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Redshift quantization — is the hypothesis that the redshifts of cosmologically distant objects (in particular galaxies) tend to cluster around multiples of some particular value. Since there is a correlation of distance and redshift as expressed in Hubble s Law,… … Wikipedia
Intermediate polar — Diagram of an intermediate polar. Matter flows from the companion star into an accretion disk around the white dwarf, but is disrupted by the white dwarf s magnetic field. An Intermediate Polar (also DQ Herculis Star) is a type of cataclysmic… … Wikipedia
Uses of trigonometry — Trigonometry has an enormous variety of applications. The ones mentioned explicitly in textbooks and courses on trigonometry are its uses in practical endeavors such as navigation, land surveying, building, and the like. It is also used… … Wikipedia
Eclipse cycle — Animated graph of a the paths of totality of a solar eclipse cycle. Eclipses may occur repeatedly, separated by certain intervals of time: these intervals are called eclipse cycles.[1] The series of eclipses separated by a repeat of one of these… … Wikipedia
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Gene prediction — Gene finding typically refers to the area of computational biology that is concerned with algorithmically identifying stretches of sequence, usually genomic DNA, that are biologically functional. This especially includes protein coding genes, but … Wikipedia
Modern geocentrism — Part of a series on Creationism History of creationism Neo creationism … Wikipedia
Udny Yule — George Udny Yule (February 18, 1871 ndash; June 26, 1951) was usually known as Udny Yule, and was a Scottish statistician, born at Beech Hill near Haddington, Scotland and died in Cambridge, England.His father, also George Udny Yule, and a nephew … Wikipedia
Arthur Schuster — Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster FRS (September 12 1851 ndash;October 17 1934) was a versatile German born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X radiography and the application of harmonic analysis… … Wikipedia
Spectral density estimation — In statistical signal processing, the goal of spectral density estimation is to estimate the spectral density (also known as the power spectrum) of a random signal from a sequence of time samples of the signal. Intuitively speaking, the spectral… … Wikipedia
