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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematical%20probabilists | See probabilism for the followers of such a theory in theology or philosophy.
This list contains only probabilists in the sense of mathematicians specializing in probability theory.
This list is incomplete; please add to it.
David Aldous (born 1952)
Siva Athreya
Thomas Bayes (1702–1761) - British mathematician and P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeria | Progeria is a specific type of progeroid syndrome, also known as Hutchinson–Gilford syndrome. A single gene mutation is responsible for progeria. The gene, known as lamin A (LMNA), makes a protein necessary for holding the nucleus of the cell together. When this gene gets mutated, an abnormal form of lamin A protein c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20classification | Binary classification is the task of classifying the elements of a set into two groups (each called class) on the basis of a classification rule. Typical binary classification problems include:
Medical testing to determine if a patient has certain disease or not;
Quality control in industry, deciding whether a specif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20Oxenstierna | Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre (24 June 1611 – 5 December 1657) was a Count and a Swedish statesman.
Biography
The son of Lord High Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, he was born in Stockholm. He completed his studies at Uppsala in 1633, and was sent by his father on a grand tour through France, the Netherlands and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Gustafsson%20Oxenstierna | Baron Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna (15 June 1587 – 27 November 1640) was a Swedish statesman.
Born either in Tyresö, Sweden, or in Reval (modern Tallinn, Estonia), he was the son of Privy Councillor Gustaf Gabrielsson Oxenstierna and Barbro Axelsdotter Bielke. As such he was brother of, among others, Lord High Chanc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengt%20Gabrielsson%20Oxenstierna | Count Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna (1623–1702) was a Swedish soldier and statesman, who served as Foreign Minister from 1680 to 1697. During this period, he ensured Sweden remained neutral and moved away from its traditional French alliance.
Life
Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 16 July ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20microbiome | The human microbiome is the aggregate of all microbiota that reside on or within human tissues and biofluids along with the corresponding anatomical sites in which they reside, including the skin, mammary glands, seminal fluid, uterus, ovarian follicles, lung, saliva, oral mucosa, conjunctiva, biliary tract, and gastro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxenstierna | The Oxenstierna family ( , ) is a Swedish noble family, originally from Småland in southern Sweden, and is part of the Swedish uradel, the ancient nobility.
History
The Oxenstierna family held vast estates in Södermanland and Uppland during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the 15th century, the family at time... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20meteor%20showers | Named meteor showers recur at approximately the same dates each year. They appear to radiate from a certain point in the sky, known as the radiant, and vary in the speed, frequency and brightness of the meteors. As of November 2019, there are 112 established meteor showers.
Table of meteor showers
Dates are given for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMX%20Group | TMX Group Limited is a Canadian financial services company that operates equities, fixed income, derivatives, and energy markets exchanges. The company provides services encompassing listings, trading, clearing, settling and depository facilities, information services as well as technology services for the internationa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxobacteria | The myxobacteria ("slime bacteria") are a group of bacteria that predominantly live in the soil and feed on insoluble organic substances. The myxobacteria have very large genomes relative to other bacteria, e.g. 9–10 million nucleotides except for Anaeromyxobacter and Vulgatibacter. One species of myxobacteria, Minicys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal%20gene%20transfer | Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) or lateral gene transfer (LGT) is the movement of genetic material between organisms other than by the ("vertical") transmission of DNA from parent to offspring (reproduction). HGT is an important factor in the evolution of many organisms. HGT is influencing scientific understanding of h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyirbal%20language | Dyirbal (also Djirubal) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in northeast Queensland by the Dyirbal people. In 2016, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that there were 8 speakers of the language. It is a member of the small Dyirbalic branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. It possesses many outstanding fea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress%20%28software%29 | compress is a Unix shell compression program based on the LZW compression algorithm. Compared to gzip's fastest setting, compress is slightly slower at compression, slightly faster at decompression, and has a significantly lower compression ratio. 1.8 MiB of memory is used to compress the Hutter Prize data, slightly mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emitter-coupled%20logic | In electronics, emitter-coupled logic (ECL) is a high-speed integrated circuit bipolar transistor logic family. ECL uses an overdriven bipolar junction transistor (BJT) differential amplifier with single-ended input and limited emitter current to avoid the saturated (fully on) region of operation and its slow turn-off ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20der%20Waals%20equation | In chemistry and thermodynamics, the Van der Waals equation (or Van der Waals equation of state) is an equation of state which extends the ideal gas law to include the effects of interaction between molecules of a gas, as well as accounting for the finite size of the molecules.
