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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order%20modulation
Higher-order modulation is a type of digital modulation usually with an order of 4 or higher. Examples: quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK), and m-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (m-QAM). See also phase-shift keying modulation order Quantized radio modulation modes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-phase%20modulation
Cross-phase modulation (XPM) is a nonlinear optical effect where one wavelength of light can affect the phase of another wavelength of light through the optical Kerr effect. When the optical power from a wavelength impacts the refractive index, the impact of the new refractive index on another wavelength is known as XP...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%88%82
The character ∂ (Unicode: U+2202) is a stylized cursive d mainly used as a mathematical symbol, usually to denote a partial derivative such as (read as "the partial derivative of z with respect to x"). It is also used for boundary of a set, the boundary operator in a chain complex, and the conjugate of the Dolbeault o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin%20Thomas
Sir Quentin Jeremy Thomas (born 1 August 1944) is a retired British civil servant, and former president of the British Board of Film Classification. He attended the Perse School in Cambridge and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was a civil servant until 1999, serving in the Home Office, Northern Ireland Off...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Green%20Bay%20Packers%20records
This article details statistics relating to the Green Bay Packers. Records Passing Attempts, career: 8,754 – Brett Favre (1992–07) Attempts, season: 613 – Brett Favre (2006) Attempts, game: 61 – Brett Favre (1996), Aaron Rodgers (2015) Completed, career: 5,377 – Brett Favre (1992–07) Completed, season: 401 – Aaron Ro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20cell
Transfer cells are specialized parenchyma cells that have an increased surface area, due to infoldings of the plasma membrane. They facilitate the transport of sugars from a sugar source, mainly mature leaves, to a sugar sink, often developing leaves or fruits. They are found in nectaries of flowers and some carnivorou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin%20Hahn
Erwin Louis Hahn (June 9, 1921 – September 20, 2016) was an American physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). In 1950 he discovered the spin echo. Education He grew up in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. He received his B.S. in Physics from Juniata College and his M.S. and Doctor of Philosophy ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DGT
DGT may refer to: Deansgate railway station, Manchester, England (National Rail station code) DGT board, a chessboard Diffusive gradients in thin films technique, for detecting chemicals in wet environments Directorate-General for Translation, of the European Commission Directorate General of Traffic, Spain Dire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fus
Fus or FUS may refer to: FUS (gene) ("Fused In Sarcoma"), a gene encoding an RNA-binding protein found in human cancers and several neurodegenerative diseases Fath Union Sport, a football club in Rabat, Morocco Feline urologic syndrome, any disease affecting the bladder or urethra of a cat Field Upgrade Software, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenomorph%20%28disambiguation%29
The Xenomorph is the main fictional antagonist in the Alien franchise. Xenomorph may also refer to: Xenomorph (geology), a mineral that did not develop its external crystal form Xenomorph (video game), a 1990 science-fiction role-playing video game Xenomorph (band), a Dutch death metal band formed in 1994 Xenomor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenomorph%20%28geology%29
In geology, a xenomorph or allotriomorph is a mineral that did not develop its otherwise typical external crystal form because of late crystallization between earlier formed crystals. Xenomorphs are typical of matrix minerals in rapidly crystallizing volcanic lavas and shallow igneous intrusions. It is also typical of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20archaeological%20periods%20%28Mesoamerica%29
The chronology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica is usually divided into the following eras: Five Stage Classification One of the most enduring classifications of archaeological periods & cultures was established in Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips' 1958 book Method and Theory in American Archaeology. They divided the ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filaggrin
Filaggrin (filament aggregating protein) is a filament-associated protein that binds to keratin fibers in epithelial cells. Ten to twelve filaggrin units are post-translationally hydrolyzed from a large profilaggrin precursor protein during terminal differentiation of epidermal cells. In humans, profilaggrin is encoded...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20inhibition
In neurobiology, lateral inhibition is the capacity of an excited neuron to reduce the activity of its neighbors. Lateral inhibition disables the spreading of action potentials from excited neurons to neighboring neurons in the lateral direction. This creates a contrast in stimulation that allows increased sensory per...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposystem
The term anthroposystem is used to describe the anthropological analogue to the ecosystem. In other words, the anthroposystem model serves to compare the flow of materials through human systems to those in naturally occurring systems. As defined by Santos, an anthroposystem is "the orderly combination or arrangement o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMO
SMO or Smo may refer to: War Special military operation, the Russian government's name for the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine Biology Smoothened, a gene that encodes a protein of the same name Spermine oxidase, an enzyme Styrene monooxygenase, an enzyme Computing and technology Sequential minimal optimization, an al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leukocyte%20esterase
Leukocyte esterase (LE) is an esterase (a type of enzyme) produced by leukocytes (white blood cells). A leukocyte esterase test (LE test) is a urine test for the presence of white blood cells and other abnormalities associated with infection. White blood cells in the urine can indicate a urinary tract infection (UTI)....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome%20browser
The completion of the human genome sequencing in the early 2000s was a turning point in genomics research. Scientists have conducted series of research into the activities of genes and the genome as a whole. The human genome contains around 3 billion base pairs nucleotide, and the huge quantity of data created necessit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohn%E2%80%93Sham%20equations
The Kohn-Sham equations are a set of mathematical equations used in quantum mechanics to simplify the complex problem of understanding how electrons behave in atoms and molecules. They introduce fictitious non-interacting electrons and use them to find the most stable arrangement of electrons, which helps scientists un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromodulation
Neuromodulation is the physiological process by which a given neuron uses one or more chemicals to regulate diverse populations of neurons. Neuromodulators typically bind to metabotropic, G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) to initiate a second messenger signaling cascade that induces a broad, long-lasting signal. This...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%20Log%20Cabin%20State%20Historic%20Site
The Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site is an 86-acre (0.3 km2) history park located eight miles (13 km) south of Charleston, Illinois, U.S., near the town of Lerna. The centerpiece is a replica of the log cabin built and occupied by Thomas Lincoln, father of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln never live...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAM-1
ICAM-1 (Intercellular Adhesion Molecule 1) also known as CD54 (Cluster of Differentiation 54) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ICAM1 gene. This gene encodes a cell surface glycoprotein which is typically expressed on endothelial cells and cells of the immune system. It binds to integrins of type CD11a / CD...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severna%20Park%20High%20School
Severna Park High School is a public high school in the United States located in the suburban CDP of Severna Park, Maryland. It is a part of the Anne Arundel County Public Schools system. SPHS opened its doors to students in 1959 and was the seventh public high school opened in Anne Arundel County. (It is the fourth-ol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20heterostructure
A double heterostructure, sometimes called double heterojunction, is formed when two semiconductor materials are grown into a "sandwich". One material (such as AlGaAs) is used for the outer layers (or cladding), and another of smaller band gap (such as GaAs) is used for the inner layer. In this example, there are two A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Allende
Jorge Eduardo Allende Rivera, (born 11 November 1934) is a Chilean biochemist and biophysicist known for his contributions to the understanding of proteic biosynthesis and how transfer RNA is generated, and the regulation of maturation of amphibian eggs. He has been a foreign associate of the United States National Ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas%20kinetics
Gas kinetics is a science in the branch of fluid dynamics, concerned with the study of motion of gases and its effects on physical systems. Based on the principles of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, gas dynamics arises from the studies of gas flows in transonic and supersonic flights. To distinguish itself from o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Orr%20Anderson
Alan Orr Anderson (1879–1958) was a Scottish historian and compiler. The son of Rev. John Anderson and Ann Masson, he was born in 1879. He was educated at Royal High School, Edinburgh, and the University of Edinburgh. In 1908, after five years of work sponsored by the Carnegie Trust, he published Scottish Annals from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-75
The HP-75C and HP-75D were hand-held computers programmable in BASIC, made by Hewlett-Packard from 1982 to 1986. The HP-75 had a single-line liquid crystal display, 48 KiB system ROM and 16 KiB RAM, a comparatively large keyboard (albeit without a separate numeric pad), a manually operated magnetic card reader (2×650 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20Swan%20%28automaton%29
