source stringlengths 31 227 | text stringlengths 9 2k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integration%20by%20substitution | In calculus, integration by substitution, also known as u-substitution, reverse chain rule or change of variables, is a method for evaluating integrals and antiderivatives. It is the counterpart to the chain rule for differentiation, and can loosely be thought of as using the chain rule "backwards."
Substitution for a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatic%20branches%20of%20the%20facial%20nerve | The zygomatic branches of the facial nerve (malar branches) are nerves of the face. They run across the zygomatic bone to the lateral angle of the orbit. Here, they supply the orbicularis oculi muscle, and join with filaments from the lacrimal nerve and the zygomaticofacial branch of the maxillary nerve (CN V2).
Struc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAN%20optimization | WAN optimization is a collection of techniques for improving data transfer across wide area networks (WANs). In 2008, the WAN optimization market was estimated to be $1 billion, and was to grow to $4.4 billion by 2014 according to Gartner, a technology research firm. In 2015 Gartner estimated the WAN optimization mark... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiemgau%20impact%20hypothesis | Chiemgau impact hypothesis is an obsolete scientific theory that claimed the Tüttensee lake in southern Bavaria, Germany, to be the result of a Holocene meteorite impact. This claim has been refuted by geological research and the finding of a soil horizon of undisturbed peat and sedimentation since the end of the last ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomag | Geomag, stylized as GEOMAG, is a magnetic construction toy consisting of a collection of bars, each set with a neodymium alloy magnet at both ends, connected by a magnetic plug coated with polypropylene, and nickel-coated metal spheres. These elements interlock using magnetism, allowing for them to be assembled in vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnsole | Turnsole, katasol, or folium was a dyestuff prepared from the annual plant Chrozophora tinctoria.
History
Turnsole became a mainstay of medieval manuscript illuminators starting with the development of the technique for extracting it in the thirteenth century, when it joined the vegetable-based woad and indigo in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20Jackson%20Darlington%20Jr. | Philip Jackson Darlington Jr. (November 14, 1904, Philadelphia – 16 December 1983, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American entomologist, field naturalist, biogeographer, museum curator, and zoology professor. He was known for his collecting ability and his toughness and determination on field expeditions.
Biography
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess%20of%20Democracy | The Goddess of Democracy, also known as the Goddess of Democracy and Freedom, the Spirit of Democracy, and the Goddess of Liberty (; zìyóu nǚshén), was a statue created during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. The statue was constructed over four days out of foam and papier-mâché over a metal armature and was unveil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSH2 | DNA mismatch repair protein Msh2 also known as MutS homolog 2 or MSH2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MSH2 gene, which is located on chromosome 2. MSH2 is a tumor suppressor gene and more specifically a caretaker gene that codes for a DNA mismatch repair (MMR) protein, MSH2, which forms a heterodimer with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20empirical%20loading%20and%20dilution%20model | The stochastic empirical loading and dilution model (SELDM) is a stormwater quality model. SELDM is designed to transform complex scientific data into meaningful information about the risk of adverse effects of runoff on receiving waters, the potential need for mitigation measures, and the potential effectiveness of su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bony%20labyrinth | The bony labyrinth (also osseous labyrinth or otic capsule) is the rigid, bony outer wall of the inner ear in the temporal bone. It consists of three parts: the vestibule, semicircular canals, and cochlea. These are cavities hollowed out of the substance of the bone, and lined by periosteum. They contain a clear fluid,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Tomforde | Mark Tomforde is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics
at University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He works in the areas of functional analysis and algebra, and he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Dartmouth College in 2002. Tomforde's research interests are in operator algebras and C*-algebras, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damk%C3%B6hler%20numbers | The Damköhler numbers (Da) are dimensionless numbers used in chemical engineering to relate the chemical reaction timescale (reaction rate) to the transport phenomena rate occurring in a system. It is named after German chemist Gerhard Damköhler.