The ideal gas law treats gas molecules a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%27%20law | In fluid dynamics, Stokes' law is an empirical law for the frictional force – also called drag force – exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers in a viscous fluid. It was derived by George Gabriel Stokes in 1851 by solving the Stokes flow limit for small Reynolds numbers of the Navier–Stokes equat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild%20radius | The Schwarzschild radius or the gravitational radius is a physical parameter in the Schwarzschild solution to Einstein's field equations that corresponds to the radius defining the event horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole. It is a characteristic radius associated with any quantity of mass. The Schwarzschild radius w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR%20and%20CDR | In computer programming, CAR (car) and CDR (cdr) ( or ) are primitive operations on cons cells (or "non-atomic S-expressions") introduced in the Lisp programming language. A cons cell is composed of two pointers; the car operation extracts the first pointer, and the cdr operation extracts the second.
Thus, the expres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibley%E2%80%93Ahlquist%20taxonomy%20of%20birds | The Sibley–Ahlquist taxonomy is a bird taxonomy proposed by Charles Sibley and Jon E. Ahlquist. It is based on DNA–DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.
DNA–DNA hybridization is among a class of comparative techniques in molecular biology that produce distance data (versus ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phagocytosis | Phagocytosis () is the process by which a cell uses its plasma membrane to engulf a large particle (≥ 0.5 μm), giving rise to an internal compartment called the phagosome. It is one type of endocytosis. A cell that performs phagocytosis is called a phagocyte.
In a multicellular organism's immune system, phagocytosis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%201105 | The UNIVAC 1105 was a follow-on computer to the UNIVAC 1103A introduced by Sperry Rand in September 1958. The UNIVAC 1105 used 21 types of vacuum tubes, 11 types of diodes, 10 types of transistors, and three core types.
The UNIVAC 1105 had either 8,192 or 12,288 words of 36-bit magnetic core memory, in two or three b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Feller | William "Vilim" Feller (July 7, 1906 – January 14, 1970), born Vilibald Srećko Feller, was a Croatian–American mathematician specializing in probability theory.
Early life and education
Feller was born in Zagreb to Ida Oemichen-Perc, a Croatian–Austrian Catholic, and Eugen Viktor Feller, son of a Polish–Jewish father ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zend%20Engine | The Zend Engine is a compiler and runtime environment for the PHP scripting language and consists of the Zend Virtual Machine, which is composed of the Zend Compiler and the Zend Executor, that compiles and executes the PHP code. It was originally developed by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski while they were students at t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirochaete | A spirochaete () or spirochete is a member of the phylum Spirochaetota (), (synonym Spirochaetes) which contains distinctive diderm (double-membrane) gram-negative bacteria, most of which have long, helically coiled (corkscrew-shaped or spiraled, hence the name) cells. Spirochaetes are chemoheterotrophic in nature, wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weibull%20distribution | In probability theory and statistics, the Weibull distribution is a continuous probability distribution. It models a broad range of random variables, largely in the nature of a time to failure or time between events. Examples are maximum one-day rainfalls and the time a user spends on a web page.
