page_content stringlengths 51 3.15k |
|---|
Concept formation Component display theory Concept_learning > Modern psychological theories > Component display theory Secondary presentation forms include: prerequisites, objectives, helps, mnemonics, and feedback. A complete lesson includes a combination of primary and secondary presentation forms, but the most effec... |
Kepler-1649c Summary Kepler-1649c In 2017, Jeff Coughlin, the director of SETI's K2 Science Office, described it as the most "similar planet to Earth" found so far by the Kepler Space Telescope. The planet was initially deemed a false positive by Kepler's robovetter algorithm. The Kepler False Positive Working Group pu... |
Hartman effect Summary Hartman_effect The Hartman effect describes how the delay time for a quantum tunneling particle is independent of the thickness of the opaque barrier. It is named after Thomas Hartman, who discovered it in 1962. |
Integer partition function Young's lattice Partition_of_an_integer > Young's lattice There is a natural partial order on partitions given by inclusion of Young diagrams. This partially ordered set is known as Young's lattice. The lattice was originally defined in the context of representation theory, where it is used t... |
Data link layer Relation to the TCP/IP model Data_link_layer > Relation to the TCP/IP model It was formulated for the purpose of illustrating the logical groups and scopes of functions needed in the design of the suite of internetworking protocols of TCP/IP, as needed for the operation of the Internet. In general, dire... |
C programming language Language tools C_programming_language > Language tools A number of tools have been developed to help C programmers find and fix statements with undefined behavior or possibly erroneous expressions, with greater rigor than that provided by the compiler. The tool lint was the first such, leading to... |
Tumor metabolome Role of tumor suppressor and oncogenes Tumor_metabolome > Warburg effect and glycolysis > Role of tumor suppressor and oncogenes Apart from being as a general tumor suppressor gene, p53 also plays an important part in regulating of metabolism. p53 activates hexokinase 2 (HK2) that converts glucose to g... |
Satellite orbit Principles Orbit_(celestial_mechanics) > Principles There are a few common ways of understanding orbits: A force, such as gravity, pulls an object into a curved path as it attempts to fly off in a straight line. As the object is pulled toward the massive body, it falls toward that body. However, if it h... |
Renin inhibitors History Renin_inhibitor > History They had more drug-like rather than substrate-like properties, and in 1990 they went to clinical trials. The second generation had its limitations and never completed clinical trials.Aliskiren, the only renin inhibitor to go into phase III clinical trials, is not struc... |
Static temperature Theoretical foundation Kinetic_temperature > Theoretical foundation Temperature determines the statistical occupation of the microstates of the ensemble. The microscopic definition of temperature is only meaningful in the thermodynamic limit, meaning for large ensembles of states or particles, to ful... |
Bivector (complex) Summary Bivector_(complex) "The commutator product of this Lie algebra is just twice the cross product on R3, for instance, = ij − ji = 2k, which is twice i × j. As Shaw wrote in 1970: Now it is well known that the Lie algebra of the homogeneous Lorentz group can be considered to be that of bivector... |
Stem Cells Embryonic Stem_Cell_Research > Embryonic Without optimal culture conditions or genetic manipulation, embryonic stem cells will rapidly differentiate. A human embryonic stem cell is also defined by the expression of several transcription factors and cell surface proteins. The transcription factors Oct-4, Nano... |
Transport layer Services Transport_layer > Services Multiplexing: Ports can provide multiple endpoints on a single node. For example, the name on a postal address is a kind of multiplexing and distinguishes between different recipients of the same location. Computer applications will each listen for information on thei... |
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Summary European_Prospective_Investigation_into_Cancer_and_Nutrition Up to 2004, there were over 26,000 new cases of cancer recorded among participants, with the most common being cancers of the breast, colorectum, prostate and lung. Current analyses are focu... |
Protein aggregation In biomanufacturing Protein_aggregation > In biomanufacturing Protein aggregation is also a common phenomenon in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing process, which may pose risks to patients via generating adverse immune responses. |
Polymerase Chain Reaction Forensic applications Polymerase_Chain_Reaction > Applications > Forensic applications Less discriminating forms of DNA fingerprinting can help in DNA paternity testing, where an individual is matched with their close relatives. DNA from unidentified human remains can be tested, and compared w... |
Theoretical motivation for general relativity Solving the Einstein field equation Theoretical_motivation_for_general_relativity > Solving the Einstein field equation Solving the Einstein field equation requires an iterative process. The solution is represented in the metric tensor g μ ν {\displaystyle g_{\mu \nu }} .Ty... |
