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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclically%20adjusted%20price-to-earnings%20ratio | The cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio, commonly known as CAPE, Shiller P/E, or P/E 10 ratio, is a valuation measure usually applied to the US S&P 500 equity market. It is defined as price divided by the average of ten years of earnings (moving average), adjusted for inflation. As such, it is principally used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osa%20Wildlife%20Sanctuary |
Osa Wildlife Sanctuary
The Osa Wildlife Sanctuary () or Caña Blanca Wildlife Sanctuary, is an animal rescue center located in Osa Peninsula in southwestern Costa Rica. The Sanctuary is accessible only by boat and is completely surrounded by Piedras Blancas National Park. The center is dedicated to the rehabilitation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism%20%28philosophy%29 | Mechanism is the belief that natural wholes (principally living things) are similar to complicated machines or artifacts, composed of parts lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other.
The doctrine of mechanism in philosophy comes in two different flavors. They are both doctrines of metaphysics, but they are diff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staggered%20conformation | In organic chemistry, a staggered conformation is a chemical conformation of an ethane-like moiety abcX–Ydef in which the substituents a, b, and c are at the maximum distance from d, e, and f; this requires the torsion angles to be 60°. It is the opposite of an eclipsed conformation, in which those substituents are as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortman%20key | An Ortman key is a coupling device used to secure two adjacent cylindrical segments of a pressure vessel common in tactical rocket motors. An Ortman key is made of elongated rectangular metal bar stock, such as steel, and is inserted into juxtaposed annular grooves around the circumference of the mating parts. The Or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent%20enhancement | Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), sometimes less precisely called immune enhancement or disease enhancement, is a phenomenon in which binding of a virus to suboptimal antibodies enhances its entry into host cells, followed by its replication. The suboptimal antibodies can result from natural infection or from vacci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100%20encoding | The VT100 code page is a character encoding used to represent text on the Classic Mac OS for compatibility with the VT100 terminal. It encodes 256 characters, the first 128 of which are identical to ASCII, with the remaining characters including mathematical symbols, diacritics, and additional punctuation marks. It is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab%20ice%20cream | Crab ice cream is a sweet flavour of ice cream with crab. It is offered in some food establishments, particularly ice cream parlours, such as Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck restaurant, and the Venezuelan Coromoto.
History and production
Crab ice cream is a Japanese creation. The island of Hokkaido, Japan, is known f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angustific%20acid | Angustific acid A and angustific acid B are antiviral compounds isolated from Kadsura angustifolia. They are triterpenoids.
See also
Angustifodilactone
Neokadsuranin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endless%20Forms%20Most%20Beautiful%20%28book%29 | Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom is a 2005 book by the molecular biologist Sean B. Carroll. It presents a summary of the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology and the role of toolkit genes. It has won numerous awards for science communication.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebright%20chicken | The Sebright (IPA: ) is a British breed of bantam chicken. It is a true bantam – a miniature bird with no corresponding large version – and is one of the oldest recorded British bantam breeds. It is named after Sir John Saunders Sebright, who created it as an ornamental breed by selective breeding in the early nineteen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computron%20tube | The Computron was an electron tube designed to perform the parallel addition and multiplication of digital numbers. It was conceived by Richard L. Snyder, Jr., Jan A. Rajchman, Paul Rudnick and the digital computer group at the laboratories of the Radio Corporation of America under the direction of Vladimir Zworykin. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika%20oleoresin | Paprika oleoresin (also known as paprika extract and oleoresin paprika) is an oil-soluble extract from the fruits of Capsicum annuum or Capsicum frutescens, and is primarily used as a colouring and/or flavouring in food products. It is composed of vegetable oil (often in the range of 97% to 98%), capsaicin, the main fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Donder%E2%80%93Weyl%20theory | In mathematical physics, the De Donder–Weyl theory is a generalization of the Hamiltonian formalism in the calculus of variations and classical field theory over spacetime which treats the space and time coordinates on equal footing. In this framework, the Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics is generalized to field theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesophase | In chemistry and chemical physics, a mesophase is a state of matter intermediate between solid and liquid. Gelatin is a common example of a partially ordered structure in a mesophase. Further, biological structures such as the lipid bilayers of cell membranes are examples of mesophases.
