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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-number%20calling | All-number calling (ANC) is a telephone numbering plan that was introduced into the North American Numbering Plan by the Bell System in the United States starting in 1958 to replace the previous system of using a telephone exchange name as the first part of a telephone number. The plan prescribed the format of a teleph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectric%20accelerometer | A piezoelectric accelerometer is an accelerometer that employs the piezoelectric effect of certain materials to measure dynamic changes in mechanical variables (e.g., acceleration, vibration, and mechanical shock).
As with all transducers, piezoelectrics convert one form of energy into another and provide an electrica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT%20solver | In computer science and formal methods, a SAT solver is a computer program which aims to solve the Boolean satisfiability problem. On input a formula over Boolean variables, such as "(x or y) and (x or not y)", a SAT solver outputs whether the formula is satisfiable, meaning that there are possible values of x and y wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Vanishing%20Private | The Vanishing Private is a 1942 animated cartoon by the Walt Disney Studios, starring Donald Duck in the World War II years.
Plot
Donald Duck is doing some camouflage painting on a cannon with yellow, green, and red stripes and black dots (based on the colors of the Flag of Lithuania with bullet holes in it). Sergeant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupancy%20grid%20mapping | Occupancy Grid Mapping refers to a family of computer algorithms in probabilistic robotics for mobile robots which address the problem of generating maps from noisy and uncertain sensor measurement data, with the assumption that the robot pose is known. Occupancy grids were first proposed by H. Moravec and A. Elfes in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounder%20%28video%20game%29 | Bounder is a 1985 action game published by Gremlin Graphics in which the player navigates a variety of courses as a bouncing tennis ball.
Gameplay
Courses are composed of numerous tiles, which are suspended high above ground. The ball must be bounced past walls and over enemies; coming into contact with either, or pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overflow%20%28software%29 | OVERFLOW - the OVERset grid FLOW solver - is a software package for simulating fluid flow around solid bodies using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). It is a compressible 3-D flow solver that solves the time-dependent, Reynolds-averaged, Navier–Stokes equations using multiple overset structured grids.
History
OVERF... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendix%20G-20 | The Bendix G-20 computer was introduced in 1961 by the Bendix Corporation, Computer Division, Los Angeles, California. The G-20 followed the highly successful G-15 vacuum-tube computer. Bendix sold its computer division to Control Data Corporation in 1963, effectively terminating the G-20.
G-20
The G-20 weighed about... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobation | Lobation is a characteristic of the cell nucleus of certain granulocytes, which are types of white blood cells, where the nucleus is segmented into two or more connected lobes. Of the four types of granulocyte only the mast cell is not lobated.
Lobation is also a characteristic of megakaryocytes in the bone marrow. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATHENA%20computer | The UNIVAC Athena computer calculated ground commands to transmit to the HGM-25A Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as part of Western Electric's missile guidance system. The Athena was the "first transistorized digital computer to be produced in numbers." Athena, consisting of ten cabinets plus console... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Basket | Golden Basket is a 1990 basketball video game developed and published by Opera Soft under their Opera Sports label for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, and DOS.
Gameplay
The game features a five-a-side basketball match, showing a lateral view. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal%20pyramidal%20molecular%20geometry | In chemistry, pentagonal pyramidal molecular geometry describes the shape of compounds where in six atoms or groups of atoms or ligands are arranged around a central atom, at the vertices of a pentagonal pyramid. It is one of the few molecular geometries with uneven bond angles.
Examples |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZCCHC6 | Terminal uridylyltransferase 7 (TUT7), also known as "zinc finger, CCHC domain containing 6", is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ZCCHC6 gene located on chromosome 9. The ZCCHC6 protein mediates the terminal uridylation of RNA transcripts with short poly-A tails and is involved in mRNA and microRNA degradatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNIP4 | Kv channel-interacting protein 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNIP4 gene.
This gene encodes a member of the family of voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channel-interacting proteins (KCNIPs), which belong to the recoverin branch of the EF-hand superfamily. Members of the KCNIP family are small calcium bind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACOX3 | Peroxisomal acyl-coenzyme A oxidase 3 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ACOX3 gene.
