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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust%20anchor | In cryptographic systems with hierarchical structure, a trust anchor is an authoritative entity for which trust is assumed and not derived.
In the X.509 architecture, a root certificate would be the trust anchor from which the whole chain of trust is derived. The trust anchor must be in the possession of the trusting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter%20wave%20clock | A matter wave clock is a type of clock whose principle of operation makes use of the apparent wavelike properties of matter.
Matter waves were first proposed by Louis de Broglie and are sometimes called de Broglie waves. They form a key aspect of wave–particle duality and experiments have since supported the idea. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunt-jawed%20elephantnose | The blunt-jawed elephantnose or wormjawed mormyrid (Campylomormyrus tamandua) is a species of elephantfish. It is found in rivers in West and Middle Africa. It is brown or black with a long elephant-like snout with the mouth located near the tip. Its diet consists of worms, fish, and insects.
See also
List of freshwat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%20balls | Harvey balls are round ideograms used for visual communication of qualitative information. They are commonly used in comparison tables to indicate the degree to which a particular item meets a particular criterion.
For example, in a comparison of products, information such as price or weight can be conveyed numericall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20neuraminidase | Viral neuraminidase is a type of neuraminidase found on the surface of influenza viruses that enables the virus to be released from the host cell. Neuraminidases are enzymes that cleave sialic acid (also called neuraminic acid) groups from glycoproteins. Neuraminidase inhibitors are antiviral agents that inhibit influe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%20electronically%20scanned%20array | A passive electronically scanned array (PESA), also known as passive phased array, is an antenna in which the beam of radio waves can be electronically steered to point in different directions (that is, a phased array antenna), in which all the antenna elements are connected to a single transmitter (such as a magnetron... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe%20Atmosphere | Adobe Atmosphere (informally abbreviated Atmo) was a software platform for interacting with 3D computer graphics. 3D models created with the commercial program could be explored socially using a browser plugin available free of charge. Atmosphere was originally developed by Attitude Software as 3D Anarchy and was later... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible%20Timesharing%20System | Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS) is a time-sharing operating system developed principally by the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, with help from Project MAC. The name is the jocular complement of the MIT Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS).
ITS, and the software developed on it, were technically and cult... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operand%20isolation | In electronic low power digital synchronous circuit design, operand isolation is a technique for minimizing the energy overhead associated with redundant operations by selectively blocking the propagation of switching activity through the circuit.
This technique isolates sections of the circuit (operation) from "seeing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternocostal%20joints | The sternocostal joints, also known as sternochondral joints or costosternal articulations, are synovial plane joints of the costal cartilages of the true ribs with the sternum. The only exception is the first rib, which has a synchondrosis joint since the cartilage is directly united with the sternum. The sternocostal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93de%20Sitter%20universe | The Einstein–de Sitter universe is a model of the universe proposed by Albert Einstein and Willem de Sitter in 1932. On first learning of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a linear relation between the redshift of the galaxies and their distance, Einstein set the cosmological constant to zero in the Friedmann equations, resu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetting%20transition | A wetting transition (Cassie–Wenzel transition) may occur during the process of wetting of a solid (or liquid) surface with a liquid. The transition corresponds to a certain change in contact angle, the macroscopic parameter characterizing wetting. Various contact angles can co-exist on the same solid substrate. Wettin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrochronology | Gyrochronology is a method for estimating the age of a low-mass (cool) main sequence star (spectral class F8 V or later) from its rotation period. The term is derived from the Greek words gyros, chronos and logos, roughly translated as rotation, age, and study respectively. It was coined in 2003 by Sydney Barnes to des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochrea | An ochrea (Latin ocrea, greave or protective legging), also spelled ocrea, is a plant structure formed of stipules fused into a sheath surrounding the stem, and is typically found in the Polygonaceae.
