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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20chloride%20transformation | Calcium chloride (CaCl2) transformation is a laboratory technique in prokaryotic (bacterial) cell biology. The addition of calcium chloride to a cell suspension promotes the binding of plasmid DNA to lipopolysaccharides (LPS). Positively charged calcium ions attract both the negatively charged DNA backbone and the nega... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Kousseri%20vaccination%20campaign | The Kousseri vaccination campaign took place between February 13 and 17 2008. During the campaign over 35,000 infants and children were vaccinated against measles, poliomyelitis or both in Cameroon's north-eastern district of Kousséri, in an operation led by the Cameroon Ministry of Health, the United Nations, and non-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample%20preparation%20in%20mass%20spectrometry | Sample preparation for mass spectrometry is used for the optimization of a sample for analysis in a mass spectrometer (MS). Each ionization method has certain factors that must be considered for that method to be successful, such as volume, concentration, sample phase, and composition of the analyte solution.
Quite po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler%E2%80%93Volmer%20equation | In electrochemistry, the Butler–Volmer equation (named after John Alfred Valentine Butler and Max Volmer), also known as Erdey-Grúz–Volmer equation, is one of the most fundamental relationships in electrochemical kinetics. It describes how the electrical current through an electrode depends on the voltage difference be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20dynamics | Contact dynamics deals with the motion of multibody systems subjected to unilateral contacts and friction. Such systems are omnipresent in many multibody dynamics applications. Consider for example
Contacts between wheels and ground in vehicle dynamics
Squealing of brakes due to friction induced oscillations
Motion ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilateral%20contact | In contact mechanics, the term unilateral contact, also called unilateral constraint, denotes a mechanical constraint which prevents penetration between two rigid/flexible bodies.
Constraints of this kind are omnipresent in non-smooth multibody dynamics applications, such as granular flows, legged robot, vehicle dynami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polog%20Statistical%20Region | The Polog Statistical Region (; Albanian:Rajoni i Pollogut) is one of eight statistical regions of the Republic of North Macedonia. Polog, located in the northwestern part of the country, borders Albania and Kosovo. Internally, it borders the Southwestern and Skopje statistical regions.
Municipalities
Polog is divide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVG%20Technologies | AVG Technologies is a brand of cybersecurity, privacy, performance and utility software applications for desktop computers and mobile devices developed by Avast, a part of Gen Digital. AVG was a cybersecurity software company founded in 1991 and it merged into Avast following an acquisition in 2017. It typically offers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Karlin | Samuel Karlin (June 8, 1924 – December 18, 2007) was an American mathematician at Stanford University in the late 20th century.
Education and career
Karlin was born in Janów, Poland and immigrated to Chicago as a child. Raised in an Orthodox Jewish household, Karlin became an atheist in his teenage years and remained... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern%20Statistical%20Region | The Northeastern Statistical Region (; Albanian: Rajoni verilindor) is one of eight arbitrary statistical regions in North Macedonia. It borders Kosovo and Serbia to the north and Bulgaria to the east, while internally, it borders the Skopje and Eastern statistical regions.
Municipalities
Northeastern Statistical Reg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon%20Margalef%20Prize%20in%20Ecology | The Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology () is a prize awarded annually by the Generalitat de Catalunya to recognize an exceptional scientific career or discovery in the field of ecology or other environmental sciences. The award was created to honor the life and work of Ramon Margalef. The award has been presented every ye... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vardar%20Statistical%20Region | The Vardar Statistical Region () is one of eight statistical regions of North Macedonia. Vardar, located in the central part of North Macedonia, borders Greece to the south. Internally, it borders the Pelagonia, Southwestern, Skopje, Southeastern, and Eastern. The Vardar Statistical Region is named after the Vardar Riv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate%20notation | In Bayesian inference, plate notation is a method of representing variables that repeat in a graphical model. Instead of drawing each repeated variable individually, a plate or rectangle is used to group variables into a subgraph that repeat together, and a number is drawn on the plate to represent the number of repet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrairieTek | PrairieTek was a hard drive manufacturer located in Longmont, Colorado in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was founded by Terry Johnson in 1985. It manufactured 5 and 10 megabyte "ruggedized" miniature hard drives for the laptop computer market.
