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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misbehaving%20Science | Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics is a 2014 book about the history of behavior genetics. It was written by University of California, Los Angeles sociologist Aaron Panofsky, and was published by the University of Chicago Press. It won the 2015 President's Book Award from the Socia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20approximation | In mathematics, σ-approximation adjusts a Fourier summation to greatly reduce the Gibbs phenomenon, which would otherwise occur at discontinuities.
A σ-approximated summation for a series of period T can be written as follows:
in terms of the normalized sinc function
The term
is the Lanczos σ factor, which is respo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%20Wartime%20Freight%20Train | The Lionel Wartime Freight Train, better known among collectors as the "paper train," was a toy train set sold by the Lionel Corporation in 1943.
Origins
During World War II, government-mandated restrictions on the use of various metals halted production of all metal toys in favor of the war effort. Lionel, seeking ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Western%20Pomerania | The flag that serves as the symbol of the historical and geographical region of the Western Pomerania is divided horizontally into two stripes: light blue on the top and white on the bottom. It originated as the flag of the Province of Pomerania, Prussia, used from 1882 to 1935. Since 1996, it is officially recognized ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton%20Fadiman | Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, and radio and television personality. He began his work in radio, and switched to television later in his career.
Background
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Fadiman was a nephew of the emigree Ukrainian psychologist Bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20engineering | Algorithm engineering focuses on the design, analysis, implementation, optimization, profiling and experimental evaluation of computer algorithms, bridging the gap between algorithm theory and practical applications of algorithms in software engineering.
It is a general methodology for algorithmic research.
Origins
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20volume%20method%20for%20unsteady%20flow | Unsteady flows are characterized as flows in which the properties of the fluid are time dependent. It gets reflected in the governing equations as the time derivative of the properties are absent.
For Studying Finite-volume method for unsteady flow there is some governing equations
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Governing Equation
The conservatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Russel%20Dudley | William Russel Dudley (March 1, 1849 – June 4, 1911) was an American botanist. He headed the botany department at Stanford University from 1892 to 1911. His collection built at Stanford is considered to be one of the most important contributions to knowledge of the flora of California. This became the nucleus of what w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Miklyukov | Vladimir Michaelovich Miklyukov (, also spelled Miklioukov or Mikljukov) (8 January 1944 – October 2013) was a Russian educator in mathematics, and head of the Superslow Process workgroup based at Volgograd State University.
Biography
In 1970, as a student of Georgy D. Suvorov at Donetsk National University, he defend... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAUT-TV | KAUT-TV (channel 43) is a television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW Television Network. It is owned and operated by the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, alongside NBC affiliate KFOR-TV (channel 4). Both stations share studios in Oklahoma City's Mc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptor%20complexes%20medium%20subunit%20domain | In molecular biology, the adaptor complexes medium subunit domain is a protein domain found at the C-terminus of the mu subunit from various clathrin adaptor protein complexes (AP1, AP2, AP3, AP4 and AP5) and muniscins. The C-terminal domain has an immunoglobulin-like beta-sandwich fold consisting of 9 strands in 2 she... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermostilla | Thermostilla is a thermophilic genus of bacteria from the family of Planctomycetaceae with one known species (Thermostilla marina). Thermostilla marina has been isolated from a hydrothermal vent from a Vulcano Island in Italy. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20number | An algebraic number is a number that is a root of a non-zero polynomial in one variable with integer (or, equivalently, rational) coefficients. For example, the golden ratio, , is an algebraic number, because it is a root of the polynomial . That is, it is a value for x for which the polynomial evaluates to zero. As ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe%20P%C4%83un | Gheorghe Păun (; born December 6, 1950, in Cicănești, Argeș County) is a computer scientist from Romania, prominent for work on membrane computing and the P system.
Păun studied mathematics at the University of Bucharest, obtaining an MSc. in 1974 and a PhD in 1977 under the direction of Solomon Marcus. He has been a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalised%20metric | In mathematics, the concept of a generalised metric is a generalisation of that of a metric, in which the distance is not a real number but taken from an arbitrary ordered field.
