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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite%20Dan | Dynamite Dan is a platform game written by Rod Bowkett for the ZX Spectrum and published by Mirrorsoft in 1985. It was ported to the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and MSX.
A sequel, Dynamite Dan II, was released the following year.
Gameplay
The game starts where Dan lands his airship on the top of the evil Dr Blitzen's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosynthesis | Thermosynthesis is a theoretical mechanism proposed by Anthonie Muller for biological use of the free energy in a temperature gradient to drive energetically uphill anabolic reactions. It makes use of this thermal gradient, or the dissipative structure of convection in this gradient, to drive a microscopic heat engine ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20glucan | α-Glucans (alpha-glucans) are polysaccharides of D-glucose monomers
linked with glycosidic bonds of the alpha form. α-Glucans use cofactors in a cofactor site in order to activate a glucan phosphorylase enzyme. This enzyme causes a reaction that transfers a glucosyl portion between orthophosphate and α-I,4-glucan. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioimage%20informatics | Bioimage informatics is a subfield of bioinformatics and computational biology. It focuses on the use of computational techniques to analyze bioimages, especially cellular and molecular images, at large scale and high throughput. The goal is to obtain useful knowledge out of complicated and heterogeneous image and rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20Data%20Format | The Trusted Data Format (TDF) is a data object encoding specification for the purposes of enabling data tagging and cryptographic security features. These features include assertion of data properties or tags, cryptographic binding and data encryption. The TDF is freely available with no restrictions and requires no ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOTS%20%28personality%20psychology%29 | LOTS is an acronym, suggested by Cattell in 1957 and later elaborated by Block, to provide a broad classification of data source for personality psychology assessment. Each data source has its advantage and disadvantage. Research on personality commonly employ different data source so as to represent better the pattern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending%20colon | In the anatomy of humans and homologous primates, the ascending colon is the part of the colon located between the cecum and the transverse colon.
Characteristics and structure
The ascending colon is smaller in calibre than the cecum from where it starts. It passes upward, opposite the colic valve, to the under surfac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20flash%20crash | The May 6, 2010, flash crash, also known as the crash of 2:45 or simply the flash crash, was a United States trillion-dollar flash crash (a type of stock market crash) which started at 2:32 p.m. EDT and lasted for approximately 36 minutes.
Overview
Stock indices, such as the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispose%20pattern | In object-oriented programming, the dispose pattern is a design pattern for resource management. In this pattern, a resource is held by an object, and released by calling a conventional method – usually called close, dispose, free, release depending on the language – which releases any resources the object is holding o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrasodium%20EDTA | Tetrasodium EDTA is the salt resulting from the neutralization of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid with four equivalents of sodium hydroxide (or an equivalent sodium base). It is a white solid that is highly soluble in water. Commercial samples are often hydrated, e.g. Na4EDTA.4H2O. The properties of solutions produc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm%20%28artificial%20intelligence%29 | Norms can be considered from different perspectives in artificial intelligence to create computers and computer software that are capable of intelligent behaviour.
In artificial intelligence and law, legal norms are considered in computational tools to automatically reason upon them. In multi-agent systems (MAS), a br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20machine%20vision | The following are common definitions related to the machine vision field.
