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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino%20decoupling | In Big Bang cosmology, neutrino decoupling was the epoch at which neutrinos ceased interacting with other types of matter, and thereby ceased influencing the dynamics of the universe at early times. Prior to decoupling, neutrinos were in thermal equilibrium with protons, neutrons and electrons, which was maintained thr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentik | Kentik is an American network observability, network monitoring and anomaly detection company headquartered in San Francisco, California.
History
Kentik was founded in 2014 as CloudHelix by Co-founders Avi Freedman, Ian Applegate, Ian Pye, and Justin Biegel. The company changed its name to Kentik in 2015.
Technology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20surface | The attack surface of a software environment is the sum of the different points (for "attack vectors") where an unauthorized user (the "attacker") can try to enter data to, extract data, control a device or critical software in an environment. Keeping the attack surface as small as possible is a basic security measure.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulb | In botany, a bulb is structurally a short stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy. (In gardening, plants with other kinds of storage organ are also called "ornamental bulbous plants" or just "bulbs".)
Description
The bulb's leaf bases, also known as scales, generally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEFLOW | FEFLOW (Finite Element subsurface FLOW system) is a computer program for simulating groundwater flow, mass transfer and heat transfer in porous media and fractured media. The program uses finite element analysis to solve the groundwater flow equation of both saturated and unsaturated conditions as well as mass and heat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration%20of%20Helsinki | The Declaration of Helsinki (DoH, ), is a set of ethical principles regarding human experimentation developed originally in 1964 for the medical community by the World Medical Association (WMA). It is widely regarded as the cornerstone document on human research ethics.
It is not a legally binding instrument under the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20fertilization | Iron fertilization is the intentional introduction of iron-containing compounds (like iron sulfate) to iron-poor areas of the ocean surface to stimulate phytoplankton production. This is intended to enhance biological productivity and/or accelerate carbon dioxide () sequestration from the atmosphere. Iron is a trace el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material%20implication%20%28rule%20of%20inference%29 | In propositional logic, material implication is a valid rule of replacement that allows for a conditional statement to be replaced by a disjunction in which the antecedent is negated. The rule states that P implies Q is logically equivalent to not- or and that either form can replace the other in logical proofs. In ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard%20Ballistics | Backyard Ballistics is a how-to book by William Gurstelle that was published in 2001. It is full of experiments that can be done relatively inexpensively and can be easily executed. It also includes the history and mechanical principles of some of the inventions and projects. From catapults to rockets, this book descri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GATC%20%28gene%29 | Glutamyl-tRNA(Gln) amidotransferase, subunit C homolog (bacterial) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GATC gene. The gene is also known as 15E1.2 and encodes part of a Glu-tRNA(Gln) amidotransferase enzyme.
Model organisms
Model organisms have been used in the study of GATC function. A conditional knockou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Clement%20Coe | Charles Clement Coe (1830-1921) was an English Unitarian minister and writer.
Coe was born in King's Lynn and educated at Manchester College, Oxford. He was President of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society (1862-1863) and was Minister of the Unitarian Great Meeting chapel in Bond Street, Leicester. His wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Dietz%20method | The simple Dietz method is a means of measuring historical investment portfolio performance, compensating for external flows into/out of the portfolio during the period. The formula for the simple Dietz return is as follows:
where
is the portfolio rate of return,
is the beginning market value,
is the ending mark... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tali%27Zorah | Tali'Zorah, or Tali in short, is a character in BioWare's Mass Effect franchise, who serves as a party member (or "squadmate") in all three games in the Mass Effect trilogy. She is of the quarian alien race. Within the series, she is a skilled technician and the daughter of Rael'Zorah, a member of the quarian judicial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geroch%20group | The Geroch group is an infinite-dimensional symmetry group of axisymmetric, stationary vacuum spacetimes that are solutions of Einstein's equations of general relativity. It is generated by two non-commuting subgroups: the Matzner–Misner group (after Richard Alfred Matzner and Charles W. Misner) of linear combinations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow%20plaque | The Rainbow Plaque programme is a UK system installing commemorative plaques to highlight significant people, places and moments in LGBTQIA+ history. Emulating established UK blue plaque programmes run by English Heritage, local authorities and other bodies, the first permanent rainbow plaque (a blue circular plaque wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Joseph%20Sylvester | James Joseph Sylvester (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the later half of the 19th century as a professor at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian%20mechanics | Hamiltonian mechanics emerged in 1833 as a reformulation of Lagrangian mechanics. Introduced by Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Hamiltonian mechanics replaces (generalized) velocities used in Lagrangian mechanics with (generalized) momenta. Both theories provide interpretations of classical mechanics and describe the same... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20DOS%20machine | Virtual DOS machines (VDM) refer to a technology that allows running 16-bit/32-bit DOS and 16-bit Windows programs when there is already another operating system running and controlling the hardware.
