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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius%20Kircher | Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Joseph Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his vast range of interests, and has been honoure... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentus%20space | Momentus Inc, sometimes styled Momentus space, is an American spaceflight company founded by Mikhail Kokorich which plans to offer space infrastructure services in the form of on-orbit services. The company advertises three orbital tug services which are based around spacecraft electric propulsion and vary in payload m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition | In governance, sortition (also known as selection by lottery, selection by lot, allotment, demarchy, stochocracy, aleatoric democracy, democratic lottery, and lottocracy) is the selection of public officials or jurors using a random representative sample. This minimizes factionalism, since those selected to serve can p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCIR%20System%20D | CCIR System D is an analog broadcast television system used in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Albania and the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal%20extracellular%20enzyme%20activity | Extracellular enzymes or exoenzymes are synthesized inside the cell and then secreted outside the cell, where their function is to break down complex macromolecules into smaller units to be taken up by the cell for growth and assimilation. These enzymes degrade complex organic matter such as cellulose and hemicellulose... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shturmovshchina | Shturmovshchina (, last-minute rush, storming) was a common Soviet work practice of frantic and overtime work at the end of a planning period in order to fulfill the planned production target. The practice usually gave rise to products of poor quality at the end of a planning cycle.
The cycle of shturmovshchina, asso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centericq |
Centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven instant messaging interface that supports the ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, XMPP, LiveJournal, and Gadu-Gadu protocols.
Overview
Centericq allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through the ICQ server and email gateways supported by Mirabi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overcategory | In mathematics, specifically category theory, an overcategory (and undercategory) is a distinguished class of categories used in multiple contexts, such as with covering spaces (espace etale). They were introduced as a mechanism for keeping track of data surrounding a fixed object in some category . There is a dual no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging%20and%20Mental%20Health | Aging & Mental Health is a peer-reviewed monthly scientific journal published by Routledge covering research on the relationship between the aging process and mental health. The editors-in-chief are Martin Orrell, Rebecca Allen, and Terry Lum.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in PubMed a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Weather%20Man | The Weather Man is a 2005 American dark comedy-drama film directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Steve Conrad, and starring Nicolas Cage in the lead role and Michael Caine and Hope Davis in supporting roles. It tells the story of a weatherman in the midst of a mid-life crisis.
The film was released on October 28, 2005... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk%20Mark | Silk Mark is a certification mark in India for silk textiles. The mark certifies that the piece of textile which bears the mark is made of pure natural silk. The certification is managed by the 'Silk Mark Organisation of India', a society set up by the state-controlled Central Silk Board of India. Even though promoted ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk%20soil | Bulk soil is soil outside the rhizosphere that is not penetrated by plant roots. The bulk soil is like an ecosystem, it is made up of many things such as: nutrients, ions, soil particles, and root exudates. There are many different interactions that occur between all the members of the bulk soil. Natural organic compo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stannide | A stannide can refer to an intermetallic compound containing tin combined with one or more other metals; an anion consisting solely of tin atoms or a compound containing such an anion, or, in the field of organometallic chemistry an ionic compound containing an organotin anion (e.g.see an alternative name for such a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Radio%20Channel | Data Radio Channel (DARC) is a high-rate (16 kbit/s) standard for encoding data in a subcarrier over FM radio broadcasts. It uses a frequency of 76kHz, the fourth harmonic of the FM radio pilot tone.
DARC was approved as the All-European standard ETS 300 751 in 1997.
Applications
DARC is well-suited to distributing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagix%204D | Imagix 4D is a source code analysis tool from Imagix Corporation, used primarily for understanding, documenting, and evolving existing C, C++ and Java software.
Applied technologies include full semantic source analysis. Software visualization supports program comprehension. Static data flow analysis-based verificatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%E2%80%93Herndon%E2%80%93Dudley%20syndrome | Allan–Herndon–Dudley syndrome is a rare X-linked inherited disorder of brain development that causes both moderate to severe intellectual disability and problems with speech and movement.
