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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliococcygeal%20raphe
The iliococcygeal raphe is a raphe representing the midline location where the levatores ani converge. See also Anococcygeal body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SINADR
Signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SINADR) is a measurement of the purity of a signal. SINADR is typically used in data converter specifications. SINADR is defined as: where is the average power of the signal, quantization error, random noise and distortion components. SINADR is usually expressed in dB. SINADR is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEMS%20magnetic%20actuator
A MEMS magnetic actuator is a device that uses the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to convert an electric current into a mechanical output by employing the well-known Lorentz Force Equation or the theory of Magnetism. Overview of MEMS Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) technology is a process technology in w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubna%2048K
The Dubna 48K (Дубна 48К) is a Soviet clone of the ZX Spectrum home computer launched in 1991. It was based on an analogue of the Zilog Z80 microprocessor. Its name comes from Dubna, a town near Moscow, where it was produced on the "TENSOR" instrument factory, and "48K" stands for 48 KBs of RAM. Overview According to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20pitch
Scientific pitch, also known as philosophical pitch, Sauveur pitch or Verdi tuning, is an absolute concert pitch standard which is based on middle C (C4) being set to 256 Hz rather than 261.62 Hz, making it approximately 37.6 cents lower than the common A440 pitch standard. It was first proposed in 1713 by French physi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentry%20Firewall
Sentry Firewall is a free open-source network firewall Linux distribution that was first published in 2001 and has been the subject of multiple magazine reviews. The distribution is particularly notable because it consists solely of a bootable CD-ROM that is designed to be used in a computer with no hard disk. Configu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakhitov%E2%80%93Kolokolov%20stability%20criterion
The Vakhitov–Kolokolov stability criterion is a condition for linear stability (sometimes called spectral stability) of solitary wave solutions to a wide class of U(1)-invariant Hamiltonian systems, named after Soviet scientists Aleksandr Kolokolov (Александр Александрович Колоколов) and Nazib Vakhitov (Назиб Галиевич ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Markup%20Language
Wireless Markup Language (WML), based on XML, is an obsolete markup language intended for devices that implement the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) specification, such as mobile phones. It provides navigational support, data input, hyperlinks, text and image presentation, and forms, much like HTML (Hypertext Mark...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20strains%20of%20Escherichia%20coli
Strains Innocuous: Laboratory: E. coli K-12, one of two laboratory strains (innocuous) Clifton wild type (!) W3110 DH5α Dam dcm strain HB101 Escherichia coli B, the other of the two lab strains from which all lab substrains originate Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) Pathogenic: Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panine%20gammaherpesvirus%201
Panine gammaherpesvirus 1 (PnHV-1), commonly known as chimpanzee lymphocryptovirus, is a species of virus in the genus Lymphocryptovirus, subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. The virus infects chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) leukocytes. The glycoprotein B (gB) gene of the chimpanze...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEDD8
NEDD8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NEDD8 gene. (in saccharomyces cerevisiae this protein is known as Rub1) This ubiquitin-like (UBL) protein becomes covalently conjugated to a limited number of cellular proteins, in a process called NEDDylation similar to ubiquitination. Human NEDD8 shares 60% amino ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram
A spectrogram is a visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of a signal as it varies with time. When applied to an audio signal, spectrograms are sometimes called sonographs, voiceprints, or voicegrams. When the data are represented in a 3D plot they may be called waterfall displays. Spectrograms are used...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Human-Induced%20Earthquake%20Database
The Human-Induced Earthquake Database (HiQuake) is an online database that documents all reported cases of induced seismicity proposed on scientific grounds. It is the most complete compilation of its kind and is freely available to download via the associated website. The database is periodically updated to correct er...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF-Tu
EF-Tu (elongation factor thermo unstable) is a prokaryotic elongation factor responsible for catalyzing the binding of an aminoacyl-tRNA (aa-tRNA) to the ribosome. It is a G-protein, and facilitates the selection and binding of an aa-tRNA to the A-site of the ribosome. As a reflection of its crucial role in translati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foliose%20lichen
