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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality%20control%20and%20genetic%20algorithms | The combination of quality control and genetic algorithms led to novel solutions of complex quality control design and optimization problems. Quality is the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics of an entity fulfils a need or expectation that is stated, general implied or obligatory. ISO 9000 defines quality control as "A part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements". Genetic algorithms are search algorithms, based on the mechanics of natural selection and natural genetics.
Quality control
Alternative quality control (QC) procedures can be applied to a process to test statistically the null hypothesis, that the process conforms to the quality specifications and consequently is in control, against the alternative, that the process is out of control. When a true null hypothesis is rejected, a statistical type I error is committed. We have then a false rejection of a run of the process. The probability of a type I error is called probability of false rejection. When a false null hypothesis is accepted, a statistical type II error is committed. We fail then to detect a significant change in the probability density function of a quality characteristic of the process. The probability of rejection of a false null hypothesis equals the probability of detection of the nonconformity of the process to the quality specifications.
The QC procedure to be designed or optimized can be formulated as:
(1)
where denotes a statistical decision rule, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival%20of%20motor%20neuron | Survival of motor neuron or survival motor neuron (SMN) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMN1 and SMN2 genes.
SMN is found in the cytoplasm of all animal cells and also in the nuclear gems. It functions in transcriptional regulation, telomerase regeneration and cellular trafficking. SMN deficiency, primarily due to mutations in SMN1, results in widespread splicing defects, especially in spinal motor neurons, and is one cause of spinal muscular atrophy. Research also showed a possible role of SMN in neuronal migration and/or differentiation.
Function
The SMN protein contains GEMIN2-binding, Tudor and YG-Box domains. It localizes to both the cytoplasm and the nucleus. Within the nucleus, the protein localizes to subnuclear bodies called gems which are found near coiled bodies containing high concentrations of small ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs). This protein forms heteromeric complexes with proteins such as GEMIN2 and GEMIN4, and also interacts with several proteins known to be involved in the biogenesis of snRNPs, such as hnRNP U protein and the small nucleolar RNA binding protein.
SMN complex
SMN complex refers to the entire multi-protein complex involved in the assembly of snRNPs, the essential components of spliceosomal machinery. The complex, apart from the "proper" survival of motor neuron protein, includes at least six other proteins (gem-associated protein 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
Interactions
SMN has been shown to interact with:
Bcl-2,
Coilin,
DDX20, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20numerical%20solution%20of%20differential%20equations%20using%20computers | Differential equations, in particular Euler equations, rose in prominence during World War II in calculating the accurate trajectory of ballistics, both rocket-propelled and gun or cannon type projectiles. Originally, mathematicians used the simpler calculus of earlier centuries to determine velocity, thrust, elevation, curve, distance, and other parameters.
New weapons, however, such as Germany's giant cannons, the "Paris Gun" (Encyclopedia Astronautica) and "Big Bertha," and the V-2 rocket, meant that projectiles would travel hundreds of miles in distance and dozens of miles in height, in all weathers. As a result, variables such as diminished wind resistance in thin atmospheres and changes in gravitational pull reduced accuracy using the historic methodology. There was the additional problem of planes that could now fly hundreds of miles an hour. Differential equations were applied to stochastic processes. Developing machines that could speed up human calculation of differential equations led in part to the creation of the modern computer through the efforts of Vannevar Bush, John von Neumann and others.
According to Mary Croarken in her paper "Computing in Britain During World War II," by 1945, the Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory created by John Lennard-Jones utilized the latest computing devices to perform the equations. These devices included a model "differential analyser," and the Mallock machine, described as "an electrical simultaneous equation solver." Accordi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromic%20acid%20cell | The Chromic acid cell is a type of primary cell which uses chromic acid as a depolarizer. The chromic acid is usually made by acidifying (with sulfuric acid) a solution of potassium dichromate. The old name for potassium dichromate is potassium bichromate and the cell is often called a Bichromate cell. This type of cell is now only of historical interest.
History
Construction
The main elements of the cell are:
Anode, zinc
Electrolyte, dilute sulfuric acid
Depolarizer, chromic acid
Cathode, carbon
The cell is made in two forms - the single-fluid type, attributed to Poggendorff and the two-fluid type, attributed to Fuller. In both cases, cell voltage is about 2 volts.
Poggendorff cell
The cell is set up in a long-necked glass bottle with a zinc plate located between two carbon plates. The electrolyte and depolarizer are then mixed. The mixture would dissolve the zinc plate even when the cell is not in use, so there is a mechanism for lifting the zinc plate out of the liquid and storing it in the neck of the bottle.
Fuller cell
The cell is set up in a glass, or glazed earthenware, pot. This contained the chromic acid solution, the carbon plate and a porous pot. Inside the porous pot is dilute sulfuric acid, the zinc rod, and a small quantity of mercury. The mercury formed an amalgam with the zinc and this reduced "local action", i.e. unwanted dissolution of the zinc when the cell is not in use.
See also
List of battery types
References
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM3875 | LM3875 was a 56 watt amplifier chip made by Texas Instruments (previously National Semiconductor). It was very popular in the DIY audio community for its low parts count and its high-performance audio capabilities. It was the main chip inside many gainclone amplifiers which are based on the Gaincard amplifier.
This part has become obsolete and an EOL notice has been issued for it. The functional equivalent IC, the LM3886, has two additional signals that must be addressed before it can be substituted, the mute function and a virtual gnd pin.
References
External links
Product page (pdf datasheet)
Chip amp projects, most based on the LM3875
status of LM3875 at DigiKey
Audio amplifiers
Linear integrated circuits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrap%C4%8Di%C5%A1te | Vrapčište (, , ) is a village and seat of the municipality of Vrapčište, North Macedonia.
History
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Vrapčište was inhabited by 1300 Turks, 325 Orthodox Bulgarians, 165 Muslim Albanians and 50 Romani.
A policy of Turkification of the Albanian population was employed by the Yugoslav authorities in cooperation with the Turkish government, stretching the period of 1948-1959. Starting in 1948, Turkish schools were opened in areas with large Albanian majorities, such as Vrapčište.
Demographics
As of the 2021 census, Vrapčište had 4,003 residents with the following ethnic composition:
Turks 2,765
Albanians 912
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 203
Macedonians 118
Others 5
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 4,874 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
Turks 2,899
Albanians 1,777
Macedonians 172
Others 26
Sports
Local football club FK Vrapčište plays in the OFS Gostivar league.
References
External links
Villages in Vrapčište Municipality
Albanian communities in North Macedonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Swindlehurst | David Swindlehurst (born 6 January 1956 in Edgware, Middlesex) is an English former footballer who played as a striker.
Career
Swindlehurst came up through the ranks at Crystal Palace, playing youth football in the early 1970s with future West Ham United teammate Alan Devonshire. Starting his senior career in 1973, he played for Palace for eight seasons and scored 81 goals in 278 appearances. Swindlehurst first joined Derby County as a loan player, two months before his transfer was made permanent in April 1980. Derby paid £410,000, a then-record for the club.
West Ham manager John Lyall brought Swindlehurst to Upton Park for £160,000 in March 1983. Injuries hampered his chances of regular first-team football. He played his last game for West Ham on 27 April 1985 against Luton Town and after 71 League and cup games for the east Londoners, he moved on to Sunderland.
After a spell in Cyprus with Anorthosis Famagusta, Swindlehurst returned to London to play for Wimbledon, but he managed just two appearances in the season they won the 1988 FA Cup Final, beating Liverpool. He later played for Colchester United, and on loan at Peterborough United.
Coaching career
After spells playing and managing at non-League Bromley and Molesey, he rejoined his former club Crystal Palace to take up a coaching role within the youth academy. He was promoted to reserve team manager in 2001, but was sacked in October 2002.
Swindlehurst joined Crawley Town as assistant manager in 2003. He was sac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Skorykh | Sergei Skorykh (born 25 May 1984) is a Kazakh football midfielder.
Career statistics
Club
International
Statistics accurate as of match played 1 December 2014
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Kazakhstani men's footballers
Kazakhstan men's international footballers
Kazakhstan Premier League players
FC Irtysh Pavlodar players
FC Tobol players
FC Zhetysu players
FC Taraz players
FC Kaisar players
FC Shakhter Karagandy players
Sportspeople from Petropavl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murat%20Suyumagambetov | Murat Suyumagambetov (; born 14 October 1983 in Aktau) is a Kazakhstani football forward who last played for FC Kyran. He also plays for the Kazakhstan national football team.
Career statistics
International goals
References
1983 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Kazakhstani men's footballers
Kazakhstan men's international footballers
Kazakhstan Premier League players
FC Zhenis players
FC Shakhter Karagandy players
FC Tobol players
FC Caspiy players
FC Zhetysu players
FC Ordabasy players
FC Kairat players
FC Vostok players
FC Taraz players
People from Aktau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Kennedy%20%28social%20psychologist%29 | James Kennedy (born November 5, 1950) is an American social psychologist, best known as an originator and researcher of particle swarm optimization. The first papers on the topic, by Kennedy and Russell C. Eberhart, were presented in 1995; since then tens of thousands of papers have been published on particle swarms. The Academic Press / Morgan Kaufmann book, Swarm Intelligence, by Kennedy and Eberhart with Yuhui Shi, was published in 2001.
The particle swarm paradigm draws on social-psychological simulation research in which Kennedy had participated at the University of North Carolina, integrated with evolutionary computation methods that Eberhart had been working with in the 1990s. The result was a problem-solving or optimization algorithm based on the principles of human social interaction. Individuals begin the program with random guesses at the problem solution. As the program runs, the "particles" share their successes with their topological neighbors; each particle is both teacher and learner. Over time, the population converges reliably on optimal vectors.
While there has been a trend in the research literature toward a "Gbest" or centralized particle network, Blackwell and Kennedy (2018) demonstrated the importance of a distributed population topology in solving more complex problems.
A recent paper discusses the possible contribution of human female orgasm to the species' prosociality.
Kennedy has been an active combatant in the controversy over sex education in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESAT-6 | ESAT-6 or Early Secreted Antigenic Target 6 kDa, is produced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, it is a secretory protein and potent T cell antigen. It is used in tuberculosis diagnosis by the whole blood interferon γ test QuantiFERON-TB Gold, in conjunction with CFP-10.
ESAT-6 has been shown to directly bind to the TLR2 receptor, inhibiting downstream signal transduction. It has also been studied that the inactivation of ESAT-6 leads to decreased virulence of M. tuberculosis. Secretion of the ESAT-6 protein is one of the main determining factors in the virulence of the M. tuberculosis. ESAT-6 has more commonly become a marker for the TB diagnosis and treatment. There is also the use of the ESAT increase the production of virulent factors that cause for the increase in pathogenicity of TB.
ESAT-6 is one of the main proteins that is inhibited in the production of vaccines for M. tuberculosis with the combination of the increased antigenic factors agβ5-A and the agβ5-C. There are studies that are currently trying to connect the linkage between ESAT-6 and the epithelial cells that are in the lungs, which has shown the dependence on the induction of the IL-8 promoter.
ESAT-6 and CFP-10
There are also connections between the ESAT-6 marker and the CFP-10 marker. These are both being produced in Mycobacterium tuberculosis cells and is subject to the positive correlation of virulence to the amount of protein produced. Recent work shows that the production of these proteins is a proc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFP-10 | CFP-10 within bacterial proteins (also known as ESAT-6-like protein esxB or secreted antigenic protein MTSA-10 or 10 kDa culture filtrate antigen CFP-10) is a protein that is encoded by the esxB gene.
CFP-10 is a 10 kDa secreted antigen from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It forms a 1:1 heterodimeric complex with ESAT-6. Both genes are expressed from the RD1 region of the bacterial genome and play a key role in the virulence of the infection.
Function
10-kDa culture filtrate protein (CFP-10) is an antigen that contributes to the virulence Mycobacterium tuberculosis. CFP-10 forms a tight 1:1 heterodimeric complex with 6kDaA early secreted antigen target (ESAT-6). In the mycobacterial cell, these two proteins are interdependent on each other for stability. The ESAT-6/CFP-10 complex is secreted by the ESX-1 secretion system, also known as the RD1 region. Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses this ESX-1 secretion system to deliver virulence factors into host macrophage and monocyte white blood cells during infection.
In Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the core components of the whole ESX-1 secretion system include Rv3877, and two AAA ATPases, including Rv3870 and Rv3871, a cytosolic protein. The ESAT-6/CFP-10 heterodimer complex is targeted for secretion by a C-terminal signal sequence on CFP-10 that is recognized by the cytosolic Rv3871 protein. Rv3871 then interacts with the CFP-10 C-terminal, and escorts the ESAT-6/CFP-10 complex to Rv3870 and Rv3877, a multi-transmembrane protein |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Carson | Crystal Carson (born June 24, 1967) is an American acting coach and former actress.
Early life
Carson has been teaching and coaching professionally in Los Angeles for the past 20 years. Prior to that, she worked as an actress in 25 theatre repertory and summer stock companies. She appeared in several films, including "Who's That Girl" with Madonna, and starred in the cult spoof film "Killer Tomatoes Strike Back" with John Astin. Carson also played the lead actress in the suspense drama "Eclipse," the female lead in the action film "Cartel," the love interest in "Fade Away" opposite Noah Blake, and portrayed Blue Star in the video game "Blue Star" with Lamont Bentley, among others.
Career
Among her television credits are a contract role as Julia Barrett on the ABC soap opera General Hospital (1991–1993; 1997; 1998). Her character Julia was a successful businesswoman and older sister to troubled teen Brenda (Vanessa Marcil).
She was also cast as Trish in the 1985 B-movie horror film The Zero Boys and as Denise, a bridesmaid in the 1987 Madonna film Who's That Girl.
In television, Carson appeared for 3 weeks on the award-winning episodic JAG, 6 weeks on the mega-hit Dallas, and had guest starring roles on Ellen, Charles in Charge, Midnight Caller, Cheers, Thirtysomething, Simon & Simon and Night Court.
As for the above-mentioned role of “Julia Barrett” that Carson portrayed on General Hospital, it was responsible for her being voted "Best New Female" by Soap Opera Digest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSP-1 | Term TSP-1 may refer to:
Thrombospondin 1, a protein that in humans in encoded by the THBS1 gene
Granzyme A, an enzyme class |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altezza%20lights | Altezza lights (also known as Lexus lights, Euro lights, crystal lights, or clear lights) are vehicle tail lamp clusters consisting of one or more internal lamp units, covered with a clear (or tinted) acrylic cover. This style of taillight was made popular by Lexus and has been stock equipment on Toyota Altezza, Lexus IS300 and IS200 models since 1998. Some Altezza lights also use LED lighting.
Origin
The style was first used on the rear light clusters of the Toyota Altezza in 1998, which was sold elsewhere in the world months later as the Lexus IS. Prior to the release of the Altezza, the Toyota Supra Mark IV also used an encased tail lamp assembly in gun-metal grey that is sometimes credited with starting the trend. The Mark I Altezza taillight housing was finished in chrome.
Altezza lights are commonly installed as an aftermarket part on modified cars, and the styling cues of the rear light clusters were also copied by a number of other vehicles and car manufacturers. This includes cars like the Toyota Prius C, third and fourth generation Nissan Altima, second and third generation Subaru Impreza hatchback and second generation sedan, second generation Chevrolet Aveo sedan, 2011–2016 Honda Brio, first generation Mazda6, and 2007–2016 Mitsubishi Lancer. It is also seen on SUVs such as the fourth generation Mitsubishi Pajero, first and third generation Lexus RX, 2003–2006 Indonesian-built first generation Nissan Terrano and 2011–2015 Toyota Fortuner.
References
Vehicle mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasty%20Nasty | Nasty Nasty is the third studio album by the American glam metal band Black 'n Blue. It was produced by Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, with the exception of the song "I'll Be There for You" which was written and produced by The Babys/Bad English/Journey rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Jonathan Cain.
Background
The title track is the basis of the Kiss song "Domino", and also contains the ending riff from "Only You", both Kiss songs credited to Simmons. Coincidentally, guitarist Tommy Thayer would join Kiss in 2002.
Nasty Nasty saw the band move away from the more polished approach of Without Love as it did not appeal to their metal fans. As a result, the production is much more raw and the album has a much more aggressive feel than Without Love, as the band sticks with hard rockers with the exception of "I'll Be There for You."
I'll Be There for You
The band had originally intended a song titled, "Promise the Moon" to be on the album, but it was replaced by "I'll Be There for You" because the record company thought that nothing could be pulled as a single. However, keyboard credits were given in the cassette and on the back of the LP to John Purdell for "Promise the Moon" and "Kiss of Death." Fans were baffled by this until liner notes in the 2003 re-master explained it.
Kiss of Death
At the end of "Kiss of Death", a different melody begins, the music is played forward, but Jaime's voice is heard singing backwards as a result to the backmask controversy. When played reverse, it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20Heat%20%28Black%20%27N%20Blue%20album%29 | In Heat is the fourth studio album by the American glam metal band Black 'n Blue. It was produced by Kiss bassist Gene Simmons.
Track listing
Side one
"Rock On" (Gene Simmons, Jaime St. James, Tommy Thayer) – 3:45
"Sight for Sore Eyes" (Simmons, St. James, Thayer, Pat Regan) – 3:31
"Heat It Up! Burn It Out!" (St. James, Thayer, Jeff Warner) – 4:21
"Suspicious" (St. James, Thayer, Regan) – 3:42
"The Snake" (St. James, Thayer) – 4:41
Side two
"Live It Up" (Simmons, St. James, Warner) – 3:37
"Gimme Your Love" (Adam Mitchell, St. James, Thayer) – 3:45
"Get Wise to the Rise" (St. James, Thayer) – 4:36
"Great Guns of Fire" (St. James, Thayer) – 4:37
"Stranger" (Simmons, St. James) – 4:33
Personnel
Black 'n Blue
Jaime St. James – vocals
Tommy Thayer – lead guitar
Jeff Warner – rhythm guitar
Patrick Young – bass
Pete Holmes – drums
Additional musicians
John Purdell, Pat Regan – keyboards
Production
Gene Simmons – producer
Pat Regan – associate producer on tracks 2 and 4
Dave Wittman – engineer, mixing
Adam Yellin, Andrew Udoff, Danny Mormando, David Reitzas, Jon Magnusson, Scott Mabuchi – assistant engineers
George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York
Hugh Syme – art direction and design
John Kalodner – A&R
References
Black 'n Blue albums
1988 albums
Albums produced by Gene Simmons
Geffen Records albums
Albums recorded at Electric Lady Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown%20valve | A shutdown valve (also referred to as SDV or emergency shutdown valve, ESV, ESD, or ESDV; or safety shutoff valve) is an actuated valve designed to stop the flow of a hazardous fluid upon the detection of a dangerous event. This provides protection against possible harm to people, equipment or the environment.
Shutdown valves form part of a safety instrumented system. The process of providing automated safety protection upon the detection of a hazardous event is called functional safety.
Shutdown valves are primarily associated with the petroleum industry although other industries may also require this type of protection system. ESD valves are required by law on any equipment placed on an offshore drilling rig to prevent catastrophic events like the BP Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
A safety shutoff valve should be fail-safe, that is close upon failure of any element of the input control system (such as temperature controllers, steam pressure controllers), air pressure, fuel pressure, current from a flame detector, or current from other safety devices such as low water cutoff, and high pressure cutoff.
A blowdown valve (BDV) is a type of shutdown valve designed to depressurize a pressure vessel by directing vapour to a flare, vent or blowdown stack in an emergency. BDVs fail-safe to the open position upon failure of the control system. The type of valve, type of actuation and performance measurement are similar to an ESD valve.
Types
For fluids, metal s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20career%20achievements%20by%20Tiger%20Woods | This page details statistics, records, and other achievements pertaining to Tiger Woods.
Career records and statistics
Woods has won 82 official PGA Tour events, tied with Sam Snead also 82, and nine ahead of Jack Nicklaus's 73 wins. (See List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins.)
Woods has won 15 majors, second all time behind Jack Nicklaus' 18.
Woods is 14–1 when going into the final round of a major with at least a share of the lead.
Woods scoring average in 2000 is the lowest in PGA Tour history, both adjusted, 67.79, and unadjusted, 68.17.
Woods has the lowest career scoring average in PGA Tour history.
Woods has amassed the most career earnings of any player in PGA Tour history (even after inflation is considered).
Woods is one of five players (along with Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, and Jack Nicklaus) to have won all four professional major championships in his career, known as the Career Grand Slam, and was the youngest to do so.
Woods is the only player to have won all four professional major championships in a row, accomplishing the feat in the 2000–2001 seasons. This feat became known as the "Tiger Slam".
Woods set the all-time PGA Tour record for most consecutive cuts made, with 142. The streak started in 1998, he set the record at the 2003 Tour Championship with 114 (passing Byron Nelson's previous record of 113 and Jack Nicklaus at 105) and extended this mark to 142 before it ended on May 13, 2005 at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. Many con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAF6 | TRAF6 is a TRAF human protein.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the TNF receptor associated factor (TRAF) protein family. TRAF proteins are associated with, and mediate signal transduction from members of the TNF receptor superfamily. This protein mediates the signaling not only from the members of the TNF receptor superfamily, but also from the members of the Toll/IL-1 family. Signals from receptors such as CD40, TNFSF11/TRANCE/RANKL and IL-1 have been shown to be mediated by this protein. This protein also interacts with various protein kinases including IRAK1/IRAK, SRC and PKCzeta, which provides a link between distinct signaling pathways. This protein functions as a signal transducer in the NF-kappaB pathway that activates IkappaB kinase (IKK) in response to proinflammatory cytokines. The interaction of this protein with UBE2N/UBC13, and UBE2V1/UEV1A, which are ubiquitin conjugating enzymes catalyzing the formation of polyubiquitin chains, has been found to be required for IKK activation by this protein. Two alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding identical proteins have been reported.
Interactions
TRAF6 has been shown to interact with:
ASK1,
CD40,
FHL2,
HSPB2,
IKBKG,
IRAK1,
IRAK2,
TAB1,
MAP3K7IP2,
MAP3K7
PPP4C,
RANK,
SDCBP,
SIGIRR,
Sequestosome 1,
TAX1BP1,
TNFAIP3,
TNFRSF13B,
UBE2N, and
Ubiquitin C.
Model organisms
Model organisms have been used in the study of TRAF6 function. A conditional |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphocyte%20antigen%2096 | Lymphocyte antigen 96, also known as "Myeloid Differentiation factor 2 (MD-2)," is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LY96 gene.
The protein encoded by this gene is involved in binding lipopolysaccharide with Toll-Like Receptor (TLR4).
Function
The MD-2 protein appears to associate with toll-like receptor 4 on the cell surface and confers responsiveness to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), thus providing a link between the receptor and LPS signaling. That is, the primary interface between TLR4 and MD-2 is formed before binding LPS and the dimerization interface is induced by binding LPS.
Structure
MD-2 has a β-cup fold structure composed of two anti-parallel β sheets forming a large hydrophobic pocket for ligand binding.
Interactions
Lymphocyte antigen 96 has been shown to interact with TLR 4.
When LPS binds to a hydrophobic pocket in MD-2, it directly mediates dimerization of the two TLR4-MD-2 complexes. Thus, MD-2 form a heterodimer that recognizes a common pattern in structurally diverse LPS molecules. These interactions allow TLR4 to recognize LPS. Macrophages in MD-2 knockout mice are unresponsive to LPS.
LPS is extracted from the bacterial membrane and transferred to TLR4-MD-2 by two accessory proteins, LPS-binding protein and CD14, to induce innate immune response.
References
Further reading
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Fokin%20%28ice%20hockey%29 | Sergei Fokin (born May 2, 1963 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a former professional Russian ice hockey player.
He started his career in the Soviet Union in 1983, playing for Crystal Saratov. In 1984 he signed with Spartak Moskva and he stayed with them until 1992, when he moved to Sweden and sign with VIK Västerås HK, where he joined fellow countryman Mishat Fahrutdinov. After two season with Västerås, he signed for another Swedish team, Färjestads BK, a team that he wouldn't leave until 2002. During his time with Färjestad he won three Swedish Championships, 1997, 1998 and 2002. When he left Färjestad, he called it his retirement and he signed with a lower league team Borås HC. But during his first season with Borås was he was loaned to Malmö Redhawks for a couple of games. But these were his last games at the top level. He played two more seasons with Borås HC and in 2005 retired from ice hockey.
He represented Russia in four Hockey World Championships.
