source stringlengths 31 227 | text stringlengths 9 2k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20thyroid%20veins | The inferior thyroid veins appear two, frequently three or four, in number, and arise in the venous plexus on the thyroid gland, communicating with the middle and superior thyroid veins. While the superior and middle thyroid veins serve as direct tributaries to the internal jugular vein, the inferior thyroid veins drai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applix%201616 | The Applix 1616 was a kit computer with a Motorola 68000 CPU, produced by a small company called Applix in Sydney, Australia, from 1986 to the early 1990s. It ran a custom multitasking multiuser operating system that was resident in ROM. A version of Minix was also ported to the 1616, as was the MGR Window System. Andr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20instrumentation | Virtual instrumentation is the use of customizable software and modular measurement hardware to create user-defined measurement systems, called virtual instruments.
Traditional hardware instrumentation systems are made up of fixed hardware components, such as digital multimeters and oscilloscopes that are completely s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthBoards | HealthBoards is a long-running social networking support group website. It consists of over 280 Internet message boards for patient to patient health support (also referred to as a virtual community or an online health community). HealthBoards was one of the first stand alone health community websites. Health communiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20portability | Data portability is a concept to protect users from having their data stored in "silos" or "walled gardens" that are incompatible with one another, i.e. closed platforms, thus subjecting them to vendor lock-in and making the creation of data backups or moving accounts between services difficult.
Data portability requi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer%20adsorption | Adsorption is the adhesion of ions or molecules onto the surface of another phase. Adsorption may occur via physisorption and chemisorption. Ions and molecules can adsorb to many types of surfaces including polymer surfaces. A polymer is a large molecule composed of repeating subunits bound together by covalent bonds. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20architecture | Information architecture (IA) is the structural design of shared information environments; the art and science of organizing and labelling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability; and an emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design, architectu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoplasia | Mammoplasia is the normal or spontaneous enlargement of human breasts. Mammoplasia occurs normally during puberty and pregnancy in women, as well as during certain periods of the menstrual cycle. When it occurs in males, it is called gynecomastia and is considered to be pathological. When it occurs in females and is ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet%20orbital%20and%20physical%20parameters | This page describes exoplanet orbital and physical parameters.
Orbital parameters
Most known extrasolar planet candidates have been discovered using indirect methods and therefore only some of their physical and orbital parameters can be determined. For example, out of the six independent parameters that define an or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ly6/plaur%20domain%20containing%205 | LY6/PLAUR domain containing 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LYPD5 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-line%20programming%20%28robotics%29 | Off-line programming (OLP) is a robot programming method where the robot program is created independent from the actual robot cell. The robot program is then uploaded to the real industrial robot for execution. In off-line programming, the robot cell is represented through a graphical 3D model in a simulator. Nowadays ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip%20System-1 | The Tulip System I is a 16-bit personal computer based on the Intel 8086 and made by Tulip Computers, formerly an import company for the Exidy Sorcerer, called Compudata Systems.
Its Motorola 6845-based video display controller could display 80×24 text in 8 different fonts for supporting different languages, including... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltoside | A maltoside is a glycoside with maltose as the glycone (sugar) functional group. Among the most common are alkyl maltosides, which contain hydrophobic alkyl chains as the aglycone. Given their amphiphilic properties, these comprise a class of detergents, where variation in the alkyl chain confers a range of detergent p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apomixis | In botany, apomixis is asexual development of seed or embryo without fertilization. However, other definitions include replacement of the seed by a plantlet or replacement of the flower by bulbils.
Apomictically produced offspring are genetically identical to the parent plant, except Nonrecurrent apomixis. Its etym... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnogongrus%20griffithsiae | Gymnogongrus griffithsiae is a small uncommon seaweed.
Description
This small alga grows to 5 cm long from a small disc. The fronds are erect, stiff and branch dichotomously in 1 plane, the tips a little flattened. In colour it is dark purplish brown. The structure is multiaxial with elongated cells surrounded cortica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife%20radio%20telemetry | Wildlife radio telemetry is a tool used to track the movement and behavior of animals. This technique uses the transmission of radio signals to locate a transmitter attached to the animal of interest. It is often used to obtain location data on the animal's preferred habitat, home range, and to understand population d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Atom%20Laboratory | The Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) is an experimental instrument on board the ISS, which launched in 2018. It creates an extremely cold microgravity environment in order to study behaviour of atoms in these conditions.