A foliose lichen is a lichen with flat, leaf-like , which are generally not firmly bonded to the substrate on which it grows. It is one of the three most common growth forms of lichens. It typically has distinct upper and lower surfaces, each of which is usually covered with a cortex; some, however, lack a lower cortex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoBlock
MoBlock is free software for blocking connections to and from a specified range of hosts. Moblock is an IP address filtering program for Linux that is similar to PeerGuardian for Microsoft Windows. Its development has been stopped in favor of Phoenix Labs' official PeerGuardian Linux and parts of its code have been mer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko%20allocation
In machine learning and natural language processing, the pachinko allocation model (PAM) is a topic model. Topic models are a suite of algorithms to uncover the hidden thematic structure of a collection of documents. The algorithm improves upon earlier topic models such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) by modeling...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radek%20Maneuver
The Radek Maneuver is a scale-up-then-scale-down tactic used in the administration of web services, specifically those deployed under a cloud computing paradigm (by a provider e.g. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or Microsoft Azure). History Developed by Olivier "Radek" Dabrowski in the mid-2010s, the Radek Maneuver was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crema%20%28dairy%20product%29
Crema is the Spanish word for cream. In the United States, or in the English language, it is sometimes referred to as crema espesa (English: "thick cream"), also referred to as crema fresca (English: "fresh cream") in Mexico. Crema fresca or crema espesa is a Mexican dairy product prepared with two ingredients, heavy c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP%2006F6
SCP 06F6 is (or was) an astronomical object of unknown type, discovered on 21 February 2006 in the constellation Boötes during a survey of galaxy cluster CL 1432.5+3332.8 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys Wide Field Channel. According to research authored by Kyle Barbary of the Supernova Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypanthium
In angiosperms, a hypanthium or floral cup is a structure where basal portions of the calyx, the corolla, and the stamens form a cup-shaped tube. It is sometimes called a floral tube, a term that is also used for corolla tube and calyx tube. It often contains the nectaries of the plant. It is present in many plant fami...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Remote%20Password%20protocol
The Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) is an augmented password-authenticated key exchange (PAKE) protocol, specifically designed to work around existing patents. Like all PAKE protocols, an eavesdropper or man in the middle cannot obtain enough information to be able to brute-force guess a password or apply a dict...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Phrenological%20Society
The Edinburgh Phrenological Society was founded in 1820 by George Combe, an Edinburgh lawyer, with his physician brother Andrew Combe. The Edinburgh Society was the first and foremost phrenology grouping in Great Britain; more than forty phrenological societies followed in other parts of the British Isles. The Society'...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine%20wheel%20%28symbol%29
The modern Medicine Wheel symbol was invented as a teaching tool in about 1972 by Charles Storm, aka Arthur C. Storm, writing under the name Hyemeyohsts Storm, in his book Seven Arrows and further expanded upon in his book Lightningbolt. It has since been used by various people to symbolize a variety of concepts, some ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaretia
Margaretia is a frondose organism known from the middle Cambrian Burgess shale and the Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania. Its fronds reached about 10 cm in length and are peppered with a range of length-parallel oval holes. It was originally interpreted as an alcyonarian coral. It was later reclassified as a green al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermovirga
Thermovirga is a Gram-negative, anaerobic and motile genus of bacteria from the family of Synergistaceae with one known species (Thermovirga lienii). Thermovirga lienii has been isolated from production water from an oil well from the North Sea in Norway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20lens
A gravitational lens is a distribution of matter (such as a cluster of galaxies) or a point particle between a distant light source and an observer that is capable of bending the light from the source as the light travels toward the observer. This effect is known as gravitational lensing, and the amount of bending is o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatio%20ex%20nihilo
(Latin for "creation out of nothing") is the doctrine that matter is not eternal but had to be created by some divine creative act. It is a theistic answer to the question of how the universe came to exist. It is in contrast to Ex nihilo nihil fit or "nothing comes from nothing", which means that all things were formed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscous%20damping
