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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension%20by%20new%20constant%20and%20function%20names | In mathematical logic, a theory can be extended with
new constants or function names under certain conditions with assurance that the extension will introduce
no contradiction. Extension by definitions is perhaps the best-known approach, but it requires
unique existence of an object with the desired property. Addition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry34Ab1 | Cry34Ab1 is one member of a binary Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crystal protein set isolated from Bt strain PS149B1. The protein exists as a 14 kDa aegerolysin that, in presence of Cry35Ab1, exhibits insecticidal activity towards Western Corn Rootworm. The protein has been transformed into maize plants under the commer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest%20restoration | Forest restoration is defined as “actions to re-instate ecological processes, which accelerate recovery of forest structure, ecological functioning and biodiversity levels towards those typical of climax forest” i.e. the end-stage of natural forest succession. Climax forests are relatively stable ecosystems that have d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident%20laser | The Trident Laser was a high power, sub-petawatt class, solid-state laser facility located at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL website), in Los Alamos, New Mexico, originally built in the late 1980s for Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research by KMS Fusion, founded by Kip Siegel, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, it was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper%20naphthenate | Copper naphthenate is the copper salt of naphthenic acid. Naphthenic acid is a term commonly used in the petroleum industry to collectively refer to all of the carboxylic acids naturally occurring in crude oil. Naphthenic acids are primarily cycloaliphatic carboxylic acids with 10 to 24 or more carbons, although subst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi%20Vakil | Ravi D. Vakil (born February 22, 1970) is a Canadian-American mathematician working in algebraic geometry.
Education and career
Vakil attended high school at Martingrove Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario, where he won several mathematical contests and olympiads. After earning a BSc and MSc from the University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann%E2%80%93Hurwitz%20formula | In mathematics, the Riemann–Hurwitz formula, named after Bernhard Riemann and Adolf Hurwitz, describes the relationship of the Euler characteristics of two surfaces when one is a ramified covering of the other. It therefore connects ramification with algebraic topology, in this case. It is a prototype result for many o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston%20elliptization%20conjecture | William Thurston's elliptization conjecture states that a closed 3-manifold with finite fundamental group is spherical, i.e. has a Riemannian metric of constant positive sectional curvature.
Relation to other conjectures
A 3-manifold with a Riemannian metric of constant positive sectional curvature is covered by the 3... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX%20%28operating%20system%29 | MaX, also known as Madrid_linux is a linux distribution created with funds from the Conserjería de Educación, Juventud y Deporte of the Comunidad de Madrid adapted for use in educational environments. The main features of this operating system are simplicity, stability and a huge collection of software.
History
Start... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Activision%20Decathlon | The Activision Decathlon is a sports game written by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1983. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit family, Atari 5200, Commodore 64, ColecoVision, and MSX. Up to four players compete in the ten different events of a real-life decathlon, either in sequence or indiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAM12 | Disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 12 (previously Meltrin) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ADAM12 gene. ADAM12 has two splice variants: ADAM12-L, the long form, has a transmembrane region and ADAM12-S, a shorter variant, is soluble and lacks the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship%20paradox | The friendship paradox is the phenomenon first observed by the sociologist Scott L. Feld in 1991 that on average, an individual's friends have more friends than that individual. It can be explained as a form of sampling bias in which people with more friends are more likely to be in one's own friend group. In other wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster%20Capp | Buster Capp is a British comic strip series which debuted on 28 May 1960 in the magazine Buster and ran until January 2000. The character was the mascot of the magazine too. The series is a spin-off of Andy Capp, starring Andy's young son Buster, despite not being drawn by the original artist of that comic, Reg Smythe.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20representation | In mathematics, the tensor representations of the general linear group are those that are obtained by taking finitely many tensor products of the fundamental representation and its dual. The irreducible factors of such a representation are also called tensor representations, and can be obtained by applying Schur funct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India-based%20Neutrino%20Observatory | India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is a particle physics research project under construction to primarily study atmospheric neutrinos in a deep cave under INO Peak near Theni, Tamil Nadu, India. This project is notable in that it is anticipated to provide a precise measurement of neutrino mixing parameters. The pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandiagonal%20magic%20cube | In recreational mathematics, a pandiagonal magic cube is a magic cube with the additional property that all broken diagonals (parallel to exactly two of the three coordinate axes) have the same sum as each other. Pandiagonal magic cubes are extensions of diagonal magic cubes (in which only the unbroken diagonals need t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE%20model | An ADE model is a genetic model for twin studies which includes dominance genetic effects.
