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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic%20Is%20as%20Good%20as%20Ten%20Mothers | Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers is a 1980 documentary film about garlic directed by Les Blank. Its official premiere was at the 1980 Berlin Film Festival.
Production
It was filmed at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, as well as in other locations in Northern California. The director recommends that, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge%20principle | In physics, a gauge principle specifies a procedure for obtaining an interaction term from a free Lagrangian which is symmetric with respect to a continuous symmetry—the results of localizing (or gauging) the global symmetry group must be accompanied by the inclusion of additional fields (such as the electromagnetic fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20JX | The IBM JX (or JXPC) was a personal computer released in 1984 into the Japanese, Australian and New Zealand markets. Designed in Japan, it was based on the technology of the IBM PCjr and was designated the IBM 5511. It was targeted in the Australasian market towards the public education sector rather than at consumers,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone%20marrow | Bone marrow is a semi-solid tissue found within the spongy (also known as cancellous) portions of bones. In birds and mammals, bone marrow is the primary site of new blood cell production (or haematopoiesis). It is composed of hematopoietic cells, marrow adipose tissue, and supportive stromal cells. In adult humans, bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet-in-the-middle%20attack | The meet-in-the-middle attack (MITM), a known plaintext attack, is a generic space–time tradeoff cryptographic attack against encryption schemes that rely on performing multiple encryption operations in sequence. The MITM attack is the primary reason why Double DES is not used and why a Triple DES key (168-bit) can be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20neuroscience | Visual neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that focuses on the visual system of the human body, mainly located in the brain's visual cortex. The main goal of visual neuroscience is to understand how neural activity results in visual perception, as well as behaviors dependent on vision. In the past, visual neuros... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Framework%20for%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Cooperation | The International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) is a forum of states and organizations that share a common vision of a safe and secure development of nuclear energy for worldwide purposes. Formerly the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), IFNEC began as a U.S. proposal, announced by United State... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICTP%20Prize | The International Centre for Theoretical Physics Prize, ICTP Prize was created in 1982. Worth 3000 euros is awarded to a young (under 40) physicist or mathematician from a developing country to promote theoretical mathematics and physics research in the developing world. Awardees include notable scientists from many co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacet | Tacet is Latin which translates literally into English as "(it) is silent" (pronounced: , , or ). It is a musical term to indicate that an instrument or voice does not sound, also known as a rest. In vocal polyphony and in orchestral scores, it usually indicates a long period of time, typically an entire movement. In m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CACNG3 | Voltage-dependent calcium channel gamma-3 subunit is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CACNG3 gene.
L-type calcium channels are composed of five subunits. The protein encoded by this gene represents one of these subunits, gamma, and is one of several gamma subunit proteins. It is an integral membrane protein ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthner%20cell | The Mauthner cells are a pair of big and easily identifiable neurons (one for each half of the body) located in the rhombomere 4 of the hindbrain in fish and amphibians that are responsible for a very fast escape reflex (in the majority of animals – a so-called C-start response). The cells are also notable for their un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis%20of%20similarities | Analysis of similarities (ANOSIM) is a non-parametric statistical test widely used in the field of ecology. The test was first suggested by K. R. Clarke as an ANOVA-like test, where instead of operating on raw data, operates on a ranked dissimilarity matrix.
Given a matrix of rank dissimilarities between a set of samp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Networking%20Council | Informally established in the early 1990s, the Federal Networking Council (FNC) was later chartered by the US National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Computing, Information and Communications (CCIC) to continue to act as a forum for networking collaborations among US federal agencies to meet their resear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoflora%20of%20the%20Eocene%20Okanagan%20Highlands | The paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands includes all plant and fungi fossils preserved in the Eocene Okanagan Highlands Lagerstätten. The highlands are a series of Early Eocene geological formations which span an transect of British Columbia, Canada and Washington state, United States and are known for the di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRPM1 | Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TRPM1 gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the transient receptor potential (TRP) family of non-selective cation channels. It is expressed in the retina, in a subset of bipolar cel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonifi%20Solutions | SONIFI Solutions, Inc. is a provider of guest-facing entertainment technology in hotels and healthcare settings.
