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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipocalin
The lipocalins are a family of proteins which transport small hydrophobic molecules such as steroids, bilins, retinoids, and lipids, and most lipocalins are also able to bind to complexed iron (via siderophores or flavonoids) as well as heme. They share limited regions of sequence homology and a common tertiary struct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercone
In geometry, a hypercone (or spherical cone) is the figure in the 4-dimensional Euclidean space represented by the equation It is a quadric surface, and is one of the possible 3-manifolds which are 4-dimensional equivalents of the conical surface in 3 dimensions. It is also named "spherical cone" because its intersect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuronal%20calcium%20sensor-1
Neuronal calcium sensor-1 (NCS-1) also known as frequenin homolog (Drosophila) (freq) is a protein that is encoded by the FREQ gene in humans. NCS-1 is a member of the neuronal calcium sensor family, a class of EF hand containing calcium-myristoyl-switch proteins. Function NCS-1 regulates synaptic transmission, hel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuronal%20calcium%20sensor
Neuronal Calcium Sensor is a large family of proteins which work as calcium dependent molecular switches and includes members like Frequenin (NCS1), recoverin, GCAP, neurocalcin, visinin etc. All the members carry 4 EF hand motifs (out of which only 2 or 3 bind calcium) and an N-myristoyl group. Members of NCS family ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCS1
ncs1 or NCS1 may refer to: Neuronal calcium sensor Neuronal calcium sensor-1 Nucleobase Cation Symporter 1 National Comorbidity Survey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%20State%20Route%20204
State Route 204 (SR 204) is a highway that runs from U.S. Route 431 (US 431) at Crystal Springs (just north of Wellington) to SR 21 at Jacksonville. It is two lanes in its entirety. Route description SR 204 travels through rural territory except in Jacksonville. It carries a speed limit until entering Jacksonville. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Kieffer
Susan Elizabeth Werner Kieffer (born November 17, 1942 in Warren, Pennsylvania) is an American physical geologist and planetary scientist. Kieffer is known for her work on the fluid dynamics of volcanoes, geysers, and rivers, and for her model of the thermodynamic properties of complex minerals. She has also contribute...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suboccipital%20puncture
A suboccipital puncture or cisternal puncture is a diagnostic procedure that can be performed in order to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for biochemical, microbiological, and cytological analysis, or rarely to relieve increased intracranial pressure. It is done by inserting a needle through the skin belo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20flatness
Spectral flatness or tonality coefficient, also known as Wiener entropy, is a measure used in digital signal processing to characterize an audio spectrum. Spectral flatness is typically measured in decibels, and provides a way to quantify how much a sound resembles a pure tone, as opposed to being noise-like. The mean...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora%20of%20Indonesia
The flora consists of many unique varieties of tropical plants. Blessed with a tropical climate and roughly 17,000 islands, Indonesia is the nation with the second highest biodiversity in the world. The flora of Ind reflects an intermingling of Asian, Australian and unique, Indonesian lineages. This is due to the geogr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Parshall
George W. Parshall (September 19, 1929 – July 28, 2019) was an American organometallic chemist who made notable contributions to homogeneous catalysis. He was a senior scientist at E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company for many years. Personal and educational background Born in Hackensack, Minnesota, Parshall receive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Place
My Place may refer to: Music My Place (album), by Monika Borzym, or the title song, 2013 "My Place" (song), by Nelly, 2004 "My Place", a song by the Crystals, 1965 "My Place", a song by Diana Ross from Everything Is Everything, 1970 "My Place", a song by T-Pain from Rappa Ternt Sanga, 2005 "My Place", a song by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex%20Records%20%281933%29
Rex Records was a United Kingdom-based record label founded in 1933 by the Crystalate Gramophone Record Manufacturing Company, also the parent of British Imperial Records. Rex released their first discs in September 1933, with the initial release bearing a catalogue number of 8000 or 8001. The company was taken over by...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KASH%20domain
KASH domains are conserved C-terminal protein regions less than ~30 amino acids. KASH is an acronym for Klarsicht, ANC-1, Syne Homology. KASH domains always follow a transmembrane domain. Most proteins containing KASH domains are thought to be involved in the positioning of the nucleus in the cell. KASH domains inter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadmaster%20%28album%29
