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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoreflection | In mathematics, a pseudoreflection is an invertible linear transformation of a finite-dimensional vector space such that it is not the identity transformation, has a finite (multiplicative) order, and fixes a hyperplane. The concept of pseudoreflection generalizes the concepts of reflection and complex reflection and i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Templeton%20Foundation | The John Templeton Foundation (Templeton Foundation) is a philanthropic organization that reflects the ideas of its founder, John Templeton, who became wealthy via a career as a contrarian investor, and wanted to support progress in religious and spiritual knowledge, especially at the intersection of religion and scien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20domain | Time domain refers to the analysis of mathematical functions, physical signals or time series of economic or environmental data, with respect to time. In the time domain, the signal or function's value is known for all real numbers, for the case of continuous time, or at various separate instants in the case of discre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Fulton%20%28mathematician%29 | William Edgar Fulton (born August 29, 1939) is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.
Education and career
He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1961 and his doctorate from Princeton University in 1966. His Ph.D. thesis, written under the supervision of Gerard Washnitze... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22-Dihydroergocalciferol | 22-Dihydroergocalciferol is a form of vitamin D, also known as vitamin D4. It has the systematic name (5Z,7E)-(3S)-9,10-seco-5,7,10(19)-ergostatrien-3-ol.
Vitamin D4 is found in certain mushrooms, being produced from ergosta-5,7-dienol (22,23-dihydroergosterol) instead of ergosterol.
See also
Forms of vitamin D, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIKE%2011 | MIKE 11 is a computer program that simulates flow and water level, water quality and sediment transport in rivers, flood plains, irrigation canals, reservoirs and other inland water bodies. MIKE 11 is a 1-dimensional river model. It was developed by DHI.
MIKE 11 has long been known as a software tool with advanced int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric%20Dynamical%20Time | Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB, from the French Temps Dynamique Barycentrique) is a relativistic coordinate time scale, intended for astronomical use as a time standard to take account of time dilation when calculating orbits and astronomical ephemerides of planets, asteroids, comets and interplanetary spacecraft in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fare%20Thee%20Well%3A%20Celebrating%2050%20Years%20of%20the%20Grateful%20Dead | Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead was a series of concerts that were performed by most of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, joined by Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20Runner%20Chelnov | Atomic Runner Chelnov is a Japanese runner arcade video game developed and published by Data East in 1988.
Gameplay
The player controls Chelnov's movements with the eight-way joystick, and the three buttons to attack, jump, or turn around. Six types of weapons can be obtained during the game: laser, fire rings, boome... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenstein%27s%20criterion | In mathematics, Eisenstein's criterion gives a sufficient condition for a polynomial with integer coefficients to be irreducible over the rational numbers – that is, for it to not be factorizable into the product of non-constant polynomials with rational coefficients.
This criterion is not applicable to all polynomial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabru%20%28supercomputer%29 | Kabru is a supercomputer that uses a 2.4 GHz Pentium Xeon Cluster and Linux to provide a sustained speed of 959 gigaflops. It was developed by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) in Chennai, India. In June 2004, Kabru was listed as #264 in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful computers. It takes its ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched%20category | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, an enriched category generalizes the idea of a category by replacing hom-sets with objects from a general monoidal category. It is motivated by the observation that, in many practical applications, the hom-set often has additional structure that should be respected, e.g., th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus%20CRS | Amadeus is a computer reservation system (or global distribution system, since it sells tickets for multiple airlines) owned by the Amadeus IT Group with headquarters in Madrid, Spain. The central database is located at Erding, Germany. The major development centres are located in Sophia Antipolis (France), Bangalore (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastus%20lateralis%20muscle | The vastus lateralis (), also called the vastus externus, is the largest and most powerful part of the quadriceps femoris, a muscle in the thigh. Together with other muscles of the quadriceps group, it serves to extend the knee joint, moving the lower leg forward. It arises from a series of flat, broad tendons attached... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed%20measure | In mathematics, signed measure is a generalization of the concept of (positive) measure by allowing the set function to take negative values, i.e., to acquire sign.
