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Human–computer information retrieval Summary Human–computer_information_retrieval Human–computer information retrieval (HCIR) is the study and engineering of information retrieval techniques that bring human intelligence into the search process. It combines the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and information... |
Glossary of geography terms (N–Z) W Glossary_of_geography_terms_(N–Z) > W well A hole or shaft dug into the ground to access liquid resources, especially water, oil, or gas, from beneath the Earth's surface. Water wells typically tap into natural groundwater aquifers and remain filled with water up to the level of the ... |
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging Uses Cardiac_magnetic_resonance > Uses Cardiovascular MRI is complementary to other imaging techniques, such as echocardiography, cardiac CT, and nuclear medicine. The technique has a key role in evidence-based diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Its applications... |
Drug resistance Summary Resistance_to_antiviral_drugs When an organism is resistant to more than one drug, it is said to be multidrug-resistant. The development of antibiotic resistance in particular stems from the drugs targeting only specific bacterial molecules (almost always proteins). Because the drug is so specif... |
Benign intracranial hypertension Signs and symptoms Idiopathic_intracranial_hypertension > Signs and symptoms The most common symptom of IIH is severe headache, which occurs in almost all (92–94%) cases. It is characteristically worse in the morning, generalized in character and throbbing in nature. It may be associate... |
Vaccine ingredients Immunogens Vaccine_ingredients > Immunogens The HVP vaccine contains 120 micrograms of the L1 capsid proteins from four types of human papillomavirus. The pneumococcal conjugate vaccine contains 32 micrograms of pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugated with CRM197 (a diphtheria toxin).Another variant ... |
Operations Management Mathematical modeling Operations_Management > Topics > Mathematical modeling There are also fields of mathematical theory which have found applications in the field of operations management such as operations research: mainly mathematical optimization problems and queue theory. Queue theory is emp... |
Word stress Word stress Primary_stress > Word stress Word stress, or sometimes lexical stress, is the stress placed on a given syllable in a word. The position of word stress in a word may depend on certain general rules applicable in the language or dialect in question, but in other languages, it must be learned for e... |
Storage record Summary Storage_record In computer science, a storage record is: A group of related data, words, or fields treated as a meaningful unit; for instance, a Name, Address, and Telephone Number can be a "Personal Record". A self-contained collection of information about a single object; a record is made up of... |
Reaction (physics) 'Equal and opposite' Reaction_(physics) > Causal misinterpretation > 'Equal and opposite' They are therefore 'equal and opposite', yet they are acting on the same object, hence they are not action-reaction forces in the sense of Newton's third law. The actual action-reaction forces in the sense of Ne... |
Mathematical economics Agent-based computational economics Mathematical_economics > Modern mathematical economics > Agent-based computational economics It has a similarity to, and overlap with, game theory as an agent-based method for modeling social interactions. Other dimensions of the approach include such standard ... |
Algorithmic Trading Systematic Trading Algorithmic_Trading > Strategies > Systematic Trading Use of computer models to define trade goals, risk controls and rules that can execute trade orders in a methodical way. Systematic trading includes both high frequency trading (HFT, sometimes called algorithmic trading) and sl... |
Modulus of rigidity Summary Modulus_of_rigidity In materials science, shear modulus or modulus of rigidity, denoted by G, or sometimes S or μ, is a measure of the elastic shear stiffness of a material and is defined as the ratio of shear stress to the shear strain: G = d e f τ x y γ x y = F / A Δ x / l = F l A Δ x {\di... |
Origin of photosynthesis Concentrating carbon Origin_of_photosynthesis > Evolution of photosynthetic pathways > Concentrating carbon The C4 metabolic pathway is a valuable recent evolutionary innovation in plants, involving a complex set of adaptive changes to physiology and gene expression patterns. About 7600 species... |
Cooperative principle Criticism Cooperative_principle > Criticism This may explain the criticism that the Gricean maxims can easily be misinterpreted to be a guideline for etiquette, instructing speakers on how to be moral, polite conversationalists. However, the Gricean maxims, despite their wording, are only meant to... |
Timeline of virtualization development Application virtualization Timeline_of_virtualization_development > Overview of Virtualization > As an overview, there are three levels of virtualization > Application virtualization Because VMware ThinApp is implemented in user-mode without device drivers and it does not have a c... |