Roadmaster is the third studio album by Gene Clark, released in January 1973. The album was compiled from various unreleased recordings for A&M Records made in 1970 through 1972. Eight tracks are from an April 1972 recording session featuring Clarence White, Chris Ethridge, Spooner Oldham, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Byron Be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20dioxide%20clathrate
Carbon dioxide hydrate or carbon dioxide clathrate is a snow-like crystalline substance composed of water ice and carbon dioxide. It normally is a Type I gas clathrate. There has also been some experimental evidence for the development of a metastable Type II phase at a temperature near the ice melting point. The clath...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organocatalysis
In organic chemistry, organocatalysis is a form of catalysis in which the rate of a chemical reaction is increased by an organic catalyst. This "organocatalyst" consists of carbon, hydrogen, sulfur and other nonmetal elements found in organic compounds. Because of their similarity in composition and description, they a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotropic%20line
In the geometry of quadratic forms, an isotropic line or null line is a line for which the quadratic form applied to the displacement vector between any pair of its points is zero. An isotropic line occurs only with an isotropic quadratic form, and never with a definite quadratic form. Using complex geometry, Edmond L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac%20amyloidosis
Cardiac amyloidosis is a subcategory of amyloidosis where there is depositing of the protein amyloid in the cardiac muscle and surrounding tissues. Amyloid, a misfolded and insoluble protein, can become a deposit in the heart's atria, valves, or ventricles. These deposits can cause thickening of different sections of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy-tailed%20distribution
In probability theory, heavy-tailed distributions are probability distributions whose tails are not exponentially bounded: that is, they have heavier tails than the exponential distribution. In many applications it is the right tail of the distribution that is of interest, but a distribution may have a heavy left tail...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey%20Bee%20Genome%20Sequencing%20Consortium
The Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Consortium is an international collaborative group of genomics scientists, scientific organisations and universities trying to decipher the genome sequences of the honey bee (Apis mellifera). It was formed in 2001 by American scientists. In the US, the project is funded by the National ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Mathematical%20Statistics
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts of the world. Beginning in 2005, the institute started offering joint mem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital%20nephrotic%20syndrome
Congenital nephrotic syndrome is a rare kidney disease which manifests in infants during the first 3 months of life, and is characterized by high levels of protein in the urine (proteinuria), low levels of protein in the blood, and swelling. This disease is primarily caused by genetic mutations which result in damage t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRK
Long Range Kinematic (LRK) technology is a sophisticated kinematic method developed by Magellan (formerly Thales) Navigation that optimises the advantages of dual-frequency GPS operation. Other conventional methods use the dual-frequency only during initialisation. LRK makes solving ambiguities during initialisation ea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A.%20Semi
P. A. Semi (originally Palo Alto Semiconductor) was an American fabless semiconductor company founded in Santa Clara, California in 2003 by Daniel W. Dobberpuhl, who was previously the lead designer for the DEC Alpha 21064 and StrongARM processors. The company employed a 150-person engineering team which included peopl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphinite
In organic chemistry, phosphinites are organophosphorus compounds with the formula . They are used as ligands in homogeneous catalysis and coordination chemistry. Preparation Phosphinites are prepared by alcoholysis of organophosphinous chlorides. For example, treatment of chlorodiphenylphosphine with methanol and bas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphonite
In organic chemistry, phosphonites are organophosphorus compounds with the formula P(OR)2R. They are found in some pesticides and are used as ligands. Preparation Although they are derivatives of phosphonous acid (RP(OH)2), they are not prepared from such precursors. Phosphonites are prepared by alcoholysis of organo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Households%20Below%20Average%20Income
Households below average income is an annual publication on poverty statistics in the United Kingdom. The data is based on the Family Resources Survey. Poverty is defined as having an equivalised household income below the 60% median line. References External links HBAI Family economics Government publications Hous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%20space
In mathematics, a Riesz space, lattice-ordered vector space or vector lattice is a partially ordered vector space where the order structure is a lattice. Riesz spaces are named after Frigyes Riesz who first defined them in his 1928 paper Sur la décomposition des opérations fonctionelles linéaires. Riesz spaces have w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered%20vector%20space
