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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogation | Surrogation is a psychological phenomenon found in business practices whereby a measure of a construct of interest evolves to replace that construct. Research on performance measurement in management accounting identifies surrogation with "the tendency for managers to lose sight of the strategic construct(s) the measur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guvera | Guvera was an online music and entertainment streaming service founded in 2008. Guvera had agreements with the music labels in the regions where the product was available, which allowed for legal free music streams. As of May 2017, Guvera has shut down all operations across all remaining Asian markets.
Music streaming... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma%20distribution | In probability theory and statistics, the gamma distribution is a two-parameter family of continuous probability distributions. The exponential distribution, Erlang distribution, and chi-squared distribution are special cases of the gamma distribution. There are two equivalent parameterizations in common use:
With a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPAdes%20%28software%29 | SPAdes (St. Petersburg genome assembler) is a genome assembly algorithm which was designed for single cell and multi-cells bacterial data sets. Therefore, it might not be suitable for large genomes projects.
SPAdes works with Ion Torrent, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore, and Illumina paired-end, mate-pairs and single reads.
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies | Rabies is a viral disease that causes encephalitis in humans and other mammals. It was historically referred to as hydrophobia ("fear of water") due to the symptom of panic when presented with liquids to drink. Early symptoms can include fever and abnormal sensations at the site of exposure. These symptoms are followed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedimentisphaerales | Sedimentisphaerales is an order of aquatic bacteria.
See also
List of bacterial orders
List of bacteria genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle%20duality%20relation | The wave–particle duality relation, often loosely referred to as the Englert–Greenberger–Yasin duality relation, or the Englert–Greenberger relation, relates the visibility, , of interference fringes with the definiteness, or distinguishability, , of the photons' paths in quantum optics. As an inequality:
Although it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20problems | In mathematics, the Simon problems (or Simon's problems) are a series of fifteen questions posed in the year 2000 by Barry Simon, an American mathematical physicist. Inspired by other collections of mathematical problems and open conjectures, such as the famous list by David Hilbert, the Simon problems concern quantum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commation%20eposianum | Commation eposianum is a species of heterotrophic protists discovered in 1993 in Antarctic waters. It is one of two species in the Commatiida, an order of stramenopiles closely related to actinophryids, a group of heliozoan protists, and to raphidophytes, a group of algae.
Etymology
The name of the species, "eposia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%20%28programming%20language%29 | Darwin is a closed source programming language developed by Gaston Gonnet and colleagues at ETH Zurich. It is used to develop the OMA orthology inference software, which was also initially developed by Gonnet. The language backend consists of the kernel, responsible for performing simple mathematical calculations, for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardine%20run | The KwaZulu-Natal sardine run of southern Africa occurs from May through July when billions of sardines – or more specifically the Southern African pilchard Sardinops sagax – spawn in the cool waters of the Agulhas Bank and move northward along the east coast of South Africa. Their sheer numbers create a feeding frenzy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia%20terminal%20mobile | The first integration between mobile phone and Palm (PDA Personal Device Assistant) occurred in 1999, as a result of an Italian–lead project submitted to the action line V1.1 CPA1 "Integrated application platforms and services" 5th Framework Program of the European Community (project number IST1999-11100).
The project,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86%20virtualization | x86 virtualization is the use of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities on an x86/x86-64 CPU.