Clastic rock Composition Clastic_rock > Sedimentary clastic rocks > Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks > Composition The composition of siliciclastic sedimentary rocks includes the chemical and mineralogical components of the framework as well as the cementing material that make up these rocks. Boggs divides them into fou... |
Search tree Ternary search tree Search_tree > Types of Trees > Ternary search tree A ternary search tree is a type of tree that can have 3 nodes: a low child, an equal child, and a high child. Each node stores a single character and the tree itself is ordered the same way a binary search tree is, with the exception of ... |
Optical scattering Single and multiple scattering Scattering_process > Single and multiple scattering In certain rare circumstances, multiple scattering may only involve a small number of interactions such that the randomness is not completely averaged out. These systems are considered to be some of the most difficult ... |
Matrix eigenvalue problem Algorithms Eigenvalue_algorithm > Algorithms The eigenvalue algorithm can then be applied to the restricted matrix. This process can be repeated until all eigenvalues are found. If an eigenvalue algorithm does not produce eigenvectors, a common practice is to use an inverse iteration based alg... |
Viral pneumonia Pathophysiology Viral_pneumonia > Pathophysiology Further damage to the lungs occurs when the immune system responds to the infection. White blood cells, in particular lymphocytes, are responsible for activating a variety of chemicals (cytokines) which cause leaking of fluid into the alveoli. The combin... |
Élie Cartan Differential systems Élie_Cartan > Work > Differential systems Cartan's methods in the theory of differential systems are perhaps his most profound achievement. Breaking with tradition, he sought from the start to formulate and solve the problems in a completely invariant fashion, independent of any particu... |
Atomic hydrogen Visualizing the hydrogen electron orbitals Hydrogen_atom > Theoretical analysis > Visualizing the hydrogen electron orbitals The image to the right shows the first few hydrogen atom orbitals (energy eigenfunctions). These are cross-sections of the probability density that are color-coded (black represen... |
Flywheel energy storage Counterbalancing of angular momentum Flywheel_energy_storage > Physical characteristics > Effects of angular momentum in vehicles > Counterbalancing of angular momentum An alternative solution to the problem is to have two joined flywheels spinning synchronously in opposite directions. They woul... |
Whitehill Formation Lithologies Whitehill_Formation > Description > Lithologies The Whitehill Formation has been subdivided into two major subunits according to their weathering color in outcrops. The lower and thicker part consists mainly of bluish- to greenish-grey shales and mudstones, which grade upward into more l... |
Gravity model of trade Theoretical justifications and research Gravity_model_of_trade > Theoretical justifications and research The home market effect showed a relationship in the gravity estimation for differentiated goods, but showed the inverse relationship for homogeneous goods. The authors show that this result ma... |
Psychophysical parallelism Leibniz Psychophysical_parallelism > History > Leibniz Whenever we perceive a monad to be the cause of something, other monads are created in such a way as to seem like they are affecting the others. According to Leibniz, the entire universe was created by God to be in a pre-established harmo... |
Epsilon Eridani Cataloguing Epsilon_Eridani > Observational history > Cataloguing Because every observation of each star was numbered and Epsilon Eridani was observed three times, it got three numbers: 6581, 6582 and 6583. (Today numbers from this catalogue are used with the prefix "Lalande", or "Lal".) |
Cardo polymer Summary Cardo_polymer Cardo polymers are a sub group of polymers where ring structures are pendent to the polymer backbone. The backbone carbons bonded to the pendent ring structures are quaternary centers. As such, the cyclic side group lies perpendicular to the plane of the extended (all trans conformat... |
Septic systems Description Septic_tanks > Description The entire septic system can operate by gravity alone or, where topographic considerations require, with inclusion of a lift pump. Certain septic tank designs include siphons or other devices to increase the volume and velocity of outflow to the drainage field. |
Clarke orbit Retired satellites GEO_orbit > Retired satellites Geostationary satellites require some station keeping to keep their position, and once they run out of thruster fuel they are generally retired. The transponders and other onboard systems often outlive the thruster fuel and by allowing the satellite to move... |
Corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 1 Mechanism of activation Corticotropin_releasing_hormone_receptor_1 > Mechanism of activation CRF1 is activated through the binding of CRF or a CRF-agonist. The ligand binding and subsequent receptor conformational change depends on three different sites in the second and third... |
Non-carbon economy Renewable energy and energy efficiency Low-carbon_economy > Energy policy > Renewable energy and energy efficiency Scaling up renewable energy as part of a low emission development strategy can diversify a country's energy mixes and reduces dependence on imports. In the process of decarbonizing heat ... |
