source stringlengths 31 227 | text stringlengths 9 2k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COWSEL | COWSEL (COntrolled Working SpacE Language) is a programming language designed between 1964 and 1966 by Robin Popplestone. It was based on an reverse Polish notation (RPN) form of the language Lisp, combined with some ideas from Combined Programming Language (CPL).
COWSEL was initially implemented on a Ferranti Pegasus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGPIE | MAGPIE (Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments) is a pulsed power generator based at Imperial College London, United Kingdom. The generator was originally designed to produce a current pulse with a maximum of 1.8 million amperes in 240 nanoseconds (150 nanoseconds rise time). At present the machine is o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%20wavelength | The Compton wavelength is a quantum mechanical property of a particle, defined as the wavelength of a photon whose energy is the same as the rest energy of that particle (see mass–energy equivalence). It was introduced by Arthur Compton in 1923 in his explanation of the scattering of photons by electrons (a process kno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication%20theorem | In physics, the no-communication theorem or no-signaling principle is a no-go theorem from quantum information theory which states that, during measurement of an entangled quantum state, it is not possible for one observer, by making a measurement of a subsystem of the total state, to communicate information to another... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror%20neuron | A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an organism acts and when the organism observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. Mirror neurons are not always physiologically distinct from other types of neurons in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zener%20pinning | Zener pinning is the influence of a dispersion of fine particles on the movement of low- and high-angle grain boundaries through a polycrystalline material. Small particles act to prevent the motion of such boundaries by exerting a pinning pressure which counteracts the driving force pushing the boundaries. Zener pinni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-or-nothing%20transform | In cryptography, an all-or-nothing transform (AONT), also known as an all-or-nothing protocol, is an encryption mode which allows the data to be understood only if all of it is known. AONTs are not encryption, but frequently make use of symmetric ciphers and may be applied before encryption. In exact terms, "an AONT is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday%20Night%20Seder | The Saturday Night Seder was a Passover Seder held on April 11, 2020 by StoryCourse in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; to provide relief and support to the public in an effort to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The seder was sponsored by BuzzFeed and aired on their Tasty YouTube channel.
Overview
The seder... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Mott%20Prize%20Lecture | The Joan Mott Prize Lecture is a prize lecture awarded annually by The Physiological Society in honour of Joan Mott.
Laureates
Laureates of the award have included:
- Intestinal absorption of sugars and peptides: from textbook to surprises
See also
Physiological Society Annual Review Prize L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoubi%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Karoubi conjecture is a conjecture by that the algebraic and topological K-theories coincide on C* algebras spatially tensored with the algebra of compact operators. It was proved by . |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial%20sample%20curation | The curation of extraterrestrial samples (astromaterials) obtained by sample-return missions takes place at facilities specially designed to preserve both the sample integrity and protect the Earth. Astromaterials are classified as either non-restricted or restricted, depending on the nature of the Solar System body. N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogate%20decision-maker | A surrogate decision maker, also known as a health care proxy or as agents, is an advocate for incompetent patients. If a patient is unable to make decisions for themselves about personal care, some agent must make decisions for them. If there is a durable power of attorney for health care, the agent appointed by that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-modifying%20code | In computer science, self-modifying code (SMC or SMoC) is code that alters its own instructions while it is executing – usually to reduce the instruction path length and improve performance or simply to reduce otherwise repetitively similar code, thus simplifying maintenance. The term is usually only applied to code wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taper%20burn%20mark | Taper burn marks are deep flame shaped scorch marks often found on the timber beams of early modern houses. They were originally thought to have been accidental scorches from a taper candle, but research suggests that most marks may have been made deliberately, as there is clear patterning of the activity. They are the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIF9 | Kinesin family member 9 (KIF9), also known as kinesin-9, is a human protein encoded by the KIF9 gene. It is part of the kinesin family of motor proteins.
Function
The beating of the flagella in sperm is regulated by KIF9 activity. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Medal | The Max Planck medal is the highest award of the German Physical Society , the world's largest organization of physicists, for extraordinary achievements in theoretical physics. The prize has been awarded annually since 1929, with few exceptions, and usually to a single person. The winner is awarded with a gold medal a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biased%20random%20walk%20on%20a%20graph | In network science, a biased random walk on a graph is a time path process in which an evolving variable jumps from its current state to one of various potential new states; unlike in a pure random walk, the probabilities of the potential new states are unequal.
