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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallus | Thallus (: thalli), from Latinized Greek (), meaning "a green shoot" or "twig", is the vegetative tissue of some organisms in diverse groups such as algae, fungi, some liverworts, lichens, and the Myxogastria. Many of these organisms were previously known as the thallophytes, a polyphyletic group of distantly related ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri%2C%20Kansas%2C%20%26%20Texas%20Railway%20Co.%20of%20Texas%20v.%20May | Missouri, Kansas, & Texas Railway Company of Texas v. Clay May, 194 U.S. 267 (1904), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that a Texas law did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by penalizing only railroad companies for allowing certain weeds to mature and go ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning%20poker | Planning poker, also called Scrum poker, is a consensus-based, gamified technique for estimating, mostly used for timeboxing in Agile principles. In planning poker, members of the group make estimates by playing numbered cards face-down to the table, instead of speaking them aloud. The cards are revealed, and the estim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental%20variables%20estimation | In statistics, econometrics, epidemiology and related disciplines, the method of instrumental variables (IV) is used to estimate causal relationships when controlled experiments are not feasible or when a treatment is not successfully delivered to every unit in a randomized experiment. Intuitively, IVs are used when an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Campbell%20%28biologist%29 | Keith Henry Stockman Campbell (23 May 1954 – 5 October 2012) was a British biologist who was a member of the team at Roslin Institute that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells. He was Professor of Animal Development at the University of Nottingh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20application%20servers | This list compares the features and functionality of application servers, grouped by the hosting environment that is offered by that particular application server.
BASIC
Run BASIC An all-in-one BASIC scriptable application server, can automatically manage session and state.
C
Enduro/X A middleware platform for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientpet | Orientpets or Orienpets are a breed of lilies, the result of crosses between orientals and trumpets. They are commonly found under the OT hybrids in stores or nurseries.
The main characteristics of OT lilies are: plant vigor, diversity of colors, fragrance and thick texture of the petals. Many are hardy to USDA zone 4... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudaconitine | Pseudaconitine, also known as nepaline (C36H51NO12), is an extremely toxic alkaloid found in high quantities in the roots of Aconitum ferox, also known as Indian Monkshood, which belongs to the family Ranunculaceae. The plant is found in East Asia, including the Himalayas.
History
Pseudaconitine was discovered in 187... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis%20%28programming%20language%29 | Haggis is a high-level reference programming language used primarily to examine computing science for Scottish pupils taking SQA courses on the subject. Haggis is used as a tool to bridge the gap between pseudocode and typical computer programming.
Haggis is not based on any one language but a mixture that is intended... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koolakamba | The Koolakamba or Kooloo-Kamba is a purported hybrid species of chimpanzees and gorillas. This alleged hybrid ape species has been reported in Africa as early as the mid 19th century. No empirical evidence has been found to substantiate the existence of the creature. The Koolakamba was referenced in the mid-19th centur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leccinum%20holopus | Leccinum holopus, commonly known as the white birch bolete, white bog bolete, or ghost bolete, is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae found in northern Asia, Europe, and northeastern North America. It associates with birch trees and is typically found in boggy or swampy areas, often growing among sphagn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20hour%20%28photography%29 | In photography, the golden hour is the period of daytime shortly after sunrise or before sunset, during which daylight is redder and softer than when the sun is higher in the sky.
The golden hour is also sometimes called the "magic hour," especially by cinematographers and photographers. During these times, the bright... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolyte | An electrolyte is a medium containing ions that is electrically conducting through the movement of those ions, but not conducting electrons. This includes most soluble salts, acids, and bases dissolved in a polar solvent, such as water. Upon dissolving, the substance separates into cations and anions, which disperse un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lax%E2%80%93Wendroff%20theorem | In computational mathematics, the Lax–Wendroff theorem, named after Peter Lax and Burton Wendroff, states that if a conservative numerical scheme for a hyperbolic system of conservation laws converges, then it converges towards a weak solution.