Machine learning in bioinformatics antiSMASH Machine_learning_in_bioinformatics > Databases > Bioinformatics analysis for biosynthetic gene clusters > antiSMASH antiSMASH allows the rapid genome-wide identification, annotation and analysis of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in bacterial and fungal genom... |
K-d tree Construction K-d_tree > Operations on k-d trees > Construction Points that lie on the splitting plane may appear on either side. The splitting plane of a node goes through the point associated with that node (referred to in the code as node.location). Alternative algorithms for building a balanced k-d tree pre... |
Werner Heisenberg Matrix mechanics and the Nobel Prize Werner_Heisenberg > Academic career > Matrix mechanics and the Nobel Prize So Heisenberg set out to formulate these results without any explicit dependence on the virtual oscillator model. To do this, he replaced the Fourier expansions for the spatial coordinates w... |
Long-term memories Encoding of information Long-term_memory > Encoding of information In LTM, brain cells fire in specific patterns. When someone experiences something in the world, the brain responds by creating a pattern of specific nerves firing in a specific way to represent the experience. This is called distribut... |
Thermionic tube Vacuum tubes using field electron emitters Vacuum_tube > Vacuum tubes in the 21st century > Vacuum tubes using field electron emitters In the early years of the 21st century there has been renewed interest in vacuum tubes, this time with the electron emitter formed on a flat silicon substrate, as in int... |
Peer group Future problems Peer_group > Negative attributes (disadvantages) > Future problems Success of peer relationships is linked to later psychological development and to academic achievement. Therefore, if one does not have successful peer relationships it may lead to developmental delays and poor academic achiev... |
Dimension analysis Mathematical properties Unit_commensurability > Properties > Mathematical properties Every possible way of multiplying (and exponentiating) together the measured quantities to produce something with the same unit as some derived quantity X can be expressed in the general form X = ∏ i = 1 m ( π i ) k ... |
Distributed denial-of-service attacks on root nameservers Summary Distributed_denial_of_service_attacks_on_root_nameservers Distributed denial-of-service attacks on root nameservers are Internet events in which distributed denial-of-service attacks target one or more of the thirteen Domain Name System root nameserver c... |
Traffic policing (communications) Summary Traffic_policing_(communications) In communications, traffic policing is the process of monitoring network traffic for compliance with a traffic contract and taking steps to enforce that contract. Traffic sources which are aware of a traffic contract may apply traffic shaping t... |
Equilibrium reaction Historical introduction Chemical_equilibria > Historical introduction Despite the limitations of this derivation, the equilibrium constant for a reaction is indeed a constant, independent of the activities of the various species involved, though it does depend on temperature as observed by the van ... |
Accelerometer Structure Acceleration_sensor > Structure It contains a small heater in a very small dome. This heats the air or other fluid inside the dome. The thermal bubble acts as the proof mass. |
Carbonyl ligand Nomenclature and terminology Metal_carbonyls > Nomenclature and terminology More commonly only carbon is bonded, in which case the hapticity is not mentioned.The carbonyl ligand engages in a wide range of bonding modes in metal carbonyl dimers and clusters. In the most common bridging mode, denoted μ2 o... |
Nanotribology Friction Nanotribology > Properties > Friction Without considering thermal effects, the only force that makes the tip overcome these potential barriers is the spring force given by the support: this causes the stick-slip motion. At the nanoscale, friction coefficient depends on several conditions. |
79 (number) In mathematics 79_(number) > In mathematics A right-truncatable prime, because when the last digit (9) is removed, the remaining number (7) is still prime. A sexy prime (with 73). The n value of the Wagstaff prime 201487636602438195784363. |
Ontotext GraphDB Uses Ontotext_GraphDB > Uses Ontotext Graph DB is used in various scientific areas, e.g., Genetics, Healthcare, Data Forensics, Cultural Heritage, Geography, Infrastructure Planning, Civil Engineering, Digital Historiography, Oceanography.For more examples see "Diverse Uses of a Semantic Graph Database... |
Stop codon Nonstop Termination_codon > Mutations and disease > Nonstop A nonstop mutation, also called a stop-loss variant, is a point mutation that occurs within a stop codon. Nonstop mutations cause the continued translation of an mRNA strand into what should be an untranslated region. Most polypeptides resulting fro... |
