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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil%20van%20der%20Aalst | Willibrordus Martinus Pancratius van der Aalst (born 29 January 1966) is a Dutch computer scientist and full professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group. His research and teaching interests include information systems, workflow management, Petri nets, process mining, specific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatic%20ring%20current | An aromatic ring current is an effect observed in aromatic molecules such as benzene and naphthalene. If a magnetic field is directed perpendicular to the plane of the aromatic system, a ring current is induced in the delocalized π electrons of the aromatic ring. This is a direct consequence of Ampère's law; since the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20rate | In epidemiology, the attack rate is the proportion of an at-risk population that contracts the disease during a specified time interval. It is used in hypothetical predictions and during actual outbreaks of disease. An at-risk population is defined as one that has no immunity to the attacking pathogen, which can be eit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness%20and%20aging | Homelessness and aging is a largely neglected topic in the literature. There is a widespread assumption that aged homeless people are rare, but this is not true. Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom show increases in their populations of aging homelessness. Increased Elderly adults who straddle the poverty line are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatrellus%20subrubescens | Albatrellus subrubescens is a species of polypore fungus in the family Albatrellaceae. The fruit bodies (mushrooms) of the fungus have whitish to pale buff-colored caps that can reach up to in diameter, and stems up to long and thick. On the underside of the caps are tiny light yellow to pale greenish-yellow pores, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphea | Morphea is a form of scleroderma that mainly involves isolated patches of hardened skin on the face, hands, and feet, or anywhere else on the body, usually with no internal organ involvement. However, in Deep Morphea inflammation and sclerosis can be found in the deep dermis, panniculus, fascia, superficial muscle and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Union%20of%20Pure%20and%20Applied%20Physics | The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP; ) is an international non-governmental organization whose mission is to assist in the worldwide development of physics, to foster international cooperation in physics, and to help in the application of physics toward solving problems of concern to humanity. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20cryptography | Cryptography, the use of codes and ciphers to protect secrets, began thousands of years ago. Until recent decades, it has been the story of what might be called classical cryptography — that is, of methods of encryption that use pen and paper, or perhaps simple mechanical aids. In the early 20th century, the invention ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Hills | Christopher Hills (April 9, 1926 – January 31, 1997) was an English-born author, described as the "Father of Spirulina" for popularizing spirulina cyanobacteria as a food supplement. He also wrote 30 books on consciousness, meditation, yoga and spiritual evolution, divining, world government, aquaculture, and personal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull%20%28rhinoceros%29 | Bull was an individual male southern white rhinoceros and a famous conservation success story for his species. Southern white rhinos were thought to be extinct in the late 1800s until a small herd was discovered. Since then, rhinos like Bull have been part of various international breeding programs. As a result, thei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz%20resonance | Helmholtz resonance or wind throb is the phenomenon of air resonance in a cavity, such as when one blows across the top of an empty bottle. The name comes from a device created in the 1850s by Hermann von Helmholtz, the Helmholtz resonator, which he used to identify the various frequencies or musical pitches present in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Navy%20use%20of%20Hydrometer%20in%20the%201800s | Certain ships of the United States Navy adopted the use of the hydrometer in the 1850s. Readings taken of the density of seawater contributed to research into the dynamics of ocean currents.
Adoption
The first International Maritime Conference held at Brussels in 1853 (aka "Brussels Conference") for devising a uniform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillery%2C%20Wine%20and%20Allied%20Workers%27%20International%20Union | The Distillery, Wine and Allied Workers' International Union (DWAW) was a labor union representing workers involved in making alcoholic drinks in the United States.