Biased random walks on a graph provide an approach for t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian%20Foundation | The Symbian Foundation was a non-profit organisation that stewarded the Symbian operating system for mobile phones which previously had been owned and licensed by Symbian Ltd. Symbian Foundation never directly developed the platform, but evangelised, co-ordinated and ensured compatibility. It also provided key services... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armodafinil | Armodafinil (trade name Nuvigil) is the enantiopure compound of the eugeroic modafinil (Provigil). It consists of only the (R)-(−)-enantiomer of the racemic modafinil. Armodafinil is produced by the pharmaceutical company Cephalon Inc. and was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in June 2007. In 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie%20the%20Kid | Twinkie the Kid is the mascot for Twinkies, Hostess's golden cream-filled snack cakes. He is a registered trademark of Hostess Brands. He made his debut in 1971. He has appeared on product packaging, in commercials and as related collectible merchandise, except for a brief period between 1988 and 1990.
Description
Tw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/116th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 116° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, Australasia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 116th meridian east forms a great circle with the 64th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the No... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity%20logo | The Solidarity logo designed by Jerzy Janiszewski in 1980 is considered as an important example of Polish Poster School creations. The logo was awarded the Grand Prix of the Biennale of Posters, Katowice 1981. By that time it was already well known in Poland and had become an internationally recognized icon.
Accordi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantorovich%20theorem | The Kantorovich theorem, or Newton–Kantorovich theorem, is a mathematical statement on the semi-local convergence of Newton's method. It was first stated by Leonid Kantorovich in 1948. It is similar to the form of the Banach fixed-point theorem, although it states existence and uniqueness of a zero rather than a fixed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Game%20%28mind%20game%29 | The Game is a mind game in which the objective is to avoid thinking about The Game itself. Thinking about The Game constitutes a loss, which must be announced each time it occurs. It is impossible to win most versions of The Game. Depending on the variation, it is held that the whole world, or all those who are aware o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fairyland%20Story | is a platform arcade video game developed and published by Taito in 1985. In the game, the player controls the witch Ptolemy, with the objective being to clear the screen of all enemies. Ptolemy can use her wand to turn the enemies into large cakes, which she can then push off of platforms onto other enemies, which wil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejection%20of%20evolution%20by%20religious%20groups | Recurring cultural, political, and theological rejection of evolution by religious groups exists regarding the origins of the Earth, of humanity, and of other life. In accordance with creationism, species were once widely believed to be fixed products of divine creation, but since the mid-19th century, evolution by nat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biointerface | A biointerface is the region of contact between a biomolecule, cell, biological tissue or living organism or organic material considered living with another biomaterial or inorganic/organic material. The motivation for biointerface science stems from the urgent need to increase the understanding of interactions between... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology%20of%20the%20universe | The chronology of the universe describes the history and future of the universe according to Big Bang cosmology.
Research published in 2015 estimates the earliest stages of the universe's existence as taking place 13.8 billion years ago, with an uncertainty of around 21 million years at the 68% confidence level.
Outl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicloud | Multicloud (also written as multi-cloud or multi cloud) refers to a company utilizing multiple cloud computing services from various public vendors within a single, heterogeneous architecture. This approach enhances cloud infrastructure capabilities and optimizes costs. It also refers to the distribution of cloud asset... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptotic%20theory%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics, asymptotic theory, or large sample theory, is a framework for assessing properties of estimators and statistical tests. Within this framework, it is often assumed that the sample size may grow indefinitely; the properties of estimators and tests are then evaluated under the limit of . In practice, a lim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsal%20carpal%20branch%20of%20the%20ulnar%20artery | The dorsal carpal branch of the ulnar artery arises from the ulnar artery immediately above the pisiform bone, and winds backward beneath the tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris; it passes across the dorsal surface of the carpus beneath the extensor tendons, to anastomose with a corresponding branch of the radial artery... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory%20stimulation%20therapy | Sensory stimulation therapy (SST) is an experimental therapy that aims to use neural plasticity mechanisms to aid in the recovery of somatosensory function after stroke or cognitive ageing. Stroke and cognitive ageing are well known sources of cognitive loss, the former by neuronal death, the latter by weakening of neu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertactin | In molecular biology, pertactin (PRN) is a highly immunogenic virulence factor of Bordetella pertussis, the bacterium that causes pertussis. Specifically, it is an outer membrane protein that promotes adhesion to tracheal epithelial cells. PRN is purified from Bordetella pertussis and is used for the vaccine productio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiner%20Perkins | Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in incubation, early stage and growth companies. Since its founding in 1972, the firm has backed entrepreneurs in over 900 ventures, including America Online, Amazon.com, Tandem Computer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation%20rate | In genetics, the mutation rate is the frequency of new mutations in a single gene or organism over time. Mutation rates are not constant and are not limited to a single type of mutation; there are many different types of mutations. Mutation rates are given for specific classes of mutations. Point mutations are a class ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%2Cn%2Ck-game | An m,n,k-game is an abstract board game in which two players take turns in placing a stone of their color on an m-by-n board, the winner being the player who first gets k stones of their own color in a row, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Thus, tic-tac-toe is the 3,3,3-game and free-style gomoku is the 15,15,5... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waru%20Waru | Waru Waru is an Aymara term for the agricultural technique developed by pre-Hispanic people in the Andes region of South America from Ecuador to Bolivia; this regional agricultural technique is also referred to as camellones in Spanish. Functionally similar agricultural techniques have been developed in other parts of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrin%20alpha-1 | Integrin alpha-1 also CD49a is an integrin alpha subunit encoded in humans by the gene ITGA1. It makes up half of the α1β1 integrin duplex. Though CD49a can bind a number of ligands including collagen IV, collagen I, and others.
