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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complication%20%28medicine%29 | A complication in medicine, or medical complication, is an unfavorable result of a disease, health condition, or treatment. Complications may adversely affect the prognosis, or outcome, of a disease. Complications generally involve a worsening in the severity of the disease or the development of new signs, symptoms, or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop%20sign | A stop sign is a traffic sign designed to notify drivers that they must come to a complete stop and make sure the intersection is safely clear of vehicles and pedestrians before continuing past the sign. In many countries, the sign is a red octagon with the word STOP, in either English or the national language of that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified%20wireless%20network%20expert | The Certified Wireless Network Expert (CWNE) is the highest level certification in the CWNP program started in 2001 by Planet3 Wireless. It certifies the ability to design, install, secure, optimize and troubleshoot IEEE 802.11 wireless networks.
Certification track
The CWNE credential is the final step in a four-lev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek%20%28bear%29 | Wojtek (1942 – 2 December 1963; ; in English, sometimes phonetically spelled Voytek and pronounced as such) was a Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus) bought, as a young cub, at a railway station in Hamadan, Iran, by Polish II Corps soldiers who had been evacuated from the Soviet Union. In order to provide for his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamyl%20acetate | Cinnamyl acetate (3-phenylprop-2-enyl acetate) is a chemical compound of the cinnamyl ester family, in which the variable R group is substituted by a methyl group. As a result of the non-aromatic carbon-carbon double bond, cinnamyl acetate can exist in a Z and an E configuration:
Cinnamyl acetate naturally occurs in f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Intel%20graphics%20processing%20units | This article contains information about Intel's GPUs (see Intel Graphics Technology) and motherboard graphics chipsets in table form. In 1982, Intel licensed the NEC μPD7220 and announced it as the Intel 82720 Graphics Display Controller.
First generation
Intel's first generation GPUs:
Second generation
Intel mark... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20Network%20%281975%20TV%20program%29 | The NHL Network was an American television syndication package that broadcast National Hockey League games from the through seasons. The NHL Network was distributed by the Hughes Television Network.
Conception
After being dropped by NBC after the season, the NHL had no national television contract in the United Sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal%20zone%20color%20scanner | The coastal zone color scanner (CZCS) was a multi-channel scanning radiometer aboard the Nimbus 7 satellite, predominately designed for water remote sensing. Nimbus 7 was launched 24 October 1978, and CZCS became operational on 2 November 1978. It was only designed to operate for one year (as a proof-of-concept), but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20%28ecology%29 | In ecology, a community is a group or association of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area at the same time, also known as a biocoenosis, biotic community, biological community, ecological community, or life assemblage. The term community has a variety of uses. In its simples... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMulator | ARM Instruction Set Simulator, also known as ARMulator, is one of the software development tools provided by the development systems business unit of ARM Limited to all users of ARM-based chips. It owes its heritage to the early development of the instruction set by Sophie Wilson. Part of this heritage is still visib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%E2%80%93Potter%20set%20theory | An approach to the foundations of mathematics that is of relatively recent origin, Scott–Potter set theory is a collection of nested axiomatic set theories set out by the philosopher Michael Potter, building on earlier work by the mathematician Dana Scott and the philosopher George Boolos.
Potter (1990, 2004) clarifie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20square | The shadow square, also known as an altitude scale, was an instrument used to determine the linear height of an object, in conjunction with the alidade, for angular observations. An early example was described in an Arabic treatise likely dating to 9th or 10th-century Baghdad. Shadow squares are often found on the back... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20impedance | Image impedance is a concept used in electronic network design and analysis and most especially in filter design. The term image impedance applies to the impedance seen looking into a port of a network. Usually a two-port network is implied but the concept can be extended to networks with more than two ports. The def... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross%20%28unit%29 | In English and related languages, several terms involving the words "great" or "gross" relate to numbers involving a multiple of exponents of twelve (dozen):
A gross refers to a group of 144 items (a dozen dozen or a square dozen, 122).