History
The union was founded in 1940 as the Distillery, Rectifying and Wine Workers' International Union, and was chartered by the American Federation of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic%20and%20Gulf%20Coastal%20Plain%20Province | The Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Province is a coastal plain floristic province within the North American Atlantic Region, a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom. It lies to the east and south of the Appalachian Province. It encompasses the Atlantic coastal plain minus central and southern Florida, and the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augeas | In Greek mythology, Augeas (or Augeias, , ), whose name means "bright", was king of Elis and father of Epicaste. Some say that Augeas was one of the Argonauts. He is known for his stables, which housed the single greatest number of cattle in the country and had never been cleaned, until the time of the great hero Herac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIP/KIP | The CIP/KIP (CDK interacting protein/Kinase inhibitory protein) family is one of two families (CIP/KIP and INK4) of mammalian cyclin dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitors (CKIs) involved in regulating the cell cycle. The CIP/KIP family is made up of three proteins: p21cip1/waf1, P27kip1, p57kip2 These proteins share s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20router | A core router is a router designed to operate in the Internet backbone, or core. To fulfill this role, a router must be able to support multiple telecommunications interfaces of the highest speed in use in the core Internet and must be able to forward IP packets at full speed on all of them. It must also support the ro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocommunication%20%28science%29 | In the study of the biological sciences, biocommunication is any specific type of communication within (intraspecific) or between (interspecific) species of plants, animals, fungi, protozoa and microorganisms. Communication basically means sign-mediated interactions following three levels of (syntactic, pragmatic and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower%20envelope | In mathematics, the lower envelope or pointwise minimum of a finite set of functions is the pointwise minimum of the functions, the function whose value at every point is the minimum of the values of the functions in the given set. The concept of a lower envelope can also be extended to partial functions by taking the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer%20associated%20retinopathy | Cancer Associated Retinopathy (CAR) also known as Carcinoma Associated Retinopathy is an immune-mediated disease affecting the retina of the eye. It is a paraneoplastic type autoimmune retinopathy associated with cancer that can cause blindness. It can be seen in association with various types of cancers. It can be tre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacunar%20ligament | The lacunar ligament, also named Gimbernat’s ligament, is a ligament in the inguinal region. It connects the inguinal ligament to the pectineal ligament, near the point where they both insert on the pubic tubercle.
Structure
The lacunar ligament is the part of the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle that is ref... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiproton | The antiproton, , (pronounced p-bar) is the antiparticle of the proton. Antiprotons are stable, but they are typically short-lived, since any collision with a proton will cause both particles to be annihilated in a burst of energy.
The existence of the antiproton with electric charge of , opposite to the electric char... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp%20mill | A stamp mill (or stamp battery or stamping mill) is a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores. Breaking material down is a type of unit operation.
Description
A stamp mill consists of a set of heavy steel (iron-shod ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20spectrum%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, specifically in spectral theory, a discrete spectrum of a closed linear operator is defined as the set of isolated points of its spectrum such that the rank of the corresponding Riesz projector is finite.
Definition
A point
in the spectrum of a closed linear operator in the Banach space with domain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic%20comparative%20methods | Phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) use information on the historical relationships of lineages (phylogenies) to test evolutionary hypotheses. The comparative method has a long history in evolutionary biology; indeed, Charles Darwin used differences and similarities between species as a major source of evidence in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting%20sheep | Counting sheep is a mental exercise used in some Western cultures as a means of putting oneself to sleep.
In most depictions of the activity, the practitioner envisions an endless series of identical white sheep jumping over a fence, while counting them as they do so. The idea, presumably, is to induce boredom while ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rademacher%20system | In mathematics, in particular in functional analysis, the Rademacher system, named after Hans Rademacher, is an incomplete orthogonal system of functions on the unit interval of the following form:
The Rademacher system is stochastically independent, and is closely related to the Walsh system. Specifically, the Wal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmer%20mean | In mathematics, the Lehmer mean of a tuple of positive real numbers, named after Derrick Henry Lehmer, is defined as:
The weighted Lehmer mean with respect to a tuple of positive weights is defined as:
The Lehmer mean is an alternative to power means
for interpolating between minimum and maximum via arithmetic mean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20functions%20of%20nitric%20oxide | Biological functions of nitric oxide are roles that nitric oxide plays within biology.