In continuum mechanics, viscous damping is a formulation of the damping phenomena, in which the source of damping force is modeled as a function of the volume, shape, and velocity of an object traversing through a real fluid with viscosity. Typical examples of viscous damping in mechanical systems include: Fluid film...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20recreational%20number%20theory%20topics
This is a list of recreational number theory topics (see number theory, recreational mathematics). Listing here is not pejorative: many famous topics in number theory have origins in challenging problems posed purely for their own sake. See list of number theory topics for pages dealing with aspects of number theory w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATP-binding%20motif
An ATP-binding motif is a 250-residue sequence within an ATP-binding protein’s primary structure. The binding motif is associated with a protein’s structure and/or function. ATP is a molecule of energy, and can be a coenzyme, involved in a number of biological reactions. ATP is proficient at interacting with other mole...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20and%20bouncing%20rays
The shooting and bouncing rays (SBR) method in computational electromagnetics was first developed for computation of radar cross section (RCS). Since then, the method has been generalized to be used also for installed antenna performance. The SBR method is an approximate method applied to high frequencies. The method c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Language%20for%20Process%20Specification
A Language for Process Specification (ALPS) is a model and data exchange language developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the early 1990s to capture and communicate process plans developed in the discrete and process manufacturing industries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHETRAN
SHETRAN is a hydrological modelling system for water flow, solute and sediment transport in river catchments. SHETRAN is a physically based, distributed model (PBDM) that can simulate the entire land phase of the hydrologic cycle including surface water flow and groundwater flow. The plan area of the catchment in SHETR...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primula%20hortensis
Primula hortensis is a name which has been applied to various hybrids in the genus Primula, e.g. to Primula × polyantha Mill. by Focke and to Primula × pubescens by Wittstein. The name Primula hortensis is not an accepted taxon name, however. hortensis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win%E2%80%93stay%2C%20lose%E2%80%93switch
In psychology, game theory, statistics, and machine learning, win–stay, lose–switch (also win–stay, lose–shift) is a heuristic learning strategy used to model learning in decision situations. It was first invented as an improvement over randomization in bandit problems. It was later applied to the prisoner's dilemma ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herglotz%E2%80%93Zagier%20function
In mathematics, the Herglotz–Zagier function, named after Gustav Herglotz and Don Zagier, is the function introduced by who used it to obtain a Kronecker limit formula for real quadratic fields.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Kneale
William Calvert Kneale (22 June 1906 – 24 June 1990) was an English logician best known for his 1962 book The Development of Logic, a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha. Kneale was also known as a philosopher of science and the author of a book on probability and induct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20redirector
In DOS and Windows, a network redirector, or redirector, is an operating system driver that sends data to and receives data from a remote device. A network redirector provides mechanisms to locate, open, read, write, and delete files and submit print jobs. It provides application services such as named pipes and MailS...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%20sequence
In mathematics, a sequence of vectors (xn) in a Hilbert space is called a Riesz sequence if there exist constants such that for all sequences of scalars (an) in the ℓp space ℓ2. A Riesz sequence is called a Riesz basis if . Alternatively, one can define the Riesz basis as a family of the form , where is an orth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Rolly
Rolly is an egg-shaped digital robotic music player made by Sony, combining music functions with robotic dancing. It has two wheels that allow it to rotate and spin, as well as two bands of colored LED light running around its edge and cup-like "wings" (or "arms" according to the Sony sonystyle USA website) which can o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elainabella
Elainabella is a 560 million-year-old fossil of the first multicellular alga. It was discovered in 2014 in Nevada by Steve Rowland and Margarita Rodriguez, a paleontologist and alumna duo from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The specific species name for the Elainabella fossil found is E. deepspringensis. Elainab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20storage
Object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a computer data storage that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manages data as a file hierarchy, and block storage which manages data as blocks within sectors and tracks. Each object typically includes the da...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loewy%20decomposition
