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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hacker%20and%20the%20Ants | The Hacker and the Ants is a science fiction novel by American writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, published in 1994 by Avon Books. It was written while Rucker was working as a programmer at Autodesk, Inc., of Sausalito, California from 1988 to 1992.
Plot summary
Jerzy Rugby is trying to create truly intelligent r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass | LastPass is a password manager application owned by GoTo (formerly LogMeIn Inc.). The standard version of LastPass comes with a web interface, but also includes plugins for various web browsers and apps for many smartphones. It also includes support for bookmarklets.
LastPass suffered significant security incidents be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema%20migration | In software engineering, a schema migration (also database migration, database change management) refers to the management of version-controlled, incremental and reversible changes to relational database schemas. A schema migration is performed on a database whenever it is necessary to update or revert that database's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comment%20%28computer%20programming%29 | In computer programming, a comment is a programmer-readable explanation or annotation in the source code of a computer program. They are added with the purpose of making the source code easier for humans to understand, and are generally ignored by compilers and interpreters. The syntax of comments in various programmi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Low | Jan Low (born 1955) is an American food scientist. She is known for her work helping develop the biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato at the CGIAR International Potato Center, for which she was a co-recipient of the 2016 World Food Prize alongside Maria Andrade, Robert Mwanga, and Howarth Bouis.
Early life and edu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo%20Jahn%E2%80%93Teller%20effect | The pseudo Jahn–Teller effect (PJTE), occasionally also known as second-order JTE, is a direct extension of the Jahn–Teller effect (JTE) where spontaneous symmetry breaking in polyatomic systems (molecules and solids) occurs even in nondegenerate electronic states under the influence of sufficiently low-lying excited s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20part%20and%20content | In algebra, the content of a nonzero polynomial with integer coefficients (or, more generally, with coefficients in a unique factorization domain) is the greatest common divisor of its coefficients. The primitive part of such a polynomial is the quotient of the polynomial by its content. Thus a polynomial is the produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint%20checking | Taint checking is a feature in some computer programming languages, such as Perl, Ruby or Ballerina designed to increase security by preventing malicious users from executing commands on a host computer. Taint checks highlight specific security risks primarily associated with web sites which are attacked using techniq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COX14 | Cytochrome c oxidase assembly factor COX14 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the COX14 gene. This gene encodes a small single-pass transmembrane protein that localizes to mitochondria. This protein may play a role in coordinating the early steps of cytochrome c oxidase (COX; also known as complex IV) subunit as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubic%20arch | The pubic arch, also referred to as the ischiopubic arch, is part of the pelvis. It is formed by the convergence of the inferior rami of the ischium and pubis on either side, below the pubic symphysis. The angle at which they converge is known as the subpubic angle.
Function
The pubic arch is one of three notches (the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20quantum%20number | In physics, a topological quantum number (also called topological charge) is any quantity, in a physical theory, that takes on only one of a discrete set of values, due to topological considerations. Most commonly, topological quantum numbers are topological invariants associated with topological defects or soliton-typ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock%20drift | Clock drift refers to several related phenomena where a clock does not run at exactly the same rate as a reference clock. That is, after some time the clock "drifts apart" or gradually desynchronizes from the other clock. All clocks are subject to drift, causing eventual divergence unless resynchronized. In particular,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteon | Proteon, Inc. was a pioneering designer and manufacturer computer network equipment based in Westborough, Massachusetts. Proteon created the first commercial Token Ring products and created the first commercially available multiprotocol Internet router as well as the OSPF routing protocol.
History
Proteon designed an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian%20matrix | In mathematics, a Hermitian matrix (or self-adjoint matrix) is a complex square matrix that is equal to its own conjugate transpose—that is, the element in the -th row and -th column is equal to the complex conjugate of the element in the -th row and -th column, for all indices and :
or in matrix form:
Hermitian mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party%20line%20%28telephony%29 | A party line (multiparty line, shared service line, party wire) is a local loop telephone circuit that is shared by multiple telephone service subscribers.
Party line systems were widely used to provide telephone service, starting with the first commercial switchboards in 1878. A majority of Bell System subscribers in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation%20time | In population biology and demography, generation time is the average time between two consecutive generations in the lineages of a population. In human populations, generation time typically has ranged from 20 to 30 years, with wide variation based on gender and society. Historians sometimes use this to date events, by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial%20Reddit%20communities | Some communities on the social news site Reddit (known as "subreddits") are devoted to explicit, violent, or hateful material, and have been the topic of controversy. Controversial Reddit communities sometimes receive significant media coverage.
