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40,190,528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planted%20motif%20search | In the field of computational biology, a planted motif search (PMS) also known as a (l, d)-motif search (LDMS) is a method for identifying conserved motifs within a set of nucleic acid or peptide sequences.
PMS is known to be NP-complete. The time complexities of most of the planted motif search algorithms depend expo... | Planted motif search | Mathematics,Engineering,Biology | 5,054 |
2,493,815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather%20hole | A weather hole is a location that receives calmer weather than the surrounding area. It is an area thunderstorms often miss, or near which approaching storms often dissipate.
Details
A 2005 study entitled "Do Meteorologists Suppress Thunderstorms?: Radar-Derived Statistics and the Behavior of Moist Convection" examine... | Weather hole | Physics | 211 |
24,642,315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mootral | Mootral is a British-Swiss company that is developing a food supplement to reduce methane emissions from ruminant animals, chiefly cows and sheep, but also goats. Methane is a major target greenhouse gas and in the 4th protocol report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is recommended to increase fr... | Mootral | Chemistry | 432 |
4,090,318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela%20Supernova%20Remnant |
The Vela supernova remnant is a supernova remnant in the southern constellation Vela. Its source Type II supernova exploded approximately 11,000 years ago (and was about 900 light-years away). The association of the Vela supernova remnant with the Vela pulsar, made by astronomers at the University of Sydney in 1968, w... | Vela Supernova Remnant | Astronomy | 290 |
29,363,365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented%20filamentous%20bacteria | Segmented filamentous bacteria or Candidatus Savagella are members of the gut microbiota of rodents, fish and chickens, and have been shown to potently induce immune responses in mice. They form a distinct lineage within the Clostridiaceae and the name Candidatus Savagella has been proposed for this lineage.
They were... | Segmented filamentous bacteria | Biology | 372 |
351,616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chyme | Chyme or chymus (; from Greek χυμός khymos, "juice") is the semi-fluid mass of partly digested food that is expelled by the stomach, through the pyloric valve, into the duodenum (the beginning of the small intestine).
Chyme results from the mechanical and chemical breakdown of a bolus and consists of partially digeste... | Chyme | Biology | 843 |
34,556,149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20card%20management%20system | A Smart Card Management System (SCMS) is a system for managing smart cards through the life cycle of the smart cards. Thus, the system can issue the smart cards, maintain the smart cards while in use and finally take the smart cards out of use (EOL). Chip/smart cards provide the foundation for secure electronic identit... | Smart card management system | Engineering | 639 |
38,235,429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20103774 | HD 103774 is a star with a close orbiting planetary companion in the southern constellation of Corvus. With an apparent visual magnitude of 7.13, it is too faint to be readily visible to the naked eye. Parallax measurements provide a distance estimate of 184 light years from the Sun. It is drifting closer with a radial... | HD 103774 | Astronomy | 403 |
1,564,929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin%20Computer%20Center | Opened in 1977 in Marin County, California, the Marin Computer Center was the world's first public access microcomputer center. The non-profit company was co-created by David Fox (later to become one of Lucasfilm Games' founding members) and author Annie Fox.
MCC (as it was known) initially featured the Atari 2600, a... | Marin Computer Center | Technology | 226 |
3,764,317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey%E2%80%93Kim%20oxidation | The Corey–Kim oxidation is an oxidation reaction used to synthesize aldehydes and ketones from primary and secondary alcohols. It is named for American chemist and Nobel Laureate Elias James Corey and Korean-American chemist Choung Un Kim.
Although the Corey–Kim oxidation possesses the distinctive advantage over Swern... | Corey–Kim oxidation | Chemistry | 431 |
19,090,834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Loveday%20%28physicist%29 | John Stephen Loveday is an experimental physicist working in high pressure research. He was educated at Coopers School in Chislehurst and at the University of Bristol, from where he took his PhD in Physics. He currently works as a Reader in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
... | John Loveday (physicist) | Physics | 256 |
2,014,760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20Meteorological%20Institute | The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI; ; ) is the government agency responsible for gathering and reporting weather data and forecasts in Finland. It is a part of the Ministry of Transport and Communications but it operates semi-autonomously.