In general, when we define metric space the distance function is taken to be a real-valued function. The real numbers form an ordered field ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-FA-FMK | Z-FA-FMK, abbreviating for benzyloxycarbonyl-phenylalanyl-alanyl-fluoromethyl ketone, is a very potent irreversible inhibitor of cysteine proteases, including cathepsins B, L, and S, cruzain, and papain. It also selectively inhibits effector caspases 2, 3, 6, and 7 but not caspases 8 and 10. This compound has been sho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola%20%28VPN%29 | Hola is a freemium web and mobile application which provides a form of VPN service to its users through a peer-to-peer network. It also uses peer-to-peer caching. When a user accesses certain domains that are known to use geo-blocking, the Hola application redirects the request to go through the computers and Internet ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki%27s%20Riemann%E2%80%93Roch%20formula | In differential geometry, Kawasaki's Riemann–Roch formula, introduced by Tetsuro Kawasaki, is the Riemann–Roch formula for orbifolds. It can compute the Euler characteristic of an orbifold.
Kawasaki's original proof made a use of the equivariant index theorem. Today, the formula is known to follow from the Riemann–Roc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstino | The goldstino is the Nambu−Goldstone fermion emerging in the spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry. It is the close fermionic analog of the Nambu−Goldstone bosons controlling the spontaneous breakdown of ordinary bosonic symmetries.
As in the case of Goldstone bosons, it is massless, unless there is, in addition, a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langmuir%20%28journal%29 | Langmuir is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1985 and is published by the American Chemical Society. It is the leading journal focusing on the science and application of systems and materials in which the interface dominates structure and function. Research areas covered include surface and co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization%20of%20the%20electromagnetic%20field | The quantization of the electromagnetic field means that an electromagnetic field consists of discrete energy parcels called photons. Photons are massless particles of definite energy, definite momentum, and definite spin.
To explain the photoelectric effect, Albert Einstein assumed heuristically in 1905 that an elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.S.%20Engines | O.S. Engines is a Japanese model engine manufacturer.
The company was founded in 1936 by machinist Shigeo Ogawa ("Ogawa Shigeo" in the Japanese surname-first tradition) for the production of model steam engines. The name of the firm could have either originated from the traditional Japanese family-name-first tradition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avast | Avast Software s.r.o. is a Czech multinational cybersecurity software company headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, that researches and develops computer security software, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Avast has more than 435 million monthly active users and the second largest market share among an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram%E2%80%93Schmidt%20process | In mathematics, particularly linear algebra and numerical analysis, the Gram–Schmidt process or Gram-Schmidt algorithm is a method for orthonormalizing a set of vectors in an inner product space, most commonly the Euclidean space equipped with the standard inner product. The Gram–Schmidt process takes a finite, linear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRF%20advantage | In cryptography, the pseudorandom-function advantage (PRF advantage) of an algorithm on a pseudorandom function family is a measure of how effectively the algorithm can distinguish between a member of the family and a random oracle. Consequently, the maximum pseudorandom advantage attainable by any algorithm with a fix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinking%20twelve%20problem | In software design, the blinking twelve problem is when features in software or computer systems are rendered unusable to most users by the complexity of the interface to them.
The usage emanates from the 'clock' feature provided on many VCRs manufactured in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The clock could be set by usi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20sun | Midnight sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the Sun remains visible at the local midnight. When midnight sun is seen in the Arctic, the Sun appears to move from left to right. In Antarctica, the equivalent apparent mot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame%20of%20reference | In physics and astronomy, a frame of reference (or reference frame) is an abstract coordinate system whose origin, orientation, and scale are specified by a set of reference points―geometric points whose position is identified both mathematically (with numerical coordinate values) and physically (signaled by convention... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20moat | In number theory, the Gaussian moat problem asks whether it is possible to find an infinite sequence of distinct Gaussian prime numbers such that the difference between consecutive numbers in the sequence is bounded. More colorfully, if one imagines the Gaussian primes to be stepping stones in a sea of complex numbers,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rientrodolce | Rientrodolce is an Italian association linked to Radicali Italiani, which concerns itself with overpopulation, natural environment and energy.
Its name comes from Marco Pannella's idea of a "mild return" ("rientro dolce" in Italian) to a world with 2 billion human beings. The association considers overpopulation the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid%20body | In physics, a rigid body, also known as a rigid object, is a solid body in which deformation is zero or negligible. The distance between any two given points on a rigid body remains constant in time regardless of external forces or moments exerted on it. A rigid body is usually considered as a continuous distribution o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correctness%20%28computer%20science%29 | In theoretical computer science, an algorithm is correct with respect to a specification if it behaves as specified. Best explored is functional correctness, which refers to the input-output behavior of the algorithm (i.e., for each input it produces an output satisfying the specification).
