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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antagonism%20%28phytopathology%29 | In phytopathology, antagonism refers to the action of any organism that suppresses or interferes with the normal growth and activity of a plant pathogen, such as the main parts of bacteria or fungi.
These organisms can be used for pest control and are referred to as biological control agents. They may be predators, pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunological%20Genome%20Project | The Immunological Genome Project (ImmGen) is a collaborative scientific research project that is currently building a gene-expression database for all characterized immune cells in the mouse. The overarching goal of the project is to computationally reconstruct the gene regulatory network in immune cells
. All data g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20holography | Acoustic holography is a method for estimating the sound field near a sound source by measuring acoustic parameters away from the source by means of an array of pressure and/or particle velocity transducers. The measuring techniques included in acoustic holography are becoming increasingly popular in various fields, m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asystole | Asystole (New Latin, from Greek privative a "not, without" + systolē "contraction") is the absence of ventricular contractions in the context of a lethal heart arrhythmia (in contrast to an induced asystole on a cooled patient on a heart-lung machine and general anesthesia during surgery necessitating stopping the hear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIN28B%20%28gene%29 | Lin-28 homolog B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LIN28B gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the lin-28 family, which is characterized by the presence of a cold-shock domain and a pair of CCHC zinc finger domains. This gene is highly expressed in testis, fetal liver, placenta, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRTensorII | GRTensorII is a Maple package designed for tensor computations, particularly in general relativity.
This package was developed at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario by Peter Musgrave, Denis Pollney and Kayll Lake. While there are many packages which perform tensor computations (including a standard Maple package... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pono%20%28digital%20music%20service%29 | Pono (, Hawaiian word for "proper") was a portable digital media player and music download service for high-resolution audio. It was developed by musician Neil Young and his company PonoMusic, which raised money for development and initial production through a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter. Production and shipm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20excretion%20of%20sodium | The fractional excretion of sodium (FENa) is the percentage of the sodium filtered by the kidney which is excreted in the urine. It is measured in terms of plasma and urine sodium, rather than by the interpretation of urinary sodium concentration alone, as urinary sodium concentrations can vary with water reabsorption... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbert%E2%80%93Fedorov%20effect | The Imbert–Fiodaraŭ effect (named after Fiodar Ivanavič Fiodaraŭ (1911 – 1994) and Christian Imbert (1937 – 1998) is an optical phenomenon in which a beam of circularly or elliptically polarized light undergoes a small sideways shift, when refracted or totally internally reflected. The sideways shift is perpendicular... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater%20survey | An underwater survey is a survey performed in an underwater environment or conducted remotely on an underwater object or region. Survey can have several meanings. The word originates in Medieval Latin with meanings of looking over and detailed study of a subject. One meaning is the accurate measurement of a geographica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-charm%20tetraquark | The double-charm tetraquark (T, cc) is a type of long-lived tetraquark that was discovered in 2021 in the LHCb experiment conducted at the Large Hadron Collider. It contains four quarks: two charm quarks, an anti-up and an anti-down quark.
It has a theoretical computed mass of . The discovery showed an exceptionally s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20gate%20teleportation | Quantum gate teleportation is a quantum circuit construction where a gate is applied to target qubits by first applying the gate to an entangled state and then teleporting the target qubits through that entangled state.
This separation of the physical application of the gate from the target qubit can be useful in case... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-locked%20loop | In electronics, a delay-locked loop (DLL) is a pseudo-digital circuit similar to a phase-locked loop (PLL), with the main difference being the absence of an internal voltage-controlled oscillator, replaced by a delay line.
A DLL can be used to change the phase of a clock signal (a signal with a periodic waveform), usu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20truth | Logical truth is one of the most fundamental concepts in logic. Broadly speaking, a logical truth is a statement which is true regardless of the truth or falsity of its constituent propositions. In other words, a logical truth is a statement which is not only true, but one which is true under all interpretations of its... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvarez%20hypothesis | The Alvarez hypothesis posits that the mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was caused by the impact of a large asteroid on the Earth. Prior to 2013, it was commonly cited as having happened about 65 million years ago, but Renne and co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptagonal%20number | A heptagonal number is a figurate number that is constructed by combining heptagons with ascending size. The n-th heptagonal number is given by the formula
.
