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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20of%20agency | The sense of agency (SA), or sense of control, is the subjective awareness of initiating, executing, and controlling one's own volitional actions in the world. It is the pre-reflective awareness or implicit sense that it is I who is executing bodily movement(s) or thinking thoughts. In non-pathological experience, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewing | Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer, at home by a homebrewer, or communally. Brewing has taken place since around the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QVT | QVT (Query/View/Transformation) is a standard set of languages for model transformation defined by the Object Management Group.
Overview
Model transformation is a key technique used in model-driven architecture. As the name QVT indicates, the OMG standard covers transformations, views and queries together. Model que... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itarudivirus%20ARV1 | Acidianus rod-shaped virus 1 (ARV1), scientific name Itarudivurs ARV1, is an archaeal virus and the sole species in the genus Itarudivirus. Its only known host is Acidianus sp. Acii26. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulnar%20carpal%20collateral%20ligament | The ulnar collateral ligament (internal lateral ligament, ulnar carpal collateral ligament or ulnar collateral ligament of the wrist joint) is a rounded cord, attached above to the end of the styloid process of the ulna, and dividing below into two fasciculi, one of which is attached to the medial side of the triquetra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Widow%20%28paint%20mix%29 | Black Widow (also known as a Black Widow Ultra in Europe) is a non-commercial open source project to design a paint mix for the base of a DIY projection screen. Anonymous DIYers responsible for popularizing Black Widow in the DIY community include Mechman Alternators (US), Wbassett (US) and Custard10 (EU). The paint mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade%20merge%20sort | Cascade merge sort is similar to the polyphase merge sort but uses a simpler distribution. The merge is slower than a polyphase merge when there are fewer than six files, but faster when there are more than six. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield%20gap | The yield gap or yield ratio is the ratio of the dividend yield of an equity and the yield of a long-term government bond. Typically equities have a higher yield (as a percentage of the market price of the equity) thus reflecting the higher risk of holding an equity.
The purpose of calculating the yield gap is to ass... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odell%20Down%20Under | Odell Down Under is a 1994 game for Microsoft Windows and Classic Mac OS that takes place in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Released by MECC, it is the sequel to Odell Lake.
History
Odell Down Under was released alongside a re-release of its companion game, Odell Lake. The game was recommended for ages 9 to adul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusin%27s%20separation%20theorem | In descriptive set theory and mathematical logic, Lusin's separation theorem states that if A and B are disjoint analytic subsets of Polish space, then there is a Borel set C in the space such that A ⊆ C and B ∩ C = ∅. It is named after Nikolai Luzin, who proved it in 1927.
The theorem can be generalized to show that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantinos%20Drosatos | Konstantinos Drosatos (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Δροσάτος), born in Athens, Greece, is a Greek-American molecular biologist, who is the Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Physiology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. His parents were Georgios Drosatos an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir%20sampling | Reservoir sampling is a family of randomized algorithms for choosing a simple random sample, without replacement, of items from a population of unknown size in a single pass over the items. The size of the population is not known to the algorithm and is typically too large for all items to fit into main memory. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew%20computing | Dew computing is an information technology (IT) paradigm that combines the core concept of cloud computing with the capabilities of end devices (personal computers, mobile phones, etc.). It is used to enhance the experience for the end user in comparison to only using cloud computing. Dew computing attempts to solve ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%20version%20history | Debian releases do not follow a fixed schedule. Recent releases have been made roughly biennially by the Debian Project. The most recent version of Debian is Debian version 12, codename "Bookworm". The next up and coming release of Debian is Debian 13, codename "Trixie".
Debian always has at least three active branche... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naimark%20equivalence | In mathematical representation theory, two representations of a group on topological vector spaces are called Naimark equivalent (named after Mark Naimark) if there is a closed bijective linear map between dense subspaces preserving the group action. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExcelStor%20Technology | ExcelStor Technology () was established in 2000 as a small hard disk drive manufacturer and has evolved into a contract manufacturer and a system integrator. ExcelStor bought the bankrupt Conner Technology PLC, its products and factory. It has a manufacturing plant in Shenzhen, China, and an R&D center in Longmont, Col... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20independence | In the mathematical theory of free probability, the notion of free independence was introduced by Dan Voiculescu. The definition of free independence is parallel to the classical definition of independence, except that the role of Cartesian products of measure spaces (corresponding to tensor products of their function ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical%20species | Several species have been assumed to exist, but due to a lack of physical evidence they can only be regarded as potential species. Hypothetical species are usually believed to be extinct. They have caused confusion, as they may have been a separate species, a subspecies, an introduced species or a misidentification.
