source stringlengths 31 227 | text stringlengths 9 2k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittag-Leffler%20polynomials | In mathematics, the Mittag-Leffler polynomials are the polynomials gn(x) or Mn(x) studied by .
Mn(x) is a special case of the Meixner polynomial Mn(x;b,c) at b = 0, c = -1.
Definition and examples
Generating functions
The Mittag-Leffler polynomials are defined respectively by the generating functions
and
They a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20Trade%20Certified%20Mark | The Fair Trade Certified Mark is a fair trade certification mark used primarily in the United States and Canada. It appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal. The Fair Trade Certified Mark is the North American equivalent of the Intern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AND%20gate | The AND gate is a basic digital logic gate that implements logical conjunction (∧) from mathematical logic AND gate behaves according to the truth table. A HIGH output (1) results only if all the inputs to the AND gate are HIGH (1). If not all inputs to the AND gate are HIGH, LOW output results. The function can be ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius%20indigo | Lactarius indigo, commonly known as the indigo milk cap, indigo milky, the indigo (or blue) lactarius, or the blue milk mushroom, is a species of agaric fungus in the family Russulaceae. It is a widely distributed species, growing naturally in eastern North America, East Asia, and Central America; it has also been repo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20formulation | A clinical formulation, also known as case formulation and problem formulation, is a theoretically-based explanation or conceptualisation of the information obtained from a clinical assessment. It offers a hypothesis about the cause and nature of the presenting problems and is considered an adjunct or alternative appro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accurate%20Miniatures | Accurate Miniatures is an American manufacturer of scale plastic model kits. It is owned by Collins-Habovick, LLC and is located in Concord, North Carolina, United States. Their products primarily consist plastic model airplane kits from World War II, though they also make model kits of planes and automobiles from othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senckenberg%20Nature%20Research%20Society | The Senckenberg Nature Research Society (, until 2008 Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft) is a German scholarly society with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main.
Overview
Its purpose is to conduct research in the natural sciences and make the results of nature research available to the public. The society wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrological%20transport%20model | An hydrological transport model is a mathematical model used to simulate the flow of rivers, streams, groundwater movement or drainage front displacement, and calculate water quality parameters. These models generally came into use in the 1960s and 1970s when demand for numerical forecasting of water quality and draina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20B%20Wood%20Medal | The A B Wood Medal is a prize awarded annually by the Institute of Acoustics for "distinguished contributions to the application of underwater acoustics". The prize, named after Albert Beaumont Wood, is presented in alternate years to European and North American scientists.
Recipients
Source: Institute of Acoustics
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%E2%80%93Hedlund%E2%80%93Lyndon%20theorem | The Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem is a mathematical characterization of cellular automata in terms of their symbolic dynamics. It is named after Morton L. Curtis, Gustav A. Hedlund, and Roger Lyndon; in his 1969 paper stating the theorem, Hedlund credited Curtis and Lyndon as co-discoverers. It has been called "one of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation%20check | In telecommunication, the term summation check (sum check) has the following meanings:
A checksum based on the formation of the sum of the digits of a numeral.
Note: The sum of the individual digits is usually compared with a previously computed value.
A comparison of checksums on the same data on different occasion... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance%20transform | A distance transform, also known as distance map or distance field, is a derived representation of a digital image. The choice of the term depends on the point of view on the object in question: whether the initial image is transformed into another representation, or it is simply endowed with an additional map or field... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luteuthis%20shuishi | Luteuthis shuishi is a species of octopus that lives in the South China Sea, which is known only from one female specimen collected at a depth of 767 meters. It has short arms and is quite gelatinous. The octopus's total length is about 300 millimeters. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20Scattering%20Spectroscopy | Light scattering spectroscopy (LSS) is a spectroscopic technique typically used to evaluate morphological changes in epithelial cells in order to study mucosal tissue and detect early cancer and precancer.
Light scattering spectroscopy relies upon elastic scattering of photons reflected from the epithelium. Most of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86%20calling%20conventions | This article describes the calling conventions used when programming x86 architecture microprocessors.
Calling conventions describe the interface of called code:
The order in which atomic (scalar) parameters, or individual parts of a complex parameter, are allocated
How parameters are passed (pushed on the stack, plac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESTREAM | eSTREAM is a project to "identify new stream ciphers suitable for widespread adoption", organised by the EU ECRYPT network. It was set up as a result of the failure of all six stream ciphers submitted to the NESSIE project. The call for primitives was first issued in November 2004. The project was completed in April 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanoblast | A melanoblast is a precursor cell of a melanocyte. These cells migrate from the trunk neural crest cells (in terms of axial level from neck to posterior end) dorsolaterally between the ectoderm and dorsal surface of the somites.
