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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melittology | Melittology (from Greek , melitta, "bee"; and -logia) is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of bees. It may also be called apicology. Melittology covers the species found in the clade Anthophila within the superfamily Apoidea, comprising more than 20,000 species, including bumblebees and honey bees... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMA%2A | SMA* or Simplified Memory Bounded A* is a shortest path algorithm based on the A* algorithm. The main advantage of SMA* is that it uses a bounded memory, while the A* algorithm might need exponential memory. All other characteristics of SMA* are inherited from A*.
Process
Properties
SMA* has the following propertie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawvere%E2%80%93Tierney%20topology | In mathematics, a Lawvere–Tierney topology is an analog of a Grothendieck topology for an arbitrary topos, used to construct a topos of sheaves. A Lawvere–Tierney topology is also sometimes also called a local operator or coverage or topology or geometric modality. They were introduced by and Myles Tierney.
Definiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Cuisenaire | Georges Cuisenaire (1891–1975), also known as Emile-Georges Cuisenaire, was a Belgian teacher who invented Cuisenaire rods, a mathematics teaching aid.
Life
Cuisenaire graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music at Mons, where he was awarded first prize for violin.
He was a primary school teacher at the Ville-Haut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereal%20germ | The germ of a cereal grain is the part that develops into a plant;
it is the seed embryo. Along with bran, germ is often a by-product of the milling that produces refined grain products. Cereal grains and their components, such as wheat germ oil, rice bran oil, and maize bran, may be used as a source from which veget... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20biology | Forensic biology is the use of biological principles and techniques in the context of law enforcement investigations.
Forensic biology mainly focuses on DNA sequencing of biological matter found at crime scenes. This assists investigators in identifying potential suspects or unidentified bodies.
Forensic biology ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20encryption | Broadcast encryption is the cryptographic problem of delivering encrypted content (e.g. TV programs or data on DVDs) over a broadcast channel in such a way that only qualified users (e.g. subscribers who have paid their fees or DVD players conforming to a specification) can decrypt the content. The challenge arises fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root%20of%20unity | In mathematics, a root of unity, occasionally called a de Moivre number, is any complex number that yields 1 when raised to some positive integer power . Roots of unity are used in many branches of mathematics, and are especially important in number theory, the theory of group characters, and the discrete Fourier trans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifi | Verifi is a payment protection and management firm founded in 2005. It is based in Los Angeles, California, and has close to 9000 verified accounts. It was acquired by Visa Inc. in 2019 for an undisclosed sum.
History
Matthew Katz, Verifi’s founder and CEO, started the company after developing a customized solution ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesiculovirus%20matrix%20proteins | The family of vesiculovirus matrix proteins consists of several matrix proteins of the vesicular stomatitis virus, also known as VSIV or VSV. The matrix (M) protein of the virus causes many of the cytopathic effects of VSV, including an inhibition of host gene expression and the induction of cell rounding. It has been ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superose | Superose is a trade name for a collection of FPLC columns which are used in the automated separation of biological molecules. The different columns provided can separate a variety of macromolecules, ranging from small peptides and polysaccharides to DNA strands and entire viruses. The material inside the column is agar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doas | doas (“dedicated openbsd application subexecutor”) is a program to execute commands as another user. The system administrator can configure it to give specified users privileges to execute specified commands. It is free and open-source under the ISC license and available in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
doas w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20AFC%20Asian%20Cup%20official%20mascots | Although it is the second oldest continental tournament after Copa América, the AFC Asian Cup didn't practice using mascots until near the end of 20th century when UEFA European Championship had begun to practice since 1980. This late catch up was due to different in regions, and different in cultures affected on the d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoplasm | Endoplasm generally refers to the inner (often granulated), dense part of a cell's cytoplasm. This is opposed to the ectoplasm which is the outer (non-granulated) layer of the cytoplasm, which is typically watery and immediately adjacent to the plasma membrane. The nucleus is separated from the endoplasm by the nuclear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20Spring%20monkeys | The Silver Spring monkeys were 17 wild-born macaque monkeys from the Philippines who were kept in the Institute for Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1981 until 1991, they became what one writer called the most famous lab animals in history, as a result of a battle between animal researchers, animal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila%20connectome | A Drosophila connectome is a list of neurons in the Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) nervous system, and the chemical synapses between them. The fly's nervous system consists of the brain plus the ventral nerve cord, and both are known to differ considerably between male and female. Dense connectomes have been com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterulone | Pterulone is a fungal metabolite. It was initially isolated from the mycelium and liquid cultures of wood-decay fungus in the genus Pterula. The compound inhibits eukaryotic respiration by targeting the mitochondrial NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20coin | In probability theory and statistics, a sequence of independent Bernoulli trials with probability 1/2 of success on each trial is metaphorically called a fair coin. One for which the probability is not 1/2 is called a biased or unfair coin. In theoretical studies, the assumption that a coin is fair is often made by re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain%20%28projection%20screens%29 | Gain is a property of a projection screen, and is one of the specifications quoted by projection screen manufacturers.
