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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirna | Sirna may refer to:
Sírna, legendary High King of Ireland
Șirna, a commune in Prahova County, Romania
Sirna, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
Small interfering RNA (siRNA)
Syrna, also spelled Sirna, Greek village
Syrna (island), also spelled Sirna, Greek island
Sirna Therapeutics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BasicX | BasicX is a free programming language designed specifically for NetMedia's BX-24 microcontroller and based on the BASIC programming language. It is used in the design of robotics projects such as the Robodyssey Systems Mouse robot.
Further reading
Odom, Chris D. BasicX and Robotics. Robodyssey Systems LLC,
External l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%205%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 5 is one of eighteen census divisions in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located in the east-southeastern part of the province, bordering Manitoba. The most populous community in this division is Melville.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%206%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 6 is one of eighteen census divisions in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located in the south-central part of the province. The most populous community in this division is Regina, the provincial capital.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%207%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 7 is one of eighteen census divisions in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located in the south-central part of the province. The most populous community in this division is Moose Jaw.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%208%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 8 is one of eighteen census divisions in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located in the west-southwestern part of the province, bordering Alberta. The most populous community in this division is Swift Current.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population cond... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%209%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 9, Canada, is one of the eighteen census divisions within the province of Saskatchewan, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located in the eastern part of the province, bordering Manitoba. The most populous community in this division is Yorkton.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%2010%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 10 is one of eighteen census divisions in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located in the east-central part of the province. The most populous community in this division is Wynyard.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%2011%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 11 is one of eighteen census divisions in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located in the central part of the province and includes the largest city in the province, Saskatoon.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Divisi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%2012%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 12 is one of the eighteen census divisions in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located in the west-central part of the province. The most populous community in this division is Battleford.
Demographics
In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%2013%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 13 is one of eighteen census divisions in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located in the western part of the province, bordering Alberta. The most populous community in this division is Kindersley.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%2014%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 14 is one of eighteen census divisions in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located on the northern portion of Southeast Saskatchewan, bordering Manitoba. The most populous community in this division is the city of Melfort. Other important communities are the town... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%2015%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 15 is one of eighteen census divisions in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located in the north-central part of the province. The most populous community in this division is Prince Albert.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%2016%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 16 is one of eighteen census divisions in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located in the north-central part of the province. The most populous community in this division is North Battleford.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%2017%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 17 is one of eighteen census divisions in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as defined by Statistics Canada. It is located in the west-northwest part of the province, bordering Alberta. The most populous community in this division is the interprovincial city of Lloydminster. Another important populatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20No.%2018%2C%20Saskatchewan | Division No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada, is one of the eighteen Statistics Canada census divisions within the province, occupying the northern half of the province. The census division is coextensive with the Northern Saskatchewan Administration District (NSAD).
The census division is the largest in the province terms o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9%20Gateaux | René Eugène Gateaux (; 5 May 1889 – 3 October 1914) was a French mathematician. He is principally known for the Gateaux derivative, used in the calculus of variations and in the theory of optimal control. He died in combat during World War I. Paul Lévy produced a posthumous edition of his works, extending them consider... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20V120c | The Motorola V120c is a CDMA cell phone sold in 2002 by Motorola. It was mainly used with Verizon and Alltel networks, and included a number of simple features. It had an extendable antenna.
The model existed in black and in silver, but there were other plastic covers from third party manufacturers.
It was very simila... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Quannapowitt | Lake Quannapowitt is a lake in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is one of the two large lakes in Wakefield, the other being the man-made Crystal Lake. The lake is named for Quonopohit, the Naumkeag Native American man who signed a deed to the town that would become Wakefield in 1686. Given its easily accessible location of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reniform | Reniform is an adjective meaning "kidney-shaped". It may refer to:
Reniform habit, a type of crystal shape
Reniform leaf, a plant leaf shape
Reniform seed, a plant seed shape
Reniform stigma, a spot on the wings of certain moths
See also
Runiform (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBB-CFF-FFS%20RBDe%20560 | The RBDe 560 (in the old naming style, the RBDe 4/4) and its derivatives provide motive power for S-Bahn, suburban, and regional traffic on the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) network. The derivative versions belong to the SBB as well as various private railroads. The locomotive and its matching Bt model Steuerwagen (tran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20E%20%28mtDNA%29 | In human mitochondrial genetics, haplogroup E is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup typical for the Malay Archipelago. It is a subgroup of haplogroup M9.
