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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Systems%20VPN%20Client | Cisco Systems VPN Client is a software application for connecting to virtual private networks based on Internet Key Exchange version 1.
On July 29, 2011, Cisco announced the end of life of the product. No further product updates were released after July 30, 2012, and support ceased on July 29, 2014. The Support page w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Finsch | Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839, Warmbrunn – 31 January 1917, Braunschweig) was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer. He is known for a two-volume monograph on the parrots of the world which earned him a doctorate. He also wrote on the people of New Guinea and was involved in plans for G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow%20plug%20%28model%20engine%29 | A glow plug engine, or glow engine, is a type of small internal combustion engine typically used in model aircraft, model cars and similar applications. The ignition is accomplished by a combination of heating from compression, heating from a glow plug and the catalytic effect of the platinum within the glow plug on th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo%20message | The Arecibo message is an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier 13 in 1974. It was meant as a demonstration of human technological achievement, rather than a real attempt to enter into a conversation with extraterrestrials.
The mess... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc | MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio.
Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992 and released it in November of that year for sale in Japan and in December in Europe, North America, and other countries. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20fermentation | Industrial fermentation is the intentional use of fermentation in manufacturing processes. In addition to the mass production of fermented foods and drinks, industrial fermentation has widespread applications in chemical industry. Commodity chemicals, such as acetic acid, citric acid, and ethanol are made by fermentati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIM%20Collaboration%20Format | The BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) is a structured file format suited to issue tracking with a building information model. The BCF is designed primarily for defining views of a building model and associated information on collisions and errors connected with specific objects in the view. The BCF allows users of differe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Szegedy | Mario Szegedy (born October 23, 1960) is a Hungarian-American computer scientist, professor of computer science at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1989 from the University of Chicago. He held a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1989–90), a postdoc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scianna%20antigen%20system | The Scianna blood antigen system consists of seven antigens. These include two high frequency antigens Sc1 and Sc3, and two low frequency antigens Sc2 and Sc4.
The very rare null phenotype is characterised by the absence of Sc1, Sc2 and Sc3.
The antigens are caused by changes in the erythroid membrane associated prot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20FoxPro | Visual FoxPro is a Microsoft data-centric procedural programming language with object-oriented programming (OOP) features.
It was derived from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984. Fox Technologies merged with Microsoft in 1992, after which the software acquired fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20Communications%20Technology | Private Communications Technology (PCT) 1.0 was a protocol developed by Microsoft in the mid-1990s. PCT was designed to address security flaws in version 2.0 of Netscape's Secure Sockets Layer protocol and to force Netscape to hand control of the then-proprietary SSL protocol to an open standards body.
PCT has since b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20clinical%20laboratory%20practice | Good clinical laboratory practice (GCLP) is a GxP guideline for laboratory samples from clinical studies.
Good clinical practice (GCP) does not define requirements for laboratories and good laboratory practice (GLP) focusses on pre-clinical analyses and not on human samples from clinical trials. The Research Quality ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20Calculus | Electoral Calculus is a political forecasting web site that attempts to predict future United Kingdom general election results. It considers national factors and local demographics.
Main features
The site was developed by Martin Baxter, who was a financial analyst specialising in mathematical modelling.
The site inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecohydrology | Ecohydrology (from Greek , oikos, "house(hold)"; , hydōr, "water"; and , -logia) is an interdisciplinary scientific field studying the interactions between water and ecological systems. It is considered a sub discipline of hydrology, with an ecological focus. These interactions may take place within water bodies, such ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-to-human%20transmission | Human-to-human transmission (HHT) is an epidemiologic vector, especially in case the disease is borne by individuals known as superspreaders. In these cases, the basic reproduction number of the virus, which is the average number of additional people that a single case will infect without any preventative measures, can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zout%27s%20theorem | Bézout's theorem is a statement in algebraic geometry concerning the number of common zeros of polynomials in indeterminates. In its original form the theorem states that in general the number of common zeros equals the product of the degrees of the polynomials. It is named after Étienne Bézout.