See also
Lax–Wendroff method
Godunov's scheme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression%20cassette | An expression cassette is a distinct component of vector DNA consisting of a gene and regulatory sequence to be expressed by a transfected cell. In each successful transformation, the expression cassette directs the cell's machinery to make RNA and protein(s). Some expression cassettes are designed for modular cloning... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril%20Hilsum | Cyril Hilsum (born 17 May 1925) is a British physicist and academic.
Hilsum was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1983 for the inventiveness and leadership in introducing III-V semiconductors into electronic technology.
Life
Hilsum entered Raine's Foundation School in 1936 as the middle of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20Gene%20Database | The Synthetic Gene Database (SGDB) is a database of artificially engineered genes.
See also
Gene |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20sagittal%20sinus | The inferior sagittal sinus (also known as inferior longitudinal sinus), within the human head, is an area beneath the brain which allows blood to drain outwards posteriorly from the center of the head. It drains (from the center of the brain) to the straight sinus (at the back of the head), which connects to the trans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over%20Thirty%20Months%20Scheme | The Over Thirty Months Scheme is a scheme to keep older cattle out of the human foodchain. It is based on the "Over Thirty Months Rule" introduced in the UK on 3 April 1996, as one of several measures to manage the risk associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
By November 1997, about 1,772,000 cows had... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20island | Sky islands are isolated mountains surrounded by radically different lowland environments. The term originally referred to those found on the Mexican Plateau, and has extended to similarly isolated high-elevation forests. The isolation has significant implications for these natural habitats. The American Southwest regi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker%20machine | In arithmetic geometry, the Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines whether a given set of sections provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface E → S, where S is isomorphic to the projective line.
The algorithm was f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting%20electric%20machine | Superconducting electric machines are electromechanical systems that rely on the use of one or more superconducting elements. Since superconductors have no DC resistance, they typically have greater efficiency. The most important parameter that is of utmost interest in superconducting machine is the generation of a ver... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20encoding | In mathematics, Church encoding is a means of representing data and operators in the lambda calculus. The Church numerals are a representation of the natural numbers using lambda notation. The method is named for Alonzo Church, who first encoded data in the lambda calculus this way.
Terms that are usually considered p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-house%20software | In-house software is computer software for business use within an organization. In-house software can be developed by the organization itself or by someone else, or it could be acquired. In-house software however may later become available for commercial use upon sole discretion of the developing organization. The need... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal%20length | Reciprocal length or inverse length is a quantity or measurement used in several branches of science and mathematics, defined as the reciprocal of length.
Common units used for this measurement include the reciprocal metre or inverse metre (symbol: m−1), the reciprocal centimetre or inverse centimetre (symbol: cm−1).
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiological%20functional%20capacity | Physiological functional capacity (PFC) is the ability to perform the physical tasks of daily life and the ease with which these tasks can be performed. PFC declines at some point with advancing age even in healthy adults, resulting in a reduced capacity to perform certain physical tasks. This can eventually result in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase%20%28algorithm%29 | The chase is a simple fixed-point algorithm testing and enforcing implication of data dependencies in database systems. It plays important roles in database theory as well as in practice.