Definition
There are two slightly different concepts of a signed measure, depending on whether or not one allows it to take infinite values. Signed meas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminivibrio | Aminivibrio is a Gram-negative genus of bacteria from the family of Synergistaceae with one known species (Aminivibrio pyruvatiphilus). Aminivibrio pyruvatiphilus has been isolated from soil from a rice field. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT%20solver | In computer science and formal methods, a SAT solver is a computer program which aims to solve the Boolean satisfiability problem. On input a formula over Boolean variables, such as "(x or y) and (x or not y)", a SAT solver outputs whether the formula is satisfiable, meaning that there are possible values of x and y wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%20cup | A Faraday cup is a metal (conductive) cup designed to catch charged particles in vacuum. The resulting current can be measured and used to determine the number of ions or electrons hitting the cup. The Faraday cup was named after Michael Faraday who first theorized ions around 1830.
Examples of devices which use Farad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-stretch%20analog-to-digital%20converter | The time-stretch analog-to-digital converter (TS-ADC), also known as the time-stretch enhanced recorder (TiSER), is an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) system that has the capability of digitizing very high bandwidth signals that cannot be captured by conventional electronic ADCs. Alternatively, it is also known as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval%20contractor | In mathematics, an interval contractor (or contractor for short) associated to a set is an operator which associates to a hyperrectangle in another box of such that the two following properties are always satisfied:
(contractance property)
(completeness property)
A contractor associated to a constraint (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplexin | Multiplexin is a family of collagens. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Lala | Kevin Neville Lala (formerly Kevin Neville Laland; born 5 October 1962) is an English evolutionary biologist who is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Educated at the University of Southampton and University College London, he was a Human Frontier Science Prog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelectin | Intelectins are lectins (carbohydrate-binding proteins) expressed in humans and other chordates. Humans express two types of intelectins encoded by ITLN1 and ITLN2 genes respectively. Several intelectins bind microbe-specific carbohydrate residues. Therefore, intelectins have been proposed to function as immune lecti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijdschrift%20voor%20Gerontologie%20en%20Geriatrie | The Tijdschrift voor Gerontologie en Geriatrie (English: Journal for Gerontology and Geriatrics) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering gerontology and geriatrics. It was established in 1970 as the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Gerontologie and renamed Gerontologie in 1980 before obtaining its current name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%20puzzle | Conway's puzzle, or blocks-in-a-box, is a packing problem using rectangular blocks, named after its inventor, mathematician John Conway. It calls for packing thirteen 1 × 2 × 4 blocks, one 2 × 2 × 2 block, one 1 × 2 × 2 block, and three 1 × 1 × 3 blocks into a 5 × 5 × 5 box.
Solution
The solution of the Conway puzzle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortus%20Eystettensis | Hortus Eystettensis (Garden of Eichstätt) is the short title of a book produced by Basilius Besler, a Nuremberg apothecary and botanist, in 1613 describing the plants of the garden of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria. The Renaissance style garden was located at the bishop's palace at the Willibaldsburg and was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idem | idem is a Latin term meaning "the same". It is commonly abbreviated as id.,
which is particularly used in legal citations to denote the previously cited source (compare ibid.). It is also used in academic citations to replace the name of a repeated author.
