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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20space
In the mathematical discipline of general topology, a Polish space is a separable completely metrizable topological space; that is, a space homeomorphic to a complete metric space that has a countable dense subset. Polish spaces are so named because they were first extensively studied by Polish topologists and logicia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNAEG
The Fichier National Automatisé des Empreintes Génétiques () is the French national DNA database, used by both the national police force and local gendarmerie. Origins and evolution In June 1998, the Guigou law on the prevention of sexually-related crimes, passed by the Plural Left Lionel Jospin government, created a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean%20systemic%20pressure
In medicine, the mean systemic pressure (mean systemic filling pressure (MSFP)) is defined as the mean pressure that exists in the circulatory system when there is no blood motion. A similar term, mean circulatory filling pressure, (MCFP) is defined as the mean pressure that exists in the combined circulatory system & ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskradata%201680
Iskradata 1680 was a computer developed by Iskradata in 1979.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database offered by Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Web Services portfolio. DynamoDB offers a fast persistent Key-Value Datastore with built-in support for replication, autoscaling, encryption at rest, and on-demand backup among other features. Background Werner Vo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SH3BP2
SH3BP2 (SH3 domain-binding protein 2) is a protein that comes from a gene located on Chromosome 4. SH3BP2 binds differentially to the SH3 domains of certain proteins of signal transduction pathways. It binds to phosphatidylinositols linking the hemopoietic tyrosine kinase fes to the cytoplasmic membrane in a phosphoryl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Naval%20Ordnance%20Research%20Calculator
The IBM Naval Ordnance Research Calculator (NORC) was a one-of-a-kind first-generation (vacuum tube) computer built by IBM for the United States Navy's Bureau of Ordnance. It went into service in December 1954 and was likely the most powerful computer at the time. The Naval Ordnance Research Calculator (NORC), was buil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Bejan
Adrian Bejan is a Romanian-American professor who has made contributions to modern thermodynamics and developed his constructal law. He is J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University and author of the books Design in Nature, The Physics of Life , Freedom and Evolution and Time And ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis%20Dysart
Willis Nelson Dysart (March 15, 1923 in Omega, Georgia - November 8, 2011) was an American mental calculator. His talent for arithmetic emerged at the age of three after his mother taught him to count. He quit school in the third grade (age 9) and pursued a career as a lightning calculator. In 1938 Robert Ripley featu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAESAR%20Competition
The Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness (CAESAR) is a competition organized by a group of international cryptologic researchers to encourage the design of authenticated encryption schemes. The competition was announced at the Early Symmetric Crypto workshop in January 2013 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biham%E2%80%93Middleton%E2%80%93Levine%20traffic%20model
The Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model is a self-organizing cellular automaton traffic flow model. It consists of a number of cars represented by points on a lattice with a random starting position, where each car may be one of two types: those that only move downwards (shown as blue in this article), and those that ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20sum%20of%20modules
In abstract algebra, the direct sum is a construction which combines several modules into a new, larger module. The direct sum of modules is the smallest module which contains the given modules as submodules with no "unnecessary" constraints, making it an example of a coproduct. Contrast with the direct product, which ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP%20holin%20family
The β-proteobacterial holin (BP-Hol) family (TC# 1.E.50) is a small family that includes members derived from a number of Burkholderia phage as well as a Poloromonas species. As of April 3, 2016, this family belongs to the Holin superfamily II. Members of Saier Bioinformatics Lab at University of California, San Diego ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Bogomolnaia
Anna Vladimirovna Bogomolnaia () is a Russian economist specializing in microeconomics and game theory. She is a professor in economics at the Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow,, and was until 2022 chief research fellow of the International Laboratory for Game Theory and Decision Making at the Hig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauntlet%3A%20The%20Deeper%20Dungeons
Gauntlet: The Deeper Dungeons is an expansion pack for Gauntlet. Gameplay Gauntlet: The Deeper Dungeons is an expansion pack for the original computer ports of Gauntlet with 512 new levels. The player requires the original game to play the expansion. Available player characters are Merlin the wizard, Thor the warrior,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Matrix