The Institute is an impartial research and service organisation with exp... | Finnish Meteorological Institute | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 974 |
447,152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial%20%28sexual%20act%29 | A facial is a sexual activity in which a man ejaculates semen onto the face of one or more sexual partners. A facial is a form of non-penetrative sex, though it is generally performed after some other means of sexual stimulation, such as vaginal sex, anal sex, oral sex, manual sex or masturbation. Facials are regularly... | Facial (sexual act) | Biology | 2,809 |
71,099,027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chialvo%20map | The Chialvo map is a two-dimensional map proposed by Dante R. Chialvo in 1995 to describe the generic dynamics of excitable systems. The model is inspired by Kunihiko Kaneko's Coupled map lattice numerical approach which considers time and space as discrete variables but state as a continuous one. Later on Rulkov popu... | Chialvo map | Mathematics,Biology | 765 |
1,711,021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry%20media%20reaction | A dry media reaction or solid-state reaction or solventless reaction is a chemical reaction performed in the absence of a solvent. Dry media reactions have been developed in the wake of developments in microwave chemistry, and are a part of green chemistry.
The drive for the development of dry media reactions in chem... | Dry media reaction | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 476 |
20,207,864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsberg%E2%80%93Schaar%20relation | In number theory and harmonic analysis, the Landsberg–Schaar relation (or identity) is the following equation, which is valid for arbitrary positive integers p and q:
The standard way to prove it is to put = + ε, where ε > 0 in this identity due to Jacobi (which is essentially just a special case of the Poisson summ... | Landsberg–Schaar relation | Mathematics | 165 |
6,006,708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20isotope%20labeling%20by%20amino%20acids%20in%20cell%20culture | Stable isotope labeling by/with amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) is a technique based on mass spectrometry that detects differences in protein abundance among samples using non-radioactive isotopic labeling. It is a popular method for quantitative proteomics.
Procedure
Two populations of cells are cultivated in cel... | Stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture | Physics,Chemistry,Biology | 718 |
22,571,832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20the%20American%20Medical%20Informatics%20Association | The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in the field of medical informatics published by the American Medical Informatics Association.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 7.942. It is among the ve... | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association | Biology | 109 |
59,995,500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouzeix%27s%20conjecture | Crouzeix's conjecture is an unsolved problem in matrix analysis. It was proposed by Michel Crouzeix in 2004, and it can be stated as follows:
where the set is the field of values of a n×n (i.e. square) complex matrix and is a complex function that is analytic in the interior of and continuous up to the boundar... | Crouzeix's conjecture | Mathematics | 304 |
39,901,743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20PowerPC-based%20game%20consoles | There are several ways in which game consoles can be categorized. One is by its console generation, and another is by its computer architecture. Game consoles have long used specialized and customized computer hardware with the base in some standardized processor instruction set architecture. In this case, it is PowerP... | List of PowerPC-based game consoles | Technology,Engineering | 299 |
17,064,122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%20%28command%29 | In computing, ver (short for version) is a command in various command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe and 4DOS/4NT. It prints the name and version of the operating system, the command shell, or in some implementations the version of other commands. It is roughly equivalent to the Unix command un... | Ver (command) | Technology | 915 |
12,774,077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aronszajn%20tree | In set theory, an Aronszajn tree is a tree of uncountable height with no uncountable branches and no uncountable levels. For example, every Suslin tree is an Aronszajn tree. More generally, for a cardinal κ, a κ-Aronszajn tree is a tree of height κ in which all levels have size less than κ and all branches have height ... | Aronszajn tree | Mathematics | 1,077 |
49,167,470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match%20Analysis | Match Analysis is a US company with headquarters in Emeryville, California. The company employs 70 staff in their offices and data collection facilities in California and Mexico City, Mexico.
The company provides video analysis tools and digital library archiving services supplying performance and physical tracking da... | Match Analysis | Physics,Technology | 582 |
38,993,942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%208.1 | Windows 8.1 is a release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 27, 2013, and broadly released for retail sale on October 17, 2013, about a year after the retail release of its predecessor, and succeeded by Windows 10 on July 29, 2015. Windows 8.1 was made ... | Windows 8.1 | Technology | 5,486 |
24,214,437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripple | A Gripple wire joiner is a device used to join and tension wire, to terminate and suspend wires and wire ropes, and also to support false ceilings, cable baskets, and similar items. They are manufactured in Sheffield, England by Gripple Ltd. The name derives from the fact the device both "grips" and "pulls" wire.