In the late 1990s x86 virtualization was achieved by complex software techniques, necessary to compensate for the processor's lack of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities while attaining reasonable performance... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20differencing%20scheme | In applied mathematics, the central differencing scheme is a finite difference method that optimizes the approximation for the differential operator in the central node of the considered patch and provides numerical solutions to differential equations. It is one of the schemes used to solve the integrated convection–di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witching%20hour | In folklore, the witching hour or devil's hour is a time of night that is associated with supernatural events, whereby witches, demons and ghosts are thought to appear and be at their most powerful. Definitions vary, and include the hour immediately after midnight, and the time between 3:00am and 4:00am. The term now h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP%20congestion%20control | Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) uses a congestion control algorithm that includes various aspects of an additive increase/multiplicative decrease (AIMD) scheme, along with other schemes including slow start and congestion window (CWND), to achieve congestion avoidance. The TCP congestion-avoidance algorithm is the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20education%20agency | Medical education agencies are a specialty subset of advertising agencies that develop educational content for the Healthcare, Life Science and Biotechnology industries. Medical education agencies are divided into two categories:
CME
Medical education agencies that develop Continuing medical education (most commonly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenic%20hydra | Cnidarians such as Hydra have become attractive model organisms to study the evolution of immunity. However, despite long-term efforts, stably transgenic animals could not be generated, severely limiting the functional analysis of genes. For analytical purposes, therefore, an important technical breakthrough in the fie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneration%20%28ecology%29 | In ecology regeneration is the ability of an ecosystemspecifically, the environment and its living populationto renew and recover from damage. It is a kind of biological regeneration.
Regeneration refers to ecosystems replenishing what is being eaten, disturbed, or harvested. Regeneration's biggest force is photosynth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appia%20%28software%29 | Appia is a free and open-source layered communication toolkit implemented in Java, and licensed under the Apache License, version 2.0. It was born in the University of Lisbon, Portugal, by the DIALNP research group that is hosted in the LaSIGE research unit.
Components
Appia is composed by a core that is used to compo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astromundus | Astromundus was a 2-years Erasmus Mundus masters course in Astronomy and Astrophysics. It was offered by a consortium of 5 partner universities of four different European countries. Partner universities were University of Innsbruck in Austria, University of Padova and University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy, University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Orp%27s%20Mail | Ron Orp's Mail is an e-mail newsletter which is sent each weekday, from Monday to Friday, to subscribers in a dozen cities in Europe and the Americas.
Romano Strebel and Christian Klinner started Ron Orp's Mail in 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland. Initially it covered only Zurich, with news about the city’s cultural, gastr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Collapse%20of%20Chaos | The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World (1994) is a book about complexity theory and the nature of scientific explanation written by biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart.
In this book Cohen and Stewart give their ideas on chaos theory, particularly on how the simple leads to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca | The alpaca (Lama pacos) is a species of South American camelid mammal. It is similar to, and often confused with, the llama. However, alpacas are often noticeably smaller than llamas. The two animals are closely related and can successfully crossbreed. Both species are believed to have been domesticated from their wild... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-certifying%20File%20System | In computing, Self-certifying File System (SFS) is a global and decentralized, distributed file system for Unix-like operating systems, while also providing transparent encryption of communications as well as authentication. It aims to be the universal distributed file system by providing uniform access to any availabl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Korenblum | Boris Isaac Korenblum (Борис Исаакович Коренблюм, 12 August 1923, Odessa, now Ukraine – 15 December 2011, Slingerlands, New York) was a Soviet-Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis.
Boris Korenblum was a child prodigy in music, languages, and mathematics. He started as a violinist at th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexing%20the%20Body | Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality is a 2000 book by the biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling, in which the author explores the social construction of gender, and the social and medical treatment of intersex people. Her stated goal is to "convince readers of the need for theories that allow fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%20spectrum | In mathematics, the Markov spectrum devised by Andrey Markov is a complicated set of real numbers arising in Markov Diophantine equation and also in the theory of Diophantine approximation.
Quadratic form characterization
Consider a quadratic form given by f(x,y) = ax2 + bxy + cy2 and suppose that its discriminant i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenpreis%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Ehrenpreis conjecture of Leon Ehrenpreis states that for any K greater than 1, any two closed Riemann surfaces of genus at least 2 have finite-degree covers which are K-quasiconformal: that is, the covers are arbitrarily close in the Teichmüller metric.