Timeline
The CAL was developed at JPL in Pasadena, California. It was originally scheduled for launch t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM%20architecture%20family | ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors. Arm Ltd. develops the ISAs and licenses them to other companies, who build the physical devices that use the instruction ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teichichnus | Teichichnus is an ichnogenus with a distinctive form produced by the stacking of thin 'tongues' of sediment, atop one another. They are believed to be fodinichnia, with the organism adopting the habit of retracing the same route through varying heights of the sediment, which would allow it to avoid going over the same ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utricle%20%28ear%29 | The utricle and saccule are the two otolith organs in the vertebrate inner ear. They are part of the balancing system (membranous labyrinth) in the vestibule of the bony labyrinth (small oval chamber). They use small stones and a viscous fluid to stimulate hair cells to detect motion and orientation. The utricle detect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion%20gravy | Onion gravy is a type of gravy prepared with onion. Various types of onions are used in its preparation. Some preparations caramelize the onions. Onion gravy may be served to accompany many foods, such as pork, beef steak, meatloaf, hamburger, bangers and mash, hot dogs, and French fries, among others. Vegan onion grav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicistronic%20message | Multicistronic message is an archaic term for Polycistronic. Monocistronic, bicistronic and tricistronic are also used to describe mRNA with single, double and triple coding areas (exons).
Note that the base word cistron is no longer used in genetics, and has been replaced by intron and exon in eukaryotic mRNA. How... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stains-all | Stains-all is a carbocyanine dye, which stains anionic proteins, nucleic acids, anionic polysaccharides and other anionic molecules.
Properties
Stains-all is metachromatic and changes its color dependent on its contact to other molecules. The detection limit for phosphoproteins is below 1 ng after one hour of stainin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus%20platform | Optimus is a Process Integration and Design Optimization (PIDO) platform developed by Noesis Solutions. Noesis Solutions takes part in key research projects, such as PHAROS and MATRIX.
Optimus allows the integration of multiple engineering software tools (CAD, Multibody dynamics, finite elements, computational flui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymovirales | Tymovirales is an order of viruses with five families. The group consists of viruses which have positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genomes. Their genetic material is protected by a special coat protein.
Description
Tymoviruses are mainly plant pathogens first described in 2004. They are characterised by similarities ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorial%20of%20Albania | Heraldry, as a scholarly discipline that deals with the study and origin of various symbols and elements, emerged in Albania towards the end of the 13th century. Over time, it has evolved as an inseparable component of European heraldry, encompassing its advancements, shifts and accomplishments.
The earliest evidence ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Marine%20Living%20Resources%20%26%20Ecology | The Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology (CMLRE) is a research institute in Kochi, Kerala under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India with a mandate to study the marine living resources. Today, apart from implementing various research projects of the ministry, the institute also manages and opera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPro | InterPro is a database of protein families, protein domains and functional sites in which identifiable features found in known proteins can be applied to new protein sequences in order to functionally characterise them.
The contents of InterPro consist of diagnostic signatures and the proteins that they significantly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20wave%20expansion%20method | Plane wave expansion method (PWE) refers to a computational technique in electromagnetics to solve the Maxwell's equations by formulating an eigenvalue problem out of the equation. This method is popular among the photonic crystal community as a method of solving for the band structure (dispersion relation) of specific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrient%20canal | All bones possess larger or smaller foramina (openings) for the entrance of blood-vessels; these are known as the nutrient foramina, and are particularly large in the shafts of the larger long bones, where they lead into a nutrient canal, which extends into the medullary cavity.
The nutrient canal (foramen) is directed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaffolding%20%28bioinformatics%29 | Scaffolding is a technique used in bioinformatics. It is defined as follows:
Link together a non-contiguous series of genomic sequences into a scaffold, consisting of sequences separated by gaps of known length. The sequences that are linked are typically contiguous sequences corresponding to read overlaps.When creati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20fixed%20point | A Gaussian fixed point is a fixed point of the renormalization group flow which is noninteracting in the sense that it is described by a free field theory. The word Gaussian comes from the fact that the probability distribution is Gaussian at the Gaussian fixed point. This means that Gaussian fixed points are exactly s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20thirds%20tuning | Among alternative tunings for guitar, a major-thirds tuning is a regular tuning in which each interval between successive open strings is a major third ("M3" in musical abbreviation). Other names for major-thirds tuning include major-third tuning, M3 tuning, all-thirds tuning, and augmented tuning. By definition, a maj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadd45 | The Growth Arrest and DNA Damage or gadd45 genes, including GADD45A (originally termed gadd45) GADD45B (originally termed MyD118), and GADD45G (originally termed CR6), are implicated as stress sensors that modulate the response of mammalian cells to genotoxic/physiological stress, and modulate tumor formation. Gadd45 p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryogenesis | Eukaryogenesis, the process which created the eukaryotic cell and lineage, is a milestone in the evolution of life, since eukaryotes include all complex cells and almost all multicellular organisms. The process is widely agreed to have involved symbiogenesis, in which archaea and bacteria came together to create the fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devitrification | Devitrification is the process of crystallization in a formerly crystal-free (amorphous) glass. The term is derived from the Latin vitreus, meaning glassy and transparent.