Id. is employed extensively in Canadian legislation and in l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson%27s%20construction | In computer science, Thompson's construction algorithm, also called the McNaughton–Yamada–Thompson algorithm, is a method of transforming a regular expression into an equivalent nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA). This NFA can be used to match strings against the regular expression. This algorithm is credited to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20philosophy | Computational philosophy or digital philosophy is the use of computational techniques in philosophy. It includes concepts such as computational models, algorithms, simulations, games, etc. that help in the research and teaching of philosophical concepts, as well as specialized online encyclopedias and graphical visuali... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOn | eOn was a volunteer computing project running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, which uses theoretical chemistry techniques to solve problems in condensed matter physics and materials science. It was a project of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophyte | Schizophyte was a botanical classification proposed by Ferdinand Cohn to describe the class of primitive "plants" that reproduce solely by fission. It has been considered synonymous with the Protophyta of Sachs and the Monera of Haeckel. In modern taxonomy, it is equivalent with the concept of prokaryotes, single-celle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiochemistry | Radiochemistry is the chemistry of radioactive materials, where radioactive isotopes of elements are used to study the properties and chemical reactions of non-radioactive isotopes (often within radiochemistry the absence of radioactivity leads to a substance being described as being inactive as the isotopes are stable... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess | Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as (Chinese chess) and (Japanese chess). The recorded hist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katz%E2%80%93Lang%20finiteness%20theorem | In number theory, the Katz–Lang finiteness theorem, proved by , states that if X is a smooth geometrically connected scheme of finite type over a field K that is finitely generated over the prime field, and Ker(X/K) is the kernel of the maps between their abelianized fundamental groups, then Ker(X/K) is finite if K has... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20planning | In psychology and neuroscience, motor planning is a set of processes related to the preparation of a movement that occurs during the reaction time (the time between the presentation of a stimulus to a person and that person's initiation of a motor response). Colloquially, the term applies to any process involved in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder%20Dash%20II | Boulder Dash II is a 2D maze-puzzle video game designed by Peter Liepa and released in 1985 by First Star Software. It is the first sequel to the original Boulder Dash.
Release
Boulder Dash II was published under several titles; Rockford's Riot on the MSX, Rockford's Revenge on the Commodore 64. The second release in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zariski%27s%20connectedness%20theorem | In algebraic geometry, Zariski's connectedness theorem (due to Oscar Zariski) says that under certain conditions the fibers of a morphism of varieties are connected. It is an extension of Zariski's main theorem to the case when the morphism of varieties need not be birational.
Zariski's connectedness theorem gives a r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-cell%20activating%20factor | B-cell activating factor (BAFF) also known as tumor necrosis factor ligand superfamily member 13B and CD257 among other names, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TNFSF13B gene. BAFF is also known as B Lymphocyte Stimulator (BLyS) and TNF- and APOL-related leukocyte expressed ligand (TALL-1) and the Dendritic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt%20and%20Catch%20Fire%20%28computing%29 | In computer engineering, Halt and Catch Fire, known by the assembly mnemonic HCF, is an idiom referring to a computer machine code instruction that causes the computer's central processing unit (CPU) to cease meaningful operation, typically requiring a restart of the computer. It originally referred to a fictitious ins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20gene%20knockout | Conditional gene knockout is a technique used to eliminate a specific gene in a certain tissue, such as the liver. This technique is useful to study the role of individual genes in living organisms. It differs from traditional gene knockout because it targets specific genes at specific times rather than being deleted f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor%20metabolome | The study of the tumor metabolism, also known as tumor metabolome describes the different characteristic metabolic changes in tumor cells. The characteristic attributes of the tumor metabolome are high glycolytic enzyme activities, the expression of the pyruvate kinase isoenzyme type M2, increased channeling of glucose... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores%20Romero%20Morales | María Dolores Romero Morales (born 5th August 1971) is a Spanish operations researcher and professor of operations research at the Copenhagen Business School. Topics in her research include supply chain management, revenue management, and data mining.
Education and career
Romero studied mathematics at the University o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Nirenberg | Louis Nirenberg (February 28, 1925 – January 26, 2020) was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century.