Heavy Rydberg system Species Heavy_Rydberg_system > Species The most commonly studied system to date is the H + / H − {\displaystyle H^{+}/H^{-}} system, consisting of a proton bound with a H − {\displaystyle H^{-}} ion. The H + / H − {\displaystyle H^{+}/H^{-}} system was first observed in 2000 by a group at the Unive... |
Frictional contact mechanics Problem formulation Frictional_contact_mechanics > Problem formulation Finally there are the processes at the contact interface: compression and adhesion in the direction perpendicular to the interface, and friction and micro-slip in the tangential directions.The last aspect is the primary ... |
Fork–join queue Applications Fork–join_queue > Applications Fork–join queues have been used to model zoned RAID systems, parallel computations and for modelling order fulfilment in warehouses. |
Federated learning Definition Federated_learning > Definition While distributed learning also aims at training a single model on multiple servers, a common underlying assumption is that the local datasets are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) and roughly have the same size. None of these hypotheses are m... |
Rebreather diving Scrubber failure Rebreather_diving > Safety > Failure modes > Scrubber failure Whether this is technically a failure of the scrubber design, the selection of absorbent material, the selection of breathing gas, or of the rebreather as a system is open to interpretation.Consequences: The failure to remo... |
Neuroepigenetics Hypomethylation and aberrant histone modification Neuroepigenetics > Mechanisms > Hypomethylation and aberrant histone modification For example, expression of MAGEA1 enhanced by hypomethylation interferes with p53 function.Aberrant patterns of histone modifications can also take place at specific loci ... |
Iberian language Semivowels Iberian_language > Phonology > Semivowels It is possible that Iberian had the semivowels /j/ (in words such as aiun or iunstir) and /w/ (only in loanwords such as diuiś from Gaulish). The fact that /w/ is lacking in native words casts doubt on whether semivowels really existed in Iberian out... |
Elementary particles Higgs boson Elementary_particles > Standard Model > Fundamental bosons > Higgs boson On 4 July 2012, after many years of experimentally searching for evidence of its existence, the Higgs boson was announced to have been observed at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Peter Higgs who first posited the exi... |
Groupoid scheme Groupoid schemes Groupoid_object > Examples > Groupoid schemes A groupoid S-scheme is a groupoid object in the category of schemes over some fixed base scheme S. If U = S {\displaystyle U=S} , then a groupoid scheme (where s = t {\displaystyle s=t} are necessarily the structure map) is the same as a gro... |
Tail-recursive function Through trampolining Tail_call > Implementation methods > Through trampolining This ensures that the C stack does not grow and iteration can continue indefinitely. It is possible to implement trampolines using higher-order functions in languages that support them, such as Groovy, Visual Basic .N... |
Oxidative damage Metal catalysts Oxidant_stress > Metal catalysts The hydroxyl radical then can modify amino acids. For example, meta-tyrosine and ortho-tyrosine form by hydroxylation of phenylalanine. |
AOT compilation Summary AOT_compilation In computer science, ahead-of-time compilation (AOT compilation) is the act of compiling an (often) higher-level programming language into an (often) lower-level language before execution of a program, usually at build-time, to reduce the amount of work needed to be performed at ... |
Engine efficiency Stirling engines Engine_efficiency > External combustion engines > Stirling engines The Stirling engine has the highest theoretical efficiency of any thermal engine but it has a low output power to weight ratio, therefore Stirling engines of practical output tend to be large. The size effect of the St... |
Reward system Mood disorders Appetitive_behaviour > Disorders > Motivation > Mood disorders Although these differences may be attributable to different stimulation protocols or poor translational paradigms, variable results may also lie in the heterogenous functionality of reward related regions.Optogenetic stimulation... |
Vector multiplication Summary Vector_multiplication So, if n̂ is the unit vector perpendicular to the plane determined by vectors A and B, A ⟶ {\displaystyle {\stackrel {\,\longrightarrow }{A}}} × B ⟶ {\displaystyle {\stackrel {\,\longrightarrow }{B}}} = | A ⟶ {\displaystyle {\stackrel {\,\longrightarrow }{A}}} | | B ⟶... |
Social self Precursors Social_self > Precursors Helene Deutsch, a colleague of Freud, had previously described "as if" personalities, pseudo-relationships substituting for real ones. Winnicott's analyst, Joan Riviere, had also explored the concept of the narcissist's masquerade, which is essentially a superficial assen... |
Base catalyst Summary Base_catalyst In these reactions, the conjugate acid of the carbonyl group is a better electrophile than the neutral carbonyl group itself. Depending on the chemical species that act as the acid or base, catalytic mechanisms can be classified as either specific catalysis and general catalysis. Man... |