In palms it denotes an extension of the leaf sheath beyond the petiole insertion. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations%20of%20biological%20warfare%20in%20the%20Korean%20War | Allegations that the United States military used biological weapons in the Korean War (June 1950 – July 1953) were raised by the governments of the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, and North Korea. The claims were first raised in 1951. The story was covered by the worldwide press and led to a highly public... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reception%20and%20criticism%20of%20WhatsApp%20security%20and%20privacy%20features | This article provides a detailed chronological account of the historical reception and criticism of security and privacy features in the WhatsApp messaging service.
2011
On May 20, 2011, an unidentified security researcher from the Netherlands under the pseudonym "WhatsappHack" published a method to hijack WhatsApp ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytotoxic%20T%20cell | A cytotoxic T cell (also known as TC, cytotoxic T lymphocyte, CTL, T-killer cell, cytolytic T cell, CD8+ T-cell or killer T cell) is a T lymphocyte (a type of white blood cell) that kills cancer cells, cells that are infected by intracellular pathogens (such as viruses or bacteria), or cells that are damaged in other w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes%27%20limit | Dawes' limit is a formula to express the maximum resolving power of a microscope or telescope. It is so named after its discoverer, William Rutter Dawes
, although it is also credited to Lord Rayleigh.
The formula takes different forms depending on the units.
This formula agrees with the usual
at a wavelength of ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearCube | ClearCube is a computer systems manufacturer based in Austin, Texas, owned by parent company ClearCube Holdings. The company became known for its blade PC products; it has since expanded its offerings to include desktop virtualization and VDI. It was founded in 1997 by Andrew Heller (former IBM Fellow) and Barry Thorn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cation%E2%80%93%CF%80%20interaction | Cation–π interaction is a noncovalent molecular interaction between the face of an electron-rich π system (e.g. benzene, ethylene, acetylene) and an adjacent cation (e.g. Li+, Na+). This interaction is an example of noncovalent bonding between a monopole (cation) and a quadrupole (π system). Bonding energies are signi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20San%20Mart%C3%ADn | Alejandro Miguel San Martín (January 6, 1959) is an Argentine engineer of NASA and a science educator. He is best known for his work as Chief Engineer for the Guidance, Navigation, and Control system in the latest missions to Mars. His best known contribution is the Sky Crane system, of which he is coinventor, used in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-arithmetic%20mean | In mathematics and statistics, the quasi-arithmetic mean or generalised f-mean or Kolmogorov-Nagumo-de Finetti mean is one generalisation of the more familiar means such as the arithmetic mean and the geometric mean, using a function . It is also called Kolmogorov mean after Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Pixton | Aaron C. Pixton (born January 13, 1986) is an American mathematician at the University of Michigan. He works in enumerative geometry, and is also known for his chess playing, where he is a FIDE Master.
Early life and education
Pixton was born in Binghamton, New York; his father, Dennis Pixton, is a retired professor o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor%20code | In computer science, Raptor codes (rapid tornado; see Tornado codes) are the first known class of fountain codes with linear time encoding and decoding. They were invented by Amin Shokrollahi in 2000/2001 and were first published in 2004 as an extended abstract. Raptor codes are a significant theoretical and practical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-dependent%20selection | Frequency-dependent selection is an evolutionary process by which the fitness of a phenotype or genotype depends on the phenotype or genotype composition of a given population.
In positive frequency-dependent selection, the fitness of a phenotype or genotype increases as it becomes more common.
In negative frequency-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20mesh%20network | An optical mesh network is a type of optical telecommunications network employing wired fiber-optic communication or wireless free-space optical communication in a mesh network architecture.
Most optical mesh networks use fiber-optic communication and are operated by internet service providers in metropolitan and regi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking%20up%20early | Waking up early is rising before most others and has also been described as a productivity method - rising early and consistently so as to be able to accomplish more during the day. This method has been recommended since antiquity and is now recommended by a number of personal development gurus.
Commentary
Within th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollination%20network | A pollination network is a bipartite mutualistic network in which plants and pollinators are the nodes, and the pollination interactions form the links between these nodes. The pollination network is bipartite as interactions only exist between two distinct, non-overlapping sets of species, but not within the set: a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-regular%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, a distance-regular graph is a regular graph such that for any two vertices and , the number of vertices at distance from and at distance from depends only upon , , and the distance between and .
