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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrolytdatenbank%20Regensburg
Elektrolytdatenbank Regensburg (abridged ELDAR) is a compilation of thermodynamic data, bibliography and properties of electrolytes and their solutions. History The gathering of data has begun in 1981. It is a member of DECHEMA and associate of Dortmund Data Bank. Content Densities, dielectric constants Thermal expan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance%20operator
In probability theory, for a probability measure P on a Hilbert space H with inner product , the covariance of P is the bilinear form Cov: H × H → R given by for all x and y in H. The covariance operator C is then defined by (from the Riesz representation theorem, such operator exists if Cov is bounded). Since Cov is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle%20gerbe
In mathematics, a bundle gerbe is a geometrical model of certain 1-gerbes with connection, or equivalently of a 2-class in Deligne cohomology. Topology -principal bundles over a space (see circle bundle) are geometrical realizations of 1-classes in Deligne cohomology which consist of 1-form connections and 2-form cu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrig
The penrig is a unit of tumescence, specifically for the tumescence of the human penis. It is defined as the tumescence that will raise 100 grams of penile tissue through one millimetre. The word is formed from PENis RIGidity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotoxin
An exotoxin is a toxin secreted by bacteria. An exotoxin can cause damage to the host by destroying cells or disrupting normal cellular metabolism. They are highly potent and can cause major damage to the host. Exotoxins may be secreted, or, similar to endotoxins, may be released during lysis of the cell. Gram negative...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oosporein
Oosporein is a toxic, bronze colored dibenzoquinone with the molecular formula C14H10O8. Oosporein was first extracted from various molds and has antibiotic, antiviral, cytotoxic, antifungal, and Insecticide properties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioinosinic%20acid
Thioinosinic acid (or thioinosine monophosphate, TIMP) is an intermediate metabolite of azathioprine, an immunosuppressive drug.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branko%20Gr%C3%BCnbaum
Branko Grünbaum (; 2 October 1929 – 14 September 2018) was a Croatian-born mathematician of Jewish descent and a professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received his Ph.D. in 1957 from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Life Grünbaum was born in Osijek, then part of the Kingdom of Yug...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic%20theory%20of%20gases
The kinetic theory of gases is a simple, historically significant classical model of the thermodynamic behavior of gases, with which many principal concepts of thermodynamics were established. The model describes a gas as a large number of identical submicroscopic particles (atoms or molecules), all of which are in co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Phoenix%20%28SETI%29
Project Phoenix was a SETI project to search for extraterrestrial intelligence by analyzing patterns in radio signals. It was run by the independently funded SETI Institute of Mountain View, California, U.S. Project Phoenix started work in February 1995 with the Parkes radio telescope located in New South Wales, Austr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%3A35%20scale
1:35 scale is the most popular scale for model military vehicles, with an extensive lineup of models and aftermarket parts available from a wide variety of manufacturers. The roots of 1:35 as a military modelling scale lie in early motorized plastic tank kits. To accommodate electric motors and gearboxes, these models...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixstars%20Solutions
Fixstars Solutions, Inc. is a software and services company specializing in multi-core processors, particularly in Nvidia's GPU and CUDA environment, IBM Power7, and Cell. They also specialize in solid-state drives and currently manufacture the world's largest SATA drives. During the early part of 2010, Fixstars deve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadeloupe%20parakeet
The Guadeloupe parakeet (Psittacara labati) is a hypothetical species of parrot that would have been endemic to Guadeloupe. Description Jean-Baptiste Labat described a population of small parrots living on Guadeloupe: Taxonomy They were later named Conurus labati, and are now called the Guadeloupe parakeet. It has be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleb%20distribution
In economics and finance, a Taleb distribution is the statistical profile of an investment which normally provides a payoff of small positive returns, while carrying a small but significant risk of catastrophic losses. The term was coined by journalist Martin Wolf and economist John Kay to describe investments with a "...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetic%20regulation%20of%20neurogenesis
Epigenetic regulation of neurogenesis is the role that epigenetics (hertitable characteristics that do not involve changes in DNA sequence) plays in the regulation of neurogenesis (the production of neurons from neural stem cells). Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression which do not result fr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor%20count
The transistor count is the number of transistors in an electronic device (typically on a single substrate or "chip"). It is the most common measure of integrated circuit complexity (although the majority of transistors in modern microprocessors are contained in the cache memories, which consist mostly of the same memo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winny
Winny (also known as WinNY) is a Japanese peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program developed by Isamu Kaneko, a research assistant at the University of Tokyo in 2002. Like Freenet, a user must add an encrypted node list in order to connect to other nodes on the network. Users choose three cluster words which symbolize...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphlebia
Aphlebiae are the imperfect or irregular leaf endings commonly found on ferns and fossils of ferns from the Carboniferous Period, but seem to have disappeared by the beginning of the Mesozoic. According to the United States Geological Survey in 1983, “The discovery in recent years of Aplebiæ attached to the rachis of m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91-Isomethyl%20ionone
α-Isomethyl ionone, also known as α-cetone, is a synthetically made and naturally occurring organic compound found in Brewer's yeasts or the species known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The compound is an isomer of methyl ionone. Alpha-isomethyl ionone can be colorless or pale-straw coloured liquid. Its primary scent is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20boiling%20and%20freezing%20information%20of%20solvents
See also Freezing-point depression Boiling-point elevation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golodirsen
Golodirsen, sold under the brand name Vyondys 53, is a medication used for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). It is an antisense oligonucleotide drug of phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (PMO) chemistry. The most common side effects include headache, fever, fall, cough, vomiting, abdominal pain, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Parker%20Fessenden
Anna Parker Fessenden (April 8, 1896 – May 3, 1972) was an American botanist and mathematics educator. Early life and education Anna Parker Fessenden was born in Thomaston, Maine, and raised in Mattapan, Massachusetts, the middle of three daughters of William S. Fessenden and Alida Mary Mehan Fessenden. Her mother wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberun
Cyberun is a ZX Spectrum video game by Ultimate Play the Game and published by U.S. Gold in 1986. Although not part of the Jetman series, it has similarities to Jetpac in that the player must construct their spaceship from parts, then seek out resources and power-ups. Gameplay The player controls a spaceship trapped...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Force%20Two
Air Force Two is the air traffic control designated call sign held by any United States Air Force aircraft carrying the vice president of the United States, but not the president. The term is often associated with the Boeing C-32, a modified 757 which is most commonly used as the vice president's transport. Other 89th ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20mass%20function
In astronomy, the binary mass function or simply mass function is a function that constrains the mass of the unseen component (typically a star or exoplanet) in a single-lined spectroscopic binary star or in a planetary system. It can be calculated from observable quantities only, namely the orbital period of the binar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Lysenkoism (, ; , ) was a political campaign led by Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko against genetics and science-based agriculture in the mid-20th century, rejecting natural selection in favour of a form of Lamarckism, as well as expanding upon the techniques of vernalization and grafting. More than 3,000 mainstream b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20Complexity
Ecological Complexity is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the field of biocomplexity in the environment and theoretical ecology with special attention to papers that integrate natural and social processes at various spatio-temporal scales. The founding editor was Bai-Lian (Larry) Li (University of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specman
Specman is an EDA tool that provides advanced automated functional verification of hardware designs. It provides an environment for working with, compiling, and debugging testbench environments written in the e Hardware Verification Language. Specman also offers automated testbench generation to boost productivity in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20ecology
Ecology is a new science and considered as an important branch of biological science, having only become prominent during the second half of the 20th century. Ecological thought is derivative of established currents in philosophy, particularly from ethics and politics. Its history stems all the way back to the 4th cen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient%20calculus
In computer science, the ambient calculus is a process calculus devised by Luca Cardelli and Andrew D. Gordon in 1998, and used to describe and theorise about concurrent systems that include mobility. Here mobility means both computation carried out on mobile devices (i.e. networks that have a dynamic topology), and mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris%E2%80%93Benedict%20equation
The Harris–Benedict equation (also called the Harris-Benedict principle) is a method used to estimate an individual's basal metabolic rate (BMR). The estimated BMR value may be multiplied by a number that corresponds to the individual's activity level; the resulting number is the approximate daily kilocalorie intake t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29%20%28number%29
29 (twenty-nine) is the natural number following 28 and preceding 30. Mathematics 29 is the tenth prime number, and the fifth primorial prime. 29 forms a twin prime pair with thirty-one, which is also a primorial prime. Twenty-nine is also the sixth Sophie Germain prime. 29 is the sum of three consecutive squares, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded%20Future
Recorded Future is a privately held cybersecurity company founded in 2009, with headquarters in Somerville, Massachusetts. The company specializes in the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of threat intelligence. Recorded Future uses machine learning and natural language processing methods to continu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20common%20physics%20notations
