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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Bangladesh%20Government%20website%20data%20breach
In June and July 2023, a major data breach occurred in a Bangladesh Government website, resulting in the unauthorized exposure and compromise of personal data belonging to more than 50 million Bangladeshi citizens. Background On July 7, 2023, it was discovered that a government website in Bangladesh had inadvertently...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20droplet%20vaporization
Acoustic droplet vaporization (ADV) is the process by which superheated liquid droplets are phase-transitioned into gas bubbles by means of ultrasound. Perfluorocarbons and halocarbons are often used for the dispersed medium, which forms the core of the droplet. The surfactant, which forms a stabilizing shell around ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-cell%20linker
B-cell linker (BLNK) protein is expressed in B cells and macrophages and plays a large role in B cell receptor signaling. Like all adaptor proteins, BLNK has no known intrinsic enzymatic activity. Its function is to temporally and spatially coordinate and regulate downstream signaling effectors in B cell receptor (BCR)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Teachers%20of%20Mathematics
The Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) was established by Caleb Gattegno in 1950 to encourage the development of mathematics education to be more closely related to the needs of the learner. ATM is a membership organisation representing a community of students, nursery, infant, primary, secondary and tertiary...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXL%20100
The EXL 100 is a computer released in 1984 by the French brand Exelvision, based on the TMS 7020 microprocessor from Texas Instruments. This was an uncommon design choice (at the time almost all home computers either used 6502 or Z80 microprocessors) but justified by the fact that the engineering team behind the machin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiphospholipid%20syndrome
Antiphospholipid syndrome, or antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS or APLS), is an autoimmune, hypercoagulable state caused by antiphospholipid antibodies. APS provokes blood clots (thrombosis) in both arteries and veins as well as pregnancy-related complications such as miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm delivery, an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20in%20school%20buildings
Light in school buildings traditionally is from a combination of daylight and electric light to illuminate learning spaces (e.g. classrooms, labs, studios, etc.), hallways, cafeterias, offices and other interior areas. Light fixtures currently in use usually provide students and teachers with satisfactory visual perfor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20group
In mathematics, random groups are certain groups obtained by a probabilistic construction. They were introduced by Misha Gromov to answer questions such as "What does a typical group look like?" It so happens that, once a precise definition is given, random groups satisfy some properties with very high probability, wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen%20tube
A pollen tube is a tubular structure produced by the male gametophyte of seed plants when it germinates. Pollen tube elongation is an integral stage in the plant life cycle. The pollen tube acts as a conduit to transport the male gamete cells from the pollen grain—either from the stigma (in flowering plants) to the ovu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20deluge%20algorithm
The Great deluge algorithm (GD) is a generic algorithm applied to optimization problems. It is similar in many ways to the hill-climbing and simulated annealing algorithms. The name comes from the analogy that in a great deluge a person climbing a hill will try to move in any direction that does not get his/her feet w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VectorBase
VectorBase is one of the five Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRC) funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. VectorBase is focused on invertebrate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia%20Malinnikova
Eugenia Malinnikova (born 23 April 1974) is a mathematician, winner of the 2017 Clay Research Award which she shared with Aleksandr Logunov "in recognition of their introduction of a novel geometric combinatorial method to study doubling properties of solutions to elliptic eigenvalue problems". She competed three time...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hericium%20clathroides
Hericium clathroides is a species of an edible fungus in the Hericiaceae family. Characteristics This species was distinguished by some authors from H. coralloides based on its substrate - beech wood (rarely other hardwoods). Another feature used to distinguish the two species is that H. coralloides grows hymenophore...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GABRP
Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit pi is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GABRP gene. The gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) A receptor is a multisubunit chloride channel that mediates the fastest inhibitory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. The subunit encoded by this gene is expressed ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20supremacy
In quantum computing, quantum supremacy or quantum advantage is the goal of demonstrating that a programmable quantum computer can solve a problem that no classical computer can solve in any feasible amount of time, irrespective of the usefulness of the problem. The term was coined by John Preskill in 2012, but the con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20money
A quantum money scheme is a quantum cryptographic protocol that creates and verifies banknotes that are resistant to forgery. It is based on the principle that quantum states cannot be perfectly duplicated (the no-cloning theorem), making it impossible to forge quantum money by including quantum systems in its design. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20stem%20cell
Plant stem cells Plant stem cells are innately undifferentiated cells located in the meristems of plants. Plant stem cells serve as the origin of plant vitality, as they maintain themselves while providing a steady supply of precursor cells to form differentiated tissues and organs in plants. Two distinct areas of s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel%20network