Some authors exclude the complete graphs and disconnected graphs from this ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Viking%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Ambush | Virtual Viking – The Ambush is a 2019 short film directed by Erik Gustavson, using volumetric video capture to create one of the first films in virtual reality. Produced for The Viking Planet centre in Oslo, Norway, the film is part of a wider exhibition of the lives of Norse seafarers and uses a number of VR headsets ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohesperocyon | Prohesperocyon ("before Hesperocyon") is an extinct genus of the first canid endemic to North America appearing during the Late Eocene around 36.6 mya (AEO).
Fossil distribution
Prohesperocyon wilsoni was unearthed at the Airstrip (TMM 40504) site, Presidio County, Texas dating between 36.6 and 36.5 million years ago.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulkand | Gulkand (also written gulqand or gulkhand) is a sweet preserve of rose petals originating in the Indian subcontinent. The term is derived from Persian; gul (rose) and qand (sugar/sweet).
Preparation
Traditionally, gulkand has been prepared with Damask roses. Other common types of roses used include China rose, French... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20Access%20Networks | Hybrid Access Networks refer to a special architecture for broadband access networks where two different network technologies are combined to improve bandwidth. A frequent motivation for such Hybrid Access Networks to combine one xDSL network with a wireless network such as LTE. The technology is generic and can be ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20dragon | The white dragon () is a symbol associated in Welsh mythology with the Anglo-Saxons.
Origin of tradition
The earliest usage of the white dragon as a symbol of the Anglo-Saxons is found in the Historia Brittonum. The relevant story takes place at Dinas Emrys when Vortigern tries to build a castle there. Every night, un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20multiplier | An electron multiplier is a vacuum-tube structure that multiplies incident charges. In a process called secondary emission, a single electron can, when bombarded on secondary-emissive material, induce emission of roughly 1 to 3 electrons. If an electric potential is applied between this metal plate and yet another, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20orbital%20diagram | A molecular orbital diagram, or MO diagram, is a qualitative descriptive tool explaining chemical bonding in molecules in terms of molecular orbital theory in general and the linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) method in particular. A fundamental principle of these theories is that as atoms bond to form mole... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychometrics%20of%20racism | Psychometrics of racism is an emerging field that aims to measure the incidence and impacts of racism on the psychological well-being of people of all races. At present, there are few instruments that attempt to capture the experience of racism in all of its complexity.
Self-reported inventories
The Schedule of Racist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GridRPC | GridRPC in distributed computing, is Remote Procedure Call over a grid. This paradigm has been proposed by the GridRPC working group of the Open Grid Forum (OGF), and an API has been defined in order for clients to access remote servers as simply as a function call. It is used among numerous Grid middleware for its s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus%20quantification | Virus quantification is counting or calculating the number of virus particles (virions) in a sample to determine the virus concentration. It is used in both research and development (R&D) in academic and commercial laboratories as well as in production situations where the quantity of virus at various steps is an impor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartley%20oscillator | The Hartley oscillator is an electronic oscillator circuit in which the oscillation frequency is determined by a tuned circuit consisting of capacitors and inductors, that is, an LC oscillator. The circuit was invented in 1915 by American engineer Ralph Hartley. The distinguishing feature of the Hartley oscillator is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor%20Kageyama%27s%20Maths%20Training%3A%20The%20Hundred%20Cell%20Calculation%20Method | Professor Kageyama's Maths Training: The Hundred Cell Calculation Method is a puzzle video game published by Nintendo and developed by Jupiter for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was first released in Japan, then later in Europe and Australasia. It was released in North America as Personal Trainer: Math... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20norm | In functional analysis, the dual norm is a measure of size for a continuous linear function defined on a normed vector space.
Definition
Let be a normed vector space with norm and let denote its continuous dual space. The dual norm of a continuous linear functional belonging to is the non-negative real number de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Net | ONE-NET is an open-source standard for wireless networking.
