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Binary prefix
A binary prefix is a unit prefix for multiples of units in data processing, data transmission, and digital information, notably the bit and the byte, to indicate multiplication by a power of 2.
The computer industry has historically used the units "kilobyte", "megabyte", and "gigabyte", and the correspo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4077 |
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, and operated by private interests. It serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, displays baseball-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4078 |
BPP (complexity)
In computational complexity theory, bounded-error probabilistic polynomial time (BPP) is the class of decision problems solvable by a probabilistic Turing machine in polynomial time with an error probability bounded away from 1/3 for all instances.
BPP is one of the largest "practical" classes of prob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4079 |
BQP
In computational complexity theory, bounded-error quantum polynomial time (BQP) is the class of decision problems solvable by a quantum computer in polynomial time, with an error probability of at most 1/3 for all instances. It is the quantum analogue to the complexity class BPP.
A decision problem is a member of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4080 |
Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night
Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night is a science fiction novel by American writer K. W. Jeter published in 1996. It is a continuation of Jeter's novel "", which was itself a sequel to both the film "Blade Runner" and the novel upon which the film was based, Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4081 |
Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human
Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human (1995) is a science fiction novel by American writer K. W. Jeter. It is a continuation of both the film "Blade Runner" and the novel upon which the film was based, Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Several months after the event... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4082 |
Brainfuck
Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language created in 1993 by Urban Müller, and is notable for its extreme minimalism.
The language consists of only eight simple commands and an instruction pointer. While it is fully Turing complete, it is not intended for practical use, but to challenge and amuse progra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4086 |
Bartolomeo Ammannati
Bartolomeo Ammannati (18 June 151113 April 1592) was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence. He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino (assisting on the design of the Library of St. Mark's, the "Biblioteca Marciana", Venice) and closely imitated the styl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4091 |
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained, consecrated, or appointed member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.
Within the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Moravian, Anglican, Old Catholic and Independent Catholic churches, as well as the Assyrian Church o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4092 |
Bordeaux
Bordeaux (; Gascon ) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.
The municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 257,804 (2019). Bordeaux is the centre of Bordeaux Métropole that has a population of 796,273 (2019), the 5th largest in France after Paris, M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4097 |
Puzzle Bobble
At the start of each round, the rectangular playing arena contains a prearranged pattern of colored "bubbles". (These are actually referred to in the translation as "balls"; however, they were clearly intended to be bubbles, since they pop, and are taken from "Bubble Bobble".) At the bottom of the screen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4098 |
Bone
A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the vertebrate skeleton in animals. Bones protect the various organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells, store minerals, provide structure and support for the body, and enable mobility. Bones come in a variety of shapes and sizes and have a complex inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4099 |
Bretwalda
Bretwalda (also brytenwalda and bretenanwealda, sometimes capitalised) is an Old English word. The first record comes from the late 9th-century "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle". It is given to some of the rulers of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms from the 5th century onwards who had achieved overlordship of some or all of the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4100 |
Brouwer fixed-point theorem
Brouwer's fixed-point theorem is a fixed-point theorem in topology, named after L. E. J. (Bertus) Brouwer. It states that for any continuous function formula_1 mapping a compact convex set to itself there is a point formula_2 such that formula_3. The simplest forms of Brouwer's theorem are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4101 |
Benzoic acid
Benzoic acid is a white (or colorless) solid with the formula C6H5CO2H. It is the simplest aromatic carboxylic acid. The name is derived from gum benzoin, which was for a long time its only source. Benzoic acid occurs naturally in many plants and serves as an intermediate in the biosynthesis of many secon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4106 |
Boltzmann distribution
In statistical mechanics and mathematics, a Boltzmann distribution (also called Gibbs distribution) is a probability distribution or probability measure that gives the probability that a system will be in a certain state as a function of that state's energy and the temperature of the system. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4107 |
Blythe Danner
Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Izzy Huffstodt on "Huff" (2004–2006), and a Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4110 |
Bioleaching
Bioleaching is the extraction of metals from their ores through the use of living organisms. This is much cleaner than the traditional heap leaching using cyanide. Bioleaching is one of several applications within biohydrometallurgy and several methods are used to recover copper, zinc, lead, arsenic, antim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4111 |
Bouldering
Bouldering is a form of rock climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or harnesses. While bouldering can be done without any equipment, most climbers use climbing shoes to help secure footholds, chalk to keep their hands dry and to provide a firme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4113 |
Boiling point
The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid equals the pressure surrounding the liquid and the liquid changes into a vapor.
