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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinomial%20probit | In statistics and econometrics, the multinomial probit model is a generalization of the probit model used when there are several possible categories that the dependent variable can fall into. As such, it is an alternative to the multinomial logit model as one method of multiclass classification. It is not to be confus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate%20reintroduction | Primate reintroduction is a form of species reintroduction and is the process by which captive or previously free-ranging primates are either translocated or rehabilitated and released into the wild. The goals of primate reintroduction efforts are typically to reestablish or reinforce wild populations, improve the welf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thraustochytrium%20mitochondrial%20code | The Thraustochytrium mitochondrial code (translation table 23) is a genetic code found in the mitochondria of the labyrinthulid protist Thraustochytrium aureum. The mitochondrial genome was sequenced by the Organelle Genome Megasequencing Program.
Code
Differences from the standard code
It is the similar to the bact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire%20wrap | Wire wrap is an electronic component assembly technique that was invented to wire telephone crossbar switches, and later adapted to construct electronic circuit boards. Electronic components mounted on an insulating board are interconnected by lengths of insulated wire run between their terminals, with the connections... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20iteration | In numerical analysis, inverse iteration (also known as the inverse power method) is an iterative eigenvalue algorithm. It allows one to find an approximate
eigenvector when an approximation to a corresponding eigenvalue is already known.
The method is conceptually similar to the power method.
It appears to have origi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year%202038%20problem | The year 2038 problem (also known as Y2038, Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse) is a time formatting bug in computer systems with representing times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
The problem exists in systems which measure Unix time – the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicoline | Citicoline (INN), also known as cytidine diphosphate-choline (CDP-Choline) or cytidine 5'-diphosphocholine is an intermediate in the generation of phosphatidylcholine from choline, a common biochemical process in cell membranes. Citicoline is naturally occurring in the cells of human and animal tissue, in particular th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBsAg | HBsAg (also known as the Australia antigen) is the surface antigen of the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Its presence in blood indicates current hepatitis B infection.
Structure and function
The viral envelope of an enveloped virus has different surface proteins from the rest of the virus which act as antigens. These antig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry%20Feichtner-Kozlov | Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov (born 16 December 1972, in Tomsk, Russia) is a Russian-German mathematician.
He works in the field of Applied and Combinatorial Topology, where he publishes under the name Dmitry N. Kozlov.
Biography
Feichtner-Kozlov obtained his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm in 1996, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taeha%20Types | Tae Ha Kim, known by his streaming channel Taeha Types, is a mechanical keyboard creator and livestreamer. While known for his commissioned keyboards, his Twitch livestream compose his primary occupation. His channel has influenced the rise of the mechanical keyboard hobby, particularly boosted by his viral video assem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%E2%80%93fuel%20ratio | Air–fuel ratio (AFR) is the mass ratio of air to a solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel present in a combustion process. The combustion may take place in a controlled manner such as in an internal combustion engine or industrial furnace, or may result in an explosion (e.g., a dust explosion, gas or vapor explosion or in a t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRESENT | PRESENT is a lightweight block cipher, developed by the Orange Labs (France), Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and the Technical University of Denmark in 2007. PRESENT was designed by Andrey Bogdanov, Lars R. Knudsen, Gregor Leander, Christof Paar, Axel Poschmann, Matthew J. B. Robshaw, Yannick Seurin, and C. Vikkelso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORF7a | ORF7a (also known by several other names, including SARS coronavirus X4, SARS-X4, ORF7a, or U122) is a gene found in coronaviruses of the Betacoronavirus genus. It expresses the Betacoronavirus NS7A protein, a type I transmembrane protein with an immunoglobulin-like protein domain. It was first discovered in SARS-CoV, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterials%3A%20Physics%20and%20Engineering%20Explorations | Metamaterials: Physics and Engineering Explorations is a book length introduction to the fundamental research and advancements in electromagnetic composite substances known as electromagnetic metamaterials. The discussion encompasses examination of the physics of metamaterial interactions, the designs, and the perspec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-end%20audio | High-end audio is a class of consumer home audio equipment marketed to audiophiles on the basis of high price or quality, and esoteric or novel sound reproduction technologies. The term can refer simply to the price, to the build quality of the components, or to the subjective or objective quality of sound reproduction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urologic%20chronic%20pelvic%20pain%20syndrome | Urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS) is ongoing bladder pain in either sex, chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) in men and interstitial cystitis or painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) in women.