See also
Biological pigment
List of human cell types derived from the germ layers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20H.%20Hardy | Godfrey Harold Hardy (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of population genetics.
G. H. Hardy is usually known by those outside the field of m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous%20blog | An anonymous blog is a blog without any acknowledged author or contributor. Anonymous bloggers may achieve anonymity through the simple use of a pseudonym, or through more sophisticated techniques such as layered encryption routing, manipulation of post dates, or posting only from publicly accessible computers. Motivat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20thermal%20plume | An urban thermal plume describes rising air in the lower altitudes of the Earth's atmosphere caused by urban areas being warmer than surrounding areas. Over the past thirty years there has been increasing interest in what have been called urban heat islands (UHI), but it is only since 2007 that thought has been given t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary%20Internet%20Exchange | The YYCIX Internet Exchange Community Ltd (YYCIX) in Calgary, Canada is the first Internet exchange point (IXP) in Alberta. It allows the local exchange of Internet traffic between members, staying within Canadian jurisdiction, optimizing the performance and economy of traffic flows, and limiting the potential for extr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIDNP | CIDNP (chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization), often pronounced like "kidnip", is a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique that is used to study chemical reactions that involve radicals. It detects the non-Boltzmann (non-thermal) nuclear spin state distribution produced in these reactions as enhanced abso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20false%20alarm%20rate | Constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection refers to a common form of adaptive algorithm used in radar systems to detect target returns against a background of noise, clutter and interference.
Principle
In the radar receiver, the returning echoes are typically received by the antenna, amplified, down-converted to an i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadik%E2%80%93Barak%E2%80%93Levin%20syndrome | Zadik–Barak–Levin syndrome (ZBLS) is a congenital disorder in humans. Presenting conditions include primary hypothyroidism, cleft palate, hypodontia, and ectodermal dysplasia. It is the result of an embryonic defect in the mesodermal-ectodermal midline development.
Signs and symptoms
Diagnosis
Management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subclass%20%28set%20theory%29 | In set theory and its applications throughout mathematics, a subclass is a class contained in some other class in the same way that a subset is a set contained in some other set.
That is, given classes A and B, A is a subclass of B if and only if every member of A is also a member of B.
If A and B are sets, then of co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scombroid%20food%20poisoning | Scombroid food poisoning, also known as simply scombroid, is a foodborne illness that typically results from eating spoiled fish. Symptoms may include flushed skin, sweating, headache, itchiness, blurred vision, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea. Onset of symptoms is typically 10 to 60 minutes after eating and can last fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20explosive | A nuclear explosive is an explosive device that derives its energy from nuclear reactions. Almost all nuclear explosive devices that have been designed and produced are nuclear weapons intended for warfare.
Other, non-warfare, applications for nuclear explosives have occasionally been proposed. For example, nuclear pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20of%20Colours | Theory of Colours () is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how they are perceived by humans. It was published in German in 1810 and in English in 1840. The book contains detailed descriptions of phenomena such as coloured shadows, refraction, and chromatic aberratio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%202033 | The ISO 2033:1983 standard ("Coding of machine readable characters (MICR and OCR)") defines character sets for use with Optical Character Recognition or Magnetic Ink Character Recognition systems. The Japanese standard JIS X 9010:1984 ("Coding of machine readable characters (OCR and MICR)", originally designated JIS C ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Eritrean%20flags | This is a list of flags used in Eritrea. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Eritrea.
National flag
Governmental flag
Ethnic groups flags
Historical flags
See also
Emblem of Eritrea
Flag of Eritrea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20%28occupation%29 | The term "computer", in use from the early 17th century (the first known written reference dates from 1613), meant "one who computes": a person performing mathematical calculations, before electronic computers became commercially available. Alan Turing described the "human computer" as someone who is "supposed to be fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure%20DevOps%20Server | Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)) is a Microsoft product that provides version control (either with Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) or Git), reporting, requirements management, project management (for both agile software development and waterfall tea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seesaw%20molecular%20geometry | Disphenoidal or seesaw (also known as sawhorse) is a type of molecular geometry where there are four bonds to a central atom with overall C2v molecular symmetry. The name "seesaw" comes from the observation that it looks like a playground seesaw. Most commonly, four bonds to a central atom result in tetrahedral or, les... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%20expansion | In physics, the Weyl expansion, also known as the Weyl identity or angular spectrum expansion, expresses an outgoing spherical wave as a linear combination of plane waves. In a Cartesian coordinate system, it can be denoted as
,
where , and are the wavenumbers in their respective coordinate axes:
.
