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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotfix
A hotfix or quick-fix engineering update (QFE update) is a single, cumulative package that includes information (often in the form of one or more files) that is used to address a problem in a software product (i.e., a software bug). Typically, hotfixes are made to address a specific customer situation. The term "hotfi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipcamp
Hipcamp is an online marketplace company that offers outdoor stays and camping experiences via a website and mobile app. Private landowners primarily list campsites, glampsites, RV spaces, cabins for users to discover and book based on listing type, location, landscape, activities offered, and amenities. In addition to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2097
In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 97 is a family of glycoside hydrolases. Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerber%20Legendary%20Blades
Gerber Legendary Blades is an American maker of knives, multitools, and other tools for outdoors and military headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Gerber is owned by the Finnish outdoors products company Fiskars. Gerber was established in 1939 by Pete Gerber. Gerber is the "largest maker of knives and multi-tools for th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea%20gene
Medea is a gene from the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster that was one of the first two Smad genes discovered. For both genes, the maternal effect lethality was the basis for selection of their names. Medea was named for the mythological Greek Medea, who killed her progeny fathered by Jason. Both Medea and Mothers ag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20economics
Mathematical economics is the application of mathematical methods to represent theories and analyze problems in economics. Often, these applied methods are beyond simple geometry, and may include differential and integral calculus, difference and differential equations, matrix algebra, mathematical programming, or oth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20anti-aliasing
In digital signal processing, spatial anti-aliasing is a technique for minimizing the distortion artifacts (aliasing) when representing a high-resolution image at a lower resolution. Anti-aliasing is used in digital photography, computer graphics, digital audio, and many other applications. Anti-aliasing means removin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Tarjan
Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the discoverer of several graph algorithms, including Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and Fibonacci heaps. Tarjan is currently the James S. McDonnell Distinguished ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganuclease
Meganucleases are endodeoxyribonucleases characterized by a large recognition site (double-stranded DNA sequences of 12 to 40 base pairs); as a result this site generally occurs only once in any given genome. For example, the 18-base pair sequence recognized by the I-SceI meganuclease would on average require a genome ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climograph
A climograph is a graphical representation of a location's basic climate. Climographs display data for two variables: (a) monthly average temperature and (b) monthly average precipitation. These are useful tools to quickly describe a location's climate. Representation While temperature is typically visualized using a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamath
Metamath is a formal language and an associated computer program (a proof assistant) for archiving and verifying mathematical proofs. Several databases of proved theorems have been developed using Metamath covering standard results in logic, set theory, number theory, algebra, topology and analysis, among others. , th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodoquinone
Rhodoquinone (RQ) is a modified ubiquinone-like molecule that is an important cofactor used in anaerobic energy metabolism by many organisms. Recently, it has gained attention as a potential anthelmintic drug target due to the fact that parasitic hosts do not synthesize or use this cofactor. Because this cofactor is us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-affinity%20nerve%20growth%20factor%20receptor
The p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) was first identified in 1973 as the low-affinity nerve growth factor receptor (LNGFR) before discovery that p75NTR bound other neurotrophins equally well as nerve growth factor. p75NTR is a neurotrophic factor receptor. Neurotrophic factor receptors bind Neurotrophins including Ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperGrid%20%28hydrogen%29
In lossless power transmission, a supergrid with hydrogen is an idea for combining very long distance electric power transmission with liquid hydrogen distribution, to achieve superconductivity in the cables. The hydrogen is both a distributed fuel and a cryogenic coolant for the power lines, rendering them superconduc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%20vibrations
Ground vibrations is a technical term that is being used to describe mostly man-made vibrations of the ground, in contrast to natural vibrations of the Earth studied by seismology. For example, vibrations caused by explosions, construction works, railway and road transport, etc. - all belong to ground vibrations. Gene...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar%20plate
An agar plate is a Petri dish that contains a growth medium solidified with agar, used to culture microorganisms. Sometimes selective compounds are added to influence growth, such as antibiotics. Individual microorganisms placed on the plate will grow into individual colonies, each a clone genetically identical to the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20application%20development
Rapid application development (RAD), also called rapid application building (RAB), is both a general term for adaptive software development approaches, and the name for James Martin's method of rapid development. In general, RAD approaches to software development put less emphasis on planning and more emphasis on an ad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20symmetries
