• Bodies of living organisms begin to decompose shortly after death. Animals, such as earthworms, also help decompose the organic materials. Organisms that...
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    Decomposers are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms; they carry out decomposition, a process possible by only certain kingdoms, such as...
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  • Spectral decomposition is any of several things: Spectral decomposition for matrix: eigendecomposition of a matrix Spectral decomposition for linear operator:...
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  • In mathematics, the term cycle decomposition can mean: Cycle decomposition (graph theory), a partitioning of the vertices of a graph into subsets, such...
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  • Look up decomposition, decompose, or perishable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Decomposition is the process through which organic matter is broken...
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    Microbiology of decomposition is the study of all microorganisms involved in decomposition, the chemical and physical processes during which organic matter...
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  • matrix decomposition or matrix factorization is a factorization of a matrix into a product of matrices. There are many different matrix decompositions; each...
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  • Chemical decomposition, or chemical breakdown, is the process or effect of simplifying a single chemical entity (normal molecule, reaction intermediate...
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  • Decomposition method is a generic term for solutions of various problems and design of algorithms in which the basic idea is to decompose the problem...
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  • decomposition or factorization factors a matrix as the product of a lower triangular matrix and an upper triangular matrix (see matrix decomposition)...
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    Thermal decomposition (or thermolysis) is a chemical decomposition caused by heat. The decomposition temperature of a substance is the temperature at which...
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  • In mathematics, Jordan decomposition may refer to Hahn decomposition theorem, and the Jordan decomposition of a measure Jordan normal form of a matrix...
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  • linear algebra, the Cholesky decomposition or Cholesky factorization (pronounced /ʃəˈlɛski/ shə-LES-kee) is a decomposition of a Hermitian, positive-definite...
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  • In engineering, functional decomposition is the process of resolving a functional relationship into its constituent parts in such a way that the original...
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  • In Lie theory and representation theory, the Levi decomposition, conjectured by Wilhelm Killing and Élie Cartan and proved by Eugenio Elia Levi (1905)...
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    In graph theory, a tree decomposition is a mapping of a graph into a tree that can be used to define the treewidth of the graph and speed up solving certain...
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  • Nightmares of the Decomposed is the thirteenth studio album by American death metal band Six Feet Under, released on October 2, 2020, by Metal Blade Records...
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    In mathematics, a handle decomposition of an m-manifold M is a union ∅ = M − 1 ⊂ M 0 ⊂ M 1 ⊂ M 2 ⊂ ⋯ ⊂ M m − 1 ⊂ M m = M {\displaystyle \emptyset =M_{-1}\subset...
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  • In mathematics, the Cartan decomposition is a decomposition of a semisimple Lie group or Lie algebra, which plays an important role in their structure...
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  • In mathematics, the JSJ decomposition, also known as the toral decomposition, is a topological construct given by the following theorem: Irreducible orientable...
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  • Decomposition is the process in which the organs and complex molecules of animal and human bodies break down into simple organic matter over time. In...
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  • In multilinear algebra, a tensor decomposition is any scheme for expressing a "data tensor" (M-way array) as a sequence of elementary operations acting...
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  • In mathematics, the polar decomposition of a square real or complex matrix A {\displaystyle A} is a factorization of the form A = U P {\displaystyle A=UP}...
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  • Benders decomposition (or Benders' decomposition) is a technique in mathematical programming that allows the solution of very large linear programming...
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  • In graph theory, the modular decomposition is a decomposition of a graph into subsets of vertices called modules. A module is a generalization of a connected...
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    Decomposed granite is a kind of granite rock that is weathered to the point that the parent material readily fractures into smaller pieces of weaker rock...
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  • In mathematics, the Iwasawa decomposition (aka KAN from its expression) of a semisimple Lie group generalises the way a square real matrix can be written...
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  • In physics, the cluster decomposition property states that experiments carried out far from each other cannot influence each other. Usually applied to...
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  • Birkhoff decomposition refers to two different mathematical concepts: The Birkhoff factorization, introduced by George David Birkhoff at 1909, is the...
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    the sequence must be a cycle. An open ear decomposition or a proper ear decomposition is an ear decomposition in which the two endpoints of each ear after...
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