Tangent lines to two circles Degenerate cases Tangent_lines_to_circles > Tangent lines to two circles > Degenerate cases Two distinct circles may have between zero and four bitangent lines, depending on configuration; these can be classified in terms of the distance between the centers and the radii. If counted with mu... |
SAW filter Summary Filter_(signal_processing) Filters may be: non-linear or linear time-variant or time-invariant, also known as shift invariance. If the filter operates in a spatial domain then the characterization is space invariance. causal or non-causal: A filter is non-causal if its present output depends on futur... |
Zircon (microkernel) Kernel Fuchsia_(operating_system) > Overview > Kernel It is composed of a kernel with a small set of user services, drivers, and libraries which are all necessary for the system to boot, communicate with the hardware, and load the user processes. Its present features include handling threads, virtu... |
Metal acetylide Structure and bonding Acetylide > Structure and bonding Alkali metal and alkaline earth metal acetylides of the general formula MC≡CM are salt-like Zintl phase compounds, containing C2−2 ions. Evidence for this ionic character can be seen in the ready hydrolysis of these compounds to form acetylene and ... |
Metaphase I Summary Meiosis_II Thus, alternating cycles of meiosis and fertilization enable sexual reproduction, with successive generations maintaining the same number of chromosomes. For example, diploid human cells contain 23 pairs of chromosomes including 1 pair of sex chromosomes (46 total), half of maternal origi... |
Euler numbers As a determinant Euler_numbers > Explicit formulas > As a determinant 1 1 ( 2 n ) ! 1 ( 2 n − 2 ) ! ⋯ 1 4 ! |
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Economic impact HIV_transmission > Society and culture > Economic impact Before death they will not only be unable to work, but will also require significant medical care. It is estimated that as of 2007 there were 12 million AIDS orphans. Many are cared for by elderly grandparents.Re... |
Max pooling Pooling layer Convolutional_layer > Building blocks > Pooling layer A very common form of max pooling is a layer with filters of size 2×2, applied with a stride of 2, which subsamples every depth slice in the input by 2 along both width and height, discarding 75% of the activations: In this case, every max ... |
Quantum fluctuations Summary Vacuum_fluctuations This means that pairs of virtual particles with energy Δ E {\displaystyle \Delta E} and lifetime shorter than Δ t {\displaystyle \Delta t} are continually created and annihilated in empty space. Although the particles are not directly detectable, the cumulative effects o... |
Quantum Machine Learning Skepticism Quantum_Machine_Learning > Skepticism “When mixing machine learning with ‘quantum,’ you catalyse a hype-condensate.” - Jacob Biamonte a contributor to the theory of quantum computation. "There is a lot more work that needs to be done before claiming quantum machine learning will actu... |
Niche cell Summary Niche_cell Stem-cell niche refers to a microenvironment, within the specific anatomic location where stem cells are found, which interacts with stem cells to regulate cell fate. The word 'niche' can be in reference to the in vivo or in vitro stem-cell microenvironment. During embryonic development, v... |
Bacterial fermentation Definitions and etymology Anaerobic_fermentation > Definitions and etymology Below are some definitions of fermentation ranging from informal, general usages to more scientific definitions. Preservation methods for food via microorganisms (general use). Any large-scale microbial process occurring... |
Backstepping control Summary Backstepping_control In control theory, backstepping is a technique developed circa 1990 by Petar V. Kokotovic and others for designing stabilizing controls for a special class of nonlinear dynamical systems. These systems are built from subsystems that radiate out from an irreducible subsy... |
P6m symmetry Group cm (*×) Wallpaper_groups > The seventeen groups > Group cm (*×) Orbifold signature: *× Coxeter notation: or Lattice: rhombic Point group: D1 The group cm contains no rotations. It has reflection axes, all parallel. There is at least one glide reflection whose axis is not a reflection axis; it is ha... |
UCSC Genome Browser Browser functionality UCSC_Genome_Browser > Browser functionality By pre-aligning millions of RNA secuences from GenBank to each of the 244 genome assemblies (many of the 108 species have more than one assembly), the browser allows instant access to the alignments of any RNA to any of the hosted spe... |
Sleep mode Summary Sleep_mode Sleep mode (or suspend to RAM) is a low power mode for electronic devices such as computers, televisions, and remote controlled devices. These modes save significantly on electrical consumption compared to leaving a device fully on and, upon resume, allow the user to avoid having to reissu... |
Solar backpack Summary Solar_backpack Examples of solar chargers in popular use include: Small portable models designed to charge a range of different mobile phones, cell phones, iPods or other portable audio equipment. Fold out models designed to sit on the dashboard of an automobile and plug into the cigar/12v lighte... |
