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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20petite%20mort | (; "the little death") is an expression that means "the brief loss or weakening of consciousness" and in modern usage refers specifically to "the sensation of post orgasm as likened to death."
The first attested use of the expression in English was in 1572 with the meaning of "fainting fit." It later came to mean "ner... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley%20graph | In mathematics, a Cayley graph, also known as a Cayley color graph, Cayley diagram, group diagram, or color group, is a graph that encodes the abstract structure of a group. Its definition is suggested by Cayley's theorem (named after Arthur Cayley), and uses a specified set of generators for the group. It is a central... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20hosting | Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names (with separate handling of each name) on a single server (or pool of servers). This allows one server to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, without requiring all services provided to use the same host name. The term virtual hosting is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusociality | Eusociality (from Greek εὖ eu "good" and social), the highest level of organization of sociality, is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care (including care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and a division of labor into reproductive and non... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that provides centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) management for users who connect and use a network service. RADIUS was developed by Livingston Enterprises in 1991 as an access server authentication and accounting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-up%20robot%20problem | In robotics, the wake-up robot problem refers to a situation where an autonomous robot is carried to an arbitrary location and put to operation, and the robot must localize itself without any prior knowledge.
The wake-up robot problem is closely related to the kidnapped robot problem.
See also
Exploration problem
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Health%20%28Infectious%20Diseases%29%20Regulations%201988 | The Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988, created by the Department of Health and Social Care, came into force on 1 October 1988 and was associated with the previous Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984. 24 more diseases were added, indicating exact control powers that could be applied to individ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movat%27s%20stain | Movat's stain is a pentachrome stain originally developed by Henry Zoltan Movat (1923–1995), a Hungarian-Canadian Pathologist in Toronto in 1955 to highlight the various constituents of connective tissue, especially cardiovascular tissue, by five colors in a single stained slide. In 1972, H. K. Russell, Jr. modified th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, reduction refers to the rewriting of an expression into a simpler form. For example, the process of rewriting a fraction into one with the smallest whole-number denominator possible (while keeping the numerator a whole number) is called "reducing a fraction". Rewriting a radical (or "root") expression w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20inpainting | Audio inpainting (also known as audio interpolation) is an audio restoration task which deals with the reconstruction of missing or corrupted portions of a digital audio signal. Inpainting techniques are employed when parts of the audio have been lost due to various factors such as transmission errors, data corruption ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe-E | Joe-E is a subset of the Java programming language intended to support programming according to object-capability discipline.
The language is notable for being an early object-capability subset language. It has influenced later subset languages, such as ADsafe and Caja/Cajita, subsets of Javascript.
It is also notab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A20%20cells | A20 cells, also called ATCC TIB-208, is a cell line originally derived from B-cell lymphoma in an old BALB/c mouse. AT20 cells are BALB/c lymphoma cells derived from spontaneous reticulum cell neoplasm. ATCC TIB-208 cells originated from B-cell lymphoma in the reticulum cell sarcoma of an elderly BALB/c mouse. A20 cell... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AX.25 | AX.25 (Amateur X.25) is a data link layer protocol originally derived from layer 2 of the X.25 protocol suite and designed for use by amateur radio operators. It is used extensively on amateur packet radio networks.
AX.25 v2.0 and later occupies the data link layer, the second layer of the OSI model. It is responsible... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C22orf31 | C22orf31 (chromosome 22, open reading frame 31) is a protein which in humans is encoded by the C22orf31 gene. The C22orf31 mRNA transcript has an upstream in-frame stop codon, while the protein has a domain of unknown function (DUF4662) spanning the majority of the protein-coding region. The protein has orthologs with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID-WSF | In computer networking, Identity Web Services Framework is a protocol stack that profiles WS-Security, WS-Addressing, SAML and
adds new protocol specifications of its own, such as the Discovery Service, for open market per user service
discovery, and the People Service for delegation and social networking.
Development... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UQCRC2 | Cytochrome b-c1 complex subunit 2, mitochondrial (UQCRC2), also known as QCR2, UQCR2, or MC3DN5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the UQCRC2 gene. The product of UQCRC2 is a subunit of the respiratory chain protein Ubiquinol Cytochrome c Reductase (UQCR, Complex III or Cytochrome bc1 complex), which consists of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara%20pump%20theory | The Sahara pump theory is a hypothesis that explains how flora and fauna migrated between Eurasia and Africa via a land bridge in the Levant region. It posits that extended periods of abundant rainfall lasting many thousands of years (pluvial periods) in Africa are associated with a "wet-green Sahara" phase, during whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Broadside%20Ballad%20Archive | The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) is a digital library of 17th-century English Broadside Ballads, a project of the English Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. The project archives ballads in multiple accessible digital formats.