A great gross refers to a group of 1,728 items (a dozen gross or a cubic dozen, 123... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroallergen | An aeroallergen (pronounced aer·o·al·ler·gen) is any airborne substance, such as pollen or spores, which triggers an allergic reaction.
Pollens
Aeroallergens include the pollens of specific seasonal plants is commonly known as "hay fever", because it is most prevalent during haying season, from late May to the end of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doves%20as%20symbols | Doves, typically domestic pigeons white in plumage, are used in many settings as symbols of peace, freedom, or love. Doves appear in the symbolism of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and paganism, and of both military and pacifist groups.
Mythology
In ancient Mesopotamia, doves were prominent animal symbols of Inanna-Ish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endothelium-derived%20hyperpolarizing%20factor | In blood vessels Endothelium-Derived Hyperpolarizing Factor or EDHF is proposed to be a substance and/or electrical signal that is generated or synthesized in and released from the endothelium; its action is to hyperpolarize vascular smooth muscle cells, causing these cells to relax, thus allowing the blood vessel to e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passwd | passwd is a command on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and most Unix-like operating systems used to change a user's password. The password entered by the user is run through a key derivation function to create a hashed version of the new password, which is saved. Only the hashed version is stored; the entered password is not sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teardrop%20%28electronics%29 | A teardrop is typically drop-shaped feature on a printed circuit board and can be found on the junction of vias or contact pads.
Purpose
The main purpose of teardrops is to enhance structural integrity in presence of thermal or mechanical stresses, for example due to vibration or flexing. Structural integrity may be c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback%20linearization | Feedback linearization is a common strategy employed in nonlinear control to control nonlinear systems. Feedback linearization techniques may be applied to nonlinear control systems of the form
where is the state, are the inputs. The approach involves transforming a nonlinear control system into an equivalent linear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20abundance%20distribution | In ecology the relative abundance distribution (RAD) or species abundance distribution species abundance distribution (SAD) describes the relationship between the number of species observed in a field study as a function of their observed abundance. The SAD is one of ecology's oldest and most universal laws – every co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin%20prime | In number theory, cousin primes are prime numbers that differ by four. Compare this with twin primes, pairs of prime numbers that differ by two, and sexy primes, pairs of prime numbers that differ by six.
The cousin primes (sequences and in OEIS) below 1000 are:
(3, 7), (7, 11), (13, 17), (19, 23), (37, 41), (43, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Services%20Flow%20Language | Web Services Flow Language 1.0 (WSFL) was an XML programming language proposed by IBM in 2001 for describing Web services compositions. Language considered two types of compositions. The first type was for describing business processes as a collection of web services and the second was for describing interactions betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates%20shuffle | The Fisher–Yates shuffle is an algorithm for shuffling a finite sequence. The algorithm takes a list of all the elements of the sequence, and continually determines the next element in the shuffled sequence by randomly drawing an element from the list until no elements remain. The algorithm produces an unbiased permuta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOPIPE | DOPIPE parallelism is a method to perform loop-level parallelism by pipelining the statements in a loop. Pipelined parallelism may exist at different levels of abstraction like loops, functions and algorithmic stages. The extent of parallelism depends upon the programmers' ability to make best use of this concept. It a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-Local%20Multicast%20Name%20Resolution | The Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) is a protocol based on the Domain Name System (DNS) packet format that allows both IPv4 and IPv6 hosts to perform name resolution for hosts on the same local link. It is included in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. It is also imple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20pack | A radio pack is mainly used for musicians such as guitarists and singers for live performances. It is a small radio transmitter that is either placed in the strap or in the pocket. The receiver is connected to an amp or PA system and the user simply connects the transmitter into the instrument. By using a wireless syst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localized%20Chern%20class | In algebraic geometry, a localized Chern class is a variant of a Chern class, that is defined for a chain complex of vector bundles as opposed to a single vector bundle. It was originally introduced in Fulton's intersection theory, as an algebraic counterpart of the similar construction in algebraic topology. The notio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoglossal%20trigone | In the upper part of the medulla oblongata, the hypoglossal nucleus approaches the rhomboid fossa, where it lies close to the middle line, under an eminence named the hypoglossal trigone. It is a slight elevation in the floor of the inferior recess of the fourth ventricle, beneath which is the nucleus of origin of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydroprogesterone | Dihydroprogesterone may refer to:
5α-Dihydroprogesterone
5β-Dihydroprogesterone
20α-Dihydroprogesterone (20α-hydroxyprogesterone)
20β-Dihydroprogesterone (20β-hydroxyprogesterone)
3α-Dihydroprogesterone
3β-Dihydroprogesterone
17α,21-Dihydroprogesterone (11-deoxycortisol)
11β,21-Dihydroprogesterone (corticoster... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20G%C3%A5rding | Lars Gårding (7 March 1919 – 7 July 2014) was a Swedish mathematician. He made notable contributions to the study of partial differential equations and partial differential operators. He was a professor of mathematics at Lund University in Sweden 1952–1984. Together with Marcel Riesz, he was a thesis advisor for Lars H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minacovirus | Minacovirus is a subgenus of viruses in the genus Alphacoronavirus, consisting of a single species, Mink coronavirus 1. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20equation | In mathematics and physics, the heat equation is a certain partial differential equation. Solutions of the heat equation are sometimes known as caloric functions. The theory of the heat equation was first developed by Joseph Fourier in 1822 for the purpose of modeling how a quantity such as heat diffuses through a give... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubroboletus%20satanas | Rubroboletus satanas, commonly known as Satan's bolete or the Devil's bolete, is a basidiomycete fungus of the bolete family (Boletaceae) and one of its most infamous members. It was known as Boletus satanas before its transfer to the new genus Rubroboletus in 2014, based on molecular phylogenetic data. Found in broad-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20CTL | Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic (PCTL) is an extension of computation tree logic (CTL) that allows for probabilistic quantification of described properties. It has been defined in the paper by Hansson and Jonsson.
PCTL is a useful logic for stating soft deadline properties, e.g. "after a request for a service, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregated%20indices%20randomization%20method | In applied mathematics and decision making, the aggregated indices randomization method (AIRM) is a modification of a well-known aggregated indices method, targeting complex objects subjected to multi-criteria estimation under uncertainty. AIRM was first developed by the Russian naval applied mathematician Aleksey Kry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernhurst%20Research%20Station | The Fernhurst Research Station was a crop protection chemical research institute in West Sussex, mainly run by ICI, for the fruit industry. The site is to the east of the A286, around a mile south of the village of Fernhurst and a mile north of the Haslemere to Petersfield Serpent Trail.
History
Plant Protection Limit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q0%20%28mathematical%20logic%29 | Q0 is Peter Andrews' formulation of the simply-typed lambda calculus,
and provides a foundation for mathematics comparable to first-order logic plus set theory.
It is a form of higher-order logic and closely related to the logics of the
HOL theorem prover family.
The theorem proving systems TPS and ETPS
are based on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN%20%28operating%20system%29 | The SPIN operating system is a research project implemented in the computer programming language Modula-3, and is an open source project. It is designed with three goals: flexibility, safety, and performance. SPIN was developed at the University of Washington.
The kernel can be extended by dynamic loading of modules w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/128-bit%20computing | General home computing and gaming utility emerged at 8-bit (but not at 1-bit or 4-bit) word sizes, as 28=256 words become possible. Thus, early 8-bit CPUs (Zilog Z80, 6502, Intel 8088 introduced 1976-1981 by Commodore, Tandy Corporation, Apple and IBM) inaugurated the era of personal computing. Many 16-bit CPUs already... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink%20%28computing%29 | In computing, a sink, or data sink generally refers to the destination of data flow.
The word sink has multiple uses in computing. In software engineering, an event sink is a class or function that receives events from another object or function, while a sink can also refer to a node of a directed acyclic graph with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoarchy | Homoarchy is "the relation of elements to one another when they are rigidly ranked one way only, and thus possess no (or not more than very limited) potential for being unranked or ranked in another or a number of different ways at least without cardinal reshaping of the whole socio-political order."