The company's corporate headquarters are in Sioux Falls, South Dakota with offices in Los Angeles, California, Mexico and Canada. SONIFI has over 650 employees. SONIFI's primary customer base is in the Unit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombient | Ombient is the moniker under which Mike Hunter performs his completely improvised ambient/drone music.
Ombient's ambient/drone music, being of a live and improvisational nature, is representative of the feeling of the moment in which it is performed and of the subtle feedback between the audience and the cool performe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Friedlander | Eric Mark Friedlander (born January 7, 1944 in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is an American mathematician who is working in algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, algebraic K-theory and representation theory.
Friedlander graduated from Swarthmore College with bachelor's degree in 1965 and in 1970 received a Ph.D. from the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transversality%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, transversality is a notion that describes how spaces can intersect; transversality can be seen as the "opposite" of tangency, and plays a role in general position. It formalizes the idea of a generic intersection in differential topology. It is defined by considering the linearizations of the intersecti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring%20rule | In decision theory, a scoring rule provides a summary measure for the evaluation of probabilistic predictions or forecasts. It is applicable to tasks in which predictions assign probabilities to events, i.e. one issues a probability distribution as prediction. This includes probabilistic classification of a set of mut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsoft | Kingsoft Corporation () is a Chinese software company based in Beijing. Kingsoft operates four subsidiaries: Seasun for video game development, Cheetah Mobile for mobile internet apps, Kingsoft Cloud for cloud storage platforms, and WPS for office software, including WPS Office. It also produced security software know... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey%20encryption | Honey encryption is a type of data encryption that "produces a ciphertext, which, when decrypted with an incorrect key as guessed by the attacker, presents a plausible-looking yet incorrect plaintext password or encryption key."
Creators
Ari Juels and Thomas Ristenpart of the University of Wisconsin, the developers of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-Gated%20Cryptography | Server-Gated Cryptography (SGC), also known as International Step-Up by Netscape, is a defunct mechanism that was used to step up from 40-bit or 56-bit to 128-bit cipher suites with SSL. It was created in response to United States federal legislation on the export of strong cryptography in the 1990s. The legislation h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevation%20%28ballistics%29 | In ballistics, the elevation is the angle between the horizontal plane and the axial direction of the barrel of a gun, mortar or heavy artillery. Originally, elevation was a linear measure of how high the gunners had to physically lift the muzzle of a gun up from the gun carriage to compensate for projectile drop and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min%C3%A4%20Per%C3%A4smies | Minä Peräsmies is a 1998 Finnish PC-ROM for Windows that consists of comics, games and other content based on the superhero character of Peräsmies whom is able to fly by farting ”with the power of a thousand hurricanes”. The ROM was created by a team at the media company Mediakeisari Oy including Timo Kokkila (the arti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Symmetries%20of%20Things | The Symmetries of Things is a book on mathematical symmetry and the symmetries of geometric objects, aimed at audiences of multiple levels. It was written over the course of many years by John Horton Conway, Heidi Burgiel, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss, and published in 2008 by A K Peters. Its critical reception was mixed,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassogen | In astronomy, a thalassogen denotes a substance capable of forming a planetary ocean. Thalassogens are not necessarily life sustaining, although most interest has been in the context of extraterrestrial life.
The term was coined by Isaac Asimov in his essay "The Thalassogens", later published in his 1972 collection Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phono%20input | Phono input is a set of input jacks, usually mini jacks or RCA connectors, located on the rear panel of a preamp, mixer or amplifier, especially on early radio sets, to which a phonograph or turntable is attached.