History
The English Broadside Ballad Archive was created ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20level%20meter | A sound level meter (also called sound pressure level meter (SPL)) is used for acoustic measurements. It is commonly a hand-held instrument with a microphone. The best type of microphone for sound level meters is the condenser microphone, which combines precision with stability and reliability. The diaphragm of the mic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20Huffman%20coding | Adaptive Huffman coding (also called Dynamic Huffman coding) is an adaptive coding technique based on Huffman coding. It permits building the code as the symbols are being transmitted, having no initial knowledge of source distribution, that allows one-pass encoding and adaptation to changing conditions in data.
The b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%20receiver | A reed receiver or tuned reed receiver (US) was a form of multi-channel signal decoder used for early radio control systems. It uses a simple electromechanical device or 'resonant reed' to demodulate the signal, in effect a receive-only modem. The encoding used is a simple form of frequency-shift keying.
These decod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule%20of%20division%20%28combinatorics%29 | In combinatorics, the rule of division is a counting principle. It states that there are ways to do a task if it can be done using a procedure that can be carried out in ways, and for each way , exactly of the ways correspond to the way .
In a nutshell, the division rule is a common way to ignore "unimportant" dif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20covalent%20bonding | A network solid or covalent network solid (also called atomic crystalline solids or giant covalent structures) is a chemical compound (or element) in which the atoms are bonded by covalent bonds in a continuous network extending throughout the material. In a network solid there are no individual molecules, and the en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Life%20Sciences%20%28University%20of%20Dundee%29 | The School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee conducts research into the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying human health and disease.
History
Life Sciences research at the university began within the Department of Physiology. Following a campaign by Robert P. Cook who was a lecturer in Physiologic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikesh%20Arora | Nikesh Arora (born February 9, 1968) is an Indian-American business executive. Arora was formerly a senior executive at Google. He was the president of SoftBank Group from October 2014 to June 2016. On June 1, 2018, Arora took on the role of CEO and chairman at Palo Alto Networks.
Early life
Born to an Indian Air For... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20configuration | In landscape ecology, spatial configuration describes the spatial pattern of patches in a landscape. Most traditional spatial configuration measurements take into account aspects of patches within the landscape, including patches' size, shape, density, connectivity and fractal dimension. Other measurements are pixel-ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalizovan%C3%BD%20mo%C5%A1tomer | Normalizovaný moštoměr (°NM) is a scale used in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for measuring the sweetness of wine must. 1 °NM indicates 1 kg of sugar in 100 litres of must.
Czech wine and Slovak wine are classified by the level of sweetness of the must and other conditions such as the region where the grapes are grow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnirelmann%20density | In additive number theory, the Schnirelmann density of a sequence of numbers is a way to measure how "dense" the sequence is. It is named after Russian mathematician Lev Schnirelmann, who was the first to study it.
Definition
The Schnirelmann density of a set of natural numbers A is defined as
where A(n) denotes the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20interning | In computer science, string interning is a method of storing only one copy of each distinct string value, which must be immutable. Interning strings makes some string processing tasks more time- or space-efficient at the cost of requiring more time when the string is created or interned. The distinct values are stored ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20total%20potential%20energy%20principle | The minimum total potential energy principle is a fundamental concept used in physics and engineering. It dictates that at low temperatures a structure or body shall deform or displace to a position that (locally) minimizes the total potential energy, with the lost potential energy being converted into kinetic energy (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development%20of%20Spore | Spore is a video game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright, released in September 2008. The game has drawn wide attention for its ability to simulate the development of a species on a galactic scope, using its innovation of user-guided evolution via the use of procedural generation for many of the components ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20discount%20factor | The concept of the stochastic discount factor (SDF) is used in financial economics and mathematical finance. The name derives from the price of an asset being computable by "discounting" the future cash flow by the stochastic factor , and then taking the expectation. This definition is of fundamental importance in ass... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20XPoint | 3D XPoint (pronounced three-D cross point) is a discontinued non-volatile memory (NVM) technology developed jointly by Intel and Micron Technology. It was announced in July 2015 and was available on the open market under the brand name Optane (Intel) from April 2017 to July 2022. Bit storage is based on a change of bul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulba%20Sutras | The Shulva Sutras or Śulbasūtras (Sanskrit: शुल्बसूत्र; : "string, cord, rope") are sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction.
