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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntopng
ntopng is computer software for monitoring traffic on a computer network. It is designed to be a high-performance, low-resource replacement for ntop. The name is derived from ntop next generation. ntopng is open-source software released under the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) for software. Source code versions are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like%20the%20Rain
"Like the Rain" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Clint Black. It was released in September 1996 as the first single from his Greatest Hits compilation album. The song became his 23rd chart single, and in October of that year, it became his tenth Number One hit on the Billboard Hot Cou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy%20flight%20foraging%20hypothesis
The Lévy flight foraging hypothesis is a hypothesis in the field of biology that may be stated as follows: Since Lévy flights and walks can optimize search efficiencies, therefore natural selection should have led to adaptations for Lévy flight foraging. Background The movement of animals closely resembles in many way...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-854%20microRNA%20precursor%20family
In molecular biology mir-854 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/Turbulence
In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is fluid motion characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity. It is in contrast to a laminar flow, which occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between those layers. Turbulence is commonly observed in everyday phenomena such a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring%20Rain%20%28Bebu%20Silvetti%20song%29
"Lluvia de primavera", released in America as "Spring Rain", is an instrumental composition by Bebu Silvetti. Chart performance Released in 1975 the single did not receive airplay and chart in the USA until January 1977 when, driven by popularity in discos, it peaked at #39 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week of M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPARGC1B
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1-beta is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PPARGC1B gene. See also PPARGC1A Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta Peroxisome proliferator-ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble%20averaging%20%28machine%20learning%29
In machine learning, particularly in the creation of artificial neural networks, ensemble averaging is the process of creating multiple models and combining them to produce a desired output, as opposed to creating just one model. Frequently an ensemble of models performs better than any individual model, because the va...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20cutaneous%20nerve%20of%20forearm
The posterior cutaneous nerve of forearm is a nerve found in humans and other animals. It is also known as the dorsal antebrachial cutaneous nerve, the external cutaneous branch of the musculospiral nerve, and the posterior antebrachial cutaneous nerve. It is a cutaneous nerve (a nerve that supplies skin) of the forear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Mort%20de%20la%20Terre
The Death of the Earth (French: La Mort de la Terre) is a 1910 Belgian novel by J.-H. Rosny aîné. Plot summary In the far future, the Earth has become an immense, dry desert. Small communities of future humans, partially adapted to the harsher climate, survive united by the "Great Planetary" communications web. The me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census%20of%20Antarctic%20Marine%20Life
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) is a field project of the Census of Marine Life that researches the marine biodiversity of Antarctica, how it is affected by climate change, and how this change is altering the ecosystem of the Southern Ocean. The program started in 2005 as a 5-year initiative with the scient...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%28II%29%20gluconate
Iron(II) gluconate, or ferrous gluconate, is a black compound often used as an iron supplement. It is the iron(II) salt of gluconic acid. It is marketed under brand names such as Fergon, Ferralet and Simron. Uses Medical Ferrous gluconate is effectively used in the treatment of hypochromic anemia. The use of this co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl%20vortex
In superconductivity, a Pearl vortex is a vortex of supercurrent in a thin film of type-II superconductor, first described in 1964 by Judea Pearl. A Pearl vortex is similar to Abrikosov vortex except for its magnetic field profile which, due to the dominant air-metal interface, diverges sharply as 1/ at short distances...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%20Kosko
Bart Andrew Kosko (born February 7, 1960) is a writer and professor of electrical engineering and law at the University of Southern California (USC). He is a researcher and popularizer of fuzzy logic, neural networks, and noise, and the author of several trade books and textbooks on these and related subjects of machin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20General%20Eclipse%20MV/8000