The Karlovitz number (Ka) is related to the Damköhler number by Da = 1/K... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombrophobe | Ombrophobe or ombrophobous/ombrophobic plant (from Greek ὄμβρος - ombros, "storm of rain" and φόβος - phobos, "fear") is a plant that cannot withstand much rain. The term was introduced by the 19th-century botanist Julius Wiesner, who identified the two extreme kinds of plants, ombrophobes and ombrophiles. Xerophytes a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption%20%28acoustics%29 | In acoustics, absorption refers to the process by which a material, structure, or object takes in sound energy when sound waves are encountered, as opposed to reflecting the energy. Part of the absorbed energy is transformed into heat and part is transmitted through the absorbing body. The energy transformed into heat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags%20of%20the%20regions%20of%20Ukraine | The flags of the subdivisions of Ukraine exhibit a wide variety of regional influences and local histories, reflecting different styles and design principles. Most local flags were designed and adopted after Ukrainian independence in 1991.
Flags of Ukrainian oblasts
Flag of autonomous republic
Flags of cities with s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrigel | Matrigel is the trade name for the solubilized basement membrane matrix secreted by Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm (EHS) mouse sarcoma cells produced by Corning Life Sciences. Matrigel resembles the laminin/collagen IV-rich basement membrane extracellular environment found in many tissues and is used by cell biologists as a sub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber | Fiber or fibre (British English; from ) is a natural or artificial substance that is significantly longer than it is wide. Fibers are often used in the manufacture of other materials. The strongest engineering materials often incorporate fibers, for example carbon fiber and ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene.
Sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Ackermann | Wilhelm Friedrich Ackermann (; ; 29 March 1896 – 24 December 1962) was a German mathematician and logician best known for his work in mathematical logic and the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.
Biography
Ackermann was born in Herscheid, Germany, and was awarded a Ph.D. by the Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRENDnet | TRENDnet is a global manufacturer of computer networking products headquartered in Torrance, California, in the United States. It sells networking and surveillance products especially in the small to medium business (SMB) and home user market segments.
History
The company was founded in 1990 by Pei Huang and Peggy Hu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionic%20potential | Ionic potential is the ratio of the electrical charge (z) to the radius (r) of an ion.
As such, this ratio is a measure of the charge density at the surface of the ion; usually the denser the charge, the stronger the bond formed by the ion with ions of opposite charge.
The ionic potential gives an indication of how ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%208.1 | Windows 8.1 is a release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 27, 2013, and broadly released for retail sale on October 17, 2013, about a year after the retail release of its predecessor, and succeeded by Windows 10 on July 29, 2015. Windows 8.1 was made ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81d%C3%A1m%20Kor%C3%A1nyi | Ádám Korányi (born July 13, 1932, in Szeged) is a Hungarian and American mathematician. He is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehman College, City University of New York and at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research interests include complex analysis, harmonic analysis, and quasiconfor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPR%20domain | In molecular biology the SPR domain is a protein domain found in the Sprouty (Spry) and Spred (Sprouty related EVH1 domain) proteins. These have been identified as inhibitors of the Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade, a pathway crucial for developmental processes initiated by activation of various rece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Transverse%20Mercator%20coordinate%20system | The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) is a map projection system for assigning coordinates to locations on the surface of the Earth. Like the traditional method of latitude and longitude, it is a horizontal position representation, which means it ignores altitude and treats the earth surface as a perfect ellipsoid. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexidine | Alexidine is an antimicrobial of the biguanide class. More specifically, it is a bisbiguanide. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience%20modifier | In the insurance industry in the United States, an experience modifier or experience modification is an adjustment of an employer's premium for worker's compensation coverage based on the losses the insurer has experienced from that employer. An experience modifier of 1 would be applied for an employer that had demonst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20keystone%20species | A cultural keystone species is one which is of exceptional significance to a particular culture or a people. Such species can be identified by their prevalence in language, cultural practices (e.g. ceremonies), traditions, diet, medicines, material items, and histories of a community. These species influence social sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic%20%28genetics%29 | Mosaicism or genetic mosaicism is a condition in which a multicellular organism possesses more than one genetic line as the result of genetic mutation. This means that various genetic lines resulted from a single fertilized egg. Mosaicism is one of several possible causes of chimerism, wherein a single organism is comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisa%20Matom%C3%A4ki | Kaisa Sofia Matomäki (born April 30, 1985) is a Finnish mathematician specializing in number theory. Since September 2015, she has been working as an Academic Research Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. Her research includes results on the distribution of multip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonverbal%20learning%20disorder | Nonverbal learning disability (NVLD) is proposed category of neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by core deficits in visual-spatial processing and a significant discrepancy between verbal and nonverbal intelligence (where verbal intelligence is higher). A review of papers found that proposed diagnostic criteria w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-slowing | C-slow retiming is a technique used in conjunction with retiming to improve throughput of a digital circuit. Each register in a circuit is replaced by a set of C registers (in series). This creates a circuit with C independent threads, as if the new circuit contained C copies of the original circuit. A single computati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine | Coroutines are computer program components that allow execution to be suspended and resumed, generalizing subroutines for cooperative multitasking. Coroutines are well-suited for implementing familiar program components such as cooperative tasks, exceptions, event loops, iterators, infinite lists and pipes.