Its PrairieTek 220 was the first hard drive, a potentially profitable... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECI%20Prize | The ECI Prize is a prize awarded annually from 1986 onwards to an ecologist distinguished by outstanding and sustained scientific achievements. It is awarded jointly by the International Ecology Institute, a non-profit organization of research ecologists based in Germany dedicated to fostering ecological knowledge and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20identity%20management | Online identity management (OIM), also known as online image management, online personal branding, or personal reputation management (PRM), is a set of methods for generating a distinguished Web presence of a person on the Internet. Online identity management also refers to identity exposure and identity disclosure, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20switch | A sense switch, or program switch, is a switch on the front panel of a computer whose state can be tested by conditional branch instructions in software. Most early computers had several sense switches. They were typically used by the operator to set program options.
On the IBM 1620 there are four switches, and their ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCGR3B | FCGR3B (Fc fragment of IgG, low affinity IIIb, receptor), also known as CD16b (Cluster of Differentiation 16b), is a human gene.
Clinical relevance
Mutations and copy-number variations in this gene have been associated to clinical cases of glomerulonephritis.
See also
CD16
Cluster of differentiation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiatus%20%28anatomy%29 | In anatomy, a hiatus is a natural fissure in a structure. Examples include:
Adductor hiatus
Aortic hiatus
Esophageal hiatus, the opening in the diaphragm through which the oesophagus passes from the thorax into the abdomen
Greater petrosal nerve hiatus
Maxillary hiatus
Sacral hiatus
Semilunar hiatus
Anatomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrosal%20branch%20of%20middle%20meningeal%20artery | The petrosal branch of middle meningeal artery enters the hiatus for greater petrosal nerve, supplies the facial nerve and anastomoses with the stylomastoid branch of the posterior auricular artery.
See also
stylomastoid artery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal%202 | Portal 2 is a 2011 puzzle-platform video game developed by Valve for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The digital PC version is distributed online by Valve's Steam service, while all retail editions were distributed by Electronic Arts. A port for the Nintendo Switch was included as part of Portal:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submandibular%20fovea | The submandibular fovea (or submandibular fossa or submaxillary fovea) is an impression on the medial side of the body of the mandible below the mylohyoid line. It is the location for the submandibular gland. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20by%20intimidation | Proof by intimidation (or argumentum verbosum) is a jocular phrase used mainly in mathematics to refer to a specific form of hand-waving, whereby one attempts to advance an argument by marking it as obvious or trivial, or by giving an argument loaded with jargon and obscure results. It attempts to intimidate the audien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublingual%20fovea | The sublingual fovea (or sublingual fossa) is a fovea in the mandible for the sublingual gland. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistor%20correspondence | In mathematical physics, the twistor correspondence (also known as Penrose–Ward correspondence) is a bijection between instantons on complexified Minkowski space and holomorphic vector bundles on twistor space, which as a complex manifold is , or complex projective 3-space. Twistor space was introduced by Roger Penrose... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdetermined%20system | In mathematics, a system of linear equations or a system of polynomial equations is considered underdetermined if there are fewer equations than unknowns (in contrast to an overdetermined system, where there are more equations than unknowns). The terminology can be explained using the concept of constraint counting. Ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montalvo%20Systems | Montalvo Systems was a Silicon Valley start-up reportedly working on an asymmetrical, x86 capable processor similar to the Cell microprocessor. The processor was to use high-performance cores for performance-intensive threads, and delegate minor tasks to the simpler cores to save silicon and power. Matt Perry, former T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateman%20transform | In the mathematical study of partial differential equations, the Bateman transform is a method for solving the Laplace equation in four dimensions and wave equation in three by using a line integral of a holomorphic function in three complex variables. It is named after the English mathematician Harry Bateman, who fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gi-Fi | Gi-Fi or gigabit wireless refers to wireless communication at a bit rate of at least one gigabit per second (Gbps).
