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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-range%20hopping
Variable-range hopping is a model used to describe carrier transport in a disordered semiconductor or in amorphous solid by hopping in an extended temperature range. It has a characteristic temperature dependence of where is the conductivity and is a parameter dependent on the model under consideration. Mott variab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannery%20Workers%20and%20Farm%20Laborers%20Union%2C%20Local%207
The Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local 7 was the first Filipino-led union in the United States. Founded in 1933 as the Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local 18257 of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), it represented Alaska salmon cannery workers and farm workers. In 1937, the union became Can...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardenology.org
Gardenology.org is a wiki, launched in 2007, meant to serve as a free, "complete plant and garden wiki encyclopedia." There are over 19,000 articles on the site, and a plant search box. Gardenology.org is a "reference database with botany basics, cultivation, propagation, plant maintenance, glossary of botanical name...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau-Mignotte%20bound
In algebra, a Landau-Mignotte bound (sometimes only referred to as Mignotte's bound) is one of a family of inequalities concerning a univariate integer polynomial f(x) and one of its factors h(x). A basic version states that the coefficients of h(x) are bounded independently of h(x) by an exponential expression involvi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Banchoff
Thomas Francis Banchoff (born April 7, 1938) is an American mathematician specializing in geometry. He is a professor at Brown University, where he has taught since 1967. He is known for his research in differential geometry in three and four dimensions, for his efforts to develop methods of computer graphics in the e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdiamagnetism
Superdiamagnetism (or perfect diamagnetism) is a phenomenon occurring in certain materials at low temperatures, characterised by the complete absence of magnetic permeability (i.e. a volume magnetic susceptibility = −1) and the exclusion of the interior magnetic field. Superdiamagnetism established that the supercond...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDepend
NDepend is a static analysis tool for .NET managed code. The tool proposes a large number features, from dependency visualization to Quality Gates and Smart Technical Debt Estimation. For that reasons the community refers to it as the "Swiss Army Knife" for .NET Developers. Features The main features of NDepend are: ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20psychology%20of%20parenting
Due to not carrying the child, the male is suggested to experience paternal uncertainty. Different parenting styles across cultures also influence the temperament of an offspring. Additionally, varying attachment styles can influence the development of an offspring, impacting their future choices on their own mates ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts%20%28suit%29
Hearts (, ) is one of the four suits in playing cards of both the French deck and the German deck. However, the symbol is slightly different: in a French deck and in a German-suited deck. In Bridge, for which in Germany the French deck is common, it is called by its French name, Cœur. In games using German-suited ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatovaginal%20canal
The palatovaginal canal (also pharyngeal canal) is a small canal formed between the sphenoidal process of palatine bone, and vaginal process of sphenoid bone. It connects the pterygopalatine fossa and and nasal cavity. It transmits the pharyngeal nerve (pharyngeal branch of maxillary nerve), and the pharyngeal ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepsis
Sepsis, also known as septicemia, septicaemia, or blood poisoning, is a potentially life-threatening condition that arises when the body's response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs. This initial stage of sepsis is followed by suppression of the immune system. Common signs and symptoms include f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiated%20security
Differentiated security is a form of computer security that deploys a range of different security policies and mechanisms according to the identity and context of a user or transaction. This makes it much more difficult to scale or replicate attacks, since each cluster/individual has a different security profile and t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiFi-Where
WiFi-Where is a tool that facilitates detecting wireless LANs using the 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g WLAN standards. Versions exist for the operating systems iOS and Palm OS. Originally created in June 2004 for the Palm OS by Jonathan Hays of Hazelware Software, the IP for WiFi-Where was licensed to 3Jacks Software in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterocarpus%20pedatus
Pterocarpus pedatus is a taxonomic synonym of Pterocarpus macrocarpus that may refer to: Pterocarpus pedatus Pterocarpus pedatus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhereverTV
WhereverTV is an Over the Top (OTT) internet television platform provider located in Fort Myers, Florida. The company delivers linear television programming to SmartTVs, digital media receivers, and tablets via the public Internet. The company has been providing access to free live-streaming TV channels over the inter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut%20allergen%20powder
Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) Allergen Powder, sold under the brand name Palforzia, is an oral medication for the treatment of allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, in children typically aged between four and 17 years of age who have confirmed cases of peanut allergy. It is taken by mouth. Peanut allergen powder is a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally%20hyperbolic%20manifold
In mathematical physics, global hyperbolicity is a certain condition on the causal structure of a spacetime manifold (that is, a Lorentzian manifold). It is called hyperbolic in analogy with the linear theory of wave propagation, where the future state of a system is specified by initial conditions. (In turn, the lea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitold%20Shmulyan
Vitold Lvovich Shmulyan (, 29 August 1914 – 27 August 1944) was a Soviet mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. The Eberlein–Šmulian theorem and Krein–Smulian theorem are named after him. Notes Functional analysts Soviet mathematicians 1914 births 1944 deaths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krohn%E2%80%93Rhodes%20theory
In mathematics and computer science, the Krohn–Rhodes theory (or algebraic automata theory) is an approach to the study of finite semigroups and automata that seeks to decompose them in terms of elementary components. These components correspond to finite aperiodic semigroups and finite simple groups that are combined ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth%20predicate
In formal theories of truth, a truth predicate is a fundamental concept based on the sentences of a formal language as interpreted logically. That is, it formalizes the concept that is normally expressed by saying that a sentence, statement or idea "is true." Languages which allow a truth predicate Based on "Chomsky ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szeg%C5%91%20polynomial
In mathematics, a Szegő polynomial is one of a family of orthogonal polynomials for the Hermitian inner product where dμ is a given positive measure on [−π, π]. Writing for the polynomials, they obey a recurrence relation where is a parameter, called the reflection coefficient or the Szegő parameter. See also Ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Quinn
Jennifer J. Quinn is an American mathematician specializing in combinatorics, and professor of mathematics at the University of Washington Tacoma. She sits on the board of governors of the Mathematical Association of America, and is serving as its president for the years 2021 and 2022. From 2004 to 2008 she was co-edi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20issue-tracking%20systems
Notable issue tracking systems, including bug tracking systems, help desk and service desk issue tracking systems, as well as asset management systems, include the following. The comparison includes client-server application, distributed and hosted systems. General Systems listed on a light purple background are no ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyoD
MyoD, also known as myoblast determination protein 1, is a protein in animals that plays a major role in regulating muscle differentiation. MyoD, which was discovered in the laboratory of Harold M. Weintraub, belongs to a family of proteins known as myogenic regulatory factors (MRFs). These bHLH (basic helix loop helix...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20Theorem%20Proving%20%28conference%29
Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP) is an annual international academic conference on the topic of automated theorem proving, proof assistants and related topics, ranging from theoretical foundations to implementation aspects and applications in program verification, security, and formalization of mathematics. ITP bring...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec.%202100
ITU-R Recommendation BT.2100, more commonly known by the abbreviations Rec. 2100 or BT.2100, introduced high-dynamic-range television (HDR-TV) by recommending the use of the perceptual quantizer (PQ) or hybrid log–gamma (HLG) transfer functions instead of the traditional "gamma" previously used for SDR-TV. It defines...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSBI%20Medal
The FSBI Medal is an international fish biology and/or fisheries science prize awarded annually for exceptional advances by a scientist in the earlier stages of his or her career. Medallists have made a significant contribution to the field of fish biology through their achievements in scientific research. The medal is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental%20environment
The mental environment refers to the sum of all societal influences upon mental health. The term is often used in a context critical of the mental environment in industrialized societies. It is argued that just as industrial societies produce physical toxins and pollutants which harm humans physical health, they also ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiofuel
Microbiofuels are biofuels produced by microorganisms like bacteria, cyanobacteria, microalgae, fungi, etc. The term was first defined by Asen Nenov at TEDxBG event on 9 January, 2010. Microbiofuels use biotechnologies for biofuel production; Microbiofuels technology implements production methods based microbiorefin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum%20Pharmaceuticals
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals is an American biopharmaceutical company located in Boston, MA. It develops and markets drugs for treatments in hematology and oncology. After a deal valued at $248 million was announced in April 2023, Assertio Holdings announced that it had completed its acquisition of the Massachusetts-based...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, the idea of descent extends the intuitive idea of 'gluing' in topology. Since the topologists' glue is the use of equivalence relations on topological spaces, the theory starts with some ideas on identification. Descent of vector bundles The case of the construction of vector bundles from data on a di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/48th%20meridian%20east
The meridian 48° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Madagascar, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 48th meridian east forms a great circle with the 132nd meridian west. From Pole to Pole Star...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoscolex
Myoscolex is an early animal species known from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale in South Australia. It was interpreted as an annelid and some supports that theory, while it was also considered as an arthropod close to Opabinia, through other studies questions that interpretation. Myoscolex is the earliest known example of p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pall%20%28heraldry%29
A pall (or pairle) in heraldry and vexillology is a Y-shaped charge, normally having its arms in the three corners of the shield. An example of a pall placed horizontally (fesswise) is the green portion of the South African national flag. A pall that stops short of the shield's edges and that has pointed ends to its t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat%20Mata
Bhārat Mātā (Mother India in English) is a national personification of India (Bharat) as a mother goddess. In the visual arts she is commonly depicted dressed in a red or saffron-coloured sari and holding a national flag; she sometimes stands on a lotus and is accompanied by a lion. Although the mother and motherlan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20the%20Physical%20Society%20of%20Japan
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (JPSJ) is a monthly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal published by the Physical Society of Japan (JPS). It was first published in July 1946 (volume 1). The editor-in-chief was A. Kawabata until August 2010. The impact factor for JPSJ in 2017 is 1.485, according to Journal Cit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/146%20%28number%29
146 (one hundred [and] forty-six) is the natural number following 145 and preceding 147. In mathematics 146 is an octahedral number, the number of spheres that can be packed into in a regular octahedron with six spheres along each edge. For an octahedron with seven spheres along each edge, the number of spheres on the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneser%27s%20theorem%20%28combinatorics%29
In the branch of mathematics known as additive combinatorics, Kneser's theorem can refer to one of several related theorems regarding the sizes of certain sumsets in abelian groups. These are named after Martin Kneser, who published them in 1953 and 1956. They may be regarded as extensions of the Cauchy–Davenport theor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindly%20growth
Spindly growth, also known as leggy growth, is a term used when two plants compete for sunlight and nutrients in order to develop. Causes Spindly growth occurs when one plant receives a great amount of sunlight, while the other would develop as a deformed one, due to lack of sunlight and other natural resources needed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITPR1
Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor type 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ITPR1 gene. Interactions ITPR1 has been shown to interact with: AHCYL1, CA8, EPB41L1 FKBP1A, MRVI1, PRKG1, RHOA, and TRPC4. Caspr2, See also Inositol triphosphate Inositol triphosphate receptor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s%20Sulem
Agnès Sulem (born 1959) is a French applied mathematician whose research topics include stochastic control, jump diffusion, and mathematical finance. Education Sulem earned a Ph.D. in 1983 at Paris Dauphine University, with the dissertation Résolution explicite d'Inéquations Quasi-Variationnelles associées à des pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIP%20%28software%29
SIP is an open source software tool used to connect computer programs or libraries written in C or C++ with the scripting language Python. It is an alternative to SWIG. SIP was originally developed in 1998 for PyQt — the Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit — but is suitable for generating bindings for any C or C++ ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-7100LC
