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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20fault%20tolerance | Software fault tolerance is the ability of computer software to continue its normal operation despite the presence of system or hardware faults. Fault-tolerant software has the ability to satisfy requirements despite failures.
Introduction
The only thing constant is change. This is certainly more true of software syst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadim%20Zudilin | Wadim Zudilin (Вадим Валентинович Зудилин) is a Russian mathematician and number theorist who is active in studying hypergeometric functions and zeta constants. He studied under Yuri V. Nesterenko and worked at Moscow State University, the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20scrum%20software | This page compares software with specific support for the scrum framework. Although the features of some general project management software can be conceptualized around scrum, general project management software is not included on this list unless it has, or a plugin for it has, specific support for scrum.
General in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20structure | In mathematics, a structure is a set endowed with some additional features on the set (e.g. an operation, relation, metric, or topology). Often, the additional features are attached or related to the set, so as to provide it with some additional meaning or significance.
A partial list of possible structures are measur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20control%20%28Unix%29 | In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, job control refers to control of jobs by a shell, especially interactively, where a "job" is a shell's representation for a process group. Basic job control features are the suspending, resuming, or terminating of all processes in the job/process group; more advanced features ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20and%20highlight%20enhancement | Shadow and highlight enhancement refers to an image processing technique used to correct exposure.
The use of this technique has been gaining popularity, making its way onto magazine covers, digital media, and photos. It is, however, considered by some to be akin to other destructive Photoshop filters, such as the Wat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer | Pfizer Inc. ( ) is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered at The Spiral in Manhattan, New York City. The company was established in 1849 in New York by two German entrepreneurs, Charles Pfizer (1824–1906) and his cousin Charles F. Erhart (1821–1891).
Pfizer develops and pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20War%20in%20the%20UK | Nuclear War in the UK is a 2019 non-fiction book by British historian and researcher Taras Young. It is a history of official British public information documents and guidance prepared in case of nuclear attack, drawn from the author's collection. The book charts the development of public information campaigns, such as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METATOY | A METATOY is a sheet, formed by a two-dimensional array of small, telescopic optical components, that switches the path of transmitted light rays. METATOY is an acronym for "metamaterial for rays", representing a number of analogies with metamaterials; METATOYs even satisfy a few definitions of metamaterials, but are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd%20B.%20M%C3%BCller | Gerd B. Müller (born 1953) is an Austrian biologist who is emeritus professor at the University of Vienna where he was the head of the Department of Theoretical Biology in the Center for Organismal Systems Biology. His research interests focus on vertebrate limb development, evolutionary novelties, evo-devo theory, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20physics%20articles%20%28K%29 | The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.
To navigate by individual letter use the table of contents below.
K
K-65 residues
K-Long
K-Poincaré algebra
K-Poincaré group
K-Short
K-edge
K-factor (aerospace)
K-factor (centrifugation)
K-theory (physics)
K. R. Ramanathan
K. R. Sreenivasan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrophyte | A Hygrophyte (Greek hygros = wet + phyton = plant) is a plant living above ground that is adapted to the conditions of abundant moisture pads of surrounding air. These plants inhabit mainly wet and dark forests and islands darkened swamp and very humid and floody meadows. Within the group of all types of terrestri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20differences%20in%20breast%20cancer%20diagnosis%20and%20treatment | Breast cancer diagnosis and treatment is influenced by different cultural backgrounds. Factors include differences in beliefs, attitudes, and treatment options that impact diverse populations throughout the world.