Acyl-Coenzyme A oxidase 3 also known as pristanoyl-CoA oxidase (ACOX3) is involved in the desaturation of 2-methyl branched fatty acids in peroxisomes. Unlike the rat homolog, the human gene is expressed in very low amounts... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmembrane%20protein%20222 | Transmembrane protein 222 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TMEM222 gene. One notable feature of the protein encoded by this gene is the presence of three predicted transmembrane domains. The TMEM222 protein is predicted to most likely localize to the secretory vesicles.
Gene Features
TMEM222 has a domain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIAA1109 | Uncharacterized protein KIAA1109 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KIAA1109 gene.
This protein has a function that is not yet understood. KIAA1109 has 3 aliases, FSA (fragile site-associated) protein, MGC110967 and DKFZp781P0474.
Gene
Location
KIAA1109 is found on the long arm of chromosome 4 (4q27), w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1G | {{DISPLAYTITLE:M1G}}
M1G (pyrimido[1,2-a]purin-10(3H)-one) is a heterocyclic compound which is a by-product of base excision repair (BER) of a specific type of DNA adduct called M1dG. The M1dG adduct in turn is formed by a condensation reaction between guanosine nucleotides in DNA and either malondialdehyde (propanedi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPS25 | Vacuolar protein-sorting-associated protein 25 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the VPS25 gene.
It is a component of the endosome-associated complex ESCRT-II (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport protein II). ESCRT (ESCRT-I, -II, -III) complexes orchestrate efficient sorting of ubiquitinated tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKI67IP | MKI67 FHA domain-interacting nucleolar phosphoprotein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MKI67IP gene.
MKI67 FHA domain-interacting nucleolar phosphoprotein contains an RNA recognition motif (RRM) near to the N-terminus and a FHA Ki67 binding domain near to the C-terminus. There are two conserved sequence m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20network | A business network refers to a complex, enduring, and interdependent webs of business relationships among market and non-market actors that allow firms to co-create value in their business environment. Firms influence their markets by managing and signalling their network positions, facilitating entry of new actors, or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartment%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry, a compartment is a part of a protein that serves a specific function. They are essentially protein subunits with the added condition that a compartment has distinct functionality, rather than being just a structural component.
There may be multiple compartments on one and the same protein. One example is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20emittance | Thermal emittance or thermal emissivity () is the ratio of the radiant emittance of heat of a specific object or surface to that of a standard black body. Emissivity and emittivity are both dimensionless quantities given in the range of 0 to 1, representing the comparative/relative emittance with respect to a blackbody... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDST2 | Bifunctional heparan sulfate N-deacetylase/N-sulfotransferase 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NDST2 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20ribbon%20badge | The blue ribbon badge was a symbol of the temperance movement in 19th century North America.
The badge was created by Francis Murphy, 1836–1907, who was a chief advocate of the temperance movement in the United States and abroad in his generation. It was inspired by a Bible verse, Numbers 15:38-39, which says: "Speak ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myomegalin | Myomegalin, also known as phosphodiesterase 4D-interacting protein or cardiomyopathy-associated protein 2, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PDE4DIP gene. It has roles in the formation of microtubules from the centrosome. Its name derives from the fact that it is highly expressed in units of tubular myofibr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Pollen%20Database | The European Pollen Database (EPD) is a freely available database of pollen frequencies, past and present, in the larger European area. The database is hosted by the Institut Méditerranéen d'Ecologie et de la Biodiversité (IMBE).
See also
Pollen count |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal%20Physical%20Society | Nepal Physical Society (NPS) is a professional society of the Nepalese physicists. The small society of about 500 members was established in 1982.