In transport, tunnels can be connected together to form a tunnel network. These can be used in mining to reach ore below ground, in cities for underground rapid transit systems, in sewer systems, in warfare to avoid enemy detection or attacks, as maintenance access routes beneath sites with high ground-traffic such as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK%20Symbols%20and%20Punctuation
CJK Symbols and Punctuation is a Unicode block containing symbols and punctuation used for writing the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. It also contains one Chinese character. Block The block has variation sequences defined for East Asian punctuation positional variants. They use (VS01) and (VS02): Chinese...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20cell%20structure
The bacterium, despite its simplicity, contains a well-developed cell structure which is responsible for some of its unique biological structures and pathogenicity. Many structural features are unique to bacteria and are not found among archaea or eukaryotes. Because of the simplicity of bacteria relative to larger org...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Biology%20of%20the%20Cell
Molecular Biology of the Cell is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society for Cell Biology. It covers research on the molecular basis of cell structure and function. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 4.803. It was originally establish...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry%20of%20ascorbic%20acid
Ascorbic acid is an organic compound with formula , originally called hexuronic acid. It is a white solid, but impure samples can appear yellowish. It dissolves well in water to give mildly acidic solutions. It is a mild reducing agent. Ascorbic acid exists as two enantiomers (mirror-image isomers), commonly denoted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste%20detection%20threshold
Taste detection threshold is the minimum concentration of a flavoured substance detectable by the sense of taste. Sweetness detection thresholds are usually measured relative to that of sucrose, sourness relative to dilute hydrochloric acid, saltiness relative to table salt (NaCl), and bitterness to quinine. These subs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaz%20Tsaban
Boaz Tsaban (born February 1973) is an Israeli mathematician on the faculty of Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include selection principles within set theory and nonabelian cryptology, within mathematical cryptology. Biography Boaz Tsaban grew up in Or Yehuda, a city near Tel Aviv. At the age of 16 he was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrenza
Carrenza, was a cloud-computing company based in London, United Kingdom. The company was acquired by Six Degrees in 2016. Operations Carrenza was a UK-based IT company that provides Cloud computing technologies. It offered a range of public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud services, including Infrastructure as a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20steam%20engine
A model steam engine is a small steam engine not built for serious use. Often they are built as an educational toy for children, in which case it is also called a toy steam engine, or for live steam enthusiasts. Between the 18th and early 20th centuries, demonstration models were also in use at universities and enginee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20%28computing%29
In UNIX computing, the system load is a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs. The load average represents the average system load over a period of time. It conventionally appears in the form of three numbers which represent the system load during the last one-, five-, and fiftee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Microsystems
Alpha Microsystems, Inc., often shortened to Alpha Micro, was an American computer company founded in California in 1977. The company was founded in 1977 in Costa Mesa, California, by John French, Dick Wilcox and Bob Hitchcock. During the dot-com boom, the company changed its name to AlphaServ, then NQL Inc., reflectin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country%20code
A country code is a short alphanumeric identification code for countries and dependent areas. Its primary use is in data processing and communications. Several identification systems have been developed. The term country code frequently refers to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, as well as the telephone country code, which is embo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikt%20L%C3%B6we
Benedikt Löwe (born 1972) is a German mathematician and logician working at the universities of Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Cambridge. He is known for his work on mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics, as well as for initiating the interdisciplinary conference series Foundations of the Formal Sciences (FotF...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment%20matrix
In mathematics, a moment matrix is a special symmetric square matrix whose rows and columns are indexed by monomials. The entries of the matrix depend on the product of the indexing monomials only (cf. Hankel matrices.) Moment matrices play an important role in polynomial fitting, polynomial optimization (since positi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20game
An electronic game is a game that uses electronics to create an interactive system with which a player can play. Video games are the most common form today, and for this reason the two terms are often used interchangeably. There are other common forms of electronic game including handheld electronic games, standalone s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual%20model%20%28computer%20science%29
In computer science, a conceptual model, or domain model, represents concepts (entities) and relationships between them. Overview In the field of computer science a conceptual model aims to express the meaning of terms and concepts used by domain experts to discuss the problem, and to find the correct relationships be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20border