It was coined as an umbrella term for use in research into urologic pain syndromes in men and w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selected%20reaction%20monitoring | Selected reaction monitoring (SRM), also called Multiple reaction monitoring, (MRM), is a method used in tandem mass spectrometry in which an ion of a particular mass is selected in the first stage of a tandem mass spectrometer and an ion product of a fragmentation reaction of the precursor ions is selected in the sec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Zimmer | Karl Günter Zimmer (12 July 1911 – 29 February 1988), PhD, was a German nuclear chemist who is best known for his work in understanding the ionizing radiation on Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
In 1935, he published the major work, Über die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstruktur, with N. V. Timofeev-Resovskij, and Max... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfr10I/Bse634I | In molecular biology, the Cfr10I/Bse634I family of restriction endonucleases includes the type II restriction endonucleases Cfr10I and Bse634I. They exhibit a conserved tetrameric architecture that is of functional importance, wherein two dimers are arranged, back-to-back, with their putative DNA-binding clefts facing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN%2066003 | The German standard DIN 66003, also known as Code page 1011 (CCSID 1011; abbreviated CP1011) by IBM, Code page 20106 (abbreviated CP20106) by Microsoft and D7DEC by Oracle, is a modification of 7-bit ASCII with adaptations for the German language, replacing certain symbol characters with umlauts and the eszett. It is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20Instructional%20Resource%20Association | The Physics Instructional Association (PIRA) is an American association of physics education professionals and enthusiasts. Members are physics teachers, physics administrators, physics educational support staff and physics students. Interests cover all aspects of physics education with an emphasis on demonstrations,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth%20definability | In mathematical logic, Beth definability is a result that connects implicit definability of a property to its explicit definability. Specifically Beth definability states that the two senses of definability are equivalent.
First-order logic has the Beth definability property.
Statement
For first-order logic, the the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose%20intolerance | Lactose intolerance is caused by a lessened ability or a complete inability to digest lactose, a sugar found in dairy products. Humans vary in the amount of lactose they can tolerate before symptoms develop. Symptoms may include abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, flatulence, and nausea. These symptoms typically start ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%282-Nitrophenyl%29acetic%20acid | 2-Nitrophenylacetic acid is an organic compound used in organic synthesis that has also been used as an herbicide. It is a derivative of phenylacetic acid, containing a phenyl functional group, a carboxylic acid functional group, and a nitro functional group. It is an important reagent for many organic reactions, espec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol%20formaldehyde%20resin | Phenol formaldehyde resins (PF) (phenolic resins or phenoplasts) are synthetic polymers obtained by the reaction of phenol or substituted phenol with formaldehyde. Used as the basis for Bakelite, PFs were the first commercial synthetic resins (plastics). They have been widely used for the production of molded products ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Light | Green Light, green light, green-light or greenlight may refer to:
Green-colored light, part of the visible spectrum
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films and television
Green Light (1937 film), starring Errol Flynn
Green Light (2002 film), a Turkish film written and directed by Faruk Aksoy
"Green Light" (Breaking... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UML-RSDS | UML-RSDS is a lightweight Model-driven engineering (MDE) and Model transformation tool supporting the UML 2.5 class diagram notation and OCL 2.4 Object Constraint Language. It supports code-generation in multiple 3GLs: Java, C#, C++, Python, Go, Swift and ANSI C.
The toolset has been defined as an Eclipse project Agil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fill%20and%20finish | In the pharmaceutical industry, fill and finish (also referred to as fill finish, fill-finish or fill/finish) is the process of filling vials with vaccine, biological and pharmaceutical Drug Substances (DS) and finishing the process of packaging the medicine for distribution. Many vaccine manufacturers use third partie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous%20Serial%20Port | A Synchronous Serial Port (SSP) is a controller that supports the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), 4-wire Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI), and Microwire serial buses. A SSP uses a master-slave paradigm to communicate across its connected bus.
