source stringlengths 31 227 | text stringlengths 9 2k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclin-dependent%20kinase%205 | Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 is a protein, and more specifically an enzyme, that is encoded by the Cdk5 gene. It was discovered 15 years ago, and it is saliently expressed in post-mitotic central nervous system neurons (CNS).
The molecule belongs to the cyclin-dependent kinase family. Kinases are enzymes that catalyze re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartons%20Limited | Dr John Garton, of the firm of Garton Brothers of Newton-le-Willows in the United Kingdom was the Originator of Scientific Farm Plant Breeding. He is credited as the first scientist to show that the common grain crops and many other plants are self-fertilizing. He also invented the process of multiple cross-fertilizat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distensibility | Distensibility is a metric of the stiffness of blood vessels. It is defined as
,
where and are the diameter of the vessel in systole and diastole, and and are the systolic and diastolic blood pressure. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20dispersion%20model | In probability and statistics, the class of exponential dispersion models (EDM) is a set of probability distributions that represents a generalisation of the natural exponential family.
Exponential dispersion models play an important role in statistical theory, in particular in generalized linear models because they ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsys | Alsys, SA. (founded 1980, merged 1995) was a software development company created to support initial work on the Ada programming language.
In July 1995, Alsys merged to become Thomson Software Products (TSP), which merged into Aonix in 1996.
History
Alsys SA. the French company was founded in 1980 by Jean Ichbiah (194... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation%20bias | Participation bias or non-response bias is a phenomenon in which the results of elections, studies, polls, etc. become non-representative because the participants disproportionately possess certain traits which affect the outcome. These traits mean the sample is systematically different from the target population, pote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating%20model | In physics, The Keating Model is a model that theoretical physicist Patrick N. Keating introduced in 1966 to describe forces induced on neighboring atoms when one atom moves in a solid.
The term most often applies to the forces on first- and second-nearest neighboring atoms that arise when an atom is moved in tetrahed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framsticks | Framsticks is a 3D freeware Artificial Life simulator. Organisms consisting of physical structures ("bodies") and control structures ("brains") evolve over time against a user's predefined fitness landscape (for instance, evolving for speed), or spontaneously coevolve in a complex environment. Evolution of organisms o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Euler | Project Euler (named after Leonhard Euler) is a website dedicated to a series of computational problems intended to be solved with computer programs. The project attracts graduates and students interested in mathematics and computer programming. Since its creation in 2001 by Colin Hughes, Project Euler has gained nota... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis%20%28linear%20algebra%20library%29 | Lis (Library of Iterative Solvers for linear systems, pronounced [lis]) is a scalable parallel software library for solving discretized linear equations and eigenvalue problems that mainly arise in the numerical solution of partial differential equations by using iterative methods. Although it is designed for parallel ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence%20Food%20Research%20Laboratory | The Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) is an Indian defence laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Located in Mysore, Karnataka, it conducts research and development of technologies and products in the area of food science and technology to cater the varied food challenges for the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xft | Xft, the X FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by Keith Packard.
It uses the MIT/X license that The Open Group applied after the post X11R6.4 license restoration.
It is designed to allow the FreeType font rasterizer to be used with the X Rendering Extension; it is generally employed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OrigamiUSA | OrigamiUSA (sometimes abbreviated as "OUSA") is the largest origami organization in the United States, with offices located at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It was founded in 1980 by Michael Shall, Alice Gray, Lillian Oppenheimer, Robert E. Neale, and others as the Friends of the Origami Cent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacCormack%20method | In computational fluid dynamics, the MacCormack method (/məˈkɔːrmæk ˈmɛθəd/) is a widely used discretization scheme for the numerical solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations. This second-order finite difference method was introduced by Robert W. MacCormack in 1969. The MacCormack method is elegant and eas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius%20helvus | Lactarius helvus, commonly known as fenugreek milkcap, is a member of the large milkcap genus Lactarius in the order Russulales. Fruiting bodies can be found in Sphagnum moss in coniferous and deciduous woodland in Europe, and possibly North America, although considerable debate continues about the North American varie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homothetic%20center | In geometry, a homothetic center (also called a center of similarity or a center of similitude) is a point from which at least two geometrically similar figures can be seen as a dilation or contraction of one another. If the center is external, the two figures are directly similar to one another; their angles have the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronin | Coronin is an actin binding protein which also interacts with microtubules and in some cell types is associated with phagocytosis. Coronin proteins are expressed in a large number of eukaryotic organisms from yeast to humans.