His... | Gripple | Engineering | 344 |
43,815,140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interceptor%20ditch | In geotechnical engineering, an interceptor ditch is a small ditch or channel constructed to intercept and drain water to an area where it can be safely discharged. These are used for excavation purposes of limited depth made in a coarse-grained soils. These are constructed around an area to be dewatered. Sump pits are... | Interceptor ditch | Physics,Engineering | 341 |
39,292,725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C18H16O4 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C18H16O4}}
The molecular formula C18H16O4 may refer to:
Truxillic acid, several crystalline stereoisomeric cyclic dicarboxylic acids
Truxinic acid, several stereoisomeric cyclic dicarboxylic acids with the formula | C18H16O4 | Chemistry | 67 |
11,210,719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish%20hedge | A Cornish hedge is an ancient style of hedge built of stone and earth found in Cornwall, southwest England. Sometimes hedging plants or trees are planted on the hedge to increase its windbreaking height. A rich flora develops over the lifespan of a Cornish hedge. The Cornish hedge contributes to the distinctive field-p... | Cornish hedge | Engineering | 702 |
68,225,807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2021%20J1%20%28Maury%E2%80%93Attard%29 | C/2021 J1 (Maury-Attard) is a Halley-type comet discovered on May 9, 2021, by French amateur astronomers Alain Maury and Georges Attard with the MAP (Maury/Attard/Parrott) observation program. It is the first comet discovered with the synthetic tracking technique, made possible with the Tycho Tracker commercial softwar... | C/2021 J1 (Maury–Attard) | Astronomy | 145 |
23,534,147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSI%20Protein%20Classifier | PSI Protein Classifier is a program generalizing the results of both successive and independent iterations of the PSI-BLAST program. PSI Protein Classifier determines belonging of the found by PSI-BLAST proteins to the known families. The unclassified proteins are grouped according to similarity. PSI Protein Classifier... | PSI Protein Classifier | Chemistry,Biology | 153 |
21,850,316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20Display%20Digital%20Interface | Mobile Display Digital Interface (MDDI) is a high-speed digital interface developed by Qualcomm to interconnect the upper and lower clamshell in a flip phone. The MDDI solution supports variable data rates of up to 3.2 Gbit/s, and decreases the number of signals that connect the digital baseband controller with the LCD... | Mobile Display Digital Interface | Technology | 195 |
355,011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon%20%28computing%29 | In computing, an icon is a pictogram or ideogram displayed on a computer screen in order to help the user navigate a computer system. The icon itself is a quickly comprehensible symbol of a software tool, function, or a data file, accessible on the system and is more like a traffic sign than a detailed illustration of ... | Icon (computing) | Mathematics,Technology | 5,025 |
39,747,568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirjava%20%22Puolue%22%20%E2%80%93%20Elonkeh%C3%A4n%20Puolesta | Kirjava "Puolue" – Elonkehän Puolesta (KiPu; ) was a Finnish political party founded in 1988, best known for its alliance with Pertti "Veltto" Virtanen. It was a faction of the Green movement, which is now represented by the Green League in parliament. Virtanen went on to change allegiance to the Finns Party and was re... | Kirjava "Puolue" – Elonkehän Puolesta | Environmental_science | 279 |
8,364,462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetic%20space | In mathematics, more precisely in functional analysis, an energetic space is, intuitively, a subspace of a given real Hilbert space equipped with a new "energetic" inner product. The motivation for the name comes from physics, as in many physical problems the energy of a system can be expressed in terms of the energeti... | Energetic space | Physics,Mathematics | 788 |
617,193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20Bless%20You%2C%20Dr.%20Kevorkian | God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a collection of short fictional interviews written by Vonnegut and first broadcast on WNYC. The title parodies that of Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. It was published in book form in 1999.
Synopsis
The premise of the collection is that Vonnegut e... | God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian | Astronomy | 244 |
45,689,762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal%20Reactivity%20Index | The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) is a published measurement tool for the multi-dimensional assessment of empathy. It was developed by Mark H. Davis, a professor of psychology at Eckerd College.
The paper describing IRI, published in 1983, has been cited over 10,000 times, according to Google Scholar.
IRI s a... | Interpersonal Reactivity Index | Biology | 545 |
44,441,142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20R.%20Squires | Robert Reed Squires (January 11, 1953 – September 30, 1998) was an American chemist known for his work in gas phase ion chemistry and flowing afterglow mass spectrometry.
