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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Virginia%20Broadband | West Virginia Broadband is a Wireless community network located in Braxton County, West Virginia operated by local volunteers and coordinated by the Gilmer-Braxton Research Zone. The effort gained recent attention by a National Public Radio story and MuniWireless and SmartMobs bloggers detailing how modified off-the-sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s%20theorem | In direct-current circuit theory, Norton's theorem, also called the Mayer–Norton theorem, is a simplification that can be applied to networks made of linear time-invariant resistances, voltage sources, and current sources. At a pair of terminals of the network, it can be replaced by a current source and a single resist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTransport | HyperTransport (HT), formerly known as Lightning Data Transport, is a technology for interconnection of computer processors. It is a bidirectional serial/parallel high-bandwidth, low-latency point-to-point link that was introduced on April 2, 2001. The HyperTransport Consortium is in charge of promoting and developin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20Draughts%20Notation | Portable Draughts Notation (.PDN) is the standard computer-processable format for recording draughts games. This format is derived from Portable Game Notation, which is the standard chess format.
PDN files are text files which must contain Tag Pairs and Movetext for each game.
Tag Pairs
Tag pairs begin with "[", the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20density | Plant density is the number of individual plants present per unit of ground area. It is most easily interpreted in the case of monospecific stands, where all plants belong to the same species and have germinated at the same time. However, it could also indicate the number of individual plants found at a given location... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Time-Sharing%20System | The Universal Time-Sharing System (UTS) is a discontinued operating system for the XDS Sigma series of computers, succeeding Batch Processing Monitor (BPM)/Batch Time-Sharing Monitor (BTM). UTS was announced in 1966, but because of delays did not actually ship until 1971. It was designed to provide multi-programming ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimodular%20polynomial%20matrix | In mathematics, a unimodular polynomial matrix is a square polynomial matrix whose inverse exists and is itself a polynomial matrix. Equivalently, a polynomial matrix A is unimodular if its determinant det(A) is a nonzero constant. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microglobulin | Microglobulin is a globulin of relatively small molecular weight. It can be contrasted to macroglobulin.,
Examples include:
Beta-2 microglobulin
Alpha-1-microglobulin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Tissue%20Act%202004 | The Human Tissue Act 2004 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that applied to England, Northern Ireland and Wales, which consolidated previous legislation and created the Human Tissue Authority to "regulate the removal, storage, use and disposal of human bodies, organs and tissue." The Act does not exten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20homomorphism | In algebra, a normal homomorphism is a ring homomorphism that is flat and is such that for every field extension L of the residue field of any prime ideal , is a normal ring. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Power%20%28Alderman%20novel%29 | The Power is a 2016 science fiction novel by the British writer Naomi Alderman. Its central premise is of women developing the ability to release electrical jolts from their fingers, which allows them to become the dominant sex.
In June 2017, The Power won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. The book was also named... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell-less%20chick%20embryo%20culture | Shell-less chick embryo culture is the process of growing chick embryos in vitro, without their protective egg shells, for scientific observation.
Chick embryos and other avian embryos have been used as biological models to visualize the developmental stages of embryos for education and to perform embryological manipu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPI-driven%20code%20analysis | KPI driven code analysis (KPI = Key Performance Indicator) is a method of analyzing software source code and source code related IT systems to gain insight into business critical aspects of the development of a software system such as team-performance, time-to-market, risk-management, failure-prediction and much more.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Blu-ray%20player%20manufacturers | This aims to be a complete list of Blu-ray manufacturers.
This list is not necessarily complete or up to date - if you see a manufacturer that should be here but is not (or one that should not be here but is), please update the page accordingly.