A stands for additive genetic effects, D for non-additive genetic (or dominance) effects, and E for nonshared environment effects.
See also
ACE model |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LimeSurvey | LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a free and open source on-line statistical survey web app written in PHP based on a MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL or MSSQL database, distributed under the GNU General Public License. As a web server-based software it enables users using a web interface to develop and publish on-line sur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-No-Archive | X-No-Archive, also known colloquially as xna, is a newsgroup message header field used to prevent a Usenet message from being archived in various servers.
Origin
The need for X-No-Archive began when DejaNews debuted in 1995. DejaNews was the first large-scale commercial attempt to archive the Usenet news feed, and se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada%20%28programming%20language%29 | Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, inspired by Pascal and other languages. It has built-in language support for design by contract (DbC), extremely strong typing, explicit concurrency, tasks, synchronous message passing, protected objects, and non-det... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative%20artificial%20intelligence | Generative artificial intelligence (also generative AI or GenAI) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images, or other media, using generative models. Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics.
In the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorGuard | Torguard is a VPN and proxy software producer which also sells private email service.
Background
Torguard VPN comes with Linux and Windows and Android apps and also browser extensions. Torguard does not keep logs and/or throttle internet speed. Torguard billing uses random hash as to keep VPN secure. VPN software us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoprecipitation | Immunoprecipitation (IP) is the technique of precipitating a protein antigen out of solution using an antibody that specifically binds to that particular protein. This process can be used to isolate and concentrate a particular protein from a sample containing many thousands of different proteins. Immunoprecipitation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi-LG%20Data%20Storage | Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS, HL-DT-ST or H-L Data Storage), a joint venture between Hitachi, Ltd. and LG Electronics, is a manufacturer of DVD and Blu-ray optical disc drives for desktop computers and laptops. Founded in late 2000, the company began operation in January 2001. In 2006, HLDS began developing Blu-ray Di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Mudge | John Mudge (1721 – 26 March 1793) was a British physician and amateur creator of telescope mirrors. He won the Copley Medal in 1777 for a paper on reflecting telescopes.
Life
He was the fourth and youngest son of the Rev. Zachariah Mudge, by his first wife, Mary Fox, and was born at Bideford, Devon. He was educated at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage%20making | The origins of meat preservation are lost to the ages but probably began when humans began to realize the preservative value of salt.
Sausage making originally developed as a means to preserve and transport meat. Primitive societies learned that dried berries and spices could be added to dried meat.
The procedure of s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Future%20Is%20Wild | The Future Is Wild (also referred to by the acronym FIW) is a 2002 speculative evolution docufiction miniseries and an accompanying multimedia entertainment franchise. The Future Is Wild explores the ecosystems and wildlife of three future time periods: 5, 100, and 200 million years in the future, in the format of a na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrhenius%20equation | In physical chemistry, the Arrhenius equation is a formula for the temperature dependence of reaction rates. The equation was proposed by Svante Arrhenius in 1889, based on the work of Dutch chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff who had noted in 1884 that the van 't Hoff equation for the temperature dependence of equili... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20anticoincidence | Electronic anticoincidence is a method (and its associated hardware) widely used to suppress unwanted, "background" events in high energy physics, experimental particle physics, gamma-ray spectroscopy, gamma-ray astronomy, experimental nuclear physics, and related fields.