See also
Serial Peripheral Interface Bus
Serial buses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyploid%20complex | A polyploid complex, also called a diploid-polyploid complex, is a group of interrelated and interbreeding species that also have differing levels of ploidy that can allow interbreeding.
A polyploid complex was described by E. B. Babcock and G. Ledyard Stebbins in their 1938 monograph The American Species of Crepis: t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP13%20family | Cytochrome P450, family 13, also known as CYP13, is a nematoda cytochrome P450 monooxygenase family. The first gene identified in this family is the CYP13A1 from the Caenorhabditis elegans.
CYP13 can be divided into subfamily CYP13A and CYP13B, and the CYP13B was named CYP16 family at the beginning of its discovery, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/165th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 165° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 165th meridian west forms a great circle with the 15th meridian east.
The Samoa Time Zone and Phoenix Islands... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoopla%20%28digital%20media%20service%29 | Hoopla (stylized as hoopla) is a web and mobile (Android/iOS) library media streaming platform launched in 2010 for audio books, comics, e-books, movies, music, and TV. Patrons of a library that supports Hoopla have access to its collection of digital media.
Hoopla Digital is a division of Midwest Tape.
Business mod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phragmen%E2%80%93Brouwer%20theorem | In topology, the Phragmén–Brouwer theorem, introduced by Lars Edvard Phragmén and Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, states that if X is a normal connected locally connected topological space, then the following two properties are equivalent:
If A and B are disjoint closed subsets whose union separates X, then either A or B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostapd | hostapd (host access point daemon) is a user space daemon software enabling a network interface card to act as an access point and authentication server. There are three implementations: Jouni Malinen's hostapd, OpenBSD's hostapd and Devicescape's hostapd.
Jouni Malinen's hostapd
Jouni Malinen's hostapd is a user sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Bullion | e-Bullion was an Internet-based digital gold currency founded by Jim and Pamela Fayed of Moorpark, California, as part of their Goldfinger Coin & Bullion group of companies. The company was incorporated in 2000 and launched on July 4, 2001. Similar to competing systems such as e-gold, e-Bullion allowed for the instant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20family | In computer engineering, a logic family is one of two related concepts:
A logic family of monolithic digital integrated circuit devices is a group of electronic logic gates constructed using one of several different designs, usually with compatible logic levels and power supply characteristics within a family. Many lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Leon | Mark Leon (1962 - 2018) was a former civil servant with NASA Ames Research Center. His primary work was in education and communication systems.
Early life
Mark Leon grew up in a rather rough East San Jose neighborhood, and graduated from James Lick High School in 1980. He originally began taking a slightly more academ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Reck%20Miranda | Eduardo Reck Miranda (born 1963) is a Brazilian composer of chamber and electroacoustic pieces but is most notable in the United Kingdom for his scientific research into computer music, particularly in the field of human-machine interfaces where brain waves will replace keyboards and voice commands to permit the disabl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmon | In physics, a plasmon is a quantum of plasma oscillation. Just as light (an optical oscillation) consists of photons, the plasma oscillation consists of plasmons. The plasmon can be considered as a quasiparticle since it arises from the quantization of plasma oscillations, just like phonons are quantizations of mechani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20segregation%20%28biology%29 | In biology, sexual segregation is the differential use of space, habitats, and resources by males and females, or the separation of males and females into different social groups outside the breeding season. Sexual segregation is widespread among animals, especially among vertebrates that live in groups, and has also b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%20Not%20Track | Do Not Track (DNT) is a formerly official HTTP header field, designed to allow internet users to opt-out of tracking by websites—which includes the collection of data regarding a user's activity across multiple distinct contexts, and the retention, use, or sharing of data derived from that activity outside the context ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Cantabria | The flag of the Spanish region of Cantabria is made up of two horizontal stripes of equal width, white on the top and red on the bottom, and the region's coat of arms in its centre. The design is established in the text of the Autonomy Statute, except for the coat of arms, which was established by a Law of the Regional... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Crawl | Common Crawl is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public. Common Crawl's web archive consists of petabytes of data collected since 2008. It completes crawls generally every month.