They have ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadwiger%27s%20theorem | In integral geometry (otherwise called geometric probability theory), Hadwiger's theorem characterises the valuations on convex bodies in It was proved by Hugo Hadwiger.
Introduction
Valuations
Let be the collection of all compact convex sets in A valuation is a function such that and for every that satisfy
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20canning | Home canning or bottling, also known colloquially as putting up or processing, is the process of preserving foods, in particular, fruits, vegetables, and meats, by packing them into glass jars and then heating the jars to create a vacuum seal and kill the organisms that would create spoilage.
Though ceramic and glass ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, and particularly in category theory, a polygraph is a generalisation of a directed graph. It is also known as a computad. They were introduced as "polygraphs" by Albert Burroni and as "computads" by Ross Street.
In the same way that a directed multigraph can freely generate a category, an n-computad ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20roll%20coating | Reverse roll coating is a roll-to-roll coating method for wet coatings. It is distinguished from other roll coating methods by having two reverse-running nips. The metering roll and the applicator roll contra-rotate, with an accurate gap between them. The surface of the applicator roll is loaded with an excess of co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHRNB1 | Acetylcholine receptor subunit beta is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CHRNB1 gene.
The muscle acetylcholine receptor is composed of five subunits: two alpha subunits and one beta, one gamma, and one delta subunit. This gene encodes the beta subunit of the acetylcholine receptor. The acetylcholine receptor ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinhenge%40Home | Spinhenge@home was a volunteer computing project on the BOINC platform, which performs extensive numerical simulations concerning the physical characteristics of magnetic molecules. It is a project of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in cooperation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension%20%28topology%29 | In topology, a branch of mathematics, the suspension of a topological space X is intuitively obtained by stretching X into a cylinder and then collapsing both end faces to points. One views X as "suspended" between these end points. The suspension of X is denoted by SX or susp(X).
There is a variation of the suspensi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Daily%20Dot | The Daily Dot is a digital media company covering the culture of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Founded by Nicholas White in 2011, The Daily Dot is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
The site, conceived as the Internet's "hometown newspaper", focuses on topics such as streaming entertainment, geek culture, memes, g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptocephalus | Leptocephalus (meaning "slim head") is the flat and transparent larva of the eel, marine eels, and other members of the superorder Elopomorpha. This is one of the most diverse groups of teleosts, containing 801 species in 4 orders, 24 families, and 156 genera. This group is thought to have arisen in the Cretaceous peri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytochalasin%20B | Cytochalasin B, the name of which comes from the Greek cytos (cell) and chalasis (relaxation), is a cell-permeable mycotoxin. It was found that substoichiometric concentrations of cytochalasin B (CB) strongly inhibit network formation by actin filaments. Due to this, it is often used in cytological research. It inhibit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagg%20%28landform%29 | A lagg, also called a moat, is the very wet zone on the perimeter of peatland or a bog where water from the adjacent upland collects and flows slowly around the main peat mass.