History
When Reddit was founded in 2005, there was only one shared space... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleobiota%20of%20the%20Posidonia%20Shale | The Sachrang Formation or "Posidonienschiefer" Formation (Whose Vulgar name is "Posidonia Shale") is a geological formation of southwestern Germany, northern Switzerland, northwestern Austria, southeast Luxembourg and the Netherlands, that spans about 3 million years during the Early Jurassic period (early Toarcian sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME%20Screensaver | Up until GNOME 3.5, GNOME Screensaver was the GNOME project's official screen blanking and locking framework. With the release of GNOME 3.5.5, screen locking functionality became a function of GDM and GNOME Shell by default.
History
GNOME Screensaver continued to be used by the GNOME Fallback mode until GNOME Fallback... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Copernican%20Revolution%20%28book%29 | The Copernican Revolution is a 1957 book by the philosopher Thomas Kuhn, in which the author provides an analysis of the Copernican Revolution, documenting the pre-Ptolemaic understanding through the Ptolemaic system and its variants until the eventual acceptance of the Keplerian system.
Kuhn argues that the Ptolemaic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node%20deletion | Node deletion is the procedure of removing a node from a network, where the node is either chosen randomly or directly. Node deletion is used to test the robustness and the attack tolerance of networks. Understanding how a network changes in response to node deletion is critical in many empirical networks. Application... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance%20analyzer | An impedance analyzer is a type of electronic test equipment used to measure complex electrical impedance as a function of test frequency.
Impedance is an important parameter used to characterize electronic components, electronic circuits, and the materials used to make components. Impedance analysis can also be used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo%20Llin%C3%A1s | Rodolfo Llinás Riascos (born 16 December 1934) is a Colombian and American neuroscientist. He is currently the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. Llinás has published over 800 scientific articles.
Early... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fond | In the culinary arts, fond is a contraction of fonds de cuisine which is loosely described as "the foundation and working capital of the kitchen". It refers to a flavorful liquid that is used as foundation (fondation in French, hence the abbreviation fond) for other preparations, such as stocks, broths, gravies and sau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensonido | Ensonido is a real-time post processing algorithm that allows users to play back MP3 Surround files in standard headphones.
Ensonido was developed by the Fraunhofer Society. It simulates the natural reception of surround sound by the human ear, which usually receives tones from surrounding loudspeakers and from reflect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine%20law | Wine laws are legislation regulating various aspects of production and sales of wine. The purpose of wine laws includes combating wine fraud, by means of regulated protected designations of origin, labelling practices and classification of wine, as well as regulating allowed additives and procedures in winemaking and v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus%20spore%20morphogenesis%20and%20germination%20holin%20family | The Bacillus Spore Morphogenesis and Germination Holin (BSH) Family (TC# 1.E.23) is a family of proteins named after a holin in Bacillus subtilis described to be involved in spore morphogenesis and germination by Real et al (2005). The gene encoding this holin is ywcE. Mutants lacking this gene or its product have spor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20of%20Chemical%20Physics%20and%20Biophysics | National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB; Estonian Keemilise ja Bioloogilise Füüsika Instituut, or KBFI) is public non-profit research institute that carries out fundamental and applied research and engages in the development of the novel directions in material sciences, physics, chemistry, gene- a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioluminescence | Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by living organisms. It is a form of chemiluminescence. Bioluminescence occurs widely in marine vertebrates and invertebrates, as well as in some fungi, microorganisms including some bioluminescent bacteria, and terrestrial arthropods such as fireflies. In some an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-based%20model | An energy-based model (EBM) is a form of generative model (GM) imported directly from statistical physics to learning. GMs learn an underlying data distribution by analyzing a sample dataset. Once trained, a GM can produce other datasets that also match the data distribution. EBMs provide a unified framework for many p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosarcoidosis | Neurosarcoidosis (sometimes shortened to neurosarcoid) refers to a type of sarcoidosis, a condition of unknown cause featuring granulomas in various tissues, in this type involving the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Neurosarcoidosis can have many manifestations, but abnormalities of the cranial nerves ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnite%20Holocaust%20Museum | The Fortnite Holocaust Museum, also known as Voices of the Forgotten, is a virtual museum for the video game Fortnite Creative, designed by Luc Bernard and approved by publisher Epic Games. It became available in August 2023.