A
American Recordable Media
Ayankaran International
Acu-disc
C
Cam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen%20Digital | Gen Digital Inc. (formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock) is a multinational software company co-headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Prague, Czech Republic. The company provides cybersecurity software and services. Gen is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock-market index. The company also h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die%20shot | A die shot or die photography is a photo or recording of the layout of an integrated circuit, showings its design with any packaging removed. A die shot can be compared with the cross-section of an (almost) two-dimensional computer chip, on which the design and construction of various tracks and components can be clear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20L-space | In mathematics, specifically in order theory and functional analysis, an abstract L-space, an AL-space, or an abstract Lebesgue space is a Banach lattice whose norm is additive on the positive cone of X.
In probability theory, it means the standard probability space.
Examples
The strong dual of an AM-space with un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20flow%20on%20the%20torus | In mathematics, especially in the area of mathematical analysis known as dynamical systems theory, a linear flow on the torus is a flow on the n-dimensional torus
which is represented by the following differential equations with respect to the standard angular coordinates
The solution of these equations can explicit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beurre%20noisette | Beurre noisette (, literally: hazelnut butter, loosely: brown butter) is a type of warm sauce used in French cuisine. It can accompany savoury foods, such as winter vegetables, pasta, fish, omelettes, and chicken. It has become a popular ingredient in other cultures as well, such as in contemporary American Italian cui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supramolecular%20assembly | In chemistry, a supramolecular assembly is a complex of molecules held together by noncovalent bonds. While a supramolecular assembly can be simply composed of two molecules (e.g., a DNA double helix or an inclusion compound), or a defined number of stoichiometrically interacting molecules within a quaternary complex, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve%20to%20obturator%20internus | The nerve to obturator internus (also known as the obturator internus nerve) is a mixed (sensory and motor) nerve providing motor innervation to the obturator internus muscle and gemellus superior muscle, and sensory innervation to the hip joint. It is a branch of the sacral plexus. It is one of the group of deep glute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarian%20rule | In social choice and operations research, the utilitarian rule (also called the max-sum rule) is a rule saying that, among all possible alternatives, society should pick the alternative which maximizes the sum of the utilities of all individuals in society. It is a formal mathematical representation of the utilitarian ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORR | FORR (FOr the Right Reasons) is a cognitive architecture for learning and problem solving inspired by Herbert A. Simon's ideas of bounded rationality and satisficing. It was first developed in the early 1990s at the City University of New York. It has been used in game playing, robot pathfinding, recreational park des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed%20flags%20of%20Taiwan | Several proposals for a flag of Taiwan have been initiated by supporters of the Taiwan independence movement to replace the flag of the Republic of China as the national flag flown over Taiwan. Supporters of the movement object to the use of the flag of the Republic of China since it was designed by and is closely asso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20underwriting | Medical underwriting is a health insurance term referring to the use of medical or health information in the evaluation of an applicant for coverage, typically for life or health insurance. As part of the underwriting process, an individual's health information may be used in making two decisions: whether to offer or d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABO%20blood%20group%20system | The ABO blood group system is used to denote the presence of one, both, or neither of the A and B antigens on erythrocytes. For human blood transfusions, it is the most important of the 44 different blood type (or group) classification systems currently recognized by the International Society of Blood Transfusions (ISB... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiliPinas%20Debates%202016 | PiliPinas Debates 2016 is a debate series administered by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) with the assistance of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas in preparation for the May 9, 2016, general election. In January 2016, the Commission on Elections confirmed that they would hold three presidential debates... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airflow | Airflow, or air flow, is the movement of air. The primary cause of airflow is the existence of air. Air behaves in a fluid manner, meaning particles naturally flow from areas of higher pressure to those where the pressure is lower. Atmospheric air pressure is directly related to altitude, temperature, and composition.I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi%20calling | Wi-Fi calling refers to mobile phone voice calls and data that are made over IP networks using Wi-Fi, instead of the cell towers provided by cellular networks. Using this feature, compatible handsets are able to route regular cellular calls through a wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) network with broadband Internet, while seamlessl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroelectric%20fusion | Pyroelectric fusion refers to the technique of using pyroelectric crystals to generate high strength electrostatic fields to accelerate deuterium ions (tritium might also be used someday) into a metal hydride target also containing deuterium (or tritium) with sufficient kinetic energy to cause these ions to undergo nuc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryabhatta%20Research%20Institute%20of%20Observational%20Sciences | Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) is a research institute in Nainital, Kumaon, India which specializes in astronomy, solar physics, astrophysics and atmospheric science. It is an autonomous body under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The institute is situated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%20nebula%20luminosity%20function | Planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF) is a secondary distance indicator used in astronomy. It makes use of the [O III] λ5007 forbidden line found in all planetary nebula (PNe) which are members of the old stellar populations (Population II).