Devitrification in glass art
Devitrification occurs in glass art during the firing process of fused glass whereby the surface of the glass develops... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campylobacter%20jejuni | Campylobacter jejuni () is a species of pathogenic bacteria, one of the most common causes of food poisoning in Europe and in the US. The vast majority of cases occur as isolated events, not as part of recognized outbreaks. Active surveillance through the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) indicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud%20%28video%20game%29 | Feud is an adventure game designed by John Pickford for Binary Design and published in 1987 as the first game under the Bulldog Software label of Mastertronic. Versions were released for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit family, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, and ZX Spectrum. The player takes on the role of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s%20generalized%20Jacobian | In mathematics, Clarke's generalized Jacobian is a generalization of the Jacobian matrix of a smooth function to non-smooth functions. It was introduced by . |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Sims%20%28mathematician%29 | Charles Coffin Sims (April 14, 1937 – October 23, 2017) was an American mathematician best known for his work in group theory. Together with Donald G. Higman he discovered the Higman–Sims group, one of the sporadic groups. The permutation group software developed by Sims also led to the proof of existence of the Lyons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preaortic%20lymph%20nodes | The preaortic lymph nodes lie in front of the aorta, and may be divided into celiac lymph nodes, superior mesenteric lymph nodes, and inferior mesenteric lymph nodes groups, arranged around the origins of the corresponding arteries.
The celiac lymph nodes are grouped into three sets: the gastric, hepatic and splenic l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invadopodia | Invadopodia are actin-rich protrusions of the plasma membrane that are associated with degradation of the extracellular matrix in cancer invasiveness and metastasis. Very similar to podosomes, invadopodia are found in invasive cancer cells and are important for their ability to invade through the extracellular matrix, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea%20test | The LEA Vision Test System is a series of pediatric vision tests designed specifically for children who do not know how to read the letters of the alphabet that are typically used in eye charts. There are numerous variants of the LEA test which can be used to assess the visual capabilities of near vision and distance v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Henri%20Halphen | Georges-Henri Halphen (; 30 October 1844, Rouen – 23 May 1889, Versailles) was a French mathematician. He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry. He also worked on invariant theory and projective differential geometr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrhart%20polynomial | In mathematics, an integral polytope has an associated Ehrhart polynomial that encodes the relationship between the volume of a polytope and the number of integer points the polytope contains. The theory of Ehrhart polynomials can be seen as a higher-dimensional generalization of Pick's theorem in the Euclidean plane.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubblization | Rubblization is a construction and engineering technique that involves saving time and transportation costs by reducing existing concrete into rubble at its current location rather than hauling it to another location. Rubblization has two primary applications: creating a base for new roadways and decommissioning nuclea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercast | Intercast was a short-lived technology developed in 1996 by Intel for broadcasting information such as web pages and computer software, along with a single television channel. It required a compatible TV tuner card installed in a personal computer and a decoding program called Intel Intercast Viewer. The data for Inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Jackiw | Roman Wladimir Jackiw (; ; 8 November 1939 – 14 June 2023) was a Polish-born American theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist.
Biography
Born in Lubliniec, Poland in 1939 to a Ukrainian family, the family later moved to Austria and Germany before settling in New York City when Jackiw was about 10.
Jackiw earned his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-parity | R-parity is a concept in particle physics. In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, baryon number and lepton number are no longer conserved by all of the renormalizable couplings in the theory. Since baryon number and lepton number conservation have been tested very precisely, these couplings need to be very small... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decodoku | Decodoku is set of online citizen science games, based on quantum error correction. The project is supported by the NCCR QSIT and the University of Basel, and allows the public to get involved with quantum error correction research.
The games present the clues left in a quantum computer when errors occur, and encourag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngelHack | AngelHack is an American company based in San Francisco that primarily organizes and hosts hackathons for other companies.
