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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low%20basis%20theorem
The low basis theorem is one of several basis theorems in computability theory, each of which showing that, given an infinite subtree of the binary tree , it is possible to find an infinite path through the tree with particular computability properties. The low basis theorem, in particular, shows that there must be a p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/600%20nm%20process
The 600 nanometer process (600 nm process) is a level of semiconductor process technology that was reached in the 1994–1995 timeframe, by most leading semiconductor companies, like Intel and IBM. Products featuring 600 nm manufacturing process Intel 80486DX4 CPU launched in 1994 was manufactured using this process. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/350%20nm%20process
The 350 nanometer process (350 nm process) is a level of semiconductor process technology that was reached in the 1995–1996 timeframe by leading semiconductor companies like Intel and IBM. Products featuring 350 nm manufacturing process MTI VR4300i (1995), used in the Nintendo 64 game console. Intel Pentium (P54CS, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20transmission
Hydraulic transmission may refer to various transmission methods for transferring engine power to drive wheels, using hydraulic fluid: Diesel-hydraulic transmission, used in railway locomotives Hydrostatic transmission, using hydraulic motors to convert the fluid energy into rotary propulsion , using hydraulic rams...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20receptor
An immune receptor (or immunologic receptor) is a receptor, usually on a cell membrane, which binds to a ligand (usually another protein, such as cytokine) and causes a response in the immune system. Types The main receptors in the immune system are pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), Toll-like receptors (TLRs), kil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formyl%20peptide%20receptor
The formyl peptide receptors (FPR) belong to a class of G protein-coupled receptors involved in chemotaxis. In humans, there are three formyl peptide receptor isoforms, each encoded by a separate gene that are named FPR1, FPR2, and FPR3. These receptors were originally identified by their ability to bind N-formyl pept...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Chote
Sir Robert William Chote (born 24 January 1968) is a British economist and chair of the UK Statistics Authority. He was previously chairman of the Office of Budget Responsibility from 2010 to 2020. Education Chote completed his secondary education at St Mary's College in Bitterne Park, Southampton. In 1989, he graduat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesicular%20acetylcholine%20transporter
The Vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) is a neurotransmitter transporter which is responsible for loading acetylcholine (ACh) into secretory organelles in neurons making acetylcholine available for secretion. It is encoded by Solute carrier family 18, member 3 (SLC18A3) gene, located within the first intron of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine%20ephemeral%20fever
Bovine ephemeral fever (BEF) also known as Three Day Sickness is an arthropod vector-borne disease of cattle and is caused by bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV), a member of the genus Ephemerovirus in the family Rhabdoviridae. Virology BEFV forms a bullet- or cone-shaped virions that consist of a negative, single st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-type%20calcium%20channel
T-type calcium channels are low voltage activated calcium channels that become inactivated during cell membrane hyperpolarization but then open to depolarization. The entry of calcium into various cells has many different physiological responses associated with it. Within cardiac muscle cell and smooth muscle cells vol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-type%20calcium%20channel
The R-type calcium channel is a type of voltage-dependent calcium channel. Like the others of this class, the α1 subunit forms the pore through which calcium enters the cell and determines most of the channel's properties. This α1 subunit is also known as the calcium channel, voltage-dependent, R type, alpha 1E subunit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antileukotriene
An antileukotriene, also known as leukotriene modifier and leukotriene receptor antagonist, is a medication which functions as a leukotriene-related enzyme inhibitor (arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase) or leukotriene receptor antagonist (cysteinyl leukotriene receptors) and consequently opposes the function of these inflamma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisulfite%20sequencing
Bisulfite sequencing (also known as bisulphite sequencing) is the use of bisulfite treatment of DNA before routine sequencing to determine the pattern of methylation. DNA methylation was the first discovered epigenetic mark, and remains the most studied. In animals it predominantly involves the addition of a methyl gro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulspruta%20m/42
Kulspruta m/42 (ksp m/42), Swedish designation for a heavily modified, license-built derivative of the M1919A6 chambered in 6.5×55mm or 8×63mm patron m/32 and from 1975 in 7.62×51mm NATO. The Ksp m/42B was a lighter version with a distinctive bipod, shoulder stock (used in a similar way as the M1919A6) and a spade gri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granin