The expansion ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard%20buffer | A keyboard buffer is a section of computer memory used to hold keystrokes before they are processed.
Keyboard buffers have long been used in command-line processing. As a user enters a command, they see it echoed on their terminal and can edit it before it is processed by the computer.
In time-sharing systems, the lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Go | Media Go is a media player and media library application that runs on Microsoft Windows and was developed by Sony Entertainment Network. The software organizes and plays a wide variety of multimedia content including video, music, podcasts and photos, and can share them in a network as a DLNA server. Media Go also mana... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisha%20beacon | A Belisha beacon () is an amber-coloured globe lamp atop a tall black and white striped pole, marking pedestrian crossings of roads in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and other countries historically influenced by Britain, such as Hong Kong, Malta, and Singapore. The beacons were named after Leslie Hore-Belisha (1893–1957... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirigami | is a variation of origami, the Japanese art of folding paper. In , the paper is cut as well as being folded, resulting in a three-dimensional design that stands away from the page. typically does not use glue.
Overview
In the United States, the term was coined by Florence Temko from Japanese , , and , , in the title... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestible%20Indispensable%20Amino%20Acid%20Score | Digestible Indispensable Amino Acid Score (DIAAS) is a protein quality method proposed in March 2013 by the Food and Agriculture Organization to replace the current protein ranking standard, the Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score (PDCAAS).
The DIAAS accounts for amino acid digestibility at the end of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20stibogluconate | Sodium stibogluconate, sold under the brand name Pentostam among others, is a medication used to treat leishmaniasis. This includes leishmaniasis of the cutaneous, visceral, and mucosal types. Some combination of miltefosine, paramycin and liposomal amphotericin B, however, may be recommended due to issues with resista... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPS%20Europhysics%20Prize | The EPS CMD Europhysics Prize is awarded (currently every 2nd year) since 1975 by the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society, in recognition of recent work (completed in the 5 years preceding the attribution of the award) by one or more individuals, for scientific excellence in the area of condensed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohlsepia | Pohlsepia mazonensis is a species of fossil organism with unknown affinity. Although it was originally identified as an extinct cephalopod, later studies denied that interpretation. The species is known from a single exceptionally preserved fossil discovered in the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) Francis Creek Shale... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20International%20Topological%20Conference | The First International Topological Conference was held in Moscow, 4–10 September, 1935. With presentations by topologists from 10 different countries it constituted the first genuinely international meeting devoted to topology in the world history of the mathematical community. Although a previous mathematical confere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Goldschmidt | Richard Benedict Goldschmidt (April 12, 1878 – April 24, 1958) was a German geneticist. He is considered the first to attempt to integrate genetics, development, and evolution. He pioneered understanding of reaction norms, genetic assimilation, dynamical genetics, sex determination, and heterochrony. Controversially, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta%20function%20%28operator%29 | The zeta function of a mathematical operator is a function defined as
for those values of s where this expression exists, and as an analytic continuation of this function for other values of s. Here "tr" denotes a functional trace.
The zeta function may also be expressible as a spectral zeta function in terms of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20line%20level | A laser line level is a tool combining a spirit level and/or plumb bob with a laser to display an accurately horizontal or vertical illuminated line on a surface the laser line level is laid against.
Laser line levels are used wherever accurate verticals and horizontals are required, typically in the construction and c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cramer%E2%80%93Castillon%20problem | In geometry, the Cramer–Castillon problem is a problem stated by the Swiss mathematician Gabriel Cramer solved by the Italian mathematician, resident in Berlin, Jean de Castillon in 1776.
The problem consists of (see the image):
Given a circle and three points in the same plane and not on , to construct every possi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergiant | A hypergiant (luminosity class 0 or Ia+) is a very rare type of star that has an extremely high luminosity, mass, size and mass loss because of its extreme stellar winds. The term hypergiant is defined as luminosity class 0 (zero) in the MKK system. However, this is rarely seen in literature or in published spectral cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group-contribution%20method | A group-contribution method in chemistry is a technique to estimate and predict thermodynamic and other properties from molecular structures.