The Eclipse MV/8000 was the first in a family of 32-bit minicomputers produced by Data General during the 1980s. Codenamed Eagle during development, its architecture was a new 32-bit design backward compatible with the previous 16-bit Eclipse series. The development of the computer and the people who worked on it were ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Morse%20%28mathematician%29
Jennifer Leigh Morse is a mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia. Research Morse's interests in algebraic combinatorics include representation theory and applications to statistical physics, symmetric functions, Young tableaux, and -Schur ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fricke%20involution
In mathematics, a Fricke involution is the involution of the modular curve X0(N) given by τ → –1/Nτ. It is named after Robert Fricke. The Fricke involution also acts on other objects associated with the modular curve, such as spaces of modular forms and the Jacobian J0(N) of the modular curve. See also Atkin–Lehner i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-498
MIL-STD-498, Military Standard Software Development and Documentation, was a United States military standard whose purpose was to "establish uniform requirements for software development and documentation." It was released Nov. 8, 1994, and replaced DOD-STD-2167A, DOD-STD-2168, DOD-STD-7935A, and DOD-STD-1703. It was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20von%20B%C3%A9k%C3%A9sy
Georg von Békésy (, ; 3 June 1899 – 13 June 1972) was a Hungarian-American biophysicist. By using strobe photography and silver flakes as a marker, he was able to observe that the basilar membrane moves like a surface wave when stimulated by sound. Because of the structure of the cochlea and the basilar membrane, diff...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak%20Yaglom
Isaak Moiseevich Yaglom (; 6 March 1921 – 17 April 1988) was a Soviet mathematician and author of popular mathematics books, some with his twin Akiva Yaglom. Yaglom received a Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1945 as student of Veniamin Kagan. As the author of several books, translated into English, that have bec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20recombination
Plasma recombination is a process by which positive ions of a plasma capture a free (energetic) electron and combine with electrons or negative ions to form new neutral atoms (gas). The process of recombination can be described as the reverse of ionization, whereby conditions allow the plasma to evert to a gas. Recombi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aronszajn%20tree
In set theory, an Aronszajn tree is a tree of uncountable height with no uncountable branches and no uncountable levels. For example, every Suslin tree is an Aronszajn tree. More generally, for a cardinal κ, a κ-Aronszajn tree is a tree of height κ in which all levels have size less than κ and all branches have height ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed%20limiter
A speed limiter is a governor used to limit the top speed of a vehicle. For some classes of vehicles and in some jurisdictions they are a statutory requirement, for some other vehicles the manufacturer provides a non-statutory system which may be fixed or programmable by the driver. Statutory (UK) Mopeds The legal de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol%20%28programming%29
A symbol in computer programming is a primitive data type whose instances have a unique human-readable form. Symbols can be used as identifiers. In some programming languages, they are called atoms. Uniqueness is enforced by holding them in a symbol table. The most common use of symbols by programmers is to perform lan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryo%20bio-crystallography
Cryo bio-crystallography is the application of crystallography to biological macromolecules at cryogenic temperatures. Basic principles Cryo crystallography enables X-ray data collection at cryogenic temperatures, typically 100 K. Crystals are transferred from the solution they have grown in (called mother liquor) to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopreservation
Biopreservation is the use of natural or controlled microbiota or antimicrobials as a way of preserving food and extending its shelf life. The biopreservation of food, especially utilizing lactic acid bacteria (LAB) that are inhibitory to food spoilage microbes, has been practiced since early ages, at first unconscious...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crataegus%20succulenta
Crataegus succulenta is a species of hawthorn known by the common names fleshy hawthorn, succulent hawthorn, and round-fruited cockspurthorn. It is "the most wide-ranging hawthorn in North America", native to much of southern Canada, and the United States as far south as Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, North Car...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan
Overscan is a behaviour in certain television sets, in which part of the input picture is cut off by the visible bounds of the screen. It exists because cathode-ray tube (CRT) television sets from the 1930s to the early 2000s were highly variable in how the video image was positioned within the borders of the screen. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-transcriptional%20modification