Interpretation
The number that is typically measured is called the peak gain at zero degrees viewing axis, and represents the gain value for a viewer seated along a line perpendicular to the screen's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharibacteria | Saccharibacteria, formerly known as TM7,
is a major bacterial lineage. It was discovered through 16S rRNA sequencing .
TM7x from the human oral cavity was cultivated and revealed that TM7x is an extremely small coccus (200-300 nm) and has a distinctive lifestyle not previously observed in human-associated microbes.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective%20haptics | Affective haptics is the emerging area of research which focuses on the study and design of devices and systems that can elicit, enhance, or influence the emotional state of a human by means of sense of touch. The research field is originated with the Dzmitry Tsetserukou and Alena Neviarouskaya papers on affective hapt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parafaujasia | Parafaujasia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, native to certain islands in the Indian Ocean.
Species
Parafaujasia fontinalis (Cordem.) C.Jeffrey - Réunion
Parafaujasia mauritiana C.Jeffrey - Mauritius |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh%20compound%20B | Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) is a radioactive analog of thioflavin T, which can be used in positron emission tomography scans to image beta-amyloid plaques in neuronal tissue. Due to this property, Pittsburgh compound B may be used in investigational studies of Alzheimer's disease.
History
The definitive diagnosis o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20IA-32%20compatible%20processor%20manufacturers | As the 32-bit Intel Architecture became the dominant computing platform during the 1980s and 1990s, multiple companies have tried to build microprocessors that are compatible with that Intel instruction set architecture. Most of these companies were not successful in the mainstream computing market. So far, only AMD ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear%20control | Nonlinear control theory is the area of control theory which deals with systems that are nonlinear, time-variant, or both. Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics that is concerned with the behavior of dynamical systems with inputs, and how to modify the output by changes in the in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beddit | Beddit Oy (formerly Finsor Oy) is a Finnish technology company that sells sleep tracking devices and a sleep tracking application to help monitor sleep. The company was founded in October 2006 and released their first sleep tracker in November 2013. In May 2017, Beddit was acquired by Apple Inc.
