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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20machine
In computer science, an abstract machine is a theoretical model that allows for a detailed and precise analysis of how a computer system functions. It is similar to a mathematical function in that it receives inputs and produces outputs based on predefined rules. Abstract machines vary from literal machines in that the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernphysikalische%20Forschungsberichte
Kernphysikalische Forschungsberichte (Research Reports in Nuclear Physics) was an internal publication of the German Uranverein, which was initiated under the Heereswaffenamt (Army Ordnance Office) in 1939; in 1942, supervision of the Uranverein was turned over to the Reichsforschungsrat under the Reichserziehungsminis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya%20ICBG%20bioprospecting%20controversy
The Maya ICBG bioprospecting controversy took place in 1999–2000, when the International Cooperative Biodiversity Group led by ethnobiologist Dr. Brent Berlin was accused of engaging in unethical forms of bioprospecting (biopiracy) by several NGOs and indigenous organizations. The ICBG had as its aim to document the bi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricholoma%20orirubens
Tricholoma orirubens, commonly known as blushing tricholoma, is an edible gilled mushroom native to Europe. The grey-capped fruit bodies are generally found singly or in small groups in deciduous and coniferous woodland in autumn. Taxonomy Tricholoma orirubens was described by French mycologist Lucien Quélet in 1873. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch%27s%20triangle
Koch's triangle, named after the German pathologist Walter Koch, is an anatomical area located in the superficial paraseptal endocardium of the right atrium, which its boundaries are the coronary sinus orifice, tendon of Todaro, and septal leaflet of the right atrioventricular valve. It is anatomically significant beca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20of%20Food%20and%20Tobacco%20Workers
The Union of Food and Tobacco Workers () was a trade union representing workers in the food and tobacco processing sectors in Yugoslavia. The union was founded in April 1945 and affiliated to the Confederation of Trade Unions of Yugoslavia. Initially, it only represented food workers, but in 1948, it absorbed the sma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20flags%20of%20Mexico
Most Mexican states do not have an official flag. For these states, a de facto flag is used for civil and state purposes. State flags of Mexico have a 4:7 ratio and typically consist of a white background charged with the state's coat of arms. At least eight states have official flags: Baja California Sur, Durango, G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20L.%20Jinks
John Leonard Jinks CBE FRS (Stoke-on-Trent, 21 October 1929 – 6 June 1987) was a British geneticist. His untimely death at 57 cut short a distinguished career with many contributions in the fields of microbial genetics, cytoplasmic inheritance, and biometrical genetics. Career He was educated at Birmingham University ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulex
Emulex Corporation is a provider of computer network connectivity, monitoring and management hardware and software. The company's I/O connectivity offerings, including its line of Ethernet and Fibre Channel-based connectivity products, are or were used in server and storage products from OEMs, including Cisco, Dell, EM...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann%E2%80%93Sassaman%20key-signing%20protocol
In cryptography, the Zimmermann–Sassaman key-signing protocol is a protocol to speed up the public key fingerprint verification part of a key signing party. It requires some work before the event. The protocol was invented during a key signing party with Len Sassaman, Werner Koch, Phil Zimmermann, and others. Sassama...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult%20diaper
An adult diaper (or adult nappy in Australian English, British English, and Hiberno-English) is a diaper made to be worn by a person with a body larger than that of an infant or toddler. Diapers can be necessary for adults with various conditions, such as incontinence, mobility impairment, severe diarrhea or dementia. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assessment%20of%20kidney%20function
Assessment of kidney function occurs in different ways, using the presence of symptoms and signs, as well as measurements using urine tests, blood tests, and medical imaging. Functions of a healthy kidney include maintaining a person's fluid balance, maintaining an acid-base balance; regulating electrolytes including...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar%20hemlock%20douglas-fir%20forest
Cedar hemlock douglas-fir forest is a vegetation association in California, United States. This is one of the Kuchler system forest types used to classify California plant communities. As the name implies, dominant tree types are Incense cedar, Western Hemlock and Douglas fir. The forest type is classified FRES20 in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20European%20Olympiad%20in%20Informatics
The Central European Olympiad in Informatics (CEOI) is an annual informatics competition for secondary school students. Each of the participating central European countries (plus one or two guest countries, and a local team from the host area) sends a team of up to four contestants, a team leader and a deputy team lead...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytene%20chromosome
