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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20bromate
Potassium bromate (), is a bromate of potassium and takes the form of white crystals or powder. It is a strong oxidizing agent. Preparation Potassium bromate is produced when bromine is passed through a hot solution of potassium hydroxide. This first forms unstable potassium hypobromite, which quickly disproportionate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprotection
Neuroprotection refers to the relative preservation of neuronal structure and/or function. In the case of an ongoing insult (a neurodegenerative insult) the relative preservation of neuronal integrity implies a reduction in the rate of neuronal loss over time, which can be expressed as a differential equation. It is a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing%20by%20mouth
Nothing by mouth is a medical instruction meaning to withhold food and fluids. It is also known as nil per os (npo or NPO), a Latin phrase that translates to English as "nothing through the mouth". Variants include nil by mouth (NBM), nihil/non/nulla per os, or complete bowel rest. A liquid-only diet may also be referr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSSSF
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) is an international organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world. History This enterprise, according to its founders, was created i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20lactate
Calcium lactate is a white crystalline salt with formula , consisting of two lactate anions (CHOH) for each calcium cation . It forms several hydrates, the most common being the pentahydrate ·5. Calcium lactate is used in medicine, mainly to treat calcium deficiencies; and as a food additive with E number of E327. S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamine%20synthetase
Glutamine synthetase (GS) () is an enzyme that plays an essential role in the metabolism of nitrogen by catalyzing the condensation of glutamate and ammonia to form glutamine: Glutamate + ATP + NH3 → Glutamine + ADP + phosphate Glutamine synthetase uses ammonia produced by nitrate reduction, amino acid degradation, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore
Boyer–Moore may refer to: Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm Boyer–Moore theorem prover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncentral%20chi-squared%20distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the noncentral chi-squared distribution (or noncentral chi-square distribution, noncentral distribution) is a noncentral generalization of the chi-squared distribution. It often arises in the power analysis of statistical tests in which the null distribution is (perhaps asymptoti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATCC%20%28company%29
ATCC or the American Type Culture Collection is a nonprofit organization which collects, stores, and distributes standard reference microorganisms, cell lines and other materials for research and development. Established in 1925 to serve as a national center for depositing and distributing microbiological specimens, AT...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20oven
A crystal oven is a temperature-controlled chamber used to maintain the quartz crystal in electronic crystal oscillators at a constant temperature, in order to prevent changes in the frequency due to variations in ambient temperature. An oscillator of this type is known as an oven-controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO, w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TO-220
The TO-220 is a style of electronic package used for high-powered, through-hole components with pin spacing. The "TO" designation stands for "transistor outline". TO-220 packages have three leads. Similar packages with two, four, five or seven leads are also manufactured. A notable characteristic is a metal tab with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin-like%20growth%20factor%202
Insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF-2) is one of three protein hormones that share structural similarity to insulin. The MeSH definition reads: "A well-characterized neutral peptide believed to be secreted by the liver and to circulate in the blood. It has growth-regulating, insulin-like and mitogenic activities. The gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRCA
PRCA may refer to: Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Protestant Reformed Churches in America Public Relations and Communications Association Pure red cell aplasia Pusch Ridge Christian Academy, a school in Oro Valley, Arizona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupatorium
Eupatorium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, containing from 36 to 60 species depending on the classification system. Most are herbaceous perennials growing to tall. A few are shrubs. The genus is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most are commonly called bonesets, thorough...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20allergy
In medicine, animal allergy is hypersensitivity to certain substances produced by animals, such as the proteins in animal hair and saliva. It is a common type of allergy. Signs and symptoms Symptoms of an allergic reaction to animals may include itchy skin, nasal congestion, itchy nose, sneezing, chronic sore throat o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-pass%20compiler