As of 2016, Beddit has... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonadotropin-releasing%20hormone%20family | The gonadotropin-releasing hormones (GnRH) (gonadoliberin) are a family of peptides that play a pivotal role in reproduction. The main function of GnRH is to act on the pituitary to stimulate the synthesis and secretion of luteinizing and follicle-stimulating hormones, but GnRH also acts on the brain, retina, sympathet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemical%20symbol | Alchemical symbols, originally devised as part of alchemy, were used to denote some elements and some compounds until the 18th century. Although notation was partly standardized, style and symbol varied between alchemists. Lüdy-Tenger published an inventory of 3,695 symbols and variants, and that was not exhaustive, o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudotensor | In physics and mathematics, a pseudotensor is usually a quantity that transforms like a tensor under an orientation-preserving coordinate transformation (e.g. a proper rotation) but additionally changes sign under an orientation-reversing coordinate transformation (e.g., an improper rotation), which is a transformation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20disambiguation | Memory disambiguation is a set of techniques employed by high-performance out-of-order execution microprocessors that execute memory access instructions (loads and stores) out of program order. The mechanisms for performing memory disambiguation, implemented using digital logic inside the microprocessor core, detect t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme%20inducer | An enzyme inducer is a type of drug that increases the metabolic activity of an enzyme either by binding to the enzyme and activating it, or by increasing the expression of the gene coding for the enzyme. It is the opposite of an enzyme repressor. There are specific types of enzyme inducers that create cytoprotectiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island%20gigantism | Island gigantism, or insular gigantism, is a biological phenomenon in which the size of an animal species isolated on an island increases dramatically in comparison to its mainland relatives. Island gigantism is one aspect of the more general "island effect" or "Foster's rule", which posits that when mainland animals c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azriel%20L%C3%A9vy | Azriel Lévy (Hebrew: עזריאל לוי; born c. 1934) is an Israeli mathematician, logician, and a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Biography
Lévy obtained his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1958, under the supervision of Abraham Fraenkel and Abraham Robinson. Later, using Cohen's me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge%20covariant%20derivative | In physics, the gauge covariant derivative is a means of expressing how fields vary from place to place, in a way that respects how the coordinate systems used to describe a physical phenomenon can themselves change from place to place. The gauge covariant derivative is used in many areas of physics, including quantum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Herbrand%20Prize | The Jacques Herbrand Prize (French: Prix Jacques Herbrand) is an award given by the French Academy of Sciences to young researchers (up to 35 years) in the field of mathematics, physics, and their non-military applications.
It was created in 1996, and first awarded in 1998.
In 2001, it was renamed to Grand Prix Jacques... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreal%20Biogeographic%20Region | The Boreal Biogeographic Region is the biogeographic region of Northern Europe that consists primarily of coniferous forests and wetlands.
Extent
The European Commission and the Council of Europe have defined the Boreal Region for the purpose of reporting on conservation efforts and results.
The Boreal Region of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Shine%20the%20Light%20law | California's "Shine the Light" law (CA Civil Code § 1798.83) is a privacy law passed by the California State Legislature in 2003. It became an active part of the California Civil Code on January 1, 2005. It is considered one of the first attempts by a state legislature in the United States to address the practice of sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paedophagy | Paedophagy (literally meaning the "consumption of children") in its general form is the feeding behaviour of fish or other animals whose diet is partially, or primarily the eggs or larvae of other animals. However, P. H. Greenwood, who was the first to describe paedophagia, defines it to be a feeding behaviour evolved ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloch%E2%80%93Siegert%20shift | The Bloch–Siegert shift is a phenomenon in quantum physics that becomes important for driven two-level systems when the driving gets strong (e.g. atoms driven by a strong laser drive or nuclear spins in NMR, driven by a strong oscillating magnetic field).
When the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) is invoked, the reso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%20Mail | Proton Mail (previously written as ProtonMail) is a Swiss end-to-end encrypted email service founded in 2013 headquartered in Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland. It uses client-side encryption to protect email content and user data before they are sent to Proton Mail servers, unlike other common email providers such as Gmail... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/104th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 104° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 104th meridian west forms a great circle with the 76th meridian east.
In the United States, the western bound... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20Trojan | A Hardware Trojan (HT) is a malicious modification of the circuitry of an integrated circuit. A hardware Trojan is completely characterized by its physical representation and its behavior. The payload of an HT is the entire activity that the Trojan executes when it is triggered. In general, Trojans try to bypass or dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuya%20Kato | is a Japanese mathematician who works at the University of Chicago and specializes in number theory and arithmetic geometry.