L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelowiella%20natans | Bigelowiella natans is a species of Chlorarachniophyte alga that is a model organism for the Rhizaria.
Chlorarachniophyte are unicellular marine algae with plastids of secondary endosymbiotic origin. Bigelowiella natans are a key resource for studying the supergroup of mostly unicellular eukaryotes.
Genomes
The Bigel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aortic%20pressure | Central aortic blood pressure (CAP or CASP) is the blood pressure at the root of aorta. Studies have shown the importance of central aortic pressure and its implications in assessing the efficacy of antihypertensive treatment with respect to cardiovascular risk factors. The traditional method of measuring blood pressur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Modern%20Dynamics | The Journal of Modern Dynamics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics published by the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences with the support of the Anatole Katok Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry (Pennsylvania State University). The editor-in-chief is Giovanni Forni (University of Maryland ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidophagy | Lepidophagy is a specialised feeding behaviour in fish that involves eating the scales of other fish. Lepidophagy is widespread, having evolved independently in at least five freshwater families and seven marine families. A related feeding behavior among fish is pterygophagy: feeding on the fins of other fish.
Species... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a constraint is a condition of an optimization problem that the solution must satisfy. There are several types of constraints—primarily equality constraints, inequality constraints, and integer constraints. The set of candidate solutions that satisfy all constraints is called the feasible set.
Example
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius%20baliophaeus | Lactarius baliophaeus is a member of the large milk-cap genus Lactarius in the order Russulales. Described as new to science by mycologist David Pegler in 1969, the species is found in Ghana, Benin, and Zambia. Fruitbodies of the type collection were found growing in the ground under Cassia. It is closely related to La... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20inertia | Climate inertia or climate change inertia is the phenomenon by which a planet's climate system shows a resistance or slowness to deviate away from a given dynamic state. It can accompany stability and other effects of feedback within complex systems, and includes the inertia exhibited by physical movements of matter a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomic%20aphasia | Anomic aphasia (also known as dysnomia, nominal aphasia, and amnesic aphasia) is a mild, fluent type of aphasia where individuals have word retrieval failures and cannot express the words they want to say (particularly nouns and verbs). By contrast, anomia is a deficit of expressive language, and a symptom of all form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%20factor%20%28psychometrics%29 | The g factor (also known as general intelligence, general mental ability or general intelligence factor) is a construct developed in psychometric investigations of cognitive abilities and human intelligence. It is a variable that summarizes positive correlations among different cognitive tasks, reflecting the fact that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic%20keyboard | A photovoltaic keyboard, or solar keyboard, is a wireless computer keyboard that charges its batteries from a light source such as the sun or interior lighting, addressing a major drawback of wireless computer peripherals that otherwise require regular replacement of discharged batteries.
On such device is the Logitec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-type%20lectin | A C-type lectin (CLEC) is a type of carbohydrate-binding protein known as a lectin. The C-type designation is from their requirement for calcium for binding. Proteins that contain C-type lectin domains have a diverse range of functions including cell-cell adhesion, immune response to pathogens and apoptosis.
Classific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desakota | Desakota is a term used in urban geography used to describe areas in the extended surroundings of large cities, in which urban and agricultural forms of land use and settlement coexist and are intensively intermingled.
Etymology
The term was coined by the urban researcher Terry McGee of the University of British Colu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protonympha | Protonympha is a form genus for problematic fossils of Devonian age in New York. It has been of special interest because of its morphological similarity with the iconic Ediacaran fossil Spriggina, and may have been a late surviving vendobiont.
Description
Protonympha is a flat, quilted fossil, which has previously be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parched%20grain | Parched grain is grain that has been cooked by dry roasting. It is an ancient foodstuff and is thought to be one of the earliest ways in which the hunter gatherers in the Fertile Crescent ate grains. Historically, it was a common food in the Middle East, as attested by the following Bible quotes:
"On the day after the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20impedance%20myography | Electrical impedance myography, or EIM, is a non-invasive technique for the assessment of muscle health that is based on the measurement of the electrical impedance characteristics of individual muscles or groups of muscles. The technique has been used for the purpose of evaluating neuromuscular diseases both for their... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-202%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-202 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
The pre-miR-202 in the mouse genome is located fully within an exon, whereas in human it lies across a splice junction. This implies that human miR-202 is exposed to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression%20of%20Alzheimer%20disease | Depression is one of the most common psychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease, occurring at all stages of the disease, but it often appears in a different form than other depressive disorders. In 2000, a workgroup of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health created a set of provisional diagnostic criteria for de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver%20biopsy | Liver biopsy is the biopsy (removal of a small sample of tissue) from the liver. It is a medical test that is done to aid diagnosis of liver disease, to assess the severity of known liver disease, and to monitor the progress of treatment.