Georges Friedel (1922) called a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20for%20Life%20Laboratory | SciLifeLab (Science for Life Laboratory) is a world-leading Swedish national center for large-scale research and one of the largest molecular biology research laboratories in Europe at the forefront of innovation in life sciences research, computational biology, bioinformatics, training and services in molecular biosci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction%20fragment | A restriction fragment is a DNA fragment resulting from the cutting of a DNA strand by a restriction enzyme (restriction endonucleases), a process called restriction. Each restriction enzyme is highly specific, recognising a particular short DNA sequence, or restriction site, and cutting both DNA strands at specific po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20auger | An earth auger, earth drill, or post-hole auger is a drilling tool used for making holes in the ground. It typically consists of a rotating vertical metal rod or pipe with one or more blades attached at the lower end, that cut or scrape the soil.
History
Metal augers have been in use since the Middle Ages to drill ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal%20Diversity%20Survey | Fungal Diversity Survey, or FunDiS, is a nonprofit citizen science organization formerly known as North American Mycoflora Project, Inc. FunDiS aims to document the diversity and distribution of fungi across North America “in order to increase awareness of their critical role in the health of ecosystems and allow us to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incunabula%20Short%20Title%20Catalogue | The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) is an electronic bibliographic database maintained by the British Library which seeks to catalogue all known incunabula. The database lists books by individual editions, recording standard bibliographic details for each edition as well as giving a brief census of known copies... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20foot | A Cape foot is a unit of length defined as 1.0330 English feet (and equal to 12.396 English inches, or 0.31485557516 meters) found in documents of belts and diagrams relating to landed property. It was identically equal to the Rijnland voet and was introduced into South Africa by the Dutch settlers in the seventeenth ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense%20breast%20tissue | Dense breast tissue, also known as dense breasts, is a condition of the breasts where a higher proportion of the breasts are made up of glandular tissue and fibrous tissue than fatty tissue. Around 40–50% of women have dense breast tissue and one of the main medical components of the condition is that mammograms are un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room-temperature%20densification%20method | The room-temperature densification method was developed for Li2MoO4 ceramics and is based on the water-solubility of Li2MoO4. It can be used for the fabrication of Li2MoO4 ceramics instead of conventional thermal sintering. The method utilizes a small amount of aqueous phase formed by moistening the Li2MoO4 powder. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal%E2%80%93Grove%20model | The Deal–Grove model mathematically describes the growth of an oxide layer on the surface of a material. In particular, it is used to predict and interpret thermal oxidation of silicon in semiconductor device fabrication. The model was first published in 1965 by Bruce Deal and Andrew Grove of Fairchild Semiconductor, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PCradio | The PCradio was a notebook computer released by International Business Machines (IBM) in late 1991. Designed primarily for mobile workers such as service technicians, salespersons and public safety workers, the PCradio featured a ruggedized build with no internal hard disk drive and was optioned with either a cellular ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance%20multiplier | A capacitance multiplier is designed to make a capacitor function like a much larger capacitor. This can be achieved in at least two ways.
An active circuit, using a device such as a transistor or operational amplifier
A passive circuit, using autotransformers. These are typically used for calibration standards. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-amino%20acid%20dehydrogenase | D-amino-acid dehydrogenase (EC 1.4.99.1) is a bacterial enzyme that catalyses the oxidation of D-amino acids into their corresponding oxoacids. It contains both flavin and nonheme iron as cofactors. The enzyme has a very broad specificity and can act on most D-amino acids.