Overview
Virtual DOS machines can operate either exclusively through typical software emulation methods (e.g. dynamic r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Riis | Jacob August Riis ( ; May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Optics%20and%20Electronics | The Institute of Optics and Electronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences () is a Chinese science research institute located in the town of Wenxing, Shuangliu District of Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province. It is the largest institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in southwest China, founded in 1970... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%27s%20fist | A monkey's fist or monkey paw is a type of knot, so named because it looks somewhat like a small bunched fist or paw. It is tied at the end of a rope to serve as a weight, making it easier to throw, and also as an ornamental knot. This type of weighted rope can be used as a hand-to-hand weapon, called a slungshot by sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic%20instability | Elastic instability is a form of instability occurring in elastic systems, such as buckling of beams and plates subject to large compressive loads.
There are a lot of ways to study this kind of instability. One of them is to use the method of incremental deformations based on superposing a small perturbation on an equ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20cognition | Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used in this field was developed from comparative psychology. It has also been strongly influenced by research in ethology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary psychology; ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectican | Lecticans, also known as hyalectans, are a family of proteoglycans (a type protein that is attached to chains of negatively charged polysaccharides) that are components of the extracellular matrix. There are four members of the lectican family: aggrecan, brevican, neurocan, and versican. Lecticans interact with hyalu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20Registration%20Protocol | Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP), which replaced Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP), is a generic registration framework defined by the IEEE 802.1ak amendment to the IEEE 802.1Q standard. MRP allows bridges, switches or other similar devices to register and de-register attribute values, such as VLAN ide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-well-founded%20set%20theory | Non-well-founded set theories are variants of axiomatic set theory that allow sets to be elements of themselves and otherwise violate the rule of well-foundedness. In non-well-founded set theories, the foundation axiom of ZFC is replaced by axioms implying its negation.
The study of non-well-founded sets was initiated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyanhydride | Polyanhydrides are a class of biodegradable polymers characterized by anhydride bonds that connect repeat units of the polymer backbone chain. Their main application is in the medical device and pharmaceutical industry. In vivo, polyanhydrides degrade into non-toxic diacid monomers that can be metabolized and eliminate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizomucor%20pusillus | Rhizomucor pusillus is a species of Rhizomucor. It can cause disease in humans.
R. pusillus is a grey mycelium fungi most commonly found in compost piles. Yellow-brown spores grow on a stalk to reproduce more fungal cells.
Biology
Rhizomucor pusillus is a thermophilic fungus that lives in hot environments. Its growth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays%20paradox | The Hilbert–Bernays paradox is a distinctive paradox belonging to the family of the paradoxes of reference (like Berry's paradox). It is named after David Hilbert and Paul Bernays.
History
The paradox appears in Hilbert and Bernays' Grundlagen der Mathematik and is used by them to show that a sufficiently strong cons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent%20photic%20stimulation | In medicine, Intermittent Photic Stimulation, or IPS, is a form of visual stimulation used in conjunction with electroencephalography to investigate anomalous brain activity triggered by specific visual stimuli, such as flashing lights or patterns.
IPS and EEGs are often used to diagnose conditions such as photosensit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20Atrial%20Index | The Relative Atrial Index (RAI) is a numeric parameter used to assess for cardiac shunt defects. It is calculated from the standard transthoracic Doppler echocardiogram measurements of the right atrial area divided by the left atrial area. RAI = right atrial area / left atrial area. These measurements are made from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Oyster%20Question | The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 is a 2009 book by Christine Keiner. It examines the conflict between oystermen and scientists in the Chesapeake Bay from the end of the nineteenth century to the present, which includes the period of the so-called "Oyster Wars" and th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeler%20domain | Reeler domain is a protein domain. Extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins play an important role in early cortical development, specifically in the formation of neural connections and in controlling the cytoarchitecture of the central nervous system. The product of the reeler gene in mouse is reelin, a large extracellula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preauricular%20deep%20parotid%20lymph%20nodes | The preauricular deep parotid lymph nodes (anterior auricular glands or preauricular glands), from one to three in number, lie immediately in front of the tragus.