Discovery
Initially, a 55 kDa protein was isolated from the actomyosin complex of Dictyostel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokolov%E2%80%93Ternov%20effect | The Sokolov–Ternov effect is the effect of self-polarization of relativistic electrons or positrons moving at high energy in a magnetic field. The self-polarization occurs through the emission of spin-flip synchrotron radiation. The effect was predicted by Igor Ternov and the prediction rigorously justified by Arseny S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphylococcal%20infection | A staphylococcal infection or staph infection is an infection caused by members of the Staphylococcus genus of bacteria.
These bacteria commonly inhabit the skin and nose where they are innocuous, but may enter the body through cuts or abrasions which may be nearly invisible. Once inside the body, the bacteria may sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20temperature | Transition temperature is the temperature at which a material changes from one crystal state (allotrope) to another. More formally, it is the temperature at which two crystalline forms of a substance can co-exist in equilibrium. For example, when rhombic sulfur is heated above 95.6 °C, it changes form into monoclinic s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune%20heart%20disease | Autoimmune heart diseases are the effects of the body's own immune defense system mistaking cardiac antigens as foreign and attacking them leading to inflammation of the heart as a whole, or in parts. The commonest form of autoimmune heart disease is rheumatic heart disease or rheumatic fever.
Cause
Aetiologically, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Mehlhorn | Kurt Mehlhorn (born 29 August 1949) is a German theoretical computer scientist. He has been a vice president of the Max Planck Society and is director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science.
Education and career
Mehlhorn graduated in 1971 from the Technical University of Munich, where he studied computer sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality%20of%20piggybacking | Laws regarding "unauthorized access of a computer network" exist in many legal codes, though the wording and meaning differs from one to the next. However, the interpretation of terms like "access" and "authorization" is not clear, and there is no general agreement on whether piggybacking (intentional access of an ope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outside%E2%80%93in%20software%20development | Of all the agile software development methodologies, outside–in software development takes a different approach to optimizing the software development process. Unlike other approaches, outside–in development focuses on satisfying the needs of stakeholders. The underlying theory is that to create successful software, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workload%20Partitions | AIX Workload partitions (WPARs) are a software implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology introduced in the IBM's AIX 6.1 operating system that provides application environment isolation and resource control.
WPARs are software partitions that are created from, and share the resources of a sing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa%20Institute%20of%20Science%20and%20Technology | is a private, interdisciplinary graduate school located in Onna, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
Overviews
The school offers a 5-year PhD program in Science. Over half of the faculty and students are recruited from outside Japan, and all education and research is conducted entirely in English.
