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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunologic%20activation | In immunology, activation is the transition of leucocytes and other cell types involved in the immune system. On the other hand, deactivation is the transition in the reverse direction. This balance is tightly regulated, since a too small degree of activation causes susceptibility to infections, while, on the other han... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel%20temperature%20coefficient%20of%20reactivity | Fuel temperature coefficient of reactivity is the change in reactivity of the nuclear fuel per degree change in the fuel temperature. The coefficient quantifies the amount of neutrons that the nuclear fuel (such as uranium-238) absorbs from the fission process as the fuel temperature increases. It is a measure of the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20footprint | Digital footprint or digital shadow refers to one's unique set of traceable digital activities, actions, contributions, and communications manifested on the Internet or digital devices. Digital footprints can be classified as either passive or active. The former is composed of a user's web-browsing activity and informa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20effective%20dose%20equivalent | The Total effective dose equivalent (TEDE) is a radiation dosimetry quantity defined by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to monitor and control human exposure to ionizing radiation. It is defined differently in the NRC regulations and NRC glossary. According to the regulations, it is the sum of effective dose equiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-dose%20equivalent | The Deep-dose equivalent (DDE) is a measure of external radiation exposure defined by US regulations. It is reported alongside eye and shallow dose equivalents on typical US dosimetry reports. It represents the dose equivalent at a tissue depth of 1 cm (1000 mg/cm2) due to external whole-body exposure to ionizing radi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20plant%20efficiency | The efficiency of a plant is the percentage of the total energy content of a power plant's fuel that is converted into electricity. The remaining energy is usually lost to the environment as heat unless it is used for district heating.
Rating efficiency is complicated by the fact that there are two different ways to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20entombment | Nuclear entombment (also referred to as "safe enclosure") is a method of nuclear decommissioning in which radioactive contaminants are encased in a structurally long-lived material, such as concrete. This prevents radioactive material and other contaminated substances from being exposed to human activity and the enviro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20impedance | Image impedance is a concept used in electronic network design and analysis and most especially in filter design. The term image impedance applies to the impedance seen looking into a port of a network. Usually a two-port network is implied but the concept can be extended to networks with more than two ports. The def... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Math%20Solver | Microsoft Math Solver (formerly Microsoft Mathematics and Microsoft Math) is an entry-level educational app that solves math and science problems. Developed and maintained by Microsoft, it is primarily targeted at students as a learning tool. Until 2015, it ran on Microsoft Windows. Since then, it has been developed fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Cruz%20Institute%20for%20Particle%20Physics | The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) is an organized research unit within the University of California system focused on theoretical and experimental high-energy physics and astrophysics.
Research
SCIPP's scientific and technical staff are and have been involved in several cutting edge research proje... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%E2%80%93protein%20interaction%20screening | Protein–protein interaction screening refers to the identification of Protein–protein interaction with high-throughput screening methods such as computer- and/or robot-assisted plate reading, flow cytometry analyzing.
The interactions between proteins are central to virtually every process in a living cell. Informatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedral%20space | Polyhedral space is a certain metric space. A (Euclidean) polyhedral space is a (usually finite) simplicial complex in which every simplex has a flat metric. (Other spaces of interest are spherical and hyperbolic polyhedral spaces, where every simplex has a metric of constant positive or negative curvature). In the seq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappenheimer%20bodies | Pappenheimer bodies are abnormal basophilic granules of iron found inside red blood cells on routine blood stain.
