source stringlengths 31 227 | text stringlengths 9 2k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindley%E2%80%93Milner%20type%20system | A Hindley–Milner (HM) type system is a classical type system for the lambda calculus with parametric polymorphism. It is also known as Damas–Milner or Damas–Hindley–Milner. It was first described by J. Roger Hindley and later rediscovered by Robin Milner. Luis Damas contributed a close formal analysis and proof of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawon%20Kahng | Dawon Kahng (; May 4, 1931 – May 13, 1992) was a Korean-American electrical engineer and inventor, known for his work in solid-state electronics. He is best known for inventing the MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor, or MOS transistor), along with his colleague Mohamed Atalla, in 1959. Kahng and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handel-C | Handel-C is a high-level programming language which targets low-level hardware, most commonly used in the programming of FPGAs. It is a rich subset of C, with non-standard extensions to control hardware instantiation with an emphasis on parallelism. Handel-C is to hardware design what the first high-level programming ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic%20informatics | Humanistic informatics is one of several names chosen for the study of the relationship between human culture and technology. The term is fairly common in Europe, but is little known in the English-speaking world, though digital humanities (also known as humanities computing) is in many cases roughly equivalent.
Human... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20A.%20Lewis | Alain A. Lewis (born 1947) is an American mathematician. A student of the mathematical economist Kenneth Arrow, Lewis is credited by the historian of economics Philip Mirowski with making Arrow aware of computational limits to economic agency.
Life
Lewis gained his BA in philosophy, economics and statistics from Georg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisample%20anti-aliasing | Multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA) is a type of spatial anti-aliasing, a technique used in computer graphics to remove jaggies.
Definition
The term generally refers to a special case of supersampling. Initial implementations of full-scene anti-aliasing (FSAA) worked conceptually by simply rendering a scene at a higher ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%E2%80%93Fraumeni%20syndrome | Li–Fraumeni syndrome is a rare, autosomal dominant, hereditary disorder that predisposes carriers to cancer development. It was named after two American physicians, Frederick Pei Li and Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., who first recognized the syndrome after reviewing the medical records and death certificates of 648 childhood... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20and%20subtropical%20moist%20broadleaf%20forests | Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Description
TSMF is generally found in large, discontinuous patches centered on the equatorial belt and between the Tropic of Canc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altova | Altova is a commercial software development company with headquarters in Beverly, MA, United States and Vienna, Austria, that produces integrated XML, JSON, database, UML, and data management software development tools.
Company
Altova was founded in 1992 as an XML development software company. Its software is used by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiovascular%20physiology | Cardiovascular physiology is the study of the cardiovascular system, specifically addressing the physiology of the heart ("cardio") and blood vessels ("vascular").
These subjects are sometimes addressed separately, under the names cardiac physiology and circulatory physiology.
Although the different aspects of cardio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubbing%20%28audio%29 | In digital audio editing, scrubbing is an interaction in which a user drags a cursor or playhead across a segment of a waveform to hear it. Scrubbing is a convenient way to quickly navigate an audio file, and is a common feature of modern digital audio workstations and other audio editing software. The term comes from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory%20nerve | The olfactory nerve, also known as the first cranial nerve, cranial nerve I, or simply CN I, is a cranial nerve that contains sensory nerve fibers relating to the sense of smell.
The afferent nerve fibers of the olfactory receptor neurons transmit nerve impulses about odors to the central nervous system (olfaction). ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20flux%20reactor | A High Flux Reactor is a type of nuclear research reactor.
High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America,
High Flux Australian Reactor (HIFAR), Australia's first nuclear reactor,
High-Flux Advanced Neutron Application Reactor (HANARO), in South Korea.