In the typical case, a desired high-energy i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactionism%20%28nature%20versus%20nurture%29 | In the context of the nature-nurture debate, interactionism is the view that all human behavioral traits develop from the interaction of both "nature" and "nurture", that is, from both genetic and environmental factors. This view further holds that genetic and environmental influences on organismal development are so c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20fragmentation%20hypothesis | The resource fragmentation hypothesis was first proposed by Janzen & Pond (1975), and says that as species richness becomes large there is not a linear increase in the number of parasitoid species that can be supported. The mechanism for this hyperbolic relationship is suggested to be that each of the new host species... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gajski%E2%80%93Kuhn%20chart | The Gajski–Kuhn chart (or Y diagram) depicts the different perspectives in VLSI hardware design. Mostly, it is used for the development of integrated circuits. Daniel Gajski and Robert Kuhn developed it in 1983. In 1985, Robert Walker and Donald Thomas refined it.
According to this model, the development of hardware ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%20%28video%20game%29 | Wolf is a 1994 life simulation and role-playing video game. The player takes the role of a wolf. It was followed by Lion in 1995.
It is unrelated to the 1994 film of the same name.
Gameplay
The gameplay is divided into two parts. The first is a sandbox mode, where the player has no predetermined goal. The second is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra%20i%20Logika | Algebra i Logika (English: Algebra and Logic) is a peer-reviewed Russian mathematical journal founded in 1962 by Anatoly Ivanovich Malcev, published by the Siberian Fund for Algebra and Logic at Novosibirsk State University. An English translation of the journal is published by Springer-Verlag as Algebra and Logic sinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia%20DGX | Nvidia DGX is a line of Nvidia-produced servers and workstations which specialize in using GPGPU to accelerate deep learning applications. The typical design of a DGX system is based upon a rackmount chassis with motherboard that carries high performance x86 server CPUs (Typically Intel Xeons, with the exception DGX A1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikonyan | is a mascot created by the city government of Hikone, Japan. He was created in 2007 to mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of Hikone Castle. The character design is derived from a legend concerning maneki-neko and Ii Naotaka, the 3rd Lord of Hikone. The daimyō was beckoned by a white cat to seek shelter from a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORDUnet | NORDUnet is an international collaboration between the National research and education networks in the Nordic countries.
Members
The members of NORDUnet are:
SUNET of Sweden
UNINETT of Norway
FUNET of Finland
Forskningsnettet of Denmark
RHnet of Iceland
Network
NORDUnet interconnects the Nordic national resea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jepson%20Manual | The Jepson Manual is a flora of the vascular plants that are either native to or naturalized in California. Botanists often refer to the book simply as Jepson. It is produced by the University and Jepson Herbaria, of the University of California, Berkeley. Its second edition is the basis of the online Jepson eFlora.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insecticide | Insecticides are pesticides used to kill insects. They include ovicides and larvicides used against insect eggs and larvae, respectively. Insecticides are used in agriculture, medicine, industry and by consumers. Insecticides are claimed to be a major factor behind the increase in the 20th-century's agricultural produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janny%20Leung | Janny May-yee Leung () is a Chinese operations researcher and academic administrator, the master of Choi Kai Yau College at the University of Macau and courtesy professor in the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City of the University of Macau. Topics in her research have included transportation sche... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welt%20%28bruise%29 | A welt is a bloodshot stripe on the skin. They are haematoma, a special form of a bruise.
Welts occur when blunt force is applied to the body with elongated objects without sharp edges. Like other haematomas, welts change their colors as they heal, which usually takes 2 to 4 weeks. The colors include purplish black, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenger%20%281986%20video%20game%29 | Way of the Tiger II: Avenger is a video game made by Gremlin Graphics in 1986, for the computers Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and MSX.