ONE-NET was designed for low-cost, low-power (battery-operated) control networks for applications such as home automation, security & monitoring, device control, and sensor networks. ONE-NET is not tied to any proprietary hardware or software, and can be impl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI%20VPro | VPro, also known as Odyssey, is a computer graphics architecture for Silicon Graphics workstations. First released on the Octane2, it was subsequently used on the Fuel, Tezro workstations and the Onyx visualization systems, where it was branded InfinitePerformance.
VPro provides some very advanced capabilities such as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phospholipid%20scramblase | Scramblase is a protein responsible for the translocation of phospholipids between the two monolayers of a lipid bilayer of a cell membrane. In humans, phospholipid scramblases (PLSCRs) constitute a family of five homologous proteins that are named as hPLSCR1–hPLSCR5. Scramblases are not members of the general family ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurocognition | Neurocognitive functions are cognitive functions closely linked to the function of particular areas, neural pathways, or cortical networks in the brain, ultimately served by the substrate of the brain's neurological matrix (i.e. at the cellular and molecular level). Therefore, their understanding is closely linked to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopluramycin | Neopluramycin is an antibiotic that inhibits nucleic acid synthesis. It has been isolated from the cultured broth of a strain of Streptomyces pluricolorescens as orange crystals, and analytical data and molecular weight determination are consistent with the empirical formula .
Neopluramycin resembles pluramycin A, but... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitovirus | Mitovirus is a genus of positive-strand RNA viruses, in the family Mitoviridae. Fungi serve as natural hosts. There are five species in the genus.
Structure
Mitoviruses have no true virion. They do not have structural proteins or a capsid.
Genome
Mitoviruses have nonsegmented, linear, positive-sense, single-stranded... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coframe | In mathematics, a coframe or coframe field on a smooth manifold is a system of one-forms or covectors which form a basis of the cotangent bundle at every point. In the exterior algebra of , one has a natural map from , given by . If is dimensional a coframe is given by a section of such that . The inverse image... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress%20signal | A distress signal, also known as a distress call, is an internationally recognized means for obtaining help. Distress signals are communicated by transmitting radio signals, displaying a visually observable item or illumination, or making a sound audible from a distance.
A distress signal indicates that a person or gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20density | Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.
Biological population densities
Population density is population divided by total land are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrhenotoky | Arrhenotoky (from Greek -τόκος -tókos "birth of -" + ἄρρην árrhēn "male person"), also known as arrhenotokous parthenogenesis, is a form of parthenogenesis in which unfertilized eggs develop into males. In most cases, parthenogenesis produces exclusively female offspring, hence the distinction.
The set of processes in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Messaging | Messaging (also known as Microsoft Messaging, and as of recently, Windows Operator Messages) is an instant messaging Universal Windows Platform app for Windows 8.0, Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. The mobile version allows SMS, MMS and RCS messaging. The desktop version is restricted to showing SMS messages sent via ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases%20from%20Space | Diseases from Space is a book published in 1979 that was authored by astronomers Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, where they propose that many of the most common diseases which afflict humanity, such as influenza, the common cold and whooping cough, have their origins in extraterrestrial sources. The two authors ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%20summation%20formula | In mathematics, the Poisson summation formula is an equation that relates the Fourier series coefficients of the periodic summation of a function to values of the function's continuous Fourier transform. Consequently, the periodic summation of a function is completely defined by discrete samples of the original functi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Quarterly%20Journal%20of%20Mechanics%20and%20Applied%20Mathematics | The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics is a quarterly, peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on classical mechanics and applied mathematics. The editors-in-chief are P. W. Duck, P. A. Martin and N. V. Movchan. The journal was established in 1948 to meet a need for a separate English jou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish | Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks (which are called "hjell" in Norway) on the foreshore. The drying of food is the world's oldest known preservation method, and dried fish has a storage life of several years. The method is cheap and effective in suitable climates; th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakalo | The yakalo is a cross of the yak (Bos grunniens) and the American bison (Bison bison, known as a buffalo in North America). It was produced by hybridisation experiments in the 1920s, when crosses were made between yak bulls and both pure bison cows and bison-cattle hybrid cows. As with many other inter-specific cross... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange%E2%80%93Rahman%E2%80%93Smith%20equation | The Strange–Rahman–Smith equation is used in the cryoporometry method of measuring porosity.