Their afferents drain multiple surfaces, most of which are lateral in origin. A specific example would be the lateral portions of the eye's bulbar and palp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plants%20by%20common%20name | This is a list of plants organized by their common names. However, the common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names, in other words using binomials or "Latin" names.
A
African sheepbush – Pentzia incana
Alder – Alnus
Black... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20engineer | A test engineer is a professional who determines how to create a process that would best test a particular product in manufacturing and related disciplines, in order to assure that the product meets applicable specifications. Test engineers are also responsible for determining the best way a test can be performed in or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viroplasm | A viroplasm, sometimes called "virus factory" or "virus inclusion", is an inclusion body in a cell where viral replication and assembly occurs. They may be thought of as viral factories in the cell. There are many viroplasms in one infected cell, where they appear dense to electron microscopy. Very little is understood... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontiers%20in%20Physics | Frontiers in Physics is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering physics. It was established in 2013 and is published by Frontiers Media. The editor-in-chief is Alex Hansen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). The scope of the journal covers the entire field of physics, from experimental, to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt%20Institute%20for%20Botanical%20Documentation | The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (HIBD), dedicated as the Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library in 1961, is a research division of Carnegie Mellon University.
History
HIBD is named for Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. She donated a collection of botanical books to the University to create HIBD. An... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit%20curve | In mathematics, an implicit curve is a plane curve defined by an implicit equation relating two coordinate variables, commonly x and y. For example, the unit circle is defined by the implicit equation . In general, every implicit curve is defined by an equation of the form
for some function F of two variables. Hence ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20May%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Michael David May FRS FREng (born 24 February 1951) is a British computer scientist. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol and founder of XMOS Semiconductor, serving until February 2014 as the chief technology officer.
May was lead architect for the transputer. As of 2017... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate%20kernel%20density%20estimation | Kernel density estimation is a nonparametric technique for density estimation i.e., estimation of probability density functions, which is one of the fundamental questions in statistics. It can be viewed as a generalisation of histogram density estimation with improved statistical properties. Apart from histograms, oth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeothyris | Archaeothyris is an extinct genus of ophiacodontid synapsid that lived during the Late Carboniferous and is known from Nova Scotia. Dated to 306 million years ago, Archaeothyris, along with a more poorly known synapsid called Echinerpeton, are the oldest undisputed synapsids known. The name means ancient window (Greek)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20signature | A gene signature or gene expression signature is a single or combined group of genes in a cell with a uniquely characteristic pattern of gene expression that occurs as a result of an altered or unaltered biological process or pathogenic medical condition. This is not to be confused with the concept of gene expression p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caraval | The caraval (also called a cara-serval) is the hybrid cross between a male caracal and a female serval. They have a spotted pattern similar to the serval, but on a darker background.
A servical is the cross between a male serval and a female caracal. A litter of servicals occurred by accident when the two animals were... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine-de-Barnes%20Isolation%20Hospital | Catherine-de-Barnes Isolation Hospital was a specialist isolation hospital for infection control in Catherine-de-Barnes, a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English county of West Midlands.
Foundation
In 1907, a "fever hospital" was established as a joint operation of the Solihull and Meriden ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse%20Mediation%20Router | Fuse Mediation Router is an open source tool for integrating services using Enterprise Integration Patterns based on Apache Camel for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is certified, productized and fully supported by the people who wrote the code. Fuse Mediation Router uses a standard method of notation to go from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrabarrelled%20space | In functional analysis, a discipline within mathematics, a locally convex topological vector space (TVS) is said to be infrabarrelled (also spelled infrabarreled) if every bounded barrel is a neighborhood of the origin.
Characterizations
If is a Hausdorff locally convex space then the canonical injection from into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohr%27s%20circle | Mohr's circle is a two-dimensional graphical representation of the transformation law for the Cauchy stress tensor.
Mohr's circle is often used in calculations relating to mechanical engineering for materials' strength, geotechnical engineering for strength of soils, and structural engineering for strength of built s... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%20Kozen | Dexter Campbell Kozen (born December 20, 1951) is an American theoretical computer scientist. He is Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. Professor in Engineering at Cornell University. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1974 and his PhD in computer science in 1977 from Cornell University, where he was advised by Juris Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis | Symbiogenesis (endosymbiotic theory, or serial endosymbiotic theory) is the leading evolutionary theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells from prokaryotic organisms. The theory holds that mitochondria, plastids such as chloroplasts, and possibly other organelles of eukaryotic cells are descended from formerly free-livi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain%20Buchan | Iain Edward Buchan is a public health physician, data scientist and academic. He holds the W.H. Duncan Chair of Public Health Systems and is Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Innovation at the University of Liverpool.