In some elementary t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana%20syndrome | Havana syndrome is a cluster of idiopathic symptoms experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel. The symptoms range in severity from pain and ringing in the ears to cognitive dysfunction and were first reported in 2016 by U.S. and Canadian embassy staff in Havana, Cuba. Beginning in 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichenin | Lichenin, also known as lichenan or moss starch, is a complex glucan occurring in certain species of lichens. It can be extracted from Cetraria islandica (Iceland moss). It has been studied since about 1957.
Structure
Chemically, lichenin is a mixed-linkage glucan, consisting of repeating glucose units linked by β-1,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%2C%20Escher%2C%20Bach | Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, also known as GEB, is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter.
By exploring common themes in the lives and works of logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, the book expounds concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acclimatization | Acclimatization or acclimatisation (also called acclimation or acclimatation) is the process in which an individual organism adjusts to a change in its environment (such as a change in altitude, temperature, humidity, photoperiod, or pH), allowing it to maintain fitness across a range of environmental conditions. Accli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoelectrophoresis | Immunoelectrophoresis is a general name for a number of biochemical methods for separation and characterization of proteins based on electrophoresis and reaction with antibodies. All variants of immunoelectrophoresis require immunoglobulins, also known as antibodies, reacting with the proteins to be separated or charac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archodontes | Archodontes is a genus of root-boring beetles in the family Cerambycidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species Archodontes melanopus. It is endemic to Central America and the south-eastern United States, and bores the roots of oaks and other hardwoods.
Description
Head short and black. Mandibles sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscopic%20reversibility | The principle of microscopic reversibility in physics and chemistry is twofold:
First, it states that the microscopic detailed dynamics of particles and fields is time-reversible because the microscopic equations of motion are symmetric with respect to inversion in time (T-symmetry);
Second, it relates to the statist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-cross | A pulse-cross is the representation of normally invisible portions of an analog video signal on a studio screen for error analysis.
Only part of the video signal contains image information: with an analog 625-line video signal, each field lasts 20 ms. Of these, only 18.4 ms (287.5 lines) are provided for image informa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20K6-2 | The K6-2 is an x86 microprocessor introduced by AMD on May 28, 1998, and available in speeds ranging from 266 to 550 MHz. An enhancement of the original K6, the K6-2 introduced AMD's 3DNow! SIMD instruction set and an upgraded system-bus interface called Super Socket 7, which was backward compatible with older Socket 7... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkitex | Arkitex was an all-plastic construction toy produced by Tri-ang from c.1959 to c.1965. It was available in 1/42 and OO scales. The toy was designed by Geoff Bailey. One of the advantages that the toy offered was that changes can be made to a partially-built structure without dismantling major sections.
Designer Peter ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras%20tree%20%28fractal%29 | The Pythagoras tree is a plane fractal constructed from squares. Invented by the Dutch mathematics teacher Albert E. Bosman in 1942, it is named after the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras because each triple of touching squares encloses a right triangle, in a configuration traditionally used to depict the Pythago... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smack%20%28software%29 | Smack (full name: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel) is a Linux kernel security module that protects data and process interaction from malicious manipulation using a set of custom mandatory access control (MAC) rules, with simplicity as its main design goal. It has been officially merged since the Linux 2.6.25... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirthbacteria | Candidatus Wirthbacteria is a proposed bacterial phylum containing only one known sample from the Crystal Geyser aquifer, Ca. Wirthibacter wanneri. This bacterium stands out in a basal position in some trees of life as it is closely related to Candidate phyla radiation but is not considered part of that clade. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNK16 | Potassium channel subfamily K member 16 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNK16 gene. The protein encoded by this gene, K2P16.1, is a potassium channel containing two pore-forming P domains.