Content
The museum features photographs and plaques highlighting people who resisted the Naz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal%20September | Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning around 1993 when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. The flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms. AOL followed with th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharktopus%20vs.%20Pteracuda | Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda is the sequel to the 2010 SyFy original monster film Sharktopus and premiered on August 2, 2014. The film was produced by Roger Corman, who directed the Conan O'Brien cameo, and stars Robert Carradine, Katie Savoy, and Rib Hillis. O'Brien makes his acting debut in a scene described as "truly vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-subset%20meet-in-the-middle%20attack | The 3-subset meet-in-the-middle (hereafter shortened MITM) attack is a variant of the generic meet-in-the-middle attack, which is used in cryptology for hash and block cipher cryptanalysis. The 3-subset variant opens up the possibility to apply MITM attacks on ciphers, where it is not trivial to divide the keybits into... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%20separation%20theorem | In mathematics, the Poincaré separation theorem, also known as the Cauchy interlacing theorem, gives some upper and lower bounds of eigenvalues of a real symmetric matrix B'AB that can be considered as the orthogonal projection of a larger real symmetric matrix A onto a linear subspace spanned by the columns of B. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper%27s%20self-referential%20formula | Tupper's self-referential formula is a formula that visually represents itself when graphed at a specific location in the (x, y) plane.
History
The formula was defined by Jeff Tupper and appears as an example in Tupper's 2001 SIGGRAPH paper on reliable two-dimensional computer graphing algorithms. This paper discuss... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANO5 | Anoctamin 5 (ANO5) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ANO5 gene.
Function
The ANO5 gene provides instructions for making a protein called anoctamin-5. While the specific function of this protein is not well understood, it belongs to a family of proteins, called anoctamins, that act as chloride channels. Ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamount%20%28operating%20system%29 | Catamount is an operating system for supercomputers.
Catamount is a lightweight kernel that provides basic functionality and aims for efficiency. The roots of Catamount go back to 1991 when SUNMOS was developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico as a lightweight operating system. The Cra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruinescence | Pruinescence , or pruinosity, is a "frosted" or dusty-looking coating on top of a surface. It may also be called a pruina (plural: pruinae), from the Latin word for hoarfrost. The adjectival form is pruinose .
Entomology
In insects, a "bloom" caused by wax particles on top of an insect's cuticle covers up the underlyi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Further%20research%20is%20needed | The phrases "further research is needed" (FRIN), "more research is needed" and other variants are commonly used in research papers. The cliché is so common that it has attracted research, regulation and cultural commentary.
Meaning
Some research journals have banned the phrase "more research is needed" on the grounds... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20analysis%20%28computational%29 | Semantic analysis (computational) within applied linguistics and computer science, is a composite of semantic analysis and computational components. Semantic analysis refers to a formal analysis of meaning, and computational refers to approaches that in principle support effective implementation in digital computers.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6hm%20tree | In the study of denotational semantics of the lambda calculus, Böhm trees, Lévy-Longo trees, and Berarducci trees are (potentially infinite) tree-like mathematical objects that capture the "meaning" of a term up to some set of "meaningless" terms.
Motivation
A simple way to read the meaning of a computation is to con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible%20lichen | Edible lichens are lichens that have a cultural history of use as a food. Although almost all lichen are edible (with some notable poisonous exceptions like the wolf lichen, powdered sunshine lichen, and the ground lichen), not all have a cultural history of usage as an edible lichen. Often lichens are merely famine fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther%20M.%20Conwell | Esther Marley Conwell (May 23, 1922 – November 16, 2014) was a pioneering American chemist and physicist, best known for the Conwell-Weisskopf theory that describes how electrons travel through semiconductors, a breakthrough that helped revolutionize modern computing. During her life, she was described as one of the mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20relief | The eye relief of an optical instrument (such as a telescope, a microscope, or binoculars) is the distance from the last surface of an eyepiece within which the user's eye can obtain the full viewing angle. If a viewer's eye is outside this distance, a reduced field of view will be obtained. The calculation of eye reli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal%20bone | The parietal bones () are two bones in the skull which, when joined at a fibrous joint, form the sides and roof of the cranium. In humans, each bone is roughly quadrilateral in form, and has two surfaces, four borders, and four angles. It is named from the Latin paries (-ietis), wall.