In particle physics, the family symmetries or horizontal symmetries are various discrete, global, or local symmetries between quark-lepton families or generations. In contrast to the intrafamily or vertical symmetries (collected in the conventional Standard Model and Grand Unified Theories) which operate inside each fa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma-facing%20material
In nuclear fusion power research, the plasma-facing material (or materials) (PFM) is any material used to construct the plasma-facing components (PFC), those components exposed to the plasma within which nuclear fusion occurs, and particularly the material used for the lining the first wall or divertor region of the re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-allelic%20homologous%20recombination
Non-allelic homologous recombination (NAHR) is a form of homologous recombination that occurs between two lengths of DNA that have high sequence similarity, but are not alleles. It usually occurs between sequences of DNA that have been previously duplicated through evolution, and therefore have low copy repeats (LCRs)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscopia
Dyscopia consists of the Latin root copia, which means abundance or plenty (see cornucopia), and the Greek prefix dys-, which means "bad", "abnormal", "difficult" or "impaired". This word has assumed two meanings, both of which are essentially a pun based on the similarity of the sound of the words "copy" and "cope" w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark%E2%80%93Wilson%20model
The Clark–Wilson integrity model provides a foundation for specifying and analyzing an integrity policy for a computing system. The model is primarily concerned with formalizing the notion of information integrity. Information integrity is maintained by preventing corruption of data items in a system due to either err...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagata%27s%20conjecture
In algebra, Nagata's conjecture states that Nagata's automorphism of the polynomial ring k[x,y,z] is wild. The conjecture was proposed by and proved by . Nagata's automorphism is given by where . For the inverse, let Then and . With this and .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatantra%202014
Swatantra 2014 (from the Indic word Swatantra meaning 'independent', or 'free' as in 'free will') was the fifth international free software conference organized by the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), an autonomous organization set up by the Government of Kerala, India for the propagatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront%20expansion%20algorithm
The wavefront expansion algorithm is a specialized potential field path planner with breadth-first search to avoid local minima. It uses a growing circle around the robot. The nearest neighbors are analyzed first and then the radius of the circle is extended to distant regions. Motivation Before a robot is able to nav...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20programming
In computer science, automatic programming is a type of computer programming in which some mechanism generates a computer program to allow human programmers to write the code at a higher abstraction level. There has been little agreement on the precise definition of automatic programming, mostly because its meaning ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biting
Biting is a common zoological behavior involving the active, rapid closing of the jaw around an object. This behavior is found in toothed animals such as mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, but can also exist in arthropods. Myocytic contraction of the muscles of mastication is responsible for generating the force t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteers%20in%20Medicine
Volunteers in Medicine (VIM) is national nonprofit dedicated to building a network of free primary health care clinics for the uninsured and medically underserved. Mission The organization's stated mission is "To promote and guide the development of a national network of free clinics emphasizing the use of retired med...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicated%20short-range%20communications
Dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) is a technology for direct wireless exchange of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and other intelligent transportation systems (ITS) data between vehicles, other road users (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.), and roadside infrastructure (traffic signals, electronic message signs, etc.)....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20black%20holes
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to black holes: Black hole – mathematically defined region of spacetime exhibiting such a strong gravitational pull that no particle or electromagnetic radiation can escape from inside it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficientl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony%20%28video%20game%29
Colony is an action-adventure game written by Ste Cork and released in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, MSX, and ZX Spectrum by Mastertronic on their Bulldog label. Plot Overpopulation has caused humanity to grow food in colonies on other planets. Unfortunately, the mushroom-growing planet ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20disclosure%20control
Statistical disclosure control (SDC), also known as statistical disclosure limitation (SDL) or disclosure avoidance, is a technique used in data-driven research to ensure no person or organization is identifiable from the results of an analysis of survey or administrative data, or in the release of microdata. The purpo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdraft
A backdraft (North American English) or backdraught (British English) is the abrupt burning of superheated gasses in a fire caused when oxygen rapidly enters a hot, oxygen-depleted environment; for example, when a window or door to an enclosed space is opened or broken. Backdrafts are typically seen as a blast of smoke...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstimulus%20interval