The boiling point of a liquid varies depending upon the surrounding environmental pressure. A liquid in a partial vacuum has a lower... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4115 |
Big Bang
The Big Bang theory is a cosmological model of the observable universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution. The model describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of very high density and high temperature, and offers a comprehensive explanation for a broad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4116 |
Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
As part of the Bantoid group, they are part of the Benue–Congo language family, which in turn is part of the large Niger–Congo phylum.
The total number of B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4124 |
CIM-10 Bomarc
The Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc (IM-99 Weapon System prior to September 1962) was a supersonic ramjet powered long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) used during the Cold War for the air defense of North America. In addition to being the first operational long-range SAM and the first operational pulse doppler a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4130 |
Branco River
The Branco River (; Engl: "White River") is the principal affluent of the Rio Negro from the north.
The river drains the Guayanan Highlands moist forests ecoregion.
It is enriched by many streams from the Tepui highlands which separate Venezuela and Guyana from Brazil. Its two upper main tributaries are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4132 |
Bus
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type is the single-deck rigid bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker and articulated buses, and smaller... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4146 |
Bali
Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Located east of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan. The provincial capital, Denpasar, is the most populo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4147 |
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian (, ; , ) is a South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of Bulgarians.
Along with the closely related Macedonian language (collectively forming the East South Slavic languages), it is a member of the Balkan sprachbund. The two languages... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4149 |
Bipyramid
An "n"-gonal bipyramid or dipyramid is a polyhedron formed by joining an "n"-gonal pyramid and its mirror image base-to-base. An "n"-gonal bipyramid has 2"n" triangle faces, 3"n" edges, and 2 + "n" vertices.
The referenced "n"-gon in the name of the bipyramids is not an external face but an internal one, ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4153 |
Brown University
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as the "College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations", it is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4157 |
Bill Atkinson
Bill Atkinson (born March 17, 1951) is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990.
Atkinson was the principal designer and developer of the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Apple Lisa and, later, one of the first thirty members of the origina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4158 |
Battle of Lostwithiel
The Battle of Lostwithiel took place over a 13 day period spanning 21 August – 2 September near Lostwithiel and along the River Fowey valley in Cornwall during the First English Civil War in 1644. In the battle King Charles led the Royalists to a decisive victory over the Parliamentarians command... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4160 |
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. Throughout his life, Russell considered himself a liberal, a socialist and a pacif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4163 |
Boeing 767
The Boeing 767 is a wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
The airliner was launched as the 7X7 project on July 14, 1978, the prototype first flew on September 26, 1981, and it was certified on July 30, 1982.
The original 767-200 entered service on September 8 with Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4165 |
Bill Walsh (American football coach)
William Ernest Walsh (November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007) was an American professional and college football coach. He served as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense. After retiring from the 49ers, Wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4166 |
Utility knife
A utility knife, sometimes generically called a Stanley knife, is a knife used for general or utility purposes. The utility knife was originally a fixed blade knife with a cutting edge suitable for general work such as cutting hides and cordage, scraping hides, butchering animals, cleaning fish, and othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4168 |
Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be hard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4169 |
Benelux
The Benelux Union (; ; ), also known as simply Benelux, is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighbouring states in western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The name "Benelux" is a portmanteau formed from joining the first few letters of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4170 |
Boston Herald
The Boston Herald is an American daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts and its surrounding area. It was founded in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States. It has been awarded eight Pulitzer Prizes in its history, including four for editorial writing an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4171 |
Cyan
Cyan (, ) is a greenish-blue color. It is evoked by light with a predominant wavelength of between 490520 nm, between the wavelengths of green and blue.
In the subtractive color system, or CMYK (subtractive), which can be overlaid to produce all colors in paint and color printing, cyan is one of the primary colo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6102 |
Cream
Cream is a dairy product composed of the higher-fat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, the fat, which is less dense, eventually rises to the top. In the industrial production of cream, this process is accelerated by using centrifuges called "separators". In many cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6109 |
Chemical vapor deposition
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a vacuum deposition method used to produce high quality, high-performance, solid materials. The process is often used in the semiconductor industry to produce thin films.