Origin
Two contrasting proposals have been made for the location and time of the origin of Haplogroup E.
One view is that the clade was formed over 30,000... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20%CE%B2-globin%20locus | The human β-globin locus is composed of five genes located on a short region of chromosome 11, responsible for the creation of the beta parts (roughly half) of the oxygen transport protein Haemoglobin. This locus contains not only the beta globin gene but also delta, gamma-A, gamma-G, and epsilon globin. Expression of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemoglobin%20subunit%20beta | Hemoglobin subunit beta (beta globin, β-globin, haemoglobin beta, hemoglobin beta) is a globin protein, coded for by the HBB gene, which along with alpha globin (HBA), makes up the most common form of haemoglobin in adult humans, hemoglobin A (HbA). It is 147 amino acids long and has a molecular weight of 15,867 Da. No... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allosteric%20enzyme | Allosteric enzymes are enzymes that change their conformational ensemble upon binding of an effector (allosteric modulator) which results in an apparent change in binding affinity at a different ligand binding site. This "action at a distance" through binding of one ligand affecting the binding of another at a distinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Barber | Douglas Barber, is a Canadian businessman. He is a founder and former President and CEO of Gennum Corporation, a Canadian public company that designs, manufactures and markets semiconductors and semiconductor-based products.
Early life and education
Born in Saskatchewan, Barber received a Bachelor of Science degree ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20minimum%20spanning%20tree | The distributed minimum spanning tree (MST) problem involves the construction of a minimum spanning tree by a distributed algorithm, in a network where nodes communicate by message passing. It is radically different from the classical sequential problem, although the most basic approach resembles Borůvka's algorithm. O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz%20Semiconductor | Jazz Semiconductor is a semiconductor wafer foundry that is a wholly owned United States subsidiary of Israel-based Tower Semiconductor. Its customers include developers of wireless, optical networking, power management, storage, and aerospace/defense applications. Headquartered in Newport Beach, California, Jazz passe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly%20Fa%24cism | Friendly Fa$cism is a full-length album by industrial/hip hop artists Consolidated, released in 1991.
"Brutal Equation" and "Unity of Oppression" were alternative rock hits on MTV. The album peaked at #6 on the CMJ Radio Top 150.
The name comes from Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America, the title of a 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna%20atricaudata | Echidna atricaudata (a taxonomic synonym) may refer to:
Cerastes cerastes, a.k.a. the desert horned viper, a venomous viper native to the deserts of Northern Africa and parts of the Middle East
Cerastes vipera, a.k.a. the sahara sand viper, a venomous viper found in the deserts of North Africa and the Sinai Peninsul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20Aquazone | Lego Aquazone (stylized as LEGO Aquazone) was a Lego theme that was launched by The Lego Group in 1995 and discontinued in 1998. It centred on undersea miners and their enemies searching for crystals. It consisted of submarine vehicles and aquatic animals, with minifigures designed for submarine adventures.
Overview ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Locke%20%28English%20footballer%29 | Gary Robert Locke (born 12 July 1954) is an English former footballer born in Willesden, London, who played in the Football League for Chelsea and Crystal Palace, and in the Allsvenskan for Halmstads BK.
Locke was born in Park Royal but moved to Willesden as a six-year-old with his family in 1960.