Allan–Herndon–Dudley syndrome, which is named eponymously for William Allan, Florence C. Dudley, and C. Nash Herndon, results from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shovelware | Shovelware is a term for individual video games or software bundles known more for the quantity of what is included than for the quality or usefulness.
The metaphor implies that the creators showed little care for the quality of the original software, as if the new compilation or version had been created by indiscrimi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20line | Control line (also called U-Control) is a simple and light way of controlling a flying model aircraft. The aircraft is connected to the operator by a pair of lines, attached to a handle, that work the elevator of the model. This allows the model to be controlled in the pitch axis. It is constrained to fly on the surfac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Rhodesian%20flags | This is a list of flags used in Southern Rhodesia between 1890–1964 and 1979–1980 and Rhodesia between 1964 and 1979. The evolution of Southern Rhodesia from a British South African Company concern, to a British Colony, then to a member of a Federal Government, then to a self-declared state is evident by the different... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Programme%20on%20the%20State%20of%20the%20Ocean | The International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) focuses on the many factors that threaten the health of Earth's oceans. The organization is managed as a not for profit company registered in the United Kingdom. It is hosted by the Zoological Society of London. Dr. Alex Rogers is the Scientific Director of I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer%20bias | Observer bias is one of the types of detection bias and is defined as any kind of systematic divergence from accurate facts during observation and the recording of data and information in studies. The definition can be further expanded upon to include the systematic difference between what is observed due to variation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gable%20stone | Gable stones (Dutch gevelstenen) are carved and often colourfully painted stone tablets, which are set into the walls of buildings, usually at about 4 metres from the ground. They serve both to identify and embellish the building. They are also called "stone tablets" by the Rijksmuseum, which sometimes appends "from a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianconi%E2%80%93Barab%C3%A1si%20model | The Bianconi–Barabási model is a model in network science that explains the growth of complex evolving networks. This model can explain that nodes with different characteristics acquire links at different rates. It predicts that a node's growth depends on its fitness and can calculate the degree distribution. The Bianc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paessler%20PRTG | PRTG (Paessler Router Traffic Grapher until version 7) is an agentless network monitoring software from Paessler AG. Several software versions are combined under the umbrella term Paessler PRTG. It is designed to monitor and classify system conditions like bandwidth usage or uptime and collect statistics from miscellan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preformationism | In the history of biology, preformationism (or preformism) is a formerly popular theory that organisms develop from miniature versions of themselves. Instead of assembly from parts, preformationists believed that the form of living things exist, in real terms, prior to their development. Preformationists suggested that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s%20orchard | In mathematics, informally speaking, Euclid's orchard is an array of one-dimensional "trees" of unit height planted at the lattice points in one quadrant of a square lattice. More formally, Euclid's orchard is the set of line segments from to , where and are positive integers.
The trees visible from the origin are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum%20filler | A vacuum filler is a machine used for filling pasty products. The pasty products are moved with the aid of a vane cell feed system under a vacuum.
Objective
Levelling the weight of pre-packaged goods in the food sector, especially those involving viscous or pasty products, places extremely high demands on the reprod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickness%20behavior | Sickness behavior is a coordinated set of adaptive behavioral changes that develop in ill individuals during the course of an infection.
They usually, but not always, accompany fever and aid survival.
Such illness responses include lethargy, depression, anxiety, malaise, loss of appetite, sleepiness, hyperalgesia, redu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspensor | Suspensors are anatomical structures found in certain fungi and plants.
Fungi
In fungi, suspensors are filamentous structural formations having the function of holding a zygospore between two strains of hyphae.