In typical CVD, the wafer (substrate) is exposed to one or more volatile precursors, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6111 |
CN Tower
The CN Tower () is a concrete communications and observation tower located in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976. Its name "CN" originally referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower. Following the railway's decision to di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6112 |
Chain rule
In calculus, the chain rule is a formula to compute the derivative of a composite function. That is, if and are differentiable functions, then the chain rule expresses the derivative of their composite — the function which maps ' to formula_1— in terms of the derivatives of ' and " and the product of functi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6113 |
P versus NP problem
The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer science. It asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified can also be solved quickly.
It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute, each of which carries a US$1,000,00... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6115 |
Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". He was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for thirty years. Today he is appreciated largely for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6117 |
Manhattan
Manhattan (), often referred to by residents of the New York City area as the City, is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City, and coextensive with the County of New York, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Manhattan serves as the city's economic and adminis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45470 |
Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was an American evolutionary theorist, biologist, science author, educator, and science popularizer, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. Historian Jan Sapp has said that "Lynn Mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45473 |
Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park is an American national park in northwestern Wyoming. At approximately , the park includes the major peaks of the Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Grand Teton National Park is only south of Yellowstone National... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45474 |
Marfan syndrome
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a genetic disorder that affects the connective tissue. Those with the condition tend to be tall and thin, with long arms, legs, fingers and toes. They also typically have flexible joints and scoliosis. The most serious complications involve the heart and aorta, with an increase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45475 |
Utility
Within economics, the concept of utility is used to model worth or value. Its usage has evolved significantly over time. The term was introduced initially as a measure of pleasure or satisfaction within the theory of utilitarianism by moral philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The term has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45479 |
Soylent Green
Soylent Green is a 1973 American dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston and Leigh Taylor-Young. Edward G. Robinson appears in his final film. Loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel "Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison, it combines both police proc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45481 |
I Am Legend (novel)
I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern development of zombie and vampire literature and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease. The novel was a success and was adapted into the films "T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45492 |
Dennis Bergkamp
Dennis Nicolaas Maria Bergkamp (; born 10 May 1969) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. Originally a wide midfielder, Bergkamp was moved to main striker and then to second striker, where he remained throughout his playing career. Nicknamed the "Non-Flying Dutchman" by Arsenal su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45497 |
Coelacanth
The coelacanths ( ) constitute a now-rare order of fish that includes two extant species in the genus "Latimeria": the West Indian Ocean coelacanth ("Latimeria chalumnae") primarily found near the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa and the Indonesian coelacanth ("Latimeria menadoensis"). They follo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45503 |
UNCF
UNCF, the United Negro College Fund, also known as the United Fund, is an American philanthropic organization that funds scholarships for black students and general scholarship funds for 37 private historically black colleges and universities. UNCF was incorporated on April 25, 1944 by Frederick D. Patterson (the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45504 |
World peace
World peace, or peace on Earth, is the concept of an ideal state of happiness, freedom and peace within and among all people and nations on Planet Earth. This idea of world nonviolence is one motivation for people and nations to look cooperate, either voluntarily or by virtue of a system of governance that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45506 |
Treeshrew
The treeshrews (or tree shrews or banxrings) are small mammals native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. They make up the entire order Scandentia, which split into two families: the Tupaiidae (19 species, "ordinary" treeshrews), and the Ptilocercidae (one species, the pen-tailed treeshrew).
Though c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45511 |
Free good
A free good is a good that is not scarce, and therefore is available without limit. A free good is available in as great a quantity as desired with zero opportunity cost to society.
A good that is made available at zero price is not necessarily a free good. For example, a shop might give away its stock in i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45515 |
Seven deadly sins
The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices, or cardinal sins, is a grouping and classification of vices within Christian teachings, although it does not appear explicitly in the Bible. Behaviours or habits are classified under this category if they directly give birth to other immoralitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45519 |
Pseudorandom number generator
A pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), also known as a deterministic random bit generator (DRBG), is an algorithm for generating a sequence of numbers whose properties approximate the properties of sequences of random numbers. The PRNG-generated sequence is not truly random, because it i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45524 |
Linear congruential generator
A linear congruential generator (LCG) is an algorithm that yields a sequence of pseudo-randomized numbers calculated with a discontinuous piecewise linear equation. The method represents one of the oldest and best-known pseudorandom number generator algorithms. The theory behind them is r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45527 |
Opportunity cost
When an option is chosen from alternatives, the opportunity cost is the "cost" incurred by "not" enjoying the benefit associated with the best alternative choice. The "New Oxford American Dictionary" defines it as "the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen."
