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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced%20derivative
In mathematics, the reduced derivative is a generalization of the notion of derivative that is well-suited to the study of functions of bounded variation. Although functions of bounded variation have derivatives in the sense of Radon measures, it is desirable to have a derivative that takes values in the same space as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Communications%20Service%20of%20Russia
The Special Communications and Information Service of the Federal Protective Service of the Russian Federation (Spetssvyaz, Spetssvyaz; ) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of The Federal Protective Service of Russia responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligenc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th%20meridian%20east
The meridian 35° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 35th meridian east forms a great circle with the 145th meridian west. From Pole to Pole Starting at the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20bracket%20of%20vector%20fields
In the mathematical field of differential topology, the Lie bracket of vector fields, also known as the Jacobi–Lie bracket or the commutator of vector fields, is an operator that assigns to any two vector fields X and Y on a smooth manifold M a third vector field denoted . Conceptually, the Lie bracket is the derivat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20infinity
In theoretical physics, null infinity is a region at the boundary of asymptotically flat spacetimes. In general relativity, straight paths in spacetime, called geodesics, may be space-like, time-like, or light-like (also called null). The distinction between these paths stems from whether the spacetime interval of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haploview
Haploview is a commonly used bioinformatics software which is designed to analyze and visualize patterns of linkage disequilibrium (LD) in genetic data. Haploview can also perform association studies, choosing tagSNPs and estimating haplotype frequencies. Haploview is developed and maintained by Dr. Mark Daly's lab at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite%20sites%20model
The Infinite sites model (ISM) is a mathematical model of molecular evolution first proposed by Motoo Kimura in 1969. Like other mutation models, the ISM provides a basis for understanding how mutation develops new alleles in DNA sequences. Using allele frequencies, it allows for the calculation of heterozygosity, or g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20%28electronics%29
A terminal is the point at which a conductor from a component, device or network comes to an end. Terminal may also refer to an electrical connector at this endpoint, acting as the reusable interface to a conductor and creating a point where external circuits can be connected. A terminal may simply be the end of a wire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barye
The barye (symbol: Ba), or sometimes barad, barrie, bary, baryd, baryed, or barie, is the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) unit of pressure. It is equal to 1 dyne per square centimetre.  =  =  = =  = See also Pascal (unit) International System of Units
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equicontinuity
In mathematical analysis, a family of functions is equicontinuous if all the functions are continuous and they have equal variation over a given neighbourhood, in a precise sense described herein. In particular, the concept applies to countable families, and thus sequences of functions. Equicontinuity appears in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNA5
Potassium voltage-gated channel, shaker-related subfamily, member 5, also known as KCNA5 or Kv1.5, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNA5 gene. Function Potassium channels represent the most complex class of voltage-gated ion channels from both functional and structural standpoints. KCNA5 encodes a memb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Music%20Feature%20Card
The IBM Music Feature Card (simply referred to as the IBM PC 'Music Feature' by IBM) and sometimes abbreviated as the IBM MFC, or just IMFC) is a professional-level sound card for the PC, and used the 8-bit ISA bus. The card made use of the Yamaha YM2164 chip which produces sound and music via FM synthesis. It was int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropylparaben
Isopropylparaben is a paraben. Synthesis Isopropylparaben has been prepared via the stepwise addition of isopropanol, thionyl chloride, and p-hydroxybenzoic acid at low temperature, followed by heating the reaction mixture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport%20diagram
In acid base physiology, the Davenport diagram is a graphical tool, developed by Horace W. Davenport, that allows a clinician or investigator to describe blood bicarbonate concentrations and blood pH following a respiratory and/or metabolic acid-base disturbance. The diagram depicts a three-dimensional surface describi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinase
Recombinases are genetic recombination enzymes. Site specific recombinases DNA recombinases are widely used in multicellular organisms to manipulate the structure of genomes, and to control gene expression. These enzymes, derived from bacteria (bacteriophages) and fungi, catalyze directionally sensitive DNA exchange ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rekursiv
Rekursiv was a computer processor designed by David M. Harland in the mid-1980s at a division of hi-fi manufacturer Linn Products. It was one of the few computer architectures intended to implement object-oriented concepts directly in hardware, a form of high-level language computer architecture. The Rekursiv operated ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventilation/perfusion%20ratio
In respiratory physiology, the ventilation/perfusion ratio (V/Q ratio) is a ratio used to assess the efficiency and adequacy of the matching of two variables: V – ventilation – the air that reaches the alveoli Q – perfusion – the blood that reaches the alveoli via the capillaries The V/Q ratio can therefore be defi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynaud%27s%20isogeny%20theorem