Common Crawl was founded by Gil Elbaz. Advisors to the non-profit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island%20growth | Island growth is a physical model of deposited film growth and chemical vapor deposition.
Introduction
When atoms are deposited slowly onto a flat surface, the first one undergoes a random walk on that surface. Eventually a second atom is deposited; in all likelihood it will eventually meet the first atom. Once the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasso%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics and machine learning, lasso (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator; also Lasso or LASSO) is a regression analysis method that performs both variable selection and regularization in order to enhance the prediction accuracy and interpretability of the resulting statistical model. It was originally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carath%C3%A9odory%E2%80%93Jacobi%E2%80%93Lie%20theorem | The Carathéodory–Jacobi–Lie theorem is a theorem in symplectic geometry which generalizes Darboux's theorem.
Statement
Let M be a 2n-dimensional symplectic manifold with symplectic form ω. For p ∈ M and r ≤ n, let f1, f2, ..., fr be smooth functions defined on an open neighborhood V of p whose differentials are linear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricentis%20Tosca | Tricentis Tosca is a software testing tool that is used to automate end-to-end testing for software applications. It is developed by Tricentis.
Tricentis Tosca combines multiple aspects of software testing (test case design, test automation, test data design and generation, and analytics) to test GUIs and APIs from a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrewd%20cardinal | In mathematics, a shrewd cardinal is a certain kind of large cardinal number introduced by , extending the definition of indescribable cardinals.
For an ordinal λ, a cardinal number κ is called λ-shrewd if for every proposition φ, and set A ⊆ Vκ with (Vκ+λ, ∈, A) ⊧ φ there exists an α, λ' < κ with (Vα+λ', ∈, A ∩ Vα) ⊧... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-root%20input/output%20virtualization | In virtualization, single root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) is a specification that allows the isolation of PCI Express resources for manageability and performance reasons.
Details
A single physical PCI Express bus can be shared in a virtual environment using the SR-IOV specification. The SR-IOV offers differe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus%20Levene | Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene (25 February 1869 – 6 September 1940) was a Russian-born American biochemist who studied the structure and function of nucleic acids. He characterized the different forms of nucleic acid, DNA from RNA, and found that DNA contained adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine, deoxyribose, and a ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-buy | Cross-buy is a feature of some digital distribution systems available across multiple device platforms, where users who purchase a license to a specific piece of software are able to use the versions of the software for different device classes at no additional charge.
The term is associated mainly with digital distri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath-Brown%E2%80%93Moroz%20constant | The Heath-Brown–Moroz constant C, named for Roger Heath-Brown and Boris Moroz, is defined as
where p runs over the primes.
Application
This constant is part of an asymptotic estimate for the distribution of rational points of bounded height on the cubic surface X03=X1X2X3. Let H be a positive real number and N(H) th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilm | A biofilm comprises any syntrophic consortium of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. These adherent cells become embedded within a slimy extracellular matrix that is composed of extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs). The cells within the biofilm produce the EPS components,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20dependency | In software engineering, a circular dependency is a relation between two or more modules which either directly or indirectly depend on each other to function properly. Such modules are also known as mutually recursive.
Overview
Circular dependencies are natural in many domain models where certain objects of the same d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve%20to%20the%20stapedius | The nerve to the stapedius is a branch of the facial nerve (CN VII) which innervates the stapedius muscle. It arises from the CN VII within the facial canal, opposite the pyramidal eminence. It passes through a small canal in this eminence to reach the stapedius muscle. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaldor%E2%80%93Hicks%20efficiency | A Kaldor–Hicks improvement, named for Nicholas Kaldor and John Hicks, is an economic re-allocation of resources among people that captures some of the intuitive appeal of a Pareto improvement, but has less stringent criteria and is hence applicable to more circumstances. A re-allocation is a Kaldor–Hicks improvement if... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20thermodynamics | Rational thermodynamics is a school of thought in statistical thermodynamics developed in the 1960s.