Transcriptional modification or co-transcriptional modification is a set of biological processes common to most eukaryotic cells by which an RNA primary transcript is chemically altered following transcription from a gene to produce a mature, functional RNA molecule that can then leave the nucleus and perform any of a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu%20code
In quantum information, the gnu code refers to a particular family of quantum error correcting codes, with the special property of being invariant under permutations of the qubits. Given integers g (the gap), n (the occupancy), and m (the length of the code), the two codewords are where are the Dicke states consistin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20data%20request
An emergency data request is a procedure used by U.S. law enforcement agencies for obtaining information from service providers in emergency situations where there is not time to get a subpoena. In 2022, Brian Krebs reported that emergency data requests were being spoofed by hackers to obtain confidential information. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20LeBrun
Claude R. LeBrun (born 1956) is an American mathematician who holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Stony Brook University. Much of his research concerns the Riemannian geometry of 4-manifolds, or related topics in complex and differential geometry. LeBrun earned his D.Phil. (Oxford equivalen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopsy
An autopsy (also referred to as post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause, mode, and manner of death; or the exam may be performed to evaluate any disease or injury that may be pre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogt%E2%80%93Koyanagi%E2%80%93Harada%20disease
Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease (VKH) is a multisystem disease of presumed autoimmune cause that affects melanin-pigmented tissues. The most significant manifestation is bilateral, diffuse uveitis, which affects the eyes. VKH may variably also involve the inner ear, with effects on hearing, the skin, and the meninges of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle%20velocity
Muzzle velocity is the speed of a projectile (bullet, pellet, slug, ball/shots or shell) with respect to the muzzle at the moment it leaves the end of a gun's barrel (i.e. the muzzle). Firearm muzzle velocities range from approximately to in black powder muskets, to more than in modern rifles with high-velocity car...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Research%20Building
The New Research Building (or NRB for short) is the largest building ever built by Harvard University, and was dedicated on September 24, 2003 by the then president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers and the dean of the Harvard Medical School, Joseph Martin. It is an integrated biomedical research facility, lo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localization%20of%20Square%20Enix%20video%20games
The Japanese video game developer and publisher Square Enix (formerly two companies called Square and Enix prior to 2003) has been translating its games for North America since the late 1980s, and the PAL region and Asia since the late 1990s. It has not always released all of its games in all major regions, and continu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXLK-CD
KXLK-CD (channel 40) is a low-power, Class A television station in Austin, Texas, United States. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision alongside Killeen-licensed Univision owned-and-operated station KAKW-DT (channel 62). KXLK-CD's transmitter is located at the West Austin Antenna Farm north of West Lake Hills. History The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest%20Approaches
The Southwest Approaches is the name given to the offshore waters to the southwest of Great Britain and Ireland. The area includes the Celtic Sea, the Bristol Channel and sea areas off southwest Ireland. The area is bordered on the north by the St. George's Channel, on the southeast by the English Channel, and on the w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onium
An onium (plural: onia) is a bound state of a particle and its antiparticle. These states are usually named by adding the suffix -onium to the name of one of the constituent particles (replacing an -on suffix when present), with one exception for "muonium"; a muon–antimuon bound pair is called "true muonium" to avoid ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20pass%20effect
The first pass effect (also known as first-pass metabolism or presystemic metabolism) is a phenomenon of drug metabolism at a specific location in the body which leads to a reduction in the concentration of the active drug, specifically when administered orally, before it reaches the site of action or systemic circulat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower%20induction
Flower induction is the physiological process in the plant by which the shoot apical meristem becomes competent to develop flowers. Biochemical changes at the apex, particularly those caused by cytokinins, accompany this process. Usually flower induction is followed by flower differentiation, with some notable exceptio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldane%E2%80%93Shastry%20model
In statistical physics, the Haldane–Shastry model is a spin chain model, defined on a one-dimensional, periodic lattice. Unlike the prototypical Heisenberg spin chain, which only includes interactions between neighboring sites of the lattice, the Haldane–Shastry model has long-range interactions, that is, interactions ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TILE64