History
Founded in 2011, AngelHack distinguished itself from other hackathon organizers by coordinating global hackathons which took place simultaneously in different places.
The company now bra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolute%20%28botany%29 | Convolute as a verb literally means to "roll together" or "roll around", from the Latin convolvere. In general application the word can mean to "tangle" or "complicate", but in botanical descriptions convolute usually is an adjective from the Latin convolutus, meaning "rolled around". It commonly refers to a special cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography | Cryptography, or cryptology (from "hidden, secret"; and graphein, "to write", or -logia, "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior. More generally, cryptography is about constructing and analyzing protocols that prevent third part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20cardinal | In set theory, Berkeley cardinals are certain large cardinals suggested by Hugh Woodin in a seminar at the University of California, Berkeley in about 1992.
A Berkeley cardinal is a cardinal κ in a model of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the property that for every transitive set M that includes κ and α < κ, there i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavensomycin | Flavensomycin is a antibiotic and fungicide with the molecular formula C47H64NO14. Flavensomycin has been first isolated in 1957 from a culture of Streptomyces tanashiensis bacteria. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshay%20Venkatesh | Akshay Venkatesh (born 21 November 1981) is an Australian mathematician and a professor (since 15 August 2018) at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory, in particular represen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleomorphism%20%28microbiology%29 | In microbiology, pleomorphism (from Ancient Greek , pléō, "more", and , morphḗ, form), also pleiomorphism, is the ability of some microorganisms to alter their morphology, biological functions or reproductive modes in response to environmental conditions. Pleomorphism has been observed in some members of the Deinococca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave%20transmission | Microwave transmission is the transmission of information by electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the microwave frequency range of 300 MHz to 300 GHz (1 m - 1 mm wavelength) of the electromagnetic spectrum. Microwave signals are normally limited to the line of sight, so long-distance transmission using these signa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20intermuscular%20septum%20of%20leg | The anterior intermuscular septum of leg or anterior crural intermuscular septum is a band of fascia which separates the lateral from the anterior compartment of leg.
The deep fascia of leg gives off from its deep surface, on the lateral side of the leg, two strong intermuscular septa, the anterior and posterior peron... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon%20calculus | In logic, Hilbert's epsilon calculus is an extension of a formal language by the epsilon operator, where the epsilon operator substitutes for quantifiers in that language as a method leading to a proof of consistency for the extended formal language. The epsilon operator and epsilon substitution method are typically a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmar%20branch%20of%20the%20median%20nerve | The palmar branch of the median nerve is a branch of the median nerve which arises at the distal part of the forearm.
Branches
It pierces the palmar carpal ligament, and divides into a lateral and a medial branch;
The lateral branch supplies the skin over the ball of the thumb, and communicates with the volar branch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Cell%20Atlas | The Human Cell Atlas is a project to describe all cell types in the human body. The initiative was announced by a consortium after its inaugural meeting in London in October 2016, which established the first phase of the project. Aviv Regev and Sarah Teichmann defined the goals of the project at that meeting, which was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20preservation | Identity preservation is the practice of tracking the details of agricultural shipments so that the specific characteristics of each shipment is known. Identity preserved (IP) is the designation given to such bulk commodities marketed in a manner that isolates and preserves the identity of a shipment, presumably becaus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent%20dose | Equivalent dose is a dose quantity H representing the stochastic health effects of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body which represents the probability of radiation-induced cancer and genetic damage. It is derived from the physical quantity absorbed dose, but also takes into account the biological effe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer-gas%20trap | The buffer-gas trap (BGT) is a device used to accumulate positrons (the antiparticles of electrons) efficiently while minimizing positron loss due to annihilation, which occurs when an electron and positron collide and the energy is converted to gamma rays. The BGT is used for a variety of research applications, partic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample%20and%20Data%20Relationship%20Format | The Sample and Data Relationship Format (SDRF) is part of the MAGE-TAB standard for communicating the results
of microarray investigations, including all information required for MIAME compliance.
An SDRF file is a tab-delimited file describing the relationships between samples, arrays, data, and other objects used or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinatograph | A coordinatograph is an instrument which mechanically plots X and Y coordinates onto a surface, such as in compiling maps or in plotting control points such as in electronic circuit design.