General related fields
Machine vision
Computer vision
Image processing
Signal processing
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1394. FireWire is Apple Inc.'s brand name for the IEEE 1394 interface. It is also known as i.Link (Sony's name) or IEEE 1394 (although the 1394 st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64 | IA-64 (Intel Itanium architecture) is the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the discontinued Itanium family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors. The basic ISA specification originated at Hewlett-Packard (HP), and was subsequently implemented by Intel in collaboration with HP. The first Itanium processor, codenamed Merc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFU-Baso | CFU-Baso is a colony forming unit. that gives rise to basophils. Some sources use the term "CFU-Bas". |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserved%20quantity | A conserved quantity is a property or value that remains constant over time in a system even when changes occur in the system. In mathematics, a conserved quantity of a dynamical system is formally defined as a function of the dependent variables, the value of which remains constant along each trajectory of the system.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest%20box | A nest box, also spelled nestbox, is a man-made enclosure provided for animals to nest in. Nest boxes are most frequently utilized for birds, in which case they are also called birdhouses or a birdbox/bird box, but some mammals such as bats may also use them. Placing nestboxes or roosting boxes may also be used to hel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Price%20Memorial%20Lecture | The Bernard Price Memorial Lecture is the premier annual lecture of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers. It is of general scientific or engineering interest and is given by an invited guest, often from overseas, at several of the major centres on South Africa. The main lecture and accompanying dinner ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20defense | Food defense is the protection of food products from intentional contamination or adulteration by biological, chemical, physical, or radiological agents introduced for the purpose of causing harm. It addresses additional concerns including physical, personnel and operational security.
Food defense is one of the four ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pexels | Pexels is a provider of stock photography and stock footage. It was founded in Germany in 2014 and maintains a library with over 3.2 million free stock photos and videos.
History
Pexels was founded by twin brothers Ingo and Bruno Joseph in Fuldabrück, Hesse. The brothers started the platform in 2014 with around 800 p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Lab | The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (also called the Quantum AI Lab or QuAIL) is a joint initiative of NASA, Universities Space Research Association, and Google (specifically, Google Research) whose goal is to pioneer research on how quantum computing might help with machine learning and other difficult computer sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20evolutionary%20biology%20articles | This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology.
A
abiogenesis – adaptation – adaptive mutation – adaptive radiation – allele – allele frequency – allochronic speciation – allopatric speciation – altruism – : anagenesis – anti-predator adaptation – applications of evolution – aposematism – Archaeopteryx – aquatic ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sauces | The following is a list of notable culinary and prepared sauces used in cooking and food service.
General
(salsa roja)
– a velouté sauce flavored with tomato
– prepared using mushrooms and lemon
Prepared sauces
By type
Brown sauces
include:
Butter sauc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%207040 | The IBM 7040 was a historic but short-lived model of transistor computer built in the 1960s.
History
It was announced by IBM in December 1961, but did not ship until April 1963. A later member of the IBM 700/7000 series of scientific computers, it was a scaled-down version of the IBM 7090. It was not fully compatible ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flutemetamol%20%2818F%29 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Flutemetamol (18F)}}
Flutemetamol (18F) (trade name Vizamyl, by GE Healthcare) is a PET scanning radiopharmaceutical containing the radionuclide fluorine-18, used as a diagnostic tool for Alzheimer's disease.
Adverse effects
Adverse effects of flutemetamol include headache, nausea, dizziness, flushing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptol | Scriptol is an object-oriented programming language that allows users to declare an XML document as a class. The language is universal and allows users to create dynamic web pages, as well as create scripts and binary applications. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20lexicology | Computational lexicology is a branch of computational linguistics, which is concerned with the use of computers in the study of lexicon. It has been more narrowly described by some scholars (Amsler, 1980) as the use of computers in the study of machine-readable dictionaries. It is distinguished from computational lexic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression%20Atlas | The Expression Atlas is a database maintained by the European Bioinformatics Institute that provides information on gene expression patterns from RNA-Seq and Microarray studies, and protein expression from Proteomics studies. The Expression Atlas allows searches by gene, splice variant, protein attribute, disease, tre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrant%20superconductivity | In physics, reentrant superconductivity is an effect observed in systems that lie close to the boundary between ferromagnetic and superconducting. By its very nature (normal) superconductivity (condensation of electrons into the BCS ground state) cannot exist together with ferromagnetism (condensation of electrons into... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20angle | Visual angle is the angle a viewed object subtends at the eye, usually stated in degrees of arc.
It also is called the object's angular size.
The diagram on the right shows an observer's eye looking at a frontal extent (the vertical arrow) that has a linear size , located in the distance from point .