TILE64 is a VLIW ISA multicore processor manufactured by Tilera. It consists of a mesh network of 64 "tiles", where each tile houses a general purpose processor, cache, and a non-blocking router, which the tile uses to communicate with the other tiles on the processor. The short-pipeline, in-order, three-issue cores...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield%20strength%20anomaly
In materials science, the yield strength anomaly refers to materials wherein the yield strength (i.e., the stress necessary to initiate plastic yielding) increases with temperature. For the majority of materials, the yield strength decreases with increasing temperature. In metals, this decrease in yield strength is du...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallosphaera
In taxonomy, Metallosphaera is a genus of the Sulfolobaceae. 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 Archaea genera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz%20%28computer%29
The Jazz computer architecture is a motherboard and chipset design originally developed by Microsoft for use in developing Windows NT. The design was eventually used as the basis for most MIPS-based Windows NT systems. In part because Microsoft intended NT to be portable between various microprocessor architectures, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexachloroacetone
Hexachloroacetone is an organic compound with the formula (Cl3C)2CO. It is also called hexachloropropanone or perchloroacetone. Numbers indicating the position of the chlorine-atoms are generally omitted as all the possible positions are substituted with chlorine. It is a colorless liquid, slightly soluble in water. R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericoid
The word "ericoid" is used in modern biological terminology for its literal meanings and for extensions. Ericoid could have more than one meaning, but in practice the most common use is in reference to a plant's habit, to describe small, tough (sclerophyllous) leaves like those of heather. Etymologically the word is de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20rotation
In physics, the concept of absolute rotation—rotation independent of any external reference—is a topic of debate about relativity, cosmology, and the nature of physical laws. For the concept of absolute rotation to be scientifically meaningful, it must be measurable. In other words, can an observer distinguish between...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%206845
The Motorola 6845, or MC6845, is a display controller that was widely used in 8-bit computers during the 1980s. Originally intended for designs based on the Motorola 6800 CPU and given a related part number, it was more widely used alongside various other processors, and was most commonly found in machines based on th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomatognathic%20system
The stomatognathic system is an anatomical system comprising the teeth, jaws, and associated soft tissues. It was formerly called the stomognathic system. Stomatognathic diseases are treated by dentists, maxillofacial surgeons, ear, nose, and throat specialists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, myofunction...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20School%20of%20Dermatology
The Vienna School of Dermatology was a group of dermatologists affiliated to the University of Vienna who became an important reference in the development of modern dermatology in the second half of the 19th century. It was founded by Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra (1816–1888) with the collaboration of his mentor, Carl Fre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrimal%20hamulus
The lacrimal hamulus is a small, hook-like bony projection of the lacrimal bone. It is a continuation of the posterior lacrimal crest. It articulates with the lacrimal tubercle of the maxilla, and completes the upper orifice of the lacrimal canaliculus. It sometimes exists as a separate piece, and is then called the le...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20Biology%20International
Cell Biology International is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Portland Press for the International Federation for Cell Biology. The journal was established in 1977 as Cell Biology International Reports () and published by Elsevier, obtaining its current name in 1993. The journal was transferred to Portl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formability
Formability is the ability of a given metal workpiece to undergo plastic deformation without being damaged. The plastic deformation capacity of metallic materials, however, is limited to a certain extent, at which point, the material could experience tearing or fracture (breakage). Processes affected by the formabilit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domains%20by%20Proxy
Domains by Proxy (DBP) is an Internet company started by the founder of GoDaddy, Bob Parsons. Domains by Proxy offers domain privacy services through partner domain registrars such as GoDaddy and Wild West Domains. Subscribers list Domains by Proxy as their administrative and technical contacts in the Internet's WHOI...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Colloquium%20on%20Automata%2C%20Languages%20and%20Programming