Nearly all of his work was in the field of partial differential equations. Many of his contributions are now regarded as fundamental to the field, suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Lander | Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957) is an American mathematician and geneticist who is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School. Eric Lander is founding director emeritus of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts%20on%20Flash | "Thoughts on Flash" is an open letter published by Steve Jobs, co-founder and then-chief executive officer of Apple Inc., on April 29, 2010. The letter criticizes Adobe Systems' Flash platform and outlines reasons why the technology would not be allowed on Apple's iOS hardware products. The letter drew accusations of f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20structure | Genetic structure refers to any pattern in the genetic makeup of individuals within a population.
Genetic structure allows for information about an individual to be inferred from other members of the same population. In trivial terms, all populations have genetic structure, because all populations can be characterized... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25%20English | 100% English is a Channel 4 television programme shown in November 2006 in the United Kingdom. It looked at the genetic makeup of English people who considered themselves to be ethnically English and found that while all had an ethnic makeup similar to people of European descent, a minority discovered genetic markers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried%20mushrooms | Fried mushrooms or battered mushrooms are a dish made by the frying or deep frying of edible mushrooms, sometimes after dipping them in batter.
In Canada, the United States, United Kingdom and other countries, they are often served as an appetizer or snack, often with ranch dressing, garlic mayonnaise or barbecue sauc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopf%20conjecture | In mathematics, Hopf conjecture may refer to one of several conjectural statements from differential geometry and topology attributed to Heinz Hopf.
Positively or negatively curved Riemannian manifolds
The Hopf conjecture is an open problem in global Riemannian geometry. It goes back to questions of Heinz Hopf from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furcellaria | Furcellaria is a genus of red algae. It is a monotypic genus, the only species being Furcellaria lumbricalis, which has commercial importance as a raw material for carrageenan production. It is mainly harvested from the waters of Denmark and Canada.
It grows on submerged rocks to a depth of about , but it can also gro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory%20nerve | The accessory nerve, also known as the eleventh cranial nerve, cranial nerve XI, or simply CN XI, is a cranial nerve that supplies the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles. It is classified as the eleventh of twelve pairs of cranial nerves because part of it was formerly believed to originate in the brain. The ste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic%20networking | Autonomic Networking follows the concept of Autonomic Computing, an initiative started by IBM in 2001. Its ultimate aim is to create self-managing networks to overcome the rapidly growing complexity of the Internet and other networks and to enable their further growth, far beyond the size of today.
Increasing size and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taeniasis | Taeniasis is an infection within the intestines by adult tapeworms belonging to the genus Taenia. There are generally no or only mild symptoms. Symptoms may occasionally include weight loss or abdominal pain. Segments of tapeworm may be seen in the stool. Complications of pork tapeworm may include cysticercosis.
Types... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxamic%20acid | Oxamic acid is an organic compound with the formula . It is a white, water-soluble solid. It is the monoamide of oxalic acid. Oxamic acid inhibits lactate dehydrogenase A. The active site of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is closed off once oxamic acid attaches to the LDH-NADH complex, effectively inhibiting it.
Oxamic a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny%20dumping | Granny dumping (informal) is a form of modern senicide. The term was introduced in the early 1980s by professionals in the medical and social work fields. Granny dumping is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "the abandonment of an elderly person in a public place such as a hospital or nursing home, especially ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RhoGEF%20domain | RhoGEF domain describes two distinct structural domains with guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) activity to regulate small GTPases in the Rho family. Rho small GTPases are inactive when bound to GDP but active when bound to GTP; RhoGEF domains in proteins are able to promote GDP release and GTP binding to activa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedelia%20calendulacea | Wedelia calendulacea may refer to:
Wedelia calendulacea (L.) Less., an illegitimate name that is a synonym of Sphagneticola calendulacea
Wedelia calendulacea Rich, an unresolved name in the genus Wedelia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Mynewt | Apache Mynewt is a modular real-time operating system for connected Internet of things (IoT) devices that must operate for long times under power, memory, and storage constraints. It is free and open-source software incubating under the Apache Software Foundation, with source code distributed under the Apache License 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsung | Tsung (formerly known as idx-Tsunami) is a stress testing tool written in the Erlang language and distributed under the GPL license. It can currently stress test HTTP, WebDAV, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SOAP and XMPP servers. Tsung can simulate hundreds of simultaneous users on a single system. It can also function in a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternariol | Alternariol is a toxic metabolite of Alternaria fungi. It is an important contaminant in cereals and fruits.