It is used, directly or indirectly, on an everyday basis by people who design databases, and it is used in commercial systems to rea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20graphs%20and%20derivatives | In mechanics, the derivative of the position vs. time graph of an object is equal to the velocity of the object. In the International System of Units, the position of the moving object is measured in meters relative to the origin, while the time is measured in seconds. Placing position on the y-axis and time on the x-a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST%20%28protocol%29 | BLAST (an acronym for "Blocked Asynchronous Transmission"), like XMODEM and Kermit, is a communications protocol designed for file transfer over asynchronous communication ports and dial-up modems that achieved a significant degree of popularity during the 1980s. Reflecting its status as a de facto standard for such tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born-digital | The term born-digital refers to materials that originate in a digital form. This is in contrast to digital reformatting, through which analog materials become digital, as in the case of files created by scanning physical paper records. It is most often used in relation to digital libraries and the issues that go along... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon%20diagram | Ribbon diagrams, also known as Richardson diagrams, are 3D schematic representations of protein structure and are one of the most common methods of protein depiction used today. The ribbon depicts the general course and organisation of the protein backbone in 3D and serves as a visual framework for hanging details of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Investigations | The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918. They were intended to provide the scientific bac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Statistical%20Computation%20and%20Simulation | The Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers computational statistics. It is published by Taylor & Francis and was established in 1972. The editors-in-chief are Richard Krutchkoff (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg) and Andrei Volo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20value%20theorem | In calculus, the extreme value theorem states that if a real-valued function is continuous on the closed interval , then must attain a maximum and a minimum, each at least once. That is, there exist numbers and in such that:
The extreme value theorem is more specific than the related boundedness theorem, which s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima%20glottidis | The rima glottidis is the opening between the two true vocal cords anteriorly, and the two arytenoid cartilages posteriorly. It is part of the larynx.
Anatomy
The rima glottidis is the narrowest part of larynx. It is longer (~23 mm) in males than in females (17-18 mm).
The rima glottidis is an aperture between the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging%20Cell | Aging Cell is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal and an official journal of the Anatomical Society. It is published on their behalf by John Wiley & Sons. It was established in 2002. Its editor-in-chief is Monty Montano (Boston OAIC). The journal covers research on all aspects of aging, publishing research a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20bisulfite | Potassium bisulfite (or potassium hydrogen sulfite) is a chemical mixture with the approximate chemical formula KHSO3. Potassium bisulfite in fact is not a real compound, but a mixture of salts that dissolve in water to give solutions composed of potassium ions and bisulfite ions. It is a white solid with an odor of s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruber%20Prize%20in%20Neuroscience | The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, established in 2004, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience winners are nominated by the Society for Neuroscience.
Recipients
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plithotaxis | Plithotaxis, from the Greek word "πλήΘος", denotes a crowd, swarm, or throng. In collective cellular migration, plithotaxis is the tendency for each individual cell within a monolayer to migrate along the local orientation of the maximal principal stress, or equivalently, minimal intercellular shear stress. Plithotaxis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedment | Embedment is a phenomenon in mechanical engineering in which the surfaces between mechanical members of a loaded joint embed. It can lead to failure by fatigue as described below, and is of particular concern when considering the design of critical fastener joints.
Mechanism
The mechanism behind embedment is differen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation%20inequality | A correlation inequality is any of a number of inequalities satisfied by the correlation functions of a model. Such inequalities are of particular use in statistical mechanics and in percolation theory.
Examples include:
Bell's inequality
FKG inequality
Griffiths inequality, and its generalisation, the Ginibre inequal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemoreceptor | A chemoreceptor, also known as chemosensor, is a specialized sensory receptor which transduces a chemical substance (endogenous or induced) to generate a biological signal. This signal may be in the form of an action potential, if the chemoreceptor is a neuron, or in the form of a neurotransmitter that can activate a n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allogeneic%20cultured%20keratinocytes%20and%20fibroblasts%20in%20bovine%20collagen | Allogeneic cultured keratinocytes and fibroblasts in bovine collagen, sold under the brand name Gintuit, is a cellular therapy used for the treatment of mucogingival (the oral mucosa and gingival (gum) tissues of the mouth) conditions.
Common adverse reactions observed during clinical trials include sinusitis (sinus i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucella%20suis | Brucella suis is a bacterium that causes swine brucellosis, a zoonosis that affects pigs. The disease typically causes chronic inflammatory lesions in the reproductive organs of susceptible animals or orchitis, and may even affect joints and other organs. The most common symptom is abortion in pregnant susceptible sows... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GcMAF | GcMAF (or Gc protein-derived macrophage activating factor) is a protein produced by modification of vitamin D-binding protein.