This is a list of common physical constants and variables, and their notations. Note that bold text indicates that the quantity is a vector. Latin characters Greek characters Other characters See also List of letters used in mathematics and science Glossary of mathematical symbols List of mathematical uses of La...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om%20Prakash%20Bhasin%20Award
Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Science and Technology is an Indian award, instituted in 1985 to recognize excellence in the areas of science and technology. The award, given individually or collectively to a group, is annual in cycle and carries a plaque, a citation and a cash prize of 100,000. The winners are invited to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis%20%28Resident%20Evil%29
The Nemesis, also called the Nemesis-T Type, or the , is a character in Resident Evil (Biohazard in Japan), a survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. Although smaller than other Tyrant models, the creature dwarfs a typical human, and possesses vastly superior intelligence and physical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk%20modulus
The bulk modulus ( or ) of a substance is a measure of the resistance of a substance to bulk compression. It is defined as the ratio of the infinitesimal pressure increase to the resulting relative decrease of the volume. Other moduli describe the material's response (strain) to other kinds of stress: the shear modulu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20external%20pudendal%20artery
The deep external pudendal artery (deep external pudic artery) is one of the pudendal arteries that is more deeply seated than the superficial external pudendal artery, passes medially across the pectineus and the adductor longus muscles; it is covered by the fascia lata, which it pierces at the medial side of the thig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telet%C3%B3n%20%28Chile%29
Teletón is a charity event held in Chile on a yearly basis since 1978. It is usually held during the first week of December, unless a political election occurs at the same time. The major Chilean television networks hold a 27-hour transmission, to raise funds to help children with developmental disabilities (most commo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20virtualization
Mobile virtualization is hardware virtualization on a mobile phone or connected wireless device. It enables multiple operating systems or virtual machines to run simultaneously on a mobile phone or connected wireless device. It uses a hypervisor to create secure separation between the underlying hardware and the softw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniGene
UniGene was a NCBI database of the transcriptome and thus, despite the name, not primarily a database for genes. Each entry is a set of transcripts that appear to stem from the same transcription locus (i.e. gene or expressed pseudogene). Information on protein similarities, gene expression, cDNA clones, and genomic lo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological%20perturbation%20theory
In physical cosmology, cosmological perturbation theory is the theory by which the evolution of structure is understood in the Big Bang model. Cosmological perturbation theory may be broken into two categories: Newtonian or general relativistic. Each case uses its governing equations to compute gravitational and pressu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted%20repeat
An inverted repeat (or IR) is a single stranded sequence of nucleotides followed downstream by its reverse complement. The intervening sequence of nucleotides between the initial sequence and the reverse complement can be any length including zero. For example, is an inverted repeat sequence. When the intervening leng...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Viktorovich%20Bochkarev
Sergei (or Sergey) Viktorovich Bochkarev (or Bočkarev) (Сергей Викторович Бочкарёв, born July 24, 1941, in Kuybyshev now renamed Samara) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. Education and career He received in 1964 his undergraduate degree from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and in 1969 his Russian Candi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endothoracic%20fascia
The endothoracic fascia is the layer of loose connective tissue deep to the intercostal spaces and ribs, separating these structures from the underlying pleura. This fascial layer is the outermost membrane of the thoracic cavity. The endothoracic fascia contains variable amounts of fat. It becomes more fibrous over th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20adaptation
Domain adaptation is a field associated with machine learning and transfer learning. This scenario arises when we aim at learning a model from a source data distribution and applying that model on a different (but related) target data distribution. For instance, one of the tasks of the common spam filtering problem con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoglobaceae
Archaeoglobaceae are a family of the Archaeoglobales. All known genera within the Archaeoglobaceae are hyperthermophilic and can be found near undersea hydrothermal vents. Archaeoglobaceae are the only family in the order Archaeoglobales, which is the only order in the class Archaeoglobi. Mode of metabolism While al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone%20methylation
Histone methylation is a process by which methyl groups are transferred to amino acids of histone proteins that make up nucleosomes, which the DNA double helix wraps around to form chromosomes. Methylation of histones can either increase or decrease transcription of genes, depending on which amino acids in the histones...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declassification
Declassification is the process of ceasing a protective classification, often under the principle of freedom of information. Procedures for declassification vary by country. Papers may be withheld without being classified as secret, and eventually made available. United Kingdom Classified information has been governe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Rona%20%28physician%29
Peter Rona, born as Peter Rosenfeld (* 13. May 1871 in Budapest; † February or March 1945) was a Hungarian German Jewish physician and physiologist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20gerontology
