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Minervan animals (including the sentient Minervans) are hexameristically radially symmetrical. This means that they have six eyes spaced equally all around, see in all directions and have no "back" where somebody could sneak on them unnoticed. The different way that Minervans perceive their environment, and its major i... | Wikipedia - A World of Difference (novel) | null | null | null |
Females reach puberty while still hardly out of childhood, and typically experience sex only once in the lifetime – leading to pregnancy and death at birth-giving. Thus, in Minervan society male dominance seems truly determined by a biological imperative – though it takes different forms in various Minervan societies: ... | Wikipedia - A World of Difference (novel) | null | null | null |
At the end, they do manage to save a particularly sympathetic Minervan female – potentially opening the way for a complete upheaval in Minervan society. Technically, the Minervans can be said to be living in a neolithic society, since they use stone tools. However, though using no metals, their society is actually feud... | Wikipedia - A World of Difference (novel) | null | null | null |
Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry employs peer review, however, several scientists have raised concerns about whether it is a predatory journal after being invited to review articles or serve as an editor in areas where they have no scientific expertise. | Wikipedia - Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry | null | null | null |
MiniDV tape Handycam camcorders record a time code and video recording parameters (such as light sensitivity (in dB), aperture, exposure time) on an additional meta data track on the tape. | Wikipedia - Handycam | null | null | null |
Miniaturization and cost are key factors in swarm robotics. These are the constraints in building large groups of robots; therefore the simplicity of the individual team member should be emphasized. This should motivate a swarm-intelligent approach to achieve meaningful behavior at swarm-level, instead of the individua... | Wikipedia - Robotic swarm | null | null | null |
Being able to use actual hardware in research of Swarm Robotics rather than simulations allows researchers to encounter and resolve many more issues and broaden the scope of Swarm Research. Thus, development of simple robots for Swarm intelligence research is a very important aspect of the field. The goals include keep... | Wikipedia - Robotic swarm | null | null | null |
Compared with individual robots, a swarm can commonly decompose its given missions to their subtasks; a swarm is more robust to partial swarm failure and is more flexible with regard to different missions.One such swarm system is the LIBOT Robotic System that involves a low cost robot built for outdoor swarm robotics. ... | Wikipedia - Robotic swarm | null | null | null |
Minichromosomes have also been successfully inserted into yeast and animal cells. These minichromosomes were constructed using the de novo approach. | Wikipedia - Minichromosome | null | null | null |
Minilog is a free Windows program that provides logic minimization exploiting this Espresso algorithm. It is able to generate a two-level gate implementation for a combinational function block with up to 40 inputs and outputs or a synchronous state machine with up to 256 states. It is part of the Publicad educational d... | Wikipedia - Espresso heuristic logic minimizer | null | null | null |
Minimal logic is axiomatized over the positive fragment of intuitionistic logic. Both of these logics may be formulated in the language using the same axioms for implication → {\displaystyle \to } , conjunction ∧ {\displaystyle \land } and disjunction ∨ {\displaystyle \lor } as the basic connectives, but Minimal Logic ... | Wikipedia - Minimal logic | null | null | null |
Minimal primes can be generalized to other bases. It can be shown that there are only a finite number of minimal primes in every base. Equivalently, every sufficiently large prime contains a shorter subsequence that forms a prime. The base 12 minimal primes written in base 10 are listed in OEIS: A110600. Number of mini... | Wikipedia - Minimal prime (recreational mathematics) | null | null | null |
Minimal versions of BASIC had only integer variables and one- or two-letter variable names, which minimized requirements of limited and expensive memory (RAM). More powerful versions had floating-point arithmetic, and variables could be labelled with names six or more characters long. There were some problems and restr... | Wikipedia - ANSI BASIC | null | null | null |
String variables are usually distinguished in many microcomputer dialects by having $ suffixed to their name as a sigil, and values are often identified as strings by being delimited by "double quotation marks". Arrays in BASIC could contain integers, floating point or string variables. | Wikipedia - ANSI BASIC | null | null | null |