A Data Matrix is a two-dimensional code consisting of black and white "cells" or dots arranged in either a square or rectangular pattern, also known as a matrix. The information to be encoded can be text or numeric data. Usual data size is from a few bytes up to 1556 bytes. The length of the encoded data depends on the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Research%20on%20Biological%20Rhythms
The Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) is an international chronobiological research society with three key goals: to promote the advancement and dissemination of basic and applied research in all aspects of biological rhythms. to enhance the education and training of students and researchers in the f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Dumontier
Michel Justin Dumontier (born 1975) is a Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University. His research focuses on methods to represent knowledge on the web with applications for drug discovery and personalized medicine. He was previously an Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) at th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Jones%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Clifford "Cliff" B. Jones (born 1 June 1944) is a British computer scientist, specializing in research into formal methods. He undertook a late DPhil at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science) under Tony Hoare, awarded in 1981. Jones' thesis proposed an ext...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query%20language
A query language, also known as data query language or database query language (DQL), is a computer language used to make queries in databases and information systems. In database systems, query languages rely on strict theory to retrieve information. A well known example is the Structured Query Language (SQL). Types ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Library%20of%20Mathematical%20Functions
The Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) is an online project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a database of mathematical reference data for special functions and their applications. It is intended as an update of Abramowitz's and Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Func...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DREAM%20Challenges
DREAM Challenges (Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods) is a non-profit initiative for advancing biomedical and systems biology research via crowd-sourced competitions. Started in 2006, DREAM challenges collaborate with Sage Bionetworks to provide a platform for competitions run on the Synapse platfo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Sterelny
Kim Sterelny (born 1950) is an Australian philosopher and professor of philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington. He is the winner of several international prizes in the philosophy of science, and was previously editor of Biology and Phi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoophorus
Zoophorus () and Zophorus (), meaning "bearing animals", was the Ancient Greek term for a decorated frieze between the architrave and cornice, typically with a continuous bas-relief. A zoophoric column is a pillar supporting the figure of an animal. The word is rarely used in modern English architectural writing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota%20subscript
The iota subscript is a diacritic mark in the Greek alphabet shaped like a small vertical stroke or miniature iota placed below the letter. It can occur with the vowel letters eta , omega , and alpha . It represents the former presence of an offglide after the vowel, forming a so‐called "long diphthong". Such diphtho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ukrainian%20flags
The following is a list of flags of Ukraine: State flag Presidential Standard Military flags Flags of service branches Command Standards Maritime flags Former flags Personal naval flags Former flags Government and non-military security forces Flags of Ukrainian regions Flags of oblasts Flags of cities with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioliomics
Ioliomics (from a portmanteau of ions and liquids) is the study of ions in liquids (or liquid phases) and stipulated with fundamental differences of ionic interactions. Ioliomics covers a broad research area concerning structure, properties and applications of ions involved in various biological and chemical systems. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoinducer-2
Autoinducer-2 (AI-2), a furanosyl borate diester or tetrahydroxy furan (species dependent), is a member of a family of signaling molecules used in quorum sensing. AI-2 is one of only a few known biomolecules incorporating boron. First identified in the marine bacterium Vibrio harveyi, AI-2 is produced and recognized by...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen-vacancy%20center
The nitrogen-vacancy center (N-V center or NV center) is one of numerous point defects in diamond. Its most explored and useful property is its photoluminescence, which allows observers to read out its spin-state. The NV center's electron spin, localized at atomic scales, can be manipulated at room temperature by exter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Research%20Center%20of%20Virology%20and%20Biotechnology%20VECTOR