For present p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCF%20theory | PCF theory is the name of a mathematical theory, introduced by Saharon , that deals with the cofinality of the ultraproducts of ordered sets. It gives strong upper bounds on the cardinalities of power sets of singular cardinals, and has many more applications as well. The abbreviation "PCF" stands for "possible cofinal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20of%20sets | In mathematics, there are two different notions of a ring of sets, both referring to certain families of sets.
In order theory, a nonempty family of sets is called a ring (of sets) if it is closed under union and intersection. That is, the following two statements are true for all sets and ,
implies and
implies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent%20Vinod%20%281977%20film%29 | Agent Vinod is a 1977 Indian Hindi-language action spy film directed by Deepak Bahry. The film stars Mahendra Sandhu as a dashing Indian secret agent and Jagdeep as a comic side-kick. This movie turned out to be a surprise hit. Its title was reused in the 2012 Hindi film of the same name, however, it is not a remake.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20version%20control | In software development, distributed version control (also known as distributed revision control) is a form of version control in which the complete codebase, including its full history, is mirrored on every developer's computer. Compared to centralized version control, this enables automatic management branching and m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLACIER%20%28refrigerator%29 | GLACIER (General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator) was designed and developed by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering (CBSE) for NASA Cold Stowage. Glacier was originally designed for use on board the Space Shuttle, but is now used for storing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothing%20spline | Smoothing splines are function estimates, , obtained from a set of noisy observations of the target , in order to balance a measure of goodness of fit of to with a derivative based measure of the smoothness of . They provide a means for smoothing noisy data. The most familiar example is the cubic smoothing spline, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levashovism | Levashovism is a doctrine and healing system of Rodnovery (Slavic neopaganism) that emerged in Russia, formulated by the physics theorist, occultist and psychic healer Nikolay Viktorovich Levashov (1961–2012), one of the most prominent leaders of Slavic Neopaganism after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The movement w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential%20pattern%20mining | Sequential pattern mining is a topic of data mining concerned with finding statistically relevant patterns between data examples where the values are delivered in a sequence. It is usually presumed that the values are discrete, and thus time series mining is closely related, but usually considered a different activity.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure%20reference%20system | Pressure reference system (PRS) is an enhancement of the inertial reference system and attitude and heading reference system designed to provide position angles measurements which are stable in time and do not suffer from long term drift caused by the sensor imperfections. The measurement system uses behavior of the In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl%20dicarbonate | Dimethyl dicarbonate (DMDC) is a colorless liquid and a pungent odor at high concentration at room temperature. It is primarily used as a beverage preservative, processing aid, or sterilant (INS No. 242) being highly active against typical beverage spoiling microorganisms like yeast, bacteria, or mould.
Usage
Dimethy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanophilia | Mechanophilia (or mechaphilia) is a paraphilia involving a sexual attraction to machines such as bicycles, cars, helicopters, and airplanes.
Mechanophilia is treated as a crime in some nations with perpetrators being placed on a sex-offenders' register after prosecution. Motorcycles are often portrayed as sexualized f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheophile | A rheophile is an animal that prefers to live in fast-moving water.
Examples of rheophilic animals
Insects
Many aquatic insects living in riffles require current to survive.
Epeorus sylvicola, a rheophilic mayfly species (Ephemeroptera)
Some African (Elattoneura) and Asian threadtail (Prodasineura) species
Birds
Di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributive%20polytope | In the geometry of convex polytopes, a distributive polytope is a convex polytope for which coordinatewise minima and maxima of pairs of points remain within the polytope. For example, this property is true of the unit cube, so the unit cube is a distributive polytope. It is called a distributive polytope because the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-trivial%20set | In mathematics, a set of natural numbers is called a K-trivial set if its initial segments viewed as binary strings are easy to describe: the prefix-free Kolmogorov complexity is as low as possible, close to that of a computable set. Solovay proved in 1975 that a set can be K-trivial without being computable.
The Schn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire | 1-Wire is a wired half duplex serial bus designed by Dallas Semiconductor that provides low-speed (16.3 kbit/s) data communication and supply voltage over a single conductor.