A multi-pass compiler is a type of compiler that processes the source code or abstract syntax tree of a program several times. This is in contrast to a one-pass compiler, which traverses the program only once. Each pass takes the result of the previous pass as the input, and creates an intermediate output. In this way,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riedel%20%28glass%20manufacturer%29
Riedel ( ) Crystal is a glassware manufacturer based in Kufstein, Austria, best known for its glassware designed to enhance different types of wines. According to Petr Novy, Chief curator Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic, Riedel is the oldest family owned and operated global crystal g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Perperna%20%28consul%20130%20BC%29
Marcus Perperna, Roman consul in 130 BC, is said to have been a consul before he was a citizen; for Valerius Maximus relates, that the father of this Perperna was condemned under the lex Papia after the death of his son, because he had falsely usurped the rights of a Roman citizen but his father was later deemed innoce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromolecular%20docking
Macromolecular docking is the computational modelling of the quaternary structure of complexes formed by two or more interacting biological macromolecules. Protein–protein complexes are the most commonly attempted targets of such modelling, followed by protein–nucleic acid complexes. The ultimate goal of docking is th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleopolyploidy
Paleopolyploidy is the result of genome duplications which occurred at least several million years ago (MYA). Such an event could either double the genome of a single species (autopolyploidy) or combine those of two species (allopolyploidy). Because of functional redundancy, genes are rapidly silenced or lost from the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montuno
Montuno has several meanings pertaining to Cuban music and its derivatives. Literally, montuno means 'comes from the mountain', and so son montuno may refer to the older type of son played in the mountainous rural areas of Oriente. Another possibility is that the word montuno comes from the word montura, the Spanish wo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s%20algorithm
In electrical engineering and computer science, Lloyd's algorithm, also known as Voronoi iteration or relaxation, is an algorithm named after Stuart P. Lloyd for finding evenly spaced sets of points in subsets of Euclidean spaces and partitions of these subsets into well-shaped and uniformly sized convex cells. Like t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20energy%20theorem
The positive energy theorem (also known as the positive mass theorem) refers to a collection of foundational results in general relativity and differential geometry. Its standard form, broadly speaking, asserts that the gravitational energy of an isolated system is nonnegative, and can only be zero when the system has ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artin%20reciprocity%20law
The Artin reciprocity law, which was established by Emil Artin in a series of papers (1924; 1927; 1930), is a general theorem in number theory that forms a central part of global class field theory. The term "reciprocity law" refers to a long line of more concrete number theoretic statements which it generalized, from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20sieve
In mathematics, the rational sieve is a general algorithm for factoring integers into prime factors. It is a special case of the general number field sieve. While it is less efficient than the general algorithm, it is conceptually simpler. It serves as a helpful first step in understanding how the general number field ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian%20algorithm
The Hungarian method is a combinatorial optimization algorithm that solves the assignment problem in polynomial time and which anticipated later primal–dual methods. It was developed and published in 1955 by Harold Kuhn, who gave the name "Hungarian method" because the algorithm was largely based on the earlier works o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Mayer
Jean Mayer (19 April 1920 – 1 January 1993) was a French-American scientist best known for his research on the physiological bases of hunger and the metabolism of essential nutrients, and for his role in shaping policy on world hunger at both the national and international levels. As a professor at the Harvard School o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myhill%20isomorphism%20theorem
In computability theory the Myhill isomorphism theorem, named after John Myhill, provides a characterization for two numberings to induce the same notion of computability on a set. Theorem Definitions Sets A and B of natural numbers are said to be recursively isomorphic if there is a total computable bijective funct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-phase%20modulation