The State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR, also known as the Vector Institute (), is a biological research center in Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. It has research facilities and capabilities for all levels of biological hazard, CDC levels 1–4. It is one of two official repositories for the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing%20Gravity
Reinventing Gravity: A Scientist Goes Beyond Einstein is a science text by John W. Moffat, which explains his controversial theory of gravity. Moffat's theory Moffat's work culminates in his nonsymmetric gravitational theory and scalar–tensor–vector gravity (now called MOG). His theory explains galactic rotation curv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stygofauna
Stygofauna are any fauna that live in groundwater systems or aquifers, such as caves, fissures and vugs. Stygofauna and troglofauna are the two types of subterranean fauna (based on life-history). Both are associated with subterranean environments – stygofauna are associated with water, and troglofauna with caves and s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20Georgian
Mac OS Georgian is a character encoding for Mac OS created by Michael Everson for use in his fonts. It is not an official Mac OS character set. The encoding is a form of extended ASCII, with the Georgian characters occupying the upper half of the 8-bit code space. Like the Georgian Unicode block, Mac OS Georgian enco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%20Hardt-English
Pamela Hardt-English is an American food scientist and computer scientist who created Resource One, a "people's computing center" in 1972 at Project One, a "technological commune" in San Francisco, California. Education Pamela Hardt-English was a graduate student in computer science at the University of California, B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilimandjaro%20%28song%29
"Kilimandjaro", sometimes known as "Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro" (The Snows of Kilimanjaro) is a famous French-language song by French singer Pascal Danel released in 1966. It was considered one of the definitive French songs of the 1960s, Danel's biggest hit, and one of the most-broadcast French songs on French radio. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Bieliavsky
Pierre Bieliavsky (born 1970 in Brussels, Belgium), is a Belgian mathematician. Biography Pierre Bieliavsky graduated from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1991. He completed a doctorate in 1995 under the supervision of Michel Cahen at the Université libre de Bruxelles on Symmetric symplectic spaces. He is curre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float%20%28liquid%20level%29
Liquid level floats, also known as float balls, are spherical, cylindrical, oblong or similarly shaped objects, made from either rigid or flexible material, that are buoyant in water and other liquids. They are non-electrical hardware frequently used as visual sight-indicators for surface demarcation and level measurem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnbaum%E2%80%93Rigby%20configuration
In geometry, the Grünbaum–Rigby configuration is a symmetric configuration consisting of 21 points and 21 lines, with four points on each line and four lines through each point. Originally studied by Felix Klein in the complex projective plane in connection with the Klein quartic, it was first realized in the Euclidean...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epibrassicasterol
Epibrassicasterol (also called crinosterol) is a type of cholesterol most commonly found in marine invertebrates. Epibrassicasterol is a 28 carbon cholesterol with an alpha oriented methyl group at carbon 24. It is often mixed isomerically with the more common beta-isomer, brassicasterol. Epibrassicasterol can be used ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLAE-TV
WLAE-TV (channel 32) is an educational independent television station in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The station is owned by the Educational Broadcasting Foundation, a partnership between the Willwoods Community (a Catholic-related organization) and the Louisiana Educational Television Authority (operator of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy%202000
The Tandy 2000 is a personal computer introduced by Radio Shack in September 1983 based on the 8 MHz Intel 80186 microprocessor running MS-DOS. By comparison, the IBM PC XT (introduced in March 1983) used the older 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor, and the IBM PC/AT (introduced in 1984) would later use the newer 6 MHz Int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20velocity
Particle velocity (denoted or ) is the velocity of a particle (real or imagined) in a medium as it transmits a wave. The SI unit of particle velocity is the metre per second (m/s). In many cases this is a longitudinal wave of pressure as with sound, but it can also be a transverse wave as with the vibration of a taut ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menyh%C3%A9rt%20Pal%C3%A1gyi
Menyhért Palágyi, in German Melchior or Meinhert Palagyi (16 or 26 December 1859 in Paks, Hungary – 14 July 1924 in Darmstadt, Germany) was a Hungarian philosopher, mathematician, and physicist of Jewish descent (his original name was Silberstein, it was changed in 1895). He was the elder brother of the Hungarian poet ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watershed%20area%20%28medical%29