By 2004 some trade press used the term "Gi-Fi" to refer to faster versions of the IEEE 802.11 standards marketed under the trademark Wi-Fi.
In 2008 researchers at the University of Melbourne demonstrate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit%20wireless | Gigabit wireless is the name given to wireless communication systems whose data transfer speeds reach or exceed one gigabit (one billion bits) per second. Such speeds are achieved with complex modulations of the signal, such as quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) or signals spanning many frequencies. When a signal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral%20relation | In mathematical logic, the ancestral relation (often shortened to ancestral) of a binary relation R is its transitive closure, however defined in a different way, see below.
Ancestral relations make their first appearance in Frege's Begriffsschrift. Frege later employed them in his Grundgesetze as part of his definit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugrian%20suicide%20hypothesis | The Finno-Ugrian suicide hypothesis proposes to link genetic ties originating among Finno-Ugric peoples to high rate of suicide, claiming an allele common among them is responsible.
Mari and Udmurts have been found to have a three times higher suicide rate than Finns and Hungarians. It has been thus theorized that suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20boot%20attack | In computer security, a cold boot attack (or to a lesser extent, a platform reset attack) is a type of side channel attack in which an attacker with physical access to a computer performs a memory dump of a computer's random-access memory (RAM) by performing a hard reset of the target machine. Typically, cold boot atta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream%20Reservation%20Protocol | Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP) is an enhancement to Ethernet that implements admission control. In September 2010 SRP was standardized as IEEE 802.1Qat which has subsequently been incorporated into IEEE 802.1Q-2011. SRP defines the concept of streams at layer 2 of the OSI model. Also provided is a mechanism for end-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing%27s%20recognition%20theorem | In topology, a branch of mathematics, Bing's recognition theorem, named for R. H. Bing, asserts that a necessary and sufficient condition for a 3-manifold M to be homeomorphic to the 3-sphere is that every Jordan curve in M be contained within a topological ball. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisatisfiability | In mathematical logic (a subtopic within the field of formal logic), two formulae are equisatisfiable if the first formula is satisfiable whenever the second is and vice versa; in other words, either both formulae are satisfiable or both are not. Equisatisfiable formulae may disagree, however, for a particular choice o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescribed%20Ricci%20curvature%20problem | In Riemannian geometry, a branch of mathematics, the prescribed Ricci curvature problem is as follows: given a smooth manifold M and a symmetric 2-tensor h, construct a metric on M whose Ricci curvature tensor equals h.
See also
Prescribed scalar curvature problem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus%20of%20Contemporary%20American%20English | The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is a one-billion-word corpus of contemporary American English. It was created by Mark Davies, retired professor of corpus linguistics at Brigham Young University (BYU).
Content
The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is composed of one billion words as of N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern%20Statistical%20Region | The Southeastern Statistical Region () is one of eight statistical regions of North Macedonia. Southeastern, located in the southeastern part of the country, borders Greece and Bulgaria. Internally, it borders the Vardar and Eastern statistical regions.
Municipalities
The Southeastern statistical region is divided in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Statistical%20Region | The Eastern Statistical Region () is one of eight statistical regions of North Macedonia. Eastern, located in the eastern part of the country, borders Bulgaria. Internally, it borders the Vardar, Skopje, Northeastern, and Southeastern statistical regions.
Municipalities
Eastern statistical region is divided into 11 m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progression-free%20survival | Progression-free survival (PFS) is "the length of time during and after the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, that a patient lives with the disease but it does not get worse". In oncology, PFS usually refers to situations in which a tumor is present, as demonstrated by laboratory testing, radiologic testing, or c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20channel%2C%20voltage-dependent%2C%20T%20type%2C%20alpha%201H%20subunit | Calcium channel, voltage-dependent, T type, alpha 1H subunit, also known as CACNA1H, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the CACNA1H gene.