Breast cancer and spirituality
A patient's spirituality is so important that the National Health Society... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch%20national%20flag%20problem | The Dutch national flag problem is a computational problem proposed by Edsger Dijkstra. The flag of the Netherlands consists of three colors: red, white, and blue. Given balls of these three colors arranged randomly in a line (it does not matter how many balls there are), the task is to arrange them such that all balls... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20Tree | The Stanford Tree is the Stanford Band's mascot and the unofficial mascot of Stanford University. Stanford's team name is "Cardinal", referring to the vivid red color (not the common songbird as at several other schools), and the university does not have an official mascot. The Tree, in various versions, has been calle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolForge | SolForge was a free-to-play digital collectible card game by Stone Blade Entertainment. The design team included Magic: The Gathering designer Richard Garfield and Pro Tour hall of famer Brian Kibler. The game was released in May 2016 following three years in early access. In January 2017, Stone Blade announced that t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conley%E2%80%93Zehnder%20theorem | In mathematics, the Conley–Zehnder theorem, named after Charles C. Conley and Eduard Zehnder, provides a lower bound for the number of fixed points of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of standard symplectic tori in terms of the topology of the underlying tori. The lower bound is one plus the cup-length of the torus (thus 2n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta%20Bunster | Marta Cecilia del Carmen Bunster Balocchi is a Chilean scientist, most noted for her work in the fields of biochemistry, biophysics and crystallography. She is also known as one of the main promoters of bioinformatics in her country.
Biography
She began studying biochemistry in 1969 at the University of Concepción, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20mobile%20CRM%20systems | This article is a comparison of notable mobile CRM systems.
ERP systems are considered a superset of CRM systems.
Introduction
The market for mobile CRM applications is currently seeing record growth as new products and services around mobile CRM are being developed. The benefits of mobile CRM application have been ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebe%20Julie | Loebe Julie (December 10, 1920 - June 7, 2015) was an American engineer who has been credited with inventing the first operational amplifier circuit with differential inputs (1943), a topology which allowed much greater versatility in applications circuits and remains in wide use today.
Career
After earning a BSEE fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo%20Infinite | Halo Infinite is a 2021 first-person shooter game developed by 343 Industries and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is the sixth mainline entry in the Halo series, following Halo 5: Guardians (2015).
The campaign follows the human supersoldier Master Chief and his fight against the enemy Banished on the Forerunner ri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe%20network%20analysis | In fluid dynamics, pipe network analysis is the analysis of the fluid flow through a hydraulics network, containing several or many interconnected branches. The aim is to determine the flow rates and pressure drops in the individual sections of the network. This is a common problem in hydraulic design.
Description
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Biological%20Intelligence | The Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (MPI-BI) is a non-university research institution of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG). The institute is dedicated to basic research on topics in behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology and neuroscience. Research at the international instit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILC2 | ILC2 cells, or type 2 innate lymphoid cells are a type of innate lymphoid cell. Not to be confused with the ILC. They are derived from common lymphoid progenitor and belong to the lymphoid lineage. These cells lack antigen specific B or T cell receptor because of the lack of recombination activating gene. ILC2s produce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinian%20threshold | Darwinian threshold or Darwinian transition is a term introduced by Carl Woese to describe a transition period during the evolution of the first cells when genetic transmission moves from a predominantly horizontal mode to a vertical mode. The process starts when the ancestors of the Last Universal Common Ancestor (the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA%20instruction%20set | The FMA instruction set is an extension to the 128 and 256-bit Streaming SIMD Extensions instructions in the x86 microprocessor instruction set to perform fused multiply–add (FMA) operations. There are two variants:
FMA4 is supported in AMD processors starting with the Bulldozer architecture. FMA4 was performed in ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20People%20Better | Make People Better is a 2022 documentary film about the use of genetic engineering (called CRISPR gene editing) to enhance two twins girls to be immune to HIV. Directed by Cody Sheehy of Rhumbline Media, it was originated by Samira Kiani, a biotechnologist then at Arizona State University. It focuses on the circumstanc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell-mediated%20immunity | Cell-mediated immunity or cellular immunity is an immune response that does not involve antibodies. Rather, cell-mediated immunity is the activation of phagocytes, antigen-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes, and the release of various cytokines in response to an antigen.