Buchan's research focuses on health data science and informatics to enable better prevention, early ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20Abed | Abu Abed is a fictional character that forms the centerpiece of many jokes in Lebanon, though he is known throughout the Arab world. The Washington Post describes him as an "Archie Bunker-like figure who is a fumbling caricature of all the failings of the Lebanese." His full name is sometimes given as Abu Abed El Bey... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappaphycus%20alvarezii | Kappaphycus alvarezii, the elkhorn sea moss, is a species of red algae. The elkhorn sea moss varies in size, weight, and age. It is a dark greenish-brown hue and can sometimes be deep purple. The moss is cylindrical in shape throughout the seaweed. Its diameter averages 1.526 mm when dried. Near the base of the seaweed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20Ages%20Radio%20Explorer | Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) is a NASA mission concept, intended to identify redshifted line emission from the earliest neutral hydrogen atoms forming after Cosmic Dawn. The emissions from neutral hydrogen atoms (with a wavelength of 21cm, frequency of 1420MHz at rest) provide unique opportunities to probe the forma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Schreyer | Helmut Theodor Schreyer (4 July 1912 – 12 December 1984) was a German inventor. He is mostly known for his work on the Z3, one of the first personal computers (PC).
Early life
Helmut Schreyer was the son of the minister Paul Schreyer and Martha. When his father started to work in a parish in Mosbach, the young Schrey... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desulfovirgula | Desulfovirgula is a genus of sulfate reducing, anaerobic, endospore-forming, Gram-positive, thermophilic, motile, rod-shaped bacteria, isolated from an underground mining site in an area of Japan characterized by high geothermal activity.
Up to now (December 2021) Desulfovirgula thermocuniculi is the sole known specie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inositol-3-phosphate%20synthase | In enzymology, an inositol-3-phosphate synthase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
D-glucose 6-phosphate 1D-myo-inositol 3-phosphate
Hence, this enzyme has one substrate, D-glucose 6-phosphate, and one product, 1D-myo-inositol 3-phosphate.
This enzyme belongs to the family of isomerases, specifica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalaenopsis%20%C3%97%20gersenii | Phalaenopsis × gersenii is a species of orchid native to Borneo and Sumatra. It is a natural hybrid of Phalaenopsis violacea and Phalaenopsis sumatrana. It is named after Gerrit Jan Gersen (1826-1877). He was a Dutch official, who was deployed to the Dutch East Indies, where he also was active as a plant collector of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Plant%20Nutrition%20Colloquium | The International Plant Nutrition Colloquium (IPNC) is an international conference held every four years for the promotion of research within the field of plant nutrition. Prior to 1981, it was known as the International Colloquium on Plant Analysis and Fertiliser Problems. The IPNC is organised by the International Pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-and-forth%20method | In mathematical logic, especially set theory and model theory, the back-and-forth method is a method for showing isomorphism between countably infinite structures satisfying specified conditions. In particular it can be used to prove that
any two countably infinite densely ordered sets (i.e., linearly ordered in such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Bogolyubov | Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov (; 21 August 1909 – 13 February 1992), also transliterated as Bogoliubov and Bogolubov, was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and the theory of dynamical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars%20cantus%20mensurabilis | Ars cantus mensurabilis (Latin for the art of the measurable song) is a music theory treatise from the mid-13th century, c. 1250–1280 written by German music theorist Franco of Cologne. The treatise was written shortly after De Mensurabili Musica, a treatise by Johannes de Garlandia, which summarised a set of six rhyth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E0%20%28cipher%29 | E0 is a stream cipher used in the Bluetooth protocol. It generates a sequence of pseudorandom numbers and combines it with the data using the XOR operator. The key length may vary, but is generally 128 bits.
Description
At each iteration, E0 generates a bit using four shift registers of differing lengths (25, 31, 33,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamebook | Lamebook is a blog that re-posts 'everything lame and funny' from the social networking site Facebook. Users send in screenshots of unusual or amusing Facebook posts, which are re-posted on the site every weekday.
History
Jonathan Standefer and Matthew Genitempo, graphic designers from Austin, Texas, launched the web ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands%20Mycological%20Society | The Netherlands Mycological Society (Dutch: Nederlandse Mycologische Vereniging (NMV)) is the national society for the Netherlands promoting the study of fungi. It was founded in 1908 and currently has around 800 members. It publishes the journal Coolia as well as various other ad hoc publications, and organises natio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth%20Factors%20%28journal%29 | Growth Factors is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research on the control of cell production and differentiation and survival. It is published by Informa Healthcare. The editor-in-chief is Steven Stacker (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre).