Modern phono cartridges give a very low level output signal of the order of a few millivolts which the ci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20catabolism | In molecular biology, protein catabolism is the breakdown of proteins into smaller peptides and ultimately into amino acids. Protein catabolism is a key function of digestion process. Protein catabolism often begins with pepsin, which converts proteins into polypeptides. These polypeptides are then further degraded.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric%20carbon | In stereochemistry, an asymmetric carbon is a carbon atom that is bonded to four different types of atoms or groups of atoms. The four atoms and/or groups attached to the carbon atom can be arranged in space in two different ways that are mirror images of each other, and which lead to so-called left-handed and right-ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuramoto%E2%80%93Sivashinsky%20equation | In mathematics, the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation (also called the KS equation or flame equation) is a fourth-order nonlinear partial differential equation. It is named after Yoshiki Kuramoto and Gregory Sivashinsky, who derived the equation in the late 1970s to model the diffusive–thermal instabilities in a laminar fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulator%20gene | A regulator gene, regulator, or regulatory gene is a gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes. Regulatory sequences, which encode regulatory genes, are often at the five prime end (5') to the start site of transcription of the gene they regulate. In addition, these sequences can also be f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remnant%20natural%20area | A remnant natural area, also known as remnant habitat, is an ecological community containing native flora and fauna that has not been significantly disturbed by destructive activities such as agriculture, logging, pollution, development, fire suppression, or non-native species invasion. The more disturbed an area has b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XS%20%28server%29 | XS is the studio production server of the Belgian company EVS Broadcast Equipment.
It has been inspired from the XT3 server but can be controlled by dedicated controllers from EVS for the studio environment: Xsense, IPDirector, Xscreen, Insio or by non-EVS controllers such as automation systems, linear or hybrid edito... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveguide | A waveguide is a structure that guides waves by restricting the transmission of energy to one direction. Common types of waveguides include acoustic waveguides which direct sound, optical waveguides which direct light, and radio-frequency waveguides which direct electromagnetic waves other than light like radio waves.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craterellus%20calicornucopioides | Craterellus calicornucopioides is an edible fungus in the family Cantharellaceae. Described by David Arora and Jonathan L. Frank in 2015, is the North American version of the similar European species Craterellus cornucopioides. Molecular phylogenetics has shown that they are, however, distinct species. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardipithecus | Ardipithecus is a genus of an extinct hominine that lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene epochs in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Originally described as one of the earliest ancestors of humans after they diverged from the chimpanzees, the relation of this genus to human ancestors and whether it is a homini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken%20of%20the%20Sea | Chicken of the Sea is a packager and provider of seafood, owned by the Thai Union Group in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. The brand is attached to tuna, salmon, clams, crab, shrimp, mackerel, oysters, kippers and sardines in cans, pouches and cups, as are its sister brands, Genova and Ace of Diamonds.
History
The company was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruhat%20order | In mathematics, the Bruhat order (also called strong order or strong Bruhat order or Chevalley order or Bruhat–Chevalley order or Chevalley–Bruhat order) is a partial order on the elements of a Coxeter group, that corresponds to the inclusion order on Schubert varieties.
History
The Bruhat order on the Schubert varie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDR%20paper%20computer | The WDR paper computer or Know-how Computer is an educational model of a computer consisting only of a pen, a sheet of paper, and individual matches in the most simple case. This allows anyone interested to learn how to program without having an electronic computer at their disposal.
The paper computer was created in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20quality%20mark%20of%20the%20USSR | The State quality mark of the USSR (, transliteration ) was the official Soviet mark for the certification of quality established in 1967.
Symbol
The sign was a pentagonal shield with a rotated letter K (from Russian word – quality) stylized as scales below the Cyrillic abbreviation for USSR (, ).
History
It was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torservers.net | torservers.net is an independent network of non-profit organisations that provide nodes to the Tor anonymity network. The network started in June 2010 and currently transfers up to 7.4GB/s (~59.2Gb/s) of exit node traffic as of May 2022.
Torservers.net is known for operating servers with high network bandwidth and run... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAC%20National%20Accelerator%20Laboratory | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a federally funded research and development center in Menlo Park, California, United States. Founded in 1962, the laboratory is now sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administrated by Stanford Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beurling%20zeta%20function | In mathematics, a Beurling zeta function is an analogue of the Riemann zeta function where the ordinary primes are replaced by a set of Beurling generalized primes: any sequence of real numbers greater than 1 that tend to infinity. These were introduced by .