The first few heptagonal numbers are:
0, 1, 7, 18, 34, 55, 81, 112, 148, 189, 235, 286, 342, 403, 469, 540, 616, 697, 783, 874, 970, 1071, 1177, 1288, 1404, 152... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground%20World%20Home | Underground World Home was a home designed for the 1964 New York World's Fair by architect Jay Swayze. The home-exhibit was in Flushing Meadow Park in Queens and appeared to be a luxury bomb shelter which was marketed as secure and safe.
History
The 1964 World's Fair featured the home which was designed by architect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20acetate | Potassium acetate (also called potassium ethanoate), (CH3COOK) is the potassium salt of acetic acid. It is a hygroscopic solid at room temperature.
Preparation
It can be prepared by treating a potassium-containing base such as potassium hydroxide or potassium carbonate with acetic acid:
CH3COOH + KOH → CH3COOK + H2O
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taeuber%20Paradox | The Taeuber Paradox is a paradox in demography, which results from two seemingly contradictory expectations given a population-wide decrease in mortality, e.g. from curing or reducing the mortality of a disease in a population. The two expectations are:
Since the disease would have otherwise caused some deaths, there ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%20sequence | In mathematics, the Euler sequence is a particular exact sequence of sheaves on n-dimensional projective space over a ring. It shows that the sheaf of relative differentials is stably isomorphic to an -fold sum of the dual of the Serre twisting sheaf.
The Euler sequence generalizes to that of a projective bundle as we... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZXDC | Zinc finger, X-linked, duplicated family member C (ZXDC) is a human CIITA-binding protein involved in the activation of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and II. For binding to occur, ZXDC must form an oligomeric complex with another copy of itself or with ZXDA, a related protein. ZXDC is activated by su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah-like%20proteins | The Methuselah-like proteins are a family of G protein-coupled receptors found in insects that play a role in aging and reproduction. Antagonizing these receptors can extend the life span of the animal and make it more resistant to free radicals and starvation, but also reduce reproduction and increase cold sensitivity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique%20Teillaud | Monique Teillaud is a French researcher in computational geometry at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Nancy, France. She moved to Nancy in 2014 from a different INRIA center in Sophia Antipolis, where she was one of the developers of CGAL, a software library of computation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20hashing | In mathematics and computing, universal hashing (in a randomized algorithm or data structure) refers to selecting a hash function at random from a family of hash functions with a certain mathematical property (see definition below). This guarantees a low number of collisions in expectation, even if the data is chosen b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20stand | A music stand is a pedestal or elevated rack designed to hold sheets of music in position for reading. Most music stands for orchestral, chamber music or solo orchestra-family instruments (violin, oboe, trumpet, etc.) can be raised or lowered to accommodate seated or standing performers, or performers of different heig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%20surface | In geometry, a Catalan surface, named after the Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan, is a ruled surface all of whose rulings are parallel to a fixed plane.
Equations
The vector equation of a Catalan surface is given by
r = s(u) + v L(u),
where r = s(u) is the space curve and L(u) is the unit vector of the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyelectrolyte | Polyelectrolytes are polymers whose repeating units bear an electrolyte group. Polycations and polyanions are polyelectrolytes. These groups dissociate in aqueous solutions (water), making the polymers charged. Polyelectrolyte properties are thus similar to both electrolytes (salts) and polymers (high molecular weight ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate%20count%20agar | Plate count agar (PCA), also called standard methods agar (SMA), is a microbiological growth medium commonly used to assess or to monitor "total" or viable bacterial growth of a sample. PCA is not a selective medium.
The total number of living aerobic bacteria can be determined using a plate count agar (PCA) which is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chown | The command , an abbreviation of change owner, is used on Unix and Unix-like operating systems to change the owner of file system files, directories. Unprivileged (regular) users who wish to change the group membership of a file that they own may use .