See also
Tandem pore domain potassium channel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AssureSign | AssureSign (now Nintex AssureSign) provides electronic signature and digital transaction management (DTM) software that can be deployed as a Software as a service (SaaS) application or installed on customer premises. Documents are signed using a computer that has an Internet connection.
AssureSign electronic signature... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift%20%28software%29 | Redshift is an application that adjusts the computer display's color temperature based upon the time of day. The program is free software, and is intended to reduce eye strain as well as insomnia (see Sleep#Circadian clock and Phase response curve#Light).
Redshift transitions the computer display's color temperature ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprine%20alphaherpesvirus%201 | Caprine alphaherpesvirus 1 (CpHV-1) is a species of virus known to infect goats worldwide. It has been shown to produce systemic and respiratory symptoms in kids and to cause abortions in adult goats.
The virus is in the genus Varicellovirus, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic%20set | In mathematics, a quadratic set is a set of points in a projective space that bears the same essential incidence properties as a quadric (conic section in a projective plane, sphere or cone or hyperboloid in a projective space).
Definition of a quadratic set
Let be a projective space. A quadratic set is a non-empty s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute-oriented%20programming | Attribute-oriented programming (@OP) is a technique for embedding metadata, namely attributes, within program code.
Attribute-oriented programming in various languages
Java
With the inclusion of Metadata Facility for Java (JSR-175) into the J2SE 5.0 release it is possible to utilize attribute-oriented programming ri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HippoDraw | HippoDraw is a object-oriented statistical data analysis package written in C++, with user interaction via a Qt-based GUI and a Python-scriptable interface. It was developed by Paul Kunz at SLAC, primarily for the analysis and presentation of particle physics and astrophysics data, but can be equally well used in other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Marshall%20Bailey | Alfred Marshall Bailey (February 18, 1894 – February 25, 1978) was an American ornithologist who was associated with the Denver Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature and Science)
in Colorado for most of his working life.
Early years
Bailey was born in Iowa City, Iowa, where he went to school and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20unfolding | In computational geometry, the source unfolding of a convex polyhedron is a net obtained by cutting the polyhedron along the cut locus of a point on the surface of the polyhedron. The cut locus of a point consists of all points on the surface that have two or more shortest geodesics to . For every convex polyhedron, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20the%20Duck%20%28video%20game%29 | Howard the Duck, also known as Howard the Duck: Adventure on Volcano Island, is an action video game released in 1986 by Activision for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Apple II. The game is a tie-in to the film Howard the Duck from the same year.
Gameplay
The game involves players controlling Howard the Duck to save... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard%E2%80%93Lefschetz%20theory | In mathematics, Picard–Lefschetz theory studies the topology of a complex manifold by looking at the critical points of a holomorphic function on the manifold. It was introduced by Émile Picard for complex surfaces in his book , and extended to higher dimensions by . It is a complex analog of Morse theory that studies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covermount | Covermount (sometimes written cover mount) is the name given to storage media (containing software and or audiovisual media) or other products (ranging from toys to flip-flops) packaged as part of a magazine or newspaper. The name comes from the method of packaging; the media or product is placed in a transparent plast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductor%20pollicis%20brevis%20muscle | The abductor pollicis brevis is a muscle in the hand that functions as an abductor of the thumb.
Structure
The abductor pollicis brevis is a flat, thin muscle located just under the skin. It is a thenar muscle, and therefore contributes to the bulk of the palm's thenar eminence.
It originates from the flexor retinac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matutinal | Matutinal, matinal (in entomological writings), and matutine are terms used in the life sciences to indicate something of, relating to, or occurring in the early morning. The term may describe crepuscular animals that are significantly active during the predawn or early morning hours. During the morning twilight period... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GemStone/S | GemStone/S is computer software, an application framework that was first available for the programming language Smalltalk as an object database. It is proprietary commercial software.
