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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20Volume%20Detector | The Large Volume Detector (LVD) is a particle physics experiment situated in the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy and is operated by the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). It has been in operation since June 1992, and is a member of the Supernova Early Warning System. Among other work, the detector should be a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%27s%20principle | In mathematics, and particularly in potential theory, Dirichlet's principle is the assumption that the minimizer of a certain energy functional is a solution to Poisson's equation.
Formal statement
Dirichlet's principle states that, if the function is the solution to Poisson's equation
on a domain of with boundar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20acoustic%20sensing | Rayleigh scattering based distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems use fiber optic cables to provide distributed strain sensing. In DAS, the optical fiber cable becomes the sensing element and measurements are made, and in part processed, using an attached optoelectronic device. Such a system allows acoustic frequenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic%20image%20processing | Crystallographic image processing (CIP) is traditionally understood as being a set of key steps in the determination of the atomic structure of crystalline matter from high-resolution electron microscopy (HREM) images obtained in a transmission electron microscope (TEM) that is run in the parallel illumination mode. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus%20pinophilus | Boletus pinophilus, commonly known as the pine bolete or pinewood king bolete, is a basidiomycete fungus of the genus Boletus found throughout Europe and western Asia. Described by Italian naturalist Carlo Vittadini in 1835, B. pinophilus was for many years considered a subspecies or form of the porcini mushroom B. edu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlterEgo | AlterEgo is a wearable silent speech output-input device developed by MIT Media Lab. The device is attached around the head, neck, and jawline and translates your brain speech center impulse input into words on a computer, without vocalization.
Description
The device consists of 7 small electrodes that attach at vario... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-logical%20symbol | In logic, the formal languages used to create expressions consist of symbols, which can be broadly divided into constants and variables. The constants of a language can further be divided into logical symbols and non-logical symbols (sometimes also called logical and non-logical constants).
The non-logical symbols of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucigel | Mucigel is a slimy substance that covers the root cap of the roots of plants. It is a highly hydrated polysaccharide, most likely a pectin, which is secreted from the outermost (epidermal) cells of the rootcap. Mucigel is formed in the Golgi bodies of such cells, and is secreted through the process of exocytosis. The l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension%20%28dynamical%20systems%29 | Suspension is a construction passing from a map to a flow. Namely, let be a metric space, be a continuous map and be a function (roof function or ceiling function) bounded away from 0. Consider the quotient space:
The suspension of with roof function is the semiflow induced by the time translation .
If , then t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20II%20pyridoxal-dependent%20decarboxylases | In molecular biology, group II pyridoxal-dependent decarboxylases are family of enzymes including aromatic-L-amino-acid decarboxylase (L-dopa decarboxylase or tryptophan decarboxylase) , which catalyses the decarboxylation of tryptophan to tryptamine, tyrosine decarboxylase , which converts tyrosine into tyramine and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Michigan%20Library | The University of Michigan Library is the academic library system of the University of Michigan. The university's 38 constituent and affiliated libraries together make it the second largest research library by number of volumes in the United States.
As of 2019–20, the University Library contained more than 14,543,814 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20Light%20Output | Color Light Output (CLO), also known as Color Brightness, is a specification that provides information on a projector’s ability to reproduce color. Color Light Output is specified in the lumen unit and measures a color projection system's ability to correctly reproduce color brightness.
Objective
The Color Light Outpu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romaleosyrphus%20villosus | The name Romaleosyrphus villosus was published by Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot in 1882, in reference to a species of hoverfly from Mexico.
Unfortunately, its name has been confused with the name of a related species described from the United States, which was originally described as Merapioidus villosus, published in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloramine-T | Chloramine-T is the organic compound with the formula CH3C6H4SO2NClNa. Both the anhydrous salt and its trihydrate are known. Both are white powders. Chloramine-T is used as a reagent in organic synthesis. It is commonly used as cyclizing agent in the synthesis of aziridine, oxadiazole, isoxazole and pyrazoles. It's in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible%20Configuration%20Checklist%20Description%20Format | The Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) is an XML format specifying security checklists, benchmarks and configuration documentation.