OIST relies on public subs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%20operon | The gal operon is a prokaryotic operon, which encodes enzymes necessary for galactose metabolism. Repression of gene expression for this operon works via binding of repressor molecules to two operators. These repressors dimerize, creating a loop in the DNA. The loop as well as hindrance from the external operator preve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated-surface-dry | Saturated surface dry (SSD) is defined as the condition of an aggregate in which the surfaces of the particles are "dry" (i.e., surface adsorption would no longer take place), but the inter-particle voids are saturated with water. In this condition aggregates will not affect the free water content of a composite materi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningeal%20branch%20of%20occipital%20artery | The meningeal branch of occipital artery ascends with the internal jugular vein, and enters the skull through the jugular foramen and condyloid canal, to supply the dura mater in the posterior fossa. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20South%20Wales%20Cancer%20Institute%20Awards | The Cancer Institute NSW Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research are the premier awards ceremony for the cancer research sector in NSW. Now in its tenth year, the event honours the achievements of the individuals and teams that work across the cancer research sector to lessen the impact of cancer for the peopl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20roommates%20problem | In mathematics, economics and computer science, particularly in the fields of combinatorics, game theory and algorithms, the stable-roommate problem (SRP) is the problem of finding a stable matching for an even-sized set. A matching is a separation of the set into disjoint pairs ("roommates"). The matching is stable i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventive%20and%20social%20medicine | Preventive and social medicine is a branch of medicine dealing with providing health services in areas of prevention, promotion and treatment of rehabilitative diseases. Studies in preventive and social medicine are helpful in providing guided care, medicine in environmental health, offering scholarly services, policy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction%20algorithm | The term "auction algorithm" applies to several variations of a combinatorial optimization algorithm which solves assignment problems, and network optimization problems with linear and convex/nonlinear cost. An auction algorithm has been used in a business setting to determine the best prices on a set of products offe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolated%20brain | An isolated brain is a brain kept alive in vitro, either by perfusion or by a blood substitute, often an oxygenated solution of various salts, or by submerging the brain in oxygenated artificial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). It is the biological counterpart of brain in a vat. A related concept, attaching the brain or head... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20acquisition%20of%20neural%20topologies | Evolutionary acquisition of neural topologies (EANT/EANT2) is an evolutionary reinforcement learning method that evolves both the topology and weights of artificial neural networks. It is closely related to the works of Angeline et al. and Stanley and Miikkulainen. Like the work of Angeline et al., the method uses a ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAVID | DAVID (the database for annotation, visualization and integrated discovery) is a free online bioinformatics resource developed by the Laboratory of Human Retrovirology and Immunoinformatics (LHRI). All tools in the DAVID Bioinformatics Resources aim to provide functional interpretation of large lists of genes derived f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinning%20%28modelling%29 | Pinning is a technique used when assembling large or heavy model kits (such as metal wargaming miniatures) that involves drilling a hole in two pieces of the model to be joined, and using a "pin" to strengthen the bond when they are glued. Pinning is a useful technique for reinforcing joints and is essential when maki... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeeReal%20Technologies | SeeReal Technologies GmbH is a Dresden-based company focusing on the development of 3D displays. It is owned by its Luxembourg parent company SeeReal Technologies S.A., which is responsible for marketing, partnering and IP licensing.
The firm was founded in 2002 by Dr. Armin Schwerdtner, who had previously headed an o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool%20use%20by%20non-humans | Tool use by non-humans is a phenomenon in which a non-human animal uses any kind of tool in order to achieve a goal such as acquiring food and water, grooming, combat, defence, communication, recreation or construction. Originally thought to be a skill possessed only by humans, some tool use requires a sophisticated le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Debye%20Award | The Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry is awarded annually by the American Chemical Society "to encourage and reward outstanding research in physical chemistry". The award is named after Peter Debye and
granted without regard to age or nationality.
Recipients
2020 Laura Gagliardi
2019 Daniel M. Neumark
2018
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Publishing%20System | Integrated Publishing System is a system created in 1982 for publishing multilingual literature.
The software was developed by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society on an IBM mainframe computer using an Autologic typesetter. IPS was acquired by IBM, which intended to use the system to increase its hold on the publish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery%20holder | A battery holder is one or more compartments or chambers for holding a battery. For dry cells, the holder must also make electrical contact with the battery terminals. For wet cells, cables are often connected to the battery terminals, as is found in automobiles or emergency lighting equipment.
A battery holder is eit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%20Langmuir%20Award | The Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics is awarded annually, in even years by the American Chemical Society and in odd years by the American Physical Society. The award is meant to recognize and encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research in chemistry and physics, in the spirit of Irving Langmuir. A nominee ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20Bright%20Wilson%20Award%20in%20Spectroscopy | The E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy is awarded annually by the American Chemical Society to recognize outstanding accomplishments in fundamental or applied spectroscopy in chemistry. It was first awarded in 1997 and was named in honor of the American Physical Chemist and Spectroscopy pioneer, E. Bright Wilson.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided%20local%20search | Guided local search is a metaheuristic search method. A meta-heuristic method is a method that sits on top of a local search algorithm to change its behavior.