Introduction
In today's chemical processes hundreds of thousands of components are used. The Chemical Abstracts Service registry lists 56 million substances, but many of these ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C1%2C6-Trimethyl-1%2C2-dihydronaphthalene | 1,1,6-Trimethyl-1,2-dihydronaphthalene (TDN) is an aroma compound present in wine, particularly aged Rieslings. Chemically, it is classified as a 13C-norisoprenoid, as it has thirteen carbon atoms, and is derived from an isoprenoid by the loss of methylene groups.
In wines, TDN is generally considered to contribute t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20strength | Green strength, or handling strength, can be defined as the strength of a material as it is processed to form its final ultimate tensile strength. This strength is usually considerably lower than the final ultimate strength of a material. The term green strength is usually referenced when discussing non-metallic materi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic%20Leaf | The Bionic Leaf is a biomimetic system that gathers solar energy via photovoltaic cells that can be stored or used in a number of different functions. Bionic leaves can be composed of both synthetic (metals, ceramics, polymers, etc.) and organic materials (bacteria), or solely made of synthetic materials. The Bionic Le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasoconstriction | Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contraction of the muscular wall of the vessels, in particular the large arteries and small arterioles. The process is the opposite of vasodilation, the widening of blood vessels. The process is particularly important in controlling hemorrhage and re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Leitmann | George Leitmann (born May 24, 1925) is an Austrian-born American engineering scientist and educator.
Early life and education
Leitmann was born on May 24, 1925, to a fully assimilated Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. His paternal grandfather was a career officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Arm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas%20Gage | Phineas P. Gage (18231860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner%27s%20theorem | In graph theory, Wagner's theorem is a mathematical forbidden graph characterization of planar graphs, named after Klaus Wagner, stating that a finite graph is planar if and only if its minors include neither K5 (the complete graph on five vertices) nor K3,3 (the utility graph, a complete bipartite graph on six vertic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%20fraction | An Egyptian fraction is a finite sum of distinct unit fractions, such as
That is, each fraction in the expression has a numerator equal to 1 and a denominator that is a positive integer, and all the denominators differ from each other. The value of an expression of this type is a positive rational number ; for instanc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20aggregation | Particle agglomeration refers to the formation of assemblages in a suspension and represents a mechanism leading to the functional destabilization of colloidal systems. During this process, particles dispersed in the liquid phase stick to each other, and spontaneously form irregular particle assemblages, flocs, or aggl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbladian | In quantum mechanics, the Gorini–Kossakowski–Sudarshan–Lindblad equation (GKSL equation, named after Vittorio Gorini, Andrzej Kossakowski, George Sudarshan and Göran Lindblad), master equation in Lindblad form, quantum Liouvillian, or Lindbladian is one of the general forms of Markovian master equations describing open... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costodiaphragmatic%20recess | The costodiaphragmatic recess, also called the costophrenic recess or phrenicocostal sinus, is the posterolateral fringe of the pleural space, a potential space around the lung inside the pleural cavity. It is located at the acutely angled junction ("reflection") between the costal and diaphragmatic parietal pleurae, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debreu%27s%20representation%20theorems | In economics, the Debreu's theorems are preference representation theorems -- statements about the representation of a preference ordering by a real-valued utility function. The theorems were proved by Gerard Debreu during the 1950s.
Background
Suppose a person is asked questions of the form "Do you prefer A or B?" ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, synchronization is the task of coordinating multiple of processes to join up or handshake at a certain point, in order to reach an agreement or commit to a certain sequence of action.
Motivation
The need for synchronization does not arise merely in multi-processor systems but for any kind of conc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerol%202-phosphate | Glycerol 2-phosphate is the conjugate base of phosphoric ester of glycerol. It is commonly known as β-glycerophosphate or BGP. Unlike glycerol 1-phosphate and glycerol 3-phosphate, this isomer is not chiral. It is also less common.
Applications
β-Glycerophosphate is an inhibitor of the enzyme serine-threonine phosp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Air%20Pollution%20Monitoring%20Network | The National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL) is a joint project of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), based in Dübendorf, in the canton of Zurich.
Establishment of the National Monitoring Network
As part of an in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20movement%20in%20music%20reading | Eye movement in music reading is the scanning of a musical score by a musician's eyes. This usually occurs as the music is read during performance, although musicians sometimes scan music silently to study it. The phenomenon has been studied by researchers from a range of backgrounds, including cognitive psychology and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fano%20resonance | In physics, a Fano resonance is a type of resonant scattering phenomenon that gives rise to an asymmetric line-shape. Interference between a background and a resonant scattering process produces the asymmetric line-shape. It is named after Italian-American physicist Ugo Fano, who in 1961 gave a theoretical explanation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophilic%20design | Biophilic design is a concept used within the building industry to increase occupant connectivity to the natural environment through the use of direct nature, indirect nature, and space and place conditions. Used at both the building and city-scale, it is argued that this idea has health, environmental, and economic be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Evets | Steve Evets (born Steven Murphy; 26 July 1959) is an English actor and musician, who found fame for his leading role in the 2009 film Looking for Eric.