NMR cryoporometry is a recent technique for measuring total porosity and pore size distributions. NMRC is based on two equations: the Gibbs–Thomson equation, which maps the melting point depression to pore size, and the Stra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-wellfounded%20mereology | In philosophy, specifically metaphysics, mereology is the study of parthood relationships. In mathematics and formal logic, wellfoundedness prohibits for any x.
Thus non-wellfounded mereology treats topologically circular, cyclical, repetitive, or other eventual self-containment.
More formally, non-wellfounded parti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScaLAPACK | The ScaLAPACK (or Scalable LAPACK) library includes a subset of LAPACK routines redesigned for distributed memory MIMD parallel computers. It is currently written in a Single-Program-Multiple-Data style using explicit message passing for interprocessor communication. It assumes matrices are laid out in a two-dimensiona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetic%20neutral%20atom | Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) imaging, often described as "seeing with atoms", is a technology used to create global images of otherwise invisible phenomena in the magnetospheres of planets and throughout the heliosphere.
Solar wind is composed of plasma emitted from the Sun. Solar wind plasma is mostly composed of hyd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition%20Network%20Technology | Cognition Network Technology (CNT), also known as Definiens Cognition Network Technology, is an object-based image analysis method developed by Nobel laureate Gerd Binnig together with a team of researchers at Definiens AG in Munich, Germany. It serves for extracting information from images using a hierarchy of image o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VERSAdos | VERSAdos is an operating system dating back to the early 1980s for use on the Motorola 68000 development system called the EXORmacs which featured the VERSAbus and an array of option cards. They were typically connected to CDC Phoenix disk drives running one to four 14-inch platters. The EXORmacs was used to emulate a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20III%20pyridoxal-dependent%20decarboxylases | In molecular biology, group III pyridoxal-dependent decarboxylases are a family of bacterial enzymes comprising ornithine decarboxylase , lysine decarboxylase and arginine decarboxylase .
Pyridoxal-5'-phosphate-dependent amino acid decarboxylases can be divided into four groups based on amino acid sequence. Group III... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%27s%20Olympic%20Broadcast%20Media%20Consortium | Established in 2007, Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium (legal name 7048467 Canada Inc., also sometimes referred to informally in branding as CTV Olympics and RDS Olympiques, additionally referred to as the National Olympic Network by BBM Canada) was a joint venture set up by Canadian media companies Bell Medi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20censorship | The topological censorship theorem (if valid) states that general relativity does not allow an observer to probe the topology of spacetime: any topological structure collapses too quickly to allow light to traverse it. More precisely, in a globally hyperbolic, asymptotically flat spacetime satisfying the null energy co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20transposon | DNA transposons are DNA sequences, sometimes referred to "jumping genes", that can move and integrate to different locations within the genome. They are class II transposable elements (TEs) that move through a DNA intermediate, as opposed to class I TEs, retrotransposons, that move through an RNA intermediate. DNA tran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%E2%80%93line%E2%80%93plane%20postulate | In geometry, the point–line–plane postulate is a collection of assumptions (axioms) that can be used in a set of postulates for Euclidean geometry in two (plane geometry), three (solid geometry) or more dimensions.
Assumptions
The following are the assumptions of the point-line-plane postulate:
Unique line assumption.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20Dog%20Linux | Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) is a discontinued free and open-source operating system for high-performance computing on multi-core processor computer architectures, focusing on GPU systems and computers using the POWER7 processor. The original developer was Terra Soft Solutions, which was acquired by Fixstars in October 2008.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20security%20policy | A network security policy (NSP) is a generic document that outlines rules for computer network access, determines how policies are enforced and lays out some of the basic architecture of the company security/ network security environment. The document itself is usually several pages long and written by a committee.