Polytene chromosomes are large chromosomes which have thousands of DNA strands. They provide a high level of function in certain tissues such as salivary glands of insects. Polytene chromosomes were first reported by E.G.Balbiani in 1881. Polytene chromosomes are found in dipteran flies: the best understood are those ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C7.GAT%20protein
The C7.GAT protein is a zinc finger protein based on the C7 protein (itself based on the murine Zif268). It features an alternative zinc finger 3 alpha helix sequence, preventing the target site overlap caused by the aspartic acid residue of the finger 3 of C7. The sequence of this third finger is TSG-N-LVR according t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle%20Area%20Network
The Vehicle Area Network (VAN) is a vehicle bus developed by PSA Peugeot Citroën and Renault. It is a serial protocol capable of speeds up to 125 kbit/s and is standardised in ISO 11519-3. At the media layer, VAN is a differential bus with dominant and recessive states signalling ones and zeros much like CAN bus. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branchwork
Branchwork or branch tracery (, Dutch: Lofwerk of Loofwerk) is a type of architectural ornament often used in late Gothic architecture and the Northern Renaissance, consisting of knobbly, intertwined and leafless branches. Branchwork was particularly widespread in Central European art between 1480 and 1520 and can be f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20set
In general topology, a subset of a topological space is perfect if it is closed and has no isolated points. Equivalently: the set is perfect if , where denotes the set of all limit points of , also known as the derived set of . In a perfect set, every point can be approximated arbitrarily well by other points from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandstacked
The term bandstacked applies to an antenna or satellite feedhorn (LNBF) that is designed to operate on two or more bands of frequencies. Usually, a portion of the radio frequency spectrum that has been divided into a low band and a high band. This example is for a C Band LNBF that operates with two different local osc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-MSCP
i-MSCP (internet Multi Server Control Panel) is a software (OSS) for shared hosting environments management on Linux servers. It comes with a large choice of modules for various services such as Apache2, ProFTPd, Dovecot, Courier, Bind9, and can be easily extended through plugins, or listener files using its events-bas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%E2%80%93ligand%20complex
A protein–ligand complex is a complex of a protein bound with a ligand that is formed following molecular recognition between proteins that interact with each other or with other molecules. Formation of a protein-ligand complex is based on molecular recognition between biological macromolecules and ligands, where ligan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jointly%20Administered%20Knowledge%20Environment
The Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment, or jake, was the first open source OpenURL link server. It was a free database created by Yale University. Jake contained metadata about periodicals, including which databases a periodical appeared in, and whether it was indexed, abstracted, or full-text. Additionally,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20cerebellar%20peduncle
The middle cerebellar peduncle (or brachium pontis) is a paired structure of the brain. It connects the pons to the cerebellum, with fibres originating from the pontine nucleus and travelling to the opposite hemisphere of the cerebellar cortex. It is supplied by the anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA) and branch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulaski%20%28tool%29
The Pulaski is a specialty hand tool used in fighting fires, particularly wildfires, which combines an axe and an adze in one head. Similar to a cutter mattock, it has a rigid handle of wood, plastic, or fiberglass. The Pulaski was developed for constructing firebreaks, able to both dig soil and chop wood. It is also w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopie%20sling
A whoopie sling is an easily adjustable rope sling designed for tree pruning or tree removal. The whoopie sling works by wrapping the sling around the trunk of a tree or a heavy load bearing limb and pulling the end of the rope within the sling through a spliced choker. By adjusting the size of the eye in the rope thro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders%20Bj%C3%B6rner
Anders Björner (born 17 December 1947) received his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1979, under Bernt Lindström. He is a Swedish professor of mathematics, in the Department of Mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. His research interests are in combinatorics, as well as the related area...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target-site%20overlap
In a zinc finger protein, certain sequences of amino acid residues are able to recognise and bind to an extended target-site of four or even five nucleotides When this occurs in a ZFP in which the three-nucleotide subsites are contiguous, one zinc finger interferes with the target-site of the zinc finger adjacent to it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20electronic%20color%20code%20mnemonics