The ownership of any file in the system may only be altered by a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horticultural%20flora | A horticultural flora, also known as a garden flora, is a plant identification aid structured in the same way as a native plants flora. It serves the same purpose: to facilitate plant identification; however, it only includes plants that are under cultivation as ornamental plants growing within the prescribed climate z... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales%27s%20theorem | In geometry, Thales's theorem states that if , , and are distinct points on a circle where the line is a diameter, the angle is a right angle. Thales's theorem is a special case of the inscribed angle theorem and is mentioned and proved as part of the 31st proposition in the third book of Euclid's Elements. It is ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20uncertainty%20principle | Generalized uncertainty principle — collective name for hypothetical generalizations uncertainty principle, which take into account
the influence of gravitational interactions on the maximum achievable accuracy of measuring physical quantities.
From the hypothesis of the generalized uncertainty principle it follows t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20resonance%20fluorescence | Nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) is a nuclear process in which a nucleus absorbs and emits high-energy photons called gamma rays. NRF interactions typically take place above 1 MeV, and most NRF experiments target heavy nuclei such as uranium and thorium
This process is used for scanning cargo for contraband. Its f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20medicine | Systems medicine is an interdisciplinary field of study that looks at the systems of the human body as part of an integrated whole, incorporating biochemical, physiological, and environment interactions. Systems medicine draws on systems science and systems biology, and considers complex interactions within the human b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated%20Key%20Exchange | Authenticated Key Exchange (AKE) or Authenticated Key Agreement is the exchange of session key in a key exchange protocol which also authenticates the identities of parties involved in key exchange.
Transport Layer Security integral to securing HTTP connections is perhaps the most widely deployed AKE protocol. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20APP | The Cray APP (Attached Parallel Processor) was a parallel computer sold by Cray Research from 1992 onwards. It was based on the Intel i860 microprocessor and could be configured with up to 84 processors. The design was based on "computational nodes" of 12 processors interconnected by a shared bus, with multiple nodes c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%20%28UML%29 | An actor in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) "specifies a role played by a user or any other system that interacts with the subject."
"An Actor models a type of role played by an entity that interacts with the subject (e.g., by exchanging signals and data),
but which is external to the subject."
"Actors may repres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremitus | Fremitus is a vibration transmitted through the body. In common medical usage, it usually refers to assessment of the lungs by either the vibration intensity felt on the chest wall (tactile fremitus) and/or heard by a stethoscope on the chest wall with certain spoken words (vocal fremitus), although there are several o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy%20Ray | Wilford Jones (January 22, 1931 – March 17, 2007), better known as Crazy Ray, was the unofficial mascot of the Dallas Cowboys. By some accounts, he was also the team's original mascot, who attended almost every home game since the team's inception.
History
He started selling pennants at games in 1962 and quickly endea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20B.%20Babcock | Ernest Brown Babcock (July 10, 1877 – December 8, 1954) was an American plant geneticist who pioneered the under
standing of plant evolution in terms of genetics. He is particularly known for seeking to understand by field investigations and extensive experiments, the entire polyploid apomictic genus Crepis, in which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C1orf122 | C1orf122 (Chromosome 1 open reading frame 122) is a gene in the human genome that encodes the cytosolic protein ALAESM.. ALAESM is present in all tissue cells and highly up-regulated in the brain, spinal cord, adrenal gland and kidney. This gene can be expressed up to 2.5 times the average gene in its highly expressed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensed%20to%20Kill%3F | Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant, a 1998 book by Joan Aron, presents the first detailed case study of how an activist public and elected officials of New York state opposed the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island. The book explains that nuclear power faltered when... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn%20%28biochemistry%29 | A turn is an element of secondary structure in proteins where the polypeptide chain reverses its overall direction.