Granin (chromogranin and secretogranin) is a protein family of regulated secretory proteins ubiquitously found in the cores of amine and peptide hormone and neurotransmitter dense-core secretory vesicles. Function Granins (chromogranins or secretogranins) are acidic proteins and are present in the secretory granules ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra%C5%88kov%C3%A1%E2%80%93Helly%20selection%20theorem
In mathematics, the Fraňková–Helly selection theorem is a generalisation of Helly's selection theorem for functions of bounded variation to the case of regulated functions. It was proved in 1991 by the Czech mathematician Dana Fraňková. Background Let X be a separable Hilbert space, and let BV([0, T]; X) denote the n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20cell%20fabric
Solar cell fabric is a fabric with embedded photovoltaic (PV) cells which generate electricity when exposed to light. Traditional silicon based solar cells are expensive to manufacture, rigid and fragile. Although less efficient, thin-film cells and organic polymer based cells can be produced quickly and cheaply. They...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rundur%20Svavarsson
Jörundur Svavarsson is a professor in marine biology at the University of Iceland. His fields of research are marine invertebrates, marine biodiversity and ecotoxicology. According to Web of Science Prof. Svavarsson has published 49 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with 13 or them being cited more than 11 times. He ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroboflash
Stroboflash is the name of one of the earliest commercially successful portable dry cell battery powered electronic flashes produced. History of development It was designed and initially manufactured in 1942 by Strobo Research, a company founded by Edward Farber and Harold Edgerton that was located in Milwaukee, Wisc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD133
CD133 antigen, also known as prominin-1, is a glycoprotein that in humans is encoded by the PROM1 gene. It is a member of pentaspan transmembrane glycoproteins, which specifically localize to cellular protrusions. When embedded in the cell membrane, the membrane topology of prominin-1 is such that the N-terminus extend...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garland%20Science
Garland Science was a publishing group that specialized in developing textbooks in a wide range of life sciences subjects, including cell and molecular biology, immunology, protein chemistry, genetics, and bioinformatics. It was a subsidiary of the Taylor & Francis Group. History The firm was founded as "Garland Publi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteins%40home
proteins@home was a volunteer computing project that used the BOINC architecture. The project was run by the Department of Biology at . The project began on December 28, 2006 and ended in June 2008. Purpose proteins@home was a large-scale non-profit protein structure prediction project utilizing volunteer computing t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20trap%20%28atoms%29
In experimental physics, a magnetic trap is an apparatus which uses a magnetic field gradient to trap neutral particles with magnetic moments. Although such traps have been employed for many purposes in physics research, they are best known as the last stage in cooling atoms to achieve Bose–Einstein condensation. The m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive%20value%20of%20tests
Predictive value of tests is the probability of a target condition given by the result of a test, often in regard to medical tests. In cases where binary classification can be applied to the test results, such yes versus no, test target (such as a substance, symptom or sign) being present versus absent, or either a po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefftz%20method
In mathematics, the Trefftz method is a method for the numerical solution of partial differential equations named after the German mathematician Erich Trefftz(de) (1888–1937). It falls within the class of finite element methods. Introduction The hybrid Trefftz finite-element method has been considerably advanced si...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneCalling
In the field of genomics, GeneCalling is an open-platform mRNA transcriptional profiling technique. The GeneCalling protocol measures levels of cDNA, which are correlated with gene expression levels of specific transcripts. Differences between gene expression in healthy tissues and disease or drug responsive tissues ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHF%20Follow-On%20satellite
Ultra High Frequency Follow-On (UFO) satellite system is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) program sponsored and operated by the United States Space Force to provide communications for airborne, ship, submarine and ground forces. The UFO constellation replaced the U.S. DoD Fleet Satellite Communications Syste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20secretase
Alpha secretases are a family of proteolytic enzymes that cleave amyloid precursor protein (APP) in its transmembrane region. Specifically, alpha secretases cleave within the fragment that gives rise to the Alzheimer's disease-associated peptide amyloid beta when APP is instead processed by beta secretase and gamma sec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female%20condom