A proof was announced by Jeremy Kahn and Vlad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinVect | In the mathematical field of category theory, FinVect (or FdVect) is the category whose objects are all finite-dimensional vector spaces and whose morphisms are all linear maps between them.
Properties
FinVect has two monoidal products:
the direct sum of vector spaces, which is both a categorical product and a copr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvette%20%28computer%29 | Corvette () was an 8-bit personal computer in the USSR, created for Soviet schools in 1980s. The first device was a homemade computer, created in 1985 by employees of the Moscow State University for their purposes (physics experiments). The first description was made in the magazine «Microprocessor tools and systems».... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blooming%20%28geometry%29 | In the geometry of convex polyhedra, blooming or continuous blooming is a continuous three-dimensional motion of the surface of the polyhedron, cut to form a polyhedral net, from the polyhedron into a flat and non-self-overlapping placement of the net in a plane. As in rigid origami, the polygons of the net must remain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima%E2%80%93Zwanzig%20equation | The Nakajima–Zwanzig equation (named after the physicists who developed it, Sadao Nakajima and Robert Zwanzig) is an integral equation describing the time evolution of the "relevant" part of a quantum-mechanical system. It is formulated in the density matrix formalism and can be regarded a generalization of the master ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20biomolecules | This is a list of articles that describe particular biomolecules or types of biomolecules.
A
For substances with an A- or α- prefix such as
α-amylase, please see the parent page (in this case Amylase).
A23187 (Calcimycin, Calcium Ionophore)
Abamectine
Abietic acid
Acetic acid
Acetylcholine
Actin
Actinomycin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flory%E2%80%93Rehner%20equation | In polymer science Flory–Rehner equation is an equation that describes the mixing of polymer and liquid molecules as predicted by the equilibrium swelling theory of Flory and Rehner.
It describes the equilibrium swelling of a lightly crosslinked polymer in terms of crosslink density and the quality of the solvent.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating%20ring-disk%20electrode | In analytical chemistry, a rotating ring-disk electrode (RRDE) is a double working electrode used in hydrodynamic voltammetry, very similar to a rotating disk electrode (RDE). The electrode rotates during experiments inducing a flux of analyte to the electrode. This system used in electrochemical studies when investi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20rate | A flat fee, also referred to as a flat rate or a linear rate refers to a pricing structure that charges a single fixed fee for a service, regardless of usage. Less commonly, the term may refer to a rate that does not vary with usage or time of use.
Advantages
A business can develop a dependable stance in a market, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus%20subtilis%20BSR%20sRNAs | In a screen of the Bacillus subtilis genome for genes encoding ncRNAs, Saito et al. focused on 123 intergenic regions (IGRs) over 500 base pairs in length, the authors analyzed expression from these regions. Seven IGRs termed bsrC, bsrD, bsrE, bsrF, bsrG, bsrH and bsrI expressed RNAs smaller than 380 nt. All the small ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytomics | Cytomics is the study of cell biology (cytology) and biochemistry in cellular systems at the single cell level. It combines all the bioinformatic knowledge to attempt to understand the molecular architecture and functionality of the cell system (Cytome). Much of this is achieved by using molecular and microscopic tech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20plane%20%28geometry%29 | A normal plane is any plane containing the normal vector of a surface at a particular point.
The normal plane also refers to the plane that is perpendicular to the tangent vector of a space curve; (this plane also contains the normal vector) see Frenet–Serret formulas.
Normal section
The normal section of a surface... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20membrane | A biological membrane, biomembrane or cell membrane is a selectively permeable membrane that separates the interior of a cell from the external environment or creates intracellular compartments by serving as a boundary between one part of the cell and another. Biological membranes, in the form of eukaryotic cell membra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20command%20or%20file%20name | "Bad command or file name" is a common and ambiguous error message in MS-DOS and some other operating systems.