The distribution i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20distribution | In probability theory and statistics, the beta distribution is a family of continuous probability distributions defined on the interval [0, 1] or (0, 1) in terms of two positive parameters, denoted by alpha (α) and beta (β), that appear as exponents of the variable and its complement to 1, respectively, and control the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma%20distribution | In probability theory and statistics, the gamma distribution is a two-parameter family of continuous probability distributions. The exponential distribution, Erlang distribution, and chi-squared distribution are special cases of the gamma distribution. There are two equivalent parameterizations in common use:
With a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial%20search | In computer science and artificial intelligence, combinatorial search studies search algorithms for solving instances of problems that are believed to be hard in general, by efficiently exploring the usually large solution space of these instances. Combinatorial search algorithms achieve this efficiency by reducing the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put%20option | In finance, a put or put option is a derivative instrument in financial markets that gives the holder (i.e. the purchaser of the put option) the right to sell an asset (the underlying), at a specified price (the strike), by (or on) a specified date (the expiry or maturity) to the writer (i.e. seller) of the put. The pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking%20Matter | Hacking Matter is a 2003 book by Wil McCarthy. It deals with "programmable matter" (like colloidal films, bulk crystals, and quantum dots) that, he predicts, will someday be able mimic the properties of any natural atom, and ultimately also non-natural atoms. McCarthy predicts that programmable matter will someday chan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic%20cell | In cellular biology, a somatic cell (), or vegetal cell, is any biological cell forming the body of a multicellular organism other than a gamete, germ cell, gametocyte or undifferentiated stem cell. Somatic cells compose the body of an organism and divide through the process of binary fission and mitotic division.
In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%207040 | The IBM 7040 was a historic but short-lived model of transistor computer built in the 1960s.
History
It was announced by IBM in December 1961, but did not ship until April 1963. A later member of the IBM 700/7000 series of scientific computers, it was a scaled-down version of the IBM 7090. It was not fully compatible ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormorant | Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed, but in 2021 the International Ornithologists' Union (IOU) adopted a consensus taxonomy of seven genera. The great cormorant (Phalacrocora... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoluminescence%20dating | Thermoluminescence dating (TL) is the determination, by means of measuring the accumulated radiation dose, of the time elapsed since material containing crystalline minerals was either heated (lava, ceramics) or exposed to sunlight (sediments). As a crystalline material is heated during measurements, the process of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filoviridae | Filoviridae () is a family of single-stranded negative-sense RNA viruses in the order Mononegavirales. Two members of the family that are commonly known are Ebola virus and Marburg virus. Both viruses, and some of their lesser known relatives, cause severe disease in humans and nonhuman primates in the form of viral he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spina%20bifida | Spina bifida /ˌspaɪnə ˈbɪfɪdə/ (Latin for 'split spine'; SB) is a birth defect in which there is incomplete closing of the spine and the membranes around the spinal cord during early development in pregnancy. There are three main types: spina bifida occulta, meningocele and myelomeningocele. Meningocele and myelomening... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunt%20%28medical%29 | In medicine, a shunt is a hole or a small passage that moves, or allows movement of, fluid from one part of the body to another. The term may describe either congenital or acquired shunts; acquired shunts (sometimes referred to as iatrogenic shunts) may be either biological or mechanical.
Types
Cardiac shunts may be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivatives%20market | The derivatives market is the financial market for derivatives, financial instruments like futures contracts or options, which are derived from other forms of assets.
The market can be divided into two, that for exchange-traded derivatives and that for over-the-counter derivatives. The legal nature of these products i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient%20rule | In calculus, the quotient rule is a method of finding the derivative of a function that is the ratio of two differentiable functions. Let , where both and are differentiable and The quotient rule states that the derivative of is
It is provable in many ways by using other derivative rules.
Examples
Example 1: Bas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newly%20industrialized%20country | The category of newly industrialized country (NIC), newly industrialized economy (NIE) or middle income country is a socioeconomic classification applied to several countries around the world by political scientists and economists. They represent a subset of developing countries whose economic growth is much higher tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylakoid | Thylakoids are membrane-bound compartments inside chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. They are the site of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis. Thylakoids consist of a thylakoid membrane surrounding a thylakoid lumen. Chloroplast thylakoids frequently form stacks of disks referred to as grana (singular: granum)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20splicing | Alternative splicing, or alternative RNA splicing, or differential splicing, is an alternative splicing process during gene expression that allows a single gene to code for multiple proteins. In this process, particular exons of a gene may be included within or excluded from the final, processed messenger RNA (mRNA) pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein%E2%80%93Gordon%20equation | The Klein–Gordon equation (Klein–Fock–Gordon equation or sometimes Klein–Gordon–Fock equation) is a relativistic wave equation, related to the Schrödinger equation. It is second-order in space and time and manifestly Lorentz-covariant. It is a quantized version of the relativistic energy–momentum relation . Its solutio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibley%E2%80%93Monroe%20checklist | The Sibley-Monroe checklist is a list of bird species based on a study conducted by Charles Sibley and Burt Monroe. It drew on extensive DNA-DNA hybridisation studies to reassess the relationships between modern birds. It was considered a landmark in ornithology on its release. The Sibley-Monroe assignment of individua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Sibley | Charles Gald Sibley (August 7, 1917 – April 12, 1998) was an American ornithologist and molecular biologist. He had an immense influence on the scientific classification of birds, and the work that Sibley initiated has substantially altered our understanding of the evolutionary history of modern birds.