Purpose and origins
The Shulba Sutras are part of the larger corpus of texts called the Shrauta Sutras, considered to be appendic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Extended%20Phenotype | The Extended Phenotype is a 1982 book by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author introduced a biological concept of the same name. The book’s main idea is that phenotype should not be limited to biological processes such as protein biosynthesis or tissue growth, but extended to include all effec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VODnet | A VODnet is a Video On Demand-driven cable and satellite television network. It is a non-linear television network in that the content resides on a server and the consumer calls up the particular program they want to watch from a digital menu. This is in contrast to a linear network that shows scheduled programs throu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20effort | The method of logical effort, a term coined by Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull in 1991, is a straightforward technique used to estimate delay in a CMOS circuit. Used properly, it can aid in selection of gates for a given function (including the number of stages necessary) and sizing gates to achieve the minimum delay ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalaenopsis%20%C3%97%20veitchiana | Phalaenopsis × veitchiana is a species of orchid endemic to the Philippines. It is a hybrid of Phalaenopsis equestris and Phalaenopsis schilleriana. It occurs naturally and has also been artificially re-created. It is named after the British horticulturalist Harry J. Veitch. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat1K | Bat1K is a project to sequence the genomes of all living bat species to the level of chromosomes and then make the data publicly available. The project began in 2017.
History
Bat1K was founded in 2017. Zoologist and geneticist Emma Teeling and neurogeneticist Sonja Vernes are co-founders. The Bat1K consortium includes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%27s%20laws | Cassini's laws provide a compact description of the motion of the Moon. They were established in 1693 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini, a prominent scientist of his time.
Refinements of these laws to include physical librations have been made, and they have been generalized to treat other satellites and planets.
Cassini'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20resilience | Cyber resilience refers to an entity's ability to continuously deliver the intended outcome, despite cyber attacks. Resilience to cyber attacks is essential to IT systems, critical infrastructure, business processes, organizations, societies, and nation-states.
Adverse cyber events are those that negatively impact th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Morris%20%28mathematician%29 | Robert (Rob) Morris is a mathematician who works in combinatorics, probability, graph theory and Ramsey theory. He is a researcher at IMPA.
In 2015, Morris was awarded the European Prize in Combinatorics for "his profound results in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics particularly for his result on independent se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera%20Serial%20Interface | The Camera Serial Interface (CSI) is a specification of the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance. It defines an interface between a camera and a host processor. The latest active interface specifications are CSI-2 v3.0, CSI-3 v1.1 and CCS v1.0 which were released in 2019, 2014 and 2017 respectively.
Sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent%20signal | Permanent signal (PS) in American telephony terminology, or permanent loop in British usage, is a condition in which a POTS line is off-hook without connection for an extended period of time. This is indicated in modern switches by the silent termination after the off-hook tone times out and the telephone exchange comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20line%20segment%20intersection | In computational geometry, the multiple line segment intersection problem supplies a list of line segments in the Euclidean plane and asks whether any two of them intersect (cross).
Simple algorithms examine each pair of segments. However, if a large number of possibly intersecting segments are to be checked, this bec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colobot | Colobot (Colonize with Bots) is an educational, post apocalyptic real-time strategy video game featuring 3D graphics, created by Swiss developer Epsitec SA. The objective of the game is to find a planet for colonization by the human race by establishing a basic infrastructure on the surface and eliminating any alien li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passphrase | A passphrase is a sequence of words or other text used to control access to a computer system, program or data. It is similar to a password in usage, but a passphrase is generally longer for added security. Passphrases are often used to control both access to, and the operation of, cryptographic programs and systems, e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-580%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-580 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
See also
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk%20temperature | In thermofluids dynamics, the bulk temperature, or the average bulk temperature in the thermal fluid, is a convenient reference point for evaluating properties related to convective heat transfer, particularly in applications related to flow in pipes and ducts.
