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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaweed | Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. The term includes some types of Rhodophyta (red), Phaeophyta (brown) and Chlorophyta (green) macroalgae. Seaweed species such as kelps provide essential nursery habitat for fisheries and other marine species and thus pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsaglia%20polar%20method | The Marsaglia polar method is a pseudo-random number sampling method for generating a pair of independent standard normal random variables.
Standard normal random variables are frequently used in computer science, computational statistics, and in particular, in applications of the Monte Carlo method.
The polar method... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkman%27s%20theorem | Folkman's theorem is a theorem in mathematics, and more particularly in arithmetic combinatorics and Ramsey theory. According to this theorem, whenever the natural numbers are partitioned into finitely many subsets, there exist arbitrarily large sets of numbers all of whose sums belong to the same subset of the partiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiomarinaceae | Idiomarinaceae is a Gram-negative and mesophilic family in the order of Alteromonadales. Bacteria of the family Idiomarinaceae occur in saline environments. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Clebsch | Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19 January 1833 – 7 November 1872) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He attended the University of Königsberg and was habilitated at Berlin. He subsequently taught in Berlin and Karlsruhe. His collaboration with Paul ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymidine%20kinase%20from%20herpesvirus | Thymidine kinase from herpesvirus is a sub-family of thymidine kinases that catalyses the transfer of phospho group of ATP to thymidine to generate thymidine monophosphate, which serves as a substrate during viral DNA replication.
Its presence in herpesvirus-infected cells is used to activate a range of antivirals aga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimbriated%20fold%20of%20tongue | The fimbriated fold of tongue, also plica fimbriata is a slight fold of the mucous membrane on the underside of the tongue which runs laterally on either side of the frenulum. The free edge of the fimbriated fold occasionally exhibits a series of fringe-like processes. (Fimbria is Latin for fringe).
Some people have... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20game%20conversion | In video gaming parlance, a conversion is the production of a game on one computer or console that was originally written for another system. Over the years, video game conversion has taken form in a number of different ways, both in their style and the method in which they were converted.
In the arcade video game ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed%20convex%20function | In mathematics, a function is said to be closed if for each , the sublevel set
is a closed set.
Equivalently, if the epigraph defined by
is closed, then the function is closed.
This definition is valid for any function, but most used for convex functions. A proper convex function is closed if and only if it is l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7%20Cups | 7 Cups (formerly called 7 Cups of Tea) is an online mental health platform that provides counseling and therapy to its users. The online counseling and therapy services are provided by "listeners", who have been trained in active listening, via anonymous text or voice chats.
The site features distinct groups for adol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogonek | The (; Polish: , "little tail", diminutive of ) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in several European languages, and directly under a vowel in several Native American languages. It is also placed on the lower right corner of consonants in some Latin transcrip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, an expression or mathematical expression is a finite combination of symbols that is well-formed according to rules that depend on the context. Mathematical symbols can designate numbers (constants), variables, operations, functions, brackets, punctuation, and grouping to help determine order of operati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella%20Baruk | Stella Baruk (born 1932 in Yazd, Iran) is an influential Iranian-born French teacher, mathematician, author and educationalist. Since the 1970s she has been a key innovator in the teaching of mathematics in French schools.
Works
Echec et maths (Seuil, 1973)
Fabrice ou l'école des mathématiques (Seuil, 1977)
L'Âge d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly%20composite%20number |
A highly composite number or antiprime is a positive integer with more divisors than any smaller positive integer has. A related concept is that of a largely composite number, a positive integer which has at least as many divisors as any smaller positive integer. The name can be somewhat misleading, as the first two h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow | The dogcow, named Clarus, is a bitmapped image designed by Apple for the demonstration of page layout in the classic Mac OS. The sound she makes is "Moof!", a portmanteau of "moo" and "woof". Clarus became the archetype of surrealistic humor in the corporate culture of the original Macintosh group, particularly as the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ending%20Aging | Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs that Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime is a 2007 book written by biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, with his research assistant Michael Rae. Ending Aging describes de Grey's proposal for eliminating aging as a cause of debilitation and death in humans, and restoring th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders%20of%20magnitude%20%28angular%20momentum%29 | The following table lists various orders of magnitude for angular momentum, in Joule-seconds.