A Beurling generalized integer is a number that can be writt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20National%20Vegetation%20Classification | The U.S. National Vegetation Classification (NVC or USNVC) is a scheme for classifying the natural and cultural vegetation communities of the United States. The purpose of this standardized vegetation classification system is to facilitate communication between land managers, scientists, and the public when managing, r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedor%20Nazarov | Fedor (Fedya) L'vovich Nazarov (; born 1967) is a Russian mathematician working in the United States. He has done research in mathematical analysis and its applications, in particular in functional analysis and classical analysis (including harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, and complex analytic functions).
Biograp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20quantum%20computer | A topological quantum computer is a theoretical quantum computer proposed by Russian-American physicist Alexei Kitaev in 1997. It employs quasiparticles in two-dimensional systems, called anyons, whose world lines pass around one another to form braids in a three-dimensional spacetime (i.e., one temporal plus two spati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20Process%20Methodology | Object process methodology (OPM) is a conceptual modeling language and methodology for capturing knowledge and designing systems, specified as ISO/PAS 19450. Based on a minimal universal ontology of stateful objects and processes that transform them, OPM can be used to formally specify the function, structure, and beha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside%E2%80%93Lorentz%20units | Heaviside–Lorentz units (or Lorentz–Heaviside units) constitute a system of units and quantities that extends the CGS with a particular set of equations that defines electromagnetic quantities, named for Oliver Heaviside and Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. They share with the CGS-Gaussian system that the electric constant and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20mathematical%20notation | The history of mathematical notation includes the commencement, progress, and cultural diffusion of mathematical symbols and the conflict of the methods of notation confronted in a notation's move to popularity or inconspicuousness. Mathematical notation comprises the symbols used to write mathematical equations and fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna%20of%20Ireland | The fauna of Ireland comprises all the animal species inhabiting the island of Ireland and its surrounding waters.
Summary
This table uses figures supplied by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Vertebrates by class
Mammals
Only 26 land mammal species (including bats, but not including marine mammals) are nati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sup%27R%27Mod | The Sup 'R' Mod II is an RF modulator which was sold by M&R Enterprises in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It connects computers and other devices with composite video outputs, to a television.
History
Apple Computer wanted to provide Apple II computers with color output on a television, but had trouble getting FCC a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Link | D-Link Systems, Inc. (formerly Datex Systems, Inc.) is a Taiwanese multinational networking equipment corporation founded in 1986 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
History
Datex Systems was founded in 1986 in Taipei, Taiwan.
In 1992 the company changed its name into D-Link.
D-Link went public and became the firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual%20typing | Gradual typing is a type system in which some variables and expressions may be given types and the correctness of the typing is checked at compile time (which is static typing) and some expressions may be left untyped and eventual type errors are reported at runtime (which is dynamic typing). Gradual typing allows soft... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist%20millionaire%20problem | In cryptography, the socialist millionaire problem is one in which two millionaires want to determine if their wealth is equal without disclosing any information about their riches to each other. It is a variant of the Millionaire's Problem whereby two millionaires wish to compare their riches to determine who has the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed%20electronic%20circuit | A printed electronic circuit (PEC) was an ancestor of the hybrid integrated circuit (IC). PECs were common in tube (valve) equipment from the 1940s through the 1970s.
Brands
Couplate was the Centralab trademark, whilst Sprague called them BulPlates. Aerovox used the generic PEC.
Difference from hybrid integrated cir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Fuchs%20theorem | In mathematics, in the area of additive number theory, the Erdős–Fuchs theorem is a statement about the number of ways that numbers can be represented as a sum of elements of a given additive basis, stating that the average order of this number cannot be too close to being a linear function.