Its introduction is attributed to Clifford Truesdell (1919–2000), Bernard Coleman (b. 1929) and Walter Noll (1925–2017).
The aim was to develop a mathematical model of thermodynamics that would go beyond the traditional... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miron%20Nicolescu | Miron Nicolescu (; August 27, 1903 – June 30, 1975) was a Romanian mathematician, best known for his work in real analysis and differential equations. He was President of the Romanian Academy and Vice-President of the International Mathematical Union.
Born in Giurgiu, the son of a teacher, he attended the Matei Basara... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20coloring | Food coloring, or color additive, is any dye, pigment, or substance that imparts color when it is added to food or drink. They can be supplied as liquids, powders, gels, or pastes. Food coloring is used in both commercial food production and domestic cooking. Food colorants are also used in a variety of non-food applic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press%20cake | A press cake or oil cake is the solids remaining after pressing something to extract the liquids. Their most common use is in animal feed.
Some foods whose processing creates press cakes are olives for olive oil (pomace), peanuts for peanut oil, coconut flesh for coconut cream and milk (sapal), grapes for wine (pomace... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.1ah | IEEE 802.1ah is an amendment to the IEEE 802.1Q networking standard which adds support for Provider Backbone Bridges. It includes an architecture and a set of protocols for routing over a provider's network, allowing interconnection of multiple provider bridge networks without losing each customer's individually define... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acyl%20carrier%20protein | The acyl carrier protein (ACP) is a cofactor of both fatty acid and polyketide biosynthesis machinery. It is one of the most abundant proteins in cells of E. coli. In both cases, the growing chain is bound to the ACP via a thioester derived from the distal thiol of a 4'-phosphopantetheine moiety.
Structure
The ACPs ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-stunning | Cold-stunning, also known as hypothermic stunning, is a hypothermic reaction experienced by marine reptiles, notably sea turtles, when exposed to cold water for prolonged periods, which causes them to become weak and inactive. Cold-stunned sea turtles may float to the surface and be further exposed to cold temperatures... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicone%20quaternary%20amine | Silicone quaternary amine is a chemical antimicrobial agent used in some odor-repellent socks, including Burlington Bioguard Socks.
External links
Antimicrobials
Polymers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay%20lot | A Hay Lot is a portion of common land used for haymaking and assigned by lot or allotment. Traditionally a marker, usually of stone, was used in early agriculture to mark the position of an individual hay lot within a hay meadow. The marker stone would typically bear the initials of the lot-holder. Such markers would h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Reroute | Fast Reroute is a MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) and IP resiliency technology to provide fast traffic recovery upon link or router failures for mission critical services.
Upon any single link or node failures, it could be able to recover impacted traffic flows in the level of 50 ms. Industrial implementations ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-convergence | In mathematics, Delta-convergence, or Δ-convergence, is a mode of convergence in metric spaces, weaker than the usual metric convergence, and similar to (but distinct from) the weak convergence in Banach spaces. In Hilbert space, Delta-convergence and weak convergence coincide. For a general class of spaces, similarly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%20942 | Code page 942 (abbreviated as CP942 or IBM-942) is one of IBM's extensions of Shift JIS. The coded character sets are JIS X 0201, JIS X 0208, IBM extensions for IBM 1880 UDC and IBM extensions. It is the combination of the single-byte Code page 1041 and the double-byte Code page 301.
It is a superset of IBM-932, diffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautschi%27s%20inequality | In real analysis, a branch of mathematics, Gautschi's inequality is an inequality for ratios of gamma functions. It is named after Walter Gautschi.
