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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcolemma | The sarcolemma (sarco (from sarx) from Greek; flesh, and lemma from Greek; sheath) also called the myolemma, is the cell membrane surrounding a skeletal muscle fiber or a cardiomyocyte.
It consists of a lipid bilayer and a thin outer coat of polysaccharide material (glycocalyx) that contacts the basement membrane. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%2068070 | The SCC68070 is a Philips Semiconductors-branded, Motorola 68000-based 16/32-bit processor produced under license. While marketed externally as a high-performance microcontroller, it has been almost exclusively used combined with the Philips SCC66470 VSC (Video- and Systems Controller) in the Philips CD-i interactive ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptogenesis | Synaptogenesis is the formation of synapses between neurons in the nervous system. Although it occurs throughout a healthy person's lifespan, an explosion of synapse formation occurs during early brain development, known as exuberant synaptogenesis. Synaptogenesis is particularly important during an individual's critic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobza | The kobza (), also called bandura () is a Ukrainian folk music instrument of the lute family (Hornbostel-Sachs classification number 321.321-5+6), a relative of the Central European mandora. The term kobza however, has also been applied to a number of other Eastern European instruments distinct from the Ukrainian kobza... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urn%20%28disambiguation%29 | An urn is a vase-like container.
Urn may refer to:
Urn problem of probability theory
Urn (album), an album by Ne Obliviscaris
The acronym URN may refer to:
Uniform Resource Name, an Internet identifier
Unique Reference Number, an identifier of UK schools
University Radio Nottingham, England
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PP2B | Serine/threonine-protein phosphatase 2B (PP2B) may refer to:
PP2BA – PP2B catalytic subunit alpha isoform
PP2BB – PP2B catalytic subunit beta isoform
PP2BC – PP2B catalytic subunit gamma isoform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-loop%20replication | D-loop replication is a proposed process by which circular DNA like chloroplasts and mitochondria replicate their genetic material. An important component of understanding D-loop replication is that many chloroplasts and mitochondria have a single circular chromosome like bacteria instead of the linear chromosomes fou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0-10-2 | Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-10-2 represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels on five axles, and two trailing wheels on one axle (usually in a trailing truck).
Other equivalent classifications are:
UIC classification: E1 (also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20transcribed%20spacer | Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) is the spacer DNA situated between the small-subunit ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and large-subunit rRNA genes in the chromosome or the corresponding transcribed region in the polycistronic rRNA precursor transcript.
Across life domains
In bacteria and archaea, there is a single ITS, located... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20transcript | A primary transcript is the single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) product synthesized by transcription of DNA, and processed to yield various mature RNA products such as mRNAs, tRNAs, and rRNAs. The primary transcripts designated to be mRNAs are modified in preparation for translation. For example, a precursor mRNA (p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Language%20Design%20and%20Implementation%20%28conference%29 | Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) is an academic conference in computer science, in particular in the study of programming languages and compilers. PLDI is organized by the Association for Computing Machinery under the SIGPLAN interest group.
History
The precursor of PLDI was the Symposium on Com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertactin | In molecular biology, pertactin (PRN) is a highly immunogenic virulence factor of Bordetella pertussis, the bacterium that causes pertussis. Specifically, it is an outer membrane protein that promotes adhesion to tracheal epithelial cells. PRN is purified from Bordetella pertussis and is used for the vaccine productio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riebeckite | Riebeckite is a sodium-rich member of the amphibole group of silicate minerals, chemical formula Na2(Fe2+3Fe3+2)Si8O22(OH)2. It forms a solid solution series with magnesioriebeckite. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system, usually as long prismatic crystals showing a diamond-shaped cross section, but also in fibrous,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20argument | Probabilistic argument may refer to:
Probabilistic argument, any argument involving probability theory
Probabilistic method, a method of non-constructive existence proof in mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinthodontia | "Labyrinthodontia" (Greek, 'maze-toothed') is an informal grouping of extinct predatory amphibians which were major components of ecosystems in the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras (about 390 to 150 million years ago). Traditionally considered a subclass of the class Amphibia, modern classification systems recogn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sort-merge%20join | The sort-merge join (also known as merge join) is a join algorithm and is used in the implementation of a relational database management system.