One historic application of a coordinatograph was a machine that precisely placed and cut rubylith to create photomasks for early... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Economics%20of%20Ecosystems%20and%20Biodiversity | The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) was a study led by Pavan Sukhdev from 2007 to 2011. It is an international initiative to draw attention to the global economic benefits of biodiversity. Its objective is to highlight the growing cost of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation and to draw together ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags%20of%20Asia | This is a gallery of international and national flags used in Asia.
Supranational and international flags
An incomplete list of flags representing intra-Asian international and supranational organisations, which omits intercontinental organisations such as the United Nations:
Flags of Asian sovereign states
Disputed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom%20Gold | Telecom Gold (sometimes also known as BT Gold) was an early commercial electronic mail service launched by British Telecom in 1982. It was based on Prime minicomputers running Dialcom software under a customised version of PRIMOS. (ITT Dialcom was later acquired by BT in 1986.) The system offered various services, incl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20Queen | Algorithm Queen is a 2022 painting of Queen Elizabeth II by Ai-Da, a humanoid robot credited with being the world's first ultra-realistic robot artist. Ai-Da painted the Queen in celebration of her Platinum Jubilee.
Description
Algorithm Queen was layered and scaled to produce the final multi-dimensional portrait of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric%20Circulation%20Reconstructions%20over%20the%20Earth | The Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth, ACRE, is an international science project, began in 2008, that recovers historical weather observations to reconstruct past global and local weather patterns and so support meteorological reanalysis. The project aims to collect weather data from the past 250 y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibred%20category | Fibred categories (or fibered categories) are abstract entities in mathematics used to provide a general framework for descent theory. They formalise the various situations in geometry and algebra in which inverse images (or pull-backs) of objects such as vector bundles can be defined. As an example, for each topologic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20%28biology%29 | In evolutionary biology, function is the reason some object or process occurred in a system that evolved through natural selection. That reason is typically that it achieves some result, such as that chlorophyll helps to capture the energy of sunlight in photosynthesis. Hence, the organism that contains it is more like... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee%20dislocation | A knee dislocation is an injury in which there is disruption of the knee joint between the tibia and the femur. Symptoms include pain and instability of the knee. Complications may include injury to an artery, most commonly the popliteal artery behind the knee, or compartment syndrome.
About half of cases are the res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolometer | A bolometer is a device for measuring radiant heat by means of a material having a temperature-dependent electrical resistance. It was invented in 1878 by the American astronomer Samuel Pierpont Langley.
Principle of operation
A bolometer consists of an absorptive element, such as a thin layer of metal, connected to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AiScaler | aiScaler Ltd. is a multinational software company founded in 2008. It develops application delivery controllers designed to allow dynamic web pages to scale content by intelligently caching frequently requested content. A number of websites in the Alexa top 1000 use aiScaler to manage their traffic.
aiScaler software ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular%20integral | In mathematics, singular integrals are central to harmonic analysis and are intimately connected with the study of partial differential equations. Broadly speaking a singular integral is an integral operator
whose kernel function K : Rn×Rn → R is singular along the diagonal x = y. Specifically, the singularity is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inelastic%20scattering | In chemistry, nuclear physics, and particle physics, inelastic scattering is a process in which the kinetic energy of a particle or a system of particles changes after a collision. Formally, the kinetic energy of the incident particle is not conserved (in contrast to elastic scattering). In an inelastic scattering proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating%20plug | A mating plug, also known as a copulation plug, sperm plug, vaginal plug, or sphragis (Latin, from Greek σφραγίς sphragis, "a seal"), is a gelatinous secretion used in the mating of some species. It is deposited by a male into a female genital tract, such as the vagina, and later hardens into a plug or glues the tract ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weili%20Dai | Weili Dai () is a Chinese-born American businesswoman. She is the co-founder, former director, and former president of Marvell Technology Group. Dai is a successful female entrepreneur, and is the only female co-founder of a major semiconductor company. In 2015, she was listed as the 95th richest woman in the world by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marker%20gene | In biology, a marker gene may have several meanings. In nuclear biology and molecular biology, a marker gene is a gene used to determine if a nucleic acid sequence has been successfully inserted into an organism's DNA. In particular, there are two sub-types of these marker genes: a selectable marker and a marker for s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermetacarpal%20joints | The intermetacarpal joints are in the hand formed between the metacarpal bones. The bases of the second, third, fourth and fifth metacarpal bones articulate with one another by small surfaces covered with cartilage. The metacarpal bones are connected together by dorsal, palmar, and interosseous ligaments.
The dorsal m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina%20Bosi | Marina Bosi is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Originally a flutist and flute teacher, she is known for her work on digital audio coding formats.