In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45528 |
Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading exponents of the postmodern movement.
He was the first Italian to recei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45534 |
Alessi (Italian company)
Alessi is a housewares and kitchen utensil company in Italy, manufacturing and marketing everyday items authored by a wide range of designers, architects, and industrial designers — including Achille Castiglioni, Richard Sapper, Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass, Wiel Arets, Zaha Hadid, Toyo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45535 |
Ustad Isa
Ustad Isa Shirazi ( translation "Master Isa") was a Persian architect, often described as the assistant architect of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.
The lack of complete and reliable information as to whom the credit for the design belongs, led to innumerable speculations. Scholars suggest the story of Ustad ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45537 |
Mersenne Twister
The Mersenne Twister is a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). It is by far the most widely used general-purpose PRNG. Its name derives from the fact that its period length is chosen to be a Mersenne prime.
The Mersenne Twister was developed in 1997 by and . It was designed specifically to rectify m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45538 |
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is any of various theories of society which emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, claiming to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. Social Darwinists argue that the strong should s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45541 |
Refugee
A refugee, generally speaking, is a displaced person who has been forced to cross national boundaries and who cannot return home safely (see Definitions for more details). Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by the contracting state or the United Nations High Commissioner ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45547 |
Porto Torres
Porto Torres (, ) is a "comune" and a city of the Province of Sassari in north-west of Sardinia, Italy. It is situated on the coast at about east of "Capo del Falcone" and in the center of the Gulf of Asinara. The port of Porto Torres is the second biggest seaport of the island, followed by the port of Ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45550 |
Alghero
Alghero (), also known in the local Algherese dialect as L'Alguer (; ; ), is a town of about 45,000 inhabitants in the Italian insular province of Sassari in northwestern Sardinia, next to the Mediterranean Sea. Part of its population descends from Catalan conquerors from the end of the Middle Ages, when Sardi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45551 |
Portuguese Timor
Portuguese Timor () refers to East Timor during the historic period when it was a Portuguese colony that existed between 1702 and 1975. During most of this period, Portugal shared the island of Timor with the Dutch East Indies.
The first Europeans to arrive in the region were the Portuguese in 1515. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45553 |
United States Secretary of Energy
The United States secretary of energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession. The position was formed on October 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45561 |
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international agreement on biosafety as a supplement to the Convention on Biological Diversity effective since 2003. The Biosafety Protocol seeks to protect biological diversity from the potential risks ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45562 |
Portuguese Mozambique
Portuguese Mozambique () or Portuguese East Africa ("África Oriental Portuguesa") were the common terms by which Mozambique was designated during the historic period when it was a Portuguese colony. Portuguese Mozambique originally constituted a string of Portuguese possessions along the south-ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45567 |
The Abyss
The Abyss is a 1989 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron and starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, the U.S. search and recovery team works with an oil platform crew, racing against Soviet vessels t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45568 |
Dedekind cut
In mathematics, Dedekind cuts, named after German mathematician Richard Dedekind but previously considered by Joseph Bertrand, are а method of construction of the real numbers from the rational numbers. A Dedekind cut is a partition of the rational numbers into two non-empty sets "A" and "B", such that al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45569 |
DNA vaccination
DNA vaccination is a technique for protecting against disease by injection with genetically engineered plasmid containing the DNA sequence encoding the antigen(s) against which an immune response is sought, so cells directly produce the antigen, causing a protective immunological response. DNA vaccines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45570 |
County Donegal
County Donegal ( ; ) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster. It is named after the town of Donegal (, meaning 'fort of the foreigners') in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconnell (, meaning 'Land of Conall'), after the historic territory of the same name, on which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45576 |
Duchy of Schleswig
The Duchy of Schleswig (; ; Low German: "Hartogdom Sleswig"; North Frisian: "Härtochduum Slaswik") was a duchy in Southern Jutland ("Sønderjylland") covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km (45 miles) south of the current border between Germany and Denmark. The territory has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45582 |
Biodefense
Biodefense refers to measures to restore biosecurity to a group of organisms who are, or may be, subject to biological threats or infectious diseases. Biodefense is frequently discussed in the context of biowar or bioterrorism, and is generally considered a military or emergency response term.