Statement
Let be a positive real number, and let . Then
History
In 1948, Wendel proved the inequalities
for and . He used this to determine the asymptotic behavior ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.1ag | IEEE 802.1ag is an amendment to the IEEE 802.1Q networking standard which introduces Connectivity Fault Management (CFM). This defines protocols and practices for the operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) of paths through 802.1 bridges and local area networks (LANs). The final version was approved by the IE... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous%20frame | A synchronous frame is a reference frame in which the time coordinate defines proper time for all co-moving observers. It is built by choosing some constant time hypersurface as an origin, such that has in every point a normal along the time line and a light cone with an apex in that point can be constructed; all inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20Wars | A long-running debate in computer science known as the Protocol Wars occurred from the 1970s to the 1990s when engineers, organizations and nations became polarized over the issue of which communication protocol would result in the best and most robust computer networks. This culminated in the Internet–OSI Standards Wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entner%E2%80%93Doudoroff%20pathway | The Entner–Doudoroff pathway (ED Pathway) is a metabolic pathway that is most notable in Gram-negative bacteria, certain Gram-positive bacteria and archaea. Glucose is the substrate in the ED pathway and through a series of enzyme assisted chemical reactions it is catabolized into pyruvate. Entner and Doudoroff (1952) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20mobility%20management | Wireless mobility management in Personal Communications Service (PCS) is the assigning and controlling of wireless links for terminal network connections. Wireless mobility management provides an "alerting" function for call completion to a wireless terminal, monitors wireless link performance to determine when an auto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma%20matrices | In mathematical physics, the gamma matrices, also called the Dirac matrices, are a set of conventional matrices with specific anticommutation relations that ensure they generate a matrix representation of the Clifford algebra It is also possible to define higher-dimensional gamma matrices. When interpreted as the ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostow%E2%80%93Palais%20theorem | In mathematics, the Mostow–Palais theorem is an equivariant version of the Whitney embedding theorem. It states that if a manifold is acted on by a compact Lie group with finitely many orbit types, then it can be embedded into some finite-dimensional orthogonal representation. It was introduced by and . |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy%20Bridge | Sandy Bridge is the codename for Intel's 32 nm microarchitecture used in the second generation of the Intel Core processors (Core i7, i5, i3). The Sandy Bridge microarchitecture is the successor to Nehalem and Westmere microarchitecture. Intel demonstrated a Sandy Bridge processor in 2009, and released first products b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply%20transitive%20group%20action | A group acts 2-transitively on a set if it acts transitively on the set of distinct ordered pairs . That is, assuming (without a real loss of generality) that acts on the left of , for each pair of pairs with and , there exists a such that .
The group action is sharply 2-transitive if such is unique.
A 2-tran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum%20microbiology | Petroleum microbiology is a branch of microbiology that deals with the study of microorganisms that can metabolize or alter crude or refined petroleum products. These microorganisms, also called hydrocarbonoclastic microorganisms, can degrade hydrocarbons and, include a wide distribution of bacteria, methanogenic archa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%20symbol | A map symbol or cartographic symbol is a graphical device used to visually represent a real-world feature on a map, working in the same fashion as other forms of symbols. Map symbols may include point markers, lines, regions, continuous fields, or text; these can be designed visually in their shape, size, color, patter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creswell%20Crags | Creswell Crags is an enclosed limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England, near the villages of Creswell and Whitwell. The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago. Its caves contain the northernmo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%20Fan%20inequality%20%28game%20theory%29 | In mathematics, there are different results that share the common name of the Ky Fan inequality. The Ky Fan inequality presented here is used in game theory to investigate the existence of an equilibrium.
Another Ky Fan inequality is an inequality involving the geometric mean and arithmetic mean of two sets of real nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Congress%20of%20Genetics | The International Congress of Genetics (ICG) is a five yearly conference for geneticists. The first ICG was held in 1898. Since 1973 It has been organized by the International Genetics Federation (IGF). The aim of the congress is to reflect on progress made in genetics, to celebrate the best of contemporary research an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20access%20point | In computer networking, a wireless access point, or more generally just access point (AP), is a networking hardware device that allows other Wi-Fi devices to connect to a wired network. As a standalone device, the AP may have a wired connection to a router, but, in a wireless router, it can also be an integral componen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insufflation%20%28medicine%29 | Insufflation () is the act of blowing something (such as a gas, powder, or vapor) into a body cavity. Insufflation has many medical uses, most notably as a route of administration for various drugs.