Career statistics
International statistics
External links
1963 births
Borås HC players
Färjestad BK players
HC Spartak Moscow players
Living people
Malmö Redhawks players
Russian ice hockey defencemen
Soviet ice hockey defencemen
VIK Västerås HK players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotamine | Crotamine is a toxin present in the venom of the South American rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus terrificus). It is a 42-residue long protein containing 11 basic residues (9 lysines, 2 arginines) and 6 cysteines. It has also been isolated from the venom of North American prairie rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis viridis. It was first isolated and purified by Brazilian scientist José Moura Gonçalves, and later intensively studied by his group of collaborators at the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo.
Biological function
Crotamine has a number of biological actions: it acts on cell membrane's sodium channels, is slightly analgesic and is myotoxic, i.e., it penetrates the cells of muscles and promotes necrosis. Crotamine is homologous with other venom myotoxins and is similar to α-,β-defensins.
Biochemistry and mechanism
The amino acid sequence (, Cys4-Cys36, Cys11-Cys30, Cys18-Cys37) and the 3D molecular structure of crotamine have already been determined.
The protein structure of crotamine could not be initially determined through protein crystallization nor X-ray diffraction. It was speculated that the difficulty was because crotamine has so many isoforms, leading to the formation of aggregates and different possible conformations of the protein. The structure and the shape of the protein was proposed through a 3D model generated by Siqueira et al. (2002) based on computational calculations that were supported with intensive molecular dynamics simul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHV%20capsid%20portal%20protein | HHV Capsid Portal Protein, or HSV-1 UL-6 protein, is the protein which forms a cylindrical portal in the capsid of Herpes simplex virus (HSV-1). The protein is commonly referred to as the HSV-1 UL-6 protein because it is the transcription product of Herpes gene UL-6.
The Herpes viral DNA enters and exits the capsid via the capsid portal. The capsid portal is formed by twelve copies of portal protein arranged as a ring; the proteins contain a leucine zipper sequence of amino acids which allow them to adhere to each other. Each icosahedral capsid contains a single portal, located in one vertex.
The portal is formed during initial capsid assembly and interacts with scaffolding proteins that construct the procapsid.
When the capsid is nearly complete, the viral DNA enters the capsid (i.e., the DNA is encapsidated) by a mechanism involving the portal and a DNA-binding protein complex similar to bacteriophage terminase. Multiple studies suggest an evolutionary relationship between Capsid Portal Protein and bacteriophage portal proteins.
When a virus infects a cell, it is necessary for the viral DNA to be released from the capsid. The Herpes virus DNA exits through the capsid portal.
The genetic sequence of HSV-1 gene UL-6 is conserved across the family Herpesviridae and this family of genes is known as the "Herpesvirus UL6-like" gene family. "UL-6" is nomenclature meaning that the protein is genetically encoded by the sixth (6th) open reading frame found in the viral g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenascin%20X | A member of the tenascin family, tenascin X (TN-X) also known as flexillin or hexabrachion-like protein is a 450kDa glycoprotein that is expressed in connective tissues. TN-X possesses a modular structure composed, from the N- to the C-terminal part by a Tenascin assembly domain (TAD), a series of 18.5 repeats of epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like motif, a high number of Fibronectin type III (FNIII) module, and a fibrinogen (FBG)-like globular domain. In humans, tenascin X is encoded by the TNXB gene.
Gene
This gene localizes to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC class III) region on chromosome 6. The structure of this gene is unusual in that it overlaps the CREBL1 and CYP21A2 genes at its 5' and 3' ends, respectively. TNXB also possesses a pseudogene, TNXA, which is a consequence of MHC classe III locus duplication during evolution. Strong 3' homology between TNXB and TNXA can provoke genetic recombination between the two loci, thus leading to the apparition of TNXA/TNXB chimera.
Function
TN-X is constitutively expressed in adult tissues such as skin, ligaments, tendons, lungs, kidneys, optic nerves, mammary and adrenal glands, blood vessels, testis, and ovaries. It is also found in different compartments of the digestive tract, including pancreas, stomach, jejunum, ileum, and colon. In this wide variety of organs, TN-X is mainly located within the connective tissue such as peritendineum (external structural component of tendons), epimysium and perimysium (muscl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simen%20Brenne | Simen Brenne (born 17 March 1981) is a Norwegian footballer who plays for Råde.
Brenne has played in 15 games for Norway, and scored one goal since his debut in 2007.
Career statistics
International goals
Honours
Club
Fredrikstad
Norwegian Football Cup (1): 2006
Lillestrøm
Norwegian Football Cup (1): 2007
Strømsgodset
Tippeligaen (1): 2013
References
External links
Odd Grenland profile
1981 births
Living people
Norwegian men's footballers
Norway men's international footballers
Norway men's under-21 international footballers
Moss FK players
Fredrikstad FK players
Lillestrøm SK players
Odds BK players
Strømsgodset Toppfotball players
Sarpsborg 08 FF players
Eliteserien players
Norwegian First Division players
Footballers from Fredrikstad
Men's association football midfielders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehydroretinal | Dehydroretinal (3,4-dehydroretinal) is a derivative metabolite of retinal belonging to the group of vitamin A2 as a retinaldehyde form, besides the endogenously present 3,4-dehydroretinol and 3,4-dehydroretinoic acid.
The livers of some freshwater fishes and some fish found in India contain a higher ratio of dehydroretinal to retinal than do other species.
See also
Retinene
References
Vision
Signal transduction
Apocarotenoids
Photosynthetic pigments
Vitamins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphipyrinae | Amphipyrinae is a subfamily of owlet moths in the family Noctuidae. There are more than 50 genera and 210 described species in Amphipyrinae, although the classifications are likely to change over time.
This subfamily has been used as a catchall for members of Noctuidae that don't fit well into other subfamilies. As such, many of its members lack morphological traits that would allow assignment into one of the other subfamilies. Genetic analysis conducted on Amphipyrinae is improving the classification of these genera.
In 2021, phylogenetic research resulted in 11 genera being transferred from Amphipyrinae to six different subfamilies, and it is expected that more members of Amphipyrinae will be reassigned as further research is done.
Psaphidini is included here as a tribe, but is sometimes treated as the subfamily Psaphidinae. The Australian genera in Acronictinae are sometimes considered part of Amphipyrinae.
Genera
These 52 genera belong to the subfamily Amphipyrinae:
Tribe Amphipyrini Guenée, 1837
Amphipyra Ochsenheimer, 1816
Tribe Psaphidini Grote, 1896
Subtribe Feraliina Poole, 1995
Apsaphida Franclemont, 1973
Feralia Grote, 1874
Miracavira Franclemont, 1937
Paratrachea Hampson, 1908
Viridemas Smith, 1908
Subtribe Nocloina Poole, 1995
Emarginea Guenée, 1852
Euamiana Barnes & Benjamin, 1927
Lythrodes Smith, 1903
Nocloa Smith, 1906
Oslaria Dyar, 1904
Paramiana Barnes & Benjamin, 1924
Petalumaria Buckett & Bauer, 1968
Prothrinax Hampson, 1908
Redingto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glivenko%27s%20theorem | Glivenko's theorem may refer to:
Glivenko's theorem (probability theory)
Glivenko's theorem or Glivenko's translation, a double-negation translation for propositional logic
See also
Glivenko–Cantelli theorem
Glivenko–Stone theorem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB10 | Growth factor receptor-bound protein 10 also known as insulin receptor-binding protein Grb-IR is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GRB10 gene.
Function
The product of this gene belongs to a small family of adaptor proteins that are known to interact with a number of receptor tyrosine kinases and signaling molecules. This gene encodes a growth factor receptor-binding protein that interacts with insulin receptors and insulin-like growth-factor receptors (e.g., IGF1R and IGF2R). Overexpression of some isoforms of the encoded protein inhibits tyrosine kinase activity and results in growth suppression. This gene is imprinted in a highly isoform- and tissue-specific manner. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified.
Animal studies
Mice whose paternally inherited Grb10 gene is inactivated are more aggressive while those whose maternally inherited allele is inactivated exhibit foetal overgrowth and are significantly bigger than wild-type litter-mates.
Interactions
GRB10 has been shown to interact with
Abl gene,
BCR gene,
C-Raf,
c-Kit,
Insulin receptor,>
Insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor,
MAP2K1, and
RET proto-oncogene.
References
Further reading
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPNI | DPNI may refer to:
Movement Against Illegal Immigration
DpnI, a Type IIM restriction enzyme which digests methylated DNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20tunnel | The basilar membrane stretches from the tympanic lip of the osseous spiral lamina to the basilar crest and consists of two parts, an inner and an outer. The inner is thin, and is named the inner tunnel (or zona arcuata): it supports the spiral organ of Corti.
References
External links
http://www.anatomyatlases.org/MicroscopicAnatomy/Section16/Plate16312.shtml
https://web.archive.org/web/20070615012500/http://www3.umdnj.edu/histsweb/lab14/lab14cochlea.html
Auditory system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healia | Healia is a health vertical search engine and online health community. Healia's search engine uses algorithms to assess quality and to categorize Web documents. Healia Communities is composed of online health support groups that enable people to share health experiences, connect with others, and ask questions of peers and health professionals. Healia, Inc. is located in Bellevue, Washington, USA.
Quality Index Score and Personalization Algorithms
Healia use patent-pending Quality Index Score to judge the quality of search results.
Healia uses algorithms to assess the content and audience focus of health Web pages and allows users to filter search results by those characteristics.
Management team
President & Founder: Thomas R. Eng (VMD, MPH).
Thomas (Tom) Eng received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award from the National Institutes of Health(NIH) in 2001 to develop this website. The National Cancer Institute (part of the NIH) assisted with research and development, and Healia was incorporated in March 2005. It became available to the public in September 2006.
Healia was acquired by Meredith Corporation in June 2007.
Healia's CTO is Mike Schultz (PhD) who runs the technology development.
AMSA Partnership
In 2009, Healia partnered with the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) to provide medical students an opportunity to answer health questions posed in Healia Communities alongside licensed professionals.
Drawbacks
The searching results are heavil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Klee | Victor LaRue Klee, Jr. (September 18, 1925 – August 17, 2007) was a mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. He spent almost his entire career at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Life
Born in San Francisco, Vic Klee earned his B.A. degree in 1945 with high honors from Pomona College, majoring in mathematics and chemistry. He did his graduate studies, including a thesis on Convex Sets in Linear Spaces, and received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Virginia in 1949. After teaching for several years at the University of Virginia, he moved in 1953 to the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, where he was a faculty member for 54 years.
He died in Lakewood, Ohio.
Research
Klee wrote more than 240 research papers. He proposed Klee's measure problem and the art gallery problem. Kleetopes are also named after him, as is the Klee–Minty cube, which shows that the simplex algorithm for linear programming does not work in polynomial time in the worst–case scenario.
Service and recognition
Klee served as president of the Mathematical Association of America from 1971 to 1973. In 1972 he won a Lester R. Ford Award.
Notes
Further reading
Short biography, and reminiscences of colleagues.
External links
Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics a volume dedicated to Klee on his 65th birthday.
Brief obituary at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
AMS column: People |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGAL | The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL) is an open source software library of computational geometry algorithms. While primarily written in C++, Scilab bindings and bindings generated with SWIG (supporting Python and Java for now) are also available.
The software is available under dual licensing scheme. When used for other open source software, it is available under open source licenses (LGPL or GPL depending on the component). In other cases commercial license may be purchased, under different options for academic/research and industrial customers.
History
The CGAL project was founded in 1996, as a consortium of eight research institutions in Europe and Israel:
Utrecht University, ETH Zurich, Free University of Berlin, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Max Planck Institute for Informatics Saarbrücken, Johannes Kepler University Linz, and Tel-Aviv University. The original funding for the project came from the ESPRIT project of the European Union. Originally, its licensing terms allowed its software to be used freely for academic purposes, with commercial licenses available for other uses. CGAL Releases 3.x were distributed under the QPL license. Starting with CGAL 4.0, released in 2012, CGAL is distributed under the GPL version 3. it is managed by a thirteen-member editorial board, with an additional 30 developers and reviewers.
The project started in 1996 as the pooling of the previous efforts of several project participant |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina%20%28given%20name%29 | Katrina or Katrine is a feminine given name. It is a derivative of Katherine.