Biochemically, GcMAF results from sequential deglycosylation of the vitamin D-binding protein (the Gc protein), which is naturally promoted by lymphocytes (B and T cells). The resulting prote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Think%20It%27s%20Going%20to%20Rain%20Today | "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (or "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today") is a song by American singer-songwriter Randy Newman. It appears on Julius La Rosa's 1966 album You're Gonna Hear from Me, Eric Burdon's 1967 album Eric Is Here, on Newman's 1968 debut album Randy Newman, in The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 (2003),... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Bowditch | Brian Hayward Bowditch (born 1961) is a British mathematician known for his contributions to geometry and topology, particularly in the areas of geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology. He is also known for solving the angel problem. Bowditch holds a chaired Professor appointment in Mathematics at the Unive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspase-activated%20DNase | Caspase-activated DNase (CAD) or DNA fragmentation factor subunit beta is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DFFB gene. It breaks up the DNA during apoptosis and promotes cell differentiation. It is usually an inactive monomer inhibited by ICAD. This is cleaved before dimerization.
Function
Apoptosis is a ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL%20%28complexity%29 | In computational complexity theory, the complexity class FL is the set of function problems which can be solved by a deterministic Turing machine in a logarithmic amount of memory space. As in the definition of L, the machine reads its input from a read-only tape and writes its output to a write-only tape; the logarith... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20algorithm%20general%20topics | This is a list of algorithm general topics.
Analysis of algorithms
Ant colony algorithm
Approximation algorithm
Best and worst cases
Big O notation
Combinatorial search
Competitive analysis
Computability theory
Computational complexity theory
Embarrassingly parallel problem
Emergent algorithm
Evolutionary ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niobium%20phosphide | Niobium phosphide is an inorganic compound of niobium and phosphorus with the chemical formula NbP.
Synthesis
Sintering powdered niobium and phosphorus:
4Nb + P4 -> 4NbP
Physical properties
The compound is a unique material combining topological and conventional electronic phases. Its superfast electrons demonstrate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame%20fields%20in%20general%20relativity | A frame field in general relativity (also called a tetrad or vierbein) is a set of four pointwise-orthonormal vector fields, one timelike and three spacelike, defined on a Lorentzian manifold that is physically interpreted as a model of spacetime. The timelike unit vector field is often denoted by and the three spacel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymidine%20triphosphate | Thymidine triphosphate (TTP), also called deoxythymidine triphosphate (dTTP),
is one of the four nucleoside triphosphates that are used in the in vivo synthesis of DNA. Unlike the other deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates, thymidine triphosphate does not always contain the "deoxy" prefix in its name. The corresponding ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiregular%20polytope | In geometry, by Thorold Gosset's definition a semiregular polytope is usually taken to be a polytope that is vertex-transitive and has all its facets being regular polytopes. E.L. Elte compiled a longer list in 1912 as The Semiregular Polytopes of the Hyperspaces which included a wider definition.
Gosset's list
In th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioGeM | The BioGeM Institute (Biologia e Genetica Molecolare, "Biology and Molecular Genetics") is a nonprofit consortium formed by the National Research Council (CNR), the University of Naples "Federico II", the LUMSA of Rome, the Trieste AREA Science Park, the University of Udine, the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyers%E2%80%93Serrin%20theorem | In functional analysis the Meyers–Serrin theorem, named after James Serrin and Norman George Meyers, states that smooth functions are dense in the Sobolev space
for arbitrary domains .
Historical relevance
Originally there were two spaces: defined as the set of all functions which have weak derivatives of order up ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20128K | The Apple Macintosh—later rebranded as the Macintosh 128K—is the original Apple Macintosh personal computer. It played a pivotal role in establishing desktop publishing as a general office function. The motherboard, a CRT monitor, and a floppy drive were housed in a beige case with integrated carrying handle; it came ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Vitali | Giuseppe Vitali (26 August 1875 – 29 February 1932) was an Italian mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers.