They are a type of inclusion body composed of ferritin aggregates, or mitochondria or phagosomes containing aggregated ferritin. They appear as dense, blue-purple granules within the red blood cell and the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisynaptic%20circuit | The trisynaptic circuit, or trisynaptic loop is a relay of synaptic transmission in the hippocampus. The circuit was initially described by the neuroanatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal, in the early twentieth century, using the Golgi staining method. After the discovery of the trisynaptic circuit, a series of research h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-junction%20solar%20cell | Multi-junction (MJ) solar cells are solar cells with multiple p–n junctions made of different semiconductor materials. Each material's p-n junction will produce electric current in response to different wavelengths of light. The use of multiple semiconducting materials allows the absorbance of a broader range of wavele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20activity%20concept | Search activity concept (SAC) is a psychophysiological concept that integrates subject's behavior, resistance to stress and deteriorating factors, pathogenetic mechanisms of different mental and psychosomatic disorders, REM sleep functions, brain monoamines activity and brain laterality.
History
The term SAC was coine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internalin | Internalins are surface proteins found on Listeria monocytogenes. They exist in two known forms, InlA and InlB. They are used by the bacteria to invade mammalian cells via cadherins transmembrane proteins and Met receptors respectively. The exact role of these proteins and their invasiveness in vivo is not completely u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Doeblin | Wolfgang Doeblin, known in France as Vincent Doblin (17 March 1915 – 21 June 1940), was a French-German mathematician.
Life
A native of Berlin, Wolfgang was the son of the Jewish-German novelist and physician, Alfred Döblin, and Erna Reiss. His family escaped from Nazi Germany to France where he became a French citiz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20cannibalism | Energy cannibalism refers to an effect where rapid growth of a specific energy producing industry creates a need for energy that uses (or cannibalizes) the energy of existing power plants. Thus during rapid growth the industry as a whole produces no new energy because it is used to fuel the embodied energy of future po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat%20grazing%20problem | The goat grazing problem is either of two related problems in recreational mathematics involving a tethered goat grazing a circular area: the interior grazing problem and the exterior grazing problem. The former involves grazing the interior of a circular area, and the latter, grazing an exterior of a circular area. Fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20tank%20problem | In the statistical theory of estimation, the German tank problem consists of estimating the maximum of a discrete uniform distribution from sampling without replacement. In simple terms, suppose there exists an unknown number of items which are sequentially numbered from 1 to N. A random sample of these items is taken ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust%20anchor | In cryptographic systems with hierarchical structure, a trust anchor is an authoritative entity for which trust is assumed and not derived.
In the X.509 architecture, a root certificate would be the trust anchor from which the whole chain of trust is derived. The trust anchor must be in the possession of the trusting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispin%20Nash-Williams | Crispin St John Alvah Nash-Williams FRSE (19 December 1932 – 20 January 2001) was a British mathematician. His research interest was in the field of discrete mathematics, especially graph theory.
Biography
Nash-Williams was born on 19 December 1932 in Cardiff, Wales. His father, Victor Erle Nash-Williams ( Williams), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC%202 | EDSAC 2 was an early computer (operational in 1958), the successor to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC). It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed control unit and a bit-slice hardware architecture.
First calculations were performed on incomplete machine in 1957. Calculations about el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavity%20quantum%20electrodynamics | Cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity QED) is the study of the interaction between light confined in a reflective cavity and atoms or other particles, under conditions where the quantum nature of photons is significant. It could in principle be used to construct a quantum computer.
The case of a single 2-level atom ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netstring | In computer programming, a netstring is a formatting method for byte strings that uses a declarative notation to indicate the size of the string.
Netstrings store the byte length of the data that follows, making it easier to unambiguously pass text and byte data between programs that could be sensitive to values that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20systems | Living systems are open self-organizing life forms that interact with their environment. These systems are maintained by flows of information, energy and matter. Multiple theories of living systems have been proposed. Such theories attempt to map general principles for how all living systems work.
Context
Some scien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincunx%20matrix | In mathematics, the matrix
is sometimes called the quincunx matrix. It is a 2×2 Hadamard matrix, and its rows form the basis of a diagonal square lattice consisting of the integer points whose coordinates both have the same parity; this lattice is a two-dimensional analogue of the three-dimensional body-centered cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagiC | MagiC is a third party and now open-sourced multitasking-capable TOS-compatible operating system for Atari computers, including some newer clone systems manufactured later. There are also variants that run as part of Mac and PC emulation environments, as well as on macOS Intel-Mac computers.