Within the latter notion, p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog%20communication | Dog communication is the transfer of information between dogs, as well as between dogs and humans. Behaviors associated with dog communication are categorized into visual and vocal. Visual communication includes mouth shape and head position, licking and sniffing, ear and tail positioning, eye gaze, facial expression, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20L.%20Hakimi | Seifollah Louis Hakimi (1932–June 23, 2005) was an Iranian-American mathematician born in Iran, a professor emeritus at Northwestern University, where he chaired the department of electrical engineering from 1973 to 1978. He was chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Davis, from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C4%81skara%20I%27s%20sine%20approximation%20formula | In mathematics, Bhāskara I's sine approximation formula is a rational expression in one variable for the computation of the approximate values of the trigonometric sines discovered by Bhāskara I (c. 600 – c. 680), a seventh-century Indian mathematician.
This formula is given in his treatise titled Mahabhaskariya. It is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island%20algorithm | The island algorithm is an algorithm for performing inference on hidden Markov models, or their generalization, dynamic Bayesian networks.
It calculates the marginal distribution for each unobserved node, conditional on any observed nodes.
The island algorithm is a modification of belief propagation.
It trades smal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/158th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 158° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 158th meridian east forms a great circle with the 22nd meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication%20sign | The multiplication sign, also known as the times sign or the dimension sign, is the symbol ×, used in mathematics to denote the multiplication operation and its resulting product. While similar to a lowercase X (), the form is properly a four-fold rotationally symmetric saltire.
History
The earliest known use of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%27s%20conjecture | In mathematics, Gray's conjecture is a conjecture made by Brayton Gray in 1984 about maps between loop spaces of spheres. It was later proved by John Harper. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphenism | A polyphenic trait is a trait for which multiple, discrete phenotypes can arise from a single genotype as a result of differing environmental conditions. It is therefore a special case of phenotypic plasticity.
There are several types of polyphenism in animals, from having sex determined by the environment to the cast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision%20and%20recall | In pattern recognition, information retrieval, object detection and classification (machine learning), precision and recall are performance metrics that apply to data retrieved from a collection, corpus or sample space.
Precision (also called positive predictive value) is the fraction of relevant instances among the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane%20Souvaine | Diane L. Souvaine is a professor of computer science and an adjunct professor of mathematics at Tufts University.
Contributions
Souvaine's research is in computational geometry and its applications, including robust non-parametric statistics and molecular modeling. She has also encouraged women and minorities to study... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiofrequency%20MASINT | Radiofrequency MASINT is one of the six major disciplines generally accepted to make up the field of Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), with due regard that the MASINT subdisciplines may overlap, and MASINT, in turn, is complementary to more traditional intelligence collection and analysis disciplines suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial-order%20planning | Partial-order planning is an approach to automated planning that maintains a partial ordering between actions and only commits ordering between actions when forced to, that is, ordering of actions is partial. Also this planning doesn't specify which action will come out first when two actions are processed. By contrast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indistinguishability%20obfuscation | In cryptography, indistinguishability obfuscation (abbreviated IO or iO) is a type of software obfuscation with the defining property that obfuscating any two programs that compute the same mathematical function results in programs that cannot be distinguished from each other. Informally, such obfuscation hides the imp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punya%20Thitimajshima | Punya Thitimajshima (9 November 1955 – 9 May 2006), a Thai professor in the department of telecommunications engineering at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang, was the co-inventor with Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes.
Thitimajshima was educated at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO%20Expert%20Committee%20on%20Biological%20Standardization | WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization is a functioning body of World Health Organization. The Expert Committee has been meeting annually since 1947.
The Committee reports are published as WHO Technical Report Series, available online. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalPhotos | CalPhotos is an online database of natural history photographs, including many useful for identifying wildlife. It is maintained by the University of California, Berkeley. Its images are used by many universities, government agencies, websites, and others, including a partnership with the Encyclopedia of Life. Plant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-element%20Boolean%20algebra | In mathematics and abstract algebra, the two-element Boolean algebra is the Boolean algebra whose underlying set (or universe or carrier) B is the Boolean domain. The elements of the Boolean domain are 1 and 0 by convention, so that B = {0, 1}. Paul Halmos's name for this algebra "2" has some following in the literatur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN%20Manager | LAN Manager is a discontinued network operating system (NOS) available from multiple vendors and developed by Microsoft in cooperation with 3Com Corporation. It was designed to succeed 3Com's 3+Share network server software which ran atop a heavily modified version of MS-DOS.