The High Flux Reactor at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad-Ali%20Najafi | Mohammad-Ali Najafi (; born 13 January 1952) is an Iranian mathematician and reformist politician who was the Mayor of Tehran, serving in the post for eight months, until April 2018. He held cabinet portfolios during the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. He is also a retired professor of mathematics at Sharif University of Techn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20perturbation | Phase perturbation is the shifting, from whatever cause, in the phase of an electronic signal. The shifting is often quite rapid, and may appear to be random or cyclic. The phase departure in phase perturbation usually is larger, but less rapid, than in phase jitter.
Phase perturbation may be expressed in degrees, wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%20Core | Darwin Core (often abbreviated to DwC) is an extension of Dublin Core for biodiversity informatics. It is meant to provide a stable standard reference for sharing information on biological diversity (biodiversity). The terms described in this standard are a part of a larger set of vocabularies and technical specificati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappus%20chain | In geometry, the Pappus chain is a ring of circles between two tangent circles investigated by Pappus of Alexandria in the 3rd century AD.
Construction
The arbelos is defined by two circles, CU and CV, which are tangent at the point A and where CU is enclosed by CV. Let the radii of these two circles be denoted as rU... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecke%20operator | In mathematics, in particular in the theory of modular forms, a Hecke operator, studied by , is a certain kind of "averaging" operator that plays a significant role in the structure of vector spaces of modular forms and more general automorphic representations.
History
used Hecke operators on modular forms in a pap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20field | In quantum field theory, a composite field is a field defined in terms of other more "elementary" fields. It might describe a composite particle (bound state) or it might not. It might be local, or it might be nonlocal. Noether fields are often composite fields and they are local.
In the generalized LSZ formalism, com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20facial%20vein | The anterior facial vein receives a branch of considerable size, the deep facial vein, from the pterygoid venous plexus. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Algebra | Early Algebra is an approach to early mathematics teaching and learning. It is about teaching traditional topics in more profound ways. It is also an area of research in mathematics education.
Traditionally, algebra instruction has been postponed until adolescence. However, data of early algebra researchers shows ways... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20enterprise%20portal%20vendors | This is a list of notable vendors of enterprise portals. An enterprise portal is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries.
enterprise portal vendors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearberry | Bearberries are three species of dwarf shrubs in the genus Arctostaphylos. Unlike the other species of Arctostaphylos (see manzanita), they are adapted to Arctic and Subarctic climates, and have a circumpolar distribution in northern North America, Asia and Europe.
Description
Bearberries grow as low-lying bushes. Fur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topologically%20associating%20domain | A topologically associating domain (TAD) is a self-interacting genomic region, meaning that DNA sequences within a TAD physically interact with each other more frequently than with sequences outside the TAD. The median size of a TAD in mouse cells is 880 kb, and they have similar sizes in non-mammalian species. Boundar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Yan | Catherine Huafei Yan () is a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University interested in algebraic combinatorics.
Education and career
Yan earned a bachelor's degree from Peking University in 1993.
She was a student of Gian-Carlo Rota at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1997 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNS1 | Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily S member 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNS1 gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INCA%20Internet | INCA Internet Corporation (), also known as nProtect, is a corporation which sells computer software. INCA Internet was founded by Young Heum Joo, the current CEO and President of INCA Internet, in 2000. It offers anti-virus, anti-spyware, game security, and unified corporate security. Headquartered in Seoul, Republic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive%20research | Intrusive research is the gathering of data from individuals through interviewing, observation, or surveying, when consent is legally required, yet the test subjects don't have the capacity to give such consent due to mental illness or developmental disability. It is a legal issue addressed by the United Kingdom Mental... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Bayes | Thomas Bayes ( ; 7 April 1761) was an English statistician, philosopher and Presbyterian minister who is known for formulating a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem. Bayes never published what would become his most famous accomplishment; his notes were edited and published posthumously by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Winnower | The Winnower was a publishing platform and journal that offered traditional scholarly publishing tools (Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), permanent archival, Altmetrics, PDF creation, etc.) to enable rigorous scholastic discussion of topics across all areas of intellectual inquiry, whether in the sciences, humanities,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20silico%20medicine | In silico medicine (also known as "computational medicine") is the application of in silico research to problems involving health and medicine. It is the direct use of computer simulation in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease. More specifically, in silico medicine is characterized by modeling, simula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20August%20Rothe | Heinrich August Rothe (1773–1842) was a German mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Erlangen. He was a student of Carl Hindenburg and a member of Hindenburg's school of combinatorics.