Self-phase modulation (SPM) is a nonlinear optical effect of light–matter interaction. An ultrashort pulse of light, when travelling in a medium, will induce a varying refractive index of the medium due to the optical Kerr effect. This variation in refractive index will produce a phase shift in the pulse, leading to a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patos%20de%20Minas
Patos de Minas is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Geography According to the modern (2017) geographic classification by Brazil's National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the city is the main municipality in the Intermediate Geographic Region of Patos de Minas. History The name is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlado%20Kalember
Vladimir "Vlado" Kalember (born 26 April 1953) is a Croatian pop singer, famous for his recognisable, husky voice. In the 1970s, he was the vocalist of the popular pop band, Srebrna Krila. After leaving the band, he continued with a solo career. In 1984, together with Izolda Barudžija, he represented Yugoslavia at th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20Ryan%20Gregory
T. Ryan Gregory (born May 16, 1975) is a Canadian evolutionary biologist and genome biologist and a Professor of the Department of Integrative Biology and the Division of Genomic Diversity within the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Career Gregory completed his...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20D.%20N.%20Hebert
Paul David Neil Hebert (born 1947) is a Canadian biologist. He is founder and director of the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He applied the technique invented by Carl Woese and colleagues in the 1980s to arthropods and called it DNA barcoding. Hebert holds the Tier 1 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camphoric%20acid
Camphoric acid, C10H16O4 or in Latin form Acidum camphoricum, is a white crystallisable substance obtained from the oxidation of camphor. It exists in three optically different forms; the dextrorotatory one is obtained by the oxidation of dextrorotatory camphor and is used in pharmaceuticals. History Acidum camphoric...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker%20v.%20Flook
Parker v. Flook, 437 U.S. 584 (1978), was a 1978 United States Supreme Court decision that ruled that an invention that departs from the prior art only in its use of a mathematical algorithm is patent eligible only if there is some other "inventive concept in its application." The algorithm itself must be considered as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Linighan
Andrew Linighan (born 18 June 1962) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender from 1980 until 2000, notably in the Premier League for Arsenal and Crystal Palace. He also played in the Football League for Hartlepool United, Leeds United, Oldham Athletic, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Genome%20Size%20Database
The Animal Genome Size Database is a catalogue of published genome size estimates for vertebrate and invertebrate animals. It was created in 2001 by Dr. T. Ryan Gregory of the University of Guelph in Canada. As of September 2005, the database contains data for over 4,000 species of animals. A similar database, the P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20network
An Omega network is a network configuration often used in parallel computing architectures. It is an indirect topology that relies on the perfect shuffle interconnection algorithm. Connection architecture An 8x8 Omega network is a multistage interconnection network, meaning that processing elements (PEs) are connected...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20DNA%20C-values%20Database
The Plant DNA C-values Database (https://cvalues.science.kew.org/) is a comprehensive catalogue of C-value (nuclear DNA content, or in diploids, genome size) data for land plants and algae. The database was created by Prof. Michael D. Bennett and Dr. Ilia J. Leitch of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. The database ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophanin
Ophanin is a toxin found in the venom of the King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah), which lives throughout South East Asia. This toxin belongs to the cysteine-rich secretory protein (CRISP) family. Ophanin weakly blocks the contraction of smooth muscles elicited by high potassium-induced depolarization, suggesting that it in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminite
Aluminite is a hydrous aluminium sulfate mineral with formula: Al2SO4(OH)4·7H2O. It is an earthy white to gray-white monoclinic mineral which almost never exhibits crystal form. It forms botryoidal to mammillary clay-like masses. It has a very soft Mohs hardness of 1–2 and a specific gravity of 1.66–1.82. It forms in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen%E2%80%93Olesen%20string
In theoretical physics, Nielsen–Olesen string is a one-dimensional object or equivalently a classical solution of certain equations of motion. The solution does not depend on the direction along the string; the dependence on the other two, transverse dimensions is identical as in the case of a Nielsen–Olesen vortex. Q...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta%20structure
A theta structure is an intermediate structure formed during the replication of a circular DNA molecule. Two replication forks can proceed independently around the DNA ring and when viewed from above the structure resembles the Greek letter "theta" (θ). Originally discovered by John Cairns, it led to the understanding ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20instanton
