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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADAR%20%28audio%20recorder%29 | RADAR (Random Access Digital Audio Recorder) is a product line of professional digital multitrack recorders capable of recording and playing back twenty-four tracks of audio.
History
The idea for RADAR was born out of Creation Studios, a high end music recording studio, built in North Vancouver by Barry and Jane Anne ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20wind | The polar wind or plasma fountain is a permanent outflow of plasma from the polar regions of Earth's magnetosphere, caused by the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth's atmosphere. The solar wind ionizes gas molecules in the upper atmosphere to such high energy that some of them reach escape velocity and po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniqueness%20quantification | In mathematics and logic, the term "uniqueness" refers to the property of being the one and only object satisfying a certain condition. This sort of quantification is known as uniqueness quantification or unique existential quantification, and is often denoted with the symbols "∃!" or "∃=1". For example, the formal sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene%20hypothesis | In medicine, the hygiene hypothesis states that early childhood exposure to particular microorganisms (such as the gut flora and helminth parasites) protects against allergies by strengthening the immune system. In particular, a lack of such exposure is thought to lead to poor immune tolerance. The time period for expo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordstr%C3%B6m%27s%20theory%20of%20gravitation | In theoretical physics, Nordström's theory of gravitation was a predecessor of general relativity. Strictly speaking, there were actually two distinct theories proposed by the Finnish theoretical physicist Gunnar Nordström, in 1912 and 1913 respectively. The first was quickly dismissed, but the second became the firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress%20%28medicine%29 | In medicine, distress is an aversive state in which a person is unable to completely adapt to difficult situations and their resulting effects and shows maladaptive behaviors. It can be evident in the presence of various phenomena, such as inappropriate social interaction (e.g., aggression, passivity, or withdrawal).
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioCryst%20Pharmaceuticals | BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an American pharmaceutical company headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. The company is a late stage biotech company that focuses on oral drugs for rare and serious diseases. BioCryst's antiviral drug peramivir (Rapivab) was approved by FDA in December 2014. It has also been approve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal%20affective%20disorder | Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder subset in which people who typically have normal mental health throughout most of the year exhibit depressive symptoms at the same time each year. It is commonly, but not always, associated with the reductions or increases in total daily sunlight hours that occur dur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20H.%20Vu | Van H. Vu () is a Vietnamese mathematician, Percey F. Smith Professor of Mathematics at Yale University.
Education and career
Vu was born in Hanoi (Vietnam) in 1970. He went to special math classes for gifted children at Chu Van An and Hanoi-Amsterdam high schools.
In 1987, he went to Hungary for his undergraduate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20dynamics | Population dynamics is the type of mathematics used to model and study the size and age composition of populations as dynamical systems.
History
Population dynamics has traditionally been the dominant branch of mathematical biology, which has a history of more than 220 years, although over the last century the scope ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogen | In biology, a pathogen (, "suffering", "passion" and , "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease. A pathogen may also be referred to as an infectious agent, or simply a germ.
The term pathogen came into use in the 1880s. Typically, the term pathogen is used t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester%20Mark%201 | The Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest stored-program computers, developed at the Victoria University of Manchester, England from the Manchester Baby (operational in June 1948). Work began in August 1948, and the first version was operational by April 1949; a program written to search for Mersenne primes ran err... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoelasticity | Pseudoelasticity, sometimes called superelasticity, is an elastic (reversible) response to an applied stress, caused by a phase transformation between the austenitic and martensitic phases of a crystal. It is exhibited in shape-memory alloys.
Overview
Pseudoelasticity is from the reversible motion of domain boundari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BID%20610 | BID 610 or Alvis was a British cipher machine used by both British and Canadian governments. It was the first fully transistorised full-duplex online cipher machine used by the British Army. It was introduced in the 1960s. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20enzyme | An artificial enzyme is a synthetic organic molecule or ion that recreates one or more functions of an enzyme. It seeks to deliver catalysis at rates and selectivity observed in naturally occurring enzymes.
