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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphocyte-variant%20hypereosinophilia | Lymphocyte-variant hypereosinophilia is a rare disorder in which eosinophilia or hypereosinophilia (i.e. a large or extremely large increase in the number of eosinophils in the blood circulation) is caused by an aberrant population of lymphocytes. These aberrant lymphocytes function abnormally by stimulating the prolif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov%20Perelman | Yakov Isidorovich Perelman (; – 16 March 1942) was a Russian Empire and Soviet science writer and author of many popular science books, including Physics Can Be Fun and Mathematics Can Be Fun (both translated from Russian into English).
Life and work
Perelman was born in 1882 in the town of Białystok, Russian Empire.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brienomyrus | Brienomyrus is a genus of small elephantfish in the family Mormyridae from Africa. Usually available in the pet trade, these fish are commercially referred to as baby whales or baby whalefish.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
Brienomyrus adustus (Fowler 1936)
Brienomyrus brachyist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfide%20oxidoreductase%20D | The Disulfide bond oxidoreductase D (DsbD) family is a member of the Lysine Exporter (LysE) Superfamily. A representative list of proteins belonging to the DsbD family can be found in the Transporter Classification Base.
Homology
Homologues include:
(1) several thiol-disulfide exchange proteins (i.e., TC# 5.A.1.1.1)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20Mail%20barcode | The Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMb) is a 65-bar barcode for use on mail in the United States. The term "Intelligent Mail" refers to services offered by the United States Postal Service for domestic mail delivery. The IM barcode is intended to provide greater information and functionality than its predecessors POSTNET an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faddeev%E2%80%93LeVerrier%20algorithm | In mathematics (linear algebra), the Faddeev–LeVerrier algorithm is a recursive method to calculate the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of a square matrix, , named after Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev and Urbain Le Verrier. Calculation of this polynomial yields the eigenvalues of as its roots; as a mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloplanus%20natans | Haloplanus natans is a halophilic Archaeon in the family of Halobacteriaceae and the type species of the genus Haloplanus. It was isolated from controlled mesocosms with a mixture of water from the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebra | Each vertebra (: vertebrae) is an irregular bone with a complex structure composed of bone and some hyaline cartilage, that make up the vertebral column or spine, of vertebrates. The proportions of the vertebrae differ according to their spinal segment and the particular species.
The basic configuration of a vertebra ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphania%20botrys | Dysphania botrys (syn. Chenopodium botrys), the Jerusalem oak goosefoot, sticky goosefoot or feathered geranium, is a flowering plant in the genus Dysphania (the glandular goosefoots). It is native to the Mediterranean region.
Jerusalem oak goosefoot was formerly classed in the genus Ambrosia, with the binomial name A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Society%20of%20Black%20Physicists | The National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), established in the United States in 1977, is a non-profit professional organization with the goal to promote the professional well-being of African Diaspora physicists and physics students within the international scientific community and the world community at large.
H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic%20Data%20Grid%20Facility | The Nordic Data Grid Facility, or NDGF, is a common e-Science infrastructure provided by the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland) for scientific computing and data storage. It is the first and so far only internationally distributed WLCG Tier1 center, providing computing and storage services ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigen%20transfer%20in%20the%20thymus | Antigen transfer in the thymus is the transmission of self-antigens between thymic antigen-presenting cells which contributes to the establishment of T cell central tolerance.
Thymus represents an origin of T cell development and its responsibility is to select functional but also safe T cells which will not attack se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante%20%28video%20game%29 | is a 1988 beat 'em up arcade video game developed and published by Irem in Japan and Europe, and published in North America by Data East. It is considered as a spiritual sequel to Irem's earlier Kung-Fu Master (1984).
Plot
The game takes place in downtown New York City. The game's plot involves a lone, professional ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%20quadrisection%20problem | In triangle geometry, the Bernoulli quadrisection problem asks how to divide a given triangle into four equal-area pieces by two perpendicular lines. Its solution by Jacob Bernoulli was published in 1687. Leonhard Euler formulated a complete solution in 1779.