Function
This gene encodes Cav3.2, a T-type member of the α1 subunit family, a protein in the voltage-dependent calcium channel complex. Calcium channels mediate the influ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhyreEngine | PhyreEngine is a license-only free to use game engine from Sony Interactive Entertainment, compatible with
PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation VR, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows (for OpenGL and DirectX 11), Google Android and Apple iOS. PhyreEngine has b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS4A2 | High affinity immunoglobulin epsilon receptor subunit beta is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MS4A2 gene.
Function
The allergic response involves the binding of allergen to receptor-bound IgE followed by cell activation and the release of mediators responsible for the manifestations of allergy. The IgE-rece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20quality%20management%20system | Clinical quality management systems (CQMS) are systems used in the life sciences sector (primarily in the pharmaceutical, biologics and medical device industries) designed to manage quality management best practices throughout clinical research and clinical study management. A CQMS system is designed to manage all of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sialidase-1 | Sialidase-1, is a mammalian lysosomal neuraminidase enzyme which in humans is encoded by the NEU1 gene.
Function
The protein SIALIDASE-1 encoded by the NEU-1 gene encodes the lysosomal enzyme SIALIDASE-1, which cleaves terminal sialic acid residues from substrates such as glycoproteins and glycolipids. In the lysoso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescribed%20scalar%20curvature%20problem | In Riemannian geometry, a branch of mathematics, the prescribed scalar curvature problem is as follows: given a closed, smooth manifold M and a smooth, real-valued function ƒ on M, construct a Riemannian metric on M whose scalar curvature equals ƒ. Due primarily to the work of J. Kazdan and F. Warner in the 1970s, thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT%20risk | Information technology risk, IT risk, IT-related risk, or cyber risk is any risk relating to information technology. While information has long been appreciated as a valuable and important asset, the rise of the knowledge economy and the Digital Revolution has led to organizations becoming increasingly dependent on inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellison%20Medical%20Foundation | The Ellison Medical Foundation, a 501(c)(3) Private Nonoperating Foundation, was founded in 1997 and is located in Bethesda, Maryland. The foundation supported research in the following discipline areas: biomedical research on aging, age-related diseases and disabilities. Its major philanthropic support came from Ora... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit%20card%20fraud | Credit card fraud is an inclusive term for fraud committed using a payment card, such as a credit card or debit card. The purpose may be to obtain goods or services or to make payment to another account, which is controlled by a criminal. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the data security s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril%20Callister | Cyril Percy Callister (16 February 1893 – 5 October 1949) was an Australian chemist and food technologist who developed the Vegemite yeast spread. As well as Vegemite, he is known for his contributions towards processed cheese.
Early life
Callister was born on 16 February 1893, in Chute, Victoria near Ballarat, son ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratner%27s%20theorems | In mathematics, Ratner's theorems are a group of major theorems in ergodic theory concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces proved by Marina Ratner around 1990. The theorems grew out of Ratner's earlier work on horocycle flows. The study of the dynamics of unipotent flows played a decisive role in the proof of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20trajectory%20evaluation | Symbolic trajectory evaluation (STE) is a lattice-based model checking technology that uses a form of symbolic simulation. STE is essentially used for computer hardware, that is circuit verification. The technique uses abstraction, meaning that details of the circuit behaviour are removed from the circuit model. It was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System%20z10 | IBM System z10 is a line of IBM mainframes. The z10 Enterprise Class (EC) was announced on February 26, 2008. On October 21, 2008, IBM announced the z10 Business Class (BC), a scaled-down version of the z10 EC. The System z10 represents the first model family powered by the z10 quad core processing engine. Its succe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortus%20Eystettensis | Hortus Eystettensis (Garden of Eichstätt) is the short title of a book produced by Basilius Besler, a Nuremberg apothecary and botanist, in 1613 describing the plants of the garden of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria. The Renaissance style garden was located at the bishop's palace at the Willibaldsburg and was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%20triangle%20notation | In geometry, the Conway triangle notation, named after John Horton Conway, allows trigonometric functions of a triangle to be managed algebraically. Given a reference triangle whose sides are a, b and c and whose corresponding internal angles are A, B, and C then the Conway triangle notation is simply represented as fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeny%20testing | Progeny Testing is a test of the value for selective breeding of an individual's genotype by looking at the progeny produced by different matings.