Definition
According to one definition, a turn is a structural motif where the Cα atoms of two residues separated by a few (usually 1 to 5) peptide bonds are close (less than ). The proximity of the te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viability%20theory | Viability theory is an area of mathematics that studies the evolution of dynamical systems under constraints on the system state. It was developed to formalize problems arising in the study of various natural and social phenomena, and has close ties to the theories of optimal control and set-valued analysis.
Motivatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20encryption%20theory | Disk encryption is a special case of data at rest protection when the storage medium is a sector-addressable device (e.g., a hard disk). This article presents cryptographic aspects of the problem. For an overview, see disk encryption. For discussion of different software packages and hardware devices devoted to this pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20module%20category | In representation theory, the stable module category is a category in which projectives are "factored out."
Definition
Let R be a ring. For two modules M and N over R, define to be the set of R-linear maps from M to N modulo the relation that f ~ g if f − g factors through a projective module. The stable module cate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator%20diagram | An indicator diagram is a chart used to measure the thermal, or cylinder, performance of reciprocating steam and internal combustion engines and compressors. An indicator chart records the pressure in the cylinder versus the volume swept by the piston, throughout the two or four strokes of the piston which constitute ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing%20region | A growing region also known as a farming region or agricultural region refers to a geographic area characterised by specific climate factors, soil conditions and agricultural practices that are favourable for the cultivation and production of crops, plants, or livestock. Depending on the environmental characteristics, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalent%20and%20shy%20sets | In mathematics, the notions of prevalence and shyness are notions of "almost everywhere" and "measure zero" that are well-suited to the study of infinite-dimensional spaces and make use of the translation-invariant Lebesgue measure on finite-dimensional real spaces. The term "shy" was suggested by the American mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3%20peptide | p3 peptide also known as amyloid β- peptide (Aβ)17–40/42 is the peptide resulting from the α- and γ-secretase cleavage from the amyloid precursor protein (APP). It is known to be the major constituent of diffuse plaques observed in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains and pre-amyloid plaques in people affected by Down syndr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20manifold | In differential geometry and complex geometry, a complex manifold is a manifold with an atlas of charts to the open unit disc in , such that the transition maps are holomorphic.
The term complex manifold is variously used to mean a complex manifold in the sense above (which can be specified as an integrable complex ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9%20Dagron | René Prudent Patrice Dagron (17 March 1817 – 13 June 1900) was a French photographer and inventor. He was born in Aillières-Beauvoir, Sarthe, France.
On 21 June 1859, Dagron was granted the first microfilm patent in history. Dagron is also considered the inventor of the miniature photographic jewels () known as Stanho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackiw%E2%80%93Teitelboim%20gravity | The R = T model, also known as Jackiw–Teitelboim gravity (named after Roman Jackiw and Claudio Teitelboim), is a theory of gravity with dilaton coupling in one spatial and one time dimension. It should not be confused with the CGHS model or Liouville gravity. The action is given by
The metric in this case is more amen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic%20stalk | The optic vesicles project toward the sides of the head, and the peripheral part of each expands to form a hollow bulb, while the proximal part remains narrow and constitutes the optic stalk.
Closure of the choroidal fissure in the optic stalk occurs during the seventh week of development. The former optic stalk is th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposons%20as%20a%20genetic%20tool | Transposons are semi-parasitic DNA sequences which can replicate and spread through the host's genome. They can be harnessed as a genetic tool for analysis of gene and protein function. The use of transposons is well-developed in Drosophila (in which P elements are most commonly used) and in Thale cress (Arabidopsis th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formazine | Formazine (formazin) is a heterocyclic polymer produced by reaction of hexamethylenetetramine with hydrazine sulfate.
The hexamethylenetetramine tetrahedral cage-like structure, similar to adamantane, serves as molecular building block to form a tridimensional polymeric network.