Sibley's taxono... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriette%20Chick | Dame Harriette Chick DBE (6 January 1875 – 9 July 1977) was a British microbiologist, protein scientist and nutritionist. She is best remembered for demonstrating the roles of sunlight and cod liver oil in preventing rickets.
Biography
Early life and education
She was born in London, England as the fifth child of sev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplet | A triplet is a set of three items. It may refer to:
Science
A series of three nucleotide bases forming an element of the Genetic code
J-coupling as part of Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Opal in preparation to be a gemstone
Spin triplet in quantum mechanics, as in triplet oxygen, or triplet state in gener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20bearing | Fluid bearings are bearings in which the load is supported by a thin layer of rapidly moving pressurized liquid or gas between the bearing surfaces. Since there is no contact between the moving parts, there is no sliding friction, allowing fluid bearings to have lower friction, wear and vibration than many other types... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20mapping%20theorem | Open mapping theorem may refer to:
Open mapping theorem (functional analysis) (also known as the Banach–Schauder theorem), states that a surjective continuous linear transformation of a Banach space X onto a Banach space Y is an open mapping
Open mapping theorem (complex analysis), states that a non-constant holomor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Gustav%20Jacob%20Jacobi | Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (; ; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851) was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants, and number theory. His name is occasionally written as Carolus Gustavus Iacobus Iacobi in his Latin books, and his first... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20XII | Ice XII is a metastable, dense, crystalline phase of solid water, a type of ice. Ice XII was first reported in 1996 by C. Lobban, J.L. Finney and W.F. Kuhs and, after initial caution, was properly identified in 1998.
It was first obtained by cooling liquid water to at a pressure of . Ice XII was discovered existing w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook%20Taylor | Brook Taylor (18 August 1685 – 29 December 1731) was an English mathematician best known for creating Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series, which are important for their use in mathematical analysis.
Life and work
Brook Taylor was born in Edmonton (former Middlesex). Taylor was the son of John Taylor, MP of Patri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymph%20%28biology%29 | In biology, a nymph (from Ancient Greek νύμφα nūmphē meaning "bride") is the immature form of some invertebrates, particularly insects, which undergoes gradual metamorphosis (hemimetabolism) before reaching its adult stage. Unlike a typical larva, a nymph's overall form already resembles that of the adult, except for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariance%20of%20domain | Invariance of domain is a theorem in topology about homeomorphic subsets of Euclidean space .
It states:
If is an open subset of and is an injective continuous map, then is open in and is a homeomorphism between and .
The theorem and its proof are due to L. E. J. Brouwer, published in 1912.
The proof uses to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon%20de%2075%20M%28montagne%29%20modele%201928 | The Canon de 75 Montagne modèle 1928 (75 mm M mle.28) was a French mountain gun, used by France, Poland and Nazi Germany during World War II.
History
It is a derivative of the Canon de 75 M(montagne) modele 1919 Schneider, upgraded based on feedback from the Rif War. According to Peter Chamberlain, the design of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sap%20%28disambiguation%29 | Sap is the fluid transported in xylem cells (tracheids or vessel elements) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant.