Alternariol exhibits antifungal and phytotoxic activity. It is reported to inhibit cholinesterase enzymes. It is also a mycoestrogen.
Alternariol is reported to be a full androgen agonist in an in vitro assay. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Announcement%20%28computing%29 | An announcement (ANN) is a Usenet, mailing list or e-mail message sent to notify subscribers that a software project has made a new release version. Newsgroup announcement recipients often have a name like "comp.somegroup.announce". Mailing list announcement recipients often have a name like "toolname-announce". In an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfinite%20set | In nonstandard analysis, a branch of mathematics, a hyperfinite set or *-finite set is a type of internal set. An internal set H of internal cardinality g ∈ *N (the hypernaturals) is hyperfinite if and only if there exists an internal bijection between G = {1,2,3,...,g} and H. Hyperfinite sets share the properties of f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20Conference | Contact is an annual interdisciplinary conference that brings together renowned social and space scientists, science fiction writers and artists to exchange ideas, stimulate new perspectives, and encourage serious, creative speculation about humanity's future. The intent of Contact is to promote the integration of huma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strib%20porpoise%20research%20station | Strib porpoise research station was a bioacoustic research facility located in Strib, a small town on the coast of Little Belt, Denmark. The station was formed in 1962 with the official name Station Oceanographique Anton Bruun by the first director René-Guy Busnel (France) and co-worker Willem Dudok van Heel (the Nethe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd%20meridian%20west | The meridian 22° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 22nd meridian west forms a great circle with the 158th meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel%20function | Bessel functions, first defined by the mathematician Daniel Bernoulli and then generalized by Friedrich Bessel, are canonical solutions of Bessel's differential equation
for an arbitrary complex number , which represents the order of the Bessel function. Although and produce the same differential equation, it is co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss%20key | A boss key, or boss button, is a special keyboard shortcut used in PC games or other programs to hide the program quickly, possibly displaying a special screen that appears to be a normal productivity program (such as a spreadsheet application). One of the earliest implementations was by Friendlyware, a suite of entert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz%20triangle%20function | In complex analysis, the Schwarz triangle function or Schwarz s-function is a function that conformally maps the upper half plane to a triangle in the upper half plane having lines or circular arcs for edges. The target triangle is not necessarily a Schwarz triangle, although that is the most mathematically interesting... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom%20dye | Mushrooms can be used to create color dyes via color-extraction with a solvent (often ammonia) as well as particulation of raw material. The shingled hedgehog mushroom and related species contain blue-green pigments, which are used for dyeing wool in Norway. The fruiting body of Hydnellum peckii can be used to produce ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin%20acoustics | Violin acoustics is an area of study within musical acoustics concerned with how the sound of a violin is created as the result of interactions between its many parts. These acoustic qualities are similar to those of other members of the violin family, such as the viola.
The energy of a vibrating string is transmitted... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflationary%20epoch |
In physical cosmology, the inflationary epoch was the period in the evolution of the early universe when, according to inflation theory, the universe underwent an extremely rapid exponential expansion. This rapid expansion increased the linear dimensions of the early universe by a factor of at least 1026 (and possibl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20zeta%20function | In mathematics, the prime zeta function is an analogue of the Riemann zeta function, studied by . It is defined as the following infinite series, which converges for :
Properties
The Euler product for the Riemann zeta function ζ(s) implies that
which by Möbius inversion gives
When s goes to 1, we have .
This is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic%20bioweapon | An ethnic bioweapon (or a biogenetic weapon) is a hypothetical type of bioweapon which could preferentially target people of specific ethnicities or people with specific genotypes.