COMMAND.COM, the primary user interface of MS-DOS, produces this error message when the first word of a command could not be interpreted. For MS-DOS, this word must be the name of an internal command, executa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-hydraulic%20actuator | Electro-hydraulic actuators (EHAs), replace hydraulic systems with self-contained actuators operated solely by electrical power. EHAs eliminate the need for separate hydraulic pumps and tubing, because they include their own pump, simplifying system architectures and improving safety and reliability. This technology or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathnasium | Mathnasium (also Mathnasium Learning Center) is an American education brand and supplemental math learning franchise consisting of over 1,000 learning centers in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia that provides instruction to students in pre-kindergarten through high school. The curriculum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghabrivirales | Ghabrivirales is an order of double-stranded RNA viruses. It is the only order in the class Chrysmotiviricetes. The name of the class is a portmanteau of member families: chrysoviridae, megabirnaviridae, and totiviridae; and -viricetes which is the suffix for a virus class. The name of the order derives from Said Ghabr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy%20coding | In information theory, an entropy coding (or entropy encoding) is any lossless data compression method that attempts to approach the lower bound declared by Shannon's source coding theorem, which states that any lossless data compression method must have expected code length greater or equal to the entropy of the sourc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20queue%20management | In routers and switches, active queue management (AQM) is the policy of dropping packets inside a buffer associated with a network interface controller (NIC) before that buffer becomes full, often with the goal of reducing network congestion or improving end-to-end latency. This task is performed by the network schedu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass%20functions | In mathematics, the Weierstrass functions are special functions of a complex variable that are auxiliary to the Weierstrass elliptic function. They are named for Karl Weierstrass. The relation between the sigma, zeta, and functions is analogous to that between the sine, cotangent, and squared cosecant functions: the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/192%20%28number%29 | 192 (one hundred [and] ninety-two) is the natural number following 191 and preceding 193.
In mathematics
192 has the prime factorization . Because it has so many small prime factors, it is the smallest number with 14 divisors, namely 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96, and 192 itself. Because its only prime ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%20Automation | Tesla Automation GmbH (formerly Grohmann Engineering GmbH) is a German engineering automation company based in Prüm in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The company operates a development center in Neutraubling, Bavaria, as well as support offices in Chandler, Arizona, and Shanghai, China. The company was founded in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic%20homogenization | Biotic homogenization is the process by which two or more spatially distributed ecological communities become increasingly similar over time. This process may be genetic, taxonomic, or functional, and it leads to a loss of beta (β) diversity. While the term is sometimes used interchangeably with "taxonomic homogenizati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20bot | A software bot is a type of software agent in the service of software project management and software engineering. A software bot has an identity and potentially personified aspects in order to serve their stakeholders. Software bots often compose software services and provide an alternative user interface, which is so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gra%C5%BEvydas%20Lukinavi%C4%8Dius | Gražvydas Lukinavičius is a Lithuanian biochemist. His scientific interest and main area of research is focused on labeling of biomolecules and visualization using super-resolution microscopy. He is co-invertor of DNA labeling technology known as Methyltransferase-Directed Transfer of Activated Groups (mTAG) and bioco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus%20pattersoniae | Agaricus pattersoniae is an edible species of mushroom. It is found in the United States, where it associates with cypress trees. It has been proposed for inclusion in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Taxonomy
It was first described in the literature in 1907 by Charles Horton Peck, based on specimens found by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20Data%20Record | A Climate Data Record (CDR) is a specific definition of a climate data series, developed by the Committee on Climate Data Records from NOAA Operational Satellites of the National Research Council at the request of NOAA in the context of satellite records. It is defined as "a time series of measurements of sufficient le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogey%20value | In manufacturers' specifications for electronic devices, a bogey device (or bogie device) - especially a vacuum tube- is one that has all characteristics equal to the published values, in other words that its parameters all lie in the centre of their bell curve distributions.