In mathematics, an ordered vector space or partially ordered vector space is a vector space equipped with a partial order that is compatible with the vector space operations. Definition Given a vector space over the real numbers and a preorder on the set the pair is called a preordered vector space and we say th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20slime
In the computer programming, vector slime refers to a class of visual effects achieved by procedural deformation of geometric shapes. The techniques appear in programming demos. Synopsis A geometric object exposed to vector slime is usually defined by vertices and faces in two or three dimensions. In the process of d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necktie%20paradox
The necktie paradox is a puzzle and paradox with a subjective interpretation of probability theory describing a paradoxical bet advantageous to both involved parties. The two-envelope paradox is a variation of the necktie paradox. Statement of paradox Two persons, each given a necktie, start arguing over who has the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edrecolomab
Edrecolomab (MAb17-1A, trade name Panorex) is a mouse-derived monoclonal antibody targeting the cell-surface glycoprotein EpCAM (17-1A), which is expressed on epithelial tissues and on various carcinomas. Preliminary studies had shown promise of a possible use in patients with stage III colorectal carcinoma (with meta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland%20Graphics%20Interface
The Borland Graphics Interface, also known as BGI, was a graphics library bundled with several Borland compilers for the DOS operating systems since 1987. BGI was also used to provide graphics for many other Borland products including the Quattro Pro spreadsheet. The library loaded graphic drivers (*.BGI) and vector f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robb%2C%20Alberta
Robb is a hamlet in west-central Alberta, Canada within Yellowhead County that is recognized as a designated place by Statistics Canada. It is located on Highway 47, approximately southwest of Edson. It has an elevation of . It was named after Peter (Baldy) Addison Robb (1887–1954), a freighter and prospector. Robb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener%20deconvolution
In mathematics, Wiener deconvolution is an application of the Wiener filter to the noise problems inherent in deconvolution. It works in the frequency domain, attempting to minimize the impact of deconvolved noise at frequencies which have a poor signal-to-noise ratio. The Wiener deconvolution method has widespread us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Darby
Sarah C. Darby is Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Oxford. Her research has focused the beneficial effects of smoking cessation, the risk of lung cancer from residential radon, and treatments for early breast cancer. She is also a Principal Scientist with the Cancer Research UK in the Clinical Tri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urquhart%20Priory
Urquhart Priory was a Benedictine monastic community in Moray; the priory was dedicated to the Holy Trinity. It was founded by King David I of Scotland in 1136 as a cell of Dunfermline Abbey in the aftermath of the defeat of King Óengus of Moray. It remained a dependency of Dunfermline. In 1453, John Bonally, the Pri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinch%20valve
A pinch valve is a full bore or fully ported type of control valve which uses a pinching effect to obstruct fluid flow. Operating principle Pinch valves employ an elastic tubing (sleeve/hose) and a device that directly contacts the tubing (body). Forcing the tubing together will create a seal that is equivalent to th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltotriose
Maltotriose is a trisaccharide (three-part sugar) consisting of three glucose molecules linked with α-1,4 glycosidic bonds. It is most commonly produced by the digestive enzyme alpha-amylase (a common enzyme in human saliva) on amylose in starch. The creation of both maltotriose and maltose during this process is due...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schur%E2%80%93Zassenhaus%20theorem
The Schur–Zassenhaus theorem is a theorem in group theory which states that if is a finite group, and is a normal subgroup whose order is coprime to the order of the quotient group , then is a semidirect product (or split extension) of and . An alternative statement of the theorem is that any normal Hall subgroup ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20Engine%20Strategies
Search Engine Strategies (SES) is a conference series focused on search engine marketing and search engine optimization. History The conference was created by Danny Sullivan, founder and former lead editor of Search Engine Watch. The first SES conference was on November 18, 1999 in San Francisco, California and marked...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20NVC%20community%20MG13
British NVC community MG13 (Agrostis stolonifera - Alopecurus geniculatus grassland) is one of the mesotrophic grassland communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of three types of mesotrophic grassland classified as grass-dominated inundation communities. This community is wide...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20NVC%20community%20MG10