Company history
GemStone Systems was founded on March 1, 1982, as Servio Logic, to build a database machine based on a set theory model... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested%20function | In computer programming, a nested function (or nested procedure or subroutine) is a function which is defined within another function, the enclosing function. Due to simple recursive scope rules, a nested function is itself invisible outside of its immediately enclosing function, but can see (access) all local objects ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular%20distance | In geometry, the perpendicular distance between two objects is the distance from one to the other, measured along a line that is perpendicular to one or both.
The distance from a point to a line is the distance to the nearest point on that line. That is the point at which a segment from it to the given point is perpen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20abstract%20algebra%20topics | Abstract algebra is the subject area of mathematics that studies algebraic structures, such as groups, rings, fields, modules, vector spaces, and algebras. The phrase abstract algebra was coined at the turn of the 20th century to distinguish this area from what was normally referred to as algebra, the study of the rule... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20Holmes%20Bullock | Theodore Holmes Bullock (16 May 1915 – 20 December 2005) is one of the founding fathers of neuroethology. During a career spanning nearly seven decades, this American academic was esteemed both as a pioneering and influential neuroscientist, examining the physiology and evolution of the nervous system across organizati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submental%20triangle | The submental triangle (or suprahyoid triangle) is a division of the anterior triangle of the neck.
Boundaries
It is limited to:
Lateral (away from the midline), formed by the anterior belly of the digastricus
Medial (towards the midline), formed by the midline of the neck between the mandible and the hyoid bone
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20statisticians | This list of statisticians lists people who have made notable contributions to the theories or application of statistics, or to the related fields of probability or machine learning. Also included are actuaries and demographers.
A
Aalen, Odd Olai (1947–1987)
Abbey, Helen (1915–2001)
Abbott, Edith (1876–1957)
Abe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicipital%20groove | The bicipital groove (intertubercular groove, sulcus intertubercularis) is a deep groove on the humerus that separates the greater tubercle from the lesser tubercle. It allows for the long tendon of the biceps brachii muscle to pass.
Structure
The bicipital groove separates the greater tubercle from the lesser tuberc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal%20aggression | Verbal aggressiveness in communication has been studied to examine the underlying message of how the aggressive communicator gains control over different things that occur, through the usage of verbal aggressiveness. Scholars have identified that individuals who express verbal aggressiveness have the goal of controllin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20-pair%20colour%20code%20%28Australia%29 | The 20-pair colour code is a colour code used in Australia to identify individual conductors in a kind of electrical telecommunication wiring for indoor use, known as twisted pair cables. The colours are applied to the insulation that covers each conductor. The first colour is chosen from one group of five colours.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem%20Repeats%20Database | The Tandem Repeats Database (TRDB) is a database of tandem repeats in genomic DNA.
See also
Tandem repeats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blum%20axioms | In computational complexity theory the Blum axioms or Blum complexity axioms are axioms that specify desirable properties of complexity measures on the set of computable functions. The axioms were first defined by Manuel Blum in 1967.
Importantly, Blum's speedup theorem and the Gap theorem hold for any complexity mea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETSI%20Satellite%20Digital%20Radio | ETSI Satellite Digital Radio (SDR or ETSI SDR) describes a standard of satellite digital radio. It is an activity of the European standardisation organisation ETSI.
It addresses systems where a satellite broadcast directly to mobile and handheld receivers in L band or S band and is complemented by terrestrial transmit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competence%20factor | The ability of a cell to successfully incorporate exogenous DNA, or competency, is determined by competence factors. These factors consist of certain cell surface proteins and transcription factors that induce the uptake of DNA.
Natural competence is the ability of a cell to bind to and transport extracellular DNA ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitterDB | The BitterDB is a database of compounds that were reported to taste bitter to humans. The aim of the BitterDB database is to gather information about bitter-tasting natural and synthetic compounds, and their cognate bitter taste receptors (T2Rs or TAS2Rs).