Parameter value
A bogey is a published v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roskamp%20Institute | The Roskamp Institute, was co-founded by Robert and Diane Roskamp, and Fiona Crawford and Michael Mullan in Sarasota, Florida in 2003. It is a nonprofit biomedical research facility specializing neurological research including Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, Gulf War syndrome, and posttraumatic stress diso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian%20solitaire | In mathematics and game theory, Bulgarian solitaire is a card game that was introduced by Martin Gardner.
In the game, a pack of cards is divided into several piles. Then for each pile, remove one card; collect the removed cards together to form a new pile (piles of zero size are ignored).
If is a triangular number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular%20momentum%20coupling | In quantum mechanics, angular momentum coupling is the procedure of constructing eigenstates of total angular momentum out of eigenstates of separate angular momenta. For instance, the orbit and spin of a single particle can interact through spin–orbit interaction, in which case the complete physical picture must incl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Ouali%20Mustapha%20Sayed | El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed (also known as El Uali, El-Wali, Luali or Lulei; ; 1949 – 9 June 1976) was a Sahrawi nationalist leader, co-founder and second Secretary-General of the Polisario Front.
Youth and background
El-Ouali was born in 1949 in a Sahrawi nomad encampment somewhere on the hammada desert plains in eastern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallid%20alphaherpesvirus%203 | Gallid alphaherpesvirus 3 (GaHV-3) is a species of virus in the genus Mardivirus, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microecosystem | Microecosystems can exist in locations which are precisely defined by critical environmental factors within small or tiny spaces.
Such factors may include temperature, pH, chemical milieu, nutrient supply, presence of symbionts or solid substrates, gaseous atmosphere (aerobic or anaerobic) etc.
Some examples
Pond mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-spectral%20method | Pseudo-spectral methods, also known as discrete variable representation (DVR) methods, are a class of numerical methods used in applied mathematics and scientific computing for the solution of partial differential equations. They are closely related to spectral methods, but complement the basis by an additional pseudo-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20response | An immune response is a physiological reaction which occurs within an organism in the context of inflammation for the purpose of defending against exogenous factors. These include a wide variety of different toxins, viruses, intra- and extracellular bacteria, protozoa, helminths, and fungi which could cause serious pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acibenzolar-S-methyl | Acibenzolar-S-methyl is the ISO common name for an organic compound that is used as a fungicide. Unusually, it is not directly toxic to fungi but works by inducing systemic acquired resistance, the natural defence system of plants.
History
In the 1980s, researchers at Ciba-Geigy in Switzerland were seeking novel fungi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallophyte | Thallophytes (Thallophyta, Thallophyto or Thallobionta) are a polyphyletic group of non-motile organisms traditionally described as "thalloid plants", "relatively simple plants" or "lower plants". They form a division of kingdom Plantae that include lichens and algae and occasionally bryophytes, bacteria and slime moul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Acceleratory%20Phenomenon | Regional acceleratory phenomenon (RAP) is a sudden acceleration of normal tissue processes in reaction to noxious stimuli. It has been exploited in treatments such as the healing of atrophic or oligotrophic nonunions and surgically facilitated orthodontic therapy.
Background
In the early 1980s, American orthopedist H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation%20test | A percolation test (colloquially called a perc test) is a test to determine the water absorption rate of soil (that is, its capacity for percolation) in preparation for the building of a septic drain field (leach field) or infiltration basin. The results of a percolation test are required to properly design a septic sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects%20of%20nicotine%20on%20human%20brain%20development | Exposure to nicotine, from conventional or electronic cigarettes during adolescence can impair the developing human brain. E-cigarette use is recognized as a substantial threat to adolescent behavioral health. The use of tobacco products, no matter what type, is almost always started and established during adolescence ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20John%20Jackson | Sir Frederick John Jackson, (17 February 1860 – 3 February 1929) was an English administrator, explorer and ornithologist.
Early years
Jackson was born at Oran Hall, near Catterick, North Yorkshire in 1860. He attended Shrewsbury School and then Jesus College, Cambridge.