The PA-7100LC is a microprocessor that implements the PA-RISC 1.1 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Hewlett-Packard (HP). It is also known as the PCX-L, and by its code-name, Hummingbird. It was designed as a low-cost microprocessor for low-end systems. The first systems to feature the PA-7100LC were intr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational%20invariance
In mathematics, a function defined on an inner product space is said to have rotational invariance if its value does not change when arbitrary rotations are applied to its argument. Mathematics Functions For example, the function is invariant under rotations of the plane around the origin, because for a rotated se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuronal%20tuning
Neuronal tuning refers to the hypothesized property of brain cells by which they selectively represent a particular type of sensory, association, motor, or cognitive information. Some neuronal responses have been hypothesized to be optimally tuned to specific patterns through experience. Neuronal tuning can be strong a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanovid%20microscopy
Nanovid microscopy, from "nanometer video-enhanced microscopy", is a microscopic technique aimed at visualizing colloidal gold particles of 20–40 nm diameter (nanogold, immunogold) as dynamic markers at the light-microscopic level. The nanogold particles as such are smaller than the diffraction limit of light, but can ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning%20tree
In the mathematical field of graph theory, a spanning tree T of an undirected graph G is a subgraph that is a tree which includes all of the vertices of G. In general, a graph may have several spanning trees, but a graph that is not connected will not contain a spanning tree (see about spanning forests below). If all o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are primarily held by men. It is used, both as a technical anthropological term for families or clans controlled by the father or eldest male or group of males and in feminist theory where it is used to describe broad social structures in which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoCyc
In bioinformatics EcoCyc is a biological database for the bacterium Escherichia coli K-12. The EcoCyc project performs literature-based curation of the E. coli genome, and of E. coli transcriptional regulation, transporters, and metabolic pathways. EcoCyc contains written summaries of E. coli genes, distilled from over...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20vibration%20control
Active vibration control is the active application of force in an equal and opposite fashion to the forces imposed by external vibration. With this application, a precision industrial process can be maintained on a platform essentially vibration-free. Many precision industrial processes cannot take place if the machi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Data%20Driven%20Applications%20Systems
Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS) is a new paradigm whereby the computation and instrumentation aspects of an application system are dynamically integrated in a feed-back control loop, in the sense that instrumentation data can be dynamically incorporated into the executing model of the application, and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BsuBI/PstI%20restriction%20endonuclease
In molecular biology, the BsuBI/PstI restriction endonuclease family is a family of type II restriction endonucleases. It includes BsuBI and PstI. The enzymes of the BsuBI restriction/modification (R/M) system recognise the target sequence 5'CTGCAG and are functionally identical with those of the PstI R/M system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustnet
Dustnet (stylized as DUSTNET) is a 2019 asymmetrical, action, sandbox video game developed by Canadian studio SCRNPRNT. The game explores the theme of "dying" or disappearing multiplayer video games and their player bases, with the gameplay being set around a copy of the Dust II multiplayer map, originally created for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20nanoball%20sequencing
DNA nanoball sequencing is a high throughput sequencing technology that is used to determine the entire genomic sequence of an organism. The method uses rolling circle replication to amplify small fragments of genomic DNA into DNA nanoballs. Fluorescent nucleotides bind to complementary nucleotides and are then polym...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20M.%20Durbin
Richard Michael Durbin (born 1960) is a British computational biologist and Al-Kindi Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. He also serves as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Sanger Institute where he was previously a senior group leader. Education Durbin was educated at The Hall School, Ham...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiopure%20drug
An enantiopure drug is a pharmaceutical that is available in one specific enantiomeric form. Most biological molecules (proteins, sugars, etc.) are present in only one of many chiral forms, so different enantiomers of a chiral drug molecule bind differently (or not at all) to target receptors. Chirality can be observed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen-door%20effect