A right-back, Locke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorargyrite | Chlorargyrite is the mineral form of silver chloride (AgCl). Chlorargyrite occurs as a secondary mineral phase in the oxidation of silver mineral deposits. It crystallizes in the isometric - hexoctahedral crystal class. Typically massive to columnar in occurrence it also has been found as colorless to variably yellow c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalasarna | Phalasarna or Falasarna () is a Greek harbour town at the west end of Crete that flourished during the Hellenistic period. The currently visible remains of the city include several imposing sandstone towers and bastions, with hundreds of meters of fortification walls protecting the town, and a closed harbor, meaning it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS%20Class%20400 | The Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) Class 400 was a derivative of the successful Class 200, also built for shunting duties. They were larger than their predecessors, and were built by Werkspoor from probably 1945–1956. They were called "Grote Siks" (big goats). Unlike their predecessors, they were generally unsuccessful an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating%20tank | A rotating tank is a device used for fluid dynamics experiments. Typically cylinders filled with water on a rotating platform, the tanks can be used in various ways to simulate the atmosphere or ocean.
For example, a rotating tank with an ice bucket in the center can represent the Earth, with a cold pole simulated by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Range | The Crystal Range is a small chain of mountain peaks in the Desolation Wilderness in the U.S. state of California. It is a subrange of the Sierra Nevada. The highest and most southerly peak is Pyramid Peak at 9985 ft; Mount Agassiz is next north at 9967 ft, with Mount Price (9975 ft) rounding out the southern group of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondo%20Topless | Mondo Topless is a 1966 pseudo-documentary directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Babette Bardot and Lorna Maitland among others. It was Meyer's first color film following a string of black and white "roughie nudies", including Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! While a straightforward sexploitation film, the film owes some debt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJIJ-FM | CJIJ-FM (branded as C99 FM) was a Canadian radio station, broadcasting in FM stereo at a frequency of 99.9 MHz from Membertou, Nova Scotia, a First Nations community near Sydney. CJIJ plays a variety of rock music.
The station received CRTC approval in 2002 and went on the air in 2003.
On January 29, 2021 Membertou R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleming%E2%80%93Viot%20process | In probability theory, a Fleming–Viot process (F–V process) is a member of a particular subset of probability measure-valued Markov processes on compact metric spaces, as defined in the 1979 paper by Wendell Helms Fleming and Michel Viot. Such processes are martingales and diffusions.
The Fleming–Viot processes have p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiki%20Kuramoto | (born 1940) is a Japanese physicist in the Nonlinear Dynamics group at Kyoto University who formulated the Kuramoto model and is also known for the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation. He is also the discoverer of so-called chimera states in networks of coupled oscillators.
Kuramoto specializes in nonlinear dynamics (also k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%20process | In probability theory, a Cox process, also known as a doubly stochastic Poisson process is a point process which is a generalization of a Poisson process where the intensity that varies across the underlying mathematical space (often space or time) is itself a stochastic process. The process is named after the statisti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okorokov%20effect | The Okorokov effect () or resonant coherent excitation, occurs when heavy ions move in crystals under channeling conditions. V. Okorokov predicted this effect in 1965 and it was first observed by Sheldon Datz in 1978.
References
Charge carriers
Ions
Physical chemistry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20jersey%20statistics | Since the first Tour de France in 1903, there have been 2,205 stages, up to and including the final stage of the 2021 Tour de France. Since 1919, the race leader following each stage has been awarded the yellow jersey ().
Although the leader of the classification after a stage gets a yellow jersey, he is not considere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysaccharide%20peptide | Polysaccharide peptide (PSP) is a protein-bound polysaccharide extracted from the edible mushroom Coriolus versicolor. PSP is currently in the animal-testing phase of research in many countries for use as an anti-tumor drug. It appears to work as a biological response modifier (BRM), enhancing the body's own use of mac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20eclipses%20on%20Mars | The two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, are much smaller than Earth's Moon, greatly reducing the frequency of solar eclipses on that planet. Neither moon's apparent diameter is large enough to cover the disk of the Sun, and therefore they are annular solar eclipses and can also be considered transits.