In 1884 he went to Africa on a shooting trip,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resilient%20control%20systems | In our modern society, computerized or digital control systems have been used to reliably automate many of the industrial operations that we take for granted, from the power plant to the automobiles we drive. However, the complexity of these systems and how the designers integrate them, the roles and responsibilities o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriane%20Lassus | Oriane Lassus (born in 1987) is a French author and cartoonist, as well as an illustrator.
Biography
Since 2009, Lassus has contributed to the Spongiculture blog in which she goes through her daily life against a backdrop of acerbic humour. The project won the "Blog Revelation Prize" two years later, at the Angoulême... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenesis%20of%20lysosome-related%20organelles%20complex%201 | BLOC-1 or biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles complex 1 is a ubiquitously expressed multisubunit protein complex in a group of complexes that also includes BLOC-2 and BLOC-3. BLOC-1 is required for normal biogenesis of specialized organelles of the endosomal-lysosomal system, such as melanosomes and platelet dens... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20system%20%28Internet%29 | An autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators on behalf of a single administrative entity or domain, that presents a common and clearly defined routing policy to the Internet. Each AS is assigned an autonomous system num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Right%20to%20Read | The Right to Read is a short story by Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, which was first published in 1997 in Communications of the ACM. It is a cautionary tale set in the year 2047, when DRM-like technologies are employed to restrict the readership of books; when the sharing of books and wr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%20test | The Turing test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine desig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraxacum%20officinale | Taraxacum officinale, the dandelion or common dandelion, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae (syn. Compositae). The common dandelion is well known for its yellow flower heads that turn into round balls of many silver-tufted fruits that disperse in the wind. These balls are called "c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C3%BCcker%20matrix | The Plücker matrix is a special skew-symmetric 4 × 4 matrix, which characterizes a straight line in projective space. The matrix is defined by 6 Plücker coordinates with 4 degrees of freedom. It is named after the German mathematician Julius Plücker.
Definition
A straight line in space is defined by two distinct poin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Gelbart | William Michael Gelbart (born June 12, 1946) is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a member of the California NanoSystems Institute and the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard University in 1967, h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20diagonal | In geometry, a space diagonal (also interior diagonal or body diagonal) of a polyhedron is a line connecting two vertices that are not on the same face. Space diagonals contrast with face diagonals, which connect vertices on the same face (but not on the same edge) as each other.
For example, a pyramid has no space di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20contrast%20grating | In physics, a high contrast grating is a single layer near-wavelength grating physical structure where the grating material has a large contrast in index of refraction with its surroundings. The term near-wavelength refers to the grating period, which has a value between one optical wavelength in the grating material a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residue%20theorem | In complex analysis, the residue theorem, sometimes called Cauchy's residue theorem, is a powerful tool to evaluate line integrals of analytic functions over closed curves; it can often be used to compute real integrals and infinite series as well. It generalizes the Cauchy integral theorem and Cauchy's integral formul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma%20secretase | Gamma secretase is a multi-subunit protease complex, itself an integral membrane protein, that cleaves single-pass transmembrane proteins at residues within the transmembrane domain. Proteases of this type are known as intramembrane proteases. The most well-known substrate of gamma secretase is amyloid precursor protei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv6 | xv6 is a modern reimplementation of Sixth Edition Unix in ANSI C for multiprocessor x86 and RISC-V systems. It was created for pedagogical purposes in MIT's Operating System Engineering course in 2006.
Purpose
MIT's Operating System Engineering course formerly used the original V6 source code. xv6 was created as a mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%20GDS | Galileo is a computer reservations system (CRS) owned by Travelport. As of 2000, it had a 26.4% share of worldwide CRS airline bookings.
In addition to airline reservations, the Galileo CRS is also used to book train travel, cruises, car rental, and hotel rooms.