Mnemonics are used to help memorize the electronic color codes for resistors. Mnemonics describing specific and relatable scenarios are more memorable than abstract phrases. Resistor color code The first letter of the color code is matched by order of increasing magnitude. The electronic color codes, in order, are: ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-carrying%20code
Proof-carrying code (PCC) is a software mechanism that allows a host system to verify properties about an application via a formal proof that accompanies the application's executable code. The host system can quickly verify the validity of the proof, and it can compare the conclusions of the proof to its own security ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pursuit%E2%80%93evasion
Pursuit–evasion (variants of which are referred to as cops and robbers and graph searching) is a family of problems in mathematics and computer science in which one group attempts to track down members of another group in an environment. Early work on problems of this type modeled the environment geometrically. In 197...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib%20Sh
Sh was an early metaprogramming language for programmable GPUs. It offered a general-purpose programming language, following a stream-processing model. Programs written in Sh could either run on CPUs or GPUs, obviating the need to write programs in a mix of two programming languages as was the case with earlier GPU pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbovirus
Arbovirus is an informal name for any virus that is transmitted by arthropod vectors. The term arbovirus is a portmanteau word (arthropod-borne virus). Tibovirus (tick-borne virus) is sometimes used to more specifically describe viruses transmitted by ticks, a superorder within the arthropods. Arboviruses can affect bo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinenone
Echinenone is a xanthophyll, with formula C40H54O. It is found in some cyanobacteria. It is synthesized from β-carotene by the enzyme beta-carotene ketolase (or CrtW). It has also been isolated from sea urchins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial%20balance
An inertial balance is a device that allows the measurement of inertial mass (as opposed to gravitational mass for a regular balance) that can be operated in the microgravity environment space where weight is negligible (e.g. in the International Space Station.) The principle of operation is based on a vibrating spring...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Journal%20of%20Linear%20Algebra
The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra is a peer-reviewed platinum open access scientific journal covering matrix analysis and linear algebra, together with their applications. It is published by the International Linear Algebra Society and its editor-in-chief is Froilán M. Dopico (University Carlos III of Madrid). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrabeam%20scattering
Intrabeam scattering (IBS) is an effect in accelerator physics where collisions between particles couple the beam emittance in all three dimensions. This generally causes the beam size to grow. In proton accelerators, intrabeam scattering causes the beam to grow slowly over a period of several hours. This limits the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg%E2%80%93Ritz%20combination%20principle
The Rydberg–Ritz combination principle is an empirical rule proposed by Walther Ritz in 1908 to describe the relationship of the spectral lines for all atoms, as a generalization of an earlier rule by Johannes Rydberg for the hydrogen atom and the alkali metals. The principle states that the spectral lines of any eleme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowhead%20disease
Yellowhead disease (YHD) is a viral infection of shrimp and prawn, in particular of the giant tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon), one of the two major species of farmed shrimp. The disease is caused by the Yellow head virus genotype 1 (YHV1), a positive-strand RNA virus related to coronaviruses and arteriviruses. The dise...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%20Styopin
Anatoly Mikhailovich Styopin ( (may be transliterated as Stepin), 20 July 1940 – 7 November 2020) was a Soviet-Russian mathematician, specializing in dynamical systems and ergodic theory. Education and career Stepin was born in Moscow on 20 July 1940. In 1965 he graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole%20Immorlica
Nicole Immorlica (born November 26, 1978) is a theoretical computer scientist at Microsoft Research, known for her work on algorithmic game theory and locality-sensitive hashing. Education and career Immorlica completed her Ph.D. in 2005 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the joint supervision of Davi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Butyl%20lactate
n-Butyl lactate is an industrial chemical and food additive. Uses In an industrial context, n-butyl lactate is used as a solvent and as a chemical feedstock. It is used as a dairy-related flavoring agent. Metabolism It is metabolized to lactic acid, which is in turn metabolized to n-butanol, n-butyraldehyde, and n-bu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Particle%20Physics
The Institute of Particle Physics (IPP) is a Canadian organization that fosters expertise in particle physics research and advanced education. IPP is a nonprofit organization operated by the institutional and individual members for the benefit of particle physics research in Canada. IPP supported projects can be access...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tower%20King