Formazine is very poorly soluble in w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holin | Holins are a diverse group of small proteins produced by dsDNA bacteriophages in order to trigger and control the degradation of the host's cell wall at the end of the lytic cycle. Holins form pores in the host's cell membrane, allowing lysins to reach and degrade peptidoglycan, a component of bacterial cell walls. Hol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMX%20Simulator | BMX Simulator is a racing video game designed by Richard Darling and released by Codemasters in 1986 for the Commodore 64. It is part of a series of games that includes ATV Simulator, Grand Prix Simulator, Professional Ski Simulator, and a sequel: Professional BMX Simulator. BMX Simulator was ported to the Amiga, Atar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20beam%20cooling | Particle beam cooling is the process of improving the quality of particle beams produced by particle accelerators, by reducing the emittance. Techniques for particle beam cooling include:
Stochastic cooling
Electron cooling
Ionization cooling
Laser cooling
Radiation damping
Buffer-gas cooling within RF quadrupol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landrace | A landrace is a domesticated, locally adapted, often traditional variety of a species of animal or plant that has developed over time, through adaptation to its natural and cultural environment of agriculture and pastoralism, and due to isolation from other populations of the species. Landraces are distinct from cultiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20grammar | In computer science, a linear grammar is a context-free grammar that has at most one nonterminal in the right-hand side of each of its productions.
A linear language is a language generated by some linear grammar.
Example
An example of a linear grammar is G with N = {S}, Σ = {a, b}, P with start symbol S and rules
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Wilmut | Sir Ian Wilmut (7 July 1944 – 10 September 2023) was a British embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Doll... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgenomates | The Microgenomates are a proposed supergroup of bacterial candidate phyla in the Candidate Phyla Radiation.
Organisms from the Microgenomates group have never been cultured in a lab; rather they have only been detected in the environment through genetic sequencing.
The Microgenomates group was originally discovered f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20books%20about%20mushrooms | This is a list of published books about mushrooms and mycology, including their history in relation to man, their identification, their usage as food and medicine, and their ecology.
Identification guides
These are larger works that may be hard to take on a hike but help with in depth identification after mushroom hun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fray%20in%20Magical%20Adventure | Fray in Magical Adventure, also known as just Fray (フレイ) and Fray-Xak Epilogue (Gai-den), is a 1990 spin-off "gaiden" (sidestory) game in a role-playing video game series Xak developed and published by the Japanese software developer Micro Cabin. Even though it is directly connected to the more serious Xak storyline, F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch%20conjecture | In mathematical programming and polyhedral combinatorics, the Hirsch conjecture is the statement that the edge-vertex graph of an n-facet polytope in d-dimensional Euclidean space has diameter no more than n − d. That is, any two vertices of the polytope must be connected to each other by a path of length at most n − d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canned%20tomato | Canned tomatoes, or tinned tomatoes, are tomatoes, usually peeled, that are sealed into a can after having been processed by heat.
Variants
Canned tomatoes are available in several different forms. The traditional forms are whole peeled tomatoes, packed in juice or purée, and ground tomatoes, sometimes referred to as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyz | Phyz (Dax Phyz) is a public domain, 2.5D physics engine with built-in editor and DirectX graphics and sound. In contrast to most other real-time physics engines, it is vertex based and stochastic. Its integrator is based on a SIMD-enabled assembly version of the Mersenne Twister random number generator, instead of trad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBASS3/5 | DBASS3 and DBASS5 in computational biology is a database of new exon boundaries induced by pathogenic mutations in human disease genes.
The database has been used in a large number of studies; Google Scholar has 87 entries for papers using DBASS3, and 80 for papers using DBASS5 including
Vallée MP, Di Sera TL, Nix DA,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock%20Exchange%20of%20Visions | The Stock Exchange of Visions is a project initiated in 2006 by Fabrica, Benetton's research center. It gathers visionaries from diverse nationalities and cultures, who hail from a wide range of specialties, to provide insight into their vision for the future.