Online fair division The costly reallocation problem Online_fair_division > Online arrival of resources > The costly reallocation problem In some cases, items that were previously allocated may be reallocated, but reallocation is costly, so the number of adjustments should be as small as possible. An example is the all... |
Protected memory Simulated segmentation Protected_memory > Methods > Simulated segmentation Simulation is the use of a monitoring program to interpret the machine code instructions of some computer architectures. Such an instruction set simulator can provide memory protection by using a segmentation-like scheme and val... |
Numerical optimisation Major subfields Numerical_optimization > Major subfields Usually, heuristics do not guarantee that any optimal solution need be found. On the other hand, heuristics are used to find approximate solutions for many complicated optimization problems. Constraint satisfaction studies the case in which... |
Jazz music Modal jazz Jazz_music > Post-war jazz > Modal jazz Modal jazz is a development which began in the later 1950s which takes the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation. Previously, a solo was meant to fit into a given chord progression, but with modal jazz, the soloist creat... |
Supramolecular catalysis Transition state analogue selection/screening approach Supramolecular_catalysis > Approaches to making supramolecular catalysts > Transition state analogue selection/screening approach Assuming that catalytic activity largely depends on the catalyst's affinity to the transition state, one could... |
Role-playing Simulation Role-playing > Training > Simulation One of the first uses of computers was to simulate real-world conditions for participants role-playing the flying of aircraft. Flight simulators used computers to solve the equations of flight and train future pilots. The army began full-time role-playing sim... |
Object-oriented database Standards Object_persistence > Standards By 2001, most of the major object database and object–relational mapping vendors claimed conformance to the ODMG Java Language Binding. Compliance to the other components of the specification was mixed. In 2001, the ODMG Java Language Binding was submitt... |
Wei-Ming Ni Major publications Wei-Ming_Ni > Major publications Diffusion, cross-diffusion, and their spike-layer steady states. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (1998), no. 1, 9–18. |
Health outcomes for adults born prematurely Endocrine/metabolic Health_outcomes_for_adults_born_prematurely > Endocrine/metabolic Risks type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes lipid disorders cardiometabolic disordersThyroid dysfunction is common in preterm infants. Independently from birth weight, preterms have higher rat... |
Gauss's theorem Continuity equations Gauss'_theorem > Applications > Differential and integral forms of physical laws > Continuity equations Continuity equations offer more examples of laws with both differential and integral forms, related to each other by the divergence theorem. In fluid dynamics, electromagnetism, q... |
Unscented transform Background Unscented_transform > Background When the covariance is not zero the transformed mean will not generally be equal to f ( x , y ) {\displaystyle f(x,y)} and it is not even possible to determine the mean of the transformed probability distribution from only its prior mean and covariance. Gi... |
Linked list Sentinel nodes Linked_lists > Basic concepts and nomenclature > Sentinel nodes In some implementations an extra 'sentinel' or 'dummy' node may be added before the first data record or after the last one. This convention simplifies and accelerates some list-handling algorithms, by ensuring that all links can... |
Additive disequilibrium and z statistic Summary Additive_disequilibrium_and_z_statistic To do this, divide D ^ {\displaystyle {\widehat {D}}} by its standard deviation, which gives the simplified equation: z = D ^ n p ^ 1 ( 1 − p ^ 1 ) {\displaystyle z={\frac {{\widehat {D}}{\sqrt {n}}}{{\widehat {p}}_{1}(1-{\widehat {... |
Oracle Spatial and Graph RDF semantic Oracle_Spatial_and_Graph > Components > RDF semantic The RDF Semantic Graph feature supports the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) RDF standards. It provides RDF data management, querying and inferencing that are commonly used in a variety of applications ranging from semantic data i... |
Arginine decarboxylase Function Arginine_decarboxylase > Function Arginine decarboxylase is one of the main components of arginine-dependent acid resistance (AR3) that allows E. coli to survive long enough in the highly acidic environment of the stomach to pass through the digestive tract and infect a human host. The e... |
Spectroscopic redshift Observations in astronomy Redshift > Observations in astronomy The redshift observed in astronomy can be measured because the emission and absorption spectra for atoms are distinctive and well known, calibrated from spectroscopic experiments in laboratories on Earth. When the redshift of various ... |
Atheronals Effects of atheronals in human body Atheronals > Effects of atheronals in human body Furthermore, such cholesterol oxidation items have been found in the brains of autopsy specimens from Alzheimer’s disease patients. The ozonolyzed cholesterol quickens amyloidogenesis in these patients. They may play a cruci... |