Nitric oxide (nitrogen monoxide) is a molecule and chemical compound with chemical formula of NO. In mammals including humans, nitric oxide is a signaling molecule involved in several physiological and pathological processes. It is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ami%20Radunskaya | Ami Elizabeth Radunskaya is an American mathematician and musician. She is a professor of mathematics at Pomona College, where she specializes in dynamical systems and the applications of mathematics to medicine, such as the use of cellular automata to model drug delivery. In 2016 she was elected as the president of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN%20messenger | A LAN Messenger is an instant messaging program for computers designed for use within a single local area network (LAN).
Many LAN Messengers offer basics functionality for sending private messages, file transfer, chatrooms and graphical smileys. The advantage of using a simple LAN messenger over a normal instant messe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Wildy | Norman Peter Leete Wildy (31 March 1920 – 10 March 1987) was a 20th-century British virologist who was an expert on the herpes simplex virus.
Education and personal life
He was born in Tunbridge Wells in Kent on 31 March 1920 the son of Eric Lawrence Wildy (1890–1973) an electrical engineer, and his wife, Gwendolen L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophantus%20II.VIII | The eighth problem of the second book of Arithmetica by Diophantus () is to divide a square into a sum of two squares.
The solution given by Diophantus
Diophantus takes the square to be 16 and solves the problem as follows:
To divide a given square into a sum of two squares.
To divide 16 into a sum of two squares.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana%20statistical%20areas | The U.S. currently has 25 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On March 6, 2020, the OMB delineated six combined statistical areas, nine metropolitan statistical areas, and ten micropolitan statistical areas in Louisiana.
Statistical areas
The Office of Management... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puddle%20%28M.%20C.%20Escher%29 | Puddle is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in February 1952.
Since 1936, Escher's work had become primarily focused on paradoxes, tessellation and other abstract visual concepts. This print, however, is a realistic depiction of a simple image that portrays two perspectives at once. It de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xak%3A%20The%20Tower%20of%20Gazzel | Xak Precious Package: The Tower of Gazzel is a fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by the Japanese software developer MicroCabin. The game is a direct sequel to Xak: The Art of Visual Stage and Xak II: The Rising of the Red Moon. While technically being the third installment of the series, The Tower... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Secure | F-Secure Corporation is a global cyber security and privacy company, which has its headquarters in Helsinki, Finland.
The company has offices in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, with a presence in more than ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20of%20balance | The sense of balance or equilibrioception is the perception of balance and spatial orientation. It helps prevent humans and nonhuman animals from falling over when standing or moving. Equilibrioception is the result of a number of sensory systems working together; the eyes (visual system), the inner ears (vestibular sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20impurity | A magnetic impurity is an impurity in a host metal that has a magnetic moment. The magnetic impurity can then interact with the conduction electrons of the metal, leading to interesting physics such as the Kondo effect, and heavy fermion behaviour. Some examples of magnetic impurities that metals can be doped with are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle%20dynamo | A bottle dynamo or sidewall dynamo is a small electrical generator for bicycles employed to power a bicycle's lights. The traditional bottle dynamo (pictured) is not actually a dynamo at all (which creates DC power), but a low-power magneto that generates AC. Newer models can include a rectifier to create DC output to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20science | Food science is the basic science and applied science of food; its scope starts at overlap with agricultural science and nutritional science and leads through the scientific aspects of food safety and food processing, informing the development of food technology.