Homoarchy and Het... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentially%20surjective%20functor | In mathematics, specifically in category theory, a functor
is essentially surjective (or dense) if each object of is isomorphic to an object of the form for some object of .
Any functor that is part of an equivalence of categories is essentially surjective. As a partial converse, any full and faithful functor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight%20and%20Crooked%20Thinking | Straight and Crooked Thinking, first published in 1930 and revised in 1953, is a book by Robert H. Thouless which describes, assesses and critically analyses flaws in reasoning and argument. Thouless describes it as a practical manual, rather than a theoretical one.
Synopsis
Thirty-eight fallacies are discussed in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chargaff%27s%20rules | Chargaff's rules [given by Erwin Chargaff] states that in the DNA of any species and any organism, the amount of guanine should be equal to the amount of cytosine and the amount of adenine should be equal to the amount of thymine. Further a 1:1 stoichiometric ratio of purine and pyrimidine bases (i.e., A+G=T+C) should ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20equation | In mathematics, integral equations are equations in which an unknown function appears under an integral sign. In mathematical notation, integral equations may thus be expressed as being of the form: where is an integral operator acting on u. Hence, integral equations may be viewed as the analog to differential equatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleson%E2%80%93Jacobs%20theorem | In mathematics, the Carleson–Jacobs theorem, introduced by , describes the best approximation to a continuous function on the unit circle by a function in a Hardy space.
Notes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20change%20lifting | In mathematics, base change lifting is a method of constructing new automorphic forms from old ones, that corresponds in Langlands philosophy to the operation of restricting a representation of a Galois group to a subgroup.
The Doi–Naganuma lifting from 1967 was a precursor of the base change lifting. Base change lif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectoprostatic%20fascia | The rectoprostatic fascia (Denonvilliers' fascia) is a membranous partition at the lowest part of the rectovesical pouch. It separates the prostate and urinary bladder from the rectum. It consists of a single fibromuscular structure with several layers that are fused together and covering the seminal vesicles. It is al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic%20wave%20equations | In physics, specifically relativistic quantum mechanics (RQM) and its applications to particle physics, relativistic wave equations predict the behavior of particles at high energies and velocities comparable to the speed of light. In the context of quantum field theory (QFT), the equations determine the dynamics of qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT%20Port%20Mapping%20Protocol | NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP) is a network protocol for establishing network address translation (NAT) settings and port forwarding configurations automatically without user effort. The protocol automatically determines the external IPv4 address of a NAT gateway, and provides means for an application to communica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niven%27s%20constant | In number theory, Niven's constant, named after Ivan Niven, is the largest exponent appearing in the prime factorization of any natural number n "on average". More precisely, if we define H(1) = 1 and H(n) = the largest exponent appearing in the unique prime factorization of a natural number n > 1, then Niven's constan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20motif | In biology, a sequence motif is a nucleotide or amino-acid sequence pattern that is widespread and usually assumed to be related to biological function of the macromolecule. For example, an N-glycosylation site motif can be defined as Asn, followed by anything but Pro, followed by either Ser or Thr, followed by anythin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexipedia | Lexipedia is an online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus reference functionality built on Vantage Learning's Multilingual ConceptNet. Lexipedia presents words with their semantic relationships displayed in an animated visual word web. Lexipedia contains an expanded version of the English Wordnet and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20and%20Beverage%20Workers%27%20Union | The Food and Beverage Workers' Union was a trade union representing workers in the food processing industry in South Africa.
The union was established in 1979 by Skakes Sikhakhane, after he had lost re-election as general secretary of the Sweet, Food and Allied Workers' Union. In 1980, it was a founding affiliate of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence%20Information%20Infrastructure | Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) is a secure military network owned by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence MOD. It is used by all branches of the armed forces, including the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force as well as MOD civil servants. It reaches to deployed bases and ships at sea, but not ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20accessory | A television accessory (TV accessory) is an accessory that is used in conjunction with a television (TV) or other compatible display devices and is intended to either improve the user experience or to offer new possibilities of using it.