In mathematical physics and differential geometry, a gravitational instanton is a four-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold satisfying the vacuum Einstein equations. They are so named because they are analogues in quantum theories of gravity of instantons in Yang–Mills theory. In accordance with this analogy with s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCS%20algorithm
For mathematical optimization, Multilevel Coordinate Search (MCS) is an efficient algorithm for bound constrained global optimization using function values only. To do so, the n-dimensional search space is represented by a set of non-intersecting hypercubes (boxes). The boxes are then iteratively split along an axis p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRST%20algorithm
Boender-Rinnooy-Stougie-Timmer algorithm (BRST) is an optimization algorithm suitable for finding global optimum of black box functions. In their paper Boender et al. describe their method as a stochastic method involving a combination of sampling, clustering and local search, terminating with a range of confidence in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung%20Fu%20master
Kung Fu Master. or derivatives thereof, may refer to: Kung Fu Master (film), a 1988 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda The Kung Fu Master (TV series), a 1994 Hong Kong martial arts television series The Kung Fu Master, a 2020 Indian Malayalam-language martial arts film Kung Fu Master, a 2005 film directed a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, a flow formalizes the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid. Flows are ubiquitous in science, including engineering and physics. The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations. Informally, a flow may be viewed as a continuous motion of points over time. More formally, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrix
Tetrix may refer to: Tetrix (band), a Canadian rock/improv band Tetrix (insect), a genus of insects in the family Tetrigidae called ground-hoppers Tetrix Robotics Kit, an educational robotics kit 8598 Tetrix, a main-belt asteroid A three-dimensional analog of the Sierpiński triangle. The name of some clones of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPMD
PPMD may refer to: People Kevin Nanney, an e-sports professional known by his gamer tag PPMD Computer science the compression algorithm PPMd, a variant of the Prediction by partial matching (PPM) compression technique
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBA1
Ubiquitin-like modifier activating enzyme 1 (UBA1) is an enzyme which in humans is encoded by the UBA1 gene. UBA1 participates in ubiquitination and the NEDD8 pathway for protein folding and degradation, among many other biological processes. This protein has been linked to X-linked spinal muscular atrophy type 2, neur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Ball%20function
The Crystal Ball function, named after the Crystal Ball Collaboration (hence the capitalized initial letters), is a probability density function commonly used to model various lossy processes in high-energy physics. It consists of a Gaussian core portion and a power-law low-end tail, below a certain threshold. The func...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysinuric%20protein%20intolerance
Lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder affecting amino acid transport. About 140 patients have been reported, almost half of them of Finnish origin. Individuals from Japan, Italy, Morocco and North Africa have also been reported plus one in Bixby, Oklahoma. Signs and symptoms...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20risk
The relative risk (RR) or risk ratio is the ratio of the probability of an outcome in an exposed group to the probability of an outcome in an unexposed group. Together with risk difference and odds ratio, relative risk measures the association between the exposure and the outcome. Statistical use and meaning Relative ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Mancell
Josh Mancell (born November 13, 1969) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who writes music for film, television, and video games. He is best known for his work on the Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter series of video games. Mancell has received two Daytime Emmy Award nominations for his work on the chil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland%20Seven
The Portland Seven was a group of American Muslims from the Portland, Oregon area arrested in October 2002 as part of an FBI operation attempting to close down a terrorist cell. The seven were attempting to join al Qaeda forces in their fight against the United States military and coalition forces in Afghanistan, or ai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcipotriol
Calcipotriol, also known as calcipotriene, is a synthetic derivative of calcitriol, a form of vitamin D. It is used in the treatment of psoriasis. It is safe for long-term application in psoriatic skin conditions. It was patented in 1985 and approved for medical use in 1991. It is marketed under the trade name "Dovon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierna%20la%20Noche