Features
The kernel of Ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure | Clojure (, like closure) is a dynamic and functional dialect of the Lisp programming language on the Java platform.
Like most other Lisps, Clojure's syntax is built on S-expressions that are first parsed into data structures by a reader before being compiled. Clojure's reader supports literal syntax for maps, sets and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20display | Differential display (also referred to as DDRT-PCR or DD-PCR) is a laboratory technique that allows a researcher to compare and identify changes in gene expression at the mRNA level between two or more eukaryotic cell samples. It was the most commonly used method to compare expression profiles of two eukaryotic cell s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20Planet | Visualplanet Ltd specialises in the manufacture and global distribution of projected capacitance interactive touch screen foils, which are designed to be used in a wide variety of Touch Screen applications from through-window touch to direct integration into LCD Screens. From its headquarters in Cambridge, England, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Entomological%20Society%20Handbooks | Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information. The series also in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar%20projection | Planar projections are the subset of 3D graphical projections constructed by linearly mapping points in three-dimensional space to points on a two-dimensional projection plane. The projected point on the plane is chosen such that it is collinear with the corresponding three-dimensional point and the centre of projectio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20corporate%20collections | Forensic Corporate Collections refer to the type of debt collection and recovery tactics that apply computer forensics and scientific knowledge to the debt collection process.
Process
By engaging consistently updated computer software in the debt collection process, forensic corporate collection agencies are able to i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%E2%80%93Lifshitz%E2%80%93Gilbert%20equation | In physics, the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation, named for Lev Landau, Evgeny Lifshitz, and T. L. Gilbert, is a name used for a differential equation describing the precessional motion of magnetization in a solid. It is a modification by Gilbert of the original equation of Landau and Lifshitz.
The various forms of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%20electron%20transfer | Dexter electron transfer (also called Dexter electron exchange and Dexter energy transfer) is a fluorescence quenching mechanism in which an excited electron is transferred from one molecule (a donor) to a second molecule (an acceptor) via a non radiative path. This process requires a wavefunction overlap between the d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DbSNP | The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP) is a free public archive for genetic variation within and across different species developed and hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in collaboration with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Although the name of the dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge%20exchange | Charge exchange (or charge exchange collision) is a process in which a neutral atom or molecule collides with an ion, resulting in the neutral atom acquiring the charge of the ion. The reaction is typically expressed as
A+ + B -> A + B+.
This reaction has various diagnostic applications, such as in plasma physics and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93adapter | Model–view–adapter (MVA) or mediating-controller MVC is a software architectural pattern and multitier architecture. In complex computer applications that present large amounts of data to users, developers often wish to separate data (model) and user interface (view) concerns so that changes to the user interface will ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20fluid | In astronomy and cosmology, dark fluid theories attempt to explain dark matter and dark energy in a single framework. The theory proposes that dark matter and dark energy are not separate physical phenomena, nor do they have separate origins, but that they are strongly linked together and can be considered as two facet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule%2090 | In the mathematical study of cellular automata, Rule 90 is an elementary cellular automaton based on the exclusive or function. It consists of a one-dimensional array of cells, each of which can hold either a 0 or a 1 value. In each time step all values are simultaneously replaced by the exclusive or of their two neigh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20Desktop%20Services | Remote Desktop Services (RDS), known as Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and earlier, is one of the components of Microsoft Windows that allow a user to initiate and control an interactive session on a remote computer or virtual machine over a network connection. RDS was first released in 1998 as Terminal Serve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape%20analysis%20%28digital%20geometry%29 | This article describes shape analysis to analyze and process geometric shapes.