Watershed area is the medical term referring to regions of the body, that receive dual blood supply from the most distal branches of two large arteries, such as the splenic flexure of the large intestine. The term refers metaphorically to a geological watershed, or drainage divide, which separates adjacent drainage bas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological%20skeleton
In digital image processing, morphological skeleton is a skeleton (or medial axis) representation of a shape or binary image, computed by means of morphological operators. Morphological skeletons are of two kinds: Those defined by means of morphological openings, from which the original shape can be reconstructed, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Jose%20BioCenter
The San Jose BioCenter is a business incubator formed as a university foundation in 2004 and focused on the initiation and development of technology companies, with an emphasis on the life sciences industry. The BioCenter emerged from San Jose State University in an effort to revitalize an industrial area of San Jose,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-adjoint%20operator
In mathematics, a self-adjoint operator on an infinite-dimensional complex vector space V with inner product (equivalently, a Hermitian operator in the finite-dimensional case) is a linear map A (from V to itself) that is its own adjoint. If V is finite-dimensional with a given orthonormal basis, this is equivalent to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breit%20equation
The Breit equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by Gregory Breit in 1929 based on the Dirac equation, which formally describes two or more massive spin-1/2 particles (electrons, for example) interacting electromagnetically to the first order in perturbation theory. It accounts for magnetic interactions and r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Malling%20Research%20Station
NIAB EMR is a horticultural and agricultural research institute at East Malling, Kent in England, with a specialism in fruit and clonally propagated crop production. In 2016, the institute became part of the NIAB Group. History A research station was established on the East Malling site in 1913 on the impetus of lo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lemmas
This following is a list of lemmas (or, "lemmata", i.e. minor theorems, or sometimes intermediate technical results factored out of proofs). See also list of axioms, list of theorems and list of conjectures. Algebra Abhyankar's lemma Aubin–Lions lemma Bergman's diamond lemma Fitting lemma Injective test lemma Hua's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiolipin
Cardiolipin (IUPAC name 1,3-bis(sn-3’-phosphatidyl)-sn-glycerol, "sn" designating stereospecific numbering) is an important component of the inner mitochondrial membrane, where it constitutes about 20% of the total lipid composition. It can also be found in the membranes of most bacteria. The name "cardiolipin" is der...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BClent%20%C5%9E%C4%B1k
Bülent Şık is a Turkish food engineer, environmental and human rights activist and a whistleblower. He was convicted after disclosing the results from a government study on environmental pollution and carcinogens. Early life and education Career Şık has worked at Akdeniz University in Antalya, where he was a deputy d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringback%20number
A ringback number is a telephone number for a telephone line that automatically calls the line that the call was placed from, after the caller has hung up. The typical use of this facility is by telephone company technicians for testing a new installation or for trouble-shooting. Operation Ringback testing is an accep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroid%20hormone%20binding%20ratio
Thyroid hormone binding ratio (THBR) is a thyroid function test that measures the "uptake" of T3 or T4 tracer by thyroid-binding globulin (TBG) in a given serum sample. This provides an indirect and reciprocal estimate of the available binding sites on TBG within the sample. The results are then reported as a ratio to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrov%27s%20uniqueness%20theorem
The Alexandrov uniqueness theorem is a rigidity theorem in mathematics, describing three-dimensional convex polyhedra in terms of the distances between points on their surfaces. It implies that convex polyhedra with distinct shapes from each other also have distinct metric spaces of surface distances, and it characteri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%20Nederland
Mars Nederland () is the Dutch division of Mars, Incorporated, a privately held multi-national company in food, pet care products, and confectionery products. It has its headquarters and main production site in Veghel, North Brabant known as Mars Nederland B.V. A second production site is located in Oud-Beijerland, Sou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%20testing
In software testing, monkey testing is a technique where the user tests the application or system by providing random inputs and checking the behavior, or seeing whether the application or system will crash. Monkey testing is usually implemented as random, automated unit tests. While the source of the name "monkey" is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consortium%20of%20European%20Taxonomic%20Facilities
The Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) is a taxonomic research network formed by scientific institutions in Europe. It was formed in December 1996 by ten of the largest European natural history museums and botanical gardens to be a voice for taxonomy and systematic biology in Europe, to promote scienti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%20band
The S band is a designation by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for a part of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum covering frequencies from 2 to 4 gigahertz (GHz). Thus it crosses the conventional boundary between the UHF and SHF bands at 3.0 GHz. The S band is used by airport...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20of%20Management%20Information
In computing, the Structure of Management Information (SMI), an adapted subset of ASN.1, is a technical language used in definitions of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and its extensions to define sets ("modules") of related managed objects in a Management Information Base (MIB). SMI subdivides into three pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Council%20for%20Industrial%20and%20Applied%20Mathematics
The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is an organisation for professional applied mathematics societies and related organisations. The current (2020) President is Ya-xiang Yuan. History Until 1999 the Council was known as the Committee for International Conferences on Industrial and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RivX%20sRNA
RivX sRNA is a non-coding RNA molecule involved in the interface between two key regulators of virulence in the human pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptoccus, also known as GAS): the CovR/S system and Mga regulator. This RNA, along with its downstream protein-coding gene RivR, are the first discovered link...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IgG4-related%20disease
IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD), formerly known as IgG4-related systemic disease, is a chronic inflammatory condition characterized by tissue infiltration with lymphocytes and IgG4-secreting plasma cells, various degrees of fibrosis (scarring) and a usually prompt response to oral steroids. In approximately 51–70% of pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupancy%20grid%20mapping
Occupancy Grid Mapping refers to a family of computer algorithms in probabilistic robotics for mobile robots which address the problem of generating maps from noisy and uncertain sensor measurement data, with the assumption that the robot pose is known. Occupancy grids were first proposed by H. Moravec and A. Elfes in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibian%20antimicrobial%20peptides
Amphibian antimicrobial peptides are a family of highly potent antimicrobial peptides with a large spectrum of activity, which are synthesized by vertebrates as an efficient host-defence mechanism against invading microorganisms. A number of these defence peptides are secreted from the skin of frogs and other amphibian...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20cutting%20temperature%20compound
Optimal cutting temperature compound (OCT compound) is used to embed tissue samples prior to frozen sectioning on a microtome-cryostat. This process is undertaken so as to mount slices (sections) of a sample onto slides for analysis. Components As stated on the bottle: 10.24% polyvinyl alcohol 4.26% polyethylene gl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRIMUS%20%28journal%29
PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the teaching of undergraduate mathematics, established in 1991. The journal has been published by Taylor & Francis since March 2007. It is abstracted and indexed in Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Botanical%20Congress
International Botanical Congress (IBC) is an international meeting of botanists in all scientific fields, authorized by the International Association of Botanical and Mycological Societies (IABMS) and held every six years, with the location rotating between different continents. The current numbering system for the con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Control%20Bus
DCB (Digital Control Bus, Digital Connection Bus or Digital Communication Bus in some sources) was a proprietary data interchange interface by Roland Corporation, developed in 1981 and introduced in 1982 in their Roland Juno-60 and Roland Jupiter-8 products. DCB functions were basically the same as MIDI, but unlike MI...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UWB%20ranging
Ultra-wideband impulse radio ranging (or UWB-IR ranging) is a wireless positioning technology based on IEEE 802.15.4z standard, which is a wireless communication protocol introduced by IEEE, for systems operating in unlicensed spectrum, equipped with extremely large bandwidth transceivers. UWB enables very accurate ran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peierls%20transition
A Peierls transition or Peierls distortion is a distortion of the periodic lattice of a one-dimensional crystal. Atomic positions oscillate, so that the perfect order of the 1-D crystal is broken. Peierls’ theorem Peierls' theorem states that a one-dimensional equally spaced chain with one electron per ion is unsta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20primitive