Biodefense a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45584 |
Indifference curve
In economics, an indifference curve connects points on a graph representing different quantities of two goods, points between which a consumer is "indifferent". That is, any combinations of two products indicated by the curve will provide the consumer with equal levels of utility, and the consumer h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45586 |
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias (; ; Anglicized: Bartholomew Diaz; c. 1450 – 29 May 1500), a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European to do so, setting up the route from Europe to Asia later on. Dias is the first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45592 |
Thomas E. Dewey
Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. Raised in Owosso, Michigan, Dewey was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. In 1944, he was the Republican Party's nominee for president, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45596 |
Strepsiptera
The Strepsiptera are an endopterygote order of insects with nine extant families that include about 600 described species. They are endoparasites in other insects, such as bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, and cockroaches. Females of most species never emerge from the host after entering its body, fin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45598 |
Surgery
Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.
The act of performing surgery may be called a surg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45599 |
Reed–Solomon error correction
Reed–Solomon codes are a group of error-correcting codes that were introduced by Irving S. Reed and Gustave Solomon in 1960.
They have many applications, the most prominent of which include consumer technologies such as CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, QR codes, data transmission technologies su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45600 |
Big Four accounting firms
The Big Four is the nickname used to refer collectively to the four largest professional services networks in the world, consisting of Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The four networks are often grouped together for a number of reasons; they are each comparable in s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38798 |
Galanthus
Galanthus (snowdrop; Greek "gála" "milk", "ánthos" "flower") is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. The plants have two linear leaves and a single small white drooping bell shaped flower with six petal-like (petaloid) tepals in two ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38799 |
Algebraic topology
Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics that uses tools from abstract algebra to study topological spaces. The basic goal is to find algebraic invariants that classify topological spaces up to homeomorphism, though usually most classify up to homotopy equivalence.
Although algebraic topology ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38801 |
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Louis IV (; 1 April 1282 – 11 October 1347), called the Bavarian, of the house of Wittelsbach, was King of the Romans from 1314, King of Italy from 1327, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1328.
Louis IV was Duke of Upper Bavaria from 1294/1301 together with his elder brother Rudolf I, served as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38802 |
GNU Privacy Guard
GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a free-software replacement for Symantec's PGP cryptographic software suite, and is compliant with RFC 4880, the IETF standards-track specification of OpenPGP. Modern versions of PGP are interoperable with GnuPG and other OpenPGP-compliant systems.
GnuPG is part o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38809 |
Proline
Proline (symbol Pro or P) is a proteinogenic amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins. It contains an α-amino group (which is in the protonated NH2+ form under biological conditions), an α-carboxylic acid group (which is in the deprotonated −COO− form under biological conditions), and a side cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38811 |
Coven
A coven usually refers to a group or gathering of witches. The word "coven" (from Anglo-Norman "covent, cuvent", from Old French "covent", from Latin "conventum" = convention) remained largely unused in English until 1921 when Margaret Murray promoted the idea that all witches across Europe met in groups of thir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38813 |
Amstrad
Amstrad was a British electronics company, founded in 1968 by Alan Sugar at the age of 21. The name is a contraction of Alan Michael Sugar Trading. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in April 1980. During the late 1980s, Amstrad had a substantial share of the PC market in the UK. Amstrad was once... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38817 |
Power transmission
Power transmission is the movement of energy from its place of generation to a location where it is applied to perform useful work.
Power is defined formally as units of energy per unit time. In SI units:
Since the development of technology, transmission and storage systems have been of immense in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38822 |
Fulda
Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district ("Kreis"). In 1990, the town hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival.
In 744 Saint Sturm, a disciple of Saint Boniface, founded the Benedictine monas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38823 |
Electric power transmission
Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation. The interconnected lines which facilitate this movement are known as a "transmission network". This is distinct from the local wiring between hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38824 |
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia
Wenceslaus (also "Wenceslas"; ; , nicknamed "der Faule" ("the Idle"); 26 February 136116 August 1419) was, by inheritance, King of Bohemia (as "Wenceslaus IV") from 1363 and by election, German King (formally King of the Romans) from 1376. He was the third Bohemian and fourth German monarch of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38826 |
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and author. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P.. He was the mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, and was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.
Blo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38828 |
Three-phase electric power
Three-phase electric power is a common method of alternating current electric power generation, transmission, and distribution. It is a type of polyphase system and is the most common method used by electrical grids worldwide to transfer power. It is also used to power large motors and other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38829 |
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