Early life and education
Squires was born in Northern California and grew up in Los Angeles. He received an A.A. degree at El Camino College in 1973... | Robert R. Squires | Physics,Chemistry | 347 |
49,635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEX%20%28computing%29 | In computing, the SEX assembly language mnemonic has often been used for the "Sign EXtend" machine instruction found in the Motorola 6809. A computer's or CPU's "sex" can also mean the endianness of the computer architecture used. x86 computers do not have the same "byte sex" as HC11 computers, for example. Functions a... | SEX (computing) | Technology | 244 |
77,834,346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zandelisib | Zandelisib is an investigational new drug that is being evaluated to treat follicular lymphoma. It is a phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase delta inhibitor.
References
Antineoplastic drugs
Amines
Benzimidazoles
Morpholines
Piperidines
Triazines
Difluoromethyl compounds | Zandelisib | Chemistry | 72 |
11,243,697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suits%20index | The Suits index of a public policy is a measure of tax progressiveness, named for economist Daniel B. Suits. Similar to the Gini coefficient, the Suits index is calculated by comparing the area under the Lorenz curve to the area under a proportional line. For a progressive tax (for example, where higher income tax un... | Suits index | Mathematics | 519 |
53,830,256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane%20emissions | Increasing methane emissions are a major contributor to the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere, and are responsible for up to one-third of near-term global heating. During 2019, about 60% (360 million tons) of methane released globally was from human activities, while natural sources contrib... | Methane emissions | Chemistry | 5,916 |
66,305,965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt%20tris%28diethyldithiocarbamate%29 | Cobalt tris(diethyldithiocarbamate) is the coordination complex of cobalt with diethyldithiocarbamate with the formula Co(S2CNEt2)3 (Et = ethyl). It is a diamagnetic green solid that is soluble in organic solvents.
Synthesis, structure, bonding
Cobalt tris(dithiocarbamate)s are typically are prepared by air-oxidation ... | Cobalt tris(diethyldithiocarbamate) | Chemistry | 283 |
8,195,160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Norther%20%28weather%29 | A Blue Norther, also known as a Texas Norther, is a fast moving cold front marked by a rapid drop in temperature, strong winds, and dark blue or "black" skies. The cold front originates from the north, hence the "norther", and can send temperatures plummeting by 20 or 30 degrees in merely minutes.
Effects
The Midwest... | Blue Norther (weather) | Physics,Chemistry | 426 |
40,543,215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous%20hashing | Rendezvous or highest random weight (HRW) hashing is an algorithm that allows clients to achieve distributed agreement on a set of options out of a possible set of options. A typical application is when clients need to agree on which sites (or proxies) objects are assigned to.
Consistent hashing addresses the specia... | Rendezvous hashing | Mathematics | 4,231 |
15,470,144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouzo%20effect | The ouzo effect ( ), also known as the louche effect ( ) and spontaneous emulsification, is the phenomenon of formation of a milky oil-in-water emulsion when water is added to ouzo and other anise-flavored liqueurs and spirits, such as pastis, rakı, arak, sambuca and absinthe. Such emulsions occur with only minimal mix... | Ouzo effect | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science | 696 |
4,994,693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979%20Mississauga%20train%20derailment | The Mississauga train derailment, also known as the Mississauga Miracle, occurred on November 10, 1979, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, when a CP Rail freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed and caught fire. More than 200,000 people were evacuated in the largest peacetime evacuation in North America until ... | 1979 Mississauga train derailment | Chemistry | 1,278 |
37,399,176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowitz%20arc | A Lowitz arc is an optical phenomenon that occurs in the atmosphere; specifically, it is a rare type of ice crystal halo that forms a luminous arc which extends inwards from a sun dog (parhelion) and may continue above or below the sun.
History
The phenomenon is named after Johann Tobias Lowitz (or Lovits) (1757 - 1... | Lowitz arc | Physics | 2,049 |
53,720,265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic%20noise | In computer science, syntactic noise is syntax within a programming language that makes the programming language more difficult to read and understand for humans. It fills the language with excessive clutter that makes it a hassle to write code. Syntactic noise is considered to be the opposite of syntactic sugar, which... | Syntactic noise | Technology | 85 |
19,289,994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleandrin | Oleandrin is a cardiac glycoside found in the poisonous plant oleander (Nerium oleander L.). As a main phytochemical of oleander, oleandrin is associated with the toxicity of oleander sap, and has similar properties to digoxin.
Oleander has been used in traditional medicine for its presumed therapeutic purposes, such ... | Oleandrin | Chemistry | 2,060 |
44,981,215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Anatolia%20region%20%28statistical%29 | The West Anatolia Region (Turkish: Batı Anadolu Bölgesi) (TR5) is a statistical region in Turkey. Its largest city is Ankara, which serves as the national capital.