An internal condom (also known as a femidom or female condom) is a barrier device that is used during sexual intercourse as a barrier contraceptive to reduce the probability of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Meant as an alternative to the condom, it was invented by Danish MD Lasse Hessel and desig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conic%20optimization
Conic optimization is a subfield of convex optimization that studies problems consisting of minimizing a convex function over the intersection of an affine subspace and a convex cone. The class of conic optimization problems includes some of the most well known classes of convex optimization problems, namely linear an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie%20Eaves
Connie Jean Eaves, CorrFRSE (née Constance Halperin; born May 22, 1944), is a Canadian biologist with significant contributions to cancer and stem cell research. Eaves is a professor generics of genetics at the University of British Columbia and is also the co-founder with Allen C Eaves of Terry Fox Laboratory (Vancou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulton%20plane
In incidence geometry, the Moulton plane is an example of an affine plane in which Desargues's theorem does not hold. It is named after the American astronomer Forest Ray Moulton. The points of the Moulton plane are simply the points in the real plane R2 and the lines are the regular lines as well with the exception th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusporangiate%20fern
Eusporangiate ferns are vascular spore plants, whose sporangia arise from several epidermal cells and not from a single cell as in leptosporangiate ferns. Typically these ferns have reduced root systems and sporangia that produce large amounts of spores (up to 7000 spores per sporangium in Christensenia). There are fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Blakers
Andrew Blakers is a Professor of renewable energy engineering at the Australian National University. He has contributed to several innovations in solar photovoltaic technology, including PERC solar cells. Blakers has secured many research grants and won several awards. Solar research group at ANU Blakers founded the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20Zero%20%28disambiguation%29
Absolute zero is the temperature at which entropy reaches its minimum value. Absolute Zero may also refer to: Absolute Zero (novel), a 1978 children's novel by Helen Cresswell Absolute Zero (video game), a 1995 computer game for MS-DOS and Macintosh Absolute Zero, a 2000 compilation album released by UK record labe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMKT
KMKT (branded as Katy Country) is an FM radio station playing a country format and operating on frequency 93.1 MHz. History KMKT got its start on frequency 104.9 FM in the North Texas region after its sister station KLAK moved to Durant, Oklahoma 1987. It was first branded as "Katy Klassics" (the initials are a refe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi%20Amano%20%28footballer%29
is a Japanese football player who currently plays for the J3 League team Nagano Parceiro. Career statistics Updated to 23 February 2017. J-League Firsts Appearance: April 14, 2007. Yokohama F Marinos 5 vs 0 Ōita Trinita, Nissan Stadium Honours Yokohama F. Marinos Emperor's Cup: 2013 References External links Pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igneous%20textures
Igneous textures include the rock textures occurring in igneous rocks. Igneous textures are used by geologists in determining the mode of origin of igneous rocks and are used in rock classification. The six main types of textures are phaneritic, aphanitic, porphyritic, glassy, pyroclastic, and pegmatitic. Aphanitic (a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR%20School
FAIR School Crystal (Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Resource) is a magnet school located in Crystal, Minnesota, that specializes in the Fine Arts and educates students in the 4th through 8th grades. FAIR is part of the Robbinsdale Area Schools School District, with its partner school FAIR School Downtown, located in downt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfotiamine
Benfotiamine (rINN, or S-benzoylthiamine O-monophosphate) is a synthetic, fat-soluble, S-acyl derivative of thiamine (vitamin B1) that is approved in some countries as a medication or dietary supplement to treat diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy. Benfotiamine was developed in late 1950s in Japan. Uses Benfotiamine ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested%20stack%20automaton
In automata theory, a nested stack automaton is a finite automaton that can make use of a stack containing data which can be additional stacks. Like a stack automaton, a nested stack automaton may step up or down in the stack, and read the current symbol; in addition, it may at any place create a new stack, operate o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornstein%E2%80%93Zernike%20equation
In statistical mechanics the Ornstein–Zernike (OZ) equation is an integral equation introduced by Leonard Ornstein and Frits Zernike that relates different correlation functions with each other. Together with a closure relation, it is used to compute the structure factor and thermodynamic state functions of amorphous ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector-based%20graphical%20user%20interface
A vector-based graphical user interface is a mostly conceptual type of graphical user interface where elements are drawn using vector rather than raster information. Pros and cons The benefits of a completely vector-based graphical user interface would include: more efficient, independent scalability; The resolution (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbon
Karbon may refer to: Denise Karbon (born 1980), Italian skier Fadel Karbon (born 1992), Norwegian footballer Karbon (software), vector graphic editor Karbon, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran Siah Karbon, village in Iran See also Korban, sacrificial offerings in Judaism Carbon (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance%20function
In probability theory and statistics, the covariance function describes how much two random variables change together (their covariance) with varying spatial or temporal separation. For a random field or stochastic process Z(x) on a domain D, a covariance function C(x, y) gives the covariance of the values of the rando...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryotic%20Cell%20%28journal%29
Eukaryotic Cell was an academic journal published by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). The journal published findings from basic research studies of simple eukaryotic microorganisms. In January 2016, EC was merged into the cross-disciplinary ASM journal mSphere. It is indexed/abstracted in: Agricola, Biologi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea%20%28disambiguation%29
An idea is an image existing or formed in the mind. Idea or IDEA or similar may also refer to: Computing and software International Data Encryption Algorithm, a block cipher IntelliJ IDEA, a development application for the Java programming language IdeaPad, a line of consumer-oriented laptop computers from Lenovo ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-wandering-domain%20theorem
In mathematics, the no-wandering-domain theorem is a result on dynamical systems, proven by Dennis Sullivan in 1985. The theorem states that a rational map f : Ĉ → Ĉ with deg(f) ≥ 2 does not have a wandering domain, where Ĉ denotes the Riemann sphere. More precisely, for every component U in the Fatou set of f, the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20transform
In statistics, a power transform is a family of functions applied to create a monotonic transformation of data using power functions. It is a data transformation technique used to stabilize variance, make the data more normal distribution-like, improve the validity of measures of association (such as the Pearson correl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Natural%20Bears%20Classification%20System
The Natural Bears Classification System (NBCS), also called the bear code, is a set of symbols using letters, numbers and other characters commonly found on modern, Western computer keyboards, and used for the self-identification of "bears" in the sense of a mature gay or bisexual man with facial or substantial body ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Biodiversity%20Information%20Forum
Pacific Biodiversity Information Forum or PBIF, is a regional, non-governmental, scholarly organization that seeks to provide a multilateral venue to support knowledge transfer and information access in the Pacific Islands. Establishment PBIF was established in 2003 under the auspices of the Pacific Science Associatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Land%20Surface%20Scheme
The Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) is a land surface parametrization scheme for use in large scale climate models. It is a state-of-the-art model, using physically based equations to simulate the energy and water balances of vegetation, snow and soil. CLASS is being developed in a research project led by D. Verse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Couette
Maurice Marie Alfred Couette (9 January 1858, Tours – 18 August 1943, Angers) was a French physicist known for his studies of fluidity. Couette is best known for his contributions to rheology and the theory of fluid flow. He designed a concentric cylinder viscometer that he used to accurately measure the viscosity of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressilator
The repressilator is a genetic regulatory network consisting of at least one feedback loop with at least three genes, each expressing a protein that represses the next gene in the loop. In biological research, repressilators have been used to build cellular models and understand cell function. There are both artificial...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrophil%20extracellular%20traps
Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are networks of extracellular fibers, primarily composed of DNA from neutrophils, which bind pathogens. Neutrophils are the immune system's first line of defense against infection and have conventionally been thought to kill invading pathogens through two strategies: engulfment of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rfam
Rfam is a database containing information about non-coding RNA (ncRNA) families and other structured RNA elements. It is an annotated, open access database originally developed at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in collaboration with Janelia Farm, and currently hosted at the European Bioinformatics Institute. Rfam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor%20%28mathematics%29
A rotor is an object in the geometric algebra (also called Clifford algebra) of a vector space that represents a rotation about the origin. The term originated with William Kingdon Clifford, in showing that the quaternion algebra is just a special case of Hermann Grassmann's "theory of extension" (Ausdehnungslehre). H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20diffusivity