1-Wire is similar in concept to I²C, but with lower data rates and longer range. It is typically used to communicate with small inexpensive devi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutta%E2%80%93Joukowski%20theorem | The Kutta–Joukowski theorem is a fundamental theorem in aerodynamics used for the calculation of lift of an airfoil (and any two-dimensional body including circular cylinders) translating in a uniform fluid at a constant speed large enough so that the flow seen in the body-fixed frame is steady and unseparated. The th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream%20metabolism | Stream metabolism, often referred to as aquatic ecosystem metabolism in both freshwater (lakes, rivers, wetlands, streams, reservoirs) and marine ecosystems, includes gross primary productivity (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (ER) and can be expressed as net ecosystem production (NEP = GPP - ER). Analogous to metaboli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20radioisotope | A synthetic radioisotope is a radionuclide that is not found in nature: no natural process or mechanism exists which produces it, or it is so unstable that it decays away in a very short period of time. Examples include technetium-95 and promethium-146. Many of these are found in, and harvested from, spent nuclear fuel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state%20electronics | Solid-state electronics are semiconductor electronics: electronic equipment that use semiconductor devices such as transistors, diodes and integrated circuits (ICs). The term is also used as an adjective for devices in which semiconductor electronics that have no moving parts replace devices with moving parts, such as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderne%20Algebra | Moderne Algebra is a two-volume German textbook on graduate abstract algebra by , originally based on lectures given by Emil Artin in 1926 and by from 1924 to 1928. The English translation of 1949–1950 had the title Modern algebra, though a later, extensively revised edition in 1970 had the title Algebra.
The book wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ojasiewicz%20inequality | In real algebraic geometry, the Łojasiewicz inequality, named after Stanisław Łojasiewicz, gives an upper bound for the distance of a point to the nearest zero of a given real analytic function. Specifically, let ƒ : U → R be a real analytic function on an open set U in Rn, and let Z be the zero locus of ƒ. Assume th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage%20r1t%20holin%20family | The Lactococcus lactis Phage r1t Holin (r1t Holin) Family (TC# 1.E.18) is a family of putative pore-forming proteins that typically range in size between about 65 and 95 amino acyl residues (aas) in length, although a few r1t holins have been found to be significantly larger (i.e., 168 aa, 4 TMS, uncharacterized holin ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Tsingou | Mary Tsingou (married name: Mary Tsingou-Menzel; born October 14, 1928) is an American physicist and mathematician of Greek descent. She was one of the first programmers on the MANIAC computer at Los Alamos National Laboratory and is best known for having coded the celebrated computer experiment with Enrico Fermi, John... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction%20design%20pattern | Interaction design patterns are design patterns applied in the context human-computer interaction, describing common designs for graphical user interfaces.
A design pattern is a formal way of documenting a solution to a common design problem. The idea was introduced by the architect Christopher Alexander for use in u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzybiotics | Enzybiotics are an experimental antibacterial therapy first described by Nelson, Loomis, and Fischetti. The term is derived from a combination of the words “enzyme” and “antibiotics.” Enzymes have been extensively utilized for their antibacterial and antimicrobial properties. Proteolytic enzymes called endolysins have ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofqual%20exam%20results%20algorithm | In 2020, Ofqual, the regulator of qualifications, exams and tests in England, produced a grades standardisation algorithm to combat grade inflation and moderate the teacher-predicted grades for A level and GCSE qualifications in that year, after examinations were cancelled as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic%20inverse%20Q%20filtering | Seismic inverse Q filtering is a data processing technology for enhancing the resolution of reflection seismology images. Q is the anelastic attenuation factor or the seismic quality factor, a measure of the energy loss as the seismic wave moves.