The Silver Swan is an automaton dating from the 18th century and now housed in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham, England. It was acquired by John Bowes, the museum's founder, from a Parisian jeweller in 1872. The swan, which is life-sized, is a clockwork-driven device that includes a music box...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodegenerative%20disease
A neurodegenerative disease is caused by the progressive loss of structure or function of neurons, in the process known as neurodegeneration. Such neuronal damage may ultimately involve cell death. Neurodegenerative diseases include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's dis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20Swan
Silver Swan may refer to: Silver Swan (automaton), a clockwork display at the Bowes Museum Silver Swan (brand), a condiments brand owned by Nutri-Asia Silver Swan (comics), a fictional character in the Wonder Woman stories "The Silver Swan" (madrigal), a madrigal by Orlando Gibbons "Silver Swan Rag", a piano rag by Sc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20W.%20K.%20Rothemund
Paul Wilhelm Karl Rothemund is a research professor at the Computation and Neural Systems department at Caltech. He has become known in the fields of DNA nanotechnology and synthetic biology for his pioneering work with DNA origami. He shared both categories of the 2006 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology with Erik Winfre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna%20railway%20station
Varna railway station () serves the Black Sea city and municipality of Varna, the third most populous city in Bulgaria. History The station is one of the oldest in Bulgaria. The current station building was built between 1908 and 1925, when it was opened officially by Tsar Boris III. The city of Varna has had a railw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias%20analysis
Alias analysis is a technique in compiler theory, used to determine if a storage location may be accessed in more than one way. Two pointers are said to be aliased if they point to the same location. Alias analysis techniques are usually classified by flow-sensitivity and context-sensitivity. They may determine may-al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20cottonmouth
The western cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma) was once classified as a subspecies of the cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus). However, DNA based studies published in 2008 and 2015, revealed no significant genetic difference between the eastern cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus) and the weste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoprotein-X
Lipoprotein-X (Lp-X) is an abnormal low density lipoprotein found in cholestasis. Structure Lipoprotein-X is a lamellar particle of 30 to 70 nm in diameter as revealed by electron microscopy. It is characterized by its high content of phospholipids (66% by weight) and unesterified cholesterol (22%), and its low cont...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cre%20recombinase
Cre recombinase is a tyrosine recombinase enzyme derived from the P1 bacteriophage. The enzyme uses a topoisomerase I-like mechanism to carry out site specific recombination events. The enzyme (38kDa) is a member of the integrase family of site specific recombinase and it is known to catalyse the site specific recombin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodiploid
Pseudodiploid or pseudoploid refers to one of the essential components in viral reproduction. It means having two RNA genomes per virion but giving rise to only one DNA copy in infected cells. The term is also used to refer to cells that are diploid, but have chromosomal translocations. Overview Retrovirions for ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly%20%28trailer%29
A dolly is an unpowered vehicle designed for connection to a tractor unit, truck or prime mover vehicle with strong traction power. United States Classification by axle configuration There are several types of dolly bogie: Full trailer - 2 axle (4 wheels), with a draw bar which also controls the trailer's front ax...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardna%20Wielka%20railway%20station
Gardna Wielka is a non-operational PKP railway station in Gardna Wielka (Pomeranian Voivodeship), Poland. Lines crossing the station References Gardna Wielka article at Polish Stations Database , URL accessed on 21 March 2006 Railway stations in Pomeranian Voivodeship Disused railway stations in Pomeranian Voivodes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median%20raphe%20nucleus
The median raphe nucleus (MRN or MnR), also known as the nucleus raphes medianus (NRM) or superior central nucleus, is a brain region composed of polygonal, fusiform, and piriform neurons, which exists rostral to the nucleus raphes pontis. The MRN is located between the posterior end of the superior cerebellar peduncle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor%20count
The transistor count is the number of transistors in an electronic device (typically on a single substrate or "chip"). It is the most common measure of integrated circuit complexity (although the majority of transistors in modern microprocessors are contained in the cache memories, which consist mostly of the same memo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density%20gradient