CD49a has been implicated as a marker of tissue resident memory T cells, where it may be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform%20random%20variate%20generation | Non-uniform random variate generation or pseudo-random number sampling is the numerical practice of generating pseudo-random numbers (PRN) that follow a given probability distribution.
Methods are typically based on the availability of a uniformly distributed PRN generator. Computational algorithms are then used to man... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM%20model | The Lambda-CDM, Lambda cold dark matter or ΛCDM model is a mathematical model of the Big Bang theory with three major components:
a cosmological constant denoted by lambda (Λ) associated with dark energy,
the postulated cold dark matter, and
ordinary matter.
It is frequently referred to as the standard model of Bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20pH | Soil pH is a measure of the acidity or basicity (alkalinity) of a soil. Soil pH is a key characteristic that can be used to make informative analysis both qualitative and quantitatively regarding soil characteristics. pH is defined as the negative logarithm (base 10) of the activity of hydronium ions ( or, more precis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split%20supersymmetry | In particle physics, split supersymmetry is a proposal for physics beyond the Standard Model.
History
It was proposed separately in three papers. The first by James Wells in June 2003 in a more modest form that mildly relaxed the assumption about naturalness in the Higgs potential. In May 2004 Nima Arkani-Hamed and S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroxine | Chloroxine (trade name Capitrol; Kloroxin, Dichlorchinolinol, chlorquinol, halquinol(s)); Latin cloroxinum, dichlorchinolinolum) is an antibacterial drug. Oral formulations (under trade name such as Endiaron) are used in infectious diarrhea, disorders of the intestinal microflora (e.g. after antibiotic treatment), giar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulated%20power%20supply | A regulated power supply is an embedded circuit; it converts unregulated AC (alternating current) into a constant DC. With the help of a rectifier it converts AC supply into DC. Its function is to supply a stable voltage (or less often current), to a circuit or device that must be operated within certain power supply l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offline%20private%20key%20protocol | The Offline Private Key Protocol (OPKP) is a cryptographic protocol to prevent unauthorized access to back up or archive data. The protocol results in a public key that can be used to encrypt data and an offline private key that can later be used to decrypt that data.
The protocol is based on three rules regarding the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale | XScale is a microarchitecture for central processing units initially designed by Intel implementing the ARM architecture (version 5) instruction set. XScale comprises several distinct families: IXP, IXC, IOP, PXA and CE (see more below), with some later models designed as system-on-a-chip (SoC). Intel sold the PXA fami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear%20enemy%20effect | The dear enemy effect or dear enemy recognition is an ethological phenomenon in which two neighbouring territorial animals become less aggressive toward one another once territorial borders are well established. As territory owners become accustomed to their neighbours, they expend less time and energy on defensive beh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartouche | In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a line at one end tangent to it, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name. The first examples of the cartouche are associated with pharaohs at the end of the Third Dynasty, but the feature did not come into common use until the beginning of the Fourth Dynas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag%20%28video%20games%29 | In computers, lag is delay (latency) between the action of the user (input) and the reaction of the server supporting the task, which has to be sent back to the client.
The player's ability to tolerate lag depends on the type of game being played. For instance, a strategy game or a turn-based game with a slow pace may... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20%28order%20theory%29 | In mathematics, specifically in order theory and functional analysis, a band in a vector lattice is a subspace of that is solid and such that for all such that exists in we have
The smallest band containing a subset of is called the band generated by in
A band generated by a singleton set is called a princ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless%20software | Headless software (e.g. "headless Linux",) is software capable of working on a device without a graphical user interface. Such software receives inputs and provides output through other interfaces like network or serial port and is common on servers and embedded devices.