Table
See also
Orders of magnitude (angular velocity)
Orders of magnitude (momentum) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Kuzmin%20distribution | In mathematics, the Gauss–Kuzmin distribution is a discrete probability distribution that arises as the limit probability distribution of the coefficients in the continued fraction expansion of a random variable uniformly distributed in (0, 1). The distribution is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, who derived it around... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%E2%80%93Euler%20theorem | In mathematics, the Goldbach–Euler theorem (also known as Goldbach's theorem), states that the sum of 1/(p − 1) over the set of perfect powers p, excluding 1 and omitting repetitions, converges to 1:
This result was first published in Euler's 1737 paper "Variæ observationes circa series infinitas". Euler attributed th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Salvadoran%20flags |
National
Subnational
Cultural
Historic
See also
Flag of El Salvador
Coat of arms of El Salvador
National Anthem of El Salvador |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Tunney%20%28naturalist%29 | John Thomas Tunney (1870–1929) was a naturalist and collector of animal specimens, active in the west and north of Australia.
Biography
Tunney was born 11 October 1870 in Kojonup, Western Australia and educated in Albany. His mother and father were Mary and James Tunney. He worked for the Post Office as a messenger, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20funiculus | In the spinal cord, the most lateral of the bundles of the ventral nerve roots is generally taken as a dividing line that separates the antero-lateral region into two parts: an anterior funiculus (or anterior column), between the anterior median fissure and the most lateral of the ventral nerve roots; and a lateral fun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Jefferson%20Jackson%20See | Thomas Jefferson Jackson (T. J. J.) See (February 19, 1866 – July 4, 1962) was an American astronomer whose promulgated theories in astronomy and physics were eventually disproven. His educational and professional career were dogged by plagiarism and conflict, including his attacks on relativity. He was fired from his ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20Climate%20Change-Meridional%20Overturning%20Circulation%20and%20Heatflux%20Array | The Rapid Climate Change-Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heatflux Array (RAPID or MOCHA) program is a collaborative research project between the National Oceanography Centre (Southampton, U.K.), the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), and NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanograph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATryn | ATryn is the brand name of the anticoagulant antithrombin manufactured by the Massachusetts-based U.S. company rEVO Biologics (formerly known as GTC Biotherapeutics). It is made from the milk of goats that have been genetically modified to produce human antithrombin, a plasma protein with anticoagulant properties. Micr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hom%20functor | In mathematics, specifically in category theory, hom-sets (i.e. sets of morphisms between objects) give rise to important functors to the category of sets. These functors are called hom-functors and have numerous applications in category theory and other branches of mathematics.
Formal definition
Let C be a locally sm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnolichenology | Ethnolichenology is the study of the relationship between lichens and people. Lichens have and are being used for many different purposes by human cultures across the world. The most common human use of lichens is for dye, but they have also been used for medicine, food and other purposes.
Lichens for dye
Lichens are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20Dietz%20method | The modified Dietz method is a measure of the ex post (i.e. historical) performance of an investment portfolio in the presence of external flows. (External flows are movements of value such as transfers of cash, securities or other instruments in or out of the portfolio, with no equal simultaneous movement of value in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlebox | A middlebox is a computer networking device that transforms, inspects, filters, and manipulates traffic for purposes other than packet forwarding. Examples of middleboxes include firewalls, network address translators (NATs), load balancers, and deep packet inspection (DPI) devices.
UCLA computer science professor Lix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby%20league%20positions | A rugby league team consists of 13 players on the field, with 4 substitutes on the bench. Each of the 13 players is assigned a position, normally with a standardised number, which reflects their role in attack and defence, although players can take up any position at any time.
Players are divided into two general type... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20water-content%20vadose%20zone%20flow%20method | The finite water-content vadose zone flux method represents a one-dimensional alternative to the numerical solution of Richards' equation for simulating the movement of water in unsaturated soils. The finite water-content method solves the advection-like term of the Soil Moisture Velocity Equation, which is an ordinar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20pathology | Clinical pathology is a medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the laboratory analysis of bodily fluids, such as blood, urine, and tissue homogenates or extracts using the tools of chemistry, microbiology, hematology, molecular pathology, and Immunohaematology. This specialty require... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%20of%20vinegar | Mother of vinegar is a biofilm composed of a form of cellulose, yeast, and bacteria that sometimes develops on fermenting alcoholic liquids during the process that turns alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air and acetic acid bacteria (AAB). It is similar to the symbiotic culture of bacteria and y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCN%20channel | Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide–gated (HCN) channels are integral membrane proteins that serve as nonselective voltage-gated cation channels in the plasma membranes of heart and brain cells. HCN channels are sometimes referred to as pacemaker channels because they help to generate rhythmic activity within... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based%20programming | Prototype-based programming is a style of object-oriented programming in which behaviour reuse (known as inheritance) is performed via a process of reusing existing objects that serve as prototypes. This model can also be known as prototypal, prototype-oriented, classless, or instance-based programming.