In computing, language primitives are the simplest elements available in a programming language. A primitive is the smallest 'unit of processing' available to a programmer of a given machine, or can be an atomic element of an expression in a language. Primitives are units with a meaning, i.e., a semantic value in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical%20lifetime
In statistical orbital mechanics, a body's dynamical lifetime refers to the mean time that a small body can be expected to remain in its current mean motion resonance. Classic examples are comets and asteroids which evolve from the 7:3 resonance to the 5:2 resonance with Jupiter's orbit with dynamical lifetimes of 1-10...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GunZ%3A%20The%20Duel
GunZ: The Duel (), or simply GunZ, was an online third-person shooting game, created by South Korean-based MAIET Entertainment. It was free-to-play, with a microtransaction business model for purchasing premium in-game items. The game allowed players to perform exaggerated, gravity-defying action moves, including wall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland%20Geyer
Roland Geyer is professor of industrial ecology at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California at Santa Barbara. He is a specialist in the ecological impact of plastics. In March 2021, Geyer wrote in The Guardian that humanity should ban fossil fuels, just at it had earlier banned...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chore%20division
Chore division is a fair division problem in which the divided resource is undesirable, so that each participant wants to get as little as possible. It is the mirror-image of the fair cake-cutting problem, in which the divided resource is desirable so that each participant wants to get as much as possible. Both problem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMM%20Cluster%20Survey
The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) is a serendipitous X-ray galaxy cluster survey being conducted using archival data taken by ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite. Galaxy clusters trace the large scale structure of the universe, and their number density evolution with redshift provides a way to measure cosmological parameters, indepe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-triggered%20architecture
Time-triggered architecture (abbreviated as TTA), also known as a time-triggered system, is a computer system that executes one or more sets of tasks according to a pre-determined and set task schedule. Implementation of a TT system will typically involve use of a single interrupt that is linked to the periodic overflo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desensitization%20%28telecommunications%29
In telecommunications, desensitization (also known as receiver blocking) is a form of electromagnetic interference where a radio receiver is unable to receive a weak radio signal that it might otherwise be able to receive when there is no interference. This is caused by a nearby transmitter with a strong signal on a cl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20Now
Access Now is a non-profit organization founded in 2009 with a mission to defend and extend the digital civil rights of people around the world. Access Now supports programs including an annual conference on Human Rights (RightsCon), an index of internet shutdowns (#KeepItOn), and providing exit nodes for Tor network....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20illusion
In visual perception, an optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by a visual percept that arguably appears to differ from reality. Illusions come in a wide variety; their categorization is difficult because the underlying cause is often not clear but...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulirsch%E2%80%93Stoer%20algorithm
In numerical analysis, the Bulirsch–Stoer algorithm is a method for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations which combines three powerful ideas: Richardson extrapolation, the use of rational function extrapolation in Richardson-type applications, and the modified midpoint method, to obtain numerical s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel%20Seltman
Muriel Seltman (; 27 March 1927 – 2 December 2019) was British left-wing activist, mathematics educator, historian of mathematics, and author of books on mathematics, religion, politics, and philosophy. Life Seltman was born in Stamford Hill, a Jewish neighborhood of London, on 27 March 1927. She studied mathematics a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Feller
William "Vilim" Feller (July 7, 1906 – January 14, 1970), born Vilibald Srećko Feller, was a Croatian–American mathematician specializing in probability theory. Early life and education Feller was born in Zagreb to Ida Oemichen-Perc, a Croatian–Austrian Catholic, and Eugen Viktor Feller, son of a Polish–Jewish father ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20the%20Orange
Otto the Orange is the mascot for the Syracuse Orange, the athletic teams of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, USA. Otto is an anthropomorphism of the citrus fruit, wearing a large blue hat and blue pants. Otto can often be seen at Syracuse sporting events in the JMA Wireless Dome and other venues. Mascot his...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choke%20pear%20%28plant%29