History
It is difficult to say when the very first TV accessory was invented or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hering%E2%80%93Hillebrand%20deviation | The Hering–Hillebrand deviation describes the mismatch between the theoretical and empirical horopter. The horopter is the set of points that projects at the same location in the two retinae (i.e. that have the same visual direction). Geometrically the horopter is a circle passing through the nodal point of the two eye... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCchi%20arithmetic | Büchi arithmetic of base k is the first-order theory of the natural numbers with addition and the function which is defined as the largest power of k dividing x, named in honor of the Swiss mathematician Julius Richard Büchi. The signature of Büchi arithmetic contains only the addition operation, and equality, omitti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume%20of%20an%20n-ball | In geometry, a ball is a region in a space comprising all points within a fixed distance, called the radius, from a given point; that is, it is the region enclosed by a sphere or hypersphere. An -ball is a ball in an -dimensional Euclidean space. The volume of a -ball is the Lebesgue measure of this ball, which general... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative%20diffusion | Collaborative Diffusion is a type of pathfinding algorithm which uses the concept of antiobjects, objects within a computer program that function opposite to what would be conventionally expected. Collaborative Diffusion is typically used in video games, when multiple agents must path towards a single target agent. For... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribimaximal%20mixing | Tribimaximal mixing is a specific postulated form for the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata (PMNS) lepton mixing matrix U. Tribimaximal mixing is defined by a particular choice of the matrix of moduli-squared of the elements of the PMNS matrix as follows:
This mixing is historically interesting as it is quite close to r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20converter | A phase converter is a device that converts electric power provided as single phase to multiple phase or vice versa. The majority of phase converters are used to produce three-phase electric power from a single-phase source, thus allowing the operation of three-phase equipment at a site that only has single-phase elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psophometric%20weighting | Psophometric weighting refers to any weighting curve used in the measurement of noise. In the field of audio engineering it has a more specific meaning, referring to noise weightings used especially in measuring noise on telecommunications circuits. Key standards are ITU-T O.41 and C-message weighting as shown here.
U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhatnagar%E2%80%93Gross%E2%80%93Krook%20operator | The Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook operator (abbreviated BGK operator) term refers to a collision operator used in the Boltzmann equation and in the lattice Boltzmann method, a computational fluid dynamics technique. It is given by the following formula:
where is a local equilibrium value for the population of particles in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approach%20and%20departure%20angles | Approach angle is the maximum angle of a ramp onto which a vehicle can climb from a horizontal plane without interference. It is defined as the angle between the ground and the line drawn between the front tire and the lowest-hanging part of the vehicle at the front overhang. Departure angle is its counterpart at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20pressure | Internal pressure is a measure of how the internal energy of a system changes when it expands or contracts at constant temperature. It has the same dimensions as pressure, the SI unit of which is the pascal.
Internal pressure is usually given the symbol . It is defined as a partial derivative of internal energy with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Overton | Michael L. Overton is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
He is the Silver Professor of Computer Science and former Chair of the Computer Science department at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. His research interests are in
Numerical Analysis, Optimization, and Scientific Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirator%20diplomacy%20of%20Taiwan | Respirator diplomacy of Taiwan refers to the exchange of masks between Taiwan and other countries, aimed to help the Global Coronavirus Response.