History
Enzyme catalysis of chemical reactions occur with high selectivity and rate. The substrate is activated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclopyr | Triclopyr (3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinyloxyacetic acid) is an organic compound in the pyridine group that is used as a systemic foliar herbicide and fungicide.
Uses
Triclopyr is used to control broadleaf weeds while leaving grasses and conifers unaffected or to control rust diseases on crops.
Triclopyr is effective on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIROSETI | The NIROSETI (Near-InfraRed Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is an astronomical program to search for artificial signals in the optical (visible) and near infrared (NIR) wavebands of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is the first dedicated near-infrared SETI experiment. The instrument was created by a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylamine | Trimethylamine (TMA) is an organic compound with the formula N(CH3)3. It is a trimethylated derivative of ammonia. TMA is widely used in industry: it is used in the synthesis of choline, tetramethylammonium hydroxide, plant growth regulators or herbicides, strongly basic anion exchange resins, dye leveling agents, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20distribution | In physics and mechanics, mass distribution is the spatial distribution of mass within a solid body. In principle, it is relevant also for gases or liquids, but on Earth their mass distribution is almost homogeneous.
Astronomy
In astronomy mass distribution has decisive influence on the development e.g. of nebulae, st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECUS | The Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society (DECUS) was an independent computer user group related to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The Connect User Group Community, formed from the consolidation in May, 2008 of DECUS, Encompass, HP-Interex, and ITUG is the Hewlett-Packard’s largest user community, representin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceptive%20phase | In biology and sexology, the proceptive phase is the initial period in a relationship when organisms are "courting" each other, prior to the acceptive phase when copulation occurs. Behaviors that occur during the proceptive phase depend very much on the species, but may include visual displays, movements, sounds and od... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Broadcast%20Engineers | The Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) is a professional organization for engineers in broadcast radio and television. The SBE also offers certification in various radio frequency and video and audio technology areas for its members.
Background
The organization was founded in 1964.
The society elected its first fem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal%20impression | The conception of a maternal impression rests on the belief that a powerful mental (or sometimes physical) influence working on the mother's mind may produce an impression, either general or definite, on the child she is carrying. The child might be said to be "marked" as a result.
Medicine
Maternal impression, accor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNN4 | Potassium intermediate/small conductance calcium-activated channel, subfamily N, member 4, also known as KCNN4, is a human gene encoding the KCa3.1 protein.
Function
The KCa3.1 protein is part of a potentially heterotetrameric voltage-independent potassium channel that is activated by intracellular calcium. Activati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing%20sand | Singing sand, also called whistling sand, barking sand or singing dune, is sand that produces sound. The sound emission may be caused by wind passing over dunes or by walking on the sand.
Certain conditions have to come together to create singing sand:
The sand grains have to be round and between 0.1 and 0.5 mm in di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%20kernel | In mathematical analysis, the Dirichlet kernel, named after the German mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, is the collection of periodic functions defined as
where is any nonnegative integer. The kernel functions are periodic with period .
The importance of the Dirichlet kernel comes from its relation to F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%20telescope | A Compton telescope (also known as Compton camera or Compton imager) is a gamma-ray detector which utilizes Compton scattering to determine the origin of the observed gamma rays.
Compton cameras are usually applied to detect gamma rays in the energy range where Compton scattering is the dominating interaction process,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation%20simulation | Evacuation simulation is a method to determine evacuation times for areas, buildings, or vessels. It is based on the simulation of crowd dynamics and pedestrian motion.
The distinction between buildings, ships, and vessels on the one hand and settlements and areas on the other hand is important for the simulation of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20Museum%20Istanbul | Women's Museum Istanbul (), located in Istanbul, Turkey, is an online museum devoted to the role played by women in the city.
Launched online in 2012, it is Turkey's first-ever and the world's third city museum dedicated to women.
