was first introduced by William Rarita and Julian Schwinger in 1941.
In modern notation it can be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Federation%20of%20Operational%20Research%20Societies | The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) is an umbrella organization for national operations research societies of over 45 countries from four geographical regions: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, and South America.
The organization was officially founded in 1959 by three organizatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioactive%20paper | Bioactive paper is a paper-based sensor that can identify various contaminants in food and water. First developed in 2009, bioactive paper research has been ongoing and in 2011 was awarded a 5-year grant totalling $7.5 million CAD. It has been developed at the biosensor stage level, which means it can detect pesticides... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border%20incident | A border incident, also known as cross-border incident, is an event at a border, often in the form of armed clashes.
See also
List of border conflicts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercellular%20cleft | An intercellular cleft is a channel between two cells through which molecules may travel and gap junctions and tight junctions may be present. Most notably, intercellular clefts are often found between epithelial cells and the endothelium of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels, also helping to form the blood-nerve barr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedman%27s%20paradox | In statistical analysis, Freedman's paradox, named after David Freedman, is a problem in model selection whereby predictor variables with no relationship to the dependent variable can pass tests of significance – both individually via a t-test, and jointly via an F-test for the significance of the regression. Freedman ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent%20Dirichlet%20allocation | In natural language processing, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a Bayesian network (and, therefore, a generative statistical model) that explains a set of observations through unobserved groups, and each group explains why some parts of the data are similar. The LDA is an example of a Bayesian topic model. In this... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralink | Ralink Technology, Corp. is a Wi-Fi chipset manufacturer mainly known for their IEEE 802.11 (Wireless LAN) chipsets. Ralink was founded in 2001 in Cupertino, California, then moved its headquarters to Hsinchu, Taiwan. On 5 May 2011, Ralink was acquired by MediaTek.
Some of Ralink's 802.11n RT2800 chipsets have been ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bot%C3%A1nica | A botánica (often written botanica and less commonly known as a hierbería or botica) is a religious goods store. The name botánica is Spanish and translates as "botany" or "plant store," referring to these establishments' function as dispensaries of medicinal herbs. Botánicas are common in many Hispanic American countr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20R.%20Fulkerson | Delbert Ray Fulkerson (; August 14, 1924 – January 10, 1976) was an American mathematician who co-developed the FordFulkerson algorithm, one of the most well-known algorithms to solve the maximum flow problem in networks.
Early life and education
D. R. Fulkerson was born in Tamms, Illinois, the third of six children o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-enhanced%20Raman%20spectroscopy | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy or surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a surface-sensitive technique that enhances Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on rough metal surfaces or by nanostructures such as plasmonic-magnetic silica nanotubes. The enhancement factor can be as much as 1010 to 1011, which mea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL | An OpenURL is similar to a web address, but instead of referring to a physical website, it refers to an article, book, patent, or other resource within a website.
OpenURLs are similar to permalinks because they are permanently connected to a resource, regardless of which website the resource is connected to.
Librari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%27s%20isogeny%20theorem | In mathematics, Tate's isogeny theorem, proved by , states that two abelian varieties over a finite field are isogeneous if and only if their Tate modules are isomorphic (as Galois representations). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomological%20Society%20of%20Japan | The Entomological Society of Japan () was founded in 1917 for the purpose of improving and promoting entomology in Japan. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shading%20coefficient | Shading coefficient (SC) is a measure of thermal performance of a glass unit (panel or window) in a building.
It is the ratio of solar gain (due to direct sunlight) passing through a glass unit to the solar energy which passes through 3mm Clear Float Glass. It is an indicator of how well the glass is thermally insulat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascent%20of%20sap | The ascent of sap in the xylem tissue of plants is the upward movement of water and minerals from the root to the aerial parts of the plant. The conducting cells in xylem are typically non-living and include, in various groups of plants, vessel members and tracheids. Both of these cell types have thick, lignified secon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20bordism | This is a timeline of bordism, a topological theory based on the concept of the boundary of a manifold. For context see timeline of manifolds. Jean Dieudonné wrote that cobordism returns to the attempt in 1895 to define homology theory using only (smooth) manifolds.