Background
After the outbreak of COVID-19, the global demand for face masks increased rapidly. By the end of January 2020, the Taiwanese Government pushed out a series of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleon%20magnetic%20moment | The nucleon magnetic moments are the intrinsic magnetic dipole moments of the proton and neutron, symbols μp and μn. The nucleus of an atom comprises protons and neutrons, both nucleons that behave as small magnets. Their magnetic strengths are measured by their magnetic moments. The nucleons interact with normal matt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw%20wine | Straw wine, or raisin wine, is a wine made from grapes that have been dried off the vine to concentrate their juice. Under the classic method, after a careful hand harvest, selected bunches of ripe grapes will be laid out on mats in full sun. (Originally the mats were made of straw, but these days the plastic nets for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement%20of%20biodiversity | Conservation biologists have designed a variety of objective means to empirically measure biodiversity. Each measure of biodiversity relates to a particular use of the data. For practical conservationists, measurements should include . For others, a more economically defensible definition should allow the ensuring of c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVCMOS | Low voltage complementary metal oxide semiconductor (LVCMOS) is a low voltage class of CMOS technology digital integrated circuits.
Overview
To obtain better performance and lower costs, semiconductor manufacturers reduce the device geometries of integrated circuits. With each reduction the associated operating volta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20classification | Soil classification deals with the systematic categorization of soils based on distinguishing characteristics as well as criteria that dictate choices in use.
Overview
Soil classification is a dynamic subject, from the structure of the system, to the definitions of classes, to the application in the field. Soil class... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20McKinsey | Daniel Nicholas McKinsey is an American experimental physicist. McKinsey is a leader in the field of direct searches for dark matter interactions, and serves as Co-Spokesperson of the
Large Underground Xenon experiment. and is an Executive Committee member of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment. He serves as Director and Princi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apamin | Apamin is an 18 amino acid globular peptide neurotoxin found in apitoxin (bee venom). Dry bee venom consists of 2–3% of apamin. Apamin selectively blocks SK channels, a type of Ca2+-activated K+ channel expressed in the central nervous system. Toxicity is caused by only a few amino acids, in particular cysteine1, lysi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roark%27s%20Formulas%20for%20Stress%20and%20Strain | Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain is a mechanical engineering design book written by Richard G. Budynas and Ali M. Sadegh. It was first published in 1938 and the most current ninth edition was published in March 2020.
Subjects
The book covers various subjects, including bearing and shear stress, experimental stre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheintaler%20Ribelmais | Rheintaler Ribelmais, Rheintaler Ribel or Türggenribel is a ground product that is made from a traditional type of maize grown in the Swiss Rhine Valley and Liechtenstein. Since summer 2000, Rheintaler Ribel AOP (formerly AOC) has been the only Swiss cereal product with a protected geographical indication. The name Rib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergus%20W.%20Campbell | Fergus William Campbell (30 January 1924 – 3 May 1993) was a Scottish
vision scientist who conducted foundational research into the optics of the human eye, into the electrical activity of the brains of people experiencing various phenomena of vision, and into the sorts of images which, when shown to people, might reve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltrami%20equation | In mathematics, the Beltrami equation, named after Eugenio Beltrami, is the partial differential equation
for w a complex distribution of the complex variable z in some open set U, with derivatives that are locally L2, and where μ is a given complex function in L∞(U) of norm less than 1, called the Beltrami coefficien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevo%20Todor%C4%8Devi%C4%87 | Stevo Todorčević (; born February 9, 1955), is a Yugoslavian mathematician specializing in mathematical logic and set theory. He holds a Canada Research Chair in mathematics at the University of Toronto, and a director of research position at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris.
Early life and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFTPACK | FFTPACK is a package of Fortran subroutines for the fast Fourier transform. It includes complex, real, sine, cosine, and quarter-wave transforms. It was developed by Paul Swarztrauber of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and is included in the general-purpose mathematical library SLATEC.
Much of the packa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols%20of%20Saskatchewan | Saskatchewan is one of Canada's provinces, and has established several provincial symbols.
Symbols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Plant%20Name%20Index | The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants. It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid names. It includes bibliographic and typification details, information from the Australian Plant Census including distribution by state, link... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymormyrus | Oxymormyrus is a small genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae. Its members reach about in length and are restricted to the Congo, Campo, Kouilou-Niari, Nyanga and Ogowe river basins in Middle Africa.