The permanent exhibition of the Women's Museum Istanbul presents the biographies of wom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive | Parchive (a portmanteau of parity archive, and formally known as Parity Volume Set Specification) is an erasure code system that produces par files for checksum verification of data integrity, with the capability to perform data recovery operations that can repair or regenerate corrupted or missing data.
Parchive was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleSign | Telesign is a company based in Marina Del Rey California, United States providing digital identity and programmable communications APIs to prevent fraud and enable omnichannel engagement. Telesign’s risk-scoring API analyzes phone number attributes acquired during the authentication process to assist companies with onb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent%20process | The opponent process is a color theory that states that the human visual system interprets information about color by processing signals from photoreceptor cells in an antagonistic manner. The opponent-process theory suggests that there are three opponent channels, each comprising an opposing color pair: red versus gre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermo-mechanical%20fatigue | Thermo-mechanical fatigue (short TMF) is the overlay of a cyclical mechanical loading, that leads to fatigue of a material, with a cyclical thermal loading. Thermo-mechanical fatigue is an important point that needs to be considered, when constructing turbine engines or gas turbines.
Failure mechanisms
There are three... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%20%26%20Zen | Now & Zen, Inc. is an American company, founded by Steve McIntosh in January 1995, that is based in Boulder, Colorado. The Zen Alarm Clock was introduced in early 1996. McIntosh stepped down as CEO in 2012.
Patents
Now & Zen holds two patents covering both the design and utility aspects of its chiming alarm clocks: U.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated%20model | In mathematical logic, and particularly in its subfield model theory, a saturated model M is one that realizes as many complete types as may be "reasonably expected" given its size. For example, an ultrapower model of the hyperreals is -saturated, meaning that every descending nested sequence of internal sets has a no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAdES%20%28computing%29 | CAdES (CMS Advanced Electronic Signatures) is a set of extensions to Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) signed data making it suitable for advanced electronic signatures.
Description
CMS is a general framework for electronic signatures for various kinds of transactions like purchase requisition, contracts or invoices.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological%20Survey%20of%20India | The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), founded on 1 July 1916 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of the Government of India as a premier Indian organisation in zoological research and studies to promote the survey, exploration and research of the fauna in the country.
History
The annals of Zoolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20PTP%20implementations | Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is a widely adopted protocol for delivery of precise time over a computer network. A complete PTP system includes PTP functionality in network equipment and hosts. PTP may be implemented in hardware, software or a combination of both.
PTP is implemented in end systems and in PTP-aware net... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERIKA%20Enterprise | ERIKA Enterprise is a real-time operating system (RTOS) kernel for embedded systems, which is OSEK/VDX certified. It is free and open source software released under a GNU General Public License (GPL). The RTOS also includes RT-Druid, an integrated development environment (IDE) based on Eclipse.
ERIKA Enterprise implem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfaffian%20constraint | In dynamics, a Pfaffian constraint is a way to describe a dynamical system in the form:
where is the number of equations in a system of constraints.
Holonomic systems can always be written in Pfaffian constraint form.
Derivation
Given a holonomic system described by a set of holonomic constraint equations
where ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20fractions%20in%20complex%20analysis | In complex analysis, a partial fraction expansion is a way of writing a meromorphic function as an infinite sum of rational functions and polynomials. When is a rational function, this reduces to the usual method of partial fractions.
Motivation
By using polynomial long division and the partial fraction technique ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigericin | Nigericin is an antibiotic derived from Streptomyces hygroscopicus. Its isolation was described in the 1950s, and in 1968 the structure could be elucidated by X-ray crystallography. The structure and properties of nigericin are similar to the antibiotic monensin. Commercially it is obtained as a byproduct, or contamina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20map%20%28discrete%20dynamical%20systems%29 | In the theory of dynamical systems, the exponential map can be used as the evolution function of the discrete nonlinear dynamical system.
Family
The family of exponential functions is called the exponential family.