Biography
Rothe was born in 1773 in Dresden, and in 1793 became a docent at the University of Leipzig. He became an extraordina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20risk%20assessment | Molecular risk assessment is a procedure in which biomarkers (for example, biological molecules or changes in tumor cell DNA) are used to estimate a person's risk for developing cancer. Specific biomarkers may be linked to particular types of cancer.
Sources
External links
Molecular risk assessment entry in the pub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phragmoplastophyta | The Phragmoplastophyta (Lecointre & Guyader 2006) are a proposed sister clade of the Klebsormidiaceae in the Streptophyte/Charophyte clade. The Phragmoplastophyta consist of the Charophycaea and another unnamed clade which contains the Coleochaetophyceae, Zygnematophyceae, Mesotaeniaceae, and Embryophytes (land plants)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McCarthy%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence. He co-authored the document that coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp, signi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20and%20the%20Theory%20of%20Games | Evolution and the Theory of Games is a book by the British evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith on evolutionary game theory. The book was initially published in December 1982 by Cambridge University Press.
Overview
In the book, John Maynard Smith summarises work on evolutionary game theory that had developed in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20Cell%20Biology | Women in Cell Biology (WCIB) is a subcommittee of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) created to promote women in cell biology and present awards.
History
A group of women were unhappy with the lack of recognition in ASCB. In 1971, Virginia Walbot gathered a group of women to meet at the annual ASCB meeting... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suslin%27s%20problem | In mathematics, Suslin's problem is a question about totally ordered sets posed by and published posthumously.
It has been shown to be independent of the standard axiomatic system of set theory known as ZFC; showed that the statement can neither be proven nor disproven from those axioms, assuming ZF is consistent.
(... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griesmer%20bound | In the mathematics of coding theory, the Griesmer bound, named after James Hugo Griesmer, is a bound on the length of linear binary codes of dimension k and minimum distance d.
There is also a very similar version for non-binary codes.
Statement of the bound
For a binary linear code, the Griesmer bound is:
Proof
L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isozyme | In biochemistry, isozymes (also known as isoenzymes or more generally as multiple forms of enzymes) are enzymes that differ in amino acid sequence but catalyze the same chemical reaction. Isozymes usually have different kinetic parameters (e.g. different KM values), or are regulated differently. They permit the fine-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal%20value%20theorem | The marginal value theorem (MVT) is an optimality model that usually describes the behavior of an optimally foraging individual in a system where resources (often food) are located in discrete patches separated by areas with no resources. Due to the resource-free space, animals must spend time traveling between patches... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioptrique | "La dioptrique" (in English "Dioptrique", "Optics", or "Dioptrics"), is a short treatise published in 1637 included in one of the Essays written with Discourse on the Method by René Descartes. In this essay Descartes uses various models to understand the properties of light. This essay is known as Descartes' greatest c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness | Cuteness is a type of attractiveness commonly associated with youth and appearance, as well as a scientific concept and analytical model in ethology, first introduced by Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz. Lorenz proposed the concept of baby schema (Kindchenschema), a set of facial and body features that make a creature... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Margaret%27s%20Bay%20Windmill | St Margaret's Bay Windmill is a Grade II listed Smock mill on South Foreland, the southeasternmost point of England. It was built in 1929 to generate electricity for the attached house, high on the White Cliffs of Dover.