Biograph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20centric%20networking | In contrast to IP-based, host-oriented, Internet architecture, Content-Centric Networking (CCN) emphasizes content by making it directly addressable and routable. Endpoints communicate based on named data instead of IP addresses. CCN is characterized by the basic exchange of content request messages (called "Interests... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAM10 | A Disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 10, also known as ADAM10 or CDw156 or CD156c is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ADAM10 gene.
Function
Members of the ADAM family are cell surface proteins with a unique structure, possessing both potential adhesion and protease domains. Sheddas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator%20logo | An operator logo is a logo which appears on the status screen of a mobile phone. Originally intended as a way for phone companies to brand phones attached to their networks, the operator logo has since become a method by which owners may customise their phones to reflect their own interests. It helped kick off mobile p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Any-source%20multicast | Any-source multicast (ASM) is the older and more usual form of multicast where multiple senders can be on the same group/channel, as opposed to source-specific multicast where a single particular source is specified.
Any-source multicast allows a host computer to map IPs and then sends IPs to a number of groups via IP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CopperheadOS | CopperheadOS is a mobile operating system for smartphones, based on the Android mobile platform. It adds privacy and security features to the official releases of the Android Open Source Project by Google. CopperheadOS is developed by Copperhead, a Canadian information security company. It is licensed under Creative Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopine%20dehydrogenase%20family | In molecular biology, the octopine dehydrogenase family of enzymes act on the CH-NH substrate bond using NAD(+) or NADP(+) as an acceptor. The family includes octopine dehydrogenase , nopaline dehydrogenase , lysopine dehydrogenase and opine dehydrogenase . NADPH is the preferred cofactor, but NADH is also used. Octop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20%26%20History | Food & History is a multilingual (French, English) scientific journal that is published since 2003. It is the biannual scientific review of the (IEHCA) based in Tours. It publishes papers about the history and culture of food.
The review
Food & History is the biannual scientific review of the Institut Européen d'His... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogonal%20conjugate | __notoc__
In geometry, the isogonal conjugate of a point with respect to a triangle is constructed by reflecting the lines about the angle bisectors of respectively. These three reflected lines concur at the isogonal conjugate of . (This definition applies only to points not on a sideline of triangle .) This i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RG7795 | RG7795 (previously ANA773) is an antiviral drug candidate that as of 2015 had been in Phase II trials in hepatitis B. It is an orally-available prodrug of isatoribine, that was under development by Anadys Pharmaceuticals when it was acquired by Roche in 2011. Its active metabolite is an agonist of TLR7; activation of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilicus | A sicilicus was an old Latin diacritical mark, , like a reversed C (Ɔ) placed above a letter and evidently deriving its name from its shape like a little sickle (which is sicilis in Latin). The ancient sources say that during the time of the Republic it was placed above a geminate consonant to indicate that the consona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf%20expansion | Leaf expansion is a process by which plants make efficient use of the space around them by causing their leaves to enlarge, or wither. This process enables a plant to maximize its own biomass, whether it be due to increased surface area; which enables more sunlight to be absorbed by chloroplasts, driving the rate of ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20for%20Mathematical%20Sciences | The National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NIMS; ) is a Korean government-funded mathematics research institute. Their work focuses both basic research and applied mathematics with industrial and medical applications. Founded in 2005, NIMS became an affiliated research institute of the Institute for Basic Scien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P16 | p16 (also known as p16INK4a, cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A, CDKN2A, multiple tumor suppressor 1 and numerous other synonyms), is a protein that slows cell division by slowing the progression of the cell cycle from the G1 phase to the S phase, thereby acting as a tumor suppressor. It is encoded by the CDKN2A gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apportionment%20paradox | An apportionment paradox exists when the rules for apportionment in a political system produce results which are unexpected or seem to violate common sense.