Gameplay
In the game's story, Yaemon the Grand Master of Flame has killed the player's foster-father Naijish and stolen the Scrolls of Kettsuin. To recover the scrolls, the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20A.%20Thas | Joseph Adolphe François Thas (born 13 October 1944, Dilbeek, Belgium) is a Belgian mathematician, who works on combinatorics, incidence geometry and finite geometries.
Thas received in 1969 his PhD from Ghent University under Julien Bilo with thesis Een studie betreffende de projective rechte over de totale matrix alg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisia%20monetary%20aggregates%20index | In econometrics and official statistics, and particularly in banking, the Divisia monetary aggregates index is an index of money supply. It uses Divisia index methods.
Background
The monetary aggregates used by most central banks (notably the US Federal Reserve) are simple-sum indexes in which all monetary components ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoboard | A monoboard is a device or product that consists of a single printed circuit board (PCB).
Benefits
The primary benefit of a monoboard solution is cost savings. There are a number of ways that incorporating all parts on a single board can reduce costs. The primary reason is that solutions with multiple boards require ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20Distributed%20Object%20Computing | The UML profile for Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC) is a standard of the Object Management Group in support of open distributed computing using model-driven architecture and service-oriented architecture. Its aim is to simplify the development of component based (EDOC) systems by providing a UML-based m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScREC | ScREC is a supercomputer developed by the Research Centre for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS) at the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan (NUST) in Islamabad, Pakistan. With a 132 teraflops performance, it is currently the fastest supercomputer in Pakistan.
System specifications
ScREC is able to per... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20signature | An electronic signature, or e-signature, is data that is logically associated with other data and which is used by the signatory to sign the associated data. This type of signature has the same legal standing as a handwritten signature as long as it adheres to the requirements of the specific regulation under which it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested%20development | The term "arrested development" has had multiple meanings for over 200 years. In the field of medicine, the term "arrested development" was first used, circa 1835–1836, to mean a stoppage of physical development; the term continues to be used in the same way. In literature, Ernest Hemingway used the term in The Sun Als... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidrug-resistant%20tuberculosis | Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a form of tuberculosis (TB) infection caused by bacteria that are resistant to treatment with at least two of the most powerful first-line anti-TB medications (drugs): isoniazid and rifampin. Some forms of TB are also resistant to second-line medications, and are called exte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20stag | A white stag (or white hind for the female) is a white-colored red deer, wapiti, sika deer, chital, fallow deer, roe deer, white-tailed deer, black-tailed deer, reindeer, moose, or rusa, explained by a condition known as leucism that causes its hair and skin to lose its natural colour. The white deer has played a promi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20Vietnam%20food%20scare | The 2007 Vietnam food scare was a food scandal which exposed contaminated food. Among the issues were formaldehyde in noodles of the national dish, phở, banned pesticides in vegetables and fruit, and toxic soy sauce. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20circuit | In computational complexity theory and circuit complexity, a Boolean circuit is a mathematical model for combinational digital logic circuits. A formal language can be decided by a family of Boolean circuits, one circuit for each possible input length.
Boolean circuits are defined in terms of the logic gates they cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterygopalatine%20nerves | The two pterygopalatine nerves (or sphenopalatine branches) descend to the pterygopalatine ganglion.
Although it is closely related to the pterygopalatine ganglion, it is still considered a branch of the maxillary nerve and does not synapse in the ganglion.
It is found in the pterygopalatine fossa.
Additional images |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditya%20Birla%20Payments%20Bank | Aditya Birla Payments Bank Limited (ABPB) was a payments bank started as a joint venture by Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd. and Idea Cellular. Launched on 22 February 2018, it is the fourth payments bank to begin operations since issuance of licenses to 11 firms by the Reserve Bank of India in August 2015. Payments Banks are a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkout.com | Checkout.com, (with legal name of main entity as Checkout Ltd), is an international financial technology company which processes payments for other companies. Founded as Opus Payments in 2009, it is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It had a valuation of $40 billion in 2022, making it the most valuable European ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%20primality%20test | The Fermat primality test is a probabilistic test to determine whether a number is a probable prime.