Integral theorems
Cohomology
Homotopy theory
Note... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibered%20manifold | In differential geometry, in the category of differentiable manifolds, a fibered manifold is a surjective submersion
that is, a surjective differentiable mapping such that at each point the tangent mapping
is surjective, or, equivalently, its rank equals
History
In topology, the words fiber (Faser in German) and f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator%20exclusion%20experiment | Pollinator exclusion experiments are experiments used by ecologists to determine the effectiveness of putative plant pollination vectors. Essentially, certain pollinators are prevented from visiting certain flowers, and observations are then made on which flowers develop seeds. If the exclusion of a certain class of vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicentric%20polygon | In geometry, a bicentric polygon is a tangential polygon (a polygon all of whose sides are tangent to an inner incircle) which is also cyclic — that is, inscribed in an outer circle that passes through each vertex of the polygon. All triangles and all regular polygons are bicentric. On the other hand, a rectangle with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga-updates%20per%20second | Giga-updates per second (GUPS) is a measure of computer performance. GUPS is a measurement of how frequently a computer can issue updates to randomly generated RAM locations. GUPS measurements stress the latency and especially bandwidth capabilities of a machine.
The BSS Random Access benchmark was proposed by IBM Re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian%20promoter%20database | The Mammalian Promoter Database (MPromDb) is a curated database of gene promoters identified from ChIP-seq. The proximal promoter region (upstream of the core-promoter region) contains the cis-regulatory elements of most of the transcription factors (TFs).
Recently, a better approach to annotate active promoters has b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered%20two-template%20relay | Ordered Two-Template Relay (OTTR) is a library preparation technique used to improve quantitation of highly modified non-coding RNA (ncRNA) species, which have been difficult to characterize using traditional cDNA sequencing approaches. OTTR leverages a retroelement reverse transcriptase (RT), termed BoMoC, with templa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%20meat%20boycott | The 1973 Meat Boycott was a week-long national boycott in the United States to protest the rapidly increasing meat prices. It took place from 1 to 8 April 1973.
Background
Meat prices began to rise in late 1972. The Consumer price index published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics attributed this price increase t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav%20%C5%A0utej | Miroslav Šutej (29 April 1936 – 13 May 2005) was a Croatian avant-garde painter and graphic artist.
Šutej was born in Duga Resa in 1936. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb and was an associate in Krsto Hegedušić's master's workshop. Since 1970, Šutej was a professor at the Academy.
Šutej became a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/259%20%28number%29 | 259 (two hundred [and] fifty-nine) is the natural number following 258 and preceding 260.
In mathematics
259 is:
a semiprime
63 + 62 + 6 + 1, so 259 is a repdigit in base 6 (11116)
a lucky number |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptidoglycan%20recognition%20protein%203 | Peptidoglycan recognition protein 3 (PGLYRP3, formerly PGRP-Iα) is an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory innate immunity protein that in humans is encoded by the PGLYRP3 gene.
Discovery
PGLYRP3 (formerly PGRP-Iα), a member of a family of human Peptidoglycan Recognition Proteins (PGRPs), was discovered in 2001 by Rom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornology | In mathematics, especially functional analysis, a bornology on a set X is a collection of subsets of X satisfying axioms that generalize the notion of boundedness. One of the key motivations behind bornologies and bornological analysis is the fact that bornological spaces provide a convenient setting for homological al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galanin-like%20peptide | Galanin-like peptide (GALP) is a neuropeptide present in humans and other mammals. It is a 60-amino acid polypeptide produced in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus and the posterior pituitary gland. It is involved in the regulation of appetite and may also have other roles such as in inflammation, sex behavior, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEDC2 | Tubulin epsilon and delta complex 2 (TEDC2), also known as Chromosome 16 open reading frame 59 (C16orf59), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TEDC2 gene. Its NCBI accession number is NP_079384.2.
Gene
Locus
TEDC2 is found on chromosome 16 at location 16p13.3, or chr16:2,460,080-2,464,963 (spanning 4883 bp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateaux%20derivative | In mathematics, the Gateaux differential or Gateaux derivative is a generalization of the concept of directional derivative in differential calculus. Named after René Gateaux, a French mathematician who died at age 25 in World War I, it is defined for functions between locally convex topological vector spaces such as B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%E2%80%93Landau%20equation | The Stuart–Landau equation describes the behavior of a nonlinear oscillating system near the Hopf bifurcation, named after John Trevor Stuart and Lev Landau. In 1944, Landau proposed an equation for the evolution of the magnitude of the disturbance, which is now called as the Landau equation, to explain the transition ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Box%20Challenge | The Little Box Challenge was an engineering competition run by Google and the IEEE's Power Electronics Society. The original challenge was posted on July 22, 2014 with modifications on December 16, 2014 and March 23, 2015. Testing was in October 2015 at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. From the 18 finalists, C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield%20Experiment | The Fairfield experiment was an experiment in industrial relations carried out at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Glasgow, during the 1960s. The experiment was initiated by Sir Iain Maxwell Stewart, industrialist, chairman of Thermotank Ltd, and signatory to the Marlow Declaration of the early 1960s... |
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