Tierna la Noche is the second studio album by Mexican singer Fey, released on 16 April 1996, through Sony Music Entertainment Mexico. After its release, it quickly climbed the charts to later peak at the top spot. The album stayed there for more than 3 months and stayed in the Top 20 for more than 40 weeks. In sales, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDC
FDC may refer to: Organizations Companies Food Donation Connection, an American surplus food rescue company Football DataCo, a British football media company Forensic DNA Consultants, a South African forensics company Filinvest, a Philippine real estate conglomerate First Data, an American financial services com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell%202029
Abell 2029 or A2029 is a large and relaxed cluster of galaxies 315 megaparsecs (1.027 billion light-years) away in the constellation Virgo. A2029 is a Bautz–Morgan classification type I cluster due to its large central galaxy, IC 1101. Abell 2029 has a diameter of 5.8–8 million light-years. This type of galaxy is call...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%20coefficient
Path coefficients are standardized versions of linear regression weights which can be used in examining the possible causal linkage between statistical variables in the structural equation modeling approach. The standardization involves multiplying the ordinary regression coefficient by the standard deviations of the c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Bell
Adrian Hanbury Bell (4 October 1901 – 5 September 1980) was an English ruralist journalist and farmer, and the first compiler of The Times crossword. Early life Bell was born at Stretford, Lancashire, son of Robert Bell (1865-1949), editor of The Observer, and artist Emily Jane Frances (1873-1954), second of three dau...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLUT2
Glucose transporter 2 (GLUT2) also known as solute carrier family 2 (facilitated glucose transporter), member 2 (SLC2A2) is a transmembrane carrier protein that enables protein facilitated glucose movement across cell membranes. It is the principal transporter for transfer of glucose between liver and blood Unlike GLUT...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAT%20protein
Members of the signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) protein family are intracellular transcription factors that mediate many aspects of cellular immunity, proliferation, apoptosis and differentiation. They are primarily activated by membrane receptor-associated Janus kinases (JAK). Dysregulation of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECLiPSe
ECLiPSe is a software system for the development and deployment of constraint logic programming applications, e.g., in the areas of optimization, planning, scheduling, resource allocation, timetabling, transport, etc. It is also suited for teaching most aspects of combinatorial problem solving, e.g., problem modeling, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium%20venenatum
Fusarium venenatum is a microfungus of the genus Fusarium that has a high protein content. One of its strains is used commercially for the production of the single cell protein mycoprotein Quorn. Fusarium venenatum was discovered growing in soil in Buckinghamshire in the United Kingdom, in 1967 by ICI as part of the e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowring
Bowring is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881, its relative frequency was highest in Dorset (36.5 times the British average), followed by Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, Hampshire, Surrey, the Channel Islands, Shropshire and Somerset. The name Bowring...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax-directed%20translation
Syntax-directed translation refers to a method of compiler implementation where the source language translation is completely driven by the parser. A common method of syntax-directed translation is translating a string into a sequence of actions by attaching one such action to each rule of a grammar. Thus, parsing a s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%2C%20Nevada
Crystal is the name of two locations in Nevada: Crystal, Clark County, Nevada Crystal, Nye County, Nevada ar:كريستال، نيفادا vo:Crystal (Nevada)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Cam%27s%20theorem
In probability theory, Le Cam's theorem, named after Lucien Le Cam (1924 – 2000), states the following. Suppose: are independent random variables, each with a Bernoulli distribution (i.e., equal to either 0 or 1), not necessarily identically distributed. (i.e. follows a Poisson binomial distribution) Then ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B12%20%28band%29
B12 are a British electronic music duo consisting of Mike Golding and Steve Rutter. First appearing in the early 1990s under a variety of monikers, including Musicology, Redcell and Cmetric, the duo were often mistaken as hailing from Detroit, their sound being comparable to the so-called second wave of Detroit techno....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foidolite