History
The LAN Manager OS/2 operating sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoproterozoic%20oxygenation%20event | The Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event (NOE), also called the Second Great Oxidation Event (the first having occurred during the Palaeoproterozoic), was a time interval between around 850 and 540 million years ago which saw a very significant increase in oxygen levels in Earth's atmosphere and oceans. Bringing an end to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea | Archaea ( ; : archaeon ) is a domain of single-celled organisms. These microorganisms lack cell nuclei and are therefore prokaryotes. Archaea were initially classified as bacteria, receiving the name archaebacteria (in the Archaebacteria kingdom), but this term has fallen out of use.
Archaeal cells have unique proper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alu%20element | An Alu element is a short stretch of DNA originally characterized by the action of the Arthrobacter luteus (Alu) restriction endonuclease. Alu elements are the most abundant transposable elements, containing over one million copies dispersed throughout the human genome. Alu elements were thought to be selfish or parasi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition%20Matrix | The Disposition Matrix, informally known as a kill list, is a database of information for tracking, capturing, rendering, or killing suspected enemies of the United States. Developed by the Obama administration beginning in 2010, it goes beyond existing kill lists and is intended to become a permanent fixture of U.S. p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film%20equation | In fluid mechanics, the thin-film equation is a partial differential equation that approximately predicts the time evolution of the thickness of a liquid film that lies on a surface. The equation is derived via lubrication theory which is based on the assumption that the length-scales in the surface directions are sig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoro-jade%20stain | Fluoro-jade stain is a fluorochrome derived from fluorescein, and is commonly used in neuroscience disciplines to label degenerating neurons in ex vivo tissue of the central nervous system. The first fluoro-jade derivative was reported by Larry Schmued in 1997 as an alternative method from traditional methods for label... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrieve | Btrieve is a transactional database (navigational database) software product. It is based on Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM), which is a way of storing data for fast retrieval. There have been several versions of the product for DOS, Linux, older versions of Microsoft Windows, 32-bit IBM OS/2 and for Novell Net... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate%20filament | Intermediate filaments (IFs) are cytoskeletal structural components found in the cells of vertebrates, and many invertebrates. Homologues of the IF protein have been noted in an invertebrate, the cephalochordate Branchiostoma.
Intermediate filaments are composed of a family of related proteins sharing common structura... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4%20address%20exhaustion | IPv4 address exhaustion is the depletion of the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses. Because the original Internet architecture had fewer than 4.3 billion addresses available, depletion has been anticipated since the late 1980s, when the Internet started experiencing dramatic growth. This depletion is one of the reasons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefimenko%27s%20equations | In electromagnetism, Jefimenko's equations (named after Oleg D. Jefimenko) give the electric field and magnetic field due to a distribution of electric charges and electric current in space, that takes into account the propagation delay (retarded time) of the fields due to the finite speed of light and relativistic eff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%E2%80%93Seitz%20cell | The Wigner–Seitz cell, named after Eugene Wigner and Frederick Seitz, is a primitive cell which has been constructed by applying Voronoi decomposition to a crystal lattice. It is used in the study of crystalline materials in crystallography.
The unique property of a crystal is that its atoms are arranged in a regular ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy%20%28computing%29 | In computing, entropy is the randomness collected by an operating system or application for use in cryptography or other uses that require random data. This randomness is often collected from hardware sources (variance in fan noise or HDD), either pre-existing ones such as mouse movements or specially provided randomn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroelution | Electroelution is a method used to extract a nucleic acid or a protein sample from an electrophoresis gel by applying a negative current in the plane of the smallest dimension of the gel, drawing the macromolecule to the surface for extraction and subsequent analysis. Electroblotting is based upon the same principle.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Tropical%20Biology%20and%20Conservation | The Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ITBC), in Bahasa Malaysia: Institut Biologi Tropika dan Pemuliharaan (IBTP) is a research institute of Universiti Malaysia Sabah in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Founded in 1996, its objectives have been to promote and carry out research on the biodiversity of trop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras2 | Ras2 is a Saccharomyces cerevisiae guanine nucleotide-binding protein (encoded by the RAS2 gene) which becomes activated by binding GTP when glucose is present in the environment. It affects growth regulation and starvation response.
Modifications
Ras2 becomes post-translationally modified in two ways, both being nec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstetrical%20dilemma | The obstetrical dilemma is a hypothesis to explain why humans often require assistance from other humans during childbirth to avoid complications, whereas most non-human primates give birth unassisted with relatively little difficulty. This occurs due to the tight fit of the fetal head to the maternal birth canal, whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Lhuissier | Marie Lhuissier (born 1989) is a French mathematician, mathematical story-teller, and children's book author.