D-amino acid + H2O + acceptor <=> a 2-oxo aci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Ramo%20theorem | The Shockley–Ramo theorem is a method for calculating the electric current induced by a charge moving in the vicinity of an electrode. Previously named simply the "Ramo Theorem",
the modified name was introduced by D.S. McGregor et al. in 1998
to recognize the contributions of both Shockley and Ramo to understanding ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrichosis%201%20%28universalis%2C%20congenital%29 | Hypertrichosis 1 (universalis, congenital) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HTC1 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD%20projector | An LCD projector is a type of video projector for displaying video, images or computer data on a screen or other flat surface. It is a modern equivalent of the slide projector or overhead projector. To display images, LCD (liquid-crystal display) projectors typically send light from a metal-halide lamp through a prism ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brauer%E2%80%93Siegel%20theorem | In mathematics, the Brauer–Siegel theorem, named after Richard Brauer and Carl Ludwig Siegel, is an asymptotic result on the behaviour of algebraic number fields, obtained by Richard Brauer and Carl Ludwig Siegel. It attempts to generalise the results known on the class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields, to a more ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate%20%28square%20roots%29 | In mathematics, the conjugate of an expression of the form is provided that does not appear in and . One says also that the two expressions are conjugate.
In particular, the two solutions of a quadratic equation are conjugate, as per the in the quadratic formula .
Complex conjugation is the special case where th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/Session | In cryptography, Master/Session is a key management scheme in which a pre-shared Key Encrypting Key (called the "Master" key) is used to encrypt a randomly generated and insecurely communicated Working Key (called the "Session" key). The Working Key is then used for encrypting the data to be exchanged. Its advantage is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20mean | The grand mean or pooled mean is the average of the means of several subsamples, as long as the subsamples have the same number of data points. For example, consider several lots, each containing several items. The items from each lot are sampled for a measure of some variable and the means of the measurements from eac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESCHALL%20Project | DESCHALL, short for DES Challenge, was the first group to publicly break a message which used the Data Encryption Standard (DES), becoming the $10,000 winner of the first of the set of DES Challenges proposed by RSA Security in 1997. It was established by a group of computer scientists led by Rocke Verser assisted by J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster | A supertaster is a person whose sense of taste is of far greater intensity than the average person, having an elevated taste response.
History
The term originated with experimental psychologist Linda Bartoshuk, who has spent much of her career studying genetic variation in taste perception. In the early 1980s, Bartos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterford%20Park%20Research%20Station | Chesterford Park Research Station was a former crop protection research centre in Essex, and is now a science park with biotechnology companies.
History
The 808 acres of the Chesterford Park Estate was put up for sale in June 1950.
, owned by Dr Werner Göthe since around 1930.
Pest Control Ltd of Bourn in south-west ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjoint%20filter | In signal processing, the adjoint filter mask of a filter mask is reversed in time and the elements are complex conjugated.
Its name is derived from the fact that the convolution with the adjoint filter is the adjoint operator of the original filter, with respect to the Hilbert space of the sequences in which the i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rprop | Rprop, short for resilient backpropagation, is a learning heuristic for supervised learning in feedforward artificial neural networks. This is a first-order optimization algorithm. This algorithm was created by Martin Riedmiller and Heinrich Braun in 1992.
Similarly to the Manhattan update rule, Rprop takes into accou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoregion%20conservation%20status | Conservation status is a measure used in conservation biology to assess an ecoregion's degree of habitat alteration and habitat conservation. It is used to set priorities for conservation.
Conservation status and biological distinctiveness were the two measures used by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to develop the Glob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee%20statistical%20areas | The U.S. currently has 34 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On March 6, 2020, the OMB delineated 7 combined statistical areas, 10 metropolitan statistical areas, and 17 micropolitan statistical areas in Tennessee.