It can be used to determine distances to both spiral and elliptical ga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20privacy | Differential privacy (DP) is an approach for providing privacy while sharing information about a group of individuals, by describing the patterns within the group while withholding information about specific individuals. This is done by making arbitrary small changes to individual data that do not change the statistics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20group | In mathematics, an arithmetic group is a group obtained as the integer points of an algebraic group, for example They arise naturally in the study of arithmetic properties of quadratic forms and other classical topics in number theory. They also give rise to very interesting examples of Riemannian manifolds and hence ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribler | Tribler is an open source decentralized BitTorrent client which allows anonymous peer-to-peer by default. Tribler is based on the BitTorrent protocol and uses an overlay network for content searching.
Due to this overlay network, Tribler does not require an external website or indexing service to discover content. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misanthropy | Misanthropy is the general hatred, dislike, or distrust of the human species, human behavior, or human nature. A misanthrope or misanthropist is someone who holds such views or feelings. Misanthropy involves a negative evaluative attitude toward humanity that is based on humankind's flaws. Misanthropes hold that these ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap%20Circuits | Snap Circuits is a line of electronic kits manufactured by Elenco Electronics and aimed at children eight years and older. The kits come in a variety of sizes, and may include capacitors, diodes, electric motors, lamps, LEDs, radios, electromagnets, speakers, resistors, transformers, transistors and voltmeters. The ki... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell%20800 | The Datamatic Division of Honeywell announced the H-800 electronic computer in 1958. The first installation occurred in 1960. A total of 89 were delivered. The H-800 design was part of a family of 48-bit word, three-address instruction format computers that descended from the Datamatic 1000, which was a joint Honeywell... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym%20%28taxonomy%29 | The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name (under the currently used system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newscoop | Newscoop (formerly Campsite) is a free and open source multilingual content management system for news websites. Its localizable user interface was built with journalists, editors and publishers in mind, rather than computer experts, and it can be configured to suit different profiles of end users. Newscoop follows a n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure%20keratopathy | Exposure keratopathy (also known as exposure keratitis) is medical condition affecting the cornea of eyes. It can lead to corneal ulceration and permanent loss of vision due to corneal opacity.
Normally, corneal surface is kept moist by blinking. during sleep, it is covered by lids. Increased corneal exposure to the a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Finsler | Paul Finsler (born 11 April 1894, in Heilbronn, Germany, died 29 April 1970 in Zurich, Switzerland) was a German and Swiss mathematician.
Finsler did his undergraduate studies at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, and his graduate studies at the University of Göttingen, where he received his Ph.D. in 1919 under the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infestation | Infestation is the state of being invaded or overrun by pests or parasites. It can also refer to the actual organisms living on or within a host.
Terminology
In general, the term "infestation" refers to parasitic diseases caused by animals such as arthropods (i.e. mites, ticks, and lice) and worms, but excluding (exc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%20Marcus | Solomon Marcus (; 1 March 1925 – 17 March 2016) was a Romanian mathematician, member of the Mathematical Section of the Romanian Academy (full member from 2001) and emeritus professor of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Mathematics.