Summary
The BitterDB includes over 670 compounds that were rep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Elisabeth%20Medical%20Foundation | The Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation (QEMF) is a Belgian non-profit organization, founded in 1926 by Elisabeth of Bavaria, wife of Albert I. She founded the organization, based on her experience with the wounded from the front-line during the First World War. The foundation wants to encourage laboratory research and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%20network%20coordinates | Phoenix is a decentralized network coordinate system based on the matrix factorization model.
Background
Network coordinate (NC) systems are an efficient mechanism for internet distance (round-trip latency) prediction with scalable measurements. For a network with N hosts, by performing O(N) measurements, all N*N di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramachandran%20plot | In biochemistry, a Ramachandran plot (also known as a Rama plot, a Ramachandran diagram or a [φ,ψ] plot), originally developed in 1963 by G. N. Ramachandran, C. Ramakrishnan, and V. Sasisekharan, is a way to visualize energetically allowed regions for backbone dihedral angles ψ against φ of amino acid residues in prote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento%20pattern | The memento pattern is a software design pattern that exposes the private internal state of an object.
One example of how this can be used is to restore an object to its previous state (undo via rollback), another is versioning, another is custom serialization.
The memento pattern is implemented with three objects: th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry%20Mason%3A%20The%20Case%20of%20the%20Mandarin%20Murder | Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder is an interactive fiction computer game with graphics. The game was published by Telarium (formerly known as Trillium), a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, in 1985.
Description
The game is based on the popular TV series Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr, who played the fict... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dimensional%20model%20representation | High-dimensional model representation is a finite expansion for a given multivariable function. The expansion was first described by Ilya M. Sobol as
The method, used to determine the right hand side functions, is given in Sobol's paper. A review can be found here: High Dimensional Model Representation (HDMR): Con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avermectin | The avermectins are a series of drugs and pesticides used to treat parasitic worms and insect pests. They are a group of 16-membered macrocyclic lactone derivatives with potent anthelmintic and insecticidal properties. These naturally occurring compounds are generated as fermentation products by Streptomyces avermitili... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irradiance | In radiometry, irradiance is the radiant flux received by a surface per unit area. The SI unit of irradiance is the watt per square metre (W⋅m−2). The CGS unit erg per square centimetre per second (erg⋅cm−2⋅s−1) is often used in astronomy. Irradiance is often called intensity, but this term is avoided in radiometry wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20modeling%20in%20echocardiography | Numerical manipulation of Doppler parameters obtain during routine Echocardiography has been extensively utilized to non-invasively estimate intra-cardiac pressures, in many cases removing the need for invasive cardiac catheterization.
Echocardiography uses ultrasound to create real-time anatomic images of the heart a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibrated%20geometry | In the mathematical field of differential geometry, a calibrated manifold is a Riemannian manifold (M,g) of dimension n equipped with a differential p-form φ (for some 0 ≤ p ≤ n) which is a calibration, meaning that:
φ is closed: dφ = 0, where d is the exterior derivative
for any x ∈ M and any oriented p-dimensional ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourcefire | Sourcefire, Inc was a technology company that developed network security hardware and software. The company's Firepower network security appliances were based on Snort, an open-source intrusion detection system (IDS). Sourcefire was acquired by Cisco for $2.7 billion in July 2013.
Background
Sourcefire was founded in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCEP/NCAR%20Reanalysis | The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis is an atmospheric reanalysis produced by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). It is a continually updated globally gridded data set that represents the state of the Earth's atmosphere, incorporating observations and nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20Wireless%20Mesh%20Protocol | The Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP), part of IEEE 802.11s, is a basic routing protocol for a wireless mesh network. It is based on AODV (RFC 3561) and tree-based routing. It relies on a Peer Link Management protocol by which each Mesh Point discovers and tracks neighboring nodes. If any of these are connected t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%E2%80%93Vinet%20equation%20of%20state | The Rose–Vinet equation of state is a set of equations used to describe the equation of state of solid objects. It is a modification of the Birch–Murnaghan equation of state.