The interstimulus interval (often abbreviated as ISI) is the temporal interval between the offset of one stimulus to the onset of another. For instance, Max Wertheimer did experiments with two stationary, flashing lights that at some interstimulus intervals appeared to the subject as moving instead of stationary. In t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20latency
In a ring network, such as Token Ring, ring latency is the time required for a signal to propagate once around the ring. Ring latency may be measured in seconds or in bits at the data transmission rate. Ring latency includes signal propagation delays in the ring medium, the drop cables, and the data stations connected ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI%20tuning%20standard
MIDI Tuning Standard (MTS) is a specification of precise musical pitch agreed to by the MIDI Manufacturers Association in the MIDI protocol. MTS allows for both a bulk tuning dump message, giving a tuning for each of 128 notes, and a tuning message for individual notes as they are played. Frequency values If ƒ is a fr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnauba%20wax
Carnauba (; ), also called Brazil wax and palm wax, is a wax of the leaves of the carnauba palm Copernicia prunifera (synonym: Copernicia cerifera), a plant native to and grown only in the northeastern Brazilian states of Ceará, Piauí, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, Maranhão and Bahia. It is known as the "...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat%20tenderness
Tenderness is a quality of meat gauging how easily it is chewed or cut. Tenderness is a desirable quality, as tender meat is softer, easier to chew, and generally more palatable than harder meat. Consequently, tender cuts of meat typically command higher prices. The tenderness depends on a number of factors including t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VXN
Vexin is a protein encoded by VXN gene. VXN is found to be highly expressed in regions of the brain and spinal cord. Gene Location VXN is found along the plus strand of chromosome 8. The entire gene is 58,522 bp long. VXN is flanked by alcohol dehydrogenase iron containing 1 and Myb proto-oncogene like 1. Homology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-packet
In the field of mathematics known as representation theory, an L-packet is a collection of (isomorphism classes of) irreducible representations of a reductive group over a local field, that are L-indistinguishable, meaning they have the same Langlands parameter, and so have the same L-function and ε-factors. L-packets ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine%20Toolkit
Vine Toolkit is an open source software framework that is used to create Grid-aware web applications. Usage According to the Vine Toolkit web site: "Vine is a modular, extensible Java library that offers developers an easy-to-use, high-level Application Programmer Interface (API) for Grid-enabling applications. Vine ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsonism
Parkinsonism is a clinical syndrome characterized by tremor, bradykinesia (slowed movements), rigidity, and postural instability. These are the four motor symptoms found in Parkinson's disease (PD)after which it is nameddementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD), and many other conditions. This...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20distribution%20on%20a%20locally%20compact%20Abelian%20group
Gaussian distribution on a locally compact Abelian group is a distribution on a second countable locally compact Abelian group which satisfies the conditions: (i) is an infinitely divisible distribution; (ii) if , where is the generalized Poisson distribution, associated with a finite measure , and is an in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial%20electromyography
Facial electromyography (fEMG) refers to an electromyography (EMG) technique that measures muscle activity by detecting and amplifying the tiny electrical impulses that are generated by muscle fibers when they contract. It primarily focuses on two major muscle groups in the face, the corrugator supercilii group which ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterweight
A counterweight is a weight that, by applying an opposite force, provides balance and stability of a mechanical system. The purpose of a counterweight is to make lifting the load faster and more efficient, which saves energy and causes less wear and tear on the lifting machine. Counterweights are often used in tractio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorioamnionitis
Chorioamnionitis, also known as intra-amniotic infection (IAI), is inflammation of the fetal membranes (amnion and chorion), usually due to bacterial infection. In 2015, a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Workshop expert panel recommended use of the term "triple I" to address the heterogeneity o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20wall
A video wall is a special multi-monitor setup that consists of multiple computer monitors, video projectors, or television sets tiled together contiguously or overlapped in order to form one large screen. Typical display technologies include LCD panels, Direct View LED arrays, blended projection screens, Laser Phospho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial%20biology
In biotechnology, combinatorial biology is the creation of a large number of compounds (usually proteins or peptides) through technologies such as phage display. Similar to combinatorial chemistry, compounds are produced by biosynthesis rather than organic chemistry. This process was developed independently by Richard ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-exponential
In combinatorial mathematics, a q-exponential is a q-analog of the exponential function, namely the eigenfunction of a q-derivative. There are many q-derivatives, for example, the classical q-derivative, the Askey-Wilson operator, etc. Therefore, unlike the classical exponentials, q-exponentials are not unique. For ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs%20related%20to%20chi-squared%20distribution