Artists, sociologists, activists, scientists and others ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous%20System%20Architecture | Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) is a cross-vendor set of specifications that allow for the integration of central processing units and graphics processors on the same bus, with shared memory and tasks. The HSA is being developed by the HSA Foundation, which includes (among many others) AMD and ARM. The platform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s%20butterfly | In condensed matter physics, Hofstadter's butterfly is a graph of the spectral properties of non-interacting two-dimensional electrons in a perpendicular magnetic field in a lattice. The fractal, self-similar nature of the spectrum was discovered in the 1976 Ph.D. work of Douglas Hofstadter and is one of the early exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20security | Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers or data using wireless networks, which include Wi-Fi networks. The term may also refer to the protection of the wireless network itself from adversaries seeking to damage the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the network. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20I/O | Google I/O, or simply I/O, is an annual developer conference held by Google in Mountain View, California. The name "I/O" is taken from the number googol, with the "I" representing the "1" in googol and the "O" representing the first "0" in the number. The format of the event is similar to Google Developer Day.
History... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20functor | In algebra, a polynomial functor is an endofunctor on the category of finite-dimensional vector spaces that depends polynomially on vector spaces. For example, the symmetric powers and the exterior powers are polynomial functors from to ; these two are also Schur functors.
The notion appears in representation theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symrise | Symrise AG is a German chemicals company that is a major producer of flavours and fragrances with sales of €4.618 billion in 2022. Major competitors include Givaudan, Takasago International Corporation, International Flavors and Fragrances and Döhler. Symrise is a member of the European Flavour Association. In 2021, Sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package%20principles | In computer programming, package principles are a way of organizing classes in larger systems to make them more organized and manageable. They aid in understanding which classes should go into which packages (package cohesion) and how these packages should relate with one another (package coupling). Package principles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipactor%20effect | The multipactor effect is a phenomenon in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier vacuum tubes and waveguides, where, under certain conditions, secondary electron emission in resonance with an alternating electric field leads to exponential electron multiplication, possibly damaging and even destroying the RF device.
Descripti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic%20display | A holographic display is a type of 3D display that utilizes light diffraction to display a three-dimensional image to the viewer. Holographic displays are distinguished from other forms of 3D displays in that they do not require the viewer to wear any special glasses or use external equipment to be able to see the imag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal%20inversion | An inversion is a chromosome rearrangement in which a segment of a chromosome becomes inverted within its original position. An inversion occurs when a chromosome undergoes a two breaks within the chromosomal arm, and the segment between the two breaks inserts itself in the opposite direction in the same chromosome arm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary%20line | An auxiliary line (or helping line) is an extra line needed to complete a proof in plane geometry. Other common auxiliary constructs in elementary plane synthetic geometry are the helping circles.
As an example, a proof of the theorem on the sum of angles of a triangle can be done by adding a straight line parallel to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital%20lamina%20of%20ethmoid%20bone | The orbital lamina of ethmoid bone (or lamina papyracea or orbital lamina) is a smooth, oblong, paper-thin bone plate which forms the lateral wall of the labyrinth of the ethmoid bone. It covers the middle and posterior ethmoidal cells, and forms a large part of the medial wall of the orbit.
It articulates above with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetogenesis | Acetogenesis is a process through which acetate is produced either by the reduction of CO2 or by the reduction of organic acids, rather than by the oxidative breakdown of carbohydrates or ethanol, as with acetic acid bacteria.
The different bacterial species that are capable of acetogenesis are collectively termed ace... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20Pi | Sonic Pi is a live coding environment based on Ruby, originally designed to support both computing and music lessons in schools, developed by Sam Aaron in the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in collaboration with Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Uses
Thanks to its use of the SuperCollider synthesis engine and acc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly%20periodic%20function | In mathematics, a doubly periodic function is a function defined on the complex plane and having two "periods", which are complex numbers u and v that are linearly independent as vectors over the field of real numbers. That u and v are periods of a function ƒ means that
for all values of the complex number z.