Progeny Testing
It is used in the breeding of both plants and animals, but is most commercially important in animal breeding to determine the true breeding value of an ani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptotope | A cryptotope is an antigenic site or epitope hidden in a protein or virion by surface subunits. Cryptotopes are antigenically active only after the dissociation of protein aggregates and virions Some infectious pathogens are known to escape immunological targeting by B-cells by masking antigen-binding sites as cryptoto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keutel%20syndrome | Keutel syndrome (KS) is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterized by abnormal diffuse cartilage calcification, hypoplasia of the mid-face, peripheral pulmonary stenosis, hearing loss, short distal phalanges (tips) of the fingers and mild mental retardation. Individuals with KS often present with periphe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Henry%20Hospital%2C%20Sydney | The Prince Henry Hospital site, formerly known as the Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, is a heritage-listed former teaching hospital and infectious diseases hospital and now UNSW teaching hospital and spinal rehabilitation unit located at 1430 Anzac Parade, Little Bay, City of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia. It was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopf%20maximum%20principle | The Hopf maximum principle is a maximum principle in the theory of second order elliptic partial differential equations and has been described as the "classic and bedrock result" of that theory. Generalizing the maximum principle for harmonic functions which was already known to Gauss in 1839, Eberhard Hopf proved in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucoperiosteum | Mucoperiosteum is a compound structure consisting of mucous membrane and underlying periosteum. It includes epithelium and lamina propria, but attaches directly to the periosteum of underlying bone without the usual submucosa. It consists of loose fatty or glandular tissues; with blood vessels & nerve fibres that suppl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmbieSense | AmbieSense was a large European project funded by the Information Society Technologies, Fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission (EU-IST 2001-34244). A company has been formed of the same name and has contributed to initiatives such as the open source Webinos project.
Objectives
The AmbieSense looks into... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horng-Tzer%20Yau | Horng-Tzer Yau (; born 1959 in Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician. He received his B.Sc. in 1981 from National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. in 1987 from Princeton University. Yau joined the faculty of NYU in 1988, and became a full professor at its Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1994. He mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI%20School%20of%20Biological%20Sciences | The School of Biological Sciences is one of the academic units of the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The school is divided into four departments: developmental and cell biology, ecology and evolutionary biology, molecular biology and biochemistry, and neurobiology and behavior. With over 3,700 students it is i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattered%20order | In mathematical order theory, a scattered order is a linear order that contains no densely ordered subset with more than one element.
A characterization due to Hausdorff states that the class of all scattered orders is the smallest class of linear orders that contains the singleton orders and is closed under well-orde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanodine%20receptor%201 | Ryanodine receptor 1 (RYR-1) also known as skeletal muscle calcium release channel or skeletal muscle-type ryanodine receptor is one of a class of ryanodine receptors and a protein found primarily in skeletal muscle. In humans, it is encoded by the RYR1 gene.
Function
RYR1 functions as a calcium release channel in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse%20cervical%20veins | The transverse cervical veins are veins that cross the neck. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint%20%28computing%29 | In computer science, a fingerprinting algorithm is a procedure that maps an arbitrarily large data item (such as a computer file) to a much shorter bit string, its fingerprint, that uniquely identifies the original data for all practical purposes just as human fingerprints uniquely identify people for practical purpose... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet%20press | A tablet press is a mechanical device that compresses powder into tablets of uniform size and weight. A tablet press can be used to manufacture tablets of a wide variety of materials, including pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, cleaning products, industrial pellets and cosmetics. To form a tablet, the granulated powder ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20E%20and%20B%20Experiment | The E and B Experiment (EBEX) will measure the cosmic microwave background radiation of a part of the sky during two sub-orbital (high-altitude) balloon flights. It is an experiment to make large, high-fidelity images of the CMB polarization anisotropies. By using a telescope which flies at over 42,000 metres high, it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annonacin | Annonacin is a chemical compound with toxic effects, especially in the nervous system, found in some fruits such as the paw paw, custard apples, soursop, and others from the family Annonaceae. It is a member of the class of compounds known as acetogenins. Annonacin-containing fruit products are regularly consumed throu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast-safe | Broadcast-safe video (broadcast legal or legal signal) is a term used in the broadcast industry to define video and audio compliant with the technical or regulatory broadcast requirements of the target area or region the feed might be broadcasting to. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Kittyhawk | Kittyhawk is an IBM supercomputer. The proposed project entails constructing a global-scale shared supercomputer capable of hosting the entire Internet on one platform as an application, whereas the current Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks.