Financial gerontology is a multidisciplinary field of study encompassing both academic and professional education, that integrates research on aging and human development with the concerns of finance and business. Following from its roots in social gerontology, Financial gerontology is not simply the study of old peopl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching%20Mathematics%20and%20Its%20Applications
Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of mathematics education. The Journal was established in 1982 and is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. The editors-in-chief are Duncan Lawson (Newman Un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isao%20Ijima
was a Japanese zoologist known for his studies of sponges (Porifera) — including his circumscription of the genus Staurocalyptus — leeches (Hirudinea), flatworms (Turbellaria), birds, and fish. Professor of Zoology at Tokyo Imperial University, he is considered the founder of parasitology in Japan and was the first Pre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20of%20health
In the domain of Electric Vehicles, State of health (SoH) is a figure of merit of the condition of a battery (or a cell, or a battery pack), compared to its ideal conditions. The unit of SoH is percent (100% = the battery's conditions match the battery's specifications). Typically, a battery's SoH will be 100% at the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco%20Z-2
Z-2 is a series of microcomputers made by Cromemco, Inc. which were introduced to the market in the middle to late 1970s. They were S-100 bus machines powered by the Zilog Z80 processor and typically ran on the CP/M operating system. They were originally available in assembled or kit form to serve both a commercial ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20fixedness
Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is traditionally used. The concept of functional fixedness originated in Gestalt psychology, a movement in psychology that emphasizes holistic processing. Karl Duncker defined functional fixedness as being a mental block a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire%20%28cipher%29
The Solitaire cryptographic algorithm was designed by Bruce Schneier at the request of Neal Stephenson for use in his novel Cryptonomicon, in which field agents use it to communicate securely without having to rely on electronics or having to carry incriminating tools. It was designed to be a manual cryptosystem calcu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Neumann%27s%20inequality
In operator theory, von Neumann's inequality, due to John von Neumann, states that, for a fixed contraction T, the polynomial functional calculus map is itself a contraction. Formal statement For a contraction T acting on a Hilbert space and a polynomial p, then the norm of p(T) is bounded by the supremum of |p(z)| fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Bew
Mark Bew MBE (born 5 March 1967) is an English engineer and chairman of the PCSG consultancy business, formerly ECS. Until January 2015, he was also chairman of BuildingSMART's UK chapter, and, from 2011 to 2016, was chair of the UK Government's BIM Task Group, a body created to drive implementation of building informa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioretention
Bioretention is the process in which contaminants and sedimentation are removed from stormwater runoff. The main objective of the bioretention cell is to attenuate peak runoff as well as to remove stormwater runoff pollutants. Construction of a bioretention area Stormwater is firstly directed into the designed treatm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjan%27s%20algorithm
Tarjan's algorithm may refer to one of several algorithms attributed to Robert Tarjan, including: Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm Tarjan's algorithm for finding bridges in an undirected graph Tarjan's algorithm for finding simple circuits in a di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileus%20%28hat%29
The pileus (, ; also or in Latin) was a brimless felt cap worn in Ancient Greece, Etruria, Illyria (especially Pannonia), later also introduced in Ancient Rome. The pileus also appears on Apulian red-figure pottery. The pilos together with the petasos were the most common types of hats in Archaic and Classical era (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myhill%20isomorphism%20theorem
In computability theory the Myhill isomorphism theorem, named after John Myhill, provides a characterization for two numberings to induce the same notion of computability on a set. Theorem Definitions Sets A and B of natural numbers are said to be recursively isomorphic if there is a total computable bijective funct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarity%20%28psychology%29
Similarity refers to the psychological degree of identity of two mental representations. It is fundamental to human cognition since it provides the basis for categorization of entities into kinds and for various other cognitive processes. It underpins our ability to interact with unknown entities by predicting how they...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20brain%20mapping
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to brain mapping: Brain mapping – set of neuroscience techniques predicated on the mapping of (biological) quantities or properties onto spatial representations of the (human or non-human) brain resulting in maps. Brain mapping is further defined as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardbass
Hardbass or hard bass () is a subgenre of pumping house that originated in Saint Petersburg, Russia during the late 1990s, drawing inspiration from bouncy techno, hardstyle, as well as local Russian influences. Hardbass is characterized by its fast tempo (usually 150–175 BPM), donks, distinctive basslines (commonly kno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annona%20longiflora
Annona longiflora is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is endemic to Mexico. Sereno Watson, the American botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its long ( in Latin) flowers. Description It is a bush reaching 0.9 meters in height. Its leaves are 5.1-10.2 centimeters long and co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steadfast%20Networks