History
In the late 19th century Hippocratic tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preclinical%20imaging | Preclinical imaging is the visualization of living animals for research purposes, such as drug development. Imaging modalities have long been crucial to the researcher in observing changes, either at the organ, tissue, cell, or molecular level, in animals responding to physiological or environmental changes. Imaging mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20Project | Code Project (formerly The Code Project) is a community for computer programmers with articles on different topics and programming languages such as web development, software development, C++, Java, and other topics. Once a visitor registers a user account on the site, they can gain reputation which allows users to unl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20psychology%20%28sociology%29 | In sociology, social psychology (also known as sociological social psychology) studies the relationship between the individual and society. Although studying many of the same substantive topics as its counterpart in the field of psychology, sociological social psychology places relatively more emphasis on the influence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ei%C3%B0ar%20longwave%20transmitter | The Eiðar longwave transmitter was a facility previously used by RÚV (the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service) for longwave radio broadcasting on 207 kHz with a power of 100 kW. The transmitter was situated at Eiðar near Egilsstaðir in East Iceland. At the time of its closure, it used an omnidirectional aerial in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20field%20%28acoustics%29 | In acoustics, a free field is a situation or space in which no sound reflections occur.
Characteristics
The lack of reflections in a free field means that any sound in the field is entirely determined by a listener or microphone because it is received through the direct sound of the sound source. This makes the open ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoanalytic%20function | In mathematics, pseudoanalytic functions are functions introduced by that generalize analytic functions and satisfy a weakened form of the Cauchy–Riemann equations.
Definitions
Let and let be a real-valued function defined in a bounded domain . If and and are Hölder continuous, then is admissible in . Further,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domatium | A domatium (plural: domatia, from the Latin "domus", meaning home) is a tiny chamber that houses arthropods, produced by a plant.
Ideally domatia differ from galls in that they are produced by the plant rather than being induced by their inhabitants, but the distinction is not sharp; the development of many types of d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20decision%20diagram | In computer science, a binary decision diagram (BDD) or branching program is a data structure that is used to represent a Boolean function. On a more abstract level, BDDs can be considered as a compressed representation of sets or relations. Unlike other compressed representations, operations are performed directly on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology%20%28rule%20of%20inference%29 | In propositional logic, tautology is either of two commonly used rules of replacement. The rules are used to eliminate redundancy in disjunctions and conjunctions when they occur in logical proofs. They are:
The principle of idempotency of disjunction:
and the principle of idempotency of conjunction:
Where "" i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbler%20%28video%20game%29 | Bubbler is a ZX Spectrum video game developed and published by Ultimate Play the Game in 1987. It was Ultimate's final release for 8-bit home computers before evolving into Rare. The game is an isometric platform game in the style of Marble Madness (1984).
Development
A Commodore 64 version was outsourced to Lynsoft b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Anastasi | Anne Anastasi (December 19, 1908 – May 4, 2001) was an American psychologist best known for her pioneering development of psychometrics. Her generative work, Psychological Testing, remains a classic text in which she drew attention to the individual being tested and therefore to the responsibilities of the testers. She... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20method%20of%20moments | In econometrics and statistics, the generalized method of moments (GMM) is a generic method for estimating parameters in statistical models. Usually it is applied in the context of semiparametric models, where the parameter of interest is finite-dimensional, whereas the full shape of the data's distribution function ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigencolloid | Eigencolloid is a term derived from the German language (eigen: own) and used to designate colloids made of pure phases. Also known as intrinsic colloids.
Eigencolloids are metal oxyhydroxide colloids on the nanometer scale formed by aggregation of hydrolyzed metal ions. They are characterized by a very large specific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimme%20Shelter | "Gimme Shelter" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones. It is the opening track on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. The song covers the brutal realities of war, including murder, rape and fear. It features prominent guest vocals by American singer Merry Clayton.
American author, music journalist and cultural ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt%20scheme | The Robodebt scheme was an unlawful method of automated debt assessment and recovery implemented under the Liberal-National Coalition governments of Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison, and employed by the Australian government agency, Services Australia, as part of its Centrelink payment compliance progra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximization%20%28psychology%29 | Maximization is a style of decision-making characterized by seeking the best option through an exhaustive search through alternatives. It is contrasted with satisficing, in which individuals evaluate options until they find one that is "good enough".