Statistical areas
The Office of Management and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrofusion%20welding | Electrofusion welding is a form of resistive implant welding used to join pipes. A fitting with implanted metal coils is placed around two ends of pipes to be joined, and current is passed through the coils. Resistive heating of the coils melts small amounts of the pipe and fitting, and upon solidification, a joint is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20fragmentation%20attack | IP fragmentation attacks are a kind of computer security attack based on how the Internet Protocol (IP) requires data to be transmitted and processed. Specifically, it invokes IP fragmentation, a process used to partition messages (the service data unit (SDU); typically a packet) from one layer of a network into multip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durrell%20Institute%20of%20Conservation%20and%20Ecology | The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) is a subdivision and research centre of the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent, started in 1989 and named in honour of the famous British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It was the first institute in the United Kingdom to award undergrad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler%20velocity%20sensor | A Doppler velocity sensor (DVS) is a specialized Doppler radar that uses the Doppler effect to measure the three orthogonal velocity components referenced to the aircraft. When aircraft true heading, pitch and roll are provided by other aircraft systems, it can function as a navigation sensor to perform stand-alone de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive%20language | A deductive language is a computer programming language in which the program is a collection of predicates ('facts') and rules that connect them. Such a language is used to create knowledge based systems or expert systems which can deduce answers to problem sets by applying the rules to the facts they have been given.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%20Pad | The Pepper Pad was a family of Linux-based mobile computers with Internet capability and which doubled as a handheld game console. They also served as a portable multimedia device. The devices used Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies for Internet connection. Pepper Pads are now obsolete, unsupported and the parent compa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguerre%20formula | The Laguerre formula (named after Edmond Laguerre) provides the acute angle between two proper real lines, as follows:
where:
is the principal value of the complex logarithm
is the cross-ratio of four collinear points
and are the points at infinity of the lines
and are the intersections of the absolute coni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidal%20eminence | The pyramidal eminence is a hollow conical projection upon the posterior wall of the tympanic cavity of the middle ear. The stapedius muscle arises in the hollow of the eminence and its tendon exits through its apex.
The pyramidal eminence is situated inferior to the aditus to mastoid antrum, immediately inferior to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Quick%20Sync%20Video | Intel Quick Sync Video is Intel's brand for its dedicated video encoding and decoding hardware core. Quick Sync was introduced with the Sandy Bridge CPU microarchitecture on 9 January 2011 and has been found on the die of Intel CPUs ever since.
The name "Quick Sync" refers to the use case of quickly transcoding ("conv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverberation | Reverberation (commonly shortened to reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound after it is produced. Reverberation is created when a sound or signal is reflected. This causes numerous reflections to build up and then decay as the sound is absorbed by the surfaces of objects in the space – which could include fur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience%20%28neuroscience%29 | Salience (also called saliency) is that property by which some thing stands out. Salient events are an attentional mechanism by which organisms learn and survive; those organisms can focus their limited perceptual and cognitive resources on the pertinent (that is, salient) subset of the sensory data available to them.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Jagers | Peter Jagers (born 1941) is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Statistics at University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology who made lasting contributions in probability and general branching processes. Jagers was first vice president (2007–2010) of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Chair of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete%20ovarii | The rete ovarii is a structure formed from the primary sex cords in females.