External links
Academic journals established in 1989
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal%20arithmetic | In the mathematical field of set theory, ordinal arithmetic describes the three usual operations on ordinal numbers: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation. Each can be defined in essentially two different ways: either by constructing an explicit well-ordered set that represents the result of the operation or by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Negrete%20Fern%C3%A1ndez | David Negrete Fernández () was a Mexican colonel who participated in the Mexican Revolution. He was also a musician.
Biography
David fought alongside military officer Felipe Ángeles as a part of División del Norte.
He married Emilia Moreno Anaya, who bore him:
Consuelo Negrete Moreno
Jorge Alberto Negrete Moreno
Emi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless%20machine | A useless machine or useless box is a device whose only function is to turn itself off. The best-known useless machines are those inspired by Marvin Minsky's design, in which the device's sole function is to switch itself off by operating its own "off" switch. Such machines were popularised commercially in the 1960s, s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Salam%E2%80%93Carlitz%20polynomials | In mathematics, Al-Salam–Carlitz polynomials U(x;q) and V(x;q) are two families of basic hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials in the basic Askey scheme, introduced by . give a detailed list of their properties.
Definition
The Al-Salam–Carlitz polynomials are given in terms of basic hypergeometric functions by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20and%20Bill%27s%20law | Andy and Bill's law is a statement that new software will always consume any increase in computing power that new hardware can provide. The law originates from a humorous one-liner told in the 1990s during computing conferences: "what Andy giveth, Bill taketh away." The phrase is a riff upon the business strategies of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabouraud%20agar | Sabouraud agar or Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA) is a type of agar growth medium containing peptones. It is used to cultivate dermatophytes and other types of fungi, and can also grow filamentous bacteria such as Nocardia. It has utility for research and clinical care.
It was created by, and is named after, Raymond Sab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactor%20pattern | The reactor software design pattern is an event handling strategy that can respond to many potential service requests concurrently. The pattern's key component is an event loop, running in a single thread or process, which demultiplexes incoming requests and dispatches them to the correct request handler.
By relying o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20identity%20management | Mobile identity is a development of online authentication and digital signatures, where the SIM card of one’s mobile phone works as an identity tool. Mobile identity enables legally binding authentication and transaction signing for online banking, payment confirmation, corporate services, and consuming online content.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg%20formula | In atomic physics, the Rydberg formula calculates the wavelengths of a spectral line in many chemical elements. The formula was primarily presented as a generalization of the Balmer series for all atomic electron transitions of hydrogen. It was first empirically stated in 1888 by the Swedish physicist Johannes Rydberg,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20C.%20Papanicolaou | George C. Papanicolaou (; born January 23, 1943) is a Greek-American mathematician who specializes in applied and computational mathematics, partial differential equations, and stochastic processes. He is currently the Robert Grimmett Professor in Mathematics at Stanford University.
Biography
Papanicolaou was born on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%20507 | Zinc finger protein 507 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF507 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM33 | E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase TRIM33, also known as (ectodermin homolog and tripartite motif-containing 33) is a protein encoded in the human by the gene TRIM33, a member of the tripartite motif family.
TRIM33 is thought to be a transcriptional corepressor. However unlike the related TRIM24 and TRIM28 proteins, few tran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonymous%20substitution | A synonymous substitution (often called a silent substitution though they are not always silent) is the evolutionary substitution of one base for another in an exon of a gene coding for a protein, such that the produced amino acid sequence is not modified. This is possible because the genetic code is "degenerate", mean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20Manager%20%281982%20video%20game%29 | Football Manager is the first game in the Football Manager series.
Gameplay
The game was written entirely in BASIC and, apart from the match highlights on some versions, used only text displays and keyboard entry. The player chooses a team and then must try to earn promotion from the fourth to the first division (alth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle%20of%20marginality | In statistics, the principle of marginality is the fact that the average (or main) effects of variables in an analysis are marginal to their interaction effect—that is, the main effect of one explanatory variable captures the effect of that variable averaged over all values of a second explanatory variable whose value ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physica%20%28journal%29 | Physica is a Dutch series of peer-reviewed, scientific journals of physics by Elsevier.