Some dialects of BASIC supported matrices and matrix operations, which can be used to solve sets of simultaneous linear algebraic equations. These dialects would directly support matrix operations such as assignment, addition, multiplication (of compatible matrix types), and evaluation of a determinant. Many microcompu... | Wikipedia - ANSI BASIC | null | null | null |
Minimax theory has been extended to decisions where there is no other player, but where the consequences of decisions depend on unknown facts. For example, deciding to prospect for minerals entails a cost, which will be wasted if the minerals are not present, but will bring major rewards if they are. One approach is to... | Wikipedia - Game value | null | null | null |
Minimization is done using a standard minimum cut algorithm. Due to the max-flow min-cut theorem we can solve energy minimization by maximizing the flow over the network. The max-flow problem consists of a directed graph with edges labeled with capacities, and there are two distinct nodes: the source and the sink. Intu... | Wikipedia - Graph cut segmentation | null | null | null |
Minimizing Boolean functions by hand using the classical Karnaugh maps is a laborious, tedious and error prone process. It isn't suited for more than six input variables and practical only for up to four variables, while product term sharing for multiple output functions is even harder to carry out. Moreover, this meth... | Wikipedia - Espresso heuristic logic minimizer | null | null | null |
The first alternative method to become popular was the tabular method developed by Willard Quine and Edward McCluskey. Starting with the truth table for a set of logic functions, by combining the minterms for which the functions are active (the ON-cover) or for which the function value is irrelevant (the Don't-Care-cov... | Wikipedia - Espresso heuristic logic minimizer | null | null | null |
Adding a variable to the function will roughly double both of them, because the truth table length increases exponentially with the number of variables. A similar problem occurs when increasing the number of output functions of a combinational function block. As a result, the Quine–McCluskey method is practical only fo... | Wikipedia - Espresso heuristic logic minimizer | null | null | null |
Minimizing latency is of interest in the capital markets, particularly where automated systems for financial transactions and information are used to process market updates and turn around orders within milliseconds. Low-latency trading occurs on the networks used by financial institutions to connect to stock exchanges... | Wikipedia - Low latency | null | null | null |
Hasbrouck and Saar contrast this with the way in which latencies are measured by many trading venues that use much more narrow definitions, such as the processing delay measured from the entry of the order (at the vendor's computer) to the transmission of an acknowledgment (from the vendor's computer). Electronic tradi... | Wikipedia - Low latency | null | null | null |
Minimizing the average completion time (P|| ∑ C i {\displaystyle \sum C_{i}} ) can be done in polynomial time. The SPT algorithm (Shortest Processing Time First), sorts the jobs by their length, shortest first, and then assigns them to the processor with the earliest end time so far. It runs in time O(n log n), and min... | Wikipedia - Identical-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
Minimizing the average completion time can be done in polynomial time: The SPT algorithm (Shortest Processing Time First), sorts the jobs by their length, shortest first, and then assigns them to the processor with the earliest end time so far. It runs in time O(n log n), and minimizes the average completion time on id... | Wikipedia - Uniform-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
Minimizing the maximum completion time (P|| C max {\displaystyle C_{\max }} ) is NP-hard even for identical machines, by reduction from the partition problem. Many exact and approximation algorithms are known. Graham proved that: Any list scheduling algorithm (an algorithm that processes the jobs in an arbitrary fixed ... | Wikipedia - Identical-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
The specific list-scheduling algorithm called Longest Processing Time First (LPT), which sorts the jobs by descending length, is a 4 / 3 − 1 / 3 m {\displaystyle 4/3-1/3m} approximation for identical machines. : sec.5 It is also called greedy number partitioning.Coffman, Garey and Johnson presented a different algorith... | Wikipedia - Identical-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
Sahni presented a PTAS that attains (1+ε)OPT in time O ( n ⋅ ( n 2 / ϵ ) m − 1 ) {\displaystyle O(n\cdot (n^{2}/\epsilon )^{m-1})} . It is an FPTAS if m is fixed. | Wikipedia - Identical-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
For m=2, the run-time improves to O ( n 2 / ϵ ) {\displaystyle O(n^{2}/\epsilon )} . The algorithm uses a technique called interval partitioning. Hochbaum and Shmoys presented several approximation algorithms for any number of identical machines (even when the number of machines is not fixed): For any r >0, an algorith... | Wikipedia - Identical-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