People with this name include:
People
Katrina Adams (born 1968), American tennis player
Katrina Asay (born 1957), American politician
Katrina Bayonas (born 1941), English theatrical agent, producer and manager
Katrina Begin (born 1982), American actress
Katrina Best, British-born Canadian author of short stories
Katrina Bowden (born 1988), American actress
Katrina Boyd (born 1971), Australian soccer player
Katrina Brown, English academic
Katrina Bryan (born 1980), Scottish stage, film and television actress and CBeebies presenter
Katrina Carlson, American singer-songwriter
Katrina Jane Colebrook (born 1957), also known as Jane Colebrook, Jane Finch and Jane Weston, English track athlete
Katrina Colleton (born 1971), American basketball player
Katrina Conder, Australian television presenter
Katrina del Mar, American filmmaker and photographer
Katrina Devine (born 1980), New Zealand actor
Katrina Rose Dideriksen (born 1983), American actress
Katrina Dunn, Canadian actor and theatrical producer
Katrina Edwards (1968–2014) American geomicrobiologist
Katrina Elam (born 1983), American country music singer
Katrina Fong Lim (born 1961), Lord Mayor of Darwin, Australia
Katrina Forrester (born 1986), English political theorist and historian
Katrina Gibbs (born 1959), Australian track and field athlete
Katrine Gislinge (born 1969), Danish pianist
Katrina Gorry (born 1992), Australian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20droplet%20ejection | Acoustic droplet ejection (ADE) uses a pulse of ultrasound to move low volumes of fluids (typically nanoliters or picoliters) without any physical contact. This technology focuses acoustic energy into a fluid sample in order to eject droplets as small as a picoliter. ADE technology is a very gentle process, and it can be used to transfer proteins, high molecular weight DNA and live cells without damage or loss of viability. This feature makes the technology suitable for a wide variety of applications including proteomics and cell-based assays.
History
Acoustic droplet ejection was first reported in 1927 by Robert W. Wood and Alfred Loomis, who noted that when a high-power acoustic generator was immersed in an oil bath, a mound formed on the surface of the oil and, like a “miniature volcano,” ejected a continuous stream of droplets. Ripples that appear in a glass of water placed on a loud speaker show that acoustic energy can be converted to kinetic energy in a fluid. If the sound is turned up enough, droplets will jump from the liquid. This technique was refined in the 1970s and 1980s by Xerox and IBM and other organizations to provide a single droplet on-demand for printing ink onto a page. Two California-based companies, EDC Biosystems Inc. and Labcyte Inc. (both now acquired by Beckman Coulter), exploit acoustic energy for two separate functions: 1) as a liquid transfer device and 2) as a device for liquid auditing.
Ejection mechanism
To eject a droplet, a transducer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20descriptor | In computer vision, visual descriptors or image descriptors are descriptions of the visual features of the contents in images, videos, or algorithms or applications that produce such descriptions. They describe elementary characteristics such as the shape, the color, the texture or the motion, among others.
Introduction
As a result of the new communication technologies and the massive use of Internet in our society, the amount of audio-visual information available in digital format is increasing considerably. Therefore, it has been necessary to design some systems that allow us to describe the content of several types of multimedia information in order to search and classify them.
The audio-visual descriptors are in charge of the contents description. These descriptors have a good knowledge of the objects and events found in a video, image or audio and they allow the quick and efficient searches of the audio-visual content.
This system can be compared to the search engines for textual contents. Although it is certain, that it is relatively easy to find text with a computer, is much more difficult to find concrete audio and video parts. For instance, imagine somebody searching a scene of a happy person. The happiness is a feeling and it is not evident its shape, color and texture description in images.
The description of the audio-visual content is not a superficial task and it is essential for the effective use of this type of archives. The standardization system that dea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20metropolitan%20areas%20in%20Japan | This is a list of in Japan by population as defined by the Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) and the Center for Spatial Information Service of the University of Tokyo. The region containing most of the people in Japan between Tokyo and Fukuoka is often called the Taiheiyō Belt.
Population Census
The Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) defines a metropolitan area as one or more central cities and its associated outlying municipalities. To qualify as an outlying municipality, the municipality must have at least 1.5% of its resident population aged 15 and above commuting to school or work into one of the central cities. To qualify as a central city, a city must either be a designated city of any population or a non-designated city with a city proper population of at least 500,000. Metropolitan areas of designated cities are defined as "major metropolitan areas" (大都市圏) while those of non-designated cities are simply "metropolitan areas" (都市圏). If multiple central cities are close enough such that their outlying cities overlap, they are combined and a single metropolitan area is defined rather than independently.
2015 Population Census
The metropolitan areas written in bold are the 11 major metropolitan areas of Japan.
2015
MMA: Major Metropolitan Area
MA: Metropolitan Area
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan
2010 Population Census
The metropolitan areas written in bold are the 11 major metropolitan areas of Japan.
2010
MMA: Major Metropolitan Area
MA: Metropolitan Area
Source: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotransformation | Biotransformation is the biochemical modification of one chemical compound or a mixture of chemical compounds. Biotransformations can be conducted with whole cells, their lysates, or purified enzymes. Increasingly, biotransformations are effected with purified enzymes. Major industries and life-saving technologies depend on biotransformations.
Advantages and disadvantages
Compared to the conventional production of chemicals, biotransformations are often attractive because their selectivities can be high, limiting the coproduction of undesirable coproducts. Generally operating under mild temperatures and pressures in aqueous solutions, many biotransformations are "green". The catalysts, i.e. the enzymes, are amenable to improvement by genetic manipulation.
Biotechnology usually is restrained by substrate scope. Petrochemicals for example are often not amenable to biotransformations, especially on the scale required for some applications, e.g. fuels. Biotransformations can be slow and are often incompatible with high temperatures, which are employed in traditional chemical synthesis to increase rates. Enzymes are generally only stable <100 °C, and usually much lower. Enzymes, like other catalysts are poisonable. In some cases, performance or recyclability can be improved by using immobilized enzymes.
Historical
Wine and beer making are examples of biotransformations that have been practiced since ancient times. Vinegar has long been produced by fermentation, involv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%20552 | The Avro 552 was a British light biplane aircraft produced in the early 1920s. It was another attempt by Avro to sell a derivative of the wartime 504 to the civil market.
Design and development
In this case, the company took advantage of the large number of war-surplus Wolseley Viper engines left over from Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a production. In 1921, one of these was married to a standard 504K airframe for evaluation under the designation Avro 551. Trials proved encouraging, but an extra fuel tank was installed in the upper wing as a result of the Viper's higher rate of fuel consumption, and changes were also made to the aileron design.
This configuration went into production as the 552, with the Argentine Navy purchasing 12 examples of a float-equipped version, the 552A, which served as trainers until 1927. Two similar machines were purchased by Bulgaria.
In 1924, the Royal Canadian Air Force arranged for Canadian Vickers to purchase a licence to produce five landplanes and nine seaplane examples for use in forestry patrol. These differed from British-built aircraft by the use of U.S. Naval Aircraft Factory floats, and increased fuel tankage for extended range. One of the license-built seaplanes was fitted with a Wright engine and known in Canadian service as the Avro Wright. Licensed production was also undertaken by C.B. Field of Kingswood Knoll, Surrey, who built three aircraft from surplus components supplied by Avro. These were flown as banner tugs by Inca Avia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecarin | Ecarin is an enzyme that is derived from the venom of the Indian saw-scaled viper, Echis carinatus, It is the primary reagent in the Ecarin clotting time test.
The venom of the saw-scaled viper, Echis carinatus, causes bleeding and eventually death. The venom contains a metalloprotease called ecarin that converts prothrombin to meizothrombin, a thrombin analog with increased esterase activity, and not to normal thrombin. Ecarin is a glycoprotein with unique metalloproteinase properties. It has a molecular weight of 56,000 and has been found to specifically activate only prothrombin due to its strict substrate specificity. To better understand the structure-function relationships of Ecarin, researchers need to know its primary structure. This understanding is crucial for gaining insight into the related functions of the glycoprotein. To compare the covalent structures of Ecarin and RVV-X, researchers have determined the complete cDNA sequence and translated protein sequence of Ecarin.
Determining the activity of the protein Ecarina is an important step in comprehending its role in initiating blood clotting. To accomplish this, researchers use a special substance called a chromogenic thrombin substrate, which is a molecule that can be cleaved by thrombin, a protein that is a critical player in the blood clotting cascade. The cleavage products that are generated by the substrate can be measured over time, and this parameter can be used to determine the activity of Ecarina.
T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibroblast%20growth%20factor%20receptor%203 | Fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FGFR3 gene. FGFR3 has also been designated as CD333 (cluster of differentiation 333). The gene, which is located on chromosome 4, location p16.3, is expressed in tissues such as the cartilage, brain, intestine, and kidneys.
The FGFR3 gene produces various forms of the FGFR3 protein; the location varies depending on the isoform of the FGFR3 protein. Since the different forms are found within different tissues the protein is responsible for multiple growth factor interactions. Gain of function mutations in FGFR3 inhibits chondrocyte proliferation and underlies achondroplasia and hypochondroplasia.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the fibroblast growth factor receptor family, where amino acid sequence is highly conserved between members and throughout evolution. FGFR family members differ from one another in their ligand affinities and tissue distribution. A full-length representative protein would consist of an extracellular region, composed of three immunoglobulin-like domains, a single hydrophobic membrane-spanning segment and a cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase domain. The extracellular portion of the protein interacts with fibroblast growth factors, setting in motion a cascade of downstream signals which ultimately influence cell mitogenesis and differentiation.
This particular family member binds both acidic and basic fibroblast growth factor and plays a role in bone de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Bulls%20all-time%20roster | The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared at least in one game for the Chicago Bulls NBA franchise.
Players
Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the season.
A to B
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units%20of%20measurement%20in%20transportation | The units of measurement in transportation describes the unit of measurement used to express various transportation quantities, as used in statistics, planning, and their related applications.
Transportation quantity
The currently popular units are:
Length of journey
kilometre (km) or kilometer is a metric unit used, outside the US, to measure the length of a journey;
the international statute mile (mi) is used in the US; 1 mi = 1.609344 km
nautical mile is rarely used to derive units of transportation quantity.
Traffic flow
vehicle-kilometre (vkm) as a measure of traffic flow, determined by multiplying the number of vehicles on a given road or traffic network by the average length of their trips measured in kilometres.
vehicle-mile (, or VMT) same as before but measures the trip expressed in miles.
Passenger
Payload quantity
Passenger; Person (often abbreviated as either "pax" or "p.")
Passenger-distance
Passenger-distance is the distance (km or miles) travelled by passengers on transit vehicles; determined by multiplying the number of unlinked passenger trips by the average length of their trips.
passenger-kilometre or pkm internationally;
passenger-mile (or pmi ?) sometimes in the US; 1 pmi = 1.609344 pkm
Passengers per hour per direction
Passengers per hour per direction (pphpd) measures the maximum route capacity of a transport system.
Passengers per bus hour
A system may carry a high number of passengers per distance (km or mile) but a relatively l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCJ | TCJ may refer to:
Eiken (studio)
The Comics Journal
TCJ subsection at Cell junction
Tube CAD Journal (Online Publication)
Tree Climbing Japan (Outdoor activity) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable%20building | An inflatable building is a structure constructed using two layers of membrane connected together, typically using spars made from the same material. The cavity formed between the layers is pressurized with air producing a rigid structural element which allows large span structures to be achieved. The key difference between air-supported buildings and inflatable buildings is that air-supported buildings require airlocks at all the access points to prevent air being lost when doors are opened since the entire occupied space of the building is pressurized. Inflatable buildings like this commonly serve sports, such as tennis and indoor golf.
Structure
An inflatable building only requires pressurized air within the cavities of the walls and so does not require airlocks since the occupied interior of the building is at normal atmospheric pressure.
The air contained within the walls of an inflatable building becomes a true structural part of the building. The membranes used in the construction of such buildings are typically less than 1mm thick, so the amount of membrane used compared to the volume of air contained within the walls is incredibly low (typically less than 0.5%). This makes inflatable buildings efficient in terms of the amount of raw materials required to construct them.
The small amount of material used in the construction of inflatable buildings makes them highly portable. When a building needs to be moved, the air can simply be allowed to escape enabling an en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20of%20Dallas | Dallas is located in North Texas, built along the Trinity River. It has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfa) that is characteristic of the southern plains of the United States. Dallas experiences mild winters and hot summers.