It started out in 1921 as a journal of the Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging (Netherlands Physical Society) that published mostly in Dutch. In 1934 it was taken over by the North-Holland Publishing Company, keeping the same nam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunsphere | The Sunsphere located in World’s Fair Park in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, is a high hexagonal steel truss structure, topped with a gold-colored glass sphere that served as the symbol of the 1982 World's Fair.
Design
Designed by the Knoxville-based architectural firm Community Tectonics, the Sunsphere was created ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPM%20J1839%E2%88%9210 | GPM J1839−10 is a potentially unique ultra-long period magnetar located about 15,000 light-years away from Earth in the Scutum constellation, in the Milky Way. It was discovered by a team of scientists at Curtin University using the Murchison Widefield Array. Its unusual characteristics violate current theory and promp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20of%20a%20random%20network | Evolution of a random network is a dynamical process, usually leading to emergence of giant component accompanied with striking consequences on the network topology. To quantify this process, there is a need of inspection on how the size of the largest connected cluster within the network, , varies with the average deg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoner | Phoner and PhonerLite are softphone applications for Windows operating systems available as freeware. Phoner is a multiprotocol telephony application supporting telephony via CAPI, TAPI and VoIP, while PhonerLite provides a specialized and optimized user interface for VoIP only. Beside the different user interface focu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TB9Cs1H1%20snoRNA | TB9Cs1H1 is a member of the H/ACA-like class of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) molecule that guide the sites of modification of uridines to pseudouridines of substrate RNAs. It is known as a small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) thus named because of its cellular localization in the nucleolus of the eukaryotic cell. TB9Cs1H1 is predic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellmania | Wellmania is an Australian comedy-drama streaming television series co-created by Brigid Delaney and Benjamin Law for Netflix. Based on Delaney's memoir-reportage hybrid, Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness, it follows Liv Healy (Celeste Barber), a 39-year-old woman who struggles with a "major health cr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20allocation%20vector | The network allocation vector (NAV) is a virtual carrier-sensing mechanism used with wireless network protocols such as IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and IEEE 802.16 (WiMax). The virtual carrier-sensing is a logical abstraction which limits the need for physical carrier-sensing at the air interface in order to save power. The MA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20plane%20%28spherical%20coordinates%29 | The fundamental plane in a spherical coordinate system is a plane of reference that divides the sphere into two hemispheres. The geocentric latitude of a point is then the angle between the fundamental plane and the line joining the point to the centre of the sphere.
For a geographic coordinate system of the Earth, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Riebesell | Paul Louis Riebesell (9 June 1883, Hamburg – 16 March 1950, Hamburg) was a German mathematician, statistician, actuary, and president of Hamburger Feuerkasse. At the International Congress of Mathematicians, he was an invited speaker in 1932 in Zürich and in 1936 in Oslo.
Biography
Riebesell studied mathematics and na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial%20auscultation | Auscultation, a medical neurological procedure, can be performed upon the skull to check for intracranial bruits. Such a bruit may be found in such conditions as cerebral angioma, tumour of the glomus jugulare, intracranial aneurysm, meningioma, occlusion of the internal carotid artery, or increased intracranial pressu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20of%20combustion | The heating value (or energy value or calorific value) of a substance, usually a fuel or food (see food energy), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it.
The calorific value is the total energy released as heat when a substance undergoes complete combustion with oxygen under st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldic%20knot | A heraldic knot (referred to in heraldry as simply a knot) is a knot, unknot, or design incorporating a knot used in European heraldry. While a given knot can be used on more than one family's achievement of arms, the family on whose coat the knot originated usually gives its name to the said knot (the exception being ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20%28database%29 | A table is a collection of related data held in a table format within a database. It consists of columns and rows.
In relational databases, and flat file databases, a table is a set of data elements (values) using a model of vertical columns (identifiable by name) and horizontal rows, the cell being the unit where a r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Matula | David William Matula (born 1937) is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on graph theory, graph algorithms, computer arithmetic, and algorithm engineering. He is a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University, where he formerly held the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centenni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera%20Omnia%20Leonhard%20Euler | Opera Omnia Leonhard Euler (Leonhardi Euleri Opera omnia) is the compilation of Leonhard Euler's scientific writings. The project of this compilation was undertaken by the Euler Committee of the Swiss Academy of Sciences, established in 1908, and is ongoing . The Committee decided on "the edition of the Collected Works... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection%20theorem | In projective geometry, an intersection theorem or incidence theorem is a statement concerning an incidence structure – consisting of points, lines, and possibly higher-dimensional objects and their incidences – together with a pair of objects and (for instance, a point and a line). The "theorem" states that, wheneve... |
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