Basics
Seismic inverse Q-filtering employs a wave propagation reversal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navassa%20curly-tailed%20lizard | The Navassa curly-tailed lizard or Navassa curlytail lizard (Leiocephalus eremitus) is an extinct lizard species from the family of curly-tailed lizard (Leiocephalidae). It is known only from the holotype, a female specimen from which it was described in 1868. A possible second specimen which was collected by Rollo Bec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue%27s%20decomposition%20theorem | In mathematics, more precisely in measure theory, Lebesgue's decomposition theorem states that for every two σ-finite signed measures and on a measurable space there exist two σ-finite signed measures and such that:
(that is, is absolutely continuous with respect to )
(that is, and are singular).
These... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20microorganisms | Marine microorganisms are defined by their habitat as microorganisms living in a marine environment, that is, in the saltwater of a sea or ocean or the brackish water of a coastal estuary. A microorganism (or microbe) is any microscopic living organism or virus, that is too small to see with the unaided human eye witho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatotropin%20family | The Somatotropin family is a protein family whose titular representative is somatotropin, also known as growth hormone, a hormone that plays an important role in growth control. Other members include choriomammotropin (lactogen), its placental analogue; prolactin, which promotes lactation in the mammary gland, and plac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%20formula%20for%20determinants | In algebra, the Leibniz formula, named in honor of Gottfried Leibniz, expresses the determinant of a square matrix in terms of permutations of the matrix elements. If is an matrix, where is the entry in the -th row and -th column of , the formula is
where is the sign function of permutations in the permutation gro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes%20Medal | The Hughes Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "in recognition of an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications". Named after David E. Hughes, the medal is awarded with a gift of £1000. The medal was first awarded in 1902 to J. J. Thomson "for h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triply%20periodic%20minimal%20surface | In differential geometry, a triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) is a minimal surface in ℝ3 that is invariant under a rank-3 lattice of translations.
These surfaces have the symmetries of a crystallographic group. Numerous examples are known with cubic, tetragonal, rhombohedral, and orthorhombic symmetries. Monoclin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability%20%28algebraic%20geometry%29 | In mathematics, and especially algebraic geometry, stability is a notion which characterises when a geometric object, for example a point, an algebraic variety, a vector bundle, or a sheaf, has some desirable properties for the purpose of classifying them. The exact characterisation of what it means to be stable depend... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato%20effect | The tomato effect occurs when effective therapies for a condition are rejected, usually because they do not make sense in the context of the current understanding or theory of the disease in question. The name refers to the fact that tomatoes were rejected as a food source by most North Americans until the end of the 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36%20%28number%29 | 36 (thirty-six) is the natural number following 35 and preceding 37.
In mathematics
36 is both the square of six, and the eighth triangular number or sum of the first eight non-zero positive integers, which makes 36 the first non-trivial square triangular number. Aside from being the smallest square triangular number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20%28signal%20processing%29 | In signal processing, the energy of a continuous-time signal x(t) is defined as the area under the squared magnitude of the considered signal i.e., mathematically
Unit of will be (unit of signal)2.
And the energy of a discrete-time signal x(n) is defined mathematically as
Relationship to energy in physics
Energ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20machine%20learning | Quantum machine learning is the integration of quantum algorithms within machine learning programs.
The most common use of the term refers to machine learning algorithms for the analysis of classical data executed on a quantum computer, i.e. quantum-enhanced machine learning. While machine learning algorithms are use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tower%20of%20Hanoi%20%E2%80%93%20Myths%20and%20Maths | The Tower of Hanoi – Myths and Maths is a book in recreational mathematics, on the tower of Hanoi, baguenaudier, and related puzzles. It was written by Andreas M. Hinz, Sandi Klavžar, Uroš Milutinović, and Ciril Petr, and published in 2013 by Birkhäuser, with an expanded second edition in 2018. The Basic Library List C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Southwestern%20Entomologists | The Society of Southwestern Entomologists was founded as the Southwestern Entomological Society in 1976 with the objective of fostering entomological accomplishment in the southwestern United States and Mexico. The society's name was changed in 2003 to avoid confusion with the Southwestern Branch of the Entomological S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20corridor%20%28Brazil%29 | An ecological corridor () in Brazil is a collection of natural or semi-natural areas that link protected areas and allow gene flow between them.