Medical uses
Liver biopsy is often required for the diagnosis of a liver problem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agraphesthesia | Agraphesthesia is a disorder of directional cutaneous kinesthesia or a disorientation of the skin's sensation across its space. It is a difficulty recognizing a written number or letter traced on the skin after parietal damage.
Causes
Agraphesthesia, or the lack of graphesthesia ability, results from brain damage, pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware%20Carbon%20Black | VMware Carbon Black (formerly Bit9, Bit9 + Carbon Black, and Carbon Black) is a cybersecurity company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company develops cloud-native endpoint security software that is designed to detect malicious behavior and to help prevent malicious files from attacking an organization. The compan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put/call%20ratio | In finance the put/call ratio (or put-call ratio, PCR) is a technical indicator demonstrating investor sentiment. The ratio represents a proportion between all the put options and all the call options purchased on any given day. The put/call ratio can be calculated for any individual stock, as well as for any index, or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing%20meat | Washing meat or cleaning meat is a technique of preparation, primarily used to treat raw meat or poultry prior to cooking in order to sanitize it. Several methods are used which are not limited to rinsing with running water (or with the use of a strainer) or soaking in saltwater, vinegar, lemon juice, or other acids, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20by%20demonstration | In computer science, programming by demonstration (PbD) is an end-user development technique for teaching a computer or a robot new behaviors by demonstrating the task to transfer directly instead of programming it through machine commands.
The terms programming by example (PbE) and programming by demonstration (PbD) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20B.%20Saxe | James Benjamin Saxe is an American computer scientist who has worked for many years at the DEC Systems Research Center and its successors, the Compaq Systems Research Center and the Systems Research Center of HP Labs.
Saxe is known for his highly-cited publications on
automated theorem proving,
circuit complexity,
ret... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-year%20rule | The "thirty-year rule" is the informal name given to laws in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the Commonwealth of Australia that provide that certain government documents will be released publicly thirty years after they were created.
Some other countries' national archives also adhere to a thirty-year... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%E2%80%93pathogen%20interaction | The host–pathogen interaction is defined as how microbes or viruses sustain themselves within host organisms on a molecular, cellular, organismal or population level. This term is most commonly used to refer to disease-causing microorganisms although they may not cause illness in all hosts. Because of this, the definit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20schedule | In cryptography, the so-called product ciphers are a certain kind of cipher, where the (de-)ciphering of data is typically done as an iteration of rounds. The setup for each round is generally the same, except for round-specific fixed values called a round constant, and round-specific data derived from the cipher key ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding%20puzzle | A sliding puzzle, sliding block puzzle, or sliding tile puzzle is a combination puzzle that challenges a player to slide (frequently flat) pieces along certain routes (usually on a board) to establish a certain end-configuration. The pieces to be moved may consist of simple shapes, or they may be imprinted with colour... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20poset | In mathematics, a differential poset is a partially ordered set (or poset for short) satisfying certain local properties. (The formal definition is given below.) This family of posets was introduced by as a generalization of Young's lattice (the poset of integer partitions ordered by inclusion), many of whose combin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction%20criterion | In quantum information theory, the reduction criterion is a necessary condition a mixed state must satisfy in order for it to be separable. In other words, the reduction criterion is a separability criterion. It was first proved
and independently formulated in 1999. Violation of the reduction criterion is closely rela... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMA-related%20kinase%201 | NIMA (never in mitosis gene a)-related kinase 1, also known as NEK1, is a human gene highly expressed in germ cells and thought to be involved in meiosis. It is also involved in the response to DNA damage from radiation; defects in this gene can be a cause of polycystic kidney disease. NEK1 is thought to be involved in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Funk | Paul Georg Funk (14 April 1886, Vienna – 3 June 1969, Vienna) was an Austrian mathematician who introduced the Funk transform and who worked on the calculus of variations.