British NVC community MG10 (Holcus lanatus – Juncus effusus rush-pasture) is one of the mesotrophic grassland communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of three communities associated with poorly drained permanent pastures. It is a widespread community throughout the British low...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Henderson%20%28economist%29
Patrick David Henderson (10 April 1927 – 30 September 2018) was a British economist. He was the chief economist at the Economics and Statistics Department at the OECD during 1984–1992. Before that he worked as an academic economist in Britain, first at Oxford (Fellow of Lincoln College) and later at University Colle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrin
Nephrin is a protein necessary for the proper functioning of the renal filtration barrier. The renal filtration barrier consists of fenestrated endothelial cells, the glomerular basement membrane, and the podocytes of epithelial cells. Nephrin is a transmembrane protein that is a structural component of the slit diaphr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomerular%20basement%20membrane
The glomerular basement membrane of the kidney is the basal lamina layer of the glomerulus. The glomerular endothelial cells, the glomerular basement membrane, and the filtration slits between the podocytes perform the filtration function of the glomerulus, separating the blood in the capillaries from the filtrate that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA%20Cup%20Winners%27%20Cup%20records%20and%20statistics
Below are tables of the clubs that have won the Cup Winners' Cup. Performances By club By nation By manager Four managers hold the record of winning the competition on two occasions: Nereo Rocco: 1968 and 1973 (Milan) Valeriy Lobanovskyi in 1975 and 1986 (Dynamo Kyiv) Johan Cruyff: 1987 (Ajax) and 1989 (Barcelo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20state%20analog
Transition state analogs (transition state analogues), are chemical compounds with a chemical structure that resembles the transition state of a substrate molecule in an enzyme-catalyzed chemical reaction. Enzymes interact with a substrate by means of strain or distortions, moving the substrate towards the transition s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igusa%20zeta%20function
In mathematics, an Igusa zeta function is a type of generating function, counting the number of solutions of an equation, modulo p, p2, p3, and so on. Definition For a prime number p let K be a p-adic field, i.e. , R the valuation ring and P the maximal ideal. For we denote by the valuation of z, , and for a uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller%20hockey%20at%20the%201992%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Squads%20and%20statistics
Below are listed the squad constitutions for every nation which presented a team to the roller hockey competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Along with the rosters are also displayed total statistics per player and some general competition statistics. Angola Argentina Australia Brazil Germany Italy Japan Neth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFD
EFD may refer to: EFD (eFunds Corporation), an American payments service company EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale, an American professional cycling team Electro-fluid-dynamics Electrofluidic display technology Ellington Field, an airport in Texas Enterprise flash drive Entertainment Film Distributors, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglutamylation
Polyglutamylation is a form of reversible posttranslational modification of glutamate residues seen for example in alpha and beta tubulins, nucleosome assembly proteins NAP1 and NAP2. The γ-carboxy group of glutamate may form peptide-like bond with the amino group of a free glutamate whose α-carboxy group can now be ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20NVC%20community%20MG1
British NVC community MG1, Arrhenatherum elatius grassland, is one of the mesotrophic grassland communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. This type of plant community was named in 1919 as Arrhenatheretum elatioris Br.-Bl.. It is a very widespread community throughout the British lowlands of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulon
In molecular genetics, a regulon is a group of genes that are regulated as a unit, generally controlled by the same regulatory gene that expresses a protein acting as a repressor or activator. This terminology is generally, although not exclusively, used in reference to prokaryotes, whose genomes are often organized in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoplast
A kinetoplast is a network of circular DNA (called kDNA) inside a mitochondrion that contains many copies of the mitochondrial genome. The most common kinetoplast structure is a disk, but they have been observed in other arrangements. Kinetoplasts are only found in Excavata of the class Kinetoplastida. The variation in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide%20sequence%20tag
A peptide sequence tag is a piece of information about a peptide obtained by tandem mass spectrometry that can be used to identify this peptide in a protein database. Mass spectrometry In general, peptides can be identified by fragmenting them in a mass spectrometer. For example, during collision-induced dissociation ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20Theory