Definition
The distinction between "maximizing" and "satisficing" w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20J.%20Williamson | Malcolm John Williamson (2 November 1950 – 15 September 2015) was a British mathematician and cryptographer. In 1974 he developed what is now known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. He was then working at GCHQ and was therefore unable to publicise his research as his work was classified. Martin Hellman, who independently... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Force%20One | Air Force One is the official air traffic control designated call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the president of the United States. In common parlance, the term is used to denote U.S. Air Force aircraft modified and used to transport the president and a metonym for the primary presidential aircra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRTM-aist | OpenRTM-aist is a software platform developed on the basis of the RT middleware standard. OpenRTM-aist is developed by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology which also contributes to definition of the RT-middleware standard.
Abstract
In RT middleware, all robotic technological elements, suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anytime%20A%2A | In computer science, anytime A* is a family of variants of the A* search algorithm. Like other anytime algorithms, it has a flexible time cost, can return a valid solution to a pathfinding or graph traversal problem even if it is interrupted before it ends, by generating a fast, non-optimal solution before progressivel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Computing%20Olympiad | The Indian Computing Olympiad is an annual computer programming competition that selects four participants to represent India at the International Olympiad in Informatics. ICO is conducted by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science. The competition is held in three stages. For the first stage, students... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobaric%20labeling | Isobaric labeling is a mass spectrometry strategy used in quantitative proteomics. Peptides or proteins are labeled with chemical groups that have (at least nominally) identical mass (isobaric), but vary in terms of distribution of heavy isotopes in their structure. These tags, commonly referred to as tandem mass tags,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaqMan | TaqMan probes are hydrolysis probes that are designed to increase the specificity of quantitative PCR. The method was first reported in 1991 by researcher Kary Mullis at Cetus Corporation, and the technology was subsequently developed by Hoffmann-La Roche for diagnostic assays and by Applied Biosystems (now part of The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser%20bandicoot%20rat | The lesser bandicoot rat, Sindhi rice rat, bengal rat or Indian mole-rat (Bandicota bengalensis) is a giant rat of Southern Asia, not related to the true bandicoots which are marsupials. They can be up to 40 cm long (including the tail), are considered a pest in the cereal crops and gardens of India and Sri Lanka, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Lorenzen | Paul Lorenzen (March 24, 1915 – October 1, 1994) was a German philosopher and mathematician, founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).
Biography
Lorenzen studied at the University of Göttingen until he earned his PhD there in 1938 under Helmut Hasse with a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door%20Door | is a single-screen puzzle-platform game developed by Enix and published in Japan in 1983. Originally released for the NEC PC-8801, it was ported to other platforms, including the Family Computer. Controlling a small character named Chun, the player is tasked with completing each stage by trapping different kinds of ali... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buxheim%20Organ%20Book | The Buxheim Organ Book (German: Buxheimer Orgelbuch) is a manuscript created around 1460/1470 with 256 original compositions and arrangements for keyboard instruments for the Buxheim Charterhouse in Germany, in today's district of Unterallgäu. Most of the composers are anonymous, but some are also known composers of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness-based%20stress%20reduction | Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week evidence-based program that offers secular, intensive mindfulness training to assist people with stress, anxiety, depression and pain. Developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the 1970s by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn, MBSR uses a combination ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability%20of%20autism | The heritability of autism is the proportion of differences in expression of autism that can be explained by genetic variation; if the heritability of a condition is high, then the condition is considered to be primarily genetic. Autism has a strong genetic basis. Although the genetics of autism are complex, autism spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Colbert%27s%20AmeriCone%20Dream | Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream is a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor inspired by Stephen Colbert, host of the CBS television show The Late Show, and the fictionalized version of him who served as host of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. The ice cream was introduced in 2007. The same flavor became available in Can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20M.%20Luks | Eugene Michael Luks (born circa 1940) is an American mathematician and computer scientist, a professor emeritus of computer and information science at the University of Oregon. He is known for his research on the graph isomorphism problem and on algorithms for computational group theory.