"The Tower King" is a British comic strip, appearing in titles published by IPC Magazines. The story was published in the anthology Eagle from 27 March to 4 September 1982, written by Alan Hebden, with art by José Ortiz. The story was set in a dystopian London, where society has broken down. Creation While the relaunc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenance
Provenance () is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including archaeology, paleontology, archives, manuscripts, printed books, the circular economy, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20streak
The primitive streak is a structure that forms in the early embryo in amniotes. In amphibians the equivalent structure is the blastopore. During early embryonic development, the embryonic disc becomes oval shaped, and then pear-shaped with the broad end towards the anterior, and the narrower region projected to the pos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20operating%20system
An embedded operating system is an operating system for embedded computer systems. Embedded operating systems are computer systems designed to increase functionality and reliability for achieving a specific task. Depending on the method used for Computer multitasking, this type of operating system might be considered a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scute
A scute or scutum (Latin: scutum; plural: scuta "shield") is a bony external plate or scale overlaid with horn, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodilians, and the feet of birds. The term is also used to describe the anterior portion of the mesonotum in insects as well as some arachnids (e.g., the family Ixo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmotic%20stress%20technique
The osmotic stress technique is a method for measuring the effect of water on biological molecules, particularly enzymes. Just as the properties of molecules can depend on the presence of salts, pH, and temperature, they can depend significantly on the amount of water present. In the osmotic stress technique, flexibl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailvelope
Mailvelope is free software for end-to-end encryption of email traffic inside of a web browser (Firefox, Chromium or Edge) that integrates itself into existing webmail applications ("email websites"). It can be used to encrypt and sign electronic messages, including attached files, without the use of a separate, native...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdimensional
Interdimensional may refer to: Interdimensional hypothesis Interdimensional doorway Interdimensional travel Dimension
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Brin%20Prize%20in%20Dynamical%20Systems
The Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems, abbreviated as the Brin Prize, is awarded to mathematicians who have made outstanding advances in the field of dynamical systems and are within 14 years of their PhD. The prize is endowed by and named after Michael Brin, whose son Sergey Brin is a co-founder of Google. Mi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melloconcha%20miranda
Melloconcha miranda, also known as the Miranda's glass-snail, is a species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. Taxonomy The species is sometimes placed in the monotypic genus Annacharis because of its distinctive channelled sutures. Description The discoidal shell of the m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Burr%20Osborne%20%28chemist%29
Thomas Burr Osborne (August 5, 1859 – January 29, 1929) was a biochemist who, with Lafayette Mendel, independently discovered Vitamin A, though Elmer McCollum and Marguerite Davis were ultimately given credit, as they had submitted their paper first by three weeks. He is known for his work isolating and characterizing ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Taurinus
Franz Adolph Taurinus (15 November 1794 – 13 February 1874) was a German mathematician who is known for his work on non-Euclidean geometry. Life Franz Taurinus was the son of Julius Ephraim Taurinus, a court official of the Count of Erbach-Schönberg, and Luise Juliane Schweikart. He studied law in Heidelberg, Gießen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexitropsin
Lexitropsins are members of a family of semi-synthetic DNA-binding ligands. They are structural analogs of the natural antibiotics netropsin and distamycin. Antibiotics of this group can bind in the minor groove of DNA with different sequence-selectivity. Lexitropsins form a complexes with DNA with stoichiometry 1:1 a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest%20uncrossed%20knight%27s%20path
The longest uncrossed (or nonintersecting) knight's path is a mathematical problem involving a knight on the standard 8×8 chessboard or, more generally, on a square n×n board. The problem is to find the longest path the knight can take on the given board, such that the path does not intersect itself. A further distinct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haya%20Kaspi
Haya Kaspi (born 6 October 1948) is an Israeli operations researcher, statistician, and probability theorist. She is a professor emeritus of industrial engineering and management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Education and career Kaspi was born in HaOgen. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathemati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfest%20model