In the study of differential equations, the Loewy decomposition breaks every linear ordinary differential equation (ODE) into what are called largest completely reducible components. It was introduced by Alfred Loewy. Solving differential equations is one of the most important subfields in mathematics. Of particular i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COOL-ER
The COOL-ER is a discontinued e-book reader from UK company Interead. The device is compatible with both Mac and Windows computers, comes in a variety of colors, and supports e-books in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Dutch, Russian, Korean, Ukrainian, Mandarin and Japanese. The device is commonly compare...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCDC11
Coiled-Coil Domain Containing 11, also known as CCDC11 is a protein, that is encoded by CCDC11 gene located at chromosome 18 in humans. Overview The CCDC11 gene is located on chromosome 18q21.1 and is made of 39303 BP. The CCDC11 protein is made of 514 amino acids and has a mass of 61835 Da. Its aliases include coile...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive%20sequence
A disjunctive sequence is an infinite sequence (over a finite alphabet of characters) in which every finite string appears as a substring. For instance, the binary Champernowne sequence formed by concatenating all binary strings in shortlex order, clearly contains all the binary strings and so is disjunctive. (The spa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-vector%20routing%20protocol
A distance-vector routing protocol in data networks determines the best route for data packets based on distance. Distance-vector routing protocols measure the distance by the number of routers a packet has to pass; one router counts as one hop. Some distance-vector protocols also take into account network latency and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20secretion%20system
Bacterial secretion systems are protein complexes present on the cell membranes of bacteria for secretion of substances. Specifically, they are the cellular devices used by pathogenic bacteria to secrete their virulence factors (mainly of proteins) to invade the host cells. They can be classified into different types b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPACK
LAPACK ("Linear Algebra Package") is a standard software library for numerical linear algebra. It provides routines for solving systems of linear equations and linear least squares, eigenvalue problems, and singular value decomposition. It also includes routines to implement the associated matrix factorizations such as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylogarithm
In mathematics, the polylogarithm (also known as Jonquière's function, for Alfred Jonquière) is a special function of order and argument . Only for special values of does the polylogarithm reduce to an elementary function such as the natural logarithm or a rational function. In quantum statistics, the polylogarithm ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20theory%20of%20aging
The network theory of aging supports the idea that multiple connected processes contribute to the biology of aging. Kirkwood and Kowald helped to establish the first model of this kind by connecting theories and predicting specific mechanisms. In departure of investigating a single mechanistic cause or single molecules...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel%20Committee%20for%20Physics
The Nobel Committee for Physics is the Nobel Committee responsible for proposing laureates for the Nobel Prize for Physics. The Nobel Committee for Physics is appointed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It usually consists of Swedish professors of physics who are members of the Academy, although the Academy in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX232
The MAX232 is an integrated circuit by Maxim Integrated Products, now a subsidiary of Analog Devices, that converts signals from a TIA-232 (RS-232) serial port to signals suitable for use in TTL-compatible digital logic circuits. The MAX232 is a dual transmitter / dual receiver that typically is used to convert the RX,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth%20steppe
During the Last Glacial Maximum, the mammoth steppe, also known as steppe-tundra, was once the Earth's most extensive biome. It stretched east-to-west, from the Iberian Peninsula in the west of Europe, across Eurasia to North America, through Beringia (what is today Alaska) and Canada; from north-to-south, the steppe r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howland%20Forest
The Howland Research Forest is a tract of mature evergreen forest in the North Maine Woods, within Penobscot County, central Maine. It is located west of the town of Howland. History The tract is part of the 1.1 million acres (4,500 km2) of Maine forest sold in 2005 by International Paper (IP) to the Seven Islands La...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASH-IF
The DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) creates interoperability guidelines for the usage of the MPEG-DASH streaming standard, promotes and catalyzes the adoption of MPEG-DASH, and helps transition it from a specification into a real business. It consists of the major streaming and media companies, such as Microsoft, Netflix...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-diagonal%20matrix