Seasonal climate
Summer
Summers are very hot and variably humid, with extended periods of hot, dry weather common in many summers. Wetter (generally less hot) periods occur in a minority of years. Heat waves can be severe and prolonged, usually coinciding with severe drought. During the summer, the greater Dallas area receives warm to hot, dry airflow from Southwestern desert areas to the west and southwest, as well as hot, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico. The city's all-time recorded high temperature is during the Heat Wave of 1980. In July and August, the average high temperature is near , while the average nighttime low temperature is around . Days with temperatures exceeding 100 °F (38 °C) happen at least several times during the summer every year. Especially hot and dry summers occurred in 1980, 2011, 2022 and 2023.
Transitional months
Spring and autumn bring warm weather to the area. Vibrant wildflowers (such as the bluebonnet, Indian paintbrush and other flora) bloom in spring and are planted around the highways throughout Texas. Springtime weather can be quite volatile, but temperatures themselves are warm on average. The weather in Dallas is also generally pleasant between late October and early December, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%20Hit%20Me%20%28And%20It%20Felt%20Like%20a%20Kiss%29 | "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King for girl group the Crystals under the guidance of Phil Spector in 1962. Goffin and King wrote the song after discovering that their babysitter and singer "Little Eva" Boyd was being regularly beaten by her boyfriend. When they inquired why she tolerated such treatment, Eva replied, with complete sincerity, that her boyfriend's actions were motivated by his love for her.
Production
Phil Spector's arrangement was ominous and ambiguous.
Release
Upon its initial release, "He Hit Me" received some airplay, but then there was a widespread protest of the song, with many concluding that the song was an endorsement of spousal abuse. Soon, the song was played only rarely on the radio, as now.
The 1930 Frank Borzage film Liliom contains the line "He hit me and it felt like a kiss" in its final scene. The film was not a success and nothing suggests that Goffin or King had seen it. Liliom, originally a play by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár, was the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical classic, Carousel. While King and Goffin may not have seen Liliom, it is possible that they were familiar with the successful 1956 film version of Carousel, which contains essentially the same line. However, King has stated that Little Eva, their babysitter who inspired the song, had used that exact phrase to them.
Carole King, in that same radio interview, said that she was sorry she had ever had any |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTCD | OTCD may refer to:
Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency
Over-the-counter data
Over-the-counter derivative, see over-the-counter (finance)
Over-the-counter drug
On the Company Dime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20T.%20Ryan%20Trophy | John T. Ryan Trophies are awards of excellence presented by Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) to a mine in a given category which experiences the lowest accident frequency during the previous year in all of Canada. Three national trophies are given each year, one to a metal mine, a coal mine and one to a select mine. An award is also given out to the mine with the lowest accident frequency in each of the following regions:
Quebec and East
Ontario
Prairies and Northwest Territories
British Columbia and Yukon.
The award is given by Mine Safety Appliances Company as a memorial to the founder John T. Ryan.
Award winners
Metal Mines
Select Mines
Coal Mines
See also
List of occupational health and safety awards
References
Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
Occupational safety and health awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20Cricket%20World%20Cup%20statistics | 2003 Cricket World Cup statistics lists all the major statistics and records for the 2003 Cricket World Cup held in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya from 9 February to 24 March 2003.
Talha Jubair became the youngest player to participate in Cricket World Cup. Sri Lanka's clinical demolition of Canada for 36 runs created a new World Cup record for the lowest innings score, a dubious distinction that was, at the time, the lowest score in ODI history. Records tumbled when defending champions Australia took on minnows Namibia, with Glenn McGrath claiming the World Cup's best bowling figures (7/15), a performance that helped Australia defeat Namibia by 256 runs. Team-mate Adam Gilchrist created a new wicket-keeping dismissal record in the same match, with 6. Against Namibia, Indian players Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly recorded the second highest partnership in World Cup cricket (244 runs). India and Australia clashed in a one-sided battle in the final, with Australia creating multiple records (highest World Cup final score, highest score by a captain in a World Cup final – Ricky Ponting, most sixes by a batsman – Ponting) in a match; with Australia winning by 125 runs. Tendulkar's 673 runs, the most runs scored in a single World Cup history to date, was the consolation for India as he won the 2003 Cricket World Cup Man of the Series award. The World Cup also saw fielding records in an innings (Mohammad Kaif) and tournament (Ponting). The World Cup broke the record for most |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDES | PDES may refer to:
ISO 10303 - an international standard resulting from the Product Data Exchange Specification effort
Partial differential equations
Party for Economic Development and Solidarity
Process Development Execution System -- systems supporting the execution of high-tech manufacturing process developments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial%20code | Most real world data sets consist of data vectors whose individual components are not statistically independent. In other words, knowing the value of an element will provide information about the value of elements in the data vector. When this occurs, it can be desirable to create a factorial code of the data, i.e., a new vector-valued representation of each data vector such that it gets uniquely encoded by the resulting code vector (loss-free coding), but the code components are statistically independent.
Later supervised learning usually works much better when the raw input data is first translated into such a factorial code. For example, suppose the final goal is to classify images with highly redundant pixels. A naive Bayes classifier will assume the pixels are statistically independent random variables and therefore fail to produce good results. If the data are first encoded in a factorial way, however, then the naive Bayes classifier will achieve its optimal performance (compare Schmidhuber et al. 1996).
To create factorial codes, Horace Barlow and co-workers suggested to minimize the sum of the bit entropies of the code components of binary codes (1989). Jürgen Schmidhuber (1992) re-formulated the problem in terms of predictors and binary feature detectors, each receiving the raw data as an input. For each detector there is a predictor that sees the other detectors and learns to predict the output of its own detector in response to the various input vectors or ima |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20incentives%20for%20photovoltaics | Financial incentives for photovoltaics are incentives offered to electricity consumers to install and operate solar-electric generating systems, also known as photovoltaics (PV).
Governments offered incentives in order to encourage the PV industry to achieve the economies of scale needed to compete where the cost of PV-generated electricity is above the cost from the existing grid. Such policies were implemented to promote national or territorial energy independence, high tech job creation and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions which cause climate change. When, in a given country or territory, the cost of solar electricity falls to meet the rising cost of grid electricity, then 'grid parity' is reached, and in principle incentives are no longer needed. In some places, the price of electricity varies as a function of time and day (due to demand variations). In places where high demand (and high electricity prices) coincide with high sunshine (usually hot places with air conditioning) then grid parity is reached before the cost of solar electricity meets the average price of grid electricity. As of 2022, in many jurisdictions, incentives have been significantly replaced by auctions as the cost of elelectricity produced by PV has indeed fallen below the price of electricity bought from the grid.
Mechanisms
Incentive mechanisms are used (often in combination), such as:
Investment subsidies: the authorities refund part of the cost of installation of the system.
Feed-in Tar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arocet | Arocet Inc was an American aircraft manufacturer established by Tom Hamilton in Arlington, Washington in the 1980s to market military derivatives of the Glasair III homebuilt aircraft that Hamilton had worked on as part of Stoddard-Hamilton Aircraft.
Products
Arocet AT-9 (1988) Turboprop engine two-seat low-wing monoplane with retractable undercarriage. One built
References
aerofiles.com
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Companies based in Arlington, Washington |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow%20Margin | Narrow Margin is a 1990 American neo-noir action thriller film written and directed by Peter Hyams. It stars Gene Hackman and Anne Archer, with James Sikking, Nigel Bennett, Harris Yulin and J. T. Walsh in supporting roles. It was released in the United States by TriStar Pictures on September 21, 1990.
Based on the 1952 film The Narrow Margin, it is the first of two RKO reimaginings by Hyams, the other being 2009's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. The film keeps the same general story, and follows a Los Angeles deputy district attorney who attempts to keep a murder witness safe from hitmen while traveling on a train. However, it changes the moral alignment of some characters, and the setting from the Super Chief route to the Canadian Rockies.
Plot
In Los Angeles, divorced editor Carol Hunnicut is on a blind date at a hotel restaurant with widowed lawyer Michael Tarlow, when a waiter delivers a message for him to phone a client. Tarlow goes to his suite to make the call and invites her to come with him. While Hunnicut watches from a darkened room, the client, crime boss Leo Watts, unexpectedly arrives in person along with a gunman, Jack Wootton. Watts has learned that Tarlow stole from him and Wootton shoots Tarlow dead.
Having learnt that Tarlow was Watts's lawyer, Hunnicut realizes that she is in danger. She delivers her son to his father and urges them to go into hiding, then flees to a borrowed cabin in the Canadian Rockies, telling only one person where she went and what she |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNARK%20%28theorem%20prover%29 | SNARK, (SRI's New Automated Reasoning Kit), is a theorem prover for multi-sorted first-order logic intended for applications in artificial intelligence and software engineering, developed at SRI International.
SNARK's principal inference mechanisms are resolution and paramodulation; in addition it offers specialized decision procedures for particular domains, e.g., a constraint solver for Allen's temporal interval logic. In contrast to many other theorem provers is fully automated (non-interactive). SNARK offers many strategic controls for adjusting its search behavior and thus tune its performance to particular applications. This, together with its use of multi-sorted logic and facilities for integrating special-purpose reasoning procedures with general-purpose inference make it particularly suited as reasoner for large sets of assertions.
SNARK is used as reasoning component in the NASA Intelligent Systems Project. It is written in Common Lisp and available under the Mozilla Public License.
See also
Automated reasoning
Automated theorem proving
Computer-aided proof
First-order logic
Formal verification
References
M. Stickel, R. Waldinger, M. Lowry, T. Pressburger, and I. Underwood. "Deductive composition of astronomical software from subroutine libraries." Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-12), Nancy, France, June 1994, pages 341–355.
Richard Waldinger, Martin Reddy, and Jennifer Dungan. "Deductive Composition o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciliospinal%20center | The ciliospinal center (also known as Budge's center) is a cluster of pre-ganglionic sympathetic neuron cell bodies located in the intermediolateral cell column of the spinal cord at the spinal levels.
It receives afferents from (the posterior part of) the hypothalamus via the (ipsilateral) hypothalamospinal tract which synapse with the center's pre-ganglionic sympathetic neurons. The efferent, pre-ganglionic axons then leave the spinal cord to enter and ascend in the sympathetic trunk to reach the superior cervical ganglion (SCG) where they synapse with post-ganglionic sympathetic neurons. The post-ganglionic neurons of the SCG then join the internal carotid nerve plexus of the internal carotid artery, accompanying first this artery and subsequently its branches to reach the orbit. In the orbit, they join the long ciliary nerves and short ciliary nerves to reach and innervate the dilator pupillae muscle to mediate pupillary dilatation as part of the pupillary reflex.
History
It is associated with a reflex identified by Augustus Volney Waller and Ludwig Julius Budge in 1852.
See also
Horner's syndrome
References
Spinal cord |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porntip%20Papanai | Porntip Papanai (; , nickname "Cartoon"; born 1982 in Krabi) is a Thai actress and model. Among her film roles are supporting parts in Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's Monrak Transistor (2001), in which she played the country singer Dao, and Ploy (2007), in which she portrayed Tum, the hotel maid.
She portrayed the legendary Thai ghost Mae Nak in Ghost of Mae Nak in 2005 In 2008 she also featured in Queen of Langkasuka by Nonzee Nimibutr and in 2009 in Nymph, a film about the Thai legendary Nang Mai tree deity.
Films
Monrak Transistor (มนต์รักทรานซิสเตอร์) 2001.
Ghost of Mae Nak (นาค รักแท้ วิญญาณ ความตาย) 2005.
The Elephant King 2006.
Ploy (พลอย) 2007.
Soi Cowboy (ซอยคาวบอย) 2008.
Queens of Langkasuka (ปืนใหญ่จอมสลัด) 2008.
Nymph (นางไม้) 2009.
Mindfulness and Murder (ศพไม่เงียบ) 2010.
Khun Rong Plat Chu (ขุนรองปลัดชู) 2012.
References
External links
Behind the Blur (2009)
1982 births
Porntip Papanai
Porntip Papanai
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAF2 | TNF receptor-associated factor 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TRAF2 gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the TNF receptor associated factor (TRAF) protein family. TRAF proteins associate with, and mediate the signal transduction from members of the TNF receptor superfamily. This protein directly interacts with TNF receptors, and forms complexes with other TRAF proteins. TRAF2 is required for TNF-alpha-mediated activation of MAPK8/JNK and NF-κB. The protein complex formed by TRAF2 and TRAF1 interacts with the IAP family members cIAP1 and cIAP2, and functions as a mediator of the anti-apoptotic signals from TNF receptors. The interaction of this protein with TRADD, a TNF receptor associated apoptotic signal transducer, ensures the recruitment of IAPs for the direct inhibition of caspase activation. cIAP1 can ubiquitinate and induce the degradation of this protein, and thus potentiate TNF-induced apoptosis. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene, but the biological validity of only one transcript has been determined.