Anticipatory anxiety Anxiety disorders Anticipatory_anxiety > Causes > Anxiety disorders Anticipatory anxiety is a feature of social anxiety disorder. The Social Phobia Scale, a general self-report questionnaire used as measure for social anxiety disorder, contains the 'anticipatory anxiety related to being observed' a... |
Reptation Monte Carlo Summary Reptation_Monte_Carlo When you propagate the Schrödinger equation in time, you get the dynamics of the system under study. When you propagate it in imaginary time, you get a system that tends towards the ground state of the system. When substituting i t {\displaystyle it} in place of t {\d... |
Empirical statistical laws Examples Empirical_statistical_laws > Examples According to the "law", given some dataset of text, the frequency of a word is inversely proportional to its frequency rank. In other words, the second most common word should appear about half as often as the most common word, and the fifth most... |
Labyrinth problem Recursive algorithm Wall_follower > Recursive algorithm If given an omniscient view of the maze, a simple recursive algorithm can tell one how to get to the end. The algorithm will be given a starting X and Y value. If the X and Y values are not on a wall, the method will call itself with all adjacent... |
Map symbol Visual variables Map_symbol > Visual variables The most common set of visual variables, as canonized in cartography textbooks and the Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge, includes the following: Size, how much space a symbol occupies on a map, most commonly refers to the area of p... |
Imitation game Interpretations Turing_Test > Interpretations With the same object therefore it is possible that one man would consider it as intelligent and another would not; the second man would have found out the rules of its behaviour.Following this remark and similar ones scattered throughout Turing's publications... |
S-Nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine Summary S-Nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine S-Nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) is the organosulfur compound with the formula ONSC(CH3)2CH(NHAc)CO2H. It is a green solid.SNAP is an S-nitrosothiol and is used as a model for the general class of S-nitrosothiols which have received much atte... |
Approximate Bayesian Computation Indispensable quality controls Approximate_Bayesian_Computation > Pitfalls and remedies > Indispensable quality controls The resulting discrepancy distributions have been used for selecting models that are in agreement with many aspects of the data simultaneously, and model inconsistenc... |
Chemical energetics System constraints Chemical_energetics > Non-equilibrium > System constraints The extent variable for the reaction can increase only if the piston moves out, and conversely if the piston is pushed inward, the reaction is driven backwards. Similarly, a redox reaction might occur in an electrochemical... |
Flash flood emergency Warning Flash_flood_warning > Example of a flash flood warning and emergency > Warning HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms. SOURCE...Doppler radar. IMPACT...Flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other drainage and low lying area... |
Automatic variable Java Automatic_variable > In specific programming languages > Java (Called local variables.) Similar to C and C++, but there is no auto or register keyword. However, the Java compiler will not allow the usage of a not-explicitly-initialized local variable and will give a compilation error (unlike C a... |
Proto-value function Motivation Proto-value_function > Motivation Value function approximation is a critical component to solving Markov decision processes (MDPs) defined over a continuous state space. A good function approximator allows a reinforcement learning (RL) agent to accurately represent the value of any state... |
Actor network theory ANT in arts Actor_network_theory > ANT in practice > ANT in arts ANT is a big influencer in the development of design. In the past, researchers or scholars from design field mainly view the world as a human interactive situation. No matter what design we applied, it is for human's action. |
Thraustochytrids Ultrastructure Thraustochytrids > Morphology > Ultrastructure Within the granular cytoplasm lies single dictyosomes, centrioles, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and lipid bodies in some cases. Thraustochytrids contain many mitochondria, which are polymorphic and have tubular cristae. Made of sulph... |
History of mathematical notation Early 20th-century notation History_of_mathematical_notation > Symbolic stage > Contemporary notation and topics > Early 20th-century notation It can also be used to denote abstract vectors and linear functionals. It is so called because the inner product (or dot product on a complex ve... |
Instruction pipeline Pipeline bubble Pipelined_processor > Illustrated example > Pipeline bubble A pipelined processor may deal with hazards by stalling and creating a bubble in the pipeline, resulting in one or more cycles in which nothing useful happens. In the illustration at right, in cycle 3, the processor cannot ... |