Medical uses
Surgery
Gases are often insufflated into a body cavity to inflate the cavity for more workroom, e.g. duri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercopithecine%20gammaherpesvirus%2014 | Cercopithecine gammaherpesvirus 14 (CeHV-14) is a species of virus in the genus Lymphocryptovirus, subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20cardiac%20nerve | The superior cardiac nerve arises by two or more branches from the superior cervical ganglion, and occasionally receives a filament from the trunk between the first and second cervical ganglia. It runs down the neck behind the common carotid artery, and in front of the Longus colli muscle; and crosses in front of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2010967 | ISO/IEC 10967, Language independent arithmetic (LIA), is a series of
standards on computer arithmetic. It is compatible with ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011,
more known as IEEE 754-2008, and much of the
specifications are for IEEE 754 special values
(though such values are not required by LIA itself, unless the parameter iec55... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis%20viva | Vis viva (from the Latin for "living force") is a historical term used to describe a quantity similar to kinetic energy in an early formulation of the principle of conservation of energy.
Overview
Proposed by Gottfried Leibniz over the period 1676–1689, the theory was controversial as it seemed to oppose the theory of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilome | The mobilome is the entire set of mobile genetic elements in a genome. Mobilomes are found in eukaryotes, prokaryotes, and viruses. The compositions of mobilomes differ among lineages of life, with transposable elements being the major mobile elements in eukaryotes, and plasmids and prophages being the major types in p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time/memory/data%20tradeoff%20attack | A time/memory/data tradeoff attack is a type of cryptographic attack where an attacker tries to achieve a situation similar to the space–time tradeoff but with the additional parameter of data, representing the amount of data available to the attacker. An attacker balances or reduces one or two of those parameters in f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acta%20Biotheoretica | Acta Biotheoretica: Mathematical and philosophical foundations of biological and biomedical science is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It is the official journal of the Jan van der Hoeven Society for Theoretical Biology. The editor-in-chief is F.J.A. Jacobs (Le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burberry | Burberry Group plc is a British luxury fashion house established in 1856 by Thomas Burberry and headquartered in London, England. It currently designs and distributes ready to wear, including trench coats (for which it is most famous), leather accessories, and footwear.
History
Early years, 19th century
Burberry was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s%20method | In numerical analysis, Halley's method is a root-finding algorithm used for functions of one real variable with a continuous second derivative. It is named after its inventor Edmond Halley.
The algorithm is second in the class of Householder's methods, after Newton's method. Like the latter, it iteratively produces a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20file%20server | In computing, a virtual file server is a system consisting of one or more virtualized devices that store computer files such as documents, sound files, photographs, movies, images, or databases. The server can be accessed by workstations or application servers through the Virtual Fileserver Network (VFN).
The term "se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20free%20lunch%20theorem | In mathematical folklore, the "no free lunch" (NFL) theorem (sometimes pluralized) of David Wolpert and William Macready, alludes to the saying "no such thing as a free lunch", that is, there are no easy shortcuts to success. It appeared in the 1997 "No Free Lunch Theorems for Optimization". Wolpert had previously deri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LILRA2 | Leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor subfamily A member 2 (LILRA2, CD85H, ILT1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LILRA2 gene.
Leukocyte Ig-like receptors (LIRs) are a family of immunoreceptors expressed predominantly on monocytes and B cells and at lower levels on dendritic cells and natural killer (NK)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPANG | GPANG (Korean: 지팡) was a 3D mobile game service introduced in 2004 by the Korean provider KTF. This service allowed subscribers to access a downloadable game portal and play advanced 3D mobile games, including MMOs. KTF's GPANG competed with SK Telecom's own 3D mobile game service called GXG. On June 1 2009, GPANG ceas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastocyst | The blastocyst is a structure formed in the early embryonic development of mammals. It possesses an inner cell mass (ICM) also known as the embryoblast which subsequently forms the embryo, and an outer layer of trophoblast cells called the trophectoderm. This layer surrounds the inner cell mass and a fluid-filled cavit... |
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