In mathematics, Raynaud's isogeny theorem, proved by , relates the Faltings heights of two isogeneous elliptic curves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxes%20of%20set%20theory
This article contains a discussion of paradoxes of set theory. As with most mathematical paradoxes, they generally reveal surprising and counter-intuitive mathematical results, rather than actual logical contradictions within modern axiomatic set theory. Basics Cardinal numbers Set theory as conceived by Georg Canto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20respiration
Cellular respiration is the process by which biological fuels are oxidized in the presence of an inorganic electron acceptor, such as oxygen, to drive the bulk production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which contains energy. Cellular respiration may be described as a set of metabolic reactions and processes that take...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia%20Kavraki
Lydia E. Kavraki () is a Greek-American computer scientist, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, a professor of bioengineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mechanical engineering at Rice University. She is also the director of the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University. She is known for her wo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-place%20matrix%20transposition
In-place matrix transposition, also called in-situ matrix transposition, is the problem of transposing an N×M matrix in-place in computer memory, ideally with O(1) (bounded) additional storage, or at most with additional storage much less than NM. Typically, the matrix is assumed to be stored in row-major or column-ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyvos
Kyvos is a business intelligence acceleration platform for cloud and big data platforms developed by an American privately held company named Kyvos Insights. The company, headquartered in Los Gatos, California, was founded by Praveen Kankariya, CEO of Impetus Technologies. The software provides OLAP-based multidimensio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Radiation%20Safety%20Authority
The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority () is the Swedish government authority responsible for radiation protection. It sorts under the Ministry of the Environment. It was created on 1 July 2008 with the merging of the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate and the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority. It employs 300 peo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity%20theory%20and%20organizations
Complexity theory and organizations, also called complexity strategy or complex adaptive organizations, is the use of the study of complexity systems in the field of strategic management and organizational studies. It draws from research in the natural sciences that examines uncertainty and non-linearity. Complexity th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-statistic
In statistics, the t-statistic is the ratio of the departure of the estimated value of a parameter from its hypothesized value to its standard error. It is used in hypothesis testing via Student's t-test. The t-statistic is used in a t-test to determine whether to support or reject the null hypothesis. It is very simil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20area
In 3-dimensional geometry and vector calculus, an area vector is a vector combining an area quantity with a direction, thus representing an oriented area in three dimensions. Every bounded surface in three dimensions can be associated with a unique area vector called its vector area. It is equal to the surface integr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20rule
In decision theory, a decision rule is a function which maps an observation to an appropriate action. Decision rules play an important role in the theory of statistics and economics, and are closely related to the concept of a strategy in game theory. In order to evaluate the usefulness of a decision rule, it is neces...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20BioQuarter
Edinburgh BioQuarter is a key initiative in the development of Scotland's life sciences industry, which employs more than 39,000 people in over 750 organisations. A community of 8,000 people currently work and study within the boundary of BioQuarter, located on the south side of Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city, ap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis%20%28linear%20algebra%20library%29
Lis (Library of Iterative Solvers for linear systems, pronounced [lis]) is a scalable parallel software library for solving discretized linear equations and eigenvalue problems that mainly arise in the numerical solution of partial differential equations by using iterative methods. Although it is designed for parallel ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature%20food
Miniature food is a replica of a dish made at a much smaller scale than the original. It may be in the form of an inedible toy or accessory, or an edible foodstuff either made from the same ingredients as the original dish, candy or other substitute and with real working miniature kitchen and cookwares. Miniature foo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timor%20Telecom
Timor Telecom, S.A. (TT) is an East Timorese telecommunications company, based in the national capital Dili. The company originally had a state monopoly on telecommunications in East Timor. The monopoly was lifted by the government in 2010 in response to overwhelming public opinion in favour of liberalisation. Shareh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bafilomycin
The bafilomycins are a family of macrolide antibiotics produced from a variety of Streptomycetes. Their chemical structure is defined by a 16-membered lactone ring scaffold. Bafilomycins exhibit a wide range of biological activity, including anti-tumor, anti-parasitic, immunosuppressant and anti-fungal activity. The mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKH
Degrees of carbonate hardness (dKH or ; the K is from the German Karbonathärte) is a unit of water hardness, specifically for temporary or carbonate hardness. Carbonate hardness is a measure of the concentration of carbonates such as calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and magnesium carbonate (MgCO3) per volume of water. As a un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDVAC
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic computers. It was built by Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania. Along with ORDVAC, it was a successor to the ENIAC. Unlike ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal, and was designed to be a stored-program compute...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus%20barrowsii
Boletus barrowsii, also known in English as the white king bolete after its pale colored cap, is an edible and highly regarded fungus in the genus Boletus that inhabits western North America. Found under ponderosa pine and live oak in autumn, it was considered a color variant of the similarly edible B. edulis for many ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenobiology
Xenobiology (XB) is a subfield of synthetic biology, the study of synthesizing and manipulating biological devices and systems. The name "xenobiology" derives from the Greek word xenos, which means "stranger, alien". Xenobiology is a form of biology that is not (yet) familiar to science and is not found in nature. In p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20milk%20bank
A human milk bank, breast milk bank or lactarium is a service that collects, screens, processes, pasteurizes, and dispenses by prescription human milk donated by nursing mothers who are not biologically related to the recipient infant. The optimum nutrition for newborn infants is breast milk for at least the first 6 mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen%20Bouquet
Kitchen Bouquet is a browning and seasoning sauce primarily composed of caramel with vegetable flavorings. It has been used as a flavoring addition for gravies and other foods since the late 19th century. It is currently produced by the Hidden Valley or HV Food Products Company. Kitchen Bouquet was manufactured in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14
IEFBR14 is an IBM mainframe utility program. It runs in all IBM mainframe environments derived from OS/360, including z/OS. It is a placeholder that returns the exit status zero, similar to the true command on UNIX-like systems. Purpose Allocation (also called Initiation) On OS/360 and derived mainframe systems, mos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality
In economics and game theory, a participant is considered to have superrationality (or renormalized rationality) if they have perfect rationality (and thus maximize their utility) but assume that all other players are superrational too and that a superrational individual will always come up with the same strategy as an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askey%E2%80%93Gasper%20inequality
In mathematics, the Askey–Gasper inequality is an inequality for Jacobi polynomials proved by and used in the proof of the Bieberbach conjecture. Statement It states that if , , and then where is a Jacobi polynomial. The case when can also be written as In this form, with a non-negative integer, the inequality...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Community%20number
The European Community number (EC number) is a unique seven-digit identifier that was assigned to substances for regulatory purposes within the European Union by the European Commission. The EC Inventory comprises three individual inventories, EINECS, ELINCS and the NLP list. Structure The EC number may be written in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis%20C%20virus%20nonstructural%20protein%204B
Nonstructural protein 4B (NS4B) is a viral protein found in the hepatitis C virus. It has mass of 27 kDa and probably involved in process of intracellular membrane structure formation to allow virus replication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Messing
William Messing is an American mathematician who works in the field of arithmetic algebraic geometry. Messing received his doctorate in 1971 at Princeton University under the supervisions of Alexander Grothendieck (and Nicholas Katz) with his thesis entitled The Crystals Associated to Barsotti–Tate Groups: With Applic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20developer
A web developer is a programmer who develops World Wide Web applications using a client–server model. The applications typically use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in the client, and any general-purpose programming language in the server. HTTP is used for communications between client and server. A web developer may special...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular%20hydrostat
A muscular hydrostat is a biological structure found in animals. It is used to manipulate items (including food) or to move its host about and consists mainly of muscles with no skeletal support. It performs its hydraulic movement without fluid in a separate compartment, as in a hydrostatic skeleton. A muscular hydro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20ligatures
Greek ligatures are graphic combinations of the letters of the Greek alphabet that were used in medieval handwritten Greek and in early printing. Ligatures were used in the cursive writing style and very extensively in later minuscule writing. There were dozens of conventional ligatures. Some of them stood for frequent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20life
The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and fossil organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to present day. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago (abbreviated as Ga, for gigaannum) and evidence suggests that life emerged prior to 3.7 Ga. Although there is some evidence of lif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20V9938
The Yamaha V9938 is a video display processor (VDP) used on the MSX2 home computer, as well as on the Geneve 9640 enhanced TI-99/4A clone and the Tatung Einstein 256. It was also used in a few MSX1 computers, in a configuration with 16kB VRAM. The Yamaha V9938, also known as MSX-Video or VDP (Video Display Processor),...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodaira%20vanishing%20theorem