The Ehrenfest model (or dog–flea model) of diffusion was proposed by Tatiana and Paul Ehrenfest to explain the second law of thermodynamics. The model considers N particles in two containers. Particles independently change container at a rate λ. If X(t) = i is defined to be the number of particles in one container at t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicing%20tape
Dicing tape is a backing tape used during wafer dicing or some other microelectronic substrate separation, the cutting apart of pieces of semiconductor or other material following wafer or module microfabrication. The tape holds the pieces of the substrate, in case of a wafer called as die, together during the cutting ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobham%27s%20theorem
Cobham's theorem is a theorem in combinatorics on words that has important connections with number theory, notably transcendental numbers, and automata theory. Informally, the theorem gives the condition for the members of a set S of natural numbers written in bases b1 and base b2 to be recognised by finite automata. S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primes%20in%20arithmetic%20progression
In number theory, primes in arithmetic progression are any sequence of at least three prime numbers that are consecutive terms in an arithmetic progression. An example is the sequence of primes (3, 7, 11), which is given by for . According to the Green–Tao theorem, there exist arbitrarily long sequences of primes in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20function
In mathematics, the Toronto function T(m,n,r) is a modification of the confluent hypergeometric function defined by , Weisstein, as Later, Heatley (1964) recomputed to 12 decimals the table of the M(R)-function, and gave some corrections of the original tables. The table was also extended from x = 4 to x = 16 (Heatley...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection%20ratio
In finance, the infection ratio describes the relationship between non-performing portfolios and the total loan portfolio. The infection ratio is used to work out the relationship between the non-performing part of the portfolio (i.e., loans not efficiently being recovered) and the total loan portfolio of a bank or oth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium%20arsenide%20phosphide
Gallium arsenide phosphide () is a semiconductor material, an alloy of gallium arsenide and gallium phosphide. It exists in various composition ratios indicated in its formula by the fraction x. Gallium arsenide phosphide is used for manufacturing red, orange and yellow light-emitting diodes. It is often grown on gall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20coat%20ceremony
The white coat ceremony (WCC) is a ritual in some schools of medicine and other health-related fields that marks the student's transition from the study of preclinical to clinical health sciences. At some schools, where students begin meeting patients early in their education, the white coat ceremony is held before th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEXO
LEXO is the original version of the upgraded BURNOUT temperature regulating tumbler brand from manufacturer ThermAvant International, LLC, based in Columbia, Missouri. History The creator of LEXO, Hongbin "Bill" Ma, is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Center for Thermal Managemen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVP%20Research%20Foundation
The AVP Research Foundation (formerly known as AVT Institute for Advanced Research) was established in 2003 as a research department under The Ayurvedic Trust and became an independent not-for-profit research institution registered under section 25 of The Companies Act, 1956 in 2012. The foundation is known for its exc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian%20Lie%20group
In geometry, an abelian Lie group is a Lie group that is an abelian group. A connected abelian real Lie group is isomorphic to . In particular, a connected abelian (real) compact Lie group is a torus; i.e., a Lie group isomorphic to . A connected complex Lie group that is a compact group is abelian and a connected com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graminivore
A graminivore is a herbivorous animal that feeds primarily on grass, specifically "true" grasses, plants of the family Poaceae (also known as Graminae). Graminivory is a form of grazing. These herbivorous animals have digestive systems that are adapted to digest large amounts of cellulose, which is abundant in fibrous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking%20sleeve
In mechanical engineering, a docking sleeve or mounting boss is a tube or enclosure used to couple two mechanical components together, or for chilling, or to retain two components together; this permits two equally sized appendages to be connected via insertion and fixing within the construction. Docking sleeves may be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nines%20%28notation%29
Nines are an informal, logarithmic notation for proportions very near to one, or equivalently percentages very near 100%. Their common uses include grading the purity of materials. Put simply, "nines" are the number of consecutive nines in a percentage such as 99% (two nines) or a decimal fraction such as 0.999 (three...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20schema%20of%20replacement