Sap may also refer to:
Sap, a trench dug towards an enemy position during sapping
Sap, a baton weapon
Cell sap, the liquid inside the large central vacuole of a plant cell
Places
Sáp, a village in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20induction | Structural induction is a proof method that is used in mathematical logic (e.g., in the proof of Łoś' theorem), computer science, graph theory, and some other mathematical fields. It is a generalization of mathematical induction over natural numbers and can be further generalized to arbitrary Noetherian induction. St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%20cell | B cells, also known as B lymphocytes, are a type of white blood cell of the lymphocyte subtype. They function in the humoral immunity component of the adaptive immune system. B cells produce antibody molecules which may be either secreted or inserted into the plasma membrane where they serve as a part of B-cell recepto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytotoxic%20T%20cell | A cytotoxic T cell (also known as TC, cytotoxic T lymphocyte, CTL, T-killer cell, cytolytic T cell, CD8+ T-cell or killer T cell) is a T lymphocyte (a type of white blood cell) that kills cancer cells, cells that are infected by intracellular pathogens (such as viruses or bacteria), or cells that are damaged in other w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%20helper%20cell | The T helper cells (Th cells), also known as CD4+ cells or CD4-positive cells, are a type of T cell that play an important role in the adaptive immune system. They aid the activity of other immune cells by releasing cytokines. They are considered essential in B cell antibody class switching, breaking cross-tolerance in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20histocompatibility%20complex | The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a large locus on vertebrate DNA containing a set of closely linked polymorphic genes that code for cell surface proteins essential for the adaptive immune system. These cell surface proteins are called MHC molecules.
The name of this locus comes from its discovery through ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mie%20scattering | The Mie solution to Maxwell's equations (also known as the Lorenz–Mie solution, the Lorenz–Mie–Debye solution or Mie scattering) describes the scattering of an electromagnetic plane wave by a homogeneous sphere. The solution takes the form of an infinite series of spherical multipole partial waves. It is named after Gu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At%20Last%20the%201948%20Show | At Last the 1948 Show is a satirical television show made by David Frost's company, Paradine Productions (although it was not credited on the programmes), in association with Rediffusion London. Transmitted on Britain's ITV network in 1967, it brought Cambridge Footlights humour to a broader audience.
The show starred... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20plasma | Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but which contains proteins and other constituents of whole blood in suspension. It makes up about 55% of the body's total blood volume. It is the intravascular part of extracellular fluid (all body fluid outside cells). It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficaria%20verna | Ficaria verna (formerly Ranunculus ficaria ), commonly known as lesser celandine or pilewort, is a low-growing, hairless perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae native to Europe and Western Asia. It has fleshy dark green, heart-shaped leaves and distinctive flowers with bright yellow, glossy pet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannose | Mannose is a sugar monomer of the aldohexose series of carbohydrates. It is a C-2 epimer of glucose. Mannose is important in human metabolism, especially in the glycosylation of certain proteins. Several congenital disorders of glycosylation are associated with mutations in enzymes involved in mannose metabolism.
Man... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packing%20problems | Packing problems are a class of optimization problems in mathematics that involve attempting to pack objects together into containers. The goal is to either pack a single container as densely as possible or pack all objects using as few containers as possible. Many of these problems can be related to real-life packagin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion | Carrion (), also known as a carcass, is the decaying flesh of dead animals.
Overview
Carrion is an important food source for large carnivores and omnivores in most ecosystems. Examples of carrion-eaters (or scavengers) include crows, vultures, condors, hawks, eagles, hyenas, Virginia opossum, Tasmanian devils, coyote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton%20fives | Eton fives, a derivative of the British game of fives, is a handball game, similar to Rugby fives, played as doubles in a three-sided court. The object is to force the other team to fail to hit the ball 'up' off the front wall, using any variety of wall or ledge combinations as long as the ball is played 'up' before it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20stopping | In machine learning, early stopping is a form of regularization used to avoid overfitting when training a learner with an iterative method, such as gradient descent. Such methods update the learner so as to make it better fit the training data with each iteration. Up to a point, this improves the learner's performance ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Shoals | Black Shoals is an artificial ecosystem linked to the real time dynamics of the stock market. It was first shown at the Tate Gallery in 2001, and nominated for an Alternative Turner Prize in 2002. A more sophisticated Black Shoals was exhibited at the Nikolaj gallery in Copenhagen in the spring of 2004.