As Euler proved, in a scalene triangle, it is possible to f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential%20Biodiversity%20Variables | Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) is a putative set of parameters intended to be the minimum set of broadly agreed upon necessary and sufficient biodiversity variables for at least national to global monitoring, researching, and forecasting of biodiversity. They are being developed by an interdisciplinary group o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%20Universe%20Online | DC Universe Online (DCUO) is a free-to-play action combat massively multiplayer online game set in the fictional universe of DC Comics. Developed by Dimensional Ink Games and co-published by Daybreak Game Company and WB Games, the game was initially released in January 2011 for Windows and PlayStation 3. It would later... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycine%20receptor | The glycine receptor (abbreviated as GlyR or GLR) is the receptor of the amino acid neurotransmitter glycine. GlyR is an ionotropic receptor that produces its effects through chloride current. It is one of the most widely distributed inhibitory receptors in the central nervous system and has important roles in a variet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20arithmetic%20and%20diophantine%20geometry | This is a glossary of arithmetic and diophantine geometry in mathematics, areas growing out of the traditional study of Diophantine equations to encompass large parts of number theory and algebraic geometry. Much of the theory is in the form of proposed conjectures, which can be related at various levels of generality.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication%20of%20the%20goat | Goat evolution is the process by which domestic goats came to exist through evolution by natural selection. Wild goats — medium-sized mammals which are found in noticeably harsh environments, particularly forests and mountains, in the Middle East and Central Asia — were one of the first species domesticated by modern h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredholm%20determinant | In mathematics, the Fredholm determinant is a complex-valued function which generalizes the determinant of a finite dimensional linear operator. It is defined for bounded operators on a Hilbert space which differ from the identity operator by a trace-class operator. The function is named after the mathematician Erik Iv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%27s%20function | In mathematics, Landau's function g(n), named after Edmund Landau, is defined for every natural number n to be the largest order of an element of the symmetric group Sn. Equivalently, g(n) is the largest least common multiple (lcm) of any partition of n, or the maximum number of times a permutation of n elements can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20meteorology%20articles | This is a list of meteorology topics. The terms relate to meteorology, the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. (see also: List of meteorological phenomena)
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advection
aeroacoustics
aerobiology
aerography (meteorology)
aerology
air parcel (in m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius%20salmoneus | Lactarius salmoneus is an edible species of fungus belonging to the genus Lactarius, and classified under the family Russulaceae. It is native to North America. L. salmoneus is not to be confused with Lactarius salmonicolor, a species native to Europe.
Description
The mushroom has a white cap, with vividly orange lame... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency%20Active%20Auroral%20Research%20Program | The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is a University of Alaska Fairbanks program which researches the ionosphere — the highest, ionized part of Earth's atmosphere.
The most prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facilit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite%20%28geometry%29 | In Euclidean geometry, a kite is a quadrilateral with reflection symmetry across a diagonal. Because of this symmetry, a kite has two equal angles and two pairs of adjacent equal-length sides. Kites are also known as deltoids, but the word deltoid may also refer to a deltoid curve, an unrelated geometric object sometim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellman%27s%20reagent | Ellman's reagent (5,5′-dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid) or DTNB) is a colorogenic chemical used to quantify the number or concentration of thiol groups in a sample. It was developed by George L. Ellman.
Preparation
In Ellman's original paper, he prepared this reagent by oxidizing 2-nitro-5-chlorobenzaldehyde to the ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal%20Khan | Salman "Sal" Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. He is also the founder ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrokinetics | Gyrokinetics is a theoretical framework to study plasma behavior on perpendicular spatial scales comparable to the gyroradius and frequencies much lower than the particle cyclotron frequencies.
These particular scales have been experimentally shown to be appropriate for modeling plasma turbulence. The trajectory of ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoupling%20%28cosmology%29 | In cosmology, decoupling is a period in the development of the universe when different types of particles fall out of thermal equilibrium with each other. This occurs as a result of the expansion of the universe, as their interaction rates decrease (and mean free paths increase) up to this critical point. The two verif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modeshape | In applied mathematics, mode shapes are a manifestation of eigenvectors which describe the relative displacement of two or more elements in a mechanical system or wave front.
A mode shape is a deflection pattern related to a particular natural frequency and represents the relative displacement of all parts of a struct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materiomics | Materiomics is the holistic study of material systems. Materiomics examines links between physicochemical material properties and material characteristics and function. The focus of materiomics is system functionality and behavior, rather than a piecewise collection of properties, a paradigm similar to systems biology.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20artificial%20objects%20leaving%20the%20Solar%20System | The artificial objects leaving the Solar System are all space probes and the upper stages of their launch vehicles, all launched by NASA. Three of the probes, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons are still functioning and are regularly contacted by radio communication, while Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 are now derelict... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel%20%28programming%20language%29 | Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a lightweight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games.
MirthKit, a simple toolkit for making and distributing open source, cross-platform 2D games, u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenchel%27s%20duality%20theorem | In mathematics, Fenchel's duality theorem is a result in the theory of convex functions named after Werner Fenchel.