Prototype-base... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simazine | Simazine is an herbicide of the triazine class. The compound is used to control broad-leaved weeds and annual grasses.
Preparation
Simazine may be prepared from cyanuric chloride and a concentrated solution of ethyl amine (at least 50 percent by number) in water. The reaction is highly exothermic and is therefore best... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLPQLP | The Fortran subroutine NLPQLP, a newer version of NLPQL, solves smooth nonlinear programming problems
by a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm. The new version is specifically
tuned to run under distributed systems.
In case of computational errors, caused for example by inaccurate function or gradient eval... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20mastery | Mathematics mastery is an approach to mathematics education which is based on mastery learning in which most students are expected to achieve a high level of competence before progressing. This technique is used in countries such as China and Singapore where good results have been achieved and so the approach is now b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/95th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 95° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 95th meridian east forms a great circle with the 85th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20guanosine%20monophosphate | Cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) is a cyclic nucleotide derived from guanosine triphosphate (GTP). cGMP acts as a second messenger much like cyclic AMP. Its most likely mechanism of action is activation of intracellular protein kinases in response to the binding of membrane-impermeable peptide hormones to the ext... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Clear%20Video | Intel Clear Video is a semiconductor intellectual property core which implements some steps of some video decompression algorithms. The scope is to calculate these on the SIP core rather than on the CPU. Intel Clear Video is paired with integrated graphics processors branded as Intel GMA.
Intel Clear Video HD is a set... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20pumping | Optical pumping is a process in which light is used to raise (or "pump") electrons from a lower energy level in an atom or molecule to a higher one. It is commonly used in laser construction to pump the active laser medium so as to achieve population inversion. The technique was developed by the 1966 Nobel Prize winner... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20European%20aflatoxin%20contamination | In February–March 2013 several European countries, including Romania, Serbia, Croatia reported nationwide contamination of milk for human consumption (and possibly of derivative products) with aflatoxins. The details are still scarce.
It was reported in March that feed originating from Serbia and imported in the Nethe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxydothermus | Carboxydothermus is a genus of thermophilic, anaerobic bacteria from the family of Thermoanaerobacteraceae.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
See also
List of bacteria gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Centipede%27s%20Dilemma | "The Centipede's Dilemma" is a short poem that has lent its name to a psychological effect called the centipede effect or centipede syndrome. The centipede effect occurs when a normally automatic or unconscious activity is disrupted by consciousness of it or reflection on it. For example, a golfer thinking too closely ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Avro | Avro is a row-oriented remote procedure call and data serialization framework developed within Apache's Hadoop project. It uses JSON for defining data types and protocols, and serializes data in a compact binary format. Its primary use is in Apache Hadoop, where it can provide both a serialization format for persistent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMEM165 | Transmembrane protein 165 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TMEM165 gene.
Model organisms
Model organisms have been used in the study of TMEM165 function. A conditional knockout mouse line, called Tmem165tm1e(EUCOMM)Wtsi was generated as part of the International Knockout Mouse Consortium program — a high... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid%20function | A sigmoid function is a mathematical function having a characteristic "S"-shaped curve or sigmoid curve.
A common example of a sigmoid function is the logistic function shown in the first figure and defined by the formula:
Other standard sigmoid functions are given in the Examples section. In some fields, most notabl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollmann%27s%20bolide%20hypothesis | Tollmann's bolide hypothesis is a hypothesis presented by Austrian palaeontologist Edith Kristan-Tollmann and geologist Alexander Tollmann in 1994. The hypothesis postulates that one or several bolides (asteroids or comets) struck the Earth around 7640 ± 200 years BCE, and a much smaller one approximately 3150 ± 200 BC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental%20Dynamics | Developmental Dynamics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of developmental biology that was established in 1901 as the American Journal of Anatomy. It obtained its current name in 1992 and is one of three official journals of the American Association of Anatomists. The journal is published monthly by John Wiley & So... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylation%20specific%20oligonucleotide%20microarray | Methylation specific oligonucleotide microarray, also known as MSO microarray, was developed as a technique to map epigenetic methylation changes in DNA of cancer cells.