Food science brings together multiple scientific disci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%20pseudospectral%20method | The Chebyshev pseudospectral method for optimal control problems is based on Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind. It is part of the larger theory of pseudospectral optimal control, a term coined by Ross. Unlike the Legendre pseudospectral method, the Chebyshev pseudospectral (PS) method does not immediately offer h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation%20amplifier | Isolation amplifiers are a form of differential amplifier that allow measurement of small signals in the presence of a high common mode voltage by providing electrical isolation and an electrical safety barrier. They protect data acquisition components from common mode voltages, which are potential differences between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callie%20and%20Marie | Callie and Marie are a duo of characters in the Splatoon series. They first appeared in the original Splatoon (2015) as a pop music duo known as the Squid Sisters and have appeared in every subsequent entry in the series. They have been considered the mascots and face of the Splatoon series, appearing in other franchis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia%20Fahmy | Sonia Amin Fahmy is a computer scientist specializing in computer networking, including network architectures and communication protocols, and particularly known for her work on clustering in wireless ad hoc networks. She is a professor of computer science at Purdue University.
Education and career
Fahmy studied compu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagitta%20%28optics%29 | In optics and especially telescope making, sagitta or sag is a measure of the glass removed to yield an optical curve. It is approximated by the formula
,
where is the radius of curvature of the optical surface. The sag is the displacement along the optic axis of the surface from the vertex, at distance from the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculoviral%20IAP%20repeat-containing%20protein%202 | Baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 2 (also known as cIAP1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BIRC2 gene.
Function
cIAP1 is a member of the Inhibitor of Apoptosis family that inhibit apoptosis by interfering with the activation of caspases.
Interactions
BIRC2 has been shown to interact with:
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset/liability%20modeling | Asset/liability modeling is the process used to manage the business and financial objectives of a financial institution or an individual through an assessment of the portfolio assets and liabilities in an integrated manner. The process is characterized by an ongoing review, modification and revision of asset and liabi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreaea%20rothii | Andreaea rothii, or Roth's andreaea moss, is a species of moss in the family Andreaeaceae native to North America and parts of Europe. This plant was described in 1807 by Weber and Mohr.
Description
Andreaea rothii gametophytes sometimes form extensive black to brown cushion-like patches, with individual shoots erect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LExEN | LExEN, an acronym for Life in Extreme Environments, is a research program overseen by the National Science Foundation. It was originally developed by G. Michael Purdy in 1997 as an area of research in which scientists could seek funding for activities in the polar regions. Participating were the Directorates for Biol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shedun | Shedun is a family of malware software (also known as Kemoge, Shiftybug and Shuanet) targeting the Android operating system first identified in late 2015 by mobile security company Lookout, affecting roughly 20,000 popular Android applications. Lookout claimed the HummingBad malware was also a part of the Shedun family... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Luis%20Rodr%C3%ADguez%20Pitt%C3%AD | José Luis Rodríguez Pittí is a contemporary writer, videoartist and documentary photographer.
He is the author of short stories, poems and essays. Rodríguez Pittí is author of the books Panamá Blues (2010, miniTEXTOS (2008), Sueños urbanos (2008) and Crónica de invisibles (1999). Most of his stories and essays were pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbic%20acid | Sorbic acid, or 2,4-hexadienoic acid, is a natural organic compound used as a food preservative. It has the chemical formula and the structure . It is a colourless solid that is slightly soluble in water and sublimes readily. It was first isolated from the unripe berries of the Sorbus aucuparia (rowan tree), hence its... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxophore | A toxophore is the chemical group that produces the toxic effect in a toxin molecule: commonly used in pharmaceutical and pesticide sciences. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void%20type | The void type, in several programming languages derived from C and Algol68, is the return type of a function that returns normally, but does not provide a result value to its caller. Usually such functions are called for their side effects, such as performing some task or writing to their output parameters. The usage ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlah | The prohibition on orlah fruit (lit. "uncircumcised" fruit) is a command found in the Bible not to eat fruit produced by a tree during the first three years after planting.