Concept
Fermat's little theorem states that if p is prime and a is not divisible by p, then
If one wants to test whether p is prime, then we can pick random integers a not divisible by p and see whether the congruence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-integrable%20function | In mathematics, a square-integrable function, also called a quadratically integrable function or function or square-summable function, is a real- or complex-valued measurable function for which the integral of the square of the absolute value is finite. Thus, square-integrability on the real line is defined as follow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interosseous%20membrane%20of%20leg | The interosseous membrane of the leg (middle tibiofibular ligament) extends between the interosseous crests of the tibia and fibula, helps stabilize the Tib-Fib relationship and separates the muscles on the front from those on the back of the leg.
It consists of a thin, aponeurotic joint lamina composed of oblique fib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgit%20Penzenstadler | Birgit Penzenstadler (born September 9, 1981 in Erding, Germany) is a German assistant professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology and adjunct docent at Lappeenranta University of Technology. She is well known for her work on environmental sustainability in software engineering and for being... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree-Puzzle | TREE-PUZZLE is a computer program used to construct phylogenetic trees from sequence data by maximum likelihood analysis. Branch lengths can be calculated with and without the molecular clock hypothesis.
The software also implemented likelihood mapping, a method to visualize phylogenetic information in datasets, as we... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyena%20butter | Hyena butter is a secretion from the anal gland of hyenas used to mark territory and to identify individuals by odor. The gooey substance is spread onto objects within the territory of the hyena by rubbing their posterior against the object they mark.
Folk beliefs in some regions of East Africa state that witches wou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-site | The A-site (A for aminoacyl) of a ribosome is a binding site for charged t-RNA molecules during protein synthesis. One of three such binding sites, the A-site is the first location the t-RNA binds during the protein synthesis process, the other two sites being P-site (peptidyl) and E-site (exit). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstani%20tenge | The tenge ( or ; , ; sign: ₸ ; code: KZT) is the currency of Kazakhstan. It is divided into 100 tiyn ( also transliterated as tiyin).
History
After the breakup of the Soviet Union in December 1991, most of the formerly Soviet republics attempted to maintain a common currency. Some politicians hoped to at least maintai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial%20plasma%20bubble | Equatorial plasma bubbles are an ionospheric phenomenon near the Earth's geomagnetic equator at night time. They affect radio waves by causing varying delays. They degrade the performance of GPS.
Different times of the year and locations have different frequencies of occurrence. In Northern Australia, the most common ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%E2%80%93Ogg%E2%80%93Shafarevich%20criterion | In mathematics, the Néron–Ogg–Shafarevich criterion states that if A is an elliptic curve or abelian variety over a local field K and ℓ is a prime not dividing the characteristic of the residue field of K then A has good reduction if and only if the ℓ-adic Tate module Tℓ of A is unramified. introduced the criterion ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears%20of%20War%204 | Gears of War 4 is a 2016 third-person shooter video game developed by The Coalition and published by Microsoft Studios for Windows and Xbox One. It is the fourth main installment in the Gears of War series, and the first mainline entry not to be developed by Epic Games. The game was released worldwide on October 11, 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-dimensional%20quantum%20turbulence | Quantum turbulence involves the chaotic dynamics of many interacting quantum vortices. In highly excited bulk superfluid, many vortex lines interact with each other forming quantum turbulent states. By introducing tight confinement along one direction the Kelvin wave excitations can be strongly suppressed, favouring vo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20square | The optical square uses a pentaprism to reflect and refract a beam or sighting 90 degrees, it is used in pairs in surveying and in a singular block in metrology.
In optical square
A Horizon glass is placed at an angle of 120° with the horizon sight.