In 2010 IBM open sourced the Linux kernel patches... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telavancin | Telavancin (trade name Vibativ) is a bactericidal lipoglycopeptide for use in MRSA or other Gram-positive infections. Telavancin is a semi-synthetic derivative of vancomycin.
The FDA approved the drug in September 2009 for complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI), and in June 2013 for hospital-acquired a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance%20per%20watt | In computing, performance per watt is a measure of the energy efficiency of a particular computer architecture or computer hardware. Literally, it measures the rate of computation that can be delivered by a computer for every watt of power consumed. This rate is typically measured by performance on the LINPACK benchmar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20complete%20theory | In model theory, a first-order theory is called model complete if every embedding of its models is an elementary embedding.
Equivalently, every first-order formula is equivalent to a universal formula.
This notion was introduced by Abraham Robinson.
Model companion and model completion
A companion of a theory T is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-flush%20toilet | A low-flush toilet (or low-flow toilet or high-efficiency toilet) is a flush toilet that uses significantly less water than traditional high-flow toilets. Before the early 1990s in the United States, standard flush toilets typically required at least 3.5 gallons (13.2 litres) per flush and they used float valves that o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20focusing | Weak focusing occurs in particle accelerators when charged particles are passing through uniform magnetic fields, causing them to move in circular paths due to the Lorentz force. Because of the circular movement, the orbits of two particles with slightly different positions may approximate or even cross each other.
Be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20strep%20test | The rapid strep test (RST) is a rapid antigen detection test (RADT) that is widely used in clinics to assist in the diagnosis of bacterial pharyngitis caused by group A streptococci (GAS), sometimes termed strep throat. There are currently several types of rapid strep test in use, each employing a distinct technology. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forking%20extension | In model theory, a forking extension of a type is an extension of that type that is not whereas a non-forking extension is an extension that is as free as possible. This can be used to extend the notions of linear or algebraic independence to stable theories. These concepts were introduced by S. Shelah.
Definitions
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20Science | Statistical Science is a review journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. The founding editor was Morris H. DeGroot, who explained the mission of the journal in his 1986 editorial:
"A central purpose of Statistical Science is to convey the richness, breadth and unity of the field by presenting
the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20extraction | RNA extraction is the purification of RNA from biological samples. This procedure is complicated by the ubiquitous presence of ribonuclease enzymes in cells and tissues, which can rapidly degrade RNA. Several methods are used in molecular biology to isolate RNA from samples, the most common of these is guanidinium thio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket%20set%20theory | Pocket set theory (PST) is an alternative set theory in which there are only two infinite cardinal numbers, ℵ0 (aleph-naught, the cardinality of the set of all natural numbers) and c (the cardinality of the continuum). The theory was first suggested by Rudy Rucker in his Infinity and the Mind. The details set out in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%20among%20the%20Machines | "Darwin among the Machines" is an article published in The Press newspaper on 13 June 1863 in Christchurch, New Zealand, which references the work of Charles Darwin in the title. Written by Samuel Butler but signed Cellarius (q.v.), the article raised the possibility that machines were a kind of "mechanical life" under... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodobacter%20sphaeroides | Rhodobacter sphaeroides is a kind of purple bacterium; a group of bacteria that can obtain energy through photosynthesis. Its best growth conditions are anaerobic phototrophy (photoheterotrophic and photoautotrophic) and aerobic chemoheterotrophy in the absence of light. R. sphaeroides is also able to fix nitrogen. It ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite%20motif%20family | The tripartite motif family (TRIM) is a protein family.