For any r >0, an algorithm with approximation ratio at most (7/6+2−r ) in time O ( n ( r m 4 + log n ) ) {\displaystyle O(n(rm^{4}+\log {n}))} . For any ε>0, an algorithm with approximation ratio at most (1+ε) in time O ( ( n / ε ) ( 1 / ε 2 ) ) {\displaystyle O((n/\varepsilon )^{(1/\varepsilon ^{2})})} . This is a P... | Wikipedia - Identical-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
Minimizing the maximum completion time is NP-hard even for identical machines, by reduction from the partition problem. A constant-factor approximation is attained by the Longest-processing-time-first algorithm (LPT). Horowitz and Sahni presented: Exact dynamic programming algorithms for minimizing the maximum completi... | Wikipedia - Uniform-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
These algorithms run in exponential time (recall that these problems are all NP-hard). Polynomial-time approximation schemes, which for any ε>0, attain at most (1+ε)OPT. For minimizing the maximum completion time on two uniform machines, their algorithm runs in time O ( 10 2 l n ) {\displaystyle O(10^{2l}n)} , where l ... | Wikipedia - Uniform-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
Therefore, the run-time is in O ( n / ϵ 2 ) {\displaystyle O(n/\epsilon ^{2})} , so it is an FPTAS. For minimizing the maximum completion time on two unrelated machines, the run-time is O ( 10 l n 2 ) {\displaystyle O(10^{l}n^{2})} = O ( n 2 / ϵ ) {\displaystyle O(n^{2}/\epsilon )} . They claim that their algorithms ca... | Wikipedia - Uniform-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
Later, they developed a PTAS for uniform machines. Epstein and Sgall generalized the PTAS for uniform machines to handle more general objective functions. Let Ci (for i between 1 and m) be the makespan of machine i in a given schedule. Instead of minimizing the objective function max(Ci), one can minimize the objective... | Wikipedia - Uniform-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
Minimizing the maximum completion time is NP-hard even for identical machines, by reduction from the partition problem. Horowitz and Sahni presented: Exact dynamic programming algorithms for minimizing the maximum completion time on both uniform and unrelated machines. These algorithms run in exponential time (recall t... | Wikipedia - Unrelated-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
Polynomial-time approximation schemes, which for any ε>0, attain at most (1+ε)OPT. For minimizing the maximum completion time on two uniform machines, their algorithm runs in time O ( 10 2 l n ) {\displaystyle O(10^{2l}n)} , where l {\displaystyle l} is the smallest integer for which ϵ ≥ 2 ⋅ 10 − l {\displaystyle \epsi... | Wikipedia - Unrelated-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
For minimizing the maximum completion time on two unrelated machines, the run-time is O ( 10 l n 2 ) {\displaystyle O(10^{l}n^{2})} = O ( n 2 / ϵ ) {\displaystyle O(n^{2}/\epsilon )} . They claim that their algorithms can be easily extended for any number of uniform machines, but do not analyze the run-time in this cas... | Wikipedia - Unrelated-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
Verschae and Wiese presented a different 2-factor approximation algorithm. Glass, Potts and Shade compare various local search techniques for minimizing the makespan on unrelated machines. Using computerized simulations, they find that tabu search and simulated annealing perform much better than genetic algorithms. | Wikipedia - Unrelated-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
Minimizing the weighted average completion time is NP-hard even on identical machines, by reduction from the knapsack problem. It is NP-hard even if the number of machines is fixed and at least 2, by reduction from the partition problem.Sahni presents an exponential-time algorithm and a polynomial-time approximation al... | Wikipedia - Uniform-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
Polynomial-time approximation schemes, which for any ε>0, attain at most (1+ε)OPT. For minimizing the weighted average completion time on two uniform machines, the run-time is O ( 10 l n 2 ) {\displaystyle O(10^{l}n^{2})} = O ( n 2 / ϵ ) {\displaystyle O(n^{2}/\epsilon )} , so it is an FPTAS. They claim that their algo... | Wikipedia - Uniform-machines scheduling | null | null | null |
Minimum backlash is the minimum transverse backlash at the operating pitch circle allowable when the gear tooth with the greatest allowable functional tooth thickness is in mesh with the pinion tooth having its greatest allowable functional tooth thickness, at the tightest allowable center distance, under static condit... | Wikipedia - Backlash (engineering) | null | null | null |