In rabbinical writings, the orlah prohibition () is counted as one of the negative commandments among the 613 commandments. Outside of the land ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit%20valuation%20adjustment | Credit valuation adjustments (CVAs) are accounting adjustments made to reserve a portion of profits on uncollateralized financial derivatives. They are charged by a bank to a risky (capable of default) counterparty to compensate the bank for taking on the credit risk of the counterparty during the life of the transacti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20helix | A beta helix is a tandem protein repeat structure formed by the association of parallel beta sheet in a helical pattern with either two or three faces. The beta helix is a type of solenoid protein domain. The structure is stabilized by inter-strand hydrogen bonds, protein-protein interactions, and sometimes bound metal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elicitation%20technique | An elicitation technique is any of a number of data collection techniques used in anthropology, cognitive science, counseling, education, knowledge engineering, linguistics, management, philosophy, psychology, or other fields to gather knowledge or information from people. Recent work in behavioral economics has purpor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20spray | Sea spray are aerosol particles formed from the ocean, mostly by ejection into Earth's atmosphere by bursting bubbles at the air-sea interface. Sea spray contains both organic matter and inorganic salts that form sea salt aerosol (SSA). SSA has the ability to form cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and remove anthropogeni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s%20disease%20in%20the%20media | This article provides a list of media documents portraying Alzheimer's disease as a critical feature of the main plot:
1949
Death of a Salesman; While not mentioned in the script by name, Willy Loman exhibits many notable signs of the disease.
1981
Chillysmith Farm; This film documents the aging and death of a g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alais%20meteorite | Alais or Allais is the first carbonaceous chondrite meteorite identified. It fell near Alès in 1806 in multiple fragments which together weighed , although only remains. The meteorite contains a number of elements in similar proportions to the Solar System in its primordial state. It also contains organic compounds an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate%20Math%20League%20of%20Eastern%20Massachusetts | The Intermediate Math League of Eastern Massachusetts (or IMLEM) is a math league for middle schools across Eastern Massachusetts. A brief history of IMLEM is given in its By-Laws:
Schools
As of 2017, 86 different schools attend the competition. Each school is allowed to send more than 1 team and each team can consist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudin%20model | In physics, the Gaudin model, sometimes known as the quantum Gaudin model, is a model, or a large class of models, in statistical mechanics first described in its simplest case by Michel Gaudin. They are exactly solvable models, and are also examples of quantum spin chains.
History
The simplest case was first describ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure-based%20combinatorial%20protein%20engineering | Structure-based combinatorial protein engineering (SCOPE) is a synthetic biology technique for creating gene libraries (lineages) of defined composition designed from structural and probabilistic constraints of the encoded proteins. The development of this technique was driven by fundamental questions about protein str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenanthramide | Avenanthramides (anthranilic acid amides, formerly called "avenalumins") are a group of phenolic alkaloids found mainly in oats (Avena sativa), but also present in white cabbage butterfly eggs (Pieris brassicae and P. rapae), and in fungus-infected carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus). A number of studies demonstrate that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheromone | A pheromone () is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species. Pheromones are chemicals capable of acting like hormones outside the body of the secreting individual, to affect the behavior of the receiving individuals. There are alarm pheromones, food trail pher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNase%20PH | RNase PH is a tRNA nucleotidyltransferase, present in archaea and bacteria, that is involved in tRNA processing. Contrary to hydrolytic enzymes, it is a phosphorolytic enzyme, meaning that it uses inorganic phosphate as a reactant to cleave nucleotide-nucleotide bonds, releasing diphosphate nucleotides. The active stru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally%20testable%20code | A locally testable code is a type of error-correcting code for which it can be determined if a string is a word in that code by looking at a small (frequently constant) number of bits of the string. In some situations, it is useful to know if the data is corrupted without decoding all of it so that appropriate action ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadwheel | A treadwheel, or treadmill, is a form of engine typically powered by humans. It may resemble a water wheel in appearance, and can be worked either by a human treading paddles set into its circumference (treadmill), or by a human or animal standing inside it (treadwheel). These devices are no longer used for power or pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20of%20truth | In classical logic, propositions are typically unambiguously considered as being true or false. For instance, the proposition one is both equal and not equal to itself is regarded as simply false, being contrary to the Law of Noncontradiction; while the proposition one is equal to one is regarded as simply true, by the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20mechanics | Geometric mechanics is a branch of mathematics applying particular geometric methods to many areas of mechanics, from mechanics of particles and rigid bodies to fluid mechanics and control theory.