Carbon respiration Summary Carbon_respiration Carbon respiration (also called carbon emissions and carbon releases) is used in combination with carbon fixation to gauge carbon flux (as CO2) between atmospheric carbon and the global carbon cycle |
Tumor microenvironment TAMs and MDSCs Tumor_microenvironment > Immune cells > T cells > TAMs and MDSCs Similarly, an activator of TAMs, an agonistic antibody to CD40, when administered in combination with the chemotherapeutic drug gemcitabine, suppressed mouse PDA growth in a T cell–independent manner, suggesting that ... |
Hepatic portal system Summary Hepatic_portal_system In human anatomy, the hepatic portal system or portal venous system is the system of veins comprising the portal vein and its tributaries. The other portal venous systems in the body are the renal portal system, and the hypophyseal portal system. |
Cancer Stem Cells Heterogeneity (markers) Cancer_stem_cell > Heterogeneity (markers) CSCs heterogeneity is a pool of differentiated and undifferentiated tumour cells that are replenished by cells possessing both tumour and stem cell like properties and having phenotypic and metabolic heterogeneity inside the single tum... |
Dot distribution map Types of dot maps Dot_distribution_map > Types of dot maps Two very different types of dot maps have been developed, often leading to some confusion in terminology. In fact, many cartographers have suggested that they not be grouped into a single type of thematic map. Although they use very differe... |
UV Sterilizer Aquarium and pond UV_irradiation > Uses > Aquarium and pond Ultraviolet sterilizers are often used to help control unwanted microorganisms in aquaria and ponds. UV irradiation ensures that pathogens cannot reproduce, thus decreasing the likelihood of a disease outbreak in an aquarium. Aquarium and pond st... |
Bacterial mat In industry Bacterial_mats > Uses and impact > In industry Biofilms can also be harnessed for constructive purposes. For example, many sewage treatment plants include a secondary treatment stage in which waste water passes over biofilms grown on filters, which extract and digest organic compounds. In such... |
CumFreq Software features CumFreq > Software features CumFreq uses the plotting position approach to estimate the cumulative frequency of each of the observed magnitudes in a data series of the variable.The computer program allows determination of the best fitting probability distribution. Alternatively it provides the... |
Drainage equation Hooghoudt's equation Drainage_equation > Hooghoudt's equation Drainage criteria One would not want the water table to be too shallow to avoid crop yield depression nor too deep to avoid drought conditions. This is a subject of drainage research. The figure shows that a seasonal average depth of the wa... |
Ozone Depleting Substances Ozone hole over tropics Ozone_destruction > Research history > Ozone hole over tropics Physicist Qing-Bin Lu, of the University of Waterloo, claimed to have discovered a large, all-season ozone hole in the lower stratosphere over the tropics in July 2022. However, other researchers in the fie... |
Pet cloning Animal welfare Pet_cloning > Controversies > Animal welfare The mortality rate for cloned animals is higher than for those born of natural processes. This includes a discrepancy pre-birth, during birth, and after birth in survival rates and quality of life, leading to ethical concerns. Many of these discrep... |
Keto acid Summary Keto_acid For instance, in plants (specifically, in hemlock, pitcher plants, and fool's parsley), 5-oxo-octanoic acid is converted in enzymatic and non-enzymatic steps into the cyclic class of coniine alkaloids.When ingested sugars and carbohydrate levels are low, stored fats and proteins are the prim... |
Learning object Definitions Learning_object > Definitions The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) defines a learning object as "any entity, digital or non-digital, that may be used for learning, education or training".Chiappe defined Learning Objects as: "A digital self-contained and reusable entit... |
Pisarenko harmonic decomposition History Pisarenko_harmonic_decomposition > History The method was first discovered in 1911 by Constantin Carathéodory, then rediscovered by Vladilen Fedorovich Pisarenko in 1973 while examining the problem of estimating the frequencies of complex signals in white noise. He found that th... |
Short-circuiting operator Reduced efficiency due to constraining optimizations Short-circuiting_operator > Possible problems > Reduced efficiency due to constraining optimizations Short-circuiting can lead to errors in branch prediction on modern central processing units (CPUs), and dramatically reduce performance. A n... |
Fatigue Testing Notable fatigue tests Fatigue_Testing > Notable fatigue tests de Havilland Comet suffered a series of catastrophic failures that ultimately proved to be fatigue despite being fatigue tested. Fatigue tests on 110 Mustang wing sets were carried out to determine the scatter in fatigue life. The novel No Hi... |
Tetrahedral intermediate Drug design Tetrahedral_carbonyl_addition_compound > Applications in biomedicine > Drug design A solvated ligand that binds the protein of interest is likely to exist as an equilibrium mixture of several conformers. Likewise the solvated protein also exists as several conformers in equilibrium.... |