The theorem is named after... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKDF | HKDF is a simple key derivation function (KDF) based on the HMAC message authentication code. It was initially proposed by its authors as a building block in various protocols and applications, as well as to discourage the proliferation of multiple KDF mechanisms. The main approach HKDF follows is the "extract-then-exp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20of%20Lynette%20White | Lynette Deborah White (5 July 1967 – 14 February 1988) was murdered on 14 February 1988 in Cardiff, Wales. South Wales Police issued a photofit image of a bloodstained, white male seen in the vicinity at the time of the murder but were unable to trace the man. In November 1988, the police charged five men with White's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataVault | The DataVault was Thinking Machines' mass storage system, storing five gigabytes of data, expandable to ten gigabytes with transfer rates of 40 megabytes per second. Eight DataVaults could be operated in parallel for a combined data transfer rate of 320 megabytes per second for up to 80 gigabytes of data.
Each DataVau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layered%20Service%20Provider | Layered Service Provider (LSP) is a deprecated feature of the Microsoft Windows Winsock 2 Service Provider Interface (SPI). A Layered Service Provider is a DLL that uses Winsock APIs to attempt to insert itself into the TCP/IP protocol stack. Once in the stack, a Layered Service Provider can intercept and modify inboun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome%20conformation%20capture | Chromosome conformation capture techniques (often abbreviated to 3C technologies or 3C-based methods) are a set of molecular biology methods used to analyze the spatial organization of chromatin in a cell. These methods quantify the number of interactions between genomic loci that are nearby in 3-D space, but may be se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilaminar%20embryonic%20disc | A trilaminar embryonic disc (or trilaminary blastoderm, or trilaminar germ disk) is an early stage in the development of triploblastic organisms, which include humans and many other animals. It is the next stage from the earlier bilaminar embryonic disc.
It is an embryo which exists as three different germ layers – t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levator%20labii%20superioris | The levator labii superioris (pl. levatores labii superioris, also called quadratus labii superioris, pl. quadrati labii superioris) is a muscle of the human body used in facial expression. It is a broad sheet, the origin of which extends from the side of the nose to the zygomatic bone.
Structure
Its medial fibers fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Wave | Google Wave, later known as Apache Wave, is a discontinued software framework for real-time collaborative online editing. Originally developed by Google and announced on May 28, 2009, it was renamed to Apache Wave when the project was adopted by the Apache Software Foundation as an incubator project in 2010.
Wave is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merimepodib | Merimepodib (VX-497) is a drug which acts as an inhibitor of the enzyme inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase, which is required for the synthesis of nucleotide bases containing guanine. This consequently inhibits synthesis of DNA and RNA, and results in antiviral and immunosuppressive effects. It progressed as far as Ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vital%20heat | Vital heat, also called innate or natural heat, or calidum innatum, is a term in Ancient Greek medicine and philosophy that has generally referred to the heat produced within the body, usually the heat produced by the heart and the circulatory system. Vital heat was a somewhat controversial subject because it was form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20parameter-varying%20control | Linear parameter-varying control (LPV control) deals with the control of linear parameter-varying systems, a class of nonlinear systems which can be modelled as parametrized linear systems whose parameters change with their state.
Gain scheduling
In designing feedback controllers for dynamical systems a variety of mod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20microprocessor%20implementations | Cell microprocessors are multi-core processors that use cellular architecture for high performance distributed computing. The first commercial Cell microprocessor, the Cell BE, was designed for the Sony PlayStation 3. IBM designed the PowerXCell 8i for use in the Roadrunner supercomputer.
Implementation
First edition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikro%2767 | Mikro'67 is a Bulgarian manufacturing company based in Razgrad, that produces and commercialises basketball backboards, outdoor recreation goods, toys, and scale model vehicles (mainly cars and trucks).
In 1990 there were 96 toy manufacturers in Bulgaria producers' co-operative societies and factories. Thirteen of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20Pathology%20Australia | Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) is the national peak body for the speech pathology profession in Australia.