In mathematics, an anti-diagonal matrix is a square matrix where all the entries are zero except those on the diagonal going from the lower left corner to the upper right corner (↗), known as the anti-diagonal (sometimes Harrison diagonal, secondary diagonal, trailing diagonal, minor diagonal, off diagonal or bad diago...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20equations%20in%20quantum%20mechanics
This article summarizes equations in the theory of quantum mechanics. Wavefunctions A fundamental physical constant occurring in quantum mechanics is the Planck constant, h. A common abbreviation is , also known as the reduced Planck constant or Dirac constant. The general form of wavefunction for a system of partic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO-OPN
The CO-OPN (Concurrent Object-Oriented Petri Nets) specification language is based on both algebraic specifications and algebraic Petri nets formalisms. The former formalism represent the data structures aspects, while the latter stands for the behavioral and concurrent aspects of systems. In order to deal with large s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecplot
Tecplot is the name of a family of visualization & analysis software tools developed by American company Tecplot, Inc., which is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The firm was formerly operated as Amtec Engineering. In 2016, the firm was acquired by Vela Software, an operating group of Constellation Software, Inc....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20notation
In mathematics and computer programming, index notation is used to specify the elements of an array of numbers. The formalism of how indices are used varies according to the subject. In particular, there are different methods for referring to the elements of a list, a vector, or a matrix, depending on whether one is w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenological%20quantum%20gravity
Phenomenological quantum gravity is the research field that deals with phenomenology of quantum gravity. The relevance of this research area derives from the fact that none of the candidate theories for quantum gravity has yielded experimentally testable predictions. Phenomenological models are designed to bridge this ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner
CCleaner (, originally Crap Cleaner), developed by Piriform Software, is a utility used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. It is one of the longest-established system cleaners, first launched in 2004. It was originally developed for Microsoft Windows only, but in 2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldanaerobius%20polysaccharolyticus
Caldanaerobius polysaccharolyticus is a Gram-positive thermophilic, anaerobic, non-spore-forming bacterium from the genus of Caldanaerobius which has been isolated from organic waste leachate from Hoopeston in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20%28flag%29
A jack is a flag flown from a short jackstaff at the bow (front) of a vessel, while the ensign is flown on the stern (rear). Jacks on bowsprits or foremasts appeared in the 17th century. A country may have different jacks for different purposes, especially when (as in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands) the naval...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseledets%20theorem
In mathematics, the multiplicative ergodic theorem, or Oseledets theorem provides the theoretical background for computation of Lyapunov exponents of a nonlinear dynamical system. It was proved by Valery Oseledets (also spelled "Oseledec") in 1965 and reported at the International Mathematical Congress in Moscow in 196...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20computer%20hardware%20in%20Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) was a socialist country that existed in the second half of the 20th century. Being socialist meant that strict technology import rules and regulations shaped the development of computer history in the country, unlike in the Western world. However, since it was a non-a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling-point%20elevation
Boiling-point elevation describes the phenomenon that the boiling point of a liquid (a solvent) will be higher when another compound is added, meaning that a solution has a higher boiling point than a pure solvent. This happens whenever a non-volatile solute, such as a salt, is added to a pure solvent, such as water. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20archive%20%28disambiguation%29
Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California, United States. Internet archive may also refer to: Wayback Machine, digital archive of the World Wide Web maintained by Internet Archive arXiv, a repository of scientific preprints ("e-prints") available online Web archiving, archiving of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%E2%80%93Varshamov%20bound
In coding theory, the Gilbert–Varshamov bound (due to Edgar Gilbert and independently Rom Varshamov) is a limit on the parameters of a (not necessarily linear) code. It is occasionally known as the Gilbert–Shannon–Varshamov bound (or the GSV bound), but the name "Gilbert–Varshamov bound" is by far the most popular. Var...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic%20gene%20modulation