Plants
In plants, suspensors are found in zygotes in angiosperms, connecting the endosperm to an embryo. Us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EX%C3%8DN%20Castles | EXÍN Castillos (or EXIN Castles) is a construction toy. First introduced by the Exin Lines Brothers in 1968 in Barcelona, Spain, this plastic block toy was designed for the construction of castle-like-buildings. The company has most recently produced Castle lines toys for the Shrek movie franchise and others.
The EXIN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Michigan%20Biological%20Station | The University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) is a research and teaching facility operated by the University of Michigan. It is located on the south shore of Douglas Lake in Cheboygan County, Michigan. The station consists of 10,000 acres (40 km2) of land near Pellston, Michigan in the northern Lower Peninsula ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20flux | The neutron flux, φ, is a scalar quantity used in nuclear physics and nuclear reactor physics. It is the total distance travelled by all free neutrons per unit time and volume. Equivalently, it can be defined as the number of neutrons travelling through a small sphere of radius in a time interval, divided by a maximal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory%20harvest%20attack | A directory harvest attack (DHA) is a technique used by spammers in an attempt to find valid/existent e-mail addresses at a domain by using brute force. The attack is usually carried out by way of a standard dictionary attack, where valid e-mail addresses are found by brute force guessing valid e-mail addresses at a d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Darwin%20Research%20Station | Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) (, ECCD) is a biological research station in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos, Ecuador. The station is operated by the Charles Darwin Foundation which was founded in 1959 under the auspices of UNESCO and the World Conservation Union. The research station serves as the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator%20%28Apple%29 | Calculator is a basic calculator application made by Apple Inc. and bundled with its macOS, iOS, and watchOS operating systems. It has three modes: basic, scientific, and programmer. The basic mode includes a number pad, buttons for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, as well as memory keys. Scientific mode... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%20rarities%20committee | A bird rarities committee or bird records committee is a committee which exists to validate records of rare birds in a particular country or region.
Many countries have national rarities committees; in some areas, such as Europe, coverage is near-complete at a national level. European national committees are all membe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Guttag | John Vogel Guttag (born March 6, 1949) is an American computer scientist, professor, and former head of the department of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.
Education and career
John Guttag was raised in Larchmont, New York, the son of Irwin Guttag (1916–2005) and Marjorie Vogel Guttag.
John Vogel G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical%20computer%20science | Theoretical computer science (TCS) is a subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on mathematical aspects of computer science such as the theory of computation, formal language theory, the lambda calculus and type theory.
It is difficult to circumscribe the theoretical areas precisely. The ACM's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Physics%2C%20Bhubaneswar | Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar () is an autonomous research institution of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India. The institute was founded by Professor Bidhu Bhusan Das, who was Director of Public Instruction, Odisha, at that time. Das set up the institute in 1972, supported by the Government o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper%20%28DVR%29 | Hopper is a line of digital video recording (DVR) set-top boxes offered by the U.S. direct-broadcast satellite television provider Dish Network. First introduced at Consumer Electronics Show in January 2012, the Hopper was released in March 2012 as a component of the provider's whole-home DVR system, which networks the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WineMaker%20Magazine | WineMaker Magazine is an American magazine, particularly concerned with the process of home winemaking. The magazine is published six times annually from offices in Manchester Village, Vermont. WineMaker was launched in 1999 and each issue includes wine recipes, how-to projects and advice columns. WineMaker magazine al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocchi%20number | In mathematics, the Genocchi numbers Gn, named after Angelo Genocchi, are a sequence of integers that satisfy the relation
The first few Genocchi numbers are 0, −1, −1, 0, 1, 0, −3, 0, 17 , see .