Education and work
Lhuissier earned a Ph.D. at the École normale supérieure de Lyon in 2018, with the dissertation Le problème mathématique des trois corps, abordé simultanément sous l'angle de la recherche th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmatism | In geometric optics, stigmatism refers to the image-formation property of an optical system which focuses a single point source in object space into a single point in image space. Two such points are called a stigmatic pair of the optical system. Many optical systems, even those exhibiting optical aberrations, includi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20A.%20Brualdi | Richard Anthony Brualdi is a professor emeritus of combinatorial mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Brualdi received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1964; his advisor was H. J. Ryser. Brualdi is an Editor-in-Chief of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. He has over 200 publications in severa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral%20ganglion | The spiral (cochlear) ganglion is a group of neuron cell bodies in the modiolus, the conical central axis of the cochlea. These bipolar neurons innervate the hair cells of the organ of Corti. They project their axons to the ventral and dorsal cochlear nuclei as the cochlear nerve, a branch of the vestibulocochlear nerv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded%20variation | In mathematical analysis, a function of bounded variation, also known as function, is a real-valued function whose total variation is bounded (finite): the graph of a function having this property is well behaved in a precise sense. For a continuous function of a single variable, being of bounded variation means that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonrecursive%20filter | In mathematics, a nonrecursive filter only uses input values like x[n − 1], unlike recursive filter where it uses previous output values like y[n − 1].
In signal processing, non-recursive digital filters are often known as Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters, as a non-recursive digital filter has a finite number of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einzel%20lens | An einzel lens (from – single lens), or unipotential lens, is a charged particle electrostatic lens that focuses without changing the energy of the beam. It consists of three or more sets of cylindrical or rectangular apertures or tubes in series along an axis. It is used in ion optics to focus ions in flight, which i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low%20Bandwidth%20X | In computing, LBX, or Low Bandwidth X, is a protocol to use the X Window System over network links with low bandwidth and high latency. It was introduced in X11R6.3 ("Broadway") in 1996, but never achieved wide use. It was disabled by default as of X.Org Server 7.1, and was removed for version 7.2.
X was originally im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asplenium%20azoricum | Asplenium azoricum is a fern from hybrid origin of the family Aspleniaceae, descendant of the Macaronesian ancestral fern Asplenium anceps. It lives exclusively in the Azores, that is a strict endemic Azorean fern. Its fronds are coriaceous like plastic and its rachis is very thick, dark garnet color and brilliance. A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-275%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-275 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
See also
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relation%20network | A relation network (RN) is an artificial neural network component with a structure that can reason about relations among objects. An example category of such relations is spatial relations (above, below, left, right, in front of, behind).
RNs can infer relations, they are data efficient, and they operate on a set of o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20fag%20syndrome | Brain fag syndrome (BFS) describes a set of symptoms; somatic, sleep-related and cognitive complaints, difficulty in concentrating and retaining information, head and or neck pains, and eye pain. Brain fag is very common in adolescents and young adults. It is believed to be the most common in these age ranges due to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide%20hosting%20service | A slide hosting service is a website that allows users to upload, view, comment, and share slideshows created with presentation programs. According to Alexa and Compete rankings, the most popular slide hosting services include websites such as SlideShare, MyPlick, Slideboom, SlideServe, SlideWorld and SlidePub.
Main ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded%20quantification | In type theory, bounded quantification (also bounded polymorphism or constrained genericity) refers to universal or existential quantifiers which are restricted ("bounded") to range only over the subtypes of a particular type. Bounded quantification is an interaction of parametric polymorphism with subtyping. Bounded q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazeta | Magazeta () is a popular Russian-language web-magazine and collaborative blog on China and Chinese culture.
Name and history
Founded in 2005 by Alexander Maltsev (马玉玺, Mǎ Yùxǐ), Magazeta developed from a LJ blog. The first publication is dated October 23, 2005.
In October 2006 Magazeta received two awards in The Best... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default%20effect | The default effect, a concept within the study of nudge theory, explains the tendency for an agent to generally accept the default option in a strategic interaction. The default option is the course of action that the agent, or chooser, will obtain if he or she does not specify a particular course of action. The defaul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Duck | Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is known for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous, temperamental, and pompous ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oocyte%20abnormalities | Oocytes are immature egg cells that develop to maturity within a follicle in the ovary. Oocyte abnormalities can occur due to several factors, including premature ovarian insufficiency (POI), other maturation abnormalities, maternal ageing, and mitochondrial abnormalities.