History of the association
Established in 1949, SPA began as the Australian College of Speech Therapists, set up to regulate and maintain the qualifications and standards of the profession. The Australian Bra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evansia%20%28journal%29 | Evansia is a quarterly, peer-reviewed scientific journal, publishing research on issues in biology and environmental preservation related to lichenology and bryology, primarily in North America. It is published quarterly by the American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS) and serves as the information bulleti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android-x86 | Android-x86 was an open source project that made an unofficial porting of the Android mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance to run on devices powered by x86 processors, rather than RISC-based ARM chips.
Developers Chih-Wei Huang and Yi Sun originated the project in 2009. The project began as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%20characteristic | In mathematics, and more specifically in algebraic topology and polyhedral combinatorics, the Euler characteristic (or Euler number, or Euler–Poincaré characteristic) is a topological invariant, a number that describes a topological space's shape or structure regardless of the way it is bent. It is commonly denoted by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20tuberosity | Beneath the neck of the radius, on the medial side, is an eminence, the radial tuberosity; its surface is divided into:
a posterior, rough portion, for the insertion of the tendon of the biceps brachii.
an anterior, smooth portion, on which a bursa is interposed between the tendon and the bone.
Ligaments that support... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujam%E2%80%93Samuel%20theorem | In algebraic geometry, the Ramanujam–Samuel theorem gives conditions for a divisor of a local ring to be principal.
It was introduced independently by in answer to a question of Grothendieck and by C. P. Ramanujam in an appendix to a paper by , and was generalized by .
Statement
Grothendieck's version of the Ramanu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20amateurization | Mass amateurization refers to the capabilities that new forms of media have given to non-professionals and the ways in which those non-professionals have applied those capabilities to solve problems (e.g. create and distribute content) that compete with the solutions offered by larger, professional institutions. Mass a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race%20condition | A race condition or race hazard is the condition of an electronics, software, or other system where the system's substantive behavior is dependent on the sequence or timing of other uncontrollable events. It becomes a bug when one or more of the possible behaviors is undesirable.
The term race condition was already in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlaer%E2%80%93Mellor%20method | The Shlaer–Mellor method, also known as object-oriented systems analysis (OOSA) or object-oriented analysis (OOA) is an object-oriented software development methodology introduced by Sally Shlaer and Stephen Mellor in 1988. The method makes the documented analysis so precise that it is possible to implement the analysi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattel%20Aquarius | Aquarius is a home computer designed by Radofin and released by Mattel Electronics in 1983. Based on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor, the system has a rubber chiclet keyboard, 4K of RAM, and a subset of Microsoft BASIC in ROM. It connects to a television set for audiovisual output, and uses a cassette tape recorder for se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20background%20radiation | Cosmic background radiation is electromagnetic radiation that fills all space. The origin of this radiation depends on the region of the spectrum that is observed. One component is the cosmic microwave background. This component is redshifted photons that have freely streamed from an epoch when the Universe became tran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercharge | In particle physics, the hypercharge (a portmanteau of hyperonic and charge) Y of a particle is a quantum number conserved under the strong interaction. The concept of hypercharge provides a single charge operator that accounts for properties of isospin, electric charge, and flavour. The hypercharge is useful to classi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambio%204 |
Introduction
Ambio 4 was quadrophonic sound technology commercialised in the early 1970s that could reproduce the ambience or sound information of a room as well as play stereo. Ambiophony was an extension of stereo reproduction to enhance the sense of realism and it could be used with nearly all stereo programme m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Charlier | Philippe Charlier is a French coroner, forensic pathologist and paleopathologist.
Biography
Charlier was born in Meaux on 25 June 1977. His father is a doctor, his mother a pharmacist. He made his first dig at the age of 10, when he found a human skull. He studied archaeology and art history at the Michelet Institute ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superquadrics | In mathematics, the superquadrics or super-quadrics (also superquadratics) are a family of geometric shapes defined by formulas that resemble those of ellipsoids and other quadrics, except that the squaring operations are replaced by arbitrary powers. They can be seen as the three-dimensional relatives of the superelli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew%20%28antenna%29 | Skew is a term used in antenna engineering. It is a technique to improve the horizontal radiation pattern of a high power transmitter station.