Surfaces
External
The external s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20magazine | An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to an online only magazine was the computer magazine Datamation. Some online magazines distributed through the World ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20electron%20donor-acceptor | The sEDA parameter (sigma electron donor-acceptor) is a sigma-electron substituent effect scale, described also as inductive and electronegativity related effect. There is also a complementary scale - pEDA. The more positive is the value of sEDA the more sigma-electron donating is a substituent. The more negative sEDA,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20and%20Launch | Discovery and Launch (DIAL) is a protocol co-developed by Netflix and YouTube with help from Sony and Samsung. It is a mechanism for discovering and launching applications on a single subnet, typically a home network. It relies on Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP), and HTTP protoc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page | In computing, a code page is a character encoding and as such it is a specific association of a set of printable characters and control characters with unique numbers. Typically each number represents the binary value in a single byte. (In some contexts these terms are used more precisely; see .)
The term "code page" ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actin%20assembly-inducing%20protein | The Actin assembly-inducing protein (ActA) is a protein encoded and used by Listeria monocytogenes to propel itself through a mammalian host cell. ActA is a bacterial surface protein comprising a membrane-spanning region. In a mammalian cell the bacterial ActA interacts with the Arp2/3 complex and actin monomers to ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20national%20liquors | This is a list of national liquors. A national liquor is a distilled alcoholic beverage considered standard and respected in a given country. While the status of many such drinks may be informal, there is usually a consensus in a given country that a specific drink has national status or is the "most popular liquor" in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Hydlide | Super Hydlide is an action role-playing game for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. It was originally released in 1987 in Japan only under the title for the MSX, MSX2, and PC-8801mkII SR. It's the third game in the Hydlide series. Ports were also released for the X1, Famicom, X68000, and Microsoft Windows. The game was deve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent%20%28video%20game%29 | Descent is a first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995 for MS-DOS, and later for Macintosh, PlayStation, and RISC OS. It popularized a subgenre of FPS games employing six degrees of freedom and was the first FPS to feature entirely true-3D graphics. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Library%2C%20Bratislava | University Library in Bratislava (ULB) is the oldest library in Slovakia. It was founded in 1919 in Bratislava. Today, it is the largest and most visited library in Slovakia and it is a universal state research library.
History
The library was one of the first cultural and educational institutions set up in the newly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNI/O | The UNI/O bus is an asynchronous serial bus created by Microchip Technology for low speed communication in embedded systems. The bus uses a master/slave configuration, requiring one signal to pass data between devices. The first devices supporting the UNI/O bus were released in May 2008.
Interface
The UNI/O bus req... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Arkansas | The flag of Arkansas, also known as the Arkansas flag, consists of a red field charged with a large blue-bordered white lozenge (diamond). Twenty-nine five-pointed stars appear on the flag: twenty-five small white stars within the blue border, and four larger blue stars in the white diamond. The inscription "ARKANSAS" ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine%20wave | A sine wave, sinusoidal wave, or sinusoid (symbol: ∿) is a periodic wave whose waveform (shape) is the trigonometric sine function.
In mechanics, as a linear motion over time, this is simple harmonic motion; as rotation, it corresponds to uniform circular motion.
Sine waves occur often in physics, including wind waves... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E48%20particulate%20bomb | The E48 particulate bomb was a U.S. biological sub-munition designed during the 1950s for use with the E96 cluster bomb.
History
In February 1950 a U.S. Army report prepared by William Creasy, a colonel within the U.S. bio-weapons program, noted that the E48 particulate bomb was in its final stages of development. Cre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal%20to%20tradition | Appeal to tradition (also known as argumentum ad antiquitatem or argumentum ad antiquitam, appeal to antiquity, or appeal to common practice) is a claim in which a thesis is deemed correct on the basis of correlation with past or present tradition. The appeal takes the form of "this is right because we've always done i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracovian | In astronomical and geodetic calculations, Cracovians are a clerical convenience introduced in the 1930s by Tadeusz Banachiewicz for solving systems of linear equations by hand. Such systems can be written as in matrix notation where x and b are column vectors and the evaluation of b requires the multiplication of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition | Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses all aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as: perception, attention, thought, imagination, intelligence, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729%20%28number%29 | 1729 is the natural number following 1728 and preceding 1730. It is notably the first taxicab number.
In mathematics
1729 is the smallest taxicab number, and is variously known as Ramanujan's number or the Ramanujan–Hardy number, after an anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy when he visited Indian mathem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinophilia | In medicine, clinophilia is a sleep disorder described as the tendency of a patient to remain in bed in a reclined position without sleeping for prolonged periods of time. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20function | In computer programming, a generic function is a function defined for polymorphism.