Let ƒ be a proper convex function on Rn and let g be a proper concave function on Rn. Then, if regularity conditions are satisfied,
where ƒ * is the convex conjugate of ƒ (also referred to as the Fenche... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal%20enuresis | Nocturnal enuresis, also informally called bedwetting, is involuntary urination while asleep after the age at which bladder control usually begins. Bedwetting in children and adults can result in emotional stress. Complications can include urinary tract infections.
Most bedwetting is a developmental delay—not an emoti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20Change%20Network | The Environmental Change Network (ECN) was established in 1992 by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to monitor long-term environmental change and its effects on ecosystems at a series of sites throughout Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Measurements made include a wide range of physical, chemical and b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth%20Larsson%20%28scientific%20computing%29 | Elisabeth Larsson (born December 30, 1971) is a Swedish applied mathematician and numerical analyst. She is a professor in the Department of Information Technology of Uppsala University, and the director of the Uppsala Multidisciplinary Centre for Advanced Computational Science.
Research
Larsson's research involves th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Agri-Food%20Federation | The General Agri-Food Federation (, FGA) is a trade union representing workers in the agricultural and food processing sectors in France.
The union was founded in 1980, when the General Federation of Agriculture merged with the General Federation of Food. Like its predecessors, the union affiliated to the French Demo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%20condiments | The generic term for condiments in the Filipino cuisine is sawsawan (Philippine Spanish: sarsa). Unlike sauces in other Southeast Asian regions, most sawsawan are not prepared beforehand, but are assembled on the table according to the preferences of the diner.
Description
In the Philippines, the common condiments asi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting%20effect | The Poynting effect may refer to two unrelated physical phenomena. Neither should be confused with the Poynting–Robertson effect. All of these effects are named after John Henry Poynting, an English physicist.
Solid mechanics
In solid mechanics, the Poynting effect is a Finite strain theory effect observed when an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formylglycine-generating%20enzyme | Formylglycine-generating enzyme (FGE), located at 3p26.1 in humans, is the name for an enzyme present in the endoplasmic reticulum that catalyzes the conversion of cysteine to formylglycine (fGly). There are two main classes of FGE, aerobic and anaerobic. FGE activates sulfatases, which are essential for the degradatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20aberration | In optics, aberration is a property of optical systems, such as lenses, that causes light to be spread out over some region of space rather than focused to a point. Aberrations cause the image formed by a lens to be blurred or distorted, with the nature of the distortion depending on the type of aberration. Aberration ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple%20space | A tuple space is an implementation of the associative memory paradigm for parallel/distributed computing. It provides a repository of tuples that can be accessed concurrently. As an illustrative example, consider that there are a group of processors that produce pieces of data and a group of processors that use the da... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20shared%20memory | In computer science, distributed shared memory (DSM) is a form of memory architecture where physically separated memories can be addressed as a single shared address space. The term "shared" does not mean that there is a single centralized memory, but that the address space is shared—i.e., the same physical address on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublet%20state | In quantum mechanics, a doublet is a composite quantum state of a system with an effective spin of 1/2, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −1/2 and +1/2. Quantum systems with two possible states are sometimes called two-level systems. Essentially all occurrences of doublets in nature arise fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Neptune |
Neptune was the codename for a version of Microsoft Windows under development in 1999. Based on Windows 2000, it was originally to replace the Windows 9x series and was scheduled to be the first home consumer-oriented version of Windows built on Windows NT code. Internally, the project's name was capitalized as NepTun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20decomposition | In mathematics, the polar decomposition of a square real or complex matrix is a factorization of the form , where is a unitary matrix and is a positive semi-definite Hermitian matrix ( is an orthogonal matrix and is a positive semi-definite symmetric matrix in the real case), both square and of the same size.
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Kerr | Roy Patrick Kerr (; born 16 May 1934) is a New Zealand mathematician who discovered the Kerr geometry, an exact solution to the Einstein field equation of general relativity. His solution models the gravitational field outside an uncharged rotating massive object, including a rotating black hole. His solution to Einst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet%20meadow | A wet meadow is a type of wetland with soils that are saturated for part or all of the growing season which prevents the growth of trees and brush. Debate exists whether a wet meadow is a type of marsh or a completely separate type of wetland. Wet prairies and wet savannas are hydrologically similar.
Hydrology and eco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20ring | In the branch of abstract algebra known as ring theory, a left primitive ring is a ring which has a faithful simple left module. Well known examples include endomorphism rings of vector spaces and Weyl algebras over fields of characteristic zero.