It is the homologue of the rete testis in males. It is a narrow hilus, at which nerves and vessels enter the ovary. In the medulla of the mammalian ovary near the hilus are small masses of blind tubules or solid cords—the rete ovarii—which ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%20particle | In particle physics, V was a generic name for heavy, unstable subatomic particles that decay into a pair of particles, thereby producing a characteristic letter V in a bubble chamber or other particle detector. Such particles were first detected in cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere in the late 1940s and were f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal%20medulla | The renal medulla (Latin: medulla renis 'marrow of the kidney') is the innermost part of the kidney. The renal medulla is split up into a number of sections, known as the renal pyramids. Blood enters into the kidney via the renal artery, which then splits up to form the segmental arteries which then branch to form inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%20Institute%20for%20Astrophysics%20Potsdam | Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) is a German research institute. It is the successor of the Berlin Observatory founded in 1700 and of the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam (AOP) founded in 1874. The latter was the world's first observatory to emphasize explicitly the research area of astrophysics. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda%20system | The Bethesda system (TBS), officially called The Bethesda System for Reporting Cervical Cytology, is a system for reporting cervical or vaginal cytologic diagnoses, used for reporting Pap smear results. It was introduced in 1988 and revised in 1991, 2001, and 2014. The name comes from the location (Bethesda, Maryland)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBIGEO | Ubigeo is the coding system for geographical locations (Spanish: Código Ubicacíon Geográfica) in Peru used by the National Statistics and Computing Institute (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática INEI) to code the first-level administrative subdivision: regions (Spanish: regiones, singular: región),... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcystinase | Microcystinase is a protease that selectively degrades Microcystin, an extremely potent cyanotoxin that results in marine pollution and human and animal food chain poisoning. The enzyme is naturally produced by a number of bacteria isolated in Japan and New Zealand. As of 2012, the chemical structure of this enzyme ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhaskara%27s%20lemma | Bhaskara's Lemma is an identity used as a lemma during the chakravala method. It states that:
for integers and non-zero integer .
Proof
The proof follows from simple algebraic manipulations as follows: multiply both sides of the equation by , add , factor, and divide by .
So long as neither nor are zero, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omptin | Omptins (, protease VII, protease A, gene ompT proteins, ompT protease, protein a, Pla, OmpT) are a family of bacterial proteases. They are aspartate proteases, which cleave peptides with the use of a water molecule. Found in the outer membrane of gram-negative enterobacteria such as Shigella flexneri, Yersinia pestis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease%20gun | A grease gun is a common workshop and garage tool used for lubrication. The purpose of the grease gun is to apply lubricant through an aperture to a specific point, usually from a grease cartridge to a grease fitting or 'nipple'. The channels behind the grease nipple lead to where the lubrication is needed. The apertur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphenylchlorarsine | Diphenylchloroarsine (DA) is the organoarsenic compound with the formula (C6H5)2AsCl. It is highly toxic and was once used in chemical warfare. It is also an intermediate in the preparation of other organoarsenic compounds. The molecule consists of a pyramidal As(III) center attached to two phenyl rings and one chlorid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide%20area%20information%20server | Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) is a client–server text searching system that uses the ANSI Standard Z39.50 Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specifications for Library Applications" (Z39.50:1988) to search index databases on remote computers. It was developed in 1990 as a project of Thinking M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20meat%20substitution%20scandal | The Australian meat substitution scandal of 1981 involved the widespread substitution of horse meat and kangaroo meat for beef in Australia. While the substitution primarily affected meat exported overseas, particularly to the United States, further investigations revealed that donkey meat and pet food had been package... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDoc | IDoc, short for Intermediate Document, is a SAP document format for business transaction data transfers.
Non SAP-systems can use IDocs as the standard interface (computing) for data transfer.
IDoc is similar to XML in purpose, but differs in syntax. Both serve the purpose of data exchange and automation in computer sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techreturns | Techreturns Nederland BV is a Dutch company founded with the aim to reduce electronic waste (e-waste). It does this by buying used electronics, especially mobile phones, from consumers and companies to repair them and give them a second life. Some choose to donate mobile phone through organisations such as Masterpeace ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Chilean%20flags | This is a list of flags used in Chile. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Chile.
National flags
Presidential standard
Ambassador flag
Military flags
Chilean Army
Chilean Navy
Chilean Air Force
Police flags
Vexillology Association flags
Regions
Unofficial regional flags
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netgear | Netgear, Inc. is an American computer networking company based in San Jose, California, with offices in about 22 other countries. It produces networking hardware for consumers, businesses, and service providers. The company operates in three business segments: retail, commercial, and as a service provider.
Netgear's p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moria%20%281983%20video%20game%29 | The Dungeons of Moria, usually referred to as simply Moria, is a computer game inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings. The objective of the game is to dive deep into the Mines of Moria and kill the Balrog. Moria, along with Hack (1984) and Larn (1986), is considered to be the first roguelike game, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH | OpenSSH (also known as OpenBSD Secure Shell) is a suite of secure networking utilities based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, which provides a secure channel over an unsecured network in a client–server architecture.