To apportion is to divide into parts according to some rule, the rule typically being one of proportion. Certain quantities, like milk, can be divided in any prop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability%20%28learning%20theory%29 | Stability, also known as algorithmic stability, is a notion in computational learning theory of how a machine learning algorithm output is changed with small perturbations to its inputs. A stable learning algorithm is one for which the prediction does not change much when the training data is modified slightly. For in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20local%20loop | Wireless local loop (WLL) is the use of a wireless communications link as the "last mile / first mile" connection for delivering plain old telephone service (POTS) or Internet access (marketed under the term "broadband") to telecommunications customers.
Various types of WLL systems and technologies exist.
Other terms... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra | Tegra is a system on a chip (SoC) series developed by Nvidia for mobile devices such as smartphones, personal digital assistants, and mobile Internet devices. The Tegra integrates an ARM architecture central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), northbridge, southbridge, and memory controller onto one ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauljensenia%20hongkongensis | Pauljensenia hongkongensis is a Gram-positive, strictly anaerobic and non-spore-forming species of bacteria from the family Actinomycetaceae. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin-scaling | Twin-scaling is a method of propagating plant bulbs that have a basal plate, such as:
Hippeastrum, Narcissus, Galanthus and other members of the Amaryllidaceae;
some members of the lily family Liliaceae;
Lachenalia, Veltheimia and other members of the Hyacinthaceae.
Purpose
Twin-scaling is practiced by professional... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20%28company%29 | Power (formerly Expert) is a Nordic company that sells consumer electronics through subsidiaries. The company headquarters are located in Lørenskog, Norway and operates approx. 269 stores in total across Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The company belongs to the Power International AS group, which is registered in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/156%20%28number%29 | 156 (one hundred [and] fifty-six) is the natural number, following 155 and preceding 157.
In mathematics
156 is an abundant number, a pronic number, a dodecagonal number, and a refactorable number.
156 is the number of graphs on 6 unlabeled nodes.
156 is a repdigit in base 5 (1111), and also in bases 25, 38, 51, 77... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiresolution%20analysis | A multiresolution analysis (MRA) or multiscale approximation (MSA) is the design method of most of the practically relevant discrete wavelet transforms (DWT) and the justification for the algorithm of the fast wavelet transform (FWT). It was introduced in this context in 1988/89 by Stephane Mallat and Yves Meyer and ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel%20wreath | A laurel wreath is a round wreath made of connected branches and leaves of the bay laurel (), an aromatic broadleaf evergreen, or later from spineless butcher's broom (Ruscus hypoglossum) or cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus). It is a symbol of triumph and is worn as a chaplet around the head, or as a garland around t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20supracondylar%20ridge | The inferior third of the medial border of the humerus is raised into a slight ridge, the medial supracondylar ridge (or medial supracondylar line), which becomes very prominent below; it presents an anterior lip for the origins of the Brachialis and Pronator teres, a posterior lip for the medial head of the Triceps b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioner%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry and materials science, a conditioner is a substance or process that improves the quality of a given material. Conditioning agents used in skincare products are also known as moisturizers, and usually are composed of various oils and lubricants. One method of their use is as a coating of the substrate to a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA10 | The ETA10 is a vector supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by ETA Systems, a spin-off division of Control Data Corporation (CDC). The ETA10 was an evolution of the CDC Cyber 205, which can trace its origins back to the CDC STAR-100, one of the first vector supercomputers to be developed.
CDC announced it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic%20recoil%20detection | Elastic recoil detection analysis (ERDA), also referred to as forward recoil scattering (or, contextually, spectrometry), is an ion beam analysis technique in materials science to obtain elemental concentration depth profiles in thin films. This technique is known by several different names. These names are listed belo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%20Ellis-Monaghan | Joanna Anthony Ellis-Monaghan is an American mathematician and mathematics educator whose research interests include graph polynomials and topological graph theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics of the University of Amsterdam.
Education and career
Ellis-Monaghan g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Franklin graph is a 3-regular graph with 12 vertices and 18 edges.