Geometric mechanics applies principally to systems for which the configuration space is a Lie group, or a group of diffeom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20inverted%20pendulum | A double inverted pendulum is the combination of the inverted pendulum and the double pendulum. The double inverted pendulum is unstable, meaning that it will fall down unless it is controlled in some way. The two main methods of controlling a double inverted pendulum are moving the base, as with the inverted pendulum,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru%20Mukai | is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University specializing in algebraic geometry.
Work
He introduced the Fourier–Mukai transform in 1981 in a paper on abelian varieties, which also made up his doctoral thesis. His research since has included work on vector bundles on K3 surfaces, three-dimensional Fano varieties, mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoanaerobacter | Thermoanaerobacter is a genus in the phylum Bacillota (Bacteria). Members of this genus are thermophilic and anaerobic, several of them were previously described as Clostridium species and members of the now obsolete genera Acetogenium and Thermobacteroides
Etymology
The name Thermoanaerobacter derives from:Greek adj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary%20park | Involuntary park is a neologism coined by science fiction author and environmentalist Bruce Sterling to describe previously inhabited areas that for environmental, economic, or political reasons have, in Sterling's words, "lost their value for technological instrumentalism" and been allowed to return to an overgrown, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20validation | XML validation is the process of checking a document written in XML (eXtensible Markup Language) to confirm that it is both well-formed and also "valid" in that it follows a defined structure. A well-formed document follows the basic syntactic rules of XML, which are the same for all XML documents. A valid document als... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73rd%20meridian%20west | The meridian 73° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 73rd meridian west forms a great circle with the 107th me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20evolutionary%20developmental%20biology | Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) is the study of developmental programs and patterns from an evolutionary perspective. It seeks to understand the various influences shaping the form and nature of life on the planet. Evo-devo arose as a separate branch of science rather recently. An early sign of this occur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20transcription%20polymerase%20chain%20reaction | Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is a laboratory technique combining reverse transcription of RNA into DNA (in this context called complementary DNA or cDNA) and amplification of specific DNA targets using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). It is primarily used to measure the amount of a specific ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Civil%20Liberties%20Union | The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit human rights organization founded in 1920. The organization strives "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States". The ACLU works through litigat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper | BitKeeper is a software tool for distributed revision control of computer source code. Originally developed as proprietary software by BitMover Inc., a privately held company based in Los Gatos, California, it was released as open-source software under the Apache-2.0 license on 9 May 2016. BitKeeper is no longer being ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20in%20Perspective | Physics in Perspective is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Birkhäuser. It covers historical, philosophical, and social scientific perspectives of physics. The editors-in-chief are Joseph D. Martin (Durham University) and Richard Staley (University of Cambridge).
History
The journal was establish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt%20and%20pepper%20shakers | Salt and pepper shakers or salt and pepper pots, of which the first item can also be called a salt cellar in British English, are condiment dispensers used in Western culture that are designed to allow diners to distribute grains of edible salt and ground peppercorns. Salt and pepper shakers are sometimes held in a cru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZNO-LD | KZNO-LD (channel 12) is a low-power television station in Los Angeles, California, United States. Owned by the Venture Technologies Group, it transmits from Mount Harvard, a peak adjacent to Mount Wilson in Los Angeles County, as a Spanish-language religious radio station that can be received at 87.7 FM. Its ATSC 3.0 v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Poulet%20number | A super-Poulet number is a Poulet number, or pseudoprime to base 2, whose every divisor d divides
2d − 2.