Description
A lagg is an area of wetland, especially at the edge of raised bogs, in which water collects. It is often markedly different from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20graph | In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, the dual graph of a planar graph is a graph that has a vertex for each face of . The dual graph has an edge for each pair of faces in that are separated from each other by an edge, and a self-loop when the same face appears on both sides of an edge. Thus, each edge of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Adian | Sergei Ivanovich Adian, also Adyan (; ; 1 January 1931 – 5 May 2020), was a Soviet and Armenian mathematician. He was a professor at the Moscow State University and was known for his work in group theory, especially on the Burnside problem.
Biography
Adian was born near Elizavetpol. He grew up there in an Armenian fam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad%20Lorenz%20Institute%20for%20Evolution%20and%20Cognition%20Research | The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) is an international center for advanced studies in the life and sustainability sciences. It is a "Home to Theory that Matters" that supports the articulation, analysis, and integration of theories in biology and the sustainability sciences, explorin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20planning | Motion planning, also path planning (also known as the navigation problem or the piano mover's problem) is a computational problem to find a sequence of valid configurations that moves the object from the source to destination. The term is used in computational geometry, computer animation, robotics and computer games.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20N.%20Hatsopoulos | George Nicholas Hatsopoulos (January 7, 1927 – September 20, 2018) was a Greek American mechanical engineer noted for his work in thermodynamics and for having founded Thermo Electron.
Early life
Hatsopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in 1927 and is related to the former rector of the Athens Polytechnic School, Nicola... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warped%20linear%20predictive%20coding | Warped linear predictive coding (warped LPC or WLPC) is a variant of linear predictive coding in which the spectral representation of the system is modified, for example by replacing the unit delays used in an LPC implementation with first-order all-pass filters. This can have advantages in reducing the bitrate require... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Henry%20Hospital%2C%20Sydney | The Prince Henry Hospital site, formerly known as the Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, is a heritage-listed former teaching hospital and infectious diseases hospital and now UNSW teaching hospital and spinal rehabilitation unit located at 1430 Anzac Parade, Little Bay, City of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia. It was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20Rogers%20phenomenon | The Will Rogers phenomenon, also called the Okie Paradox, is when moving an observation from one group to another increases the average of both groups. It is named after a joke by the comedian Will Rogers in the 1930s about migration during the Great Depression:
All Rogers was attempting to say was that, in his view,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism%20in%20poultry | Cannibalism in poultry is the act of one individual of a poultry species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food. It commonly occurs in flocks of domestic hens reared for egg production, although it can also occur in domestic turkeys, pheasants and other poultry species. Poultry create ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20stain | Field stain is a histological method for staining of blood smears. It is used for staining thick blood films in order to discover malarial parasites. Field's stain is a version of a Romanowsky stain, used for rapid processing of the specimens.
Field's stain consists of two parts - Field's stain A is methylene blue an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation%20butterfly | The innovation butterfly is a metaphor that describes how seemingly minor perturbations (disturbances or changes) to project plans in a system connecting markets, demand, product features, and a firm's capabilities can steer the project, or an entire portfolio of projects, down an irreversible path in terms of technolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenation%20theory | Concatenation theory, also called string theory, character-string theory, or theoretical syntax, studies character strings over finite alphabets of characters, signs, symbols, or marks. String theory is foundational for formal linguistics, computer science, logic, and metamathematics especially proof theory. A generati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESafe | ESafe Protect, formerly known as Eliashim Antivirus, is a range of software security products developed by EliaShim Limited, based in Haifa, Israel. The distribution of these products was managed by eSafe Technologies Inc, located in Seattle, United States.
The program
EliaShim was acquired by Aladdin Knowledge System... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilotto%20syndrome | Pilotto syndrome is a rare syndrome which affects the face, heart, and back. The syndrome can cause a cleft lip and palate, scoliosis, and mental retardation. The Office of Rare Diseases and National Institutes of Health have classified this syndrome as affecting less than 200,000 people in the United States. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signor%E2%80%93Lipps%20effect | The Signor–Lipps effect is a paleontological principle proposed in 1982 by Philip W. Signor and Jere H. Lipps which states that, since the fossil record of organisms is never complete, neither the first nor the last organism in a given taxon will be recorded as a fossil. The Signor–Lipps effect is often applied specifi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitor%20tracing | Traitor tracing schemes help trace the source of leaks when secret or proprietary data is sold to many customers.