ICALP, the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming is an academic conference organized annually by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and held in different locations around Europe. Like most theoretical computer science conferences its contributions are strongly peer-revi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riamilovir
Riamilovir (TZV, Triazavirin) is a broad-spectrum antiviral drug developed in Russia through a joint effort of Ural Federal University, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Center for Biopharma Technologies and Medsintez Pharmaceutical. It has a novel triazolotriazine core, which represents a new structural class of non-n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance%20between%20two%20parallel%20lines
The distance between two parallel lines in the plane is the minimum distance between any two points. Formula and proof Because the lines are parallel, the perpendicular distance between them is a constant, so it does not matter which point is chosen to measure the distance. Given the equations of two non-vertical par...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Symposium%20on%20Wearable%20Computers
The International Symposium on Wearable Computers or ISWC (pronounced "iz-wic") is one of the most prominent academic conferences on wearable computing and ubiquitous computing. Its first edition was held in 1997 in Cambridge, MA, USA. Proceedings from every edition are published by IEEE Press. Overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YIG%20sphere
Yttrium iron garnet spheres (YIG spheres) serve as magnetically tunable filters and resonators for microwave frequencies. YIG filters are used for their high Q factors, typically between 100 and 200. A sphere made from a single crystal of synthetic yttrium iron garnet acts as a resonator. The field from an electroma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia%20bog
A magnolia bog is a rare form of wetland ecosystem found primarily in the Washington metropolitan area in the United States. Officially named in the early 1900s by ecologist Waldo Lee McAtee, magnolia bogs get their name from the abundance of sweetbay magnolias that grow within them. Once common, these bogs have begun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20%28anatomy%29
In anatomy, a process () is a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body. For instance, in a vertebra, a process may serve for muscle attachment and leverage (as in the case of the transverse and spinous processes), or to fit (forming a synovial joint), with another vertebra (as in the case of the articular p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CandyFab
The CandyFab is a method of producing physical objects out of a computer representation of the structure. It differs from some other 3D printing methods in the following aspects: It is optimized for relatively large pieces using low to medium print resolution. To reduce the hazards of working with large amounts of m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal%20analysis
Fractal analysis is assessing fractal characteristics of data. It consists of several methods to assign a fractal dimension and other fractal characteristics to a dataset which may be a theoretical dataset, or a pattern or signal extracted from phenomena including topography, natural geometric objects, ecology and aqua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNR5
RNA, ribosomal 5, also known as RNR5, is a human gene. Genes for ribosomal RNA are clustered on the short arms of chromosomes 13, 14, 15, 20, 21. The gene for RNR5 exists in multiple copies on chromosome 22. Each gene cluster contains 30–40 copies and encodes a 45S RNA product that is then cleaved to form 18S, 5.8S an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamyelocyte
A metamyelocyte is a cell undergoing granulopoiesis, derived from a myelocyte, and leading to a band cell. It is characterized by the appearance of a bent nucleus, cytoplasmic granules, and the absence of visible nucleoli. (If the nucleus is not yet bent, then it is likely a myelocyte.) Additional images See also P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmutation%20of%20species
Transmutation of species and transformism are unproven 18th and 19th-century evolutionary ideas about the change of one species into another that preceded Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. The French Transformisme was a term used by Jean Baptiste Lamarck in 1809 for his theory, and other 18th and 19th centu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous%20magnetic%20dipole%20moment
In quantum electrodynamics, the anomalous magnetic moment of a particle is a contribution of effects of quantum mechanics, expressed by Feynman diagrams with loops, to the magnetic moment of that particle. The magnetic moment, also called magnetic dipole moment, is a measure of the strength of a magnetic source. The "...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEG%20and%20Clinical%20Neuroscience%20Society
The EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society (ECNS) is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to disseminating knowledge regarding the latest scientific advances in all fields of electrophysiology as they relate to the understanding, treatment, and prevention of neurobehavioral disorders. ECNS...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace%20Technology