Zero Theory, Zero Theorem, Zero Conjecture, Zero Law or similar, may mean: X&Y, Coldplay's third album, once rumoured to be titled Zero Theory The Zero Theorem, a science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam See also List of zero terms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20glial%20cell
Satellite glial cells, formerly called amphicytes, are glial cells that cover the surface of neuron cell bodies in ganglia of the peripheral nervous system. Thus, they are found in sensory, sympathetic, and parasympathetic ganglia. Both satellite glial cells (SGCs) and Schwann cells (the cells that ensheathe some nerv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20NVC%20community%20H4
NVC community H4 (Ulex gallii - Agrostis curtisii heath) is one of the heath communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of three communities which are considered transitional between the lowland dry heaths and the wetter communities classified in the NVC as mires. It is a relative...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20NVC%20community%20M3
NVC community M3 (Eriophorum angustifolium bog pool community) is one of the mire plant communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is a localised community of northern Britain. There are no subcommunities. Community composition The following constant species is found in this community...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-project%20wafer%20service
Multi-project chip (MPC), and multi-project wafer (MPW) semiconductor manufacturing arrangements allow customers to share mask and microelectronics wafer fabrication cost between several designs or projects. With the MPC arrangement, one chip is a combination of several designs and this combined chip is then repeated ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk%20B.%20R.%20Woller
Kirk B. R. Woller is an American actor who has played Gaius in The Chosen, Agent Gene Crane on The X-Files, and the boss of the mysterious cleaners in Charmed. His notable film characters include coach Cal Sawyer in Hometown Legend, Chief Officer Reynolds in Poseidon, detective Frank Shaw in Urban Justice, hotel-clerk ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric%20chief%20cell
A gastric chief cell (or peptic cell, or gastric zymogenic cell) is a type of gastric gland cell that releases pepsinogen and gastric lipase. It is the cell responsible for secretion of chymosin in ruminant animals and humans. The cell stains basophilic upon H&E staining due to the large proportion of rough endoplasmic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20signalling%20in%20heart%20development
The heart is the first functional organ in a vertebrate embryo. There are 5 stages to heart development. Stages of heart development Initiation Specification of cardiac precursor cells: The lateral plate mesoderm delaminates to form two layers: the dorsal somatic (parietal) mesoderm and the ventral splanchnic (visc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20S.%20Wilks
Samuel Stanley Wilks (June 17, 1906 – March 7, 1964) was an American mathematician and academic who played an important role in the development of mathematical statistics, especially in regard to practical applications. Early life and education Wilks was born in Little Elm, Texas and raised on a farm. He studied Ind...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20AC%20Milan%20records%20and%20statistics
Associazione Calcio Milan are an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. The club was founded as Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club in 1899 and has competed in the Italian football league since the following year. Milan currently play in Serie A, the top tier of Italian football. They have been out o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%20basis%20%28linear%20programming%29
The Hilbert basis of a convex cone C is a minimal set of integer vectors such that every integer vector in C is a conical combination of the vectors in the Hilbert basis with integer coefficients. Definition Given a lattice and a convex polyhedral cone with generators we consider the monoid . By Gordan's lemma, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot%20in%20the%20Park%20%28film%29
Barefoot in the Park is a 1967 American romantic comedy film directed by Gene Saks from a screenplay by Neil Simon, adapted from his 1963 play of the same name, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda as a young newlywed couple. Paul, a conservative lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie, but their highly passionate relati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Waldmann
Ludwig Waldmann (June 8, 1913 in Fürth – February 9, 1980) was a German physicist who specialized in transport phenomena in gases. He derived the Waldmann-Snider equation. Career Waldmann completed his Ph.D. under Arnold Sommerfeld at the University of Munich in 1938. He was Sommerfeld’s assistant, at the Institute o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Geographical%20Scheme%20for%20Recording%20Plant%20Distributions
The World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) is a biogeographical system developed by the international Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) organization, formerly the International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases. The WGSRPD standards, like other standards for data fields in botan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphene
Triumphene is a fluorinated and phenylated fullerene derivative. It was first synthesized in 1998 by Boltalina, Street, and Taylor by reaction of C60F18 in a benzene-FeCl3 solution for two weeks at room temperature. It is the first trefoil-shaped phenylated [60]fullerene, providing a unique scaffold for the potential...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvoretzky%E2%80%93Kiefer%E2%80%93Wolfowitz%20inequality
In the theory of probability and statistics, the Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz–Massart inequality (DKW inequality) bounds how close an empirically determined distribution function will be to the distribution function from which the empirical samples are drawn. It is named after Aryeh Dvoretzky, Jack Kiefer, and Jacob Wolf...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midkine
Midkine (MK or MDK), also known as neurite growth-promoting factor 2 (NEGF2), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MDK gene. Midkine is a basic heparin-binding growth factor of low molecular weight, and forms a family with pleiotrophin (NEGF1, 46% homologous with MK). It is a nonglycosylated protein, composed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoleamine%202%2C3-dioxygenase
Indoleamine-pyrrole 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO or INDO ) is a heme-containing enzyme physiologically expressed in a number of tissues and cells, such as the small intestine, lungs, female genital tract or placenta. In humans is encoded by the IDO1 gene. IDO is involved in tryptophan metabolism. It is one of three enzymes tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-CreI
I-CreI is a homing endonuclease whose gene was first discovered in the chloroplast genome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a species of unicellular green algae. It is named for the facts that: it resides in an Intron; it was isolated from Clamydomonas reinhardtii; it was the first (I) such gene isolated from C. reinhardti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll-like%20receptor%202
Toll-like receptor 2 also known as TLR2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TLR2 gene. TLR2 has also been designated as CD282 (cluster of differentiation 282). TLR2 is one of the toll-like receptors and plays a role in the immune system. TLR2 is a membrane protein, a receptor, which is expressed on the surfac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMA-ES
Covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES) is a particular kind of strategy for numerical optimization. Evolution strategies (ES) are stochastic, derivative-free methods for numerical optimization of non-linear or non-convex continuous optimization problems. They belong to the class of evolutionary algor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-Wishart%20distribution
In statistics, the inverse Wishart distribution, also called the inverted Wishart distribution, is a probability distribution defined on real-valued positive-definite matrices. In Bayesian statistics it is used as the conjugate prior for the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal distribution. We say follows an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbourhood%20Statistics%20Service
The Neighbourhood Statistics Service (NeSS) was established in 2001 by the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (NRU) - then part of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), now Communities and Local Government (CLG) - to provide good quality small area data to support the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Tabriz
Here is a complete list for notable people who lived or from Tabriz: A Abu'l Majd Tabrizi, compiler of Safina-yi Tabriz, writer Ahmad Hussein Adl, Minister of Agriculture Akbar Alami, Representative of Parliament Massoud Amin, American Engineer Taghi Arani, Iranian political activist; killed in prison in the First ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/790%20AM
The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 790 kHz: The Federal Communications Commission classifies 790 AM as a regional broadcast frequency. In Argentina LR6 Mitre in Buenos Aires LRA22 in San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy LV19 in Malargüe, Mendoza In Canada No stations in Canada currently use the frequ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicide
The term salicide refers to a technology used in the microelectronics industry used to form electrical contacts between the semiconductor device and the supporting interconnect structure. The salicide process involves the reaction of a metal thin film with silicon in the active regions of the device, ultimately formin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary%20corpus
The Calgary corpus is a collection of text and binary data files, commonly used for comparing data compression algorithms. It was created by Ian Witten, Tim Bell and John Cleary from the University of Calgary in 1987 and was commonly used in the 1990s. In 1997 it was replaced by the Canterbury corpus, based on concerns...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitening%20transformation
A whitening transformation or sphering transformation is a linear transformation that transforms a vector of random variables with a known covariance matrix into a set of new variables whose covariance is the identity matrix, meaning that they are uncorrelated and each have variance 1. The transformation is called "whi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M167