History
One of the first modern fictional discussions of ethnic weapons is in Robert A. Heinlein's 1942 novel Sixth Column (republished a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20Opinion%20in%20Cell%20Biology | Current Opinion in Cell Biology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering all aspects of cell biology including genetics, cell communication, and metabolism. It was established in 1998 and is part of the Elsevier Current Opinion series of journals. The editors-in-chief are Tom Mistl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1nh%20tr%C3%A1ng | Bánh tráng or bánh đa nem, a Vietnamese term (literally, coated bánh), sometimes called rice paper wrappers, rice crepes, rice wafers or nem wrappers, are edible Vietnamese wrappers used in Vietnamese cuisine, primarily in finger foods and appetizers such as Vietnamese nem dishes. The term rice paper wrappers can somet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertransversarii | The intertransversarii are small muscles placed between the transverse processes of the vertebrae.
Structure
Cervical
In the cervical region they are best developed, consisting of rounded muscular and tendinous fasciculi, and are placed in pairs, passing between the anterior and the posterior tubercles respectively o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20Bioinformatics | Melbourne Bioinformatics (formerly the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, VLSCI) is a centre for computational life science expertise. It provides bioinformatics support for all researchers and students in a wide range of projects and services of local and national significance. Researchers can engage with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative%20adversarial%20network | A generative adversarial network (GAN) is a class of machine learning framework and a prominent framework for approaching generative AI. The concept was initially developed by Ian Goodfellow and his colleagues in June 2014. In a GAN, two neural networks contest with each other in the form of a zero-sum game, where one ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitragus | The antitragus is a feature of mammalian ear anatomy.
In humans, it is a small tubercle on the visible part of the ear, the pinna. The antitragus is located just above the earlobe and points anteriorly. It is separated from the tragus by the intertragic notch.
The antitragicus muscle, an intrinsic muscle of the ear, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldehyde%20oxidase%20and%20xanthine%20dehydrogenase%2C%20a/b%20hammerhead%20domain | The aldehyde oxidase and xanthine dehydrogenase, a/b hammerhead domain is an evolutionary conserved protein domain.
Aldehyde oxidase () catalyzes the conversion of an aldehyde in the presence of oxygen and water to an acid and hydrogen peroxide. The enzyme is a homodimer, and requires FAD, molybdenum and two 2FE-2S cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom%27s%20first%20isotopy%20lemma | In mathematics, especially in differential topology, Thom's first isotopy lemma states: given a smooth map between smooth manifolds and a closed Whitney stratified subset, if is proper and is a submersion for each stratum of , then is a locally trivial fibration. The lemma was originally introduced by René Thom w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%20of%20the%20British%20Isles | The People of the British Isles (PoBI) is an ongoing population genetics project based at the University of Oxford. The project began in 2004 and is ongoing. Professor Sir Walter Bodmer founded and leads the project.
Genetic history of the British Isles
The first anatomically modern people to colonise Britain arrived... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BELBIC | In recent years, the use of biologically inspired methods such as the evolutionary algorithm have been increasingly employed to solve and analyze complex computational problems. BELBIC (Brain Emotional Learning Based Intelligent Controller) is one such controller which is proposed by Caro Lucas, Danial Shahmirzadi and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic%20material | Biotic material or biological derived material is any material that originates from living organisms. Most such materials contain carbon and are capable of decay.