The concept of the bulk temperature is that adiabatic mix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneity%20%28physics%29 | In physics, a homogeneous material or system has the same properties at every point; it is uniform without irregularities. A uniform electric field (which has the same strength and the same direction at each point) would be compatible with homogeneity (all points experience the same physics). A material constructed wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20planning%20and%20scheduling | Advanced planning and scheduling (APS, also known as advanced manufacturing) refers to a manufacturing management process by which raw materials and production capacity are optimally allocated to meet demand. APS is especially well-suited to environments where simpler planning methods cannot adequately address complex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman%20length | The Tolman length (also known as Tolman's delta) measures the extent by which the surface tension of a small liquid drop deviates from its planar value. It is conveniently defined in terms of an expansion in , with the equimolar radius (defined below) of the liquid drop, of the pressure difference across the droplet'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCR/Blu-ray%20combo | A VCR/Blu-ray combo is a multiplex or converged device, convenient for consumers who wish to use both VHS tapes and the newer high-definition Blu-ray Disc technology.
When Blu-ray Disc players went on the market in mid-2006, the final major Hollywood motion picture on VHS (David Cronenberg's A History of Violence) had... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scherk%20surface | In mathematics, a Scherk surface (named after Heinrich Scherk) is an example of a minimal surface. Scherk described two complete embedded minimal surfaces in 1834; his first surface is a doubly periodic surface, his second surface is singly periodic. They were the third non-trivial examples of minimal surfaces (the fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate%20eye%20movement | Conjugate eye movement refers to motor coordination of the eyes that allows for bilateral fixation on a single object.
A conjugate eye movement is a movement of both eyes in the same direction to maintain binocular gaze (also referred to as “yoked” eye movement). This is in contrast to vergence eye movement, where bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20category%20theory | This is a glossary of properties and concepts in category theory in mathematics. (see also Outline of category theory.)
Notes on foundations: In many expositions (e.g., Vistoli), the set-theoretic issues are ignored; this means, for instance, that one does not distinguish between small and large categories and that on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cameroonian%20flags | The following is a list of flags of Cameroon. For more information, see flag of Cameroon.
National flag and state flag
Flags of political parties
Separatist movements flags
Historical flags
See also
Flag of Cameroon
Coat of arms of Cameroon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hgh1%20homolog | HGH1 homolog is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HGH1 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Erd%C5%91s | Paul Erdős ( ; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. pursued and proposed problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, number theory, mathematical analysis, approximation theory,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevi%20and%20melanomas | Nevi and melanomas are a group of neoplasia.
Although a nevus and a melanoma are often treated as independent entities, there is evidence that a nevus can be a precursor for a melanoma.
Common mutations have been identified in nevi and melanomas.
See also
List of cutaneous conditions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon%209000%20series | The R300 GPU, introduced in August 2002 and developed by ATI Technologies, is its third generation of GPU used in Radeon graphics cards. This GPU features 3D acceleration based upon Direct3D 9.0 and OpenGL 2.0, a major improvement in features and performance compared to the preceding R200 design. R300 was the first ful... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enucleation%20%28microbiology%29 | In the context of microbiology, enucleation refers to removing the nucleus of a cell and replacing it with a different nucleus. This is used mainly in cloning but can also be used for creating hybrids of plants or animals.
List of enucleated cells
Humans
Red blood cell
Platelets
See also
Cytoplasmic hybrid
Cell n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston%20National%20Laboratory | The Galveston National Laboratory (GNL) in Galveston, Texas, United States, is a high security National Biocontainment Laboratory housing several Biosafety level 4 research laboratories. The lab is run by the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) for exotic disease diagnosis and research. The GNL is one of the 15... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microecology | Microecology means microbial ecology or ecology of a microhabitat. In humans, gut microecology is the study of the microbial ecology of the human gut which includes gut microbiota composition, its metabolic activity, and the interactions between the microbiota, the host, and the environment. Research in human gut micro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing%20point | A vanishing point is a point on the image plane of a perspective rendering where the two-dimensional perspective projections of mutually parallel lines in three-dimensional space appear to converge. When the set of parallel lines is perpendicular to a picture plane, the construction is known as one-point perspective, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermore%20Time%20Sharing%20System | The Livermore Time Sharing System (LTSS) was a supercomputer operating system originally developed by the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories for the Control Data Corporation 6600 and 7600 series of supercomputers in 1965.
LTSS resulted in the Cray Time Sharing System and then the Network Livermore Timesharing System (N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper%20indium%20gallium%20selenide | Copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) is a I-III-VI2 semiconductor material composed of copper, indium, gallium, and selenium. The material is a solid solution of copper indium selenide (often abbreviated "CIS") and copper gallium selenide. It has a chemical formula of CuIn1−xGaxSe2, where the value of x can vary f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20source | An ion source is a device that creates atomic and molecular ions. Ion sources are used to form ions for mass spectrometers, optical emission spectrometers, particle accelerators, ion implanters and ion engines.