Subregions and provinces
Ankara Subregion (TR51)
Ankara Province (TR510)
Konya Subregion (TR52)
Konya Province (TR521)
Karaman Province (TR522)
Age... | West Anatolia region (statistical) | Mathematics | 130 |
216,592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal%20stationery | A piece of postal stationery is a stationery item, such as a stamped envelope, letter sheet, postal card, lettercard, aerogram or wrapper, with an imprinted stamp or inscription indicating that a specific rate of postage or related service has been prepaid. It does not, however, include any postcard without a pre-prin... | Postal stationery | Technology | 1,496 |
2,339,273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%20available%20technology | The best available technology or best available techniques (BAT) is the technology approved by legislators or regulators for meeting output standards for a particular process, such as pollution abatement. Similar terms are best practicable means or best practicable environmental option. BAT is a moving target on practi... | Best available technology | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 1,688 |
14,167,166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALM2 | Calmodulin 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CALM2 gene. A member of the calmodulin family of signaling molecules, it is an intermediary between calcium ions, which act as a second messenger, and many intracellular processes, such as the contraction of cardiac muscle.
Clinical significance
Mutations in... | CALM2 | Chemistry | 196 |
77,457,489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal%20%26%20co | Distillerie Bal & Co was a jenever distillery in Merksem, founded in 1861.
History
After an early career as clerks at the Van den Bergh Distillery, Jan Baptist and Corneel Jozef Bal opened their own jenever distillery under the name La Couronne - De Kroon Distillery.
When Jan Baptist Bal died in 1866, his brother C... | Bal & co | Chemistry | 353 |
56,997,080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISAA%20School%20of%20Art%20%26%20Design | LISAA School of Art & Design, (L'Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués) is a French private college for applied arts education founded in 1986. LISAA has locations in Paris, Rennes, Nantes, Strasbourg, Bordeaux and Toulouse. The school is one of about 100 recognized by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. ... | LISAA School of Art & Design | Engineering | 819 |
63,770,837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequences%20%28book%29 | Sequences is a mathematical monograph on integer sequences. It was written by Heini Halberstam and Klaus Roth, published in 1966 by the Clarendon Press, and republished in 1983 with minor corrections by Springer-Verlag. Although planned to be part of a two-volume set, the second volume was never published.
Topics
The ... | Sequences (book) | Mathematics | 794 |
49,875,385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holin%20superfamily%20VI | The Holin superfamily VI is a superfamily of integral membrane transport proteins. It is one of the seven different holin superfamilies in total. In general, these proteins are thought to play a role in regulated cell death, although functionality varies between families and individual members.
The Holin superfamily V... | Holin superfamily VI | Biology | 229 |
3,980,235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie%20Creek%20Redwoods%20State%20Park | Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park is a state park, located in Humboldt County, California, near the town of Orick and north of Eureka. The park is a coastal sanctuary for old-growth Coast Redwood trees.
The park is jointly managed by the California Department of Parks and Recreation and the National Park Service as ... | Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park | Biology | 1,043 |
70,888,472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimonide%20iodide | Antimonide iodides or iodide antimonides are compounds containing anions composed of iodide (I−) and antimonide (Sb3−). They can be considered as mixed anion compounds. They are in the category of pnictide halides. Related compounds include the antimonide chlorides, antimonide bromides, phosphide iodides, and arsenide ... | Antimonide iodide | Physics,Chemistry | 107 |
10,307,206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy%20Plug%20and%20Play | The term Legacy Plug and Play, also shortened to Legacy PnP, describes a series of specifications and Microsoft Windows features geared towards operating system configuration of devices, and some device IDs are assigned by UEFI Forum. The standards were primarily aimed at the IBM PC standard bus, later dubbed Industry ... | Legacy Plug and Play | Technology | 1,321 |
62,224,619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercut%20%28welding%29 | In welding, undercutting is when the weld reduces the cross-sectional thickness of the base metal. This type of defect reduces the strength of the weld and workpieces. One reason for this defect is excessive current, causing the edges of the joint to melt and drain into the weld; this leaves a drain-like impression alo... | Undercut (welding) | Engineering | 159 |
77,132,409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia%20Turro | Claudia Turro is an American inorganic chemist who is the Dow Professor of Chemistry at The Ohio State University (OSU). Since July 2019 she has been the Chair of the OSU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. She was elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2010 and is a member of the American Academy of ... | Claudia Turro | Chemistry | 451 |
6,850,683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell%20shoveling | Shell shoveling, in network security, is the act of redirecting the input and output of a shell to a service so that it can be remotely accessed, a remote shell.