A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extelligence | Extelligence is a term coined by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen in their 1997 book Figments of Reality. They define it as the cultural capital that is available to us in the form of external media (e.g. tribal legends, folklore, nursery rhymes, books, videotapes, CD-ROMs, etc.)
They contrast extelligence with intelligence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational%20strength | Situational strength is defined as cues provided by environmental forces regarding the desirability of potential behaviors. Situational strength is said to result in psychological pressure on the individual to engage in and/or refrain from particular behaviors. A consequence of this psychological pressure to act in a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS%20statistical%20regions%20of%20Liechtenstein | As a member of the EFTA, Liechtenstein (LI) is included in the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS). The three NUTS levels all correspond to the country itself:
NUTS-1: LI0 Liechtenstein
NUTS-2: LI00 Liechtenstein
NUTS-3: LI000 Liechtenstein
Below the NUTS levels, there are two LAU levels (LAU-1:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devor%C3%A9 | Devoré (also called burnout) is a fabric technique particularly used on velvets, where a mixed-fibre material undergoes a chemical process to dissolve the cellulose fibers to create a semi-transparent pattern against more solidly woven fabric. The same technique can also be applied to textiles other than velvet, such a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtechnology | Microtechnology deals with technology whose features have dimensions of the order of one micrometre (one millionth of a metre, or 10−6 metre, or 1μm). It focuses on physical and chemical processes as well as the production or manipulation of structures with one-micrometre magnitude.
Development
Around 1970, scientist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Heinrich%20Hertz%20Medal | The IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal was a science award presented by the IEEE for outstanding achievements in the field of electromagnetic waves. The medal was named in honour of German physicist Heinrich Hertz, and was first proposed in 1986 by IEEE Region 8 (Germany) as a centennial recognition of Hertz's work on electroma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi%20coordinates | Vivaldi Coordinate System is a decentralized Network Coordinate System, that allows for distributed systems such as peer-to-peer networks to estimate round-trip time (RTT) between arbitrary nodes in a network.
Through this scheme, network topology awareness can be used to tune the network behavior to more efficiently ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerosity%20adaptation%20effect | The numerosity adaptation effect is a perceptual phenomenon in numerical cognition which demonstrates non-symbolic numerical intuition and exemplifies how numerical percepts can impose themselves upon the human brain automatically. This effect was first described in 2008.
Presently, this effect is described only for c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20system%20design | Graphical system design (GSD) is a modern approach to designing measurement and control systems that integrates system design software with COTS hardware to dramatically simplify development. This approach combines user interfaces, models of computation, math and analysis, Input/output signals, technology abstractions,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic%20recoil | Elastic recoil means the rebound of the lungs after having been stretched by inhalation, or rather, the ease with which the lung rebounds. With inhalation, the intrapleural pressure (the pressure within the pleural cavity) of the lungs decreases. Relaxing the diaphragm during expiration allows the lungs to recoil and r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption%20of%20water | In higher plants water and minerals are absorbed through root hairs which are in contact with soil water and from the root hairs zone a little the root tips.
Active absorption
Active absorption refers to the absorption of water by roots with the help of adenosine triphosphate, generated by the root respiration: as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk%20GNU/Linux | Uruk GNU/Linux-libre is a PureOS-based Linux distribution. The name Uruk is an Iraqi city that states its Iraqi origin.
Uruk GNU/Linux 1.0 was released on 13 April 2016 and it ships with the most common software for popular tasks.
Features
Uruk uses Linux-libre kernel for the system and MATE desktop environment for i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth%20power%20%28algebra%29 | In arithmetic and algebra, the fifth power or sursolid of a number n is the result of multiplying five instances of n together:
.
Fifth powers are also formed by multiplying a number by its fourth power, or the square of a number by its cube.
The sequence of fifth powers of integers is:
0, 1, 32, 243, 1024, 3125, 7... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20DNS%20server%20software | This article presents a comparison of the features, platform support, and packaging of many independent implementations of Domain Name System (DNS) name server software.