Definition
A ring R is said to be a left primitive ring if it has a fai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys | Linksys Holdings, Inc., is an American brand of data networking hardware products mainly sold to home users and small businesses. It was founded in 1988 by the couple Victor and Janie Tsao, both Taiwanese immigrants to the United States. Linksys products include Wi-Fi routers, mesh Wi-Fi systems, Wifi extenders, access... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Dietz | Jean Leonardus Gerardus (Jan) Dietz (born 20 June 1945) is a Dutch Information Systems researcher, Professor Emeritus of Information Systems Design at the Delft University of Technology, known for the development of the Design & Engineering Methodology for Organisations. and his work on Enterprise Engineering.
Biogra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20prolongation%20principle | The natural prolongation principle or principle of natural prolongation is a legal concept introduced in maritime claims submitted to the United Nations.
The phrase denotes a concept of political geography and international law that a nation's maritime boundary should reflect the 'natural prolongation' of where its la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinous%20cell | Spinous cells, or prickle cells, are keratin producing epidermal cells owing their prickly appearance to their numerous intracellular connections. They make up the stratum spinosum (prickly layer) of the epidermis and provide a continuous net-like layer of protection for underlying tissue. They are susceptible to muta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal%20level | Nominal level is the operating level at which an electronic signal processing device is designed to operate. The electronic circuits that make up such equipment are limited in the maximum signal they can handle and the low-level internally generated electronic noise they add to the signal. The difference between the in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarkovsky%20effect | The Yarkovsky effect is a force acting on a rotating body in space caused by the anisotropic emission of thermal photons, which carry momentum. It is usually considered in relation to meteoroids or small asteroids (about 10 cm to 10 km in diameter), as its influence is most significant for these bodies.
History of dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20McQuillan%20%28mathematician%29 | Michael Liam McQuillan is a Scottish mathematician studying algebraic geometry. As of 2019 he is Professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
Career
Michael McQuillan received the doctorate in 1992 at Harvard University under Barry Mazur ("Division points on semi-Abelian varieties").
In 1995, McQuillan proved t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20fossil%20classification | Trace fossils are classified in various ways for different purposes. Traces can be classified taxonomically (by morphology), ethologically (by behavior), and toponomically, that is, according to their relationship to the surrounding sedimentary layers. Except in the rare cases where the original maker of a trace fossil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photobioreactor | A photobioreactor (PBR) refers to any cultivation system designed for growing photoautotrophic organisms using artificial light sources or solar light to facilitate photosynthesis. PBRs are typically used to cultivate microalgae, cyanobacteria, and some mosses. PBRs can be open systems, such as raceway ponds, which rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20spinal%20veins | Posterior spinal veins are small veins which receive blood from the dorsal spinal cord. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteshift | Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities is a 2018 non-fiction book written by Eric Kaufmann, a professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. Described by The Economist as a "monumental study of ethno-demographic change", Whiteshift covers politics in both Europe and North America and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette%20Korber | Bette Korber is an American computational biologist focusing on the molecular biology and population genetics of the HIV virus that causes infection and eventually AIDS. She has contributed heavily to efforts to obtain an effective HIV vaccine. She created a database at Los Alamos National Laboratory that has enabled ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertiginous%20question | Benj Hellie's vertiginous question asks why, of all the subjects of experience out there, this one—the one corresponding to the human being referred to as Benj Hellie—is the one whose experiences are live? (The reader is supposed to substitute their own case for Hellie's.)
A simple response is that this question reduc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASP | Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP), sometimes called Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction, is a community-wide, worldwide experiment for protein structure prediction taking place every two years since 1994. CASP provides research groups with an opportunity to objectively test their struct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Van%20Montagu | Marc, Baron Van Montagu (born 10 November 1933 in Ghent) is a Belgian molecular biologist. He was full professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at the faculty of Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) and scientific director of the genetics department of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG%202000 | JPEG 2000 (JP2) is an image compression standard and coding system. It was developed from 1997 to 2000 by a Joint Photographic Experts Group committee chaired by Touradj Ebrahimi (later the JPEG president), with the intention of superseding their original JPEG standard (created in 1992), which is based on a discrete co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSH%20%28Nokia%29 | MOSH was a user defined distribution channel for mobile content initiated by Nokia. The name "MOSH" comes from "Mobilize and Share". The channel could have been used to both download and upload various content for mobile phones or other platforms. File types that were handled were: audio, images, applications, games, v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20cryptography | Visual cryptography is a cryptographic technique which allows visual information (pictures, text, etc.) to be encrypted in such a way that the decrypted information appears as a visual image.