Description
Shape analysis is the (mostly) automatic analysis of geometric shapes, for example using a computer to detect similarly shaped objects in a database or parts that fit together. For a computer to automatically analyze and process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20Armor%20Personal%20Firewall | Online Armor Personal Firewall was a firewall originally developed by Australian company ((Tall Emu)), until the program was sold to Emsi Software GmbH (now Emsisoft). The program provides protection on a Microsoft Windows operating system from both inbound and outbound attacks. There are three editions of this product... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCICEX | SCICEX, standing for Scientific Ice Expeditions, was a five-year (1995–1999) scientific research program involving a collaboration between the U.S. Navy and academic researchers from a variety of different universities. The object of study was geophysical and oceanological conditions in the Arctic Ocean. The Navy mad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20beta%20filter | An alpha beta filter (also called alpha-beta filter, f-g filter or g-h filter) is a simplified form of observer for estimation, data smoothing and control applications. It is closely related to Kalman filters and to linear state observers used in control theory. Its principal advantage is that it does not require a det... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBS%20S.A. | JBS S.A. is a Brazilian company that is the largest meat processing enterprise in the world, producing factory processed beef, chicken and pork, and also selling by-products from the processing of these meats. It is headquartered in São Paulo. It was founded in 1953 in Anápolis, Goiás.
As of 2017, the company had 150 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFM%20%28piscicide%29 | TFM (3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol) is a common piscicide, i.e., a fish poison used to combat parasitic and invasive species of fish.
The substance was discovered in 1958 when researching means to combat sea lampreys and it remains the primary lampricide (lamprey-killer) in the Great Lakes area.
TFM toxicity has n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20Sciences%20Institute | The Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) is a professional association of university professors, graduate students, and practitioners whose interest lies in the application of quantitative research and qualitative research to the decision problems of individuals, organizations, and society. Many of the members of this aca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20spherical%20harmonics | In mathematics, vector spherical harmonics (VSH) are an extension of the scalar spherical harmonics for use with vector fields. The components of the VSH are complex-valued functions expressed in the spherical coordinate basis vectors.
Definition
Several conventions have been used to define the VSH.
We follow that of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory%20brainstem%20implant | An auditory brainstem implant (ABI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf, due to retrocochlear hearing impairment (due to illness or injury damaging the cochlea or auditory nerve, and so precluding the use of a cochlear implant). In Europe, ABIs h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wine%20Society | The International Exhibition Co-operative Wine Society Limited, commonly referred to as The Wine Society, is the world's oldest wine club having been founded on 4 August 1874 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom.
The Wine Society was created and still operates as a co-operative with each member being the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20homology | In evolutionary developmental biology, the concept of deep homology is used to describe cases where growth and differentiation processes are governed by genetic mechanisms that are homologous and deeply conserved across a wide range of species.
History
In 1822, the French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%20Smith%20Project | The Winston Smith Project (, or PWS) is an informational and operational project for the defence of human rights on the Internet and in the digital era. The project was started in 1999 as an anonymous association and it is characterised by the absence of a physical reference identity.
It is named after the main charac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kith%20%28Poul%20Anderson%29 | The Kith are a starfaring culture featured in a number of science fiction stories by American writer Poul Anderson. They are:
"Ghetto" (1954)
"The Horn of Time the Hunter" (also known as "Homo Aquaticus", 1963)
The novel Starfarers (1998) - John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee, 1999
The Kith develop out of early i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristolochene | Aristolochene is a bicyclic sesquiterpene produced by certain fungi including the cheese mold Penicillium roqueforti. It is biosynthesized from farnesyl pyrophosphate by aristolochene synthase and is the parent hydrocarbon of a large variety of fungal toxins.
The substance was first isolated from Penicillium roquefor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewalling | Stonewalling is a refusal to communicate or cooperate. Such behaviour occurs in situations such as marriage guidance counseling, diplomatic negotiations, politics and legal cases. Body language may indicate and reinforce this by avoiding contact and engagement with the other party. People use deflection in a conversa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20pseudodistance | In size theory, the natural pseudodistance between two size pairs , is the value , where varies in the set of all homeomorphisms from the manifold to the manifold and is the supremum norm. If and are not homeomorphic, then the natural pseudodistance is defined to be .