History
The mill was built for Sir William Bearswell by Holman's, the Canterbury millwrights. It w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20nasal%20spine | The posterior nasal spine is part of the horizontal plate of the palatine bone of the skull. It is found at the medial end of its posterior border. It is paired with the corresponding palatine bone to form a solid spine. It is the attachment of the uvula muscle.
Structure
The posterior nasal spine is found at the med... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale%20%28social%20sciences%29 | In the social sciences, scaling is the process of measuring or ordering entities with respect to quantitative attributes or traits. For example, a scaling technique might involve estimating individuals' levels of extraversion, or the perceived quality of products. Certain methods of scaling permit estimation of magnitu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%20Biogeographic%20Region | The Continental Biogeographic Region is a biogeographic region of Europe that extend in a broad band from east to west through the center of the continent.
Extent
The Continental Region extends from central France to the Ural Mountains.
The southern part of this region is almost completely separated from the larger n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20hypervisor | An embedded hypervisor is a hypervisor that supports the requirements of embedded systems.
The requirements for an embedded hypervisor are distinct from hypervisors targeting server and desktop applications.
An embedded hypervisor is designed into the embedded device from the outset, rather than loaded subsequent to d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment%20of%20Australia | The Australian environment ranges from virtually pristine Antarctic territory and rainforests to degraded industrial areas of major cities. Forty distinct ecoregions have been identified across the Australian mainland and islands. Central Australia has a very dry climate. The interior has a number of deserts while most... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization%20in%20telecommunications | Many services running on modern digital telecommunications networks require accurate synchronization for correct operation. For example, if telephone exchanges are not synchronized, then bit slips will occur and degrade performance. Telecommunication networks rely on the use of highly accurate primary reference clocks... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Kasner | Edward Kasner (April 2, 1878 – January 7, 1955) was an American mathematician who was appointed Tutor on Mathematics in the Columbia University Mathematics Department. Kasner was the first Jewish person appointed to a faculty position in the sciences at Columbia University. Subsequently, he became an adjunct professor ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observations%20Concerning%20the%20Increase%20of%20Mankind%2C%20Peopling%20of%20Countries%2C%20etc. | Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. is a short essay written in 1751 by American polymath Benjamin Franklin. It was circulated by Franklin in manuscript to his circle of friends, but in 1755 it was published as an addendum in a Boston pamphlet on another subject. It was reissued... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6lder%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Hölder's theorem states that the gamma function does not satisfy any algebraic differential equation whose coefficients are rational functions. This result was first proved by Otto Hölder in 1887; several alternative proofs have subsequently been found.
The theorem also generalizes to the -gamma functi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Journal%20of%20Pathology | The Journal of Pathology is a peer-reviewed medical journal that was established in 1892 as The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology by German Sims Woodhead. It has been the official journal of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland (present name: Pathological Society) since its foundation in 1906. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20Landwehrmeyer | Georg Bernhard Landwehrmeyer FRCP is a German neurologist and neuroscientist in the field of neurodegeneration primarily focusing on Huntington's disease. Landwehrmeyer is a professor of neurology at Ulm University Hospital. He was one of the founders of the European Huntington's Disease Network (EHDN) in 2004 and was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Fausto-Sterling | Anne Fausto-Sterling ( Sterling; born July 30, 1944) is an American sexologist who has written extensively on the social construction of gender, sexual identity, gender identity, gender roles, and intersexuality. She is the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University.
Life and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteinoplast | Proteinoplasts (sometimes called proteoplasts, aleuroplasts, and aleuronaplasts) are specialized organelles found only in plant cells. Proteinoplasts belong to a broad category of organelles known as plastids. Plastids are specialized double-membrane organelles found in plant cells. Plastids perform a variety of functi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobiomechanics | Nanobiomechanics (also bionanomechanics) is an emerging field in nanoscience and biomechanics that combines the powerful tools of nanomechanics to explore fundamental science of biomaterials and biomechanics.