The term "headless" is most often used when the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TranSMART | tranSMART is an open-source data warehouse designed to store large amounts of clinical data from clinical trials, as well as data from basic research, so that it can be interrogated together for translational research. It is also designed to be used by many people, across organizations. It was developed by Johnson & Jo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-2%20adrenergic%20receptor | The alpha-2 (α2) adrenergic receptor (or adrenoceptor) is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) associated with the Gi heterotrimeric G-protein. It consists of three highly homologous subtypes, including α2A-, α2B-, and α2C-adrenergic. Some species other than humans express a fourth α2D-adrenergic receptor as well. Catec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal%20number | In set theory, an ordinal number, or ordinal, is a generalization of ordinal numerals (first, second, th, etc.) aimed to extend enumeration to infinite sets.
A finite set can be enumerated by successively labeling each element with the least natural number that has not been previously used. To extend this process to v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act%201%20adaptor%20protein | Act 1 adaptor protein (Act 1) is an essential intermediate in the interleukin-17 pathway. The IL-17 protein is a pro-inflammatory cytokine important for tissue inflammation in host defense against infection and in autoimmune disease. It is produced by the CD4 + T cells, in particular the Th17 cells. There are 6 subtype... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal%20lobe | The frontal lobe is the largest of the four major lobes of the brain in mammals, and is located at the front of each cerebral hemisphere (in front of the parietal lobe and the temporal lobe). It is parted from the parietal lobe by a groove between tissues called the central sulcus and from the temporal lobe by a deeper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirOS%20BSD | MirOS BSD (originally called MirBSD) is a free and open source operating system which started as a fork of OpenBSD 3.1 in August 2002. It was intended to maintain the security of OpenBSD with better support for European localisation. Since then it has also incorporated code from other free BSD descendants, including Ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VARAN | VARAN (Versatile Automation Random Access Network) is a Fieldbus Ethernet-based industrial communication system.
VARAN is a wired data network technology for local data networks (LAN) with the main application in the field of automation technology. It enables the exchange of data in the form of data frames between all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope%20Array%20Project | The Telescope Array project is an international collaboration involving research and educational institutions in Japan, The United States, Russia, South Korea, and Belgium. The experiment is designed to observe air showers induced by ultra-high-energy cosmic ray using a combination of ground array and air-fluorescenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%27s%20ice%20pail%20experiment | Faraday's ice pail experiment is a simple electrostatics experiment performed in 1843 by British scientist Michael Faraday that demonstrates the effect of electrostatic induction on a conducting container. For a container, Faraday used a metal pail made to hold ice, which gave the experiment its name. The experiment sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermocline | A thermocline (also known as the thermal layer or the metalimnion in lakes) is
a distinct layer based on temperature within a large body of fluid (e.g. water, as in an ocean or lake; or air, e.g. an atmosphere) with a high gradient of distinct temperature differences associated with depth. In the ocean, the thermocline... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divar%20%28website%29 | Divar (; "wall") is an Iranian Persian classified ads and E-commerce mobile app, and an online platform for users in Iran founded in Iran in 2012 with sections devoted to real estate, vehicles, goods, community service, Industrial equipment and jobs. On average, Divar’s users post more than 139.7 million new ads & ove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-compartment%20kinetics | One-compartment kinetics for a chemical compound specifies that the uptake in the compartment is proportional to the concentration outside the compartment, and the elimination is proportional to the concentration inside the compartment. Both the compartment and the environment outside the compartment are considered to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscous%20stress%20tensor | The viscous stress tensor is a tensor used in continuum mechanics to model the part of the stress at a point within some material that can be attributed to the strain rate, the rate at which it is deforming around that point.
The viscous stress tensor is formally similar to the elastic stress tensor (Cauchy tensor) th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic%20inference%20using%20transcriptomic%20data | In molecular phylogenetics, relationships among individuals are determined using character traits, such as DNA, RNA or protein, which may be obtained using a variety of sequencing technologies. High-throughput next-generation sequencing has become a popular technique in transcriptomics, which represent a snapshot of ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk%20effect | The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. The illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound. The visual information a person ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinas%E2%80%93Patterson%20algorithm | In coding theory, the Sardinas–Patterson algorithm is a classical algorithm for determining in polynomial time whether a given variable-length code is uniquely decodable, named after August Albert Sardinas and George W. Patterson, who published it in 1953. The algorithm carries out a systematic search for a string whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon%20experiment | The POLYGON experiment was a pioneer experiment in oceanography conducted in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean during the 1970s. The experiment, led by Leonid Brekhovskikh, was the first to establish the existence of so-called mesoscale eddies, eddies at the and 100-day scale, which triggered the "mesoscale revolution"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20N.O.%20Sadiku | Matthew Nojimu Olanipekun Sadiku from the Prairie View A&M University, Cypress, TX was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 "for contributions to computational electromagnetics and engineering education".