The initial paper discusses how the equation only depends on four inputs: the isothermal bulk modulus , the derivative of bulk modulus with respe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmunda%20wehrii | Osmunda wehrii is an extinct species of fern in the modern genus Osmunda of the family Osmundaceae. Osmunda wehrii is known from Langhian age Miocene fossils found in Central Washington.
History and classification
The species was described from specimens of silicified rhizomes and frond bases in blocks of chert. The c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteropus%20brunneus | Pteropus brunneus is an extinct species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It was said to be found at Percy Island, southeast of Mackay, Queensland, off the northeast coast of Australia.
Taxonomy
A single male specimen was collected in 1874 and deposited at the British Museum of Natural History (BMNH), this ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Weber | Joseph Weber (May 17, 1919 – September 30, 2000) was an American physicist. He gave the earliest public lecture on the principles behind the laser and the maser and developed the first gravitational wave detectors (Weber bars).
Early life
Joseph Weber was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on 17 May 1919, the last of four... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Levinson%20ML-3 | The Mark Levinson ML-3 was a 200 watt per channel dual monaural Class AB2 power amplifier that used toroidal transformers. Produced between 1979 and 1987, the ML-3 consisted of two electrically separate amplifiers in one chassis, hence the name "Dual Monaural". It also featured discrete circuit construction; no integra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20operating%20systems | This is a list of operating systems. Computer operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. Criteria for inclusion is notability, as shown either through an existing Wikipedia article o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catabolism | Catabolism () is the set of metabolic pathways that breaks down molecules into smaller units that are either oxidized to release energy or used in other anabolic reactions. Catabolism breaks down large molecules (such as polysaccharides, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins) into smaller units (such as monosaccharides, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fobos-Grunt | Fobos-Grunt or Phobos-Grunt (, where грунт refers to the ground in the narrow geological meaning of any type of soil or rock exposed on the surface) was an attempted Russian sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. Fobos-Grunt also carried the Chinese Mars orbiter Yinghuo-1 and the tiny Living Interpl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janzen%E2%80%93Connell%20hypothesis | The Janzen–Connell hypothesis is a widely accepted explanation for the maintenance of tree species biodiversity in tropical rainforests. It was published independently in the early 1970s by Daniel Janzen and Joseph Connell. According to their hypothesis, host-specific herbivores, pathogens, or other natural enemies (o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian%20real%20%28old%29 | The first official currency of Brazil was the real (pronounced ; pl. réis), with the symbol Rs$. As the currency of the Portuguese empire, it was in use in Brazil from the earliest days of the colonial period, and remained in use until 1942, when it was replaced by the cruzeiro.
The name "real" was resurrected in 1994... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective%20action | In quantum field theory, the quantum effective action is a modified expression for the classical action taking into account quantum corrections while ensuring that the principle of least action applies, meaning that extremizing the effective action yields the equations of motion for the vacuum expectation values of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20velocity | RNA velocity is based on bridging measurements to a underlying mechanism, mRNA splicing, with two modes indicating the current and future state. It is a method used to predict the future gene expression of a cell based on the measurement of both spliced and unspliced transcripts of mRNA.
RNA velocity could be used to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet%20chicken%20processing%20plant%20fire | On September 3, 1991, an industrial fire caused by a failed improvised repair to a hydraulic line destroyed the Imperial Food Products chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. Despite three previous fires in 11 years of operation, the plant had never received a safety inspection. The fire killed 25 people an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula%20vinosa | Russula vinosa, commonly known in English as the darkening brittlegill, is a species of basidiomycete mushroom found in coniferous woodlands in Europe and North America in summer and early autumn. Unlike many red-capped members of the russula genus, it is edible and mild-tasting. It is usually understood to have a symb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxypeptidase%20A | Carboxypeptidase A usually refers to the pancreatic exopeptidase that hydrolyzes peptide bonds of C-terminal residues with aromatic or aliphatic side-chains. Most scientists in the field now refer to this enzyme as CPA1, and to a related pancreatic carboxypeptidase as CPA2.