In a high power VHF or UHF station, usually the antenna system is constructed to broadcast to four directions each separated 90° from each other. So the directivity of the ante... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance%20Application%20Programming%20Interface | In computer science, Performance Application Programming Interface (PAPI) is a portable interface (in the form of a library) to hardware performance counters on modern microprocessors. It is being widely used to collect low level performance metrics (e.g. instruction counts, clock cycles, cache misses) of computer sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development%2C%20Growth%20%26%20Differentiation | Development Growth & Differentiation is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley on behalf of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists. It was established in 1950 as Embryologia, obtaining its current title in 1969. The editor-in-chief is Masanori Taira (Chuo University). According to the Journal C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodiamine | Prodiamine is a preemergent herbicide of the dinitroaniline class. Prodiamine is used with crops such as soybeans, alfalfa, cotton, and ornamental crops. Prodiamine inhibits the formation of microtubules.
Prodiamine was developed by Sandoz AG and marketed beginning in 1987.
Prodiamine can be obtained starting from 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20personal%20computers | The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Genetics%20Foundation | The European Genetics Foundation (EGF) is a non-profit organization, dedicated to the training of young geneticists active in medicine, to continuing education in genetics/genomics and to the promotion of public understanding of genetics. Its main office is located in Bologna, Italy.
Background
In 1988 Prof. Giovanni ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrolobenzodiazepine | Pyrrolobenzodiazepines, (PBD) are a class of compound that may have antibiotic or anti-tumor properties.
Some dimeric pyrrolobenzodiazepines are used as the cytotoxic drug payloads in antibody-drug conjugates, for example in loncastuximab tesirine.
History
Anthramycin, the first PBD monomer, was first synthesized in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%20Institute%20Computer | The Rice Institute Computer, also known as the Rice Computer or R1, was a 54-bit tagged architecture digital computer built during 1958–1961 (partially operational beginning in 1959) on the campus of Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States. Operating as Rice's primary computer until the middle 1960s, the Rice In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamicero%20de%20Perij%C3%A1 | Chamicero de Perijá is a small nature reserve in Colombia established in 2014. It is centered on the Colombian side of the Serranía de Perijá mountain range, part of the East Andes. It holds incredible biodiversity and home to numerous endangered and endemic bird species. Chamicero de Perijá protects a area of cloud f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-way%20finite%20automaton | In computer science, in particular in automata theory, a two-way finite automaton is a finite automaton that is allowed to re-read its input.
Two-way deterministic finite automaton
A two-way deterministic finite automaton (2DFA) is an abstract machine, a generalized version of the deterministic finite automaton (DFA)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM%20broadcasting | FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave. Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, wide-band FM is used worldwide to transmit high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. FM broadcasting offers higher fidelity—more accurate repr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souders%E2%80%93Brown%20equation | The Souders–Brown equation (named after Mott Souders and George Granger Brown) has been a tool for obtaining the maximum allowable vapor velocity in vapor–liquid separation vessels (variously called flash drums, knockout drums, knockout pots, compressor suction drums and compressor inlet drums). It has also been used f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase%20name | In Australian botany, a phrase name is an informal name given to a plant taxon that has not yet been given a formal scientific name. The term was adopted in 1992 by the Australian Herbarium Information Systems Committee. The species phrase name consists of four components — the generic name, "sp." (to indicate it is a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Hey | Professor Anthony John Grenville Hey (born 17 August 1946) was vice-president of Microsoft Research Connections, a division of Microsoft Research, until his departure in 2014.
Education
Hey was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and the University of Oxford. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipfirewall | ipfirewall or ipfw is a FreeBSD IP, stateful firewall, packet filter and traffic accounting facility. Its ruleset logic is similar to many other packet filters except IPFilter. ipfw is authored and maintained by FreeBSD volunteer staff members. Its syntax enables use of sophisticated filtering capabilities and thus ena... |
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