Diffusivity, mass diffusivity or diffusion coefficient is usually written as the proportionality constant between the molar flux due to molecular diffusion and the negative value of the gradient in the concentration of the species. More accurately, the diffusion coefficient times the local concentration is the proporti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryotic%20translation%20termination%20factor%201
Eukaryotic translation termination factor 1 (eRF1), also known as TB3-1, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ETF1 gene. In eukaryotes and archaea, this is the sole class 1 release factor (eRF) which recognizes all three stop codons. The overall process of termination is similar in bacteria, but in the latter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20NVC%20community%20MC4
British NVC community MC4 (Brassica oleracea maritime cliff-ledge community) is one of the maritime cliff communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of five communities categorised as maritime cliff crevice and ledge communities. This community is found locally on the south coast o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Gatheral
Jim Gatheral is a researcher in the field of mathematical finance, who has contributed to the study of volatility as applied to the pricing and risk management of derivatives. A recurrent subject in his books and papers is the volatility smile, and he published in 2006 a book The Volatility Surface based on a course he...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot%20element
The pivot or pivot element is the element of a matrix, or an array, which is selected first by an algorithm (e.g. Gaussian elimination, simplex algorithm, etc.), to do certain calculations. In the case of matrix algorithms, a pivot entry is usually required to be at least distinct from zero, and often distant from it; ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse%20%28CANO%20album%29
Eclipse is the third album by the Canadian progressive rock band, CANO. Produced by Gene Martynec and released in 1978, the album was the band's first to include English-language material. Most of the album was recorded shortly after the death of founding member André Paiement. Track listing "Soleil mon chef" "Earth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Mazia
Daniel Mazia (December 18, 1912 – June 9, 1996) was an American cell biologist, best known for his research that isolated the cell structures responsible for mitosis. His research was the gateway for many later discoveries about the cell cycle, cell division, and many other areas in cell biology. Biography Mazia grew...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%20nationale%20177
The RN177 is a trunk road (nationale) in France linking Pont-l'Évêque and Trouville-sur-Mer. The road is in fact a section of the former RN834. The RN177 was until the 1972 reclassification scheme a link between Villers-Bocage and Redon. The old RN177 was declassified into RD577 in Calvados, RD977 in Manche and RD177 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20X-STR%20markers
The following X-STR markers are used in genealogical DNA testing and other forms of relationship testing. See also Short Tandem Repeat X-STR List of Y-STR markers DNA Genetic genealogy X-STR Human evolution Human population genetics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technetium%20%2899mTc%29%20nofetumomab%20merpentan
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Technetium (99mTc) nofetumomab merpentan}} Technetium (99mTc) nofetumomab merpentan (trade name Verluma) is a mouse monoclonal antibody derivative used in the diagnosis of lung cancer, gastrointestinal, breast, ovary, pancreas, kidney, cervix, and bladder carcinoma. The antibody part, nofetumomab, is at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD70
CD70 (Cluster of Differentiation 70) is a protein that in humans is encoded by CD70 gene. CD70 is also known as a ligand for CD27. Expression In physiological condition the expression of CD70 on immune cells is transient and tightly controlled. It is primarily expressed on highly activated T cells and B cells, as wel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD153
CD153 (cluster of differentiation 153) also known as tumor necrosis factor ligand superfamily member 8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TNFSF8 gene. CD153 is a cytokine ligand for the TNF receptor CD30. It plays a role in the T cell-dependent anti-mycobacterial immune response. References External lin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eicosanoid%20receptor
Most of the eicosanoid receptors are integral membrane protein G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that bind and respond to eicosanoid signaling molecules. Eicosanoids are rapidly metabolized to inactive products and therefore are short-lived. Accordingly, the eicosanoid-receptor interaction is typically limited to a l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEA1
The gene EEA1 encodes for the 1400 amino acid protein, Early Endosome Antigen 1. EEA1 localizes exclusively to early endosomes and has an important role in endosomal trafficking. EEA1 binds directly to the phospholipid phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate through its C-terminal FYVE domain and forms a homodimer through a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphatidylinositol%204-phosphate
Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate (PtdIns4P, PI-4-P, PI4P, or PIP) is a precursor of phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate. PtdIns4P is prevalent in the membrane of the Golgi apparatus. In the Golgi apparatus, PtdIns4P binds to the GTP-binding protein ARF and to effector proteins, including four-phosphate-adaptor pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAS3
NPAS3 or Neuronal PAS domain protein 3 is a brain-enriched transcription factor belonging to the bHLH-PAS superfamily of transcription factors, the members of which carry out diverse functions, including circadian oscillations, neurogenesis, toxin metabolism, hypoxia, and tracheal development. NPAS3 contains basic heli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressor%20of%20cytokine%20signalling
SOCS (suppressor of cytokine signaling proteins) refers to a family of genes involved in inhibiting the JAK-STAT signaling pathway. Genes CISH SOCS1 SOCS2 SOCS3 SOCS4 SOCS5 SOCS6 SOCS7 Structure All SOCS have certain structures in common. This includes a varying N-terminal domain involved in protein-protein ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20inhibitor%20of%20activated%20STAT
Protein inhibitor of activated STAT (PIAS), also known as E3 SUMO-protein ligase PIAS, is a protein that regulates transcription in mammals. PIAS proteins act as transcriptional co-regulators with at least 60 different proteins in order to either activate or repress transcription. The transcription factors STAT, NF-κB...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20QH181
, also written as 2006 QH181, is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in the scattered disc. Its orbit is currently too poorly determined (U=6) to know whether it is in a resonance with Neptune. Distance It came to perihelion around 1858. It is currently 83.8 AU from the Sun and moving away from the Sun at . The only larg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acicular%20ferrite
Acicular ferrite is a microstructure of ferrite in steel that is characterised by needle-shaped crystallites or grains when viewed in two dimensions. The grains, actually three-dimensional in shape, have a thin lenticular shape. This microstructure is advantageous over other microstructures for steel because of its cha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tude%20Op.%2025%2C%20No.%201%20%28Chopin%29
Étude Op. 25, No. 1 in A-flat major is a solo piano work composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1836, and published in 1837. The work consists entirely of rapid arpeggios and harmonic modulations based on A-flat major. Robert Schumann praised this work in a dissertation on the Études; calling it "a poem rather than a study",...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weipa%20Airport
Weipa Airport is an airport in Weipa, Queensland, Australia. The airport is southeast of the town. Airlines and destinations Statistics Weipa Airport was ranked 55th in Australia for the number of revenue passengers served in financial year 2010–2011. See also List of airports in Queensland References External ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Boor
de Boor may refer to: Carl R. de Boor (born 1937), German-American mathematician and professor emeritus De Boor's algorithm, a fast and numerically stable algorithm for evaluating spline curves in B-spline form Carl Gotthard de Boor (1848–1923), German scholar of Byzantine studies Helmut de Boor, German scholar of Ge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squared%20deviations%20from%20the%20mean
Squared deviations from the mean (SDM) result from squaring deviations. In probability theory and statistics, the definition of variance is either the expected value of the SDM (when considering a theoretical distribution) or its average value (for actual experimental data). Computations for analysis of variance involv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe%20Mandanne
Christophe Mandanne (born 7 February 1985) is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker. Career statistics Honours Guingamp Coupe de France: 2013–14 References External links 1985 births Living people French people of Réunion descent Footballers from Toulouse French men's footballers Men's assoc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick%20Somerset%20Macnutt
Derrick Somerset Macnutt (1902–1971) was a British crossword compiler who provided crosswords for The Observer newspaper under the pseudonym Ximenes. His main oeuvre was blocked-grid and "specialty" puzzles. Even though he only provided conventional blocked puzzles once a week for the Observer Everyman series for about...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CX3C%20motif%20chemokine%20receptor%201
CX3C motif chemokine receptor 1 (CX3CR1), also known as the fractalkine receptor or G-protein coupled receptor 13 (GPR13), is a transmembrane protein of the G protein-coupled receptor 1 (GPCR1) family and the only known member of the CX3C chemokine receptor subfamily. As the name suggests, this receptor binds the infl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCR1
The "C" sub-family of chemokine receptors contains only one member: XCR1, the receptor for XCL1 and XCL2 (or lymphotactin-1 and -2). XCR1 is also known as GPR5. Function The protein encoded by this gene is a chemokine receptor belonging to the G protein-coupled receptor superfamily. The family members are character...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CXC%20chemokine%20receptors
CXC chemokine receptors are integral membrane proteins that specifically bind and respond to cytokines of the CXC chemokine family. They represent one subfamily of chemokine receptors, a large family of G protein-linked receptors that are known as seven transmembrane (7-TM) proteins, since they span the cell membrane ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC%20chemokine%20receptors