Minimum bounding box (Smallest enclosing box, Smallest bounding box) 2-D case: Smallest bounding rectangle (Smallest enclosing rectangle) There are two common variants of this problem. In many areas of computer graphics, the bounding box (often abbreviated to bbox) is understood to be the smallest box delimited by side... | Wikipedia - List of combinatorial computational geometry topics | null | null | null |
Minimum data associated with zoological specimens is the place and date of collection, attached to the specimen by a label. Additional information is the name of the collector and the habitat. Tissue from specimens may be saved for genetic studies (molecular data, DNA). Depending on the animal group, other data may be ... | Wikipedia - Zoological specimen | null | null | null |
Minimum total potential energy principle Principle of stationary total complementary potential energy Castigliano's first theorem (for forces) | Wikipedia - Energy principles in structural mechanics | null | null | null |
Mining engineers working in an established mine may work as an engineer for operations improvement, further mineral exploration, and operation capitalization by determining where in the mine to add equipment and personnel. The engineer may also work in supervision and management or as an equipment and mineral salespers... | Wikipedia - Mineral exploration | null | null | null |
Characteristics such as mineral hardness, the mineral stratification, and access to that mineral will determine the method of extraction. Generally, mining is either done from the surface or underground. Mining can also occur with surface and covert operations on the same reserve. Mining activity varies as to what meth... | Wikipedia - Mineral exploration | null | null | null |
Mining salaries are usually determined by the level of skill required, where the position is, and what kind of organization the engineer works for. When comparing salaries from one region to another, the cost of living and other factors must be considered. Mining engineers in India earn relatively high salaries in comp... | Wikipedia - Mineral exploration | null | null | null |
However, in comparison to mining engineer salaries in other regions, such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, Indian salaries are low. In the United States, there are an estimated 6,150 employed mining engineers, with a mean yearly wage of U.S. $103,710. | Wikipedia - Mineral exploration | null | null | null |
Ministry of Sound Radio was an online only service broadcasting 24-hours a day from Ministry of Sound's offices adjacent to the nightclub. | Wikipedia - Data Records | null | null | null |
Ministry of Sound began as the idea of Justin Berkmann. Inspired by New York's Paradise Garage - which he described as "an amazing club. It had lights, darkness, music, quiet – everything you wanted" As opposed to striking a balance between the typical hallmarks of a live music venue, Ministry of Sound was conceived as... | Wikipedia - Data Records | null | null | null |
According to him, they spent £500,000 on the club's sound system, and the same amount again on soundproofing the club using magnesite: they wanted to be able to turn the sound system up as loud as possible without disturbing the neighbours, and tested it to a volume of 156 decibels without the sound leaking outside. In... | Wikipedia - Data Records | null | null | null |
The club opened on 21 September 1991 and has remained in this location since. Having considered "a load of daft names" for the club, including Get Off My Foot and The Ghost and Mrs Chicken, Berkmann came up with Ministry of Sound after walking past the Ministry of Defence Main Building.With opening sets from American h... | Wikipedia - Data Records | null | null | null |
It now attracts around 300,000 clubbers per year and has hosted sets from popular DJs including: Adam Beyer, DJ Harvey, Dixon, Marshmello, Jozeff and Pete Tong. It has won the IDMA 'World's Best Sound System' award four years in a row - every year they ran the category.The capacity of The Box (the main room) is 600 peo... | Wikipedia - Data Records | null | null | null |
There are three weekly club nights: Fridays feature Lock n Load brand The Gallery which are primarily trance music, whilst Saturdays host a number of club nights which are primarily house music. In 2016, these included Defected, Glitterbox, Rinse FM, Hospitality and Together. On Tuesday the club hosts a student session... | Wikipedia - Data Records | null | null | null |
Ministry of Sound's existence has been threatened on a number of occasions by nearby redevelopment in Elephant & Castle. The most notable concerned the redevelopment of Eileen House, a tower block opposite the nightclub's entrance. From 2009 to 2014, Ministry of Sound fought various public campaigns to save the club fr... | Wikipedia - Data Records | null | null | null |
Minkowski's geometry of numbers had a profound influence on functional analysis. Minkowski proved that symmetric convex bodies induce norms in finite-dimensional vector spaces. Minkowski's theorem was generalized to topological vector spaces by Kolmogorov, whose theorem states that the symmetric convex sets that are cl... | Wikipedia - Geometry of numbers | null | null | null |