Interactions
TRAF2 has been shown to interact with:
ASK1,
BCL10,
BIRC2,
Baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 3,
CASP8AP2,
CD134,
CD137,
CD27,
CD40,
CFLAR,
CHUK,
Caveolin 1,
EDARADD,
HIVEP3,
IKK2,
Low affinity nerve growth factor receptor,
MAP3K14,
MAP3K1,
MAP3K7IP2,
MAP4K2,
MAP4K5,
RANK,
RIPK1,
SPHK1,
TANK,
TANK-binding k |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspase%203 | Caspase-3 is a caspase protein that interacts with caspase-8 and caspase-9. It is encoded by the CASP3 gene. CASP3 orthologs have been identified in numerous mammals for which complete genome data are available. Unique orthologs are also present in birds, lizards, lissamphibians, and teleosts.
The CASP3 protein is a member of the cysteine-aspartic acid protease (caspase) family. Sequential activation of caspases plays a central role in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis. Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes that undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme. This protein cleaves and activates caspases 6 and 7; and the protein itself is processed and activated by caspases 8, 9, and 10. It is the predominant caspase involved in the cleavage of amyloid-beta 4A precursor protein, which is associated with neuronal death in Alzheimer's disease. Alternative splicing of this gene results in two transcript variants that encode the same protein.
Caspase-3 shares many of the typical characteristics common to all currently-known caspases. For example, its active site contains a cysteine residue (Cys-163) and histidine residue (His-121) that stabilize the peptide bond cleavage of a protein sequence to the carboxy-terminal side of an aspartic acid when it is part of a particular 4-amino acid sequence. This specificity allows caspases to be incredibly selective, with a 20,000-fold prefe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRADD | Tumor necrosis factor receptor type 1-associated DEATH domain protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TRADD gene.
TRADD is an adaptor protein.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is a death domain containing adaptor molecule that interacts with TNFRSF1A/TNFR1 and mediates programmed cell death signaling and NF-κB activation. This protein binds adaptor protein TRAF2, reduces the recruitment of inhibitor-of-apoptosis proteins (IAPs) by TRAF2, and thus suppresses TRAF2 mediated apoptosis. This protein can also interact with receptor TNFRSF6/FAS and adaptor protein FADD/MORT1, and is involved in the Fas-induced cell death pathway.
Interactions
TRADD has been shown to interact with:
FADD,
Keratin 18
RIPK1,
STAT1,
TNFRSF1A,
TNFRSF25, and
TRAF2.
See also
TRAF
RIP
References
Further reading
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASK1 | Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1) also known as mitogen-activated protein kinase 5 (MAP3K5) is a member of MAP kinase family and as such a part of mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway. It activates c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinases in a Raf-independent fashion in response to an array of stresses such as oxidative stress, endoplasmic reticulum stress and calcium influx. ASK1 has been found to be involved in cancer, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases.
MAP3K5 gene coding for the protein is located on chromosome 6 at locus 6q22.33. and the transcribed protein contains 1,374 amino acids with 11 kinase subdomains. Northern blot analysis shows that MAP3K5 transcript is abundant in human heart and pancreas.
Mechanism of activation
Under nonstress conditions ASK1 is oligomerized (a requirement for its activation) through its C-terminal coiled-coil domain (CCC), but remains in an inactive form by the suppressive effect of reduced thioredoxin (Trx) and calcium and integrin binding protein 1 (CIB1). Trx inhibits ASK1 kinase activity by direct binding to its N-terminal coiled-coil domain (NCC). Trx and CIB1 regulate ASK1 activation in a redox- or calcium- sensitive manner, respectively. Both appear to compete with TNF-α receptor-associated factor 2 (TRAF2), an ASK1 activator. TRAF2 and TRAF6 are then recruited to ASK1 to form a larger molecular mass complex. Subsequently, ASK1 forms homo-oli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berendsen%20thermostat | The Berendsen thermostat is an algorithm to re-scale the velocities of particles in molecular dynamics simulations to control the simulation temperature.
Basic description
In this scheme, the system is weakly coupled to a heat bath with some temperature. The thermostat suppresses fluctuations of the kinetic energy of the system and therefore cannot produce trajectories consistent with the canonical ensemble. The temperature of the system is corrected such that the deviation exponentially decays with some time constant .
Though the thermostat does not generate a correct canonical ensemble (especially for small systems), for large systems on the order of hundreds or thousands of atoms/molecules, the approximation yields roughly correct results for most calculated properties. The scheme is widely used due to the efficiency with which it relaxes a system to some target (bath) temperature. In many instances, systems are initially equilibrated using the Berendsen scheme, while properties are calculated using the widely known Nosé–Hoover thermostat, which correctly generates trajectories consistent with a canonical ensemble. However, the Berendsen thermostat can result in the flying ice cube effect, an artifact which can be eliminated by using the more rigorous Bussi–Donadio–Parrinello thermostat; for this reason, it has been recommended that usage of the Berendsen thermostat be discontinued in almost all cases except for replication of prior studies.
See also
Molecular mechani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%20model | The term box model may refer to:
Box modeling, in computer graphics
Climate box models, in climatology
Gravity current box models, in fluid mechanics
CSS box model in web development
See also
Internet Explorer box model bug, in the implementation of the CSS box model |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MADT | MADT may refer to:
Micro alloy diffused transistor, in electronics
Multiple APIC Description Table, in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20system%20on%20a%20chip%20suppliers | List of system-on-a-chip suppliers.
Actions Semiconductor
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE)
Alchip
Allwinner Technology
Altera
Amkor Technology
Amlogic
Analog Devices
Apple Inc.
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC)
ARM Holdings
ASIX Electronics
Atheros
Atmel
Axis Communications
Broadcom
Cambridge Silicon Radio
Cavium Networks
CEVA, Inc.
Cirrus Logic
Conexant
Cortina Systems
Cypress Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor
Fujifilm
HiSilicon
Imagination Technologies
Infineon Technologies
Integra Technologies
Intel Corporation
InvenSense
Lattice Semiconductor
Leadcore Technology
LSI Corporation
Marvell Technology Group
MediaTek
Maxim Integrated Products
Milkymist
MIPS Technologies
MStar Semiconductor
Nokia
NVIDIA
NXP Semiconductors (formerly Philips Semiconductors)
Open-Silicon
PMC-Sierra
Qualcomm
Redpine Signals
Renesas
Rockchip
Ruselectronics
Samsung Exynos
Sharp
Sigma Designs
SigmaTel
Silicon Integrated Systems
Silicon Motion
Skyworks Solutions
Socionext
SolidRun
Spreadtrum
STMicroelectronics
ST-Ericsson
Telechips
Tensilica
Teridian Semiconductor
Texas Instruments
Transmeta
Vimicro
Virage Logic
WonderMedia
Xilinx
Zoran Corporation
See also
List of countries by integrated circuit exports
List of integrated circuit manufacturers
Electronic design
Lists of technology companies
System on a chip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive%20hashing | In computer science, locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a fuzzy hashing technique that hashes similar input items into the same "buckets" with high probability. (The number of buckets is much smaller than the universe of possible input items.) Since similar items end up in the same buckets, this technique can be used for data clustering and nearest neighbor search. It differs from conventional hashing techniques in that hash collisions are maximized, not minimized. Alternatively, the technique can be seen as a way to reduce the dimensionality of high-dimensional data; high-dimensional input items can be reduced to low-dimensional versions while preserving relative distances between items.
Hashing-based approximate nearest-neighbor search algorithms generally use one of two main categories of hashing methods: either data-independent methods, such as locality-sensitive hashing (LSH); or data-dependent methods, such as locality-preserving hashing (LPH).
Locality-preserving hashing was initially devised as a way to facilitate data pipelining in implementations of massively parallel algorithms that use randomized routing and universal hashing to reduce memory contention and network congestion.
Definitions
An LSH family
is defined for
a metric space ,
a threshold ,
an approximation factor ,
and probabilities and .
This family is a set of functions that map elements of the metric space to buckets . An LSH family must satisfy the following conditions for any two poi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRW | FRW may refer to:
FRW, currency symbol for the Rwandan franc
FRW metric, one name for an exact solution of Einstein's field equations of general relativity
Federation of Rural Workers, a former Irish trade union
Friction welding, a solid-state welding process
Front Row Wrestling, an American wrestling promotion
FRW, station code for the Fairwater railway station, Cardiff, Wales
FRW, SAME code for a fire warning in the United States
FRW, IATA airport code for Francistown Airport, Botswana
FRW, IATA airline designator for the defunct Bechuanaland National Airways based in Francistown |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia%20Hall | Sequoia Hall is the home of the Statistics Department on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California.
History
In 1891, the original building opened as Roble Hall, a three-story women's dormitory. Roble Hall housed the first women admitted to Stanford. In 1917, a new women's dormitory also called Roble Hall was constructed on another part of campus and the earlier building was renamed Sequoia Hall and renovated as a men's dormitory. During World War I, Sequoia Hall was used by the Army for officers attending the War Department civilian defense school.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Sequoia Hall fell into disrepair and was vacant by 1945. In 1957, the building was deemed an earthquake hazard. The top two stories of the building were demolished and the bottom floor was renovated. The renovated building became home to the Statistics Department.
In the late 1980s, Stanford University began planning a $120 million Science and Engineering Quad (SEQ) Project, scheduled to be completed by 1999. Part of this project included the construction of a new building for Statistics. On August 22, 1996, the original Sequoia Hall was demolished to make way for the new facility. The new Sequoia Hall opened January 17, 1998 on an adjacent site. The facility is current home to the Statistics Department.
Further reading
External links
Official website of the Statistics Department at Stanford University
Residential buildings completed in 1917
School buildings completed in 1998
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithelioid%20cell | According to a common point of view epithelioid cells (also called epithelioid histiocytes)
are derivatives of activated macrophages resembling epithelial cells.
Structure and function
Structurally, epithelioid cells (when examined by light microscopy after stained with hematoxylin and eosin), are elongated, with finely granular, pale eosinophilic (pink) cytoplasm, and central, ovoid nuclei (oval or elongate), which are less dense than that of a lymphocyte. They have indistinct shape and often appear to merge into one another, forming aggregates known as giant cells. When examined by transmission electron microscopy in epithelioid cells in the field of Golgi lamellar complex are taped not only zonated, but also sleek vesicles with dense center, and also great many (more than 100) large granulas with diameters up to 340 nm and with finegranular matrix more light than in macrophage granulas, sometimes with perigranular halo. “The most prominent feature of these cells is the enormous Golgi area; up to 6 individual stacks of Golgi cisternae may be present as well as a few bristle-coated and numerous smooth vesicles”. Epithelioid cells have tightly interdigitated cell membranes in zipper-like arrays that link adjacent cells. This cells are central in the formation of granulomas, which are associated with many serious diseases. In granulomas, epithelioid cells perform the functions of delimiting.
Peculiarities of the cytoskeleton
It is shown that the epithelioid cell cytoskelet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R108%20road%20%28Ireland%29 | The R108 road is a regional road in Ireland, linking Drogheda in County Louth to Christchurch Place, Dublin.
The official description of the R108 from the Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2012 reads:
R108: Dublin - Naul, County Dublin - Drogheda, County Louth
Between its junction with R137 at Christchurch Place and its junction with R135 at Phibsborough Road via High Street, Cornmarket, Bridge Street, Father Matthew Bridge, Church Street, Church Street Upper and Constitution Hill all in the city of Dublin
and
between its junction with R135 at Botanic Road in the city of Dublin and its junction with R122 at Newtown in the county of Fingal via Botanic Road, Saint Mobhi Road and Ballymun Road in the city of Dublin: Ballymun Road and Harristown in the county of Fingal and
between its junction with R122 at Shanganhill and its junction with R125 at Roganstown via Coultry, Huntstown, Cooks Cross, Knocksedan Bridge and Rathbeal all in the county of Fingal
and
between its junction with R125 at Roganstown in the county of Fingal and its junction with R132 at Dublin Road in the borough of Drogheda via Belinstown, Ballyboghill, Gerrardstown, Nags Head, Naul and Westown in the county of Fingal: Naul Bridge at the boundary between the county of Fingal and the county of Meath: Clinstown, Calliagstown and Bryanstown in the county of Meath: Beamore Road, Duleek Street and Mary Street in the borough of Drogheda.