Since the introduction by its founder Yuan-Cheng Fung, the field of biomechanics has become one of the branche... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobutane | Isobutane, also known as i-butane, 2-methylpropane or methylpropane, is a chemical compound with molecular formula HC(CH3)3. It is an isomer of butane. Isobutane is a colorless, odorless gas.
It is the simplest alkane with a tertiary carbon atom. Isobutane is used as a precursor molecule in the petrochemical industry, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxhydroelectric%20effect | The oxhydroelectric effect consists in the generation of voltage and electric current in pure liquid water, without any electrolyte, upon exposure to electromagnetic radiation in the infrared range, after creating a physical (not chemical) asymmetry in liquid water e.g. thanks to a strongly hydrophile polymer, such as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20B.%20Olayanju | Julia B Olayanju is a geneticist, writer, and a nutrition education advocate. She adopts different approaches to increase public awareness on the science of food and health. She is the founder at FoodNiche Inc. and GrubEasy Interactive Labs Inc.
Education
Olayanju developed an interest in scientific research while w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20on%20demand | Music-on-demand (MOD) is a music recording industry certified multi-billion dollar music distribution & subscriber-based industry model conceived with the growth of two-way computing and telecommunications in the early 1990s originally architected by Dale Schalow. Primarily, high-quality music is made available to purc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20ad%20hoc%20network | A wireless ad hoc network (WANET) or mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a decentralized type of wireless network. The network is ad hoc because it does not rely on a pre-existing infrastructure, such as routers or wireless access points. Instead, each node participates in routing by forwarding data for other nodes. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fervidicoccus | Fervidicoccus fontis is a species of anaerobic organotroph archaeum belonging to the kingdom Thermoproteota. It is thermophilic and slightly acidophilic, being found at the Uzon Caldera at temperatures between 75 °C and 80 °C. Cells are single cocci of 1–3 μm in diameter with no archaella. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnites | Goodnites (formerly Pull-Ups Goodnites; known as DryNites in the United Kingdom and most markets outside of North America) are disposable underwear designed for managing bedwetting. Goodnites are produced by Kimberly-Clark. The product has also been seen titled as Huggies Goodnites on official Huggies branded webpages... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate%20of%20return%20pricing | Rate of return pricing or Target-return pricing is a method of which a firm will set the price of its product based on their desired returns on said product. The concept of rate return pricing is very similar to return on investment however, in this circumstance the company can manipulate its prices to achieve the desi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman%E2%80%93Heidenhain%20hypothesis | The Bowman–Heidenhain hypothesis is an early explanation of renal function and urinary secretion.
The hypothesis states that the kidney is first and foremost a secreting gland. According to the theory, glomeruli are merely filters, while the tubules are the true secretory structures. To prove his hypothesis, Rudolph ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS%20drawing | GPS drawing, also known as GPS art, is a method of drawing where an artist uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) device and follows a pre-planned route to create a large-scale picture or pattern. The .GPX data file recorded during the drawing process is then visualised, usually overlaying it as a line on a map of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lexicon%20of%20Comicana | The Lexicon of Comicana is a 1980 book by the American cartoonist Mort Walker. It was intended as a tongue-in-cheek look at the devices used by comics cartoonists. In it, Walker invented an international set of symbols called symbolia after researching cartoons around the world (described by the term comicana). In 1964... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiele%27s%20interpolation%20formula | In mathematics, Thiele's interpolation formula is a formula that defines a rational function from a finite set of inputs and their function values . The problem of generating a function whose graph passes through a given set of function values is called interpolation. This interpolation formula is named after the Dan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%20rise | The continental rise is a low-relief zone of accumulated sediments that lies between the continental slope and the abyssal plain. It is a major part of the continental margin, covering around 10% of the ocean floor.
Formation
This geologic structure results from deposition of sediments, mainly due to mass wasting, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20selfie | A space selfie is a selfie (self-portrait photograph typically posted on social media sites) that is taken in outer space. This include selfies taken by astronauts (also known as astronaut selfies), machines (also known as space robot selfies and rover selfies) and by indirect methods.