The basic problem of a join algorithm is to find, for each distinct value of the join attribute, the set of tuples in each relation which display that value. The key idea of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square%20%28fractal%29 | In mathematics, the T-square is a two-dimensional fractal. It has a boundary of infinite length bounding a finite area. Its name comes from the drawing instrument known as a T-square.
Algorithmic description
It can be generated from using this algorithm:
Image 1:
Start with a square. (The black square in the image... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidermal%20growth%20factor | Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is a protein that stimulates cell growth and differentiation by binding to its receptor, EGFR. Human EGF is 6-kDa and has 53 amino acid residues and three intramolecular disulfide bonds.
EGF was originally described as a secreted peptide found in the submaxillary glands of mice and in hum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20shift | In nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the chemical shift is the resonant frequency of an atomic nucleus relative to a standard in a magnetic field. Often the position and number of chemical shifts are diagnostic of the structure of a molecule. Chemical shifts are also used to describe signals in other form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20release%20activated%20channel | Calcium release-activated channels (CRAC) are specialized plasma membrane Ca2+ ion channels. When calcium ions (Ca2+) are depleted from the endoplasmic reticulum (a major store of Ca2+) of mammalian cells, the CRAC channel is activated to slowly replenish the level of calcium in the endoplasmic reticulum. The Ca2+ Rele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworth%27s%20limit%20theorem | Edgeworth's limit theorem is an economic theorem, named after Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, stating that the core of an economy shrinks to the set of Walrasian equilibria as the number of agents increases to infinity.
That is, among all possible outcomes which may result from free market exchange or barter between groups ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucin | Mucins () are a family of high molecular weight, heavily glycosylated proteins (glycoconjugates) produced by epithelial tissues in most animals. Mucins' key characteristic is their ability to form gels; therefore they are a key component in most gel-like secretions, serving functions from lubrication to cell signalling... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopinath%20Kartha | Gopinath Kartha (26 January 1927 – 18 June 1984) was a prominent crystallographer of Indian origin. In 1967, he determined the molecular structure of the enzyme ribonuclease. This was the first protein structure elucidated and published in the United States.
Early life and education
Gopinath Kartha was born in Chertha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20inclusion | A fluid inclusion is a bubble of liquid and/or gas that is trapped within a crystal. As minerals often form from a liquid or aqueous medium, tiny bubbles of that liquid can become trapped within the crystal, or along healed crystal fractures. These inclusions usually range in size from 0.01 mm to 1 mm and are only visi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSR%20plc | CSR plc (formerly Cambridge Silicon Radio) was a multinational fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Its main products were connectivity, audio, imaging and location chips. CSR was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index until it was acquired ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR%20Class%20CP | The Southern Railway (SR) gave the designation CP to the fleet of AC electric multiple units used on the former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway lines in the Crystal Palace area.
Construction
The CP (Crystal Palace stock) units were built in 1911–1913 to provide the electric train stock required for the LBSCR ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBT | HBT may refer to:
HBT (explosive)
Haifa Beirut Tripoli Railway
Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect
Herringbone Twill cloth military uniforms
Heterojunction bipolar transistor
Hole-board test
Hydrogen breath test |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystic%20fibrosis%20transmembrane%20conductance%20regulator | Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a membrane protein and anion channel in vertebrates that is encoded by the CFTR gene.
Geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his team identified the CFTR gene in 1989 as the gene linked with CF (cystic fibrosis).
The CFTR gene codes for an ABC transporter-class ion ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjud | Adjud (; ) is a city in Vrancea County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It has a population of 15,178 inhabitants (as of 2021). It lies at a railway junction which has a classification yard and a passenger station. Adjud, situated north of the point where the river Trotuș enters the Siret, used to be a marketplace.