CC chemokine receptors (or beta chemokine receptors) are integral membrane proteins that specifically bind and respond to cytokines of the CC chemokine family. They represent one subfamily of chemokine receptors, a large family of G protein-linked receptors that are known as seven transmembrane (7-TM) proteins since t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomax
Infomax is an optimization principle for artificial neural networks and other information processing systems. It prescribes that a function that maps a set of input values I to a set of output values O should be chosen or learned so as to maximize the average Shannon mutual information between I and O, subject to a se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGF%20beta%20receptor%201
Transforming growth factor beta receptor I (activin A receptor type II-like kinase, 53kDa) is a membrane-bound TGF beta receptor protein of the TGF-beta receptor family for the TGF beta superfamily of signaling ligands. TGFBR1 is its human gene. Function The protein encoded by this gene forms a heteromeric complex w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGF%20beta%20receptor%202
Transforming growth factor, beta receptor II (70/80kDa) is a TGF beta receptor. TGFBR2 is its human gene. It is a tumor suppressor gene. Function This gene encodes a member of the serine/threonine protein kinase family and the TGFB receptor subfamily. The encoded protein is a transmembrane protein that has a protei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme-linked%20receptor
An enzyme-linked receptor, also known as a catalytic receptor, is a transmembrane receptor, where the binding of an extracellular ligand causes enzymatic activity on the intracellular side. Hence a catalytic receptor is an integral membrane protein possessing both catalytic, and receptor functions. They have two impor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Creamery
Crystal Creamery was founded in 1901 by George Knox in Modesto, California as Crystal Cream & Butter. In 1921, Crystal Cream & Butter was purchased by Carl Hansen, a Danish immigrant. The Hansen family led the company for the next 86 years and pioneered many new technologies, growing Crystal Cream & Butter into one of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%20Farms%20%28disambiguation%29
Foster Farms is a poultry company based in Livingston, California. Foster Farms may also refer to: Crystal Creamery, based in Modesto, California, formerly known as Foster Farms Dairy Foster Farms Bowl, a post-season college football bowl game sponsored by the Foster Farms poultry company See also Foster Farm, a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotrimeric%20G%20protein
Heterotrimeric G protein, also sometimes referred to as the "large" G proteins (as opposed to the subclass of smaller, monomeric small GTPases) are membrane-associated G proteins that form a heterotrimeric complex. The biggest non-structural difference between heterotrimeric and monomeric G protein is that heterotrimer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations%20in%20published%20cricket%20statistics
Variations in published cricket statistics have come about because there is no official view of the status of cricket matches played in Great Britain prior to 1895 or in the rest of the world prior to 1947. As a result, historians and statisticians have compiled differing lists of matches that they recognise as (unoffi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanosine%20nucleotide%20dissociation%20inhibitor
In molecular biology, the Guanosine dissociation inhibitors (GDIs) constitute a family of small GTPases that serve a regulatory role in vesicular membrane traffic. GDIs bind to the GDP-bound form of Rho and Rab small GTPases and not only prevent exchange (maintaining the small GTPase in an off-state), but also prevent ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa%20Sign%20Language
Hausa Sign Language (HSL) or Maganar Hannu is the indigenous sign language of the Deaf community in northern Nigeria. Overview There are no statistics on the number of deaf people in northern Nigeria or in Nigeria in general or on the number of people who use Hausa Sign Language. Estimates as to the number of signers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%20harmonic%20triangle
The Leibniz harmonic triangle is a triangular arrangement of unit fractions in which the outermost diagonals consist of the reciprocals of the row numbers and each inner cell is the cell diagonally above and to the left minus the cell to the left. To put it algebraically, (where is the number of the row, starting fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTP-binding%20protein%20regulators
GTP-binding protein regulators regulate G proteins in several different ways. Small GTPases act as molecular switches in signaling pathways, which act to regulate functions of other proteins. They are active or 'ON' when it is bound to GTP and inactive or 'OFF' when bound to GDP. Activation and deactivation of small ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras-GRF1
Ras-GRF1 is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor. Its function is to release guanosine diphosphate, GDP, from the signaling protein RAS, thus increasing the activity of RAS by allowing it to bind to guanosine triphosphate, GTP, returning it to its active state. In this way, Ras-GRF1 has a key role in regulating the RAS...