Foidolite () is a rare phaneritic (coarse-grained) intrusive igneous rock in which more than 60% (by volume) of light-coloured minerals are feldspathoids. Crystals of alkali feldspar, plagioclase, biotite, amphibole, pyroxene, and/or olivine may be present within the rock. The volcanic equivalents are termed foidite an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20wave%20equation
In physics, the acoustic wave equation is a second-order partial differential equation that governs the propagation of acoustic waves through a material medium resp. a standing wavefield. The equation describes the evolution of acoustic pressure or particle velocity as a function of position and time . A simplified...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunt%E2%80%93V%C3%A4is%C3%A4l%C3%A4%20frequency
In atmospheric dynamics, oceanography, asteroseismology and geophysics, the Brunt–Väisälä frequency, or buoyancy frequency, is a measure of the stability of a fluid to vertical displacements such as those caused by convection. More precisely it is the frequency at which a vertically displaced parcel will oscillate with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Display%20Works
International Display Works, Inc. () manufactures and designs liquid crystal display LCD products internationally though its factories in the People's Republic of China. Its products are found in the telecommunications, automotive, medical, computing, home appliance, and consumer electronics industries. History Septem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Security%20Oversight%20Office
The Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) is responsible to the President for policy and oversight of the government-wide security classification system and the National Industrial Security Program in the United States. The ISOO is a component of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and receiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Palace%20Park
Crystal Palace Park is a large park in south-east London, Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It was laid out in the 1850s as a pleasure ground, centred around the re-location of The Crystal Palace -- the largest glass building of the time -- from central London to this area on the border of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telluride%20mineral
A telluride mineral is a mineral that has the telluride anion as a main component. Tellurides are similar to sulfides and are grouped with them in both the Dana and Strunz mineral classification systems. Examples include: altaite calaverite coloradoite empressite hessite kostovite krennerite melonite merens...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin%20%28solitaire%29
Penguin is a patience or solitaire card game, invented by David Parlett, which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. The game play is similar to solitaire card games like the popular Freecell and its predecessor Eight Off. Rules The cards are dealt from left to right into seven columns, each with seven rows. The first car...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone%20%28disambiguation%29
A gemstone is a piece of mineral crystal or rock used to make jewelry or other adornments. Gemstone or gemstones may also refer to: Gemstone (database), or GemStone/S, commercial software by GemStone Systems GemStone IV, GemStone III and GemStone II, multiplayer online role-playing video games Gemstone Publishing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson%20function
The Patterson function is used to solve the phase problem in X-ray crystallography. It was introduced in 1935 by Arthur Lindo Patterson while he was a visiting researcher in the laboratory of Bertram Eugene Warren at MIT. The Patterson function is defined as It is essentially the Fourier transform of the intensities ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20methods
Protein methods are the techniques used to study proteins. There are experimental methods for studying proteins (e.g., for detecting proteins, for isolating and purifying proteins, and for characterizing the structure and function of proteins, often requiring that the protein first be purified). Computational methods t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme%20assay
Enzyme assays are laboratory methods for measuring enzymatic activity. They are vital for the study of enzyme kinetics and enzyme inhibition. Enzyme units The quantity or concentration of an enzyme can be expressed in molar amounts, as with any other chemical, or in terms of activity in enzyme units. Enzyme activity ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flegel
Flegel may refer to: People Erna Flegel, (1911-2006), German nurse Eduard Robert Flegel, (1855-1886), German explorer Georg Flegel (1566–1638), German painter Murray Flegel (born 1948), ice hockey player Willy A. Flegel (born 1960), professor of transfusion medicine and Immunohematology Film So ein Flegel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%20effect
The Wolf effect (sometimes Wolf shift) is a frequency shift in the electromagnetic spectrum. The phenomenon occurs in several closely related phenomena in radiation physics, with analogous effects occurring in the scattering of light. It was first predicted by Emil Wolf in 1987 and subsequently confirmed in the laborat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Walters