In mathematics, the Kodaira vanishing theorem is a basic result of complex manifold theory and complex algebraic geometry, describing general conditions under which sheaf cohomology groups with indices q > 0 are automatically zero. The implications for the group with index q = 0 is usually that its dimension — the numb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS%20statistical%20regions%20of%20Bulgaria
The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of Bulgaria for statistical purposes. The standard is developed and regulated by the European Union. The NUTS standard is instrumental in delivering the European Union's Structural Funds. The NUTS code for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO%20Standardization%20Office
The NATO Standardization Office (NSO) (former NATO Standardization Agency, NSA; French: Bureau OTAN de normalisation) is a NATO agency created in 1951 to handle standardization activities for NATO. The NSA was formed through the merger of the Military Agency for Standardization and the Office for NATO Standardization. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence%20%28physics%29
In physics, coherence expresses the potential for two waves to interfere. Two monochromatic beams from a single source always interfere. Physical sources are not strictly monochromatic: they may be partly coherent. Beams from different sources are mutually incoherent. When interfering, two waves add together to create...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, a multiple is the product of any quantity and an integer. In other words, for the quantities a and b, it can be said that b is a multiple of a if b = na for some integer n, which is called the multiplier. If a is not zero, this is equivalent to saying that is an integer. When a and b are both integers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson%20effect
In physics, the Josephson effect is a phenomenon that occurs when two superconductors are placed in proximity, with some barrier or restriction between them. The effect is named after the British physicist Brian Josephson, who predicted in 1962 the mathematical relationships for the current and voltage across the weak ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20unsolved%20problems%20in%20fair%20division
This page lists notable open problems related to fair division - a field in the intersection of mathematics, computer science, political science and economics. Open problems in fair cake-cutting Query complexity of envy-free cake-cutting In the problem of envy-free cake-cutting, there is a cake modeled as an interva...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinanthropometry
Kinanthropometry is defined as the study of human size, shape, proportion, composition, maturation, and gross function, in order to understand growth, exercise, performance, and nutrition. It is a scientific discipline that is concerned with the measurement of individuals in a variety of morphological perspectives, it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20cuts%20in%20computer%20vision
As applied in the field of computer vision, graph cut optimization can be employed to efficiently solve a wide variety of low-level computer vision problems (early vision), such as image smoothing, the stereo correspondence problem, image segmentation, object co-segmentation, and many other computer vision problems tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion%20%28acoustics%29
Diffusion, in architectural acoustics, is the spreading of sound energy evenly in a given environment. A perfectly diffusive sound space is one in which the reverberation time is the same at any listening position. Most interior spaces are non-diffusive; the reverberation time is considerably different around the room....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-off%20%28microtechnology%29
The lift-off process in microstructuring technology is a method of creating structures (patterning) of a target material on the surface of a substrate (e.g. wafer) using a sacrificial material (e.g. photoresist). It is an additive technique as opposed to more traditional subtracting technique like etching. The scale of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20envy-freeness
Group envy-freeness (also called: coalition fairness) is a criterion for fair division. A group-envy-free division is a division of a resource among several partners such that every group of partners feel that their allocated share is at least as good as the share of any other group with the same size. The term is used...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity%20calculus
Quantity calculus is the formal method for describing the mathematical relations between abstract physical quantities. Its roots can be traced to Fourier's concept of dimensional analysis (1822). The basic axiom of quantity calculus is Maxwell's description of a physical quantity as the product of a "numerical value"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meatus
In anatomy, a meatus (, ,<ref >OED 2nd edition, 1989, as .</ref> : meatus or meatuses)<ref >Entry "meatus" in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.</ref> is a natural body opening or canal. Meatus may refer to: the external acoustic meatus, the opening of the ear canal the internal auditory meatus, a canal in the tempo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H3K9me2
H3K9me2 is an epigenetic modification to the DNA packaging protein Histone H3. It is a mark that indicates the di-methylation at the 9th lysine residue of the histone H3 protein. H3K9me2 is strongly associated with transcriptional repression. H3K9me2 levels are higher at silent compared to active genes in a 10kb region...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%201287
Code page 1287 (CCSID 1287), also known as CP1287, DEC Greek (8-bit) and EL8DEC, is one of the code pages implemented for the VT220 terminals. It supports the Greek language. Code page layout See also DEC Multinational Character Set (MCS) 8-bit DEC Turkish (Code page 1288) 8-bit DEC Hebrew 8-bit DEC Cyrillic (KOI-8 C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab%20boil
A crab boil is a social event where boiled crabs are eaten, a kind of seafood boil. Louisiana and New Orleans Boiled seafood in southern Louisiana tends to be spicier than that found in other parts of the country. Homemade crab boil recipes call for abundant amounts of hot sauce, cayenne pepper, salt, bay leaf, lemon,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%20wave%20function