His main research was in the fields of mathematical analysis, mathematical and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grzegorczyk%20hierarchy | The Grzegorczyk hierarchy (, ), named after the Polish logician Andrzej Grzegorczyk, is a hierarchy of functions used in computability theory. Every function in the Grzegorczyk hierarchy is a primitive recursive function, and every primitive recursive function appears in the hierarchy at some level. The hierarchy deals... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic | In geometry, a geodesic () is a curve representing in some sense the shortest path (arc) between two points in a surface, or more generally in a Riemannian manifold. The term also has meaning in any differentiable manifold with a connection. It is a generalization of the notion of a "straight line".
The noun geodesic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison-Wesley%20Secondary%20Math%3A%20An%20Integrated%20Approach%3A%20Focus%20on%20Algebra | Focus on Algebra was the widely cited 812-page-long algebra textbook which contained significant content outside the traditional field of mathematics. The real-life context, intended to make mathematics more relevant, included chili recipes, ancient myths, and photographs of famous people.
Although it was a widely use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella%20effect | In evolutionary psychology, the Cinderella effect is the phenomenon of higher incidence of different forms of child abuse and mistreatment by stepparents than by biological parents. It takes its name from the fairy tale character Cinderella, which is about a girl who is mistreated by her stepsisters and stepmother. Evo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-induced%20dispersion%20analysis | Flow-induced dispersion analysis (FIDA) is an immobilization-free technology used for characterization and quantification of biomolecular interaction and protein concentration under native conditions. In the FIDA assay, the size of a ligand (indicator) with affinity to the target analyte is measured. When the indicator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20science | Network science is an academic field which studies complex networks such as telecommunication networks, computer networks, biological networks, cognitive and semantic networks, and social networks, considering distinct elements or actors represented by nodes (or vertices) and the connections between the elements or act... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy%20intermediate-scale%20quantum%20era | The current state of quantum computing is referred to as the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, characterized by quantum processors containing up to 1000 qubits which are not advanced enough yet for fault-tolerance or large enough to achieve quantum supremacy. These processors, which are sensitive to their en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20point%20function | In cryptography, a distributed point function is a cryptographic primitive that allows two distributed processes to share a piece of information, and compute functions of their shared information, without revealing the information itself to either process. It is a form of secret sharing.
Given any two values and one... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinokitiol | Hinokitiol (β-thujaplicin) is a natural monoterpenoid found in the wood of trees in the family Cupressaceae. It is a tropolone derivative and one of the thujaplicins. Hinokitiol is used in oral and skin care products, and is a food additive used in Japan.
History
Hinokitiol was discovered by a Japanese chemist Tetsuo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author%20Domain%20Signing%20Practices | In computing, Author Domain Signing Practices (ADSP)
is an optional extension to the DKIM E-mail authentication
scheme, whereby a domain can publish the signing practices it adopts when relaying mail on behalf of associated authors.
ADSP was adopted as a standards track RFC 5617 in August 2009, but declared "Historic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai%20Mathematical%20Institute | Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) is a higher education and research institute in Chennai, India. It was founded in 1989 by the SPIC Science Foundation, and offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in physics, mathematics and computer science. CMI is noted for its research in algebraic geometry, in particula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Roth | Alice Roth (6 February 1905 – 22 July 1977) was a Swiss mathematician who invented the Swiss cheese set and made significant contributions to approximation theory. She was born, lived and died in Bern, Switzerland.
Life
Alice attended the Höhere Töchterschule of Zürich, a municipal school for higher education for gir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply%20chain%20attack | A supply chain attack is a cyber-attack that seeks to damage an organization by targeting less secure elements in the supply chain. A supply chain attack can occur in any industry, from the financial sector, oil industry, to a government sector. A supply chain attack can happen in software or hardware. Cybercriminals t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonasty | In plant biology, thermonasty is a nondirectional response to temperature in plants. It is a form of nastic movement, not to be confused with thermotropism, which is a directional response in plants to temperature. A common example of this is in some Rhododendron species, but thermonasty has also been observed in other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTCA%20-%20The%20Rural%20Broadband%20Association | NTCA - The Rural Broadband Association (NTCA) is a membership association with the goal of improving communications services in rural America. With a membership comprising nearly 850 independent rural American telecommunications companies in forty-four states, NTCA provides training and employee benefit packages to its... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenable%2C%20Inc. | Tenable, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Columbia, Maryland. It is known as the creator of the vulnerability scanning software Nessus.