Servers compared
Each of these DNS servers is an independent implementation of the DNS protocols, capable of resolving DNS names for other computer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection%20%28affine%20bundle%29 | Let be an affine bundle modelled over a vector bundle . A connection on is called the affine connection if it as a section of the jet bundle of is an affine bundle morphism over . In particular, this is an affine connection on the tangent bundle of a smooth manifold . (That is, the connection on an affine bundle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20XE6 | The Cray XE6 (codename during development: Baker) made by Cray is an enhanced version of the Cray XT6 supercomputer, officially announced on 25 May 2010. The XE6 uses the same computer blade found in the XT6, with eight- or 12-core Opteron 6100 processors giving up to 3,072 cores per cabinet, but replaces the SeaStar2+... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure-preserving%20dynamical%20system | In mathematics, a measure-preserving dynamical system is an object of study in the abstract formulation of dynamical systems, and ergodic theory in particular. Measure-preserving systems obey the Poincaré recurrence theorem, and are a special case of conservative systems. They provide the formal, mathematical basis for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Bergman%20Prize | The Stefan Bergman Prize is a mathematics award, funded by the estate of the widow of mathematician Stefan Bergman and supported by the American Mathematical Society. The award is granted for mathematical research in: "1) the theory of the kernel function and its applications in real and complex analysis; or 2) functio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl%20anthranilate | Methyl anthranilate, also known as MA, methyl 2-aminobenzoate, or carbomethoxyaniline, is an ester of anthranilic acid. Its chemical formula is C8H9NO2. It has a strong and fruity grape smell, and one of its key uses is as a flavoring agent.
Chemical properties
It is a colorless to pale yellow liquid with melting poin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-protocol%20exploitation | Inter-protocol exploitation is a class of security vulnerabilities that takes advantage of interactions between two communication protocols, for example the protocols used in the Internet. It is commonly discussed in the context of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). This attack uses the potential of the two differ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versit%20Consortium | The versit Consortium was a multivendor initiative founded by Apple Computer, AT&T, IBM and Siemens in the early 1990s in order to create Personal Data Interchange (PDI) technology, open specifications for exchanging personal data over the Internet, wired and wireless connectivity and Computer Telephony Integration (CT... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20holding%20power | Cognitive holding power is a concept introduced and measured by John C. Stevenson in 1994 using a questionnaire, the Cognitive Holding Power Questionnaire (CHPQ). This tool assesses first- or second-order cognitive processing preferences as a result of the characteristics of the learning environment.
Impact
Studies in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20and%20Synthetic%20Biology | Systems and Synthetic Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering systems and synthetic biology. It was established in 2007 and was published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editors-in-chief were Pawan K. Dhar (University of Kerala) and Ron Weiss (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The journal's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synusia | Synusia (plural Synusiae) is a term in plant ecology that refers to a layer of vegetation consisting of species with shared life forms. It has been compared with guilds in zoology.
The term synusia was introduced by Helmut Gams in 1918 although similar ideas were proposed using terms such as "Genossenschaften" (brothe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixmaster%20anonymous%20remailer | Mixmaster is a Type II anonymous remailer which sends messages in fixed-size packets and reorders them, preventing anyone watching the messages go in and out of remailers from tracing them. It is an implementation of a Chaumian Mix network.
History
Mixmaster was originally written by Lance Cottrell, and was maintain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100-year%20flood | A 100-year flood is a flood event that has on average a 1 in 100 chance (1% probability) of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.
The 100-year flood is also referred to as the 1% flood. For coastal or lake flooding, the 100-year flood is generally expressed as a flood elevation or depth, and may include wave ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit%20banging | In computer engineering and electrical engineering, bit banging is a "term of art" for any method of data transmission that employs software as a substitute for dedicated hardware to generate transmitted signals or process received signals. Software directly sets and samples the states of GPIOs (e.g., pins on a microco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%20257 | Zinc finger protein 257 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF257 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20Society%20of%20Medical%20Biochemistry%20and%20Laboratory%20Medicine | The Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CSMBLM) is national autonomous, voluntary and non-profit professional association of medical biochemists established with the aim of professional and scientific development and improvement of medical biochemistry profession in Republic of Croatia.
M... |
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