Taxonomy and species
The validity of this genus is disputed. Catalog of Fishes only includes one species, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20control | Coherent control is a quantum mechanics-based method for controlling dynamic processes by light. The basic principle is to control quantum interference phenomena, typically by shaping the phase of laser pulses. The basic ideas have proliferated, finding vast application in spectroscopy mass spectra, quantum informatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Protocol%20Options | There are a number of optional parameters that may be present in an Internet Protocol version 4 datagram. They typically configure a number of behaviors such as for the method to be used during source routing, some control and probing facilities and a number of experimental features.
Loose source routing
Loose Source ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZipBooks | ZipBooks is free online accounting software company based in American Fork, Utah. The cloud-based software is an accounting and bookkeeping tool that helps business owners process credit cards, track finances, and send invoices, among other features.
History
ZipBooks was founded by Tim Chaves in June 2015, backed by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20cold | The common cold or the cold is a viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract that primarily affects the respiratory mucosa of the nose, throat, sinuses, and larynx. Signs and symptoms may appear fewer than two days after exposure to the virus. These may include coughing, sore throat, runny nose, sneezing, h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hillside%20Group | The Hillside Group is an educational nonprofit organization founded in August 1993 to help software developers analyze and document common development and design problems as software design patterns. The Hillside Group supports the patterns community through sponsorship of the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20integral | A product integral is any product-based counterpart of the usual sum-based integral of calculus. The first product integral (Type I below) was developed by the mathematician Vito Volterra in 1887 to solve systems of linear differential equations. Other examples of product integrals are the geometric integral (Type II b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal%20hygiene | Anal hygiene or anal cleansing refers to hygienic practices that are performed on a person's anus, usually shortly after defecation. Post-defecation cleansing is rarely discussed academically, partly due to the social taboo. The scientific objective of post-defecation cleansing is to prevent exposure to pathogens while... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSHmail | OSHMail is an electronic newsletter from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA).
It is a monthly summary of the latest news, events, and occupational safety and health information published at the EU-OSHA website. Most of the content is available in 25 languages. Currently more than 68,000 subscri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic%20profiling | Phylogenetic profiling is a bioinformatics technique in which the joint presence or joint absence of two traits across large numbers of species is used to infer a meaningful biological connection, such as involvement of two different proteins in the same biological pathway. Along with examination of conserved synteny, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%E2%80%93vegetation%20feedbacks%20and%20alternative%20stable%20states | The relationships between fire, vegetation, and climate create what is known as a fire regime. Within a fire regime, fire ecologists study the relationship between diverse ecosystems and fire; not only how fire affects vegetation, but also how vegetation affects the behavior of fire. The study of neighboring vegetation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20physics%20articles%20%280%E2%80%939%29 | The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.
To navigate by individual letter use the table of contents below.
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1/N expansion
100 Authors Against Einstein
120° parhelion
1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami
1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers
1s Slater-type function
22° halo
23rd Inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinthine%20artery | The labyrinthine artery (auditory artery, internal auditory artery) is a branch of either the anterior inferior cerebellar artery or the basilar artery. It accompanies the vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII) through the internal acoustic meatus. It supplies blood to the internal ear.
Structure
The labyrinthine artery i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20recombination | Bacterial recombination is a type of genetic recombination in bacteria characterized by DNA transfer from one organism called donor to another organism as recipient. This process occurs in three main ways:
Transformation, the uptake of exogenous DNA from the surrounding environment.
Transduction, the virus-mediated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional%20Cubic%20Convolution%20Interpolation | Directional Cubic Convolution Interpolation (DCCI) is an edge-directed image scaling algorithm created by Dengwen Zhou and Xiaoliu Shen.
By taking into account the edges in an image, this scaling algorithm reduces artifacts common to other image scaling algorithms. For example, staircase artifacts on diagonal lines a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlitz%20exponential | In mathematics, the Carlitz exponential is a characteristic p analogue to the usual exponential function studied in real and complex analysis. It is used in the definition of the Carlitz module – an example of a Drinfeld module.
Definition
We work over the polynomial ring Fq[T] of one variable over a finite field Fq ... |
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