Membership
To be eligible for membership, one has to hold a minimum of a master's degree in physical science from either Tribhuvan University or another university that is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formaldehyde%20releaser | A formaldehyde releaser, formaldehyde donor or formaldehyde-releasing preservative is a chemical compound that slowly releases formaldehyde. Formaldehyde-releasers are added to prevent microbial growth and extend shelf life. The intent of these compounds is that they release formaldehyde at levels that suppress microb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20probe | A molecular probe is a group of atoms or molecules used in molecular biology or chemistry to study the properties of other molecules or structures. If some measurable property of the molecular probe used changes when it interacts with the analyte (such as a change in absorbance), the interactions between the probe and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20scientific%20equations%20named%20after%20people | This is a list of scientific equations named after people (eponymous equations).
See also
Eponym
List of eponymous laws
List of laws in science
List of equations
Scientific constants named after people
Scientific phenomena named after people
Scientific laws named after people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitopilus%20prunulus | Clitopilus prunulus, commonly known as the miller or the sweetbread mushroom, is an edible pink-spored basidiomycete mushroom found in grasslands in Europe and North America. Growing solitary to gregarious in open areas of conifer/hardwood forests; common under Bishop pine (Pinus muricata) along the coast north of San ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor%20necrosis%20factor%20receptor%202 | Tumor necrosis factor receptor 2 (TNFR2), also known as tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 1B (TNFRSF1B) and CD120b, is one of two membrane receptors that binds tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα). Like its counterpart, tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 (TNFR1), the extracellular region of TNFR2 consists o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holozoic%20nutrition | Holozoic nutrition (Greek: holo-whole ; zoikos-of animals) is a type of heterotrophic nutrition that is characterized by the internalization (ingestion) and internal processing of liquids or solid food particles. Protozoa, such as amoebas, and most of the free living animals, such as humans, exhibit this type of nutri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristian%20Dumitru%20Popescu | Cristian Dumitru Popescu (born 1964) is a Romanian-American mathematician at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are in algebraic number theory, and in particular, in special values of L-functions.
Education and career
The son of historian Dumitru Micu Popescu and biologist Rodica Jeriștean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig%20toilet | A pig toilet (sometimes called a "pig sty latrine") is a simple type of dry toilet consisting of an outhouse mounted over a pigsty, with a chute or hole connecting the two. The pigs consume the feces of the users of the toilet, as well as other food.
History
Pig toilets ( zhūjuànmáokēng) were once common in rural Chin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20unsolved%20problems%20in%20statistics | There are many longstanding unsolved problems in mathematics for which a solution has still not yet been found. The notable unsolved problems in statistics are generally of a different flavor; according to John Tukey, "difficulties in identifying problems have delayed statistics far more than difficulties in solving pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior%20management | Behavior management, similar to behavior modification, is a less-intensive form of behavior therapy. Unlike behavior modification, which focuses on changing behavior, behavior management focuses on maintaining positive habits and behaviors and reducing negative ones. Behavior management skills are especially useful for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate%20flavoring | Glutamate flavoring is the generic name for flavor-enhancing compounds based on glutamic acid and its salts (glutamates). These compounds provide an umami (savory) taste to food.
Glutamic acid and glutamates are natural constituents of many fermented or aged foods, including soy sauce, fermented bean paste, and cheese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending%20branch%20of%20medial%20circumflex%20femoral%20artery | The ascending branch of medial circumflex femoral artery is a small artery in the thigh. It branches of the medial circumflex femoral artery and is distributed to the adductor muscles of the hip. It anastomoses with the obturator artery.
It also serves as an important blood supply to the head of the femur. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superficial%20branch%20of%20medial%20circumflex%20femoral%20artery | The superficial branch of medial circumflex femoral artery appears between the quadratus femoris and upper border of the adductor magnus, and anastomoses with the inferior gluteal artery, lateral femoral circumflex artery, and first of the perforating arteries of the deep femoral artery (crucial anastomosis). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20branch%20of%20medial%20circumflex%20femoral%20artery | The deep branch runs obliquely upward upon the tendon of the obturator externus and in front of the quadratus femoris toward the trochanteric fossa, where it anastomoses with twigs from the superior gluteal artery and inferior gluteal artery. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetabular%20branch%20of%20medial%20circumflex%20femoral%20artery | The acetabular branch is an artery in the hip that arises from the medial circumflex femoral artery opposite the acetabular notch and enters the hip-joint beneath the transverse ligament in company with an articular branch from the obturator artery. It supplies the fat in the bottom of the acetabulum, and is continued ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict%20continuum | A conflict continuum is a model or concept various social science researchers use when modeling conflict on a continuum from low to high-intensity, such as from aggression to irritation to explosiveness.