Guided local search builds up penalties during a search. It uses penalties to help local search algorithms escape from local minima and plateaus. When the given... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20object%20communication | In a distributed computing environment, distributed object communication realizes communication between distributed objects. The main role is to allow objects to access data and invoke methods on remote objects (objects residing in non-local memory space). Invoking a method on a remote object is known as remote method ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20mean%20curvature%20flow | In the mathematical fields of differential geometry and geometric analysis, inverse mean curvature flow (IMCF) is a geometric flow of submanifolds of a Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian manifold. It has been used to prove a certain case of the Riemannian Penrose inequality, which is of interest in general relativity.
Fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct%20radionuclide | An extinct radionuclide is a radionuclide that was formed by nucleosynthesis before the formation of the Solar System, about 4.6 billion years ago, but has since decayed to virtually zero abundance and is no longer detectable as a primordial nuclide. Extinct radionuclides were generated by various processes in the earl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleroderma%20areolatum | Scleroderma areolatum is a basidiomycete fungus and a member of the genus Scleroderma, or "earth balls."
Like most members of Scleroderma, S. areolatum resembles but is only distantly related to the giant puffball. It can be distinguished from the giant puffball by cutting it in half; the puffball will have a solid, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralepistopsis%20acromelalga | Paralepistopsis acromelalga is a basidiomycete fungus in the Tricholomataceae family. It was formerly classified as Clitocybe acromelalga.
Taxonomy
It was first described in 1918 by the mycologist T. Ichimura and classified as Clitocybe acromelalga.
The Paralepistopsis genus was created in 2012 by the Italian mycolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralepistopsis%20amoenolens | Paralepistopsis amoenolens is an agaric fungus in the Tricholomataceae family. It is commonly known as the paralysis funnel.
Taxonomy
It was first described in 1975 by the French mycologist Georges Jean Louis Malençon from a specimen found in Morocco and classified as Clitocybe amoenolens.
In 2012, following DNA ana... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20International%20Mathematical%20Olympiad%20participants | The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is an annual international high school mathematics competition focused primarily on pre-collegiate mathematics, and is the oldest of the international science olympiads. The awards for exceptional performance include medals for roughly the top half participants, and honorab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting%20radio%20frequency | Superconducting radio frequency (SRF) science and technology involves the application of electrical superconductors to radio frequency devices. The ultra-low electrical resistivity of a superconducting material allows an RF resonator to obtain an extremely high quality factor, Q. For example, it is commonplace for a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy-continuous%20function | In mathematics, a Cauchy-continuous, or Cauchy-regular, function is a special kind of continuous function between metric spaces (or more general spaces). Cauchy-continuous functions have the useful property that they can always be (uniquely) extended to the Cauchy completion of their domain.
Definition
Let and be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous%20%28hacker%20group%29 | Anonymous is a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective and movement primarily known for its various cyberattacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations and the Church of Scientology.
Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan represen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Developments%20in%20Language%20Theory | DLT, the International Conference on Developments in Language Theory is an academic conference in the field
of computer science
held annually under the auspices of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. Like most theoretical computer science conferences its contributions are strongly peer-reviewed;... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptional%20Complexity%20of%20Formal%20Systems | DCFS, the International Workshop on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems is an annual academic conference in the
field of computer science.
Beginning with the 2011 edition, the proceedings of the workshop appear in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Already since the very beginning, extended versions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference%20on%20Implementation%20and%20Application%20of%20Automata | CIAA, the International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata is an annual academic conference in the field of computer science.
Its purpose is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in the theory, implementation, and application of automat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20stag | A white stag (or white hind for the female) is a white-colored red deer, wapiti, sika deer, chital, fallow deer, roe deer, white-tailed deer, black-tailed deer, reindeer, moose, or rusa, explained by a condition known as leucism that causes its hair and skin to lose its natural colour. The white deer has played a promi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figuring | Figuring is the process of final polishing of an optical surface to remove imperfections or modify the surface curvature to achieve the shape required for a given application.
Types
An example of figuring is that used in reflecting telescope primary mirrors in a process of converting the smooth spherical mirror produc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite%20Server%20Backup | Yosemite Server Backup (YSB) was cross-platform backup software developed by Barracuda Networks, Inc. After acquiring Yosemite Technologies, Barracuda Networks released Yosemite Server Backup as the first offering in their Barracuda Ware line of products. YSB ran on 32- and 64-bit systems, and could back up to both har... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-Hydroxyguanosine | 8-Hydroxyguanosine is an RNA nucleoside which is an oxidative derivative of guanosine. Measurement of the levels of 8-hydroxyguanosine is used as a biomarker of oxidative stress causing RNA damage.
See also
8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra%20Incognita%3A%20The%20Perils%20and%20Promise%20of%20Stem%20Cell%20Research | Terra Incognita: The Perils and Promise of Stem Cell Research, also known as Terra Incognita: Mapping Stem Cell Research, is a documentary film released by Kartemquin Films in 2007. The film follows Dr. Jack Kessler of Northwestern University in his search for a cure for spinal cord injuries using embryonic stem cells... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%2062264 | IEC 62264 is an international standard for enterprise control system integration. This standard is based upon ANSI/ISA-95.
Current parts of IEC 62264
IEC 62264 consists of the following parts detailed in separate IEC 62264 standard documents:
Part 1:2013 Object Models and Attributes of Manufacturing Operations (Seco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly%20charged%20ion | Highly charged ions (HCI) are ions in very high charge states due to the loss of many or most of their bound electrons by energetic collisions or high-energy photon absorption. Examples are 13-fold ionized iron, or Fe XIV in spectroscopic notation, found in the Sun's corona, or naked uranium, (U XCIII in spectroscopi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20FTP | Core FTP LE is a freeware secure FTP client for Windows, developed by CoreFTP.com. Features include FTP, SSL/TLS, SFTP via SSH, and HTTP/HTTPS support. Secure FTP clients encrypt account information and data transferred across the internet, protecting data from being seen, or sniffed across networks. Core FTP is a trad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensics | Sensics is an American company making virtual reality products for professionals and consumers. Sensics is the co-founder of the OSVR ecosystem and technical lead of its software platform.
Sensics is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland.
History
The company's products are based on patented technology developed at Jo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20visual%20system%20model | A human visual system model (HVS model) is used by image processing, video processing and computer vision experts to deal with biological and psychological processes that are not yet fully understood. Such a model is used to simplify the behaviours of what is a very complex system. As our knowledge of the true visual ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haller%20index | The Haller index, created in 1987 by J. Alex Haller, S. S. Kramer, and S. A. Lietman, is a mathematical relationship that exists in a human chest section observed with a CT scan. It is defined as the ratio of the transverse diameter (the horizontal distance of the inside of the ribcage) and the anteroposterior diameter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%20functions | In linear elasticity, the equations describing the deformation of an elastic body subject only to surface forces (or body forces that could be expressed as potentials) on the boundary are (using index notation) the equilibrium equation:
where is the stress tensor, and the Beltrami-Michell compatibility equations:
A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20eclipse%20of%20Darwinism | Julian Huxley used the phrase "the eclipse of Darwinism" to describe the state of affairs prior to what he called the "modern synthesis". During the "eclipse", evolution was widely accepted in scientific circles but relatively few biologists believed that natural selection was its primary mechanism. Historians of scien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamamelis%20%C3%97%20intermedia | Hamamelis × intermedia, the hybrid witch hazel, is a flowering plant in the family Hamamelidaceae. It is a hybrid of garden origin between H. japonica and H. mollis. Its Latin name refers to its intermediate appearance between those two species.
It is a deciduous shrub growing to tall and wide, with zig-zagging stems... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20addiction%20disorder | Internet addiction disorder (IAD) can otherwise be referred to as problematic internet use or pathological internet use. It is generally defined as problematic, compulsive use of the internet, that results in significant impairment in an individual's function in various aspects of life over a prolonged period of time. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Networking%20Institute | The Information Networking Institute (INI) was established by Carnegie Mellon in 1989 as the nation's first research and education center devoted to information networking.
As an integral department of the College of Engineering and a collaboration of the School of Computer Science, the Tepper School of Business, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog%20desert | A fog desert is a type of desert where fog drip supplies the majority of moisture needed by animal and plant life. Examples of fog deserts include the Atacama Desert of coastal Chile and Peru; the Baja California desert of Mexico; the Namib Desert in Namibia; the Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert; and a manmade inst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharra | Tharra (Hindi: ठर्रा, Urdu: ٹھرا) is a type of Desi daru which is locally, and often illegally, brewed alcoholic drink in the Indian subcontinent, mainly India and Pakistan. It is made from yeast fermentation of sugarcane, or wheat husk, especially in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana. Since it is usually made ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotropic%20virus | A neurotropic virus is a virus that is capable of infecting nerve tissue.
Terminology
A neurotropic virus is said to be neuroinvasive if it is capable of accessing or entering the nervous system and neurovirulent if it is capable of causing disease within the nervous system. Both terms are often applied to central ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20Hobana | Ion Hobana (25 January 1931, Sânnicolau Mare – 22 February 2011, Bucharest) was a Romanian science fiction writer, literary critic and ufologist. Ion Hobana is a literary pseudonym, the writer's real name being Aurelian Manta Roşie.
Bibliography
Science fiction
Ultimul val (novel; Editura Tineretului, 1957)
Caleido... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20economics | Recursive economics is a branch of modern economics based on a paradigm of individuals making a series of two-period optimization decisions over time.
Differences between recursive and neoclassical paradigms
The neoclassical model assumes a one-period utility maximization for a consumer and one-period profit maximizat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negacyclic%20convolution | In mathematics, negacyclic convolution is a convolution between two vectors a and b.
It is also called skew circular convolution or wrapped convolution. It results from multiplication of a skew circulant matrix, generated by vector a, with vector b.
See also
Circular convolution theorem
Bilinear maps
Functional ana... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuality%20%28software%20design%29 | Virtuality is a term used by Ted Nelson for what he considers one of the central issues of software design. "Virtuality" refers to the seeming of anything, as opposed to its reality. (This has been the dictionary meaning of "virtuality" since at least the 18th century). Everything has a reality and a virtuality. Nelson... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagonia%20Statistical%20Region | The Pelagonia Statistical Region () is one of eight statistical regions of North Macedonia. It is located in southwestern part of the country along the eponymous plain. It borders Greece and Albania. Internally, it borders the Southwestern and Vardar statistical regions.
Municipalities
Pelagonia statistical region is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucine-responsive%20regulatory%20protein | Leucine responsive protein, or Lrp, is a global regulator protein, meaning that it regulates the biosynthesis of leucine, as well as the other branched-chain amino acids, valine and isoleucine. In bacteria, it is encoded by the lrp gene.
Lrp alternatively activates and represses the expression of acetolactate synthase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandibular%20prominence | The mandibular prominence is an embryological structure which gives rise to the lower portion of the face.
The mandible and lower lip derive from it. The mesenchymal cells within the mandibular prominence condense to form Meckel's cartilage.
It is innervated by the mandibular nerve. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroid%20diverticulum | The thyroid pouch or thyroid diverticulum is the embryological structure of the second pharyngeal arch from which thyroid follicular cells derive.
It grows from the floor of the pharynx.
See also
Diverticulum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Experimental%20Centre | The Wireless Experimental Centre (WEC) was one of two overseas outposts of Station X, Bletchley Park, the British signals analysis centre during World War II. The other outpost was the Far East Combined Bureau. Codebreakers Wilfred Noyce and Maurice Allen broke the Japanese Army's Water Transport Code here in 1943, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-Hopkinson%20pressure%20bar | The split-Hopkinson pressure bar, named after Bertram Hopkinson, sometimes also called a Kolsky bar, is an apparatus for testing the dynamic stress–strain response of materials.