Eclipses cause... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxybenzotriazole | Hydroxybenzotriazole (abbreviated HOBt) is an organic compound that is a derivative of benzotriazole. It is a white crystalline powder, which as a commercial product contains some water (~11.7% wt as the HOBt monohydrate crystal). Anhydrous HOBt is explosive.
It is mainly used to suppress the racemization of single-e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riva%20Aquarama | The Riva Aquarama is a luxury wooden runabout built by Italian yachtbuilder Riva. Production of it and its derivatives (the Lungo, Super, and Special) ran from 1962 until 1996. The hull was based on the Riva Tritone, an earlier model speedboat by Riva, which in turn was inspired by the American mahogany Chris-Craft run... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duggan%E2%80%93Schwartz%20theorem | The Duggan–Schwartz theorem (named after John Duggan and Thomas Schwartz) is a result about voting systems designed to choose a nonempty set of winners from the preferences of certain individuals, where each individual ranks all candidates in order of preference. It states that for three or more candidates, at least on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20curve%20equivalent | In educational statistics, a normal curve equivalent (NCE), developed for the United States Department of Education by the RMC Research Corporation, is a way of normalizing scores received on a test into a 0-100 scale similar to a percentile rank, but preserving the valuable equal-interval properties of a z-score.
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Rosenbaum | Joel Rosenbaum (born October 4, 1933) is a professor of cell biology at Yale University.
Rosenbaum received his bachelor's degree from Syracuse University in 1955, and later his M.Sc. Ed. from St. Lawrence University in 1957. He returned later to Syracuse for his master's degree in 1959 and Ph.D. in 1963.
His lab at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-Phase%20Systems | Four-Phase Systems was a computer company, founded by Lee Boysel and others, which built one of the earliest computers using semiconductor main memory and MOS LSI logic. The company was incorporated in February 1969 and had moderate commercial success. It was acquired by Motorola in 1981.
History
The idea behind Fou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Winnipeg | Transport in Winnipeg involves various transportation systems, including both private and public services, and modes of transport in the capital city of Manitoba.
According to Statistics Canada, in 2011, the dominant form of travel in Winnipeg was by car as a driver (69%), followed by commute trips using public transi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Coast%20Guard%20environmental%20protection | Marine environmental protection is one of the eleven missions of the United States Coast Guard (USCG).
Protecting the delicate ecosystem of oceans is a vital Coast Guard mission. The Coast Guard works with a variety of groups and organizations to ensure the livelihood of endangered marine species.
Through the Marine ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Fab | The X-FAB Silicon Foundries is a group of semiconductor foundries. The group specializes in the fabrication of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for fabless semiconductor companies, as well as MEMS and solutions for high voltage applications. The holding company named "X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE" is based in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectified%20120-cell | In geometry, a rectified 120-cell is a uniform 4-polytope formed as the rectification of the regular 120-cell.
E. L. Elte identified it in 1912 as a semiregular polytope, labeling it as tC120.
There are four rectifications of the 120-cell, including the zeroth, the 120-cell itself. The birectified 120-cell is more ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesics%20as%20Hamiltonian%20flows | In mathematics, the geodesic equations are second-order non-linear differential equations, and are commonly presented in the form of Euler–Lagrange equations of motion. However, they can also be presented as a set of coupled first-order equations, in the form of Hamilton's equations. This latter formulation is develope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix%20bundle | A helix bundle is a small protein fold composed of several alpha helices that are usually nearly parallel or antiparallel to each other.