Minku, White & Yao 2010 Download from L.Minku webpage. Lindstrom, P.; Delany, S.J. ; MacNamee, B. (2008). | Wikipedia - Concept drift | null | null | null |
"Autopilot: Simulating Changing Concepts in Real Data" (PDF). Proceedings of the 19th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science. pp. | Wikipedia - Concept drift | null | null | null |
272–263. Narasimhamurthy, A.; Kuncheva, L.I. (2007). | Wikipedia - Concept drift | null | null | null |
"A framework for generating data to simulate changing environments". AIAP'07: Proceedings of the 25th IASTED International Multi-Conference: artificial intelligence and applications. pp. 384–389. Code | Wikipedia - Concept drift | null | null | null |
Minor folds are quite frequently seen in outcrop; major folds seldom are except in the more arid countries. Minor folds can, however, often provide the key to the major folds they are related to. They reflect the same shape and style, the direction in which the closures of the major folds lie, and their cleavage indica... | Wikipedia - Geological fold | null | null | null |
Minor undesired symptoms from caffeine ingestion not sufficiently severe to warrant a psychiatric diagnosis are common and include mild anxiety, jitteriness, insomnia, increased sleep latency, and reduced coordination. Caffeine can have negative effects on anxiety disorders. According to a 2011 literature review, caffe... | Wikipedia - Caffeine | null | null | null |
Minoxidil is an odorless, white to off-white, crystalline powder (crystals from methanol-acetonitrile). When heated to decomposition it emits toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides. It decomposes at 259-261 °C.Solubility (mg/ml): propylene glycol 75, methanol 44, ethanol 29, 2-propanol 6.7, dimethylsulfoxide 6.5, water 2.2, ch... | Wikipedia - Minoxidil | null | null | null |
Extemporaneous formulations of minoxidil have been reported to have variable stability, depending on the vehicle and method of preparation, and the FDA requests that physicians and pharmacists refrain from preparing extemporaneous topical formulations using commercially available minoxidil tablets. Minoxidil tablets sh... | Wikipedia - Minoxidil | null | null | null |
Upon reaction with ammonium, this turns into 2,4-diamino-6-chloropyrimidine. Next, the resulting 2,4-diamino-6-chloropyrimidine undergoes reaction with 2,4-dichlorophenol in the presence of potassium hydroxide, giving 2,4-diamino-6-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)-pyrimidine. Oxidation of this product with 3-chloroperbenzoic acid... | Wikipedia - Minoxidil | null | null | null |
Minsky (1967) baldly asserts that "an algorithm is "an effective procedure" and declines to use the word "algorithm" further in his text; in fact his index makes it clear what he feels about "Algorithm, synonym for Effective procedure"(p. 311): "We will use the latter term in the sequel. The terms are roughly synonymo... | Wikipedia - Algorithm characterization | null | null | null |
This leads one to wonder: What is Minsky's notion of "an effective procedure"? He starts off with: "...a set of rules which tell us, from moment to moment, precisely how to behave" (p. 106)But he recognizes that this is subject to a criticism: "... the criticism that the interpretation of the rules is left to depend on... | Wikipedia - Algorithm characterization | null | null | null |
106)His refinement? To "specify, along with the statement of the rules, the details of the mechanism that is to interpret them". To avoid the "cumbersome" process of "having to do this over again for each individual procedure" he hopes to identify a "reasonably uniform family of rule-obeying mechanisms". | Wikipedia - Algorithm characterization | null | null | null |
His "formulation": "(1) a language in which sets of behavioral rules are to be expressed, and"(2) a single machine which can interpret statements in the language and thus carry out the steps of each specified process." (italics in original, all quotes this para. p. | Wikipedia - Algorithm characterization | null | null | null |
107)In the end, though, he still worries that "there remains a subjective aspect to the matter. Different people may not agree on whether a certain procedure should be called effective" (p. 107) But Minsky is undeterred. | Wikipedia - Algorithm characterization | null | null | null |
He immediately introduces "Turing's Analysis of Computation Process" (his chapter 5.2). He quotes what he calls "Turing's thesis" "Any process which could naturally be called an effective procedure can be realized by a Turing machine" (p. 108. | Wikipedia - Algorithm characterization | null | null | null |
(Minsky comments that in a more general form this is called "Church's thesis").After an analysis of "Turing's Argument" (his chapter 5.3) he observes that "equivalence of many intuitive formulations" of Turing, Church, Kleene, Post, and Smullyan "...leads us to suppose that there is really here an 'objective' or 'absol... | Wikipedia - Algorithm characterization | null | null | null |