The Index glass is placed at an angle of 105° with the Index sight.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20labeling | In machine learning, sequence labeling is a type of pattern recognition task that involves the algorithmic assignment of a categorical label to each member of a sequence of observed values. A common example of a sequence labeling task is part of speech tagging, which seeks to assign a part of speech to each word in an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20Gear%20Solid%202%3A%20Sons%20of%20Liberty | is a 2001 action-adventure stealth video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. Originally released on November 13, 2001, it is the fourth Metal Gear game produced by Hideo Kojima, the seventh overall game in the series and is a sequel to Metal Gear Solid (1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter%20Mathematics%20School | Exeter Mathematics School is a maths school located in Exeter in the English county of Devon.
It opened in September 2014 under the free schools initiative and is sponsored by Exeter College and the University of Exeter. It is intended to be a regional centre of excellence in mathematics for Cornwall, Devon, Dorset an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-hydrogen%20tanktainer | A liquid hydrogen tank-tainer also known as a liquid hydrogen tank container is a specialized type of container designed to carry cryogenic liquid hydrogen (LH2) on standard intermodal equipment. The tank is held within a box-shaped frame the same size and shape as a container.
Size and volume
Liquid hydrogen tankta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium%20atom%20scattering | Helium atom scattering (HAS) is a surface analysis technique used in materials science. It provides information about the surface structure and lattice dynamics of a material by measuring the diffracted atoms from a monochromatic helium beam incident on the sample.
History
The first recorded helium diffraction exper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogeometric%20analysis | Isogeometric analysis is a computational approach that offers the possibility of integrating finite element analysis (FEA) into conventional NURBS-based CAD design tools. Currently, it is necessary to convert data between CAD and FEA packages to analyse new designs during development, a difficult task since the two com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, more specifically in linear algebra, the spark of a matrix is the smallest integer such that there exists a set of columns in which are linearly dependent. If all the columns are linearly independent, is usually defined to be 1 more than the number of rows. The concept of matrix spark finds applic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris%20Containers | Solaris Containers (including Solaris Zones) is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology for x86 and SPARC systems, first released publicly in February 2004 in build 51 beta of Solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of Solaris 10, 2005. It is present in illumos (formerly Ope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltatory%20conduction | In neuroscience, saltatory conduction () is the propagation of action potentials along myelinated axons from one node of Ranvier to the next node, increasing the conduction velocity of action potentials. The uninsulated nodes of Ranvier are the only places along the axon where ions are exchanged across the axon membran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Plate%20Building | The Blue Plate Building, is a building in the Gert Town section of New Orleans, Louisiana, at 1315 S. Norman C. Francis Parkway at the corner of Earhart Boulevard. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 2008. Its NRIS reference number is 08000989.
Built in 1941 in the Streamline Mode... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackey%E2%80%93Arens%20theorem | The Mackey–Arens theorem is an important theorem in functional analysis that characterizes those locally convex vector topologies that have some given space of linear functionals as their continuous dual space.
According to Narici (2011), this profound result is central to duality theory; a theory that is "the central... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAPWS | The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) is an international non-profit association of national organizations concerned with the properties of water and steam, particularly thermophysical properties and other aspects of high-temperature steam, water and aqueous mixtures that are rele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20and%20Mathematical%20Organization%20Theory | Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory is a quarterly double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the field of organization theory. The journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was established in 1995 and initially published by Kluwer. The founding editors-in-chief were William... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutcracker%20doll | Nutcracker dolls, also known as Christmas nutcrackers, are decorative nutcracker figurines most commonly made to resemble a toy soldier. In German tradition, the dolls are symbols of good luck, frightening away malevolent spirits.