Three-helix bundles
Three-helix bundles are among the smallest and fastest known cooperatively folding structural domains. The three-helix bundle in the villin headpiece domain is o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villin-1 | Villin-1 is a 92.5 kDa tissue-specific actin-binding protein associated with the actin core bundle of the brush border. Villin-1 is encoded by the VIL1 gene. Villin-1 contains multiple gelsolin-like domains capped by a small (8.5 kDa) "headpiece" at the C-terminus consisting of a fast and independently folding three-he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rop%20protein | Rop (also known as repressor of primer, or as RNA one modulator (ROM)) is a small dimeric protein responsible for keeping the copy number of ColE1 family and related bacterial plasmids low in E. coli by increasing the speed of pairing between the preprimer RNA, RNA II, and its antisense RNA, RNA I. Structurally, Rop i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Sears%20McCulloh | Richard Sears McCulloh (18 March 1818 – 1894) was an American civil engineer and professor of mechanics and thermodynamics at the Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
Career
McCulloh was born on 18 March 1818 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1836, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNF%20receptor%20superfamily | The tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily (TNFRSF) is a protein superfamily of cytokine receptors characterized by the ability to bind tumor necrosis factors (TNFs) via an extracellular cysteine-rich domain. With the exception of nerve growth factor (NGF), all TNFs are homologous to the archetypal TNF-alpha. In th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Pinsky | Mark A. Pinsky (15 July 1940 – 8 December 2016) was Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University. His research areas included probability theory, mathematical analysis, Fourier Analysis and wavelets. Pinsky earned his Ph.D at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
His published works include 125 researc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millay | Millay may refer to:
People
Diana Millay (1940-2021), American actress
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American lyrical poet and playwright
George Millay (1929–2006), American businessman
Tamara Millay (born 1967), Missouri politician
Fictional characters
Millay, a character in the role playing game Suikode... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departure%20function | In thermodynamics, a departure function is defined for any thermodynamic property as the difference between the property as computed for an ideal gas and the property of the species as it exists in the real world, for a specified temperature T and pressure P. Common departure functions include those for enthalpy, entr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis%20trading | Basis trading is a financial trading strategy which consists of the purchase of a particular financial instrument or commodity and the sale of its related derivative (for example the purchase of a particular bond and the sale of a related futures contract).
Basis trading is done when the investor feels that the two i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBD1 | Methyl-CpG-binding domain protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MBD1 gene. The protein encoded by MBD1 binds to methylated sequences in DNA, and thereby influences transcription. It binds to a variety of methylated sequences, and appears to mediate repression of gene expression. It has been shown to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faug%C3%A8re%27s%20F4%20and%20F5%20algorithms | In computer algebra, the Faugère F4 algorithm, by Jean-Charles Faugère, computes the Gröbner basis of an ideal of a multivariate polynomial ring. The algorithm uses the same mathematical principles as the Buchberger algorithm, but computes many normal forms in one go by forming a generally sparse matrix and using fast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongation%20factor | Elongation factors are a set of proteins that function at the ribosome, during protein synthesis, to facilitate translational elongation from the formation of the first to the last peptide bond of a growing polypeptide. Most common elongation factors in prokaryotes are EF-Tu, EF-Ts, EF-G. Bacteria and eukaryotes use el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APCC | APCC may refer to:
American Potash and Chemical Company, American chemical manufacturer
Anaphase-promoting complex (sometimes abbreviated as APC/C), an enzyme that regulates the spindle checkpoint
APCC, former Nasdaq symbol for APC by Schneider Electric, an American manufacturer
APEC Climate Center, the Climate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubert%20Stryer | Lubert Stryer (born March 2, 1938, in Tianjin, China) is the Emeritus Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research over more than four decades has been centered on the interplay of light and life. In 2007 he received the National Medal of Science from Presiden... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%20equation | The Kelvin equation describes the change in vapour pressure due to a curved liquid–vapor interface, such as the surface of a droplet. The vapor pressure at a convex curved surface is higher than that at a flat surface. The Kelvin equation is dependent upon thermodynamic principles and does not allude to special propert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIMACO | AIMACO is an acronym for AIr MAterial COmpiler. It began around 1959 as the definition of a high level programming language influenced by the FLOW-MATIC language, developed by UNIVAC, and the COMTRAN (COMmercial TRANslator) programming language, developed by IBM. AIMACO, along with FLOW-MATIC and COMTRAN, were precurso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20packaging | Electronic packaging is the design and production of enclosures for electronic devices ranging from individual semiconductor devices up to complete systems such as a mainframe computer. Packaging of an electronic system must consider protection from mechanical damage, cooling, radio frequency noise emission and electro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploglena | Diploglena is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1904.