The mathematical model of game theory originally posited only a winner and a loser (a zero-sum game) in a conflict,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoloma%20rhodopolium | Entoloma rhodopolium, commonly known as the wood pinkgill, is a poisonous mushroom found in Europe and Asia. In fact, it is one of the three most commonly implicated fungi in cases of mushroom poisoning in Japan (Other two are Omphalotus japonicus and Tricholoma ustale). E. rhodopolium is often mistaken for edible mush... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects%20of%20pornography | The effects of pornography on individuals or their intimate relationships depend on the type of pornography used and differ from person to person. Consumption of pornographic material is associated with negative and positive impacts. It has been studied particularly for associations with addiction as well as effects on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20iguana | The hybrid iguana is a first-generation hybrid, the result of intergeneric breeding between a male marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) and a female Galapagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) on South Plaza Island in the Galápagos Islands, where the territories of the two species overlap.
Hybrid iguanas are d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper%20palmar%20digital%20nerves%20of%20ulnar%20nerve | The proper palmar digital nerves of the ulnar nerve are nerves of the hand.
The superficial branch of the ulnar nerve divides into a proper palmar digital nerve, which supplies the medial side of the fifth digit and a common palmar digital nerve which divides into two proper palmar digital nerves that supply the adjac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20palmar%20digital%20nerves%20of%20ulnar%20nerve | The common palmar digital nerves of the ulnar nerve are nerves of the hand. The nerve branches off the superficial branch of the ulnar nerve and runs toward the cleft between the ring and little fingers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-circuit%20time%20constant%20method | The open-circuit time constant (OCT) method is an approximate analysis technique used in electronic circuit design to determine the corner frequency of complex circuits. It is a special case of zero-value time constant (ZVT) method technique when reactive elements consist of only capacitors. The zero-value time (ZVT) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin%20oscillation | The insulin concentration in blood increases after meals and gradually returns to basal levels during the next 1–2 hours. However, the basal insulin level is not stable. It oscillates with a regular period of 3-6 min. After a meal the amplitude of these oscillations increases but the periodicity remains constant. The o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey%20Accelerated%20Research%20System | Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS) is a cabled-based observatory system below the surface of Monterey Bay, developed and managed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The system, operational since November 10, 2008, incorporates a undersea cable that carries data and power to benthic instrument nod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunk%20%28information%29 | A chunk is a fragment of information which is used in many multimedia file formats, such as PNG, IFF, MP3 and AVI.
Each chunk contains a header which indicates some parameters (e.g. the type of chunk, comments, size etc.). Following the header is a variable area containing data, which is decoded by the program from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutibacterium | Lutibacterium is a genus of Gram-negative staining bacteria. It includes the hydrocarbon-degrading strain Lutibacterium anuloederans LC8. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planomicrobium | Planomicrobium (formerly Planococcus) is a genus of gram-positive bacteria. It includes the hydrocarbon-degrading strain P. alkanoclasticum MAE2. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeosuana | Yeosuana aromativorans is a species of non-motile aerobic marine bacterium that can degrade benzopyrene. It was first isolated from Gwangyang Bay and forms yellow-brown colonies requiring chlorides of both magnesium and calcium. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordReference.com | WordReference is an online translation dictionary for, among others, the language pairs English–French, English–Italian, English–Spanish, French–Spanish, Spanish–Portuguese and English–Portuguese.
WordReference formerly had Oxford Unabridged and Concise dictionaries available for a subscription. These dictionaries con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novosphingobium | Novosphingobium is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria that includes N. taihuense, which can degrade aromatic compounds such as phenol, aniline, nitrobenzene and phenanthrene. The species N. aromativorans, which was first found in Ulsan Bay, similarly degrades aromatic molecules of two to five rings.