A natural border is a border between states or their subdivisions which is concomitant with natural formations such as rivers or mountain ranges. The "doctrine of natural boundaries" developed in Western culture in the 18th century being based upon the "natural" ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and developing concepts of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorize.Net
Authorize.Net, A Visa Solution is a United States-based payment gateway service provider, allowing merchants to accept credit card and electronic check payments through their website and over an Internet Protocol (IP) connection. Founded in 1996 as Authorize.Net, Inc., the company is now a subsidiary of Visa Inc. Its s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20Physical%20Society%20prizes%20and%20awards
The American Physical Society gives out a number of awards for research excellence and conduct; topics include outstanding leadership, computational physics, lasers, mathematics, and more. Prizes David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics The David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tur%C3%A1n%20number
In mathematics, the Turán number T(n,k,r) for r-uniform hypergraphs of order n is the smallest number of r-edges such that every induced subgraph on k vertices contains an edge. This number was determined for r = 2 by , and the problem for general r was introduced in . The paper gives a survey of Turán numbers. D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation%20category
In mathematics, the permutation category is a category where the objects are the natural numbers, the morphisms from a natural number n to itself are the elements of the symmetric group and there are no morphisms from m to ''n if . It is equivalent as a category to the category of finite sets and bijections between t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-correction%20method
Pressure-correction method is a class of methods used in computational fluid dynamics for numerically solving the Navier-Stokes equations normally for incompressible flows. Common properties The equations solved in this approach arise from the implicit time integration of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijen%20K.%20Ray-Chaudhuri
Dwijendra Kumar Ray-Chaudhuri (born November 1, 1933) is a professor emeritus at Ohio State University. He and his student R. M. Wilson together solved Kirkman's schoolgirl problem in 1968 which contributed to developments in design theory. He received his M.Sc. (1956) in mathematics from the famous Rajabazar Science...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Gantert
Nina Gantert is a Swiss and German probability theorist, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. She holds the chair for probability in the department of mathematics at the Technical University of Munich, a position she has held since 2011 when the chair was established. Research Her research interes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carath%C3%A9odory%20metric
In mathematics, the Carathéodory metric is a metric defined on the open unit ball of a complex Banach space that has many similar properties to the Poincaré metric of hyperbolic geometry. It is named after the Greek mathematician Constantin Carathéodory. Definition Let (X, || ||) be a complex Banach space and let B b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity%20dispersion
In astronomy, the velocity dispersion (σ) is the statistical dispersion of velocities about the mean velocity for a group of astronomical objects, such as an open cluster, globular cluster, galaxy, galaxy cluster, or supercluster. By measuring the radial velocities of the group's members through astronomical spectrosco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedmann%20equations
The Friedmann equations are a set of equations in physical cosmology that govern the expansion of space in homogeneous and isotropic models of the universe within the context of general relativity. They were first derived by Alexander Friedmann in 1922 from Einstein's field equations of gravitation for the Friedmann–Le...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20mutation
A point mutation is a genetic mutation where a single nucleotide base is changed, inserted or deleted from a DNA or RNA sequence of an organism's genome. Point mutations have a variety of effects on the downstream protein product—consequences that are moderately predictable based upon the specifics of the mutation. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro%20Brasileiro%20de%20Pesquisas%20F%C3%ADsicas
The Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (, CBPF) is a physics research center in the Urca neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro sponsored by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), linked to the Ministry of Science and Technology. CBPF was founded in 1949 from a joint effort of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostral%20ventrolateral%20medulla
The rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM), also known as the pressor area of the medulla, is a brain region that is responsible for basal and reflex control of sympathetic activity associated with cardiovascular function. Abnormally elevated sympathetic activity in the RVLM is associated with various cardiovascular dise...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace%20physiology
Aerospace physiology is the study of the effects of high altitudes on the body, such as different pressures and levels of oxygen. At different altitudes the body may react in different ways, provoking more cardiac output, and producing more erythrocytes. These changes cause more energy waste in the body, causing muscle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%20series%20inversion
In analytic number theory, a Dirichlet series, or Dirichlet generating function (DGF), of a sequence is a common way of understanding and summing arithmetic functions in a meaningful way. A little known, or at least often forgotten about, way of expressing formulas for arithmetic functions and their summatory functions...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%27-3%27%20exoribonuclease%202
5'-3' Exoribonuclease 2 (XRN2) also known as Dhm1-like protein is an exoribonuclease enzyme that in humans is encoded by the XRN2 gene. The human gene encoding XRN2 shares similarity with the mouse Dhm1 and the yeast's Dhp1 (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) or RAT1 (Saccharomyces) genes. The yeast gene is involved in homolo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcriptional%20memory