Minsky's inventions include the first head-mounted graphical display (1963) and the confocal microscope (1957, a predecessor to today's widely used confocal laser scanning microscope). He developed, with Seymour Papert, the first Logo "turtle". Minsky also built, in 1951, the first randomly wired neural network learnin... | Wikipedia - Marvin Minsky | null | null | null |
The book is the center of a controversy in the history of AI, as some claim it to have had great importance in discouraging research of neural networks in the 1970s, and contributing to the so-called "AI winter". He also founded several other AI models. His paper A framework for representing knowledge created a new par... | Wikipedia - Marvin Minsky | null | null | null |
While his Perceptrons is now more a historical than practical book, the theory of frames is in wide use. Minsky also wrote of the possibility that extraterrestrial life may think like humans, permitting communication.In the early 1970s, at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Minsky and Papert started developing what c... | Wikipedia - Marvin Minsky | null | null | null |
Minsky says that the biggest source of ideas about the theory came from his work in trying to create a machine that uses a robotic arm, a video camera, and a computer to build with children's blocks. In 1986, Minsky published The Society of Mind, a comprehensive book on the theory which, unlike most of his previously p... | Wikipedia - Marvin Minsky | null | null | null |
Mint green is a pale tint of green that resembles the color of mint green pigment, and was a popular color in the 1990s. | Wikipedia - Dark green | null | null | null |
Minterms are often numbered by a binary encoding of the complementation pattern of the variables, where the variables are written in a standard order, usually alphabetical. This convention assigns the value 1 to the direct form ( x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} ) and 0 to the complemented form ( x i ′ {\displaystyle x'_{i}} ... | Wikipedia - Product of sums | null | null | null |
Minute volume comprises the sum of alveolar ventilation and dead space ventilation. That is: V ˙ = V ˙ A + V ˙ D {\displaystyle {\dot {V}}={\dot {V}}_{A}+{\dot {V}}_{D}} where V ˙ A {\displaystyle {\dot {V}}_{A}} is alveolar ventilation, and V ˙ D {\displaystyle {\dot {V}}_{D}} represents dead space ventilation. | Wikipedia - Respiratory minute volume | null | null | null |
MinutePhysics is a series of educational videos created by Henry Reich and disseminated through its YouTube channel. It displays a series of pedagogical short videos about various physics phenomena and theories. Physics World publication, run by the Institute of Physics, started explaining scientific concepts through i... | Wikipedia - Physics outreach | null | null | null |
Unisciel, a French online university, hosts educational videos through its YouTube channel. Veritasium is a series of educational videos created by Derek Muller and disseminated through its YouTube channel. It displays a series of pedagogical short videos about science, including physics. | Wikipedia - Physics outreach | null | null | null |
Saint Mary's Physics Demonstrations is an online repository for physics classroom demonstrations. It shows teachers the experiments they can do in class while also hosting videos of said experiments. Periodic Videos is a portal of educational videos explaining the characteristics of each element and supporting topics s... | Wikipedia - Physics outreach | null | null | null |
Minutes after the Big Bang, the universe was made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, with trace amounts of lithium and beryllium, and negligibly small abundances of all heavier elements. | Wikipedia - Cosmological lithium problem | null | null | null |
Miotic drugs are a class of cholinergic drugs that are frequently employed in the treatment and management of all types of glaucoma. These drugs stimulate the contraction of the pupil causing the iris to pull away from the trabecular meshwork. Consequently, the normal drainage of the aqueous humour is restored, relievi... | Wikipedia - Secondary glaucoma | null | null | null |
Despite the advantages, the widespread use of miotic drugs is limited by its associated side effects. There is an increased risk of development of posterior synechiae in glaucoma secondary to exfoliation syndrome and ocular trauma. | Wikipedia - Secondary glaucoma | null | null | null |
Other side effects include increased risk of miosis-induced headaches, blurred vision, retinal detachment and damage to the blood-aqueous barrier.Alternative drugs which can reduce the synthesis of aqueous humour, called aqueous suppressants, or increase the drainage of aqueous humour emerged as effective first-line tr... | Wikipedia - Secondary glaucoma | null | null | null |
