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In mathematics, the concept of a measure is a generalization and formalization of geometrical measures (length, area, volume) and other common notions...

Mass production, also known as flow production, series production or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products...

In astrodynamics or celestial mechanics, an elliptic orbit or elliptical orbit is a Kepler orbit with an eccentricity of less than 1; this includes the...

The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers, and for...

ISO/IEC 15693, is an ISO/IEC standard for vicinity cards, i.e. cards which can be read from a greater distance as compared with proximity cards. Such cards...

This is a list of launches made by the Kosmos rocket family, including both the R-12 and R-14 missiles derived versions. To summarize, of the R-12-derived...

Glycogen storage disease type II (GSD-II), also called Pompe disease, and formerly known as GSD-IIa or LGMD2V, is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder...

In chemistry and materials science, impurities are chemical substances inside a confined amount of liquid, gas, or solid. They differ from the chemical...

Royal Air Force Holmpton or more simply RAF Holmpton is a former Royal Air Force Cold War era nuclear bunker that was built in the 1950s as an early warning...

Leona Elizabeth Tyler (May 10, 1906 – April 29, 1993) was an American psychologist and president of the American Psychological Association in 1973. Leona...

The Okayama Planet Search Program (OPSP) was started in 2001 with the goal of spectroscopically searching for planetary systems around stars. It reported...

In set theory, a tree is a partially ordered set (T, <) such that for each t ∈ T, the set {s ∈ T : s < t} is well-ordered by the relation <. Frequently...

Pejoratively, a kitchen sink regression is a statistical regression which uses a long list of possible independent variables to attempt to explain variance...

Counterproliferation refers to diplomatic, intelligence, and military efforts to combat the proliferation of weapons, including both weapons of mass destruction...

Preprophase is an additional phase during mitosis in plant cells that does not occur in other eukaryotes such as animals or fungi. It precedes prophase...

In mathematics, ∑ k = 0 ∞ ( − 1 ) k k ! {\displaystyle \sum _{k=0}^{\infty }(-1)^{k}k!} is a divergent series, first considered by Euler, that sums the...

André Leroi-Gourhan (/ləˈrwɑː ɡuːˈrɑːn/; French: [ləʁwa guʁɑ̃]; 25 August 1911 – 19 February 1986) was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist...

Telephone number mapping is a system of unifying the international telephone number system of the public switched telephone network with the Internet addressing...

Hilbert's thirteenth problem is one of the 23 Hilbert problems set out in a celebrated list compiled in 1900 by David Hilbert. It entails proving whether...

In electrical engineering the term flux linkage is used to define the interaction of a multi-turn inductor with the magnetic flux as described by the Faraday's...