The following are proofs of several characteristics related to the chi-squared distribution. Derivations of the pdf Derivation of the pdf for one degree of freedom Let random variable Y be defined as Y = X2 where X has normal distribution with mean 0 and variance 1 (that is X ~ N(0,1)). Then, Where and are the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTEC
UTEC (University of Toronto Electronic Computer Mark I) was a computer built at the University of Toronto (UofT) in the early 1950s. It was the first computer in Canada, one of the first working computers in the world, although only built in a prototype form while awaiting funding for expansion into a full-scale versio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low%20field%20nuclear%20magnetic%20resonance
Low field NMR spans a range of different nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) modalities, going from NMR conducted in permanent magnets, supporting magnetic fields of a few tesla (T), all the way down to zero field NMR, where the Earth's field is carefully shielded such that magnetic fields of nanotesla (nT) are achieved w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagome%20metal
In solid-state physics, the kagome metal or kagome magnet is a type of ferromagnetic quantum material. The atomic lattice in a kagome magnet has layered overlapping triangles and large hexagonal voids, akin to the kagome pattern in traditional Japanese basket-weaving. This geometry induces a flat electronic band str...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Specimen%20of%20the%20Botany%20of%20New%20Holland
A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland, also known by its standard abbreviation Spec. Bot. New Holland, was the first published book on the flora of Australia. Written by James Edward Smith and illustrated by James Sowerby, it was published by Sowerby in four parts between 1793 and 1795. It consists of 16 colour plate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20viewing
Social viewing (also known as Watch Party or GroupWatch) describes a recently developed practice revolving around the ability for multiple users to aggregate from multiple sources and view online videos together in a synchronized viewing experience. Typically the experience also involves some form of instant messaging...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar%20venous%20arch
The four plantar metatarsal veins run backward in the metatarsal spaces, communicate, by means of perforating veins, with the veins on the dorsum of the foot, and unite to form the plantar venous arch (or deep plantar venous arch) which lies alongside the plantar arterial arch. From the deep plantar venous arch the me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronecker%20sum%20of%20discrete%20Laplacians
In mathematics, the Kronecker sum of discrete Laplacians, named after Leopold Kronecker, is a discrete version of the separation of variables for the continuous Laplacian in a rectangular cuboid domain. General form of the Kronecker sum of discrete Laplacians In a general situation of the separation of variables in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobushige%20Kurokawa
is a Japanese mathematician working in number theory, especially analytic number theory, multiple trigonometric function theory, zeta functions and automorphic forms. He is currently a professor emeritus at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Books with Shin-ya Koyama, 多重三角関数論講義 (Lectures on multiple sine functions), 2010...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20cooling
Stochastic cooling is a form of particle beam cooling. It is used in some particle accelerators and storage rings to control the emittance of the particle beams in the machine. This process uses the electrical signals that the individual charged particles generate in a feedback loop to reduce the tendency of individu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20patch
A flag patch is a piece of fabric displaying the national flag of a country. The image of the flag is usually produced by embroidery, using different colored threads. It can also be produced by printing directly on the fabric, although this is less common. Many countries have patches made to resemble their flag for use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleroderma%20areolatum
Scleroderma areolatum is a basidiomycete fungus and a member of the genus Scleroderma, or "earth balls." Like most members of Scleroderma, S. areolatum resembles but is only distantly related to the giant puffball. It can be distinguished from the giant puffball by cutting it in half; the puffball will have a solid, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly%20ionized%20oxygen
In astronomy and atomic physics, doubly ionized oxygen is the ion O2+ (O III in spectroscopic notation). Its emission forbidden lines in the visible spectrum fall primarily at the wavelength 500.7 nm, and secondarily at 495.9 nm. Before spectra of oxygen ions became known, these lines once led to a spurious identificat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopotential
In physics, a pseudopotential or effective potential is used as an approximation for the simplified description of complex systems. Applications include atomic physics and neutron scattering. The pseudopotential approximation was first introduced by Hans Hellmann in 1934. Atomic physics The pseudopotential is an att...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20DevNet
Cisco DevNet is Cisco's developer program to help developers and IT professionals who want to write applications and develop integrations with Cisco products, platforms, and APIs. Cisco DevNet includes Cisco's products in software-defined networking, security, cloud, data center, internet of things, collaboration, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Fourman
Michael Paul Fourman FBCS FRSE (born 12 September 1950) is Professor of Computer Systems at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK, and was Head of the School of Informatics from 2001 to 2009. Fourman is worked in applications of logic in computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science – more spe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20FAMOUS
Project FAMOUS (French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study) was the first-ever marine scientific exploration by manned submersibles of a diverging tectonic plate boundary on a mid-ocean ridge. It took place between 1971 and 1974, with a multi-national team of scientists concentrating numerous underwater surveys on an are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation%20Priority%20Premise