History
Tenable was founded in 2002 as Tenable Network Security, Inc. The original co-founders of Tenable were Ron Gula, Jack Huffard, and Renaud Deraison. In 2012, Tenable re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actogram | An actogram is a plot that shows rhythms in biological variables throughout the day. Traditionally, actograms describe phases of activity and rest, but they have also been used to visualize rhythms in protein phosphorylation, gene expression, and hormone secretion. Actograms are commonly used to study the underlying ci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20attention%20key | A secure attention key (SAK) or secure attention sequence (SAS) is a special key or key combination to be pressed on a computer keyboard before a login screen which must, to the user, be completely trustworthy. The operating system kernel, which interacts directly with the hardware, is able to detect whether the secur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling%20of%20Microsoft%20Windows | The bundling of Microsoft Windows is the installation of Microsoft Windows in computers before their purchase. Microsoft encourages original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of personal computers to include Windows licenses with their products, and agreements between Microsoft and OEMs have undergone antitrust scrutiny. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Cosmic%20Ray%20Research | The Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) of the University of Tokyo (東京大学宇宙線研究所 Tōkyōdaigaku Uchūsen Kenkyūsho) was established in 1976 for the study of cosmic rays.
The gravitational wave studies group is currently constructing the detector KAGRA located at the Kamioka Observatory.
Facilities
Kashiwa Campus at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superabundant%20number | In mathematics, a superabundant number is a certain kind of natural number. A natural number is called superabundant precisely when, for all :
where denotes the sum-of-divisors function (i.e., the sum of all positive divisors of , including itself). The first few superabundant numbers are . For example, the number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor%20effect | In statistics, a floor effect (also known as a basement effect) arises when a data-gathering instrument has a lower limit to the data values it can reliably specify. This lower limit is known as the "floor". The "floor effect" is one type of scale attenuation effect; the other scale attenuation effect is the "ceiling e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20discrete%20cosine%20transform | The modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) is a transform based on the type-IV discrete cosine transform (DCT-IV), with the additional property of being lapped: it is designed to be performed on consecutive blocks of a larger dataset, where subsequent blocks are overlapped so that the last half of one block coincide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Dix | Alan John Dix FCBS FLSW is a British author, researcher, and university professor, specialising in human–computer interaction (HCI). He is one of the four co-authors of the university level textbook Human–Computer Interaction. Dix is the Director of the Computational Foundry at Swansea University, since May 2018. He wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recover%20%28command%29 | In computing, recover is a primitive file system error recovery utility included in MS-DOS / IBM PC DOS versions prior to DOS 6.0 and a number of other operating systems.
Overview
Typing recover at the DOS command-line invoked the program file or (depending on the DOS version). recover proceeded under the assumptio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SINAD | The signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SINAD) is a measure of the quality of a signal from a communications device, often defined as
where is the average power of the signal, noise and distortion components. SINAD is usually expressed in dB and is quoted alongside the receiver RF sensitivity, to give a quantitativ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20hole%20greybody%20factors | Black hole greybody factors are functions of frequency and angular momentum that characterizes the deviation of the emission-spectrum of a black hole from a pure black-body spectrum. As a result of quantum effects, an isolated black hole emits radiation that, at the black-hole horizon, matches the radiation from a perf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavulina%20rugosa | Clavulina rugosa, commonly known as the wrinkled coral fungus, is a species of coral fungus in the family Clavulinaceae. It is edible.