Therapeutic gene modulation refers to the practice of altering the expression of a gene at one of various stages, with a view to alleviate some form of ailment. It differs from gene therapy in that gene modulation seeks to alter the expression of an endogenous gene (perhaps through the introduction of a gene encoding a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg%20white
Egg white is the clear liquid (also called the albumen or the glair/glaire) contained within an egg. In chickens it is formed from the layers of secretions of the anterior section of the hen's oviduct during the passage of the egg. It forms around fertilized or unfertilized egg yolks. The primary natural purpose of egg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20bioelectricity
The history of bioelectricity dates back to ancient Egypt, where the shocks delivered by the electric catfish were used medicinally. In the 18th century, the abilities of the torpedo ray and the electric eel were investigated by scientists including Hugh Williamson and John Walsh. Fish that give shocks Ancient Egypt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Perregrini
Luca Perregrini from the University of Pavia, Italy was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for contributions to numerical techniques for electromagnetic modeling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay%20equalization
In signal processing, delay equalization corresponds to adjusting the relative phases of different frequencies to achieve a constant group delay, using by adding an all-pass filter in series with an uncompensated filter. Clever machine-learning techniques are now being applied to the design of such filters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arieh%20Ben-Naim
Arieh Ben-Naim (; Jerusalem, 11 July 1934) is a professor of physical chemistry who retired in 2003 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has made major contributions over 40 years to the theory of the structure of water, aqueous solutions and hydrophobic-hydrophilic interactions. He is mainly concerned with theo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20friction
Boundary friction occurs when a surface is at least partially wet, but not so lubricated that there is no direct friction between two surfaces. The Effect When two consistent, unlubricated surfaces slide against each other, there is a specific, predictable amount of friction that occurs. This amount increases as veloc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorial%20of%20Hungary
This gallery of Hungaroian coats of arms shows the coats of arms of the Counties and certain Hungarian cities. They are used to visually identify historical and present-day counties, as well as cities, within France. National The coat of arms of Hungary was adopted on 3 July 1990, after the end of communist rule. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuya%20Mishima
is a character in Bandai Namco's Tekken fighting game series, first featured as the protagonist in the original 1994 game and later became one of the major antagonists and antihero of the series. The son of worldwide conglomerate Mishima Zaibatsu CEO Heihachi Mishima, Kazuya seeks revenge against his father for throwin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Lauterbur
Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6, 1929 – March 27, 2007) was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. Lauterbur was a professor at Stony Brook University from 1963 until 198...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Devices
United Devices, Inc. was a privately held, commercial volunteer computing company that focused on the use of grid computing to manage high-performance computing systems and enterprise cluster management. Its products and services allowed users to "allocate workloads to computers and devices throughout enterprises, agg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trihexagonal%20tiling
In geometry, the trihexagonal tiling is one of 11 uniform tilings of the Euclidean plane by regular polygons. It consists of equilateral triangles and regular hexagons, arranged so that each hexagon is surrounded by triangles and vice versa. The name derives from the fact that it combines a regular hexagonal tiling and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthopterists%27%20Society
The Orthopterists' Society (formerly the Pan American Acridological Society) is an international scientific organization devoted to facilitating communication and research among persons interested in Orthoptera and related organisms. (The Orthoptera include grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, katydids and other insects.) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-dimensional%20correlation%20analysis
Two dimensional correlation analysis is a mathematical technique that is used to study changes in measured signals. As mostly spectroscopic signals are discussed, sometime also two dimensional correlation spectroscopy is used and refers to the same technique. In 2D correlation analysis, a sample is subjected to an ext...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-contact%20force
A non-contact force is a force which acts on an object without coming physically in contact with it. The most familiar non-contact force is gravity, which confers weight. In contrast, a contact force is a force which acts on an object coming physically in contact with it. All four known fundamental interactions are no...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial%20ecosystem