Steadfast Networks is a Chicago, Illinois-based Internet Service Provider primarily focused on Cloud Computing, Dedicated Servers and Colocation. It is a division of Nozone, Inc., a company founded in 1998 by then high-school student Karl Zimmerman in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and incorporated in 2000. In 2008 it was name...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission%20product%20yield
Nuclear fission splits a heavy nucleus such as uranium or plutonium into two lighter nuclei, which are called fission products. Yield refers to the fraction of a fission product produced per fission. Yield can be broken down by: Individual isotope Chemical element spanning several isotopes of different mass number b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homothetic%20center
In geometry, a homothetic center (also called a center of similarity or a center of similitude) is a point from which at least two geometrically similar figures can be seen as a dilation or contraction of one another. If the center is external, the two figures are directly similar to one another; their angles have the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20stress%20measurement
Plant stress measurement is the quantification of environmental effects on plant health. When plants are subjected to less than ideal growing conditions, they are considered to be under stress. Stress factors can affect growth, survival and crop yields. Plant stress research looks at the response of plants to limitatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting%20curve%20analysis
Melting curve analysis is an assessment of the dissociation characteristics of double-stranded DNA during heating. As the temperature is raised, the double strand begins to dissociate leading to a rise in the absorbance intensity, hyperchromicity. The temperature at which 50% of DNA is denatured is known as the melting...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel%20Computational%20Biology%20Conference
The Basel Computational Biology Conference (stylized as [BC]2) is a scientific meeting on the subjects of bioinformatics and computational biology. It covers a wide spectrum of disciplines, including bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, computational structural biology, and systems biology. The conference i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jour%20de%20neige
"Jour de neige" is a 1988 song recorded by French singer Elsa Lunghini. Written by Pierre Grosz with a music composed by Vincent-Marie Bouvot and Georges Lunghini, it was released in November 1988 as the third single from her debut album Elsa. As for the previous three singles, it had a great success in France, reachin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolbear%27s%20law
Dolbear's law states the relationship between the air temperature and the rate at which crickets chirp. It was formulated by Amos Dolbear and published in 1897 in an article called "The Cricket as a Thermometer". Dolbear's observations on the relation between chirp rate and temperature were preceded by an 1881 report b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20Plan%20Act
Sense-Plan-Act was the predominant robot control methodology through 1985. Sense - gather information using the sensors Plan - create a world model using all the information, and plan the next move Act SPA is used in iterations: After the acting phase, the sensing phase, and the entire cycle, is repeated. see als...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faber%20polynomials
In mathematics, the Faber polynomials Pm of a Laurent series are the polynomials such that vanishes at z=0. They were introduced by and studied by and .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atiyah%E2%80%93Segal%20completion%20theorem
The Atiyah–Segal completion theorem is a theorem in mathematics about equivariant K-theory in homotopy theory. Let G be a compact Lie group and let X be a G-CW-complex. The theorem then states that the projection map induces an isomorphism of prorings Here, the induced map has as domain the completion of the G-equiva...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphocyte
A lymphocyte is a type of white blood cell (leukocyte) in the immune system of most vertebrates. Lymphocytes include T cells (for cell-mediated, cytotoxic adaptive immunity), B cells (for humoral, antibody-driven adaptive immunity), and Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) ("innate T cell-like" cells involved in mucosal immuni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach%20experiment
In quantum physics, the Stern–Gerlach experiment demonstrated that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized. Thus an atomic-scale system was shown to have intrinsically quantum properties. In the original experiment, silver atoms were sent through a spatially-varying magnetic field, which deflected them...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiology
Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular (single-celled), multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, protistology, mycology, immunology, and parasitology. Euk...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%27s%20principle
In physics, Hamilton's principle is William Rowan Hamilton's formulation of the principle of stationary action. It states that the dynamics of a physical system are determined by a variational problem for a functional based on a single function, the Lagrangian, which may contain all physical information concerning the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng%20cycle
The Cheng cycle is a thermodynamic cycle which uses a combination of two working fluids, one gas and one steam. It can therefore be considered a combination of the Brayton cycle and the Rankine cycle. It was named for Dr. Dah Yu Cheng. The company founded by Dr. Cheng has developed systems in partnership with both GM...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20range