It is usually assumed that , are closed ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20trees%20and%20shrubs%20by%20taxonomic%20family | The following is a list of widely known trees and shrubs. Taxonomic families for the following trees and shrubs are listed in alphabetical order, likewise the genera and closely related species. The list currently includes 1352 species.
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms
See also
List of tree genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%20Roths%20large | Murphy Roths large (MRL/MpJ) is a strain of laboratory mouse developed in 1999 at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Originally bred for autoimmune disease research, it was discovered to have remarkable tissue regeneration abilities.
Research
The MRL/MpJ mouse strain was selectively bred by scientist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoplanarity | In particle physics, the acoplanarity of a scattering experiment is the degree to which the paths of the scattered particles deviate from being coplanar. Measurements of acoplanarity provide a test of perturbative quantum chromodynamics, because QCD predicts that the emission of gluons can lead to acoplanar scattering ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXPOSE | EXPOSE is a multi-user facility mounted outside the International Space Station (ISS) dedicated to astrobiology. EXPOSE was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for long-term spaceflights and was designed to allow exposure of chemical and biological samples to outer space while recording data during exposure.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Litman | Eric Austin Litman (born August 1, 1973) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor, and currently serves as CEO of the robotics health technology company, aescape, inc. Litman co-founded Proxicom, built Viaduct from a one-man shop through a merger with the Wolf Group, and was the founder and CEO of Medialets, a mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desomorphine | Desomorphine is a semi-synthetic opioid commercialized by Roche, with powerful, fast-acting effects, such as sedation and analgesia. It was first discovered and patented by a German team working for Knoll in 1920 but was not generally recognized. It was later synthesized in 1932 by Lyndon Frederick Small. Small also su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTCN-3 | TTCN-3 (Testing and Test Control Notation version 3) is a strongly typed testing language used in conformance testing of communicating systems. TTCN-3 is written by ETSI in the ES 201 873 series, and standardized by ITU-T in the Z.160 Series.
TTCN-3 has its own data types and can be combined with ASN.1, IDL and XML typ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex%20on%20the%20Flight%20of%20Birds | Codex on the Flight of Birds is a relatively short codex from by Leonardo da Vinci.
It comprises 18 folios and measures 21 × 15 centimetres. Now held at the Royal Library of Turin, the codex begins with an examination of the flight behavior of birds and proposes mechanisms for flight by machines. Leonardo constructe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship%20curve | A survivorship curve is a graph showing the number or proportion of individuals surviving to each age for a given species or group (e.g. males or females). Survivorship curves can be constructed for a given cohort (a group of individuals of roughly the same age) based on a life table.
There are three generalized types... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%20Odourless%20Earth%20Closet | The Reed odourless earth closet (ROEC) is a variation on the ventilated improved pit (VIP) toilet where the pit is fully off-set from the Outhouse and is connected to the squatting plate by a curved chute.
The ROEC is fitted with a vent pipe to control odour and insect nuisance. It is claimed that the chute, in conjun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20patterns | The formation of patterns in the growth of bacterial colonies has extensively been studied experimentally. Resulting morphologies appear to depend on the growth conditions. They include well known morphologies such as dense branched morphology (DBM) or diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA), but much complex patterns and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider%20Systems | Spider Systems Ltd. was a computer network products company, based in Edinburgh. It was founded in 1983 by several former employees of ICL who had previously worked at ICL's Scottish Development Centre at Dalkeith Palace until its closure earlier that year.
Spider Systems produced a wide range of products, including t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20study | A sleep study is a test that records the activity of the body during sleep. There are five main types of sleep studies that use different methods to test for different sleep characteristics and disorders. These include simple sleep studies, polysomnography, multiple sleep latency tests (MSLTs), maintenance of wakefulne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20navigation%20assistant | A Personal Navigation Assistant (PNA) also known as Personal Navigation Device or Portable Navigation Device (PND) is a portable electronic product which combines a positioning capability (such as GPS) and navigation functions.