Biography
Born in Vienna in 1886, Paul Funk was the son of a deputy bank manager and went to high school in Baden and Gmunden. Then, studied mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdx | The Cdx gene family, also called caudal genes, are a group of genes found in many animal genomes. Cdx genes contain a homeobox DNA sequence and code for proteins that act as transcription factors. The gene after which the gene family is named (the founding member) is the caudal or cad gene of the fruitfly Drosophila me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfrenatia | Winfrenatia is a genus that contains the oldest-known terrestrial lichen, occurring in fossils preserved in the lower Devonian Rhynie chert. The genus contains the single species Winfrenatia reticulata, named for the texture of its surface. Both the species and the genus were described in 1997.
It comprises a thallus,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabuchi%20functional | In mathematics, and especially complex geometry, the Mabuchi functional or K-energy functional is a functional on the space of Kähler potentials of a compact Kähler manifold whose critical points are constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics. The Mabuchi functional was introduced by Toshiki Mabuchi in 1985 as a function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntex | Laboratorios Syntex SA (later Syntex Laboratories, Inc.) was a pharmaceutical company formed in Mexico City in January 1944 by Russell Marker, Emeric Somlo, and Federico Lehmann to manufacture therapeutic steroids from the Mexican yams called cabeza de negro (Dioscorea mexicana) and Barbasco (Dioscorea composita). The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20language | Animal languages are forms of non-human animal communication that show similarities to human language. Animals communicate through a variety of signs, such as sounds or movements. Signing among animals may be considered complex enough to be a form of language if the inventory of signs is large. The signs are relatively... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-Certificate%20Working%20Group | The Meta-Certificate Working Group (MCWG), also called the Meta-Certificate Group (MCG), was an Internet work group on information security.
The MCWG was founded by Ed Gerck in 1997 and had participants from 26 countries. The discussions were public as in a list server but with a privacy innovation—the participants' n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20tibial%20recurrent%20artery | The posterior tibial recurrent artery, an inconstant branch, is given off from the anterior tibial before that vessel passes through the gap between superior tibio-fibular joint and upper border of interosseous membrane.
It ascends in front of the Popliteus, which it supplies, and anastomoses with the inferior genicul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrvoje%20Kraljevi%C4%87 | Hrvoje Kraljević (born 16 March 1944) is Croatian mathematician and a former politician.
He was born in Zagreb. He graduated theoretical physics in 1966 and received his PhD in mathematics in 1973 at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. He worked at the Faculty since 1966, becoming a full professor in 1982. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlapping%20gene | An overlapping gene (or OLG) is a gene whose expressible nucleotide sequence partially overlaps with the expressible nucleotide sequence of another gene. In this way, a nucleotide sequence may make a contribution to the function of one or more gene products. Overlapping genes are present in and a fundamental feature of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20R.%20Srinivasa%20Varadhan | Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan, (born 2 January 1940) is an Indian American mathematician. He is known for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations. He is regarded as one of the fundamental contributors to the theory of diff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E77%20balloon%20bomb | The E77 balloon bomb was a U.S. anti-crop biological munition based on the design of Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb. The E77 used feathers as a vector to disseminate anti-crop agents from a hydrogen-filled balloon and was first developed in 1950.
Background
In the late stages of World War II, Japan employed thousands of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20integration%20theory | Information integration theory was proposed by Norman H. Anderson to describe and model how a person integrates information from a number of sources in order to make an overall judgment. The theory proposes three functions.
The valuation function is an empirically derived mapping of stimuli to an interval scale. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophore | A photophore is a glandular organ that appears as luminous spots on various marine animals, including fish and cephalopods. The organ can be simple, or as complex as the human eye; equipped with lenses, shutters, color filters and reflectors, however unlike an eye it is optimized to produce light, not absorb it. The bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral%20zone | A floral zone is an area with similar distributions of plant species, usually a horizontal belt determined by elevation. In a historic report on plant distribution in the United States, The Death Valley Expedition: A Biological Survey of Parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, naturalist Clinton Hart Merriam de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20zeta%20function | In number theory, the local zeta function (sometimes called the congruent zeta function or the Hasse–Weil zeta function) is defined as
where is a non-singular -dimensional projective algebraic variety over the field with elements and is the number of points of defined over the finite field extension of .
Makin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2057 | In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 57 is a family of glycoside hydrolases.
Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus%20murrayi | Deinococcus murrayi is a bacterium. It produces orange-pigmented colonies and has an optimum growth temperature of about to . It is extremely gamma radiation-resistant. Its type strain is ALT-1b (= DSM 11303). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary%20property | In mathematics, a hereditary property is a property of an object that is inherited by all of its subobjects, where the meaning of subobject depends on the context. These properties are particularly considered in topology and graph theory, but also in set theory.