In computing, the most basic method of interfacing with the operating system is the shell. On Microsoft Windows based systems, this is a program called cmd.e... | Shell shoveling | Engineering | 239 |
47,782,660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OREDA | The Offshore and Onshore Reliability Data (OREDA) project was established in 1981 in cooperation with the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (now Petroleum Safety Authority Norway). It is "one of the main reliability data sources for the oil and gas industry" and considered "a unique data source on failure rates, failure ... | OREDA | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 1,979 |
9,841,948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barringer%20Medal | The Barringer Medal recognizes outstanding work in the field of impact cratering and/or work that has led to a better understanding of impact phenomena. The Barringer Medal and Award were established to honor the memory of D. Moreau Barringer Sr. and his son D. Moreau Barringer Jr. and are sponsored by the Barringer Cr... | Barringer Medal | Astronomy,Technology | 166 |
3,026,193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias%20%28command%29 | In computing, alias is a command in various command-line interpreters (shells), which enables a replacement of a word by another string. It is mainly used for abbreviating a system command, or for adding default arguments to a regularly used command. alias is available in Unix shells, AmigaDOS, 4DOS/4NT, FreeDOS, Kolib... | Alias (command) | Technology | 1,649 |
43,478,202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden%E2%80%93Roxburgh%20model | The Ogden–Roxburgh model is an approach published in 1999 which extends hyperelastic material models to allow for the Mullins effect. It is used in several commercial finite element codes, and is named after R.W. Ogden and D. G. Roxburgh. The fundamental idea of the approach can already be found in a paper by De Souza ... | Ogden–Roxburgh model | Physics,Materials_science | 212 |
32,242,871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWhiteboard | World Wide Whiteboard is a Web-based online collaboration and conferencing tool designed for use in online education. It was developed by Link-Systems International (LSI), a privately held distance-learning software corporation in Tampa, Florida. The World Wide Whiteboard went online in 1996, under the name NetTutor, a... | WorldWideWhiteboard | Mathematics | 1,391 |
37,749,068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20mass%20ratio%20inspiral | In astrophysics, an extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) is the orbit of a relatively light object around a much heavier (by a factor 10,000 or more) object, that gradually spirals in due to the emission of gravitational waves. Such systems are likely to be found in the centers of galaxies, where stellar mass compact obj... | Extreme mass ratio inspiral | Physics,Astronomy | 3,124 |
37,412,684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreaming%20%28journal%29 | Dreaming is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association on behalf of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. IASD's other peer-reviewed publication, the International Journal of Dream Research (IJoDR) is published on Heidelberg University Library servers.
The Dre... | Dreaming (journal) | Mathematics,Biology | 188 |
11,353,099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architects%20Act%201997 | The Architects Act 1997 (c. 22) is the consolidating Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the keeping and publishing of the statutory Register of Architects by the Architects Registration Board. It has the long title: An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to architects. It consolidated two Acts of th... | Architects Act 1997 | Engineering | 2,597 |
517,385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher%20%28software%29 | Dasher is an input method and computer accessibility tool which enables users to compose text without using a keyboard, by entering text on a screen with a pointing device such as a mouse, touch screen, or mice operated by the foot or head. Such instruments could serve as prosthetic devices for disabled people who cann... | Dasher (software) | Technology | 419 |
7,057,536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Nogales | Eva Nogales (born in Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish-American biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as head of the Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of the Department of Molecular and Ce... | Eva Nogales | Chemistry | 600 |
21,671,434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlow%27s%20law | Barlow's law is an incorrect physical law proposed by Peter Barlow in 1825 to describe the ability of wires to conduct electricity. It says that the strength of the effect of electricity passing through a wire varies inversely with the square root of its length and directly with the square root of its cross-sectional a... | Barlow's law | Physics,Technology | 473 |
3,207,172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20Smith%20%28artist%29 | Malcolm H. Smith (1910–1966) was an American artist identified with the retro-futurist tradition.