While nearly all nutcrackers from before the first half of the 20th century are functiona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornamental%20bulbous%20plant | Ornamental bulbous plants, often called ornamental bulbs or just bulbs in gardening and horticulture, are herbaceous perennials grown for ornamental purposes, which have underground or near ground storage organs. Botanists distinguish between true bulbs, corms, rhizomes, tubers and tuberous roots, any of which may be t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiske%20Planetarium | Fiske Planetarium and Science Center is a public museum dedicated to educating the public on astronomy and astrophysics. It is a constituent of the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, located in Boulder, Colorado. Fiske was founded in 1975, by a donation from Wallac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20isolation | Matrix isolation is an experimental technique used in chemistry and physics. It generally involves a material being trapped within an unreactive matrix. A host matrix is a continuous solid phase in which guest particles (atoms, molecules, ions, etc.) are embedded. The guest is said to be isolated within the host matrix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20problem | A mathematical problem is a problem that can be represented, analyzed, and possibly solved, with the methods of mathematics. This can be a real-world problem, such as computing the orbits of the planets in the solar system, or a problem of a more abstract nature, such as Hilbert's problems. It can also be a problem ref... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergeusia | Hypergeusia is a taste disorder where the sense is abnormally heightened. It can be associated with a lesion of the posterior fossa and Addison's disease; where a patient will crave for salty and sour taste due to the abnormal loss of ions with urine. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20definite%20integrals | In mathematics, the definite integral
is the area of the region in the xy-plane bounded by the graph of f, the x-axis, and the lines x = a and x = b, such that area above the x-axis adds to the total, and that below the x-axis subtracts from the total.
The fundamental theorem of calculus establishes the relationship ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon%20Northwest | Falcon Northwest is a private company headquartered in Medford, Oregon. It designs, assembles, and markets high-end custom computers. The company was founded in 1992 and was one of the first to specialize in PCs built specifically for gaming.
History
Falcon Northwest was founded in April 1992 by gamer hobbyist and for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20%28system%20call%29 | For most file systems, a program initializes access to a file in a file system using the open system call. This allocates resources associated to the file (the file descriptor), and returns a handle that the process will use to refer to that file. In some cases the open is performed by the first access.
The same file... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swim%20bladder | The swim bladder, gas bladder, fish maw, or air bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of many bony fish (but not cartilaginous fish) to control their buoyancy, and thus to stay at their current water depth without having to expend energy in swimming. Also, the dorsal position of the sw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiled%20fish | Boiled fish, or more precisely salt-boiled fish, is fish boiled with salt and thus preserved for later consumption. Although this method is used in other parts of the world, it is of major commercial significance only in Southeast Asia. The shelf life of products so treated can range from as little as one or two days, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%20Kalabi%C4%87 | Nikola Kalabić (; 20 December 1906 – 19 January 1946) was a Serb and Yugoslav surveyor and Chetnik commander during World War II.
Early life
He was born to father Milan and mother Joka in Podnovlje (municipality of Doboj) in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. He had a sister named Angelina (1912–1999).
Nikola's fath... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz%20lemma | In mathematics, the Schwarz lemma, named after Hermann Amandus Schwarz, is a result in complex analysis about holomorphic functions from the open unit disk to itself. The lemma is less celebrated than deeper theorems, such as the Riemann mapping theorem, which it helps to prove. It is, however, one of the simplest resu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20all-pairs%20shortest%20path%20algorithm | A central problem in algorithmic graph theory is the shortest path problem. Hereby, the problem of finding the shortest path between every pair of nodes is known as all-pair-shortest-paths (APSP) problem. As sequential algorithms for this problem often yield long runtimes, parallelization has shown to be beneficial in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20coupling%20analysis | Direct coupling analysis or DCA is an umbrella term comprising several methods for analyzing sequence data in computational biology. The common idea of these methods is to use statistical modeling to quantify the strength of the direct relationship between two positions of a biological sequence, excluding effects from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20BSD%20operating%20systems | There are a number of Unix-like operating systems under active development, descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of UNIX variants developed (originally by Bill Joy) at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. there were four major BSD ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20epoxy%20material | Composite epoxy materials (CEM) are a group of composite materials typically made from woven glass fabric surfaces and non-woven glass core combined with epoxy synthetic resin. They are typically used in printed circuit boards.
There are different types of CEMs:
CEM-1 is low-cost, flame-retardant, cellulose-paper-ba... |
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