The cit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmina%20Czarna%20Bia%C5%82ostocka |
Gmina Czarna Białostocka is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Białystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Czarna Białostocka, which lies approximately north of the regional capital Białystok.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total populati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talwar | The talwar (), also spelled talwaar and tulwar, is a type of curved sword or sabre from the Indian subcontinent.
Etymology and classification
The word talwar originated from the Sanskrit word taravāri () which means "one-edged sword". It is the word for sword in several related languages, such as Hindustani (Hindi and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20and%20Astronomy%20Classification%20Scheme | The Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS) is a scheme developed in 1970 by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) for classifying scientific literature using a hierarchical set of codes. PACS has been used by over 160 international journals, including the Physical Review series since 1975. Since 2016, Ame... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Cove%20State%20Park | Crystal Cove State Park is a state park of California, United States, encompassing of Pacific coastline, inland chaparral canyons, and the Crystal Cove Historic District of beach houses. The park is located partially in Newport Beach and partially in an unincorporated area of Orange County, and is part of the larger S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20cell | A table cell is one grouping within a chart table used for storing information or data. Cells are grouped horizontally (rows of cells) and vertically (columns of cells). Each cell contains information relating to the combination of the row and column headings it is collinear with. In software design, table cells are a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted%20geometric%20mean | In statistics, the weighted geometric mean is a generalization of the geometric mean using the weighted arithmetic mean.
Given a sample and weights , it is calculated as:
The second form above illustrates that the logarithm of the geometric mean is the weighted arithmetic mean of the logarithms of the individual val... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%C3%BA%20National%20Park | Manú National Park () is a national park and biosphere reserve located in the regions of Madre de Dios and Cusco in Peru. It protects a diverse number of ecosystems including lowland rainforests, cloud forests and Andean grasslands.
History
Manú National Park was established by decree on 29 May 1973; during the dicta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20Viterbi%20decoding | Iterative Viterbi decoding is an algorithm that spots the subsequence S of an observation O = {o1, ..., on} having the highest average probability (i.e., probability scaled by the length of S) of being generated by a given hidden Markov model M with m states. The algorithm uses a modified Viterbi algorithm as an inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocitrate%20dehydrogenase | Isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) () and () is an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidative decarboxylation of isocitrate, producing alpha-ketoglutarate (α-ketoglutarate) and CO2. This is a two-step process, which involves oxidation of isocitrate (a secondary alcohol) to oxalosuccinate (a ketone), followed by the decarboxylatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopigment | Photopigments are unstable pigments that undergo a chemical change when they absorb light. The term is generally applied to the non-protein chromophore moiety of photosensitive chromoproteins, such as the pigments involved in photosynthesis and photoreception. In medical terminology, "photopigment" commonly refers to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary%20electrophoresis | Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a family of electrokinetic separation methods performed in submillimeter diameter capillaries and in micro- and nanofluidic channels. Very often, CE refers to capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), but other electrophoretic techniques including capillary gel electrophoresis (CGE), capil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monellin | Monellin, a sweet protein, was discovered in 1969 in the fruit of the West African shrub known as serendipity berry (Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii); it was first reported as a carbohydrate. The protein was named in 1972 after the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, U.S.A., where it was isolated and characterize... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median%20voter%20theorem | The median voter theorem is a proposition relating to ranked preference voting put forward by Duncan Black in 1948. It states that if voters and policies are distributed along a one-dimensional spectrum, with voters ranking alternatives in order of proximity, then any voting method which satisfies the Condorcet criteri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene%20fixed-point%20theorem | In the mathematical areas of order and lattice theory, the Kleene fixed-point theorem, named after American mathematician Stephen Cole Kleene, states the following:
Kleene Fixed-Point Theorem. Suppose is a directed-complete partial order (dcpo) with a least element, and let be a Scott-continuous (and therefore monot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document-term%20matrix | A document-term matrix is a mathematical matrix that describes the frequency of terms that occur in a collection of documents. In a document-term matrix, rows correspond to documents in the collection and columns correspond to terms. This matrix is a specific instance of a document-feature matrix where "features" may r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequitur%20algorithm | Sequitur (or Nevill-Manning-Witten algorithm) is a recursive algorithm developed by Craig Nevill-Manning and Ian H. Witten in 1997 that infers a hierarchical structure (context-free grammar) from a sequence of discrete symbols. The algorithm operates in linear space and time. It can be used in data compression software... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spigot%20algorithm | A spigot algorithm is an algorithm for computing the value of a transcendental number (such as or e) that generates the digits of the number sequentially from left to right providing increasing precision as the algorithm proceeds. Spigot algorithms also aim to minimize the amount of intermediate storage required. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20ball | A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball commonly used in fortune-telling. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying in particular. Other names include crystal sphere, gazing ball, shew stone, and show stone. In neopaganism it is sometimes called an orbuculum.