The screen-door effect (SDE) is a visual artifact of displays, where the fine lines separating pixels (or subpixels) become visible in the displayed image. This can be seen in digital projector images and regular displays under magnification or at close range, but the increases in display resolutions have made this muc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pafnuty%20Chebyshev
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev () ( – ) was a Russian mathematician and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics. Chebyshev is known for his fundamental contributions to the fields of probability, statistics, mechanics, and number theory. A number of important mathematical concepts are named after him, i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-351%20microRNA%20precursor%20family
In molecular biology mir-351 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms. See also MicroRNA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59%20%28number%29
59 (fifty-nine) is the natural number following 58 and preceding 60. In mathematics Fifty-nine is the 17th prime number. The next is sixty-one, with which it comprises a twin prime. 59 is an irregular prime, a safe prime and the 14th supersingular prime. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Credit
Sound Credit is a music credits platform with computer software applications for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. It includes the Sound Credit Publisher cross-platform desktop application, the Tracker cross-platform digital audio workstation (DAW) plug-in, physical kiosks, smart card check-in system, and online datab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange%20to%20exchange
Exchange to exchange (sometimes Exchange-to-exchange, abbreviated E2E) is integration, between certain pairs of computer systems. To qualify as E2E, each of the paired systems must have a primary use of acting as an exchange, or gateway, among its own customers. A common example is a connection between stock brokerage...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxospore
In certain species of diatoms, auxospores are specialised cells that are produced at key stages in their cell cycle or life history. Auxospores typically play a role in growth processes, sexual reproduction or dormancy. Auxospores are involved in re-establishing the normal size in diatoms, as successive mitotic cell ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Map%20at%20Lake%20Klejtrup
The World Map at Lake Klejtrup () is a miniature world map built of stones and grass in Klejtrup Sø near the village of Klejtrup, Viborg Municipality, Denmark. History In 1943, Søren Poulsen, a local farmer, was working on the drainage of the surrounding meadows when he found a stone shaped like the Jutland peninsula...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo%E2%80%93Dember%20effect
In semiconductor physics, the photo–Dember effect (named after its discoverer Harry Dember) is the formation of a charge dipole in the vicinity of a semiconductor surface after ultra-fast photo-generation of charge carriers. The dipole forms owing to the difference of mobilities (or diffusion constants) for holes and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-agent%20reinforcement%20learning
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is a sub-field of reinforcement learning. It focuses on studying the behavior of multiple learning agents that coexist in a shared environment. Each agent is motivated by its own rewards, and does actions to advance its own interests; in some environments these interests are op...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2010
In molecular biology, Glycoside hydrolase family 10 is a family of glycoside hydrolases. Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby%20Yingliang
Baby Yingliang (YLSNHM01266) is a remarkably intact dinosaur embryo discovered in Ganzhou, southern China. It is estimated to be 72 to 66 million years old. The embryo is considered to be a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur. Researcher Dr. Fion Waisum Ma said, "It was the best dinosaur embryo found in hist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Intelligent%20Network
Wireless Intelligent Network (also referred to as a WIN) is a concept developed by the TR-45 Mobile and Personal Communications Systems Standards engineering committee of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). Its objective is to transport the resources of the Intelligent Network to the wireless network, ut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK3
SK3 (small conductance calcium-activated potassium channel 3) also known as KCa2.3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNN3 gene. SK3 is a small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channel partly responsible for the calcium-dependent after hyperpolarisation current (IAHP). It belongs to a family of chan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtome
A microtome (from the Greek mikros, meaning "small", and temnein, meaning "to cut") is a cutting tool used to produce extremely thin slices of material known as sections, with the process being termed microsectioning. Important in science, microtomes are used in microscopy for the preparation of samples for observation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, a number of concepts employ the word harmonic. The similarity of this terminology to that of music is not accidental: the equations of motion of vibrating strings, drums and columns of air are given by formulas involving Laplacians; the solutions to which are given by eigenvalues corresponding to their ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trix%20%28dinosaur%29