IP Pascal Constant expressions IP_Pascal > Language > Constant expressions A constant declaration can contain expressions of other constants const b = a+10; |
Douglas Hartree Later life and work Douglas_Hartree > Later life and work For this he selected a problem involving the flow of a compressible fluid over a surface, such as air over the surface of a wing travelling faster than the speed of sound.At the end of 1945 or very early in 1946 Hartree briefed Maurice Wilkes of ... |
Mechanical system Mechanisms Mechanical_device > Mechanisms The assemblies that control movement are also called "mechanisms." Mechanisms are generally classified as gears and gear trains, which includes belt drives and chain drives, cam and follower mechanisms, and linkages, though there are other special mechanisms s... |
Process planning Future development Process_planning > Future development The system created is highly specific, the concepts can be extrapolated to other enterprises. Traditional CAPP methods that optimize plans in a linear manner have not been able to satisfy the need for flexible planning, so new dynamic systems wil... |
ZFS Data integrity ZFS > Features > Data integrity One major feature that distinguishes ZFS from other file systems is that it is designed with a focus on data integrity by protecting the user's data on disk against silent data corruption caused by data degradation, power surges (voltage spikes), bugs in disk firmware,... |
Superparamagnetic limit Biomedical applications Superparamagnetism > Applications > Biomedical applications Imaging: contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Magnetic separation: cell-, DNA-, protein- separation, RNA fishing Treatments: targeted drug delivery, magnetic hyperthermia, magnetofection |
Eigenvalue, eigenvector, and eigenspace Eigenspaces, geometric multiplicity, and the eigenbasis for matrices Spectral_properties > Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices > Eigenspaces, geometric multiplicity, and the eigenbasis for matrices Similarly, because E is a linear subspace, it is closed under scalar multipli... |
RpoS Translational control of rpoS RpoS > Environmental signal to activation: regulation of RpoS > Translational control of rpoS However, the RNA-binding protein Hfq is implicated in the process. Hfq binds to rpoS mRNA in vitro and may thereby modify rpoS mRNA structure for optimal translation. Hfq activates both DsrA ... |
Illustrative model of greenhouse effect on climate change Structure of the atmosphere Illustrative_model_of_greenhouse_effect_on_climate_change > Structure of the atmosphere The troposphere and tropopause together consist of ~99% of the atmospheric CO2. Inside the troposphere, the CO2 drops with altitude approximately ... |
Anaphase I Molecular regulation Anaphase_I > Molecular regulation How a cell proceeds to meiotic division in meiotic cell division is not well known. Maturation promoting factor (MPF) seemingly have role in frog Oocyte meiosis. In the fungus S. pombe. there is a role of MeiRNA binding protein for entry to meiotic cell ... |
Glossary of experimental design Glossary Glossary_of_experimental_design > Glossary Note: The importance of randomization cannot be over stressed. Randomization is necessary for conclusions drawn from the experiment to be correct, unambiguous and defensible. Regression discontinuity design: A design in which assignment... |
Professional ethic Separatism Professional_ethics > Examples > Separatism This would be a disrespect of the patient's autonomy, as it denies the patient information that could have a great impact on his or her life. This would generally be seen as morally wrong. However, if the end of improving and maintaining health i... |
Linked list Using sentinel nodes Linked_list > Tradeoffs > Using sentinel nodes The list handle should then be a pointer to the last data node, before the sentinel, if the list is not empty; or to the sentinel itself, if the list is empty. The same trick can be used to simplify the handling of a doubly linked linear li... |
Named data networking Overview Named_data_networking > Overview More specifically, NDN changes the semantics of network service from delivering the packet to a given destination address to fetching data identified by a given name. The name in an NDN packet can name anything – an endpoint, a data chunk in a movie or a b... |
Clobbering Summary Clobbering In software engineering and computer science, clobbering a file, processor register or a region of computer memory is the process of overwriting its contents completely, whether intentionally or unintentionally, or to indicate that such an action will likely occur. The Jargon File defines ... |
Unsaturated hydrocarbon NMR Spectroscopy Unsaturated_hydrocarbon > Physical properties > Spectroscopic Properties > NMR Spectroscopy Since the π bondings will make cis/trans isomers, the unsaturated hydrocarbon isomers will appear differently due to different J-coupling effect. Cis vicinal hydrogens will have coupling ... |
Average mutual information Relation to conditional and joint entropy Mutual_Information > Properties > Relation to conditional and joint entropy Intuitively, if entropy H ( Y ) {\displaystyle \mathrm {H} (Y)} is regarded as a measure of uncertainty about a random variable, then H ( Y ∣ X ) {\displaystyle \mathrm {H} (Y... |
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