Early life
Malcolm Hadden Smith was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1910. He displayed a talent for drawing and painting at an early age. He also enjoyed reading pulp sci-fi books and was a world-class target archer, winnin... | Malcolm Smith (artist) | Astronomy | 534 |
41,669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringdown | In telephony, ringdown is a method of signaling an operator in which telephone ringing current is sent over the line to operate a lamp or cause the operation of a self-locking relay known as a drop.
Ringdown is used in manual operation, and is distinguished from automatic signaling by dialing a number. The signal cons... | Ringdown | Engineering | 1,220 |
57,148,349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20191806%20b | HD 191806 b is an exoplanet orbiting HD 191806, a K-type star. It has a minimum mass 8.52 times that of Jupiter. It does not orbit within the habitable zone. In 2022, the inclination and true mass of HD 191806 b were measured via astrometry.
References
External links
Giant planets
Exoplanets discovered in 2016
E... | HD 191806 b | Astronomy | 103 |
902,820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissivity | The emissivity of the surface of a material is its effectiveness in emitting energy as thermal radiation. Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation that most commonly includes both visible radiation (light) and infrared radiation, which is not visible to human eyes. A portion of the thermal radiation from very hot... | Emissivity | Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Engineering | 3,352 |
18,661,117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20problem | In computer science, lattice problems are a class of optimization problems related to mathematical objects called lattices. The conjectured intractability of such problems is central to the construction of secure lattice-based cryptosystems: lattice problems are an example of NP-hard problems which have been shown to ... | Lattice problem | Mathematics | 2,192 |
52,385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20of%20pairing | In axiomatic set theory and the branches of logic, mathematics, and computer science that use it, the axiom of pairing is one of the axioms of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. It was introduced by as a special case of his axiom of elementary sets.
Formal statement
In the formal language of the Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms, t... | Axiom of pairing | Mathematics | 1,179 |
69,728,002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona%20Canyon | Mona Canyon (Spanish: Cañón de la Mona), also known as the Mona Rift, is an submarine canyon located in the Mona Passage, between the islands of Hispaniola (particularly the Dominican Republic) and Puerto Rico, with steep walls measuring between in height from bottom to top. The Mona Canyon stretches from the Deseche... | Mona Canyon | Physics | 270 |
38,707,231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snub%20tetraoctagonal%20tiling | In geometry, the snub tetraoctagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of sr{8,4}.
Images
Drawn in chiral pairs, with edges missing between black triangles:
Related polyhedra and tiling
The snub tetraoctagonal tiling is seventh in a series of snub polyhedra and tilings with... | Snub tetraoctagonal tiling | Physics,Chemistry | 224 |
19,114,761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOX3 | TOX high mobility group box family member 3, also known as TOX3, is a human gene.
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of a subfamily of transcription factors that also includes TOX, TOX2, and TOX4 that share almost identical HMG-box DNA-binding domains which function to modify chromatin structure by unwinding... | TOX3 | Chemistry,Biology | 470 |
2,902,713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33%20Arietis | 33 Arietis (abbreviated 33 Ari) is a binary star in the northern constellation of Aries. 33 Arietis is the Flamsteed designation. The combined apparent magnitude of 5.33 is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 14.09 mas, the distance to this system is approximately .
The ... | 33 Arietis | Astronomy | 278 |
6,553,354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tightness%20of%20measures | In mathematics, tightness is a concept in measure theory. The intuitive idea is that a given collection of measures does not "escape to infinity".
Definitions
Let be a Hausdorff space, and let be a σ-algebra on that contains the topology . (Thus, every open subset of is a measurable set and is at least as fine a... | Tightness of measures | Physics,Mathematics | 787 |
50,447,852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperview%20%28computing%29 | A hyperview in computing is a hypertextual view of the content of a database or set of data on a group of activities. As with a hyperdiagram multiple views are linked to form a hyperview.