Trix is a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen excavated in 2013 in Montana, United States by a team of paleontologists from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands and Black Hills institute of Geological Research in South Dakota. This Tyrannosaurus, over thirty years old the oldest known Tyrannosaurus spec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon%20isotope%20geochemistry
Xenon isotope geochemistry uses the abundance of xenon (Xe) isotopes and total xenon to investigate how Xe has been generated, transported, fractionated, and distributed in planetary systems. Xe has nine stable or very long-lived isotopes. Radiogenic 129Xe and fissiogenic 131,132,134,136Xe isotopes are of special inter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanolamination
Nanolamination is the production of materials that are fully dense, ultra-fine grained solids that exhibit a high concentration of interface defects. The properties of fabricated nanolaminates depend on their compositions and thicknesses. Production Nanolaminates can be grown using atom-by-atom deposition techniques...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shredding%20%28tree-pruning%20technique%29
Shredding is a traditional European method of tree pruning by which all side branches are removed repeatedly leaving the main trunk and top growth. In the Middle Ages the practice was common throughout Europe, but it is now rare, found mainly in central and Eastern Europe. The purpose of shredding is to allow harvest ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20IntelliStation
The IntelliStation is a family of workstations developed by IBM and first released in March 1997 as the follow-on to the PC Series 360 and 365. Certain IntelliStation M Pro Series were near hardware identical to low end IBM Netfinity 1000 Series network servers (with variants in included video cards and SCSI options). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolithic%20application
In software engineering, a monolithic application is a single unified software application which is self-contained and independent from other applications, but typically lacks flexibility. There are advantages and disadvantages of building applications in a monolithic style of software architecture, depending on requir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride
Fluoride () is an inorganic, monatomic anion of fluorine, with the chemical formula (also written ), whose salts are typically white or colorless. Fluoride salts typically have distinctive bitter tastes, and are odorless. Its salts and minerals are important chemical reagents and industrial chemicals, mainly used in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20group
In mathematics, a rod group is a three-dimensional line group whose point group is one of the axial crystallographic point groups. This constraint means that the point group must be the symmetry of some three-dimensional lattice. Table of the 75 rod groups, organized by crystal system or lattice type, and by their poi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-random%20two-liquid%20model
The non-random two-liquid model (abbreviated NRTL model) is an activity coefficient model that correlates the activity coefficients of a compound with its mole fractions in the liquid phase concerned. It is frequently applied in the field of chemical engineering to calculate phase equilibria. The concept of NRTL is b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglomerated%20food%20powder
Agglomerated food powder is a unit operation during which native particles are assembled to form bigger agglomerates, in which the original particle can still be distinguished. Agglomeration can be achieved through processes that use liquid as a binder (wet methods) or methods that do not involve any binder (dry method...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode%20reader
A barcode reader or barcode scanner is an optical scanner that can read printed barcodes, decode the data contained in the barcode to a computer. Like a flatbed scanner, it consists of a light source, a lens and a light sensor for translating optical impulses into electrical signals. Additionally, nearly all barcode re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladostephus
Cladostephus is a genus of marine brown alga.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20multiplicative%20inverse
In mathematics, particularly in the area of arithmetic, a modular multiplicative inverse of an integer is an integer such that the product is congruent to 1 with respect to the modulus . In the standard notation of modular arithmetic this congruence is written as which is the shorthand way of writing the statement ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean-valued%20function
A Boolean-valued function (sometimes called a predicate or a proposition) is a function of the type f : X → B, where X is an arbitrary set and where B is a Boolean domain, i.e. a generic two-element set, (for example B = {0, 1}), whose elements are interpreted as logical values, for example, 0 = false and 1 = true, i.e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFTR%20inhibitory%20factor