Geological structure measurement by LiDAR Summary Geological_structure_measurement_by_LiDAR These structures include folds, fault planes, size, persistence, spatial variations, and numbers of the rock discontinuities in a particular region. These discontinuity features significantly impact slope stability, causing slop... |
Converter station DC equipment Converter_station > Components > DC equipment Air coils have the advantage of generating less acoustical noise than iron-core coils, they eliminate the potential environmental hazard of spilled oil, and they do not saturate under transient high current fault conditions. This part of the p... |
Synergistic enhancer (antiretroviral) Types Synergistic_enhancer_(antiretroviral) > Types It enhances ddI, and to a lesser extent AZT and ddC. One possible explanation is that HU causes cells to spend more time in the "S" phase checkpoint of cellular growth which allows ddI, AZT and ddC into the cell more. In addition ... |
Bias–variance tradeoff Approaches Bias–variance_tradeoff > Approaches In artificial neural networks, the variance increases and the bias decreases as the number of hidden units increase, although this classical assumption has been the subject of recent debate. Like in GLMs, regularization is typically applied. In k-nea... |
RL circuit Impulse response RL_circuit > Series circuit > Impulse response The impulse response for each voltage is the inverse Laplace transform of the corresponding transfer function. It represents the response of the circuit to an input voltage consisting of an impulse or Dirac delta function. The impulse response f... |
Thermal management (electronics) Heat sinks Thermal_management_(electronics) > Methodologies > Heat sinks Heat sinks are widely used in electronics and have become essential to modern microelectronics. In common use, it is a metal object brought into contact with an electronic component's hot surface—though in most cas... |
Membrane (M-Theory) General and cited references Brane_theory > General and cited references Retrieved June 7, 2018. Yau, Shing-Tung; Nadis, Steve (2010). The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. |
History of computing Personal computers History_of_computing > Digital electronic computers > Personal computers The metal–oxide–silicon field-effect transistor (MOSFET), also known as the MOS transistor, was invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in 1959. It was the first truly compact transistor that... |
Nonsense codon Suppressing Nonsense Mutations Nonsense_mutation > Suppressing Nonsense Mutations Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay Despite an expected tendency for premature termination codons to yield shortened polypeptide products, in fact the formation of truncated proteins does not occur often in vivo. Many organisms—in... |
NAT traversal Techniques NAT_traversal > Techniques Various NAT traversal techniques have been developed: NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP) is a protocol introduced by Apple as an alternative to IGDP. Port Control Protocol (PCP) is a successor of NAT-PMP. UPnP Internet Gateway Device Protocol (UPnP IGD) is supported ... |
Connectionism The first wave Connectionism > The first wave Hebb contributed greatly to speculations about neural functioning, and proposed a learning principle, Hebbian learning, that is still used today. Lashley argued for distributed representations as a result of his failure to find anything like a localized engram... |
Burnishing (metal) Effects on sliding contact Burnishing_(metal) > Effects on sliding contact The plastic deformation associated with burnishing creates greater heat and friction than from rubbing alone. This reduces the efficiency of the machine and limits its speed. Furthermore, plastic deformation alters the form an... |
Artistic rendering 2D Artistic_rendering > 2D This automation enabled practical application of 2D NPR to video, for the first time in the living paintings of the movie What Dreams May Come (1998). More sophisticated image abstractions techniques were developed in the early 2000s harnessing computer vision operators e.g... |
Intelligent agents Objective function Artificial_agents > Objective function Some AI systems, such as nearest-neighbor, instead of reason by analogy, these systems are not generally given goals, except to the degree that goals are implicit in their training data. Such systems can still be benchmarked if the non-goal sy... |
Perl virtual machine Scope stack Perl_virtual_machine > Implementation > Stacks > Scope stack This stack stores information about the actual scope and it is used only for debugging purposes. |
Simulation of production systems Disaster preparedness Simulation_of_production_systems > More examples of simulation > Disaster preparedness CADE has used a video game to prepare emergency workers for multiple types of attacks. As reported by News-Medical.Net, "The video game is the first in a series of simulations to... |
Eyring equation General form Eyring_equation > General form The general form of the Eyring–Polanyi equation somewhat resembles the Arrhenius equation: where k {\displaystyle k} is the rate constant, Δ G ‡ {\displaystyle \Delta G^{\ddagger }} is the Gibbs energy of activation, κ {\displaystyle \kappa } is the transmissi... |