Properties
The generating function definition of the Genocchi numbers implies that they are rational numbers. In fact,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard%20Wildlife%20Habitat | The Backyard Wildlife Habitat is a program of the National Wildlife Federation that encourages homeowners in the United States to manage their gardens and yards as a wildlife garden, with the goal of maintaining healthy and diverse animal habitats and ecosystems. The program began in 1973. By 1998, it had impacted mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faultless%20disagreement | A faultless disagreement is a disagreement when Party A states that P is true, while Party B states that non-P is true, and neither party is at fault. Disagreements of this kind may arise in areas of evaluative discourse, such as aesthetics, justification of beliefs or moral values, etc. A representative example is tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20biology | This glossary of biology terms is a list of definitions of fundamental terms and concepts used in biology, the study of life and of living organisms. It is intended as introductory material for novices; for more specific and technical definitions from sub-disciplines and related fields, see Glossary of cell biology, Gl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20Vikings%20Attack%21 | When Vikings Attack! is a fighting video game by British studio Clever Beans. The game was released on November 6, 2012, as a downloadable game for the PlayStation 3 and supports Sony's cross-play feature on the PS Vita. It is included on the "Best of PlayStation Network Vol. 1" compilation disc, released June 18, 201... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus%20nigra | Prunus nigra, the Canada plum, Canadian plum, or black plum, is a species of Prunus native to eastern North America.
Description
Prunus nigra is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to tall with a trunk up to in diameter, with a low-branched, dense crown of stiff, rigid, branches. The bark is gray-brown, older la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Kipman | Alex Kipman (born 1979) is a Brazilian engineer. He was the lead developer of the Microsoft HoloLens smartglasses and helped develop the Xbox Kinect.
Biography
Kipman was born in Curitiba in 1979. The son of a Brazilian diplomat, Kipman grew up around the world. When he was seven or eight, he learned how to program t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth-first%20search | Depth-first search (DFS) is an algorithm for traversing or searching tree or graph data structures. The algorithm starts at the root node (selecting some arbitrary node as the root node in the case of a graph) and explores as far as possible along each branch before backtracking. Extra memory, usually a stack, is neede... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval%20Peres | Yuval Peres (; born 5 October 1963) is a mathematician known for his research in probability theory, ergodic theory, mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, and in particular for topics such as fractals and Hausdorff measure, random walks, Brownian motion, percolation and Markov chain mixing times. He was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine%20lake | Wine lake is a cultural phrase referring to the phenomenon of perceived overproduction of wine in the European Union. The phenomenon first came in perception & persistence around 2005 to 2007. The EU's Common Agricultural Policy contained a number of subsidies for wine producers, leading to a supply glut. This surplus ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buellia%20frigida | Buellia frigida is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Caliciaceae. It was first described from samples collected from the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1904. It is endemic to maritime and continental Antarctica, where it is common and widespread, at altitudes up to ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIQUAC | In statistical thermodynamics, UNIQUAC (a portmanteau of universal quasichemical) is an activity coefficient model used in description of phase equilibria.
The model is a so-called lattice model and has been derived from a first order approximation of interacting molecule surfaces. The model is, however, not fully th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang%20attack | In cryptography, the boomerang attack is a method for the cryptanalysis of block ciphers based on differential cryptanalysis. The attack was published in 1999 by David Wagner, who used it to break the COCONUT98 cipher.
The boomerang attack has allowed new avenues of attack for many ciphers previously deemed safe from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20reference%20frame | In theoretical physics, a local reference frame (local frame) refers to a coordinate system or frame of reference that is only expected to function over a small region or a restricted region of space or spacetime.
The term is most often used in the context of the application of local inertial frames to small regions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20vector | An operator A on an (infinite dimensional) Banach space or Hilbert space H has a cyclic vector f if the vectors f, Af, A2f,... span H. Equivalently, f is a cyclic vector for A in case the set of all vectors of the form p(A)f, where p varies over all polynomials, is dense in H.
See also
Cyclic and separating vector |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium | Silphium (also known as silphion, laserwort, or laser) is an unidentified plant that was used in classical antiquity as a seasoning, perfume, aphrodisiac, and medicine.