Some PNA devices are PDAs with limited features and can be unlocked.
History
The earliest ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CETpD | The Technical Research Centre for Dependency Care and Autonomous Living (CETpD) is an applied research and technology transfer centre created for the Universitat Politèncica de Catalunya and the Fundació Hospital Comarcal Sant Antoni Abat on behalf of the Consorci de Servei a les Persones de Vilanova i la Geltrú, with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishimori%20equation | The Ishimori equation is a partial differential equation proposed by the Japanese mathematician . Its interest is as the first example of a nonlinear spin-one field model in the plane that is integrable .
Equation
The Ishimori equation has the form
Lax representation
The Lax representation
of the equation is given ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysialic%20acid | Polysialic acid is an unusual posttranslational modification that occurs on neural cell adhesion molecules (NCAM). Polysialic acid is considerably anionic. This strong negative charge gives this modification the ability to change the protein's surface charge and binding ability. In the synapse, polysialation of NCAM pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTTLA | FTTLA refers to "Fibre to the Last Active". Classic analogue cable television trunks used several amplifiers at intervals in cascade, each of which degrades the signal. FTTLA replaces the coaxial cable all along the line to the last active component (towards the subscriber) with optical fibre, eliminating all distrib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Centric%20Product%20Support | Network Centric Product Support (NCPS) is an early application of an Internet of Things (IoT) computer architecture developed to leverage new information technologies and global networks to assist in managing maintenance, support and supply chain of complex products made up of one or more complex systems, such as in a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20size%20measures | Many animals, including humans, tend to live in groups, herds, flocks, bands, packs, shoals, or colonies (hereafter: groups) of conspecific individuals. The size of these groups, as expressed by the number of people/etc in a group such as eight groups of nine people in each one, is an important aspect of their social e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialcom | Dialcom Inc. was a United States corporation which developed the world's first commercial electronic mail service. It was founded in 1970 by Robert F. Ryan and was sold to ITT Corporation in 1982, becoming ITT Dialcom.
Dialcom's e-mail software ran on Prime minicomputers and was licensed to governmental telecommunicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20in%20delay-tolerant%20networking | Routing in delay-tolerant networking concerns itself with the ability to transport, or route, data from a source to a destination, which is a fundamental ability all communication networks must have. Delay- and disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) are characterized by their lack of connectivity, resulting in a lack of i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable%20yield%20in%20fisheries | The sustainable yield of natural capital is the ecological yield that can be extracted without reducing the base of capital itself, i.e. the surplus required to maintain ecosystem services at the same or increasing level over time. This yield usually varies over time with the needs of the ecosystem to maintain itself,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20network | A service network is a structure that brings together several entities to deliver a particular service. For instance, one organisation (the buyer) may sub-contract another organisation (the supplier) to deliver after-sales services to a third party (the customer). The buyer may use more than one supplier. Likewise, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20GPS | EGPS ( EGPS, EGPS, trademarked as eGPS) is a technology designed for mobile phones on GSM and W-CDMA networks, to augment GPS signals to deliver faster location fixes, lower cost implementations and reduced power and processing requirements. It is being developed by CSR who has partnered with Motorola – together they i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20impedance | Dual impedance and dual network are terms used in electronic network analysis. The dual of an impedance is its reciprocal, or algebraic inverse . For this reason, the dual impedance is also called the inverse impedance. Another way of stating this is that the dual of is the admittance .
The dual of a network is the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenborosaurus | Attenborosaurus is an extinct genus of pliosaurid from the Early Jurassic of Dorset, England. The type species is A. conybeari. The genus is named after David Attenborough, the species after William Conybeare.