Electron ionization
Electron ionization is widely used in mass spectrometry, particularly for organic molec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%20Jiankui%20affair | The He Jiankui affair is a scientific and bioethical controversy concerning the use of genome editing following its first use on humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who edited the genomes of human embryos in 2018. He became widely known on 26 November 2018 after he announced that he had created the first human gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALTO%20%28protocol%29 | Application Layer Transport Optimization (ALTO) is a protocol that allows internet clients to obtain information that compares the network properties of paths to other endpoints. Typically, this would be used to identify the lowest-cost location to access a copy of some sort of content.
The ALTO base protocol is speci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-service%20password%20reset | Self-service password reset (SSPR) is defined as any process or technology that allows users who have either forgotten their password or triggered an intruder lockout to authenticate with an alternate factor, and repair their own problem, without calling the help desk. It is a common feature in identity management soft... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intramolecular%20reaction | In chemistry, intramolecular describes a process or characteristic limited within the structure of a single molecule, a property or phenomenon limited to the extent of a single molecule.
Examples
intramolecular hydride transfer (transfer of a hydride ion from one part to another within the same molecule)
intramolec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krylov%E2%80%93Bogoliubov%20averaging%20method | The Krylov–Bogolyubov averaging method (Krylov–Bogolyubov method of averaging) is a mathematical method for approximate analysis of oscillating processes in non-linear mechanics. The method is based on the averaging principle when the exact differential equation of the motion is replaced by its averaged version. The me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equable%20shape | A two-dimensional equable shape (or perfect shape) is one whose area is numerically equal to its perimeter. For example, a right angled triangle with sides 5, 12 and 13 has area and perimeter both have a unitless numerical value of 30.
Scaling and units
An area cannot be equal to a length except relative to a particul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defective%20pixel | A defective pixel is a pixel on a liquid crystal display (LCD) that is not functioning properly. The ISO standard ISO 13406-2 distinguishes between three different types of defective pixels, while hardware companies tend to have further distinguishing types.
Similar defects can also occur in charge-coupled device (CCD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allylic%20strain | Allylic strain (also known as A1,3 strain, 1,3-allylic strain, or A-strain) in organic chemistry is a type of strain energy resulting from the interaction between a substituent on one end of an olefin (a synonym for an alkene) with an allylic substituent on the other end. If the substituents (R and R') are large enough... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke%20and%20Hare%20murders | The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.
Edinburgh was a leading European centre of anatomi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%20colony%20optimization%20algorithms | In computer science and operations research, the ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO) is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs. Artificial ants stand for multi-agent methods inspired by the behavior of real ants.
The pheromone-based co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janos%20Galambos | Janos Galambos (Galambos János in Hungarian, 1 September 1940 – 19 December 2019) was a Hungarian mathematician affiliated with Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Education and career
Galambos earned his Ph.D. in 1963 from Eötvös Loránd University, under the supervision of Alfréd Rényi. He remaine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU%20switching | GPU switching is a mechanism used on computers with multiple graphic controllers. This mechanism allows the user to either maximize the graphic performance or prolong battery life by switching between the graphic cards. It is mostly used on gaming laptops which usually have an integrated graphic device and a discrete v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin%20problems | In mathematics, the Cousin problems are two questions in several complex variables, concerning the existence of meromorphic functions that are specified in terms of local data. They were introduced in special cases by Pierre Cousin in 1895. They are now posed, and solved, for any complex manifold M, in terms of conditi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal%20curve | A fractal curve is, loosely, a mathematical curve whose shape retains the same general pattern of irregularity, regardless of how high it is magnified, that is, its graph takes the form of a fractal. In general, fractal curves are nowhere rectifiable curves — that is, they do not have finite length — and every subarc l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remmert%E2%80%93Stein%20theorem | In complex analysis, a field in mathematics, the Remmert–Stein theorem, introduced by , gives conditions for the closure of an analytic set to be analytic.