Species
Accepted S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend%20payout%20ratio | The dividend payout ratio is the fraction of net income a firm pays to its stockholders in dividends:
The part of earnings not paid to investors is left for investment to provide for future earnings growth. Investors seeking high current income and limited capital growth prefer companies with a high dividend payout ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20stress | In physical oceanography and fluid dynamics, the wind stress is the shear stress exerted by the wind on the surface of large bodies of water – such as oceans, seas, estuaries and lakes. Stress is the quantity that describes the magnitude of a force that is causing a deformation of an object. Therefore, stress is define... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblimersen | Oblimersen (INN, trade name Genasense; also known as Augmerosen and bcl-2 antisense oligodeoxynucleotide G3139) is an antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotide being studied as a possible treatment for several types of cancer, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia, B-cell lymphoma, and breast cancer. It may kill cancer cells... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriuria | Bacteriuria is the presence of bacteria in urine. Bacteriuria accompanied by symptoms is a urinary tract infection while that without is known as asymptomatic bacteriuria. Diagnosis is by urinalysis or urine culture. Escherichia coli is the most common bacterium found. People without symptoms should generally not be te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movile%20Cave | Movile Cave () is a cave near Mangalia, Constanța County, Romania discovered in 1986 by Cristian Lascu a few kilometers from the Black Sea coast. It is notable for its unique groundwater ecosystem abundant in hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide, but low in oxygen. Life in the cave has been separated from the outside fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit%20%28nuclear%20engineering%29 | In the field of nuclear engineering, a rabbit is a pneumatically controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor, usually for the purpose of studying the effect of irradiation on the material. Some rabbits have special linings to screen out certain types of neutrons. (For e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical%20garden | Biblical gardens are cultivated collections of plants that are named in the Bible. They are a type of theme garden that botanical gardens, public parks, and private gardeners maintain. They are grown in many parts of the world, with many examples far from the Levant, including the Seinan Gakuin University Biblical Bota... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmati | Jasmati Rice is a conventionally bred, inbred line (variety) of long grain of rice whose name is derived from jasmine rice and basmati. Jasmati is neither "genetically engineered" (as in transgenic) nor is it an F1 hybrid. It is said to possess the traits of both grains – namely the softness (when cooked) of basmati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Ulam%20model | The Fermi–Ulam model (FUM) is a dynamical system that was introduced by Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam in 1961.
FUM is a variant of Enrico Fermi's primary work on acceleration of cosmic rays, namely Fermi acceleration. The system consists of a particle that collides elastically between a fixed wall and a moving o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%20gap | First introduced by M. Pollak, the Coulomb gap is a soft gap in the single-particle density of states (DOS) of a system of interacting localized electrons.
Due to the long-range Coulomb interactions, the single-particle DOS vanishes at the chemical potential, at low enough temperatures, such that thermal excitations d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogensen%E2%80%93Scott%20encoding | In computer science, Scott encoding is a way to represent (recursive) data types in the lambda calculus. Church encoding performs a similar function. The data and operators form a mathematical structure which is embedded in the lambda calculus.
Whereas Church encoding starts with representations of the basic data ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piquette | Piquette is a French wine term which commonly refers to a vinous beverage produced by adding water to grape pomace but sometimes refers to a very simple wine or a wine substitute.