The general process starts with modification of DNA with bisulfite, specifically to convert unmethylated cytosine in CpG sites to uracil, while leavi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penryn%20%28microarchitecture%29 | In Intel's Tick-Tock cycle, the 2007/2008 "Tick" was the shrink of the Core microarchitecture to 45 nanometers as CPUID model 23. In Core 2 processors, it is used with the code names Penryn (Socket P), Wolfdale (LGA 775) and Yorkfield (MCM, LGA 775), some of which are also sold as Celeron, Pentium and Xeon processors. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal%20placode | The nasal placode (or olfactory placode) gives rise to the olfactory epithelium of the nose. Two nasal placodes arise as thickened ectoderm from the frontonasal process. They give rise to the nose, the philtrum of the upper lip, and the primary palate.
Development
During the fifth week of human embryonic development t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Mangoldt%20function | In mathematics, the von Mangoldt function is an arithmetic function named after German mathematician Hans von Mangoldt. It is an example of an important arithmetic function that is neither multiplicative nor additive.
Definition
The von Mangoldt function, denoted by , is defined as
The values of for the first nine p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smail | Smail-3 is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. It is Free Software and is licensed under the GNU GPL. It aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail and for routing between disparate networks. It is still in use on the Internet, but it has... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon%20line | The Mason–Dixon line, also called the Mason and Dixon line or Mason's and Dixon's line, is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (part of Virginia until 1863). It was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS%20Block%20IIF | GPS Block IIF, or GPS IIF is an interim class of GPS (satellite) which were used to bridge the gap between previous Navstar Global Positioning System generations until the GPS Block III satellites became operational. They were built by Boeing, operated by the United States Air Force, and launched by the United Launch A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomeric%20shift | The isomeric shift (also called isomer shift) is the shift on atomic spectral lines and gamma spectral lines, which occurs as a consequence of replacement of one nuclear isomer by another. It is usually called isomeric shift on atomic spectral lines and Mössbauer isomeric shift respectively. If the spectra also have hy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook%20Taylor | Brook Taylor (18 August 1685 – 29 December 1731) was an English mathematician best known for creating Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series, which are important for their use in mathematical analysis.
Life and work
Brook Taylor was born in Edmonton (former Middlesex). Taylor was the son of John Taylor, MP of Patri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%20ecology | Desert ecology is the study of interactions between both biotic and abiotic components of desert environments. A desert ecosystem is defined by interactions between organisms, the climate in which they live, and any other non-living influences on the habitat. Deserts are arid regions that are generally associated with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed%20criticality | A mixed criticality system is a system containing computer hardware and software that can execute several applications of different criticality, such as safety-critical and non-safety critical, or of different Safety Integrity Level (SIL). Different criticality applications are engineered to different levels of assuran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed%20graph%20theorem | In mathematics, the closed graph theorem may refer to one of several basic results characterizing continuous functions in terms of their graphs.
Each gives conditions when functions with closed graphs are necessarily continuous.
Graphs and maps with closed graphs
If is a map between topological spaces then the gra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotfile | Hotfile was a one-click file hosting website founded by Hotfile Corp in 2006 in Panama City, Panama. On December 4, 2013, Hotfile ceased all operations, the same day as signing a $4 million settlement with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA); the settlement had previously been misreported as $80 million.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%20Wave%20Software | Rogue Wave Software was an American software development company based in Louisville, Colorado. It provided cross-platform software development tools and embedded components for parallel, data-intensive, and other high-performance computing (HPC) applications.
In January 2019, the firm was acquired by Minneapolis, Min... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraph%20removal%20lemma | In graph theory, the hypergraph removal lemma states that when a hypergraph contains few copies of a given sub-hypergraph, then all of the copies can be eliminated by removing a small number of hyperedges. It is a generalization of the graph removal lemma. The special case in which the graph is a tetrahedron is known a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%20Award%20in%20Enzyme%20Chemistry | The Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, formerly known as the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry was established in 1945. Consisting of a gold medal and honorarium, its purpose is to stimulate fundamental research in enzyme chemistry by scientists not over forty years of age. The award is administered by the Division ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man | A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent).
Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromosome from the father. Sex differentiation of the male fetus is governed by the SRY gene on the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Walker%20transport | Fermi–Walker transport is a process in general relativity used to define a coordinate system or reference frame such that all curvature in the frame is due to the presence of mass/energy density and not to arbitrary spin or rotation of the frame.
Fermi–Walker differentiation
In the theory of Lorentzian manifolds, Fer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fermenter | Non-fermenters (also non-fermenting bacteria) are a taxonomically heterogeneous group of bacteria of the phylum Pseudomonadota that cannot catabolize glucose, and are thus unable to ferment. This does not necessarily exclude that species can catabolize other sugars or have anaerobiosis like fermenting bacteria.
The co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20botanists%20by%20author%20abbreviation%20%28H%29 |
A–G
To find entries for A–G, use the table of contents above.
H
Ha – Thi Dung Ha (fl. 1970)
Haage – Friedrich Adolph Haage (1796–1866)
H.A.Baker – Hugh Arthur Baker (1896–1976)
Hablitz – Carl Ludwig von Hablitz (also as Karl Ivanovich Gablits) (1752–1821)
Hack. – Eduard Hackel (1850–1926)
Hacq. – Belsazar ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYK-44 | The AN/UYK-44 is the standard 16-bit minicomputer of the United States Navy. The AN/UYK-44 was developed in the early 1980s by Sperry Corporation and was completed in early 1984. The AN/UYK-44 was used in surface ships, submarines, ground C4I platforms, radar and missile control systems. The system was designed to repl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum%20of%20residues%20formula | In mathematics, the residue formula says that the sum of the residues of a meromorphic differential form on a smooth proper algebraic curve vanishes.
Statement
In this article, X denotes a proper smooth algebraic curve over a field k. A meromorphic (algebraic) differential form has, at each closed point x in X, a res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDUFC1 | NADH dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] 1 subunit C1, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NDUFC1 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Food%20Processing%20and%20Preservation | The Journal of Food Processing and Preservation is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research into food processing and preservation. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal moved to online-only publication in 2011. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork%20Particle | Fork Particle is a computer graphics visual effects modeling and software development kit (SDK) developed and sold by Fork Particle, Inc. Fork Particle uses its real time particle system technology to simulate visual effects or particle effects such as CGI explosions, fire, rain, smoke, dust, etc. Fork Particle is used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash%20calendar | A hash calendar is a data structure that is used to measure the passage of time by adding hash values to an append-only database with one hash value per elapsed second. It can be thought of special kind of Merkle or hash tree, with the property that at any given moment, the tree contains a leaf node for each second sin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20magic%20cube | In mathematics, a perfect magic cube is a magic cube in which not only the columns, rows, pillars, and main space diagonals, but also the cross section diagonals sum up to the cube's magic constant.
Perfect magic cubes of order one are trivial; cubes of orders two to four can be proven not to exist, and cubes of order... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenter | A stenter (sometimes called a tenter) is a machine used in textile finishing. It serves multiple purposes, including heat setting, drying, and applying various chemical treatments. This may be achieved through the use of certain attachments such as padding or coating.
The machine works by holding the fabric's edges wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20Identity%20Protocol | The Host Identity Protocol (HIP) is a host identification technology for use on Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The Internet has two main name spaces, IP addresses and the Domain Name System. HIP separates the end-point identifier and locator roles of IP addresses. It introduces a Host Identity (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplex%20polymerase%20chain%20reaction | Multiplex polymerase chain reaction (Multiplex PCR) refers to the use of polymerase chain reaction to amplify several different DNA sequences simultaneously (as if performing many separate PCR reactions all together in one reaction). This process amplifies DNA in samples using multiple primers and a temperature-media... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiostasis | Enantiostasis is the ability of an open system, especially a living organism, to maintain and conserve its metabolic and physiological functions in response to variations in an unstable environment. Estuarine organisms typically undergo enantiostasis in order to survive with constantly changing salt concentrations. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Robinson%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Kenneth ("Ken") Arthur Robinson (30 July 1938 – 5 September 2020) was an Australian computer scientist. He has been called "The Father of Formal Methods in Australia".
Early life and education
Ken Robinson was born in 1938. He received his BE degree in electrical engineering in 1959 and a BSc degree in physics and mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Four%20Faces%20of%20Nuclear%20Terrorism | The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism is a 2004 book by Charles D. Ferguson and William C. Potter (with Amy Sands, Leonard S. Spector and Fred L. Wehling) which explores the motivations and capabilities of terrorist organizations to carry out significant attacks using stolen nuclear weapons, to construct and detonate cru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20van%20Leeuwen | Jan van Leeuwen (born 17 December 1946 in Waddinxveen) is a Dutch computer scientist and Emeritus professor of computer science at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University.