XCCDF development is being pursued by NIST, the NSA, The MITRE Corporation, and the US Department of Homeland Security.
XCCDF is intended to serve as a repla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralepistopsis%20amoenolens | Paralepistopsis amoenolens is an agaric fungus in the Tricholomataceae family. It is commonly known as the paralysis funnel.
Taxonomy
It was first described in 1975 by the French mycologist Georges Jean Louis Malençon from a specimen found in Morocco and classified as Clitocybe amoenolens.
In 2012, following DNA ana... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Green%20%28mathematician%29 | George Green (14 July 1793 – 31 May 1841) was a British mathematical physicist who wrote An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism in 1828. The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to the modern Green's theorem, the idea of pot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20species%20abundance | Relative species abundance is a component of biodiversity and is a measure of how common or rare a species is relative to other species in a defined location or community. Relative abundance is the percent composition of an organism of a particular kind relative to the total number of organisms in the area. Relative sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent%20definitions%20of%20mathematical%20structures | In mathematics, equivalent definitions are used in two somewhat different ways. First, within a particular mathematical theory (for example, Euclidean geometry), a notion (for example, ellipse or minimal surface) may have more than one definition. These definitions are equivalent in the context of a given mathematical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displair |
Displair is a 3D interactive raster display technology developed by a Russian company of the same name. The Displair projects images onto sheets of water droplets suspended in air, giving the illusion of a hologram. Unlike other cold fog projecting technologies, the images projected by the Displair can also respond r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20dysfunction | Sexual dysfunction is difficulty experienced by an individual or partners during any stage of normal sexual activity, including physical pleasure, desire, preference, arousal, or orgasm. The World Health Organization defines sexual dysfunction as a "person's inability to participate in a sexual relationship as they wou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Server%202016 | Windows Server 2016 is the eighth release of the Windows Server operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was developed alongside Windows 10 and is the successor to the Windows 8.1-based Windows Server 2012 R2. The first early preview version (Technical Preview) b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational%20transconductance%20amplifier | The operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is an amplifier whose differential input voltage produces an output current. Thus, it is a voltage controlled current source (VCCS). There is usually an additional input for a current to control the amplifier's transconductance. The OTA is similar to a standard operation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedicine | Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine) is a branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice. Biomedicine stresses standardized, evidence-based treatment validated through biological research, with treatment ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection%20mechanism | In computer science, protection mechanisms are built into a computer architecture to support the enforcement of security policies. A simple definition of a security policy is "to set who may use what information in a computer system".
The access matrix model, first introduced in 1971, is a generalized description of o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s%20finches | Darwin's finches (also known as the Galápagos finches) are a group of about 18 species of passerine birds. They are well known for their remarkable diversity in beak form and function. They are often classified as the subfamily Geospizinae or tribe Geospizini. They belong to the tanager family and are not closely relat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliance%20constants | Compliance constants are the elements of an inverted Hessian matrix. The calculation of compliance constants provides an alternative description of chemical bonds in comparison with the widely used force constants explicitly ruling out the dependency on the coordinate system. They provide the unique description of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate%20permease | Phosphate permeases are membrane transport proteins that facilitate the diffusion of phosphate into and out of a cell or organelle. Some of these families include:
TC# 2.A.1.4 - Organophosphate:Pi Antiporter (OPA) Family, (i.e., Pho-84 of Neurospora crassa; TC# 2.A.1.9.2)