Definition
The National System of Conservation Units (SNUC) law recognises ecological corridors as portions of natural or semi-natural ecosystems linking protected areas tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20ecoregion | A marine ecoregion is an ecoregion, or ecological region, of the oceans and seas identified and defined based on biogeographic characteristics.
Introduction
A more complete definition describes them as “Areas of relatively homogeneous species composition, clearly distinct from adjacent systems” dominated by “a small n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire%20bonding | Wire bonding is the method of making interconnections between an integrated circuit (IC) or other semiconductor device and its packaging during semiconductor device fabrication. Although less common, wire bonding can be used to connect an IC to other electronics or to connect from one printed circuit board (PCB) to an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane%20progesterone%20receptor | Membrane progesterone receptors (mPRs) are a group of cell surface receptors and membrane steroid receptors belonging to the progestin and adipoQ receptor (PAQR) family which bind the endogenous progestogen and neurosteroid progesterone, as well as the neurosteroid allopregnanolone. Unlike the progesterone receptor (PR... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Schoolmaster%27s%20Assistant%2C%20Being%20a%20Compendium%20of%20Arithmetic%20Both%20Practical%20and%20Theoretical | The Schoolmaster's Assistant, Being a Compendium of Arithmetic both Practical and Theoretical was an early and popular English arithmetic textbook, written by Thomas Dilworth and first published in England in 1743. An American edition was published in 1769; by 1786 it had reached 23 editions, and through 1800 it was th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting%20spittle | Fasting spittle – saliva produced first thing in the morning, before breakfast – has been used to treat a wide variety of diseases for many hundreds of years. Spittle cures are usually considered to be more effective if fasting spittle is used.
An early recorded use of spittle as a cure comes from the Gospel of St Mar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elements%20of%20Dynamic | Elements of Dynamic is a book published by William Kingdon Clifford in 1878. In 1887 it was supplemented by a fourth part and an appendix. The subtitle is "An introduction to motion and rest in solid and fluid bodies". It was reviewed positively, has remained a standard reference since its appearance, and is now availa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cora%20G.%20Burwell | Cora Gertrude Burwell (June 25, 1883 – June 20, 1982) was an American astronomical researcher specialized in stellar spectroscopy. She was based at Mount Wilson Observatory from 1907 to 1949.
Early life
Cora Gertrude Burwell was born in Massachusetts and raised in Stafford Springs, Connecticut. She graduated from Mou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alienware | Alienware is an American computer hardware subsidiary of Dell. Their product range is dedicated to gaming computers and can be identified by their alien-themed designs. Alienware was founded in 1996 by Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila. The development of the company is also associated with Frank Azor, Arthur Lewis, Joe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20Biology%20and%20Chemistry | Computational Biology and Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering all areas of computational life sciences. The current editor-in-chief are Wentian Li (The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research) and Donald Hamelberg (Georgia State University). The journal was established in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamm%C3%A9%20%28vexillology%29 | Flammé (German geflammt) is a term in vexillology for a flag design that places a coat of arms in the center of the flag, filling the remaining space on the flag with flame-like designs.
The design was used specifically in the Old Swiss Confederacy during the 17th and 18th centuries, where there was no difference betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUBST | In computing, SUBST is a command on the DOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows and ReactOS operating systems used for substituting paths on physical and logical drives as virtual drives.