Early life and education
Kazuya Kato grew up in the prefecture of Wakayama in Japan. He attended college at the University of Tokyo, from which he also obtained his master's degree in 1975, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborly%20polytope | In geometry and polyhedral combinatorics, a -neighborly polytope is a convex polytope in which every set of or fewer vertices forms a face. For instance, a 2-neighborly polytope is a polytope in which every pair of vertices is connected by an edge, forming a complete graph. 2-neighborly polytopes with more than four v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20negation | In many-valued logic with linearly ordered truth values, cyclic negation is a unary truth function that takes a truth value n and returns n − 1 as value if n is not the lowest value; otherwise it returns the highest value.
For example, let the set of truth values be {0,1,2}, let ~ denote negation, and let p be a varia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20number | A smart number is any synthetic unique identifier that communicates additional information about the entity identified. The smart number is conceptually similar to a superkey as defined in the relational model of database organization, but, is intended to inform end users about status of accounts. The term has fallen o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfr%C3%A9d%20Haar | Alfréd Haar (; 11 October 1885, Budapest – 16 March 1933, Szeged) was a Hungarian mathematician. In 1904 he began to study at the University of Göttingen. His doctorate was supervised by David Hilbert. The Haar measure, Haar wavelet, and Haar transform are named in his honor. Between 1912 and 1919 he taught at Franz Jo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereal%20coffee | A cereal coffee (also known as grain coffee, roasted grain drink or roasted grain beverage) is a hot drink made from one or more cereal grains roasted and commercially processed into crystal or powder form to be reconstituted later in hot water. The product is often marketed as a caffeine-free alternative to coffee and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20radio | Internet radio, also known as Online radio, web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio and IP radio, is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet. Broadcasting on the Internet is usually referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted broadly through wireless means. It can either be used as a stand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerophyll | Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that is adapted to long periods of dryness and heat. The plants feature hard leaves, short internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem) and leaf orientation which is parallel or oblique to direct sunlight. The word comes from the Greek sklēros (hard) and phyllon (leaf). Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milovice%20Nature%20Reserve | Milovice Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve next to the towns of Milovice and Benátky nad Jizerou in Nymburk District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. Established in 2015, the area is administered by the Česká krajina o.p.s. organization, as a part of Evropsky významná lokalita Milovice-Mladá CZ0214006 prot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20ligament%20of%20the%20head%20of%20the%20fibula | The anterior ligament of the head of the fibula (anterior superior ligament) consists of two or three broad and flat bands, which pass obliquely upward from the front of the head of the fibula to the front of the lateral condyle of the tibia.
This fibrous band crosses obliquely and superiorly from the anterior aspect ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachyspira%20holin%20family | The Brachyspira holin (B-Hol) Family (TC# 1.E.55) consists of several proteins from the GTA holin of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae (TC# 1.E.55.1.1), which facilitates gene transfer agent-release (see also GTA holin family) to VSH-1 holin of Brachyspira pilosicoli. VSH-1 is thought to participate in cell lysis. These prote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation%20of%20Grandi%27s%20series |
General considerations
Stability and linearity
The formal manipulations that lead to 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + · · · being assigned a value of 1⁄2 include:
Adding or subtracting two series term-by-term,
Multiplying through by a scalar term-by-term,
"Shifting" the series with no change in the sum, and
Increasing the sum by add... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogo%20%28handheld%20device%29 | Ogo is a handheld electronic device which allows the user to communicate via instant messaging services, email, MMS and SMS text messages. The device works through GSM cellular networks and allows unlimited usage for a flat monthly fee. It supports AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN Messenger. It was re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification%20and%20Description%20Language | Specification and Description Language (SDL) is a specification language targeted at the unambiguous specification and description of the behaviour of reactive and distributed systems.