TC# 2.A.20 - Inorganic Phosphate Transporter ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle%20audio | Vehicle audio is equipment installed in a car or other vehicle to provide in-car entertainment and information for the vehicle occupants. Until the 1950s it consisted of a simple AM radio. Additions since then have included FM radio (1952), 8-track tape players, cassette players, record players, CD players, DVD players... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20set | In the context of complex dynamics, a branch of mathematics, the Julia set and the Fatou set are two complementary sets (Julia "laces" and Fatou "dusts") defined from a function. Informally, the Fatou set of the function consists of values with the property that all nearby values behave similarly under repeated iterati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery%20pack | A battery pack is a set of any number of (preferably) identical batteries or individual battery cells. They may be configured in a series, parallel or a mixture of both to deliver the desired voltage, capacity, or power density. The term battery pack is often used in reference to cordless tools, radio-controlled hobby ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehesa | A dehesa () is a multifunctional, agrosylvopastoral system (a type of agroforestry) and cultural landscape of southern and central Spain and southern Portugal; in Portugal, it is known as a montado. Its name comes from the Latin defensa (fenced), referring to land that was fenced and usually destined for pasture. Dehes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR%20algorithm | In numerical linear algebra, the QR algorithm or QR iteration is an eigenvalue algorithm: that is, a procedure to calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix. The QR algorithm was developed in the late 1950s by John G. F. Francis and by Vera N. Kublanovskaya, working independently. The basic idea is to perf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20T.%20Whittaker | Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (24 October 1873 – 24 March 1956) was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Whittaker was a leading mathematical scholar of the early 20th-century who contributed widely to applied mathematics and was renowned for his research in mathematical physics and numerical an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replisome | The replisome is a complex molecular machine that carries out replication of DNA. The replisome first unwinds double stranded DNA into two single strands. For each of the resulting single strands, a new complementary sequence of DNA is synthesized. The total result is formation of two new double stranded DNA sequenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20lemma%20of%20sieve%20theory | In number theory, the fundamental lemma of sieve theory is any of several results that systematize the process of applying sieve methods to particular problems. Halberstam & Richert
write:
Diamond & Halberstam
attribute the terminology Fundamental Lemma to Jonas Kubilius.
Common notation
We use these notations:
is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courant%E2%80%93Snyder%20parameters | In accelerator physics, the Courant–Snyder parameters (frequently referred to as Twiss parameters or CS parameters) are a set of quantities used to describe the distribution of positions and velocities of the particles in a beam. When the positions along a single dimension and velocities (or momenta) along that dimensi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox | Matrox Graphics, Inc. is a producer of video card components and equipment for personal computers and workstations. Based in Dorval, Quebec, Canada, it was founded in 1976 by Lorne Trottier and Branko Matić. The name is derived from "Ma" in Matić and "Tro" in Trottier.
Company
Matrox Graphics, Inc., the entity most ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Livio | Mario Livio (born June 19, 1945) is an Israeli-American astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. For 24 years (1991–2015) he was an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope. He has published more than 400 scientific articles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINE1 | LINE1 (also L1 and LINE-1) is a family of related class I transposable elements in the DNA of some organisms, classified with the long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs). L1 transposons comprise approximately 17% of the human genome. These active L1s can interrupt the genome through insertions, deletions, rearrangem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectronics | Bioelectronics is a field of research in the convergence of biology and electronics.
Definitions
At the first C.E.C. Workshop, in Brussels in November 1991, bioelectronics was defined as 'the use of biological materials and biological architectures for information processing systems and new devices'. Bioelectronics, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbroath%20smokie | The Arbroath smokie is a type of smoked haddock, and is a speciality of the town of Arbroath in Angus, Scotland.
History
The Arbroath smokie is said to have originated in the small fishing village of Auchmithie, three miles northeast of Arbroath. Local legend has it a store caught fire one night, destroying barrels o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaz%20Barak | Boaz Barak (בועז ברק, born 1974) is an Israeli-American professor of computer science at Harvard University.
Early life and education
He graduated in 1999 with a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University. In 2004, he received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science with thesis Non-Bla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation%20of%20uncertainty | In statistics, propagation of uncertainty (or propagation of error) is the effect of variables' uncertainties (or errors, more specifically random errors) on the uncertainty of a function based on them. When the variables are the values of experimental measurements they have uncertainties due to measurement limitations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage%20Manifolds | SageManifolds (following styling of SageMath) is an extension fully integrated into SageMath, to be used as a package for differential geometry and tensor calculus. The official page for the project is sagemanifolds.obspm.fr. It can be used on CoCalc.