Astronauts
The first known spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Games | California Games is a 1987 sports video game originally released by Epyx for the Apple II and Commodore 64, and ported to other home computers and video game consoles. Branching from their Summer Games and Winter Games series, this game consists of a collection of outdoor sports purportedly popular in California. The g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrodynamica | Hydrodynamica (Latin for Hydrodynamics) is a book published by Daniel Bernoulli in 1738. The title of this book eventually christened the field of fluid mechanics as hydrodynamics.
The book deals with fluid mechanics and is organized around the idea of conservation of energy, as received from Christiaan Huygens's form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20frequency | An audio frequency or audible frequency (AF) is a periodic vibration whose frequency is audible to the average human. The SI unit of frequency is the hertz (Hz). It is the property of sound that most determines pitch.
The generally accepted standard hearing range for humans is 20 to 20,000 Hz. In air at atmospheric pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracellular%20RNA | Extracellular RNA (exRNA) describes RNA species present outside of the cells in which they were transcribed. Carried within extracellular vesicles, lipoproteins, and protein complexes, exRNAs are protected from ubiquitous RNA-degrading enzymes. exRNAs may be found in the environment or, in multicellular organisms, with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive%20Internet | Emotive Internet (also Emotive Web, Emotional Internet) is a conceptualization of the Internet as an emergent emotional public space, such as how it serves as a space for the social sharing of emotions. It can also denote the quality of the Internet that allows it to be used to communicate in an emotive fashion or with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Cloud | HP Cloud was a set of cloud computing services available from Hewlett-Packard that offered public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, managed private cloud and other cloud services. It was the combination of the previous HP Converged Cloud business unit and HP Cloud Services, an OpenStack-based public cloud. It was mar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian%20spite | Within the field of social evolution, Hamiltonian spite is a term for spiteful behaviors occurring among conspecifics that have a cost for the actor and a negative impact upon the recipient.
Theories on altruism and spitefulness
W. D. Hamilton published an influential paper on altruism in 1964 to explain why genetic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2072 | In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 72 is a family of glycoside hydrolases.
Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20inhibitor%20of%20activated%20STAT | Protein inhibitor of activated STAT (PIAS), also known as E3 SUMO-protein ligase PIAS, is a protein that regulates transcription in mammals. PIAS proteins act as transcriptional co-regulators with at least 60 different proteins in order to either activate or repress transcription. The transcription factors STAT, NF-κB... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTdimension | The NeXTdimension (ND) is an accelerated 32-bit color board manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1991 that gave the NeXTcube color capabilities with PostScript planned. The NeXTBus (NuBus-like) card was a full size card for the NeXTcube, filling one of four slots, another one being filled with the main board itself. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octuple-precision%20floating-point%20format | In computing, octuple precision is a binary floating-point-based computer number format that occupies 32 bytes (256 bits) in computer memory. This 256-bit octuple precision is for applications requiring results in higher than quadruple precision. This format is rarely (if ever) used and very few environments support it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20Biodiversity%20Information%20System | The Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS), formerly Ocean Biogeographic Information System, is a web-based access point to information about the distribution and abundance of living species in the ocean. It was developed as the information management component of the ten year Census of Marine Life (CoML) (2001-2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20instruments%20used%20in%20forensics | Instruments used in Forensics, including
autopsy dissections are as follows:
Instrument list
Serological, chemical and genetic testings are done by the respective
people of these branches.