Overview
The ITU-T has defined SDL in Recommendations Z.100 to Z.106. SDL originally focused on telecommunication systems; its curre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouc%E2%80%93Wen%20model%20of%20hysteresis | In structural engineering, the Bouc–Wen model of hysteresis is a hysteretic model typically employed to describe non-linear hysteretic systems. It was introduced by Robert Bouc and extended by Yi-Kwei Wen, who demonstrated its versatility by producing a variety of hysteretic patterns.
This model is able to capture, in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%20679 | Zinc finger protein 679 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF679 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion%20%28gastropod%29 | Torsion is a gastropod synapomorphy which occurs in all gastropods during larval development. Torsion is the rotation of the visceral mass, mantle, and shell 180˚ with respect to the head and foot of the gastropod. This rotation brings the mantle cavity and the anus to an anterior position above the head.
In some grou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Doom | Doctor Doom (Dr. Victor von Doom) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The Fantastic Four #5 (July 1962). The monarch of the fictional nation of Latveria, Doom primarily serves as the archenemy of Reed Richards a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation%20and%20Remote%20Control | Automation and Remote Control () is a Russian scientific journal published by MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica Press and distributed in English by Springer Science+Business Media.
The journal was established in April 1936 by the USSR Academy of Sciences Department of Control Processes Problems. Cofounders were the Trapezniko... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assertion%20definition%20language | The Assertion Definition Language (ADL) is a specification language providing a predicate logic based behaviour, as well as interfaces, for computer software.
English language support
ADL uses function pre- and postconditions to specify interfaces and is designed to provide an intermediary between informal English lan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inovio%20Pharmaceuticals | Inovio Pharmaceuticals is an American biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of synthetic DNA products for treating cancers and infectious diseases. In April 2020, Inovio was among some 100 companies, academic centers, or research organizations developing a vaccine candidate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20transfection | Optical transfection is a biomedical technique that entails introducing nucleic acids (i.e. genetic material such as DNA) into cells using light. All cells are surrounded by a plasma membrane, which prevents many substances from entering or exiting the cell. Lasers can be used to burn a tiny hole in this membrane, allo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Rupert%27s%20cube | In geometry, Prince Rupert's cube is the largest cube that can pass through a hole cut through a unit cube without splitting it into two pieces. Its side length is approximately 1.06, 6% larger than the side length 1 of the unit cube through which it passes. The problem of finding the largest square that lies entirely ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masseteric%20artery | The masseteric artery is small and passes laterally through the mandibular notch to the deep surface of the masseter muscle, which it supplies.
It anastomoses with the masseteric branches of the external maxillary artery and with the transverse facial artery.
See also
Masseteric nerve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20design%20analysis%20method | The dynamic design analysis method (DDAM) is a US Navy-developed analytical procedure for evaluating the design of equipment subject to dynamic loading caused by underwater explosions (UNDEX). The analysis uses a form of shock spectrum analysis that estimates the dynamic response of a component to shock loading caused ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo%20%28file%20format%29 | zoo is a data compression program and format developed by Rahul Dhesi in the mid-1980s. The format is based on the LZW compression algorithm and compressed files are identified by the .zoo file extension. It is no longer widely used. Program source code was originally published on the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%20%281986%20video%20game%29 | Batman is a 1986 isometric action-adventure game by Ocean Software for the Amstrad PCW, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and MSX, and the first Batman game developed. The game received favourable reviews. An unrelated Batman game was released two years later, titled Batman: The Caped Crusader.