OpenSSH started as a fork of the free SSH program developed by Tatu Ylönen; later versions of Ylöne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm%20of%20the%20Rain | "Rhythm of the Rain" is a song performed by The Cascades, released in November 1962. It was written by Cascades band member John Claude Gummoe. On March 9, 1963, it rose to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and spent two weeks at number 1 on Billboards Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked the record as the number 4 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortive%20flower | Abortion in flowers and developing fruits is a common occurrence in plants.
An abortive flower is a flower that has a stamen but an under developed, or no pistil. It falls without producing fruit or seeds, due to its inability to fructify. Flowers require both male and female organs to reproduce, and the pistils and o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi%20diagram | In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partition of a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects. It can be classified also as a tessellation. In the simplest case, these objects are just finitely many points in the plane (called seeds, sites, or generators). For each seed there is a corresponding regio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent%20heat | Latent heat (also known as latent energy or heat of transformation) is energy released or absorbed, by a body or a thermodynamic system, during a constant-temperature process—usually a first-order phase transition.
Latent heat can be understood as hidden energy which is supplied or extracted to change the state of a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal%20disruption%20event | A tidal disruption event (TDE) is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs when a star approaches sufficiently close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) to be pulled apart by the black hole's tidal force, experiencing spaghettification. A portion of the star's mass can be captured into an accretion disk around the black ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Ridgway%20Award | The ABA Robert Ridgway Award for Publications in Field Ornithology is an award given by the American Birding Association to an individual who has made significant contributions to the field ornithology literature in the areas of North American bird distribution and field identification. The award may honor a writer or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr%20Kurosh | Aleksandr Gennadyevich Kurosh (; January 19, 1908 – May 18, 1971) was a Soviet mathematician, known for his work in abstract algebra. He is credited with writing The Theory of Groups, the first modern and high-level text on group theory, published in 1944.
He was born in Yartsevo, in the Dukhovshchinsky Uyezd of the S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Routh | Edward John Routh (; 20 January 18317 June 1907) was an English mathematician, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos examination of the University of Cambridge in its heyday in the middle of the nineteenth century. He also did much to systematise the mathematical theory of me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20body | Lateral bodies are structures that sit on the concave sides of the viral core of a poxvirus and is surrounded by a membrane. They serve as immunomodulatory delivery packets, and membrane cloaking to spread poxviruses. They were first visualized using electron microscopy in 1956 and shortly after, it was shown that they... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20YM2151 | The Yamaha YM2151, also known as OPM (FM Operator Type-M) is an eight-channel, four-operator sound chip. It was Yamaha's first single-chip FM synthesis implementation, being created originally for some of the Yamaha DX series of keyboards (DX21, DX27, and DX100). Yamaha also used it in some of their budget-priced elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden%27s%20conjecture | In the mathematics of dynamical systems, Eden's conjecture states that the supremum of the local Lyapunov dimensions on the global attractor is achieved on a stationary point or an unstable periodic orbit embedded into the attractor.
The validity of the conjecture was proved for a number of well-known systems having g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20compound | A cyclic compound (or ring compound) is a term for a compound in the field of chemistry in which one or more series of atoms in the compound is connected to form a ring. Rings may vary in size from three to many atoms, and include examples where all the atoms are carbon (i.e., are carbocycles), none of the atoms are ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syringa%20%C3%97%20laciniata | Syringa × laciniata, the cut-leaf lilac or cutleaf lilac, is a hybrid lilac of unknown, though old origin. It is thought to be a hybrid between Syringa vulgaris from southeastern Europe and Syringa protolaciniata from western China. Although often cited as being from China, it more likely arose somewhere in southwester... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20flux%20measurements%20of%20thermal%20insulation | Heat flux measurements of thermal insulation are applied in laboratory and industrial environments to obtain reference or in-situ measurements of the thermal properties of an insulation material.