Causes of oocyte abnormalities
Oocyte abnorm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20photon | Virtual photons are a fundamental concept in particle physics and quantum field theory that play a crucial role in describing the interactions between electrically charged particles. Virtual photons are referred to as "virtual" because they do not exist as free particles in the traditional sense but instead serve as in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20pancreaticoduodenal%20artery | The inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery (the IPDA) is a branch of the superior mesenteric artery. It supplies the head of the pancreas, and the ascending and inferior parts of the duodenum. Rarely, it may have an aneurysm.
Structure
The inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery is a branch of the superior mesenteric artery... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirpate | Tirpate is a pesticide and nematocide. As of 1998, the United States Environmental Protection Agency listed the substance as discontinued in manufacturing. It is classified as an extremely hazardous substance in the United States as defined in Section 302 of the U.S. Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinner%20%28cell%20culture%29 | A Spinner is a type of bioreactor which features an impeller, stirrer or similar device to agitate the contents (usually a mixture of cells, medium and products like proteins that can be harvested). The vessels are usually made out of glass or stainless steel with port holes to accommodate sensors, Medium input or gas ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid-core%20computing | Hybrid-core computing is the technique of extending a commodity instruction set architecture (e.g. x86) with application-specific instructions to accelerate application performance. It is a form of heterogeneous computing wherein asymmetric computational units coexist with a "commodity" processor.
Hybrid-core processi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristopher%20Moore | Cristopher David Moore, known as Cris Moore, (born March 12, 1968 in New Brunswick, New Jersey) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and physicist. He is resident faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and was formerly a full professor at the University of New Mexico.
Biography
Moore did his undergraduate stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF%20Denge | Denge is a former Royal Air Force site near Dungeness, in Kent, England. It is best known for the early experimental acoustic mirrors which remain there.
The acoustic mirrors, known colloquially as 'listening ears', at Denge are located between Greatstone-on-Sea and Lydd airfield, on the banks of a now disused gravel ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptomyces%20sp.%20myrophorea | Streptomyces sp. myrophorea, isolate McG1 is a species of Streptomyces, that originates from a (ethnopharmacology) folk cure in the townland of Toneel North in Boho, County Fermanagh. This area was previously occupied by the Druids (~1500 years ago) and before this neolithic people (~ 3,700 years ago) who engraved the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%20language | Martian language (), sometimes also called brain-disabled characters (), is the nickname of unconventional representation of Chinese characters online. "Martian" describes that which seems strange to local culture. The term was popularised by a line from the 2001 Hong Kong comedy Shaolin Soccer, in which Sing (Stephen ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee%20%28Unicode%20block%29 | Cherokee is a Unicode block containing the syllabic characters for writing the Cherokee language.
When Cherokee was first added to Unicode in version 3.0 it was treated as a unicameral alphabet, but in version 8.0 it was redefined as a bicameral script. The Cherokee block (U+13A0 to U+13FF) contains all the uppercase l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular%20triangle | The inferior carotid triangle (or muscular triangle), is bounded, in front, by the median line of the neck from the hyoid bone to the sternum; behind, by the anterior margin of the sternocleidomastoid; above, by the superior belly of the omohyoid.
It is covered by the integument, superficial fascia, platysma, and deep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiflow | Multiflow Computer, Inc., founded in April, 1984 near New Haven, Connecticut, USA, was a manufacturer and seller of minisupercomputer hardware and software embodying the VLIW design style. Multiflow, incorporated in Delaware, ended operations in March, 1990, after selling about 125 VLIW minisupercomputers in the United... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempered%20representation | In mathematics, a tempered representation of a linear semisimple Lie group is a representation that has a basis whose matrix coefficients lie in the Lp space
L2+ε(G)
for any ε > 0.
Formulation
This condition, as just given, is slightly weaker than the condition that the matrix coefficients are square-integrable, in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20storage | Optical storage refers to a class of data storage systems that use light to read or write data to an underlying optical media. Although a number of optical formats have been used over time, the most common examples are optical disks like the compact disc (CD) and DVD. Reading and writing methods have also varied over t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prati%20criteria | The Prati criteria are a revision to the clinical definition of normal serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2002. Daniele Prati and colleagues identified that, in the original research which developed guidelines for normal ranges of ALT, the cohort included subj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A1ry%27s%20theorem | In the mathematical field of graph theory, Fáry's theorem states that any simple, planar graph can be drawn without crossings so that its edges are straight line segments. That is, the ability to draw graph edges as curves instead of as straight line segments does not allow a larger class of graphs to be drawn. The th... |
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