SageManifolds deals with differentiable manifolds of arbitrary dime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary%20search | A ternary search algorithm is a technique in computer science for finding the minimum or maximum of a unimodal function.
The function
Assume we are looking for a maximum of and that we know the maximum lies somewhere between and . For the algorithm to be applicable, there must be some value such that
for all wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouch%C3%A9%E2%80%93Capelli%20theorem | In linear algebra, the Rouché–Capelli theorem determines the number of solutions for a system of linear equations, given the rank of its augmented matrix and coefficient matrix. The theorem is variously known as the:
Rouché–Capelli theorem in English speaking countries, Italy and Brazil;
Kronecker–Capelli theorem in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20death | Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two criteria necessary to sustain the lives of human beings and of many other organisms. It occurs when the heart stops beating in a regular rhythm, a condition called cardiac arrest. The term is also sometimes used in resuscitatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenesis | Phylogenesis (from Greek φῦλον phylon "tribe" + γένεσις genesis "origin") is the biological process by which a taxon (of any rank) appears. The science that studies these processes is called phylogenetics.
These terms may be confused with the term phylogenetics, the application of molecular - analytical methods (i.e. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopropyl%20cyanide | Cyclopropyl cyanide is an organic compound consisting of a nitrile group as a substituent on a cyclopropane ring. It is the smallest cyclic compound containing a nitrile.
Structure
The structure of cyclopropyl cyanide has been determined by a variety of experiments, including microwave spectroscopy, rotational spectro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Stiff | Lee Vernon Stiff (February 4, 1949 - March 19, 2021) was an American mathematics education researcher; a professor in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education and the Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in the College of Education at North Carolina State University (NCSU... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel%20set%20theory | In set theory, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, named after mathematicians Ernst Zermelo and Abraham Fraenkel, is an axiomatic system that was proposed in the early twentieth century in order to formulate a theory of sets free of paradoxes such as Russell's paradox. Today, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, with the historicall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20expression%20tree | A binary expression tree is a specific kind of a binary tree used to represent expressions. Two common types of expressions that a binary expression tree can represent are algebraic and boolean. These trees can represent expressions that contain both unary and binary operators.
Like any binary tree, each node of a bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunebot | Tunebot is a music search engine developed by the Interactive Audio Lab at Northwestern University. Users can search the database by humming or singing a melody into a microphone, playing the melody on a virtual keyboard, or by typing some of the lyrics. This allows users to finally identify that song that was stuck in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zout%27s%20identity | In mathematics, Bézout's identity (also called Bézout's lemma), named after Étienne Bézout who proved it for polynomials, is the following theorem:
Here the greatest common divisor of and is taken to be . The integers and are called Bézout coefficients for ; they are not unique. A pair of Bézout coefficients can b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20House%20on%20Water | A House on Water is a book that explores the social and psychological impacts of temporary marriage and religious concubinage in Iran, researched and coordinated by Kameel Ahmady, a British-Iranian anthropologist and social researcher. The book is based on a research project that Ahmady and his team conducted between 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusis%20%28card%20game%29 | Eleusis is a shedding-type card game where one player chooses a secret rule to determine which cards can be played on top of others, and the other players attempt to determine the rule using inductive logic.
The game was invented by Robert Abbott in 1956, and was first published by Martin Gardner in his Mathematical G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraharmonic%20mean | In mathematics, a contraharmonic mean is a function complementary to the harmonic mean. The contraharmonic mean is a special case of the Lehmer mean, , where p = 2.