He is a co-author of the textbook Fundamental of Electric Circuits... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20IEEE%20awards | Through its awards program, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recognizes contributions that advance the fields of interest to the IEEE. For nearly a century, the IEEE Awards Program has paid tribute to technical professionals whose exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions have made a l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demidov%20Prize | The Demidov Prize () is a national scientific prize in Russia awarded annually to the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Originally awarded from 1832 to 1866 in the Russian Empire, it was revived by the government of Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast in 1993. In its original incarnation it was one of the first annual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20End%20of%20Average | The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness is a book by Todd Rose. It was published by HarperCollins in 2016, and talks about the importance of individuality rather than the concept of average human beings.
In this book, the author argues that no individual can be accurately labeled as average... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paytm%20Payments%20Bank | Paytm Payments Bank (PPBL) is an Indian payments bank, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Noida and is part of mobile payment company paytm. In the same year, it received the license to run a payments bank from the Reserve Bank of India and was launched in November 2017. In 2021, the bank received a scheduled bank s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTC%20Therapeutics | PTC Therapeutics is a US pharmaceutical company focused on the development of orally administered small molecule drugs and gene therapy which regulate gene expression by targeting post-transcriptional control (PTC) mechanisms in orphan diseases.
In September 2009, PTC entered into an agreement with Roche for the devel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOS%20%288-bit%20operating%20system%29 | EOS is the built-in operating system of the Coleco Adam. There are bindings in high-level programming languages like BASIC.
Overview
The functions are grouped into categories as follows.
Executive calls
eos_init
eos_hard_init
eos_hard_reset_net
eos_delay_after_hard_reset
eos_synchronize_clocks
eos_scan_for_d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC%20display%20code | Display code is the six-bit character code used by many computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation, notably the CDC 6000 series in 1964, the 7600 in 1967 and the following Cyber series in 1971. The CDC 6000 series and their successors had 60 bit words. As such, typical usage packed 10 characters per wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HACS | High Angle Control System (HACS) was a British anti-aircraft fire-control system employed by the Royal Navy from 1931 and used widely during World War II. HACS calculated the necessary deflection required to place an explosive shell in the location of a target flying at a known height, bearing and speed.
Early history... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark%20repellent | A shark repellent is any method of driving sharks away from an area. Shark repellents are a category of animal repellents. Shark repellent technologies include magnetic shark repellent, electropositive shark repellents, electrical repellents, and semiochemicals. Shark repellents can be used to protect people from shark... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%20%28microarchitecture%29 | Tesla is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2006, as the successor to Curie microarchitecture. It was named after the pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. As Nvidia's first microarchitecture to implement unified shaders, it was used with GeForce 8 Series, GeForce 9 Ser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnite%20Battle%20Royale | Fortnite Battle Royale is a free-to-play battle royale video game developed and published by Epic Games. It is a companion game to Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative survival game with construction elements. It was initially released in early access on September 26, 2017, for macOS, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/720%20%28number%29 | 720 (seven hundred [and] twenty) is the natural number following 719 and preceding 721.
It is 6! (6 factorial) and a composite number with thirty divisors, more than any number below, making it a highly composite number. It is a Harshad number in every base from binary to decimal.
720 is expressible as the product of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubOS | In computing, a SubOS may mean several related concepts:
A process-specific protection mechanism allowing potentially dangerous applications to run in a restricted environment. It worked by setting a sub-user id which was user id of the owner of the file rather than the person running the file.
A substitute-operating s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions%20in%20Mathematics | Revolutions in Mathematics is a 1992 collection of essays in the history and philosophy of mathematics.
Contents
Michael J. Crowe, Ten "laws" concerning patterns of change in the history of mathematics (1975) (15–20);
Herbert Mehrtens, T. S. Kuhn's theories and mathematics: a discussion paper on the "new historiograp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%27s%20circulation%20theorem | In fluid mechanics, Kelvin's circulation theorem (named after William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin who published it in 1869) states:In a barotropic, ideal fluid with conservative body forces, the circulation around a closed curve (which encloses the same fluid elements) moving with the fluid remains constant with time.