In a traitor tracing scheme, each customer is given a different personal decryption key.
(Traitor tracing schemes are often combined with conditional access systems so that, once the traitor tracing algorit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20aluminosilicate | Sodium aluminosilicate refers to compounds which contain sodium, aluminium, silicon and oxygen, and which may also contain water. These include synthetic amorphous sodium aluminosilicate, a few naturally occurring minerals and synthetic zeolites. Synthetic amorphous sodium aluminosilicate is widely used as a food addi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20telecine | A virtual telecine is a piece of video equipment that can play back data files in real time. The colorist-video operator controls the virtual telecine like a normal telecine, although without controls like focus and framing. The data files can be from a Spirit DataCine, motion picture film scanner (like a Cineon), CGI ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20k-cut | In mathematics, the minimum -cut is a combinatorial optimization problem that requires finding a set of edges whose removal would partition the graph to at least connected components. These edges are referred to as -cut. The goal is to find the minimum-weight -cut. This partitioning can have applications in VLSI desig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb%E2%80%93M%C3%B6ssbauer%20factor | In physics, the Lamb–Mössbauer factor (LMF, after Willis Lamb and Rudolf Mössbauer) or elastic incoherent structure factor (EISF) is the ratio of elastic to total incoherent neutron scattering, or the ratio of recoil-free to total nuclear resonant absorption in Mössbauer spectroscopy. The corresponding factor for coher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-broadcasting%20theorem | In physics, the no-broadcasting theorem is a result of quantum information theory. In the case of pure quantum states, it is a corollary of the no-cloning theorem. The no-cloning theorem for pure states says that it is impossible to create two copies of an unknown state given a single copy of the state. Since quantum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haworthiopsis%20%C3%97%20lisbonensis | Haworthiopsis × lisbonensis, formerly Haworthia lisbonensis, is an ornamental succulent plant, considered a hybrid of unknown parentage.
History
Haworthiopsis × lisbonensis is named after Lisbon, as the original plant was discovered in the collection of the Botanical Garden of the University of Lisbon by António Gomes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endomyocardial%20biopsy | Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) is an invasive procedure used routinely to obtain small samples of heart muscle, primarily for detecting rejection of a donor heart following heart transplantation. It is also used as a diagnostic tool in some heart diseases.
A bioptome is used to gain access to the heart via a sheath inser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan%20%28rhinoceros%29 | Sudan (1973 – 19 March 2018) was a captive northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) that lived at the Safari Park Dvůr Králové in the Czech Republic from 1975 to 2009 and the rest of his life at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia, Kenya. At the time of his death, he was one of only three living northe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS | Total Operations Processing System (TOPS) is a computer system for managing railway locomotives and rolling stock, known for many years of use in the United Kingdom.
TOPS was originally developed between the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP), Stanford University and IBM as a replacement for paper-based systems for manag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine%20Museum%20and%20Enoteca | The Wine Museum and Enoteca (in Portuguese, Museu do Vinho e Enoteca) is a Brazilian museum and enoteca, located in Porto Alegre in the old building of the plant's gas tank. The museum carries approximately 250 varieties of wines produced by 32 wineries in Rio Grande do Sul, with descriptive guidance products. The Enot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragaria%20%C3%97%20Comarum%20hybrids | There are several commercially important hybrids between Fragaria and Comarum species in existence. A name for Fragaria × Comarum is available as × Comagaria Büscher & G.H. Loos in Veroff. [Bohumer Bot. Ver. 2(1): 6. 2010], along with the combination × Comagaria rosea (Mabb.) Büscher & G.H. Loos.