In set theory, the axiom schema of replacement is a schema of axioms in Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory (ZF) that asserts that the image of any set under any definable mapping is also a set. It is necessary for the construction of certain infinite sets in ZF. The axiom schema is motivated by the idea that whether a class ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS%20statistical%20regions%20of%20Spain
In the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) codes of Spain (ES), the following are the first-level political and administrative divisions. Overall NUTS Codes Local administrative units Below the NUTS levels, the two LAU (Local Administrative Units) levels are: The LAU codes of Spain can be downl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advances%20in%20Applied%20Mathematics
Advances in Applied Mathematics is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal publishing research on applied mathematics. Its founding editor was Gian-Carlo Rota (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); from 1980 to 1999, Joseph P. S. Kung (University of North Texas) served as managing editor. It is currently published by Els...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20mathematics
Reverse mathematics is a program in mathematical logic that seeks to determine which axioms are required to prove theorems of mathematics. Its defining method can briefly be described as "going backwards from the theorems to the axioms", in contrast to the ordinary mathematical practice of deriving theorems from axiom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD%20jail
The jail mechanism is an implementation of FreeBSD's OS-level virtualisation that allows system administrators to partition a FreeBSD-derived computer system into several independent mini-systems called jails, all sharing the same kernel, with very little overhead. It is implemented through a system call, jail(2), as w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20transpiration
Thermal transpiration (or thermal diffusion) refers to the thermal force on a gas due to a temperature difference. Thermal transpiration causes a flow of gas in the absence of any other pressure difference, and is able to maintain a certain pressure difference called thermomolecular pressure difference in a steady stat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosgene%20oxime
Phosgene oxime, or CX, is an organic compound with the formula Cl2CNOH. It is a potent chemical weapon, specifically a nettle agent, which is a type of blister agent. The compound itself is a colorless solid, but impure samples are often yellowish liquids. It has a strong, disagreeable and irritating odor. It is used ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20palmar%20digital%20nerves%20of%20median%20nerve
In the palm of the hand the median nerve is covered by the skin and the palmar aponeurosis, and rests on the tendons of the Flexor muscles. Immediately after emerging from under the transverse carpal ligament the median nerve becomes enlarged and flattened and splits into a smaller, lateral, and a larger, medial portio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20KZ%20equations
In mathematical physics, the quantum KZ equations or quantum Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations or qKZ equations are the analogue for quantum affine algebras of the Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations for affine Kac–Moody algebras. They are a consistent system of difference equations satisfied by the N-point functions, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Digital%20Music%20Initiative
Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) was a forum formed in late 1998, composed of more than 200 IT, consumer electronics, security technology, ISP and recording industry companies, as well as authors, composers and publishing rightsholders (represented by CISAC and BIEM representatives, mainly from SGAE/SDAE (Gonzalo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicyclo%282.2.1%29heptane-2-carbonitrile
Bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2-carbonitrile is a chemical which is classified as an extremely hazardous substance in the United States as defined in Section 302 of the U.S. Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. 11002), and is subject to strict reporting requirements by facilities which produce, store, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoradio
A nanoradio (also called carbon nanotube radio) is a nanotechnology acting as a radio transmitter and receiver by using carbon nanotubes. One of the first nanoradios was constructed in 2007 by researchers under Alex Zettl at the University of California, Berkeley where they successfully transmitted an audio signal. Due...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20cross-platform%20instant%20messaging%20clients
The landscape for instant messaging involves cross-platform instant messaging clients that can handle one or multiple protocols. Clients that use the same protocol can typically federate and talk to one another. The following table compares general and technical information for cross-platform instant messaging clients ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20code%20sequence%20and%20jump
Linear code sequence and jump (LCSAJ), in the broad sense, is a software analysis method used to identify structural units in code under test. Its primary use is with dynamic software analysis to help answer the question "How much testing is enough?". Dynamic software analysis is used to measure the quality and effic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20orthogonal%20decomposition