Forms
There are many forms of these maps, many of which are equivalent under a coordinate transformatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selman%20A.%20Waksman%20Award%20in%20Microbiology | The Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "in recognition of excellence in the field of microbiology." Named after Selman Waksman, it was first awarded in 1968. A $5000 prize is included in the honor.
List of Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology winners
Source... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splice%20%28system%20call%29 | is a Linux-specific system call that moves data between a file descriptor and a pipe without a round trip to user space. The related system call moves or copies data between a pipe and user space. Ideally, splice and vmsplice work by remapping pages and do not actually copy any data, which may improve I/O performance... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20K.%20Guillow%2C%20Inc. | Paul K. Guillow, Inc., commonly known as Guillow's, is an American manufacturer of balsa wood model aircraft kits.
The company was founded by Paul K. Guillow in 1926 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and was originally called NuCraft Toys.
Founder
Born in 1893, Paul Guillow was a naval aviator during World War I, and re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Agrarian%20Policy%20and%20Food%20%28Ukraine%29 | The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food () is the central executive authority of Ukraine in charge of country's agro-development. It is one of the oldest government agencies of Ukraine. On 29 August 2019 the ministry's function were taken over by the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture. On 17 Decem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis%20elegans%20Cer13%20virus | Caenorhabditis elegans Cer13 virus is a species of virus in the genus Semotivirus and the family Belpaoviridae. It exists as retrotransposons in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiplash%20%28decorative%20art%29 | The whiplash or whiplash line is a motif of decorative art and design that was particularly popular in Art Nouveau. It is an asymmetrical, sinuous line, often in an ornamental S curve, usually inspired by natural forms such as plants and flowers, which suggests dynamism and movement. It took its name from a woven fabr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renninger%20negative-result%20experiment | In quantum mechanics, the Renninger negative-result experiment is a thought experiment that illustrates some of the difficulties of understanding the nature of wave function collapse and measurement in quantum mechanics. The statement is that a particle need not be detected in order for a quantum measurement to occur,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20%28play%29 | Proof is a 2000 play by the American playwright David Auburn. Proof was developed at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, during the 1999 Next Stage Series of new plays. The play premiered Off-Broadway in May 2000 and transferred to Broadway in October 2000. The play won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Dra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20geometry | The following is a timeline of key developments of geometry:
Before 1000 BC
ca. 2000 BC – Scotland, carved stone balls exhibit a variety of symmetries including all of the symmetries of Platonic solids.
1800 BC – Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, findings volume of a frustum
1800 BC – Plimpton 322 contains the oldest ref... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeks | Seeks is a free and open-source project licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPL-3.0-or-later). It exists to create an alternative to the current market-leading search engines, driven by user concerns rather than corporate interests. The original manifesto was created by Emmanuel Benazera an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20sieve | The large sieve is a method (or family of methods and related ideas) in analytic number theory. It is a type of sieve where up to half of all residue classes of numbers are removed, as opposed to small sieves such as the Selberg sieve wherein only a few residue classes are removed. The method has been further heightene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair%20QDOS | QDOS is the multitasking operating system found on the Sinclair QL personal computer and its clones. It was designed by Tony Tebby whilst working at Sinclair Research, as an in-house alternative to 68K/OS, which was later cancelled by Sinclair, but released by original authors GST Computer Systems. Its name is not rega... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Darwinism | Neo-Darwinism is generally used to describe any integration of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection with Gregor Mendel's theory of genetics. It mostly refers to evolutionary theory from either 1895 (for the combinations of Darwin's and August Weismann's theories of evolution) or 1942 ("modern synth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Caius | John Caius (born John Kays ; 6 October 1510 – 29 July 1573), also known as Johannes Caius and Ioannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Biography
Early years
Caius was born in Norwich and was educated at Norwich School. In 1529, he was admitted as a student ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%20category | In mathematics, a Grothendieck category is a certain kind of abelian category, introduced in Alexander Grothendieck's Tôhoku paper of 1957 in order to develop the machinery of homological algebra for modules and for sheaves in a unified manner. The theory of these categories was further developed in Pierre Gabriel's se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20oscillator%20frequencies | Crystal oscillators can be manufactured for oscillation over a wide range of frequencies, from a few kilohertz up to several hundred megahertz. Many applications call for a crystal oscillator frequency conveniently related to some other desired frequency, so hundreds of standard crystal frequencies are made in large qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMBnet | The European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet) is an international scientific network and interest group that aims to enhance bioinformatics services by bringing together bioinformatics expertises and capacities. On 2011 EMBnet has 37 nodes spread over 32 countries. The nodes include bioinformatics related university... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20Cairn | The Life Cairn is a type of public memorial built around the world for species rendered extinct by human activity. It takes the form of a cairn. The first Life Cairn was raised on Mount Caburn, near Lewes in East Sussex. The inaugural opening ceremony was held on 22 May 2011. A Life Cairn was dedicated to Lonesome Ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eikonal%20equation | An eikonal equation (from Greek εἰκών, image) is a non-linear first-order partial differential equation that is encountered in problems of wave propagation.