In topology
In topology, a topological property is said ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset%20agreement | Offsets are compensatory trade agreements, reciprocal trade agreements, between an exporting foreign company, or possibly a government acting as intermediary, and an importing entity. Offset agreements often involve trade in military goods and services and are alternatively called: industrial compensations, industrial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20of%20May | The Sun of May is a national symbol of Argentina and Uruguay, appearing on both of their flags.
History
According to Diego Abad de Santillán, the Sun of May represents Inti, the Incan god of the sun.
The specification "of May" is a reference to the May Revolution which took place in the week from 18 to 25 May 1810,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworth%27s%20limit%20theorem | Edgeworth's limit theorem is an economic theorem, named after Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, stating that the core of an economy shrinks to the set of Walrasian equilibria as the number of agents increases to infinity.
That is, among all possible outcomes which may result from free market exchange or barter between groups ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20identity%20testing | In mathematics, polynomial identity testing (PIT) is the problem of efficiently determining whether two multivariate polynomials are identical. More formally, a PIT algorithm is given an arithmetic circuit that computes a polynomial p in a field, and decides whether p is the zero polynomial. Determining the computation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitope%20mapping | In immunology, epitope mapping is the process of experimentally identifying the binding site, or epitope, of an antibody on its target antigen (usually, on a protein). Identification and characterization of antibody binding sites aid in the discovery and development of new therapeutics, vaccines, and diagnostics. Epito... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium%20Health | Elysium Health is an American manufacturer of dietary supplements based in New York City.
History
Elysium Health was founded in 2014 by Leonard Guarente, Dan Alminana, and Eric Marcotulli.
In 2015, Elysium introduced its first product, Basis, which contains nicotinamide riboside and pterostilbene.
In December 2016,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interventionism%20%28medicine%29 | Interventionism, when discussing the practice of medicine, is generally a derogatory term used by critics of a medical model in which patients are viewed as passive recipients receiving external treatments provided by the physician that have the effect of prolonging life, or at least of providing a subjective sense of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon%20error%20correction | Reed–Solomon codes are a group of error-correcting codes that were introduced by Irving S. Reed and Gustave Solomon in 1960.
They have many applications, the most prominent of which include consumer technologies such as MiniDiscs, CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, QR codes, data transmission technologies such as DSL and WiMAX,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing%20pin | A nursing pin is a type of badge, usually made of metal such as gold or silver, which is worn by nurses to identify the nursing school from which they graduated. They are traditionally presented to the newly graduated nurses by the faculty at a pinning ceremony as a symbolic welcome into the profession. Most pins have ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis%20%C3%97%20fulva | Digitalis × fulva, the strawberry foxglove, is a hybrid species of flowering plant within the family Plantaginaceae. It is a naturally occurring fertile hybrid between the species Digitalis grandiflora and Digitalis purpurea. The species is widely marketed in the UK under the common name strawberry foxglove or its taxo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virucide | A virucide (alternatively spelled viricide or named biocidal agent or known as microbicides or biocides) is any physical or chemical agent that deactivates or destroys viruses. The substances are not only virucidal but can be also bactericidal, fungicidal, sporicidal or tuberculocidal.
Virucides are to be used outside... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viu%20%28streaming%20service%29 | Viu (pronounced as view) is a Hong Kong-based over-the-top (OTT) video streaming provider from PCCW Media Group's Viu International Ltd. Operated in a dual-revenue model comprising subscriptions and advertising, Viu delivers content in different genres from Asia's top content providers with local language subtitles, as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20Thread%20Execution | Parallel Thread Execution (PTX or NVPTX) is a low-level parallel thread execution virtual machine and instruction set architecture used in Nvidia's CUDA programming environment. The NVCC compiler translates code written in CUDA, a C++-like language, into PTX instructions (an assembly language represented as ASCII text)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20conductance%20fluctuations | Universal conductance fluctuations (UCF) in mesoscopic physics is a phenomenon encountered in electrical transport experiments in mesoscopic species. The measured electrical conductance will vary from sample to sample, mainly due to inhomogeneous scattering sites. Fluctuations originate from coherence effects for elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly%20network | A butterfly network is a technique to link multiple computers into a high-speed network. This form of multistage interconnection network topology can be used to connect different nodes in a multiprocessor system. The interconnect network for a shared memory multiprocessor system must have low latency and high bandwidth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphylococcus%20aureus | Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive spherically shaped bacterium, a member of the Bacillota, and is a usual member of the microbiota of the body, frequently found in the upper respiratory tract and on the skin. It is often positive for catalase and nitrate reduction and is a facultative anaerobe that can grow with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroidin | Moroidin is a biologically active compound found in the plants Dendrocnide moroides and Celosia argentea. It is a peptide composed of eight amino acids, with unusual leucine-tryptophan and tryptophan-histidine cross-links that form its two rings. Moroidin has been shown to be at least one of several bioactive compounds... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menarche | Menarche ( ; ) is the first menstrual cycle, or first menstrual bleeding, in female humans. From both social and medical perspectives, it is often considered the central event of female puberty, as it signals the possibility of fertility.