History
By the fifth ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottleuba%20Dam | The Gottleuba Dam is the second highest dam in Saxony, Germany. It serves as a reservoir for water supply for the town Pirna and provides flood protection, but energy production is small. The dam was built between 1965 and 1974. It is located at the northern foot of the Ore Mountains, southwest of Bad Gottleuba. It dam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation%20zone | A radiation zone, or radiative region is a layer of a star's interior where energy is primarily transported toward the exterior by means of radiative diffusion and thermal conduction, rather than by convection. Energy travels through the radiation zone in the form of electromagnetic radiation as photons.
Matter in a r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation%20analysis | Citation analysis is the examination of the frequency, patterns, and graphs of citations in documents. It uses the directed graph of citations — links from one document to another document — to reveal properties of the documents. A typical aim would be to identify the most important documents in a collection. A class... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz%20crystal%20microbalance | A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) (also known as quartz microbalance (QMB), sometimes also as quartz crystal nanobalance (QCN)) measures a mass variation per unit area by measuring the change in frequency of a quartz crystal resonator. The resonance is disturbed by the addition or removal of a small mass due to oxide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellman%20equation | A Bellman equation, named after Richard E. Bellman, is a necessary condition for optimality associated with the mathematical optimization method known as dynamic programming. It writes the "value" of a decision problem at a certain point in time in terms of the payoff from some initial choices and the "value" of the re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagata%E2%80%93Smirnov%20metrization%20theorem | In topology, the Nagata–Smirnov metrization theorem characterizes when a topological space is metrizable. The theorem states that a topological space is metrizable if and only if it is regular, Hausdorff and has a countably locally finite (that is, -locally finite) basis.
A topological space is called a regular spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morph | Morph may refer to:
Biology
Morph (zoology), a visual or behavioral difference between organisms of distinct populations in a species
Muller's morphs, a classification scheme for genetic mutations
"-morph", a suffix commonly used in taxonomy
Computing
Morphing, in motion pictures and animations, a special effec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada%20Conformity%20Assessment%20Test%20Suite | The Ada Conformity Assessment Test Suite (ACATS) is the test suite used for Ada processor conformity testing. A prior test suite was known as the Ada Compiler Validation Capability (ACVC).
ACVC era
The Ada Compiler Validation Capability test suite, commonly referred to as the ACVC tests, was the original test suite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20rule | In machine learning, the delta rule is a gradient descent learning rule for updating the weights of the inputs to artificial neurons in a single-layer neural network. It can be derived as the backpropagation algorithm for a single-layer neural network with mean-square error loss function.
For a neuron with activation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register%20of%20Historic%20Parks%20and%20Gardens%20of%20Special%20Historic%20Interest%20in%20England | The Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England provides a listing and classification system for historic parks and gardens similar to that used for listed buildings. The register was set up by Historic England under the provisions of the National Heritage Act 1983. Over 1,600 sites a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Chairs | Blue Chairs is an interactive fiction game by American author Chris Klimas.
Plot
The piece opens at a party, where a man offers the player a bottle of a mysterious green fluid. After drinking it, the PC passes out, but is shortly awoken by a man bringing a phone message from a long-lost love. The game then explores t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%20transformation | See also Wigner–Weyl transform, for another definition of the Weyl transform.