Definition
The contraharmonic mean of a set of positive numbers is defined as the arithmetic mean of the squares of the numbers divided by the arithmet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milivoje%20Kostic | Milivoje Kostic (also, Milivoje M. Kostic; in Serbian Cyrillic: Миливоје Костић; born 20 March 1952 in Bioska, Užice municipality, Yugoslavia), is a Serbian-American thermodynamicist and professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Northern Illinois University, Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Illinois, and Ed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20cell%20rate%20algorithm | The generic cell rate algorithm (GCRA) is a leaky bucket-type scheduling algorithm for the network scheduler that is used in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. It is used to measure the timing of cells on virtual channels (VCs) and or Virtual Paths (VPs) against bandwidth and jitter limits contained in a traffi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEgIS%20experiment | AEgIS (Antimatter Experiment: gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy), AD-6, is an experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator facility at CERN. Its primary goal is to measure directly the effect of Earth's gravitational field on antihydrogen atoms with significant precision. Indirect bounds that assume the validity of, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving%20physics | Diving physics, or the physics of underwater diving is the basic aspects of physics which describe the effects of the underwater environment on the underwater diver and their equipment, and the effects of blending, compressing, and storing breathing gas mixtures, and supplying them for use at ambient pressure. These ef... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%20bridge | A Maxwell bridge is a modification to a Wheatstone bridge used to measure an unknown inductance (usually of low Q value) in terms of calibrated resistance and inductance or resistance and capacitance. When the calibrated components are a parallel resistor and capacitor, the bridge is known as a Maxwell bridge. It is n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Kingdom | Grand Kingdom is a tactical role-playing video game developed by Monochrome Corporation for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. It was published by Spike Chunsoft in Japan in 2015, and NIS America in the West in 2016. Following a mercenary group in the employ of different nations formed in the wake of a collapsed e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole%20drilling%20method | The hole drilling method is a method for measuring residual stresses, in a material. Residual stress occurs in a material in the absence of external loads. Residual stress interacts with the applied loading on the material to affect the overall strength, fatigue, and corrosion performance of the material. Residual stre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20biological%20phosphorus%20removal | Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is a sewage treatment configuration applied to activated sludge systems for the removal of phosphate.
The common element in EBPR implementations is the presence of an anaerobic tank (nitrate and oxygen are absent) prior to the aeration tank. Under these conditions a group... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Kalton | Nigel John Kalton (June 20, 1946 – August 31, 2010) was a British-American mathematician, known for his contributions to functional analysis.
Career
Kalton was born in Bromley and educated at Dulwich College, where he excelled at both mathematics and chess. After studying mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20Hobana | Ion Hobana (25 January 1931, Sânnicolau Mare – 22 February 2011, Bucharest) was a Romanian science fiction writer, literary critic and ufologist. Ion Hobana is a literary pseudonym, the writer's real name being Aurelian Manta Roşie.
Bibliography
Science fiction
Ultimul val (novel; Editura Tineretului, 1957)
Caleido... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servage%20Hosting | Servage GmbH is a German web hosting provider headquartered in Flensburg, Germany. The company is doing business as Servage Hosting. The company is a subsidiary to the Swedish company Servage AB (publ). The corporate name Servage is an offspring of "Serve" and "Age". As such, the name equates to the company's branding ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigen | In general usage the word indigen is treated as a variant of the word indigene, meaning a native.
Usage in botany
However, it was used in a strictly botanical sense for the first time in 1918 by Liberty Hyde Bailey ((1858–1954) an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultura... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diederich%20Hinrichsen | Diederich Hinrichsen (born 17 February 1939) is a German mathematician who, together with Hans W. Knobloch, established the field of dynamical systems theory and control theory in Germany.
Life and work
Diederich Hinrichsen was born in 1939, and studied mathematics, physics, literature, philosophy, and economics from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blandford%E2%80%93Znajek%20process | The Blandford–Znajek process is a mechanism for the extraction of energy from a rotating black hole, introduced by Roger Blandford and Roman Znajek in 1977. This mechanism is the most preferred description of how astrophysical jets are formed around spinning supermassive black holes. This is one of the mechanisms that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability%20Theory%20and%20Related%20Fields | Probability Theory and Related Fields is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by Springer.