The do... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiyu%20jelly | Aiyu jelly (; or ; or simply ), known in Amoy Hokkien as ogio (), and as ice jelly in Singapore (), is a jelly made from the gel from the seeds of the awkeotsang creeping fig found in Taiwan and East Asian countries of the same climates and latitudes. The jelly is not commonly made or found outside of Taiwan, Malaysia,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20parameter | In the geometry of complex algebraic curves, a local parameter for a curve C at a smooth point P is a meromorphic function on C that has a simple zero at P. This concept can be generalized to curves defined over fields other than (or schemes), because the local ring at a smooth point P of an algebraic curve C (defined... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOAP | The HOAP series robots are an advanced humanoid robot platform manufactured by Fujitsu Automation in Japan. HOAP is an abbreviation for "Humanoid for Open Architecture Platform".
The HOAP series should not be confused with the HRP series (also known as Promet).
History
In 2001, Fujitsu realized its first commercial h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCS%20algorithm | For mathematical optimization, Multilevel Coordinate Search (MCS) is an efficient algorithm for bound constrained global optimization using function values only.
To do so, the n-dimensional search space is represented by a set of non-intersecting hypercubes (boxes). The boxes are then iteratively split along an axis p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene%20Minkiewicz | Arlene F. Minkiewicz is the Chief Scientist at PRICE Systems, a company generally acknowledged as the earliest developer of parametric cost estimation software. She leads the cost research activity for the entire suite of cost estimating products that PRICE develops and maintains. Minkiewicz has over 25 years of experi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20phylogenetics | Computational phylogenetics, phylogeny inference, or phylogenetic inference focuses on computational and optimization algorithms, heuristics, and approaches involved in phylogenetic analyses. The goal is to find a phylogenetic tree representing optimal evolutionary ancestry between a set of genes, species, or taxa. Max... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crp%20domain | In molecular biology, the CRP domain is a protein domain consisting of a helix-turn-helix (HTH) motif. It is found at the C-terminus of numerous bacterial transcription regulatory proteins. These proteins bind DNA via the CRP domain. These proteins are very diverse, but for convenience may be grouped into subfamilies o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stampacchia%20Medal | The Stampacchia Gold Medal is an international prize awarded every three years by the Italian Mathematical Union (Unione Matematica Italiana – UMI {it}) together with the Ettore Majorana Foundation (Erice), in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of Calculus of Variations and related applications. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein%20polynomial | In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, a Bernstein polynomial is a polynomial expressed as a linear combination of Bernstein basis polynomials. The idea is named after mathematician Sergei Natanovich Bernstein.
Polynomials in Bernstein form were first used by Bernstein in a constructive proof for the Weierst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burpee%20%28exercise%29 | The burpee, a squat thrust with an additional stand between repetitions, is a full body exercise used in strength training. The movement itself is primarily an anaerobic exercise, but when done in succession over a longer period can be utilized as an aerobic exercise.
The basic movement as described by its namesake, p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald%20Burns%20%28photographer%29 | Archibald Burns (1831–1880) was a Scottish photographer based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and active from 1858 to 1880. He documented the city through various publications and recorded the historic buildings in a section of the city that was cleared for improvements in the 1860s.
Life and career
Burns became active in ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Wigglesworth | Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth CBE FRS (17 April 1899 – 11 February 1994) was a British entomologist who made significant contributions to the field of insect physiology. He established the field in a textbook which was updated in a number of editions.
In particular, he studied metamorphosis. His most significant cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobucavir | Lobucavir (previously known as BMS-180194, Cyclobut-G) is an antiviral drug that shows broad-spectrum activity against herpesviruses, hepatitis B and other hepadnaviruses, HIV/AIDS and cytomegalovirus. It initially demonstrated positive results in human clinical trials against hepatitis B with minimal adverse effects b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara%20%28software%29 | Capybara is a web-based test automation software that simulates scenarios for user stories and automates web application testing for behavior-driven software development. It is written in the Ruby programming language.
Capybara can mimic actions of real users interacting with web-based applications. It can receive pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putty%20knife | A putty knife is a specialized tool used when glazing single glazed windows, to work putty around the edges of each pane of glass. An experienced glazer will apply the putty by hand, and then smooth it with the knife. Modern insulated glazing may use other ways of securing the glass to the window frame.
A spackle knif... |
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