In theoretical physics, the Weyl transformation, named after Hermann Weyl, is a local rescaling of the metric tensor:
which produces another metric in the same conformal class. A theory or an expression invariant under this transformation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20granule | A solar granule is a convection cell in the Sun's photosphere. They are caused by currents of plasma in the Sun's convective zone, directly below the photosphere. The grainy appearance of the solar photosphere is produced by the tops of these convective cells and is called granulation.
The rising part of the granules ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTR | CTR may refer to:
Engineering, science and technology
Counter mode (CTR mode), a cryptographic mode of operation for block ciphers
X-ray crystal truncation rod, a technique to measure properties of crystal surfaces
Current transfer ratio, in an opto-isolator device
Content Threat Removal, a cyber security technolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGCG | CGCG may refer to:
Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies
Central giant-cell granuloma, a localised benign condition of the jaws |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation%20automaton | In automata theory, a permutation automaton, or pure-group automaton, is a deterministic finite automaton such that each input symbol permutes the set of states.
Formally, a deterministic finite automaton may be defined by the tuple (Q, Σ, δ, q0, F),
where Q is the set of states of the automaton, Σ is the set of inpu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20fluids | Thermofluids is a branch of science and engineering encompassing four intersecting fields:
Heat transfer
Thermodynamics
Fluid mechanics
Combustion
The term is a combination of "thermo", referring to heat, and "fluids", which refers to liquids, gases and vapors. Temperature, pressure, equations of state, and transport ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet%20%28confectionery%29 | Tablet ( in Scots) is a medium-hard, sugary confection from Scotland. Tablet is usually made from sugar, condensed milk, and butter, which is boiled to a soft-ball stage and allowed to crystallise. It is often flavoured with vanilla and sometimes has nut pieces in it.
Tablet differs from fudge in that it has a brittle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%27s%20principle | In mathematics, and particularly in potential theory, Dirichlet's principle is the assumption that the minimizer of a certain energy functional is a solution to Poisson's equation.
Formal statement
Dirichlet's principle states that, if the function is the solution to Poisson's equation
on a domain of with boundar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde%20signaling | Retrograde signaling in biology is the process where a signal travels backwards from a target source to its original source. For example, the nucleus of a cell is the original source for creating signaling proteins. During retrograde signaling, instead of signals leaving the nucleus, they are sent to the nucleus. In ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s%20the%20Frequency%2C%20Kenneth%3F | "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. from their ninth studio album, Monster (1994). The song's title refers to an incident in New York City in 1986 in which two then-unknown assailants attacked journalist Dan Rather while repeating "Kenneth, what is the frequency?"
The so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT%20LCD | A thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT LCD) is a variant of a liquid-crystal display that uses thin-film-transistor technology to improve image qualities such as addressability and contrast. A TFT LCD is an active matrix LCD, in contrast to passive matrix LCDs or simple, direct-driven (i.e. with segments di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lickorish%E2%80%93Wallace%20theorem | In mathematics, the Lickorish–Wallace theorem in the theory of 3-manifolds states that any closed, orientable, connected 3-manifold may be obtained by performing Dehn surgery on a framed link in the 3-sphere with ±1 surgery coefficients. Furthermore, each component of the link can be assumed to be unknotted.
The the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20African%20shelduck | The South African shelduck or Cape shelduck (Tadorna cana) is a species of shelduck, a group of large goose-like birds which are part of the bird family Anatidae, which also includes the swans, geese and ducks. This is a common species native to southern Africa.