The classical eikonal equation in geometric optics is a differential equation of the form
where lies in an open subset of , is a
positive function, denotes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20login | Social login is a form of single sign-on using existing information from a social networking service such as Facebook, Twitter or Google, to login to a third party website instead of creating a new login account specifically for that website. It is designed to simplify logins for end users as well as provide more relia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance%20%28taxonomy%29 | An alliance is an informal grouping used in biological taxonomy. The term "alliance" is not a taxonomic rank defined in any of the nomenclature codes. It is used for any group of species, genera or tribes to which authors wish to refer, that have at some time provisionally been considered to be closely related.
The te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile%20contracts | The Agile fixed price is a contractual model agreed upon by suppliers and customers of IT projects that develop software using Agile methods. The model introduces an initial test phase after which budget, due date, and the way of steering the scope within the framework is agreed upon.
This differs from traditional fix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacetylverrucarol | Diacetylverrucarol is a natural trichothecene produced by the fungus Myrothecium verrucaria. Chemically, it is an acetate derivative of verrucarol.
Herbicide use
Trichothecenes have been found to cause growth retardation, wilting, chlorosis, and necrosis in some plants.
It can work in poor conditions, even where the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency%20ratio | The dependency ratio is an age-population ratio of those typically not in the labor force (the dependent part ages 0 to 14 and 65+) and those typically in the labor force (the productive part ages 15 to 64). It is used to measure the pressure on the productive population.
Consideration of the dependency ratio is essen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity-based%20proteomics | Activity-based proteomics, or activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) is a functional proteomic technology that uses chemical probes that react with mechanistically related classes of enzymes.
Description
The basic unit of ABPP is the probe, which typically consists of two elements: a reactive group (RG, sometimes ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal%20coping | Communal coping is the collective effort of members of a connected network (familial or social) to manage a distressing event (Lyons, Michelson, Sullivan and Coyne, 1998). This definition and the scope of the concept positions communal coping as an offshoot of social support. According to Lyons et al. (1998), the commu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDPCP | 5'-guanosyl-methylene-triphosphate (GDPCP) and 5'-adenosyl-methylene-triphosphate (ADPCP) are analogues of guanosine 5'-triphosphate (GTP) and adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), which store chemical energy from metabolism in the cell. Hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates (NTPs) such as ATP and GTP yields energy, inorga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling%20Gateway%20%28website%29 | Signaling Gateway is a web portal dedicated to signaling pathways powered by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego. It was initiated by a collaboration between the Alliance for Cellular Signaling and Nature. A primary feature is the Molecule Pages database.