Established in 1962, it was originally named Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und verwandte Gebiete, with the English replacing the German starting from volume 71 (1986). The journal publishes articles on proba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20dichroism | Linear dichroism (LD) or diattenuation is the difference between absorption of light polarized parallel and polarized perpendicular to an orientation axis. It is the property of a material whose transmittance depends on the orientation of linearly polarized light incident upon it. As a technique, it is primarily used t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20entomology%20%E2%80%93%201850%E2%80%931900 | 1850
Edmond de Sélys Longchamps . 6:1–408.
Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky . I. Insecta Carabica. Russian beetles, Carabidae, Moscow: Gautier, published.
1851
Johann Fischer von Waldheim and Eduard Friedrich Eversmann publish (vol.5 of Johann Fischer von Waldheim. . Seminal work on Russian Lepidoptera.
Louis Agassiz.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compellent%20Technologies | Compellent Technologies, Inc., was an American manufacturer of enterprise computer data storage systems that provided block-level storage resources to small and medium sized IT infrastructures. The company was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Compellent's flagship product, Storage Center, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%208100 | The IBM 8100 Information System, announced Oct. 3, 1978, was at one time IBM’s principal distributed processing engine, providing local processing capability under two incompatible operating systems (DPPX and DPCX) and was a follow-on to the IBM 3790.
The 8100, when used with the Distributed Processing Programming Ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equals%20Pi | Equals Pi is a painting created by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982. The painting was published in GQ magazine in 1983 and W magazine in 2018.
History
Equals Pi was executed by Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982, which is considered his most coveted year. The robin egg blue painting contains Basquiat's signatur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps | Cordyceps is a genus of ascomycete fungi (sac fungi) that includes about 600 worldwide species. Diverse variants of cordyceps have had more than 1,500 years of use in Chinese medicine. Most Cordyceps species are endoparasitoids, parasitic mainly on insects and other arthropods (they are thus entomopathogenic fungi); ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextran%201 | Dextran 1 is a hapten inhibitor that greatly reduces the risk for anaphylactic reactions when administering dextran.
Mechanism
Dextran 1 is composed of a small fraction (1 kilodalton) of the entire dextran complex. This is enough to bind anti-dextran antibodies but insufficient to result in the formation of immune com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senescence-associated%20beta-galactosidase | Senescence-associated beta-galactosidase (SA-β-gal or SABG) is a hypothetical hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of β-galactosides into monosaccharides only in senescent cells. Senescence-associated beta-galactosidase, along with p16Ink4A, is regarded to be a biomarker of cellular senescence.
Its existence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelike%20homotopy | On a Lorentzian manifold, certain curves are distinguished as timelike. A timelike homotopy between two timelike curves is a homotopy such that each intermediate curve is timelike. No closed timelike curve (CTC) on a Lorentzian manifold is timelike homotopic to a point (that is, null timelike homotopic); such a manifol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20My%20Genes | In My Genes is a Kenyan 2009 documentary film directed, written, produced and edited by Lupita Nyong'o in her directing debut.
Synopsis
How does one live as a pale person in a dominantly black society? What does one feel being one of the most visible persons and, probably, one of the most ignored? Agnes, an albino wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Human%20Epigenomics%20Consortium | The International Human Epigenomics Consortium (IHEC) was launched in 2010 to coordinate global efforts in the field of epigenomics. IHEC aims to generate at least 1,000 reference baseline human epigenomes from different types of normal and disease-related human cell types. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative%20array | In computer science, an associative array, map, symbol table, or dictionary is an abstract data type that stores a collection of (key, value) pairs, such that each possible key appears at most once in the collection. In mathematical terms, an associative array is a function with finite domain. It supports 'lookup', 're... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed%20onset%20of%20lactation | Delayed onset of lactation (DOL) describes the absence of copious milk secretion (onset of lactation) within the first 72 hours following childbirth. It affects around 20–40% of lactating women, the prevalence differs among distinct populations.