Education
Marina Bosi was born near Milan and raised in Florence. She studied the flute with Sev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash%20Archive | The Ash Archive is a project founded in 2019 to restore ash trees to the landscape in England. English ash trees experienced massive dieback beginning in 2012 as a result of a fungal pathogen, Hymenoscyphus fraxineus. The archive contains over 3,000 trees, all of which propagated from the shoots of trees that had demon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anode%20ray | An anode ray (also positive ray or canal ray) is a beam of positive ions that is created by certain types of gas-discharge tubes. They were first observed in Crookes tubes during experiments by the German scientist Eugen Goldstein, in 1886. Later work on anode rays by Wilhelm Wien and J. J. Thomson led to the developme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Library%20for%20Number%20Theory | The Fast Library for Number Theory (FLINT) is a C library for number theory applications. The two major areas of functionality currently implemented in FLINT are polynomial arithmetic over the integers and a quadratic sieve. The library is designed to be compiled with the GNU Multi-Precision Library (GMP) and is releas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxtor | Maxtor was an American computer hard disk drive manufacturer. Founded in 1982, it was the third largest hard disk drive manufacturer in the world before being purchased by Seagate in 2006.
History
Overview
In 1981, three former IBM employees began searching for funding, and Maxtor was founded the following year. In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS | FreeDOS (formerly Free-DOS and PD-DOS) is a free software operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. It intends to provide a complete MS-DOS-compatible environment for running legacy software and supporting embedded systems.
FreeDOS can be booted from a floppy disk or USB flash drive. It is designed to run well... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud%20de%20Shalit | Ehud de Shalit (; born 16 March 1955) is an Israeli number theorist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Biography
Ehud de Shalit was born in Rehovot. His father was Amos de-Shalit. He completed his B.Sc. at the Hebrew University in 1975, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1984 under the supervis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20Translationum | The Index Translationum is UNESCO's database of book translations. Books have been translated for thousands of years, with no central record of the fact. The League of Nations established a record of translations in 1932. In 1946, the United Nations superseded the League and UNESCO was assigned the Index. In 1979, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrictivity | Constrictivity is a dimensionless parameter used to describe transport processes (often molecular diffusion) in porous media.
Constrictivity is viewed to depend on the ratio of the diameter of the diffusing particle to the pore diameter. The value of constrictivity is always less than 1. The constrictivity is defined ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer%20effect%20%28information%20technology%29 | In information technology, the observer effect is the impact on the behaviour of a computer process caused by the act of observing the process while it is running.
For example: if a process uses a log file to record its progress, the process could slow down. Furthermore, the act of viewing the file while the process i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTS%20system%20architecture | MTS System Architecture describes the software organization of the Michigan Terminal System, a time-sharing computer operating system in use from 1967 to 1999 on IBM S/360-67, IBM System/370, and compatible computers.
Overview
The University of Michigan Multi-Programming Supervisor (UMMPS), has complete control of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-program%20computer | A stored-program computer is a computer that stores program instructions in electronically or optically accessible memory. This contrasts with systems that stored the program instructions with plugboards or similar mechanisms.
The definition is often extended with the requirement that the treatment of programs and dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry%20Dive | Industry Dive is an online business-to-business news organization, with an estimated 13 million readers across more than 25 industries, including banking and waste management. Since 2022, it has been owned by Informa plc, which bought its majority stake from Falfurrias Capital Partners for about $530 million.
Industry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20Gordon%20%28video%20game%29 | Flash Gordon is a video game based on a comic strip character of the same name. The game was published in 1986 by Mastertronic for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and MSX personal computers.
It features three individual levels. The first is set on the jungle world of Arboria in which Flash Gordon has to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunosenescence | Immunosenescence is the gradual deterioration of the immune system, brought on by natural age advancement. A 2020 review concluded that the adaptive immune system is affected more than the innate immune system. Immunosenescence involves both the host's capacity to respond to infections and the development of long-term ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20model | A spin model is a mathematical model used in physics primarily to explain magnetism. Spin models may either be classical or quantum mechanical in nature. Spin models have been studied in quantum field theory as examples of integrable models. Spin models are also used in quantum information theory and computability theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z4%20%28computer%29 | The Z4 was arguably the world's first commercial digital computer, and is the oldest surviving programmable computer. It was designed, and manufactured by early computer scientist Konrad Zuse's company Zuse Apparatebau, for an order placed by Henschel & Son, in 1942; though only partially assembled in Berlin, then comp... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.