Molecule Pages Databa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodin%20cardinal | In set theory, a Woodin cardinal (named for W. Hugh Woodin) is a cardinal number such that for all functions
there exists a cardinal with
and an elementary embedding
from the Von Neumann universe into a transitive inner model with critical point and
An equivalent definition is this: is Woodin if and only i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie%20Mitchell | Melanie Mitchell is an American scientist. She is the Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute. Her major work has been in the areas of analogical reasoning, complex systems, genetic algorithms and cellular automata, and her publications in those fields are frequently cited.
She received her PhD in 1990... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image-forming%20optical%20system | In optics, an image-forming optical system is a system capable of being used for imaging. The diameter of the aperture of the main objective is a common criterion for comparison among optical systems, such as large telescopes.
The two traditional optical systems are mirror-systems (catoptrics) and lens-systems (dioptr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Goldvarg | Sergio Goldvarg (born 1957) is an Argentinian architect, better known as a car collector, model car collector and model car maker resident in Miami, Florida.
His large scale model car collection, with 7,000 model cars in 2003 and 12,000 model cars in 2009, was recognized by Guinness World Records. He and his wife Mari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l%20Tur%C3%A1n | Pál Turán (; 18 August 1910 – 26 September 1976) also known as Paul Turán, was a Hungarian mathematician who worked primarily in extremal combinatorics.
In 1940, because of his Jewish origins, he was arrested by the Nazis and sent to a labour camp in Transylvania, later being transferred several times to other camps.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s%20friend | Wigner's friend is a thought experiment in theoretical quantum physics, first published by the physicist Eugene Wigner in 1961, and further developed by David Deutsch in 1985. The scenario involves an indirect observation of a quantum measurement: An observer observes another observer who performs a quantum measureme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20ascorbate | Potassium ascorbate is a compound with formula KC6H7O6. It is the potassium salt of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and a mineral ascorbate. As a food additive, it has E number E303, INS number 303. Although it is not a permitted food additive in the UK, USA and the EU, it is approved for use in Australia and New Zealand. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20program%20synthesis | In programming languages and machine learning, Bayesian program synthesis (BPS) is a program synthesis technique where Bayesian probabilistic programs automatically construct new Bayesian probabilistic programs. This approach stands in contrast to routine practice in probabilistic programming where human developers man... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone%20morphogenetic%20protein%208B | Bone morphogenetic protein 8B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BMP8B gene.
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the TGF-β superfamily. It has close sequence homology to BMP7 and BMP5 and is believed to play a role in bone and cartilage development. It has been shown to be expressed in the hippo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InHour | InHour is a unit of reactivity of a nuclear reactor. It stands for the inverse of an hour. It is equal to the inverse of the period in hours. One InHour is the amount of reactivity needed to increase the reaction from critical to where the power will increase by a factor of e in one hour.
The unit is abbreviated i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding%20conventions | Coding conventions are a set of guidelines for a specific programming language that recommend programming style, practices, and methods for each aspect of a program written in that language. These conventions usually cover file organization, indentation, comments, declarations, statements, white space, naming conventio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphidophyte | The raphidophytes, formally known as Raphidophycidae or Raphidophyceae (formerly referred to as Chloromonadophyceae and Chloromonadineae), are a small group of eukaryotic algae that includes both marine and freshwater species. All raphidophytes are unicellular, with large cells (50 to 100 μm), but no cell walls. Raph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20form | In mathematics, a linear form (also known as a linear functional, a one-form, or a covector) is a linear map from a vector space to its field of scalars (often, the real numbers or the complex numbers).
If is a vector space over a field , the set of all linear functionals from to is itself a vector space over with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscriber%20loop%20carrier | A subscriber loop carrier or subscriber line carrier (SLC) provides telephone exchange-like telephone interface functionality. SLC remote terminals are typically located in areas with a high density of telephone subscribers, such as a residential neighborhood, or very rural areas with widely dispersed customers, that a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutationally%20invariant%20quantum%20state%20tomography | Permutationally invariant quantum state tomography (PI quantum state tomography) is a method for the partial determination of the state of a quantum system consisting of many subsystems.