The Galileo system was moved from Denver, Colorado, to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility%20computing | Utility computing, or computer utility, is a service provisioning model in which a service provider makes computing resources and infrastructure management available to the customer as needed, and charges them for specific usage rather than a flat rate. Like other types of on-demand computing (such as grid computing),... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20FTP | Core FTP LE is a freeware secure FTP client for Windows, developed by CoreFTP.com. Features include FTP, SSL/TLS, SFTP via SSH, and HTTP/HTTPS support. Secure FTP clients encrypt account information and data transferred across the internet, protecting data from being seen, or sniffed across networks. Core FTP is a trad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodies%20Group | The Moodies Group is a geological formation in South Africa and Eswatini. It has the oldest well-preserved siliciclastic tidal deposits on Earth, where microbial mats flourished.
See also
Archean life in the Barberton Greenstone Belt
Fig Tree Formation
Onverwacht Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryology | Bryology (from Greek , a moss, a liverwort) is the branch of botany concerned with the scientific study of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts). Bryologists are people who have an active interest in observing, recording, classifying or researching bryophytes. The field is often studied along with lichenology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-buckling | A column can buckle due to its own weight with no other direct forces acting on it, in a failure mode called self-buckling. In conventional column buckling problems, the self-weight is often neglected since it is assumed to be small when compared to the applied axial loads. However, when this assumption is not valid, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20post-processing | The term post-processing (or postproc for short) is used in the video/film business for quality-improvement image processing (specifically digital image processing) methods used in video playback devices, such as stand-alone DVD-Video players; video playing software; and transcoding software. It is also commonly used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Felkel | Anton Felkel (26 April 1740, Kamenz, Silesia – c. 1800, possibly in Lisbon, Portugal) was an Austrian mathematician who worked on the determination of prime numbers.
Work
In 1776 and 1777, Felkel published a table giving complete decompositions of all integers not divisible by 2, 3, and 5, from 1 to 408,000. Felkel h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unistochastic%20matrix | In mathematics, a unistochastic matrix (also called unitary-stochastic) is a doubly stochastic matrix whose entries are the squares of the absolute values of the entries of some unitary matrix.
A square matrix B of size n is doubly stochastic (or bistochastic) if all its entries are non-negative real numbers and each ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metview | Metview is a meteorological workstation and batch system developed at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
History
Developments were started at ECMWF in 1990 in co-operation with the National Institute for Space Research of Brazil and Météo-France.
Features
User interface
Metview has an icon ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Horsley | Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley (14 April 1857 – 16 July 1916) was a British scientist and professor.
He was born in Kensington, London. Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, he studied medicine at University College London and in Berlin, Germany (1881) and, in the same year, started his career as a house surgeon a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity%20diagram | Activity diagrams are graphical representations of workflows of stepwise activities and actions with support for choice, iteration and concurrency. In the Unified Modeling Language, activity diagrams are intended to model both computational and organizational processes (i.e., workflows), as well as the data flows inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%27s%20%28poignant%29%20Guide%20to%20Ruby | why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby, sometimes called w(p)GtR or just "the poignant guide", is an introductory book to the Ruby programming language, written by why the lucky stiff. The book is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
The book is unusual among programming books in that it incl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme%20promiscuity | Enzyme promiscuity is the ability of an enzyme to catalyse a fortuitous side reaction in addition to its main reaction. Although enzymes are remarkably specific catalysts, they can often perform side reactions in addition to their main, native catalytic activity. These promiscuous activities are usually slow relative t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneMine | OneMine is non-profit entity and searchable online global mining and minerals library.
History
OneMine is a non-profit entity governed by a steering committee whose members are nominated and serve for a term of three calendar years. It was launched as a collaborative effort between professional societies in the minin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWWJDIC | WWWJDIC is an online Japanese dictionary based on the electronic dictionaries compiled and collected by Australian academic Jim Breen. The main Japanese–English dictionary file (EDICT) contains over 180,000 entries, and the ENAMDICT dictionary contains over 720,000 Japanese surnames, first names, place names and produc... |
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