Density gradient is a spatial variation in density over an area. The term is used in the natural sciences to describe varying density of matter, but can apply to any quantity whose density can be measured. Aerodynamics In the study of supersonic flight, Schlieren photography observes the density gradient of air as it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varying%20Permeability%20Model
The Varying Permeability Model, Variable Permeability Model or VPM is an algorithm that is used to calculate the decompression stops needed for ambient pressure dive profiles using specified breathing gases. It was developed by D.E. Yount and others for use in professional diving and recreational diving. It was develop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATP-binding%20motif
An ATP-binding motif is a 250-residue sequence within an ATP-binding protein’s primary structure. The binding motif is associated with a protein’s structure and/or function. ATP is a molecule of energy, and can be a coenzyme, involved in a number of biological reactions. ATP is proficient at interacting with other mole...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PQCC
The Production Quality Compiler-Compiler Project (or PQCC) was a long-term project led by William Wulf at Carnegie Mellon University to produce an industrial-strength compiler-compiler. PQCC would produce full, optimizing programming language compilers from descriptions of the programming language and the target machi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensor%20indicis%20muscle
In human anatomy, the extensor indicis [proprius] is a narrow, elongated skeletal muscle in the deep layer of the dorsal forearm, placed medial to, and parallel with, the extensor pollicis longus. Its tendon goes to the index finger, which it extends. Structure It arises from the distal third of the dorsal part of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%27s%20distance
In statistics, Cook's distance or Cook's D is a commonly used estimate of the influence of a data point when performing a least-squares regression analysis. In a practical ordinary least squares analysis, Cook's distance can be used in several ways: to indicate influential data points that are particularly worth checki...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSSE
KSSE, KSSD, and KSSC are commercial FM radio stations serving Southern California at the 107.1 MHz frequency. KSSE is licensed to Arcadia, California and broadcasts to the Los Angeles metropolitan area, KSSD is licensed to Fallbrook, California and serves northern San Diego County and KSSC is licensed to Ventura, Calif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene%20Belfort
Marlene Belfort (born 1945) is an American biochemist known for her research on the factors that interrupt genes and proteins. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been admitted to the United States National Academy of Sciences. Education and career Belfort was one of the first undergr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhamel%27s%20principle
In mathematics, and more specifically in partial differential equations, Duhamel's principle is a general method for obtaining solutions to inhomogeneous linear evolution equations like the heat equation, wave equation, and vibrating plate equation. It is named after Jean-Marie Duhamel who first applied the principle t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Alembert%27s%20formula
In mathematics, and specifically partial differential equations, d´Alembert's formula is the general solution to the one-dimensional wave equation: for It is named after the mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who derived it in 1747 as a solution to the problem of a vibrating string. Details The characteristics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukang%20meteorite
The Fukang meteorite is a meteorite that was found in the mountains near Fukang, China in 2000. It is a pallasite—a type of stony–iron meteorite with olivine crystals. It is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old. History In 2000, near Fukang, China, a Chinese dealer obtained a mass from Xinjiang Province, China, with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threose%20nucleic%20acid
Threose nucleic acid (TNA) is an artificial genetic polymer in which the natural five-carbon ribose sugar found in RNA has been replaced by an unnatural four-carbon threose sugar. Invented by Albert Eschenmoser as part of his quest to explore the chemical etiology of RNA, TNA has become an important synthetic genetic p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Althaus%20Smith
Paul Althaus Smith (May 18, 1900June 13, 1980) was an American mathematician. His name occurs in two significant conjectures in geometric topology: the Smith conjecture, which is now a theorem, and the Hilbert–Smith conjecture, which was proved in dimension 3 in 2013. Smith theory is a theory about homeomorphisms of fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycol%20nucleic%20acid
Glycol nucleic acid (GNA), sometimes also referred to as glycerol nucleic acid, is a nucleic acid similar to DNA or RNA but differing in the composition of its sugar-phosphodiester backbone, using propylene glycol in place of ribose or deoxyribose. GNA is chemically stable but not known to occur naturally. However, due...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coe%20%28surname%29