Personal life
Born in Salford, Lancashire, Evets joined the Merchant Navy after leaving school, but was kicked out after three years, after jumping ship twice in Japan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserpine | Reserpine is a drug that is used for the treatment of high blood pressure, usually in combination with a thiazide diuretic or vasodilator. Large clinical trials have shown that combined treatment with reserpine plus a thiazide diuretic reduces mortality of people with hypertension. Although the use of reserpine as a so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verastem%20Oncology | Verastem Oncology (Verastem Inc) is an American pharmaceutical company that develops medicines to treat certain cancers. Headquartered and founded in Boston, Massachusetts, the firm is a member of NASDAQ Biotechnology Index.
History
Verastem Oncology (Verastem Inc) was co-founded in 2010 by entrepreneur Christoph H. W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20density%20estimation | In statistical signal processing, the goal of spectral density estimation (SDE) or simply spectral estimation is to estimate the spectral density (also known as the power spectral density) of a signal from a sequence of time samples of the signal. Intuitively speaking, the spectral density characterizes the frequency ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD137 | CD137, a member of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor family, is a type 1 transmembrane protein, expressed on surfaces of leukocytes and non-immune cells. Its alternative names are tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 9 (TNFRSF9), 4-1BB, and induced by lymphocyte activation (ILA). It is of interest t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin%20fold | Skin folds or skinfolds are areas of skin that are naturally folded. Many skin folds are distinct, heritable anatomical features, and may be used for identification of animal species, while others are non-specific and may be produced either by individual development of an organism or by arbitrary application of force t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelin%20Werner | Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a German-born French mathematician working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetation | Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide. It is a general term, without specific reference to particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extent, or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics. It is broader than the term flora which refers to species compositio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Physical%20Society | The Indian Physical Society is a professional society of physicists in India. It was formally established in 1934 by pioneering Indian physicist Meghnad Saha. The society's stated objectives are to promote the progress and uphold the cause of both pure and applied physics in India, to encourage publications in physics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form%20factor%20%28design%29 | Form factor is a hardware design aspect that defines and prescribes the size, shape, and other physical specifications of components, particularly in electronics. A form factor may represent a broad class of similarly sized components, or it may prescribe a specific standard. It may also define an entire system, as in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterovirus%20C | Enterovirus C is a species of enterovirus. Its best known subtype is poliovirus, the cause of poliomyelitis. There are three serotypes of poliovirus, PV1, PV2, and PV3. Other subtypes of Enterovirus C include EV-C95, EV-C96, EV-C99, EV-C102, EV-C104, EV-C105, EV-C109, EV-C116, EV-C117, and EV-C118. Some non-polio types... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonelli%E2%80%93Shanks%20algorithm | The Tonelli–Shanks algorithm (referred to by Shanks as the RESSOL algorithm) is used in modular arithmetic to solve for r in a congruence of the form r2 ≡ n (mod p), where p is a prime: that is, to find a square root of n modulo p.
Tonelli–Shanks cannot be used for composite moduli: finding square roots modulo composi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Pask | Colin Pask (born 1943) is a British mathematical physicist and science writer.
Life
He was born in Great Gonerby, on the outskirts of Grantham in Lincolnshire, where his father was a dairy farmer. He was educated at King's School, Grantham from age 11, and went to Queen Mary College, London for a degree course in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maths%20Week%20Ireland | Maths Week Ireland (MWI) is an all-island (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) mathematics outreach initiative founded in 2006 by Eoin Gill and Sheila Donegan, based on an idea by Eoin Gill. It is a project of the Centre for the Advancement of Learning of Maths, Science and Technology (CALMAST) the STEM outreach ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamestar%20Mechanic | Gamestar Mechanic is an online game and community designed to teach the guiding principles of game design and systems thinking. The game is published by E-Line Media and supported by a partnership between E-Line Media and the Institute of Play.
Project history
Initial development of Gamestar was supported by a grant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20radius | In mathematics, the spectral radius of a square matrix is the maximum of the absolute values of its eigenvalues. More generally, the spectral radius of a bounded linear operator is the supremum of the absolute values of the elements of its spectrum. The spectral radius is often denoted by .