Function
Many TRIM proteins are induced by interferons, which are important component of resistance to pathogens and several TRIM proteins are known to be required for the restriction of infection by lentiviruses. TRIM proteins are involved in pathogen-recogniti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20P.%20Dobkin | David Paul Dobkin is an American computer scientist and the Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. His research has concerned computational geometry and computer graphics.
Early life and education
Dobkin was born February 29, 1948, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a B.S.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcut%20model | An important question in statistical mechanics is the dependence of model behaviour on the dimension of the system. The shortcut model was introduced in the course of studying this dependence. The model interpolates between discrete regular lattices of integer dimension.
Introduction
The behaviour of different proces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-domain%20thermoreflectance | Time-domain thermoreflectance is a method by which the thermal properties of a material can be measured, most importantly thermal conductivity. This method can be applied most notably to thin film materials (up to hundreds of nanometers thick), which have properties that vary greatly when compared to the same materials... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age%20and%20Ageing | Age and Ageing is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of geriatric medicine and gerontology. It was established in 1972 and is published by Oxford University Press. It is the official journal of the British Geriatrics Society and the editor-in-chief is Rowan Harwood (University of Nottingham)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20music | Eye music (often referred to in English by its exact German translation Augenmusik) describes graphical features of scores which when performed are unnoticeable by the listener.
Difficulties in defining eye music
By simple definition eye music is when the graphic notation of music is altered in some meaningful way vis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20threshold | Ecological threshold is the point at which a relatively small change or disturbance in external conditions causes a rapid change in an ecosystem. When an ecological threshold has been passed, the ecosystem may no longer be able to return to its state by means of its inherent resilience . Crossing an ecological threshol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igunaq | Igunaq () ), also Kopalhen (, IPA [kopaɬɣən]) - part of the Inuit, Chukchi, Nenets, Evenki diets. It is a method of preparing meat, particularly walrus and other marine mammals. Meat and fat caught in the summer is buried in the ground as steaks, which then ferment over autumn and freeze over winter, ready for consump... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-smooth%20mechanics | Non-smooth mechanics is a modeling approach in mechanics which does not require the time evolutions of the positions and of the velocities to be smooth functions. Due to possible impacts, the velocities of the mechanical system are allowed to undergo jumps at certain time instants in order to fulfill the kinematical re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narada%20multicast%20protocol | The Narada multicast protocol is a set of specifications which can be used to implement overlay multicast functionality on computer networks.
It constructs an overlay tree from a redundantly meshed graph of nodes, source specific shortest path trees are then constructed from reverse paths. The group management is equa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20binary%20prefixes | This timeline of binary prefixes lists events in the history of the evolution, development, and use of units of measure which are germane to the definition of the binary prefixes by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 1998, used primarily with units of information such as the bit and the byte.
Hist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-D | MPEG-D is a group of standards for audio coding formally known as ISO/IEC 23003 - MPEG audio technologies, published since 2007.
MPEG-D consists of four parts:
MPEG-D Part 1: MPEG Surround (a.k.a. Spatial Audio Coding)
MPEG-D Part 2: Spatial Audio Object Coding (SAOC)
MPEG-D Part 3: Unified speech and audio coding
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78xx | 78xx (sometimes L78xx, LM78xx, MC78xx...) is a family of self-contained fixed linear voltage regulator integrated circuits. The 78xx family is commonly used in electronic circuits requiring a regulated power supply due to their ease-of-use and low cost.
Nomenclature and packaging
For ICs within the 78xx family, the xx... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse%20approximation | Sparse approximation (also known as sparse representation) theory deals with sparse solutions for systems of linear equations. Techniques for finding these solutions and exploiting them in applications have found wide use in image processing, signal processing, machine learning, medical imaging, and more.
Sparse decom... |
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