Coe is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881, its frequency was highest in Northamptonshire (8.9 times the British average), followed by Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Essex, Leicestershire, Huntingdonshire, Surrey, London and Kent. Notable people with the surname include: Ada M. Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20interosseous%20artery
The common interosseous artery, about 1 cm. in length, arises immediately below the tuberosity of the radius from the ulnar artery. Passing backward to the upper border of the interosseous membrane, it divides into two branches, the anterior interosseous and posterior interosseous arteries. Additional images Referen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HashClash
HashClash was a volunteer computing project running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform to find collisions in the MD5 hash algorithm. It was based at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and Marc Stevens initiated the p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20ecosystem
A lake ecosystem or lacustrine ecosystem includes biotic (living) plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (non-living) physical and chemical interactions. Lake ecosystems are a prime example of lentic ecosystems (lentic refers to stationary or relatively still freshwater, from the Latin lentus, which m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veratridine
Veratridine is a steroidal alkaloid found in plants of the lily family, specifically the genera Veratrum and Schoenocaulon. Upon absorption through the skin or mucous membranes, it acts as a neurotoxin by binding to and preventing the inactivation of voltage-gated sodium ion channels in heart, nerve, and skeletal muscl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby%20Rockefeller%20%28ecologist%29
Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller (born 1943) is an American feminist, ecologist, and member of the Rockefeller family. She was a member of Cell 16, a radical feminist organization, in the 1970s. She also founded the Clivus Multrum company, which manufactures composting toilets. Early life and education Abby Rockefeller wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole%E2%80%93Cole%20equation
The Cole–Cole equation is a relaxation model that is often used to describe dielectric relaxation in polymers. It is given by the equation where is the complex dielectric constant, and are the "static" and "infinite frequency" dielectric constants, is the angular frequency and is a dielectric relaxation time co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response%20surface%20methodology
In statistics, response surface methodology (RSM) explores the relationships between several explanatory variables and one or more response variables. The method was introduced by George E. P. Box and K. B. Wilson in 1951. The main idea of RSM is to use a sequence of designed experiments to obtain an optimal response...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20%27t%20Hoff%20equation
The Van 't Hoff equation relates the change in the equilibrium constant, , of a chemical reaction to the change in temperature, T, given the standard enthalpy change, , for the process. The subscript means "reaction" and the superscript means "standard". It was proposed by Dutch chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20restaurant%20process
In probability theory, the Chinese restaurant process is a discrete-time stochastic process, analogous to seating customers at tables in a restaurant. Imagine a restaurant with an infinite number of circular tables, each with infinite capacity. Customer 1 sits at the first table. The next customer either sits at the sa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnawa%20Diffusion
Gnawa Diffusion is an Algerian Gnawa music band based in Grenoble, France. The group's lead singer, Amazigh (literally meaning 'Free Man' in Tamazight), is the son of the Algerian writer and poet Kateb Yacine. Although there is a strong Gnawa influence, the band is noted for its mix of reggae and roots music. Gnawa Dif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowry%20protein%20assay
The Lowry protein assay is a biochemical assay for determining the total level of protein in a solution. The total protein concentration is exhibited by a color change of the sample solution in proportion to protein concentration, which can then be measured using colorimetric techniques. It is named for the biochemist ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20of%20Oury%20Jalloh
Oury Jalloh (1969 in Conakry, Guinea – 7 January 2005, in Dessau, Germany) was an asylum seeker who died in a fire in a police cell in Dessau, Germany. The hands and feet of Jalloh, who was alone in the cell, were tied to a mattress. A fire alarm went off, but was initially turned off without further action by an offic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20tuning
Fluid tuning is a tuning system for the piano. It was developed by Geoff Smith, a composer and musician from Brighton, England. Fluid tuning is accomplished by the addition of the microtonal tuning mechanism to the instrument. This mechanism enables the musician to alter each note individually and separately by preci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna%20Payne