The road is long.
See also
Roads in Ireland
Nat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Touring%20Over | Grand Touring Over (GTO) is the name of a former classification designated to grand touring cars competing in sports car racing, originally by IMSA in the IMSA GT Championship, and later by Grand-Am in the Rolex Sports Car Series. IMSA used the class between 1971 and 1991, and Grand-Am used the class for a single season in 2000. The class had its origins in the original "TO" class used by the SCCA in the Trans-Am series, and was also similarly modeled to the FIA's Group 4 and Group 5 racing classes, but eventually evolved over time into its own category. The class specified an engine displacement of more than , with engine design and number of cylinders being unrestricted. turbocharging and supercharging was allowed on engines up to a size of . Engines over were required to be naturally aspirated. The original class became known as Grand Touring Supreme (GTS) in 1992.
References
Sports car racing
IMSA GT Championship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Touring%20Under | Grand Touring Under (GTU) is the name of a former classification designated to grand touring cars competing in sports car racing, originally used by IMSA in the IMSA GT Championship, and later by Grand-Am in the Rolex Sports Car Series. IMSA used the class between 1971 and 1994, and Grand-Am used the class for a single season in 2000. The original class rules specified an engine displacement of under , natural aspiration, and was the secondary class below the top tier class, GTO. The class later became known as GTS-2 in 1995, then GTS-3 between 1996 and 1997, and eventually evolved into the GT3 class for 1998.
References
Sports car racing
IMSA GT Championship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Touring%20Supreme | Grand Touring Supreme (GTS) is the name of a former classification designated to grand touring cars competing in sports car racing, originally by IMSA in the IMSA GT Championship, and later by Grand-Am in the Rolex Sports Car Series. IMSA used the class between 1992 and 1997, and Grand-Am used the class between 2001 and 2003. It was an evolution and re-branding of the former Grand Touring Over (GTO) class. Like the original GTO class, the class rules specified an engine displacement of more than , with engine design and number of cylinders being free and unrestricted. turbocharging and supercharging was allowed on engines up to a size of . Engines over were required to be naturally-aspirated. Between 1995 and 1996 in the IMSA GT Championship, the top GTS class became known as GTS-1, while the former Grand Touring Under (GTU) class became known as GTS-2. This changed again in 1997, when the GTS-2 (former GTU) class became known as GTS-3, due to the addition of a new GTS-2 category, which allowed for existing international GT2 cars, like those used in the FIA GT Championship. IMSA also used the GTS designation for the former GT2 class cars of cars (later known as GT1) in the American Le Mans Series, between 1999 and 2004.
References
Sports car racing
IMSA GT Championship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%20theorem | Area theorem may refer to:
For Hawking's area theorem, see Black hole thermodynamics#The laws of black hole mechanics.
For the area theorem in conformal mapping theory, see area theorem (conformal mapping). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyper | Oxyper is a Solvay coated and stabilised sodium carbonate peroxyhydrate (or sodium percarbonate) which combines the properties of sodium carbonate and hydrogen peroxide. It is an odorless, crystalline, white powder used, when dissolved in water, in cleaning and bleaching applications and as a beer keg and line cleaner. It is a brand name of the Solvay S.A. Corporation, headquartered in Brussels.
External links
Sodium Percarbonates, Solvay Corporation website, retrieved 2012-12-14
Product Data Sheet, retrieved 2012-12-14
Household chemicals
Antiseptics
Bleaches |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentode%20transistor | A pentode transistor is any transistor having five active terminals.
Early pentode transistors
One early pentode transistor was developed in the early 1950s as an improvement over the point-contact transistor.
A point-contact transistor having three emitters. It became obsolete in the middle 1950s.
Pentode field-effect transistors having 3 gates, similar to vacuum tube pentodes have also been described
Modern pentode transistors
Triple emitter transistor in three input transistor-transistor logic gates.
Triple collector transistor in three output integrated injection logic gates.
Field effect transistor having three gates.
References
Transistor types |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperparameter | In Bayesian statistics, a hyperparameter is a parameter of a prior distribution; the term is used to distinguish them from parameters of the model for the underlying system under analysis.
For example, if one is using a beta distribution to model the distribution of the parameter p of a Bernoulli distribution, then:
p is a parameter of the underlying system (Bernoulli distribution), and
α and β are parameters of the prior distribution (beta distribution), hence hyperparameters.
One may take a single value for a given hyperparameter, or one can iterate and take a probability distribution on the hyperparameter itself, called a hyperprior.
Purpose
One often uses a prior which comes from a parametric family of probability distributions – this is done partly for explicitness (so one can write down a distribution, and choose the form by varying the hyperparameter, rather than trying to produce an arbitrary function), and partly so that one can vary the hyperparameter, particularly in the method of conjugate priors, or for sensitivity analysis.
Conjugate priors
When using a conjugate prior, the posterior distribution will be from the same family, but will have different hyperparameters, which reflect the added information from the data: in subjective terms, one's beliefs have been updated. For a general prior distribution, this is computationally very involved, and the posterior may have an unusual or hard to describe form, but with a conjugate prior, there is generally a s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar%20%28gene%29 | oskar is a gene required for the development of the Drosophila embryo. It defines the posterior pole during early embryogenesis. Its two isoforms, short and long, play different roles in Drosophila embryonic development. oskar was named after the main character from the Günter Grass novel The Tin Drum, who refuses to grow up.
Evolutionary history
oskar displays a unique evolutionary origin resulting from a Horizontal Domain Transfer from a probably bacterial endosymbiont onto an ancestral insect genome. The OSK domain is of bacterial origin and fused with the LOTUS domain through a linker domain. This event must have happened just prior to the divergence with the Crustacean, the insect's sister group, as oskar can be found as early as the Zygentoma but does not seem to exist in Crustacean.
Translational-level regulation
oskar is translationally repressed prior to reaching the posterior pole of the oocyte by Bruno, which binds to three bruno response elements (BREs) on the 3' end of the transcribed oskar mRNA. The Bruno inhibitor has two distinct modes of action: recruiting the Cup eIF4E binding protein, which is also required for oskar mRNA localization due to interactions with the Barentsz microtubule-linked transporter, and promoting oligomerization of oskar mRNA. Oskar mRNA harbours a stem-loop structure in the 3’UTR, called the oocyte entry signal (OES), that promotes dynein-based mRNA accumulation in the oocyte.
P granule formation
oskar plays role in recruitin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftweasel | Swiftweasel was a fork of Mozilla Firefox available for the Linux platform only.
Optimization
Swiftweasel is optimized using the following methods:
P.G.O.
As of the 3.0.3 release, Swiftweasel has shifted its primary optimization from processor specific to profile-guided optimization (PGO). It is a two step building process. The application is compiled one time and then run to produce a profile. The profile is then used to guide a second compilation of the application.
Some of the older optimizations are still used, but there are now only Intel and AMD versions of each build. It is released compiled in a tar.gz package. There are also separate installers for Ubuntu and Arch linux available through their communities.
Binary code optimization
Swiftweasel is compiled with options that optimize for speed rather than binary size.
Compiled with the -O3 compile flag (the highest level),with the resulting Swiftweasel binary being larger than that of Firefox.
Firefox is compiled with the -Os compile flag, which is for binary size.
Binaries incorporate additional instruction sets:
Intel and AMD: SSE, SSE2, SSE3, and MMX.
AMD only: 3DNow!
Optimization specific to the build microprocessor architecture.
Intel 32bit: Pentium 4 (Prescott), Pentium 4, Pentium M, Pentium III, Pentium II;
Intel 64bit: Nocona;
AMD: Athlon XP, Athlon, K6-2, Athlon;
AMD64: Athlon64, Opteron.
Compiled with newer versions of GCC (Firefox 2.0 uses 3.3.2, Swiftweasel 2.0 uses 4.0.3, and Swiftweasel 3.0.3 us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20people%20in%20Italy | The community of Chinese people in Italy has grown rapidly in the past ten years. Official statistics indicate there are at least 330,495 Chinese citizens in Italy, although these figures do not account for former Chinese citizens who have acquired Italian nationality or Italian-born people of Chinese descent.
Demographics
Prato, Tuscany has the largest concentration of Chinese people in Italy and all of Europe. It has the second largest population of Chinese people overall in Italy after Milan.
Religion
In total, approximately one quarter of the Chinese community was classified as belonging to the Chinese (folk) religion. The surveyors weren't able to determine a precise Taoist identity; only 1.1% of the surveyed people identified as such, and the analysts preferred to consider Taoism as an "affluent" of the Chinese religion. The survey found that 39.9% of the Chinese had a thoroughly atheist identity, not believing in any god, nor belonging to any religious organisation, nor practicing any religious activity.
The study also analysed the Chinese Christian community, finding it comprised 8% of the total population (of which 3.6% were Catholics, 3.3% Protestants and 1.1% Jehovah's Witnesses). The Christian community was small, but larger than that of the province of origin, especially for the Catholics and the Jehovah's Witnesses, the latter being an illegal religion in China. Protestants were found to be basically nondenominational and largely (70%) women.
In the years 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%20Power | UTC Power was a fuel cell company based in South Windsor, Connecticut. It was part of United Technologies Corporation; it was purchased by ClearEdge Power in February 2013. The company specialized in fuel cells for buildings, buses and automobiles. It has also developed fuel cells for space and submarine applications in the past.
History
UTC Power began as a division of Pratt & Whitney in 1958. In 1966, the company supplied fuel cells to NASA for the Apollo project space missions, to supply electric power and drinking water for the astronauts on board and, later, for the Space Shuttle missions until 2010. In 1985, the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of UTC under the name International Fuel Cells. It was later renamed UTC Fuel Cells, and became UTC Power in 2001.
In the early 1990s, UTC Power commercialized a large, stationary fuel cell for use as a cogeneration power plant. The company has expanded into the broader fuel cell industry over the last 10 years, developing fuel cells for automobiles and buses.
In February 2013, UTC Power was sold to ClearEdge Power.
Fuel cells for buildings
UTC Power’s stationary phosphoric acid fuel cell product is the PureCell Model 400 System. This stationary fuel cell system provides 400 kilowatts of electricity and 1.7 million Btu/hour of heat. The PureCell System is considered a good match for combined heat and power applications including supermarkets, hospitals, hotels and educational institutions. The UTC Power fuel cell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khinchin%27s%20theorem | Khinchin's theorem may refer to any of several different results by Aleksandr Khinchin:
Wiener–Khinchin theorem
Khinchin's constant
Khinchin's theorem on the factorization of distributions
Khinchin's theorem on Diophantine approximations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibulin | Fibulin (FY-beau-lin) (now known as Fibulin-1 FBLN1) is the prototypic member of a multigene family, currently with seven members. Fibulin-1 is a calcium-binding glycoprotein. In vertebrates, fibulin-1 is found in blood and extracellular matrices. In the extracellular matrix, fibulin-1 associates with basement membranes and elastic fibers. The association with these matrix structures is mediated by its ability to interact with numerous extracellular matrix constituents including fibronectin, proteoglycans, laminins and tropoelastin. In blood, fibulin-1 binds to fibrinogen and incorporates into clots.
Fibulins are secreted glycoproteins that become incorporated into a fibrillar extracellular matrix when expressed by cultured cells or added exogenously to cell monolayers. The five known members of the family share an elongated structure and many calcium-binding sites, owing to the presence of tandem arrays of epidermal growth factor-like domains. They have overlapping binding sites for several basement-membrane proteins, tropoelastin, fibrillin, fibronectin and proteoglycans, and they participate in diverse supramolecular structures. The amino-terminal domain I of fibulin consists of three anaphylatoxin-like (AT) modules, each approximately 40 residues long and containing four or six cysteines. The structure of an AT module was determined for the complement-derived anaphylatoxin C3a, and was found to be a compact alpha-helical fold that is stabilized by three disulphide brid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETM2%20%28gene%29 | ETM2 is a gene associated with essential tremor.
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETM1 | ETM1 is a gene associated with essential tremor.
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20J.%20Wheeler | Donald J. Wheeler is an American author, statistician and expert in quality control.
Wheeler graduated from the University of Texas in 1966 and holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Southern Methodist University. From 1970 to 1982 he taught in the Statistics Department at the University of Tennessee, where he was an associate professor. Since 1982 he has worked as a consultant. He is the author of 22 textbooks. His books have been translated into five languages and are in use in over 40 countries. He has been invited to contribute to two state-of-the-art anthologies, and has had articles published in 16 refereed journals. He is a fellow of both the American Statistical Association and American Society for Quality. He was awarded the 2010 Deming Medal by the American Society for Quality.
Wheeler has been a monthly columnist for both Quality Digest and Quality magazine. He has conducted over 1000 seminars for over 250 companies and organizations in 17 countries on five continents, and has had students come from 30 countries to attend his seminars in the United States.
References
External links
http://www.spcpress.com/
American statisticians
Southern Methodist University alumni
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho%20%28protein%29 | Rho protein may refer to:
Rho GTPase, a member of Rho family of GTPases
Rho factor, a bacterial protein involved in transcription termination |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Three%20Musketeers%20%281948%20film%29 | The Three Musketeers is a 1948 film directed by George Sidney, written by Robert Ardrey, and starring Gene Kelly and Lana Turner. It is a Technicolor adventure film adaptation of the classic 1844 novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.
Plot
D'Artagnan, an inexperienced Gascon youth, travels to Paris to join the elite King's Musketeers. On his way, he encounters a mysterious lady at a roadside inn. When he picks a fight with one of her escorts, she becomes suspicious and has him knocked unconscious. His letter of introduction from his father to de Treville, the commander of the Musketeers, is burned. When he awakens, he continues on to the city.
In Paris, he nevertheless presents himself to de Treville, who recognizes d'Artagnan's description of one of his assailants and makes him a cadet. The young Gascon spots the very man and in his haste to confront him, annoys three of the most skillful Musketeers: Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Each challenges him to a duel. Upon learning they are all at the appointed place to duel the same man, the swordsmen are amused. Before they can begin, however, they are interrupted by Richelieu's guards, who try to arrest the Musketeers. D'Artagnan joins them in dispatching their foes. As a result, he is welcomed into their ranks.
Later, d'Artagnan rescues (and falls in love with) Constance Bonacieux, a confidante of Queen Anne. The queen was given a matched set of twelve diamond studs by her husband, King Louis XIII. Foolishly, she gives t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVWM-Crystal | FVWM-Crystal is a theme framework for the FVWM window manager. It uses GUI tools to edit the look of windows, instead of the use of editing a text file in FVWM. It creates a desktop environment using FVWM as its window manager and main core.
It features flexible window decorations, and a file manager may be optionally used to display desktop icons; ROX-Filer, Thunar and Nautilus are supported for this task. FVWM-Crystal offers user interface integration for some terminal emulators like xterm, aterm and urxvt (rxvt-unicode), for a tray system such as stalonetray or trayer-srg, for various music players - among them Audacious, MPD, Quod Libet, XMMS and XMMS2 - and for the video/audio player MPlayer, to the point where it can control these components. FVWM-Crystal makes use of semi-transparency. Almost everything on the default desktop is semi-transparent. By additionally installing a utility program such as transset-df the semi-transparency can be switched on or off via pressing a determined key of the keyboard, being chosen in accordance with user's demands.
There is also a menu system that has an extensive default configuration but may be customized and extended by each user to fit personal requirements.
The deep-level configuration of the resulting desktop environment is predominantly achieved via Python scripts.
Chief developers of FVWM-Crystal are Maciej Delmanowski and Dominique Michel.
References
External links
Free desktop environments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse%20measure | In mathematics, a measure on a real vector space is said to be transverse to a given set if it assigns measure zero to every translate of that set, while assigning finite and positive (i.e. non-zero) measure to some compact set.
Definition
Let V be a real vector space together with a metric space structure with respect to which it is complete. A Borel measure μ is said to be transverse to a Borel-measurable subset S of V if
there exists a compact subset K of V with 0 < μ(K) < +∞; and
μ(v + S) = 0 for all v ∈ V, where
is the translate of S by v.
The first requirement ensures that, for example, the trivial measure is not considered to be a transverse measure.
Example
As an example, take V to be the Euclidean plane R2 with its usual Euclidean norm/metric structure. Define a measure μ on R2 by setting μ(E) to be the one-dimensional Lebesgue measure of the intersection of E with the first coordinate axis:
An example of a compact set K with positive and finite μ-measure is K = B1(0), the closed unit ball about the origin, which has μ(K) = 2. Now take the set S to be the second coordinate axis. Any translate (v1, v2) + S of S will meet the first coordinate axis in precisely one point, (v1, 0). Since a single point has Lebesgue measure zero, μ((v1, v2) + S) = 0, and so μ is transverse to S.
See also
Prevalent and shy sets
References
Measures (measure theory) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff%20Bascand | Geoff Bascand was the Deputy Governor and Head of Operations at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. He was Government Statistician and the Chief Executive of Statistics New Zealand until May 2013. Bascand is a graduate of the University of Otago and the Australian National University with a BA (Honours) degree in Geography and a master's degree in Economics.
Career
Bascand has worked for the New Zealand Treasury, the International Monetary Fund in Washington, and the New Zealand Department of Labour. He was appointed one of three Deputy Government Statisticians for Statistics New Zealand in July 2004 and was responsible for Macro-Economic, Environment, Regional and Geography Statistics. He was appointed Government Statistician and Chief Executive of Statistics New Zealand on 22 May 2007.
He started his career in 1981 at the Treasury as an economic analyst and later became Director of Forecasting. From 1998 until 2004, Bascand was the General Manager of the Labour Market Policy Group at the Department of Labour. As well as holding senior policy and management positions at the Treasury and the Department of Labour, Bascand has been a Research Fellow at the Centre of Policy Studies at Monash University in Australia, and from 1996 until 1997 he was a staff economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. In February 2005, he was a recipient of a Leadership Development Centre Fellowship award. On 12 February 2013 Bascand announced his resignation at Statistics New Zeal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slicer%20%28guitar%20effect%29 | A slicer is an effects unit which is similar to a tremolo, vibrato, phaser, or autopan. It combines a modulation sequence with a noise gate or envelope filter to create a percussive and rhythmic effect like a helicopter, with rapid cutting out and coming in—on and off. Most have variable speeds and depths, creating different sounds. It may be implemented through an effects unit or a VST. The Boss SL-20 is an example of a slicer effect in a guitar pedal.
References
Electronic musical instruments
Audio effects
Effects units
Audio engineering
Sound recording |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHKG-FM | CHKG-FM is a radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It broadcasts on the frequency 96.1 FM. It airs mostly Mandarin programming and is owned by the Fairchild Group. CHKG's studios are located inside Aberdeen Centre in Richmond, while its transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour.
History
In 1995, the Fairchild Group, which already owned Vancouver multicultural station CJVB (1470 AM), and Roger Charest, owner of CKER in Edmonton, made a joint bid to the CRTC to establish FM world music stations in Vancouver and Calgary. The application was approved in 1996, with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) selecting it over bids from Telemedia for an alternative rock station and Radio One Vancouver Corporation for an "adult/pop talk" station because it found that the Vancouver radio market could not support another general-market station; CHMB (1320 AM) also proposed an ethnic station but withdrew its proposal.
CHKG-FM began broadcasting on September 6, 1997. It was the fifth Fairchild ethnic media service to open, and the first multilingual FM station in Western Canada. Programming was split between world music from 06:00 to 15:00 & Chinese hit radio the rest of the day, which together with CJVB's daytime Chinese programming provided a 24-hour Chinese service while also catering to other communities.
CHKG has held subsidiary communications multiplex operation authority from the CRTC over most of its history to broadcast a subcarrier |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture%20of%20tilapia | Tilapia has become the third most important fish in aquaculture after carp and salmon; worldwide production exceeded in 2002 and increases annually. Because of their high protein content, large size, rapid growth (6 to 7 months to grow to harvest size), and palatability, a number of coptodonine and oreochromine cichlids—specifically, various species of Coptodon, Oreochromis, and Sarotherodon—are the focus of major aquaculture efforts.
Tilapia fisheries originated in Africa and the Levant. The accidental and deliberate introductions of tilapia into South and Southeast Asian freshwater lakes have inspired outdoor aquaculture projects in various countries with tropical climates, including Honduras, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Tilapia farm projects in these countries have the highest potential to be "green" or environmentally friendly. In temperate zone localities, tilapia farmers typically need a costly energy source to maintain a tropical temperature range in their tanks. One relatively sustainable solution involves warming the tank water using waste heat from factories and power stations.
Tilapiines are among the easiest and most profitable fish to farm due to their omnivorous diet, mode of reproduction (the fry do not pass through a planktonic phase), tolerance of high stocking density, and rapid growth. In some regions the fish can be raised in rice fields at planting time and grow to edible size () when the rice is ready for harvest. Unlike salmon, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/600%20AM | The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 600 kHz: 600 AM is a Regional broadcast frequency
Argentina
LU5 in Neuquén, Neuquén.
Bolivia
CP190 in Sucre
Brazil
ZYH920 in São Luís, Maranhão
ZYH287 in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas
ZYH486 in Barreiras, Bahia
ZYI789 in Arcoverde, Pernambuco
ZYH538 in Rio Real, Bahia
ZYH617 in Aracati, Ceará
Canada
Chile
CD-060 in Osorno.
CB-060 in Santiago.
Colombia
HJHJ in Barranquilla
HJZ95 in Barbacoas
HJZ72 in Ricaurte, Nariño
Cuba
CMAA in Bahía Honda
CMKA in San German
Ecuador
HCXY2 in Guayaquil
El Salvador
YSNK in San Salvador
Guatemala
TGRC in Tiquisate
Honduras
HRLP 13 in Choluteca
Mexico
XEBB-AM in Acapulco, Guerrero
XEHW-AM in Chametla, Sinaloa
XEMN-AM in San Nicholas de Los Garza, Nuevo León
XEOCH-AM in Ocosingo, Chiapas
Nicaragua
YNVH in Managua
Peru
OAX6S in Toquepala
Suriname
PZX20 in Paramaribo
United States
Venezuela
YVQB
External links
FCC list of radio stations on 600 kHz
References
Lists of radio stations by frequency |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhaus%20theorem | In the mathematical field of real analysis, the Steinhaus theorem states that the difference set of a set of positive measure contains an open neighbourhood of zero. It was first proved by Hugo Steinhaus.
Statement
Let A be a Lebesgue-measurable set on the real line such that the Lebesgue measure of A is not zero. Then the difference set
contains an open neighbourhood of the origin.
The general version of the theorem, first proved by André Weil, states that if G is a locally compact group, and A ⊂ G a subset of positive (left) Haar measure, then
contains an open neighbourhood of unity.
The theorem can also be extended to nonmeagre sets with the Baire property. The proof of these extensions, sometimes also called Steinhaus theorem, is almost identical to the one below.
Proof
The following simple proof can be found in a collection of problems by late professor H.M. Martirosian from the Yerevan State University, Armenia (Russian).
Let's keep in mind that for any , there exists an open set , so that and . As a consequence, for a given , we can find an appropriate interval so that taking just an appropriate part of positive measure of the set we can assume that , and that .
Now assume that , where . We'll show that there are common points in the sets and . Otherwise . But since , and
,
we would get , which contradicts the initial property of the set. Hence, since , when , it follows immediately that , what we needed to establish.
Corollary
A corollary of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme%20Ruxton | Graeme Ruxton is a zoologist known for his research into behavioural ecology and evolutionary ecology.
Life and work
Ruxton received his PhD in Statistics and Modelling Science in 1992 from the University of Strathclyde. His studies focus on the evolutionary pressures on aggregation by animals, and predator-prey aspects of sensory ecology. He researched visual communication in animals at the University of Glasgow, where he was professor of theoretical ecology. In 2013 he became professor at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Publications
Ruxton has published numerous papers on antipredator adaptations, along with contributions to textbooks. His book Living in Groups has been cited over 2300 times. His textbook Avoiding Attack. The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Warning Signals and Mimicry has been cited over 1150 times. His paper "Collective memory and spatial sorting in animal groups" has been cited over 1300 times, while his paper on the use of statistics in behavioural ecology, "The unequal variance t-test is an underused alternative to Student's t-test and the Mann–Whitney U test", has been cited over 850 times.
Honours and awards
In 2012 Ruxton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
References
External links
University of Glasgow bio of Ruxton
British ecologists
Evolutionary biologists
Living people
Mathematical ecologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Camouflage researchers |
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