It was also used as a contraceptive by ancient Greeks and Romans. It was the essential item of trade from the ancient North African city of Cyrene, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Fi | Li-Fi (also written as LiFi) is a wireless communication technology which utilizes light to transmit data and position between devices. The term was first introduced by Harald Haas during a 2011 TEDGlobal talk in Edinburgh.
Li-Fi is a light communication system that is capable of transmitting data at high speeds over ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Vladimirovich%20Petryashov | Victor Vladimirovich Petryashov (16 March 1956 - 2 July 2018) was a Russian zoologist, carcinologist, hydrobiologist and biogeographer. His scientific research focused on taxonomy and distribution of malacostracan crustaceans, particularly orders Mysida, Lophogastrida and Leptostraca, and marine biogeography and hydro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equativ | Equativ (formerly known as Smart AdServer) is a French advertising technology company. Created in 2001 as part of Aufeminin, it was bought by private-equity fund Cathay Capital in 2015, and then by private-equity fund Capital Croissance for a secondary LBO in 2021. It operates mostly in the US, Europe, Latin America an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignicoccus | Ignicoccus is a genus of hyperthermophillic Archaea living in marine hydrothermal vents. They were discovered in samples taken at the Kolbeinsey Ridge north of Iceland, as well as at the East Pacific Rise (at 9 degrees N, 104 degrees W) in 2000.
Systematics
According to the comparisons of 16S rRNA genes, Ignicoccus re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Boolean%20algebra | In mathematics, a free Boolean algebra is a Boolean algebra with a distinguished set of elements, called generators, such that:
Each element of the Boolean algebra can be expressed as a finite combination of generators, using the Boolean operations, and
The generators are as independent as possible, in the sense that t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonhypotenuse%20number | In mathematics, a nonhypotenuse number is a natural number whose square cannot be written as the sum of two nonzero squares. The name stems from the fact that an edge of length equal to a nonhypotenuse number cannot form the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle with integer sides.
The numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all non... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluteal%20lines | The gluteal lines are three curved lines outlined from three bony ridges on the exterior surface of the ilium in the gluteal region. They are the anterior gluteal line; the inferior gluteal line, and the posterior gluteal line.
The gluteus minimus, medius, and maximus are muscles that arise from the gluteal lines.
L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PS/55 | The or PS/55 is a personal computer series released from IBM Japan in 1987.
The PS/55 is the successor to IBM 5550 (Multistation 5550), but its architecture is based upon IBM PS/2. The first line-up of the series consisted of rebranded 5550 models except the Model 5570-S which was based on the PS/2 Model 80 (IBM 8580... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20tangent | In mathematics, particularly calculus, a vertical tangent is a tangent line that is vertical. Because a vertical line has infinite slope, a function whose graph has a vertical tangent is not differentiable at the point of tangency.
Limit definition
A function ƒ has a vertical tangent at x = a if the difference quotien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perineal%20raphe | The perineal raphe is a visible line or ridge of tissue on the body that extends from the anus through the perineum to scrotum (male) or labia majora (female). It is found in both males and females, arises from the fusion of the urogenital folds, and is visible running medial through anteroposterior, to the anus where ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Cohen%20%28mathematician%29 | Albert Cohen (born 29 June 1965 in Paris) is a French mathematician, specializing in approximation theory, numerical analysis, and digital signal processing.
Biography
He is, through maternal descent, the grand-nephew of the physicist Jacques Solomon. From 1984 to 1987 Albert Cohen was a student at the École Polytechn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mung%20bean%20sheets | Mung bean sheets are a type of Chinese noodle. It is transparent, flat, and sheet-like. They can be found, in dried form, in China and occasionally in some Chinatowns overseas.
Description
Similar to cellophane noodles, mung bean sheets are made of mung beans, except they are different in shape. The sheets are approx... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Cryptography%20API | The Web Cryptography API is the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) recommendation for a low-level interface that would increase the security of web applications by allowing them to perform cryptographic functions without having to access raw keying material. This agnostic API would perform basic cryptographic operations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23%20%28number%29 | 23 (twenty-three) is the natural number following 22 and preceding 24.