Professional career
Luks did h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard%20character | In software, a wildcard character is a kind of placeholder represented by a single character, such as an asterisk (), which can be interpreted as a number of literal characters or an empty string. It is often used in file searches so the full name need not be typed.
Telecommunication
In telecommunications, a wildcard ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayashi%20track | The Hayashi track is a luminosity–temperature relationship obeyed by infant stars of less than in the pre-main-sequence phase (PMS phase) of stellar evolution. It is named after Japanese astrophysicist Chushiro Hayashi. On the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, which plots luminosity against temperature, the track is a near... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies%20for%20engineered%20negligible%20senescence | Strategies for engineered negligible senescence (SENS) is a range of proposed regenerative medical therapies, either planned or currently in development, for the periodic repair of all age-related damage to human tissue. These therapies have the ultimate aim of maintaining a state of negligible senescence in patients a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed%20fluid | A compressed fluid (also called a compressed or unsaturated liquid, subcooled fluid or liquid) is a fluid under mechanical or thermodynamic conditions that force it to be a liquid.
At a given pressure, a fluid is a compressed fluid if it is at a temperature lower than the saturation temperature. This is the case, for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra%20Incognita%3A%20The%20Perils%20and%20Promise%20of%20Stem%20Cell%20Research | Terra Incognita: The Perils and Promise of Stem Cell Research, also known as Terra Incognita: Mapping Stem Cell Research, is a documentary film released by Kartemquin Films in 2007. The film follows Dr. Jack Kessler of Northwestern University in his search for a cure for spinal cord injuries using embryonic stem cells... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifemapper | Lifemapper is building a species diversity map of the world. It is similar to the SETI@Home client, in that it uses a volunteer computing client running primarily on home user's computers to correlate georeferenced biological samples with environmental models of the Earth. It is an experimental GIS, or Geographic Inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20lunar%20sample%20displays | The Oregon lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of small fragments of Moon specimen brought back with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 lunar missions and given in the 1970s to the people of Oregon by United States President Richard Nixon as goodwill gifts.
Description
Apollo 11
Apollo 17
Hist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s%20approximation | In mathematics, Stirling's approximation (or Stirling's formula) is an approximation for factorials. It is a good approximation, leading to accurate results even for small values of . It is named after James Stirling, though a related but less precise result was first stated by Abraham de Moivre.
One way of stating th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubachevsky%E2%80%93Stillinger%20algorithm | Lubachevsky-Stillinger (compression) algorithm (LS algorithm, LSA, or LS protocol) is a numerical procedure suggested by F. H. Stillinger and B.D. Lubachevsky that simulates or imitates a physical process of compressing an assembly of hard particles. As the LSA may need thousands of arithmetic operations even for a few... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strained%20silicon%20directly%20on%20insulator | Strained silicon directly on insulator (SSDOI) is a procedure developed by IBM which removes the silicon germanium layer in the strained silicon process leaving the strained silicon directly on the insulator. In contrast, strained silicon on SGOI provides a strained silicon layer on a relaxed silicon germanium layer o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S5/8 | S5/8 was a serial communications standard devised in the United Kingdom in the 1980s as a simplified subset of RS-232 intended to make interoperability easier. Although published by the British Standards Institution as standard DD 153:1990, it was not widely adopted, and the BSI standard was later withdrawn.
Descript... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission-line%20pulse | Transmission-Line Pulse (TLP) is a way to study integrated circuit technologies and circuit behavior in the current and time domain of electrostatic-discharge (ESD) events. The concept was described shortly after WWII in pp. 175–189 of Pulse Generators, Vol. 5 of the MIT Radiation Lab Series. Also, D. Bradley, J. Higg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20general%20relativity | General relativity is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915, with contributions by many others after 1915. According to general relativity, the observed gravitational attraction between masses results from the warping of space and time by those masses.