Transformation Priority Premise (TPP) is a programming approach developed by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) as a refinement to make the process of test-driven development (TDD) easier and more effective for a computer programmer. Transformation Priority Premise states that simpler transformations should be preferred: T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Alvin%20Howard
William Alvin Howard (born 1926) is a proof theorist best known for his work demonstrating formal similarity between intuitionistic logic and the simply typed lambda calculus that has come to be known as the Curry–Howard correspondence. He has also been active in the theory of proof-theoretic ordinals. He earned his ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H3K36me
H3K36me is an epigenetic modification to the DNA packaging protein Histone H3, specifically, the mono-methylation at the 36th lysine residue of the histone H3 protein. There are diverse modifications at H3K36, such as phosphorylation, methylation, acetylation, and ubiquitylation, which have many important biological p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20encryption
A deterministic encryption scheme (as opposed to a probabilistic encryption scheme) is a cryptosystem which always produces the same ciphertext for a given plaintext and key, even over separate executions of the encryption algorithm. Examples of deterministic encryption algorithms include RSA cryptosystem (without enc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tamper%20software
Anti-tamper software is software which makes it harder for an attacker to modify it. The measures involved can be passive such as obfuscation to make reverse engineering difficult or active tamper-detection techniques which aim to make a program malfunction or not operate at all if modified. It is essentially tamper re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etching%20%28microfabrication%29
Etching is used in microfabrication to chemically remove layers from the surface of a wafer during manufacturing. Etching is a critically important process module in fabrication, and every wafer undergoes many etching steps before it is complete. For many etch steps, part of the wafer is protected from the etchant by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressor%20of%20cytokine%20signalling
SOCS (suppressor of cytokine signaling proteins) refers to a family of genes involved in inhibiting the JAK-STAT signaling pathway. Genes CISH SOCS1 SOCS2 SOCS3 SOCS4 SOCS5 SOCS6 SOCS7 Structure All SOCS have certain structures in common. This includes a varying N-terminal domain involved in protein-protein ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic%20growth
In mathematics, a function or sequence is said to exhibit quadratic growth when its values are proportional to the square of the function argument or sequence position. "Quadratic growth" often means more generally "quadratic growth in the limit", as the argument or sequence position goes to infinity – in big Theta not...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectron%20photoion%20coincidence%20spectroscopy
Photoelectron photoion coincidence spectroscopy (PEPICO) is a combination of photoionization mass spectrometry and photoelectron spectroscopy. It is largely based on the photoelectric effect. Free molecules from a gas-phase sample are ionized by incident vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) radiation. In the ensuing photoionizati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyck%20graph
In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Dyck graph is a 3-regular graph with 32 vertices and 48 edges, named after Walther von Dyck. It is Hamiltonian with 120 distinct Hamiltonian cycles. It has chromatic number 2, chromatic index 3, radius 5, diameter 5 and girth 6. It is also a 3-vertex-connected and a 3-edg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-saving%20bias
Time-saving bias is a concept that describes people's tendency to misestimate the time that could be saved (or lost) when increasing (or decreasing) speed. In general, people underestimate the time that could be saved when increasing from a relatively low speed - e.g., or - and overestimate the time that could be sa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati%20Radiation%20Experiments
The Cincinnati Radiation Experiments were a series of total and partial body irradiation tests performed on at least 90 patients with advanced cancer at the Cincinnati General Hospital, now University of Cincinnati Hospital, from 1960 to 1971. Led by radiologist Eugene L. Saenger, the experiments were funded in part by...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20concurrency
The Java programming language and the Java virtual machine (JVM) is designed to support concurrent programming. All execution takes place in the context of threads. Objects and resources can be accessed by many separate threads. Each thread has its own path of execution, but can potentially access any object in the pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation
Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) is a disinfection technique employing ultraviolet (UV) light, particularly UV-C (180-280 nm), to kill or inactivate microorganisms. UVGI primarily inactivates microbes by damaging their genetic material, thereby inhibiting their capacity to carry out vital functions. The use o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%2013
The Mercury 13 were thirteen American women who took part in a privately funded program run by William Randolph Lovelace II aiming to test and screen women for spaceflight. The participants—First Lady Astronaut Trainees (or FLATs) as Jerrie Cobb called them—successfully underwent the same physiological screening tests ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal%20ribotoxin
Fungal ribotoxins are a group of extracellular ribonucleases (RNases) secreted by fungi. Their most notable characteristic is their extraordinary specificity. They inactivate ribosomes by cutting a single phosphodiester bond of the rRNA that is found in a universally conserved sequence. This cleavage leads to cell deat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20curvature