The onset of lactation (OL), also referred to as stage II lactogenesis or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah%20Holliday%20Stewart | Hannah Holliday Stewart (January 25, 1924 – February 23, 2010) was an American abstract sculptor who was a prominent member of the Houston art scene and exhibited across the United States, including at the Smithsonian Institution. She was part of a generation of second-wave feminist artists who incorporated ancient myt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza%20Catherine%20Jelly | Eliza Catherine Jelly (28 September 1829 - 3 November 1914) was an English bryozoologist. She was one of the first women to work and publish in the field of bryozoology. Her 1889 text The Synonymic Catalogue of the Recent Marine Bryozoa is still used as a reference material.
Early life
Eliza Catherine Jelly was born ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulsum%20Asfendiyarova | Asfendiyarova Gulsum (November 12, 1880, Tashkent – November, 1937, Tashkent) – the first Kazakh woman medical doctor, organizer of the health care system in the Turkestan region, and teacher.
Life and career
The third daughter of Seitzhafar Asfendiyarov (great-grandson of Aishuak Khan, who ruled in the Younger Horda... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20University%20Institute%20for%20Genome%20Sciences%20and%20Policy | Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy (IGSP) is an institution established at Duke University to address the many issues in science and policy that the Genome Revolution and recent advances in Genome Science are expected to create. It is located in the CIEMAS building at Duke University and houses some well kno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNAi%20Global%20Initiative | The RNAi Global Initiative is an alliance of international biomedical researchers that has been established to increase and accelerate the utility of genome-wide RNAi libraries.
Genome-wide RNAi screening has the potential to fundamentally change biological research by increasing scientists' ability to understand dise... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAP%20gateway | A WAP gateway sits between mobile devices using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and the World Wide Web, passing pages from one to the other much like a proxy. This translates pages into a form suitable for the mobiles, for instance using the Wireless Markup Language (WML). This process is hidden from the phone,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyssal%20zone | The abyssal zone or abyssopelagic zone is a layer of the pelagic zone of the ocean. The word abyss comes from the Greek word (), meaning "bottomless". At depths of , this zone remains in perpetual darkness. It covers 83% of the total area of the ocean and 60% of Earth's surface. The abyssal zone has temperatures aroun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%20criteria | The McDonald criteria are diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis (MS). These criteria are named after neurologist W. Ian McDonald who directed an international panel in association with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) of America and recommended revised diagnostic criteria for MS in April 2001. These ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nd%3AYAG%20laser | Nd:YAG (neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet; Nd:Y3Al5O12) is a crystal that is used as a lasing medium for solid-state lasers. The dopant, triply ionized neodymium, Nd(III), typically replaces a small fraction (1%) of the yttrium ions in the host crystal structure of the yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG), since the tw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic%20evolution | Mosaic evolution (or modular evolution) is the concept, mainly from palaeontology, that evolutionary change takes place in some body parts or systems without simultaneous changes in other parts. Another definition is the "evolution of characters at various rates both within and between species".408 Its place in evoluti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYK-8 | The AN/UYK-8 was a UNIVAC computer.
Development
In April 1967, UNIVAC received a contract from the U.S. Navy for design, development, testing and delivery of the AN/UYK-8 microelectronics computer for use with the AN/TYA-20.
The AN/UYK-8 was built to replace the CP-808 (Marine Corps air cooled AN/USQ-20 variant) in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous%20satellite | A geosynchronous satellite is a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, with an orbital period the same as the Earth's rotation period. Such a satellite returns to the same position in the sky after each sidereal day, and over the course of a day traces out a path in the sky that is typically some form of analemma. A specia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungermann-Bass | Ungermann-Bass, also known as UB and UB Networks, was a computer networking company in the 1980s to 1990s. Located in Santa Clara, California, UB was the first large networking company independent of any computer manufacturer. Along with competitors 3Com and Sytek, UB was responsible for starting the networking busines... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%27s%20dichotomy | In descriptive set theory, a branch of mathematics, Silver's dichotomy (also known as Silver's theorem) is a statement about equivalence relations, named after Jack Silver.
Statement and history
A relation is said to be coanalytic if its complement is an analytic set. Silver's dichotomy is a statement about the equiva... |
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