The first-generation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlett%27s%20method | In time series analysis, Bartlett's method (also known as the method of averaged periodograms), is used for estimating power spectra. It provides a way to reduce the variance of the periodogram in exchange for a reduction of resolution, compared to standard periodograms. A final estimate of the spectrum at a given freq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientistic%20materialism | Scientistic materialism is a term used mainly by proponents of creationism and intelligent design to describe scientists who have a materialist worldview. The stance has been attributed to philosopher George Santayana.
History
The "Wedge Document" produced by the Discovery Institute, described materialism as denial of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20nerve | A motor nerve is a nerve that transmits motor signals from the central nervous system (CNS) to the muscles of the body. This is different from the motor neuron, which includes a cell body and branching of dendrites, while the nerve is made up of a bundle of axons. Motor nerves act as efferent nerves which carry informa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine%20wastage | Vaccine wastage is the number of vaccines that have not been administered during vaccine deployment in an immunization program. The wastage can occur at multiple stages of the deployment process, and can take place in both unopened and opened vials, or in oral admission. It is an expected part of vaccination deployment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20symmetry | In mathematics and geometry, a discrete symmetry is a symmetry that describes non-continuous changes in a system. For example, a square possesses discrete rotational symmetry, as only rotations by multiples of right angles will preserve the square's original appearance. Discrete symmetries sometimes involve some type o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq | dnsmasq is free software providing Domain Name System (DNS) caching, a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server, router advertisement and network boot features, intended for small computer networks.
dnsmasq has low requirements for system resources, can run on Linux, BSDs, Android and macOS, and is included i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replit | Replit (), formerly Repl.it, is an American start-up and an online integrated development environment (IDE). Replit being Software as a service (SaaS) allows users to create online projects (called Repls, not to be confused with REPLs) and write code.
Replit has a global community for programmers to interact and offers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-independent%20fractionation | Mass-independent isotope fractionation or Non-mass-dependent fractionation (NMD), refers to any chemical or physical process that acts to separate isotopes, where the amount of separation does not scale in proportion with the difference in the masses of the isotopes. Most isotopic fractionations (including typical kin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRTP | ZRTP (composed of Z and Real-time Transport Protocol) is a cryptographic key-agreement protocol to negotiate the keys for encryption between two end points in a Voice over IP (VoIP) phone telephony call based on the Real-time Transport Protocol. It uses Diffie–Hellman key exchange and the Secure Real-time Transport Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zech%27s%20logarithm | Zech logarithms are used to implement addition in finite fields when elements are represented as powers of a generator .
Zech logarithms are named after Julius Zech, and are also called Jacobi logarithms, after Carl G. J. Jacobi who used them for number theoretic investigations.
Definition
Given a primitive element ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20Gravitational%20Model | The Earth Gravitational Models (EGM) are a series of geopotential models of the Earth published by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). They are used as the geoid reference in the World Geodetic System.
The NGA provides the models in two formats: as the series of numerical coefficients to the spherical h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20direction | Wind direction is generally reported by the direction from which the wind originates. For example, a north or northerly wind blows from the north to the south; the exceptions are onshore winds (blowing onto the shore from the water) and offshore winds (blowing off the shore to the water). Wind direction is usually repo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20centroid | The spectral centroid is a measure used in digital signal processing to characterise a spectrum. It indicates where the center of mass of the spectrum is located. Perceptually, it has a robust connection with the impression of brightness of a sound. It is sometimes called center of spectral mass.
Calculation
It is cal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Elliott%20%28food%20scientist%29 | Christopher Elliott is a professor of food safety and microbiology at Queen's University Belfast and founder of the university's Institute for Global Food Security. He led the independent review of the UK food system after the 2013 horse meat scandal.
Early life and education
Christopher Trevor Elliott grew up in Nort... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermelinda%20DeLaVi%C3%B1a | Ermelinda DeLaViña is an American mathematician specializing in graph theory.
She is a professor in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences Department of the University of Houston–Downtown, where she is also Associate Dean of the College of Science and Technology.