Prostaglandin analogues increase aqueous drainage and are thus used in the reduction of IOP. There are contradictory findings regarding the occurrence of prostaglandin analogue mediated side effects in the treatment of uveitic glaucoma. It was previously identified that the side effects comprise damage to the blood-aqu... | Wikipedia - Secondary glaucoma | null | null | null |
However, current scientific evidence only supports the reactivation of herpes simplex keratitis among the other side effects.In uveitic and inflammatory glaucoma, reduction in inflammation is a critical step during the treatment and management process. This is commonly done using corticosteroids coupled with immunosupp... | Wikipedia - Secondary glaucoma | null | null | null |
Mipartoxin-I is a short-chain, type-I, α-neurotoxin composed of 60 amino acids with a molecular mass of 7030 Da. It is a member of the three finger toxin (3FTx) superfamily, and it contains the characteristic eight cysteines of this superfamily. | Wikipedia - Mipartoxin-I | null | null | null |
Miran is located to the south-west of Lop Nur. Buddhist monasteries were excavated here, and murals and sculptures showed artistic influences from India and Central Asia, with some showing influences from as far as Rome. | Wikipedia - Lop Nur | null | null | null |
Miranda test (Yap, Vegter, Sharma) | Wikipedia - Numerical certification | null | null | null |
Mirror neurons are found in several sections of the human brain. They are responsible for mirroring a behavior (or movement) seen in others. In marketing, mirror neurons have been used to stimulate consumers to do what those in advertisements do. | Wikipedia - Misleading advertising | null | null | null |
Mirror neurons are neurons that fire both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behavior of the other, as though the observer were themself acting. Such neurons have been directly observed in primate and other species including birds. The f... | Wikipedia - Animal consciousness | null | null | null |
Many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology consider that this system provides the physiological mechanism for the perception action coupling (see the common coding theory). They argue that mirror neurons may be important for understanding the actions of other people, and for learning new skills... | Wikipedia - Animal consciousness | null | null | null |
Neuroscientists such as Marco Iacoboni (UCLA) have argued that mirror neuron systems in the human brain help us understand the actions and intentions of other people. In a study published in March 2005 Iacoboni and his colleagues reported that mirror neurons could discern if another person who was picking up a cup of t... | Wikipedia - Animal consciousness | null | null | null |
Mirror neurons were first discovered in macaque premotor cortex. The premotor cortex is associated with a diverse array of functions, encompassing low-level motor control, motor planning, sensory guidance of movement, along with higher level cognitive functions such as language processing and action comprehension. The ... | Wikipedia - Social cognitive neuroscience | null | null | null |
In humans, sensorimotor mirroring responses extend beyond ventral premotor cortex into adjacent regions of inferior frontal gyrus, including Broca's area, an area that is critical to language processing and speech production. Action representations in inferior frontal gyrus can be evoked by language, such as action ver... | Wikipedia - Social cognitive neuroscience | null | null | null |
Mirror neurons, first discovered in macaque frontoparietal cortex, fire when actions are either performed or observed. In humans, similar sensorimotor "mirroring" responses have been found in the brain regions listed below, which are collectively referred to as MNS. The MNS has been found to identify and represent inte... | Wikipedia - Social cognitive neuroscience | null | null | null |
As such, MNS representations have been shown to be invariant of how an action is observed (e.g. sensory modality) and how an action is performed (e.g. left versus right hand, upwards or downwards). MNS has even been found to represent actions that are described in written language.Mechanistic theories of MNS functionin... | Wikipedia - Social cognitive neuroscience | null | null | null |
Mirroring the sun's beams into space would modify precipitation designs and reforesting the deserts could change wind designs and could even lessen tree development in different regions. If we are not able to sustain such technology many wildlife can possibly die due to the rapid change in the earth's climate. == Refer... | Wikipedia - Bio-geoengineering | null | null | null |
Miscarriage has an emotional effect and can also lead to psychological disorders. One discorder that can develop is primary maternal preoccupation. This is defined as a " ...'special psychiatric condition' in which the pregnant woman identifies with her baby, highlights the crisis a woman faces when the baby with whom ... | Wikipedia - Miscarriage and grief | null | null | null |
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