Before the advent of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium%20Medical%20Research%20Centre | The Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC) is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1997 to provide objective and expert scientific and medical research into the effects of uranium, transuranium elements, and radionuclides produced by the process of radioactive decay and fission. UMRC is also a registered c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagrammatic%20Monte%20Carlo | In mathematical physics, the diagrammatic Monte Carlo method is based on stochastic summation of Feynman diagrams with controllable error bars. It was developed by Boris Svistunov and Nikolay Prokof'ev. It was proposed as a generic approach to overcome the numerical sign problem that precludes simulations of many-body ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloric%20theory | The caloric theory is an obsolete scientific theory that heat consists of a self-repellent fluid called caloric that flows from hotter bodies to colder bodies. Caloric was also thought of as a weightless gas that could pass in and out of pores in solids and liquids. The "caloric theory" was superseded by the mid-19th ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His%20Majesty%27s%20Botanist | His Majesty's Botanist is a member of the Royal household in Scotland.
The office was created in 1699, and from 1768 until 1956 it was combined with the office of Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, who also held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh. Since then the off... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isovanillin | Isovanillin is a phenolic aldehyde, an organic compound and isomer of vanillin. It is a selective inhibitor of aldehyde oxidase. It is not a substrate of that enzyme, and is metabolized by aldehyde dehydrogenase into isovanillic acid, which could make it a candidate drug for use in alcohol aversion therapy. Isovanil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMJ%20Best%20Practice | BMJ Best Practice is an online decision-support tool for use at the point of care. It was created in 2009 by The BMJ.
Development
The BMJ launched Best Practice in 2009.
Product
In a 2016 article published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, BMJ Best Practice received maximum scores for strength of volume, e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous%20Monsters%20%28Heritage%20Models%29 | Famous Monsters is a set of miniatures published by Heritage Models.
Contents
Famous Monsters is a kit consisting of fifteen 25mm scale lead miniatures, a 4-page booklet of game rules, a map, and 10 paints and a brush, designed for beginners to play a game using these painted figures.
Reception
William A. Barton revi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/85th%20percentile%20speed | The 85th percentile speed or 85th percentile rule is a traffic engineering standard used to set the speed limit for automobiles on a public roadway. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp | Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a botanical class of Cannabis sativa cultivars grown specifically for industrial or medicinal use. The main difference between hemp and marijuana is their THC content. In legal terms, hemp or hemp products, must have less than 0.2 - 0.3% THC, depending on the country's laws. It can be used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoblast%20milk%20protein | Osteoblast milk protein (OMP, ) is the name used by Mengniu, a Chinese dairy company, for a milk protein used as a food additive in their Milk Deluxe () since 2005. It is supposed to help the absorption of calcium and promote bone growth in the osteoblasts and prevent osteoporosis.
In February 2009, the safety of OMP ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20dynamics | Network dynamics is a research field for the study of networks whose status changes in time. The dynamics may refer to the structure of connections of the units of a network, to the collective internal state of the network, or both. The networked systems could be from the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, sociolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20risk%20management | Enterprise risk management (ERM) in business includes the methods and processes used by organizations to manage risks and seize opportunities related to the achievement of their objectives. ERM provides a framework for risk management, which typically involves identifying particular events or circumstances relevant to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfin%20saddle | The common name elfin saddle is given to a number of Ascomycete fungi in the order Pezizales. These medium to small fungi often have irregular saddle-shaped caps. Species include:
Gyromitra infula (elfin saddle)
Helvella lacunosa (fluted black elfin saddle)
Helvella elastica (brown elfin saddle)
Helvella crispa (elf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular%20Correlation%20of%20Electron%20Positron%20Annihilation%20Radiation | Angular Correlation of Electron Positron Annihilation Radiation (ACAR or ACPAR) is a technique of solid state physics to investigate the electronic structure of metals. It uses positrons which are implanted into a sample and annihilate with the electrons. In the majority of annihilation events, two gamma quanta are cr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20Dryopteris%20hybrid%20complex | Hybridization and polyploidy are common phenomena in ferns, and the genus Dryopteris is known to be one of the most freely-hybridizing fern genera. North American botanists recognized early that there were close relationships between many of the species of Dryopteris on the continent, and that these relationships refle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects%20of%20legalized%20cannabis | The use of cannabis as a recreational drug has been outlawed in many countries for several decades. As a result of long-fought legalization efforts, several countries such as Uruguay and Canada, as well as several states in the US, have legalized the production, sale, possession, and recreational and/or medical usage o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactophenol%20cotton%20blue | Lactophenol cotton blue (LCB) is a mixture of methyl blue, a histological stain, and lactophenol (a solution of phenol, lactic acid, and glycerol in water). It is used in wet-mount preparations for visualization of fungal structures, especially in medical mycology.