In mathematical study of the differential geometry of curves, the total curvature of an immersed plane curve is the integral of curvature along a curve taken with respect to arc length: The total curvature of a closed curve is always an integer multiple of 2, where N is called the index of the curve or turning number ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20controllability
Network controllability concerns the structural controllability of a network. Controllability describes our ability to guide a dynamical system from any initial state to any desired final state in finite time, with a suitable choice of inputs. This definition agrees well with our intuitive notion of control. The contr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successor%20function
In mathematics, the successor function or successor operation sends a natural number to the next one. The successor function is denoted by S, so S(n) = n +1. For example, S(1) = 2 and S(2) = 3. The successor function is one of the basic components used to build a primitive recursive function. Successor operations are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdre%20Smeltzer
Deirdre Longacher Smeltzer (born 1964) is an American mathematician, mathematics educator, textbook author, and academic administrator. A former professor, dean, and vice president at Eastern Mennonite University, she is Senior Director for Programs at the Mathematical Association of America. Education and career Smel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20grid%20computing%20projects
This is a comprehensive list of Grid computing infrastructure projects. Grid computing infrastructure projects BREIN uses the Semantic Web and multi-agent systems to build simple and reliable grid systems for business, with a focus on engineering and logistics management. A-Ware is developing a stable, supported, c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Ladyzhenskaya
Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (; 7 March 1922 – 12 January 2004) was a Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and the finite difference method for the Navier–Stokes equations. She received the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002. She is the author of more than two hundred scie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Operating%20Systems
Modern Operating Systems is a book written by Andrew Tanenbaum, a version (which does not target implementation) of his book Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. It is now in its 5th edition, published October 2022 (), written together with Herbert Bos. Modern Operating Systems (mostly known as MOS) is a popu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simsapa%20tree
The Simsapa tree (Pali: ) is mentioned in ancient Buddhist discourses traditionally believed to have been delivered 2,500 years ago. The tree has been identified as either Dalbergia sissoo, a rosewood tree common to India and southeast Asia, or Amherstia nobilis, another South Asian tree, of the family Caesalpiniaceae....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%3Adicarboxylate%20symporter
It has been shown that integral membrane proteins that mediate the uptake of a wide variety of molecules with the concomitant uptake of sodium ions (sodium symporters) can be grouped, on the basis of sequence and functional similarities into a number of distinct families. One of these families is known as the sodium:...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Newton
Sir Edward Newton (10 November 1832 – 25 April 1897) was a British colonial administrator and ornithologist. He was born at Elveden Hall, Suffolk the sixth and youngest son of William Newton, MP. He was the brother of ornithologist Alfred Newton. He graduated from Magdelene College, Cambridge in 1857 and was one of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion%20%28optics%29
In optics and in wave propagation in general, dispersion is the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a wave depends on its frequency; sometimes the term chromatic dispersion is used for specificity to optics in particular. A medium having this common property may be termed a dispersive medium (plural dispersive me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payoneer
Payoneer Global Inc. is an American financial services company that provides online money transfer, digital payment services and provides customers with working capital. History Payoneer was founded in 2005 with $2 million in seed funding from founder and then-CEO Yuval Tal and other private investors. 83North (Greylo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range%20dependence
Long-range dependence (LRD), also called long memory or long-range persistence, is a phenomenon that may arise in the analysis of spatial or time series data. It relates to the rate of decay of statistical dependence of two points with increasing time interval or spatial distance between the points. A phenomenon is usu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume%20contraction
Volume contraction is a decrease in the volume of body fluid, including the dissolved substances that maintain osmotic balance (osmolytes). The loss of the water component of body fluid is specifically termed dehydration. By body fluid compartment Volume contraction is more or less a loss of extracellular fluid (ECF) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangave
Mangaves are plants formerly given the nothogenus name × Mangave. They are derived from hybridizing species in the genus Agave and the former genus Manfreda. Manfreda is now included in Agave, so the scientific name is obsolete. Mangaves are often employed as ornamental plants in dry environments, as they possess trait...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/97th%20meridian%20east
The meridian 97° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 97th meridian east forms a great circle with the 83rd meridian west. From Pole to Pole Starting at the North Pole and he...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ureaplasma%20loridis
Ureaplasma loridis is a species of Ureaplasma, a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae.