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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretion%20assay
Secretion assay is a process used in cell biology to identify cells that are secreting a particular protein (usually a cytokine). It was first developed by Manz et al. in 1995. Usually, a cell that is secreting the protein of interest is isolated using an antibody-antibody complex that coats the cell and is able to "c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoporphyrinogen%20oxidase
Protoporphyrinogen oxidase or protox is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PPOX gene. Protoporphyrinogen oxidase is responsible for the seventh step in biosynthesis of protoporphyrin IX. This porphyrin is the precursor to hemoglobin, the oxygen carrier in animals, and chlorophyll, the dye in plants. The enzyme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsallis%20statistics
The term Tsallis statistics usually refers to the collection of mathematical functions and associated probability distributions that were originated by Constantino Tsallis. Using that collection, it is possible to derive Tsallis distributions from the optimization of the Tsallis entropic form. A continuous real paramet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysferlin
Dysferlin also known as dystrophy-associated fer-1-like protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DYSF gene. Dysferlin is linked with plasma membrane repair., stabilization of calcium signaling and the development of the T-tubule system of the muscle A defect in the DYSF gene, located on chromosome 2p12-14,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic%20target
Therapeutic target may refer to: Biological target, a protein or nucleic acid whose activity can be modified by an external stimulus Therapeutic Targets Database, a database to provide information about the known and explored therapeutic targets Therapeutic target range, an alternative reference range
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20frequency%20multiplier
An optical frequency multiplier is a nonlinear optical device in which photons interacting with a nonlinear material are effectively "combined" to form new photons with greater energy, and thus higher frequency (and shorter wavelength). Two types of devices are currently common: frequency doublers, often based on lith...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume%20fraction
In chemistry and fluid mechanics, the volume fraction φi is defined as the volume of a constituent Vi divided by the volume of all constituents of the mixture V prior to mixing: Being dimensionless, its unit is 1; it is expressed as a number, e.g., 0.18. It is the same concept as volume percent (vol%) except that the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKP%20classification%20system
PKP classification system (Polish locomotive designation) is a system of assigning letters and numbers to series and individual locomotives used by the PKP - Polish national railroad operator. The system was introduced for the steam stock by the Ministry of Railways on 3 November 1922, shortly after Poland regained he...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen%20branching%20enzyme
1,4-alpha-glucan-branching enzyme, also known as brancher enzyme or glycogen-branching enzyme is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the GBE1 gene. Glycogen branching enzyme is an enzyme that adds branches to the growing glycogen molecule during the synthesis of glycogen, a storage form of glucose. More specificall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA%20World%20Cup%20records%20and%20statistics
As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 80 national teams have competed at the finals of the FIFA World Cup. Brazil is the only team to have appeared in all 22 tournaments to date, with Germany having participated in 20, Italy and Argentina in 18 and Mexico in 17. Eight nations have won the tournament. The inaugural winners in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-cell%20vaccination
T-cell vaccination is immunization with inactivated autoreactive T cells. The concept of T-cell vaccination is, at least partially, analogous to classical vaccination against infectious disease. However, the agents to be eliminated or neutralized are not foreign microbial agents but a pathogenic autoreactive T-cell pop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-cell%20vaccine
A T-cell vaccine is a vaccine designed to induce protective T-cells. T-cell vaccines are designed to induce cellular immunity. They are also referred to as cell-mediated immune (CMI) vaccines. It is thought that they can be more effective than conventional B-cell vaccines for protection from microbes that hide inside...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Evil%20%28Buffy%20novel%29
Prime Evil is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Tagline: 'Infinity awaits an ancient evil'. Plot summary Crystal Gregory is a beautiful new teacher at Sunnydale High, who also happens to give Buffy panic fits whenever she's in the same room as her. Buffy can't sense anyth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22%20equal%20temperament
In music, 22 equal temperament, called 22-TET, 22-EDO, or 22-ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 22 equal steps (equal frequency ratios). Each step represents a frequency ratio of , or 54.55 cents (). When composing with 22-ET, one needs to take into account a variety of considerations. Cons...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20J%20%28Y-DNA%29
Haplogroup J-M304, also known as J, is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It is believed to have evolved in Western Asia. The clade spread from there during the Neolithic, primarily into North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Socotra Archipelago, the Caucasus, Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, and Southe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20E-M215
E-M215, also known as E1b1b-M215, is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. E-M215 has two basal branches, E-M35 and E-M281. E-M35 is primarily distributed in North Africa and the Horn of Africa, and occurs at lower frequencies in the Middle East, Europe, and Southern Africa. E-M281 occurs at a low frequency in Ethiopia....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarna%20S%C3%A1nchez
Encarna Sánchez (September 19, 1935 – April 5, 1996) was an influential Spanish talk radio host and current events commentator. Generally viewed as a conservative, her views were of great influence on working, middle classes and ruling Governments in Spain at that time. She was well known for her coverage of political ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%27s%20tree%20theorem
In mathematics, Kruskal's tree theorem states that the set of finite trees over a well-quasi-ordered set of labels is itself well-quasi-ordered under homeomorphic embedding. History The theorem was conjectured by Andrew Vázsonyi and proved by ; a short proof was given by . It has since become a prominent example in r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Star%20Packer
The Star Packer is a 1934 Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring John Wayne, George "Gabby" Hayes, Yakima Canutt, and Verna Hillie. Plot U.S. Marshal John Travers becomes the sheriff of a turn-of-the-20th century western town where several murders have occurred, hoping to flush out an outlaw known o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottj%C3%A4rn
Nottjärn is a small lake in the city of Ludvika, Sweden. It is a popular place to swim in the summer. Lakes of Dalarna County
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fano%27s%20inequality
In information theory, Fano's inequality (also known as the Fano converse and the Fano lemma) relates the average information lost in a noisy channel to the probability of the categorization error. It was derived by Robert Fano in the early 1950s while teaching a Ph.D. seminar in information theory at MIT, and later r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20body
A polar body is a small haploid cell that is formed at the same time as an egg cell during oogenesis, but generally does not have the ability to be fertilized. It is named from its polar position in the egg. When certain diploid cells in animals undergo cytokinesis after meiosis to produce egg cells, they sometimes di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20additive%20model
In statistics, a generalized additive model (GAM) is a generalized linear model in which the linear response variable depends linearly on unknown smooth functions of some predictor variables, and interest focuses on inference about these smooth functions. GAMs were originally developed by Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibsh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog%20%28disambiguation%29
Fog is a visible mass consisting of cloud water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. Fog or FOG may also refer to: Poetry and books "Fog" (poem), by Carl Sandburg Fog, a 1933 novel by Valentine Williams and Dorothy Rice Sims The Fog (novel), a 1975 British horror novel by J...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baillie%E2%80%93PSW%20primality%20test
The Baillie–PSW primality test is a probabilistic or possibly deterministic primality testing algorithm that determines whether a number is composite or is a probable prime. It is named after Robert Baillie, Carl Pomerance, John Selfridge, and Samuel Wagstaff. The Baillie–PSW test is a combination of a strong Fermat p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCAS
FCAS may refer to: Familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome, a genetic disease Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, a U.S. professional society Frequency Control Ancillary Services for electric power grids Future Combat Air System, a sixth-generation fighter jet currently in development by France, Germany, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdc25
Cdc25 is a dual-specificity phosphatase first isolated from the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a cell cycle defective mutant. As with other cell cycle proteins or genes such as Cdc2 and Cdc4, the "cdc" in its name refers to "cell division control". Dual-specificity phosphatases are considered a sub-class of protein...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%27s%20reactance%20theorem
Foster's reactance theorem is an important theorem in the fields of electrical network analysis and synthesis. The theorem states that the reactance of a passive, lossless two-terminal (one-port) network always strictly monotonically increases with frequency. It is easily seen that the reactances of inductors and cap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRG
VRG may refer to: British Virgin Islands, ITU country code Varig, a Brazilian airline Ventral respiratory group, a column of neurons located in the medulla Viktor Rydberg Gymnasium, a group of Swedish schools Vintage Racer Group, a vintage racing group in the United States Virtual Racing Group, more important simracin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOF
LOF may refer to: In acronyms and codes: Lack-of-fit test (disambiguation), a concept in statistics Libbey–Owens–Ford, an automotive and building glass manufacturer Lloyd's Open Form: a type of salvage agreement offered by Lloyd's of London Local Outlier Factor, an anomaly detection algorithm Lok Fu station, Hong...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLH
CLH may refer to: Science Chlorophyllase, an enzyme Hydrogen chloride, a chemical compound Companies CLH (company), a Spanish petroleum logistics company comprising Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos and others CLH Pipeline System (CLH-PS), a UK system run by Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos Lufthansa CityLi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20hitchhiking
Genetic hitchhiking, also called genetic draft or the hitchhiking effect, is when an allele changes frequency not because it itself is under natural selection, but because it is near another gene that is undergoing a selective sweep and that is on the same DNA chain. When one gene goes through a selective sweep, any ot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader%20potential
Ecologically, invader potential is the qualitative and quantitative measures of a given invasive species probability to invade a given ecosystem. This is often seen through climate matching. There are many reasons why a species may invade a new area. The term invader potential may also be interchangeable with invasiven...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20canal
The central canal (also known as spinal foramen or ependymal canal) is the cerebrospinal fluid-filled space that runs through the spinal cord. The central canal lies below and is connected to the ventricular system of the brain, from which it receives cerebrospinal fluid, and shares the same ependymal lining. The centr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obex
The obex (from the Latin for barrier) is the point in the human brain at which the fourth ventricle narrows to become the central canal of the spinal cord. Cerebrospinal fluid can flow from the fourth ventricle into the obex. In anatomical studies, the obex has been found to occur approximately 10-12 mm above the level...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube%20lemma
In mathematics, particularly topology, the tube lemma, also called Wallace's theorem, is a useful tool in order to prove that the finite product of compact spaces is compact. Statement The lemma uses the following terminology: If and are topological spaces and is the product space, endowed with the product topo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Ajpesti%20TE
Újpesti Torna Egylet (Újpesti TE or UTE) is a Hungarian sports society, based in Újpest, Budapest. The club, which was founded in 1885, includes sports sections that represent the club at ice hockey, men's water polo, women's volleyball, athletics, wrestling, judo, mud wrestling, flatwater canoeing/kayaking, karate, yo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labarthe-Rivi%C3%A8re
Labarthe-Rivière (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. Geography Climate Labarthe-Rivière has a oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Labarthe-Rivière is . The average annual rainfall is with May as the wettest month. The temperatu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioflavin
Thioflavins are fluorescent dyes that are available as at least two compounds, namely Thioflavin T and Thioflavin S. Both are used for histology staining and biophysical studies of protein aggregation. In particular, these dyes have been used since 1989 to investigate amyloid formation. They are also used in biophysica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20City%2C%20Manitoba
Crystal City is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district in the Municipality of Louise within the Canadian province of Manitoba. It held village status prior to January 1, 2015. It is located on Highway 3, 16 kilometres north of the Canada–United States border and 200 kilometres southwest of Win...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20state%20machine
The algorithmic state machine (ASM) is a method for designing finite state machines (FSMs) originally developed by Thomas E. Osborne at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) since 1960, introduced to and implemented at Hewlett-Packard in 1968, formalized and expanded since 1967 and written about by Christopher R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%20%28thermodynamics%29
Thermodynamic work is one of the principal processes by which a thermodynamic system can interact with its surroundings and exchange energy. This exchange results in externally measurable macroscopic forces on the system's surroundings, which can cause mechanical work, to lift a weight, for example, or cause changes in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20national%20parks%20of%20Italy
The national parks of Italy are protected natural areas terrestrial, marine, fluvial or lacustrine, which contain one or more intact ecosystems (or only partially altered by anthropic interventions) and/or one or more physical, geological, geomorphological, biological formations of national and international interest, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ume%C3%A5%20School%20of%20Business
The Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, USBE, or Handelshögskolan vid Umeå Universitet, is the business school of Umeå University in the north of Sweden, founded in 1989 "to strengthen education in research and business while contributing to the community". About 2000 students currently study at USBE. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%27s%20criteria
Johnson's criteria, or the Johnson criteria, created by John Johnson, describe both spatial domain and frequency domain approaches to analyze the ability of observers to perform visual tasks using image intensifier technology. It was an important breakthrough in evaluating the performance of visual devices and guided t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-shift%20oscillator
A phase-shift oscillator is a linear electronic oscillator circuit that produces a sine wave output. It consists of an inverting amplifier element such as a transistor or op amp with its output fed back to its input through a phase-shift network consisting of resistors and capacitors in a ladder network. The feedback n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism%20%28materials%20science%29
In materials science, polymorphism describes the existence of a solid material in more than one form or crystal structure. Polymorphism is a form of isomerism. Any crystalline material can exhibit the phenomenon. Allotropy refers to polymorphism for chemical elements. Polymorphism is of practical relevance to pharmace...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadvorna
Nadvorna may refer to: Nadvirna (also spelled Nadvorna), a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in southwestern Ukraine Nadvorna (Hasidic dynasty), a Hasidic rabbinical dynasty within Orthodox Judaism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20%28exchange%29
An order is an instruction to buy or sell on a trading venue such as a stock market, bond market, commodity market, financial derivative market or cryptocurrency exchange. These instructions can be simple or complicated, and can be sent to either a broker or directly to a trading venue via direct market access. There a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit-weighted%20regression
In statistics, unit-weighted regression is a simplified and robust version (Wainer & Thissen, 1976) of multiple regression analysis where only the intercept term is estimated. That is, it fits a model where each of the are binary variables, perhaps multiplied with an arbitrary weight. Contrast this with the more co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempe%20chain
In mathematics, a Kempe chain is a device used mainly in the study of the four colour theorem. Intuitively, it is a connected chain of points on a graph with alternating colors. History Kempe chains were first used by Alfred Kempe in his attempted proof of the four colour theorem. Even though his proof turned out to b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKBKAP
IKBKAP (inhibitor of kappa light polypeptide gene enhancer in B-cells, kinase complex-associated protein) is a human gene encoding the IKAP protein, which is ubiquitously expressed at varying levels in all tissue types, including brain cells. The IKAP protein is thought to participate as a sub-unit in the assembly of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysacusis
Dysacusis is a hearing impairment characterized by difficulty in processing details of sound due to distortion in frequency or intensity rather than primarily a loss of the ability to perceive sound. The term is sometimes used to describe pain or discomfort due to sound, a condition also known as auditory dysaesthesia....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmstat
vmstat (virtual memory statistics) is a computer system monitoring tool that collects and displays summary information about operating system memory, processes, interrupts, paging and block I/O. Users of vmstat can specify a sampling interval which permits observing system activity in near-real time. The vmstat tool i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iostat
iostat (input/output statistics) is a computer system monitor tool used to collect and show operating system storage input and output statistics. It is often used to identify performance issues with storage devices, including local disks, or remote disks accessed over network file systems such as NFS. It can also be us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germinal%20center
Germinal centers or germinal centres (GCs) are transiently formed structures within B cell zone (follicles) in secondary lymphoid organs – lymph nodes, ileal Peyer's patches, and the spleen – where mature B cells are activated, proliferate, differentiate, and mutate their antibody genes (through somatic hypermutation ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20%28journal%29
Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research papers across a broad range of disciplines within the life sciences. Areas covered include molecular biology, cell biology, systems biology, stem cells, developmental biology, genetics and genomics, proteomics, cancer research, immunology, neuroscience, st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Plant%20Cell
The Plant Cell is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of plant sciences, especially the areas of cell and molecular biology, genetics, development, and evolution. It is published by the American Society of Plant Biologists. The editor-in-chief is Blake Meyers (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center). The journal w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Hydroxybenzoic%20acid
4-Hydroxybenzoic acid, also known as p-hydroxybenzoic acid (PHBA), is a monohydroxybenzoic acid, a phenolic derivative of benzoic acid. It is a white crystalline solid that is slightly soluble in water and chloroform but more soluble in polar organic solvents such as alcohols and acetone. 4-Hydroxybenzoic acid is prima...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s%20Algorithm%20X
Algorithm X is an algorithm for solving the exact cover problem. It is a straightforward recursive, nondeterministic, depth-first, backtracking algorithm used by Donald Knuth to demonstrate an efficient implementation called DLX, which uses the dancing links technique. The exact cover problem is represented in Algorit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20effusion%20lymphoma
Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is classified as a diffuse large B cell lymphoma. It is a rare malignancy of plasmablastic cells that occurs in individuals that are infected with the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (i.e. KSHV/HHV8). Plasmablasts are immature plasma cells, i.e. lymphocytes of the B-cell type tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar%E2%80%93tensor%20theory
In theoretical physics, a scalar–tensor theory is a field theory that includes both a scalar field and a tensor field to represent a certain interaction. For example, the Brans–Dicke theory of gravitation uses both a scalar field and a tensor field to mediate the gravitational interaction. Tensor fields and field the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry%20Classification%20Benchmark
The Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) is an industry classification taxonomy launched by Dow Jones and FTSE in 2005 and now used by FTSE International and STOXX. It is used to segregate markets into sectors within the macroeconomy. The ICB uses a system of 11 industries, partitioned into 20 supersectors, which ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirna%20Juki%C4%87
Mirna Jukić (born 9 April 1986) is a retired Austrian swimmer who won a bronze medal in both short course and long course at the world championships in swimming. She is trained by her father Željko Jukić, a former basketball player. She has had numerous European and World championship successes. Family Jukić was born ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsberg
Forsberg is a Swedish-language surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 62.5% of all known bearers of the surname Forsberg were residents of Sweden (frequency 1:590), 22.5% of the United States (1:60,128), 3.8% of Norway (1:5,096), 3.7% of Finland (1:5,547), 2.7% of Canada (1:50,339) and 2.1% of Denmark (1:10,06...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XK
XK may refer to: XK (protein), a protein responsible for Kx antigen which helps determine a person's blood type XK (2015 album), by Brendan Croskerry Jaguar XK, a car series made by Jaguar Jeep Commander XK, a SUV made by Jeep Republic of Kosovo, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 user-assigned code element XK (user assigned code...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20competence
In microbiology, genetics, cell biology, and molecular biology, competence is the ability of a cell to alter its genetics by taking up extracellular ("naked") DNA from its environment in the process called transformation. Competence may be differentiated between natural competence, a genetically specified ability of ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20computation
Neural computation is the information processing performed by networks of neurons. Neural computation is affiliated with the philosophical tradition known as Computational theory of mind, also referred to as computationalism, which advances the thesis that neural computation explains cognition. The first persons to pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCL2
The chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 2 (CCL2) is also referred to as monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP1) and small inducible cytokine A2. CCL2 is a small cytokine that belongs to the CC chemokine family. CCL2 tightly regulates cellular mechanics and thereby recruits monocytes, memory T cells, and dendritic cells to t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cree%20Lake/Crystal%20Lodge%20%28Midgett%20Field%29%20Aerodrome
Cree Lake/Crystal Lodge (Midgett Field) Aerodrome is located adjacent to Crystal Lodge, a fly-in fishing lodge on Cree Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. The airport is located on Ispatinow Island, the largest island in the lake. The airstrip was created in the late 1990s with naturally derived clay. This runway is a privat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-Bender
A B-Bender is a guitar accessory that enables a player to fluidly alter the pitch of a guitar's B-string. This works by mechanically bending the B-string through the use of a series of levers and/or pulleys attached to an external lever that is controlled by the player. There are several different designs, but all us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Dudek
Gregory L. Dudek is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in robotics, computer vision, and intelligent systems. He is a chaired professor at McGill University where he has led the Mobile Robotics Lab since the 1990s (a role now shared with Prof. Dave Meger). He was formerly the director of McGill's school of comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20transformation
Source transformation is the process of simplifying a circuit solution, especially with mixed sources, by transforming voltage sources into current sources, and vice versa, using Thévenin's theorem and Norton's theorem respectively. Process Performing a source transformation consists of using Ohm's law to take an ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiotic%20drive
Meiotic drive is a type of intragenomic conflict, whereby one or more loci within a genome will affect a manipulation of the meiotic process in such a way as to favor the transmission of one or more alleles over another, regardless of its phenotypic expression. More simply, meiotic drive is when one copy of a gene is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPM
GPM may refer to: GPM (software), software providing support for mouse devices in Linux virtual consoles Graphical path method, a mathematically based algorithm used in project management Gallons per minute, a unit of volumetric flow rate Gallons per mile, a unit of fuel efficiency Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district, Chh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic%20equation
An elliptic equation can mean: The equation of an ellipse An elliptic curve, describing the relationships between invariants of an ellipse A differential equation with an elliptic operator An elliptic partial differential equation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lex%20Lora
José Alejandro Lora Serna (born December 2, 1952, in Puebla, México), better known by his stage name Álex Lora, is a Mexican musician and composer. He has been the frontman of the Mexican rock band El Tri for over 50 years, since October 12 of 1968 when he founded among Carlos Hauptvogel and Guillermo Berea the Three s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Bentley%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Jon Louis Bentley (born February 20, 1953) is an American computer scientist who is credited with the heuristic-based partitioning algorithm k-d tree. Education and career Bentley received a B.S. in mathematical sciences from Stanford University in 1974, and M.S. and PhD in 1976 from the University of North Carolina a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topolnitsa%20%28river%29
The Topolnitsa ( ) is a river in southern Bulgaria, an important left tributary of the Maritsa. It takes its source from Bich Peak in Sredna Gora close to Koprivshtitsa; it is known as the Shirineyska in its upper course. Its average discharge is 55 m3/s and it is long; its drainage basin covers . The Topolnitsa flows...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atiyah%E2%80%93Bott%20fixed-point%20theorem
In mathematics, the Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem, proven by Michael Atiyah and Raoul Bott in the 1960s, is a general form of the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem for smooth manifolds M, which uses an elliptic complex on M. This is a system of elliptic differential operators on vector bundles, generalizing the de Rham c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-box%20transcription%20factor%20T
T-box transcription factor T, also known as Brachyury protein, is encoded for in humans by the TBXT gene. Brachyury functions as a transcription factor within the T-box family of genes. Brachyury homologs have been found in all bilaterian animals that have been screened, as well as the freshwater cnidarian Hydra. His...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heybridge%2C%20Maldon
Heybridge is a large village and civil parish in the Maldon district of Essex, England. It is adjacent to the town of Maldon, near the River Blackwater.<ref>[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20State%20Road%2044
State Road 44 (SR 44) is an east–west state highway in the U.S. state of Florida. It runs from Crystal River on the Gulf of Mexico east to New Smyrna Beach on the Atlantic Ocean, passing through Inverness, Wildwood, Leesburg and DeLand. A section in Lake County, between eastern Leesburg and a point north of Mount Dora...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20current
Dark current may refer to: Dark current (biochemistry), the depolarizing current, carried by Na+ ions that flows into a photoreceptor cell when unstimulated Dark current (physics):, the electric current that flows through a photosensitive device when no photons are entering the device Dark current (chemistry), the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodna
Rodna (formerly Rodna Veche; ; ) is a commune in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Rodna and Valea Vinului (Radnaborberek). Its name is derived from a Slavic word, ruda, meaning "iron ore", originally being known as Rudna in 14th century documents. History During the Lat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical%20Journal