Types
In addition, there are 4 other mamm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20monkey%20and%20the%20coconuts | The monkey and the coconuts is a mathematical puzzle in the field of Diophantine analysis that originated in a magazine fictional short story involving five sailors and a monkey on a desert island who divide up a pile of coconuts; the problem is to find the number of coconuts in the original pile (fractional coconuts n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOM%20%28mascot%29 | TOM (Tigers Of Memphis) is the name of three Bengal Tigers which have served as the mascot of the Memphis Tigers since 1972. The most recent, TOM III, was a beloved Bengal Tiger mascot for the University of Memphis during one of the most glorious periods in University and athletics history. He died on September 18, 202... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staining | Staining is a technique used to enhance contrast in samples, generally at the microscopic level. Stains and dyes are frequently used in histology (microscopic study of biological tissues), in cytology (microscopic study of cells), and in the medical fields of histopathology, hematology, and cytopathology that focus on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unibranch%20local%20ring | In algebraic geometry, a local ring A is said to be unibranch if the reduced ring Ared (obtained by quotienting A by its nilradical) is an integral domain, and the integral closure B of Ared is also a local ring. A unibranch local ring is said to be geometrically unibranch if the residue field of B is a purely insepara... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20M.%20Frieze | Alan M. Frieze (born 25 October 1945 in London, England) is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1966, and obtained his PhD from the University of London in 1975. His research interests lie in combi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20quantum%20mechanics | The timeline of quantum mechanics is a list of key events in the history of quantum mechanics, quantum field theories and quantum chemistry.
19th century
1801 – Thomas Young establishes that light made up of waves with his Double-slit experiment.
1859 – Gustav Kirchhoff introduces the concept of a blackbody and prove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermally%20stimulated%20depolarization%20current | Thermally stimulated depolarization current (TSDC) is a scientific technique used to measure dielectric properties of materials. It can be used to measure the thermally stimulated depolarization of molecules within a material. One method of doing so is to place the material between two electrodes, cool the material in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20genre | Internet genre refers to a type of genre explored in multimedia Studies. Others include film genre, video game genres and music genre. Genre, in terms of genre studies refers to the method based on similarities in the narrative elements from which media-texts are constructed.
Types of Internet genres
There are various... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20Hall%20magnetoresistance | Spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) is a transport phenomenon that is found in some electrical conductors that have at least one surface in direct contact with another magnetic material due to changes in the spin current that are present in metals and semiconductors with a large spin Hall angle. It is most easily detecte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infraclavicular%20fossa | The Infraclavicular fossa is an indentation, or fossa, immediately below the clavicle, above the third rib and between the deltoid muscle laterally and medioclavicular line medially.
See also
Supraclavicular fossa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer-level%20packaging | Wafer-level packaging (WLP) is a process where packaging components are attached to an integrated circuit (IC) before the wafer – on which the IC is fabricated – is diced. In WSP, the top and bottom layers of the packaging and the solder bumps are attached to the integrated circuits while they are still in the wafer. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong | Qigong (), is a system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial arts training. With roots in Chinese medicine, philosophy, and martial arts, qigong is traditionally viewed by the Chinese and throughout Asia as a practice to cultivate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20transformation | In mathematics, a geometric transformation is any bijection of a set to itself (or to another such set) with some salient geometrical underpinning. More specifically, it is a function whose domain and range are sets of points — most often both or both — such that the function is bijective so that its inverse exists. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural%20geometry | Architectural geometry is an area of research which combines applied geometry and architecture, which looks at the design, analysis and manufacture processes. It lies at the core of architectural design and strongly challenges contemporary practice, the so-called architectural practice of the digital age.
Architectura... |
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