In general, the number of parameters needed to describe the quantum mechanical state of a system consisting of subsystems is incre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian%20real | The Brazilian real (pl. ; sign: R$; code: BRL) is the official currency of Brazil. It is subdivided into 100 centavos. The Central Bank of Brazil is the central bank and the issuing authority. The real replaced the cruzeiro real in 1994.
the real was the twentieth most traded currency.
History
Currencies in use bef... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Dwolatzky | Barry Dwolatzky (29 April 1952 – 16 May 2023) was a South African software engineer. He was a professor emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand Joburg Centre for Software Engineering. Dwolatzky was on University of the People's computer science advisory board. He was an anti-apartheid activist and in the late 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelonid%20alphaherpesvirus%206 | Chelonid alphaherpesvirus 6 (ChHV-6) is a species of virus of uncertain generic placement in the subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stahlberg%20Models | Stahlberg was a Finnish company producing promotional plastic model cars mainly of Swedish Saab and Volvo automobiles usually in scales between 1:18 and 1:25. Stahlberg mainly molded cars from the 1960s to about 1992, though its modern counterpart, Emek continues to make truck models.
Other Finnish companies producin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patera%20%28architecture%29 | In architecture, patera () is an ornamental circular or elliptical bas-relief disc. The patera is usually used to decorate friezes and walls, and to interrupt moldings. Patera is also used in furniture-making. It can be carved, incised, inlaid, or even painted.
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The patera is found in the ancient Roman archite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt%20water%20aspiration%20syndrome | Salt water aspiration syndrome is a rare diving disorder suffered by scuba divers who inhale a mist of seawater, usually from a faulty demand valve, causing irritation of the lungs. It is not the same thing as aspiration of salt water as a bulk liquid, i.e. drowning. It can usually be treated by rest for several hours.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dsaku%20Yosida | was a Japanese mathematician who worked in the field of functional analysis. He is known for the Hille-Yosida theorem concerning C0-semigroups. Yosida studied mathematics at the University of Tokyo, and held posts at Osaka and Nagoya Universities. In 1955, Yosida returned to the University of Tokyo.
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Einar C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adductor%20tubercle%20of%20femur | The adductor tubercle is a tubercle on the lower extremity of the femur. It is formed where the medial lips of the linea aspera end below at the summit of the medial condyle. It is the insertion point of the tendon of the vertical fibers of the adductor magnus muscle. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitermination | Antitermination is the prokaryotic cell's aid to fix premature termination of RNA synthesis during the transcription of RNA. It occurs when the RNA polymerase ignores the termination signal and continues elongating its transcript until a second signal is reached. Antitermination provides a mechanism whereby one or more... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moesin | Moesin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MSN gene.
Moesin (for membrane-organizing extension spike protein) is a member of the ERM protein family which includes ezrin and radixin. ERM proteins appear to function as cross-linkers between plasma membranes and actin-based cytoskeletons.
Moesin is localized ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Kent | The University of Kent (formerly the University of Kent at Canterbury, abbreviated as UKC) is a semi-collegiate public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom. The university was granted its royal charter on 4 January 1965 and the following year Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was formally installed as the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-sensitive%20mutant | Temperature-sensitive mutants are variants of genes that allow normal function of the organism at low temperatures, but altered function at higher temperatures. Cold sensitive mutants are variants of genes that allow normal function of the organism at higher temperatures, but altered function at low temperatures.
Mec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Keonjian | Edward Keonjian (14 August 1909 – 6 September 1999) was a prominent engineer, an early leader in the field of low-power electronics, the father of microelectronics. In 1954 Keonjian designed the world's first solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter. In 1959 Keonjian designed the first prototype of integrated circ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic%20Biology | Systematic Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Systematic Biologists. It covers the theory, principles, and methods of systematics as well as phylogeny, evolution, morphology, biogeography, paleontology, genetics, and the classification of all l... |
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