A home range is the area in which an animal lives and moves on a periodic basis. It is related to the concept of an animal's territory which is the area that is actively defended. The concept of a home range was introduced by W. H. Burt in 1943. He drew maps showing where the animal had been observed at different times...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%20vector%20space
In mathematics, a Tate vector space is a vector space obtained from finite-dimensional vector spaces in a way that makes it possible to extend concepts such as dimension and determinant to an infinite-dimensional situation. Tate spaces were introduced by , who named them after John Tate. Introduction A typical example...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%20pseudospectral%20method
The Gauss pseudospectral method (GPM), one of many topics named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, is a direct transcription method for discretizing a continuous optimal control problem into a nonlinear program (NLP). The Gauss pseudospectral method differs from several other pseudospectral methods in that the dynamics are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicative%20computing%20systems
Applicative computing systems, or ACS are the systems of object calculi founded on combinatory logic and lambda calculus. The only essential notion which is under consideration in these systems is the representation of object. In combinatory logic the only metaoperator is application in a sense of applying one object ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonesome%20George
Lonesome George ( or , 1910 – June 24, 2012) was a male Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis niger abingdonii) and the last known individual of the subspecies. In his last years, he was known as the rarest creature in the world. George serves as an important symbol for conservation efforts in the Galápagos Islands and t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasilver
Seasilver is the trademarked name of a commercial dietary supplement produced and sold by the companies Seasilver USA, Inc. and Americaloe, Inc. The product was promoted with the false claim that it could "cure 650 diseases", resulting in the prosecution and fining of the companies' owners. Corporate history Seasilve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternionic%20projective%20space
In mathematics, quaternionic projective space is an extension of the ideas of real projective space and complex projective space, to the case where coordinates lie in the ring of quaternions Quaternionic projective space of dimension n is usually denoted by and is a closed manifold of (real) dimension 4n. It is a hom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reilly%20formula
In the mathematical field of Riemannian geometry, the Reilly formula is an important identity, discovered by Robert Reilly in 1977. It says that, given a smooth Riemannian manifold-with-boundary and a smooth function on , one has in which is the second fundamental form of the boundary of , is its mean curvature, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave%20clock
In telecommunication and horology, a slave clock is a clock that depends on another clock, the master clock. Modern clocks are synchronized through the Internet or by radio time signals, to Coordinated Universal Time. UTC is based on a network of atomic clocks in many countries. For scientific purposes, precision cloc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity%20of%20cell%20membranes
A cell membrane defines a boundary between a cell and its environment. The primary constituent of a membrane is a phospholipid bilayer that forms in a water-based environment due to the hydrophilic nature of the lipid head and the hydrophobic nature of the two tails. In addition there are other lipids and proteins in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venoms%20in%20medicine
Venom in medicine is the medicinal use of venoms for therapeutic benefit in treating diseases. Venom is any poisonous compound secreted by an animal intended to harm or disable another. When an organism produces a venom, its final form may contain hundreds of different bioactive elements that interact with each other ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour%20bomb
A flour bomb is a fragile container (e.g. a paper bag) filled with flour for the purpose to be thrown at a person or object to cause an inconvenient and messy stain, called flour bombing. Flour bombs and flour bombing are a classic protest method, along with the throwing of eggs and overripe tomatoes. The effect of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi%20method
In numerical linear algebra, the Jacobi method (a.k.a. the Jacobi iteration method) is an iterative algorithm for determining the solutions of a strictly diagonally dominant system of linear equations. Each diagonal element is solved for, and an approximate value is plugged in. The process is then iterated until it con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugaboo%20%28The%20Flea%29
Bugaboo (The Flea), later published in Spain as La Pulga, is a video game written by the Spanish programming duo Paco Portalo and Paco Suarez for the ZX Spectrum and published by Quicksilva in 1983. It was later released for the Commodore 64 and MSX were produced. The Amstrad CPC port was published under the name Rola...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, have myocytes and are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. As of 2022, 2.16 mill...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkov%20statistic
Sinkov statistics, also known as log-weight statistics, is a specialized field of statistics that was developed by Abraham Sinkov, while working for the small Signal Intelligence Service organization, the primary mission of which was to compile codes and ciphers for use by the U.S. Army. The mathematics involved includ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartwheel%20pattern
A cartwheel pattern pattern is a histopathologic architectural pattern. Microscopically, cartwheel arrangements appear to have center points that radiate cells or connective tissue outward. Cartwheel patterns may be irregular and, at lower magnification, can cause tissue to appear tangled into clumps. Skin tumors tha...