The theorem states that if F is an analytic set of dimension less than k in some complex manifold D, and M is an analytic subset of D – F with all components of di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20normal%20form | In Boolean algebra, the algebraic normal form (ANF), ring sum normal form (RSNF or RNF), Zhegalkin normal form, or Reed–Muller expansion is a way of writing propositional logic formulas in one of three subforms:
The entire formula is purely true or false:
One or more variables are combined into a term by AND (),... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20B%20videotape | 1–inch type B VTR (designated Type B by SMPTE) is a reel-to-reel analog recording video tape format developed by the Bosch Fernseh division of Bosch in Germany in 1976. The magnetic tape format became the broadcasting standard in continental Europe, but adoption was limited in the United States and United Kingdom, wher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20theory | In biology, cell theory is a scientific theory first formulated in the mid-nineteenth century, that organisms are made up of cells, that they are the basic structural/organizational unit of all organisms, and that all cells come from pre-existing cells. Cells are the basic unit of structure in all organisms and also th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierella%20nereis | Pierella nereis is a butterfly species from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by Dru Drury in 1782 from Brazil.
Description
Upperside: Antennae black. Head, thorax, abdomen grey brown. Anterior wings grey brown, thin, and slightly diaphanous, with a small light-coloured bar run... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larner%E2%80%93Johnson%20valve | A Larner–Johnson valve is a mechanism used in dams and water pumping to control the flow of water through large pipes. The valve is suited to handling high velocity flow with minimal turbulence, even when partially open, and the actuating force can be provided by the water flow it is controlling. It was manufactured... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Quantum%20Mission%20India | National Quantum Mission India is an initiative by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to foster quantum technologies related scientific and industrial research and development to accelerate economic growth to establish India as a global leader in quantum technology and applications and supp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass%20model | Brass models, made of brass or similar alloys, are scale models typically of railroad equipment, bridges and occasionally, of buildings. Although die-cast or plastic models have made considerable advances in late 1990s and continue to improve, brass models offer finer details. Brass models, considered to be collector's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%27s%20notation | In calculus, Leibniz's notation, named in honor of the 17th-century German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, uses the symbols and to represent infinitely small (or infinitesimal) increments of and , respectively, just as and represent finite increments of and , respectively.
Consider as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20descent | Common descent is a concept in evolutionary biology applicable when one species is the ancestor of two or more species later in time. According to modern evolutionary biology, all living beings could be descendants of a unique ancestor commonly referred to as the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all life on Ear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal%20radius | In mathematics, the conformal radius is a way to measure the size of a simply connected planar domain D viewed from a point z in it. As opposed to notions using Euclidean distance (say, the radius of the largest inscribed disk with center z), this notion is well-suited to use in complex analysis, in particular in confo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Ocean%20Review | The World Ocean Review is a comprehensive report, now comprising seven volumes, about the state of the world’s oceans and the interactions between the ocean and ecological, economic and sociopolitical conditions. It aims to inform the general public about marine conservation. The World Ocean Review is produced in Germa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click | 1-Click, also called one-click or one-click buying, is the technique of allowing customers to make purchases with the payment information needed to complete the purchase having been entered by the user previously. More particularly, it allows an online shopper using an Internet marketplace to purchase an item without h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median%20arcuate%20ligament | The median arcuate ligament is a ligament under the diaphragm that connects the right and left crura of diaphragm.
Structure
The median arcuate ligament is formed by the right and left crura of the diaphragm. The crura connect to form an arch, behind which is the aortic hiatus, through which pass the aorta, the azygo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Debate%20%28astronomy%29 | The Great Debate, also called the Shapley–Curtis Debate, was held on 26 April 1920 at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis. It concerned the nature of so-called spiral nebulae and the size of the universe. Shapley believed that these nebulae were relatively ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt%20Jemima | Aunt Jemima was an American breakfast brand for pancake mix, table syrup, and other breakfast food products. The original version of the pancake mix was developed in 1888–1889 by the Pearl Milling Company and was advertised as the first "ready-mix" cooking product.
Aunt Jemima was modeled after, and has been a famous ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlororespiration | Chlororespiration is a respiratory process that takes place within plants. Inside plant cells there is an organelle called the chloroplast which is surrounded by the thylakoid membrane. This membrane contains an enzyme called NAD(P)H dehydrogenase which transfers electrons in a linear chain to oxygen molecules. This el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20Component%20Library | The Visual Component Library (VCL) is a visual component-based object-oriented framework for developing the user interface of Microsoft Windows applications. It is written in Object Pascal.
History
The VCL was developed by Borland for use in, and is tightly integrated with, its Delphi and C++Builder RAD tools.
In 19... |
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