In mathematics, a Coulomb wave function is a solution of the Coulomb wave equation, named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. They are used to describe the behavior of charged particles in a Coulomb potential and can be written in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions or Whittaker functions of imaginary argument. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic%20derivative
In mathematics, specifically in calculus and complex analysis, the logarithmic derivative of a function f is defined by the formula where is the derivative of f. Intuitively, this is the infinitesimal relative change in f; that is, the infinitesimal absolute change in f, namely scaled by the current value of f. Whe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunsky%27s%20theorem
In mathematics, Grunsky's theorem, due to the German mathematician Helmut Grunsky, is a result in complex analysis concerning holomorphic univalent functions defined on the unit disk in the complex numbers. The theorem states that a univalent function defined on the unit disc, fixing the point 0, maps every disk |z| <...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrososphaera%20gargensis
Nitrososphaera gargensis is a non-pathogenic, small coccus measuring 0.9 ± 0.3 μm in diameter. N. gargensis is observed in small abnormal cocci groupings and uses its archaella to move via chemotaxis. Being an Archaeon, Nitrososphaera gargensis has a cell membrane composed of crenarchaeol, its isomer, and a distinct gl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20and%20geometric%20Frobenius
In mathematics, the Frobenius endomorphism is defined in any commutative ring R that has characteristic p, where p is a prime number. Namely, the mapping φ that takes r in R to rp is a ring endomorphism of R. The image of φ is then Rp, the subring of R consisting of p-th powers. In some important cases, for example fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated%20prime
In abstract algebra, an associated prime of a module M over a ring R is a type of prime ideal of R that arises as an annihilator of a (prime) submodule of M. The set of associated primes is usually denoted by and sometimes called the assassin or assassinator of (word play between the notation and the fact that an a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug%20recycling
Drug recycling, also referred to as medication redispensing or medication re-use, is the idea that health care organizations or patients with unused drugs can transfer them in a safe and appropriate way to another patient in need. The purpose of such a program is reducing medication waste, thereby saving healthcare cos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20i
IBM i (the i standing for integrated) is an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems. It was originally released in 1988 as OS/400, as the sole operating system of the IBM AS/400 line of systems. It was renamed to i5/OS in 2004, before being renamed a second time to IBM i in 2008. It is an evolution of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20I.%20Miller
Michael Ira Miller (born 1955) is an American-born biomedical engineer and data scientist, and the Bessie Darling Massey Professor and Director of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering. He worked with Ulf Grenander in the field of Computational Anatomy as it pertains to neuroscience, special...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Bradburn
Mary Bradburn (1918–2000) was a British mathematics educator who became president of the Mathematical Association for the 1994–1995 term. Education and career Bradburn was born on 17 March 1918 in Normanby in North Yorkshire, the daughter of a marine engineer and a Scotswoman. She attended a school that didn't approv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adductor%20brevis%20muscle
The adductor brevis is a muscle in the thigh situated immediately deep to the pectineus and adductor longus. It belongs to the adductor muscle group. The main function of the adductor brevis is to pull the thigh medially. The adductor brevis and the rest of the adductor muscle group is also used to stabilize left to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunks%20%28book%29
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet is a 2012 book by Julian Assange, in discussion with Internet activists and cypherpunks Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann. Its primary topic is society's relationship with information security. In the book, the authors warn that the Internet h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinantal%20conjecture
In mathematics, the determinantal conjecture of and asks whether the determinant of a sum A + B of two n by n normal complex matrices A and B lies in the convex hull of the n! points Πi (λ(A)i + λ(B)σ(i)), where the numbers λ(A)i and λ(B)i are the eigenvalues of A and B, and σ is an element of the symmetric group Sn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald%20Cram%C3%A9r
Harald Cramér (; 25 September 1893 – 5 October 1985) was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. John Kingman described him as "one of the giants of statistical theory". Biography Early life Harald Cramér was born in Stockholm, Swed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubical%20complex
In mathematics, a cubical complex (also called cubical set and Cartesian complex) is a set composed of points, line segments, squares, cubes, and their n-dimensional counterparts. They are used analogously to simplicial complexes and CW complexes in the computation of the homology of topological spaces. Definitions ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelvic%20tilt
Pelvic tilt is the orientation of the pelvis in respect to the thighbones and the rest of the body. The pelvis can tilt towards the front, back, or either side of the body. Anterior pelvic tilt and posterior pelvic tilt are very common abnormalities in regard to the orientation of the pelvis. Forms Anterior pelvic t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotyping%20by%20sequencing