Finite difference methods The SBP-SAT method Finite_difference_scheme > The SBP-SAT method The SBP-SAT (summation by parts - simultaneous approximation term) method is a stable and accurate technique for discretizing and imposing boundary conditions of a well-posed partial differential equation using high order finite ... |
Momentum Multiple dimensions Momentum_vector > Newtonian > Multiple dimensions For example, represents three equations: The kinetic energy equations are exceptions to the above replacement rule. The equations are still one-dimensional, but each scalar represents the magnitude of the vector, for example, Each vector equ... |
Computer icon Size and scalability Computer_icon > Design > Size and scalability The standard icon is generally the size of an adult thumb, enabling both easy visual recognition and use in a touchscreen device. For individual devices the display size correlates directly to the size of the screen real estate and the res... |
Tajima's D Summary Tajima's_D The randomly evolving mutations are called "neutral", while mutations under selection are "non-neutral". For example, a mutation that causes prenatal death or severe disease would be expected to be under selection. In the population as a whole, the frequency of a neutral mutation fluctuate... |
Human immune system Vaccination Immune_surveillance > Manipulation in medicine > Vaccination Long-term active memory is acquired following infection by activation of B and T cells. Active immunity can also be generated artificially, through vaccination. The principle behind vaccination (also called immunization) is to ... |
Factorization homology Summary Factorization_homology In algebraic topology and category theory, factorization homology is a variant of topological chiral homology, motivated by an application to topological quantum field theory and cobordism hypothesis in particular. It was introduced by David Ayala, John Francis, and... |
Chinese BASIC Example Chinese_BASIC > Example A in line 250. They all do the same thing—to print out the value of A on screen. This program calculates the sum of log (E) + log (E+1) + log (E+2) + ... + log (F). |
Projected rotational velocity Summary Projected_rotational_velocity Thus the equator of the star can rotate at a different angular velocity than the higher latitudes. These differences in the rate of rotation within a star may have a significant role in the generation of a stellar magnetic field.In its turn, the magnet... |
Telecommunication convergence Cellphones Media_convergence > Digital convergence > Cellphones The functions of the cellphone changes as technology converges. Because of technological advancement, a cellphone functions as more than just a phone: it can also contain an Internet connection, video players, MP3 players, gam... |
Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs Summary Gustavus_Detlef_Hinrichs Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs (2 December 1836 – 14 February 1923) was a chemist and natural philosopher most widely known for his findings on periodic laws within the chemical elements. |
Arithmetical transfinite recursion Summary Constructive_reverse_mathematics Reverse mathematics is a program in mathematical logic that seeks to determine which axioms are required to prove theorems of mathematics. Its defining method can briefly be described as "going backwards from the theorems to the axioms", in con... |
Business simulation Games and business simulation games Business_simulation > Games and business simulation games This process includes the kind of reflection and inquiry for which there is no time in the hectic everyday world. Thus, Senge and Lannon argue, managers learn about the long-term, systemic consequences of t... |
Design for All (in ICT) Examples of good practice Design_for_All_(in_ICT) > Examples of good practice The emergency intercom system operates aurally and visually. Wireless tagging (e.g. RFID), facial recognition, remote controls further enhance the capabilities of a modern elevator which can be used by almost anyone. T... |
Earthquake prediction Disturbance of the daily cycle of the ionosphere Earthquake_prediction > Prediction methods > Precursors > Electromagnetic anomalies > Freund physics > Disturbance of the daily cycle of the ionosphere Tectonic stresses in the Earth's crust are claimed to cause waves of electric charges that travel... |
Climbing harness Types Climbing_harness > Types A sit harness consists of a waist belt and two leg loops which are normally connected in the front of the hips through a permanent webbing loop called a belay loop. Belay loops are extremely strong, but nonetheless still a single point of failure that caused at least one ... |
Heat pumps Performance Heat_Pump > Performance Larger values of either metric indicate better performance. When comparing the performance of heat pumps, the term performance is preferred to efficiency, with coefficient of performance (COP) being used to describe the ratio of useful heat movement per work input. An elec... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.