The CFTR inhibitory factor (Cif) is a protein virulence factor secreted by the Gram-negative bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter nosocomialis. Discovered at Dartmouth Medical School, Cif is able to alter the trafficking of select ABC transporters in eukaryotic epithelial cells, such as the cystic fibrosi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voddler
Voddler was a Stockholm, Sweden-based provider of a video-on-demand (VOD) platform and a streaming technology for over-the-top (OTT) streaming on the public Internet. In Scandinavia, Voddler was primarily known for the commercial VOD-service Voddler, which was launched in 2009. As a company, Voddler was founded in 2005...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node%20%28physics%29
A node is a point along a standing wave where the wave has minimum amplitude. For instance, in a vibrating guitar string, the ends of the string are nodes. By changing the position of the end node through frets, the guitarist changes the effective length of the vibrating string and thereby the note played. The opposi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union-closed%20sets%20conjecture
The union-closed sets conjecture, also known as Frankl’s conjecture, is an open problem in combinatorics posed by Péter Frankl in 1979. A family of sets is said to be union-closed if the union of any two sets from the family belongs to the family. The conjecture states: For every finite union-closed family of sets, ot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suslin%20cardinal
In mathematics, a cardinal λ < Θ is a Suslin cardinal if there exists a set P ⊂ 2ω such that P is λ-Suslin but P is not λ'-Suslin for any λ' < λ. It is named after the Russian mathematician Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin (1894–1919). See also Suslin representation Suslin line AD+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-ended%20primary-inductor%20converter
The single-ended primary-inductor converter (SEPIC) is a type of DC/DC converter that allows the electrical potential (voltage) at its output to be greater than, less than, or equal to that at its input. The output of the SEPIC is controlled by the duty cycle of the control switch (S1). A SEPIC is essentially a boost ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20task%20scheduling
Parallel task scheduling (also called parallel job scheduling or parallel processing scheduling) is an optimization problem in computer science and operations research. It is a variant of optimal job scheduling. In a general job scheduling problem, we are given n jobs J1, J2, ..., Jn of varying processing times, which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILIOS
ILIOS is an acronym of InterLink Internet Operating System. It is an attempt to create a router-only operating system; one specifically oriented towards computer networking purposes, especially routing. It supports IPv4 routing and is a good educational OS, though it is single tasking and does everything via interrupts...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RARA%20Gene
The RARA gene, also known as NR1B1, is a protein coding gene located on chromosome 17 that provides the instructions required to make transcription factor Retinoic Acid Receptor Alpha (or RARα). Interactions and roles The RARα protein interacts with Vitamin A-derived retinoic acid to control the transcription of genes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitNesse
FitNesse is a web server, a wiki and an automated testing tool for software. It is based on Ward Cunningham's Framework for Integrated Test and is designed to support acceptance testing rather than unit testing in that it facilitates detailed readable description of system function. FitNesse allows users of a develope...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%E2%80%91banding
R-banding is a cytogenetics technique that produces the reverse of the G-band stain on chromosomes. R-banding is obtained by incubating the slides in hot phosphate buffer, then a subsequent treatment of giemsa dye. Resulting chromosome patterns shows darkly stained R bands, the complement to G-bands. Darkly colored R b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis%20D
Hepatitis D is a type of viral hepatitis caused by the hepatitis delta virus (HDV). HDV is one of five known hepatitis viruses: A, B, C, D, and E. HDV is considered to be a satellite (a type of subviral agent) because it can propagate only in the presence of the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Transmission of HDV can occur ei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble%20motion%20problems
The pebble motion problems, or pebble motion on graphs, are a set of related problems in graph theory dealing with the movement of multiple objects ("pebbles") from vertex to vertex in a graph with a constraint on the number of pebbles that can occupy a vertex at any time. Pebble motion problems occur in domains such a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscation
Obfuscation is the obscuring of the intended meaning of communication by making the message difficult to understand, usually with confusing and ambiguous language. The obfuscation might be either unintentional or intentional (although intent usually is connoted), and is accomplished with circumlocution (talking around ...