This is a long bird which breeds mainly in Namibia and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise%20shelduck | The paradise shelduck (Tadorna variegata), also known as the paradise duck, or in Māori, is a species of shelduck, a group of goose-like ducks, which is endemic to New Zealand. Johann Friedrich Gmelin placed it in the genus Anas with the ducks, geese, and swans. Both the male and female have striking plumages: the mal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repolarization | In neuroscience, repolarization refers to the change in membrane potential that returns it to a negative value just after the depolarization phase of an action potential which has changed the membrane potential to a positive value. The repolarization phase usually returns the membrane potential back to the resting memb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodge%20index%20theorem | In mathematics, the Hodge index theorem for an algebraic surface V determines the signature of the intersection pairing on the algebraic curves C on V. It says, roughly speaking, that the space spanned by such curves (up to linear equivalence) has a one-dimensional subspace on which it is positive definite (not uniquel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20Monkey | Orange Monkey is an American experimental rock band from California. The band currently consists of Aukey, Crystal, Mc Ryan, Dave and a penguin named Hiyo (formerly known as The Mysterious Hiyo.) The music is kitsch, quirky and satirical, with choppy editing and obscure references to the Power Rangers, Kerri Strug, ITT... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn%20%28anatomy%29 | A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone. Horns are distinct from antlers, which are not permanent.
In mammals, true horns are found mainly among the ruminant artiodactyls, in the families Antilocap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutive | Constitutive may refer to:
In physics, a constitutive equation is a relation between two physical quantities
In ecology, a constitutive defense is one that is always active, as opposed to an inducible defense
Constitutive theory of statehood
In genetics, a constitutive gene is always expressed – see constitutive e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cub%20Koda | Michael John "Cub" Koda (born October 1, 1948 – July 1, 2000) was an American rock and roll singer, guitarist, songwriter, disc jockey, music critic, and record compiler. Rolling Stone magazine considered him best known for writing the song "Smokin' in the Boys Room", recorded by Brownsville Station, which reached numb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA-induced%20silencing%20complex | The RNA-induced silencing complex, or RISC, is a multiprotein complex, specifically a ribonucleoprotein, which functions in gene silencing via a variety of pathways at the transcriptional and translational levels. Using single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) fragments, such as microRNA (miRNA), or double-stranded small interferin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s%20method%20in%20optimization | In calculus, Newton's method (also called Newton–Raphson) is an iterative method for finding the roots of a differentiable function , which are solutions to the equation . As such, Newton's method can be applied to the derivative of a twice-differentiable function to find the roots of the derivative (solutions to ), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxazolidine | Oxazolidine is a five-membered heterocycle ringwith the formula .The O atom and NH groups are not mutually bonded, in contrast to isoxazolidine. Oxazolidines (emphasis on plural) are derivatives of the parent oxazolidine owing to the presence of substituents on carbon and/or nitrogen. Oxazolines are unsaturated analogu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby%20lenses | The Visby lenses are a collection of lens-shaped manufactured objects made of rock crystal (quartz) found in several Viking graves on the island of Gotland, Sweden, and dating from the 11th or 12th century.
Some were in silver mounts with filigree, the mounting covering the back of the lens, and were probably used as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%CE%B1-Reductase | 5α-Reductases, also known as 3-oxo-5α-steroid 4-dehydrogenases, are enzymes involved in steroid metabolism. They participate in three metabolic pathways: bile acid biosynthesis, androgen and estrogen metabolism. There are three isozymes of 5α-reductase encoded by the genes SRD5A1, SRD5A2, and SRD5A3.
5α-Reductases ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20metropolitan%20areas%20in%20Sweden | Sweden has three metropolitan areas consisting of the areas surrounding the three largest cities, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. The statistics have been retrieved from Statistics Sweden and the statistics released on 10 November 2014. The official land areas for each municipality have also been retrieved from Statis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayalite | Fayalite (, commonly abbreviated to Fa) is the iron-rich end-member of the olivine solid-solution series. In common with all minerals in the olivine group, fayalite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system (space group Pbnm) with cell parameters a 4.82 Å, b 10.48 Å and c 6.09 Å.