Girls experience menarche at different ages. Having menarche occur between the a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroflexus%20aggregans | Chloroflexus aggregans is a thermophilic, filamentous, phototrophic bacterium that forms dense cell aggregates. Its type strain is strain MD-66 (= DSM 9485). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20Nokia | Club Nokia was a mobile internet digital distribution portal, similar to an App Store, operated by Nokia to provide special offers, paid-for ringtones, picture messages and game content directly to members. Following resistance from its mobile operator customers, Nokia partially closed the service and the brand became ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Board%20of%20Agr%C3%A9ment | The British Board of Agrément (BBA) is a UK body issuing certificates for construction products and systems and providing inspection services in support of their designers and installers.
Agrément certificate
This is an authoritative document proving the fitness for the purpose of a construction product and its compl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM%20%28hardware%20interface%29 | COM (communication port) is the original, yet still common, name of the serial port interface on PC-compatible computers. It can refer not only to physical ports, but also to emulated ports, such as ports created by Bluetooth or USB adapters.
History
The name for the COM port started with the original IBM PC. IBM had ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell%20envelope | The Snell envelope, used in stochastics and mathematical finance, is the smallest supermartingale dominating a stochastic process. The Snell envelope is named after James Laurie Snell.
Definition
Given a filtered probability space and an absolutely continuous probability measure then an adapted process is the Sne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsal%20interossei%20of%20the%20foot | In human anatomy, the dorsal interossei of the foot are four muscles situated between the metatarsal bones.
Origin
The four interossei muscles are bipenniform muscles each originating by two heads from the proximal half of the sides of adjacent metatarsal bones.
Insertion
The two heads of each muscle form a central... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS | Input/output operations per second (IOPS, pronounced eye-ops) is an input/output performance measurement used to characterize computer storage devices like hard disk drives (HDD), solid state drives (SSD), and storage area networks (SAN). Like benchmarks, IOPS numbers published by storage device manufacturers do not di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian%20yuan%20shu | Tian yuan shu () is a Chinese system of algebra for polynomial equations. Some of the earliest existing writings were created in the 13th century during the Yuan dynasty. However, the tianyuanshu method was known much earlier, in the Song dynasty and possibly before.
History
The Tianyuanshu was explained in the writi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous%20breathing%20trial | A spontaneous breathing trial is a test for patients on mechanical ventilation, before they can be weaned from the ventilator, i.e. return to normal breathing. The weaning process depends closely on the patient's pathology, but the final common pathway to ventilator independence always includes at least one trial of sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20abnormal%20behaviours%20in%20animals | Abnormal behaviour in animals can be defined in several ways. Statistically, abnormal is when the occurrence, frequency or intensity of a behaviour varies statistically significantly, either more or less, from the normal value. This means that theoretically, almost any behaviour could become abnormal in an individual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20Santal%C3%B3 | Luís Antoni Santaló Sors (October 9, 1911 – November 22, 2001) was a Spanish mathematician.
He graduated from the University of Madrid and he studied at the University of Hamburg, where he received his Ph.D. in 1936. His advisor was Wilhelm Blaschke. Because of the Spanish Civil War, he moved to Argentina as a profe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically%20modified%20soybean | A genetically modified soybean is a soybean (Glycine max) that has had DNA introduced into it using genetic engineering techniques. In 1996, the first genetically modified soybean was introduced to the U.S. by Monsanto. In 2014, 90.7 million hectares of GM soybeans were planted worldwide, this is almost 82% of the tota... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/98th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 98° east of Greenwich is a longitude line extending from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 98th meridian east forms a great circle with the 82nd meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and heading ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Processing%20Technology%20Building | The Food Processing Technology Building is a Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech Research Institute facility. It houses the Food Processing Technology Division of GTRI, which includes the Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP) and Georgia’s Traditional Industries Program for Food Processing. It op... |
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