Edna Payne (December 5, 1891 – January 31, 1953) was an American silent screen motion picture actress. She was not in any feature-length films, but is regarded as a "pioneer" in the film industry because she was in many short films from 1911 through 1917. Career Her parents were both stage actors, so Payne began her c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNSR
WNSR (560 AM) is a Nashville-area Class D radio station operating on the AM frequency of 560 kHz. WNSR's majority owner is Randolph Victor Bell, and the station's general manager is former WSM personality Ted Johnson. History The station converted to its current format in 1996, with the call letters WYOR, when all-spo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID-1
ID-1 or ID1 may refer to:RECN7701159Q8 ID-1 format, the standard "credit card" size for identification cards defined by ISO/IEC 7810 A gene (inhibitor of DNA binding-1) which controls cancer metastasis Idaho's 1st congressional district
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID-2
ID-2 or ID2 may refer to: ID-2 format, a standard size for identification cards defined by ISO/IEC 7810. A gene called ID2 which negatively regulates cell differentiation. Idaho's 2nd congressional district.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MA10
MA-10 may refer to: Massachusetts Route 10 Mercury-Atlas 10, a cancelled spaceflight of Project Mercury MA-10 cell, a Leydig cell tumour cell line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihiro%20Kusumi
is a Japanese biologist who proposed an explanation for reduced diffusion speed of lipid and protein molecules in the cell membrane, based on a model of hop diffusion in which lipids are confined to a reduced space, created by a membrane-skeleton-induced compartments. this compartments allow the lipids or proteins free...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4rnkaminerna
Järnkaminerna (lit. The Iron Stoves) is the largest official supporter club of the sports club Djurgårdens IF. Järnkaminerna is also a nickname for the sports club itself. A common shortened form of the supporters club Järnkaminerna is JK. History The nickname derives from the 1950s when Djurgårdens IF's football di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latridae
Latridae commonly called trumpeters, is a family of marine ray-finned fish. They are found in temperate seas in the Southern Hemisphere. The classification of the species within the Latridae and the related Cheilodactylidae is unclear.They are fished commercially and for sport. Taxonomy Latridae is classified within ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CER-10
CER model 10 was a vacuum tube, transistor and electronic relay based computer developed at IBK-Vinča and the Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Belgrade) in 1960. It was the first digital computer developed in SFR Yugoslavia, and in Southern Europe. CER-10 was designed by Tihomir Aleksić and his associates (Rajko Tomović, Vuk...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CER-22
CER ( – Digital Electronic Computer) model 22 is a transistor based computer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia) in 1967-1968. It was originally intended for banking applications and was used for data processing and management planning in banks, trade and utility companies in Belgrade. Three CER-22 computers ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CER%20Computer
CER () was a series of early computers (based on vacuum tubes and transistors) developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s. Models: CER-10 - 1960, based on vacuum tubes, transistors, electronic relays, and magnetic core memory. First Yugoslav digital computer (developed in "Vinca"-Instit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cer
Cer, or CER may refer to: Environment Certified Emission Reduction, emission units Statistics Control event rate, a statistical value in epidemiology Crossover error rate, a statistical value in a biometric system Information technology Canonical Encoding Rules, encoding format Customer edge router, in computer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bregman%20divergence
In mathematics, specifically statistics and information geometry, a Bregman divergence or Bregman distance is a measure of difference between two points, defined in terms of a strictly convex function; they form an important class of divergences. When the points are interpreted as probability distributions – notably as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester%20urban%20area
The Leicester Urban Area or Leicester Built Up Area (2011 onwards) is an urban agglomeration defined by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), centred on the City of Leicester in the East Midlands, England. With a population of 559,017 at the time of the 2021 census, increased from 508,916 at the time of the 2011 cen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagrass%20meadow
A seagrass meadow or seagrass bed is an underwater ecosystem formed by seagrasses. Seagrasses are marine (saltwater) plants found in shallow coastal waters and in the brackish waters of estuaries. Seagrasses are flowering plants with stems and long green, grass-like leaves. They produce seeds and pollen and have roots ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%E2%80%93outside%20algorithm
For parsing algorithms in computer science, the inside–outside algorithm is a way of re-estimating production probabilities in a probabilistic context-free grammar. It was introduced by James K. Baker in 1979 as a generalization of the forward–backward algorithm for parameter estimation on hidden Markov models to stoch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescale%20RS08