The earliest life on Earth arose at least 3.5 billion years ago. Earlier physical evidences of life include graphite, a biogenic substance, in 3.7 billion-y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Highlands%20%28Madagascar%29 | The Central Highlands, Central High Plateau, or Hauts-Plateaux are a mountainous biogeographical region in central Madagascar. They include the contiguous part of the island's interior above 800 m (2,600 ft) altitude. The Central Highlands are separated from the Northern Highlands of the northern tip of Madagascar by a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20descriptive%20plant%20species%20epithets%20%28A%E2%80%93H%29 | Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor%20polishing | Vapor polishing is a method of polishing plastics to reduce the surface roughness or improve clarity. Typically, a component is exposed to a chemical vapor causing the surface to flow thereby improving the surface finish. This method of polishing is frequently used to return clear materials to an optical quality finish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-vector%20model | In statistical mechanics, the n-vector model or O(n) model is a simple system of interacting spins on a crystalline lattice. It was developed by H. Eugene Stanley as a generalization of the Ising model, XY model and Heisenberg model. In the n-vector model, n-component unit-length classical spins are placed on the v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac/Ds%20transposable%20controlling%20elements | Ac/Ds transposable controlling elements was the first transposable element system recognized in maize. The Ac Activator element is autonomous, whereas the Ds Dissociation element requires an Activator element to transpose. Ac was initially discovered as enabling a Ds element to break chromosomes. Both Ac and Ds can al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Home%20Server | Windows Home Server (code-named Quattro) is a home server operating system from Microsoft. It was announced on 7 January 2007 at the Consumer Electronics Show by Bill Gates, released to manufacturing on 16 July 2007 and officially released on 4 November 2007.
Windows Home Server was based on Windows Server 2003 R2 and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange%27s%20identity | In algebra, Lagrange's identity, named after Joseph Louis Lagrange, is:
which applies to any two sets {a1, a2, ..., an} and {b1, b2, ..., bn} of real or complex numbers (or more generally, elements of a commutative ring). This identity is a generalisation of the Brahmagupta–Fibonacci identity and a special form of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20frequency%20offset | Carrier frequency offset (CFO) is one of many non-ideal conditions that may affect in baseband receiver design. In designing a baseband receiver, we should notice not only the degradation invoked by non-ideal channel and noise, we should also regard RF and analog parts as the main consideration. Those non-idealities in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20brewing | Women have been active in brewing since ancient times. From the earliest evidence of brewing in 7000 BCE, until the commercialization of brewing during industrialization, women were the primary brewers on all inhabited continents. In many cultures, the deities, goddesses and protectors of brewers were female entities ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staden%20Package | The Staden Package is computer software, a set of tools for DNA sequence assembly, editing, and sequence analysis. It is open-source software, released under a BSD 3-clause license.
Package components
The Staden package consists of several different programs. The main components are:
pregap4 – base calling with Ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanomorph | A melanomorph is a substance related to the pigment melanin. Melanomorphs originate from the aromatic amino acids tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine. They tend to absorb ultraviolet-B light, with peaks around 280 nanometers. See also Beer's Law. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic%20Bakery | Comic Bakery is a computer game for the MSX, made by Konami in 1984 and later a Commodore 64 conversion was made by Imagine Software.
Gameplay
The game is set in a bakery, where the town baker tries to bake and deliver bread (croissants in the MSX version) while fighting off raccoons. Pieces of bread move along a fact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram%20per%20cubic%20centimetre | The gram per cubic centimetre is a unit of density in the CGS system, and is commonly used in chemistry. It is defined by dividing the CGS unit of mass, the gram, by the cgs unit of volume, the cubic centimetre. The official SI symbols are g/cm3, g·cm−3, or g cm−3. It is equivalent to the units gram per millilitre (g/m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenerativeComponents | GenerativeComponents is parametric CAD software developed by Bentley Systems, was first introduced in 2003, became increasingly used in practice (especially by the London architectural community) by early 2005, and was commercially released in November 2007. GenerativeComponents has a strong traditional base of users... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP | UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between computers.
A command named is one of the programs in the suite; it provides a user interface for requesting file copy operations. The UUCP suite also includes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20telegraph%20code | The Chinese telegraph code, Chinese telegraphic code, or Chinese commercial code ( or ) is a four-digit decimal code (character encoding) for electrically telegraphing messages written with Chinese characters.
Encoding and decoding
A codebook is provided for encoding and decoding the Chinese telegraph code. It shows ... |
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