Rackspace Technology, Inc. is an American cloud computing company based in Windcrest, Texas, an inner suburb of San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Austin, Texas, as well as in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Dubai, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, Me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavarioid%20fungi
The clavarioid fungi are a group of fungi in the Basidiomycota typically having erect, simple or branched basidiocarps (fruit bodies) that are formed on the ground, on decaying vegetation, or on dead wood. They are colloquially called club fungi and coral fungi. Originally such fungi were referred to the genus Clavari...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle%20Connolly%20Medical
Castle Connolly Medical is a publishing organization dealing with healthcare research and information services in the US. The organization publishes an annual list of top doctors in the United States based on different quality aspects. The publisher is also known for its consumer guide pieces. John K Castle and John J...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic%20gripper
A pneumatic gripper is a specific type of pneumatic actuator that typically involves either parallel or angular motion of surfaces, A.K.A. “tooling jaws or fingers” that will grip an object. The gripper makes use of compressed air which powers a piston rod inside the tool. Grippers exist both internal with and externa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20craftsmanship
Software craftsmanship is an approach to software development that emphasizes the coding skills of the software developers. It is a response by software developers to the perceived ills of the mainstream software industry, including the prioritization of financial concerns over developer accountability. Historically, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Cumference
Sir Cumference is a series of children's educational books about math by Cindy Neuschwander and Wayne Geehan. The books have been studied for their use in mathematics education. Characters Most of the characters of the book are named after math terms, such as Sir Cumference (circumference). Sir Cumference Sir Cumfer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch%20bond
A catch bond is a type of noncovalent bond whose dissociation lifetime increases with tensile force applied to the bond. Normally, bond lifetimes are expected to diminish with force. In the case of catch bonds, the lifetime of the bond actually increases up to a maximum before it decreases like in a normal bond. Catch ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotropium%20aff.%20wagneri
Heliotropium aff. wagneri is an undescribed plant in the family Boraginaceae. It resembles Heliotropium wagneri, but differs in fruits breaking up into four nutlets and flowers that are always yellow, never white. Endemic to Samhah in Yemen, its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland and ro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%20cooling
Passive cooling is a building design approach that focuses on heat gain control and heat dissipation in a building in order to improve the indoor thermal comfort with low or no energy consumption. This approach works either by preventing heat from entering the interior (heat gain prevention) or by removing heat from th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Salam%E2%80%93Chihara%20polynomials
In mathematics, the Al-Salam–Chihara polynomials Qn(x;a,b;q) are a family of basic hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials in the basic Askey scheme, introduced by . give a detailed list of the properties of Al-Salam–Chihara polynomials. Definition The Al-Salam–Chihara polynomials are given in terms of basic hypergeom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicans
Communicans is a Latin word meaning "communicating". It is most commonly used in medical or biological terminology. The rami communicans are connective spinal nerves that attach to the ganglion of the sympathetic trunk. The two branches of the nerves are termed the White ramus communicans. The arteria comminicans ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%B6bner%20basis
In mathematics, and more specifically in computer algebra, computational algebraic geometry, and computational commutative algebra, a Gröbner basis is a particular kind of generating set of an ideal in a polynomial ring over a field . A Gröbner basis allows many important properties of the ideal and the associated alg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conocephalites
Conocephalites Barrande, 1852, is a disused name for a genus of trilobite, of which the species have now been reassigned to other genera. The name was introduced as a replacement for Conocephalus Zenker, 1833, which was unavailable since Thunberg used it in 1815 for a genus of conehead bushcricket. Barrande however was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectogenesis
Ectogenesis (from the Greek ἐκτός, "outside," and genesis) is the growth of an organism in an artificial environment outside the body in which it would normally be found, such as the growth of an embryo or fetus outside the mother's body, or the growth of bacteria outside the body of a host. The term was coined by Brit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor%20Research%20Foundation