From pomace
If water is added to the pomace remaining after grapes intended for wine production have been pressed, it is possible to produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%202.0 | "Health 2.0" is a term introduced in the mid-2000s, as the subset of health care technologies mirroring the wider Web 2.0 movement. It has been defined variously as including social media, user-generated content, and cloud-based and mobile technologies. Some Health 2.0 proponents see these technologies as empowering pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone%20file | A Touchstone file was originally a proprietary file format for the eponymous frequency-domain linear circuit simulator from EEsof, launched in 1984 and acquired by HP. The simulator has been called HP/EEsof, then its engine has been successively included in the jOmega and ADS software suites and it is now owned by Keys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minibrix | Minibrix were construction kits manufactured from 1935 to 1976 in the UK. Developed in 1935, they enabled children to build their own miniature houses. Like the later and more famous construction toy, Lego, Minibrix consisted primarily of interlocking bricks with moulded studs on the surface, but being invented before ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube%20teapot | The cube teapot is a teapot whose main purpose was to be used on a ship. The cube shape of the teapot would stabilise it so that it would not roll over and scald the person making the drink, whereas conventional curved teapots would roll over when the ship rocked from side to side.
Invention
The cube teapot was inve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouzo%20effect | The ouzo effect ( ), also known as the louche effect ( ) and spontaneous emulsification, is the phenomenon of formation of a milky oil-in-water emulsion when water is added to ouzo and other anise-flavored liqueurs and spirits, such as pastis, rakı, arak, sambuca and absinthe. Such emulsions occur with only minimal mix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasticidin%20S | Blasticidin S is an antibiotic that is used in biology research for selecting cells in cell culture. Cells of interest can express the blasticidin resistance genes BSD or bsr, and can then survive treatment with the antibiotic. Blasticidin S is a nucleoside analogue antibiotic, resembling the nucleoside cytidine. Blast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift%20space | In symbolic dynamics and related branches of mathematics, a shift space or subshift is a set of infinite words that represent the evolution of a discrete system. In fact, shift spaces and symbolic dynamical systems are often considered synonyms. The most widely studied shift spaces are the subshifts of finite type and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirusTotal | VirusTotal is a website created by the Spanish security company Hispasec Sistemas. Launched in June 2004, it was acquired by Google in September 2012. The company's ownership switched in January 2018 to Chronicle, a subsidiary of Google.
VirusTotal aggregates many antivirus products and online scan engines called Con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20Disk%2020SC | The Apple Hard Disk 20SC is Apple's first SCSI based hard drive for the Apple II family as well as the Macintosh and other third party computers using an industry standard SCSI interface.
History
Released in September 1986 along with the Apple IIGS (which required an optional SCSI interface card to use it), it debuted... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptek | Cryptek is a company that develops and sells information security products and services to governments and corporations. Cryptek is headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, United States.
History
Cryptek was founded in 1986 as Cryptek Secure Communications, Inc. At that time, the company designed and manufactured field-d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Seife | Charles Seife is an American author, journalist, and professor at New York University. He has written extensively on scientific and mathematical topics.
Career
Seife holds a mathematics degree from Princeton University (1993), an M.S. in mathematics from Yale University and a M.S. in journalism from Columbia Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublink%20Network | Sublink Network was a non-profit association founded in Italy in 1989 to allow cost-sharing access to the Internet. Sublink Network was registered with the sublink.org domain (this domain now belongs to one of the founders). Sublink Network had its own sublink.* newsgroup hierarchy and a gateway with the Italian branch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20NX-OS | NX-OS is a network operating system for the Nexus-series Ethernet switches and MDS-series Fibre Channel storage area network switches made by Cisco Systems. It evolved from the Cisco operating system SAN-OS, originally developed for its MDS switches.
It is based on Wind River Linux and is inter-operable with other Ci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands%20Institute%20for%20Sound%20and%20Vision | The Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (Dutch: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld & Geluid, or short, Beeld & Geluid) is the cultural archive and a museum located in Hilversum. The Institute for Sound & Vision collects, looks after, and provides access to over 70% of the Dutch audio-visual heritage. In total, the co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous%20photovoltaic%20effect | The anomalous photovoltaic effect (APE) is a type of a photovoltaic effect which occurs in certain semiconductors and insulators. The "anomalous" refers to those cases where the photovoltage (i.e., the open-circuit voltage caused by the light) is larger than the band gap of the corresponding semiconductor. In some case... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewing%20cone | The viewing cone refers to the effective viewing directions of an LCD display, as seen from the eye. This collection of angles resembles a cone. The concept has been introduced as an international standard ISO 13406-2, which defines it as the range of viewing directions that can safely be used for the intended task wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receivables%20turnover%20ratio | Receivable turnover ratio or debtor's turnover ratio is an accounting measure used to measure how effective a company is in extending credit as well as collecting debts. The receivables turnover ratio is an activity ratio, measuring how efficiently a firm uses its assets.