History
The Hopkinson pressure bar was first suggested by Bertram Hopkinson in 1914 as a way to measure stress pulse propagation in a metal b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNMD-TV | KNMD-TV, virtual channel 5 (VHF digital channel 8), is an ATSC 3.0 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station serving Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States that is licensed to the capital city of Santa Fe. Owned by the University of New Mexico, it is a sister station to Albuquerque-licensed KNME-TV (c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottic%20vallecula | The epiglottic valleculae are paired spaces between the root of the tongue and anterior surface of the epiglottis. Each vallecula is bordered medially by the median glossoepiglottic fold and laterally by the lateral glossoepiglottic fold.
The valleculae can collect saliva to prevent initiation of the swallowing reflex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallecula%20of%20cerebellum | On the inferior aspect of cerebellum, the vermis protrudes above the level of the hemispheres, but on the inferior surface it is sunk almost out of sight in the bottom of a deep depression between them; this depression is called the vallecula of the cerebellum, and lodges the posterior part of the medulla oblongata and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onychonycteris | Onychonycteris is the more primitive of the two oldest known monospecific genera of bat, having lived in the area that is current day Wyoming during the Eocene period, 52.5 million years ago.
Taxonomy
Two specimens of Onychonycteris were found in the Green River Formation in 2003, and placed in a new family when the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%27s%20thesis%20%28constructive%20mathematics%29 | In constructive mathematics, Church's thesis is an axiom stating that all total functions are computable functions.
The similarly named Church–Turing thesis states that every effectively calculable function is a computable function, thus collapsing the former notion into the latter. is stronger in the sense that wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20evolution | Plant evolution is the subset of evolutionary phenomena that concern plants. Evolutionary phenomena are characteristics of populations that are described by averages, medians, distributions, and other statistical methods. This distinguishes plant evolution from plant development, a branch of developmental biology which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indosiar%20Television%20Tower | The Indosiar Television Tower is a guyed mast used for FM- and TV-broadcasting in West Jakarta, Indonesia, completed in 2006. It is currently the tallest structure in Indonesia. It consists of a 375 metre tall lattice structure with a side length of , which carries on its top a high TV-broadcasting antenna. The upper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology%20of%20food | The sociology of food is the study of food as it relates to the history, progression, and future development of society, encompassing its production, preparation, consumption, and distribution, its medical, ritual, spiritual, ethical and cultural applications, and related environmental and labor issues.
The aspect of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-nose%20syndrome | White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a fungal disease in North American bats which has resulted in the dramatic decrease of the bat population in the United States and Canada, reportedly killing millions as of 2018. The condition is named for a distinctive fungal growth around the muzzles and on the wings of hibernating bats. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore%20Creatures | Spore Creatures is a 2008 science fiction adventure game developed by Griptonite Games and published by Electronic Arts. The game is a spin-off of Spore in which a player controls and evolves a creature of their creation to save another creature from the clutches of an alien who plans on dominating the galaxy.
An unre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore%20Origins | Spore Origins (also known as Spore Mobile) is the mobile device spin-off of Spore, and focuses on a single phase of the larger game's gameplay - the cell phase.
Gameplay
The simplified game allows players to try to survive as a multicellular organism in a tide pool, with the ability to upgrade its creature as with th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroepiglottic%20ligament | The thyroepiglottic ligament is an intrinsic ligament of the larynx that connects the epiglottis and the thyroid cartilage.
It connects the stalk of the epiglottis to the angle formed by the two laminæ of the thyroid cartilage, a short distance below the superior thyroid notch. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrangular%20membrane | The quadrangular membrane is a layer of submucosa. It extends between the lateral margin of the epiglottis, and the apex and fovea triangularis of the ipsilateral arytenoid cartilage. It has free superior and inferior borders.
Anatomy
The free superior border inclines posteriorly, forming the aryepiglottic ligament (... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.