Thermal insulation is tested using nondestructive testing techniques relying on heat flux sensors. Procedures and requiremen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMX192 | AMX192 (often referred to simply as AMX) is an analog lighting communications protocol used to control stage lighting. It was developed by Strand Century in the late 1970s. Originally, AMX192 was only capable of controlling 192 discrete channels of lighting. Later, multiple AMX192 streams were supported by some lighti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptoeconomics | Cryptoeconomics is an evolving economic paradigm for a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of digital economies and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. Cryptoeconomics integrates concepts and principles from traditional economics, cryptography, computer science, and game theory disciplines. Just as traditi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20supercomputing | The term supercomputing arose in the late 1920s in the United States in response to the IBM tabulators at Columbia University. The CDC 6600, released in 1964, is sometimes considered the first supercomputer. However, some earlier computers were considered supercomputers for their day such as the 1954 IBM NORC in the 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20botany | Marine botany is the study of flowering vascular plant species and marine algae that live in shallow seawater of the open ocean and the littoral zone, along shorelines of the intertidal zone and coastal wetlands, even in low-salinity brackish water of estuaries.
It is a branch of marine biology and botany.
Marine Pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlithography | Microlithography is a general name for any manufacturing process that can create a minutely patterned thin film of protective materials over a substrate, such as a silicon wafer, in order to protect selected areas of it during subsequent etching, deposition, or implantation operations.
The term is normally used for pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20vapor%20synthesis | In chemistry, metal vapor synthesis (MVS) is a method for preparing metal complexes by combining freshly produced metal atoms or small particles with ligands. In contrast to the high reactivity of such freshly produced metal atoms, bulk metals typically are unreactive toward neutral ligands. The method has been used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphnia%20pulex | Daphnia pulex is the most common species of water flea. It has a cosmopolitan distribution: the species is found throughout the Americas, Europe, and Australia. It is a model species, and was the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced.
Description
D. pulex is an arthropod whose body segments are difficult to di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MICrONS | The MICrONS program (Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks) is a five-year project run by the United States government through the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) with the goal of reverse engineering one cubic millimeter—spanning many petabytes of volumetric data—of a rodent's brain tissu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral%20and%20maxillofacial%20radiology | Oral and maxillofacial radiology, also known as dental and maxillofacial radiology, is the specialty of dentistry concerned with performance and interpretation of diagnostic imaging used for examining the craniofacial, dental and adjacent structures.
Oral and maxillofacial imaging includes cone beam computerized tomog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Battista%20Rizza | Giovanni Battista Rizza (7 February 1924 – 15 October 2018), officially known as Giambattista Rizza, was an Italian mathematician, working in the fields of complex analysis of several variables and in differential geometry: he is known for his contribution to hypercomplex analysis, notably for extending Cauchy's integr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodge%E2%80%93Tate%20module | In mathematics, a Hodge–Tate module is an analogue of a Hodge structure over p-adic fields. introduced and named Hodge–Tate structures using the results of on p-divisible groups.
Definition
Suppose that G is the absolute Galois group of a p-adic field K. Then G has a canonical cyclotomic character χ given by its ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola%20epipsila | Viola epipsila, the dwarf marsh violet, is a species of perennial forb in the genus Viola.
It is found in Alaska, Finland, Russia, Poland, and other countries in Europe. Since the 1980s, it has spread to the eastern United States. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genosome | A genosome (also known as a lipoplex) is a lipid and DNA complex that is used to deliver genes. It can be a form of non-viral gene therapy as the complex does not require any components of a virus in order to transport genetic material. In presence of CT-DNA, genosomes can form through surface electrostatic interaction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink-toilet | A sink-toilet combination unit is sometimes used by prisons and militaries. Such units typically have no exposed pipes by which someone could hang himself. They are sometimes made of stainless steel for added durability. Sink-toilets are used at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Sink-toilets are also used in some home... |
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