Terrestrial ecosystems are ecosystems that are found on land. Examples include tundra, taiga, temperate deciduous forest, tropical rain forest, grassland, deserts. Terrestrial ecosystems differ from aquatic ecosystems by the predominant presence of soil rather than water at the surface and by the extension of plants a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93US%20Privacy%20Shield
The EU–US Privacy Shield was a legal framework for regulating transatlantic exchanges of personal data for commercial purposes between the European Union and the United States. One of its purposes was to enable US companies to more easily receive personal data from EU entities under EU privacy laws meant to protect Eur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology%20%28logic%29
In mathematical logic, a tautology (from ) is a formula or assertion that is true in every possible interpretation. An example is "x=y or x≠y". Similarly, "either the ball is green, or the ball is not green" is always true, regardless of the colour of the ball. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein first applied the ter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20web%20testing%20tools
This is a list of web testing tools, giving a general overview in terms of features, sometimes used for Web scraping. Main features Web testing tools may be classified based on different prerequisites that a user may require to test web applications mainly scripting requirements, GUI functionalities and browser compa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20aerodrome%20forecast
In meteorology and aviation, terminal aerodrome forecast (TAF) is a format for reporting weather forecast information, particularly as it relates to aviation. TAFs are issued at least four times a day, every six hours, for major civil airfields: 0000, 0600, 1200 and 1800 UTC, and generally apply to a 24- or 30-hour pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest%20access%20authentication
Digest access authentication is one of the agreed-upon methods a web server can use to negotiate credentials, such as username or password, with a user's web browser. This can be used to confirm the identity of a user before sending sensitive information, such as online banking transaction history. It applies a hash fu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named%20set%20theory
Named set theory is a branch of theoretical mathematics that studies the structures of names. The named set is a theoretical concept that generalizes the structure of a name described by Frege. Its generalization bridges the descriptivists theory of a name, and its triad structure (name, sensation and reference), wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%20paradox%20%28probability%29
The Bertrand paradox is a problem within the classical interpretation of probability theory. Joseph Bertrand introduced it in his work Calcul des probabilités (1889), as an example to show that the principle of indifference may not produce definite, well-defined results for probabilities if it is applied uncritically w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20finance
Statistical finance, is the application of econophysics to financial markets. Instead of the normative roots of finance, it uses a positivist framework. It includes exemplars from statistical physics with an emphasis on emergent or collective properties of financial markets. Empirically observed stylized facts are the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segment%20protection
Segment protection is a type of backup technique that can be used in most networks. It can be implemented as a dedicated backup or as a shared backup protection. Overlapping segments and non-overlapping segments are allowed; each providing different advantages. Technique Terms Working path - is the chosen route from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20heart
An artificial heart is a device that replaces the heart. Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to heart transplantation, or to permanently replace the heart in the case that a heart transplant (from a deceased human or, experimentally, from a deceased genetically engineered pig) is impossible. Althoug...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECLR-attributed%20grammar
ECLR-attributed grammars are a special type of attribute grammars. They are a variant of LR-attributed grammars where an equivalence relation on inherited attributes is used to optimize attribute evaluation. EC stands for equivalence class. Rie is based on ECLR-attributed grammars. External links http://www.is.tite...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20speech%20recognition%20software
Speech recognition software is available for many computing platforms, operating systems, use models, and software licenses. Here is a listing of such, grouped in various useful ways. Acoustic models and speech corpus (compilation) The following list presents notable speech recognition software engines with a brief sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokosuka%20Wars
is a 1983 action-strategy role-playing video game developed by Kōji Sumii (住井浩司) and released by ASCII for the Sharp X1 computer, followed by ports to the MSX, FM-7, NEC PC-6001, NEC PC-8801 and NEC PC-9801 computer platforms, as well as an altered version released for the Family Computer console and later the Virtual ...