M167 or M-167 may refer to: M167 Vulcan, a towed short-range air defense gun M-167 (Michigan highway), a former state highway in Michigan M167 (SNP), a gene variation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobacter
Anaerobacter is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria related to Clostridium. They are anaerobic chemotrophs and are unusual spore-formers as they produce more than one spore per bacterial cell (up to five). They fix nitrogen. Their G+C content is 29%. Only one species of this genus (Anaerobacter polyendosporus) has been d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Edgar%20Dick
John Edgar Dick (born in 1954) is Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Biology, Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network and Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto in Canada. Dick is credited with first identifying cancer stem cells in c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marino%20Ba%C5%BEdari%C4%87
Marino Baždarić (born 25 November 1978) is a Croatian former professional basketball player, who is currently the sports director for Cedevita Junior. Career statistics External links ACB Profile 1978 births Living people ABA League players Croatian expatriate basketball people in Spain Croatian men's basketball ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20NVC%20community%20H5
NVC community H5 (Erica vagans - Schoenus nigricans heath) is one of the heath communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of three communities which are considered transitional between the lowland dry heaths and the wetter communities classified in the NVC as mires. It is a very l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Alfred%20Forbes
Stephen Alfred Forbes (May 29, 1844 – March 13, 1930) was the first chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey, a founder of aquatic ecosystem science and a dominant figure in the rise of American ecology. His publications are striking for their merger of extensive field observations with conceptual insights. Forbes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20NVC%20community%20SD12
NVC community SD12 (Carex arenaria - Festuca ovina - Agrostis capillaris dune grassland) is one of the 16 sand-dune communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of four communities associated with fixed dunes. It is a very localised community. There are two subcommunities. Communit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Ittel
Steven Dale Ittel (born 1946 in Hamilton, Ohio) is an American chemist specializing in organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis. Training Ittel attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1968. He was then commissioned as an officer in the United States P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InFluid%20Software
InFluid Software is a video game developer and software developer (although mostly the first), established in 1996. The company is notorious for their frequent use of horror atmosphere and violence in their games. They still uphold the use of the shareware distribution model, trying to remain old school as much as poss...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dural%20ectasia
Dural ectasia is widening or ballooning of the dural sac surrounding the spinal cord. This usually occurs in the lumbosacral region, as this is where the cerebrospinal fluid pressure is greatest, but the spinal canal can be affected in any plane. Signs and symptoms Common symptoms include lower back pain, headaches, w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola%20Mk4
The Lola Mk4 and the derivative Mk4A were Formula One racing cars constructed by the Lola company in 1962. They were designed by Lola founder, owner and Chief Designer Eric Broadley at the request of Reg Parnell, proprietor of the Bowmaker Racing Team. The Mk4 was the first design that Lola produced for the top tier of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel%20Castanis
Muriel Brunner Castanis (1926 – 2006) was an American sculptor best known for her public art installments involving fluidly draped figures. Biography Born as Muriel Brunner on September 27, 1926 in New York City, the youngest of six children. She was raised in Greenwich Village and attended New York's High School of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force%20field
Force field may refer to: Science Force field (chemistry), a set of parameter and equations for use in molecular mechanics simulations Force field (physics), a vector field indicating the forces exerted by one object on another Force field (technology), a barrier made up of energy, plasma or particles to protect a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedetniemi%27s%20conjecture
In graph theory, Hedetniemi's conjecture, formulated by Stephen T. Hedetniemi in 1966, concerns the connection between graph coloring and the tensor product of graphs. This conjecture states that Here denotes the chromatic number of an undirected finite graph . The inequality χ(G × H) ≤ min {χ(G), χ(H)} is easy: i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation%20%28histology%29
In the fields of histology, pathology, and cell biology, fixation is the preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction. It terminates any ongoing biochemical reactions and may also increase the treated tissues' mechanical strength or stability. Tissue fixation is a critical step in the ...