Gameplay
The object of the gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman%20Marine%20Science%20Centre | The Huntsman Marine Science Centre (acronym: HMSC; previously Huntsman Marine Laboratory) is located on Lower Campus Road in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. The centre is a membership-driven, nonprofit organization founded by a consortium of universities with the support of the National Research Council of Canada, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldehyde-stabilized%20cryopreservation | Aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation is a new technique for cryopreservation first demonstrated in 2016 by Robert L. McIntyre and Gregory Fahy at the cryobiology research company 21st Century Medicine, Inc. This technique use a particular implementation of fixation and vitrification that can successfully preserve a ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20fontanelle | The posterior fontanelle (lambdoid fontanelle, occipital fontanelle) is a gap between bones in the human skull (known as fontanelle), triangular in form and situated at the junction of the sagittal suture and lambdoidal suture. It generally closes in 6–8 weeks from birth. The cranial point in adults corresponding the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interagency%20GPS%20Executive%20Board | The Interagency GPS Executive Board (IGEB) was an agency of the United States federal government that sought to integrate the needs and desires of various governmental agencies into formal Global Positioning System Planning. GPS was administered by the Department of Defense, but had grown to service a wide variety of c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory%20ecology | Sensory ecology is a relatively new field focusing on the information organisms obtain about their environment. It includes questions of what information is obtained, how it is obtained (the mechanism), and why the information is useful to the organism (the function).
Sensory ecology is the study of how organisms acqu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical%20cryptogram | A musical cryptogram is a cryptogrammatic sequence of musical symbols, a sequence which can be taken to refer to an extra-musical text by some 'logical' relationship, usually between note names and letters. The most common and best known examples result from composers using ciphered versions of their own or their frien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaeus%27s%20flower%20clock | Linnaeus's flower clock was a garden plan hypothesized by Carl Linnaeus that would take advantage of several plants that open or close their flowers at particular times of the day to accurately indicate the time.
According to Linnaeus's autobiographical notes, he discovered and developed the floral clock in 1748. It b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective%20neuroscience | Affective neuroscience is the study of how the brain processes emotions. This field combines neuroscience with the psychological study of personality, emotion, and mood. The basis of emotions and what emotions are remains an issue of debate within the field of affective neuroscience.
The term "affective neuroscience" ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartile%20coefficient%20of%20dispersion | In statistics, the quartile coefficient of dispersion is a descriptive statistic which measures dispersion and is used to make comparisons within and between data sets. Since it is based on quantile information, it is less sensitive to outliers than measures such as the coefficient of variation. As such, it is one of s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeal%20virus | An archaeal virus is a virus that infects and replicates in archaea, a domain of unicellular, prokaryotic organisms. Archaeal viruses, like their hosts, are found worldwide, including in extreme environments inhospitable to most life such as acidic hot springs, highly saline bodies of water, and at the bottom of the oc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20browning | Browning is the process of food turning brown due to the chemical reactions that take place within. The process of browning is one of the chemical reactions that take place in food chemistry and represents an interesting research topic regarding health, nutrition, and food technology. Though there are many different wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20presentation | In algebra, a free presentation of a module M over a commutative ring R is an exact sequence of R-modules:
Note the image under g of the standard basis generates M. In particular, if J is finite, then M is a finitely generated module. If I and J are finite sets, then the presentation is called a finite presentation; a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody%20Solutions | Antibody Solutions is a privately held American contract research organization headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It provides research and discovery services and fit-for-purpose antibodies to biopharmaceutical and diagnostic companies and academic researchers worldwide. The company’s services include monoclonal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easily%20Ltd | Easily Ltd was once one of the UK’s largest domain name and webhosting companies.
History
Easily Ltd was founded in September 1999 as Easywebnames by Steve Procter In 2004, Easily Ltd was acquired by London-listed Group NBT plc, Europe’s leading specialist domain name management company and one of the UK’s largest pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromquist%20moving-knives%20procedure | The Stromquist moving-knives procedure is a procedure for envy-free cake-cutting among three players. It is named after Walter Stromquist who presented it in 1980.
This procedure was the first envy-free moving knife procedure devised for three players. It requires four knives but only two cuts, so each player receives... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biholomorphism | In the mathematical theory of functions of one or more complex variables, and also in complex algebraic geometry, a biholomorphism or biholomorphic function is a bijective holomorphic function whose inverse is also holomorphic.