In the field of genetic sequencing, genotyping by sequencing, also called GBS, is a method to discover single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in order to perform genotyping studies, such as genome-wide association studies (GWAS). GBS uses restriction enzymes to reduce genome complexity and genotype multiple DNA samples....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Fantechi
Barbara Fantechi is an Italian mathematician and Professor at the International School for Advanced Studies. Her research area is algebraic geometry. She is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. Early life and education Fantechi received her Laurea from the University of Pisa in 1988, with thesis Secanti di varietà pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Molecular%20and%20Biomolecular%20Informatics
The Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI) is an academic computational biology (bioinformatics) research department based in Nijmegen (the Netherlands), and is part of the Radboudumc University Medical Center. Most of the research topics at the CMBI focus strongly on (in silico) biomedical data ana...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20optics
Gaussian optics is a technique in geometrical optics that describes the behaviour of light rays in optical systems by using the paraxial approximation, in which only rays which make small angles with the optical axis of the system are considered. In this approximation, trigonometric functions can be expressed as linear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20radio
TV radio, TV band radio, and TV audio radio are common names for a type of radio receiver that can play the audio portion of a TV channel. The actual name of the device may comprise a list of all frequency bands the device can receive (e.g. AM, FM, weather, TV radio), one or two of which includes the TV channel bands. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Object%20Request%20Broker%20Architecture
The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) designed to facilitate the communication of systems that are deployed on diverse platforms. CORBA enables collaboration between systems on different operating systems, programming languages, and computing h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMTOR
AMTOR (Amateur Teleprinting Over Radio) is a type of telecommunications system that consists of two or more electromechanical teleprinters in different locations that send and receive messages to one another. AMTOR is a specialized form of RTTY protocol. The term is an acronym for Amateur Teleprinting Over Radio and is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamster%20wheel
A hamster wheel or running wheel is an exercise device used primarily by hamsters and other rodents, but also by other cursorial animals when given the opportunity. Most of these devices consist of a runged or ridged wheel held on a stand by a single or pair of stub axles. Hamster wheels allow rodents to run even when ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exome
The exome is composed of all of the exons within the genome, the sequences which, when transcribed, remain within the mature RNA after introns are removed by RNA splicing. This includes untranslated regions of messenger RNA (mRNA), and coding regions. Exome sequencing has proven to be an efficient method of determining...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational%20quantum%20eigensolver
In quantum computing, the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a quantum algorithm for quantum chemistry, quantum simulations and optimization problems. It is a hybrid algorithm that uses both classical computers and quantum computers to find the ground state of a given physical system. Given a guess or ansatz, the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate%20entropy
In statistics, an approximate entropy (ApEn) is a technique used to quantify the amount of regularity and the unpredictability of fluctuations over time-series data. For example, consider two series of data: Series A: (0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, ...), which alternates 0 and 1. Series B: (0, 1, 0...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intramyocellular%20lipids
Intramyocellular lipids (or IMCL) are fats stored in droplets in muscle cells. They provide an important energy source for working muscle. During exercise, a large amount of circulating free fatty acids are directed into muscle cells for energy; during rest, incoming fatty acids are instead stored in the muscle cell as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAIN%20Initiative
The White House BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) is a collaborative, public-private research initiative announced by the Obama administration on April 2, 2013, with the goal of supporting the development and application of innovative technologies that can create a dynamic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrador%20tea
Labrador tea is a common name for three closely related plant species in the genus Rhododendron as well as a herbal tea made from their leaves. All three species are primarily wetland plants in the heath family. The herbal tea has been a favorite beverage among Athabaskan First Nations and Inuit. Description All thre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regen%20und%20Meer
"" () is a song by German band Juli. It was written by band members Jonas Pfetzing and Eva Briegel along with singer Diane Weigmann for their debut album, Es ist Juli (2004), while production was helmed by O.L.A.F. Opal. Formats and track listings Charts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20knowledge
General knowledge is information that has been accumulated over time through various media and sources. It excludes specialized learning that can only be obtained with extensive training and information confined to a single medium. General knowledge is an essential component of crystallized intelligence. It is strongly...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%20Games
Winter Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx (and released in Europe by U.S. Gold), based on sports featured in the Winter Olympic Games. A snow-and-ice themed follow-up to the highly successful Summer Games, Winter Games was released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 and later ported to several popular home compu...