Transcriptional memory is a biological phenomenon, initially discovered in yeast, during which cells primed with a particular cue show increased rates of gene expression after re-stimulation at a later time. This event was shown to take place: in yeast during growth in galactose and inositol starvation; plants during e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchful%20waiting
Watchful waiting (also watch and wait or WAW) is an approach to a medical problem in which time is allowed to pass before medical intervention or therapy is used. During this time, repeated testing may be performed. Related terms include expectant management, active surveillance, and masterly inactivity. The term mas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Emoji%20Day
World Emoji Day is an annual unofficial holiday occurring on 17 July each year, intended to celebrate emoji; in the years since the earliest observance, it has become a popular date to make product or other announcements and releases relating to emoji. Origins and celebrations The date originally referred to the day ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%20Institute%20for%20Research%20on%20Aging
Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging (Stein Institute for Research on Aging) is a non-profit, multidisciplinary research institute at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine located in La Jolla, California. Established in 1983, it researches healthy aging through the development and ap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Lennox%20Butler
Arthur Lennox Butler (22 February 1873 – 29 December 1939) was a British naturalist. Born in Karachi, he became a curator of a natural history museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He later became the superintendent of a game preserve in Sudan before returning to England. He is commemorated in the scientific names of four ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned%20Nefer%20and%20Teagan
Ned Nefer and Teagan are a man/mannequin couple who gained national attention during a walk through rural New York. They gained national attention in June 2011 when they walked, with the Teagan situated in a wheelchair, from Syracuse, New York to Watertown, New York and later from Syracuse to Dansville, New York and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer%20field%20theory
A polymer field theory is a statistical field theory describing the statistical behavior of a neutral or charged polymer system. It can be derived by transforming the partition function from its standard many-dimensional integral representation over the particle degrees of freedom in a functional integral representatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20of%20firearms
From the viewpoint of physics (dynamics, to be exact), a firearm, as for most weapons, is a system for delivering maximum destructive energy to the target with minimum delivery of energy on the shooter. The momentum delivered to the target, however, cannot be any more than that (due to recoil) on the shooter. This is d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20revival
In quantum mechanics, the quantum revival is a periodic recurrence of the quantum wave function from its original form during the time evolution either many times in space as the multiple scaled fractions in the form of the initial wave function (fractional revival) or approximately or exactly to its original form f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haustorium
In botany and mycology, a haustorium (plural haustoria) is a rootlike structure that grows into or around another structure to absorb water or nutrients. For example, in mistletoe or members of the broomrape family, the structure penetrates the host's tissue and draws nutrients from it. In mycology, it refers to the ap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excision%20theorem
In algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics, the excision theorem is a theorem about relative homology and one of the Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms. Given a topological space and subspaces and such that is also a subspace of , the theorem says that under certain circumstances, we can cut out (excise) from both spac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choquet%20game
The Choquet game is a topological game named after Gustave Choquet, who was in 1969 the first to investigate such games. A closely related game is known as the strong Choquet game. Let be a non-empty topological space. The Choquet game of , , is defined as follows: Player I chooses , a non-empty open subset of , then...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics%20of%20bipolar%20disorder
Epigenetics of bipolar disorder is the effect that epigenetics has on triggering and maintaining bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is a chronic mood disorder, characterized by manic and depressive episodes. The symptoms of a manic episode include high mood, low sleep, and reduced inhibition, while the symptoms of a d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recrudescence
Recrudescence is the recurrence of an undesirable condition. In medicine, it is usually defined as the recurrence of symptoms after a period of remission or quiescence, in which sense it can sometimes be synonymous with relapse. In a narrower sense, it can also be such a recurrence with higher severity than before the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain%20%28chemistry%29
In chemistry, a molecule experiences strain when its chemical structure undergoes some stress which raises its internal energy in comparison to a strain-free reference compound. The internal energy of a molecule consists of all the energy stored within it. A strained molecule has an additional amount of internal ener...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortilla%20Wall
The Tortilla Wall is a term given to a 14-mile (22.5 kilometer) section of United States border fence between the Otay Mesa Border Crossing in San Diego, California and the Pacific Ocean. This "San Diego wall" was completed in the early 1990s. While there are other walls at various points along the border, the Tortill...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher%20Institute%20for%20Evolutionary%20Science
The Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES) is a project of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and a program of the Center for Inquiry which provides free workshops and materials to elementary, middle school, and, more recently, high school science teachers to enable them to effectively t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20Physics%20Division
The Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society (AAS/SPD) or (AAS-SPD), often referred to as simply the "Solar Physics Division" (SPD), is the primary trade organization of solar physicists in the U.S. It exists for the advancement of the study of the Sun and to coordinate of such research with other br...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZNF444
Zinc finger protein 444 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF444 gene. Function This gene encodes a zinc finger protein which activates transcription of a scavenger receptor gene involved in the degradation of acetylated low-density lipoprotein (Ac-LDL) (). This gene is located in a cluster of zinc finger...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADP%20ribosylation%20factor
ADP ribosylation factors (ARFs) are members of the ARF family of GTP-binding proteins of the Ras superfamily. ARF family proteins are ubiquitous in eukaryotic cells, and six highly conserved members of the family have been identified in mammalian cells. Although ARFs are soluble, they generally associate with membrane...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik
Epik is an American domain registrar and web hosting company known for providing services to alt-tech websites that host far-right, neo-Nazi, and other extremist materials. It has been described as a "safehaven for the extreme right" because of its willingness to provide services to far-right websites that have been de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal%20perception
Prenatal perception is the study of the extent of somatosensory and other types of perception during pregnancy. In practical terms, this means the study of fetuses; none of the accepted indicators of perception are present in embryos. Studies in the field inform the abortion debate, along with certain related pieces of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s%20box%20paradox
Bertrand's box paradox is a veridical paradox in elementary probability theory. It was first posed by Joseph Bertrand in his 1889 work Calcul des Probabilités. There are three boxes: a box containing two gold coins, a box containing two silver coins, a box containing one gold coin and one silver coin. The questio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM%20card
A SIM card (full form: Subscriber Identity Module or Subscriber Identification Module) is an integrated circuit (IC) intended to securely store an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number and its related key, which are used to identify and authenticate subscribers on mobile telephony devices (such as mobi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20password
A cognitive password is a form of knowledge-based authentication that requires a user to answer a question, presumably something they intrinsically know, to verify their identity. Cognitive password systems have been researched for many years and are currently commonly used as a form of secondary access. They were de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXT%20e-solutions
TXT e-solutions is an international software development and consulting company. Founded in 1989, TXT e-solutions has been listed since July 2000 on the Borsa Italiana–London Stock Exchange (TXT.MI) STAR segment. The company has its headquarters in Milan with offices in Italy, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerla...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altran%20Praxis
Altran UK (formerly known as Altran Praxis, Praxis High Integrity Systems, Praxis Critical Systems, Altran Xype, Xype and Altran Technologies) is a division of parent company Altran. Altran Praxis was a British software house that specialised in critical systems. This role is continued under the banner of high-tech eng...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenography
Selenography is the study of the surface and physical features of the Moon (also known as geography of the Moon, or selenodesy). Like geography and areography, selenography is a subdiscipline within the field of planetary science. Historically, the principal concern of selenographists was the mapping and naming of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Hewitt
Carl Eddie Hewitt (; 1944 – 7 December 2022) was an American computer scientist who designed the Planner programming language for automated planning and the actor model of concurrent computation, which have been influential in the development of logic, functional and object-oriented programming. Planner was the first p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VaxTele%20SIP%20Server%20SDK
VaxTele SIP Server SDK (Software Development Kit) is a complete development toolkit, which allows software vendors and Internet telephony service providers (ITSP) to develop SIP Server and (SIP) Session Initiation Protocol based VoIP systems for Microsoft Windows to install computer to computer voice chat, chat rooms, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20inference
Type inference refers to the automatic detection of the type of an expression in a formal language. These include programming languages and mathematical type systems, but also natural languages in some branches of computer science and linguistics. Nontechnical explanation Types in a most general view can be associate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair%20production
Pair production is the creation of a subatomic particle and its antiparticle from a neutral boson. Examples include creating an electron and a positron, a muon and an antimuon, or a proton and an antiproton. Pair production often refers specifically to a photon creating an electron–positron pair near a nucleus. As ener...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral%20ligament
The spiral ligament is a fibrous cushion located between the stria vascularis and the bony otic capsule. The periosteum, forming the outer wall of the cochlear duct (), is greatly thickened and altered in character. Additional images
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-photon%20microscopy