Image gallery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylsilylpropanoic%20acid | Trimethylsilylpropanoic acid (TMSP or TSP) is a chemical compound containing a trimethylsilyl group. It is used as internal reference in nuclear magnetic resonance for aqueous solvents (e.g. D2O). For that use it is often deuterated (3-(trimethylsilyl)-2,2,3,3-tetradeuteropropionic acid or TMSP-d4). Other internal refe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton%20model%20in%20neuroscience | The soliton hypothesis in neuroscience is a model that claims to explain how action potentials are initiated and conducted along axons based on a thermodynamic theory of nerve pulse propagation. It proposes that the signals travel along the cell's membrane in the form of certain kinds of solitary sound (or density) pul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20quadruplets | Electron quadruplets are a possible phenomenon in an exotic state of matter in which Cooper pairs do not exhibit long-range order, but electron quadruplets do. This "quartic metal" phase is related to but distinct from those superconductors explained by the standard BCS theory; rather than expelling magnetic field line... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection%20stone | A resurrection stone is a stone of immense weight which was hired out to prevent newly buried corpses from being stolen.
List of resurrection stones in the United Kingdom
St Laurence Church, Lurgashall
Llantrisant
Dean Row Chapel, Wilmslow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith | John Alexander Smith (21 April 1863 – 19 December 1939) was a British idealist philosopher, who was the Jowett Lecturer of philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford from 1896 to 1910, and Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, carrying a Fellowship at Magdalen College in the same university, from 1910 to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii%20Ocean%20Time-series | The Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) program is a long-term oceanographic study based at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In 2015, the American Society for Microbiology designated the HOT Program's field site Station ALOHA (A Long-Term Oligotrophic Habitat Assessment; ()) a "Milestone in Microbiology", for playing "a k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunted%20projective%20space | In mathematics, a stunted projective space is a construction on a projective space of importance in homotopy theory, introduced by . Part of a conventional projective space is collapsed down to a point.
More concretely, in a real projective space, complex projective space or quaternionic projective space
KPn,
where ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indium%20%28111In%29%20capromab%20pendetide | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Indium (111In) capromab pendetide}}
Indium (111In) capromab pendetide (trade name Prostascint) is used to image the extent of prostate cancer. Capromab is a mouse monoclonal antibody which recognizes a protein found on both prostate cancer cells and normal prostate tissue. It is linked to pendetide, a d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiDi | Wireless Display (WiDi) is technology developed by Intel that enables users to stream music, movies, photos, videos and apps without cables from a compatible computer to a compatible HDTV or through the use of an adapter with other HDTVs or computer monitors. Intel WiDi supports HD 1080p video quality, 5.1 surround sou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement | In reinforcement theory, it is argued that human behavior is a result of "contingent consequences" to human actions. The publication pushes forward the idea that "you get what you reinforce". This means that behavior, when given the right types of reinforcers, can be changed for the better and negative behavior can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set%20partitioning%20in%20hierarchical%20trees | Set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) is an image compression algorithm that exploits the inherent similarities across the subbands in a wavelet decomposition of an image. The algorithm was developed by Brazilian engineer Amir Said with William A. Pearlman in 1996.
General description
The algorithm codes the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypton%20%28particle%29 | In particle physics, the crypton is a hypothetical superheavy particle, thought to exist in a hidden sector of string theory. It has been proposed as a candidate particle to explain the dark matter content of the universe. Cryptons arising in the hidden sector of a superstring-derived flipped SU(5) GUT model have been... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20genetics | The history of genetics dates from the classical era with contributions by Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, and others. Modern genetics began with the work of the Augustinian friar Gregor Johann Mendel. His work on pea plants, published in 1866, provided the initial evidence that, on its rediscovery in 190... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iomega | Iomega (later LenovoEMC) produced external, portable, and networked data storage products. Established in the 1980s in Roy, Utah, United States, Iomega sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks, including the Zip drive floppy disk system. Formerly a public company, it was acquired by EMC Corporation i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Neuroscience | The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is a professional society, headquartered in Washington, D.C., for basic scientists and physicians around the world whose research is focused on the study of the brain and nervous system. It is especially well known for its annual meeting, consistently one of the largest scientific con... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.