References
Database theory | Hyperview (computing) | Technology | 48 |
26,412,019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20of%20magnetic%20resonance%20imaging | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique mostly used in radiology and nuclear medicine in order to investigate the anatomy and physiology of the body, and to detect pathologies including tumors, inflammation, neurological conditions such as stroke, disorders of muscles and joints, and abnormaliti... | Physics of magnetic resonance imaging | Chemistry | 6,392 |
58,980,330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC%202574 | IC 2574, also known as Coddington's Nebula, is a dwarf spiral galaxy discovered by American astronomer Edwin Foster Coddington in 1898. Located in Ursa Major, a constellation in the northern sky, it is an outlying member of the M81 Group. It is believed that 90% of its mass is in the form of dark matter. IC 2574 does n... | IC 2574 | Astronomy | 154 |
62,578,977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Accessibility%20Act | The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is a directive of the European Union (EU) which took effect in April 2019. This directive aims to improve the trade between members of the EU for accessible products and services, by removing country specific rules. Businesses benefit from having a common set of rules within the EU,... | European Accessibility Act | Engineering | 551 |
15,669,613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning%20dancer | The Spinning Dancer, also known as the Silhouette Illusion, is a kinetic, bistable, animated optical illusion originally distributed as a GIF animation showing a silhouette of a pirouetting female dancer. The illusion, created in 2003 by Japanese web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara, involves the apparent direction of motion... | Spinning dancer | Physics | 1,442 |
54,389,086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inosperma%20calamistratoides | Inocybe calamistratoides is a species of Inocybaceae fungus found in New Zealand.
References
Fungi of New Zealand
calamistratoides
Fungus species | Inosperma calamistratoides | Biology | 38 |
28,017,022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaflumizone | Metaflumizone is a semicarbazone broad-spectrum insecticide developed by Nihon Nohyaku with activity on Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and certain Hemiptera. It is also used for the veterinary treatment of fleas and ticks, marketed under the brand name ProMeris.
A discontinued variant of ProMeris, called ProMeris Duo or Prom... | Metaflumizone | Chemistry | 411 |
71,799,261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20Upper%20Stage%20for%20Innovative%20Exploration | The Smart Upper Stage for Innovative Exploration (SUSIE) is a proposal for a reusable spacecraft designed by ArianeGroup. It is capable of manned operations, carrying up to five astronauts to low Earth orbit (LEO), or alternatively functioning as an automated freighter capable of delivering payloads of up to seven tons... | Smart Upper Stage for Innovative Exploration | Astronomy | 910 |
5,205,171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanabenz | Guanabenz (pronounced GWAHN-a-benz, sold under the trade name Wytensin) is an alpha agonist that is selective to the alpha-2 adrenergic receptor. Guanabenz is used as an antihypertensive drug used in the treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension).
The most common side effects during guanabenz therapy are dizzines... | Guanabenz | Chemistry | 271 |
9,898,403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Kursanov | Andrey Lvovich Kursanov (; 8 November 1902 – 20 September 1999) was a Soviet specialist on the physiology and biochemistry of plants. He was an academician of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences since 1953. He was a member of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1957–1963.
Kursanov ... | Andrey Kursanov | Technology | 375 |
12,912,325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20sesquicarbonate | Sodium sesquicarbonate (systematic name: trisodium hydrogendicarbonate) Na3H(CO3)2 is a double salt of sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate (NaHCO3 · Na2CO3), and has a needle-like crystal structure. However, the term is also applied to an equimolar mixture of those two salts, with whatever water of hydration the s... | Sodium sesquicarbonate | Chemistry | 529 |
57,797,047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20jellyfish | A space jellyfish (also jellyfish UFO or rocket jellyfish) is a rocket launch-related phenomenon caused by sunlight reflecting off the high-altitude rocket plume gases emitted by a launching rocket during morning or evening twilight. The observer is in darkness, while the exhaust plumes at high altitudes are still in d... | Space jellyfish | Physics,Engineering | 162 |
17,539,184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opaque%20travel%20inventory | An opaque inventory is the market of selling unsold travel inventory at a discounted price. The inventory is called "opaque" because the specific suppliers (i.e. hotel, airline, etc.) remain hidden until after the purchase has been completed. This is done to prevent sales of unsold inventory from cannibalizing full-pri... | Opaque travel inventory | Technology | 395 |
2,892,279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta%20Aurigae | Eta Aurigae (η Aurigae, abbreviated Eta Aur, η Aur), officially named Haedus , is a star in the northern constellation of Auriga. With an apparent visual magnitude of 3.18, it is visible to the naked eye. Based upon parallax measurements made during the Hipparcos mission, this star is approximately distant from the Su... | Eta Aurigae | Astronomy | 581 |
48,084,368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Lumia%20550 | Microsoft Lumia 550 is a budget smartphone manufactured by Microsoft Mobile as part of its Lumia family of Windows-based mobile computing products. It was introduced along with the Lumia 950 and the Lumia 950 XL on 6 October 2015 at a press event held in New York City.
The Lumia 550 was released in December 2015 with ... | Microsoft Lumia 550 | Technology | 339 |
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