In mathematics
Twenty-three is the ninth prime number, the smallest odd prime that is not a twin prime. It is, however, a cousin prime with 19, and a sexy prime with 17 and 29; while also being the largest member of the first prime sextuplet (7, 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20medicine | Sleep medicine is a medical specialty or subspecialty devoted to the diagnosis and therapy of sleep disturbances and disorders. From the middle of the 20th century, research has provided increasing knowledge of, and answered many questions about, sleep–wake functioning. The rapidly evolving field has become a recognize... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desulfovibrio%20marrakechensis | Desulfovibrio marrakechensis is a bacterium. It is sulfate-reducing and tyrosol-oxidising. Its cells are mesophilic, non-spore-forming, non-motile, Gram-negative, catalase-positive and straight-rod-shaped. They contain cytochrome c(3) and desulfoviridin. The type strain is EMSSDQ(4)(T) (=DSM 19337(T) =ATCC BAA-1562(T))... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20Basic%20%28classic%29 | The original Visual Basic (also referred to as Classic Visual Basic) is a third-generation event-driven programming language from Microsoft known for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model first released in 1991 and declared legacy during 2008. Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner%27s%20gene%20network%20model | Wagner's gene network model is a computational model of artificial gene networks, which explicitly modeled the developmental and evolutionary process of genetic regulatory networks. A population with multiple organisms can be created and evolved from generation to generation. It was first developed by Andreas Wagner in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Man%27s%20Sky | No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game developed and published by Hello Games. It was released worldwide for the PlayStation 4 and Windows in August 2016, for Xbox One in July 2018, for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S consoles in November 2020, for Nintendo Switch in October 2022, and for ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT-ND5 | MT-ND5 is a gene of the mitochondrial genome coding for the NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase chain 5 protein (ND5). The ND5 protein is a subunit of NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone), which is located in the mitochondrial inner membrane and is the largest of the five complexes of the electron transport chain. Variations in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cancer%20Imaging%20Archive | The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) is an open-access database of medical images for cancer research. The site is funded by the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Cancer Imaging Program, and the contract is operated by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Data within the archive is organized into collections w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic%20number | A geographic number is a telephone number, from a range of numbers in the United Kingdom National Telephone Numbering Plan, where part of its digit structure contains geographic significance used for routing calls to the physical location of the network termination point of the subscriber to whom the telephone number h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20localization | Weak localization is a physical effect which occurs in disordered electronic systems at very low temperatures. The effect manifests itself as a positive correction to the resistivity of a metal or semiconductor. The name emphasizes the fact that weak localization is a precursor of Anderson localization, which occurs at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20power%20system | An emergency power system is an independent source of electrical power that supports important electrical systems on loss of normal power supply. A standby power system may include a standby generator, batteries and other apparatus. Emergency power systems are installed to protect life and property from the consequence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepper%20motor | A stepper motor, also known as step motor or stepping motor, is an electrical motor that rotates in a series of small angular steps, instead of continuously. Stepper motors are a type of digital actuators. Stepper motors are an eletromagnetic actuator; it converts electromagnetic energy into mechanical energy to perfor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano | Guano (Spanish from ) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats. Guano is a highly effective fertilizer due to the high content of nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium, all key nutrients essential for plant growth. Guano was also, to a lesser extent, sought for the production of gunpowder and other explosive mater... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandi%20Klav%C5%BEar | Sandi Klavžar (born 5 February 1962) is a Slovenian mathematician working in the area of graph theory and its applications. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Ljubljana.