Species
it contains six species:
Diploglena arida Haddad, 2015 – South Africa
Diploglena capensis Purcell, 1904 (type) – South Africa
Diploglena dippenaarae Haddad, 2015 – South Africa
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20hairpin | The beta hairpin (sometimes also called beta-ribbon or beta-beta unit) is a simple protein structural motif involving two beta strands that look like a hairpin. The motif consists of two strands that are adjacent in primary structure, oriented in an antiparallel direction (the N-terminus of one sheet is adjacent to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bais%20%28Rajput%20clan%29 | The Bais () is a Rajput clan from India.
History
Their wealth caused Donald Butter, a visiting doctor who wrote Outlines of the Topography and Statistics of the Southern Districts of Oudh, and of the Cantonment of Sultanpur-Oudh, to describe the Bais Rajput in the 1830s as the "best dressed and housed people of the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transferable%20belief%20model | The transferable belief model (TBM) is an elaboration on the Dempster–Shafer theory (DST), which is a mathematical model used to evaluate the probability that a given proposition is true from other propositions that are assigned probabilities. It was developed by Philippe Smets who proposed his approach as a response t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommerfeld%20radiation%20condition | In applied mathematics, and theoretical physics the Sommerfeld radiation condition is a concept from theory of differential equations and scattering theory used for choosing a particular solution to the Helmholtz equation. It was introduced by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1912
and is closely related to the limiting absorption ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krause | Krause (German for ruffle) is a common German surname.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 64.9% of all known bearers of the surname Krause were residents of Germany (frequency 1:531), 20.6% of the United States (1:7,541), 3.5% of Brazil (1:24,831), 2.4% of South Africa (1:9,550), 2.1% of Poland (1:7,891), 1.4% of C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted%20reviewing | Computer-assisted reviewing (CAR) tools are pieces of software based on text-comparison and analysis algorithms. These tools focus on the differences between two documents, taking into account each document's typeface through an intelligent analysis.
Detecting differences
The intelligent analysis used by CAR tools det... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEC-RAS | HEC-RAS is simulation software used in computational fluid dynamics – specifically, to model the hydraulics of water flow through natural rivers and other channels. Prior to the 2016 update to Version 5.0, the program was one-dimensional, meaning that there is no direct modeling of the hydraulic effect of cross sectio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravindran%20Kannan | Ravindran Kannan (; born 12 March 1953, Madras) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, where he leads the algorithms research group. He is also the first adjunct faculty of Computer Science and Automation Department of Indian Institute of Science.
Before joining Microsoft, he was the William K. Lanman ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2QN | 2QN is a radio station based in Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia. It broadcasts on the medium wave radio band, at a frequency of 1521 kHz.
2QN combines a 'Hits & Memories' music format with talk radio and news.
The station's breakfast former announcer, Paul Dix, was the longest serving breakfast announcer in Au... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20physiology | Cell physiology is the biological study of the activities that take place in a cell to keep it alive. The term physiology refers to normal functions in a living organism. Animal cells, plant cells and microorganism cells show similarities in their functions even though they vary in structure.
General characteristics
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20training | Functional training is a classification of exercise which involves training the body for the activities performed in daily life.
Origins
Functional training has its origins in rehabilitation. Physical and occupational therapists and chiropractors often use this approach to retrain patients with movement disorders. Int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20patch | A protein signal patch contains information to send a given protein to the indicated location in the cell. It is made up of amino acid residues that are distant to one another in the primary sequence, but come close to each other in the tertiary structure of the folded protein (see red patch in the diagram). Signal pat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar%20Doppler%20velocimetry | Planar Doppler Velocimetry (PDV), also referred to as Doppler Global Velocimetry (DGV), determines flow velocity across a plane by measuring the Doppler shift in frequency of light scattered by particles contained in the flow. The Doppler shift, Δfd, is related to the fluid velocity.