The Raptor Research Foundation (RRF) is a United States based ornithological society, focusing on the behavior, ecology, and conservation of birds of prey. It was founded on 11 February 1966 as a non-profit scientific society with the primary goal of accumulating and disseminating scientific information about hawks, e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XC%202000%20family
The Infineon XC2000 family is a 16-bit microcontroller that can be found in automotive applications including transmissions, hybrid applications, driver assistant systems and engine management. Key features The XC2000 family uses the Infineon proprietary C166 16-bit in a version which also contains a 32-bit MAC unit....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BurgerTime
originally released as in Japan, is a 1982 arcade video game developed by Data East, initially for its DECO Cassette System. The player is chef Peter Pepper, who must walk over hamburger ingredients in a maze of platforms and ladders while avoiding anthropomorphic hot dogs, fried eggs, and pickles which are in pursuit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Forefront
Microsoft Forefront is a discontinued family of line-of-business security software by Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Forefront products are designed to help protect computer networks, network servers (such as Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SharePoint Server) and individual devices. As of 2015, the only activ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20inguinal%20fossa
The medial inguinal fossa is a depression located within the inguinal triangle on the peritoneal surface of the anterior abdominal wall between the ridges formed by the lateral umbilical fold and the medial umbilical ligament, corresponding to the superficial inguinal ring. Clinical significance It is associated with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2066
In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 66 is a family of glycoside hydrolases. Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsticks%20%28hand%20game%29
Chopsticks (sometimes called Calculator, or just Sticks) is a hand game for two or more players, in which players extend a number of fingers from each hand and transfer those scores by taking turns to tap one hand against another. Chopsticks is an example of a combinatorial game, and is solved in the sense that with pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20sector
In computer disk storage, a sector is a subdivision of a track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. For most disks, each sector stores a fixed amount of user-accessible data, traditionally 512 bytes for hard disk drives (HDDs) and 2048 bytes for CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. Newer HDDs and SSDs use 4096-byte (4 KiB) sectors, wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houndstooth
Houndstooth, hounds tooth check or hound's tooth (and similar spellings), also known as dogstooth, dogtooth, dog's tooth, (), (), is a duotone textile pattern characterized by broken checks or abstract four-pointed shapes, traditionally in black and white or such contrasting dark and light pattern. Design and history ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugulosin
Rugulosin is an anthraquinoid mycotoxin with the molecular formula C30H22O10 which is produced by Penicillium species. Rugulosin is hepatotoxic and is cancerogenic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%20cell%20deficiency
T cell deficiency is a deficiency of T cells, caused by decreased function of individual T cells, it causes an immunodeficiency of cell-mediated immunity. T cells normal function is to help with the human body's immunity, they are one of the two primary types of lymphocytes(the other being B cells). Symptoms and signs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20risk
In finance, model risk is the risk of loss resulting from using insufficiently accurate models to make decisions, originally and frequently in the context of valuing financial securities. However, model risk is more and more prevalent in activities other than financial securities valuation, such as assigning consumer c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arytenoid%20muscle
The arytenoid muscle or interarytenoid muscle is a composite intrinsic muscle of the larynx, consisting of a transverse part and an oblique part - the two parts may be considered as separate muscles: an unpaired transverse arytenoid muscle, and a bilaterally paired oblique arytenoid muscle. The two constituent parts ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial%20value%20theorem
In mathematical analysis, the initial value theorem is a theorem used to relate frequency domain expressions to the time domain behavior as time approaches zero. Let be the (one-sided) Laplace transform of ƒ(t). If is bounded on (or if just ) and exists then the initial value theorem says Proofs Proof using ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameyo
Cameyo is an application virtualization product. It aims to virtualize Windows applications so that they can run on other machines or in HTML5 browsers. It is reported to be easy to use, light in weight, and compatible with a wide variety of applications. The company’s web site includes a library of ready-to-use virtua...