Formal definition
Formally, a biholomorphic function is a function defined on an open subs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bousfield%20localization | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a (left) Bousfield localization of a model category replaces the model structure with another model structure with the same cofibrations but with more weak equivalences.
Bousfield localization is named after Aldridge Bousfield, who first introduced this technique in the con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salivary%20microbiome | The salivary microbiome consists of the nonpathogenic, commensal bacteria present in the healthy human salivary glands. It differs from the oral microbiome which is located in the oral cavity. Oral microorganisms tend to adhere to teeth. The oral microbiome possesses its own characteristic microorganisms found there. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boas%E2%80%93Buck%20polynomials | In mathematics, Boas–Buck polynomials are sequences of polynomials defined from analytic functions and by generating functions of the form
.
The case , sometimes called generalized Appell polynomials, was studied by . |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDINA | EDINA is a centre for digital expertise, based at the University of Edinburgh as a division of the Information Services Group.
Services
EDINA front-end services (those accessed directly by the user) are available free at the point of use for University of Edinburgh students and academic staff in the UK working on and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination%20META | The META is a 32-bit multithreaded microprocessor developed by Metagence Technologies Division from Imagination Technologies. First version of META were developed in 2001 as META-1 multithreaded DSP core aimed for audio, radio and video processing. META HTP core family was announced in 2007 and is based on META-2 arc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20productivity%20software | This article deals with productivity software created for the Amiga line of computers and covers the AmigaOS operating system and its derivatives AROS and MorphOS. It is a split of the main article, Amiga software.
History
The Amiga originally supported such prestigious software titles as WordPerfect, Electronic Art... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid%20unit%20modes | Rigid unit modes (RUMs) represent a class of lattice vibrations or phonons that exist in network materials such as quartz, cristobalite or zirconium tungstate. Network materials can be described as three-dimensional networks of polyhedral groups of atoms such as SiO4 tetrahedra or TiO6 octahedra. A RUM is a lattice vib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20dynamics | Human dynamics refer to a branch of complex systems research in statistical physics such as the movement of crowds and queues and other systems of complex human interactions including statistical modelling of human networks, including interactions over communications networks.
Academic research
Human Dynamics as a br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments%20Museum%20%28Kastoria%29 | Kastoria Monuments Museum () is a private museum that displays scale models of the monuments of Kastoria, Greece. It is located on the ground floor of an apartment building on the shore of Kastoria lake.
History
For many years, Nikos Pistikos devoted his free time to making scale models of the monuments of Kastoria ou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20K.%20Iyengar | Padmanabhan Krishnagopala Iyengar (29 June 1931 – 21 December 2011; best known as P. K. Iyengar), was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely known for his central role in the development of the nuclear program of India. Iyengar previously served as the director of BARC and former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schubert%20polynomial | In mathematics, Schubert polynomials are generalizations of Schur polynomials that represent cohomology classes of Schubert cycles in flag varieties. They were introduced by and are named after Hermann Schubert.
Background
described the history of Schubert polynomials.
The Schubert polynomials are polynomials in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20aesthetics | Evolutionary aesthetics refers to evolutionary psychology theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo sapiens are argued to have evolved in order to enhance survival and reproductive success.
Based on this theory, things like color preference, preferred mate body ratios, shapes, emotional ties with objec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBNdb.com | ISBNdb.com is a large online database of book information available both via web interface and API. The database includes title, author, ISBN, ISBN13, publisher, publishing date, binding, pages, list price, and more. It contains data on 33+ million books by more than 11 million authors, with more books added every day.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya%20Khovanova | Tanya Khovanova (, also spelled Tatyana Hovanova; born 25 January 1959) is a Soviet-American mathematician who became the second female gold medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiads. She is a lecturer in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education
As a high school student, Khovanov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT%20scan | A computed tomography scan (usually abbreviated to CT scan; formerly called computed axial tomography scan or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body. The personnel that perform CT scans are called radiographers or radiology technologists.
CT scanners use a rotating... |
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