One of the best-known techniques has been credited to Moni Naor and Adi Shamir, who developed it in 1994. They demonstrated a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex%20branch%20of%20left%20coronary%20artery | The circumflex branch of left coronary artery (also known as the left circumflex artery, or circumflex artery) is a branch of the left coronary artery. It winds around the left side of the heart along the atrioventricular groove (coronary sulcus). It supplies the posterolateral portion of the left ventricle.
In a mino... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAM122A%20%28gene%29 | Family with sequence similarity 122A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FAM122A gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20and%20molecular%20astrophysics | Atomic astrophysics is concerned with performing atomic physics calculations that will be useful to astronomers and using atomic data to interpret astronomical observations. Atomic physics plays a key role in astrophysics as astronomers' only information about a particular object comes through the light that it emits, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrohydrogenesis | Electrohydrogenesis or biocatalyzed electrolysis is the name given to a process for generating hydrogen gas from organic matter being decomposed by bacteria. This process uses a modified fuel cell to contain the organic matter and water. A small amount, 0.2–0.8 V of electricity is used, the original article reports a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapetum%20lucidum | The ; ; ) is a layer of tissue in the eye of many vertebrates and some other animals. Lying immediately behind the retina, it is a retroreflector. It reflects visible light back through the retina, increasing the light available to the photoreceptors (although slightly blurring the image). The tapetum lucidum contribu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurohypophysial%20hormone | The neurohypophysial hormones form a family of structurally and functionally related peptide hormones. Their representatives in humans are oxytocin and vasopressin. They are named after the location of their release into the blood, the neurohypophysis (another name for the posterior pituitary).
Most of the circulating... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandosorbus%20intermedia | Scandosorbus intermedia or, formerly, Sorbus intermedia, the Swedish whitebeam, is a species of whitebeam found in southern Sweden, with scattered occurrences in Estonia, Latvia, easternmost Denmark (Bornholm), the far southwest of Finland, and northern Poland.
Description
It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20cartography | Computer cartography (also called digital cartography) is the art, science, and technology of making and using maps with a computer. This technology represents a paradigm shift in how maps are produced, but is still fundamentally a subset of traditional cartography. The primary function of this technology is to produce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baguenaudier | Baguenaudier (; French for "time-waster"), also known as the Chinese rings, Cardan's suspension, Cardano's rings, Devil's needle or five pillars puzzle, is a disentanglement puzzle featuring a loop which must be disentangled from a sequence of rings on interlinked pillars. The loop can be either string or a rigid struc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky%20bead%20argument | In general relativity, the sticky bead argument is a simple thought experiment designed to show that gravitational radiation is indeed predicted by general relativity, and can have physical effects. These claims were not widely accepted prior to about 1955, but after the introduction of the bead argument, any remaining... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke%27s%20theorem | In queueing theory, a discipline within the mathematical theory of probability, Burke's theorem (sometimes the Burke's output theorem) is a theorem (stated and demonstrated by Paul J. Burke while working at Bell Telephone Laboratories) asserting that, for the M/M/1 queue, M/M/c queue or M/M/∞ queue in the steady state ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylglycine | Dimethylglycine (DMG) is a derivative of the amino acid glycine with the structural formula (CH3)2NCH2COOH. It can be found in beans and liver, and has a sweet taste. It can be formed from trimethylglycine upon the loss of one of its methyl groups. It is also a byproduct of the metabolism of choline.
When DMG was fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotta%20dell%27Addaura | The Addaura cave (Italian: Grotta dell'Addaura) is a complex of three natural grottoes located on the northeast side of Mount Pellegrino in Palermo, Sicily, Southern Italy. The importance of the complex is due to the presence of cave-wall engravings dated to the late Epigravettian (contemporaneous with the Magdalenian)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton%27s%20law | Dalton's law (also called Dalton's law of partial pressures) states that in a mixture of non-reacting gases, the total pressure exerted is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the individual gases. This empirical law was observed by John Dalton in 1801 and published in 1802. Dalton's law is related to the idea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train%20horn | A train horn is an air horn used as an audible warning device on diesel and electric-powered trains. Its primary purpose is to alert persons and animals to an oncoming train, especially when approaching a level crossing. They are often extremely loud, allowing them to be heard from great distances. They are also used f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecode | Protecode was a private company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that provided open source license and security management software used for software development license compliance.