Taxonomy
The species was originally described as Clavaria rugosa by Jean Bulliard in 1790. It was transferred to Clavulina by Joseph Schröter in 1888. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20Science | Statistical Science is a review journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. The founding editor was Morris H. DeGroot, who explained the mission of the journal in his 1986 editorial:
"A central purpose of Statistical Science is to convey the richness, breadth and unity of the field by presenting
the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict%20function | In computer science and computer programming, a function f is said to be strict if, when applied to a non-terminating expression, it also fails to terminate. A strict function in the denotational semantics of programming languages is a function f where . The entity , called bottom, denotes an expression that does not ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar%20display | A radar display is an electronic device that presents radar data to the operator. The radar system transmits pulses or continuous waves of electromagnetic radiation, a small portion of which backscatter off targets (intended or otherwise) and return to the radar system. The receiver converts all received electromagneti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20attribution | In the field of epidemiology, source attribution refers to a category of methods with the objective of reconstructing the transmission of an infectious disease from a specific source, such as a population, individual, or location. For example, source attribution methods may be used to trace the origin of a new pathoge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHAKTI%20%28microprocessor%29 | SHAKTI is an open-source initiative by the Reconfigurable Intelligent Systems Engineering (RISE) group at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras to develop the first indigenous Indian industrial-grade processor. The aim of SHAKTI initiative includes building an opensource production-grade processor, complete system on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-bodied%20organism | Soft-bodied organisms are animals that lack skeletons. The group roughly corresponds to the group Vermes as proposed by Carl von Linné. All animals have muscles but, since muscles can only pull, never push, a number of animals have developed hard parts that the muscles can pull on, commonly called skeletons. Such skele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea | In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are the results of thought. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object. Many philosophers have considered ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of being. The capacity to create and understand the meaning of ideas is considered t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegany%20Ballistics%20Laboratory | Allegany Ballistics Laboratory (ABL) located in Rocket Center, West Virginia, is a diverse industrial complex employing some 1,000 people across . The facility is a member of the Federal Laboratory Consortium and is operated by Northrop Grumman (former Alliant Techsystems) under contract with the Naval Sea Systems Com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral%20modernity | Behavioral modernity is a suite of behavioral and cognitive traits that distinguishes current Homo sapiens from other anatomically modern humans, hominins, and primates. Most scholars agree that modern human behavior can be characterized by abstract thinking, planning depth, symbolic behavior (e.g., art, ornamentation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheroplast | A spheroplast (or sphaeroplast in British usage) is a microbial cell from which the cell wall has been almost completely removed, as by the action of penicillin or lysozyme. According to some definitions, the term is used to describe Gram-negative bacteria. According to other definitions, the term also encompasses yeas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongly%20minimal%20theory | In model theory—a branch of mathematical logic—a minimal structure is an infinite one-sorted structure such that every subset of its domain that is definable with parameters is either finite or cofinite. A strongly minimal theory is a complete theory all models of which are minimal. A strongly minimal structure is a st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachykinin%20receptor | There are three known mammalian tachykinin receptors termed NK1, NK2 and NK3. All are members of the 7 transmembrane G-protein coupled receptor family and induce the activation of phospholipase C, producing inositol triphosphate (so called Gq-coupled).
Inhibitors of NK-1, known as NK-1 receptor antagonists, can be use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20zone%20%28environment%29 | Hot zone, also written as hot-zone or hotzone, refers to an area or region that is significantly affected by environmental hazards or risks. It may refer to a location where there is high pollution, contamination, or a concentration of hazardous substances or activities.
Etymology
The term hot zone was likely coined ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20flag%20debate | The New Zealand flag debate is a question over whether the national flag should be changed. For several decades, alternative designs have been proposed, with varying degrees of support. There is no consensus among proponents of changing the flag as to which design should replace the current one. Common criticisms of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indication%20%28medicine%29 | In medicine, an indication is a valid reason to use a certain test, medication, procedure, or surgery. There can be multiple indications to use a procedure or medication. An indication can commonly be confused with the term diagnosis. A diagnosis is the assessment that a particular [medical] condition is present while ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium%20F00F%20bug | The Pentium F00F bug is a design flaw in the majority of Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX, and Pentium OverDrive processors (all in the P5 microarchitecture). Discovered in 1997, it can result in the processor ceasing to function until the computer is physically rebooted. The bug has been circumvented through operating syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attosecond%20physics | Attosecond physics, also known as attophysics, or more generally attosecond science, is a branch of physics that deals with light-matter interaction phenomena wherein attosecond (10−18 s) photon pulses are used to unravel dynamical processes in matter with unprecedented time resolution.