Overview
In MS-DOS, the SUBST command was added with the release of MS-DOS 3.1. The command is similar to floating drives, a more general ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Water%20Flow%20Model | Integrated Water Flow Model (IWFM) is a computer program for simulating water flow through the integrated land surface, surface water and groundwater flow systems. It is a rewrite of the abandoned software IGSM, which was found to have several programing errors. The IWFM programs and source code are freely available. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerator%20physicist | An accelerator physicist is a scientist who contributes to the field of Accelerator physics, involving the fundamental physical mechanisms underlying beams of charged particles accelerated to high energies and the structures and materials needed to do so. In addition to developing and applying such basic theoretical mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitaOS | DigitaOS was a short lived digital camera operating system created by Flashpoint Technology and used on various Kodak, Pentax, and HP cameras in the late 1990s. DigitaOS debuted with the Kodak DC220 on 20 May 1998, and was released on a total of 11 camera models before it was abandoned in 2001. DigitaOS was notable for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofya%20Raskhodnikova | Sofya Raskhodnikova (born 1976) is a Belarusian and American theoretical computer scientist. She is known for her research in sublinear-time algorithms, information privacy, property testing, and approximation algorithms, and was one of the first to study differentially private analysis of graphs. She is a professor of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia | Ecosia is a search engine based in Berlin, Germany. Ecosia considers itself a social business, claiming to be CO2-negative, supporting full financial transparency, and protecting the privacy of its users.
Ecosia is B Lab certified, meeting its standards of accountability, sustainability, and performance. , the compan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance | In photography, acutance describes a subjective perception of sharpness that is related to the edge contrast of an image. Acutance is related to the amplitude of the derivative of brightness with respect to space. Due to the nature of the human visual system, an image with higher acutance appears sharper even though an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Christmas%20%28song%29 | "White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The song was written by Berlin for the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn. The composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards. Bing Crosby's record topped the Billboard chart for 11 weeks in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs%20Ildefonso%20D%C3%ADaz | Jesús Ildefonso Díaz is a Spanish mathematician who works in partial differential equations. He is a professor at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Díaz was born in Toledo, Spain on December 11, 1950. He graduated in mathematics from UCM in 1973, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured%20meat | Cultured meat, also known as cultivated meat among other names, is a form of cellular agriculture where meat is produced by culturing animal cells in vitro. Cultured meat is produced using tissue engineering techniques pioneered in regenerative medicine. Jason Matheny popularized the concept in the early 2000s after he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issues%20in%20retirement%20security | Issues in retirement security refers to growing economic concerns and societal issues over the ability of individual workers and other individuals in society to have an economically secure retirement.
Main issues appear to arise from the general inability of maintaining the economic life-cycle model, that anticipates ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Silver%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | David Silver (born 1976) is a principal research scientist at Google DeepMind and a professor at University College London. He has led research on reinforcement learning with AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar.
Education
He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1997 with the Addison-Wesley a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20shift%20index | The chemical shift index or CSI is a widely employed technique in protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy that can be used to display and identify the location (i.e. start and end) as well as the type of protein secondary structure (beta strands, helices and random coil regions) found in proteins using only bac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio%20transmitter%20link | A studio transmitter link (or STL) sends a radio station's or television station's audio and video from the broadcast studio or origination facility to a radio transmitter, television transmitter or uplink facility in another location. This is accomplished through the use of terrestrial microwave links or by using fibe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pissalat | Pissalat or pissala is a condiment originating from the Nice region of France. The name comes from peis salat in Niçard and means 'salted fish'. It is made from anchovy puree flavoured with cloves, thyme, bay leaf and black pepper mixed with olive oil. Pissalat is used for flavouring hors d'oeuvres, fish, cold meats a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20image%20filter | A composite image filter is an electronic filter consisting of multiple image filter sections of two or more different types.
The image method of filter design determines the properties of filter sections by calculating the properties they would have in an infinite chain of identical sections. In this, the analysis pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s%20convolution%20inequality | In mathematics, Young's convolution inequality is a mathematical inequality about the convolution of two functions, named after William Henry Young.
Statement
Euclidean space
In real analysis, the following result is called Young's convolution inequality:
Suppose is in the Lebesgue space and is in and
with Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Jackson%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Daniel Jackson (born 1963) is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the principal designer of the Alloy modelling language, and author of the book Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis.
Biography
Jackson was born in London, England, in 1963.
He studie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisection%20bandwidth | In computer networking, if the network is bisected into two equal-sized partitions, the bisection bandwidth of a network topology is the bandwidth available between the two partitions. Bisection should be done in such a way that the bandwidth between two partitions is minimum. Bisection bandwidth gives the true bandwid... |
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