Methyl blue stains fungal cell walls a bright cerulea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrophosphatase | Pyrophosphatases, also known as diphosphatases, are acid anhydride hydrolases that act upon diphosphate bonds.
Examples include:
Inorganic pyrophosphatase, which acts upon the free pyrophosphate ion
Tobacco acid pyrophosphatase, which catalyses the hydrolysis of a phosphoric ester
Various organic pyrophosphatases, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers%20against%20decapentaplegic%20homolog%201 | Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 1 also known as SMAD family member 1 or SMAD1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMAD1 gene.
Nomenclature
SMAD1 belongs to the SMAD, a family of proteins similar to the gene products of the Drosophila gene 'mothers against decapentaplegic' (Mad) and the C. elegans gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinolophus%20ferrumequinum%20alphacoronavirus%20HuB-2013 | Rhinolophus ferrumequinum alphacoronavirus HuB-2013 is a species of coronavirus in the genus Alphacoronavirus. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROAR%20Magazine | ROAR Magazine was an independent publication that described itself as a “journal of the radical imagination.” Its stated aim was to “provide grassroots perspectives from the front-lines of the global struggle for real democracy.”
Founded as an activist blog in 2010, the project had since expanded into an online magazi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20Raghavarao | Damaraju Raghavarao (1938–2013) was an Indian-born statistician, formerly the Laura H. Carnell professor of statistics and chair of the department of statistics at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Raghavarao is an elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, American Statistical Association, and an el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Desktop%20Bus | Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) is a proprietary bit-serial peripheral bus connecting low-speed devices to computers. It was introduced on the Apple IIGS in 1986 as a way to support low-cost devices like keyboards and mice, allowing them to be connected together in a daisy chain without the need for hubs or other devices. Appl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crataegus%20%C3%97%20macrocarpa | Crataegus × macrocarpa, is a hybrid between two species of Crataegus (hawthorn), C. laevigata and C. rhipidophylla, both in series Crataegus. A chemotaxonomic investigation comparing flavonoid patterns in C. × macrocarpa and its putative parent species corroborated their supposed relationship. It is sometimes confused ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha%20%28decompiler%29 | Mocha is a Java decompiler, which allows programmers to translate a program's bytecode into source code.
A beta version of Mocha was released in 1996, by Dutch developer Hanpeter van Vliet, alongside an obfuscator named Crema. A controversy erupted and he temporarily withdrew Mocha from public distribution. As of 2009... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-and-pry | Dye-n-Pry, also called Dye And Pry, Dye and Pull, Dye Staining, or Dye Penetrant, is a destructive analysis technique used on surface mount technology (SMT) components to either perform failure analysis or inspect for solder joint integrity. It is an application of dye penetrant inspection.
Method
Dye-n-Pry is a usefu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPINK6 | Serine protease inhibitor Kazal-type 6 (SPINK6) is a protein encoded by the SPINK6 gene in humans. It is a potent inhibitor of epidermal proteases involved in maintaining skin homeostasis, including KLK5, KLK7 and KLK14. SPINK6 is a member of a gene family cluster located on chromosome 5q33.1, which includes SPINK5 and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20geocoding | Reverse geocoding is the process of converting a location as described by geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude) to a human-readable address or place name. It is the opposite of forward geocoding (often referred to as address geocoding or simply "geocoding"), hence the term reverse. Reverse geocoding permits th... |
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