Attosecond science mainly emplo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom%20vibration%20syndrome | Phantom vibration syndrome or phantom ringing syndrome is the perception that one's mobile phone is vibrating or ringing when it is not. Other terms for this concept include ringxiety (a portmanteau of ring and anxiety), fauxcellarm (a portmanteau of "faux" /fo͜ʊ/ meaning "fake" or "false" and "cellphone" and "alarm" p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem%20Cell%20Research%20Enhancement%20Act | Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act was the name of two similar bills that both passed through the United States House of Representatives and Senate, but were both vetoed by President George W. Bush and were not enacted into law.
Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005
The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyprenyl%20synthetase | Polyprenyl synthetases are a class of enzymes responsible for synthesis of isoprenoids. Isoprenoid compounds are synthesized by various organisms. For example, in eukaryotes the isoprenoid biosynthetic pathway is responsible for the synthesis of a variety of end products including cholesterol, dolichol, ubiquinone or c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen%27s%20covering%20theorem | In set theory, Jensen's covering theorem states that if 0# does not exist then every uncountable set of ordinals is contained in a constructible set of the same cardinality. Informally this conclusion says that the constructible universe is close to the universe of all sets. The first proof appeared in . Silver later... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refactorable%20number | A refactorable number or tau number is an integer n that is divisible by the count of its divisors, or to put it algebraically, n is such that . The first few refactorable numbers are listed in as
1, 2, 8, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 40, 56, 60, 72, 80, 84, 88, 96, 104, 108, 128, 132, 136, 152, 156, 180, 184, 204, 225, 228, 23... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced%20Rayleigh%20scattering | Forced Rayleigh scattering (FRS) is an experimental method in physics and chemistry based on light scattering and is usually used to measure diffusion on length scales of roughly 10 µm. Many FRS experiments have been carried out on thermal and mass diffusion in liquids, and thermophoresis (Soret effect) has been measur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitored%20Emergency%20Use%20of%20Unregistered%20and%20Investigational%20Interventions | Monitored Emergency Use of Unregistered and Investigational Interventions (MEURI) is an ethical protocol developed by the World Health Organization to evaluate the potential use of experimental drugs in the event of public health emergencies.
The protocol was created by the WHO Ebola Ethics Working Group in 2014 in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OoVoo | ooVoo was a video chat and a messaging app developed by ooVoo LLC and owned by Krush Technologies, LLC. ooVoo had applications for Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone, and Facebook. The original Microsoft Windows app was released in 2007. It was discontinued on November 25, 2017.
Features
ooVoo al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun%20data%20computer | The gun data computer was a series of artillery computers used by the U.S. Army for coastal artillery, field artillery and anti-aircraft artillery applications. For antiaircraft applications they were used in conjunction with a director computer.
Variations
M1: This was used by seacoast artillery for major-caliber s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Behavior%20and%20Evolution%20Society | The Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) is an interdisciplinary, international society of researchers, primarily from the social and biological sciences, who use modern evolutionary theory to help to discover human nature — including evolved emotional, cognitive and sexual adaptations. It was founded on Octobe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalodiscidae%20mitochondrial%20code | The Cephalodiscidae mitochondrial code (translation table 33) is a genetic code used by the mitochondrial genome of Cephalodiscidae (Pterobranchia). The Pterobranchia are one of the two groups in the Hemichordata which together with the Echinodermata and Chordata form the major clades of deuterostomes.
Code 33 is very... |
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