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomer | Thiolated polymers designated thiomers are functional polymers used in biotechnology product development with the intention to prolong mucosal drug residence time and to enhance absorption of drugs. The name thiomer was coined by Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch in 2000. Thiomers have thiol bearing side chains. Sulfhydryl li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hub%20labels | In computer science, hub labels or the hub-labelling algorithm is a method that consumes much fewer resources than the lookup table but is still extremely fast for finding the shortest paths between nodes in a graph, which may represent, for example, road networks.
This method allows at the most with two SELECT statem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoidergic | Cannabinoidergic, or cannabinergic, means "working on the endocannabinoid neurotransmitters". As with terms such as dopaminergic and serotonergic, related proteins and cellular components involved endocannabinoid signaling, such as the cannabinoid (CB1) receptor, as well as exogenous compounds, such as phytocannabinoi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambermycin | Bambermycin (flavomycin) is a complex of antibiotics obtained from Streptomyces bambergiensis and Streptomyces ghanaensis used as a food additive for
beef cattle, dairy cattle, poultry and swine. The complex consists mainly of moenomycins A and C.
Bambermycin is a performance-enhancing antibiotic intended and availab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20du%20Val | Patrick du Val (March 26, 1903 – January 22, 1987) was a British mathematician, known for his work on algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and general relativity. The concept of Du Val singularity of an algebraic surface is named after him.
Early life
Du Val was born in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. He was the son of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Packard | Norman Harry Packard (born 1954 in Billings, Montana) is a chaos theory physicist and one of the founders of the Prediction Company and ProtoLife. He is an alumnus of Reed College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Packard is known for his contributions to chaos theory, complex systems, and artificial life. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal%20determinism | Reciprocal determinism is the theory set forth by psychologist Albert Bandura which states that a person's behavior both influences and is influenced by personal factors and the social environment. Bandura accepts the possibility that an individual's behavior may be conditioned through the use of consequences. At the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebrawood | The name zebrawood is used to describe several tree species and the wood derived from them. Zebrawood is characterized by a striped figure that is reminiscent of a zebra. The name originally applied to the wood of Astronium graveolens, a large tree native to Central America. In the 20th century, the most important sour... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a norm is a function from a real or complex vector space to the non-negative real numbers that behaves in certain ways like the distance from the origin: it commutes with scaling, obeys a form of the triangle inequality, and is zero only at the origin. In particular, the Euclidean distance in a Euclidea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS%20statistical%20regions%20of%20Portugal | The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is developed by Eurostat, and employed in both Portugal and the entire European Union for statistical purposes. The NUTS branch extends from NUTS1, NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions, with the complementary LAU (Local Administrative Units) sub-categorization being used t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthornavirae | Orthornavirae is a kingdom of viruses that have genomes made of ribonucleic acid (RNA), including genes which encode an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). The RdRp is used to transcribe the viral RNA genome into messenger RNA (mRNA) and to replicate the genome. Viruses in this kingdom share a number of characteristi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Luby | Michael George Luby is a mathematician and computer scientist, CEO of BitRipple, senior research scientist at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), former VP Technology at Qualcomm, co-founder and former chief technology officer of Digital Fountain. In coding theory he is known for leading the invention... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial%20prime | A factorial prime is a prime number that is one less or one more than a factorial (all factorials greater than 1 are even).
The first 10 factorial primes (for n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14) are :
2 (0! + 1 or 1! + 1), 3 (2! + 1), 5 (3! − 1), 7 (3! + 1), 23 (4! − 1), 719 (6! − 1), 5039 (7! − 1), 39916801 (11! + 1), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20Magazine | Mathematics Magazine is a refereed bimonthly publication of the Mathematical Association of America. Its intended audience is teachers of collegiate mathematics, especially at the junior/senior level, and their students. It is explicitly a journal of mathematics rather than pedagogy. Rather than articles in the terse "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAM22 | Disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 22 also known as ADAM22 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ADAM22 gene.
Function
ADAM22 is a member of the ADAM (A Disintegrin And Metalloprotease domain) family. Members of this family are membrane-anchored proteins structurally related to snake... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEniCS%20Project | The FEniCS Project is a collection of free and open-source software components with the common goal to enable automated solution of differential equations. The components provide scientific computing tools for working with computational meshes,
finite-element variational formulations of ordinary and partial differentia... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.