It was acquired by Synopsys in November 2015 for undisclosed terms.
Products
Protecode Enterprise System is a suite of tools for managin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadwiger%E2%80%93Nelson%20problem | In geometric graph theory, the Hadwiger–Nelson problem, named after Hugo Hadwiger and Edward Nelson, asks for the minimum number of colors required to color the plane such that no two points at distance 1 from each other have the same color. The answer is unknown, but has been narrowed down to one of the numbers 5, 6 o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGruff%20the%20Crime%20Dog | McGruff the Crime Dog is an anthropomorphic animated bloodhound created by Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising executive Jack Keil (who also voiced the character) through the Ad Council and later the National Crime Prevention Council to increase crime awareness and personal safety in the United States. McGruff costume... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency%20response | In signal processing and electronics, the frequency response of a system is the quantitative measure of the magnitude and phase of the output as a function of input frequency. The frequency response is widely used in the design and analysis of systems, such as audio and control systems, where they simplify mathematical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splenius%20capitis%20muscle | The splenius capitis () () is a broad, straplike muscle in the back of the neck. It pulls on the base of the skull from the vertebrae in the neck and upper thorax. It is involved in movements such as shaking the head.
Structure
It arises from the lower half of the nuchal ligament, from the spinous process of the seven... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Rossini | Frederick Dominic Rossini (July 18, 1899 – October 12, 1990) was an American thermodynamicist noted for his work in chemical thermodynamics.
In 1920, at the age of twenty-one, Rossini entered Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and soon was awarded a full-time teaching scholarship. He graduated with a B.S. in ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srm%20%28Unix%29 | srm (or Secure Remove) is a command line utility for Unix-like computer systems for secure file deletion. srm removes each specified file by overwriting, renaming, and truncating it before unlinking. This prevents other people from undeleting or recovering any information about the file from the command line.
Platf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20Chance%3A%20Probability%20from%200%20to%201 | Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1 is an introductory undergraduate-level textbook on probability theory, centered on the metaphor of games of chance. It was written by Benedict Gross, Joe Harris, and Emily Riehl, based on a course for non-mathematicians taught to Harvard University undergraduates, and published by th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise%20Stokes%20Hunter | Ella Louise Stokes Hunter (died 1988) was an American mathematics educator who became the first African-American woman to earn a degree at the University of Virginia. She taught for many years at Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute and Virginia State College, two names for what is now Virginia State University.
E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoidal%20adjunction | Suppose that and are two monoidal categories. A monoidal adjunction between two lax monoidal functors
and
is an adjunction between the underlying functors, such that the natural transformations
and
are monoidal natural transformations.
Lifting adjunctions to monoidal adjunctions
Suppose that
is a lax monoidal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunsite | SunSITE (Sun Software, Information & Technology Exchange) is a network of Internet servers providing archives of information, software and other publicly available resources. The project, started in the early 1990s, is run by a number of universities worldwide and was initially co-sponsored by Sun Microsystems.
The mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20Electronique%20Libre | The Association Electronique Libre (AEL, sometimes written Association électronique libre) is a Belgian non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in Belgium. Its stated mission is to "protecting the fundamental rights in the information society". It is promoting the Free Software Pact Initiative.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Lebesgue | Henri Léon Lebesgue (; June 28, 1875 – July 26, 1941) was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th-century concept of integration—summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis. His theory was published originally in his diss... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20software%20for%20molecular%20mechanics%20modeling | This is a list of computer programs that are predominantly used for molecular mechanics calculations.
See also
Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics
Comparison of force-field implementations
Comparison of nucleic acid simulation software
List of molecular graphics systems
List of protein structure prediction software
Lis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20model | In software engineering, a domain model is a conceptual model of the domain that incorporates both behavior and data. In ontology engineering, a domain model is a formal representation of a knowledge domain with concepts, roles, datatypes, individuals, and rules, typically grounded in a description logic.
Overview
A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organelle%20biogenesis | Organelle biogenesis is the biogenesis, or creation, of cellular organelles in cells. Organelle biogenesis includes the process by which cellular organelles are split between daughter cells during mitosis; this process is called organelle inheritance.
Discovery
Following the discovery of cellular organelles in the ni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL23V | HL23V was reputedly a type C RNA tumor virus first isolated in 1975 from cultured human acute myelogenous leukaemia peripheral blood leukocytes in the laboratory of Robert Gallo, which would have been the first cancer-causing retrovirus isolated from human sera. It was later shown to be a laboratory contaminant of thre... |
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