The Biochemical Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which covers all aspects of biochemistry, as well as cell and molecular biology. It is published by Portland Press and was established in 1906. History The journal was established in 1906 by Benjamin Moore, holder of the first UK chair of biochemistry at th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U5
U5 or U-5 may refer to: Biochemistry U5 spliceosomal RNA mtDNA haplogroup U5, within Haplogroup U (mtDNA) Transport Aviation USA3000 Airlines (IATA code: U5) Land transport U5 (Berlin U-Bahn), a subway line in Germany U-5, a Munich U-Bahn subway line in Germany Aiways U5, a 2019 Chinese electric car model L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THF%20%28disambiguation%29
THF may refer to: Tetrahydrofuran Tetrahydrofolate Tremendously high frequency Trust House Forte, a UK-based hotel and catering group THF, the former IATA airport code for Tempelhof International Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20to%20My%20Soul
Key to My Soul is the third studio album by German recording artist Sarah Connor. It was released by X-Cell and Epic Records on 17 November 2003 in German-speaking Europe. As with her previous albums, Green Eyed Soul (2001) and Unbelievable (2002), Connor reunited with songwriting and production duo Rob Tyger and Kay D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20field-effect%20transistor
A ChemFET is a chemically-sensitive field-effect transistor, that is a field-effect transistor used as a sensor for measuring chemical concentrations in solution. When the target analyte concentration changes, the current through the transistor will change accordingly. Here, the analyte solution separates the source an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeymoon%20Island%20State%20Park
Honeymoon Island State Park is a Florida State Park located on Honeymoon Island, a barrier island across St. Joseph's Sound from Palm Harbor, Ozona, and Crystal Beach. The park is in land area with submerged and of beach. It lies at the western end of Causeway Boulevard, which becomes Curlew Road east of Alternate U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20number%20theory
In mathematics, Probabilistic number theory is a subfield of number theory, which explicitly uses probability to answer questions about the integers and integer-valued functions. One basic idea underlying it is that different prime numbers are, in some serious sense, like independent random variables. This however is n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrinalini%20Mata
Mrinalini Mata (born Merna Loy Brown, May 8, 1931 – August 3, 2017) was the fourth president of Self-Realization Fellowship / Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (SRF/YSS), the only church founded by Paramahansa Yogananda to care for and disseminate his teachings. Biography She was born in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Mrinalin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20ordered%20phase
Regarding biological membranes, the liquid ordered phase is a liquid crystalline phase of a lipid bilayer, and is of significant biological importance. It occurs in many lipid mixtures combining cholesterol with a phospholipid and/or sphingolipids e.g. sphingomyelin. This phase has been related to lipid rafts that may ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justina
Justina and Justine are anglicised versions of the Latin name Iustina, feminine of Iustinus, a derivative of Iustus, meaning fair or just. For the masculine version of the name, see Justin (name). Translations Russian: Устинья, Юстина, Иустина Belarusian: Юстына, Юсціна Czech: Justina or Justýna Croatian: Justina, Jus...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%205MT
Class 5MT is a steam locomotive power classification used by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and British Railways. It applied to number of different locomotive classes including: LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 BR Standard Class 5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chignon%20%28medical%20term%29
A chignon (an artificially induced caput succedaneum) is a temporary swelling caused by a build-up of bloody fluid (also referred to as "bloody show" in which blood and mucus are released from the cervix during labor) left on an infant's head after they have been delivered by vacuum extraction. A vacuum extraction is a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn%20School
Severn School was founded in 1914 by Roland M. Teel in Severna Park, Maryland, as a preparatory school for the United States Naval Academy. In 2013, Severn School merged with nearby Chesapeake Academy. Currently the school enrolls boys and girls from pre-school through grade 12. Athletics The Severn Admirals compete i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20of%20the%20Dark%20Crystal
The World of the Dark Crystal is a companion book written in conjunction with the film The Dark Crystal. The book was designed and edited by Rupert Brown, with illustrations by Brian Froud—who was the conceptual designer for the film—and text by J. J. Llewellyn. It was originally published in 1982 by Alfred A. Knopf, I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted%20Transistor
"Twisted Transistor" is a song written and recorded by American nu metal band Korn for their seventh studio album, See You on the Other Side. It was released as the album's first single in September 2005. Music and structure This is the first Korn single as a quartet without former guitarist Brian Welch who departed t...