Three-photon microscopy (3PEF) is a high-resolution fluorescence microscopy based on nonlinear excitation effect. Different from two-photon excitation microscopy, it uses three exciting photons. It typically uses 1300 nm or longer wavelength lasers to excite the fluorescent dyes with three simultaneously absorbed photo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger%20effect
The Schwinger effect is a predicted physical phenomenon whereby matter is created by a strong electric field. It is also referred to as the Sauter–Schwinger effect, Schwinger mechanism, or Schwinger pair production. It is a prediction of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in which electron–positron pairs are spontaneously c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-dual%20space
In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, the beta-dual or -dual is a certain linear subspace of the algebraic dual of a sequence space. Definition Given a sequence space the -dual of is defined as If is an FK-space then each in defines a continuous linear form on Examples Properties The beta-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPK%20algorithm
The TPK algorithm is a simple program introduced by Donald Knuth and Luis Trabb Pardo to illustrate the evolution of computer programming languages. In their 1977 work "The Early Development of Programming Languages", Trabb Pardo and Knuth introduced a small program that involved arrays, indexing, mathematical function...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch%20Code
Patch Code is a barcode developed by Kodak for use in automated scanning. Symbology A Patch Code consists of two wide bars ( ± ) and two narrow bars (). The bars are separated by three narrow spaces, so the Patch Code symbols are a fixed length. There are six distinct permutations of the wide and narrow bars, so th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr/CFT%20correspondence
The Kerr/CFT correspondence is an extension of the AdS/CFT correspondence or gauge-gravity duality to rotating black holes (which are described by the Kerr metric). The duality works for black holes whose near-horizon geometry can be expressed as a product of AdS3 and a single compact coordinate. The AdS/CFT duality t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-pair%20separation
In a cyclic order, such as the real projective line, two pairs of points separate each other when they occur alternately in the order. Thus the ordering a b c d of four points has (a,c) and (b,d) as separating pairs. This point-pair separation is an invariant of projectivities of the line. The concept was described b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-MAC
Among the family of MAC or Multiplexed Analogue Components systems for television broadcasting, D-MAC is a reduced bandwidth variant designed for transmission down cable. The data is duobinary coded with a data burst rate of 20.25Mbit/s so that 0° as well as ±90° phasors are used. D-MAC has a bandwidth of 8.4 MHz ve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffy%20binding%20proteins
In molecular biology, Duffy binding proteins are found in Plasmodium. Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium knowlesi merozoites invade Homo sapiens erythrocytes that express Duffy blood group surface determinants. The Duffy receptor family is localised in micronemes, an organelle found in all organisms of the phylum Apicompl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen%20Center%20for%20Physics
The Aspen Center for Physics (ACP) is a non-profit institution for physics research located in Aspen, Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains region of the United States. Since its foundation in 1962, it has hosted distinguished physicists for short-term visits during seasonal winter and summer programs, to promote collaborat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip%20counting
Skip counting is a mathematics technique taught as a kind of multiplication in reform mathematics textbooks such as TERC. In older textbooks, this technique is called counting by twos (threes, fours, etc.). In skip counting by twos, a person can count to 10 by only naming every other even number: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Comb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting%20problem
In computability theory, the halting problem is the problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running, or continue to run forever. The halting problem is undecidable, meaning that no general algorithm exists that solves the halting problem ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitape%20Turing%20machine
A multi-tape Turing machine is a variant of the Turing machine that utilizes several tapes. Each tape has its own head for reading and writing. Initially, the input appears on tape 1, and the others start out blank. This model intuitively seems much more powerful than the single-tape model, but any multi-tape machine—...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Ethyl-3-%283-dimethylaminopropyl%29carbodiimide
1-Ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (EDC, EDAC or EDCI) is a water-soluble carbodiimide usually handled as the hydrochloride. It is typically employed in the 4.0-6.0 pH range. It is generally used as a carboxyl activating agent for the coupling of primary amines to yield amide bonds. While other carbodiimid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut%20oil
Peanut oil, also known as groundnut oil or arachis oil, is a vegetable oil derived from peanuts. The oil usually has a mild or neutral flavor but, if made with roasted peanuts, has a stronger peanut flavor and aroma. It is often used in American, Chinese, Indian, African and Southeast Asian cuisine, both for general co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCIR%20System%20E
CCIR System E is an analog broadcast television system used in France and Monaco, associated with monochrome 819-line high resolution broadcasts. Transmissions started in 1949 and ended in 1985. System E specifications Some of the important specs are listed below: Frame rate: 25 Hz Interlace: 2/1 Field rate: 50 Hz...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor%20intellectual%20property%20core
In electronic design, a semiconductor intellectual property core (SIP core), IP core, or IP block is a reusable unit of logic, cell, or integrated circuit layout design that is the intellectual property of one party. IP cores can be licensed to another party or owned and used by a single party. The term comes from the...