For example, 341 is a super-Poulet number: it has positive divisors {1, 11, 31, 341} and we have:
(211 - 2) / 11 = 2046 / 11 = 186
(231 - 2) / 31 = 2147483646 / 31 = 69273666
(2341 - 2) / 341 = 131363327986967988... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus%20Red%202 | Citrus Red 2, Citrus Red No. 2, C.I. Solvent Red 80, or C.I. 12156 is an artificial dye. As a food dye, it has been permitted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 1956 to color the skin of oranges. Citrus Red 2 is listed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a group 2B carcinogen, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpattern | In the mathematical study of permutations and permutation patterns, a superpattern or universal permutation is a permutation that contains all of the patterns of a given length. More specifically, a k-superpattern contains all possible patterns of length k.
Definitions and example
If π is a permutation of length n, re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor-CD | Thor-CD was a re-recordable CD format proposed in 1988 by Tandy.
Several years before recordable compact discs were introduced, Tandy Corporation announced a similar CD format named Thor-CD, but after being pushed back for several years, it was finally cancelled due to steep manufacturing costs.
At the time Tandy pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20%28anatomy%29 | In anatomy, a canal (or canalis in Latin) is a tubular passage or channel which connects different regions of the body.
Examples include:
Cranial Region
Alveolar canals
Carotid canal
Facial canal
Greater palatine canal
Incisive canals
Infraorbital canal
Mandibular canal
Optic canal
Palatovaginal canal
Pter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean%20addition | In mathematics, Pythagorean addition is a binary operation on the real numbers that computes the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle, given its two sides. According to the Pythagorean theorem, for a triangle with sides and , this length can be calculated as
where denotes the Pythagorean addition operation.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric%20optics | Atmospheric optics is "the study of the optical characteristics of the atmosphere or products of atmospheric processes .... [including] temporal and spatial resolutions beyond those discernible with the naked eye". Meteorological optics is "that part of atmospheric optics concerned with the study of patterns observable... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Snitch | Little Snitch is a host-based application firewall for macOS. It can be used to monitor applications, preventing or permitting them to connect to attached networks through advanced rules. It is produced and maintained by the Austrian firm Objective Development Software GmbH.
Unlike a stateful firewall, which is design... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degranulation | Degranulation is a cellular process that releases antimicrobial cytotoxic or other molecules from secretory vesicles called granules found inside some cells. It is used by several different cells involved in the immune system, including granulocytes (neutrophils, basophils, and eosinophils) and mast cells. It is also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habit%20%28biology%29 | Habit, equivalent to habitus in some applications in biology, refers variously to aspects of behaviour or structure, as follows:
In zoology (particularly in ethology), habit usually refers to aspects of more or less predictable behaviour, instinctive or otherwise, though it also has broader application. Habitus refers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Hans%20Krebs%20Medal | The Sir Hans Krebs Lecture and Medal is awarded annually by the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) for outstanding achievements in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology or related sciences.
It was endowed by the Lord Rank Centre for Research and named after the German-born British biochemist Sir Hans Ado... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weed%20science | Weed science is a scientific discipline concerned with plants that may be considered weeds, their effects on human activities, and their management "a branch of applied ecology that attempts to modify the environment against natural evolutionary trends.".
History
Weeds have existed since humans began settled agricultu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Bison | GNU Bison, commonly known as Bison, is a parser generator that is part of the GNU Project. Bison reads a specification in the BNF notation (a context-free language), warns about any parsing ambiguities, and generates a parser that reads sequences of tokens and decides whether the sequence conforms to the syntax specifi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%E2%80%93gender%20distinction | Though the terms sex and gender have been used interchangeably since at least the fourteenth century, in contemporary academic literature they usually have distinct meanings. Sex generally refers to an organism's biological sex, while gender usually refers to either social roles typically associated with the sex of a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Unwrapped%20%28book%29 | Food Unwrapped is a 2014 book about the food industry by the British writer Daniel Tapper. It is based on a BBC Channel 4 television series of the same name, and covers food science and food technology in mass-produced foods with the objective of "dispel[ing] food myths and reveal[ing] some truths about the food we buy... |
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