Education and career
Van Leeuwen completed his undergraduate studies in mathematics at Utrecht University in 196... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20interpolation | Motion interpolation or motion-compensated frame interpolation (MCFI) is a form of video processing in which intermediate film, video or animation frames are generated between existing ones by means of interpolation, in an attempt to make animation more fluid, to compensate for display motion blur, and for fake slow mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogentisic%20acid | Homogentisic acid (2,5-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid) is a phenolic acid usually found in Arbutus unedo (strawberry-tree) honey. It is also present in the bacterial plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. phaseoli as well as in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica where it is associated with the production of brown pigments. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrichment%20culture | Enrichment culture is the use of certain growth media to favor the growth of a particular microorganism over others, enriching a sample for the microorganism of interest. This is generally done by introducing nutrients or environmental conditions that only allow the growth of an organism of interest. Enrichment culture... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20ribosome%20entry%20site | An internal ribosome entry site, abbreviated IRES, is an RNA element that allows for translation initiation in a cap-independent manner, as part of the greater process of protein synthesis. In eukaryotic translation, initiation typically occurs at the 5' end of mRNA molecules, since 5' cap recognition is required for t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successive%20interference%20cancellation | Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) is a technique used by a receiver in a wireless data transmission that allows decoding of two or more packets that arrived simultaneously (in a regular system, more packets arriving at the same time cause a collision).
SIC is achieved by the receiver decoding the stronger sig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marihuana%20prensada | Marihuana prensada or cannabis prensado (pressed cannabis or marijuana), also known as ladrillo (brick weed) or, colloquially, paragua or paraguayo is a compressed cannabis cut into blocks that facilitate transport.
The largest producer of pressed marijuana is Paraguay, and from there it is exported to Chile, Bolivia,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphytum%20%C3%97%20uplandicum | Russian comfrey or Quaker comfrey (Symphytum × uplandicum, syn. S. peregrinum auct.) is a common hybrid between Symphytum officinale and S. asperum. It represents the economically most important kind of comfrey.
It occurs naturally in Caucasus region where it grows in waste areas and disturbed soils. It has been intro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serostatus | Serostatus refers to the presence or absence of a serological marker in the blood. The presence of detectable levels of a specific marker within the serum is considered seropositivity, while the absence of such levels is considered seronegativity.
HIV/AIDS
The term serostatus is commonly used in HIV/AIDS prevention ef... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datum%20reference | A datum reference or just datum (plural: datums) is some important part of an object—such as a point, line, plane, hole, set of holes, or pair of surfaces—that serves as a reference in defining the geometry of the object and (often) in measuring aspects of the actual geometry to assess how closely they match with the n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-server | In computer network protocol design, inter-server communication is an extension of the client–server model in which data are exchanged directly between servers. In some fields server-to-server (S2S) is used as an alternative, and the term inter-domain can in some cases be used interchangeably.
Protocols
Protocols tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesiocystis | Plesiocystis is a genus of myxobacteria. It is a monotypic taxon containing only its type species, Plesiocystis pacifica. Both the genus and the species were first described in 2003, based on two strains isolated from samples collected from the Pacific coast of Japan.
Description
Cells of Plesiocystis species are stra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation%20%28neural%20networks%29 | A confabulation, also known as a false, degraded, or corrupted memory, is a stable pattern of activation in an artificial neural network or neural assembly that does not correspond to any previously learned patterns. The same term is also applied to the (nonartificial) neural mistake-making process leading to a false m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20access%20carrier%20system | Digital access carrier system (DACS) is the name used by British Telecom (BT Group plc) in the United Kingdom for a 0+2 pair gain system.
Usage
For almost as long as telephones have been a common feature in homes and offices, telecommunication companies have regularly been faced with a situation where demand in a par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab%20Initio%20Software | Ab Initio Software is an American multinational enterprise software corporation based in Lexington, Massachusetts. The company specializes in high-volume data processing applications and enterprise application integration. It was founded in 1995 by the former CEO of Thinking Machines Corporation, Sheryl Handler, and se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumscribed%20sphere | In geometry, a circumscribed sphere of a polyhedron is a sphere that contains the polyhedron and touches each of the polyhedron's vertices. The word circumsphere is sometimes used to mean the same thing, by analogy with the term circumcircle. As in the case of two-dimensional circumscribed circles (circumcircles), the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichromatism | Dichromatism (or polychromatism) is a phenomenon where a material or solution's hue is dependent on both the concentration of the absorbing substance and the depth or thickness of the medium traversed. In most substances which are not dichromatic, only the brightness and saturation of the colour depend on their concent... |
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