In statically typed languages
In statically typed languages (such as C++ and Java), the term generic functions refers to a mechanism for compile-time polymorphism (static dispatch), specifically parametric polymorphism. These are func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%20Schwinger | Julian Seymour Schwinger (; February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Schwinger w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Quantum%20Spintronics | The Center for Quantum Spintronics (QuSpin) is a research center at the Department of Physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
In 2017, the Research Council of Norway designated QuSpin as a Center of Excellence (SFF) for the period 2017–2027.
Spintronics, or spin electronics, is a field... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXP2 | Forkhead box protein P2 (FOXP2) is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the FOXP2 gene. FOXP2 is a member of the forkhead box family of transcription factors, proteins that regulate gene expression by binding to DNA. It is expressed in the brain, heart, lungs and digestive system.
FOXP2 is found in many vertebrate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOHNNIAC | The JOHNNIAC was an early computer built by the RAND Corporation (not Remington Rand, maker of the contemporaneous UNIVAC I computer) and based on the von Neumann architecture that had been pioneered on the IAS machine. It was named in honor of von Neumann, short for John von Neumann Numerical Integrator and Automatic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solemoviridae | Solemoviridae is a family of non-enveloped, positive-strand RNA viruses which infect plants. Solemoviridae is a member of the order Sobelivirales.
Structure
Member viruses are non-enveloped and have a viral capsid with T=3 symmetry.
Genome
Solemoviruses have a positive-sense, single-strand RNA genome. The length o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20engineering | Protein engineering is the process of developing useful or valuable proteins through the design and production of unnatural polypeptides, often by altering amino acid sequences found in nature. It is a young discipline, with much research taking place into the understanding of protein folding and recognition for protei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilical%20cord | In placental mammals, the umbilical cord (also called the navel string, birth cord or funiculus umbilicalis) is a conduit between the developing embryo or fetus and the placenta. During prenatal development, the umbilical cord is physiologically and genetically part of the fetus and (in humans) normally contains two ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-potato%20routing | In commercial network routing between autonomous systems which are interconnected in multiple locations, hot-potato routing is the practice of passing traffic off to another autonomous system as quickly as possible, thus using their network for wide-area transit. Cold-potato routing is the opposite, where the originati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%20cell | A Lucas cell is a type of scintillation counter. It is used to acquire a gas sample, filter out the radioactive particulates through a special filter and then count the radioactive decay. The inside of the gas chamber is coated with ZnS(Ag) - a chemical that emits light when struck by alpha particles. A photomultipli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungible%20information | Fungible information is the information for which the means of encoding is not important. Classical information theorists and computer scientists are mainly concerned with information of this sort.
It is sometimes referred as speakable information. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max-min%20fairness | In communication networks, multiplexing and the division of scarce resources, max-min fairness is said to be achieved by an allocation if and only if the allocation is feasible and an attempt to increase the allocation of any participant necessarily results in the decrease in the allocation of some other participant wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%20space | In mathematics, a Riesz space, lattice-ordered vector space or vector lattice is a partially ordered vector space where the order structure is a lattice.
Riesz spaces are named after Frigyes Riesz who first defined them in his 1928 paper Sur la décomposition des opérations fonctionelles linéaires.
Riesz spaces have w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942%20Herefordshire%20TRE%20Halifax%20crash | V9977 was an Handley Page Halifax II that had been sent to the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) at RAF Defford to be used as a flying testbed for the H2S radar.
On the afternoon of 7 June 1942, one of its Rolls-Royce Merlin engines caught fire and led to the aircraft crashing near the England-Wales bord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basophilic | Basophilic is a technical term used by pathologists. It describes the appearance of cells, tissues and cellular structures as seen through the microscope after a histological section has been stained with a basic dye. The most common such dye is haematoxylin.
The name basophilic refers to the characteristic of these s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara%20h%203 | Ara h 3 is a seed storage protein from Arachis hypogaea (peanuts). It is a heat stable 11S legumin-like globulin with a stable trimeric form that comprises 19% of the total protein in peanut extracts.
Structure
Ara h 3 forms homotrimers and has a highly stable structure, mediated through hydrophobic interactions. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halomonadaceae | Halomonadaceae is a family of halophilic Pseudomonadota.
History
The family was originally described in 1988 to contain the genera Halomonas and Deleya.
In 1989, Chromobacterium marismortui was reclassified as Chromohalobacter marismortui forming a third genus in the family Halomonadaceae.
Subsequently, in 1990 a sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Dehornoy | Patrick Dehornoy (11 September 1952 – 4 September 2019) was a mathematician at the University of Caen Normandy who worked on set theory and group theory.