The Franklin graph is named after Philip Franklin, who disproved the Heawood conjecture on the number of colors needed when a two-dimensional surface is partitioned into cells by a graph embedding. The Hea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy%20protein | Soy protein is a protein that is isolated from soybean. It is made from soybean meal that has been dehulled and defatted. Dehulled and defatted soybeans are processed into three kinds of high protein commercial products: soy flour, concentrates, and isolates. Soy protein isolate has been used since 1959 in foods for it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorette%20PCR | Vectorette PCR is a variation of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) designed in 1988. The original PCR was created and also patented during the 1980s. Vectorette PCR was first noted and described in an article in 1990 by John H. Riley and his team. Since then, multiple variants of PCR have been created. Vectorette PCR foc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin%20mountain%20drawing | A drawing of twin mountains (Indonesian: pemandangan gunung kembar, "twin mountain view", or pemandangan gunung legendaris, "legendary mountain view") is a drawing pattern commonly made by Indonesian kindergarten and primary school students. The drawing is often produced by students who are asked by their teacher to dr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20South%20Korean%20flags | This is a list of flags used in South Korea, from 1945 to the present.
National flags
National government flags
Military flags
Political flags
Flags of subdivisions
Provincial-level division flags
Flags of other cities
Historical flags
Historical flags of other cities
North Korean provincial flags
As the Sou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%20silicate | Aluminium silicate (or aluminum silicate) is a name commonly applied to chemical compounds which are derived from aluminium oxide, Al2O3 and silicon dioxide, SiO2 which may be anhydrous or hydrated, naturally occurring as minerals or synthetic. Their chemical formulae are often expressed as xAl2O3·ySiO2·zH2O. It is kno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koilocyte | A koilocyte is a squamous epithelial cell that has undergone a number of structural changes, which occur as a result of infection of the cell by human papillomavirus (HPV). Identification of these cells by pathologists can be useful in diagnosing various HPV-associated lesions.
Koilocytosis
Koilocytosis or koilocytic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20physics%20journals | This is a list of physics journals with existing articles on Wikipedia. The list is organized by subfields of physics.
By subject
General
Astrophysics
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
European Physical Journal D
Journal of Physics B
Laser Physics
Molecular Physics
Physical Review A
Plasmas
Measurement ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakow%20Trachtenberg | Jakow Trachtenberg (17 June 1888 – 26 October 1951) was a mathematician who developed the mental calculation techniques called the Trachtenberg system.
He was born in Odessa, in the Russian Empire (today Ukraine). He graduated with highest honors from the Mining Engineering Institute in St. Petersburg and later worke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin%20effect | In evolutionary biology, the Baldwin effect, a phenotype-first theory of evolution, describes the effect of learned behaviour on evolution. James Mark Baldwin and others suggested during the eclipse of Darwinism in the late 19th century that an organism's ability to learn new behaviours (e.g. to acclimatise to a new st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov%E2%80%93Shubin%20invariant | In mathematics, a Novikov–Shubin invariant, introduced by , is an invariant of a compact Riemannian manifold related to the spectrum of the Laplace operator acting on square-integrable differential forms on its universal cover.
The Novikov–Shubin invariant gives a measure of the density of eigenvalues around zero. It ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS%20rebinding | DNS rebinding is a method of manipulating resolution of domain names that is commonly used as a form of computer attack. In this attack, a malicious web page causes visitors to run a client-side script that attacks machines elsewhere on the network. In theory, the same-origin policy prevents this from happening: client... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngameon | Syngameon refers to groups of taxa that frequently engage in natural hybridization and lack strong reproductive barriers that prevent interbreeding. Syngameons are more common in plants than animals, with approximately 25% of plant species and 10% of animal species producing natural hybrids. The most well known syngame... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt%20friction | Belt friction is a term describing the friction forces between a belt and a surface, such as a belt wrapped around a bollard. When a force applies a tension to one end of a belt or rope wrapped around a curved surface, the frictional force between the two surfaces increases with the amount of wrap about the curved surf... |
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