Susan Walters is an American actress and former model, best known for her roles as Lorna Forbes on the ABC daytime soap opera Loving from 1983 to late 1986 and as Diane Jenkins on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2001 to 2004, again briefly in 2010, and once more starting in March 2022. Walters had re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Haggan
Mario Marcell Haggan (born March 3, 1980) is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Buffalo Bills, the Denver Broncos, and St. Louis Rams. He was drafted by the Bills in the seventh round of the 2003 NFL Draft after playing college football at Mississippi State. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligoastrocytoma
Oligoastrocytomas are a subset of brain tumors that present with an appearance of mixed glial cell origin, astrocytoma and oligodendroglioma. However, the term "Oligoastrocytoma" is now considered obsolete by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network stating "the term should no longer be used as such morphologically ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appressorium
An appressorium is a specialized cell typical of many fungal plant pathogens that is used to infect host plants. It is a flattened, hyphal "pressing" organ, from which a minute infection peg grows and enters the host, using turgor pressure capable of punching through even Mylar. Following spore attachment and germinat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Lawry%20Norton
Edward Lawry Norton (July 28, 1898 – January 28, 1983) was an accomplished engineer and scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and is known for Norton's theorem. His areas of active research included network theory, acoustical systems, electromagnetic apparatus, and data transmission. A graduate of MIT and Columbia Univ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20ice%20%28glacial%29
Blue ice occurs when snow falls on a glacier, is compressed, and becomes part of the glacier. During compression, air bubbles are squeezed out, so ice crystals enlarge. This enlargement is responsible for the ice's blue colour. Small amounts of regular ice appear to be white because of air bubbles inside and also b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IL-12
IL-12 or IL 12 may refer to: Interleukin 12, a protein encoded in humans Ilyushin Il-12, a Soviet twin-engine airliner and military transport aircraft Illinois's 12th congressional district Illinois Route 12, a highway in Illinois, United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aequorin
Aequorin is a calcium-activated photoprotein isolated from the hydrozoan Aequorea victoria. Its bioluminescence was studied decades before the protein was isolated from the animal by Osamu Shimomura in 1962. In the animal, the protein occurs together with the green fluorescent protein to produce green light by resonant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9nonces
Bénonces () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Geography Climate Bénonces has a oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb) closely bordering on a humid continental climate (Dfb). The average annual temperature in Bénonces is . The average annual rainfall is with October as the wettest mon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAA
XAA may refer to: Science Xaa, the abbreviation for an unspecified amino acid Xaa-Pro aminopeptidase, an enzyme Xaa-Xaa-Pro tripeptidyl-peptidase, an enzyme Other uses ISO 639:xaa, Andalusian Arabic XFree86 Acceleration Architecture, an X Window System driver architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Martini%20Henry%20Rifles
The Martini Henry Rifles were a British noise-punk band based in Cardiff, Wales. Influences and genre classification Most of their quoted influences are noise and punk (most noticeably Brainiac, whose influence is clear in the Martinis' work), hence the most common noise-punk genre classification. The band never put a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apyrase
Apyrase (, ATP-diphosphatase, adenosine diphosphatase, ADPase, ATP diphosphohydrolase) is a calcium-activated plasma membrane-bound enzyme (magnesium can also activate it) () that catalyses the hydrolysis of ATP to yield AMP and inorganic phosphate. Two isoenzymes are found in commercial preparations from S. tuberosum....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr%20Dianin
Aleksandr Pavlovich Dianin (; 20 April 1851 – 6 December 1918) was a Russian Empire chemist from Saint Petersburg. He carried out studies on phenols and discovered a phenol derivative now known as bisphenol A and the accordingly named Dianin's compound. He was married to the adopted daughter of fellow chemist Alexander...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerna
Cerna may refer to: Populated places Cerna, Croatia, Vukovar-Syrmia County, Croatia Černá (Žďár nad Sázavou District), Czech Republic Černá, Semily District, Czech Republic Cerna, Tulcea, Romania A village in Vaideeni Commune, Vâlcea County, Romania Rivers Romania Cerna (Mureș), a tributary of the Mureș in Hun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorenstein
Gorenstein may refer to: Daniel Gorenstein (1923–1992), American mathematician, known for Alperin–Brauer–Gorenstein theorem Gorenstein–Harada theorem Gorenstein ring Gorenstein scheme Gorenstein–Walter theorem Eli Gorenstein (born 1952), Israeli actor, voice actor, singer and cellist Friedrich Gorenstein (1932–2002...