Stars represe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%20connector | The N connector (also, type-N connector) is a threaded, weatherproof, medium-size RF connector used to join coaxial cables. It was one of the first connectors capable of carrying microwave-frequency signals, and was invented in the 1940s by Paul Neill of Bell Labs, after whom the connector is named.
Design
The inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylaniline | N,N-Dimethylaniline (DMA) is an organic chemical compound, a substituted derivative of aniline. It consists of a tertiary amine, featuring dimethylamino group attached to a phenyl group. This oily liquid is colourless when pure, but commercial samples are often yellow. It is an important precursor to dyes such as cry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy%20of%20neutralization | In chemistry and thermodynamics, the enthalpy of neutralization () is the change in enthalpy that occurs when one equivalent of an acid and a base undergo a neutralization reaction to form water and a salt. It is a special case of the enthalpy of reaction. It is defined as the energy released with the formation of 1 mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophallaxis | Trophallaxis () is the transfer of food or other fluids among members of a community through mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal) or anus-to-mouth (proctodeal) feeding. Along with nutrients, trophallaxis can involve the transfer of molecules such as pheromones, organisms such as symbionts, and information to serve as a form of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylalanine%20hydroxylase | Phenylalanine hydroxylase. (PAH) () is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydroxylation of the aromatic side-chain of phenylalanine to generate tyrosine. PAH is one of three members of the biopterin-dependent aromatic amino acid hydroxylases, a class of monooxygenase that uses tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4, a pteridine cofactor) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipermeable%20membrane | Semipermeable membrane is a type of biological or synthetic, polymeric membrane that will allow certain molecules or ions to pass through it by osmosis. The rate of passage depends on the pressure, concentration, and temperature of the molecules or solutes on either side, as well as the permeability of the membrane to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbral%20calculus | In mathematics before the 1970s, the term umbral calculus referred to the surprising similarity between seemingly unrelated polynomial equations and certain shadowy techniques used to "prove" them. These techniques were introduced by John Blissard and are sometimes called Blissard's symbolic method. They are often attr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMD | WMD, or wmd, may refer to:
Science and technology
Weapon of mass destruction
Weighted mean in statistics
Wiggle-match-dating or wiggle matching in carbon dating
World Meteorological Day
Transportation
WMD, the National Rail code for Wymondham railway station in Norfolk, UK
WMD, the station code for Westmead r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpenoid | The terpenoids, also known as isoprenoids, are a class of naturally occurring organic chemicals derived from the 5-carbon compound isoprene and its derivatives called terpenes, diterpenes, etc. While sometimes used interchangeably with "terpenes", terpenoids contain additional functional groups, usually containing oxy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent%20algorithm | An emergent algorithm is an algorithm that exhibits emergent behavior. In essence an emergent algorithm implements a set of simple building block behaviors that when combined exhibit more complex behaviors. One example of this is the implementation of fuzzy motion controllers used to adapt robot movement in response ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolactin | Prolactin (PRL), also known as lactotropin and mammotropin, is a protein best known for its role in enabling mammals to produce milk. It is influential in over 300 separate processes in various vertebrates, including humans. Prolactin is secreted from the pituitary gland in response to eating, mating, estrogen treatmen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate%20Crime%20Statistics%20Act | The Hate Crime Statistics Act, 28 U.S.C. § 534 (HCSA), passed in 1990 and modified in 2009 by the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, requires the Attorney General to collect data on crimes committed because of the victim's race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. The b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cities%20and%20towns%20in%20Albania | This is a list of cities and towns in Albania categorised by municipality, county and population, according to the criteria used by the Institute of Statistics (INSTAT). As of 2014, there were 74 cities classified as urban areas and 2,972 villages as rural areas in Albania. The legislation of Albania provides no offici... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cities%20and%20largest%20towns%20in%20Bolivia | According to the National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia (INE), a city is classified as an area where the city limits are identifiable, and its local government is recognized. Bolivia has 1,384 cities. As of 21 November 2012, the date of the most-recent national census, 53 cities have a population of at least 10,00... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cities%20in%20Chile | This is a list of cities in Chile.