Formula:
A high ratio implies either that a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel%20determinacy%20theorem | In descriptive set theory, the Borel determinacy theorem states that any Gale–Stewart game whose payoff set is a Borel set is determined, meaning that one of the two players will have a winning strategy for the game. A Gale-Stewart game is a possibly infinite two-player game, where both players have perfect information... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alewife%20%28multiprocessor%29 | Alewife was a cache coherent multiprocessor developed in the early 1990s by a group led by Anant Agarwal at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was based on a network of up to 512 processing nodes, each of which used the Sparcle computer architecture, which was formed by modifying a Sun Microsystems SPARC CPU... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labile%20cell | In cellular biology, labile cells are cells that continuously multiply and divide throughout life . Labile cells replace the cells that are lost from the body. When injured, labile cells are repaired rapidly due to an aggressive TR response. This continual division of labile cells allows them to reproduce new stem cel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor%20Based%20Network | A Visitor-based network (VBN) is a computer network intended for mobile users in need of temporary Internet access. A visitor-based network is most commonly established in hotels, airports, convention centers, universities, and business offices. It gives the on-the-go user a quick and painless way to temporarily connec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kordiimonas%20gwangyangensis | Kordiimonas gwangyangensis (strain GW14-5T) is a marine bacterium that can degrade a number of polycyclic hydrocarbons. It was first found in Gwangyang Bay. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstine%20theorem | In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, the Goldstine theorem, named after Herman Goldstine, is stated as follows:
Goldstine theorem. Let be a Banach space, then the image of the closed unit ball under the canonical embedding into the closed unit ball of the bidual space is a weak*-dense subset.
The conc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesting%20instinct | Nesting behavior refers to an instinct in animals during reproduction to prepare a place with optimal conditions for offspring. The nesting place provides protection against predators and competitors that mean to exploit or kill offspring. It also provides protection against the physical environment.
Nest building is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peduncle%20%28anatomy%29 | A peduncle is an elongated stalk of tissue. Sessility is the state of not having a peduncle; a sessile mass or structure lacks a stalk.
In medicine, a mass such as a cyst or polyp is said to be pedunculated if it is supported by a peduncle.
There are in total three types of peduncles in the cerebellum of the human b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contourlet | Contourlets form a multiresolution directional tight frame designed to efficiently approximate images made of smooth regions separated by smooth boundaries. The contourlet transform has a fast implementation based on a Laplacian pyramid decomposition followed by directional filterbanks applied on each bandpass subband.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SISNE%20plus | SISNE plus is a DOS 3.3 compatible clone created by Itautec and Scopus Tecnologia in Brazil prior to the end of the Market Reserve in 1991, which, at that time, forbade the importation of electronic equipment and software for general use.
The system was sold with PC/XT compatible Itautec IS 30 computers and with Itaut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Journal%20of%20Selected%20Topics%20in%20Quantum%20Electronics | The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Photonics Society. It covers research on quantum electronics. The editor-in-chief is José Capmany (Universitat Politècnica de València). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule%20of%20the%20glenohumeral%20joint | The capsule of the glenohumeral (shoulder) joint is the articular capsule of the shoulder. It completely surrounds the joint. It is attached above to the circumference of the glenoid cavity beyond the glenoidal labrum, and below to the anatomical neck of the humerus, approaching nearer to the articular cartilage above ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendon%20sheath | A tendon sheath is a layer of synovial membrane around a tendon. It permits the tendon to stretch and not adhere to the surrounding fascia. It contains a lubricating fluid that allows for smooth motions of the tendon during muscle contraction and joint movements.
It has two layers:
synovial sheath
fibrous tendon sh... |
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