Fayalite forms solid solution series wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance%20Williams%20%28graphics%20researcher%29 | Lance J. Williams (September 25, 1949 – August 20, 2017) was a prominent graphics researcher who made major contributions to texture map prefiltering, shadow rendering algorithms, facial animation, and antialiasing techniques. Williams was one of the first people to recognize the potential of computer graphics to trans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domo%20%28robot%29 | Domo is an experimental robot made by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed to interact with humans. The brainchild of Jeff Weber and Aaron Edsinger, cofounders of Meka Robotics, its name comes from the Japanese phrase for "thank you very much", domo arigato, as well as the Styx song, "Mr. Roboto". The Dom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesicular%20monoamine%20transporter | The vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT) is a transport protein integrated into the membranes of synaptic vesicles of presynaptic neurons. It transports monoamine neurotransmitters – such as dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, epinephrine, and histamine – into the vesicles, which release the neurotransmitters into s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adna%20R.%20Chaffee%20Jr. | Adna Romanza Chaffee Jr. (September 23, 1884 – August 22, 1941) was an officer in the United States Army, called the "Father of the Armored Force" for his role in developing the U.S. Army's tank forces.
Early life and education
Chaffee was born in Junction City, Kansas, on September 23, 1884, to his father, Lieutenant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20B.%20Aikin | Jesse Bowman Aikin (1808–1900) was a shape note "singing master", and compiler of the shape note tunebook The Christian Minstrel. He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania and lived on a farm in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Aikin, a member of the Church of the Brethren, was the first to successfully produce a song book (T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Ewart | Peter Ewart (14 May 1767 – 15 September 1842) was a British engineer who was influential in developing the technologies of turbines and theories of thermodynamics.
Biography
He was son of the Church of Scotland minister of Troqueer near Dumfries, and was one of eleven children. His brother Joseph Ewart became British ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APACHE%20II | APACHE II ("Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II") is a severity-of-disease classification system, one of several ICU scoring systems. It is applied within 24 hours of admission of a patient to an intensive care unit (ICU): an integer score from 0 to 71 is computed based on several measurements; higher sco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRCA2 | BRCA2 and BRCA2 () are a human gene and its protein product, respectively. The official symbol (BRCA2, italic for the gene, nonitalic for the protein) and the official name (originally breast cancer 2; currently BRCA2, DNA repair associated) are maintained by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee. One alternative symbol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam%2C%20Saskatchewan | Amsterdam is a hamlet within the Rural Municipality of Buchanan No. 304, Saskatchewan, Canada. Listed as a designated place by Statistics Canada, the hamlet had a population of 25 in the Canada 2016 Census. The hamlet is located 63.9 km north of the city of Yorkton and 1.5 km west of Highway 9. The community was founde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%20explosion | A Coulombic explosion is a condensed-matter physics process in which a molecule or crystal lattice is destroyed by the Coulombic repulsion between its constituent atoms. Coulombic explosions are a prominent technique in laser-based machining, and appear naturally in certain high-energy reactions.
Mechanism
A Coulombic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance%20Raman%20spectroscopy | Resonance Raman spectroscopy (RR spectroscopy or RRS) is a variant of Raman spectroscopy in which the incident photon energy is close in energy to an electronic transition of a compound or material under examination. This similarity in energy (resonance) leads to greatly increased intensity of the Raman scattering of c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoprotein%20lipase | Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) (EC 3.1.1.34, systematic name triacylglycerol acylhydrolase (lipoprotein-dependent)) is a member of the lipase gene family, which includes pancreatic lipase, hepatic lipase, and endothelial lipase. It is a water-soluble enzyme that hydrolyzes triglycerides in lipoproteins, such as those found i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excision%20theorem | In algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics, the excision theorem is a theorem about relative homology and one of the Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms. Given a topological space and subspaces and such that is also a subspace of , the theorem says that under certain circumstances, we can cut out (excise) from both spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solec%20Kujawski%20radio%20transmitter | The Longwave transmitter Solec Kujawski is a longwave broadcasting facility of the Polish Radio for the AM-LW (long wave) 225 kHz frequency/1333 meters wavelength. Its construction was necessary after the collapse of the Warsaw radio mast on August 8, 1991 and the resistance of the local population to its reconstructio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20topology | Algorithmic topology, or computational topology, is a subfield of topology with an overlap with areas of computer science, in particular, computational geometry and computational complexity theory.
A primary concern of algorithmic topology, as its name suggests, is to develop efficient algorithms for solving problems ... |
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