A city is defined by Chile's National Statistics Institute (INE) as an "urban entity" with more than 5,000 inhabitants. This list is based on a June 2005 report by the INE based on the 2002 census which registered 239 cities across the country.
Complete list of cities by region
Lar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cities%20in%20Mexico | This is a list of the Top 100 cities in Mexico by fixed population, according to the 2020 Mexican National Census.
According to Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), a locality is "any place settled with one or more dwellings, which may or may not be inhabited, and which is known by a name g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication | Replication may refer to:
Science
Replication (scientific method), one of the main principles of the scientific method, a.k.a. reproducibility
Replication (statistics), the repetition of a test or complete experiment
Replication crisis
Self-replication, the process in which an entity (a cell, virus, program, etc.)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20catabolism | In molecular biology, protein catabolism is the breakdown of proteins into smaller peptides and ultimately into amino acids. Protein catabolism is a key function of digestion process. Protein catabolism often begins with pepsin, which converts proteins into polypeptides. These polypeptides are then further degraded.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20music%20genres%20and%20styles | This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed and closely related forms often overlap. Larger genres and styles comprise more specific sub-categories.
Classical
Andalusian classical music
Indian classica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otidae | Otidae is a clade that includes the superorders Otidimorphae (bustards, turacos, and cuckoos) and Strisores (nightbirds, swifts, and hummingbirds). It was identified in 2014 by genome analysis. Earlier it was thought that Strisores was closely related to birds such as pigeons, flamingos, tropicbirds, and the sunbittern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrie | Estrie () is an administrative region of Quebec that comprises the Eastern Townships. Estrie, a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of est, "east". Originally settled by anglophones, today it is about 90 per cent francophone. Anglophones are concentrated in Lennoxville, home of the region's only English-speaki... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptin | Leptin (from Greek λεπτός leptos, "thin" or "light" or "small") is a protein hormone predominantly made by adipose cells and its primary role is likely to regulate long-term energy balance.
As one of the major signals of energy status, leptin levels influence appetite, satiety, and motivated behaviors oriented toward... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanospasmin | Tetanus toxin (TeNT) is an extremely potent neurotoxin produced by the vegetative cell of Clostridium tetani in anaerobic conditions, causing tetanus. It has no known function for clostridia in the soil environment where they are normally encountered. It is also called spasmogenic toxin, tentoxilysin, tetanospasmin or,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhancer%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, an enhancer is a short (50–1500 bp) region of DNA that can be bound by proteins (activators) to increase the likelihood that transcription of a particular gene will occur. These proteins are usually referred to as transcription factors. Enhancers are cis-acting. They can be located up to 1 Mbp (1,000,000 b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound | Infrasound, sometimes referred to as low frequency sound, describes sound waves with a frequency below the lower limit of human audibility (generally 20 Hz, as defined by the ANSI/ASA S1.1-2013 standard). Hearing becomes gradually less sensitive as frequency decreases, so for humans to perceive infrasound, the sound pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomerulus | Glomerulus (; : glomeruli) is a common term used in anatomy to describe globular structures of entwined vessels, fibers, or neurons. Glomerulus is the diminutive of the Latin glomus, meaning "ball of yarn".
Glomerulus may refer to:
the filtering unit of the kidney; see Glomerulus (kidney).
a structure in the olfacto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grodno%20Region | Grodno Region, also known as Grodno Oblast or Hrodna Voblasts (; ; ), is one of the regions of Belarus. It is located in the western part of the country. Its administrative center, Grodno, is also the largest city in the region.
It lies on the Neman River. The region borders Minsk Region to the east, Brest Region to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant%20coffee | Instant coffee is a beverage derived from brewed coffee beans that enables people to quickly prepare hot coffee by adding hot water or milk to coffee solids in powdered or crystallized form and stirring. The product was first invented in Invercargill, the largest city in Southland, New Zealand, in 1890. Instant coffee ... |
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