History
The original remains of the holotype, specimen PV OR 38525, were discovered in Charmouth, Dorset, En... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadwork | cadwork is a software suite that includes IFC-based virtual design and construction software tools developed by cadwork informatik AG. This suite of tools provides a solution for 3D wood manufacturing (Computer-aided manufacturing, CAM) and a solution for Building Information Modeling that includes project planning and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EqWorld | EqWorld is a free online mathematics reference site that lists information about mathematical equations.
It covers ordinary differential, partial differential, integral, functional, and other mathematical equations. It also outlines some methods for solving equations, and lists many resources for solving equations, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost%20Mathieu%20operator | In mathematical physics, the almost Mathieu operator arises in the study of the quantum Hall effect. It is given by
acting as a self-adjoint operator on the Hilbert space . Here are parameters. In pure mathematics, its importance comes from the fact of being one of the best-understood examples of an ergodic Schrödi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme%20mimic | Enzyme mimic (or Artificial enzyme) is a branch of biomimetic chemistry, which aims at imitating the function of natural enzymes. An enzyme mimic is a small molecule complex that models the molecular structure, spectroscopic properties, or reactivity of an enzyme, sometimes called bioinspired complexes.
Overview
Enz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclaimer | Exclaimer is a privately held UK-based information technology company owned by Insight Partners. It develops, sells and provides support for a suite of email utilities and cloud computing technologies designed for adding disclaimers, branding, and regulatory compliance for corporate email via personalized email signatu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size%20function | Size functions are shape descriptors, in a geometrical/topological sense. They are functions from the half-plane to the natural numbers, counting certain connected components of a topological space. They are used in pattern recognition and topology.
Formal definition
In size theory, the size function associated with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20feces | Human feces (or faeces in British English) is the solid or semisolid remains of food that could not be digested or absorbed in the small intestine of humans, but has been further broken down by bacteria in the large intestine. It also contains bacteria and a relatively small amount of metabolic waste products such as b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20phase%20equaliser | A lattice phase equaliser or lattice filter is an example of an all-pass filter. That is, the attenuation of the filter is constant at all frequencies but the relative phase between input and output varies with frequency. The lattice filter topology has the particular property of being a constant-resistance network and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridged%20T%20delay%20equaliser | The bridged-T delay equaliser is an electrical all-pass filter circuit utilising bridged-T topology whose purpose is to insert an (ideally) constant delay at all frequencies in the signal path. It is a class of image filter.
Applications
The network is used when it is required that two or more signals are matched to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%20compass | A hand compass (also hand bearing compass or sighting compass) is a compact magnetic compass capable of one-hand use and fitted with a sighting device to record a precise bearing or azimuth to a given target or to determine a location. Hand or sighting compasses include instruments with simple notch-and-post alignment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving-boundary%20electrophoresis | Moving-boundary electrophoresis (MBE also free-boundary electrophoresis) is a technique for separation of chemical compounds by electrophoresis in a free solution.
History
Moving-boundary electrophoresis was developed by Arne Tiselius in 1930. Tiselius was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20Governance%20Framework | The Identity Governance Framework was a project of the Liberty Alliance for standards to help enterprises determine and control how identity information is used, stored, and propagated using protocols such as LDAP, SAML, and WS-Trust and ID-WSF.
Purpose
The Identity Governance Framework (IGF) enables organizations to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde%20TSP%20Solver | The Concorde TSP Solver is a program for solving the travelling salesman problem. It was written by David Applegate, Robert E. Bixby, Vašek Chvátal, and William J. Cook, in ANSI C, and is freely available for academic use.
Concorde has been applied to problems of gene mapping, protein function prediction, vehicle rout... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash%20Express | The Dash Express was an Internet-enabled personal navigation device manufactured by Dash Navigation Dash Express transmitted information using a GPRS connection back to Dash Navigation in order to enhance traffic routing as well as use Wi-Fi for the purpose of updating GPS. At the time of its availability, the Dash Ex... |
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