In linear algebra, the complete orthogonal decompositon is a matrix decomposition. It is similar to the singular value decomposition, but typically somewhat cheaper to compute and in particular much cheaper and easier to update when the original matrix is slightly altered. Specifically, the complete orthogonal decompo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20crust
Soil crusts are soil surface layers that are distinct from the rest of the bulk soil, often hardened with a platy surface. Depending on the manner of formation, soil crusts can be biological or physical. Biological soil crusts are formed by communities of microorganisms that live on the soil surface whereas physical cr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porosome
Porosomes are cup-shaped supramolecular structures in the cell membranes of eukaryotic cells where secretory vesicles transiently dock in the process of vesicle fusion and secretion. The transient fusion of secretory vesicle membrane at a porosome, base via SNARE proteins, results in the formation of a fusion pore or c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriocinogen
Bacteriocinogens, also known as bacteriocinogenic plasmids, are bacterial plasmids that direct the synthesis of bacteriocins, bacteriocidal proteins produced by certain types of bacteria that kill other strains of the same species or closely related species. Normally the bacteriocinogen is repressed and doesn't express...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20conference%20on%20Physics%20of%20Light%E2%80%93Matter%20Coupling%20in%20Nanostructures
The International Conference on Physics of Light–Matter Coupling in Nanostructures (PLMCN) is a yearly academic conference on various topics of semiconductor science and nanophotonics. Topic The conferences are devoted to the fundamental and technological issues relevant to the realization of a new generation of opto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%20box
A talk box (also spelled talkbox and talk-box) is an effects unit that allows musicians to modify the sound of a musical instrument by shaping the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds (in the same way as singing) onto the sounds of the instrument. Typically, a talk box directs sound from the instru...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnaj%20heat%20shock%20protein%20family%20%28hsp40%29%20member%20c12
DnaJ heat shock protein family (Hsp40) member C12 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DNAJC12 gene. Function This gene encodes a member of a subclass of the HSP40/DnaJ protein family. Members of this family of proteins are associated with complex assembly, protein folding, and export. Two transcript variant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyne
The gyne (, from Greek γυνή, "woman") is the primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees of order Hymenoptera, as well as termites). Gynes are those destined to become queens, whereas female workers are typically barren and cannot become queens. Having a queen is what makes a "...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwania%203
Taiwania 3 (Traditional Chinese (Taiwan): 台灣杉三號) is one of the supercomputers made by Taiwan, and also the newest one (August, 2021). It is placed in the National Center for High-performance Computing of NARLabs. There are 50,400 cores in total with 900 nodes, using Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU) a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie%20Riley
William Riley (23 April 1866 – 4 June 1961) was an English novelist. He was born in Laisterdyke, Bradford. He wrote 39 books using the name W. Riley, mostly fiction and mostly published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd. After an education at Bradford Grammar School he entered his father's business in textiles, but two years lat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20interosseous%20nerve
The anterior interosseous nerve (volar interosseous nerve) is a branch of the median nerve that supplies the deep muscles on the anterior of the forearm, except the ulnar (medial) half of the flexor digitorum profundus. Its nerve roots come from C8 and T1. It accompanies the anterior interosseous artery along the ante...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terete
Terete is a term in botany used to describe a cross section that is circular, or like a distorted circle, with a single surface wrapping around it. This is usually contrasted with cross-sections that are flattened, with a distinct upper surface that is different from the lower surface. The cross-section of a branch in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advances%20in%20Group%20Theory%20and%20Applications
Advances in Group Theory and Applications (AGTA) is a peer reviewed, open access research journal in mathematics, specifically group theory. It was founded in 2015 by the council of the no-profit association AGTA - Advances in Group Theory and Applications, and is published by Aracne. The journal is composed of three ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%204%20system%20software
The PlayStation 4 system software is the updatable firmware and operating system of the PlayStation 4. The operating system is Orbis OS, based on FreeBSD 9. Technology System The native operating system of the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a fork of FreeBSD version 9.0 which was released on January 12, 2012. T...