The relatively small frequency s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahuva%2C%20Surat | Mahuwa is a town in Surat district in the Indian state of Gujarat.
History
Shri Vighn-har Parshv Nath (Atishaya Kshetra) Digamber Jain Mandir is situated at the bank of Poorna river, opposite to Pavagarh, Taranga, Gajpantha, Girnar etc. kshetras situated at hills in Gujarat.
In ancient times, this temple was famous a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentafluoropropane | 1,1,1,3,3-Pentafluoropropane (HFC-245fa) is a hydrofluorocarbon is a colorless gas used primarily for closed-cell spray foam insulation. HFC-245fa is also known as pentafluoropropane and by its chemical name 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane.
Environmental Effects
Unlike CFC and HCFC blowing agents formerly used for this ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pobiti%20Kamani | Pobiti Kamani (, "planted stones"), tubular concretions formed around "rising methane-bearing fluid plumes", is a desert-like rock phenomenon located on the north west Varna Province border in Bulgaria.
The stone pillars were first described by Russian archaeologist and historian Victor Teplyakov in 1829. In order to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotidase | A nucleotidase is a hydrolytic enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a nucleotide into a nucleoside and a phosphate.
A nucleotide + H2O = a nucleoside + phosphate
For example, it converts adenosine monophosphate to adenosine, and guanosine monophosphate to guanosine.
Nucleotidases have an important function in dige... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20scientific%20priority%20disputes | This is a list of priority disputes in science and science-related fields (such as mathematics).
Mathematics
Rule for solving cubic equations: Niccolò Tartaglia, Gerolamo Cardano
Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy: Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz
Physics
Mechanical equivalent of heat: James Prescott Joule, Juliu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral%20buoyancy | Neutral buoyancy occurs when an object's average density is equal to the density of the fluid in which it is immersed, resulting in the buoyant force balancing the force of gravity that would otherwise cause the object to sink (if the body's density is greater than the density of the fluid in which it is immersed) or r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20counting%20%28fallacy%29 | Double counting is a fallacy in reasoning.
An example of double counting is shown starting with the question: What is the probability of seeing at least one 5 when throwing a pair of dice? An erroneous argument goes as follows: The first die shows a 5 with probability 1/6, and the second die shows a 5 with probability... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20culture | Viral culture is a laboratory technique in which samples of a virus are placed to different cell lines which the virus being tested for its ability to infect. If the cells show changes, known as cytopathic effects, then the culture is positive.
Traditional viral culture has been generally superseded by shell vial cult... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Berry%20%28statistician%29 | Donald Arthur Berry (born May 26, 1940) is an American statistician and a practitioner and proponent of Bayesian statistics in medical science. He was the chairman of the Department of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1999-2010, where he played a role i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptoid | A leptoid is a type of elongated food-conducting cell like phloem in the stems of some mosses, such as the family Polytrichaceae. They surround strands of water-conducting hydroids. They have some structural and developmental similarities to the sieve elements of seedless vascular plants. At maturity they have inclined... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sialyltransferase | Sialyltransferases are enzymes that transfer sialic acid to nascent oligosaccharide. Each sialyltransferase is specific for a particular sugar substrate. Sialyltransferases add sialic acid to the terminal portions of the sialylated glycolipids (gangliosides) or to the N- or O-linked sugar chains of glycoproteins.
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi%20value%20analysis | Phi value analysis, analysis, or -value analysis is an experimental protein engineering technique for studying the structure of the folding transition state of small protein domains that fold in a two-state manner. The structure of the folding transition state is hard to find using methods such as protein NMR or X-ray... |
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