RS08 is a family of 8-bit microcontrollers by NXP Semiconductors. Originally released by Freescale in 2006, the RS08 architecture is a reduced-resource version of the Freescale MC68HCS08 central processing unit (CPU), a member of the 6800 microprocessor family. It has been implemented in several microcontroller devices...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTX
Xcerra Corporation (formerly LTX-Credence Corporation) is an American semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) vendor, founded in 1976 in (co-founder) Sol Max's basement, later moving to the Balco building in Newton & GTE building 3 in Needham, then the KLH building on University Ave. in Westwood and currently head...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20to%20Hobart%20Yacht%20Race%20waterspout
The south coast tornado was a tornadic waterspout spawned by a supercell thunderstorm off the south coast of New South Wales on 26 December 2001, during the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. The tornado passed very close to the yacht Nicorette II, which was severely damaged but able to complete the race with a spare mainsai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie%20High%20School%20%28Utah%29
Dixie High School is located at 350 East 700 South, in St. George, Utah, United States. It is a Utah Class 4A school of Region 9 (2023-2025 classification) and reported 1,248 students on October 1, 2018. The school's mascot is the Flyers and is represented by a World War I-era biplane pilot. It is a part of the Washi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton%20Ballou
Clinton Edward Ballou (June 18, 1923 – March 8, 2021) was an American academic who was a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focused on the metabolism of carbohydrates and the structures of microbial cell walls. He joined the United States National Academy of Sciences in 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater%20sapping
Groundwater sapping is a geomorphic erosion process that results in the headward migration of channels in response to near constant fluid discharge at a fixed point. The consistent flow of water displaces fine sediments which physically and chemically weathers rocks. Valleys that appear to have been created by groundwa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean%20crystallographic%20group
In mathematics, a non-Euclidean crystallographic group, NEC group or N.E.C. group is a discrete group of isometries of the hyperbolic plane. These symmetry groups correspond to the wallpaper groups in euclidean geometry. A NEC group which contains only orientation-preserving elements is called a Fuchsian group, and any...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torasemide
Torasemide, also known as torsemide, is a diuretic medication used to treat fluid overload due to heart failure, kidney disease, and liver disease. It is a less preferred treatment for high blood pressure. It is taken by mouth or by injection into a vein. Common side effects include headache, increased urination, diar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibb%20%28surname%29
Bibb is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881, its relative frequency was highest in Warwickshire (12.2 times the British average), followed by Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Dunbartonshire, London and Northamptonshire. In all other British counties, its relative frequency was below nat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato%20leafroll%20virus
Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) is a member of the genus Polerovirus and family Solemoviridae. The phloem limited positive sense RNA virus infects potatoes and other members of the family Solanaceae. PLRV was first described by Quanjer et al. in 1916. PLRV is transmitted by aphids, primarily the green peach aphid, Myzu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona%20theorem
In mathematics, the corona theorem is a result about the spectrum of the bounded holomorphic functions on the open unit disc, conjectured by and proved by . The commutative Banach algebra and Hardy space H∞ consists of the bounded holomorphic functions on the open unit disc D. Its spectrum S (the closed maximal ide...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorbol%20esters
Phorbol esters are a class of chemical compounds found in a variety of plants, particularly in the families Euphorbiaceae and Thymelaeaceae. Chemically, they are ester derivatives of the tetracyclic diterpenoid phorbol. Biological activity Protein kinase C (PKC) is a phorbol ester receptor. Phorbol esters can stimulat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochromic%20anemia
Hypochromic anemia is a generic term for any type of anemia in which the red blood cells are paler than normal. (Hypo- refers to less, and chromic means colour.) A normal red blood cell has a biconcave disk shape and will have an area of pallor in its center when viewed microscopically. In hypochromic cells, this area ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baricity
Baricity refers to the density of a substance compared to the density of human cerebrospinal fluid. Baricity is used in anesthesia to determine the manner in which a particular drug will spread in the intrathecal space. Description Solutions that have a baricity approaching 1.000 are referred to as isobaric, as the ...