Definition
Matrices
Let b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20accelerators%20in%20particle%20physics | A list of particle accelerators used for particle physics experiments. Some early particle accelerators that more properly did nuclear physics, but existed prior to the separation of particle physics from that field, are also included. Although a modern accelerator complex usually has several stages of accelerators, on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20satisfiability%20problem | In computational complexity theory, the maximum satisfiability problem (MAX-SAT) is the problem of determining the maximum number of clauses, of a given Boolean formula in conjunctive normal form, that can be made true by an assignment of truth values to the variables of the formula. It is a generalization of the Boole... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%20Berg | Lev Semyonovich Berg, also known as Leo S. Berg (; 14 March 1876 – 24 December 1950) was a leading Russian geographer, biologist and ichthyologist who served as President of the Soviet Geographical Society between 1940 and 1950.
He is known for his own evolutionary theory, nomogenesis (a form of orthogenesis incorpora... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostiole | An ostiole is a small hole or opening through which algae or fungi release their mature spores.
The word is a diminutive of "ostium", "opening".
The term is also used in higher plants, for example to denote the opening of the involuted syconium (fig inflorescence) through which fig wasps enter to pollinate and bre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratus%20lumborum%20muscle | The quadratus lumborum muscle, informally called the QL, is a paired muscle of the left and right posterior abdominal wall. It is the deepest abdominal muscle, and commonly referred to as a back muscle. Each is irregular and quadrilateral in shape.
The quadratus lumborum muscles originate from the wings of the ilium;... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene-activated%20matrix | In gene-activated matrix technology (GAM), cytokines and growth factors could be delivered not as recombinant proteins but as plasmid genes. GAM is one of the tissue engineering approaches to wound healing. Following gene delivery, the recombinant cytokine could be expressed in situ by endogenous would healing cells –... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20Discrimination%20Observatory | The Genetic Discrimination Observatory (GDO) is a Montreal-based international network of researchers and other stakeholders who support the research and prevention of genetic discrimination (GD)—discrimination based on genetics or other predictive health information. Their headquarters are currently located at the Cen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir%20sulfanilamide | Elixir sulfanilamide was an improperly prepared sulfonamide antibiotic that caused mass poisoning in the United States in 1937. It is believed to have killed more than 100 people. The public outcry caused by this incident and other similar disasters led to the passing of the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20force | In physics, a body force is a force that acts throughout the volume of a body. Forces due to gravity, electric fields and magnetic fields are examples of body forces. Body forces contrast with contact forces or surface forces which are exerted to the surface of an object.
Fictitious forces such as the centrifugal force... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot | A chatbot (originally chatterbot) is a software application or web interface that aims to mimic human conversation through text or voice interactions. Modern chatbots are typically online and use artificial intelligence (AI) systems that are capable of maintaining a conversation with a user in natural language and simu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases%20of%20clinical%20research | The phases of clinical research are the stages in which scientists conduct experiments with a health intervention to obtain sufficient evidence for a process considered effective as a medical treatment. For drug development, the clinical phases start with testing for drug safety in a few human subjects, then expand to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamium | Streamium was a line of IP-enabled entertainment products by Dutch electronics multi-national Philips Consumer Electronics. Streamium products use Wi-Fi to stream multimedia content from desktop computers or Internet-based services to home entertainment devices. A Streamium device plugged into the local home network wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20culinary%20fruits | This list contains the names of fruits that are considered edible either raw or cooked in various cuisines. The word "fruit" is used in several different ways. The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, that is, "Any edible and palatable part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewes%27s%20number | In number theory, Skewes's number is any of several large numbers used by the South African mathematician Stanley Skewes as upper bounds for the smallest natural number for which
where is the prime-counting function and is the logarithmic integral function. Skewes's number is much larger, but it is now known that t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrosine%20kinase%202 | Non-receptor tyrosine-protein kinase TYK2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the TYK2 gene.
TYK2 was the first member of the JAK family that was described (the other members are JAK1, JAK2, and JAK3). It has been implicated in IFN-α, IL-6, IL-10 and IL-12 signaling.
Function
This gene encodes a member of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet | ALOHAnet, also known as the ALOHA System, or simply ALOHA, was a pioneering computer networking system developed at the University of Hawaii.
The ALOHAnet used a new method of medium access, called ALOHA random access, and experimental ultra high frequency (UHF) for its operation. In its simplest form, later known as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20statistical%20areas%20in%20Colorado | The U.S. State of Colorado has twenty-one statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local gover... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.