Education
DeLaViña grew up in a working-class family in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Lynch%20%28politician%29 | Arthur Alfred Lynch (16 October 1861 – 25 March 1934) was an Irish Australian civil engineer, physician, journalist, author, soldier, anti-imperialist and polymath. He served as MP in the UK House of Commons as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, representing Galway Borough from 1901 to 1902, and later West Clare ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20that%20e%20is%20irrational | The number e was introduced by Jacob Bernoulli in 1683. More than half a century later, Euler, who had been a student of Jacob's younger brother Johann, proved that e is irrational; that is, that it cannot be expressed as the quotient of two integers.
Euler's proof
Euler wrote the first proof of the fact that e is irr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/META%20II | META II is a domain-specific programming language for writing compilers. It was created in 1963–1964 by Dewey Val Schorre at UCLA. META II uses what Schorre called syntax equations. Its operation is simply explained as:
Each syntax equation is translated into a recursive subroutine which tests the input string for a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egocentric%20vision | Egocentric vision or first-person vision is a sub-field of computer vision that entails analyzing images and videos captured by a wearable camera, which is typically worn on the head or on the chest and naturally approximates the visual field of the camera wearer. Consequently, visual data capture the part of the scene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk | Freifunk (German for: "free radio") is a non-commercial open grassroots initiative to support free computer networks in the German region. Freifunk is part of the international movement for a wireless community network. The initiative counts about 400 local communities with over 41,000 access points. Among them, Münste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique%20de%20Carvalho%20Santos | Henrique de Carvalho Santos (5 May 1940 – 15 October 2023), also known as Henrique Onambwé, was an Angolan nationalist who served as the Minister of Industry of Angola. He created the flag of Angola after it was decolonized and gained independence.
Santos was born in Porto Amboim, in the province of Cuanza Sul on 5 Ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20hard%20disk%20drives | In 1953, IBM recognized the immediate application for what it termed a "Random Access File" having high capacity and rapid random access at a relatively low cost. After considering technologies such as wire matrices, rod arrays, drums, drum arrays, etc., the engineers at IBM's San Jose California laboratory invented th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginitis%20emphysematosa | The term Vaginitis emphysematosa is related to Women's Reproductive Health and coined by Zweifel in 1877. The cases of Vaginitis emphysematosa are rare. The most important thing is that women never consult with the doctors for particularly Vaginitis emphysematosa but when they visit a doctor for some other reproductiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha%20Netanyahu | Elisha Netanyahu (; December 21, 1912 – April 3, 1986) was an Israeli mathematician specializing in complex analysis. Over the course of his work at the Technion he was the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and established the separate Department of Mathematics. Historian Benzion Netanyahu was his brother, while current ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chermoula | Chermoula (Berber: tacermult or tacermilt, ) or charmoula is a marinade and relish used in Algerian, Libyan, Moroccan and Tunisian cooking. It is traditionally used to flavor fish or seafood, but it can be used on other meats or vegetables. It is somewhat similar to the Latin American chimichurri.
Ingredients
Common i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise%20Meitner%20Prize | The Lise Meitner Prize for nuclear physics, established in 2000, is awarded every two years by the European Physical Society for outstanding work in the fields of experimental, theoretical or applied nuclear science. It is named after Lise Meitner to honour her fundamental contributions to nuclear physics and her coura... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroacoustics | Aeroacoustics is a branch of acoustics that studies noise generation via either turbulent fluid motion or aerodynamic forces interacting with surfaces. Noise generation can also be associated with periodically varying flows. A notable example of this phenomenon is the Aeolian tones produced by wind blowing over fixed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen%20dioxide%20poisoning | Nitrogen dioxide poisoning is the illness resulting from the toxic effect of nitrogen dioxide (). It usually occurs after the inhalation of the gas beyond the threshold limit value.
Nitrogen dioxide is reddish-brown with a very harsh smell at high concentrations, at lower concentrations it is colorless but may still ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIP%20extensions%20for%20the%20IP%20Multimedia%20Subsystem | The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the signaling protocol selected by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to create and control multimedia sessions with multiple participants in the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). It is therefore a key element in the IMS framework.
SIP was developed by the Internet Engi... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.