Early life and education
Dehornoy was born on 11 September 1952 in Rouen, France. He graduated from the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in 1971. He studied at the École nor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20transposer | A music transposer is a software program, physical or electronic device for the transposition of musical notes and/or chords from one note/key to another. It simply consists of two identical scales which can be moved in relation to each other to give the required result.
See also
List of music software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20dependence | In mathematics, a collection of real numbers is rationally independent if none of them can be written as a linear combination of the other numbers in the collection with rational coefficients. A collection of numbers which is not rationally independent is called rationally dependent. For instance we have the following... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latch-up | In electronics, a latch-up is a type of short circuit which can occur in an integrated circuit (IC). More specifically, it is the inadvertent creation of a low-impedance path between the power supply rails of a MOSFET circuit, triggering a parasitic structure which disrupts proper functioning of the part, possibly even... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20sleeper%20ray | The Japanese sleeper ray (Narke japonica) is a species of electric ray in the family Narkidae. It is common in the inshore and offshore waters of the northwestern Pacific Ocean from southern Japan to southern China. Growing up to long, the Japanese sleeper ray has a nearly circular pectoral fin disc colored reddish to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/76th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 76° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 76th meridian east forms a great circle with the 104th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiphase%20heat%20transfer | A multiphase flow system is one characterized by the simultaneous presence of several phases, the two-phase system being the simplest case. The term ‘two-component’ is sometimes used to describe flows in which the phases consist of different chemical substances. However, since the same mathematics describes two-phase a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription%20factor%20II%20A | Transcription factor TFIIA is a nuclear protein involved in the RNA polymerase II-dependent transcription of DNA. TFIIA is one of several general (basal) transcription factors (GTFs) that are required for all transcription events that use RNA polymerase II. Other GTFs include TFIID, a complex composed of the TATA bin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Performance%20Storage%20System | High Performance Storage System (HPSS) is a flexible, scalable, policy-based, software-defined Hierarchical Storage Management product developed by the HPSS Collaboration. It provides scalable hierarchical storage management (HSM), archive, and file system services using cluster, LAN and SAN technologies to aggregate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20geology | Medical geology is an interdisciplinary scientific field studying the relationship between natural geological factors and their effects on human and animal health. The Commission on Geological Sciences for Environmental Planning defines medical geology as "the science dealing with the influence of ordinary environmenta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter%20gene | In molecular biology, a reporter gene (often simply reporter) is a gene that researchers attach to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest in bacteria, cell culture, animals or plants. Such genes are called reporters because the characteristics they confer on organisms expressing them are easily identified an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEK-30%20protein%20domain | In molecular biology, the protein domain VEK-30, is a 30-amino acid long, internal peptide present within bacterial organisms that acts as an epitope or antigenic determinant. It increases the pathogenicity of the cell. More specifically, it is found in streptococcal M-like plasminogen (Pg)-binding protein (PAM) from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Fourier%20transform | In quantum computing, the quantum Fourier transform (QFT) is a linear transformation on quantum bits, and is the quantum analogue of the discrete Fourier transform. The quantum Fourier transform is a part of many quantum algorithms, notably Shor's algorithm for factoring and computing the discrete logarithm, the quantu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate-based%20encryption | Certificate-based encryption is a system in which a certificate authority uses ID-based cryptography to produce a certificate. This system gives the users both implicit and explicit certification, the certificate can be used as a conventional certificate (for signatures, etc.), but also implicitly for the purpose of en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20ecology | Health ecology (also known as eco-health) is an emerging field that studies the impact of ecosystems on human health. It examines alterations in the biological, physical, social, and economic environments to understand how these changes affect mental and physical human health. Health ecology focuses on a transdisciplin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Atlantic%20Anomaly | The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is an area where Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to Earth's surface, dipping down to an altitude of . This leads to an increased flux of energetic particles in this region and exposes orbiting satellites (including the ISS) to higher-than-usual levels of ionizing ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20to%20Read%20Foundation | The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) is an American non-profit anti-censorship organization, established in 1969 by the American Library Association. The organization has been active in First Amendment-based challenges to book removals from libraries, and in anti-surveillance work. In addition to its legal work, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20difference%20equation | A matrix difference equation is a difference equation in which the value of a vector (or sometimes, a matrix) of variables at one point in time is related to its own value at one or more previous points in time, using matrices. The order of the equation is the maximum time gap between any two indicated values of the va... |
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