Education
Klavžar received his Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana in 1990, under the supervision of Wilfried Imrich and Tomaž ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilinear%20program | In mathematics, a bilinear program is a nonlinear optimization problem whose objective or constraint functions are bilinear. An example is the pooling problem. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HackerNest | HackerNest is a not-for-profit organization and global movement founded on January 11, 2011. The organization unites local technology communities around the world through community events and socially beneficial hackathons to further its mission of economic development through technological proliferation. It is Canada'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTU2 | CTU2 (formerly known as C16orf84) is a human gene located on chromosome 16. The mRNA encodes the longer isoform. The gene encodes a cytoplasmic protein that plays a probable role in tRNA modification. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra%27s%20Pearls%20%28book%29 | Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein is a geometry book written by David Mumford, Caroline Series and David Wright, and published by Cambridge University Press in 2002 and 2015.
The book explores the patterns created by iterating conformal maps of the complex plane called Möbius transformations, and their connect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman%20filter | For statistics and control theory, Kalman filtering, also known as linear quadratic estimation (LQE), is an algorithm that uses a series of measurements observed over time, including statistical noise and other inaccuracies, and produces estimates of unknown variables that tend to be more accurate than those based on a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join%20selection%20factor | Within computing, author O'Connell defines join selection factor as "[t]he percentage (or fraction) of records in one file that will be joined with records of another file". This can be calculated when two database tables are to be joined. It is primarily concerned with query optimization. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipankar%20Das%20Sarma | Dipankar Das Sarma, popularly known as D.D. Sarma, is an Indian scientist and structural chemist, known for his researches in the fields of Solid State Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science, and Nanoscience. He is a former MLS Chair Professor of Physics and Chairman of the Centre for Adva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20function | The value function of an optimization problem gives the value attained by the objective function at a solution, while only depending on the parameters of the problem. In a controlled dynamical system, the value function represents the optimal payoff of the system over the interval [t, t1] when started at the time-t sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Vecchio | Alberto Vecchio () is a physicist, professor at University of Birmingham in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and the Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. He was a contributor in the upgrade of LIGO to Advanced LIGO which resulted in the discovery of gravitational waves in February 2016.
Educa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcirculatory%20Society | The Microcirculatory Society, Inc. was the first scientific society founded to promote research and teaching in the field of microcirculation. Although many members come from all over the world, most of its membership comes from the United States and Canada. Other societies have subsequently been formed to represent ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20symbols%20of%20states%20and%20territories%20of%20Australia | This is a list of the symbols of the states and territories of Australia. Each state and territory has a unique set of official symbols, as well as the national symbols of Australia.
States
Territories
See also
Australian state colours
National colours of Australia
National symbols of Australia
List of Austra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem%20%28microarchitecture%29 | Nehalem is the codename for Intel's 45 nm microarchitecture released in November 2008. It was used in the first-generation of the Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, and succeeds the older Core microarchitecture used on Core 2 processors. The term "Nehalem" comes from the Nehalem River.
Nehalem is built on the 45 nm pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20probability%20space | In probability theory, a standard probability space, also called Lebesgue–Rokhlin probability space or just Lebesgue space (the latter term is ambiguous) is a probability space satisfying certain assumptions introduced by Vladimir Rokhlin in 1940. Informally, it is a probability space consisting of an interval and/or a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitesimal%20model | The infinitesimal model, also known as the polygenic model, is a widely used statistical model in quantitative genetics and in genome-wide association studies. Originally developed in 1918 by Ronald Fisher, it is based on the idea that variation in a quantitative trait is influenced by an infinitely large number of gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Galmiche | Isabelle Galmiche (Gal-MEE-sh; born 19 November 1971) is a French rally co-driver and mathematics teacher. As of January 2022, she is the co-driver for nine-time World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb, driving for M-Sport Ford in the World Rally Championship.
Rally career
Galmiche and Loeb won the 90th Rally Monte Carlo ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20American%20mascot%20laws%20and%20regulations | The use of terms and images referring to Native Americans/First Nations as the name or mascot for a sports team is a topic of public controversy in the United States and in Canada, arising as part of the Native American/First Nations civil rights movements. The retirement of the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland In... |
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