A choke pear or chocky-pear is an astringent fruit. The term is used for the fruit of any variety of pear which has an astringent taste and is difficult to swallow. Varieties One variety of choke pear is poire d'Angoisse, a variety of pear that was grown in Angoisse, a commune in the Arrondissement of Nontron in Do...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsis
Solipsis is a free and open-source system for a massively multi-participant shared virtual world designed by Joaquin Keller and Gwendal Simon at France Télécom Research and Development Labs. It aims to provide the infrastructure for a metaverse-like public virtual territory. Relying on a peer-to-peer architecture, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLV
KLV (Key-Length-Value) is a data encoding standard, often used to embed information in video feeds. The standard uses a type–length–value encoding scheme. Items are encoded into Key-Length-Value triplets, where key identifies the data, length specifies the data's length, and value is the data itself. It is defined in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%20Royal
Park Royal is an area in London, England, partly in the London Borough of Ealing and partly the London Borough of Brent. It is the site of the largest business park in London, but despite intensive existing use, the area is, together with adjacent Old Oak Common, intended to become the UK's largest regeneration scheme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20J.%20Rivlin
Theodore Joseph Rivlin (11 September 1926, Brooklyn – 22 July 2006, Croton-on-Hudson) was an American mathematician, specializing in approximation theory. He is known for his 1969 book An Introduction to the Approximation of Functions (Dover reprint, 1981), which became a standard text. Education and career Rivlin rec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20Hebrew
Mac OS Hebrew is used in Apple Macintosh computers to represent Hebrew texts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming%20scheme
The Hamming scheme, named after Richard Hamming, is also known as the hyper-cubic association scheme, and it is the most important example for coding theory. In this scheme the set of binary vectors of length and two vectors are -th associates if they are Hamming distance apart. Recall that an association scheme i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudospectral%20optimal%20control
Pseudospectral optimal control is a joint theoretical-computational method for solving optimal control problems. It combines pseudospectral (PS) theory with optimal control theory to produce a PS optimal control theory. PS optimal control theory has been used in ground and flight systems in military and industrial appl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken%20space%20diagonal
In a magic cube, a broken space diagonal is a sequence of cells of the cube that follows a line parallel to a space diagonal of the cube, and continues on the corresponding point of an opposite face whenever it reaches a face of the cube. The corresponding concept in two-dimensional magic squares is a broken diagonal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuker%20Team
The Nuker Team was formed to use the Hubble Space Telescope, with its high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy, to investigate the central structure and dynamics of galaxies. The team used the HST to examine supermassive black holes and determined the relationship between a galaxy's central black hole's mass and veloc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle%20%28construction%29
Wattle is made by weaving flexible branches around upright stakes to form a woven lattice. The wattle may be made into an individual panel, commonly called a hurdle, or it may be formed into a continuous fence. Wattles also form the basic structure for wattle and daub wall construction, where wattling is daubed with a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20flow
In population genetics, gene flow (also known as migration and allele flow) is the transfer of genetic material from one population to another. If the rate of gene flow is high enough, then two populations will have equivalent allele frequencies and therefore can be considered a single effective population. It has bee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%20graphs
In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Chang graphs are three 12-regular undirected graphs, each with 28 vertices and 168 edges. They are strongly regular, with the same parameters and spectrum as the line graph L(K8) of the complete graph K8. Each of these three graphs may be obtained by graph switching from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20speed%20profile
A sound speed profile shows the speed of sound in water at different vertical levels. It has two general representations: tabular form, with pairs of columns corresponding to ocean depth and the speed of sound at that depth, respectively. a plot of the speed of sound in the ocean as a function of depth, where the ve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MolecularLab
MolecularLab is an Italian website of science, specialized in science, biotechnology, molecular biology, with news, forums, and events. With over 4 million page views in May 2009 it is the most visited Italian science webzine. Purpose MolecularLab has several objectives: Providing the latest news and important disco...